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Paul Winfield
1) Knock out
Pub. Date
p2003
Description
A young Hispanic woman, who grew up in East L.A., works to fulfill the dream her father had of becoming a boxing champion.
Series
Pub. Date
1984.
Description
In 2029, giant super-computers dominate the planet and in order to destroy man's future by changing the past, they send an indestructible cyborg, a Terminator, back in time to kill a woman whose unborn son will become mankind's only hope. Can Sarah protect herself from this unstoppable menace?
3) Sounder
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
The story of a black sharecropper family living in Louisiana during the Depression. The father steals food for his family and is sent to prison. While he is in jail the mother provides love, security and strength at home. The oldest son bravely becomes the man of the house until his father returns home
4) Conrack
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Description
The story of an idealistic, innovative teacher on a remote South Carolina island. His unorthodox teaching methods bring him into conflict with the reactionary school superintendent
5) Carbon copy
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
When an uptight executive discovers he has a long-lost black son, his tidy world goes hopelessly and hilariously awry in this wickedly funny comedy.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
After a horrific nuclear assault, three soldiers band together in a special all-terrain land cruiser and head for Albany, NY, the only American city to be spared in the attack. As they travel through the post-nuke wastelands, they pick up a beautiful woman and an incorrigible teenager while battling mutant insects, packs of violent survivors, and brutal electrical storms that savage the already barren plains.
Pub. Date
©2001.
Description
Epic story covering a period in U.S. history from John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry in 1859 to the summer of 1865 following President Lincoln's death. Focuses on two related families living on either side of the Mason-Dixon line who find themselves at war with each other.
10) The terminator
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
An indestructible cyborg-a Terminator-is sent back in time to kill Sarah Connor, the woman whose unborn son will become humanity's only hope in a future war against machines.
Author
Series
Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 6
Description
A novel exploring the early years of Easy Rawlins and Mouse Alexander, protagonists in a current black PI series. The setting is Texas, the time the 1930s, and the two embark on a car ride which will engulf them in the bayou world of voodoo, sex and murder.
12) Huckleberry finn
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Mark Twain's boy hero meets a bogus king and duke while rafting the Mississippi with runaway slave Jim.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Attica: Demanding improvments in their rights, restless inmates take over the Attica State Correctional Facility in the bloodiest prison uprising in U.S. history. Taking back our town: A mother fights back against a petrochemical plant that releases cancer-causing agents into the environment. Ripple effect: A man sets out to right an old wrong. Go tell it on the mountain: Follows the difficult passage to manhood of the son of an angry storefront...
Pub. Date
c2005, 1982
Description
Epic story covering a period in U.S. history from John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry in 1859 to the summer of 1865 following President Lincoln's death. Focuses on two related families living on either side of the Mason-Dixon line who find themselves at war with each other.
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
The remarkable history of Alex Haley's paternal side. Queen is the daughter of a slave and a plantation owner. During the turbulent decades of the antebellum South, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and beyond, she searches for a home in the two cultures and at times is shunned by both. Rejection and hate are no match for her unconquerable will.
17) Scarlett
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Epic action-packed sequel of international scope to Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
[Disc 1]: Star trek: the motion picture: A massive alien presence of enormous power enters Federation space, destroying three powerful Klingon cruisers and neutralizing everthing in its path and Admiral James T. Kirk returns to the helm of an updated U.S.S. Enterprise and sets course to meet the aggressor head-on. [Disc 2]: Star trek II: the wrath of Khan: On a routine inspection of the U.S.S. Enterprise, Admiral James T. Kirk's Starfleet career enters...
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