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Ho, Joanna

Summary: In the year following their son's death, May Chen's parents face racist accusations of putting too much pressure on their son and causing his death by suicide, and May attempts to challenge the racism and ugly stereotypes through her writing, only to realize that she still has a lot to learn and that her actions have consequences for her family as well as herself.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HO

Adler, David A.

Summary: Mo Jackson and his friends practice passing the baton ahead of their track meet.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE ADL

Summary: "1969. Marighella, Brazil's number one enemy, has no time for fear. On the one hand, a violent military dictatorship, with its fear. On the one hand, a violent military dictatorship, with its heinous crimes of torture and infamous censorship. On the other, an intimidated people. Alongside guerrilleros 30 years younger than him and willing to fight, the revolutionary leader opts for action - all...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MAR

Tsukiyama, Gail

Summary: At the dawn of a new century, America is falling in love with silent movies. Wong Liu Tsong and her sister, daughters of Chinese immigrants who own a laundry, are taunted and bullied for their Chinese heritage. Determined to become an actress, Wong Liu has already chosen a stage name: Anna May Wong. Defying her disapproving father and her Chinese traditional upbringing will hold emotional and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TSU

Burg, Ann E.

Summary: In a poor village outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Serafina works hard to help her family, but dreams of going to school and becoming a doctor--then the earthquake hits and Serafina must summon all her courage to find her father and still get medicine for her sick baby brother as she promised.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BUR

Solomon, Rivers

Summary: "Vern gives birth to twins and raises them away from the influence of the outside world. But something is wrong-not with them, but with her own body...A genre-bending work of Gothic fiction that wrestles with the history of American racism"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOL

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOL

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOL

Wolf, Bree (Bree D.)

Summary: In a world populated with monsters, ghouls, witches, magical chickens, ghosts, and regular folks, a wannabe racer and a ghost team up to win the local Grand Prix, with a blossoming romance along the way.--Publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Iron Circus Comics 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 WOL

Garner, Alan

Summary: Living alone in an old house, Joseph Coppock, an introspective young boy, develops a mysterious friendship with a rag-and-bone man called Treacle Walker who introduces him to a world beyond his wildest imagination.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAR

Baldacci, David

26 holds on 19 copies

Summary: "Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants When two wealthy white landowners are found dead, the whole country immediately thinks it must be Jerome Washington, the hired help, who killed them. He was standing over the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2024

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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Baldacci, David

5 holds on 5 copies

Summary: "When two wealthy white landowners are found dead, the whole country immediately thinks it must be Jerome Washington, the hired help, who killed them. He was standing over the bodies when the police responded to an anonymous call and the only one on the property at the time of death. As far as the state is concerned, it's an open and shut case. Jack Lee, born and raised in Freeman County, knows...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BAL

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BAL

Summary: It tells the story of Vivien Epstein, a young Jewish woman who after falling in love with a member of the '62 Group', rejects her comfortable middle-class life in Manchester and joins the fight against fascism in London. Inspired by true events, it follows Vivien as she goes undercover into the NSM, a neo-Nazi movement that is becoming increasingly prominent in London.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV RID

Summary: A rising young follower of Mussolini must assassinate his former professor, now in political exile, to demonstrate his loyalty to the Fascist state.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CON

Riley, Vanessa

Summary: "Queen of diverse historicals Vanessa Riley brings readers a vivid, sweeping novel of the Haitian Revolution based on the true-life stories of two extraordinary women: the first Empress of Haiti, Marie-Claire Bonheur, and Gran Toya, a West African-born warrior who helped lead the rebellion that drove out the French and freed the enslaved people of Haiti"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIL

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIL

Bandi

Summary: "Set during the period of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il's leadership, the seven stories that make up The Accusation give voice to people living under this most bizarre and horrifying of dictatorships. The characters of these compelling stories come from a wide variety of backgrounds, from a young mother living among the elite in Pyongyang whose son misbehaves during a political rally, to a former...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BAN

Stone, Nic

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC STO

McBride, Amber

Summary: In the future, a Black girl known only as Inmate Eleven is kept confined -- to be used as a biological match for the president's son, should he fall ill. She is called a Blue -- the color of sadness. She lives in a small-small room with her dog, who is going wolf more often - he's pacing and imagining he's free. Inmate Eleven wants to go wolf too, she wants to know why she feels so Blue and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MCB

Stone, Nic

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.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC STO

Armand, Glenda

Summary: During the Great Migration in 1930's Louisiana, eight-year-old Jenny tries to understand why a man named Jim Crow is making trouble for her family.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ARM

Walls, Jasmine

Summary: "It's 1930s Mississippi. Magic is permitted only in certain circumstances, and by certain people. Unsanctioned broom racing is banned. But for those who need the money, or the thrills...it's there to be found. Meet Billie Mae, captain of the Night Storms racing team, and Loretta, her best friend and second-in-command. They're determined to make enough money to move out west to a state that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 WAL

Burnell, Heather Ayris

Summary: In three stories, friends Unicorn and Yeti enjoy each others' company as they make up an original game, play hide-and-seek, and work on a puzzle.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn/Scholastic, Inc. 2024

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Mangual, C. Ines

Summary: Blaze and his monster truck friends enjoy racing at night until someone steals all the lights, and it is up to Blaze to capture the Light Thief.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN MAN

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN MAN

Elliott, Rebecca

Summary: Despite disagreements on the wisdom of the adventure, Rainbow Tinseltail and the other unicorns set out for Snowbelle Mountain to find out if Yetis are real--and when they get caught in a blizzard and take shelter in a cave they find the answer to their quest.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2022

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC ELL

2 holds on 1 copy

Summary: Wayne plays ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards, an Indian-hater who believes more in bullets than words. He's out to find his young niece, who's been taken captive by the renegade Comanches who massacred her family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN SEA

Stringfellow, Tara M.

Summary: "In the summer of 1995, ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father's violence to the only place they have left: her mother's ancestral home in Memphis. Half a century ago, Joan's grandfather built this majestic house for her grandmother--only to be lynched, days after becoming the first Black detective in Memphis, by his all-white police squad. This wasn't the first...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STR

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STR
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STR

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Stringfellow

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