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Black History Month Adult Fiction & Nonfiction February 2024
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Let us descend : a novel by Jesmyn WardA reimagining of American slavery by the National Book Award-winning author of Salvage the Bones. In the years before the Civil War, Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, struggles through the miles-long march, seeks comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother, opening herself to a world beyond this world.
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Coleman Hillby Kim Coleman FooteIn 1916, during the early days of the Great Migration, Celia Coleman and Lucy Grimes flee the racism and poverty of their homes in the post–Civil War South for the "Promised Land" of Vauxhall, New Jersey. But the North possesses its own challenges and bigotries that will shape the fates of the women and their families over the next seventy years.
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Lone women : a novel by Victor LaValleIn 1915, Adelaide Henry, after her secret sin killed her parents, sets out for Montana, dragging an enormous steamer trunk that's locked at all times, to become one of the “lone women” taking advantage of the government's offer of free land where she hopes to bury her past.
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Crook manifesto : a novel by Colson WhiteheadA furniture store owner and ex-grifter leaves the straight and narrow path when he needs Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter in 1971 Manhattan, in the new novel by the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner. A sequel to Harlem Shuffle.
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBrideWhen a skeleton is unearthed in the small, close-knit community of Chicken Hill, Pennsylvania, in 1972, an unforgettable cast of characters—living on the margins of white, Christian America—closely guard a secret, especially when the truth is revealed about what happened and the part the town's white establishment played in it.
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Black AF history : the un-whitewashed story of America by Michael HarriotThe acclaimed columnist and political commentator presents a sharp and often hilarious retelling of American history that focuses on the overlooked contribution of Black Americans and corrects the idea that American history is white history.
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King : a life by Jonathan EigDrawing on recently declassified FBI files, this first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon reveals the courageous and often emotionally troubled man who demanded peaceful protest but was rarely at peace with himself, while showing how his demands for racial and economic justice remain just as urgent today. Illustrations.
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