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Everyman's library volume 371
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Fiction Baldwin
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Fiction Baldwin
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Fiction Baldwin
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Originally published in 1953, this is "a hardcover edition of James Baldwin's classic coming-of-age novel set in Harlem in the 1930s, with a new introduction by Edwidge Danticat"--
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Bellevue - Kids Easy
E Dantica
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E Dantica
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"When a child wakes up feeling sick, she is treated to a good dose of Mommy Medicine. Her remedy includes a yummy cup of hot chocolate; a cozy, bubble-filled bath time; and unlimited snuggles and cuddles. Mommy Medicine can heal all woes and make any day the best day!"--Provided by publisher.
43) Untwine: a novel
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Green Hills - Teen Fiction
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Bellevue - Teen Audiobook
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Identical twin teenagers Giselle and Isabelle Boyer have always been inseparable, and expected to stay that way even though their Haitian American parents are separating--but when the entire family is caught in a car crash, everyone's world is shattered forever.
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Dantica
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Fiction Dantica
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Fiction Dantica
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Fiction Dantica
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Bellevue - Adult Audiobook
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"The interconnected secrets of a coastal Haitian town are revealed when one little girl, the daughter of a fisherman, goes missing"--
45) NW
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Looby - Adult Movie
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Twenty years after they grew up in a public housing complex in mulicultural Northwest London, Natalie and Leah hardly recognize each other. Catapulted out of urban poverty by ambition and hard work, Natalie has won the success she craves, while Leah stayed close to friends and family, cherishing her working-class life. Can the women's friendship survive a looming crisis in the complex world between fortune and failure, culture and class?
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Fiction Smith
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Fiction Smith
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Fiction Smith
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Fiction Smith
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"A dazzling collection of short fiction, more than half of which have never been published before, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and Swing Time Zadie Smith has established herself as one of the most iconic, critically-respected, and popular writers of her generation. In her first short story collection, she combines her power of observation and inimitable voice to mine the fraught and complex experience of life in the modern world....
47) Swing time
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Smith
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Fiction Smith
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Fiction Smith
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Fiction Smith
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Fiction Smith
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Fiction Smith
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Audiobook
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Bellevue - Adult Large Print
Fiction Smith Large Type
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Fiction Smith Large Type
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Fiction Smith Large Type
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Fiction Smith Large Type
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Audiobook
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Two dancers with different approaches to their craft share a complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, in a story that transitions from northwest London to West Africa.
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Fiction Smith
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Fiction Smith
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Winner of the 2006 Orange Prize for fiction, another bestselling masterwork from the celebrated author of Swing Time and White Teeth
"In this sharp, engaging satire, beauty's only skin-deep, but funny cuts to the bone." —Kirkus Reviews
Having hit bestseller lists from the New York Times to the San Francisco Chronicle, this wise, hilarious novel reminds us why Zadie Smith has rocketed...
"In this sharp, engaging satire, beauty's only skin-deep, but funny cuts to the bone." —Kirkus Reviews
Having hit bestseller lists from the New York Times to the San Francisco Chronicle, this wise, hilarious novel reminds us why Zadie Smith has rocketed...
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Smith
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Fiction Smith
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Fiction Smith
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Fiction Smith
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3 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaust fumes to fill his Cavalier Musketeer station wagon. Archie--working-class, ordinary, a failed marriage under his belt--is calling it quits, the deciding factor being the flip of a 20-pence coin. When the owner of a nearby halal butcher shop (annoyed that Archie's car is blocking his delivery area) comes out and bangs on the window, he gives Archie...
50) Jacob's room
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Woolf
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Fiction Woolf
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Fiction Woolf
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Fiction Woolf
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This landmark novel tells the story of the all-too-brief life of Jacob Flanders, from his childhood in Scarborough through his student years at Cambridge and his bachelor days in London to his death while still a young man during World War I. Though he is an object of love and desire for many of the characters in the novel, Jacob remains curiously unknowable during his short life, as remote and mysterious as the classical landscapes and Greek ruins...
51) The waves
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"The Waves is considered Woolf's most experimental work, and consists of soliloquies spoken by the book's six characters: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis. Also important is Percival, the seventh character, though readers never hear him speak in his own voice. The soliloquies that span the characters' lives are broken up by nine brief third-person interludes detailing a coastal scene at varying stages in a day from sunrise to sunset....
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Faulkne
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Fiction Faulkne
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Fiction Faulkne
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Fiction Faulkne
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Fiction Faulkne
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Fiction Faulkne
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The story of Thomas Sutpen, who came to Jefferson, Mississippi in 1830 to create a dynasty. Even though his sons ultimately destroyed his dream, a century later a young descendant has become obsessed with his family legacy.
53) Beloved
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Edgehill - Adult Movie
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Looby - Adult Movie
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After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe & Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen.
54) The color purple
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The heart-wrenching story of a young black girl in the early 20th century who is forced into a brutal marriage and separated from her sister.
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Edgehill - Adult Movie
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A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the mores of her small town.
56) seraph on the suwanee
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Main Library - Adult Non-Fiction
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305.896073 H9669s
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305.896073 H9669s 1997
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The Sanctified Church is a collection of Hurston's ground-breaking essays on Afro-American folklore, legend, popular mythology, and, in particular, the unique spiritual character of the Soouthern Black Christian Church. Along with preserving the customs, music, speech, and humor of rural Black America, The Sanctified Church introduces us to such extraordinary figures as Mother Catherine, matriarchal founder of a highly personal Voodoo Christian sect;...
58) Mules and men
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Zora Neale Hurston brings us Black America's folklore as only she can, putting the oral history on the written page with grace and understanding. This new edition of Mules and Men features a new cover and a P.S. section which includes insights, interviews, and more.
For the student of cultural history, Mules and Men is a treasury of Black America's folklore as collected by Zora Neale Hurston, the storyteller
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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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Fiction Hurston
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Bellevue - Adult Audiobook
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CD AUDIO Fiction Hurston
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Goodlettsville - Adult Audiobook
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CD AUDIO Fiction Hurston
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Hadley Park - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Hurston
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CD AUDIO Fiction Hurston
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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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Bellevue - Adult Large Print
Fiction Hurston Large Type
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Fiction Hurston Large Type
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Inglewood - Adult Large Print
Fiction Hurston Large Type
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Fiction Hurston Large Type
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Goodlettsville - Adult Audiobook
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PLAYAWAY Fiction Hurston
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An African American woman searches for a fulfilling relationship through two loveless marriages and finally finds it in the person of Tea Cake, an itinerant laborer and gambler. Their Eyes Were Watching God, an American classic, is a luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern black woman in the 1930s whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for close to seventy...
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Bellevue - Adult Biography
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B L6736h
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B L6736h
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Donelson - Adult Biography
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B L6736h
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In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave...