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(0)Penny Mickelbury
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Police Lieutenant Gianna Maglione, a newly-minted Captain, is still recovering from a life-threatening gunshot injury as she finds herself and her Hate Crimes Unit assigned a new boss, and a new squad called Special Intelligence Mobile and Tactical Unit, which includes hate crimes. And Gianna's colleagues in the group are diverse, quirky, loyal, and ready for teamwork. And Mimi Patterson, who quit her job as the lead investigative reporter for Washington...
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In this stunning departure from her mystery writing, Penny Mickelbury's collection of stories God's Will and Other Lies, attends to the lives of Black women, mostly aging and elderly, all determined to face life with strength and grace.
A nearly blind woman is determined to venture out into the world alone, and must face the consequences of her travels. A woman estranged from her community ponders the meaning of hearsay and its devastating consequences....
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Award-winning author and journalist Penny Mickelbury returns to pre-Civil War Philadelphia to continue the powerful saga of Genie Oliver and Abigail Read.
In 1857 the US Supreme Court ruled that Blacks were not-and could never be citizens. Black lives were already in peril from the hooligans who would capture and sell them South under the protection of the Runaway Slave Act, even if they weren't runaway slaves. By 1861 Southern states spoke openly...
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In 1856 Philadelphia, runaway slave Genie Oliver uses her dress shop as a front for her work with the Underground Railroad; and reluctant heiress Abby Read runs a rooming house not just because she hates the life of the idle rich society woman, but because she has no intention of ever marrying a man. When the daughter of Abby's free black servant is grabbed by rogue slave catchers, an unlikely group of people come together, first out of necessity,...
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Lt. Gianna Maglione of the DC Police Department's Hate Crimes Unit teams up with her journalist girlfriend, Mimi Patterson, to find out who murdered three Muslims on their way to prayers and bring them to justice. They've done this before, but this time it's personal.
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Series
Carole Ann Gibson mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
286 p. ; 25 cm
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English
Author
Series
Carole Ann Gibson mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
236 p. ; 25 cm
Language
English