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Jackson, Tiffany D.

Summary: When Springville residents--at least the ones still alive--are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same explanation . . . Maddy did it. An outcast at her small-town Georgia high school, Madison Washington has always been a teasing target for bullies. And she's dealt with it because she has more pressing problems to manage. Until the morning a surprise rainstorm...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

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

Akinmade-Akerström, Lola

Summary: "Can a career woman truly have it all? Powerful marketing executive Kemi Adeyemi has finally found the man she needs, but Tobias Wikström thinks she's the most selfish woman he has ever met for asking him to give up his life in Sweden and move to the US for her own comfort. Will Kemi be forced to stay if she wants to keep him while chipping away at her hard-earned career? As things begin to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AKE

Johnson, Nancy

Summary: It's 2008, and the inauguration of President Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated Black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man who is eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. She knows that to move forward she must make peace with the past. Returning home to her Indiana factory hometown, she finds it plagued by racism, unemployment,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Hopson, Carole

Summary: A few years after the Wright Brothers' first flight, Bessie was working the Texas cotton fields with her family when an airplane flew right over their heads. It buzzed so low she thought she could catch it in her hands. Bessie wasn't afraid. Without even thinking, she spread my arms out and pretended she was flying. She knew there was freedom in those wings. The daughter of a woman born into...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC HOP

Oliver, Diane

Summary: "A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-century African American literature. A remarkable talent far ahead of her time, Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of twenty-two, leaving behind these crisply told and often chilling tales that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2024

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Lehane, Dennis

Summary: "One night Mary Pat's teenage daughter Jules stays out late and doesn't come home. That same evening, a young Black man is found dead, struck by a subway train under mysterious circumstances. The two events seem unconnected. But Mary Pat, propelled by a desperate search for her missing daughter, begins turning over stones best left untouched--asking questions that bother Marty Butler, chieftain...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEH

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEH

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEH

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEH

Boyd, Jeff

Summary: "Distant lovers. Shady friends. Racist strangers. Estranged parents. Insufferable bosses. Who says your twenties are fun? Julian Strickland is seemingly the lone Black man in the hipster dreamland of Portland, Oregon. To his friends, he's the coolest member of the scene: the soulful drummer from Chicago in an indie rock band that's just about to break through. But to himself, he's a sheltered...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOY

Baldacci, David

Summary: "When two wealthy white landowners are found dead, the whole country immediately thinks it must be Jerome Washington, the hired help, who killed them. He was standing over the bodies when the police responded to an anonymous call and the only one on the property at the time of death. As far as the state is concerned, it's an open and shut case. Jack Lee, born and raised in Freeman County, knows...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BAL

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

Baldacci, David

1 hold on 9 copies

Summary: "Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants When two wealthy white landowners are found dead, the whole country immediately thinks it must be Jerome Washington, the hired help, who killed them. He was standing over the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2024

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC BAL

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAL

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRI

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Baldacci

Chukwu, J K.

Summary: Sahara is Not Okay. Entering her sophomore year at Elite University, she feels like a failure: her body is too curvy, her love life is nonexistent, her family is disappointed in her, her grades are terrible, and, well, the few Black classmates she has just keep dying. Sahara is close to giving up, herself: her depression is, as she says, her only "Life Partner." And this narrative--taking the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHU

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