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The life I'm in / by Flake, Sharon.;
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Subjects: African American girls; Human trafficking; Teenage girls;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Baby says / by Steptoe, John,1950-1989.;
A baby and big brother figure out how to get along.Newborn-4.LSC
Subjects: Brothers; Infants; African Americans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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You are getting sleepy / by Alexander, Lori.; Mikai, Monica.;
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Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; African Americans; Infants; Bedtime;
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Leo, sleep tight! / by McQuinn, Anna.; Hearson, Ruth.;
Leo has had a busy day, but now it is time for his bedtime routine, so he snuggles into his nest for a story and a good night's sleep.LSC
Subjects: Toddlers; African Americans; Bedtime;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Swim, Mo, swim! / by Adler, David A.; Ricks, Sam.;
On Field Day, Mo swims a lot faster than he knew he could, not because his team might win but because a fish keeps nibbling his toe.
Subjects: Readers (Publications); Racing; Swimming; African Americans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Harlem Rhapsody [text (large print)]. by Murray, Victoria Christopher.;
'Harlem Rhapsody' is the extraordinary story of Jessie Redmon Fauset the woman who ignited the Harlem Renaissance. She has shaped a generation of literary legends, but as she strives to preserve her legacy, shell discover the high cost of her unparalleled success. From the author of 'The Personal Librarian' and 'The First Ladies'. #diversity.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / African American & Black / Women; FICTION / Biographical; FICTION / Historical / General;
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Harlem Rhapsody. by Murray, Victoria Christopher.;
'Harlem Rhapsody' is the extraordinary story of Jessie Redmon Fauset, the woman who ignited the Harlem Renaissance. She has shaped a generation of literary legends, but as she strives to preserve her legacy, shell discover the high cost of her unparalleled success. From the author of 'The Personal Librarian' and 'The First Ladies'. #diversity.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / African American & Black / Women; FICTION / Biographical; FICTION / Historical / General;
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Red at the bone / by Woodson, Jacqueline,author.;
"An extraordinary new novel about the influence of history on a contemporary family, from the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming. Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. Moving forward and backward in time, with the power of poetry and the emotional richness of a narrative ten times its length, Jacqueline Woodson's extraordinary new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families, and in the life of this child. As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the soundtrack of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier, that very dress was measured and sewn for a different wearer: Melody's mother, for her own ceremony-- a celebration that ultimately never took place. Unfurling the history of Melody's parents and grandparents to show how they all arrived at this moment, Woodson considers not just their ambitions and successes but also the costs, the tolls they've paid for striving to overcome expectations and escape the pull of history. As it explores sexual desire and identity, ambition, gentrification, education, class and status, and the life-altering facts of parenthood, Red at the Bone most strikingly looks at the ways in which young people must so often make long-lasting decisions about their lives--even before they have begun to figure out who they are and what they want to be"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Domestic fiction.; Mothers and daughters; African American families; Families;
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Invisible man / by Ellison, Ralph.;
This book is part of our Book Sanctuary collection. A Book Sanctuary is a physical or digital space that actively protects the freedom to read. It provides shelter and access to endangered books. Launched by Chicago Public Library in 2022, The Book Sanctuary initiative brings attention to challenged titles, and commits to making these books accessible. Innisfil ideaLAB & Library's Book Sanctuary Collection represents books that have been challenged, censored or removed from a public library or school in North America. More than 50 adult, teen, and children's books are in our collection and are available for browsing and borrowing in our branches and online. Explore the collection to learn more about why these books were challenged.
Subjects: Banned book sanctuary.; Classics; Literary; African American men; Racism; African American men.; Racism.;
© 1994., Modern Library,
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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One blood / by Millner, Denene,author.;
"Homegoing meets The Mothers where three women are tied together by blood, love, and family secrets in this searing novel by New York Times bestseller Denene Millner. Raised by her beloved grandmother in tension-filled, post-segregation Virginia, Grace is barely a teenager when she loses her Maw Maw. Shellshocked, she is shipped up North to live with her formidably ambitious Aunt Hattie--a woman who firmly left behind her "undesirable" Southern roots in pursuit of upward mobility. Thrust into the world of the Black and socially ambitious, Grace finds herself trapped in a society of stifling respectability, fancy teas, and coveted debutante balls. Feeling like a fish out of water, Grace's only place of sweet comfort is with the smart, handsome son of one of the society's grand dames. However, when Dale gets caught up in a racial police killing and Grace ends up pregnant, she is quickly hidden away and he is promptly shipped off to college. Then in the ultimate act of betrayal, Grace is deceived by Hattie, and her brand new baby girl is given up for adoption. Beautiful, intelligent and fierce, Delores a.k.a. Lolo has never had it easy. Her life has been riddled with pain and loss. Once she makes it up north, she puts aside her dream of being a model to do what she has to do to survive as a woman with little money and no mooring: get married and have a family of her own. And she will tell lies and keep secrets to obtain it. Then Lolo does have it all: a doting husband, a beautiful son and daughter, and a lovely home. When secrets start to spill out and she and her family slowly begin to unravel, Lolo is willing to do whatever it takes to keep her dream intact and those she loves together. When Lolo's headstrong daughter, Rae discovers that she is adopted, it is just one secret among others that her family is keeping. Not out of a desire to deceive, but out of a determination to survive and protect. When Rae finds out that she is about to become a mother herself, she knows that there is an important reckoning that must be faced about herself and her two mothers. Potent, poetic, powerful, told with deep love, and spanning from the Great Migration to the civil unrest of the 1960s to the quest for women's equality in early 2000s, Denene Millner's beautifully wrought novel explores three women's intimate struggle with generational trauma and healing"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Adoption; African American women; African Americans; Families; Family secrets; Mother and child; Pregnancy; Secrecy; Social classes;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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