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Fiction Hurston
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Fiction Hurston
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Fiction Hurston
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Fiction Hurston
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Hurston
1 available
Fiction Hurston
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Description
In 1925, Zora Neale Hurston was living in New York as a fledgling writer. This collection of stories, found in archives after her death, reveal African American folk culture in Harlem in the 1920s. This book includes eight of Hurston's "lost" Harlem gems.
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Bordeaux - Adult Non-Fiction
813.54 L884z
1 available
813.54 L884z
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Hermitage - Adult Non-Fiction
813.54 L884z
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813.54 L884z
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"ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde's work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her... Lorde brings into play her craft of lush description and characterization. It keeps unfolding page after page."--Off Our Backs.
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"In a landmark book, an extraordinary young woman recounts her coming-of-age as a transgender teen--a deeply personal and empowering portrait of self-revelation, adversity, and heroism. In 2011, Marie Claire magazine published a profile of Janet Mock in which she publicly stepped forward for the first time as a trans woman. Since then, Mock has gone from covering the red carpet for People.com to advocating for all those who live within the shadows...
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"On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local, state, and federal police attempted to question her about the shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike that had claimed the life of a white state trooper. Long a target of J. Edgar Hoover's campaign to defame, infiltrate, and criminalize Black nationalist organizations and their leaders, Shakur was incarcerated for...
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Bellevue - Adult Non-Fiction
811.6 J791h
1 available
811.6 J791h
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Edgehill - Adult Non-Fiction
811.6 J791h
1 available
811.6 J791h
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Adult Non-Fiction
811.6 J791h
1 available
811.6 J791h
1 available
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"Written from the crossroads of sex, race, and power in America, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir and a haunting reflection of the nation as a whole"--
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Special Collections - Civil Rights Room
Special Coll. 379.2630976 B3666w
1 available
Special Coll. 379.2630976 B3666w
1 available
Special Collections - Muirhead
Special Coll. 379.263 B3666w
1 available
Special Coll. 379.263 B3666w
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Bordeaux - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO 379.263 B3666w
1 available
CD AUDIO 379.263 B3666w
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Hadley Park - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO 379.263 B3666w
1 available
CD AUDIO 379.263 B3666w
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Drawn from personal diaries, Warriors Don't Cry is the riveting true story of Melba Beals's experience as one of the first nine black teenagers chosen to integrate the Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957.
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Bordeaux - Adult Non-Fiction
818.5409 A584ai 1993
1 available
818.5409 A584ai 1993
1 available
Green Hills - Adult Non-Fiction
818.5409 A584ai 2009
2 available
818.5409 A584ai 2009
2 available
Looby - Adult Non-Fiction
818.5409 A584ai 2015
1 available
818.5409 A584ai 2015
1 available
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Bellevue - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO 818.5409 A584i
1 available
CD AUDIO 818.5409 A584i
1 available
Bordeaux - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO 818.5409 A584i
1 available
CD AUDIO 818.5409 A584i
1 available
East - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO 818.5409 A584i
1 available
CD AUDIO 818.5409 A584i
1 available
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6 copies, 9 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 Audiobook
PLAYAWAY 818.5409 A584i
1 available
PLAYAWAY 818.5409 A584i
1 available
East - Adult Audiobook
PLAYAWAY 818.5409 A584i
1 available
PLAYAWAY 818.5409 A584i
1 available
Green Hills - Adult Audiobook
PLAYAWAY 818.5409 A584i
1 available
PLAYAWAY 818.5409 A584i
1 available
Description
"Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey,...
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Bellevue - Adult Biography
B L427h
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B L427h
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Adult Biography
B L427h
1 available
B L427h
1 available
Green Hills - Adult Biography
B L427h
1 available
B L427h
1 available
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"Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about the physical manifestations of violence, grief, trauma, and abuse on his own body. He writes of his own eating disorder and gambling addiction as well as similar issues that run throughout his family. Through self-exploration, storytelling, and honest conversation with family and friends, Heavy seeks to bring what has been hidden into the light and to reckon with all of its myriad sources, from the most...
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Green Hills - Adult Non-Fiction
814.6 I268i
1 available
814.6 I268i
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Thompson Lane - Adult Non-Fiction
814.6 I268i
1 available
814.6 I268i
1 available
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2020 Audie Finalist – Short Stories/Collections
In I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying Bassey Ikpi explores her life—as a Nigerian-American immigrant, a black woman, a slam poet, a mother, a daughter, an artist—through the lens of her mental health and diagnosis of bipolar II and anxiety. Her remarkable memoir in essays implodes our preconceptions of the mind and normalcy as Bassey
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Southeast - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO 305.896 B1816fU
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CD AUDIO 305.896 B1816fU
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1 copy, 6 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 6 people are on the wait list.
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Southeast - Adult Audiobook
PLAYAWAY 305.896 B1816fU
1 available
PLAYAWAY 305.896 B1816fU
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Offers essays from African American civil rights activist James Baldwin alongside over 100 photographs of both him and prominent figures and events in the history of the civil rights movement. Includes an original introduction to these historical writings from U.S. Congressman John Lewis, along with photo captions by Baldwin's sister Gloria Karefa-Smart.
