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Kim Reid recalls two tense years in her life when she was torn between her desire to fit in and feel safe in her private Catholic school in an all-white part of Atlanta, Georgia, and her loyalty to her African-American neighborhood and the responsibilities and burdens placed on her by her mom, a cop on the task force searching a serial killer targeting young African-American boys in 1979.

Using the Wayne Williams/Atlanta child murder case as both subject and springboard, the author assesses the state of the Union in the mid-1980s.

Looks at the early life of Martin Luther King, Jr., as seen through the eyes of his older sister.

Looks at the early life of Martin Luther King, Jr., as seen through the eyes of his older sister.

Describes the life and fate of Leo Frank, a Jewish American factory worker who was convicted of murdering thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan and later kidnapped from the prison and hung by a mob.

The author provides an account of the semester he spent observing first-year medical students dissect cadavers at Emory University in Atlanta, and teaches lessons about the human body and the process of becoming a doctor.

One-time Atlanta police officer Callahan Garrity and her crew of House Mouse employees set out to investigate when Callahan's former partner Bucky is shot in a liquor store holdup and reports begin to circulate that he was a cop on the take.

Winnie Perry is certain that she will gain more courage and responsibilities with her tenth birthday and, with her best friend Amanda by her side, Winnie is determined to make the most of her last year of elementary school.