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Good Morning America Book Club volume 2020
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Bernards Township Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print
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"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...
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FICTION BENNETT
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FICTION BENNETT
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"A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community--and the things that ultimately haunt us most. Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret. "All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we'd...
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FICTION ALEXANDER
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FICTION ALEXANDER
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"Josephine N. Leary is determined to build a life of her own, and a future for her family. When she moves to Edenton, North Carolina from the plantation where she was born, she is free, newly married, and ready to follow her dreams. As the demands of life pull Josephine's attention-deepening her marriage, mothering her daughters, supporting her grandmother-she struggles to balance her real estate aspirations with the realities of keeping life going...
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Reese's book club volume 2020
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Bernards Township Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION REID
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FICTION REID
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Bernards Township Library - Adult Media - Audiobooks
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Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. The store's security guard, seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar....
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Read with Jenna volume 2020
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"A powerful, emotional debut novel told in the unforgettable voice of a young Nigerian woman who is trapped in a life of servitude but determined to get an education so that she can escape and choose her own future. Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a "louding voice"-the ability to speak for herself and decide her own future. But instead, Adunni's...
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Bernards Township Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ELLISON
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FICTION ELLISON
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Bernards Township Library - Teen/YA Fiction
TEEN CLASSICS ELLISON
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TEEN CLASSICS ELLISON
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this deeply compelling novel and epic milestone of American literature, a nameless narrator tells his story from the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
He describes growing up in a Black community in the South, attending a Negro college from...
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
He describes growing up in a Black community in the South, attending a Negro college from...
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Oprah's Book Club 2.0 volume 2021
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To come to terms with who she is and what she wants, Ailey, the daughter of an accomplished doctor and a strict schoolteacher, embarks on a journey through her family's past, helping her embrace her full heritage, which is the story of the Black experience in itself.
The great scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois, once wrote about what he called "Double Consciousness," a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. From an early age,...
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Bernards Township Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION COATES
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FICTION COATES
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Bernards Township Library - Adult Media - Audiobooks
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CD FICTION COATES
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"Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage--and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child--but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn't understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram's private rebellion. Spurred on by his improvised plantation...
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Everyman's library volume 371
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FICTION BALDWIN
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FICTION BALDWIN
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Bernards Township Library - Teen/YA Fiction
TEEN CLASSICS BALDWIN
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TEEN CLASSICS BALDWIN
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"The haunting coming-of-age story that has become a major American classic, now in an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition. Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was James Baldwin's first major work, based in part on his own childhood in Harlem. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old...
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Bernards Township Library - Adult Nonfiction
811.54 WALKER WAL
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811.54 WALKER WAL
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"Alice Walker, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple--"an American novel of permanent importance" (San Francisco Chronicle)--crafts a bilingual collection that is both playfully imaginative and intensely moving. Presented in both English and Spanish, Alice Walker shares a timely collection of nearly seventy works of passionate and powerful poetry that bears witness to our troubled times, while also chronicling...
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The author and poet recalls the anguish of her childhood in Arkansas and her adolescence in northern slums.
"Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother...
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Good Morning America Book Club volume 2021
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Bernards Township Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HARRIS
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FICTION HARRIS
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Bernards Township Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print
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LT FICTION HARRIS
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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...
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Oprah's Book Club 2.0 volume 2020
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Bernards Township Library - Adult Media - Audiobooks
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""As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not. In this book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories...
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Bernards Township Library - Adult Nonfiction
305.48896 FORD FOR
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305.48896 FORD FOR
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"One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the ever looming absence of her incarcerated father and the path we must take to both honor and overcome our origins. For as long as she could remember, Ashley has put her father on a pedestal. Despite having only vague memories of seeing him face-to-face, she believes he's the only person in the entire world who...
15) Beloved
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FICTION MORRISON
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FICTION MORRISON
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Bernards Township Library - Teen/YA Fiction
TEEN CLASSICS MORRISON
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TEEN CLASSICS MORRISON
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Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose...
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Bernards Township Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION HURSTON
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FICTION HURSTON
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Bernards Township Library - Teen/YA Fiction
TEEN CLASSICS HURSTON
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TEEN CLASSICS HURSTON
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Bernards Township Library - Adult Media - Audiobooks
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CD FICTION HURSTON
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A novel about black Americans in Florida that centers on the life of Janie and her three marriages.
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Oprah's Book Club 2.0 volume 2016
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Bernards Township Library - Adult Fiction - Book Discussion
FICTION WHITEHEAD
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FICTION WHITEHEAD
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Bernards Township Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHITEHEAD
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FICTION WHITEHEAD
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Bernards Township Library - Adult Media - Audiobooks
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CD FICTION WHITEHEAD
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Bernards Township Library - Adult Fiction - Large Print
LT FICTION WHITEHEAD
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LT FICTION WHITEHEAD
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From #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a...
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Bernards Township Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHITEHEAD
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FICTION WHITEHEAD
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Bernards Township Library - Adult Media - Audiobooks
CD FICTION WHITEHEAD
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CD FICTION WHITEHEAD
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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...
19) Native son
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Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's novel is just as powerful today as when it was written -- in its reflection of poverty and hopelessness, and what...
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Bernards Township Library - Adult Nonfiction
973.932 OBAMA OBA
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973.932 OBAMA OBA
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Bernards Township Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print
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LT 973.932 OBAMA OBA
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Michelle Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully...