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41) Yellow wife
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Callicoon-Western Sullivan Public Library Delaware Branch - Adult Fiction
F Joh
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F Joh
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Cornwall Public Library - Adult Fiction
JOHNSON
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JOHNSON
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Eldred-Sunshine Hall Free Library - Adult Fiction
Johnson
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Johnson
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Monroe Free Library - Adult Book on CD
JOHNSON-AUDIO CDs
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3 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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Greenwood Lake Public Library - Adult Fiction
LP Johnson, S.
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LP Johnson, S.
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Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP JOHNSON
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LP JOHNSON
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Newburgh Free Library - Adult Large Type Fiction
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LP JOHNSON
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Born on a plantation but set apart from the others by her mother's position as a medicine woman, a young slave is forced to leave home at eighteen and unexpectedly finds herself in an infamously cruel jail.
Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Brown was promised her freedom on her eighteenth birthday. Instead she finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil's Half-Acre, a jail where slaves are broken, tortured,...
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Blauvelt Free Library - Adult Fiction
Mathis
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Mathis
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Callicoon-Western Sullivan Public Library Delaware Branch - Adult Fiction
F Mat
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F Mat
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Chester Public Library - Adult Fiction
Mathis
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Mathis
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Callicoon-Western Sullivan Public Library Delaware Branch - Adult Book on CD
CD Mat
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CD Mat
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Highland Falls Library - Adult Book on CD
Mathis,Ayana
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Mathis,Ayana
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Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Book on CD
BCD FIC Mathis, Ayana
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BCD FIC Mathis, Ayana
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Pine Bush Area Public Library District - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP MATHIS
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LP MATHIS
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Tappan Library - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP MATHIS
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LP MATHIS
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Wurtsboro-Mamakating Library - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP Mathis
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LP Mathis
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In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children whom she raises with grit and mettle and not an ounce of the tenderness they crave. She vows to prepare them for...
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Cornwall Public Library - Adult Short Story Anthologies
SC Arimah
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SC Arimah
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Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Fiction
ARIMAH
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ARIMAH
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Narrowsburg-Western Sullivan Public Library Tusten Cochecton - Adult Fiction
Ari
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Ari
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Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Large Type Fiction
LP ARIMAH
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LP ARIMAH
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"A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home. In "Who Will Greet You at Home," a National Magazine Award finalist forThe New Yorker, A woman desperate for a child weaves one out of hair, with unsettling results. In "Wild," a disastrous night out shifts a teenager and her Nigerian cousin onto uneasy common ground....
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Ellenville Public Library and Museum - Adult Fiction
Minnicks
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Minnicks
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Goshen Public Library & Historical Society - Adult Fiction
FIC Minnicks
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FIC Minnicks
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Haverstraw Garnerville - Adult Fiction
Minnicks
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Minnicks
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Goshen Public Library & Historical Society - Adult Book on CD
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AUDIO CD Min
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Newburgh Free Library - Adult Book on CD
BK/CD MINNICKS
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BK/CD MINNICKS
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"It's 1957, and after leaving the only home she has ever known, Alice Young steps off the bus into the all-Black town of New Jessup, Alabama, where residents have largely rejected integration as the means for Black social advancement. She falls in love with Raymond Campbell, whose clandestine organizing activities challenge New Jessup's status quo and could lead to the young couple's expulsion-or worse-from the home they hold dear. But as Raymond...
45) Jackal: a novel
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Fallsburg Library - Adult Fiction
FIC ADAMS
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FIC ADAMS
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Goshen Public Library & Historical Society - Adult Mystery
FIC Adams
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FIC Adams
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Greenwood Lake Public Library - Adult Fiction
Adams, E.
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Adams, E.
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Monroe Free Library - Adult Large Type Fiction
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LP ADAMS
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"A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white Rust Belt town. But she's not the first-and she may not be the last. . . . It's watching. Liz Rocher is coming home . . . reluctantly. As a Black woman, Liz doesn't exactly have fond memories of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a predominantly white town. But her best friend is getting married, so she braces herself for a weekend of awkward and passive-aggressive reunions. Liz has grown, though;...
