Evans, Shane.
Summary: Illustrations and brief text portray the events of the 1963 march in Washington, D.C., where the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a historic speech.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2012
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Summary: Shyly hiding his feelings for attractive bank employee Rayne Waters, chiropractor Yardley Brown endeavors to work up the courage to ask her out, unaware that Rayne has been struggling with unfulfilling relationships.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZANZane.
Summary: Chronicles an eventful week of erotic interoffice romances and high-stakes business competition, leading up to the annual Christmas party at Wolfe Industries, the nation's first African-American-owned automobile manufacturer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ZaneZane
Summary: "Mega bestselling author Zane returns to the world of her hugely popular novels Addicted and Nervous in this dark and exhilarating follow-up featuring a beautiful but emotionally damaged pop star desperate and determined to enact revenge on those who have caused her to hide behind her fame. After fleeing from Atlanta years ago following a traumatic event, Caprice Tatum decides it's time to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZANElbee, Viviane
Summary: Daryl does not want to share his favorite dinosaur book, so when it is time to bring it back to the library he uses all his dinosaur skills to get it back until a friendly librarian encourages him to share.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ELBVance, Anise
Summary: "A resistance group takes America's racial reckoning into its own hands in this powerful, stirringly original debut novel. After the murder of an unarmed Black teenager by the hands of the police, protests spread like wildfire in Bliss City, New Jersey. A full-scale resistance group takes control of an abandoned housing project and decide to call it Hush Harbor, in homage to the secret spaces...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANLatham, Irene
Summary: Ten-year-old African American boy wants to welcome the circus elephant named Miss Fancy to her new home in a nearby park, but he is disappointed to see a sign: "No Colored Allowed".
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LATLatham, Irene
Summary: Ten-year-old African American boy wants to welcome the circus elephant named Miss Fancy to her new home in a nearby park, but he is disappointed to see a sign: "No Colored Allowed."
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD Fiction Latham 2020Diggs, Taye
Summary: "Why? is a question asked by children daily, and in this striking and timely story, it begins a straightforward and challenging conversation between children of color and the adults in their lives. Taye Diggs has written a beautiful, powerful, and poignant story that peers through the eyes of a child as they struggle to understand why these events are happening. Why? distills the conversations...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2021
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Summary: A girl who is Girlpie to her mama and Honey Bun Chocolate Dewdrop to her daddy savors the warmth and love of her family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC HooksClarke, Lane
Summary: As high school junior Michie plans for her future and explores a new relationship, she tries to reconcile with some uncomfortable truths about her life which becomes more complicated when she is contacted by her estranged mother.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CLAMcDaniel, Breanna J.
Summary: "A young girl lifts her hands up in a series of everyday moments before finally raising her hands in resistance at a protest march"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MCDMarzollo, Jean.
Summary: Shanna dresses up as the animal answer in these easy-to-read riddles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children 2004
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN MarPeete, Holly Robinson
Summary: Charlie, a boy with autism, describes what his life is like with his twin sister Callie, who does not have autism, and explains how water--whether in a pool, a tub, or in the aquarium--is like a warm hug, which settles him down and calms his mind, allowing him to focus and cope.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Oliver, Diane
Summary: "A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-century African American literature. A remarkable talent far ahead of her time, Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of twenty-two, leaving behind these crisply told and often chilling tales that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC OLITerrell, Brandon
Summary: After he accidentally injures a teammate during relay race practice, thirteen-year-old Nate and his cousin Rachel travel back in time to meet Jesse Owens, and get a chance to see him run in the 1936 Olympics--and almost lose the Sports Illustrated magazine that is their ticket back to the present.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016