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"An elegant, vibrant, startling coming-of-age novel, for anyone who's ever felt the shame of being alive Kenya Curtis is only eight years old, but she knows that she's different, even if she can't put her finger on how or why. It's not because she's Black--most of the other students in the fourth-grade class at her West Philadelphia elementary school are too. Maybe it's because she celebrates Kwanzaa, or because she's forbidden from reciting the...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F NG
3 available
F NG
3 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F NG
1 available
F NG
1 available
Westover - Adult Fiction
F NG
1 available
F NG
1 available
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Central - Adult Audiobooks
CD F NG
1 available
CD F NG
1 available
Glencarlyn - Adult Audiobooks
CD F NG
1 available
CD F NG
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Audiobooks
CD F NG
1 available
CD F NG
1 available
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From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, the intertwined stories of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the mother and daughter who upend their lives. In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose...
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Columbia Pike - Adult Audiobooks
CD F PICOU
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CD F PICOU
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"A woman and her husband admitted to a hospital to have a baby requests that their nurse be reassigned - they are white supremacists and don't want Ruth, who is black, to touch their baby. The hospital complies, but the baby later goes into cardiac distress when Ruth is on duty. She hesitates before rushing in to perform CPR. When her indecision ends in tragedy, Ruth finds herself on trial, represented by a white public defender who warns against...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F REID
4 available
F REID
4 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F REID
1 available
F REID
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F REID
2 available
F REID
2 available
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6 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
6 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
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A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both. --from Amazon.
Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she...
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F ALAM
1 available
F ALAM
1 available
Westover - Adult Fiction
F ALAM
1 available
F ALAM
1 available
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"That Kind of Mother dives deep into big questions about parenthood, adoption, and race: Is mothering something learned, or that you're born to? How far can good intentions stretch? And most of all, can love can really overcome the boundaries of race and class? With his unerring eye for nuance and unsparing sense of irony, Rumaan Alam's second novel is both heartfelt and thought-provoking."--Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere ... From the...