Gunn, Moses 1929-1993Overview
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Roots
by Alex Haley
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7 editions published between 1981 and 2011 in English and held by 2,674 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A black American's search for his family roots, covering over 100 years of American history from the Old South through the era of Reconstruction
The NeverEnding story
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9 editions published between 1984 and 2010 in English and French and held by 1,637 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The Nothing threatens to destroy Fantasia and its Child-Empress and a young warrior sets out to save them
Shaft
by Gordon Parks
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33 editions published between 1971 and 2012 in English and held by 1,274 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Detective John Shaft is hired by a Harlem mobster to find his kidnapped teenage daughter and finds himself up against some Mafia chieftains who want to take over a chunk of the black underworld's uptown territory
Heartbreak Ridge
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5 editions published between 1990 and 2010 in English and held by 628 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A grizzled Marine Corps lifer, beginning his last tour of duty before mandatory retirement, leads his combat-ready platoon during the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada
The House of Dies Drear
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5 editions published between 1990 and 2004 in English and held by 549 WorldCat member libraries worldwide This eerie ghost story with a twist reaches back to the days of slavery and underground railroads
The women of Brewster Place
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1 edition published in 2001 in English and held by 394 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Mattie Michael, whose life has been plagued by misfortunes, is alone in a ghetto tenement on Brewster Place. She gradually unites the other tenement women to help them struggle for a new life
Rollerball
by Norman Jewison
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3 editions published between 1998 and 2000 in English and held by 369 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In a dystopic future world run entirely by a few powerful corporations, the brutal sport of rollerball has taken the place of both warfare and traditional athletic competition. The greatest player in the history of rollerball, Jonathan E, receives pressure from these corporations to retire. When he refuses, both his life and his sport descend into chaos and bloodshed
Cornbread, Earl and me
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7 editions published between 1974 and 2006 in English and held by 310 WorldCat member libraries worldwide When a promising high school basketballer (Cornbread) is accused of rape and mistakenly killed by the police, it is up to his 11-year old brother Wilford and his pal Earl to find the courage to speak up and clear Cornbread's name
Perfect harmony
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3 editions published between 2003 and 2004 in English and held by 306 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Set in South Carolina during the 1950's, two boys form a friendship in spite of the racial barriers that divide the town
Shaft's big score
by Gordon Parks
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12 editions published between 1972 and 2000 in 3 languages and held by 217 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Private eye John Shaft runs afoul of the underworld as he investigates a friends murder
Brother Future
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1 edition published in 1992 in English and held by 193 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A slick inner-city youth is knocked unconscious and wakes up to find he has been transported back through time to 1822 Charleston, S.C., where he is taken captive as a slave
Brother Future
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1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 187 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A slick inner-city youth is knocked unconscious and wakes up to find he has been transported back through time to 1822 Charleston, S.C., where he is taken captive as a slave
Amityville
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4 editions published between 1982 and 2013 in English and held by 163 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Taking place before the events of The Amityville horror, tells the story of the Montelli family whose son becomes possessed by a demon despite a cleansing of the house by a priest
Black pioneers in American history
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7 editions published between 1968 and 1972 in English and held by 146 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Autobiographical narratives of Frederick Douglass, Charlotte Forten, Susan King Taylor and Nat Love
The House of Dies Drear
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1 edition published in 1990 in English and held by 132 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A story about the secrets walled within an old house reaches back to the days of slavery and underground railroads
Brother Future
by Alan Smithee
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2 editions published between 1997 and 1998 in English and held by 127 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A slick inner-city youth is knocked unconscious and wakes up to find he has been transported back through time to 1822 Charleston, S.C., where he is taken captive as a slave
First breeze of summer
by Leslie Lee
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4 editions published between 2000 and 2003 in English and held by 114 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Deals with the conflicts between a stern, hard-working father and his two discontented sons. Also tells the story of the man's elderly mother who recalls, through flashbacks the romances of her youth with three different men who all abandoned her
Roots
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4 editions published between 1992 and 2011 in English and Spanish and held by 110 WorldCat member libraries worldwide An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era
Black brigade
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1 edition published in 2004 in English and held by 103 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A top-secret allied invasion will fail unless a strategic dam can be saved from German forces! An untested black army unit, which has worked itself deep behind Nazi lines, is the only hope for saving the dam. Racial tension explodes when a prejudiced white commando officer is sent to forge the soldiers into a lethal combat outfit. Facing certain suicide, the soldiers and their commanding officer must earn each other's respect!
Amazing Grace
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1 edition published in 2001 in English and held by 98 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A black pious church-going widow and grandmother takes over the political campaign of a neighbor running for mayor of Baltimore, transforming him from a white man's pawn into a serious challenger of Baltimore's blue-blood establishment more
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