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Glaser, Karina Yan

Summary: One hilarious Harlem family is on a mission to find the perfect way to celebrate their Papa's fortieth birthday while discovering more about their mysterious grandparents in this heartfelt romp and latest installment to the New York Times best-selling series, perfect for fans of the Penderwicks. It's summer on 141st Street, and the Vanderbeekers are looking forward to Papa's surprise fortieth...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GLA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GLA

Summary: Armed with ruthless, streetwise tactics and a strict sense of honor, crime boss Frank Lucas rules Harlem's chaotic drug underworld. When outcast cop Richie Roberts sets out to bring down Lucas's multimillion-dollar empire, it plunges both men into a legendary confrontation. Inspired by a true story.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie American 2009

Hill, Laban Carrick

Summary: Explores the literary, artistic, and intellectual creativity of the Harlem Renaissance and discusses the lives and work of Louis Armstrong, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and other notable figures of the era.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company Books for Young Readers 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 810.9 HIL

Alston, Bria

Summary: Meet Claudie Wells. She is 9 years old and is surrounded by artists, writers, dancers, and the culture of the Harlem Renaissance during 1922. Everyone seems to be good at something, but Claudie can't find her special talent.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE ALS

Johnson, Dinah

Summary: "A richly informative alphabet picture book celebrating Harlem's vibrant traditions, past and present"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.7 JOH

Whitehead, Colson

Summary: It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown furniture store owner and ex-fence, Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over....

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2023

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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FIC WHI

Worth, Richard

Summary: The Harlem Renaissance was like a magnificent fireworks display; it was colorful, brilliant, and in a few moments, it was over. This was the first time African Americans had led a cultural movement and the first time that white Americans had paid attention to their achievements. Through striking images and fascinating details, this book examines the origins of the Harlem Renaissance, especially...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing Group 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 974.7 WOR

Smith, Morgan

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kentucky 1998

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 974.71 SMI

Whitehead, Colson

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown, furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WHI

Colomba, Elizabeth

Summary: "Queenie follows the life of Stephanie Saint-Clair-the infamous criminal who made herself a legend in Harlem in the 1930s. Born on a plantation in the French colony of Martinique, Saint-Clair left the island in 1912 and found success in New York, rising up through poverty and battling extreme racism to become the ruthless queen of Harlem's mafia and a fierce defender of the Black community. A...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts Megascope 2023

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 COL

Walker, David

Summary: "The Sangerye family has spent generations in a never-ending fight to destroy the hate that infects the human soul. But now the disease of intolerance has given rise to a new breed of deadly creature that threatens to destroy the world, and some of the family members will not survive the coming battle. With Blink taking charge of the family, Cullen and Ford surrounded by monsters, and their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics, Inc. 2021

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BIT

Harris, Duchess

Summary: "In the 1920s, many African Americans left the South to escape racial violence. Some settled in New York City's Harlem neighborhood. Black artists, writers, and musicians in Harlem ushered in a cultural revolution called the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance explores this movement and its legacy. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J700.899 HAR

Walker, David

Summary: "Monster-hunting has been the Sangerye family business for generations as they battle the jinoo - hideous creatures born out of hate and racism. But now the Sangeryes face a different threat -- the deadly inzondo, a new kind of monster born out of grief and trauma. With one of their own turning into an inzondo and an army of tortured souls on the attack in 1920s Harlem, the Sangerye family must...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2020

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BIT

Woodfolk, Ashley

Summary: "Meet the Flyy Girls. The group of girls who seem like they can get away with anything. Veteran author Ashley Woodfolk pens a gorgeous and dynamic series of four Harlem highschoolers, each facing a crossroads of friendship, family, and love. Lux Lawson is on a spree. Ever since her dad left, she's been kicked out of every school that would take her, and this is her last chance: Harlem's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WOO

Woodfolk, Ashley

Summary: "Meet the Flyy Girls. The group of girls who seem like they can get away with anything. Veteran author Ashley Woodfolk pens a gorgeous and dynamic series of four Harlem highschoolers, each facing a crossroads of friendship, family, and love. Micah Dupree had always liked being the "good girl." She was happy painting, going to church, and acing her school projects. After all, she had a perfect...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WOO

Johnson, Mat

Summary: "A page-turning thriller of racial divide, Incognegro: Renaissance explores segregation, secrets and self-image as our race-bending protagonist penetrates a world where he feels stranger than ever before. When a black writer is found dead at a scandalous interracial party in 1920s' New York, Harlem's cub reporter Zane Pinchback is the only one determined to solve the murder. Zane must go...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2018

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 JOH

Whitehead, Colson

Summary: Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked. To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his fac̜ade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger all...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2021

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WHI

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Whitehead 2021

Acevedo, Elizabeth

Summary: Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC ACE

León, Amyra

Summary: The author takes readers on a poetic journey through her childhood in Harlem. León explores love and loss, melody and bloodshed as she navigates the intricacies of foster care, mourning, self-love, and resilience. She invites readers to dream with abandon-- because it is a privilege to dream at all. -- adapted from front flap.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 LEO

Walker, David

Summary: "In the 1920s, the Harlem Renaissance is in full swing, and only the Sangerye Family, once known as the greatest monster hunters of all time, can save New York -- and the world -- from the supernatural forces threatening to destroy humanity. But those days are fading and the once-great family that specialized in curing the souls of those infected by racism and hate has been torn apart by...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2019

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BIT

Cassara, Joseph

Summary: 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, a beautiful young man who dreams of becoming a professional dancer, the two decide to form the House of Xtravaganza, the first-ever all-Latino house in the Harlem ball circuit. But...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018

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Watson, Renée

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WAT

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WAT

Summary: Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem. He does so by buying heroin directly from a source in South East Asia. He comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. As a result, his product is superior to what is currently available on the street and his prices are...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD A

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AME

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AME RATED R

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY AME

Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux.

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MIC

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