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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Whitehe
2 available
Fiction Whitehe
2 available
Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction Whitehe
1 available
Fiction Whitehe
1 available
Donelson - Adult Fiction
Fiction Whitehe
1 available
Fiction Whitehe
1 available
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Bellevue - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Whitehe
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Whitehe
1 available
Edgehill - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Whitehe
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Whitehe
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Whitehe
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Whitehe
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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Main - Upon Request - Adult Book Club In A Bag
Book Club in a Bag
2 available
Book Club in a Bag
2 available
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Bellevue - Adult Large Print
Fiction Whitehe Large Type
1 available
Fiction Whitehe Large Type
1 available
Bordeaux - Adult Large Print
Fiction Whitehe Large Type
1 available
Fiction Whitehe Large Type
1 available
Edgehill - Adult Large Print
Fiction Whitehe Large Type
1 available
Fiction Whitehe Large Type
1 available
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Bordeaux - Adult Audiobook
Playaway Fiction Whitehe
1 available
Playaway Fiction Whitehe
1 available
East - Adult Audiobook
Playaway Fiction Whitehe
1 available
Playaway Fiction Whitehe
1 available
Description
In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. 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...
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Atakora
1 available
Fiction Atakora
1 available
Edgehill - Adult Fiction
Fiction Atakora
1 available
Fiction Atakora
1 available
Goodlettsville - Adult Fiction
Fiction Atakora
1 available
Fiction Atakora
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Like her mother, Rue is an all-knowing midwife, healer, and conjurer of curses on the plantation of Marse Charles. Moving back and forth in time between the years before and after the Civil War, this novel tells the story of Rue, the families she cares for, and the mysteries and secrets she knows about the plantation owner's daughter, Varina. At the heart of this story is the intimate bonds and transgressions among people and across racial divides,...
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Coates
2 available
Fiction Coates
2 available
Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction Coates
2 available
Fiction Coates
2 available
Donelson - Adult Fiction
Fiction Coates
1 available
Fiction Coates
1 available
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Bellevue - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Coates
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Coates
1 available
Donelson - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Coates
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Coates
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Coates
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Coates
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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Main - Upon Request - Adult Book Club In A Bag
Book Club in a Bag
1 available
Book Club in a Bag
1 available
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Bordeaux - Adult Large Print
Fiction Coates Large Type
1 available
Fiction Coates Large Type
1 available
East - Adult Large Print
Fiction Coates Large Type
1 available
Fiction Coates Large Type
1 available
Edgehill - Adult Large Print
Fiction Coates Large Type
1 available
Fiction Coates Large Type
1 available
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Bordeaux - Adult Audiobook
Playaway Fiction Coates
1 available
Playaway Fiction Coates
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Adult Audiobook
Playaway Fiction Coates
1 available
Playaway Fiction Coates
1 available
Looby - Adult Audiobook
Playaway Fiction Coates
1 available
Playaway Fiction Coates
1 available
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...
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Jones
1 available
Fiction Jones
1 available
Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction Jones
1 available
Fiction Jones
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Jones
1 available
Fiction Jones
1 available
Description
"A singular and stunning debut novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence"--
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Donelson - Adult Fiction
Fiction Mathis
1 available
Fiction Mathis
1 available
East - Adult Fiction
Fiction Mathis
1 available
Fiction Mathis
1 available
Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Mathis
1 available
Fiction Mathis
1 available
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North - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Mathis
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Mathis
1 available
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Southeast - Adult Large Print
Fiction Mathis Large Type
1 available
Fiction Mathis Large Type
1 available
Description
In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children whom she raises with grit and mettle and not an ounce of the tenderness they crave. She vows to prepare them for...
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Mbue
2 available
Fiction Mbue
2 available
East - Adult Fiction
Fiction Mbue
1 available
Fiction Mbue
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Mbue
1 available
Fiction Mbue
1 available
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Bordeaux - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Mbue
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Mbue
1 available
Main Library - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Mbue
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Mbue
1 available
Checked Out
4 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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Main - Upon Request - Adult Book Club In A Bag
Book Club in a Bag
1 available
Book Club in a Bag
1 available
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Large Print
Fiction Mbue Large Type
1 available
Fiction Mbue Large Type
1 available
Description
From Cameroonian Mbue comes a debut novel about two immigrants struggling to find their footing in a new world. When Jende Jonga journeys to New York City from Cameroon in 2004 on a visitors' visa in hopes of obtaining a green card, he's sure his life will only improve. After saving up enough money to bring over Jende's wife, Neni, and six-year-old son, the family moves into an apartment in Harlem. Then Jende hits the jackpot in 2007 when he lands...
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East - Adult Fiction
Fiction Card
1 available
Fiction Card
1 available
Edgehill - Adult Fiction
Fiction Card
1 available
Fiction Card
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Card
1 available
Fiction Card
1 available
Description
"These Ghosts are Family centers on Abel and Vera Paisley are a working-class Jamaican couple, striving to build a better life for their children. Abel travels to London in the early 1960s in search of fortune. Instead, he sees an opportunity to escape the drudgery of his life by faking his death and assuming a new identity. Vera, now a widow, is racked with guilt over her husband's "death" and takes out her grief on her children, Irene and Vincent....
