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Mangel, C. P.

Summary: "When Titus Horace, successful African American author, inherits a large tract of land, he leaves Chicago with his Jewish wife Ardene and their daughter Asa, and moves to the segregated North Carolina of 1950. Unhappy at being uprooted from her school and friends, Asa quickly learns how persons of color are intimidated and humiliated on a daily basis and how, despite their education and talent,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Mangel 2019

Hitchcock, Shannon

Summary: When a formerly segregated North Carolina town hires its first African-American teacher in 1969, two girls--one black, one white--confront the prejudice that challenges their friendship.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HIT

Winslow, De'Shawn Charles

1 hold on 6 copies

Summary: When three siblings are found shot to death in the still-segregated town of West Mills, North Carolina, in 1976, and the white authorities show no interest in solving the case, Josephine Wright sets out to prove the innocence of her childhood sweetheart,Olympus "Lymp" Seymore, the murder victims' half-brother and the leading suspect in the case.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIN
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC WIN

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIN

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIN

Gohlke, Cathy

Summary: "When Lilliana Swope's beloved mother dies, Lilliana gathers her last ounce of courage and flees her abusive husband for the home of her only living relative in the foothills of No Creek, North Carolina. Though Hyacinth Belvidere hasn't seen Lilliana since she was five, she offers her cherished great-niece a safe harbor. Their joyful reunion inspires plans to revive Aunt Hyacinth's estate and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2020

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Headen, Sandra W.

Summary: In 1939 North Carolina, an all-Black baseball team "trespasses" on the whites-only baseball field, and the resulting racial outrage can only be resolved on the mound.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HEA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HEA

Kidd, Sue Monk

Summary: This is the Spanish text edition of the New York Times best selling novel, "The Secret Life of Bees". It is a beautifully written, coming of age story, set in rural South Carolina in 1964 against the back drop of the civil rights movement. It is the touching story of a young white girl, fourteen year old Lily Owens, whose mother died in a tragic accident when Lily was about four. Lily lives...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2005

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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH KID

Pryor, Shawn

Summary: "On February 1, 1960, four young black men sat down at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and staged a nonviolent protest against segregation. At that time, many restaurants in the South did not serve black people. Soon, thousands of students were staging sit-ins across the South, and within six months, the lunch counter at which they'd first protested was integrated....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.6 PRY

Summary: Goodbye, Tree Hill High. Graduation nears and with its approach comes the realization that, for students and parents alike, life is changing forever. There are new loves to nurture, old scores still to settle. The longtime triangle of Lucas, Peyton and Brooke finally comes down to two. The memory of Keith--or is it his spirit?--inspires Lucas and Nathan and haunts Dan. Peyton is terrorized by a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ONE

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