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Bellevue - Adult Movie
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Bordeaux - Adult Movie
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Donelson - Adult Movie
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Based on the true story of Solomon Northup. It is 1841, and Northup, an accomplished, free citizen of New York, is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Stripped of his identity and deprived of all dignity, Northup is ultimately purchased by ruthless plantation owner Edwin Epps and must find the strength within to survive. Filled with powerful performances by an astonishing cast including Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbener, Benedict Cumberbatch, Brad...
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Bordeaux - Adult Movie
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Movie
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Goodlettsville - Adult Movie
DVD 791.43 F7454jW
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History was made in 1947, when Jackie Robinson broke the professional baseball race barrier to become the first African American MLB player of the modern era. 42 tells the life story of Robinson and his history-making signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers under the guidance of team executive Branch Rickey.
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Special Collections - Civil Rights Room
SpecColl 323.1196 M1484a NCR
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SpecColl 323.1196 M1484a NCR
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A history of America's civil rights movement traces the pivotal influence of sexual violence that victimized African American women for centuries, revealing Rosa Parks's contributions as an anti-rape activist years before her heroic bus protest.
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Special Collections - Civil Rights Room
Special Coll. B K537k
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Special Coll. B K537k
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An autobiography of the Baptist minister Martin Luther King, Jr., compiled and edited from articles, essays, speeches, sermons, letters, and other sources, examining his private and public life and describing his involvement in many important events in the civil rights movement.
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Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction Morriso
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Fiction Morriso
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Donelson - Adult Fiction
Fiction Morriso
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Fiction Morriso
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Madison - Adult Fiction
Fiction Morriso
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Fiction Morriso
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Bellevue - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Morriso
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CD AUDIO Fiction Morriso
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Green Hills - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Morriso
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CD AUDIO Fiction Morriso
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Looby - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Morriso
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CD AUDIO Fiction Morriso
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3 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
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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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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Morriso
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Fiction Morriso
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Edgehill - Adult Fiction
Fiction Morriso
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Fiction Morriso
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Morriso
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Fiction Morriso
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Morriso
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CD AUDIO Fiction Morriso
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The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature. It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove -- a Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others -- who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare...
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Bellevue - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Curtis
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JUV Fiction Curtis
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Bordeaux - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Curtis
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JUV Fiction Curtis
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Green Hills - Kids Fiction
JUV Fiction Curtis
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JUV Fiction Curtis
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Southeast - Kids Audiobook
jCD AUDIO Fiction Curtis
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jCD AUDIO Fiction Curtis
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Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
8) Cane River
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Tademy family chronicles volume 1
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Goodlettsville - Adult Fiction
Fiction Tademy
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Fiction Tademy
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Madison - Adult Fiction
Fiction Tademy
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Fiction Tademy
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Main Library - Adult Fiction
Fiction Tademy
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Fiction Tademy
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Follows four generations of African American women, from slavery to the early twentieth century, as they struggle for economic security and the future of their families along the Cane River in rural Louisiana.
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Coldest winter ever volume 1
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Donelson - Adult Fiction
Fiction Souljah
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Fiction Souljah
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Madison - Adult Fiction
Fiction Souljah
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Fiction Souljah
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North - Adult Fiction
Fiction Souljah
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Fiction Souljah
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After a black drug dealer goes to jail in Brooklyn, his ruthless 17-year-old daughter takes over his empire. A look at the mores and manners of the black underclass, this one with money. First novel by a hip-hop artist, author of No Disrespect.
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Thompson Lane - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Phillip
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CD AUDIO Fiction Phillip
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"A new edition of this award-winning modern classic, with new introduction, excerpt, and discussion guide Pakersfield, Georgia, 1958: Thirteen-year-old Tangy Mae Quinn is the sixth of ten fatherless siblings. She is the darkest-skinned among them and therefore the ugliest in her mother, Rozelle's, estimation, but she's also the brightest. Rozelle--beautiful, charismatic, and light-skinned--exercises a violent hold over her children. Fearing abandonment,...
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Bellevue - Kids Easy
E Tutu
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E Tutu
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Hermitage - Kids Easy
E Tutu
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E Tutu
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E Tutu
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E Tutu
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While riding his new bicycle Desmond is hurt by the mean word yelled at him by a group of boys, but he soon learns that hurting back will not make him feel any better.
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Bellevue - Kids Biography
jB A432m
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jB A432m
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Donelson - Kids Biography
jB A432m
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jB A432m
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Edgehill - Kids Biography
jB A432m
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jB A432m
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The story of former basketball star and current urban farmer and activist, Will Allen, whose vision of gardening from abandoned urban sites led to a grassroots feeding craze.
