Adults - Black History Month Featured Titles

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Adults - Black History Month Featured Titles

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The underground railroad
Whitehead, Colson
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 2017 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER 2016 AMAZON.COM #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 ...
Grand union
Smith, Zadie
Paper Book
Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal!  A dazzling collection of short fiction Zadie Smith has established herself as one of the most iconic, critically respected, and popular writers of her generation. In her first short story collection, she combines her power of...
Vanishing half, the
Bennett, Brit
Paper Book
The sellout
Beatty, Paul
Paper Book
Born in the 'agrarian ghetto' of Dickens - on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles - the narrator of The Sellout is raised by his single father, a controversial sociologist, and spends his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. Led to believe that his father's...
Washington Black
Edugyan, Esi
Paper Book
Shortlisted 2018 Man Booker Prize and Winner of the 2018 Giller Prize: A dazzling new novel of slavery and freedom by the author of the Man Booker and Orange Prize shortlisted Half Blood Blues.
Girl, woman, other
Evaristo, Bernardine
Paper Book
THE SUNDAY TIMES 1# BESTSELLER & BOOKER PRIZE WINNER RECIPIENT OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION AWARD *One of Goodreads Most Popular Books of the Past Decade* This is Britain as you've never read it. This is Britain as...
The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
Skloot, Rebecca
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW ADAPTED INTO A HBO FILM STARRING OPRAH WINFREY & ROSE BYRNE"No dead woman has done more for the living . . . A fascinating, harrowing, necessary book" Hilary Mantel, The GuardianHer name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco...
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