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Callicoon-Western Sullivan Public Library Delaware Branch - Adult Fiction
F Rei
1 available
F Rei
1 available
Central Valley-Woodbury Public Library Ida Cornell Branch - Adult Fiction
REID, KILEY
1 available
REID, KILEY
1 available
Chester Public Library - Adult Fiction
Reid
1 available
Reid
1 available
On Shelf
Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Book on CD
BCD REID
1 available
BCD REID
1 available
Nanuet Public Library - Adult Book on CD
Reid
1 available
Reid
1 available
Newburgh Free Library - Adult Book on CD
BK/CD REID
1 available
BK/CD REID
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 10 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 10 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Nanuet Public Library - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP Reid
1 available
LP Reid
1 available
New City Library - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP REID
1 available
LP REID
1 available
Orangeburg Library - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP Reid
1 available
LP Reid
1 available
Description
Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. The store's security guard, seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar....
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Chester Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
973.04 Smith
1 available
973.04 Smith
1 available
Cornwall Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
973.0496 Smith
1 available
973.0496 Smith
1 available
Ellenville Public Library and Museum - Adult Nonfiction
973.0496 Smith
1 available
973.0496 Smith
1 available
On Shelf
Nanuet Public Library - Adult Book on CD
973.0496 Smi
1 available
973.0496 Smi
1 available
Newburgh Free Library - Adult Book on CD
BK/CD 973.049 SMI
1 available
BK/CD 973.049 SMI
1 available
Nyack Library - Adult Book on CD
973.0496 SMI
1 available
973.0496 SMI
1 available
On Shelf
Newburgh Free Library - Adult Large Type Nonfiction
973.049 SMI
1 available
973.049 SMI
1 available
Newburgh Free Library - New Adult Nonfiction
973.049 SMI
1 available
973.049 SMI
1 available
Pearl River Public Library - Adult Large Type Nonfiction
LP 973.049 SMI
1 available
LP 973.049 SMI
1 available
Description
'How the Word is Passed' is Clint Smith's revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a slave owning nation. Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, Smith leads the reader through an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks - those that are honest about the past and those that are not - that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nations collective history, and ourselves.
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Valley Cottage Free Library - Graphic Novel
GAY
1 available
GAY
1 available
Walden-Josephine-Louise Public Library - Graphic Novel
Gay GN
1 available
Gay GN
1 available
Washingtonville-Moffat Library of Washingtonville - Graphic Novel
YA GN Gay
1 available
YA GN Gay
1 available
Description
New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay (World of Wakanda, Difficult Women) adapts her short story "We Are the Sacrifice of Darkness" as a full-length graphic novel with writer Tracy Lynne Oliver (This Weekend), and artist Rebecca Kirby (Biopsy.)
Expanding an unforgettable world where a tragic event forever bathes the world in darkness, The Sacrifice of Darkness follows one woman's powerful journey through this new landscape as she discovers...
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Blauvelt Free Library - Adult Fiction
Whitehead
1 available
Whitehead
1 available
Callicoon-Western Sullivan Public Library Delaware Branch - Adult Fiction
F Whi
1 available
F Whi
1 available
Chester Public Library - Adult Fiction
Whitehead
1 available
Whitehead
1 available
On Shelf
Chester Public Library - Adult Book on CD
BCD Whitehead
1 available
BCD Whitehead
1 available
Cornwall Public Library - Adult Book on CD
Whitehead
1 available
Whitehead
1 available
Gardiner Library - Adult Book on CD
BCD WHI
1 available
BCD WHI
1 available
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New City Library - Adult Digital Audiobook
DAB WHITEHEAD
1 available
DAB WHITEHEAD
1 available
Description
In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as...
Author
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Blauvelt Free Library - Adult Fiction
Ward
1 available
Ward
1 available
Central Valley-Woodbury Public Library Ida Cornell Branch - Adult Fiction
WARD, JESMYN
1 available
WARD, JESMYN
1 available
Chester Public Library - Adult Fiction
Ward
1 available
Ward
1 available
On Shelf
Cornwall Public Library - Adult Book on CD
Ward
1 available
Ward
1 available
Ellenville Public Library and Museum - Adult Book on CD
CD WARD
1 available
CD WARD
1 available
Haverstraw Garnerville - Adult Book on CD
Ward
1 available
Ward
1 available
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Haverstraw Garnerville - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP Ward
1 available
LP Ward
1 available
Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP WARD
1 available
LP WARD
1 available
Nanuet Public Library - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP Ward
1 available
LP Ward
1 available
Description
"A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait...
