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[2016] | First edition. | Random House | 382 pages ; 25 cm. | English |
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1 copy. Additional copies on order.
Main Media
CD spoken Fiction Mbue, I
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[2016] | Unabridged. | Books on Tape | 10 audio discs (12 hr., 13 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
1 copy. Additional copies on order.
Main Media CD spoken Fiction Mbue, I |
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2016 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2016 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2007. Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six-year-old son.Working as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers, he displays the punctuality, discretion, and loyalty that Edwards demands. Neni temporary work at the Edwardses' summer home in the Hamptons means a brighter future -- until Jende and Neni notice cracks...
2) The poet X
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La Farge Young Adult
Fiction Acevedo, E
Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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[2018] | HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | 361 pages ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
2 copies. Additional copies on order.
La Farge Young Adult Fiction Acevedo, E |
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1 copy. Additional copies on order.
Southside Spanish
Fiction Acevedo, E
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2019. | Ediciones Urano, S.A.U | 348 pages ; 22 cm. | Español | On Shelf
1 copy. Additional copies on order.
Southside Spanish Fiction Acevedo, E |
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2018 | OverDrive | Quill Tree Books | English | Available Online
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2018 | Quill Tree Books | English | Available Online
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Novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo, about Afro-Latina Xiomara Batista who turns to journalling poetry.
Xiomara Batista se siente ignorada e incapaz de ocultarse en Harlem. Desde que su cuerpo se volvió curvilíneo, aprendió a dejar que sus puños y su fiereza hablaran por ella. Pero X tiene mucho para decir, por eso descarga su frustración en las páginas de un cuaderno y recita las palabras para sí misma como si fueran...
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La Farge Childrens - J
Fiction Glaser, K
Main Childrens - J
Fiction Glaser, K
Southside Childrens - J
Fiction Glaser, K
Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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[2017] | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 297 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
3 copies. Additional copies on order.
La Farge Childrens - J Fiction Glaser, K Main Childrens - J Fiction Glaser, K Southside Childrens - J Fiction Glaser, K |
Description
Told that they will have to move out of their Harlem brownstone just after Christmas, the five Vanderbeeker children, ages four to twelve, decide to change their reclusive landlord's mind.
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2005 | Dial Press Trade Paperbacks | 226 p. ; 21 cm. | On Shelf
Main Fiction Baldwin, J | ||
2013, ©1981 | 1st Vintage International pbk. ed. | Vintage International | 226 pages ; 21 cm. |
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1 copy. Additional copies on order.
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2016. | Alfred A. Knopf | xxvii, 236 pages ; 22 cm. |
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"The haunting coming-of-age story that has become a major American classic, now in an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition. Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was James Baldwin's first major work, based in part on his own childhood in Harlem. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old...
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[2015] | Carolrhoda Books | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm. | English | On Shelf
Southside Childrens Picture Book Fiction Nelson, V |
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2015 | OverDrive | Lerner Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2015 | Lerner Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Relates the story of the National Memorial African Bookstore, founded in Harlem by Louis Michaux in 1939, as seen from the perspective of Louis Michaux Jr., who met famous men like Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X while helping there.
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3 copies. Additional copies on order.
La Farge
Fiction Cassara, J
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Fiction Cassara, J
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Fiction Cassara, J
Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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[2018] | First edition. | Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers | 400 pages ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
3 copies. Additional copies on order.
La Farge Fiction Cassara, J Main Fiction Cassara, J Southside Fiction Cassara, J |
Description
"A gritty and gorgeous debut that follows a cast of gay and transgender club kids navigating the Harlem ball scene of the 80s and 90s, inspired by the real House of Xtravaganza made famous by the seminal documentary "Paris is Burning""--
1980, New York City. Burned by her traumatic past, Angel is new to the drag world, new to ball culture, and has a yearning inside of her to help create family for those without. When she falls in love with Hector,...
7) The street
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list. Additional copies on order.
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[1991] | Houghton Mifflin Company | 435 pages ; 21 cm. | English |
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Description
Reprint of a 1946 novel, based upon the true story of Lutie Johnson, a young African-American woman who struggled to live and raise her son in the midst of the poverty and violence of Harlem in the late 1940s.
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3 copies. Additional copies on order.
La Farge
Fiction Hurston, Z
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Fiction Hurston, Z
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Fiction Hurston, Z
Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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[2020] | First edition. | Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | xliii, 252 pages ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
3 copies. Additional copies on order.
La Farge Fiction Hurston, Z Main Fiction Hurston, Z Southside Fiction Hurston, Z |
Description
In 1925, Zora Neale Hurston was living in New York as a fledgling writer. This collection of stories, found in archives after her death, reveal African American folk culture in Harlem in the 1920s. This book includes eight of Hurston's "lost" Harlem gems.
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Set during the 1920s, Prairie Nocturne finds Susan Duff, the young songbird from Doig's Dancing at the Rascal Fair, now a middle-aged singing coach living in Helena. When her old flame Wes Williamson asks her to mentor his black chauffeur, Monty, she agrees. But racial tensions erupt when Susan's private lessons with Monty attract the attention of the KKK.
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3 copies. Additional copies on order.
La Farge
Fiction McFadden, B
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Fiction McFadden, B
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Fiction McFadden, B
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[2016] | Akashic Books | 341 pages ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
3 copies. Additional copies on order.