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Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction Porter
1 available
Fiction Porter
1 available
Thompson Lane - Adult Fiction
Fiction Porter
1 available
Fiction Porter
1 available
Description
Meet James Samuel Vincent, an affluent Manhattan attorney who shirks his modest Irish American background but hews to his father's philandering ways. James muddles through a topsy-turvy relationship with his son, Rufus, whuch is further complicated when Rufus marries Claudia Christie. Claudia's mother--Agnes Miller Christie--is a beautiful African American woman who survives a chance encounter on a Georgia road that propels her into a new life in...
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Gyasi
2 available
Fiction Gyasi
2 available
Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction Gyasi
1 available
Fiction Gyasi
1 available
Donelson - Adult Fiction
Fiction Gyasi
1 available
Fiction Gyasi
1 available
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Bordeaux - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Gyasi
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Gyasi
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Gyasi
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Gyasi
1 available
Green Hills - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Gyasi
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Gyasi
1 available
Checked Out
6 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
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Bellevue - Adult Audiobook
PLAYAWAY Fiction Gyasi
1 available
PLAYAWAY Fiction Gyasi
1 available
Green Hills - Adult Audiobook
PLAYAWAY Fiction Gyasi
1 available
PLAYAWAY Fiction Gyasi
1 available
Main Library - Adult Audiobook
PLAYAWAY Fiction Gyasi
1 available
PLAYAWAY Fiction Gyasi
1 available
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...
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East - Adult Fiction
Fiction Sexton
1 available
Fiction Sexton
1 available
Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Sexton
1 available
Fiction Sexton
1 available
Hermitage - Adult Fiction
Fiction Sexton
1 available
Fiction Sexton
1 available
Description
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...
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Hermitage - Adult Fiction
Fiction Tademy
1 available
Fiction Tademy
1 available
Main Library - Adult Fiction
Fiction Tademy
1 available
Fiction Tademy
1 available
Description
Buying his freedom after serving as a translator during the American Indian wars, Cow Tom builds a remarkable life and legacy that is sustained by his courageous granddaughter.
12) Beloved: a novel
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Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction Morriso
1 available
Fiction Morriso
1 available
Donelson - Adult Fiction
Fiction Morriso
1 available
Fiction Morriso
1 available
Madison - Adult Fiction
Fiction Morriso
1 available
Fiction Morriso
1 available
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Bellevue - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Morriso
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Morriso
1 available
Green Hills - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Morriso
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Morriso
1 available
Looby - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Morriso
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Morriso
1 available
Checked Out
11 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
Description
Set after the American Civil War (1861-1865), the novel is inspired by the story of an African American slave, Margaret Garner, who escaped slavery in Kentucky late January 1856 by fleeing to Ohio, a free state. In the novel, the protagonist Sethe is also a slave who escapes slavery, running to Cincinnati, Ohio. After twenty-eight days of freedom, a posse arrives to retrieve her and her children under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which gave slave...
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6 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
Born on a plantation but set apart from the others by her mother's position as a medicine woman, a young slave is forced to leave home at eighteen and unexpectedly finds herself in an infamously cruel jail.
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Bellevue - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction McBride
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction McBride
1 available
Goodlettsville - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction McBride
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction McBride
1 available
Looby - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction McBride
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction McBride
1 available
Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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Main - Upon Request - Adult Book Club In A Bag
Book Club in a Bag
1 available
Book Club in a Bag
1 available
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Bellevue - Adult Large Print
Fiction McBride Large Type
1 available
Fiction McBride Large Type
1 available
Green Hills - Adult Large Print
Fiction McBride Large Type
1 available
Fiction McBride Large Type
1 available
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Richland Park - Adult Audiobook
PLAYAWAY Fiction McBride
1 available
PLAYAWAY Fiction McBride
1 available
Description
Fleeing his violent master at the side of abolitionist John Brown at the height of the slavery debate in mid-nineteenth-century Kansas Territory, Henry pretends to be a girl to hide his identity throughout the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859.
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East - Adult Fiction
Fiction Randall
1 available
Fiction Randall
1 available
Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Randall
1 available
Fiction Randall
1 available
Hermitage - Adult Fiction
Fiction Randall
1 available
Fiction Randall
1 available
Description
"An enthralling literary tour-de-force that pays tribute to Detroit's legendary neighborhood, a mecca for jazz, sports, and politics, Black Bottom Saints is a powerful blend of fact and imagination reminiscent of E.L. Doctorow's classic novel Ragtime and Marlon James' Man Booker Award-winning masterpiece, A Brief History of Seven Killings. From the Great Depression through the post-World War II years, Joseph "Ziggy" Johnson, has been the pulse of...
16) Indigo
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Jenkins
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Jenkins
1 available
Watkins Park - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Jenkins
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Jenkins
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"As a child Hester Wyatt escaped slavery, but now the dark skinned beauty is a dedicated member of Michigan's Underground railroad, offering other runaways a chance at the freedom she has learned to love. When one of her fellow conductors brings her an injured man to hide, Hester doesn't hesitate ... even after she is told about the price on his head. The man in question is the great conductor known as the "Black Daniel" a vital member of the North's...
17) In West Mills
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Edgehill - Adult Fiction
Fiction Winslow
1 available
Fiction Winslow
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Winslow
1 available
Fiction Winslow
1 available
Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Winslow
1 available
Fiction Winslow
1 available
Description
For readers of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie and The Turner House , an intimately told story about a woman living by her own rules and the rural community that struggles to understand her. Azalea "Knot" Centre is determined to live life as she pleases. Let the people of West Mills say what they will; the neighbors' gossip won't keep Knot from what she loves best: cheap moonshine, nineteenth-century literature, and the company of men. And yet, Knot is...