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Blauvelt Free Library - Adult Fiction
Emezi
1 available
Emezi
1 available
Cornwall Public Library - Adult Fiction
Emezi
1 available
Emezi
1 available
Florida Public Library - Adult Fiction
Eme
1 available
Eme
1 available
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Chester Public Library - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP Emezi
1 available
LP Emezi
1 available
Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP EMEZI
1 available
LP EMEZI
1 available
Monroe Free Library - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP EMEZI
1 available
LP EMEZI
1 available
Description
"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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Cragsmoor Free Library - Adult Fiction
F SLO MYS
1 available
F SLO MYS
1 available
Florida Public Library - Adult Fiction
Slo
1 available
Slo
1 available
Gardiner Library - Adult Fiction
SLOC
1 available
SLOC
1 available
Checked Out
6 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Callicoon-Western Sullivan Public Library Delaware Branch - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP Slo
1 available
LP Slo
1 available
Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP SLOCUMB
1 available
LP SLOCUMB
1 available
Monroe Free Library - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP SLOCUMB
1 available
LP SLOCUMB
1 available
Description
"Ray McMillian loves playing the violin more than anything, and nothing will stop him from pursuing his dream of becoming a professional musician. Not his mother, who thinks he should get a real job, not the fact that he can't afford a high-caliber violin, not the racism inherent in the classical music world. And when he makes the startling discovery that his great-grandfather's fiddle is actually a priceless Stradivarius, his star begins to rise....
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Haverstraw Garnerville - Adult Nonfiction
305.896 Lew
1 available
305.896 Lew
1 available
Newburgh Free Library - Adult Nonfiction
305.896 LEW
1 available
305.896 LEW
1 available
Port Jervis Free Library - Adult Nonfiction
305.896 LEW
1 available
305.896 LEW
1 available
Description
""Black joy is unique and deeply rooted in the cultural experiences and expressions of Black people. It's ever-present and yet often hidden... Black joy has a sound. It moves in a particular way.... Like great-grandmother's talcum powder and Jean Nate, it enters the room before you do and stays long after you leave.This is why we must tap into it. This is why this book is necessary." When writer, Tracey M. Lewis-Giggetts wrote a piece for The Washington...
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Callicoon-Western Sullivan Public Library Delaware Branch - Adult Nonfiction
305.896 Ale
1 available
305.896 Ale
1 available
Ellenville Public Library and Museum - Adult Nonfiction
305.896 Alexander
1 available
305.896 Alexander
1 available
Goshen Public Library & Historical Society - Adult Nonfiction
305.896 Ale
1 available
305.896 Ale
1 available
Description
"In the midst of civil unrest in the summer of 2020 following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, one of the great literary voices of our time, Elizabeth Alexander, wrote a moving reflection on the psyche of young Black America, turning a mother's eye to her sons' generation. Originally published in the New Yorker, the essay brilliantly and lovingly observed the lives and attitudes of young people who even as children could...
30) Finding me
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Callicoon-Western Sullivan Public Library Delaware Branch - Adult Biography & Autobiography
B Davis
1 available
B Davis
1 available
Central Valley-Woodbury Public Library Ida Cornell Branch - Adult Biography & Autobiography
B DAVIS, VIOLA
1 available
B DAVIS, VIOLA
1 available
Chester Public Library - Adult Biography & Autobiography
B Davis
1 available
B Davis
1 available
On Shelf
Cornwall Public Library - Adult Book on CD
B Davis
1 available
B Davis
1 available
Gardiner Library - Adult Book on CD
BCD B DAVIS
1 available
BCD B DAVIS
1 available
Haverstraw Garnerville - Adult Book on CD
B Davis
1 available
B Davis
1 available
On Shelf
Greenwood Lake Public Library - Adult Biography & Autobiography
LP B Davis
1 available
LP B Davis
1 available
Nanuet Public Library - Adult Large Type Biography
LP B Davis
1 available
LP B Davis
1 available
Nyack Library - Adult Large Type Biography
BIO DAVIS
1 available
BIO DAVIS
1 available
Description
This is Viola Davis' story, in her own words, and spans her incredible, inspiring life, from her coming-of-age in Rhode Island to her present day. Hers is a story of overcoming, a true hero's journey.