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Great cities trilogy volume 1
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Callicoon-Western Sullivan Public Library Delaware Branch - Adult Fiction
F Jem
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F Jem
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Ellenville Public Library and Museum - Adult Fiction
Jemisin
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Jemisin
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Florida Public Library - Adult Fiction
Jem
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Jem
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Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Book on CD
BCD JEMISIN
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BCD JEMISIN
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New City Library - Adult Book on CD
BCD JEMISIN
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BCD JEMISIN
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Newburgh Free Library - Adult Book on CD
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BK/CD JEMISIN
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"Five New Yorkers must come together in order to save their city from destruction in the first book of a stunning new series by Hugo award-winning and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin. Every great city has a soul. Some are ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York? She's got six. When a young man crosses the bridge into New York City, something changes. He doesn't remember who he is, where he's from, or even...
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Chester Public Library - Adult Fiction
Montgomery
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Montgomery
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Cornwall Public Library - Adult Fiction
Montgomery
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Montgomery
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Florida Public Library - Adult Fiction
Mon
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Mon
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"Love is a game of chance in this romantic suspense novel by New York Times bestselling author and American politician and activist Stacey Abrams, writing under her pen name, Selena Montgomery. Dr. Raleigh Foster, an operative for a top-secret intelligence organization, knows that her undercover work has its risks. So she doesn't hesitate when asked to infiltrate Scimitar, the terrorist group that has stolen lethal environmental technology. But when...
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Blauvelt Free Library - Adult Nonfiction
814.52 Hur
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814.52 Hur
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Chester Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
814.52 Hurston
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814.52 Hurston
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Ellenville Public Library and Museum - Adult Nonfiction
814.52 Hurston
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814.52 Hurston
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Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Book on CD
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BCD 814.52 Hur
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"One of the most acclaimed artists of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston was a gifted novelist, playwright, and essayist. Drawn from three decades of her work, this anthology showcases her development as a writer, from her early pieces expounding on the beauty and precision of African American art to some of her final published works, covering the sensational trial of Ruby McCollum, a wealthy Black woman convicted in 1952 for killing a white...
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Blauvelt Free Library - Adult Nonfiction
306.8743 Tub
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306.8743 Tub
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Ellenville Public Library and Museum - Adult Nonfiction
306.8743 Tubbs
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306.8743 Tubbs
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Grahamsville-Daniel Pierce Library - Adult Nonfiction
306.87 Tub
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306.87 Tub
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"In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates Black motherhood by telling the story of the three women who raised and shaped some of America's most pivotal heroes: Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin. Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary...
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Cornwall Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
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791.0899 ABDURRAQIB
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Goshen Public Library & Historical Society - Adult Nonfiction
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Highland Mills-Woodbury Public Library Rushmore Branch - Adult Nonfiction
791.08 ABDURRAQUIB, HANIF
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791.08 ABDURRAQUIB, HANIF
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"An urgent project that unravels all modes and methods of Black performance, in this moment when Black performers are coming to terms with their value, reception, and immense impact on America. With sharp insight, humor, and heart, Abdurraqib examines how Black performance happens in specific moments in time and space--midcentury Paris, the moon, or a cramped living room in Columbus, Ohio. At the outset of this project, Abdurraqib became fascinated...
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A Best Book of 2021 by NPR and The Washington Post
Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour de force that tells the "powerful" (The New York Times Book Review) story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall's efforts to uncover the truth about these women warriors who, until now, have been left out of the historical record.
Women warriors planned and led revolts...
Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour de force that tells the "powerful" (The New York Times Book Review) story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall's efforts to uncover the truth about these women warriors who, until now, have been left out of the historical record.
Women warriors planned and led revolts...
