Smith, Clint
Summary: 'How the Word is Passed' is Clint Smith's revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a slave owning nation. Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, Smith leads the reader through an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks - those that are honest about the past and those that are not - that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nations...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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Summary: "Part fact, part fiction, Tyehimba Jess's much anticipated second book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers directly before and after the Civil War up to World War I. Olio is an effort to understand how they met, resisted, complicated, co-opted, and sometimes defeated attempts to minstrelize them,"--Amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wave Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 JESCurtis, Christopher Paul.
Summary: With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family," twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CURLevine, Kristin (Kristin Sims)
Summary: In 1958 Little Rock, Arkansas, painfully shy twelve-year-old Marlee sees her city and family divided over school integration, but her friendship with Liz, a new student, helps her find her voice and fight against racism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEVMarie, Aurielle
Summary: "Gumbo Ya Ya, Aurielle Marie's stunning debut, is a cauldron of hearty poems exploring race, gender, desire, and violence in the lives of Black gxrls, soaring against the backdrop of a contemporary South. These poems are loud, risky, and unapologetically rooted in the glory of Black gxrlhood. The collection opens with a heartrending indictment of injustice. What follows is a striking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pittsburgh Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 811 MARButts, Anthony.
Contents: The Saint Brigid psalms -- Before autumn -- Song of starry-eyed children -- Intercession to Saint Brigid -- Mist and fog -- Song of earth and sky -- The landscape for growth -- Eight modes toward desire -- Thin places -- Ice palaces -- Pygmalion -- The memory of light -- Soldiers -- Fretwork -- Voices' end -- Embers -- Far from home -- Wise and innocent -- The distance from here to there --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2009
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Summary: "A stunning poetry debut: this meditation on the black female figure throughout time introduces us to a brave and penetrating new voice. Robin Coste Lewis's electrifying collection is a triptych that begins and ends with lyric poems considering the roles desire and race play in the construction of the self. The central panel is the title poem, 'Voyage of the Sable Venus, ' a riveting narrative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Wors Poetry LewisElhillo, Safia
Summary: The January Children depicts displacement and longing while also questioning accepted truths about geography, history, nationhood, and home. The poems mythologize family histories until they break open, using them to explore aspects of Sudan's history of colonial occupation, dictatorship, and diaspora. Several of the poems speak to the late Egyptian singer Abdelhalim Hafez, who addressed many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 811 ELHGilmore, Brian G.
Summary: "Come see about me, Marvin is accessible, honest poetry about and for real people. In the collection, brian g. gilmore seeks to invite the reader into a fantastical dialogue between himself and Marvin Gaye--two black men who were born in the nation's capital but moved to the Midwest for professional ambitions. In trying to acclimate himself to a new job in a new place--a place that seemed so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 GILHayes, Terrance
Summary: "A powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from one of America's most acclaimed poets, Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award winning author of Lighthead. In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form. Written during the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency, these poems are haunted by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 HAYSledge, E. B. (Eugene Bondurant)
Summary: As a society, America needs from time to time to question the conduct of its foreign relations. WITH THE OLD BREED, by Eugene B. Sledge, provides the ultimate "reality check" by serving as a graphic reminder of the horrors America has periodically required its young men to endure for the higher cause of defending freedom. The battles of Peleliu (1944) and Okinawa (1945) were particularly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 1996
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 SLECooper, Brittney C.
Summary: "So what if it's true that Black women are mad as hell? They have the right to be. In the Black feminist tradition of Audre Lorde, Brittney Cooper reminds us that anger is a powerful source of energy that can give us the strength to keep on fighting. Yet too often Black women's anger has been caricatured into an ugly and destructive force that threatens the civility and social fabric of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.48 COOSummary: A collection of tales set in the universe of Eric Flint's Ring of Fire series includes contributions by Mercedes Lackey, Charles E. Gannon, Tim Roesch, Brad Sinor, Garrett Vance, David Carrico, and Karen Bergstralh.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLISteinbeck, John
Summary: Collects six short novels from one of the most influential authors of the twentieth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2009
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Summary: Presents a middle grade collection of stories that recount spooky paranormal investigations based on real ghost hunts from stars of the TV show "Ghost Hunters."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HAWSummary: "Dragons: Fearsome fire-breathing foes, scaled adversaries, legendary lizards, ancient hoarders of priceless treasures, serpentine sages with the ages? wisdom, and winged weapons of war? Wings of Fire brings you all these dragons, and more, seen clearly through the eyes of many of today?s most popular authors, including Peter S. Beagle, Elizabeth Bear, Holly Black, Orson Scott Card, Charles de...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Night Shade 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINBrown, Dorothy A.
Summary: "An exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert on tax policy. Dorothy A. Brown became a tax lawyer to get away from race. As a young Black girl growing up in the South Bronx, she'd seen how racism limited the lives of her family and neighbors. Her law school classes offered a refreshing contrast: tax law was about numbers, and the only color that mattered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 343.73 BROWright, Richard
Summary: Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's novel is just as powerful today as when it was written --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial Modern Classics 2005
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Summary: "Though we have encountered our share of grief and troubles on this earth, we can still hold the line of beauty, form, and beat. No small accomplishment in a world as challenging as this one." So writes Alice Walker in this new book of poems, poems composed over the course of one year in response to joy and sorrow both personal and global: the death of loved ones, war, the deliciousness of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 WALPoe, Edgar Allan
Summary: Brings together Poe's stories and poems in one volume.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1966
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 POE1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 818 POE
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 818 POECarey, Jacqueline.
Summary: "Small town Pemkowet, Mich., is a popular tourist destination for humans. It's also home to a thriving 'eldritch community' of supernatural entities, thanks to the presence of the local underworld controlled by the Norse goddess Hel. Daisy Johanssen, a half-demon trying to dodge her innate attraction to the 'Seven Deadlies' while functioning as Hel's agent on Earth and the local link between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roc 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARSummary: A showcase of many of the International Thriller Writers's top authors as well as rising stars in the genre. Includes never-before-published stories by New York Times bestselling authors including Lee Child, Stephen Coonts, Jeffrey Deaver, Heather Graham, Joan Johnston, John Lescroart, Alex Kava and Deb Carlin, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio, Inc. 2010