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F WILKI
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| [2018] | First edition. | Random House | 292 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available 17 copies, 26 people are on the wait list. Central - Adult Fiction F WILKI |
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 6 copies, 23 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 13 copies, 72 people are on the wait list. |
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It's 1986, the heart of the Cold War, and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She's brilliant, but she's also a young black woman working in an old boys' club. Her career has stalled out, she's overlooked for every high-profile squad, and her days are filled with monotonous paperwork. So when she's given the opportunity to join a shadowy task force aimed at undermining Thomas Sankara, the charismatic revolutionary president of...
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| 1970. | Holt, Rinehart and Winston | 215 pages ; 21 cm. | English | Checked Out 7 copies, 19 people are on the wait list. |
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| [2011] | Unabridged. | Books on Tape | 6 audio discs (413 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available Central - Adult Audiobooks CD F MORRI |
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| 2011 | OverDrive | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 5 copies, 30 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2007 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online 18 copies, 31 people are on the wait list. Online OverDrive Collection has 18 |
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Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni...
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Aurora Hills - Adult New Fiction
F GRAY
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| 2019. | First edition. | Berkley | 294 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available 12 copies, 3 people are on the wait list. Aurora Hills - Adult New Fiction F GRAY |
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection has 3 |
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| 2019 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection has 4 |
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| 2019. | Large print edition. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company | 453 pages (large print) ; 23 cm | English | Checked Out |
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The Butler family has had their share of trials-as sisters Althea, Viola, and Lillian can attest-but nothing prepared them for the literal trial that will upend their lives. Althea, the eldest sister and substitute matriarch, is a force to be reckoned with and her younger sisters have alternately appreciated and chafed at her strong will. They are as stunned as the rest of the small community when she and her husband Proctor are arrested, and in...
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974.71 MCBRI
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| 1996 | Riverhead Books | xiii, 228 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. | English | Available 14 copies, 3 people are on the wait list. Central - Adult Nonfiction has 5 974.71 MCBRI Central - Recently Returned 974.71 MCBRI Westover - Adult Nonfiction 974.71 MCBRI |
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| OverDrive | Phoenix Books, Inc | English | Checked Out 2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2006 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list. |
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Deacon King Kong and The Good Lord Bird, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction:
The modern classic that Oprah.com calls one of the best memoirs of a generation and that launched James McBride's literary career.
More than two years on The New York Times bestseller list.
Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive...
The modern classic that Oprah.com calls one of the best memoirs of a generation and that launched James McBride's literary career.
More than two years on The New York Times bestseller list.
Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive...
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F WALKE
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F WALKE
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| 2019. | Penguin Books | xii, 286 pages ; 21 cm | Available 3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. Central - Adult Fiction has 2 F WALKE Glencarlyn - Adult Fiction F WALKE | |
| c1982 | Harcourt Brace Jovanovich | 245 p. ; 22 cm. | Available 2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. Cherrydale - Adult Fiction F WALKE |
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| [2010] | Recorded Books | 7 audio discs (8 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available Shirlington - Adult Audiobooks CD F WALKE |
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| 2011 | OverDrive | Open Road Media | English | Checked Out 3 copies, 9 people are on the wait list. |
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Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused by her own family. She strives to protect her sister, Nettie, from a similar fate, and while Nettie escapes to a new life as a missionary in Africa, Celie is left behind without her best friend and confidante, married off to an older suitor, and sentenced to a life alone with a harsh and brutal husband. In an attempt to transcend a life that often seems too much...
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| [2018] | Special edition. | Soho Press, Inc | 387, 25 pages ; 21 cm | English | In Transit 2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. |
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| [2008] | "Unabridged Fiction"--Container. | Recorded Books | 12 audio discs (14 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available Central - Adult Audiobooks CD F PHILL |
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"A new edition of this award-winning modern classic, with new introduction, excerpt, and discussion guide Pakersfield, Georgia, 1958: Thirteen-year-old Tangy Mae Quinn is the sixth of ten fatherless siblings. She is the darkest-skinned among them and therefore the ugliest in her mother, Rozelle's, estimation, but she's also the brightest. Rozelle--beautiful, charismatic, and light-skinned--exercises a violent hold over her children. Fearing abandonment,...
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F ADJEI
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| 2018. | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 194 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available 5 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. Central - Adult Fiction has 4 F ADJEI Cherrydale - Adult Fiction F ADJEI |
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| [2018] | RBdigital | Unabridged. | Recorded Books | 1 online resource (7 hr., 8 min.) | English | Available Online RBdigital |
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"An excitement and a wonder: strange, crazed, urgent and funny...The wildly talented Adjei-Brenyah has made these edgy tales immensely charming, via his resolute, heartful, immensely likeable narrators, capable of seeing the world as blessed and cursed at once." -- George Saunders "This book is dark and captivating and essential...A call to arms and a condemnation. Adjei-Brenyah offers powerful prose as parable. The writing in this outstanding collection...
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F MORRI
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F MORRI
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| ©2015. | First edition. | Alfred A. Knopf | 178 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction F MORRI Central - Adult Fiction F MORRI |
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| [2015] | Unabridged. | Random House Audio | 6 audio discs (390 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available Central - Adult Audiobooks CD F MORRI |
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| 2015 | OverDrive | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection has 2 |
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| 2015 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online Online OverDrive Collection has 2 |
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Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child--the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment--weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest...
