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OverDrive Audiobooks February 2017
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"It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have." -- James Baldwin
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Black History Month: Fiction
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Another Country
by James Baldwin
Eight people become entangled in a web of interpersonal relationships, doomed to become as savage and destructive as the society which oppresses them.
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The Cutting Season : a Novel
by Attica Locke
When the dead body of a young woman is found on the grounds of Belle Vie, the estate's manager, Caren Gray, launches her own investigation into Belle Vie's history, which leads her to a centuries old mystery involving the plantation's slave quarters--and her own past.
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Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
by Walter Mosley
After serving twenty-seven years in an Indiana prison for killing two people in a drunken rage, tough, brooding ex-convict Socrates Fortlow lives in a tiny apartment in an abandoned building in Watts, struggling to make sense of the anarchic violence in the world and in himself
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Sag Harbor
by Colson Whitehead
Benji, one of the only black kids at an elite prep school in Manhattan, tries desperately during the school year to find a social group that will accept him, but every summer, he and his brother, Reggie, escape to the East End of Sag Harbor, where a small community of African-American professionals has built a world of its own, in a funny coming-of-age novel that explores racial and class identity.
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Roots : the saga of an American family
by Alex Haley
The author shares the saga of an African American family that extends from his ancestor Kunta Kinte, an African brought to mid-eighteenth-century America as a slave, to himself.
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I ALmost Forgot About You
by Terry McMillan
Feeling stuck and restless in spite of her great friends, family and career, Dr. Georgia Young confronts long-standing fears to embark on a wild journey that may or may not give her a second chance at love. By the best-selling author of Waiting to Exhale. Read by the author.
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African-American Authors: Nonfiction
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Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Told through the author's own evolving understanding of the subject over the course of his life comes a bold and personal investigation into America's racial history and its contemporary echoes.
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Bad Feminist : Essays
by Roxane Gay
A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation, Roxane Gay. "Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink, all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the September issue." In these funny and insightful essays, Roxane Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman (Sweet Valley High) of color (The Help) while also taking readers on a ride through culture of the last few years (Girls, Django in Chains) and commenting on the state of feminism today (abortion, Chris Brown). The portrait that emerges is not only one of an incredibly insightful woman continually growing to understand herself and our society, but also one of our culture.
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Letter to My Daughter
by Maya Angelou
The best-selling author of Even the Stars Look Lonesome and Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now brings together personal reminiscences, hard-won wisdom, and inspirational ideas in a new collection of short essays that include "Loving and Living Are Bold Words," "Giving," "Good Living Is Hard Work," and others.
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The Audacity of Hope : Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama
The junior U.S. senator from Illinois speaks out to all Americans on how to transform U.S. politics, calling for a return to America's original ideals and revealing how they can be adapted to such controversial issues as globalization, the function of religion in public life, and the struggle to bring people together in a nation torn by differences.
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