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Downtown Lansing - 1st Floor-Adult Fiction
FIC Sochil
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FIC Sochil
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Holt - Fiction
FIC Sochil
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FIC Sochil
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Okemos - Fiction
FIC Sochil
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FIC Sochil
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Blue's daughter, Tsitra, is dying a horrific death. Thousands of miles away, Blue feels time slowing and hears voices, followed by an 18-month stillness. More than a century before, Blue's grandparents, Amanda and Palmer, attend a salon party in New Orleans. It's a veritable array of who's-who within pre-Civil War social circles. Conversations get heated quickly as Ismay, the hostess who hails from French royalty, antagonizes Palmer, a landowner whose...
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32 copies, 923 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...
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Downtown Lansing - 1st Floor-New Items
HIS Billingsley
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HIS Billingsley
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Kidmobile - Fiction
HIS Billingsley
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HIS Billingsley
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2 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 15 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 15 people are on the wait list.
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"It was supposed to be the highlight of her career, the pinnacle for which she’d worked all her life. And as Hattie McDaniel took the stage in 1940 to claim an honor that would make her the first African-American woman to win an Academy Award, she tearfully took her place in history. Between personal triumphs and tragedies, heartbreaking losses, and severe setbacks, this historic night of winning best supporting actress for her role as the sassy...
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4 copies, 74 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 73 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 73 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...
5) Temple folk
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Downtown Lansing - 1st Floor-Adult Fiction
FIC Bilal
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FIC Bilal
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South Lansing - Fiction
FIC Bilal
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FIC Bilal
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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"In Temple Folk, Black Muslims contemplate the convictions of their race, religion, economics, politics, and sexuality in America. The ten stories in this collection contribute to the bounty of diverse narratives about Black life by intimately portraying the experiences of a community that resists the mainstream culture to which they are expected to accept and aspire to while functioning within the country in which they are born. In 'Due North,' an...
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Holt - Non-Fiction
641.59296073 Miller
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641.59296073 Miller
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Okemos - Non-Fiction
641.59296073 Miller
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641.59296073 Miller
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South Lansing - Non-Fiction
641.59296073 Miller
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641.59296073 Miller
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Chef and writer Klancy Miller found her own way by trial and error--as a pastry chef, recipe developer, author, and founder of For the Culture magazine--but what if she had known then what she knows now? What if she had known the extraordinary women profiled within these pages--entrepreneurs, chefs, food stylists, mixologists, historians, influencers, hoteliers, and more--and learned from their stories? Like Leah Penniman, a farmer using Afro-Indigenous...
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Holt - Non-Fiction
920 Melville
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920 Melville
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South Lansing - New Books
920 Melville
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920 Melville
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Webberville - Non-Fiction
920 Melville
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920 Melville
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"Red Tails, George Lucas’s celebration of America’s first Black flying squadron, the Tuskegee Airmen, should have been a moment of victory for Doug Melville. He expected to see his great-uncle Benjamin O. Davis Jr.—the squadron’s commander—immortalized on-screen for his selfless contributions to America. But as the film rolled, Doug was shocked when he realized that Ben Jr.’s name had been omitted and replaced by the fictional Colonel...
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Downtown Lansing - 1st Floor-Audio Book/CD
BCD 920 Reid
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BCD 920 Reid
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3 copies, 38 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 26 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 26 people are on the wait list.
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"Myrlie Louise Beasley met Medgar Evers on her first day of college. They fell in love at first sight, married just one year later, and Myrlie left school to focus on their growing family. Medgar became the field secretary for the Mississippi branch of the NAACP, charged with beating back the most intractable and violent resistance to black voting rights in the country. Myrlie served as Medgar’s secretary and confidant, working hand in hand with...
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Foster - New Books
921 Smith
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921 Smith
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Okemos - Non-Fiction
921 Smith
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921 Smith
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South Lansing - New Books
921 Smith
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921 Smith
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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"In 2020, heartsick from constant assaults on Black life, Tracy K. Smith found herself soul-searching and digging into the historical archive for help navigating the “din of human division and strife.” With lyricism and urgency, Smith draws on several avenues of thinking—personal, documentary, and spiritual—to understand who we are as a nation and what we might hope to mean to one another. In Smith’s own words, “To write a book about...
