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1) Finding me
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Oprah's Book Club 2.0 volume 2022
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Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Nonfiction
BIOGRAPHY DAVIS, VIOLA
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BIOGRAPHY DAVIS, VIOLA
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Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Nonfiction - Biography
LARGE PRINT BIOGRAPHY DAVIS, VIOLA
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LARGE PRINT BIOGRAPHY DAVIS, VIOLA
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Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Media - Audiobooks
PLAYAWAY BIOGRAPHY DAVIS
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PLAYAWAY BIOGRAPHY DAVIS
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"In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life-changing decision to stop running forever. This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond. This is the path I took to finding my purpose but also my voice in a world that didn't always see me. As I wrote [this book], my eyes were open to the truth of how our stories are often not given...
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Lake Hiawatha Library - Adult Nonfiction
940.5408 DEL
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940.5408 DEL
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"The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil rights expert and Dartmouth history professor Matthew Delmont. Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the Bulge, serving in segregated units and performing unheralded but vital support jobs, only to be denied housing and educational opportunities on their return home. Without...
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Reese's book club volume 2023
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Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Fiction
FICTION JOHNSON, SADEQA
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FICTION JOHNSON, SADEQA
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Lake Hiawatha Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION JOHNSON SADEQA
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FICTION JOHNSON SADEQA
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"1950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising a daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright. Eleanor Quarles arrives in Washington, DC, with ambition and secrets. When she meets the handsome William Pride...
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Lake Hiawatha Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORRIS
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FICTION MORRIS
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"In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Violet Richards finds herself in more trouble than she's ever been in in her life. After suffering a brutal attack, she kills the man responsible. But with the color of Violet's skin, there is no way she can escape Jim Crow justice in Jackson, Mississippi. She decides to run, but desperation and fear lead her to hide out in the small rural town of Chillicothe, Georgia, unaware that danger may be closer than...
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Oprah's Book Club 2.0 volume 2022
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Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOTTLEY
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FICTION MOTTLEY
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Lake Hiawatha Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MOTTLEY
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FICTION MOTTLEY
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"A dazzling, unforgettable novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system-a debut that announces a blazingly original voice. Kiara Johnson and her brother Marcus are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment complex that calls itself, optimistically, the Royal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school, their family fractured by death and prison. But while Marcus...
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Read with Jenna volume 2022
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Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Fiction
FICTION WILKERSON
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FICTION WILKERSON
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"In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with...
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Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROBINSON
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FICTION ROBINSON
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"From acclaimed author Shauna Robinson comes a bookish, millennial story about a young woman looking to start a new chapter in her life, and in doing so finds a community built around the books we love and the stories we can't forget. Who decides which stories are worth telling? Maggie Banks's life is a bit of a mess. After losing a job and moving back home with her parents, she's desperate for a new Life Plan. So when her best friend asks for help...
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Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Nonfiction - Biography
BIOGRAPHY OBAMA
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BIOGRAPHY OBAMA
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Lake Hiawatha Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography
BIOGRAPHY OBAMA
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BIOGRAPHY OBAMA
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Michelle Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering deeper truths and new pathways for progress. Drawing from her experiences as a mother, daughter, spouse, friend, and First Lady, she shares the habits and principles she has developed to successfully...
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"Summer 1995: Ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father's explosive temper and seek refuge at her mother's ancestral home in Memphis. This is not the first time violence has altered the course of the family's trajectory. Half a century earlier, Joan's grandfather built this majestic house in the historic Black neighborhood of Douglass-only to be lynched days after becoming the first Black detective in the city. Joan tries...
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Dark star trilogy (Marlon James) volume 2
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Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Fiction
FANTASY JAMES
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FANTASY JAMES
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Lake Hiawatha Library - Adult Fiction
FANTASY JAMES
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FANTASY JAMES
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"From Marlon James, author of the bestselling National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf, the second book in the Dark Star trilogy, his African Game of Thrones. In Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Sogolon the Moon Witch proved a worthy adversary to Tracker as they clashed across a mythical African landscape in search of a mysterious boy who disappeared. In Moon Witch, Spider King, Sogolon takes center stage and gives her own account of what happened...
