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The One Book Project: A Mighty Long Way
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Ain't Burned all the Bright by Jason ReynoldsThis smash-up of art and text visually captures what it is to be Black in America and what it means to REALLY breath.
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Copperhead by Alexi ZentnerAll Jessup wants is to enjoy his senior year at Cortaca High and get a scholarship to attend college. It doesn't seem impossible. He's a standout varsity football player. A good student. He works at the local movie theater to help his mother make ends meet. But it's hard to live a normal life when everybody in town knows that your stepfather is a white supremacist--a white supremacist who was involved in a violent encounter with two young black college students. And who is about to be released from prison.
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Confessions in B-flat by Donna HillFollows the 1964 Civil Rights-era relationship between a passive-resistance protégé of Martin Luther King, Jr. and a Harlem black culture supporter of Malcolm X.
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March. Book one by John LewisA first-hand account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights spans his youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement.
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The Nickel Boysby Colson WhiteheadA follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning, The Underground Railroad, follows the harrowing experiences of two African-American teens at an abusive reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.
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The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddAfter her mother's death, Lily Owens and her African-American maid seek refuge from the racism of their South Carolina hometown with eccentric beekeeping sisters in this coming of age story representing the letter K in a new series of twenty-six collectible editions.
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Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-BrenyahA collection of short stories reveals the violence, injustice, and painful absurdities that black men and women contend with every day in the United States.
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My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole JohnsonA debut novel explores burdened inheritances and extraordinary pursuits of belonging, bearing witness to this country’s legacies as unforgettable characters fight to survive in America. (general fiction).
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Hood Feminism : Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot by Mikki KendallAn award-winning writer and frequent guest speaker presents a compelling critique of todays black feminist movement that argues that modern activism needs to refocus on health care, education and safety for all women instead of a privileged few.
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Homegoing by Yaa GyasiTwo half sisters, unknown to each other, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana and experience profoundly different lives and legacies throughout subsequent generations.
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Four Hundred Souls : A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. KendiA "choral history" of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. They've gathered together eighty black writers from all disciplines -- historians and artists, journalists and novelists--each of whom has contributed an entry about one five-year period to create a dynamic multivoiced single-volume history of black people in America.
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Join the One Book Reading ChallengeRegister for Beanstack and challenge yourself to read and participate in the 2022 One Book Project. Access activity ideas, determine reading goals, track reading as a family, and win digital badges!
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Join Us for an Evening with Carlotta Walls Lanier Save the Date for an evening with Carlotta Walls Lanier, author of A Mighty Long Way at the CSUB Icardo Center on Thursday, October 27th, 2022 at 7pm. For more information, visit KCLonebook.org.
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