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2018., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Call No: REALISTIC F JON Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Jones presents a brilliant examination of how a justice system that criminalizes black men destroys families, but how love can transcend even our darkest moments.
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2018., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Call No: Young Adult FIC JON Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Newlyweds Celestial and Roy, the living embodiment of the New South, are settling into the routine of their life together when Roy is sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. A ... look into the lives of people who are bound and separated by forces beyond their control"--Provided by publisher.
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2021., Pre-adolescent, Little, Brown and Company Call No: Sports Fic Rhodes Edition: First trade paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Twelve-year-old Donte is the darker-skinned brother of Trey, which in his racist, mostly-white school has earned him the nickname Black Brother. When the captain of the school fencing team successfully frames him for something he didn't do, Donte is arrested and suspended from school. Joining a local youth center, Donte meets former Olympic fencer Arden Jones and begins training to defeat his school bully and find courage to confront the racist system that got him arrested.
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By Abrams, Amir[2014]., Juvenile, Dafina KTeen Books Call No: Romance FIC Abrams Genre: Romance Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Sixteen-year-old Kennedy Simms, a good, by-the-rules type of girl, begins going bad, hanging with her new best friend and her gangster boyfriend. She thinks she will be okay as long as her friends and boyfriend stick by her, but their loyalty will be questioned and Kennedy may be left holding the bag.
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[2021]., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray Call No: Realistic Fic Thomas Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Maverick "Mav" Carter begins dealing drugs for the King Lords as a way to help support his family while his father is in jail. When he learns that his girlfriend is pregnant, his focus shifts and he tries to make a clean break from drug dealing. However, a loved one's murder makes it difficult to forget his old ties, and he must figure out for himself the meaning of loyalty, manhood, and responsibility.
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2023., Adolescent, West 44 Books, an imprint of Enslow Pub. Call No: YOUNG ADULT FIC BAR Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Eric Wallace is sick of secrets. As a Black queer teen, Eric's efforts to conform to fit his parents' and classmates' expectations have left him exhausted by the summer after senior year. When Eric finds out his pastor father has been cheating on his mother, his picture-perfect family crumbles. Eric rages at the double standards he's been held to. He travels to Los Angeles with his best friends to escape his home life and finally start to live on his own terms-- and with his own style"--Back cover.
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[2023]., Adolescent, Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: HORROR FIC JAC Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When the murder of his classmate at an elite boarding school seems to be forgotten overnight, seventeen-year-old Douglas must confront centuries of secrets in the school's past and a vengeful creature in the forest surrounding the campus.
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c2001., Doubleday Call No: Historical FIC Durham Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Gabriel Lynch, an African-American teenager who has moved with his mother from New York to live on his stepfather's Kansas homestead, brings serious trouble down upon himself and his family when he leaves the farm to join a group of cowboys who turn out to be a gang of criminals.
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2015., Adolescent, Arthur A. Levine Books Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Seattle in 1937 two seventeen-year-olds, Henry, who is white, and Flora, who is African-American, become the unwitting pawns in a game played by two immortal figures, Love and Death, where they must choose each other at the end, or one of them will die.
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-- Game of Love & Death2015., Adolescent, Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed., May 2015. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Seattle in 1937 two seventeen-year-olds, Henry, who is white, and Flora, who is African-American, become the unwitting pawns in a game played by two immortal figures, Love and Death, where they must choose each other at the end, or one of them will die.
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-- Game of Love & Death2015., Adolescent, Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc Call No: ROMANCE Edition: 1st ed., May 2015. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Seattle in 1937 two seventeen-year-olds, Henry, who is white, and Flora, who is African-American, become the unwitting pawns in a game played by two immortal figures, Love and Death, where they must choose each other at the end, or one of them will die.
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-- Game of Love & Death2015., Adolescent, Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. Call No: FANTASY FIC BRO Edition: 1st ed., May 2015. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Seattle in 1937 two seventeen-year-olds, Henry, who is white, and Flora, who is African-American, become the unwitting pawns in a game played by two immortal figures, Love and Death, where they must choose each other at the end, or one of them will die.
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c1995., Modern Library Call No: 813 .54 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The Modern Library of the world's best books
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[2019]., Pre-adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: JUV001000 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When adventurous cousins Otto and Sheed Alston accidentally extend the last day of summer by freezing time, they find the secrets between the unmoving seconds are not as much fun as they expected.
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1991., Northeastern University Press Call No: Literature FIC WRIGHT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An unexpurgated version of twentieth-century African-American writer Richard Wright's 1963 novel, which chronicles a day in the life of an African-American postal clerk in Depression era Chicago.
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1993., Vintage Contemporaries / Vintage Books Call No: Literature FIC GAINES Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s, Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shootout in which three men are killed; the only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, who left his hometown for the university, has returned to the plantation school to teach. As he struggles with his decision whether to stay or escape to another state, his aunt and Jefferson's godmother persuade him to visit Jefferson in his cell and impart his learning and his pride to Jefferson before his death. In the end, the two men forge a bond as they both come to understand the simple heroism of resisting and defying the expected.
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1994, c1993., Vintage Contemporaries Call No: Class Set FIC GAI Edition: 1st Vintage contemporaries ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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1994., Vintage Books : a division of Random House Call No: HISTORICAL F GAI Edition: 1st Vintage Contemp Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s)
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1994, c1993., Vintage Books Call No: 813 .54 Edition: 1st Vintage contemp Availability:5 of 5 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the story of a young African-American man sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit, and a teacher who tries to impart to him his learning and pride before the execution.