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OverDrive eBooks February 2018
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"We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us." -- Senator John Lewis
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February is Black History Month
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March. Book One
by John Lewis
A first-hand account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights spans his youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement.
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The Fire This Time : a New Generation Speaks About Race
by Jesmyn Ward
Presents a continuation of James Baldwin's 1963 "The Fire Next Time" that examines racial issues from the past half-century through essays, poems, and memoir pieces by some of the current generation's most original thinkers and writers.
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Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Told through the author's own evolving understanding of the subject over the course of his life comes a bold and personal investigation into America's racial history and its contemporary echoes.
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Negroland : a Memoir
by Margo Jefferson
A highly personal meditation on race, sex and American culture by the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic traces her upbringing and education in upper-class African-American circles against a backdrop of the Civil Rights era and its contradictory aftermath.
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Fat Tuesday Fiction : Stories Set in New Orleans
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The Innocent Have Nothing to Fear : a Novel
by Stuart Stevens
JD Callahan, a campaign manager for the sitting vice president, is being blackmailed into a favor by his estranged brother while an FBI agent thinks he might have bombed the Republican convention to help his candidate get ahead in the polls.
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Dragonbane
by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Cursed by a powerful enemy and boarding in Sanctuary to hide his 50-foot wingspan, were-dragon Drago learns that the wife he thought died centuries earlier is still alive and being threatened by Fate. By the best-selling author of the Chronicles of Nick series.
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Prince Lestat : the Vampire Chronicles
by Anne Rice
A tale spanning periods from the ancient to the modern world reunites fans with beloved characters, from Louis de Pointe Lac and the eternally young Armand to David Talbot and Marius, who hear a mysterious voice urging ancients to destroy increasing populations of maverick vampires.
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Midnight Bayou
by Nora Roberts
While working on the restoration of Manet Hall, Declan Fitzgerald begins seeing visions of past eras filled with sorrow and terror, causing him to realize that an otherworldly presence lurks within his house, and he turns to Angelina Simone, the only person that can distract him from the eerie events, but unbeknownst to Declan, Angelina has a connection to Manet Hall - one that will change his life forever.
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New Orleans, Mon Amour : Twenty Years of Writings from the City
by Andrei Codrescu
For two decades NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu has been living in and writing about his adopted city, where, as he puts it, the official language is dreams. How apt that a refugee born in Transylvania found his home in a place where vampires roam the streets and voodoo queens live around the corner; where cemeteries are the most popular picnic spots, the ghosts of poets, prostitutes, and pirates are palpable, and in the French Quarter, no one ever sleeps.
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