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Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
305.800973 KENDI
Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
305.800973 KENDI
Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2016. | Nation Books | 582 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 305.800973 KENDI Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 305.800973 KENDI |
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2016 | OverDrive | PublicAffairs | English | Available Online
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Description
The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.
Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America — it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American...
Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America — it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American...
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction 1 available
F WHITE
Central - Adult Fiction 7 available
F WHITE
Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available
F WHITE
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2019] | First edition. | Doubleday | 213 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction 1 available F WHITE Central - Adult Fiction 7 available F WHITE Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available F WHITE |
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2019 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Available Online
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2019 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood...
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Central - Adult Biography 1 available
B DAVIS F
Westover - Adult Biography 1 available
B DAVIS F
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2019. | First United States edition. | Little, Brown and Company | xi, 308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Biography 1 available B DAVIS F Westover - Adult Biography 1 available B DAVIS F |
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2019 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Hachette Audio | English | Available Online
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Description
An homage to the author's mother relates how she cleverly played Detroit's illegal lottery in the 1970s to support the family while creating a loving, joyful home and mothering her children to the highest standards.
4) Pride
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Central - Teen Fiction 1 available
YF ZOBOI
Shirlington - Teen Fiction 1 available
YF ZOBOI
Westover - Teen Fiction 1 available
YF ZOBOI
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2018] | First edition. | Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers | 289 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Teen Fiction 1 available YF ZOBOI Shirlington - Teen Fiction 1 available YF ZOBOI Westover - Teen Fiction 1 available YF ZOBOI |
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2018 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Balzer + Bray | English | Available Online
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2018 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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Description
Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. She especially can't stand the judgmental and arrogant Darius. Yet as...
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2019. | Berkley trade edition. | Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC | 351 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 3 available F JALAL |
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2019 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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2019 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Description
Ayesha Shamsi has a lot going on. Her dreams of being a poet have been set aside for a teaching job so she can pay off her debts to her wealthy uncle. She lives with her boisterous Muslim family and is always being reminded that her flighty younger cousin, Hafsa, is close to rejecting her one hundredth marriage proposal. Though Ayesha is lonely, she doesn't want an arranged marriage. Then she meets Khalid who is just as smart and handsome as he is...
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Central - Teen Fiction 1 available
YF YOON
Shirlington - Teen Fiction 1 available
YF YOON
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2016. | First edition. | Delacorte Press | 348 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available
Central - Teen Fiction 1 available YF YOON Shirlington - Teen Fiction 1 available YF YOON |
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2016 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Checked Out
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2016 | OverDrive | Random House Children's Books | English | Available Online
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Description
Natasha is a girl who believes in science and facts. Daniel has always been a good son and good student. But when he sees Natasha he forgets all that and believes there is something extraordinary in store for both of them.
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Anju and Sudha novels volume 1
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1999. | Doubleday | 322 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available F DIVAK |
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2009 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Description
Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction. Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of that same family. Despite these differences, since the day the two girls were born - the same day their fathers died, mysteriously and violently, Sudha and Anju have been sisters of the heart. When Sudha learns a dark family secret, that connection is threatened. For the first time in their lives, the girls know what it is to feel suspicion...
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Parable books volume 1
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[2019] | Grand Central Publishing | xii, 345 pages ; 21 cm | English |
Checked Out
6 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
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2019 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Recorded Books, Inc | English | Available Online
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Checked Out
8 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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2012 | OverDrive | Open Road Media | English | Checked Out
8 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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Description
A New York Times Notable Book: In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future.
"A stunner." —Flea, musician and actor, TheWall Street Journal
Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren's father, a preacher, and...
"A stunner." —Flea, musician and actor, TheWall Street Journal
Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren's father, a preacher, and...
9) Stay with me
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2017. | First American edition. | Alfred A. Knopf | 257 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F ADEBA |
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2017 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2017 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Description
"A novel about a married Nigerian couple who must grapple with staggering levels of loss and betrayal in their quest to create a family for themselves" --