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Ã2021., Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC Call No: HISTORICAL FIC WHI Edition: 1st Anchor Bks. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A furniture salesman in 1960s Harlem becomes a fence for shady cops, local gangsters, and low-life pornographers after his cousin involves him in a failed heist.
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[2019]., Doubleday Call No: HISTORICAL F WHI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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[2019]., Doubleday Call No: Historical FIC Whitehead Edition: First edition. Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: For African American high school student Elwood Curtis the arrival of the Civil Rights Movement in his black enclave in Frenchtown in Tallahassee, Florida, brings with it the words of Martin Luther King, Jr.: "as good as anyone." Elwood takes this to heart, but one mistake gets him sentenced to juvenile reformatory Nickel Academy. There, the sadistic staff abuses the students and beats them, and any boy who resists will disappear "out back." Horrified, Elwood tries to hold on to Dr. King's optimism, but his only friend, Turner, thinks he is worse than naive and throws himself into schemes and back stabbing.
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Ã2019., Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Edition: 1st Anchor Bks. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Follows the experiences of two African-American teenagers at an abusive reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida"--OCLC.
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[2016]., Doubleday Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: "Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels."--Provided by publisher.
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[2016]., Doubleday Call No: Historical FIC Whitehead Edition: First edition. Genre: Historical Availability:3 of 4 At Location(s) Summary Note: Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom.--
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[2016], Doubleday Call No: HISTORICAL F WHI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
