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F MORRISON T
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F MORRISON T
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2004 | 1st Vintage International ed. | Vintage International | xix, 321 p. ; 21 cm. | On Shelf
Medford Library Branch 1 available F MORRISON T Rogue River Library Branch 1 available F MORRISON T | |
c1987 | Distributed by Random House | 275 p. ; 24 cm. | On Shelf
Redwood Campus 1 available Morrison Toni Beloved Table Rock Campus 1 available Morrison Toni Beloved |
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2006 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Available Online
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2007 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2007 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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LP F MORRISON T
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LP F MORRISON T
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1998 | Random House Large Print in association with Alfred A. Knopf | 379 p. (large print) ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
Eagle Point Library Branch 1 available LP F MORRISON T Medford Library Branch - Display 1 available 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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Esi decides to divorce after enduring yet another morning's marital rape. Though her friends and family remain baffled by her decision (after all, he doesn't beat her!), Esi holds fast. When she falls in love with a married man-wealthy, and able to arrange a polygamous marriage-the modern woman finds herself trapped in a new set of problems.
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Masterful in its simplicity, Chronicle in Stone is a touching coming-of-age story and a testament to the perseverance of the human spirit. Surrounded by the magic of beautiful women and literature, a boy must endure the deprivations of war as he suffers the hardships of growing up. His sleepy country has just thrown off centuries of tyranny, but new waves of domination inundate his city. Through the boy's eyes, we see the terrors of World War II as...
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F BALDWIN J
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Baldwin James Go
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[2016] | Everyman's Library/Alfred A. Knopf | xxvii, 236 pages ; 21 cm | On Shelf
Medford Library Branch 1 available F BALDWIN J | ||
1995 | 1995 Modern Library ed. | Modern Library | vii, 291 p. ; 20 cm. | On Shelf
Table Rock Campus 1 available Baldwin James Go |
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1 copy, 11 people are on the wait list.
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2013 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Blackstone Publishing | English | Checked Out
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2013 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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2013 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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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"--
"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. With lyrical precision,...
5) I Am a Cat
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Written over the course of 1904-1906, Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him. A classic of Japanese literature, I Am a Cat is one of Soseki's best-known novels. Considered by many as...
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Olaudah Equiano was one of the most prominent people of African heritage involved in the British debate for the abolition of the slave trade. He wrote an autobiography that depicted the horrors of slavery and helped influence British lawmakers to abolish the slave trade through the Slave Trade Act of 1807. This is his story. I hope the reader will not think I have trespassed on his patience in introducing myself to him with some account of the manners...
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Ashland Library 1 available
F ELLISON R
Ashland Library 1 available
YA F ELLISON R
Medford Library Branch 3 available
YA F ELLISON R
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1994 | Modern Library ed. | Modern Library | xxxiv, 572 p. ; 20 cm. | English | On Shelf
Ashland Library 1 available F ELLISON R Ashland Library 1 available YA F ELLISON R Medford Library Branch 3 available YA F ELLISON R |
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p2000 | Recorded Books | 18 sound discs (22 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Ashland Library 1 available AB F ELLISON R |
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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2010 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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2010 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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2010 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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In the course of his wanderings from a Southern Negro college to New York's Harlem, an American black man becomes involved in a series of adventures.
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1998 | Northwestern University Press | 242 p. ; 21 cm. | English | On Shelf
Ashland Library 1 available F MULLER H |
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2008 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2006 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent contemporary Turkish writers.
The Sultan has commissioned a cadre of the most acclaimed artists in the land to create a great book celebrating the glories of his realm. Their task: to illuminate...
The Sultan has commissioned a cadre of the most acclaimed artists in the land to create a great book celebrating the glories of his realm. Their task: to illuminate...
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Born in 1868 the son of an Oglala chief, Luther Standing Bear was in the first class at Carlisle, witnessed the Ghost Dance uprising from the Pine Ridge Reservation, toured Europe with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, and devoted his later years to the Indian rights movement of the 1920s. His autobiography, first published in 1928, gives a rare inside view by an Indian who successfully made the transition from tribal life to the white man's world.
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11) Native son
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YA F WRIGHT R
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YA F WRIGHT R
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Wright Richard Native
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2005, c1940 | Harper Perennial | xxii, 504, 16 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. | On Shelf
Ashland Library 1 available YA F WRIGHT R Phoenix Library Branch 1 available YA F WRIGHT R | ||
1998,c1993 | 1st Perennial Classics ed. | HarperPerennial] | xxii, 504 p. ; 21 cm. | On Shelf
Table Rock Campus 1 available Wright Richard Native |
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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2009 | HarperCollins | English | Checked Out
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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.