"In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life changing decision to stop running forever. This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and...
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Chester Public Library - Adult Fiction
Randall
1 available
Randall
1 available
Florida Public Library - Adult Fiction
Ran
1 available
Ran
1 available
Greenwood Lake Public Library - Adult Fiction
Randall, A.
1 available
Randall, A.
1 available
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Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP RANDALL
1 available
LP RANDALL
1 available
Description
A celebrated columnist, nightclub emcee, and fine arts philanthropist draws inspiration from the Catholic Saints Day books to reflect on his encounters with black artists in Detroit's legendary Black Bottom neighborhood, from the Great Depression through the post-World War II years.
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Chester Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
973.04 Four hun
1 available
973.04 Four hun
1 available
Cornwall Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
973.0496 FOUR
1 available
973.0496 FOUR
1 available
Cragsmoor Free Library - Adult Nonfiction
973.04 FOU
1 available
973.04 FOU
1 available
On Shelf
Callicoon-Western Sullivan Public Library Delaware Branch - Adult Large Type Nonfiction
LP 920 Ken
1 available
LP 920 Ken
1 available
Monroe Free Library - Adult Large Type Nonfiction
LP 920 KEN
1 available
LP 920 KEN
1 available
Newburgh Free Library - Adult Large Type Nonfiction
LP 973.049 FOU
1 available
LP 973.049 FOU
1 available
Description
"A "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. Last year marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first African presence in the Americas--and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Antiracism Institute of American University, and Keisha Blain,...
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Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Nonfiction
305.2421 SMI
1 available
305.2421 SMI
1 available
Monticello-Ethelbert B. Crawford Public Library - Adult Biography & Autobiography
B SMITH
1 available
B SMITH
1 available
Newburgh Free Library - Adult Nonfiction
305.242 SMI
1 available
305.242 SMI
1 available
Description
A journalist describes his education and the experience of young black men against a backdrop of the Obama administration, the death of Trayvon Martin, the career of LeBron James, and other pivotal influences that have shaped race relations in contemporary America.
34) Black buck
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Cornwall Public Library - Adult Fiction
ASKARIPOUR
1 available
ASKARIPOUR
1 available
Gardiner Library - Adult Fiction
ASKA
1 available
ASKA
1 available
Haverstraw Garnerville - Adult Fiction
Askaripour
1 available
Askaripour
1 available
On Shelf
Newburgh Free Library - Adult Book on CD
BK/CD ASKARIPOUR
1 available
BK/CD ASKARIPOUR
1 available
Description
"A crackling, satirical debut novel about a young black man who accidentally impresses a CEO while serving his Starbucks order, catapulting him into the opportunity of a lifetime-a shot at stardom as the lone black salesman at an eccentric, mysterious, and wildly successful startup where, he will soon learn, nothing is as it seems"--
Author
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Blauvelt Free Library - Adult Short Story Anthologies
SC Hurston
1 available
SC Hurston
1 available
Cornwall Public Library - Adult Fiction
Hurston
1 available
Hurston
1 available
Ellenville Public Library and Museum - Adult Fiction
Hurston
1 available
Hurston
1 available
On Shelf
Greenwood Lake Public Library - Adult Book on CD
Hurston, Z.
1 available
Hurston, Z.
1 available
Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Book on CD
BCD HURSTON
1 available
BCD HURSTON
1 available
Port Jervis Free Library - Unabridged Book on CD
H HURSTON
1 available
H HURSTON
1 available
On Shelf
Orangeburg Library - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP Hurston
1 available
LP Hurston
1 available
Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP FIC Hurston, Zora Neale
1 available
LP FIC Hurston, Zora Neale
1 available
Description
From &;one of the greatest writers of our time&; (Toni Morrison)&;the author of Barracoon and Their Eyes Were Watching God &;a collection of remarkable stories, including eight &;lost&; Harlem Renaissance tales now available to a wide audience for the first time. In 1925, Barnard student Zora Neale Hurston&;the sole black student at the college&;was living in New York, &;desperately striving for a toe-hold on the world.&; During this period, she began...
