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All We Were Promised
by Ashton Lattimore
A former enslaved housekeeper escapes to 1837 Philadelphia where she plays servant to her white-passing father and befriends a young abolitionist and risks everything to help another former slave, brought to the city by her plantation mistress.
Scheduled release date: Apr 2, 2024 - place holds on Libby now.
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Crook Manifesto
by Colson Whitehead
A furniture store owner and ex-grifter leaves the straight and narrow path when he needs Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter in 1971 Manhattan, in the new novel by the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Nickel Boys.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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Black Bottom Saints
by Alice Randall
A celebrated columnist, nightclub emcee and fine arts philanthropist draws inspiration from the Catholic Saints Day books while reflecting on his encounters with legendary black artists from the Great Depression through the post-World War II years.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby and Hoopla.
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Before All the World
by Moriel Rothman-Zecher
Meeting Charles at a Philadelphia speakeasy at the end of Prohibition, Leyb is shocked to discover a Black man who is fluent in Yiddish and becomes encouraged at the prospect of a better life in America.
Available on Libby and Hoopla.
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On the Rooftop
by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
The talk of the Jazz-Era Fillmore, The Salvations—sisters Ruth, Esther and Chloe—find their personal ambitions on a collision course with those of their mother, whose dreams of musical stardom for them forces her to confront the parts of her life that threaten to splinter.
Available on Libby and Hoopla.
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The Heart of It All
by Christian Kiefer
Set in an America of increasing unsurety, this breathtaking novel focuses on the members of three very families in a small, declining Ohio town where they are both divided and bound by their differences.
Physical copy available only.
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Moonrise Over New Jessup
by Jamila Minnicks
In 1957, Alice Young arrives in the all-Black town of New Jessup, Alabama, a place of opposing viewpoints on desegregation at the beginning of the civil rights movement, where she falls in love with Raymond Campbell, whose clandestine organizing activities could expel them from the home they love.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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The Unsettled
by Ayana Mathis
In a multi-generational novel set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabama, a mother fights for her sanity and survival.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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The Two Lives of Sara
by Catherine Adel West
During the racially divided 1960s, a Black young, unwed mother named Sara, working for Mama Sugar at a popular boarding house in Memphis, Tennessee, finds friendship and refuge until secrets from Mama Sugar's are revealed, forcing Sara to make a decision that will reshape the rest of her life.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby and Hoopla.
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Decent People
by De'Shawn Charles Winslow
From a prizewinning author comes a sweeping and unforgettable novel of a black community reeling from a triple homicide, and the secrets the killings reveal.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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Church Folk
by Michele Andrea Bowen
Despite the follies, foibles, and idiosyncrasies of their parishioners, Theophilus Henry Simmons, a young pastor, and his wife, Essie Lee Lane, are determined to hold their congregation together and teach them the true meaning of faith and love.
Available on Hoopla.
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This is How You Lose Her
by Junot Díaz
Presents a collection of stories that explores the heartbreak and radiance of love as it is shaped by passion, betrayal, and the echoes of intimacy.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby and Hoopla.
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Memphis
by Tara M. Stringfellow
Told over the course of 70 years, this spellbinding debut novel traces three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter, who, channeling her rage into art, discovers with the power of her paint brush, she can change her family’s legacy.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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The Office of Historical Corrections : A Novella and Stories
by Danielle Evans
The award-winning author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self examines race, grief and apology in a history-inspired anthology that complements the title novella with the stories “Boys Go to Jupiter” and “Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain.”
Available on Libby.
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A Slant of Light
by Jeffrey Lent
At the close of the Civil War, veteran Malcolm Hopeton, returning home to western New York State, commits a horrific crime that leaves the people around him struggling to make sense of his actions, including a judge who bows to the wisdom of a more human truth within the vision of a nation on the cusp of the modern era.
Available on Libby.
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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
by Deesha Philyaw
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. The nine stories in this collection feature four generations of characters grappling with who they want to be in the world, caught as they are between the church's double standards and their own needs and passions.
Available on Libby and Hoopla.
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The Known World
by Edward P. Jones
When a plantation proprietor and former slave--now possessing slaves of his own--dies, his household falls apart in the wake of a slave rebellion and corrupt underpaid patrollers who enable free black people to be sold into slavery.
Available on Libby and Hoopla.
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You Made Me Love You : Selected Stories, 1981-2018
by John Edgar Wideman
Thirty-five short stories drawn from past collections celebrate the lifelong significance of this major American writer's essential contribution to a form—illuminating the ways that he has made it his own.
Available on Libby.
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Moon Lake
by Joe R. Lansdale
Returning to Moon Lake, the place where his father tried to kill them both, Daniel Russell, attempting to finally put to rest the memories that have plagued him for years, discovers something even more shocking that is linked to dark deeds, old grudges and strange murders.
Physical copy available. Also available on Libby.
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Wolf Whistle
by Lewis Nordan
In 1955, in Arrow-Catcher, Mississippi, fourth-grade teacher Alice Conroy, hoping to teach her children something important, takes her class on field trips to the bedside of a terminally burned classmate, the sewage plant, a funeral parlor, and a murder trial.
Available on Hoopla.
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Prospect Heights Public Library District
12 N. Elm St. Prospect Heights, Illinois 60070 847-259-3500
www.phpl.info
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