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Lies We Tell Ourselves
Talley, RobinHarlequin 2014In 1959 Virginia, the lives of two girls on opposite sides of the battle for civil rights will be changed forever. Sarah Dunbar is one of the first black students to attend the pr...
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The Einstein Intersection
Delany, Samuel R.Wesleyan University Press 2014A dragon herder embarks on a quest to bring his beloved back from the dead in this Nebula Award–winning science fiction adventure. The surface story tells of the problems a member...
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The Moor's Account : A Novel
Lalami, LailaKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2014PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • The imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America—this "stunning [book] sheds light on all of the possible the N...
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What I Know For Sure
Winfrey, OprahMacmillan Audio 2014After film critic Gene Siskel asked her, "What do you know for sure?" Oprah Winfrey began writing the "What I Know For Sure" column in O, The Oprah Magazine. Saying that the questi...
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Bad News for Outlaws : The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal
Nelson, Vaunda MicheauxLerner Publishing Group 2014Coretta Scott King Author Award Read about the fascinating life of Bass Reeves, who escaped slavery to become the first African American Deputy U.S. Marshal west of the Mississip...
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Almost to Freedom
Nelson Vaunda MicheauxLerner Publishing Group 2014Lindy and her doll Sally are best friends - wherever Lindy goes, Sally stays right by her side. They eat together, sleep together, and even pick cotton together. So, on the night L...
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A Matter of Souls
Patrick, Denise LewisLerner Publishing Group 2014From the shores of Africa to the bowels of a transatlantic ship to a voting booth in Mississippi to the jungles of Vietnam, all human connection is a matter of souls.In this stirri...
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Mumbet's Declaration of Independence
Woelfle, GretchenLerner Publishing Group 2014"All men are born free and equal." Everybody knows about the Founding Fathers and the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But the founders weren't the only ones who believed t...
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Ruby : A Novel
Bond, CynthiaRandom House Publishing Group 2014A New York Times bestseller and Oprah Book Club 2.0 selection, the epic, unforgettable story of a man determined to protect the woman he loves from the town desperate to destroy he...
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Every Day Is for the Thief : Fiction
Cole, TejuRandom House Publishing Group 2014NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY DWIGHT GARNER, THE NEW YORK TIMES • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle | NPR | The Root | The Telegra...
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The Tropic of Serpents : The Lady Trent Memoirs Series, Book 2
Brennan, MarieTor Publishing Group 2014The thrilling adventure of Lady Trent continues in Marie Brennan's Tropic of Serpents . . . Attentive readers of Lady Trent's earlier memoir, A Natural History of Dragons, are alr...
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Smitten.
Graham, SarahPenguin Random House South Africa 2014smitten. is a continuation of the conversation started in Sarah Graham's first fun, funky and relevant cookbook, bitten. The focus this time around is on the extraordinary; the cre...
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The Invention of Wings : A Novel (Original Publisher's Edition-No Annotations)
Kidd, Sue MonkPenguin Publishing Group 2014From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees and the forthcoming novel The Book of Longings, a novel about two unforgettable American women. Writing at the height of her n...
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Men We Reaped : A Memoir
Ward, JesmynBloomsbury Publishing 2013_______________ 'A brutal, moving memoir ... Anyone who emerges from America's black working-class youth with words as fine as Ward's deserves a hearing' - Guardian 'Raw, beautiful...
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Rhymin' and Stealin' : Musical Borrowing in Hip-Hop
Williams, Justin AUniversity of Michigan Press 2013The first book-length study of one of the most essential elements of hip-hop: musical borrowing| Rhymin' and Stealin' begins with a crucial premise: the fundamental element of hip-...
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The Opposite House
Oyeyemi, HelenBloomsbury Publishing 2013'Rich and witty ... it confirms Helen Oyeyemi as a true original' Ali Smith 'Powerful ... wonderfully unsettling ... Oyeyemi's raw style is great' Time Out'Beautiful ... this is ab...
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Americanah : A novel
Adichie, Chimamanda NgoziKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 201310th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic about star-crossed lovers that explores questions of race and being Black in America—and the search for what it me...
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Mom & Me & Mom
Angelou, MayaRandom House Publishing Group 2013NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A moving memoir about the legendary author’s relationship with her own mother. Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick! The story of Maya Angelou’...
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Twelve Years a Slave
Northup, SolomonBlackstone Audio, Inc. 2013In this riveting landmark autobiography that reads like a novel, Academy Award and Emmy winner Louis Gossett, Jr., masterfully transports us to 1840s New York, Louisiana, and Washi...
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Between Man and Beast : An Unlikely Explorer and the African Adventure the Victorian World by Storm
Reel, MonteKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013In 1856, Paul Du Chaillu ventured into the African jungle in search of a mythic beast, the gorilla. After wild encounters with vicious cannibals, deadly snakes, and tribal kings, D...