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[2019] Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
First edition.
371 pages ; 24 cm
[2019] HarperCollins
Unabridged.
10 audio discs (12 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
eBook
2019 HarperCollins
Libby/OverDrive
Available Online
2019 HarperCollins
Libby/OverDrive
Available Online
2020. Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Large Print edition.
581 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
[2019] Findaway World, LLC
1 audio media player : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Description
"A ferociously talented writer makes his stunning debut with this richly woven tapestry, set in a small Nova Scotia town settled by former slaves, that depicts several generations of one family bound together and torn apart by blood, faith, time, and fate. Structured as a triptych, Africaville chronicles the lives of three generations of the Sebolt family--Kath Ella, her son Omar/Etienne, and her grandson Warner--whose lives unfold against the tumultuous...
2) Aftermath
Author
2022. Grand Central Publishing
xvii, 295 pages ; 21 cm
[1997] Warner Books
xii, 274 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"In 2012, the first African American president is assassinated by a white extremist - just four days after he is elected. The horrific tragedy leads to riots, financial collapse, and ultimately, a full-on civil war. In its aftermath, millions are left homeless as famine and disease spread throughout the country. But from Chicago, a mysterious voice cries out ... To Leon Crane, a former NASA scientist now struggling to survive on the streets, the pleas...
Author
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2018. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
First edition.
308 pages ; 24 cm
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2019. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
First paperback edition.
317 pages ; 21 cm
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GPLD BOOK CLUB CD
2 available
GPLD BOOK CLUB CD
2 available
[2018] HighBridge Audio
Unabridged.
7 audio discs (9 hr.) : CD audio, digital, 1.4 m/s, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
On Shelf
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GPLD BOOK CLUB CD
2 available
GPLD BOOK CLUB CD
2 available
eAudiobook
Available Online
2018 HighBridge
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
Available Online
2018 Algonquin Books
Libby/OverDrive
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2018 Algonquin Books
Libby/OverDrive
Available Online
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BUNDLE: AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE
1 available
BUNDLE: AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE
1 available
[2020]
1 book club kit (contents vary)
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BUNDLE: AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE
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LP JONES
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GPLD BOOK CLUB BOOK (LP)
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2018. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Large print edition.
471 (large print) ; 23 cm.
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LP JONES
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GPLD BOOK CLUB BOOK (LP)
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[2018] Findaway World, LLC
1 audio media player : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Description
"Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft...
4) Americanah
Author
2013. Alfred A. Knopf
First edition.
477 pages ; 25 cm
2014. Anchor Books
First Anchor Books edition.
588 pages ; 21 cm
[2014] Recorded Books
Unabridged.
15 audio discs (approximately 17 hours, 45 minutes) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
2016. Thorndike Press
Large print edition.
793 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
2016. Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Large print edition.
791 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Description
"A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected"--
Author
[2022] William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
First edition.
385 pages ; 24 cm
2022 Harper Collins Publishers
Unabridged.
8 sound discs (585 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
unabridged
8 audio discs (10 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
[2022] HarperAudio/HarperCollins Publishers
Unabridged.
1 audio disc (MP3) (approximately 600 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
2022 HarperAudio
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
Checked Out
2 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
2022 HarperCollins
Libby/OverDrive
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3 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
2022 HarperCollins
Libby/OverDrive
Checked Out
3 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
[2022] Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
First Harper Large Print edition.
466 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Description
From the award-winning author of All Her Little Secrets comes yet another gripping, suspenseful novel where, after the murder of a white man in Jim Crow Mississippi, two Black sisters run away to different parts of the country...but can they escape the secrets they left behind? It's the summer of 1964 and three innocent men are brutally murdered for trying to help Black Mississippians secure the right to vote. Against this backdrop, twenty-one year...
Author
Series
Jordan Manning novels volume 1
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M HALL
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M HALL
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[2021] William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
First edition.
388 pages ; 24 cm.
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M HALL
1 available
M HALL
1 available
[2021] Harper Collins Publishers
Unabridged.
10 audio discs (12 hr., 45 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
On Shelf
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CD F HALL
1 available
CD F HALL
1 available
[2021] HarperCollins
Unabridged.
10 audio discs (13 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
eAudiobook
2021 HarperAudio
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
Available Online
eBook
2021 HarperCollins
Libby/OverDrive
Available Online
2021 HarperCollins
Libby/OverDrive
Available Online
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LP HALL
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LP HALL
1 available
[2021] Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
First Harper Large Print edition.
535 pages ; 23 cm.
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LP HALL
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LP HALL
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Description
The first in a thrilling new series from Emmy Award-winning TV Host and Journalist Tamron Hall, As The Wicked Watch follows a reporter as she unravels the disturbing mystery around the deaths of two Black girls; the work of a serial killer terrorizing Chicago. When crime reporter Jordan Manning leaves her hometown in Texas to take a job at a television station in Chicago, she's one step closer to her dream: a coveted anchor chair on a national network....
Author
Series
2009. Bantam Dell
Dial Press trade paperback edition.
x, 259 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
1972. Bantam Books
viii, 259 pages ; 17 cm
1972. Bantam Books
viii, 259 pages ; 18 cm
1971. Dial Press
x, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
[1971] Hampton-Brown
342 pages ; 23 cm.
