Flowers, Ebony
Summary: "Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into black women's lives and coming of age stories as seen across a crowded, ammonia-scented hair salon while ladies gossip and bond over the burn. The titular story 'Hot Comb' is about a young girl's first perm--a doomed ploy to look cool and to stop seeming 'too white' in the all-black neighborhood her family has just moved to. In 'Virgin Hair', taunts of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 FLOWilner, Barry.
Summary: "A collective biography of the top 10 running backs, both past and present, which includes accounts of game action, career statistics, and more"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2011
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Summary: Linda Greenlaw hadn't been blue-water fishing for ten years, since the great events chronicled in The Perfect Storm and The Hungry Ocean, when an old friend offered her the captaincy on his boat, Seahawk, for a season of swordfishing. She took the bait, of course, and thus opened a new chapter in a life that had already seen enough adventure for three lifetimes. The Seahawk turns out to be the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 GREENLAW, LINDA GREGreenlaw, Linda
Summary: The bestselling author's sequel to "The Hungry Ocean" is a fast-paced account of her return to swordfishing. Capturing the moment-by-moment details of her journey, "Seaworthy" is Greenlaw's compelling narrative about a person setting her own terms and finding her true self between land and water.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639 GRESullivan, George
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.01 DORANTES, ESTEBAN GOOCanby, Henry Seidel
Summary: In 1683, at about the age of 15, Thomas Camby left Thorne in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England for America eventually settling in Abington, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He married Sarah Jarvis and had nine children. When Sarah died he married Mary Oliver and had eight more children. Upon Mary's death, Thomas married Jane Preston. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverside Press 1945
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: REF GEN 929.2 CANBY CanbyLochery, Neill
Summary: "When Nazis looked to flee Europe with stolen art, gems, and gold in tow, certain "neutral" countries were all too willing to assist them. By the end of January 1945, it was clear to Germany that the war was lost. The Third Reich was in freefall, and its leaders, apart from those clustered around Hitler in his Berlin bunker, sought to abscond before they were besieged. But they wanted to take...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 LOCJordan-Fenton, Christy
Summary: "The beloved story of an Inuvialuk girl standing up to the bullies of residential school, updated for a new generation of readers. Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton's powerful story of residential school in the far North has been reissued to commemorate the memoir's 10th anniversary with updates to the text, reflections on the book's impact, and a bonus chapter from the acclaimed follow-up, A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 POKMcCaulley, Esau
Summary: "From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black, a riveting intergenerational account of his family's search for meaning and a place to call home in the American South. For much of his life, Esau McCaulley was taught to see himself as an exception: someone who, through hard work, faith, and determination, overcame childhood poverty,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Convergent Books, an imprint of Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MCCSmilios, Maria
Summary: "During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed one in seven people, white nurses at Sea View, New York's largest municipal hospital, began quitting. Desperate to avert a public health crisis, city officials summoned Black southern nurses, luring them with promises of good pay, a career, and an escape from the strictures of Jim Crow. But after arriving, they found themselves on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.72 SMIBlake, Katharine
Summary: "A harrowing, intellectual reckoning with crime, mercy, justice, and heartbreak through the lens of a murder"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: FSG Originals, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BLAKE, KATHARINE BLADiakité, Jason Timbuktu
Summary: Born to interracial American parents in Sweden, Jason Diakité grew up between worlds--part Swedish, American, black, white, Cherokee, Slovak, and German, riding a delicate cultural and racial divide. It was a no-man's-land that left him in constant search of self. Even after his hip-hop career took off, Jason fought to unify a complex system of family roots that branched across continents,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Crossing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 DIANeihardt, John G
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 NEIMiles, Sara
Summary: The author tells what happened when she decided to follow the flesh-and-blood Jesus by doing something real.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jossey-Bass 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MILES, SARA MILBlais, Madeleine
Summary: "In the 1970s, Madeleine Blais' in-laws purchased a vacation house on Martha's Vineyard for the exorbitant sum of $80,000. 2.2 miles down a poorly marked, one lane dirt road, the house was better termed a shack--it had no electricity, no modern plumbing, the roof leaked, and mice had invaded the walls. It was perfect. Sitting on Tisbury Great Pond--well-stocked with oysters and crab for foraged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BLAIS, MADELEINE BLARapp Black, Emily
Summary: ""Congratulations on the resurrection of your life," a colleague wrote to Emily Rapp Black when she announced the birth of her second child. The line made Emily pause. Her first child, a boy named Ronan, had died before he turned three years old from Tay-Sachs disease, an experience she wrote about in her first book, The Still Point of the Turning World. Since that time her life had changed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RAPP BLACK, EMILY RAPMayor, Adrienne
Summary: A new account of one of Rome's most relentless but least understood foes. Claiming Alexander the Great and Darius of Persia as ancestors, Mithradates inherited a wealthy Black Sea kingdom at age fourteen after his mother poisoned his father. He fled into exile and returned in triumph to become a ruler of superb intelligence and fierce ambition. Hailed as a savior by his followers and feared as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MITHRADATES MAYSaslow, Eli
Summary: "From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, a powerful account of Derek Black's journey from white supremacist hero to apostle of tolerance"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BLACK, DEREK SASHoena, B. A.
Summary: "This graphic biography traces Colin Kaepernick's road from young sports standout to athlete and activist. As Kaepernick protested violence against African Americans, he lost his career in football but gained a voice heard worldwide" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KAPKeller, Shana
Summary: "Benjamin Banneker is known and admired for his work in science, mathematics, and astronomy. He was born free at a time in America, 1731, when most African Americans were slaves. At the age of 22 he built a strike clock based on his own drawings and using a pocket-knife"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BANAbani, Chris
Summary: "In The Face: Cartography of the Void, acclaimed Nigerian-born author and poet Chris Abani has given us a profound and gorgeously wrought short memoir that navigates the stories written upon his own face. Beginning with his early childhood immersed in the lgbo culture of West Africa, Abani unfurls a lushly poetic, insightful, and funny narrative that investigates the roles that race, culture,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Word Essay AbaniMandela, Winnie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968 MANCarby, Hazel V.
Summary: "A haunting and evocative history of British empire, told through one woman's family story 'Where are you from?' Hazel Carby was continually asked as a girl, at a time when being Black and being British was understood to be an impossibility. To answer that question properly, eminent scholar Hazel Carby finds she needs to trace not just the family history of her Jamaican father and her Welsh...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2019