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Gathering of waters
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Bernice L. McFadden |
The story is narrated by the town of Money, Mississippi. Tass Hilson and Emmett Till were young and in love when Emmett was murdered in 1955. Anxious to escape the town, Tass marries Maximillian May … |
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The boy in his winter
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Norman Lock |
"Huck Finn and Jim float on their raft across a continuum of shifting seasons, feasting on a limitless supply of fish and stolen provisions, propelled by the currents of the mighty Mississippi from o… |
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Another Brooklyn
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Jacqueline Woodson |
For August, running into a long-ago friend sets in motion resonant memories and transports her to a time and a place she thought she had mislaid: 1970s Brooklyn, where friendship was everything. Augu… |
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Darktown
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Thomas Mullen |
"Responding to orders from on high, the Atlanta Police Department is forced to hire its first black officers, including war veterans Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith. The newly minted policemen are met w… |
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The Turner house
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Angela Flournoy |
The Turners have lived on Yarrow Street for over fifty years. Their house has seen thirteen children grown and gone--and some returned; it has seen the arrival of grandchildren, the fall of Detroit's… |
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Jubilee
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Margaret Walker |
A novel based on the life of the author's great-grandmother follows the story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and one of his slaves, through the years of the Civil War and Reconstructi… |
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Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper,Michigan Historical Reprint Series,Koritha Mitchell,The Perfect Library |
<p>As the Civil War bears down on a small North Carolina town, a tight-knit community of enslaved men and women is preparing for the coming battle and the possibility of freedom. Into this ensemble c… |
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