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28 copies, 32 people are on the wait list.

Aurora Hills - Adult New Fiction

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Central - Adult Fiction

F GRISH

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
[2019]	First edition.	Doubleday	375 pages ; 25 cm	English	Available 28 copies, 32 people are on the wait list. Aurora Hills - Adult New Fiction F GRISH Central - Adult Fiction F GRISH Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

9 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2019	OverDrive	Books on Tape	English	Checked Out 9 copies, 8 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

22 copies, 24 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2019	OverDrive	Random House Publishing Group	English	Checked Out 22 copies, 24 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

3 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
[2019]	First large print edition.	Random House Large Print Publishing	469 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.	English	In Transit 3 copies, 11 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

Description

In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues. There were no witnesses, no one with a motive. But the police soon came to suspect Quincy Miller, a young black man who was once a client of Russo's. Quincy was tried, convicted, and sent to prison for life. For twenty-two years he languished in prison, maintaining his innocence. But no one was...

2) The bluest eye: a novel

Author

Read-Alikes for Nickel Boys
Reading about Black Lives

Series

Oprah's book club

Language

English

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7 copies, 16 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, 16 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
[2011]	Unabridged.	Books on Tape	6 audio discs (413 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.	English	Checked Out 1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

5 copies, 27 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, 27 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

17 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2007	OverDrive	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group	English	Checked Out 17 copies, 14 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

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

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...

3) Red at the bone: A Novel

Author

Woodson, Jacqueline

Pub. Date

2019.

Language

English

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24 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.

Central - Adult Fiction has 3

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 24 copies, 18 people are on the wait list. Central - Adult Fiction has 3 F WOODS Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

5 copies, 6 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, 6 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

8 copies, 31 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2019	OverDrive	Penguin Publishing Group	English	Checked Out 8 copies, 31 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

Description

"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,...

4) An American marriage: a novel

Author

Jones, Tayari

Pub. Date

2018.

Language

English

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39 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.

Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction has 4

F JONES

Aurora Hills - Adult New Fiction

F JONES

Central - Adult Fiction has 8

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, 15 people are on the wait list. Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction has 4 F JONES Aurora Hills - Adult New Fiction F JONES Central - Adult Fiction has 8 F JONES Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
2018.	Unabridged.	HighBridge Audio	7 audio discs (9 hr.) : CD ; 4 3/4 in.	English	In Transit 3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

15 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.

Online OverDrive Collection has 15

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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

28 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2018	OverDrive	Algonquin Books	English	Checked Out 28 copies, 5 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

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Book, 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...

5) The reckoning: a novel

Author

Grisham, John

Language

English

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Book
Show Editions

27 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.

Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction

F GRISH

Aurora Hills - Adult New Fiction has 2

F GRISH

Central - Adult Audiobooks

CD F GRISH

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Availability
[2018]	First edition.	Doubleday	420 pages ; 25 cm	Available 24 copies, 4 people are on the wait list. Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction F GRISH Aurora Hills - Adult New Fiction has 2 F GRISH Central - Adult Fiction has 5 F GRISH Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold
2018.		Random House Audio	15 audio discs (18 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.	Available Central - Adult Audiobooks CD F GRISH Shirlington - Adult Audiobooks CD F GRISH Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

6 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.

Online OverDrive Collection has 6

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2018	OverDrive	Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group	English	Available Online 6 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. Online OverDrive Collection has 6	More Info Check Out OverDrive

14 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.

Online OverDrive Collection has 14

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2018	OverDrive	Random House Publishing Group	English	Available Online 14 copies, 3 people are on the wait list. Online OverDrive Collection has 14	More Info Check Out OverDrive

3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.

Central - Adult Large Type

LT F GRISH

Westover - Adult New Large Type

LT F GRISH

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
[2018]	First large print edition.	Random House Large Print	641 pages (large print) ; 24 cm	English	Available 3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. Central - Adult Large Type LT F GRISH Westover - Adult New Large Type LT F GRISH Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

Description

Pete Banning was Clanton's favorite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning in 1946. he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder wasn't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete's only statement about it - to the sheriff, to his...

6) The holdout: A Novel

Author

Moore, Graham

Pub. Date

2020.

