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"Doing school"

Follows five successful students through one year of school as they work hard, serve their communities, earn awards and honors, and yet admit they are compromising their integrity to get ahead

2011-07
"Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?" and other conversations about race

There is a moment when every child leaves color-blindness behind & enters the world of race consciousness. At that moment, there are two roads parents, educators, & therapists can take: they can follow the status quo, internalizing racial expectations, & become-consciously or unconciously-part of the problem. Or, they can question stereotypes, &, actively work against racism to become part of the solution. This book provides the tools we all need to become part of the solution.

2013-04
1st to die

Four women with different skills and backgrounds come together to uncover a killer who has been stalking newlyweds in San Francisco

2010-09
2nd chance

Patterson's second installment of his Women's Murder Club series finds the ladies in search of a killer who sprays bullets into a crowd of children leaving a San Francisco church, killing one. Later, an elderly woman is found hanged. Nothing, however, can prepare the ladies for the twisted logic behind the killer's choice of victims

2010-09
3rd degree

Detective Lindsay Boxer is out jogging when a fiery explosion rips through the neighborhood, engulfing a town house in flames. Lindsay plunges inside to search for survivors, and finds three people dead.

2010-09
The 4-hour body

Thinner, bigger, faster, stronger... which 150 pages will you read?  Is it possible to:
 

  • Reach your genetic potential in 6 months?
  • Sleep 2 hours per day and perform better than on 8 hours?
  • Lose more fat than a marathoner by bingeing?
2010-12
4th of July

San Francisco police lieutenant Lindsay Boxer, the subject of a police brutality trial after a shoot-out involving two teens, retreats to Half Moon Bay to get away from the media circus and becomes embroiled in the investigation of a series of murders that puts her in mind of an unsolved case from her rookie years

2010-09
The 5th horseman

Healthy patients are dying of unknown causes in a San Francisco hospital and the Women's Murder Club decides to investigate the hospital's personnel. They discover a hospital administrator determined to shield the hospitals reputation

2010-10
6th target

When a horrifying attack leaves one of the four members of the Women's Murder Club struggling for her life, the others fight to keep a madman behind bars before anyone else is hurt.

2010-10
The 8th confession

The Women's Murder Club faces its toughest challenge as Detective Lindsay Boxer investigates the high-profile murder of two San Francisco millionaires and reporter Cindy Thomas digs into the brutal slaying of a preacher with a message of hope for the homeless

2010-11