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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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Sister Outsider presents essential writings of black poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, an influential voice in 20th century literature. In this varied collection of essays, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, offering a message of struggle but also of hope. This commemorative edition is, in Lorde's own...
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Medford Library Branch
921 ANGELOU M 2015
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921 ANGELOU M 2015
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Ashland Library
921 ANGELOU M 2015
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921 ANGELOU M 2015
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4 copies, 20 people are on the wait list.
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Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide.
Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town,...
Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town,...
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6 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
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Medford Library Branch
LP F MORRISON T
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LP F MORRISON T
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Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose...
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From the author of bestselling Invisible Man—the classic novel of African-American experience—this long-awaited second novel tells an evocative tale of a prodigal of the twentieth century. Brilliantly crafted, moving, and wise, Juneteenth is the work of an American master.
"Tell me what happened while there's still time," demands the dying Senator Adam Sunraider to the...
"Tell me what happened while there's still time," demands the dying Senator Adam Sunraider to the...
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Medford Library Branch
YA F REYNOLDS J
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YA F REYNOLDS J
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Phoenix Library Branch
YA F REYNOLDS J
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YA F REYNOLDS J
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Central Point Library Branch
YA AB F REYNOLDS J
1 available
YA AB F REYNOLDS J
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As Will, fifteen, sets out to avenge his brother Shawn's fatal shooting, seven ghosts who knew Shawn board the elevator and reveal truths Will needs to know.
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Medford Library Branch
YA AB F THOMAS A
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YA AB F THOMAS A
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Ashland Library
YA AB F THOMAS A
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YA AB F THOMAS A
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Publisher Annotation: Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer...
7) Monster
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Ashland Library
YA F MYERS W
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YA F MYERS W
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Phoenix Library Branch
YA F MYERS W
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YA F MYERS W
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While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
8) Sweat
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Medford Library Branch
812.54 NOT
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812.54 NOT
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Ashland Library
812.54 NOT
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812.54 NOT
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"Winner of the 2016 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize "From first moments to last, this compassionate but clear-eyed play throbs with heartfelt life, with characters as complicated as any you'll encounter at the theater today, and with a nifty ticking time bomb of a plot. That the people onstage are middle-class or lower-middle-class folks - too rarely given ample time on American stages - makes the play all the more vital a contribution to contemporary...
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Medford Library Branch
812 Pa
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812 Pa
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Ashland Library
812 PAR
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812 PAR
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Redwood Campus
PS3566.A736 T66 2001
1 available
PS3566.A736 T66 2001
1 available
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A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the way we are defined by history. The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront the shattering reality of their future.
10) Kindred
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6 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Parable of the Sower and MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Nebula, and Hugo award winner
The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.
“I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.”
Dana’s...
The visionary time-travel classic whose Black female hero is pulled through time to face the horrors of American slavery and explores the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.
“I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.”
Dana’s...
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Fusing the personal and the political in high-voltage verse, Amiri Baraka was one of the preeminent literary innovators of the past century. Selected by Paul Vangelisti, this volume comprises the fullest spectrum of Baraka's rousing, revolutionary poems, from his first collection to previously unpublished pieces composed during his final years. Throughout Baraka's career as a prolific writer (also published as LeRoi Jones), he was vehemently outspoken...
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Ashland Library
F HURSTON Z
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F HURSTON Z
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Talent Library Branch
F HURSTON Z
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F HURSTON Z
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5 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 9 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 9 people are on the wait list.
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Central Point Library Branch - Display
LP F HURSTON Z 2008
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LP F HURSTON Z 2008
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A novel about black Americans in Florida that centers on the life of Janie and her three marriages.
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Riverside Campus
E444 .L49 H87 2018
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E444 .L49 H87 2018
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Riverside Campus
E444 .L49 H87 2019
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E444 .L49 H87 2019
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Medford Library Branch
AB 306.362 HUR
1 available
AB 306.362 HUR
1 available
Ashland Library
AB 306.362 HUR
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AB 306.362 HUR
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Ashland Library
306.362 HUR 2018
1 available
306.362 HUR 2018
1 available
Talent Library Branch
306.362 HUR 2018
1 available
306.362 HUR 2018
1 available
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"In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave...
15) Fences: a play
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Medford Library Branch
812.54 WIL
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812.54 WIL
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Redwood Campus
PS3573.I45677 F4 1986
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PS3573.I45677 F4 1986
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From one of the most important writers of the twentieth century comes a stunning love story about a young Black woman whose life is torn apart when her lover is wrongly accused of a crime—"a moving, painful story, so vividly human and so obviously based on reality that it strikes us as timeless" (The New York Times Book Review)."One of the best books Baldwin has ever written—perhaps the best of all." —The Philadelphia Inquirer
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In this retelling of a folktale, a group of slaves, unable to bear their sadness and starvation any longer, calls upon the African magic that allows them to fly away.
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Central Point Library Branch
E JOHNSON A
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E JOHNSON A
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Rogue River Library Branch
E JOHNSON A
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E JOHNSON A
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In 1865, members of a family start their day as slaves, working in a Texas cotton field, and end it celebrating their freedom on what came to be known as Juneteenth.