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Summary: Fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising her daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed onto her like a birthright. Eleanor Quarles arrived in Washington, DC with ambition and secrets. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JOHPaul, Crystal Smith
Summary: "When white silver screen icon Kitty Karr Tate dies and bequeaths her multimillion-dollar estate to the three Black St. John sisters, it prompts questions. A celebrity in her own right, Elise St. John would rather focus on sorting out Kitty's affairs than deal with the press. But what she discovers in one of Kitty's journals rocks her world harder than any other brewing scandal could-and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAUDameron, DéLana R. A.
Summary: ""Mika, you sit at our feet all these hours and days, hearing us tell our tales. You have all these stories inside you: all the stories everyone in our family knows and all the stories everyone in our family tells. You write 'em in your books and show everyone who we are." So begins DéLana R.A. Dameron's stunning novel-in-stories, Redwood Court. The baby of the family, Mika Mosby spends much of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC DAMJenkins, Beverly
Summary: In the wake of the Civil War, Spring Lee, running her own ranch in Paradise, Wyoming, second guesses her resolve to avoid men when a reporter arrives to interview her brother and becomes enamored with her instead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JENBenedict, Marie
Summary: "A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune--an unlikely friendship that changed the world, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Good Morning America Book Club pick The Personal Librarian. The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Mary McLeod Bethune refuses to back down as white supremacists...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENPhillips, Gary
Summary: "Los Angeles, 1965. Tempers have boiled over in the Watts neighborhood, sparked by the traffic stop of two Black motorists, the Frye brothers, by the Highway Patrol. Freelance crime photographer Harry Ingram is on the scene, capturing images of the cops as they unleash batons, dogs, and water hoses on the predominantly Black crowd. When he snaps proof of an unarmed man being shot down by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Moses, Shelia P.
Summary: Rufus Jackson Jones is from Birmingham, the place Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called the most segregated place in the country. A place that in 1963 is full of civil rights activists including Dr. King. The adults are trying to get more attention to their cause--to show that separate is not equal. Rufus's dad works at the local steel factory, and his mom is a cook at the mill. If they participate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MOSMcBride, James
Summary: In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Due, Tananarive
Summary: "Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie's journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory. Robbie has a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC DUECopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUEMathis, Ayana
Summary: From the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia 1985, Ava is already plotting a way out. She is repulsed by the shelter's squalid conditions: their cockroach-infested room, the barely edible food, and the shifty night security guard. She is determined to rescue her son from the perils and indignities of that place, and to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATMcBride, James
Summary: From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah's Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award--winning The Good Lord Bird, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Thomas, Trisha R.
Summary: "From acclaimed African-American novelist Trisha Thomas comes the story of Bailey Dowery, a Black dressmaker in 1950s Oklahoma whose gift of "second sight" pulls her into a dangerous small-town scandal involving a society wedding, a murder, and shocking family secrets"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEWoodson, Jacqueline
Summary: "It seems like Sage's whole world is on fire the summer before she starts seventh grade. As house after house burns down, her Bushwick neighborhood gets referred to as "The Matchbox" in the local newspaper. And while Sage prefers to spend her time shooting hoops with the guys, she's also still trying to figure out her place inside the circle of girls she's known since childhood. A group that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WOOColbert, Brandy
Summary: Told from multiple points of view, Ardith and Hollis Blackwood's lives are upended when their great-grandmother, legendary actress Blossom Blackwood, passes away, and family secrets emerge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC COLRochon, Farrah
Summary: Sometimes, life in the Big Easy is tough. No one knows that better than Tiana, though she also believes that hard work can go a long way. But when the notorious Dr. Facilier backs her into a corner, she has no other choice but to accept an offer that will alter the course of her life in an instant. Soon Tiana finds herself in a new reality where all her deepest desires are realized--she finally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion 2022
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Series RochonCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ROCWest, Catherine Adel
Summary: Sara King has nothing, save for her secrets and the baby in her belly, as she boards the bus to Memphis, hoping to outrun her past in Chicago. She is welcomed with open arms by Mama Sugar, a kindly matriarch and owner of the popular boardinghouse The Scarlet Poplar. Like many cities in early 1960s America, Memphis is still segregated, but change is in the air. News spreads of the Freedom...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WESMcBride, James
Summary: "In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Royce, Eden
Summary: In 1963 in South Carolina, eleven-year-old twins Jez and Jay Turner begin lessons in rootwork, and their uncle's training offers them healing, protection, and a connection to their heritage even as they face threats from the local police deputy, school bullies, and others.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021