1972. Bantam Books
viii, 246 pages ; 18 cm
[2010] Blackstone Audio, Inc
Unabridged.
7 audio discs (approximately 8 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
[2008] Playaway Digital Audio
Unabridged.
1 audio media player (10 hr.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Description
A 110-year-old black woman reminisces about her life, which has stretched from the days of slavery to the black militancy and civil rights movements of the 1960s.
8) Back channel
Author
Formats:
2014. Alfred A. Knopf
First Edition.
455 pages ; 25 cm
2014. Alfred A. Knopf
First edition.
455 pages ; 25 cm
[2014] Dreamscape Media, LLC
Unabridged.
14 audio discs (approximately 1053 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"An amalgam of fact and fiction about a young black woman on whom the outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis depends. October 1962. In Cuba: Soviet ships off-load what intelligence reveals to be nuclear missiles. In Washington, President Kennedy and his advisers are in furious debate over how long they can wait to discover what the Soviets intend before dropping the first bomb. And, in Ithaca, New York, Margo Jensen -- a nineteen-year-old Cornell sophomore...
Author
Series
Skyland novel volume .1
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ROM RYAN
1 available
ROM RYAN
1 available
2022. Forever
First edition.
391 pages ; 22 cm.
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ROM RYAN
1 available
ROM RYAN
1 available
2022. Blackstone
9 audio discs : digital, 1.4 m/s, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
[2022] Hachette Audio
Unabridged.
11 audio discs (14 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 computer disc (PDF, 4 3/4in.).
2022 Grand Central Publishing
Libby/OverDrive
Checked Out
1 copy, 19 people are on the wait list.
2022 Grand Central Publishing
Libby/OverDrive
Checked Out
1 copy, 19 people are on the wait list.
2023. Thorndike Press
large type
pages (large print) : cm.
Description
"Their love was supposed to last forever. But after two devastating tragedies, Yasmen and Josiah Wade realized love alone couldn't solve everything ... or keep their marriage together. It's taken a year since their split for Yasmen to finally start feeling like herself again. To finally be able to breathe again. But the more she sees Josiah-whether it's parenting their two children or working together at the restaurant they co-own-the more Yasmen...
10) Best laid plans
Author
Series
Formats:
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ROM JACKSON
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ROM JACKSON
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[2018] HQN
379 pages : illustration ; 17 cm.
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Description
Love wasn't supposed to be a part of the deal... Even a famed matchmaker like Nolan Madaris's great-grandmother can't get it right every time. Nolan, the notorious fun-loving ladies' man, could never connect with someone as straitlaced as tech whiz Ivy Chapman. Yet the scheme Ivy proposes is tempting-they can pretend to be a couple, just long enough to satisfy their families. But someone forgot to clue in their hearts What happens, though, when...
11) Binti: home
Author
Series
Binti volume 1
2017. Tom Doherty Associates
First Edition.
164 pages ; 21 cm.
2018. Tom Doherty Associates
First hardcover edition.
160 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
It's been a year since Binti and Okwu enrolled at Oomza University. A year since Binti was declared a hero for uniting two warring planets. A year since she found friendship in the unlikeliest of places. And now she must return home to her people, with her friend Okwu by her side, to face her family and face her elders. But Okwu will be the first of his race to set foot on Earth in over a hundred years, and the first ever to come in peace. After...
12) Black buck
Author
2021. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
xi, 388 pages ; 22 cm
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F ASKARIPOUR
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F ASKARIPOUR
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2022. Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
First Mariner Books edition.
xi, 396 pages ; 21 cm
[2021] Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Unabridged.
9 audio discs (11 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
eAudiobook
2021 HarperAudio
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
Available Online
2021. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Large print edition.
607 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
"An unambitious twenty-two-year-old, Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, who wants nothing more than to see him live up to his potential as the valedictorian of Bronx Science. But Darren is content working at Starbucks in the lobby of a Midtown office building, hanging out with his girlfriend, Soraya, and eating his mother's home-cooked meals. All that changes when a chance encounter with Rhett Daniels, the silver-tongued CEO of...
Author
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F WILKERSON*
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F WILKERSON*
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GPLD BOOK CLUB BOOK
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GPLD BOOK CLUB BOOK
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[2022] Ballantine Books
First edition.
385 pages ; 25 cm
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F WILKERSON*
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GPLD BOOK CLUB BOOK
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[2022] Ballantine Books
Ballantine Books trade paperback edition.
398 pages ; 21 cm
2022 Books on Tape
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
Checked Out
4 copies, 55 people are on the wait list.
2022 Random House Publishing Group
Libby/OverDrive
Checked Out
6 copies, 55 people are on the wait list.
2022 Random House Publishing Group
Libby/OverDrive
Checked Out
6 copies, 55 people are on the wait list.
[2022] Random House Large Print
First large print edition.
529 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Description
"In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with...
Author
Series
Dark star trilogy (Marlon James) volume 1
2019. Riverhead Books
620 pages : illustrations ; 24cm.
