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OverDrive eBooks February 2017
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"The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in." -- James Baldwin
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Black History Month: Nonfiction
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Notes of a Native Son
by James Baldwin
The author shares his views of black thought and the conditions of black life in America during the 1940's and early 1950's.
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The Warmth of Other Suns : the Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson
In an epic history covering the period from the end of World War I through the 1970s, a Pulitzer Prize winner chronicles the decades-long migration of African Americans from the South to the North and West through the stories of three individuals and their families.
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Slavery By Another Name : the Re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
by Douglas A. Blackmon
Bringing to light a shameful chapter in American history, a shocking study reveals how, from the late 1870s through the mid-twentieth century, thousands of African-American men were arrested and forced to work off the outrageous fines by serving as unpaid labor to small-town businesses, provincial farmers, and even large corporations. Pulitzer Prize, General Nonfiction : 2009
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Men We Reaped : a Memoir
by Jesmyn Ward
A National Book Award winner recounts the loss of five young men in her life to drugs, accidents, suicide and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men, sharing her experiences of living through the dying as she searches through answers in her community.
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Fire Shut Up in My Bones
by Charles M. Blow
A respected journalist describes the abuse he suffered at the hands of a close family relative, the effect this had on his formative years and how he overcame the anger and self-doubt it left behind.
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Go Tell It On the Mountain
by James Baldwin
While his family struggles with guilt, bitterness, and spiritual issues, John Grimes experiences a religious conversion in the Temple of the Fire Baptised.
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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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Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
When independent Janie Crawford returns home, her small African-American community begins to buzz with gossip about the outcome of her affair with a younger man, in a novel set in the 1930s South.
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Black Water Rising : a Novel
by Attica Locke
When African-American lawyer Jay Porter jumps into the bayou to save a drowning white woman in Houston, Texas, in 1981, he finds his practice and life in danger when he becomes embroiled in a murder investigation involving Houston's elite.
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Kindred
by Octavia E. Butler
Dana, a black woman, finds herself repeatedly transported to the antebellum South, where she must make sure that Rufus, the plantation owner's son, survives to father Dana's ancestor.
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New England White
by Stephen L. Carter
In the peaceful New England university town of Elm Harbor, a murder threatens to unravel the thin veneer hiding the racial complications of the town's past, the hidden secrets of a prominent family, and African-American political influence in the United States. By the author of The Emperor of Ocean Park.
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