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F ELLIS
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F ELLIS
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Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F ELLIS
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F ELLIS
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"Tell me what happened while there's still time, demands the dying Senator Adam Sunraider to the itinerate preacher whom he calls Daddy Hickman. As a young man, Sunraider was Bliss, an orphan taken in by Hickman and raised to be a preacher like himself. Bliss's history encompasses the joys of young southern boyhood; bucolic days as a filmmaker, lovemaking in a field in the Oklahoma sun. And behind it all lies a mystery: how did this chosen child become...
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F EDUGY
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F EDUGY
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Courthouse - Adult Fiction
F EDUGY
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F EDUGY
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Westover - Adult Fiction
F EDUGY
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F EDUGY
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Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born. When his master's eccentric brother chooses him to be his manservant, Wash is terrified of the cruelties he is certain await him. But Christopher Wilde, or "Titch," is a naturalist, explorer, scientist, inventor, and abolitionist. He initiates Wash into a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky; where...
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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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Central - Adult Fiction
F PHILL
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F PHILL
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Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F PHILL
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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,...
5) Riot baby
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Ella has a Thing. She sees a classmate grow up to become a caring nurse. A neighbor's son murdered in a drive-by shooting. Things that haven't happened yet. Kev, born while Los Angeles burned around them, wants to protect his sister from a power that could destroy her. But when Kev is incarcerated, Ella must decide what it means to watch her brother suffer while holding the ability to wreck cities in her hands. Rooted in the hope that can live in...
6) Passing
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Clare Kendry is living on the edge. Light-skinned, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a racist white man unaware of her African American heritage, and has severed all ties to her past after deciding to "pass" as a white woman. Clare's childhood friend, Irene Redfield, just as light-skinned, has chosen to remain within the African American community, and is simultaneously allured and repelled by Clare's risky decision to engage in racial masquerade...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F CLEMM
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F CLEMM
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F CLEMM
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F CLEMM
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A "novel about a young African-American woman coming of age... Raised in Pennsylvania, Zinzi Clemmons's heroine Thandi views the world of her mother's childhood in Johannesburg as both impossibly distant and ever present. She is an outsider wherever she goes, caught between being black and white, American and not. She tries to connect these dislocated pieces of her life, and as her mother succumbs to cancer, Thandi searches for an anchor - someone,...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F GYASI
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F GYASI
9 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F GYASI
1 available
F GYASI
1 available
Westover - Adult Fiction
F GYASI
2 available
F GYASI
2 available
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5 copies, 12 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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Central - Adult Fiction
F CARTY
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F CARTY
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Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F CARTY
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F CARTY
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she's constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle class peers. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places . . . including several hazardous men who do a good job of occupying brain space and a bad job of...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F GREEN
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F GREEN
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Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F GREEN
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F GREEN
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The Freeman family--Charles, Laurel, and their daughters, teenage Charlotte and nine-year-old Callie--have been invited to the Toneybee Institute in rural Massachusetts to participate in a research experiment. They will live in an apartment on campus with Charlie, a young chimp abandoned by his mother. The Freemans were selected for the experiment because they know sign language; they are supposed to teach it to Charlie and welcome him as a member...
11) Kindred
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Central - Adult Science Fiction
SF BUTLE
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SF BUTLE
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Aurora Hills - Adult Science Fiction
SF BUTLE
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SF BUTLE
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Westover - Adult Science Fiction
SF BUTLE
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SF BUTLE
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5 copies, 1 person is 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...
12) Lot: stories
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F WASHI
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F WASHI
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Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F WASHI
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F WASHI
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Westover - Adult Fiction
F WASHI
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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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Westover - Adult Biography - Book Club
B MCBRIDE FAMILY
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B MCBRIDE FAMILY
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5 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
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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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This stirring coming-of-age tale unfolds in 1930s rural Kansas. A poignant portrait of African-American family life in the early twentieth century, it follows the story of young Sandy Rogers as he grows from a boy to a man. We meet Sandy's mother, Annjee, who works as a housekeeper for a wealthy white family; his strong-willed grandmother, Hager; Jimboy, Sandy's father, who travels the country looking for work; Aunt Tempy, the social climber; and...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F LORDE
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F LORDE
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Glencarlyn - Adult Fiction
F LORDE
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F LORDE
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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The poet, Audre Lorde, depicts her life and examines the influence of various women on her development.
16) Patsy: a novel
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Central - Adult Fiction
F DENNI
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F DENNI
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Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F DENNI
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F DENNI
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"When Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, it comes after years of yearning to leave Pennyfield, the beautiful but impoverished Jamaican town where she was raised. More than anything, Patsy wishes to be reunited with her oldest friend, Cicely, whose letters arrive from New York steeped in the promise of a happier life and the possible rekindling of their young love. But Patsy's plans don't include her overzealous, evangelical mother--or even...
17) The sellout
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"Raised in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens--improbably smack in the middle of downtown L.A.--the narrator of The Sellout resigned himself to the fate of all other middle-class Californians: "to die in the same bedroom you'd grown up in, looking up at the crack in the stucco ceiling that had been there since '68 quake." Raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist at Riverside Community College, he spent his childhood as the subject in psychological...
18) Real life
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Central - Adult Fiction
F TAYLO
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F TAYLO
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F TAYLO
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F TAYLO
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Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F TAYLO
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F TAYLO
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"A novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend -- and a lifetime of buried pain. Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midwestern university town where he is working toward a biochem degree. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends -- some dating each other,...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F MORRI
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F MORRI
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F MORRI
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F MORRI
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Columbia Pike - Adult Audiobooks
CD F MORRI
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CD F MORRI
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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 - Adult Fiction
F GIDDI
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F GIDDI
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Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F GIDDI
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F GIDDI
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"A stunning debut novel that delves fearlessly into the taboo subject of modern-day medical experimentation on African Americans"--