- Browse
- » Your Account
- » List
Formats:
On Shelf
Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Nonfiction
973.0496 HAN
1 available
973.0496 HAN
1 available
Lake Hiawatha Library - Adult Nonfiction
973.0496 HAN
1 available
973.0496 HAN
1 available
Description
"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...
Author
Formats:
Description
Clint Smith's vibrant and compelling new collection traverses the vast emotional terrain of fatherhood, and explores how becoming a parent has recalibrated his sense of the world. There are poems that interrogate the ways our lives are shaped by both personal lineages and historical institutions. There are poems that revel in the wonder of discovering the world anew through the eyes of your children, as they discover it for the first time. There are...
Author
Formats:
Description
"According to commentator and lawyer Elie Mystal, Republicans are wrong when they tell you the First Amendment allows religious fundamentalists to discriminate against gay people who like cake. They're wrong when they tell you the Second Amendment protects the right to own a private arsenal. They're wrong when they say the death penalty isn't cruel or unusual punishment, and they're wrong when they tell you we have no legal remedies for the scourge...
Author
On Shelf
Lake Hiawatha Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION MORRIS
1 available
FICTION MORRIS
1 available
Description
"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...
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Fiction
FICTION ROBINSON
1 available
FICTION ROBINSON
1 available
Description
"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...
Author
Formats:
Description
A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator.
A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator. Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) possessed one of the twentieth century's most astonishing voices. In this first major biography since Fitzgerald's death, historian Judith Tick offers a sublime portrait of this ambitious risk-taker whose exceptional...
Author
Description
"During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed one in seven people, white nurses at Sea View, New York's largest municipal hospital, began quitting. Desperate to avert a public health crisis, city officials summoned Black southern nurses, luring them with promises of good pay, a career, and an escape from the strictures of Jim Crow. But after arriving, they found themselves on an isolated hilltop in the remote borough of Staten Island,...
8) Black Buck
Author
Series
Read with Jenna volume 2021
On Shelf
Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Fiction
FICTION ASKARIPOUR
1 available
FICTION ASKARIPOUR
1 available
On Shelf
Lake Hiawatha Library - Adult Media
PLAYAWAY FICTION ASKARIPOUR
1 available
PLAYAWAY FICTION ASKARIPOUR
1 available
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Read with Jenna volume 2022
On Shelf
Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Fiction
FICTION WILKERSON
1 available
FICTION WILKERSON
1 available
Description
"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...
Author
On Shelf
Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Nonfiction
277.3 GAT
1 available
277.3 GAT
1 available
Lake Hiawatha Library - Adult Nonfiction
277.3 GAT
1 available
277.3 GAT
1 available
Description
From the earliest days of slavery, when enslaved people were allowed to worship at all, their meetinghouses were subject to surveillance and destruction. Church burnings and bombings by anti-Black racists have continued to the present day, a hallmark of the violent effort to suppress the African American struggle for equality. Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries, from the intersection of Christianity and the transatlantic...
Author
Series
Formats:
On Shelf
Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Fiction
FICTION ADJEI-BRENYAH,NANA
1 available
FICTION ADJEI-BRENYAH,NANA
1 available
Lake Hiawatha Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION ADJEI-BRENYAH,NANA
1 available
FICTION ADJEI-BRENYAH,NANA
1 available
Description
"The explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black, about two top women gladiators fighting for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara "Hurricane Staxxx" Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly-popular, highly-controversial, profit-raising...
12) Crook manifesto
Author
Series
Ray Carney volume 2
On Shelf
Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Fiction - New
FICTION WHITEHEAD, COLSON
1 available
FICTION WHITEHEAD, COLSON
1 available
Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHITEHEAD, COLSON
1 available
FICTION WHITEHEAD, COLSON
1 available
Lake Hiawatha Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION WHITEHEAD, COLSON
2 available
FICTION WHITEHEAD, COLSON
2 available
Description
"It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown, furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over. It's strictly the straight-and-narrow for him until he needs...
Author
Formats:
Description
REESE'S BOOK CLUB MAY 2023 PICK
BOOK OF THE MONTH MAY 2023 PICK
A multigenerational saga that traverses the glamour of old Hollywood and the seductive draw of modern-day showbiz
When Kitty Karr Tate, a White icon of the silver screen, dies and bequeaths her multimillion-dollar estate to the St. John sisters, three young, wealthy Black women, it prompts questions. Lots of questions.
A celebrity in her own right,
14) Finding me
Author
Series
Oprah's Book Club 2.0 volume 2022
On Shelf
Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Nonfiction
BIOGRAPHY DAVIS, VIOLA
1 available
BIOGRAPHY DAVIS, VIOLA
1 available
On Shelf
Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Nonfiction - Biography
LARGE PRINT BIOGRAPHY DAVIS, VIOLA
1 available
LARGE PRINT BIOGRAPHY DAVIS, VIOLA
1 available
On Shelf
Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Media - Audiobooks
PLAYAWAY BIOGRAPHY DAVIS
1 available
PLAYAWAY BIOGRAPHY DAVIS
1 available
Description
"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...
Formats:
On Shelf
Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Nonfiction
973.0496 KEN
1 available
973.0496 KEN
1 available
Lake Hiawatha Library - Adult Nonfiction
973.0496 KEN
1 available
973.0496 KEN
1 available
Description
A chorus of extraordinary voices tells one of history's great epics: The four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present. The story begins in 1619 - a year before the Mayflower dropped anchor off Cape Cod - when the White Lion disgorges "some 20 and odd Negroes" onto the shores of Virginia, inaugurating the African presence in what would become the United States. It takes us to the present, when African Americans, descendants...
16) Glory be
Author
Series
Glory Broussard mystery volume 1
Description
"It's a hot and sticky Sunday in Lafayette, Louisiana, and Glory has settled into her usual after-church routine, meeting gamblers at the local coffee shop, where she works as a small-time bookie. Sitting at her corner table, Glory hears that her best friend--a nun beloved by the community--has been found dead in her apartment. When police declare the mysterious death a suicide, Glory is convinced that there must be more to the story. With her reluctant...
Author
Formats:
On Shelf
Lake Hiawatha Library - Adult Nonfiction
940.5408 DEL
1 available
940.5408 DEL
1 available
Description
"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...
18) Harlem shuffle
Author
On Shelf
Parsippany Library (Main Library) - Adult Media
PLAYAWAY FICTION WHITEHEAD
1 available
PLAYAWAY FICTION WHITEHEAD
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...
Author
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...
Author
Formats:
Description
In Jason Mott's Hell of a Book, a Black author sets out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives Hell of a Book and is the scaffolding of something much larger and urgent: since Mott's novel also tells the story of Soot, a young Black boy living in a rural town in the recent past, and The Kid, a possibly imaginary child who appears to the author on his tour. As these characters' stories build and build...