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New York Times Bestseller • One of the Best Books of the Year by Time magazine, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, and Esquire, and one of Oprah's 15 Favorite Books of the Year
From the legendary author of Native Son and Black Boy, the novel he was unable to publish during his lifetime—an explosive story of racism, injustice, brutality, and survival. "Not just Wright's masterwork,
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Medford Library Branch
F QUADE K
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F QUADE K
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Ashland Library
F QUADE K
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F QUADE K
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Talent Library Branch
F QUADE K
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F QUADE K
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"From an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel following a New Mexican family's extraordinary year of love and sacrifice. It's Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his fifteen-year-old daughter Angel shows up pregnant on his doorstep and disrupts his plans....
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Redwood Campus
PN1590 .B53 A23 2021
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PN1590 .B53 A23 2021
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Riverside Campus
PN1590 .B53 A23 2021
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PN1590 .B53 A23 2021
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"A Little Devil in America is an urgent project that unravels all modes and methods of black performance, in this moment when black performers are coming to terms with their value, reception, and immense impact on America. With sharp insight, humor, and heart, Abdurraqib examines how black performance happens in specific moments in time and space--midcentury Paris, the moon, or a cramped living room in Columbus, Ohio. At the outset of this project,...
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Applegate Library Branch
921 OWUSU N 2021
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921 OWUSU N 2021
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Eagle Point Library Branch
921 OWUSU N 2021
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921 OWUSU N 2021
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"Nadia Owusu grew up all over the world--from Rome and London to Dar-es-Salaam and Kampala. When her mother abandoned her when she was two years old, the rejection caused Nadia to be confused about her identity. Even after her father died when she was thirteen and she was raised by her stepmother, she was unable to come to terms with who she was since she still felt motherless and alone. When Nadia went to university in America when she was eighteen...
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Applegate Library Branch
F GREENIDGE K
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F GREENIDGE K
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Eagle Point Library Branch
F GREENIDGE K
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F GREENIDGE K
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"Coming of age as a free-born Black girl in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson is all too aware that her mother, a physician, has a vision for their future together: Libertie will go to medical school and practice alongside her. But Libertie feels stifled by her mother's choices and is constantly reminded that, unlike her mother, Libertie has skin that is too dark. When a young man from Haiti proposes to Libertie and promises she will be...
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Phoenix Library Branch
921 ZAUNER M 2021
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921 ZAUNER M 2021
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Ruch Library Branch
921 ZAUNER M 2021
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921 ZAUNER M 2021
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9 copies, 115 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 70 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 70 people are on the wait list.
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"From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean-American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up the...
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The lives of three women—transgender and cisgender—collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires in “one of the most celebrated novels of the year” (Time)
“Reading this novel is like holding a live wire in your hand.”—Vulture
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by more than twenty publications, including...
“Reading this novel is like holding a live wire in your hand.”—Vulture
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by more than twenty publications, including...
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Medford Library Branch
F GARCIA G
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F GARCIA G
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Ashland Library
F GARCIA G
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F GARCIA G
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Gold Hill Library Branch
F GARCIA G
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Medford Library Branch
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Shady Cove Library Branch
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"A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling...
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Ashland Library
364.1523 GRA 2021
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364.1523 GRA 2021
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Central Point Library Branch
364.1523 GRA 2021
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364.1523 GRA 2021
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Jacksonville Library Branch
364.1523 GRA 2021
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364.1523 GRA 2021
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"Vince Granata remembers standing in front of his suburban home in Connecticut the day his mother and father returned from the hospital with his three new siblings in tow. He had just finished scrawling their names in orange chalk on the driveway: Christopher, Timothy, and Elizabeth. Twenty-three years later, Vince was a thousand miles away when he received shocking news that would change his life-his younger brother, Tim, propelled by unchecked schizophrenia,...
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Medford Library Branch
F ISHIGURO K SCI-FI
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F ISHIGURO K SCI-FI
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Prospect Library Branch
F ISHIGURO K SCI-FI
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F ISHIGURO K SCI-FI
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Ruch Library Branch
F ISHIGURO K SCI-FI
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F ISHIGURO K SCI-FI
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4 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
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Medford Library Branch
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Ashland Library
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White City Library Branch
LP F ISHIGURO K SCI-FI
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"From her place in the store that sells artificial friends, Klara--an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities--watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In this luminous tale,...
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Medford Library Branch
F HARRIS Z MYSTERY
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F HARRIS Z MYSTERY
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Ashland Library
F HARRIS Z MYSTERY
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F HARRIS Z MYSTERY
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Central Point Library Branch
F HARRIS Z MYSTERY
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F HARRIS Z MYSTERY
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2 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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Jacksonville Library Branch
LP F HARRIS Z MYSTERY
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LP F HARRIS Z MYSTERY
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"Get Out meets The Devil Wears Prada in this electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing. Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she's thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. They've only...