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F MCBRI
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F MCBRI
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| c2013. | Riverhead Books | 417 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available 5 copies, 3 people are on the wait list. Central - Adult Fiction has 2 F MCBRI Glencarlyn - Adult Fiction F MCBRI |
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| 2013. | Unabridged. | Dreamscape Media | 12 audio discs (876 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available Cherrydale - Adult Audiobooks CD F MCBRI |
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| 2013 | OverDrive | Dreamscape Media, LLC | English | Checked Out 2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. |
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| 2013 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 2 copies, 10 people are on the wait list. |
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| ©2013. | Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning | 641 pages (large print) ; 23 | English | Checked Out |
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Fleeing his violent master at the side of abolitionist John Brown at the height of the slavery debate in mid-nineteenth-century Kansas Territory, Henry pretends to be a girl to hide his identity throughout the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859.
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F THOMP
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| 2018. | Atria / 37 INK | 209 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available 3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction F THOMP |
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| 2018 | OverDrive | HighBridge | English | Checked Out |
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Calling to mind the best works of Paul Beatty and Junot DÃaz, this collection of moving, timely, and darkly funny stories examines the concept of black identity in this so-called post-racial era. A stunning new talent in literary fiction, Nafissa Thompson-Spires grapples with black identity and the contemporary middle class in these compelling, boundary-pushing vignettes. Each captivating story plunges headfirst into the lives of new, utterly original...
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| [2020] | First edition. | Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | xliii, 252 pages ; 22 cm | English | In Transit 3 copies, 12 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2020 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Checked Out 3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list. |
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In 1925, Zora Neale Hurston was living in New York as a fledgling writer. This collection of stories, found in archives after her death, reveal African American folk culture in Harlem in the 1920s. This book includes eight of Hurston's "lost" Harlem gems.
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F GYASI
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| 2016. | First edition. | Alfred A. Knopf | 305 pages : genealogical table ; 25 cm | English | Available 23 copies, 10 people are on the wait list. Central - Adult Fiction has 4 F GYASI |
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| [2016] | Unabridged. | Books on Tape : | 11 audio discs (13 hr., 11 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available Central - Adult Audiobooks CD F GYASI Shirlington - Adult Audiobooks has 2 CD F GYASI |
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| 2016 | OverDrive | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 4 copies, 17 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2016 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 12 copies, 52 people are on the wait list. |
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"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath...
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F BALDW
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| 2002. | First Vintage International edition. | Vintage International | 197 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available 9 copies, 3 people are on the wait list. Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction has 2 F BALDW Central - Adult Fiction F BALDW Westover - Adult Fiction has 2 F BALDW |
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| 2016 | OverDrive | Blackstone Publishing | English | Checked Out 6 copies, 9 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2013 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 6 copies, 9 people are on the wait list. |
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This novel is a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, the story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope...
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| [1999] | First edition. | Random House | xxiii, 368 pages ; 24 cm | English | Checked Out 1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2011 | OverDrive | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2011 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list. |
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"[A]n extraordinary book, a work of staggering virtuosity. With its publication, a giant world of literature has just grown twice as tall."--Newsday
From Ralph Ellison--author of the classic novel of African-American experience, Invisible Man--the long-awaited second novel. Here is the master of American vernacular--the rhythms of jazz and gospel and ordinary speech--at the height of his powers, telling
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Central - Adult Science Fiction
SF BUTLE
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| ©1988 | Beacon Press | xxvii, 264 pages ; 21 cm. | English | Available 5 copies, 8 people are on the wait list. Central - Adult Science Fiction SF BUTLE |
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| [2011] | RBdigital | Unabridged. | Recorded Books | 1 sound file (11 hr.) : digital. | English | Available Online RBdigital |
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| 2004 | OverDrive | Beacon Press | English | Checked Out 4 copies, 13 people are on the wait list. |
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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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| 2020 | OverDrive | HarperAudio | English | Checked Out 1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2020 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Checked Out 1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list. |
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| 20200324 | Amistad Press | English | On Order 2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list. |
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A startling debut about class and race, Lakewood evokes a terrifying world of medical experimentation—part The Handmaid's Tale, part The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
Electric Literature: One of 55 Books by Women and Nonbinary Writers of Color to Read in 2020 | Lit Hub & The Millions: Most Anticipated Books of 2020 | Ms.
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F WASHI
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| [2019] | Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC | 222 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available 3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list. Central - Adult Fiction has 2 F WASHI |
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"In the city of Houston - a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America - the son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He's working at his family's restaurant, weathering his brother's blows, resenting his older sister's absence. And discovering he likes boys. Around him, others live and thrive and die in Houston's myriad neighborhoods: a young woman whose affair detonates across an apartment complex, a ragtag baseball team, a group...
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| 2016. | Riverhead Books | 278 pages ; 24 cm | English | In Transit 10 copies, 12 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2016 | OverDrive | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 3 copies, 6 people are on the wait list. |
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| 2016 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out 6 copies, 37 people are on the wait list. |
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"A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community--and the things that ultimately haunt us most. Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret. "All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we'd...
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| 2005. | First Perennial Classics edition. | Harper Perennial Modern Classics | xxii, 504, 16 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. | Available Central - Adult Fiction F WRIGH | |
| 1987. | Perennial Library | 398 pages ; 18 cm | Checked Out |
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| [2008] | Unabridged. | HarperAudio | 15 audio discs (17.75 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available Central - Adult Audiobooks CD F WRIGH |
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| OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Available Online 4 copies, 2 people are on the wait list. Online OverDrive Collection has 4 |
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Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's novel is just as powerful today as when it was written -- in its reflection of poverty and hopelessness, and what...
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F WHITE
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| [2019] | First edition. | Doubleday | 213 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available 45 copies, 45 people are on the wait list. Central - Adult New Fiction has 2 F WHITE |
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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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