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Harper Lee
Series:
To Kill A Mockingbird
(262,794)
Summary: Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch -- "Scout"--Returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP F LEE
Location: Large Print Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Toni Morrison
(14,146)
Summary: In this 1983 short story about race and the relationships that shape us through life, Twyla and Roberta, friends since childhood who are seemingly at opposite ends of every problem as they grow...
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Call #: F MORRISON
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Matthew Salesses
(505)
Summary: An Asian American basketball star walks into a gym. No one recognizes him, but everyone stares anyway. It is the start of a joke but who is the punchline? When Won Lee, the first Asian American in...
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Call #: F SALESSES
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kiley Reid
(471,664)
Summary: Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira...
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Call #: F REID
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kiley Reid
(470,094)
Summary: Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP F REID
Location: Large Print Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Cathy Gohlke
(1,532)
Summary: When Lilliana Swope's beloved mother dies, Lilliana gathers her last ounce of courage and flees her abusive husband for the home of her only living relative in the foothills of No Creek, North...
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Call #: F GOHLKE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Malorie Blackman
Series:
Naughts And Crosses Series - #1
(68,819)
Summary: In a world where the pale-skinned Naughts are discriminated against by the politically and socially powerful dark-skinned Crosses, teenagers Callum--a Naught--and Sephy--a Cross--test whether their...
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Call #: YA F BLACKMAN
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Ellen Hopkins
(5,380)
Summary: A gun is sold in the classifieds after killing a spouse. It is bought by a teenager for needed protection. Several people have the incentive to pick up a gun, to fire it. Was it Rand or Cami, married...
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Staff Pick
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Angie Thomas
(813,939)
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 #: BK CLUB YA F THOMAS
Locations: Book Club Sets, YA Fiction
copies in: 14 of 16
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Angie Thomas
(800,150)
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.
LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB YA F THOMAS LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Brenda Woods
(1,666)
Summary: For Gabriel Haberlin, life seems pretty close to perfect in the small southern town of Birdsong, USA. But on his twelfth birthday, his point of view begins to change. It all starts when he comes...
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Call #: J F WOODS
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Amanda McCrina
(898)
Summary: In 1944, the Polish city of Lwow has been liberated from Germany but is caught among the insurgent armies of several countries and its resistance fighter; in this city, loyalty comes second to...
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Call #: YA F MCCRINA
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Nic Stone
(73,608)
Summary: Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
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Call #: YA F STONE
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Malorie Blackman
Series:
Noughts & Crosses - #2
(23,056)
Summary: Following Callum's death, the people who loved him relate how their lives have been changed, especially in reference to his girlfriend, Sephy, and their mixed-race child.
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Call #: YA F BLACKMAN
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Mike Lupica
(1,355)
Summary: Since his mother's death, Jayson, twelve, has focused on basketball and surviving but he is found out and placed with an affluent foster family of a different race, and must learn to accept many...
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Call #: YA F LUPICA
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Gennifer Choldenko
(2,757)
Summary: Kirsten and Walk, seventh-graders at an elite private school, alternate telling how race, wealth, weight, and other issues shape their relationships as they and other misfits stand up to a mean but...
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Call #: YA F CHOLDENKO
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Jennifer Latham
(10,613)
Summary: "When Rowan finds a skeleton on her family's property, investigating the brutal, century-old murder leads to painful discoveries about the past. Alternating chapters tell the story of William,...
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Call #: YA F LATHAM
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Chibundu Onuzo
(17,187)
Summary: Anna grew up in England with her white mother and knowing very little about her African father. In middle age, after separating from her husband and with her daughter all grown up, she finds herself...
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Call #: F ONUZO
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Nancy Horan
Summary: Showing intelligence beyond society's expectations, thirteen-year-old Ana Ferreira lands a job in the Lincoln household assisting Mary Lincoln with their boys and with the hostess duties borne by the...
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Call #: F HORAN
Location: New Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Marina Tamar Budhos
(332)
Summary: Jamila Clarke, Josie Rivera, and Francesca George are three mixed-race girls who have always felt like outsiders in their mostly white neighborhood in Queens. But they have always had each other to...