Author
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Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Biography & Autobiography
B HARRIS
1 available
B HARRIS
1 available
Orangeburg Library - Adult Biography & Autobiography
920 Har
1 available
920 Har
1 available
Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Biography & Autobiography
B HARRIS, TAYLOR
1 available
B HARRIS, TAYLOR
1 available
Description
One morning, Tophs, Taylor Harris's round-cheeked, lively twenty-two-month-old, wakes up listless and unresponsive. At the hospital, her maternal instincts are confirmed: something is wrong with her boy, and Taylor's life will never be the same. With every question the doctors answer about Tophs's increasingly troubling symptoms, more arise, and Taylor dives into the search for a diagnosis. This is a stirring and radiantly written examination of the...
37) Take my hand
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Chester Public Library - Adult Fiction
Perkins-Valdez
1 available
Perkins-Valdez
1 available
Ellenville Public Library and Museum - Adult Fiction
Perkins-Valdez
1 available
Perkins-Valdez
1 available
Gardiner Library - Adult Fiction
PERK
1 available
PERK
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
3 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
Cragsmoor Free Library - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP PER
1 available
LP PER
1 available
Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP PERKINS-VALDEZ
1 available
LP PERKINS-VALDEZ
1 available
Narrowsburg-Western Sullivan Public Library Tusten Cochecton - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP Per
1 available
LP Per
1 available
Description
"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...
38) Drunk on love
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Cornwall Public Library - Adult Fiction
Guillory
1 available
Guillory
1 available
Ellenville Public Library and Museum - Adult Fiction
Guillory
1 available
Guillory
1 available
Goshen Public Library & Historical Society - Paperback Adult Romance
FIC Guillory
1 available
FIC Guillory
1 available
On Shelf
Florida Public Library - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP Gui
1 available
LP Gui
1 available
Greenwood Lake Public Library - Adult Fiction
LP Guillory, J
1 available
LP Guillory, J
1 available
Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP Guillory, Jasmine
1 available
LP Guillory, Jasmine
1 available
Description
"Margot Noble needs some relief from the stress of running the family winery with her brother. Enter Luke: sexy, charming, and best of all in the too-small world of Napa, a stranger. The chemistry between them is undeniable, and Margot is delighted that she lucked into the perfect one-night stand she'll never have to see again. That is, until the winery's newest hire, Luke, walks in the next morning. Margot is determined to keep things purely professional,...
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Haverstraw Garnerville - Adult Fiction
Hubbard
1 available
Hubbard
1 available
Monticello-Ethelbert B. Crawford Public Library - Adult Fiction
HUBBARD
1 available
HUBBARD
1 available
Nanuet Public Library - Adult Fiction
Hubbard
1 available
Hubbard
1 available
On Shelf
Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP HUBBARD
1 available
LP HUBBARD
1 available
Description
"For fifteen years, Mr. Sitwell has worked as the groundskeeper for the Barclays, a well-to-do white family. He is part of the household's all-black staff, along with "Miss Mamie," the talented cook, and new maid Jennie Williams. But the Barclays' fortunes have fallen, and their money is almost gone. When a business associate proposes selling Miss Mamie's delicious rib sauce under the brand name "The Rib King" -- using a caricature of a wildly grinning...
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Goshen Public Library & Historical Society - Adult Biography & Autobiography
920 UNS
1 available
920 UNS
1 available
Nanuet Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
326.8092 Uns
1 available
326.8092 Uns
1 available
New City Library - Adult Nonfiction
326.8092 UNSUN
1 available
326.8092 UNSUN
1 available
Description
"An new historical anthology from transatlantic slavery to the Reconstruction curated by the Schomburg Center, that makes the case for focusing on the histories of Black people as agents and architects of their own lives and ultimate liberation, with a foreword by Kevin Young. This is the first Penguin Classics anthology published in partnership with the Schomburg Center, a world-renowned cultural institution documenting black life in America and...