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Medford Library Branch
YA F SHABAZZ I
1 available
YA F SHABAZZ I
1 available
Ashland Library
YA F SHABAZZ I
1 available
YA F SHABAZZ I
1 available
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While in Charlestown Prison in the 1940s, young Malcolm Little reads all the books in the library, joins the debate team and the Nation of Islam, and emerges as Malcolm X.
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Ashland Library
SCI-FI F JEMISIN N
1 available
SCI-FI F JEMISIN N
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Redwood Campus
Jemisin N.K. How
1 available
Jemisin N.K. How
1 available
Description
N.K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the first collection of her evocative short fiction, Jemisin equally challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption. In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and drawing deft parallels in the fantasy realms of her imagination. Dragons and hateful...
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Medford Library Branch
F HILL D
1 available
F HILL D
1 available
Ashland Library
F HILL D
1 available
F HILL D
1 available
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Medford Library Branch
AB F HILL D
1 available
AB F HILL D
1 available
Ashland Library
AB F HILL D
1 available
AB F HILL D
1 available
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Follows the 1964 Civil Rights-era relationship between a passive-resistance protaegae of Martin Luther King, Jr. and a Harlem black culture supporter of Malcolm X.
4) Homegoing
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3 copies, 26 people are on the wait list.
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"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath...
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Medford Library Branch
F ELLISON R
1 available
F ELLISON R
1 available
Ashland Library
F ELLISON R
1 available
F ELLISON R
1 available
Phoenix Library Branch
F ELLISON R
1 available
F ELLISON R
1 available
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3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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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.
6) Virgin soul
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"At first glance, Geniece's story sounds like that of a typical young woman: she goes to college, has romantic entanglements, builds meaningful friendships, and juggles her schedule with a part-time job. However, she does all of these things in 1960s San Francisco while becoming a militant member of the Black Panther movement. When Huey Newton is jailed in October 1967 and the Panthers explode nationwide, Geniece enters the organization's dark and...
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Medford Library Branch
F WHITEHEA C
3 available
F WHITEHEA C
3 available
Applegate Library Branch
F WHITEHEA C
1 available
F WHITEHEA C
1 available
Ashland Library
F WHITEHEA C
1 available
F WHITEHEA C
1 available
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Medford Library Branch
AB F WHITEHEAD C
1 available
AB F WHITEHEAD C
1 available
Ashland Library
AB F WHITEHEAD C
1 available
AB F WHITEHEAD C
1 available
Rogue River Library Branch
AB F WHITEHEAD C
1 available
AB F WHITEHEAD C
1 available
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1 copy, 7 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 7 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Medford Library Branch
LP F WHITEHEA C
1 available
LP F WHITEHEA C
1 available
Ashland Library
LP F WHITEHEA C
1 available
LP F WHITEHEA C
1 available
Description
As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood...
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Ashland Library
F MCBRIDE J
1 available
F MCBRIDE J
1 available
Central Point Library Branch
F MCBRIDE J
1 available
F MCBRIDE J
1 available
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3 copies, 30 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 39 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 39 people are on the wait list.
Description
"From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .45 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this...
9) Riot baby
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Ashland Library
SCI-FI F ONYEBUCH T
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SCI-FI F ONYEBUCH T
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Rogue River Library Branch
SCI-FI F ONYEBUCH T
1 available
SCI-FI F ONYEBUCH T
1 available
Description
""Riot Baby bursts at the seams of story with so much fire, passion and power that in the end it turns what we call a narrative into something different altogether."-Marlon James Rooted in foundational loss and the hope that can live in anger, Riot Baby is both a global dystopian narrative and an intimate family story with quietly devastating things to say about love, fury, and the black American experience. Ella and Kev are brother and sister, both...
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Ashland Library
F THOMPSON N
1 available
F THOMPSON N
1 available
Central Point Library Branch
F THOMPSON N
1 available
F THOMPSON N
1 available
Redwood Campus
PS3620 .H68 A6 2019
1 available
PS3620 .H68 A6 2019
1 available
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Ashland Library
AB F THOMPSON-SPIRES N
1 available
AB F THOMPSON-SPIRES N
1 available
Jacksonville Library Branch
AB F THOMPSON-SPIRES N
1 available
AB F THOMPSON-SPIRES N
1 available
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"Calling to mind the best works of Paul Beatty and Junot Diaz, this collection of moving, timely, and darkly funny stories examines the concept of black identity in this so-called post-racial era. A stunning new talent in literary fiction, Nafissa Thompson-Spires grapples with black identity and the contemporary middle class in these compelling, boundary-pushing vignettes. Each captivating story plunges headfirst into the lives of new, utterly original...