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Lake Hiawatha Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION NEWSON
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FICTION NEWSON
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"A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story, following the personal and political awakening of a young gay Black man in 1980s NYC, from the television drama writer and producer of The Chi, Narcos, and Bel-Air Born into a wealthy Black Indianapolis family, Earl 'Trey' Singleton III leaves his overbearing parents and their expectations behind by running away to New York City with only a few dollars in his pocket. In the City, Trey meets up with...
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Reese's book club volume 2022
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Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Fiction
FICTION SEXTON
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FICTION SEXTON
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Lake Hiawatha Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION SEXTON
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FICTION SEXTON
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Lake Hiawatha Library - Adult Media - New
PLAYAWAY FICTION SEXTON
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PLAYAWAY FICTION SEXTON
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"A stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters' ambitions for their own lives-set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San Francisco... At home they are just sisters, but on stage, they are The Salvations. Ruth, Esther, and Chloe have been singing and dancing in harmony since they could speak. Thanks to the rigorous direction of their mother, Vivian, they've become a bona fide...
13) Perish: a novel
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Lake Hiawatha Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WATKINS
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FICTION WATKINS
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"LaToya Watkins's PERISH follows four members of the Turner clan: Julie B., a woman who regrets her wasted youth and the time spent under Helen Jean's thumb; Alex, a police officer grappling with a dark and twisted past; Jan, mother of two, who yearns to go to school and leave Jerusalem and all of its trauma behind for good; and Lydia, a woman whose marriage is falling apart because her body can't seem to stay pregnant; as they're called home to say...
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Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORRISON
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FICTION MORRISON
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Lake Hiawatha Library - Adult Fiction - New
FICTION MORRISON
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FICTION MORRISON
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In this 1983 short story about race and the relationships that shape us through life, Twyla and Roberta, friends since childhood who are seemingly at opposite ends of every problem as they grow older, cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them.
Twyla and Roberta have known each other since they were eight years old, roommates in the St. Bonaventure shelter. After losing touch, they meet several times by accident. Seemingly...
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Lake Hiawatha Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MONTGOMERY
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FICTION MONTGOMERY
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"Love is a game of chance in this romantic suspense novel by New York Times bestselling author and American politician and activist Stacey Abrams, writing under her pen name, Selena Montgomery. Dr. Raleigh Foster, an operative for a top-secret intelligence organization, knows that her undercover work has its risks. So she doesn't hesitate when asked to infiltrate Scimitar, the terrorist group that has stolen lethal environmental technology. But when...
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Eight interconnected stories follow the tenants in the Banneker Homes, a low-income high rise in Harlem where gentrification weighs on everyone's mind, as they weave in and out of each other's lives, endeavoring to escape from their pasts and forge new paths forward.
17) Take my hand
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Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Fiction
FICTION PERKINS-VALDEZ
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FICTION PERKINS-VALDEZ
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"Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench. Montgomery, Alabama, 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference, especially in her African American community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she intends to help...
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Good Morning America Book Club volume 2022
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Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Fiction
MYSTERY SLOCUMB
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MYSTERY SLOCUMB
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"Ray McMillian loves playing the violin more than anything, and nothing will stop him from pursuing his dream of becoming a professional musician. Not his mother, who thinks he should get a real job, not the fact that he can't afford a high-caliber violin, not the racism inherent in the classical music world. And when he makes the startling discovery that his great-grandfather's fiddle is actually a priceless Stradivarius, his star begins to rise....
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Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Nonfiction
973.0496 HAN
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973.0496 HAN
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Lake Hiawatha Library - Adult Nonfiction
973.0496 HAN
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973.0496 HAN
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"The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric and unprecedented system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country's original sin, but it is more...
20) Black Buck
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Read with Jenna volume 2021
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Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Fiction
FICTION ASKARIPOUR
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FICTION ASKARIPOUR
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Lake Hiawatha Library - Adult Media
PLAYAWAY FICTION ASKARIPOUR
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PLAYAWAY FICTION ASKARIPOUR
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"Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, content working at Starbucks in the lobby of a Midtown office building, hanging out with his girlfriend, Soraya, and eating his mother's home-cooked meals. A chance encounter with Rhett Daniels, CEO of Sumwun, NYC's hottest tech startup, results in an exclusive invitation for Darren to join an elite sales team on the thirty-sixth floor. As the only Black person in the company, Darren reimagines...