Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler. Acclaimed novelist Ibi Zoboi illuminates the young life of the visionary storyteller Octavia E. Butler in poems and prose. Born into the Space Race, the Red Scare, and the dawning Civil Rights Movement, Butler expereinced an American childhood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BUTCook, Glen.
Summary: Marching south after the ghastly battle at the Tower of Charm, the Black Company is hounded by shadowy figures every inch of the way. This omnibus edition collects "Shadow Games, Dreams of Steel," and "The Silver Spike."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOCook, Glen.
Summary: Cook's Black Company series is a landmark of gritty psychological realism. This third omnibus collects the novels "Bleak Seasons" and "She Is the Darkness," the first two novels of the Glittering Stone sequence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOBlack, Dale.
Summary: "Dale Black tells how he survived a plane crash at age nineteen, his near-death experience of heaven, and how his life dramatically changed as a result of this event forty years ago"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BLACK, DALE BLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Christ BlackSummary: An anthology culled from "Black Mask" magazine is a tribute to its mastery of the pulp noir genre that includes such stories as "Murder Is Bad Luck" and "Diamonds Mean Death" as well as two full-length novels including Paul Cain's "Fast One."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLABlack, Mary
Contents: [Disc 1]. Turning away -- Still believing -- One & only -- Wonder child -- Don't say OK -- Wildest dreams -- Dimming of the day -- Babes in the wood -- Speaking with the angel -- I misunderstood -- I will be there -- Bless the road -- The circus -- Just a journey -- Flesh & blood -- Song for Ireland 2001. [disc 2]. Who knows where the time goes -- Ring them bells -- Saw you running -- Ae fond...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Curb Records 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN BLABlack, Chuck.
Summary: To Fight What Others Can't You Must See What Others Don't After an accident left him temporarily blind, Drew Carter didn't just regain his sight. He now sees what others can't imagine-an entire spiritual realm of mighty beings at war. Forget the gift, Drew just wants his life back. Part of that involves Sydney Carlyle, a woman he is inexplicably drawn to. When he's offered the chance to become...
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Publisher / Publication Date: christianaudio.com 2016
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Summary: This program discusses Western democracy's confrontation with and ultimate defeat of communism from the end of World War II to the destruction of the Berlin Wall. Events depicted include the Red Army's invasion of Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, and the heightening of the Cold War between the U.S. and Russia through the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. The destruction of the Berlin Wall is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Kass, Mallory.
Summary: "For the past five hundred years, the Cahills have silently dominated the world. Their desperate hunt for the 39 Clues lies behind some of history’s biggest enigmas--the curse of the Hope diamond, the race to summit Mt. Everest, the wild life and death of Harry Houdini. And now-–finally-–the secrets are out. With an introduction by Rick Riordan, The 39 Clues: The Black Book of Buried Secrets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2010
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC RIOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CLUBlack Uhuru
Contents: Black sounds of freedom. I love King Selassie -- Satan army band -- Time to unite -- Natural mystic -- Eden out deh -- Love crisis -- African love -- Hard ground -- Willow tree -- Sorry for the man. U-Black: King of all time -- U-Black: Crocodile style -- U-Black: Love you girl -- Love crisis. Crisis for love -- Satan army band -- Tonight is the night to unite -- Eden out deh -- Sorry for the...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Greensleeves Records 2006
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE BLAFlack, Roberta.
Contents: Killing me softly with his song -- The closer I get to you -- You've got a friend -- Feel like makin' love -- Will you still love me tomorrow -- Where is the love -- The first time ever I saw your face -- Back together again -- You are my heaven -- If ever I see you again -- Jesse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 1981
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Summary: Black holes, predicted by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity more than a century ago, have long intrigued scientists and the public with their bizarre and fantastical properties. Although Einstein understood that black holes were mathematical solutions to his equations, he never accepted their physical reality--a viewpoint many shared. This all changed in the 1960s and 1970s, when a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523 GUBHammett, Dashiell
Summary: Collects all twenty-eight stories and two serialized novels starring Continental Op, the hardworking private eye with an unyielding personal code.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMSummary: Ciel Phantomhive and his demonic butler, Sebastian, are back, but their next case has them treading some rough waters! Aboard the luxury liner Campania, the two investigate an illegal human experiment that involves resurrecting the dead. But the closer they get to the truth, the closer they are to their own deaths! Will this be their final case, or will one hell of a butler keep them afloat?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Funimation 2018
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME BLATaylor, Candacy A.
Summary: "A young reader's edition of Candacy Taylor's acclaimed book about the history of the Green Book, the guide for Black travelers Overground Railroad chronicles the history of the Green Book, which was published from 1936 to 1966 and was the "Black travel guide to America." For years, it was dangerous for African Americans to travel in the United States. Because of segregation, Black travelers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.8 TAYTaylor, Candacy A
Summary: The first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for black motorists. Published from 1936 to 1966, the Green Book was hailed as the "black travel guide to America." At that time, it was very dangerous and difficult for African-Americans to travel because black travelers couldn't eat, sleep, or buy gas at most white-owned businesses. The Green...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.980 TAYSummary: Black Books concerns time-frittering techniques of raddled proprietor Bernard Black, his assistant Manny Bianco and their friend, Fran Katzenjammer. His dubious trio form a family of sorts to protect each other from the realities of modern London.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BLABlack, Holly
Summary: Reeling from Cardans betrayal, an exiled Jude risks her life to sneak back into the treacherous Faerie Court to save the life of her deceptive twin, only to become ensnared in Elfhames violent political war and the fallout of a powerful curse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BLAWilliams, Cress
Summary: After retiring his alter-ego Black Lightning years earlier to take care of his family, a high school principal is forced to become the masked vigilante again as crime and corruption overrun his community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BLABlack, Holly
Summary: After being pronounced Queen of Faerie and then abruptly exiled by the Wicked King Cardan, Jude finds herself unmoored, the queen of nothing. She spends her time with Vivi and Oak, watches her fair share of reality television, and does the odd job or two, including trying to convince a cannibalistic faerie from hunting her own in the mortal world. When her twin sister Taryn shows up asking of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BLACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BLAHall, Alvin D.
Summary: "Join award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through America's haunted racial past, with the legendary Green Book as your guide. For countless Americans, the open road has long been a place where dangers lurk. In the era of Jim Crow, Black travelers encountered locked doors, hostile police, and potentially violent encounters almost everywhere, in both the South and the North. From...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper One, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.304 HALCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.304 HALFièvre, M. J. (Michèle-Jessica)
Summary: Black people beyond the token names everyone knows have been accomplishing remarkable things in every discipline: arts, sciences, politics, religion, sports, and more. Meet an entire alphabet of black inventors and scientists from the person who developed the traffic signal to the woman who helped pioneer modern computing for NASA.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dragonfruit 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 FIEBlack, Holly
Summary: Cardan Greenbriar, High King of Elfhame, visits the mortal world to face the troll woman, Aslog of the West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BLABlack, Chuck.
Summary: Sir Quinlan, newly commissioned as a Knight of the Prince, is brought into an elite unit known as the Swords of Valor, but when things go wrong he is tempted to return to his former life until a new enemy threatens and suddenly he holds many lives in his hands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Multnomah Books 2010