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Non-Fiction
305.896 F5235
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305.896 F5235
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Madison - Adult Non-Fiction
305.896 F5235
1 available
305.896 F5235
1 available
Main Library - Adult Non-Fiction
305.896 F5235
1 available
305.896 F5235
1 available
Description
"National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time. In light of recent tragedies and widespread protests across the nation, The Progressive magazine republished one of its most famous pieces: James Baldwin's 1962 "Letter to My Nephew,"...
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Non-Fiction
810.809287 W447r
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810.809287 W447r
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Hadley Park - Adult Non-Fiction
810.809287 W447r
1 available
810.809287 W447r
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Main Library - Adult Non-Fiction
810.809287 W447r
1 available
810.809287 W447r
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"An inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, curated by the founder of the popular book club Well-Read Black Girl, on the importance of recognizing ourselves in literature. Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling of belonging remains with readers the rest of their lives--but not everyone regularly sees themselves on the pages of a book. In this timely anthology,...
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Bellevue - Adult Non-Fiction
305.800973 C6528b
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305.800973 C6528b
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Bordeaux - Adult Non-Fiction
305.800973 C6528b
1 available
305.800973 C6528b
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Adult Non-Fiction
305.800973 C6528b
1 available
305.800973 C6528b
1 available
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Bordeaux - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO 305.800973 C6528b
1 available
CD AUDIO 305.800973 C6528b
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO 305.800973 C6528b
1 available
CD AUDIO 305.800973 C6528b
1 available
Green Hills - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO 305.800973 C6528b
1 available
CD AUDIO 305.800973 C6528b
1 available
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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
305.800973 C6528b Large Type
1 available
305.800973 C6528b Large Type
1 available
Bordeaux - Adult Large Print
305.800973 C6528b Large Type
1 available
305.800973 C6528b Large Type
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Adult Large Print
305.800973 C6528b Large Type
1 available
305.800973 C6528b Large Type
1 available
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"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him--most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear ... In [this book], Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings--moments when he discovered some new truth...
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Gyasi
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Fiction Gyasi
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Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction Gyasi
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Fiction Gyasi
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Donelson - Adult Fiction
Fiction Gyasi
1 available
Fiction Gyasi
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3 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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"A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford school of medicine studying the neural circuits of reward seeking behavior in mice"--
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Bennett
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Fiction Bennett
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Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction Bennett
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Fiction Bennett
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Edgehill - Adult Fiction
Fiction Bennett
1 available
Fiction Bennett
1 available
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Bennett
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Bennett
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Main Library - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Bennett
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Bennett
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4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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East - Adult Large Print
Fiction Bennett Large Type
1 available
Fiction Bennett Large Type
1 available
Southeast - Adult Large Print
Fiction Bennett Large Type
1 available
Fiction Bennett Large Type
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"A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community--and the things that ultimately haunt us most. Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret. "All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we'd...
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Ward
2 available
Fiction Ward
2 available
Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction Ward
2 available
Fiction Ward
2 available
Donelson - Adult Fiction
Fiction Ward
1 available
Fiction Ward
1 available
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Bellevue - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Ward
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Ward
1 available
Green Hills - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Ward
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Ward
1 available
Main Library - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Ward
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Ward
1 available
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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 Ward Large Type
1 available
Fiction Ward Large Type
1 available
Green Hills - Adult Large Print
Fiction Ward Large Type
1 available
Fiction Ward Large Type
1 available
Hermitage - Adult Large Print
Fiction Ward Large Type
1 available
Fiction Ward Large Type
1 available
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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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East - Adult Fiction
Fiction Okparan
1 available
Fiction Okparan
1 available
Hermitage - Adult Fiction
Fiction Okparan
1 available
Fiction Okparan
1 available
Southeast - Adult Fiction
Fiction Okparan
1 available
Fiction Okparan
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Description
Ijeoma, a young Nigerian girl displaced during her country's civil war, begins a powerful love affair with another refugee girl from a different ethnic community. When the pair are discovered, she must learn the cost of living a lie amidst taboos and prejudices. Even as her nation contends with and recovers from the effects of war and division, Ijeoma seeks a glimmer of hope for a future where a woman might just be able to shape her life around truth...
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Madison - Adult Fiction
Fiction Dantica
1 available
Fiction Dantica
1 available
Main Library - Adult Fiction
Fiction Dantica
1 available
Fiction Dantica
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Richland Park - Adult Fiction
Fiction Dantica
1 available
Fiction Dantica
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Description
"At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished Haitian village to New York to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti--to the women who first reared her. What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence. In her stunning literary...
19) Song of Solomon
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Everyman's library volume 216
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Morriso
1 available
Fiction Morriso
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Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction Morriso
1 available
Fiction Morriso
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Edgehill - Adult Fiction
Fiction Morriso
2 available
Fiction Morriso
2 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Description
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...
20) Red at the bone
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Woodson
1 available
Fiction Woodson
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Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction Woodson
1 available
Fiction Woodson
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Donelson - Adult Fiction
Fiction Woodson
1 available
Fiction Woodson
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Bordeaux - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Woodson
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Woodson
1 available
Looby - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Woodson
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Woodson
1 available
Southeast - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Woodson
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Woodson
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 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
1 available
Book Club in a Bag
1 available
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Edgehill - Adult Large Print
Fiction Woodson Large Type
1 available
Fiction Woodson Large Type
1 available
Looby - Adult Large Print
Fiction Woodson Large Type
1 available
Fiction Woodson Large Type
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North - Adult Large Print
Fiction Woodson Large Type
1 available
Fiction Woodson Large Type
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Description
Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces.