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McBride, J.
2 available
McBride, J.
2 available
Checked Out
10 copies, 112 people are on the wait list.
Description
"In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and...
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Forest Ave. Library - Mysteries - Adult
Winslow, D.
1 available
Winslow, D.
1 available
South Side Library - Mysteries - Adult
Winslow, D.
1 available
Winslow, D.
1 available
Description
When three siblings are found shot to death in the still-segregated town of West Mills, North Carolina, in 1976, and the white authorities show no interest in solving the case, Josephine Wright sets out to prove the innocence of her childhood sweetheart,Olympus "Lymp" Seymore, the murder victims' half-brother and the leading suspect in the case.
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Woodson, J.
1 available
Woodson, J.
1 available
East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Woodson, J.
1 available
Woodson, J.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Woodson, J.
1 available
Woodson, J.
1 available
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Central Library - Audiobooks - 2nd Floor
Woodson, J.
1 available
Woodson, J.
1 available
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Central Library - Large Print Books - 1st Floor
Woodson, J.
1 available
Woodson, J.
1 available
East Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Woodson, J.
1 available
Woodson, J.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Woodson, J.
1 available
Woodson, J.
1 available
Description
"Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier,...
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Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Bennett, B.
1 available
Bennett, B.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Bennett, B.
2 available
Bennett, B.
2 available
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Central Library - Audiobooks - 2nd Floor
Bennett, B.
1 available
Bennett, B.
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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East Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Bennett, B.
1 available
Bennett, B.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Bennett, B.
1 available
Bennett, B.
1 available
North Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Bennett, B.
1 available
Bennett, B.
1 available
Description
"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...
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Series
Harlem trilogy (Colson Whitehead) volume 1
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Central Library - Fiction - 1st Floor
Whitehead, C.
2 available
Whitehead, C.
2 available
East Side Library - Fiction - Adult
Whitehead, C.
1 available
Whitehead, C.
1 available
Forest Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Whitehead, C.
1 available
Whitehead, C.
1 available
On Shelf
Central Library - Audiobooks - 2nd Floor
Whitehead, C.
1 available
Whitehead, C.
1 available
On Shelf
Central Library - Large Print Books - 1st Floor
Whitehead, C.
1 available
Whitehead, C.
1 available
Franklin Ave. Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Whitehead, C.
1 available
Whitehead, C.
1 available
South Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
Whitehead, C.
1 available
Whitehead, C.
1 available
Description
""Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a...