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1) Raybearer
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Raybearer volume 1
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IFUEKO
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IFUEKO
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IFUEKO
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IFUEKO
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IFUEKO
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IFUEKO
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Raised in isolation, Tarisai yearns for the closeness she could have as one of the Crown Prince's Council of 11, but her mother, The Lady, has magically compelled Tarisai to kill the Crown Prince.
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YA MARQUIS Krystal
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YA MARQUIS Krystal
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YA MARQUIS Krystal
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YA MARQUIS Krystal
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YA MARQUIS Krystal
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YA MARQUIS Krystal
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The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in 1910 Chicago, and the two daughters, Olivia and Helen, are finding their way and finding love--even where they are not supposed to.
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 9
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TAYLOR
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TAYLOR
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TAYLOR
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TAYLOR
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TAYLOR
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"Cassie Logan, first met in Song of the Trees and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, is a young woman now, searching for her place in the world, a journey that takes her from Toledo to California, to law school in Boston, and, ultimately, in the 60s, home to Mississippi to participate in voter registration. She is witness to the now-historic events of the century: the Great Migration north, the rise of the civil rights movement, preceded and precipitated...
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BOLDEN
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BOLDEN
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Tewksbury Public Library - Teen/YA Fiction
BOLDEN
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BOLDEN
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Savannah Riddle feels suffocated by her life as the daughter of an upper class African American family in Washington, D.C., until she meets a working-class girl named Nella who introduces her to the suffragette and socialist movements and to her politically active cousin Lloyd.
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Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Teen/YA Nonfiction
976.686
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976.686
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976.686
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976.686
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976.686
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976.686
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"In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District--a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall Street. They brought with them firearms, gasoline, and explosives. In a few short hours, they'd razed thirty-five square blocks to the ground, leaving hundreds dead. The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating acts of racial...
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Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Adult Fiction - Graphic
940.5403
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940.5403
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940.5403
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940.5403
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"This is a graphic novel about the first African-American regiment to fight in World War One"--
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Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Juvenile Nonfiction
305.8009
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305.8009
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305.8009
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305.8009
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Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Juvenile Media
305.8009
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305.8009
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"The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. Racist ideas are woven into the fabric of this country, and the first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past and present. This book takes you on that journey, showing how racist ideas started and were spread, and how they can be discredited"--Dust jacket flap
"A history of racist and antiracist ideas...
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J 323.1196 Dyson
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J 323.1196 Dyson
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J 323.1196 Dyson
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J 323.1196 Dyson
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"Interconnected stories present a picture of racial inequality in America, showing systemic discrimination in all areas of society and showing the unbroken line of Black resistance to this inequality"--
9) Love Radio
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J LADELLE Ebony
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J LADELLE Ebony
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J LADELLE Ebony
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J LADELLE Ebony
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J LADELLE Ebony
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J LADELLE Ebony
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Prince Jones, a self-professed teen love doctor known for his radio segment on the local hip-hop station, believes he can get the bookish, anti-romance Dani Ford to fall in love with him in three dates.
10) Kings of B'more
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J THOMAS R. Eric
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J THOMAS R. Eric
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Propelled by his best friend's impending move out of state and inspired by Ferris Bueller's Day Off, sixteen-year-old Harrison plans a farewell through Baltimore that includes a road trip, their first Pride, and a rooftop dance party.
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J 322.42 Martin
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J 322.42 Martin
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There is a saying: knowledge is power. The secret is this. Knowledge, applied at the right time and place, is more than power. It's magic. That's what the Black Panther Party did. They called up this magic and launched a revolution. In the beginning, it was a story like any other. It could have been yours and it could have been mine. But once it got going, it became more than any one person could have imagined. This is the story of Huey and Bobby....
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J GOFFNEY Joya
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J GOFFNEY Joya
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J GOFFNEY Joya
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J GOFFNEY Joya
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As a preacher's daughter, Monique is expected to be an example at church although she hates its restrictive rules. When she discovers she physically cannot have sex, and after her boyfriend breaks up with her for that reason, two unexpected teens from church become her main supports as she desperately tries to break the rules against all the odds.
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Holland Free Public Library - Teen/YA Fiction
J BROWN Echo
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J BROWN Echo
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J BROWN Echo
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J BROWN Echo
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J BROWN Echo
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J BROWN Echo
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"A YA coming-of-age novel about a first-year, first-generation Black student at Dartmouth College"--
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J 811.54 Martin
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J 811.54 Martin
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J 811.54 Martin
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J 811.54 Martin
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"A powerful, impactful, eye-opening journey that explores through the Civil Rights Movement in 1950s-1960s America in spare and evocative verse, with historical photos interspersed throughout. In stunning verse and vivid use of white space, Erica Martin'sdebut poetry collection walks readers through the Civil Rights Movement-from the well-documented events that shaped the nation's treatment of Black people, beginning with the "Separate but Equal"...
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Holland Free Public Library - Teen/YA Fiction
J LATHAM Irene
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J LATHAM Irene
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J LATHAM Irene
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J LATHAM Irene
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Chronicles the story of the last Africans brought illegally to the United States on the Clotilda in 1860.
1859. The transatlantic slave trade has been banned for more than fifty years, and the South is facing the threat of a civil war. Timothy Maeher resents the government interference in his right to make a living. Making a bet that he can smuggle enslaved Africans into the United States without being caught, he commissions the Clotilda, and brings...
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Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Adult Nonfiction - Biography
B WARD
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B WARD
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In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. But why? As she began to write about living through all the dying, Jesmyn realized the truth -- and it took her breath away. Her brother and her friends all died because of who they were and where they were from, because they lived with a history of racism and economic struggle....
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Remixed classics volume 2
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MORROW
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MORROW
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MORROW
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MORROW
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At the Freedman's Colony of Roanoke Island, a haven for the recently emancipated, the four March sisters--Meg, Joanna, Bethlehem, and Amethyst--come into their own as independent young Black women together facing love, sickness, heartbreak, and new horizons.
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J LEE Kristen R.
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J LEE Kristen R.
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J LEE Kristen R.
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J LEE Kristen R.
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Upon arriving at the prestigious Wooddale University, seventeen-year-old Savannah Howard comes face-to-face with microaggressions and outright racism--but if she stands up for justice, will she endanger her future?
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Hunterdon County Library Headquarters - Teen/YA Nonfiction - Graphic
J 796.42 Smith
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J 796.42 Smith
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J 796.42 Smith
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J 796.42 Smith
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"A groundbreaking and timely graphic memoir from one of the most iconic figures in American sports-and a tribute to his fight for civil rights. On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold medal winner in the 200-meter sprint, and John Carlos, the bronze medal winner, stood on the podium in black socks and raised their black-gloved fists to protest racial injustice inflicted upon African Americans....
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J REYNOLDS Jason
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J REYNOLDS Jason
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J REYNOLDS Jason
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J REYNOLDS Jason
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Tewksbury Public Library - Teen/YA Fiction
J REYNOLDS Jason
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J REYNOLDS Jason
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"A smash up of art and text that viscerally captures what it is to be Black. In America. Right Now"--