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61) No weapon formed
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Boaz Brown volume II
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English
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Profiling the man of her dreams to her girlfriends, LaShondra Smith finds the prejudices of her family and church, as well as her own color-driven attitudes, changing when she falls in love with a man of a different race.
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It is summer in Phoenix, and seventeen-year-old Maximo offers to help Jordan, a fellow student in high school, with the food truck that belonged to Jordan's deceased father, and which may be the only thing standing between homelessness for Jordan and his mom; the boys are strongly attracted to each other, but as their romance develops it is threatened by the secrets they are hiding--and by the racism and homophobia of those around them.
63) Tremor: a novel
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2023 Best Adult Fiction & Nonfiction (SCPL)
Best of 2023 - Fiction
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OBD Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2023 - Adult
Best of 2023 - Fiction
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OBD Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2023 - Adult
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"A weekend spent antiquing is shadowed by the colonial atrocities that occurred on that land. A walk at dusk is interrupted by casual racism. A loving marriage is riven by mysterious tensions. And a remarkable cascade of voices speak out from a pulsing metropolis. Tunde, the man at the center of this novel, reflects on the places and times of his life, from his West African upbringing to his current work as a teacher of photography on a renowned New...
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2023 Read Widely: North America & The Caribbean
Abraham Lincoln Book Award 2021
Award Winning Adult Fiction
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Abraham Lincoln Book Award 2021
Award Winning Adult Fiction
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In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. 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...
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"The Sleeping Car Porter brings to life an important part of Black history in North America, from the perspective of a gay man living in a culture that renders him invisible in two ways. Affecting, imaginative, and visceral enough that you'll feel the rocking of the train, The Sleeping Car Porter is a stunning accomplishment. Baxter's name isn't George. But it's 1929, and Baxter is lucky enough, as a Black man, to have a job as a sleeping car porter...
67) Problem solved
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Perry Skky Jr. series volume 3
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English
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When Perry attends a Christian sports camp in Hilton Head, South Carolina, he comes face-to-face with racism and jealousy as the police accuse him of a crime he did not commit and his new teammates resent his skills on the football field.
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Hispanic Heritage 2023
National Hispanic Heritage Month - Teens
OBD Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) - Youth
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National Hispanic Heritage Month - Teens
OBD Latinx & Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15) - Youth
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"Liliana Cruz does what it takes to fit in at her new nearly all-white school, but when family secrets come out and racism at school gets worse than ever, she must decide what she believes in and take a stand"--
71) Zom-B clans
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Zom-B volume 8
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English
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"While saving the town of New Kirkham, B's old friend, Vinyl, is kidnapped by the Ku Klux Klan. The Angels are prepared to do what it takes to save him, but B will have to make some very hard decisions about her loyalties"--
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When three siblings are found shot to death in the still-segregated town of West Mills, North Carolina, in 1976, and the white authorities show no interest in solving the case, Josephine Wright sets out to prove the innocence of her childhood sweetheart, Olympus "Lymp" Seymore, the murder victims' half-brother and the leading suspect in the case.
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"After her best friend's mysterious death, Elizabeth Smith's picture-perfect life in the Memphis suburbs has spiraled out of control-so much so that she hires a personal assistant to keep her on track. Composed and elegant, Brianna is exactly who she needs and slides so neatly into Elizabeth's life, almost like she belonged there from the start. Soon, the assistant Elizabeth hired to distract her from her obsession with her friend's death is the same...
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"In 1976, Vietnam veteran, Dominique Broddie, is one of Detroit's newest detectives who must solve a case that hits too close to home when his own daughter is taken. Emotionally closed off, after surviving the horrors of war, Broddie must deal with his demons from the past while facing adversity and even racism as an African American trying to rise through the ranks in the city's police department. When the son of Reverend Wallace Brown goes missing,...
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She is the reason no one goes in the water. And she will make them pay. A chilling new novel for fans of Tiffany D. Jackson, Lamar Giles, and Ryan Douglass. Bronwyn is only supposed to be in rural Hillwoods for a year. Her grandmother is in hospice, and her father needs to get her affairs in order. And they're all meant to make some final memories together. Except Bronwyn is miserable. Her grandmother is dying, everyone is standoffish, and she can't...
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2023 Caudill List Read-a-Likes (SCPL-YS)
AANHPI Authors: Youth Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
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AANHPI Authors: Youth Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
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A tale based on true events follows the coming-of-age of a girl who is motivated by an act of racism at school to learn about her ancestral heritage and her grandparents' experiences as lost children during the Korean War.
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"Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the city's sewer system. This is the devastating premise of Richard Wright's scorching novel The man who lived underground, written between his landmark books Native Son (1940) and Black Boy (1945) at the height of his creative powers."--...
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"It's Mississippi in the summer of 1955, and thirteen-year-old Rose Lee Carter can't wait to move north, following in the footsteps of her mama and her aunt. But for now, she's living with Ma Pearl and Papa, her grandparents, who are sharecroppers on a cotton plantation. A few towns over, a fourteen-year-old African American boy, Emmett Till, is killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman. When the killers are unjustly acquitted, Rose realizes...
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Bloodlines volume 1
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English
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A gripping thriller about a reporter risking his life to expose corrupt policing from a New York Times bestselling author.
Caleb Moon is a young idealistic journalist reporting on everyday racial injustices, but when he is arrested at a police brutality protest he meets a racist white cop. The interactions indicate the lengths to which racism is systemic and pushes Caleb's approach to injustice from theory into practice. Convinced that journalism...