13) Getting to happy
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Thompson Lane - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction McMilla
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CD AUDIO Fiction McMilla
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Bordeaux - Adult Audiobook
PLAYAWAY Fiction McMilla
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PLAYAWAY Fiction McMilla
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North - Adult Audiobook
PLAYAWAY Fiction McMilla
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PLAYAWAY Fiction McMilla
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An exuberant return to the four unforgettable heroines of Waiting to Exhale-the novel that changed African American fiction forever. Now, McMillan revisits Savannah, Gloria, Bernadine, and Robin fifteen years later. Each is at her own midlife crossroads: Savannah has awakened to the fact that she's made too many concessions in her marriage, and decides to face life single again -- at fifty-one. Bernadine has watched her mega-divorce settlement dwindle,...
14) Good hair
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Comedian Chris Rock tackles the very personal issue of hair, and how attaining good hair can impact African American's activities, relationships, wallets, and a self-esteem. Engages in frank, funny conversations with haircare professionals, beautyshop and barbershop patrons, as well as featuring interviews with Dr. Maya Angelou, Nia Long, Ice-T, Raven Symone, and more.
15) How to be Black
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Edgehill - Adult Non-Fiction
305.896 T544h
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305.896 T544h
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North - Adult Non-Fiction
305.896 T544h
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305.896 T544h
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Have you ever been called "too black" or "not black enough"? Have you ever befriended or worked with a black person? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this book is for you. Raised by a pro-black, Pan-Afrikan single mother during the crack years of 1980s Washington, DC, and educated at Sidwell Friends School and Harvard University, Baratunde Thurston has over thirty years' experience being black. Now, through stories of his politically...
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Bordeaux - Kids Non-Fiction
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j811.52 H8939i
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Edgehill - Kids Non-Fiction
j811.52 H8939i
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j811.52 H8939i
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Edmondson Pike - Kids Non-Fiction
j811.52 H8939i
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j811.52 H8939i
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Presents the popular poem by one of the central figures in the Harlem Renaissance, highlighting the courage and dignity of the African American Pullman porters in the early twentieth century.
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Bellevue - Adult Non-Fiction
616.02774 S6287i
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616.02774 S6287i
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Bordeaux - Adult Non-Fiction
616.02774 S6287i
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616.02774 S6287i
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East - Adult Non-Fiction
616.02774 S6287i
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616.02774 S6287i
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Inglewood - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO 616.02774 S6287i
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CD AUDIO 616.02774 S6287i
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Main - Upon Request - Adult Book Club In A Bag
Book Club in a Bag
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Book Club in a Bag
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Harris
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Fiction Harris
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Main Library - Adult Fiction
Fiction Harris
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Fiction Harris
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North - Adult Fiction
Fiction Harris
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Fiction Harris
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Harris
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CD AUDIO Fiction Harris
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Southeast - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Harris
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CD AUDIO Fiction Harris
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For his final new series, New York Times mega-bestselling author E. Lynn Harris introduces Bentley L. Dean, owner of the hottest modeling agency in Miami's sexy South Beach.Only the world's most beautiful models make the roster of Picture Perfect Modeling agency and they only do shoots for the most elite photographers and magazines. They are fashionista royalty—and the owners, Bentley L. Dean and his beautiful partner Alexandra, know it.
...19) Invisible man
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Ellison
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Fiction Ellison
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Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction Ellison
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Fiction Ellison
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East - Adult Fiction
Fiction Ellison
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Fiction Ellison
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Bordeaux - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Ellison
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CD AUDIO Fiction Ellison
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Thompson Lane - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Ellison
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CD AUDIO Fiction Ellison
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Main - Upon Request - Adult Book Club In A Bag
Book Club in a Bag
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Book Club in a Bag
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In the course of his wanderings from a Southern 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, wryly...
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Gaines
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Fiction Gaines
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Edgehill - Adult Fiction
Fiction Gaines
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Fiction Gaines
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Gaines
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Fiction Gaines
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Hadley Park - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Gaines
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CD AUDIO Fiction Gaines
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Looby - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Gaines
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CD AUDIO Fiction Gaines
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Main Library - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Gaines
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CD AUDIO Fiction Gaines
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In his first novel in ten years, Ernest Gaines, the highly acclaimed author of the best-selling The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, brings us a wrenching story of death and identity in a small Cajun Louisiana community in the late 1940s. A young black named Jefferson is a reluctant party in a shoot-out in a liquor store in which the three other men involved are all killed, including the white store owner. Jefferson, the only survivor, is accused...