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Marlon James
Series:
The Dark Star Trilogy - #1
(327)
Summary: "Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: 'He has a nose,' people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of...
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Call #: F JAMES
Location: New Adult Fiction
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Kiese Laymon
(4,189)
Summary: In this powerful and provocative memoir, Kiese Laymon fearlessly explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies, and deception does to a black body, a black family, and a nation teetering on...
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Call #: 305.896 LAY
Location: Adult Displays - Front
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Michelle Obama
(95,605)
Summary: In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America, she helped...
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Call #: MULTIPLE CALL NUMBERS
Location: New Adult Biographies, Hot Picks
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Summary: Drawing from the great folklorists of the past while expanding African American lore with dozens of tales rarely seen before, this book revolutionizes the canon like no other volume. Following in the...
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Call #: 398.2 ANN
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Terrance Hayes
(916)
Summary: A powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from one of America's most acclaimed poets, Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award winning author of "Lighthead." In seventy poems bearing the same...
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Call #: 811.54 HAY
Location: Adult Displays - Front
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Michael Eric Dyson
(772)
Summary: In 1963 Attorney General Robert Kennedy sought out James Baldwin to explain the rage that threatened to engulf black America. Baldwin brought along some friends, including playwright Lorraine...
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Call #: 305.8 DYS
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Clemantine Wamariya
(7,117)
Summary: Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder....
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Call #: 967.571 WAM YA
Location: Youth Services Desk
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Dana Canedy
(57)
Summary: In February 2016, Rachel Swarms, Darcy Eveleigh, Damien Cave, and Dana Canedy discovered dozens of photographs -- and explored the history behind them -- and chronicled them in the popular blog...
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Call #: 973.0496 UNS
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Kwanza Osajyefo
Series:
BLACK
(348)
Summary: In a world that already hates and fears them, what if only Black people had superpowers? After miraculously surviving being gunned down by police, a young man learns that he is part of the biggest...
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Call #: 741.59 OSA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
(13,820)
Summary: "We were eight years in power" was the lament of Reconstruction-era black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democracy ended with the return of white supremacist rule in the South....
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Call #: 973.932 COA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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James McBride (read by Arthur Morey)
(1,700)
Summary: In this collection of stories, James McBride explores the ways we learn from the world and the people around us. An antiques dealer discovers that a legendary toy commissioned by Civil War General...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F MCBRIDE
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
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Nikki Grimes
(847)
Summary: In this collection of poetry, Nikki Grimes looks afresh at the poets of the Harlem Renaissance -- including voices like Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and many more writers of importance...
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Call #: J 811.54 GRI
Location: Juvenile Nonfiction
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Summary: Master documentary filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin's original words and a...
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Call #: DVD 323.1196 I
Location: DVDs Nonfiction
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Christopher L. Hayes
(4,582)
Summary: America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measure -- wealth, unemployment, incarceration, school segregation -- reveals that racial inequality has...
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Call #: 364.34 HAY
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Eric Jerome Dickey
Series:
Gideon Series
(590)
Summary: "As a hit man from the time he was very young, money, women, and danger have always ruled Gideon's life; but for the first time, the job is taking its toll. Neither Gideon nor the city of Buenos...
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Call #: F DICKEY
Location: Adult Displays - Front
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Linda Williams Jackson
Series:
Rose Lee Carter
(874)
Summary: Rose Lee Carter, a thirteen-year-old African-American girl, dreams of life beyond the Mississippi cotton fields during the summer of 1955, but when Emmett Till is murdered and his killers are...
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Call #: YA F JACKSON
Location: YA Fiction
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Summary: In 1950s Pittsburgh, a Black garbage collector named Troy Maxson -- bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues -- is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.
DVD
Call #: DVD DRAMA FENCES
Location: Adult Displays - Front
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Angie Thomas
(265,127)
Summary: After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.
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Call #: YA F THOMAS
Location: Book Club Sets, YA Fiction
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Veronica Chambers
(824)
Summary: "Michelle Obama is unlike any other First Lady in American History. From her first moments on the public stage, she has challenged traditional American notions about what it means to be beautiful, to...
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Call #: 973.932 MEA
Location: Adult Displays - Front
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Carol Anderson
(4,254)
Summary: As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as "black rage," historian Carol Anderson...
