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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...
22) 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...
23) Patsy: a novel
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Central - Adult Fiction
F DENNI
2 available
F DENNI
2 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F DENNI
1 available
F DENNI
1 available
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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...
24) Queenie: a novel
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Central - Adult Fiction
F CARTY
3 available
F CARTY
3 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F CARTY
1 available
F CARTY
1 available
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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...
25) Real life
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Central - Adult Fiction
F TAYLO
2 available
F TAYLO
2 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F TAYLO
1 available
F TAYLO
1 available
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F TAYLO
1 available
F TAYLO
1 available
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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,...
26) Red at the bone
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Central - Adult Fiction
F WOODS
1 available
F WOODS
1 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F WOODS
1 available
F WOODS
1 available
Cherrydale - Adult Fiction
F WOODS
1 available
F WOODS
1 available
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"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,...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F SEXTO
1 available
F SEXTO
1 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F SEXTO
1 available
F SEXTO
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F SEXTO
1 available
F SEXTO
1 available
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In 1925, Josephine is the proud owner of a thriving farm. As a child, she channeled otherworldly power to free herself from slavery. Now, her new neighbor, a white woman named Charlotte, seeks her company, and an uneasy friendship grows between them. But Charlotte has also sought solace in the Ku Klux Klan, a relationship that jeopardizes Josephine's family. Nearly one hundred years later, Josephine's descendant, Ava, is a single mother who has just...
28) 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...
29) The sellout
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Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F BEATT
1 available
F BEATT
1 available
Westover - Recently Returned
F BEATT
1 available
F BEATT
1 available
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2 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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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...
30) Silver sparrow
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Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a man's deception, a family's complicity, and two teenage girls caught in the middle. Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon's two families - the public one and the secret one. When the daughters from each family meet and form a friendship, only one of them knows they are sisters. It is a relationship destined to explode when secrets are...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F WARD
5 available
F WARD
5 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F WARD
1 available
F WARD
1 available
Glencarlyn - Adult Fiction
F WARD
1 available
F WARD
1 available
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Aurora Hills - Adult Audiobooks
CD F WARD
1 available
CD F WARD
1 available
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3 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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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...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F REID
5 available
F REID
5 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F REID
1 available
F REID
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F REID
2 available
F REID
2 available
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4 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
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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...
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Glencarlyn - Adult Fiction
F MATHI
1 available
F MATHI
1 available
Westover - Adult Fiction
F MATHI
1 available
F MATHI
1 available
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The story of an African American family held together with a mother's grit and monumental courage.
34) Washington Black
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Central - Adult Fiction
F EDUGY
2 available
F EDUGY
2 available
Courthouse - Adult Fiction
F EDUGY
1 available
F EDUGY
1 available
Westover - Adult Fiction
F EDUGY
1 available
F EDUGY
1 available
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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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Central - Adult Fiction
F COATE
10 available
F COATE
10 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F COATE
3 available
F COATE
3 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F COATE
2 available
F COATE
2 available
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1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
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"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...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F RUFFI
1 available
F RUFFI
1 available
Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F RUFFI
1 available
F RUFFI
1 available
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"You can be beautiful, even more beautiful than before." This is the seductive promise of Dr. Nzinga's clinic, where anyone can get their lips thinned, their skin bleached, and their nose narrowed. A complete demelanization will liberate you from the confines of being born in a black body-if you can afford it. In this near-future Southern city plagued by fenced-in ghettos and police violence, more and more residents are turning to this experimental...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F GREEN
1 available
F GREEN
1 available
Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F GREEN
1 available
F GREEN
1 available
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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...
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Central - Adult Fiction
F CLEMM
1 available
F CLEMM
1 available
Aurora Hills - Adult Fiction
F CLEMM
1 available
F CLEMM
1 available
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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 NAYLO
1 available
F NAYLO
1 available
Westover - Adult Fiction
F NAYLO
1 available
F NAYLO
1 available
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The stories of seven Black women living in an urban ghetto evoke the energy, brutality, compassion, and desolation of modern Black America.
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Central - Adult Fiction
F LORDE
1 available
F LORDE
1 available
Glencarlyn - Adult Fiction
F LORDE
1 available
F LORDE
1 available
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
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.