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Summary: "Cedric The Entertainer's debut novel Flipping Boxcars is a valentine to close-knit black families and tightly woven communities during the Depression and World War II. The story is also an homage to Cedric's grandfather, who in this tale emerges as Babe. He is a charismatic and widely loved man. He is also a gambler, whose gift of gab often gets him out of tricky situations, which is often....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CEDColes, Donyae
Summary: In 1840 England, Orabella, the orphaned daughter of a white man and a Black woman with no fortune or connections, is married off to the wealthy Elias Blakersby and, whisked away to his family's estate, becomes engulfed by the house's darkness, making her question where her dreams and reality begins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COLMoses, 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