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39 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.

Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction has 3

F JONES

Aurora Hills - Adult New Fiction

F JONES

Central - Adult Fiction has 5

F JONES

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
2018.	First edition.	Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill	308 pages ; 24 cm	English	Available 39 copies, 9 people are on the wait list. Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction has 3 F JONES Aurora Hills - Adult New Fiction F JONES Central - Adult Fiction has 5 F JONES Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.

Central - Adult Audiobooks

CD F JONES

Westover - Adult Audiobooks has 2

CD F JONES

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
2018.	Unabridged.	HighBridge Audio	7 audio discs (9 hr.) : CD ; 4 3/4 in.	English	Available 3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. Central - Adult Audiobooks CD F JONES Westover - Adult Audiobooks has 2 CD F JONES	More Info Place Hold

15 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.

Online OverDrive Collection has 15

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2018	OverDrive	HighBridge	English	Available Online 15 copies, 4 people are on the wait list. Online OverDrive Collection has 15	More Info Check Out OverDrive

29 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.

Online OverDrive Collection has 29

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2018	OverDrive	Algonquin Books	English	Available Online 29 copies, 3 people are on the wait list. Online OverDrive Collection has 29	More Info Check Out OverDrive

Description

Book, Audiobook on CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Large Type

Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft...

2) The underground railroad: a novel

Author

Whitehead, Colson

Language

English

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23 copies, 22 people are on the wait list.

Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction

F WHITE

Central - Adult Fiction has 4

F WHITE

Westover - Adult Fiction

F WHITE

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
2016.	First edition.	Doubleday	306 pages ; 25 cm	English	Available 23 copies, 22 people are on the wait list. Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction F WHITE Central - Adult Fiction has 4 F WHITE Westover - Adult Fiction F WHITE Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

6 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.

Aurora Hills - Adult Audiobooks has 2

CD F WHITE

Central - Adult Audiobooks

CD F WHITE

Shirlington - Adult Audiobooks

CD F WHITE

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
[2016]	Unabridged.	Random House Audio	9 audio discs (11 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.	English	Available 6 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. Aurora Hills - Adult Audiobooks has 2 CD F WHITE Central - Adult Audiobooks CD F WHITE Shirlington - Adult Audiobooks CD F WHITE Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

10 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2016	OverDrive	Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group	English	Checked Out 10 copies, 7 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

25 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.

Online OverDrive Collection has 25

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2016	OverDrive	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group	English	Available Online 25 copies, 15 people are on the wait list. Online OverDrive Collection has 25	More Info Check Out OverDrive

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
[2016]	First large print edition.	Random House Large Print	417 pages (large print) ; 24 cm	English	Checked Out Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

Description

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...

3) Deacon King Kong: a novel

Author

McBride, James

Pub. Date

2020.

Language

English

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NYT - Hardcover Fiction

Formats

10 copies, 89 people are on the wait list.

Central - Adult New Fiction

F MCBRI

Pub. Date	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
2020.	Riverhead Books	370 pages ; 24 cm	English	Available 10 copies, 89 people are on the wait list. Central - Adult New Fiction F MCBRI Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

10 copies, 52 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2020	OverDrive	Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group	English	Checked Out 10 copies, 52 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

18 copies, 101 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2020	OverDrive	Penguin Publishing Group	English	Checked Out 18 copies, 101 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

Description

Books I Want to Read
History with a Twist
legendi
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"From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .45 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this...

4) The water dancer: a novel

Author

Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Pub. Date

2019.

Language

English

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Formats

49 copies, 79 people are on the wait list.

Central - Adult New Fiction has 3

F COATE

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
2019.	First edition.	One World	403 pages ; 25 cm	English	Available 49 copies, 79 people are on the wait list. Central - Adult New Fiction has 3 F COATE Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

18 copies, 58 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2019	OverDrive	Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group	English	Checked Out 18 copies, 58 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

27 copies, 117 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2019	OverDrive	Random House Publishing Group	English	Checked Out 27 copies, 117 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

Description

"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...

5) Homegoing: a novel

Author

Gyasi, Yaa

Language

English

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Formats

23 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.

Central - Adult Fiction has 4

F GYASI

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
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 Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

Central - Adult Audiobooks

CD F GYASI

Shirlington - Adult Audiobooks has 2

CD F GYASI

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
[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	More Info Place Hold

4 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2016	OverDrive	Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group	English	Checked Out 4 copies, 17 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

12 copies, 52 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2016	OverDrive	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group	English	Checked Out 12 copies, 52 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

Description

"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...

6) Beloved

Author

10 mind burning novels
North America
Read-Alikes for The Underground Railroad
The Great American Read - 2018

Series

Vintage International

Language

English

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10 copies, 20 people are on the wait list.