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Call #: 305.8 AND
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Jesmyn Ward
(3,890)
Summary: 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," which was later...
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Call #: 305.896 FIR
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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John Legend ,
Summary: DARKNESS AND LIGHT is the new album from acclaimed, multi-platinum selling, Oscar, Golden Globe and 10x Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter John Legend. This new 12 song collection is produced by...
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MUSIC CD
Call #: CD/POP LEG
Location: Adult Displays - Front
copies in: 1 of 1
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Trevor Noah
(178,905)
Summary: Noah's path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother, at the time such a union was...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB B NOAH
Location: Adult Displays - Front, Adult Biographies, Book Club
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John Edgar Wideman
(237)
Summary: "In The Louis Till File, John Edgar Wideman searches for Louis Till, a silent victim of American injustice. Wideman's personal interaction with the story began when he learned of Emmett|s murder in...
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Call #: 364.1523 WID
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Zadie Smith
(41,841)
Summary: "An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty Two brown girls dream of being dancers--but only one,...
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Call #: F SMITH
Location: Adult Displays - Front
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Mat Johnson
(3,086)
Summary: "Warren Duffy has returned to America for all the worst reasons: his marriage to a beautiful Welsh woman has come apart; his comic shop in Cardiff has failed; and his Irish-American father has died,...
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Call #: F JOHNSON
Location: Adult Displays - Front
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Brit Bennett
(37,182)
Summary: "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...
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Call #: F BENNETT
Location: Adult Displays - Front
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Patrick Phillips
(2,199)
Summary: "A gripping tale of racial cleansing in Forsyth County, Georgia and ... testament to the deep roots of racial violence in America ... Patrick Phillips breaks the century-long silence of his hometown...
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Call #: 305.8 PHI
Location: Adult Displays - Front
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Colson Whitehead
(177,047)
Summary: Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they...
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Call #: F WHITEHEAD
Location: Adult Displays - Front
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Imbolo Mbue
(39,674)
Summary: At the intersection of "Americanah" and "The Help" comes a riveting debut novel about two marriages - one immigrant and working class, the other from the top 1% - both chasing their version of the...
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Call #: F MBUE
Location: Adult Fiction
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Cath Senker
Summary: "This series will tell the amazing stories of inspiring people who have made a difference and changed the world, despite the odds stacked against them. They will detail the characters' humble...
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Call #: J B MANDELA
Location: Juvenile Biographies
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Summary: An essential examination of the rise and fall of Orenthal James Simpson, and parallels between his incredible story with that of race in America. This critically-acclaimed documentary series reveals...
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Call #: DVD B SIMPSON
Location: Adult Displays - Front
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Terry McMillan
(5,208)
Summary: Dr. Georgia Young's wonderful life--great friends, family, and successful career--aren't enough to keep her from feeling stuck and restless. When she decides to make some major changes in her life,...
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Call #: F MCMILLAN
Location: Adult Displays - Front
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Yaa Gyasi
(103,563)
Summary: "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...
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Call #: F GYASI
Location: Adult Fiction
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Beyoncé
Summary: LEMONADE, Beyonce's sixth studio album and her second visual album, features 12 new songs and a corresponding short film. It is a conceptual project based on every woman's journey of self knowledge and healing. - Amazon
MUSIC CD
Call #: CD/POP BEY
Location: Music CDs, On Order
copies in: 1 of 2
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Rihanna
MUSIC CD
Call #: CD/POP RIH
Location: Adult Displays - Front
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Summary: In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had:...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA STRAIGHT
Location: Adult Displays - Front
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Walter Dean Myers
(622)
Summary: While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
BOOK
Call #: GRAPHIC NOVEL MYE
Location: YA Graphic Novels
copies in: 1 of 1
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John Lewis
Series:
March
(15,128)
Summary: After the success of the Nashville sit-in campaign, John Lewis is more committed than ever to changing the world through nonviolence -- but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the...
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BOOK
Call #: 323.1 LEW YA
Location: Adult Displays - Front
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Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
(1,181)
Summary: Relates the story of the National Memorial African Bookstore, founded in Harlem by Louis Michaux in 1939, as seen from the perspective of Louis Michaux Jr., who met famous men like Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X while helping there.
BOOK
Call #: E NELSON
Location: Easies
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