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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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2019., Drawn & Quarterly Call No: GN Hot Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Presents a collection of comic strips centered around the experiences of African American women. With recreated advertisements for products to relax naturally curly hair and stories of black women finding their own racial identity and sense of self, these short stories present revelations about race and class in short vignettes.
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2022., Adolescent, Ember Call No: Realistic Fic Garrett Edition: First Ember edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Josie Wright wins a contest to write a celebrity profile piece for a popular magazine and finds her life drastically changing--she is taken on a multi-city tour and gets to rub elbows with the famous and glamorous while writing about the handsome, young, new celebrity Marius Canet. However, when one young actress after another confides a terrible secret to Josie--secrets having to do with Marius' conduct with women--she has to wonder if she is in over her head.
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2019., Grand Central Publishing Call No: Sci Fi Fic Butler Genre: Science fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Parable Of The Sower Volume: book 1Summary Note: When an environmental and economic crisis leads to social chaos and violence in California, fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina, who feels others' pain as her own, loses her family and home, and flees into the unprotected American landscape. What begins as a flight for survival soon leads to something more.
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[2019]., Grand Central Publishing Call No: Sci Fi Fic Butler Genre: Science fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In 2032, Lauren Olamina's journals reflect an increasingly violent society where she searches for her abducted daughter Larkin, and tries to resist her community while promoting the religious group she has recently founded.
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[2021]., Berkley Call No: Historical Fic Benedict Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Presents a historical fiction account of the life of Belle da Costa Greene, the personal librarian for J.P. Morgan, who curated the library collection for the Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle's high-profile position causes her to mingle with the elite of early twentieth century New York society and makes her cognizant that she must hide her black identity, lest it cause her to lose career and credibility.
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2021., Adolescent, Tor Teen Call No: Fantasy Fic Morrow Edition: First trade paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In a modern world where sirens are persecuted, Tavia Phillips chooses to stay silent and communicates with sign language. Her sister-by-choice, Effie Calhoun Freeman, plays a mermaid at a local Renaissance fair and has strange abilities that grow stronger each day. When the murder of a local black girl is justified by accusations that she's a siren, both Tavia and Effie take a stand, using powers that may save them or lead to their demise.
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2022., Riverhead Books Call No: Historical Fic Bennett Edition: First Riverhead trade paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: The Vignes sisters ran away from their small, southern black town at the age of sixteen. Despite being identical twins, one returns to their small town many years later, with a black daughter. The other sister passes for white and her husband and neighbors know nothing about her past. As the years pass and the sisters' daughters meet, all four women grapple with the influence of the past and how it can shape decisions, desires, and expectations.
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[2017]., Viking Call No: YOUNG ADULT FIC CLE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A coming-of-age novel about a young woman grappling with her mother's death, and her deeply felt meditations on race, sex, family, and country.