Central - Adult Fiction has 2

F MORRI

Plaza - Adult Fiction

F MORRI

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
2004.	First Vintage International edition.	Vintage International	xix, 321 pages ; 21 cm	English	Available 10 copies, 20 people are on the wait list. Central - Adult Fiction has 2 F MORRI Plaza - Adult Fiction F MORRI Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
[2006]	Unabridged.	Books on Tape	10 audio discs (approximately 73 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.	English	Checked Out 1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

10 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2006	OverDrive	Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group	English	Checked Out 10 copies, 15 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

6 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2007	OverDrive	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group	English	Checked Out 6 copies, 18 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

Description

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose...

7) The bluest eye: a novel

Author

NYT - Paperback Trade Fiction
Read-Alikes for Nickel Boys
Reading about Black Lives

Series

Oprah's book club

Language

English

Appears on these lists

Formats

7 copies, 19 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
1970.	Holt, Rinehart and Winston	215 pages ; 21 cm.	English	Checked Out 7 copies, 19 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

Central - Adult Audiobooks

CD F MORRI

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
[2011]	Unabridged.	Books on Tape	6 audio discs (413 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.	English	Available Central - Adult Audiobooks CD F MORRI	More Info Place Hold

5 copies, 30 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2011	OverDrive	Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group	English	Checked Out 5 copies, 30 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

18 copies, 31 people are on the wait list.

Online OverDrive Collection has 18

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2007	OverDrive	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group	English	Available Online 18 copies, 31 people are on the wait list. Online OverDrive Collection has 18	More Info Check Out OverDrive

Description

New Books Featured in the Monthly Library eNewsletter
Read-Alikes for Such a Fun Age
Reading about Black Lives
Reese's Book Club

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...

8) Such a fun age: a novel

Author

Reid, Kiley

Language

English

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Formats

61 copies, 222 people are on the wait list.

Central - Adult New Fiction has 4

F REID

Pub. Date	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
[2019]	G.P. Putnam's Sons	310 pages ; 24 cm	English	Available 61 copies, 222 people are on the wait list. Central - Adult New Fiction has 4 F REID Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

21 copies, 131 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2019	OverDrive	Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group	English	Checked Out 21 copies, 131 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

55 copies, 346 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2019	OverDrive	Penguin Publishing Group	English	Checked Out 55 copies, 346 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

Description

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...

9) Sing, unburied, sing: a novel

Author

Ward, Jesmyn

Language

English

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Formats

25 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.

Central - Adult Fiction has 2

F WARD

Glencarlyn - Adult Fiction

F WARD

Shirlington - Adult Fiction

F WARD

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
2017.	First Scribner hardcover edition.	Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc	289 pages ; 23 cm	English	Available 25 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. Central - Adult Fiction has 2 F WARD Glencarlyn - Adult Fiction F WARD Shirlington - Adult Fiction F WARD Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

Central - Adult Audiobooks

CD F WARD

Glencarlyn - Adult Audiobooks

CD F WARD

Plaza - Adult Audiobooks

CD F WARD

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
[2017]	Unabridged.	Simon & Schuster Audio	7 audio discs (008:00:00) : CD ; 4 3/4 in.	English	Available Central - Adult Audiobooks CD F WARD Glencarlyn - Adult Audiobooks CD F WARD Plaza - Adult Audiobooks CD F WARD Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

6 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2017	OverDrive	Simon & Schuster Audio	English	Checked Out 6 copies, 3 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

6 copies, 24 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2017	OverDrive	Scribner	English	Checked Out 6 copies, 24 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

Description

New Books Featured in the Monthly Library eNewsletter
Read-Alikes for Red at the Bone
Reading about Black Lives

A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait...

10) Red at the bone: A Novel

Author

Woodson, Jacqueline

Pub. Date

2019.

Language

English

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Formats

26 copies, 31 people are on the wait list.

Central - Adult New Fiction has 5

F WOODS

Pub. Date	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
2019.	Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC	196 pages ; 22 cm	English	Available 26 copies, 31 people are on the wait list. Central - Adult New Fiction has 5 F WOODS Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

5 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2019	OverDrive	Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group	English	Checked Out 5 copies, 11 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

8 copies, 39 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2019	OverDrive	Penguin Publishing Group	English	Checked Out 8 copies, 39 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

Description

11) The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction): A Novel

"Two familes from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier,...

Author

Whitehead, Colson

Pub. Date

2019

Language

English

Formats

eAudiobook, eBook

11 copies, 54 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2019	OverDrive	Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group	English	Checked Out 11 copies, 54 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

37 copies, 113 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2019	OverDrive	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group	English	Checked Out 37 copies, 113 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

Description

Reading about Black Lives

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Time, Esquire, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Slate, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Vox, Variety, Christian Science Monitor, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Dallas Morning News, Literary Hub, BuzzFeed, The New York Public Library
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
ONE...

12) American spy: a novel

Author

Wilkinson, Lauren

Language

English

Appears on list

Formats

17 copies, 26 people are on the wait list.