[2019] Penguin Audio
Unabridged.
20 audio discs (approximately 24 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
2019 Books on Tape
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
Checked Out
2019 Penguin Publishing Group
Libby/OverDrive
Checked Out
2019 Penguin Publishing Group
Libby/OverDrive
Checked Out
[2019] Random House Large Print
First large print edition.
906 pages (large print) : illustration ; 24 cm
[2019] Findaway World, LLC
Unabridged.
1 audio media player (23.5 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Description
"Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: 'He has a nose,' people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own, including a shape-shifting man-animal known as Leopard. As Tracker follows...
15) The black market
Author
Series
Black market (Kiki Swinson) volume 1
2018. Dafina Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
First Kensington hardcover edition.
314 pages ; 22 cm
2018. Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
First Kensington trade edition.
316 pages ; 21 cm
First Kensington trade edition.
314 pages ; 21 cm
[2018] Recorded Books
Unabridged.
6 audio discs (approximately 7 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
2019. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Large print edition.
385 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
Misty Heiress steals drugs from a pharmacy, just trying to help her cousin in constant pain, but the plan snowballs into dealing opioids and Misty and her cousin Jillian are in real trouble.
16) The Blackbirds
Author
[2016] Dutton
First edition.
518 pages ; 24 cm
[2016] Books On Tape
Unabridged.
15 audio discs (18 hr., 5 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
2016 Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
Checked Out
2016. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Large print edition.
771 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey delivers his next delectable, erotic romance ... They call themselves the Blackbirds. Kwanzaa Brown, Indigo Abdulrahaman, Destiny Jones, and Erica Stockwell are four best friends who are closer than sisters, and will go to the ends of the earth for one another. Yet even their deep bond can't heal all wounds from their individual pasts, as the collegiate and post-collegiate women struggle with their...
Author
Series
Formats:
2018. Penguin Books
xviii, 164 pages ; 20 cm.
1996. Scribner Paperback Fiction
First Scribner Paperback Fiction edition.
221 pages
2008. Dover Publications
v, 146 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"The groundbreaking Harlem Renaissance novel about prejudice within the black community Emma Lou Morgan's skin is black. So black that it's a source of shame to her not only among the largely white community of her hometown of Boise, Idaho, but also among her lighter-skinned family and friends. Seeking a community where she will be accepted, she leaves home at age eighteen, traveling first to Los Angeles and then to New York City, where in the Harlem...
Author
Series
Highway 59 volume 1
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F LOCKE
1 available
F LOCKE
1 available
[2017] Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
First edition.
307 pages ; 25 cm
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F LOCKE
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F LOCKE
1 available
[2018] Hachette Audio
Unabridged.
8 audio discs (9 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Available Online
2017 Hachette Audio
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
Available Online
2017 Little, Brown and Company
Libby/OverDrive
Available Online
2017 Little, Brown and Company
Libby/OverDrive
Available Online
2017. Thorndike Press
Large print edition.
1 volume (large print) ; 23 cm.
[2017] Hachette Audio
Unabridged.
1 audio media player (approximately 9 hours, 30 minutes) : digital, HD audio ; 9 x 6 cm
Description
When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home. When his allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders--a black lawyer from...
19) The bluest eye
Author
Series
2006. Knopf
215 pages ; 20 cm
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F MORRISON
1 available
F MORRISON
1 available
2007. Vintage International
First Vintage International edition.
xiii, 205 pages ; 21 cm
2000. Knopf
First edition.
215 pages ; 20 cm.
1994. Plume Book
215 pages ; 21 cm
1993. Plume Book
215 pages ; 21 cm.
1993. Penguin
215 pages ; 21 cm
[2000] Plume
215 pages ; 21 cm.
2005, 1970. Plume Book
216 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
[2000] Knopf
164 pages, 10 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
1993. Knopf
First edition.
216 pages cm
[2011] Books on Tape
Library edition.
6 audio discs (approximately 69 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
[1994] Random House Audio Pub
3 audio discs (3 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
[2000] Recorded Books
6 audio discs (6 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
2011 Books on Tape
Unabridged
Libby/OverDrive
Checked Out
2 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
2007 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Libby/OverDrive
Checked Out
3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
2007 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Libby/OverDrive
Checked Out
3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
1999. G.K. Hall
256 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
[2009] Playaway Digital Audio
Unabridged.
1 audio media player (6 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Description
Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl in an America whose love for blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all others, prays for her eyes to turn blue, so that she will be beautiful, people will notice her, and her world will be different. The story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, the tragic heroine of Toni Morrison's haunting first novel, grew out of her memory of a girlhood friend who wanted blue eyes. Shunned by the town's...
Author
Series
Boyfriend project volume 1
2020. Forever
First edition.
344 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Samiah Brooks never thought she would be "that" girl. But a live tweet of a horrific date just revealed the painful truth: she's been catfished by a three-timing jerk of a boyfriend. Suddenly Samiah-along with his two other "girlfriends," London and Taylor-have gone viral online. Now the three new besties are making a pact to spend the next six months investing in themselves. No men, no dating, and no worrying about their relationship status . ....