Language

English

Formats

9 copies, 25 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
2020.	First Edition.	Random House	322 pages ; 25 cm	English	In Transit 9 copies, 25 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

3 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2020	OverDrive	Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group	English	Checked Out 3 copies, 4 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

7 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2020	OverDrive	Random House Publishing Group	English	Checked Out 7 copies, 7 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

Description

Read-Alikes for Nickel Boys
Reading about Black Lives

"It's the most sensational case of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Jessica Silver, heiress to a billion-dollar real estate fortune, vanishes on her way home from school. Her teacher Bobby Nock, a twenty-five-year-old African American man, is the prime suspect after illicit text messages are discovered between them--and Jessica's blood is found in his car. The subsequent trial taps straight into America's most pressing preoccupations: race, class, sex,...

7) If Beale Street could talk: a novel

Author

Baldwin, James

Series

Vintage International

Language

English

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Formats

9 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.

Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction

F BALDW

Central - Recently Returned

F BALDW

Westover - Adult Fiction has 2

F BALDW

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
2002.	First Vintage International edition.	Vintage International	197 pages ; 21 cm	English	Available 9 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction F BALDW Central - Recently Returned F BALDW Westover - Adult Fiction has 2 F BALDW Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

6 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2016	OverDrive	Blackstone Publishing	English	Checked Out 6 copies, 4 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

6 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2013	OverDrive	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group	English	Checked Out 6 copies, 11 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

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

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...

8) The underground railroad: a novel

Author

Whitehead, Colson

Language

English

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Formats

18 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.

Central - Adult Fiction has 3

F WHITE

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
2016.	First edition.	Doubleday	306 pages ; 25 cm	English	Available 18 copies, 9 people are on the wait list. Central - Adult Fiction has 3 F WHITE Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

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 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, 5 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, 5 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

25 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2016	OverDrive	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group	English	Checked Out 25 copies, 9 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.

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 3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

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9) It's not all downhill from here: a novel

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...

Author

McMillan, Terry

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

5 copies, 19 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
[2020]	First edition.	Ballantine Books	350 pages ; 25 cm	English	Checked Out 5 copies, 19 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

3 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2020	OverDrive	Random House Publishing Group	English	Checked Out 3 copies, 9 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

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After a sudden change of plans, a remarkable woman and her loyal group of friends try to figure out what she's going to do with the rest of her life—from Terry McMillan, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale

"McMillan brings her signature wit and wisdom to It's Not All Downhill From Here."—O: The Oprah Magazine
Loretha...

10) Royal holiday

Author

Guillory, Jasmine

Series

Wedding dates volume 4

Pub. Date

2019.

Language

English

Appears on list

Cold Days, Hot Nights

Formats

8 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
2019.	First edition.	Berkley	viii, 295 pages ; 22 cm	English	In Transit 8 copies, 5 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

4 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2019	OverDrive	Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group	English	Checked Out 4 copies, 5 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

9 copies, 20 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2019	OverDrive	Penguin Publishing Group	English	Checked Out 9 copies, 20 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

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"Vivian Forest has been out of the country a grand total of one time, so when she gets the chance to tag along on her daughter Maddie's work trip to England to style a royal family member, she can't refuse. She's excited to spend the holidays taking in the magnificent British sights, but what she doesn't expect is to become instantly attracted to a certain Private Secretary and his charming accent and unyielding formality. Malcolm Hudson has been...

11) Homegoing: a novel

Author

Gyasi, Yaa

Language

English

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22 copies, 11 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 22 copies, 11 people are on the wait list. Central - Adult Fiction has 4 F GYASI 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 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 3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. Central - Adult Audiobooks CD F GYASI Shirlington - Adult Audiobooks has 2 CD F GYASI	More Info Place Hold

4 copies, 19 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, 19 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

12 copies, 53 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2016	OverDrive	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group	English	Checked Out 12 copies, 53 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

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Black Lives Matter: Books to Start a Conversation
Black Lives Matter: Teen Stories
High School TAB Top Picks in E-Book and E-Audio
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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...

12) Dear Martin

Author

Stone, Nic

Language

English

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3 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
[2017]	First edition.	Crown	210 pages ; 22 cm	English	Checked Out 3 copies, 5 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

1 copy, 7 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2017	OverDrive	Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group	English	Checked Out 1 copy, 7 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2017	OverDrive	Random House Children's Books	English	Checked Out 2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

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13) The color purple: The Color Purple Series, Book 1

Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.

Author

Walker, Alice

Series

The Color Purple

Language

English

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Dear Reader
Next Up
Reading about Black Lives
The Great American Read - 2018

Formats

Book, Audiobook on CD, eBook

Book
Show Editions

4 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.

