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East - Adult Fiction
Fiction Card
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Fiction Card
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Edgehill - Adult Fiction
Fiction Card
1 available
Fiction Card
1 available
Edmondson Pike - Adult Fiction
Fiction Card
1 available
Fiction Card
1 available
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"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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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, 12 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
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.
26) 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
On Shelf
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
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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Looby - Adult Fiction
Fiction Johnson
1 available
Fiction Johnson
1 available
Madison - Adult Fiction
Fiction Johnson
1 available
Fiction Johnson
1 available
Checked Out
6 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 6 people are 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.
28) Indigo
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Jenkins
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Jenkins
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Watkins Park - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Jenkins
1 available
CD AUDIO Fiction Jenkins
1 available
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...