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F WILKI
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F WILKI
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F WILKI
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[2018] | First edition. | Random House | 292 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction 2 available F WILKI Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F WILKI Central - Adult Nonfiction 1 available F WILKI |
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2019 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Available Online
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2019 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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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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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction 2 available
F MORRI
Central - Adult Fiction 3 available
F MORRI
Glencarlyn - Adult Fiction 1 available
F MORRI
Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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1970. | Holt, Rinehart and Winston | 215 pages ; 21 cm. | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction 2 available F MORRI Central - Adult Fiction 3 available F MORRI Glencarlyn - Adult Fiction 1 available F MORRI |
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[2011] | Unabridged. | Books on Tape | 6 audio discs (413 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available
Central - Adult Audiobooks 1 available CD F MORRI |
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2011 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Available Online
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2007 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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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 Fiction 1 available
F GRAY
Central - Adult Fiction 2 available
F GRAY
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction 1 available
F GRAY
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2019. | First edition. | Berkley | 294 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction 1 available F GRAY Central - Adult Fiction 2 available F GRAY Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction 1 available F GRAY |
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2019 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2019 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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2019. | Large print edition. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company | 453 pages (large print) ; 23 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Large Type 1 available LT F GRAY |
Description
"The Mothers meets An American Marriage in this dazzling debut novel about mothers and daughters, identity and family, and how the relationships that sustain you can also be the ones that consume you. 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...
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Central - Adult Biography 1 available
B MCBRIDE FAMILY
Central - Adult Nonfiction 4 available
B MCBRIDE FAMILY
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B MCBRIDE FAMILY
Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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1996 | Riverhead Books | xiii, 228 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. | English | Available
Central - Adult Biography 1 available B MCBRIDE FAMILY Central - Adult Nonfiction 4 available B MCBRIDE FAMILY Columbia Pike - Adult Nonfiction 2 available B MCBRIDE FAMILY |
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OverDrive | Unabridged | Phoenix Books, Inc | English | Available Online
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2006 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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From the bestselling author of Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird: The modern classic that spent more than two years on The New York Times bestseller list and that Oprah.com calls one of the best memoirs of a generation.
Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her...
Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her...
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2019. | Penguin Books | xii, 286 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction 2 available F WALKE |
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[2010] | Recorded Books | 7 audio discs (8 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available
Central - Adult Audiobooks 1 available CD F WALKE |
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2010 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Recorded Books | English | Available Online
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2011 | OverDrive | Open Road Media | English | Available Online
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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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Central - Adult Fiction 1 available
F PHILL
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction 1 available
F PHILL
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[2018] | Special edition. | Soho Press, Inc | 387, 25 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F PHILL Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction 1 available 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,...
7) Friday black
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Central - Adult Fiction 3 available
F ADJEI
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction 1 available
F ADJEI
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2018. | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 194 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 3 available F ADJEI Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction 1 available F ADJEI |
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2018 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Recorded Books, Inc | English | Available Online
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2018 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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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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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction 1 available
F MORRI
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available
F MORRI
Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available
F MORRI
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©2015. | First edition. | Alfred A. Knopf | 178 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction 1 available F MORRI Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F MORRI Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available 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 1 available CD F MORRI |
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2015 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2015 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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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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Aurora Hills - Recently Returned 1 available
F MCBRI
Central - Adult Fiction 2 available
F MCBRI
Westover - Adult Fiction 1 available
F MCBRI
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c2013. | Riverhead Books | 417 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Recently Returned 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...
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Central - Adult Fiction 2 available
F THOMP
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction 1 available
F THOMP
Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2018. | Atria / 37 INK | 209 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 2 available F THOMP Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction 1 available F THOMP |
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2018 | OverDrive | Unabridged | HighBridge | English | Available Online
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Calling to mind the best works of Paul Beatty and Junot Díaz, 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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F HURST
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F HURST
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F HURST
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2020] | First edition. | Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | xliii, 252 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction 1 available F HURST Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F HURST Westover - Adult Fiction 1 available F HURST |
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2020 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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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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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction 2 available
F GYASI
Central - Adult Fiction 3 available
F GYASI
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction 1 available
F GYASI
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2016. | First edition. | Alfred A. Knopf | 305 pages : genealogical table ; 25 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction 2 available F GYASI Central - Adult Fiction 3 available F GYASI Cherrydale - Adult Fiction 1 available F GYASI |
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Central - Adult Audiobooks 1 available
CD F GYASI
Central - Recently Returned 1 available
CD 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 1 available CD F GYASI Central - Recently Returned 1 available CD F GYASI |
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2016 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Checked Out
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2016 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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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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F BALDW
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F BALDW
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2002. | First Vintage International edition. | Vintage International | 197 pages ; 21 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction 1 available F BALDW Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction 2 available F BALDW Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available F BALDW |
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2016 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Blackstone Publishing | English | Available Online
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2013 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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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 |
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2011 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Checked Out
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2011 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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From the author of bestselling Invisible Man—the classic novel of African-American experience—this long-awaited second novel tells an evocative tale of a prodigal of the twentieth century. Brilliantly crafted, moving, and wise, Juneteenth is the work of an American master.
"Tell me what happened while there's still time," demands the dying Senator Adam Sunraider to the...
"Tell me what happened while there's still time," demands the dying Senator Adam Sunraider to the...
15) 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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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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Cherrydale - Adult Fiction 1 available
F GIDDI
Westover - Adult Nonfiction 1 available
F GIDDI
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[2020] | First edition. | Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers | 274 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction 1 available F GIDDI Westover - Adult Nonfiction 1 available F GIDDI |
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2020 | OverDrive | Unabridged | HarperAudio | English | Available Online
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2020 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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"A stunning debut novel that delves fearlessly into the taboo subject of modern-day medical experimentation on African Americans"--
17) Lot: stories
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Central - Adult Fiction 1 available
F WASHI
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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
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F WASHI Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction 2 available F WASHI |
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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 | Checked Out
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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 | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 1 available F BENNE |
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3 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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2016 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Checked Out
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2016 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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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...
19) Native son
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F WRIGH
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction 1 available
F WRIGH
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F WRIGH
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2005. | First Perennial Classics edition. | Harper Perennial Modern Classics | xxii, 504, 16 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. | English | Available
Central - Adult Fiction 2 available F WRIGH Cherrydale - Adult Fiction 1 available F WRIGH Shirlington - Adult Fiction 1 available F WRIGH |
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2009 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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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
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
Central - Adult Fiction 3 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...