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Foster - New Books
921 Simmons
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921 Simmons
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Okemos - Non-Fiction
921 Simmons
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921 Simmons
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South Lansing - Non-Fiction
921 Simmons
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921 Simmons
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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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"Born in 1945, Ruth J. Simmons grew up the twelfth child of sharecroppers. Her first home had no running water, no electricity to light the two crowded rooms, no books to read. Yet despite this, or, in her words, because of it, Simmons would become one of America's preeminent educators. The former president of Smith College and Brown University, and now the outgoing president of Prairie View A&M, Texas's oldest HBCU, for decades Simmons has inspired...
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"In 1936, eighth grader MacNolia Cox became the first African American to win the Akron, Ohio, spelling bee. And with that win, she was asked to compete at the prestigious National Spelling Bee in Washington, DC, where she and a girl from New Jersey were the first African Americans invited since its founding. She left her home state a celebrity—right up there with Ohio’s own Joe Louis and Jesse Owens—with a military band and a crowd of thousands...
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"We’re familiar with the founding fathers of white America, but who are the founding fathers (and mothers!) of Black America? In a poetic narrative of the origins of Black America, acclaimed Black author and publisher Wade Hudson teaches us about the little-known men and women who had a profound effect on the history of the nation. Black America was built by brave pioneers—men and women taken from Africa, who suffered and struggled to build a...
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"The life work of Eunice W. Johnson, co-founder of Ebony magazine and a visionary who championed Black elegance through the Ebony Fashion Fair--a cross-country fashion show fundraiser"--Provided by publisher.
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Mason - Juv Fiction
J Rhodes
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J Rhodes
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Okemos - Juv Fiction
J Rhodes
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J Rhodes
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South Lansing - Juv Fiction
J Rhodes
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J Rhodes
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"Three kids. One dog. And the island of Manhattan, laid out in an old treasure map. Zane is itching for an adventure that will take him away from his family’s boarding house in Rockaway, Queens. So when he is entrusted with a real treasure map, leading to a spot somewhere in Manhattan, Zane wastes no time in riding the ferry over to the city to start the search with his friends Kiko and Jack and his dog, Hip-Hop. Through strange coincidence, they...
15) We could fly
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Downtown Lansing - 1st Floor-Juv New Books
JE Giddens
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JE Giddens
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"At a sparrow’s urging, a young girl feels a mysterious trembling in her arms, a lightness in her feet, a longing to be free. Her mother tells her that her Granny Liza experienced the same, as did many of their people before her. Perhaps it’s time, Mama says, to slip the bonds of earth and join the journey started long ago. To hold each other tight and rise. Drawing on lyrics from the song 'We Could Fly' by Rhiannon Giddens and Dirk Powell, which...
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"A nonfiction account of a group of determined Black Americans who created a flying club and built their own airfield on Chicago's South Side in the period between World Wars I and II"--Provided by publisher.
17) The Blackwoods
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Haslett - Youth
Y Colbert
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Y Colbert
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Holt - Youth
Y Colbert
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Y Colbert
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"The Blackwoods. Everyone knows their name. Blossom Blackwood burst onto the silver screen in 1962, and in the decades that followed, she would become one of the most celebrated actors of our time--and the matriarch of the most famous Black family in Hollywood. To her great-granddaughters, Hollis and Ardith, she has always just been Bebe. And when she passes away, it changes everything. Hollis Blackwood was never interested in fame. Still, she’s...
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Foster - New Books
Y 808.810083 Poemhood
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Y 808.810083 Poemhood
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Okemos - Youth New Books
Y 808.810083 Poemhood
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Y 808.810083 Poemhood
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"Come, claim your wings. Lift your life above the earth, return to the land of your father’s birth. What exactly is it to be Black in America? Well, for some, it’s learning how to morph the hatred placed by others into love for oneself; for others, it’s unearthing the strength it takes to continue to hold one’s swagger when multitudinous factors work to make Black lives crumble. For some, it’s gathering around the kitchen table as Grandma...
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"Millions of Africans were enslaved during the transatlantic slave trade, but few recorded their personal experiences. Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is perhaps the most well known of the autobiographies that exist. Using this narrative as a primary source text, authors Monica Edinger and Lesley Younge share Equiano’s life story in “found verse,” supplemented with annotations to give readers historical...
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Foster - Youth
Y Zoboi
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Y Zoboi
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South Lansing - Youth
Y Zoboi
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Y Zoboi
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"Warrior Princess. That’s what Nigeria Jones’s father calls her. He has raised her as part of the Movement, a Black separatist group based in Philadelphia. Nigeria is homeschooled and vegan and participates in traditional rituals to connect her and other kids from the group to their ancestors. But when her mother—the perfect matriarch of their Movement—disappears, Nigeria’s world is upended. She finds herself taking care of her baby brother...