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Call #: YA F BUDHOS
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Malorie Blackman
Series:
Noughts & Crosses - #5
(3,415)
Summary: Years have passed since the love between Sephy -- a Cross -- and Callum -- a Nought -- destroyed their world and changed their families and society forever. Society appears to be very different now....
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Call #: YA F BLACKMAN
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jodi Picoult
(340,556)
Summary: Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years' experience. White supremacist parents don't want Ruth, who is African American, to touch their...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: BK CLUB F PICOULT LP
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Attica Locke
Series:
Highway 59 Series - #1
(21,215)
Summary: When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star...
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Call #: F LOCKE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Valerie Fraser Luesse
(1,800)
Summary: "There was another South in the 1960s, one far removed from the marches and bombings and turmoil in the streets that were broadcast on the evening news. It was a place of inner turmoil, where...
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Call #: F LUESSE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Hanya Yanagihara
(32,605)
Summary: In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family...
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Call #: F YANAGIHARA
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Elizabeth Wetmore
(38,603)
Summary: A debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s. It's February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great...
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Call #: F WETMORE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Staff Pick
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by
Brit Bennett
(676,060)
Summary: The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that...
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Call #: F BENNETT
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Staff Pick
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by
Jodi Picoult
(339,029)
Summary: "This stunning new novel is Jodi Picoult at her finest--complete with unflinching insights, richly layered characters, and a page-turning plot with a gripping moral dilemma at its heart. Ruth...
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Call #: BK CLUB F PICOULT
Location: Book Club Sets
copies in: 15 of 15
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Staff Pick
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by
Jodi Picoult
(339,196)
Summary: "This stunning new novel is Jodi Picoult at her finest--complete with unflinching insights, richly layered characters, and a page-turning plot with a gripping moral dilemma at its heart. Ruth...
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Call #: F PICOULT
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 2 of 2
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by
Thomas Mullen
Series:
Darktown Series
(8,121)
Summary: "Responding to orders from on high, the Atlanta Police Department is forced to hire its first black officers, including war veterans Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith. The newly minted policemen are met...
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Call #: F MULLEN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
A. J. Hartley
Series:
Alternative Detective - #1
(996)
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Anglet Sutonga lives repairing the chimneys, towers, and spires of the city of Bar-Selehm. Dramatically different communities live and work alongside each other. The white Feldish...
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Call #: YA F HARTLEY
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Patricia Hruby Powell
(4,256)
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.
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Call #: YA F POWELL
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Joe R Lansdale
Series:
Hap And Leonard Series - #12
(1,564)
Summary: Mismatched private detectives Hap and Leonard investigate the murder of a young black man who was conducting his own civilian investigation into the white cop who was stalking his sister.
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Call #: F LANSDALE
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Linda Williams Jackson
Series:
Rose Lee Carter
(1,488)
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
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
John Connolly
Series:
Charlie Parker Series - #4
(9,302)
Summary: In South Carolina, a young black man faces the death penalty for the rape and murder of Marianne Larousse, daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the state. It's a case that nobody wants to touch,...
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Call #: F CONNOLLY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
James Grippando
Series:
Jack Swyteck Series - #14
(2,550)
Summary: "When the body of Jamal Cousin, president of the preeminent black fraternity at Florida's flagship university, is discovered hogtied in the stygian swamps of the Suwanee River, his death sets off a...
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Call #: F GRIPPANDO
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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Staff Pick
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by
Harper Lee
(5,674,963)
Summary: The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man's struggle for justice, in this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic that has been translated into more than 40 languages.
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Call #: YA F LEE
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Minrose Gwin
(2,015)
Summary: "In the aftermath of a devastating tornado that rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression, two women worlds apart--one black, one white; one a...
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Call #: F GWIN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Robert Whitlow
(1,197)
Summary: "In a small Georgia town where racial tensions run high and lives are at stake, can one lawyer stand up for justice against the tide of prejudice on every side? Adisa Johnson, a young African...
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Call #: F WHITLOW
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Thomas Mullen
Series:
Darktown Series - #2
(2,133)
Summary: Officer Denny Rakestraw and "Negro Officers" Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith have their hands full in a rapidly changing Atlanta. It's 1950 and racial tensions are simmering as black families, including...
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Call #: F MULLEN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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