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1) Harbor me
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Phoenix Library Branch
J AB F WOODSON J
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J AB F WOODSON J
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Shady Cove Library Branch
J AB F WOODSON J
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J AB F WOODSON J
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Medford Library Branch
J F WOODSON J
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J F WOODSON J
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Ashland Library
J F WOODSON J
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J F WOODSON J
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"When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world"-- Provided by publisher.
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Medford Library Branch
F WOODSON J
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F WOODSON J
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Applegate Library Branch
F WOODSON J
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F WOODSON J
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Ashland Library
F WOODSON J
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F WOODSON J
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Medford Library Branch
AB F WOODSON J
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AB F WOODSON J
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Ashland Library
AB F WOODSON J
1 available
AB F WOODSON J
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Redwood Campus
Audio Woodson Jacqueline Red
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Audio Woodson Jacqueline Red
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Medford Library Branch
LP F WOODSON J 2019
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LP F WOODSON J 2019
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Description
Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. Moving forward and backward in time, with the power of poetry and the emotional richness of a narrative ten times its length, Jacqueline Woodson's extraordinary novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families, and in the life of this child.
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Medford Library Branch
YA F WOODSON J
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YA F WOODSON J
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Butte Falls Library Branch
YA F WOODSON J
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YA F WOODSON J
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Central Point Library Branch
YA F WOODSON J
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YA F WOODSON J
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After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.
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Redwood Campus
PS3573 .O64 Z46 2014
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PS3573 .O64 Z46 2014
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Riverside Campus
PS3573 .O64 Z46 2014
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PS3573 .O64 Z46 2014
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Medford Library Branch
J 921 WOODSON J
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J 921 WOODSON J
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Butte Falls Library Branch
J 921 WOODSON J
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J 921 WOODSON J
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Central Point Library Branch
J 921 WOODSON J
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J 921 WOODSON J
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"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...
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13 copies, 69 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 142 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 45 people are on the wait list.
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From a celebrated, award-winning author, a modern classic about a young girl fighting for survival in a post-apocalyptic world, perfect for fans of N.K. Jemisin and Margaret Atwood.
Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding social chaos and anarchy caused by climate change and economic crisis. In a society where any vulnerability
...6) Kindred
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Redwood Campus
Audio Butler Octavia Kindred
1 available
Audio Butler Octavia Kindred
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Applegate Library Branch
YA F BUTLER O SCI-FI
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YA F BUTLER O SCI-FI
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Ashland Library
YA F BUTLER O SCI-FI
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YA F BUTLER O SCI-FI
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5 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
5 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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"Dana, a 1970s black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether...
7) Fledgling
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Redwood Campus
Audio Butler Octavia Fledgling
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Audio Butler Octavia Fledgling
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2 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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A young girl suffering from amnesia wakes up to find that she's actually a middle-aged vampire.
8) Dawn
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Xenogenesis volume 1
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In a world devastated by nuclear war with humanity on the edge of extinction, aliens finally make contact. They rescue those humans they can, keeping most survivors in suspended animation while the aliens begin the slow process of rehabilitating the planet. When Lilith Iyapo is "awakened," she finds that she has been chosen to revive her fellow humans in small groups by first preparing them to meet the utterly terrifying aliens, then training them...
9) sula
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10) Song of Solomon
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Everyman's library volume 216
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An official Oprah Winfrey’s “The Books That Help Me Through” selection • The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner transfigures the coming-of-age story with this brilliantly imagined novel. Includes a new foreword by the author.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric...
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric...
11) The bluest eye
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5 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 14 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 14 people are on the wait list.
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The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature. It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove - a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others - who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare...
12) Beloved: a novel
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Central Point Library Branch
F MORRISON T
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F MORRISON T
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Jacksonville Library Branch
F MORRISON T
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F MORRISON T
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1 copy, 19 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 19 people are on the wait list.
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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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Maya Angelou has fascinated, moved, and inspired countless readers with the first three volumes of her autobiography, one of the most remarkable personal narratives of our age. Now, in her fourth volume, The Heart of a Woman, her turbulent life breaks wide open with joy as the singer-dancer enters the razzle-dazzle of fabulous New York City. There, at the Harlem Writers...
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Medford Library Branch
921 ANGELOU M 2009
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921 ANGELOU M 2009
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Ashland Library
811 ANG
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811 ANG
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Redwood Campus
PS3551.N464 A17 1994
1 available
PS3551.N464 A17 1994
1 available
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3 copies, 26 people are on the wait list.
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8 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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8 copies, 3 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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Ashland Library
305.896 BAL 1993
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305.896 BAL 1993
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Phoenix Library Branch
305.896 BAL 1993
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305.896 BAL 1993
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The book that galvanized the nation, gave voice to the emerging civil rights movement in the 1960s—and still lights the way to understanding race in America today. - "The finest essay I've ever read." —Ta-Nehisi CoatesAt once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document
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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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Ashland Library
AB F BALDWIN J
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AB F BALDWIN J
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Shady Cove Library Branch
AB F BALDWIN J
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AB F BALDWIN J
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"A hardcover edition of James Baldwin's classic coming-of-age novel set in Harlem in the 1930s, with a new introduction by Edwidge Danticat"-- Provided by publisher.
"The haunting coming-of-age story that has become a major American classic, now in an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition. Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was James Baldwin's first major work, based in part on his own childhood in Harlem....
20) Giovanni's room
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2 copies, 24 people are on the wait list.
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"A hardcover edition of James Baldwin's classic novel, with a new introduction by Colm Toibin"-- Provided by publisher.
"The groundbreaking novel by one of the most important twentieth-century American writers--now in an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition. Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. David...