Central - Adult Fiction

F WILKI

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
[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 Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

6 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2019	OverDrive	Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group	English	Checked Out 6 copies, 23 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

13 copies, 72 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2019	OverDrive	Random House Publishing Group	English	Checked Out 13 copies, 72 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

Description

2020\\
The Great American Read - 2018

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...

13) Their eyes were watching God: A Novel

Author

Hurston, Zora Neale

Language

English

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Formats

5 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.

Central - Adult Fiction

F HURST

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
2006.	First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition.	HarperPerennial Modern Classics	xviii, 219, 16 pages ; 21 cm	English	Available 5 copies, 4 people are on the wait list. Central - Adult Fiction F HURST Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

6 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.

Online OverDrive Collection has 6

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2005	OverDrive	HarperAudio	English	Available Online 6 copies, 13 people are on the wait list. Online OverDrive Collection has 6	More Info Check Out OverDrive

Online OverDrive Collection has 13

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2009	OverDrive	HarperCollins	English	Available Online Online OverDrive Collection has 13	More Info Check Out OverDrive

Description

Hurston's most highly acclaimed novel returns in a beautiful new edition, in time to celebrate Black History Month.

14) Sula

Author

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Large Type

Language

English

Formats

5 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
2004.	First Vintage Int. edition.	Vintage International	xvii, pages ; cm	English	Checked Out 5 copies, 7 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.

Online OverDrive Collection has 3

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2007	OverDrive	Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group	English	Available Online 3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. Online OverDrive Collection has 3	More Info Check Out OverDrive

2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2007	OverDrive	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group	English	Checked Out 2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.

Central - Adult Large Type

LT F MORRI

Pub. Date	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
[2002]	Thorndike Press	240 pages (large print) ; 22 cm	English	Available 1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list. Central - Adult Large Type LT F MORRI	More Info Place Hold

Description

Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. But their...

15) A mercy

Author

Stanford Presidential Bookshelf

Language

English

Appears on list

Formats

Book, Audiobook on CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Large Type

4 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.

Central - Adult Fiction

F MORRI

Westover - Adult Fiction

F MORRI

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
2008.	First edition.	Knopf	167 pages ; 22 cm	English	Available 4 copies, 2 people are on the wait list. Central - Adult Fiction F MORRI Westover - Adult Fiction F MORRI	More Info Place Hold

Shirlington - Adult Audiobooks

CD F MORRI

Westover - Adult Audiobooks

CD F MORRI

Online OverDrive Collection has 2

Shirlington - Adult Large Type

LT F MORRI

Description

Reading about Black Lives

In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class divisions, prejudice and oppression were rife, providing the fertile soil in which slavery and race hatred were planted and took root. Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh north. Despite his distaste for dealing in "flesh," he takes a small slave girl in part payment for a bad debt from a plantation owner...

16) Queenie: a novel

Author

Carty-Williams, Candice

Pub. Date

2019.

Language

English

Appears on list

Formats

7 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.

3 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.

6 copies, 27 people are on the wait list.

Description

Book, Audiobook on CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Large Type

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...

17) Small great things: A Novel

Author

Picoult, Jodi

Language

English

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Formats

12 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.

4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.

Shirlington - Adult Audiobooks

CD F PICOU

Westover - Adult Audiobooks

CD F PICOU

4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.

12 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.

Online OverDrive Collection has 12

Westover - Adult Large Type

LT F PICOU

Description

18) One crazy summer: One Crazy Summer Series, Book 1

"This stunning new novel is Jodi Picoult at her finest--complete with unflinching insights, richly layered characters, and a page-turning plot with a gripping moral dilemma at its heart. Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years' experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she's been reassigned to another patient. The parents...

Author

Williams-Garcia, Rita

Series

Gaither sisters volume 1
One Crazy Summer

Language

English

Appears on these lists

Black Lives Matter: Elementary Stories
Black Lives Matter: Middle Grade Stories
Coretta Scott King Award Winners
YS eNewsletter Spotlight: Audio books for the Whole Family

Formats

6 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.

Central - Kids Fiction

JF WILLI

Cherrydale - Kids Fiction

JF WILLI

Central - Kids Audiobooks has 3

J/CD JF WILLI

1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.

2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.

Description

In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.

19) Go tell it on the mountain

Author

Baldwin, James

Series

Vintage International

Language

English

Formats

1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.

Central - Adult Fiction

F BALDW

Westover - Adult Audiobooks

CD F BALDW

Online OverDrive Collection has 3

2 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.

Description

The story of John, a fourteen-year-old boy whose stepfather is a Pentecostal minister in Harlem in 1935, as he struggles to discover his own identity. "Mountain," Baldwin said, "is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating...

20) Kindred

Author

Butler, Octavia E

Language

English

Appears on these lists

Formats

5 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.

Central - Adult Science Fiction

SF BUTLE

RBdigital

4 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.

Description