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by
Shannon Gibney
(519)
Summary: "Dream Country is the story of five generations of young people from one African American family chasing an elusive dream across centuries and continents. Gibney conjures an ambitious, sinuous novel...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F GIBNEY
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Jacqueline Woodson
(8,992)
Summary: "When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world." -- Provided by publisher
BOOK
Call #: YA F WOODSON
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Walter Dean Myers
(815)
Summary: In 1863, fifteen-year-old Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and a black father, faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and a federal draft, lash out...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F MYERS
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Walter Dean Myers
(1,035)
Summary: "Two best friends, a writer and a runner, deal with bullies, family issues, social pressures, and their quest for success coming out of Harlem"-- Provided by publisher.
BOOK
Call #: YA F MYERS
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jacqueline Woodson
(9,001)
Summary: Six kids discover the power of sharing their secrets and their stories. It all starts when six kids are sent to a room for a weekly chat -- by themselves, with no adults to listen in. At first they...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F WOODSON
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
I. W Gregorio
(664)
Summary: Rising high school juniors Jocelyn Wu and Will Domenici fall in love while trying to save the Wu family restaurant, A-Plus Chinese Garden.
BOOK
Call #: YA F GREGORIO
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Candice Iloh
(1,311)
Summary: "Ada" means first daughter, means oldest girl, means most pressure. When Ada leaves home for her freshman year at a historical Black college, it's the first time that she's been able to make her own...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F ILOH
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Steph Cha
(5,226)
Summary: "In the wake of the police shooting of a black teenager, Los Angeles is as tense as it's been since the unrest of the early 1990s. But Grace Park and Shawn Matthews have their own problems. Grace is...
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BOOK
Call #: F CHA
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
L. J. Alonge
Series:
Blacktop Books - #1
(114)
Summary: As a nerdy Oakland teenager tries to figure out his life, he and his best friend put together a basketball team to play the invincible crew from Ghosttown.
BOOK
Call #: YA F ALONGE
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kwame Mbalia
Series:
Tristan Strong - #2
(812)
Summary: Seventh-grader Tristan must return to Alke and enlist the help of African gods and black folktale heroes when Nana is abducted from the Strong family farm in Alabama.
BOOK
Call #: YA F MBALIA
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Denise Lewis Patrick
Summary: Cecile Rey, whose prosperous family are free people of color, makes friends with Marie-Grace Gardner, a doctor's daughter who has just returned to her native New Orleans in 1853, and persuades her to change places at their separate Mardi Gras balls.
BOOK
Call #: J F AMERICAN CECILE
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Ilyasah Shabazz
(2,701)
Summary: Malcolm Little's parents have always told him that he can achieve anything, but from what he can tell, that's a pack of lies -- after all, his father's been murdered, his mother's been taken away,...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F SHABAZZ
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Walter Dean Myers
(1,191)
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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by
William Styron
(14,088)
Summary: In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery. The revolt was led by a...
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BOOK
Call #: F STYRON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Anissa Gray
(15,676)
Summary: "The Mothers meets An American Marriage in this dazzling debut novel about mothers and daughters, identity and family, and how the relationships that sustain you can also be the ones that consume...
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BOOK
Call #: F GRAY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Sister Souljah
Series:
Midnight Series - #3
(1,298)
Summary: Handsome, young, Muslim, and married to two women living in one house along with his mother, Umma, and sister, Naja: can Midnight manage? He is surrounded by Americans who don't share or understand...
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BOOK
Call #: F SOULJAH
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Dana Davis
(1,312)
Summary: I've got seven days to come clean to my new dad. Seven days to tell the truth... For sixteen-year-old Tiffany Sly, life hasn't been safe or normal for a while. Losing her mom to cancer has her a...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F DAVIS
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kiki Swinson
Series:
Black Market (Kiki Swinson)
(113)
Summary: Misty Heiress steals drugs from a pharmacy, just trying to help her cousin in constant pain, but the plan snowballs into dealing opioids and Misty and her cousin Jillian are in real trouble.
BOOK
Call #: F SWINSON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Carl Weber
Series:
Family Business - #2
Summary: Welcome to the world of Duncans. By day they are upstanding citizens running one of New York's most respected car dealerships;but by night, they're criminals who control most of the East Coast drug...