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Ellenville Public Library and Museum - Adult Nonfiction
920.0092 McCalman
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920.0092 McCalman
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Haverstraw Garnerville - Adult Nonfiction
920.0092 McC
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920.0092 McC
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Monticello-Ethelbert B. Crawford Public Library - Express/Fast Adult Nonfiction
920.0092 MCCALMAN
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920.0092 MCCALMAN
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"A gorgeous collection of 145 original portraits that celebrates Black pioneers--famous and little-known--in politics, science, literature, music, and more, with biographical reflections, all created and curated by an award-winning graphic designer"--
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Callicoon-Western Sullivan Public Library Delaware Branch - Young Adult Fiction
YA Mon
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YA Mon
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Central Valley-Woodbury Public Library Ida Cornell Branch - Adult Fiction
MONAE, JANELLE
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MONAE, JANELLE
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Chester Public Library - Adult Fiction
Monae
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Monae
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Newburgh Free Library - Adult Book on CD
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BK/CD MONAE
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Port Jervis Free Library - Unabridged Book on CD
M MONAE
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M MONAE
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Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Book on CD
BCD Monae, Janelle
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BCD Monae, Janelle
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"Whoever controls our memories controls the future. Janelle Monáe and an incredible array of talented collaborating creators have written a collection of tales comprising the bold vision and powerful themes that have made Monáe such a compelling and celebrated storyteller. Dirty Computer introduced a world in which thoughts-as a means of self-conception-could be controlled or erased by a select few. And whether human, A.I., or other, your life and...
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Ellenville Public Library and Museum - Adult Nonfiction
658.3008 Christian
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658.3008 Christian
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Gardiner Library - Adult Nonfiction
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Nyack Library - Adult Nonfiction
658.3008 CHR
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658.3008 CHR
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"How to Have Difficult Conversations About Race equips you with the skills you need to make crucial conversations about race easier and more productive"--
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Chester Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
641.56 Twitty
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641.56 Twitty
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Ellenville Public Library and Museum - Adult Nonfiction
641.5676 Twitty
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641.5676 Twitty
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Fallsburg Library - Adult Nonfiction
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641.5 TWI
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"The James Beard award-winning author of the acclaimed The Cooking Gene explores the cultural crossroads of Jewish and African diaspora cuisine and issues of memory, identity, and food. In Koshersoul, Michael W. Twitty considers the marriage of two of the most distinctive culinary cultures in the world today: the foods and traditions of the African Atlantic and the global Jewish diaspora. To Twitty, the creation of African-Jewish cooking is a conversation...
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Newburgh Free Library - Adult Nonfiction
306.874 ROY
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306.874 ROY
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Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Biography & Autobiography
B ROYSTER, FRANCESCA
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B ROYSTER, FRANCESCA
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Valley Cottage Free Library - Adult Nonfiction
306.8743 ROY
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306.8743 ROY
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A professor of English literature presents a memoir of family, identity, and acceptance that examines the messiness and complexity of adoption and parenthood from a black, queer, and feminist perspective.
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"Trinidad in the 1940s, nearing the end of American occupation and British colonialism. On a hill overlooking Bell Village sits the Changoor farm, where Dalton and Marlee Changoor live in luxury unrecognizable to those who reside in the farm's shadow. Down below is the barrack, a ramshackle building ... divided into rooms occupied by whole families. Among these families are the Saroops--Hans, Shweta, and their son, Krishna, all three born of the barracks....
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Chester Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
305.89 Blow
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305.89 Blow
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Goshen Public Library & Historical Society - Adult Nonfiction
305.89 Blo
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305.89 Blo
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Monticello-Ethelbert B. Crawford Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
305.89 BLOW
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305.89 BLOW
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The New York Times columnist presents a rallying call to action that challenges popular myths about race and urges Black Americans to unite against white supremacy.
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An exquisite combination of beautiful photography and compelling stories, this book from Outdoor Afro founder, Rue Mapp, celebrates Black joy in nature.
Filled with breathtaking photography, inspiring stories, profiles, and spotlights from Outdoor Afro group members, prominent Black leaders in outdoor spaces, and other organizations, this book inspires Black communities to reclaim their place in the natural world. Interspersed throughout are essays...
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Florida Public Library - Adult Fiction
Win
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Win
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Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Express/Fast Adult Fiction
WINSLOW
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WINSLOW
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Nanuet Public Library - Adult Fiction
Winslow
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Winslow
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When three siblings are found shot to death in the still-segregated town of West Mills, North Carolina, in 1976, and the white authorities show no interest in solving the case, Josephine Wright sets out to prove the innocence of her childhood sweetheart,Olympus "Lymp" Seymore, the murder victims' half-brother and the leading suspect in the case.