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Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHITEHEA
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FICTION WHITEHEA
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION WHITEHEA
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FICTION WHITEHEA
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Flr - Audiobooks
CD FICTION WHITEHEA
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CD FICTION WHITEHEA
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CD FICTION WHITEHEA
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"Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood-where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned-Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION WOODSON
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FICTION WOODSON
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When August, an anthropologist who has studied the funeral traditions of different cultures, revisits her old neighborhood after her father's death, her reunion with a brother and a chance encounter with an old friend bring back a flood of childhood memories. Flashbacks depict the isolation she felt moving from rural Tennessee to New York and show how her later years were influenced by the black power movement, nearby street violence, her father's...
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Oprah's book club volume 2019
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION COATES
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FICTION COATES
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION COATES
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FICTION COATES
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Audiobooks
CD FICTION COATES
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CD FICTION COATES
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Flr - Audiobooks
CD FICTION COATES
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CD FICTION COATES
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Audiobooks
CD FICTION COATES
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CD FICTION COATES
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"Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage--and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child--but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn't understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram's private rebellion. Spurred on by his improvised plantation...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 2nd Floor
FICTION COLE
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FICTION COLE
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"As the Civil War rages between the states, a courageous pair of spies plunge fearlessly into a maelstrom of ignorance, deceit, and danger, combining their unique skills to alter the course of history and break the chains of the past... Elle Burns is a former slave with a passion for justice and an eidetic memory. Trading in her life of freedom in Massachusetts, she returns to the indignity of slavery in the South--to spy for the Union Army. Malcolm...
26) The proposal
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"When someone asks you to spend your life with him, it shouldn't come as a surprise--or happen in front of 45,000 people. When freelance writer Nikole Paterson goes to a Dodgers game with her actor boyfriend, his man bun, and his bros, the last thing she expects is a scoreboard proposal. Saying no isn't the hard part--they've only been dating for five months, and he can't even spell her name correctly. The hard part is having to face a stadium full...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor
277.3008 GAT
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277.3008 GAT
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Nonfiction
277.3008 GAT
1 available
277.3008 GAT
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For the young Henry Louis Gates, Jr., growing up in a small, residentially segregated West Virginia town, the church was a center of gravity-- an intimate place where voices rose up in song and neighbors gathered to celebrate life's blessings and offer comfort amid its trials and tribulations. In this tender and expansive reckoning with the meaning of the Black Church in America, Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries, from...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Nonfiction
305.5122 WIL
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305.5122 WIL
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor
305.5122 WIL
8 available
305.5122 WIL
8 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Nonfiction
305.5122 WIL
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305.5122 WIL
1 available
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Large Type
LT 305.5122 WIL
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LT 305.5122 WIL
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Flr - Audiobooks
CD 305.5122 WIL
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CD 305.5122 WIL
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Audiobooks
CD 305.5122 WIL
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CD 305.5122 WIL
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"As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not." In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor
323.1196 SOR
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323.1196 SOR
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"How the automobile fundamentally changed African American life-the true history beyond the Best Picture-winning movie. The ultimate symbol of independence and possibility, the automobile has shaped this country from the moment the first Model T rolled off Henry Ford's assembly line. Yet cars have always held distinct importance for African Americans, allowing black families to evade the many dangers presented by an entrenched racist society and to...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor
398.2089 ANN
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398.2089 ANN
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Nonfiction
523.01 TYS
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523.01 TYS
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor
523.01 TYS
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523.01 TYS
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Large Type
LT 523.01 TYS
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LT 523.01 TYS
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Audiobooks
CD 523.01 TYS
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CD 523.01 TYS
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"The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist. What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly,...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Memoir and Biography
B ONWUACH
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B ONWUACH
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By the time he was 27 years old, Kwame Onwuachi had opened - and closed - one of the most talked-about restaurants in America. He had launched his own catering company with $20,000 that he made from selling candy on the subway, yet he'd been told he would never make it on television because his cooking wasn't "Southern" enough. In this inspiring memoir about the intersection of race, fame, and food, he shares the remarkable story of his culinary coming-of-age....
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Nonfiction
305.8 MOR
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305.8 MOR
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor
305.8 MOR
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305.8 MOR
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Nonfiction
305.8 MOR
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305.8 MOR
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America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid?Drawing on her Norton Lectures, Toni Morrison takes up these and other vital questions bearing on identity...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor
811 BAL
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811 BAL
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All of the published poetry of James Baldwin, including six significant poems previously only available in a limited edition
During his lifetime (1924–1987), James Baldwin authored seven novels, as well as several plays and essay collections, which were published to wide-spread praise. These books, among them Notes of a Native Son, The Fire Next Time, Giovanni’s Room, and Go Tell It on the Mountain,...
During his lifetime (1924–1987), James Baldwin authored seven novels, as well as several plays and essay collections, which were published to wide-spread praise. These books, among them Notes of a Native Son, The Fire Next Time, Giovanni’s Room, and Go Tell It on the Mountain,...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Flr - Audiobooks
CD 974.71 MCB
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CD 974.71 MCB
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Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve children. James McBride, journalist, musician and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful memoir.
This volume is the autobiography of the author, first published in 1995; it is also a tribute to his mother. The chapters alternate between the author's...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor
973 SIX
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973 SIX
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Nonfiction
973 SIX
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973 SIX
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"The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric and unprecedented system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country's original sin, but it is more...
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Memoir and Biography
B EVARISTO
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B EVARISTO
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"Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker Prize win was an historic and revolutionary occasion, with Evaristo being the first Black woman and first Black British person ever to win the prize in its fifty-year history. Girl, Woman, Other was named a favorite book of the year by President Obama and Roxane Gay, was translated into thirty-five languages, and has now reached more than a million readers. Evaristo's astonishing nonfiction debut, Manifesto, is a...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Memoir and Biography
B OBAMA
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B OBAMA
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Memoir and Biography
B OBAMA
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B OBAMA
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Memoir and Biography
B OBAMA
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B OBAMA
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Floor - Large Type
LT B OBAMA
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LT B OBAMA
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Audiobooks
CD B OBAMA
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CD B OBAMA
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Oak Park Public Library Main Branch - 3rd Flr - Audiobooks
CD B OBAMA
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CD B OBAMA
1 available
Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Audiobooks
CD B OBAMA
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CD B OBAMA
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"Mrs. Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully adapt...
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Oak Park Public Library Dole Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION BUTLER
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FICTION BUTLER
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Oak Park Public Library Maze Branch - Adult Fiction
FICTION BUTLER
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FICTION BUTLER
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"Fledgling, Octavia Butler's last novel, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted-and still wants-to destroy her and those she cares for, and how she can save herself. Fledgling is a captivating...
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"Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren’s father, a preacher, and a handful of other citizens try to salvage what remains of a culture that has been destroyed by drugs, disease, war, and chronic water shortages. While her father tries to lead people on the righteous path, Lauren struggles with hyperempathy, a condition...