La Farge Fiction McFadden, B Main Fiction McFadden, B Southside Fiction McFadden, B |
Description
During World War II, two African American musicians, Harlan and Lizard, are captured by the Nazis in Paris and imprisoned at Buchenwald concentration camp which changes the course of Harlan's life.--
When Harlan and his best friend, trumpeter Lizard Robbins, are invited to perform at a popular cabaret in the Parisian enclave of Montmartre, Harlan jumps at the opportunity. But after the City of Light falls under Nazi occupation, Harlan and Lizard...
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3 copies. Additional copies on order.
La Farge Childrens Picture Book
Fiction McMorrow, T
Main Childrens Picture Book
Fiction McMorrow, T
Southside Childrens Picture Book
Fiction McMorrow, T
Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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[2017] | First edition. | Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | 28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm. | English | On Shelf
3 copies. Additional copies on order.
La Farge Childrens Picture Book Fiction McMorrow, T Main Childrens Picture Book Fiction McMorrow, T Southside Childrens Picture Book Fiction McMorrow, T |
Description
In Harlem in the 1920s, in the middle of a family Christmas party, Marie receives a nutcracker from her Uncle Cab, which leads to a marvelous dream in this resetting of E.T.A. Hoffmann's familiar tale. Includes historical notes.
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La Farge Childrens - J
Fiction Moore, D
Southside Childrens - J
Fiction Moore, D
Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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2017. | First edition. | Alfred A. Knopf | 294 pages ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
2 copies. Additional copies on order.
La Farge Childrens - J Fiction Moore, D Southside Childrens - J Fiction Moore, D |
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1 copy. Additional copies on order.
La Farge Childrens Audiobook J
CD spoken Fiction Moore, D
Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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[2017] | Unabridged. | Listening Library | 5 audio discs (approximately 6 hr., 17 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.. | English | On Shelf
1 copy. Additional copies on order.
La Farge Childrens Audiobook J CD spoken Fiction Moore, D |
Description
Unable to celebrate the holidays in the wake of his older brother's death in a gang-related shooting, Lolly Rachpaul struggles to avoid being forced into a gang himself while constructing a fantastically creative LEGO city at the Harlem community center.
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[2017] | Penguin Books | xlv, 302 pages ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
1 copy. Additional copies on order.
Main Fiction McKay, C |
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2 copies. Additional copies on order.
Southside AV
CD spoken Fiction McKay, C
Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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[2017] | Unabridged. | Blackstone Audio | 9 audio discs (10.5 hrs.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
2 copies. Additional copies on order.
Southside AV CD spoken Fiction McKay, C |
Description
"A monumental literary event: the newly discovered final novel by seminal Harlem Renaissance writer Claude McKay, a rich and multilayered portrayal of life in 1930s Harlem and a historical protest for black freedom. The unexpected discovery in 2009 of a completed manuscript of Claude McKay's final novel was celebrated as one of the most significant literary events in recent years. Building on the already extraordinary legacy of McKay's life and work,...
14) Dancing diva
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Main Childrens - J
Fiction Goldberg, W
Southside Childrens - J
Fiction Goldberg, W
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c2012 | 1st ed. | Disney/Jump at the Sun Books | 153 p.: ill.; 20 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Childrens - J Fiction Goldberg, W Southside Childrens - J Fiction Goldberg, W |
Description
When Epatha tries to spice up the choreography of the new ballet in Harlem with her free-spirited style, the rest of the Sugar Plum ballerinas encourage her to keep her toes in line.
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3 copies. Additional copies on order.
La Farge AV
DVD Precious
Main Media
DVD Precious
Southside AV
DVD Precious
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[2010] | Lionsgate | 1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
3 copies. Additional copies on order.
La Farge AV DVD Precious Main Media DVD Precious Southside AV DVD Precious |
Description
In 1987, obese, illiterate, black 16-year-old Claireece 'Precious' Jones lives in Harlem with her dysfunctional family. She has been raped and impregnated twice by her father, Carl. She suffers constant physical, mental and sexual abuse from her unemployed mother, Mary. After getting pregnant for the second time, Precious is suspended from her school. Her principal arranges to have her attend an alternative school where her new teacher, Ms. Rain,...
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La Farge Childrens - J
Fiction Glaser, K
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[2019]. | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 351 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
1 copy. Additional copies on order.
La Farge Childrens - J Fiction Glaser, K |
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The Vanderbeeker children, ages six to thirteen, race to help save their mother's baking business from closure after it fails an inspection.--
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c2005 | Simon & Schuster | 397 p. ; 25 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Mystery Deaver, J Southside Mystery Deaver, J |
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2 copies. Additional copies on order.
La Farge Childrens - J
Fiction Watson, R
Southside Childrens - J
Fiction Watson, R
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2019. | Bloomsbury Children's Books | 194 pages ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
2 copies. Additional copies on order.
La Farge Childrens - J Fiction Watson, R Southside Childrens - J Fiction Watson, R |
Description
Amara visits her father's family in Harlem for her twelfth birthday, hoping to better understand her family and herself, but New York City is not what she expected.--
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1993, c1965 | Buccaneer Books | 159 p. ; 21 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Mystery Himes, C |
20) Push: a novel
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1997,c1996 | 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed. | Vintage Contemporaries/Vintage Books | 139, [38] p. ; 21 cm. | English | On Shelf
Southside Fiction Sapphire |
Description
Relentless, remorseless, and inspirational, this "horrific, hope-filled story" ("Newsday") is certain to haunt a generation of readers. Precious Jones, 16 years old and pregnant by her father with her second child, meets a determined and highly radical teacher who takes her on a journey of transformation and redemption.
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