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"[I]n New York ... Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey--first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance"--Container....
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"In the midst of civil unrest in the summer of 2020 following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, one of the great literary voices of our time, Elizabeth Alexander, wrote a moving reflection on the psyche of young Black America, turning a mother's eye to her sons' generation. Originally published in the New Yorker, the essay brilliantly and lovingly observed the lives and attitudes of young people who even as children could...
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August Inclusive Reads
Books @ Noon--August 2021 Picks
Library Tales
Staff Picks: Women's History Month (Adult)
Books @ Noon--August 2021 Picks
Library Tales
Staff Picks: Women's History Month (Adult)
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"The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J.P. Morgan's personal librarian-who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray. In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books,...
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Banned Books Week: Nonfiction
Books for Teen and Tween Activists
Civil Rights, Racism, and Talking About Race as a White Person
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Civil Rights, Racism, and Talking About Race as a White Person
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"A history of racist and antiracist ideas in America, from their roots in Europe until today, adapted from the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning"--
"The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. Racist ideas are woven into the fabric of this country, and the first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past and present. This book...
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Good girl's guide to murder volume 1
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English
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2022-2023 OBOB 9th-12th Grade
2023 Most Circulated Teen Fiction
NYT - Children’s & Young Adult Series
NYT - Children’s Series
2023 Most Circulated Teen Fiction
NYT - Children’s & Young Adult Series
NYT - Children’s Series
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As her senior capstone project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi is determined to find the real killer in a closed, local murder case, but not everyone wants her meddling in the past.
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English
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Aboutness
Social Commentary Horror from Marginalized Voices
Spooky Books for Grown Ups
Summer Reading for Adults
Social Commentary Horror from Marginalized Voices
Spooky Books for Grown Ups
Summer Reading for Adults
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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...
9) Local color
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Oregon Public Broadcasting
Pub. Date
[2008?], c1991
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English
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This 1991 OPB documentary chronicles the little known history of racism in Oregon and the story of people who worked for civil rights. Jon Tuttle was a news reporter in Portland who set out to document the story but found he was almost too late as some of the important participants had died and others were getting on in age.
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English
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The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society by one of our most enduringly popular and important writers. Night Sleep Death The Stars is a gripping examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all. Stark...
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"Acclaimed linguist and award-winning writer John McWhorter argues that an illiberal neoracism, disguised as antiracism, is hurting Black communities and weakening the American social fabric. Americans of good will on both the left and the right are secretly asking themselves the same question: how has the conversation on race in America gone so crazy? We're told read books and listen to music by people of color but that wearing certain clothes is...
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Beth Macy, master chronicler of life in the South, combines exhaustive research, exclusive interviews and sources, and attention to detail in this riveting American story about race, greed, and a mother's love. George and Willie Muse from Truevine, Virginia were two little boys born in a brutal time, sharecropping a field in the segregated South, stolen away by a white man offering candy, and set on a path of events that would forever change their...
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 2
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English
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A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
17) It's Trevor Noah: born a crime : stories from a South African childhood ; adapted for young readers
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English
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Learn about the life of Trevor Noah and how growing up in South Africa changed him.
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Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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In her most famous spoken-word poem, author of the Pura Belpré-winning novel-in-verse The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo embraces all the complexities of Black hair and Afro-Latinidad—the history, pain, pride, and powerful love of that inheritance.
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"1890, Atlanta. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel Caroline Payne, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for 'the genteel Southern lady'"--
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