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by
Chinua Achebe
(348,778)
Summary: First published in 1958, this novel tells the story of Okonkwo, the leader of an Igbo (Ibo) community who is banished for accidentally killing a clansman. The novel covers the seven years of his...
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by
Rumaan Alam
(118,134)
Summary: Amanda and Clay head to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good...
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BOOK
Call #: F ALAM
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Rumaan Alam
(7,090)
Summary: "That Kind of Mother dives deep into big questions about parenthood, adoption, and race: Is mothering something learned, or that you're born to? How far can good intentions stretch? And most of all,...
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Call #: F ALAM
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Sherman Alexie
(259,018)
Summary: Junior is a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian reservation. Born with a variety of medical problems, he is picked on by everyone but his friend. Determined to receive a good...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F ALEXIE
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Sherman Alexie
(259,095)
Summary: Junior is a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian reservation. Born with a variety of medical problems, he is picked on by everyone but his friend. Determined to receive a good...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F ALEXIE
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Mateo Askaripour
(24,660)
Summary: Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, content working at Starbucks in the lobby of a Midtown office building, hanging out with his girlfriend, Soraya, and eating his mother's...
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BOOK
Call #: F ASKARIPOUR
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Afia Atakora
(15,817)
Summary: A sweeping story that brings the world of the South before and after the Civil War vividly to life. Spanning eras and generations, it tells of the lives of three unforgettable women: Miss May Belle,...
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BOOK
Call #: F ATAKORA
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Lynda Barry
(1,236)
Summary: "Young Edna Arkins lives in a neighborhood that is rapidly changing, thanks to white flight from urban Seattle in the late 1960s. As the world changes around her, Edna is exposed to the callous...
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BOOK
Call #: YA F BARRY
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Erin Bartels
(5,244)
Summary: When Detroit Free Press reporter Elizabeth Balsam meets James Rich, his strange request--that she look up a relative she didn't know she had in order to deliver an old camera and a box of...
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BOOK
Call #: F BARTELS
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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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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BOOK
Call #: F BENNETT
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Brit Bennett
(673,443)
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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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: PLAYAWAY F BENNETT
Location: Adult Playaways
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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BOOK
Call #: YA F BLACKMAN
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.
BOOK
Call #: YA F BLACKMAN
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
Judy Blume
(4,697)
Summary: When an African American family with three children moves into her white neighborhood, eleven-year-old Winnie learns the difference between being a good neighbor and being a good friend.
BOOK
Call #: J F BLUME
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Natasha Brown
(18,894)
Summary: Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Go to college, get an education, start a career. Do all the right things. Buy an apartment. Buy art. Buy a sort of happiness. But...
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BOOK
Call #: F BROWN
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 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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BOOK
Call #: YA F BUDHOS
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Tamara Bundy
(1,438)
Summary: After moving with her mother and deaf brother to Grandma's small Georgia town in the 1960s, Alice copes with feelings of isolation by befriending the elderly black woman who lives next door.
BOOK
Call #: J F BUNDY
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Burning angel [CD book]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/100927@2x.jpg)
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by
James Lee Burke (read by Richard Ferrone)
Series:
Dark Series
(5,933)
Summary: Dave Robicheaux, New Orleans detective, is puzzled when street hustler Sonny Boy Marsallus slips a Vietnam war diary into his hand. Soon old debts and ancient burial sites create a web of intrigue...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F BURKE
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Veeda Bybee
Series:
Girls Survive
(68)
Summary: Just turned twelve, Lily is the oldest of the three children in her Chinese American family living in San Francisco when the 1906 earthquake hits; her family has survived the quake, but as the city...
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BOOK
Call #: J F GIRLS
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Wiley Cash
(5,746)
Summary: When the roar of a low-flying plane awakens him in the middle of the night, Sheriff Winston Barnes knows something strange is happening at the nearby airfield on the coast of North Carolina. But...
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Call #: F CASH
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Tracy Chevalier
Series:
Hogarth Shakespeare
(8,328)
Summary: Starting his fifth school in five years, Osei Kokote, a diplomat's son, hoping to survive his first day becomes friends with Dee, the most popular girl in school, but Ian is determined to destroy the budding friendship.
BOOK
Call #: F CHEVALIER
Location: Adult 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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BOOK
Call #: YA F CHOLDENKO
Location: YA Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Matt Christopher
Series:
Matt Christopher Sports Stories Series
(128)
Summary: Long practice improves Mel's value as a basketball player, but he finds it difficult to surmount the prejudice of Caskie Bennett, the basketball team's star player and Mel's new neighbor.
BOOK
Call #: J F CHRISTOPHER
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
P. Djèlí Clark
(26,179)
Summary: In this dark fantasy historical novella that gives a supernatural twist to the Ku Klux Klan's reign of terror, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America, swelling the Klan's ranks and...
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BOOK
Call #: F CLARK
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Dhonielle Clayton
Summary: Eleven-year-old Ella Durand is the first Conjuror to attend the Arcanum Training Institute, a magic school in the clouds where Marvellers from around the world practice their cultural arts. Despite...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J PLAYAWAY F CLAYTON
Location: Junior Playaways
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Andrew Clements
(1,917)
Summary: An incident at school forces sixth grader Phil Morelli, a white boy, to become aware of racial discrimination and segregation, and to seriously consider if he himself is prejudiced.
BOOK
Call #: J F CLEMENTS
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jon Clinch
(2,745)
Summary: It was more than a century ago that Mark Twain left the notoriously violent Finn, Huckleberry Finn's father, dead, surrounded by such oddities as a wooden leg and women's undergarments. But just...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: CD BOOK F CLINCH
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Brandy Colbert
(3,117)
Summary: Beach-loving surfer Alberta has been the only black girl in town for years. Alberta's best friend, Laramie, is the closest thing she has to a sister, but there are some things even Laramie can't...
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BOOK
Call #: J F COLBERT
Location: Junior Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Ace Collins
Summary: 1964--Justice, Mississippi, is a town divided. White and black. Rich and poor. Rule makers and rule breakers. Right or wrong, everyone assumes their place behind a fragile façade that is about to...
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Call #: F COLLINS
Location: Adult 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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BOOK
Call #: F CONNOLLY
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Naima Coster
(20,409)
Summary: When a county initiative in the Piedmont of North Carolina forces the students at a mostly black public school on the east side to move across town to a nearly all-white high school on the west, the...
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BOOK
Call #: F COSTER
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jerry Craft
Summary: Eighth grader Drew Ellis recognizes that he isn't afforded the same opportunities, no matter how hard he works, that his privileged classmates at the Riverdale Academy Day School take for granted,...
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AUDIOBOOK
Call #: J PLAYAWAY F CRAFT
Location: New Junior Playaways
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Jerry Craft , artist
(9,257)
Summary: Eighth grader Drew Ellis recognizes that he isn't afforded the same opportunities, no matter how hard he works, that his privileged classmates at the Riverdale Academy Day School take for granted,...
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BOOK
Call #: J GN CRA
Location: Junior Graphic Novels
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
Susan Crandall
(33,949)
Summary: Determined to get to Nashville to find her mother in 1963, nine-year-old spitfire Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother's Mississippi home, eventually accepting a ride from a Eula, a black woman traveling alone with a white baby.
BOOK
Call #: F CRANDALL
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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