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Tambudzai novels volume 1
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2004, c1988 | Distributed byLynne Rienner Publishers, Inc | xi, 211 p. ; 20 cm. | English | On Shelf
Medford Library Branch 1 available F DANGAREM T |
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At the center of "Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)" by Philippine national hero José Rizal is the conflict against Spanish colonialism. The Philippines, which is named after King Philip II of Spain, was ruled by the Spanish empire as a colony from 1565 until the Philippine Revolution ended this rule in 1898. For his part in the Philippine Revolution, José Rizal was tried and convicted for rebellion, sedition, and conspiracy. His sentence was to be...
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Redwood Campus 1 available
Garcia Gabriel One
Talent Library Branch 1 available
F GARCIA MARQUEZ G
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[1970] | [1st ed.] | Harper & Row | 422 p. 22 cm. | On Shelf
Redwood Campus 1 available Garcia Gabriel One | |
2001 | Quality Paperback Book Club edition | HarperCollins | 458 p. 20 cm. | On Shelf
Talent Library Branch 1 available F GARCIA MARQUEZ G |
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[2014] | Unabridged. | Blackstone Audio, Inc | 12 audio discs (approximately 14 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Ashland Library 1 available AB F GARCIA MARQUEZ G |
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2014 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Blackstone Publishing | English | Checked Out
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One of the twentieth century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is awidely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimateachievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career.
The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of themythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Rich andbrilliant, it is a chronicle of life, death, and the tragicomedy of humankind.In the beautiful,
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2014. | First Archipelago Books Edition. | Archipelago Books | 244 pages ; 18 cm | English | On Shelf
Redwood Campus 1 available Mukasonga Scholastique Our |
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For her most recent work and first novel - Notre-Dame du Nil, originally published in March 2012 with Gallimard in French - Mukasonga immerses us in a school for young girls, called "Notre-Dame du Nil." The girls are sent to this high school perched on the ridge of the Nile in order to become the feminine elite of the country and to escape the dangers of the outside world. The book is a prelude to the Rwandan genocide and unfolds behind the closed...
16) The Pillow Book
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In the tenth century, Japan was both physically and culturally isolated from the rest of the world. The Pillow Book recaptures this lost world with the diary of a young court lady. Sei Shōnagon was a contemporary of Murasaki Shikibu, who wrote the well-known novel The Tale of Genji. Unlike the latter's fictionalized view of the Heian-era court, Shōnagon's journal provides a lively miscellany of anecdotes, observations, and gossip, intended to be...
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[2015] | Penguin Books | xviii, 148 pages ; 20 cm | English |
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Explores life in the mountains of Kenya during the early days of white settlement. Faced with a choice between an alluring new religion and their own ancestral customs, the Gikuyu people are torn between those who fear the unknown and those who see beyond it.
18) Silence: a novel
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F ENDO S
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F ENDO S
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F ENDO S
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2017. | Picador | xxii, 212, 20 pages ; 21 cm. | English | On Shelf
Ashland Library 1 available F ENDO S Central Point Library Branch 1 available F ENDO S Shady Cove Library Branch 1 available F ENDO S |
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"Shusaku Endo's classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times"Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama."-The New York Times Book Review Seventeenth-century Japan: Two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to a country hostile to their religion, where feudal lords force the faithful to publicly renounce their beliefs. Eventually captured and forced to watch their Japanese Christian brothers lay down their lives for their faith,...
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Charles Alexander Eastman (Ohiyesa) wrote "The Soul of the Indian" to examine the spiritual history of Native American's before European settlement in America. Born of Minnesota Sioux parents in South Dakota, Charles Eastman spent his life working with Natives and Europeans to bridge cultural divides. Born into and raised by a traditional Sioux family, Eastman developed a deep connection to the life of American Indians. Yet at the age of 15 Eastman's...
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African trilogy (Chinua Achebe) volume 1
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F ACHEBE C
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F ACHEBE C
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F ACHEBE C
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1994 | 1st Anchor Books ed. | Anchor Books | 209 p. ; 21 cm. | On Shelf
Ashland Library 1 available F ACHEBE C Medford Library Branch 1 available F ACHEBE C Redwood Campus 1 available Achebe Chinua Things | |
c1992 | Distributed by Random House | xxi, 181 p. ; 21 cm. | On Shelf
Jacksonville Library Branch 1 available F ACHEBE C Medford Library Branch 1 available F ACHEBE C |
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2010 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2010 | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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The contemporary African writer's classic novel depicting the destruction of traditional tribal life by the white man