Central - Adult Fiction

F WALKE

Cherrydale - Adult Fiction

F WALKE

Pub. Date	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Availability
2019.	Penguin Books	xii, 286 pages ; 21 cm	Available 3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list. Central - Adult Fiction F WALKE	More Info Place Hold
c1982	Harcourt Brace Jovanovich	245 p. ; 22 cm.	Available Cherrydale - Adult Fiction F WALKE	More Info Place Hold

Shirlington - Adult Audiobooks

CD F WALKE

Pub. Date	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
[2010]	Recorded Books	7 audio discs (8 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.	English	Available Shirlington - Adult Audiobooks CD F WALKE	More Info Place Hold

3 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2011	OverDrive	Open Road Media	English	Checked Out 3 copies, 12 people are on the wait list. Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold OverDrive

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14) The care and feeding of ravenously hungry girls

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...

Author

Gray, Anissa

Pub. Date

2019.

Language

English

Appears on list

Reading about Black Lives

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Large Type

Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction

F GRAY

Aurora Hills - Adult New Fiction

F GRAY

Aurora Hills - Recently Returned

F GRAY

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
2019.	First edition.	Berkley	294 pages ; 24 cm	English	Available Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction F GRAY Aurora Hills - Adult New Fiction F GRAY Aurora Hills - Recently Returned F GRAY Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

Online OverDrive Collection has 3

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2019	OverDrive	Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group	English	Available Online Online OverDrive Collection has 3	More Info Check Out OverDrive

Online OverDrive Collection has 4

Pub. Date	Source	Publisher	Language	Availability
2019	OverDrive	Penguin Publishing Group	English	Available Online Online OverDrive Collection has 4	More Info Check Out OverDrive

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
2019.	Large print edition.	Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company	453 pages (large print) ; 23 cm	English	Checked Out Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

Description

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...

15) Home: a novel

Author

Series

Vintage International

Language

English

Formats

Central - Adult Fiction has 2

F MORRI

Pub. Date	Edition	Publisher	Phys Desc.	Language	Availability
[2012]	First edition.	Alfred A. Knopf	145 pages ; 22 cm	English	Available Central - Adult Fiction has 2 F MORRI Quick Copy View See Full Copy Details	More Info Place Hold

Central - Adult Audiobooks

CD F MORRI

1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.

Online OverDrive Collection

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"The story of a Korean war veteran on a quest to save his younger sister"-- When Frank Money joined the army to escape his too-small world, he left behind his cherished and fragile little sister, Cee. After the war, his shattered life has no purpose until he hears that Cee is in danger. Frank is a modern Odysseus returning to a 1950s America mined with lethal pitfalls for an unwary black man. As he journeys to his native Georgia in search of Cee,...

16) Conjure women: A Novel

Author

Atakora, Afia

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

1 copy, 12 people are on the wait list.

2 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.

Description

A mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing—and for the conjuring of curses—are at the heart of this dazzling first novel

LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE • "Lush, irresistible . . . It took me into the hearts of women I could otherwise never know. I was transported."—Amy Bloom, New York Times bestselling author of White Houses and Away
Conjure...

17) Song of Solomon

Author

Series

Vintage International

Language

English

Formats

7 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.

Central - Recently Returned has 2

F MORRI

Westover - Adult Fiction

F MORRI

3 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.

3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.

Description

Vintage International Modern library of the world's best books

Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers...

18) Invisible man

Author

Ellison, Ralph

Series

Language

English

Appears on list

The Great American Read - 2018

Formats

Book
Show Editions

16 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.

Central - Adult Fiction has 7

F ELLIS

Westover - Adult Fiction

F ELLIS

5 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.

6 copies, 13 people are on the wait list.

Description

In the course of his wanderings from a Southern Negro college to New York's Harlem, an American black man becomes involved in a series of adventures. Introduction explains circumstances under which the book was written. Ellison won the National Book Award for this searing record of a black man's journey through contemporary America. Unquestionably, Ellison's book is a work of extraordinary intensity--powerfully imagined and written with a savage,...

19) God help the child: a novel

Author

Read-Alikes for Red at the Bone
Reading about Black Lives

Language

English

Appears on these lists

Formats

Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction

F MORRI

Central - Adult Fiction

F MORRI

Central - Adult Audiobooks

CD F MORRI

Online OverDrive Collection has 2

Online OverDrive Collection has 2

Description

20) Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick: stories from the Harlem Renaissance

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...

Author

Hurston, Zora Neale

Language

English

Appears on list

Reading about Black Lives

Formats

Book, eBook

3 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.

3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.

Online OverDrive Collection has 3

Description