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BOOK
Call #: PB WEB
Location: Adult Paperbacks
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Sapphire
(2,283)
Summary: This book is Sapphire's latest, a sequel to Push coming 15 years after its publication and one year after Precious, the film based on Push, got Academy Award attention. It is the story of Precious's...
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BOOK
Call #: F SAPPHIRE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Toni Morrison
(19,377)
Summary: "The story of a Korean war veteran on a quest to save his younger sister"-- Provided by publisher.
BOOK
Call #: F MORRISON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Eric Jerome Dickey
(578)
Summary: All is fair in love and lust in this tale of two brothers, four women, and the business of desire.
BOOK
Call #: F DICKEY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Matthew A. Cherry
(5,106)
Summary: "A little girl's daddy steps in to help her arrange her curly, coiling, wild hair into styles that allow her to be her natural, beautiful self." -- (Source of summary not specified)
BOOK
Call #: E CHERRY
Location: Picture Books
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Ni-Ni Simone
Series:
Throwback Diaries - #2
(45)
Summary: After a street fights ends with a jail sentence, Yvette is forced to live far from anything and anyone she's ever known, but starting her life over again may show her what it means to have a real family.
BOOK
Call #: YA F SIMONE
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Harriet E Wilson
(2,515)
Summary: Frado, a mixed-race girl abandoned by her white mother after the death of her black father, takes a job as a servant to a lower middle-class white family in the North, only to encounter a world of abuse and abandonment.
BOOK
Call #: F WILSON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Sister Souljah
Series:
Santiaga Series
(32,631)
Summary: Winter Santiaga, the daughter of one of Brooklyn's most powerful drug czars, uses her own weapons--including sex and an aggressive attitude--to stay on top, after her father's empire is threatened by a drug war.
BOOK
Call #: F SOULJAH
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Lauren Wilkinson
(20,622)
Summary: What if your sense of duty required you to betray the man you love? It's 1986, the heart of the Cold War, and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She's brilliant and talented, but...
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Note: The Lunchtime Lit Book Club is meeting to discuss this book on 3/18/21. Ask for a copy at the Circulation Desk.
LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F WILKINSON LP
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Karen English
(501)
Summary: "In the summer of 1965, Sophie's family becomes the first African Americans to move into their upper middle-class neighborhood in Los Angeles. When riots erupt in nearby Watts, she learns that life...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F ENGLISH
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Sherri L Smith
(7,151)
Summary: During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
BOOK
Call #: YA F SMITH
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Patricia Hruby Powell
(3,514)
Summary: Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Virginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.
BOOK
Call #: YA F POWELL
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Katherine Applegate
Series:
Everworld Series
(9,958)
Summary: Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things at the Minneapolis home of his aunt and cousin, as well as in his fifth grade classroom, and longs for his missing mother, but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her owner.
BOOK
Call #: YA F APPLEGATE
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Carolyn Meyer
(51)
Summary: Emily Rose has always felt comfortable growing up in Connecticut with her African American mother and her "French American" father, but when they spend some time with her great-grandmother in Texas,...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F MEYER
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
De'Shawn Charles Winslow
(1,670)
Summary: An intimately told story about a woman living by her own rules and the rural community that struggles to understand her. Azalea "Knot" Centre is determined to live life as she pleases. Let the people...
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BOOK
Call #: F WINSLOW
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Graham Moore
(20,453)
Summary: "It's the most sensational case of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Jessica Silver, heiress to a billion-dollar real estate fortune, vanishes on her way home from school. Her teacher Bobby Nock, a...
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BOOK
Call #: F MOORE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Dinaw Mengestu
(4,476)
Summary: An unforgettable love story about a searing affair between an American woman and an African man in 1970s America and an unflinching novel about the fragmentation of lives that straddle countries and...
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BOOK
Call #: F MENGESTU
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kwame Alexander
Series:
Crossover (Kwame Alexander)
(44,066)
Summary: Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
BOOK
Call #: YA F ALEXANDER
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Sharon M. Draper
Series:
Hazelwood High Trilogy
(5,104)
Summary: Recovering from the recent suicide of her ex-boyfriend, senior class president Keisha Montgomery finds herself attracted to a dangerous, older man.
BOOK
Call #: YA F DRAPER
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Sharon M. Draper
Series:
Hazelwood High Trilogy
(8,478)
Summary: Teenage Gerald, who has spent years protecting his fragile half-sister from their abusive father, faces the prospect of one final confrontation before the problem can be solved. When Gerald was a...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F DRAPER
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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