Kidd, Sue Monk
Summary: This is the Spanish text edition of the New York Times best selling novel, "The Secret Life of Bees". It is a beautifully written, coming of age story, set in rural South Carolina in 1964 against the back drop of the civil rights movement. It is the touching story of a young white girl, fourteen year old Lily Owens, whose mother died in a tragic accident when Lily was about four. Lily lives...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2005
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH KIDGwin, Minrose
Summary: A devastating tornado rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression. Dovey, a black laundress, searches for her family. At the McNabb house she find the daughter of the house, Jo, who suffered a head wound. When a baby is found in the wreckage is it Jo's baby brother, Tommy, or Dovey's light-skinned great-grandson, Promise? The two women-- one black, one...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GWICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Gwin 2018Johnson, Nancy
Summary: It's 2008, and the inauguration of President Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated Black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man who is eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. She knows that to move forward she must make peace with the past. Returning home to her Indiana factory hometown, she finds it plagued by racism, unemployment,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOHJackson-Brown, Angela
Summary: "Opal Pruitt is just about to turn 18 in the oppressively hot summer of 1936. She works hard at her job, takes care of her beloved Granny, and dreams about boys with her cousin Lucille. The young black teenager's journey to adulthood will be forged in fire, though, as the Ku Klux Klan attacks her Colored Town neighborhood and she endures a vicious beating at the hands of an unknown white...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JACBarnett, LaShonda K. (LaShonda Katrice)
Summary: "Follows the story of Ivoe Williams, an African American woman journalist, through the start of the twentieth century"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARJohnson, Nancy
Summary: It's 2008, and the rise of Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. In Chicago, Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man. He's eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. She has never gotten over the baby she gave birth to, and abandoned, when she was a teenager. She had promised her family she'd never look back, but Ruth knows that to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JOHBennett, Brit
Summary: Generación tras generación, la comunidad negra del pueblo de Mallard, en Luisiana, ha intentado aclarar el tono de su piel favoreciendo los matrimonios mixtos. Las inseparables gemelas Desirée y Stella Vignes, con su color níveo, sus ojos castaños y su cabello ondulado, son un buen ejemplo de ello. Tan distintas y tan iguales, decidieron huir juntas del diminuto pueblo creyendo que también...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Literatura Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH BENJones, Martha S.
Summary: This volume explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements and the consequences of elevating women into positions of visibility and leadership. Martha Jones reveals how, throughout the 19th century, the "woman question" was at the core of movements against slavery and for civil rights.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.6 JonJefferson, Margo
Summary: "Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperamental autobiography," comprised of visceral, intimate fragments that fuse criticism and memoir. Margo Jefferson constructs a nervous system with pieces of different lengths and tone, conjoining arts writing (poem, song, performance) with life writing (history, psychology). The book's structure is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JEFFERSON, MARGO JEFPatrick, Denise Lewis
Summary: The A Girl Named series tells the stories of how ordinary American girls grew up to be extraordinary American women. Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955, but how did she come to be so brave?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PATMara, Wil.
Summary: Introduces the children to Rosa Parks who is a true American hero.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2015