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1) Finding me
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2 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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"Much-anticipated, emotionally-charged debut memoir from award-winning actor and icon Viola Davis"--
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Maidu Library
ADULT FIC HARRIS
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ADULT FIC HARRIS
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Martha Riley Community Library
ADULT FIC HARRIS
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ADULT FIC HARRIS
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"Get Out meets The Devil Wears Prada in this electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing. Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she's thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. They've only...
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A novel of female power and vulnerability, race, and class explores the unlikely friendship between a precocious black girl and a mysterious white woman in a small Mississippi town in the early 1980s.
4) Take my hand
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Downtown Library
ADULT FIC PERKINS
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ADULT FIC PERKINS
1 available
Martha Riley Community Library
ADULT FIC PERKINS
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ADULT FIC PERKINS
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2 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 22 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 22 people are on the wait list.
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"Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench. Montgomery, Alabama, 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference, especially in her African American community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she intends to help...
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Skyland volume 1
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2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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"Their love was supposed to last forever. But after two devastating tragedies, Yasmen and Josiah Wade realized love alone couldn't solve everything... or keep their marriage together. It's taken a year since their split for Yasmen to finally start feeling like herself again. To finally be able to breathe again. But the more she sees Josiah-whether it's parenting their two children or working together at the restaurant they co-own-the more Yasmen realizes...
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Downtown Library
ADULT FIC ALAM
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ADULT FIC ALAM
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Maidu Library
ADULT FIC ALAM
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ADULT FIC ALAM
1 available
eAudiobook
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1 copy, 20 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 20 people are on the wait list.
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"A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong"--
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This poison heart volume 1
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Teenaged Briseis, who possesses a supernatural power over plants, even poisonous ones, inherits a dilapidated estate in rural New York and must protect herself and her family from centuries-old secrets that threaten their lives.
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"Logan Gray is the stereotypical bad boy of Hollywood--a talented but troubled actor who the public loves to hate. Mattie Cole is an up and coming golden boy, adored by all but plagued by insecurities. When Mattie is cast as the love interest in Logan's newest film, the two are persuaded into a fake dating scheme to bring positive publicity to the project. But as the two actors get to know their new characters, real feelings start to develop. And...
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"A memoir from Ta-Nehisi Coates, in which he details the challenges on the streets and within one's family, especially the eternal struggle for peace between a father and son and the important role family plays in such circumstances"--
10) Razorblade tears
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"A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance. Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid. The last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah's white husband, Derek. Ike had never fully accepted his son but is devastated by his loss. Derek's father Buddy Lee...
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"When her ex-best friend, who is now the biggest R&B artist in the world, comes to stay with her family, Dylan discovers he hasn't changed as much as she thought as they revisit the past--and their relationship"--
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When Zach, a white boy from Philly, moves to a racially divided town, he befriends Black siblings Capri and Justin, but when the police murder one of their friends, the town erupts into an all-out war, with Capri, Justin, and Zach caught in the middle.
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Haunted for refusing to kill an injured comrade who begged to be spared an agonizing death, a World War I soldier from Senegal begins killing enemy soldiers as penance, earning a sinister reputation.
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"When a murderous ghost begins to haunt sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston, high school soon becomes a different kind of survival game"--
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"A New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and "one of our greatest living writers" (Shondaland) reimagines the love story in this fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss. Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again. It's been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she's almost a new person now-an artist with her own studio, and sharing a brownstone...
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Martha Riley Community Library
ADULT NON 158.1 GARDNER
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ADULT NON 158.1 GARDNER
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"Chris Gardner, popular speaker and the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir and major motion picture The Pursuit of Happyness presents, in the tradition of The Last Lecture and The Alchemist, a powerful book on dreaming your way to the next level of your life"--
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"After not being able to have a sweet sixteen party, Mahalia decides to throw a coming out party to celebrate love and herself"--
18) Maame
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Maidu Library
ADULT FIC GEORGE
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ADULT FIC GEORGE
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Martha Riley Community Library
ADULT FIC GEORGE
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ADULT FIC GEORGE
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2 copies, 16 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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Martha Riley Community Library
ADULT LPF GEORGE
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ADULT LPF GEORGE
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""An utterly charming and deeply moving portrait of the joys--and the guilt--of trying to find your own way in life." --Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Meeting Maame feels like falling in love for the first time: warm, awkward, joyous, a little bit heartbreaking and, most of all, unforgettable." --Xochitl Gonzalez, New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies Dreaming Maame (ma-meh) has many meanings in Twi but in my case, it means...
19) The getaway
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Jay discovers that the mountain resort where he lives and works with his friends and family is also a doomsday oasis for the rich and powerful who expect top-notch customer service even as the world outside the resort's walls disintegrates.
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When seventeen-year-old Avery moves to rural Georgia to live with her ailing grandmother, she encounters decade-old family secrets and a mystery surrounding the town's racist past.
