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Central - Adult Nonfiction 2 available
305.800973 COATE
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Westover - Adult Nonfiction 2 available
305.800973 COATE
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[2015] | First edition. | Spiegel & Grau | 152 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 2 available 305.800973 COATE Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 1 available 305.800973 COATE Westover - Adult Nonfiction 2 available 305.800973 COATE |
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Central - Adult Audiobooks 1 available
CD 305.800973 COATE
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[2015] | Unabridged. | Random House Audio : | 3 audio discs (3 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available
Central - Adult Audiobooks 1 available CD 305.800973 COATE |
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2015 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2015 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Central - Adult Large Type 1 available
LT 305.800973 COATE
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2016. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale Cengage Learning | 337 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Large Type 1 available LT 305.800973 COATE |
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Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of "race," a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men -- bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can...
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction 1 available
F MCBRI
Central - Adult Fiction 2 available
F MCBRI
Westover - Adult Fiction 1 available
F MCBRI
Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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c2013. | Riverhead Books | 417 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction 1 available F MCBRI Central - Adult Fiction 2 available F MCBRI Westover - Adult Fiction 1 available F MCBRI |
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2013 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Dreamscape Media | English | Available Online
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2013 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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©2013. | Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning | 641 pages (large print) ; 23 | English | Available
Central - Adult Large Type 1 available LT F MCBRI |
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Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, when the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an argument between Brown and Henry's master quickly turns violent. Henry is forced to leave town -- with Brown, who believes he's a girl. Over the ensuing months, Henry, whom Brown nicknames Little Onion, conceals his true identity as he...
3) Kindred
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[2003] | Beacon Press | 287 pages ; 21 cm. | English |
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1998 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Recorded Books, Inc | English | Available Online
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4 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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2004 | OverDrive | Beacon Press | English | Checked Out
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Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned across the years to save him. After this first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect Rufus and ensure that he will grow to manhood and father...
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Central - Adult Fiction 1 available
F MOORE
Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available
F MOORE
Westover - Adult Fiction 1 available
F MOORE
Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2018] | Graywolf | 294 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F MOORE Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available F MOORE Westover - Adult Fiction 1 available F MOORE |
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Three extraordinary people use their unusual powers to protect the fledgling state of Liberia.
In the West African village of Lai, red-haired Gbessa is cursed at birth and exiled on suspicion of being a witch. Bitten by a viper and left for dead, she nevertheless survives. On a plantation in Virginia, June Dey hides his unusual strength until a confrontation with the overseer forces him to flee. An in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica, Norman Aragon,...
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Central - Adult Fiction 5 available
F WHITE
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction 1 available
F WHITE
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction 1 available
F WHITE
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2016. | First edition. | Doubleday | 306 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 5 available F WHITE Cherrydale - Adult Fiction 1 available F WHITE Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction 1 available F WHITE |
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Central - Adult Audiobooks 1 available
CD F WHITE
Westover - Adult Audiobooks 1 available
CD F WHITE
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[2016] | Unabridged. | Random House Audio | 9 audio discs (11 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available
Central - Adult Audiobooks 1 available CD F WHITE Westover - Adult Audiobooks 1 available CD F WHITE |
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2016 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Available Online
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2016 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Central - Adult Large Type 1 available
LT F WHITE
Central - Recently Returned 1 available
LT F WHITE
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2016] | First large print edition. | Random House Large Print | 417 pages (large print) ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Large Type 1 available LT F WHITE Central - Recently Returned 1 available LT F WHITE |
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A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
Cora is a young slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood-where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes...
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Central - Adult Fiction 3 available
F COATE
Central - Adult Science Fiction 1 available
F COATE
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction 2 available
F COATE
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2019. | First edition. | One World | 403 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 3 available F COATE Central - Adult Science Fiction 1 available F COATE Cherrydale - Adult Fiction 2 available F COATE |
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2019 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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1 copy, 6 people are on the wait list.
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2019 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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[2019] | First large print edition | Random House Large Print | 576 pages (large print) ; 24 cm | English |
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"Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage--and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child--but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn't understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram's private rebellion. Spurred on by his improvised plantation...