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2 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"It's 1957, and after leaving the only home she has ever known, Alice Young steps off the bus into the all-Black town of New Jessup, Alabama, where residents have largely rejected integration as the means for Black social advancement. She falls in love with Raymond Campbell, whose clandestine organizing activities challenge New Jessup's status quo and could lead to the young couple's expulsion-or worse-from the home they hold dear. But as Raymond...
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Somerville - Adult
FIC Rothman-Zecher, Moriel
1 available
FIC Rothman-Zecher, Moriel
1 available
Somerville West - Adult
FIC Rothman-Zecher, Moriel
1 available
FIC Rothman-Zecher, Moriel
1 available
eAudiobook
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Meeting Charles at a former speakeasy in Philadelphia 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.
A mesmerizing, inventive story of three souls in 1930s Philadelphia seizing new life while haunted by the old. ikh gleyb nit az di gantze velt iz kheyshekh. I do not believe that all the world is darkness. In the swirl of Philadelphia at...
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Somerville - Adult
FIC Due, Tananarive
1 available
FIC Due, Tananarive
1 available
Somerville East - Adult
FIC Due, Tananarive
1 available
FIC Due, Tananarive
1 available
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4 copies, 54 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 52 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 52 people are on the wait list.
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"Gracetown, Florida June 1950 Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie's journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory. Robbie has a talent for seeing ghosts, or haints. But what was once a comfort...
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11 copies, 72 people are on the wait list.
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11 copies, 72 people are on the wait list.
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Somerville - Audiovisual
SPOKEN CD FIC McBRIDE
1 available
SPOKEN CD FIC McBRIDE
1 available
Somerville East - Audiovisual
SPOKEN CD FIC McBRIDE
1 available
SPOKEN CD FIC McBRIDE
1 available
Description
"From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .45 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this...
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7 copies, 28 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 28 people are on the wait list.
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Somerville - Large Print
LT FIC Bennett, Brit
1 available
LT FIC Bennett, Brit
1 available
Somerville East - Large Print
LT FIC BENNETT
1 available
LT FIC BENNETT
1 available
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Somerville West - Audiovisual
MEDIA BOOK FIC BENNETT
1 available
MEDIA BOOK FIC BENNETT
1 available
On Shelf
35 copies available. 1 copy on order.
Somerville - Audiovisual
SPOKEN CD FIC BENNETT
1 available
SPOKEN CD FIC BENNETT
1 available
Somerville East - Audiovisual
SPOKEN CD FIC BENNETT
1 available
SPOKEN CD FIC BENNETT
1 available
Description
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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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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When three siblings are found shot to death in the still-segregated town of West Mills, North Carolina, in 1976, and the white authorities show no interest in solving the case, Josephine Wright sets out to prove the innocence of her childhood sweetheart,Olympus "Lymp" Seymore, the murder victims' half-brother and the leading suspect in the case.
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Series
Harlem trilogy (Colson Whitehead) volume 1
On Shelf
1 copy on order.
Somerville - Adult
FIC Whitehead, Colson
1 available
FIC Whitehead, Colson
1 available
Somerville East - Adult
FIC Whitehead, Colson
1 available
FIC Whitehead, Colson
1 available
Checked Out
7 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Somerville - Large Print
LT FIC Whitehead, Colson
1 available
LT FIC Whitehead, Colson
1 available
On Shelf
Somerville East - Audiovisual
MEDIA BOOK FIC WHITEHEAD
1 available
MEDIA BOOK FIC WHITEHEAD
1 available
On Shelf
Somerville East - Audiovisual
SPOKEN CD FIC WHITEHEAD
1 available
SPOKEN CD FIC WHITEHEAD
1 available
Somerville West - Audiovisual
SPOKEN CD FIC WHITEHEAD
1 available
SPOKEN CD FIC WHITEHEAD
1 available
Description
""Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a...
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44 copies available. 1 copy on order.
Somerville - Adult
FIC Shearer, Eleanor
1 available
FIC Shearer, Eleanor
1 available
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3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"Rare. Moving. Powerful. This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery marks the arrival of a remarkable new talent. Her search begins with an ending.... The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come...
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1 copy, 6 people are on the wait list.
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"New England, 1957. The Kindred sisters-Ezra and Cinthy-grew up with an abundance of love. Love from their parents, who let them believe that the stories they tell on stars can come true. Love from their neighbors, the Junketts, the only other Black family in town, whose home is filled with spice-rubbed ribs and ground-shaking hugs. And love for their adopted hometown of Salt Point, a beautiful village perched high up on coastal bluffs. But as the...
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"Colleen is an Iraq-war-veteran-turned-Pitchlynn, Mississippi-homemaker, and she works hard to keep her deployment behind her -- until her pregnancy churns up trauma so acute it threatens her husband, her family, and herself. Magnifying her anxiety is the media frenzy surrounding the retrial of Colleen's father-in-law, Hare Hobbs, for a Civil Rights-era murder. As the trial draws nearer, the question of Hare's guilt grows to implicate the town of...
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On Shelf
13 copies on order.
Somerville East - Speed Read
EXPRESS FIC McBride, James
1 available
EXPRESS FIC McBride, James
1 available
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122 copies, 806 people are on the wait list.
eBook
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175 copies, 994 people are on the wait list.
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175 copies, 994 people are on the wait list.
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"In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and...