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2018. | First edition. | 308 pages ; 24 cm | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Fiction 1 available F JONES, T. | |
2019. | First paperback edition. | 317 pages ; 21 cm | Available from another library
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Villa Park Public Library - Adult AV 1 available
AUDIO CD F JONES, T.
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[2018] | Unabridged. | HighBridge Audio | 7 audio discs (9 hr.) : CD audio, digital, 1.4 m/s, stereo ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Adult AV 1 available AUDIO CD F JONES, T. |
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2018 | Algonquin Books | English | Available Online
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[2020] | 1 book club kit (contents vary). | English | Available from another library
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Villa Park Public Library - Large Type 1 available
LARGE PRINT F JONES, T.
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2018. | Large print edition. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company | 471 (large print) ; 23 cm. | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Large Type 1 available LARGE PRINT F JONES, T. |
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[2018] | Findaway World, LLC | 1 audio media player : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | Available from another library
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"Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft...
2) Americanah
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2013. | First edition. | Alfred A. Knopf | 477 pages ; 25 cm | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Fiction 1 available F ADICHIE, C. | |
2014. | First Anchor Books edition. | Anchor Books | 588 pages ; 21 cm | Available from another library
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[2014] | Unabridged. | Recorded Books | 15 audio discs (approximately 17 hours, 45 minutes) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available from another library
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Thorndike Press | 793 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Large Type 1 available LARGE PRINT F ADICHIE, C. | |
Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning | 791 pages (large print) ; 22 cm. | Available from another library
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"A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected"--
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1999. | Second Ballantine Books hardcover edition. | One World | xxviii, 500 pages ; 25 cm | Available from another library
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[1999] | First Ballantine books edition. | Ballantine Books | xxx, 466 pages ; 18 cm | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Fiction 1 available HS 320.54 X | |
1992. | First Ballantine Books trade edition. | Ballantine Books | xv, 527 pages ; 21 cm. | Available from another library
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1992. | First Ballantine Books hardcover edition. | Ballantine Books | xii, 500 pages ; 25 cm | Available from another library
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2015. | First Ballantine Books mass market edition. | Ballantine Books | xxx, 466 pages ; 18 cm | Available from another library
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[1973] | Ballantine Books | xix, 460 pages ; 18 cm | Available from another library
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[1999] | Ballantine Books | xxviii, 500 pages ; 25 cm | Available from another library
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[1965] | Grove Press | xvi, 455 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm | Available from another library
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2001. | Penguin Books | 512 pages ; 20 cm. | Available from another library
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1989. | Ballantine Books | xiv, 460 pages ; 18 cm | Available from another library
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[2020] | Unabridged. | Brilliance Audio | 14 audio discs (17 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available from another library
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2015 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2015 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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The Black leader discusses his political philosophy and reveals details of his life, shedding light on the ideas that enabled him to gain the
"In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American dream...
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[2014] | First Edition. | Harper Perennial | xiv, 320 pages ; 21 cm | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 1 available 814.6 GAY | |
2017. | Olive Editions | xvii, 380 pages ; 19 cm | Available from another library
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2014 | OverDrive | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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2014 | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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"From Roxane Gay comes this collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation. 'Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink--all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the September issue.' ...
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[2016] | First edition. | Random House | 382 pages ; 25 cm | Available from another library
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[2017] | Random House Inc | 397 pages ; 21 cm. | Available from another library
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[2016] | Unabridged. | Penguin Random House | 10 audio discs (12 hr., 14 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available from another library
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2016 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2016. | Large print edition. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning | 605 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. | English | Available from another library
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[2017] | Findaway World, LLC | 1 audio media player (approx. 12 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | Available from another library
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When Jende Jonga journeys to New York City from Cameroon in 2004 on a visitors' visa in hopes of obtaining a green card, he's sure his life will only improve. After saving up enough money to bring over Jende's wife, Neni, and six-year-old son, the family moves into an apartment in Harlem. Then Jende hits the jackpot in 2007 when he lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a wealthy Lehman Brothers executive. But working for the Edwardses isn't...
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2004. | First Vintage International edition. | Vintage International | xix, 321 pages ; 21 cm | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Fiction 1 available F MORRISON, T. | |
2006. | Alfred A. Knopf | xxxi, 316 pages ; 22 cm. | Available from another library
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1987. | First edition. | Alfred A. Knopf | 275 pages ; 24 cm | Available from another library
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1988. | New American library | 275 pages ; 21 cm | Available from another library
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1998. | Gift edition. | A.A. Knopf | 321 pages ; 22 cm | Available from another library
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2019. | Special edition. | Alfred A. Knopf | 275 pages ; 25 cm | Available from another library
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2006. | Everyman's Library | xxxi, 316 pages ; 22 cm. | Available from another library
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1998. | Penguin | 275 pages ; 21 cm |
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[2006] | Books on Tape | 10 audio discs (approximately 73 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | Available from another library
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[2007] | Random House Audio | 10 audio discs (12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | Available from another library
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[1998] | Unabridged. | Random House Audio | 10 audio discs (12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | Available from another library
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2007 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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1998. | First Large Print edition. | Random House Large Print in association with Alfred A. Knopf | 379 pages ; 24 cm | Available from another library
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[1987] | Large print edition. | Thorndike Press | 472 pages (large print) ; pa | Available from another library
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After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest novel, a dazzling achievement, and the most spellbinding reading experience of the...
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[2015] | First edition. | Spiegel & Grau | 152 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm | English | Available from another library
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[2015] | Unabridged. | Random House Audio : | 3 audio discs (3 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available from another library
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2015 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Villa Park Public Library - Large Type 1 available
LARGE PRINT 305.8 COA
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2016. | Large print edition. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale Cengage Learning | 337 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm. | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Large Type 1 available LARGE PRINT 305.8 COA |
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"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him -- most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear. What were they afraid of? In Tremble for My Country, Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings -- moments...
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[2019] | 2019 Spiegel & Grau trade paperback edition. | xiv, 288 pages ; 21 cm | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 1 available 792.7028 NOAH | |
2016. | First edition. | x, 288 pages ; 25 cm | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 1 available 792.7028 NOAH |
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Villa Park Public Library - Adult AV 1 available
AUDIO CD 792.7028 NOAH
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[2016] | Unabridged. | Brilliance Audio, Inc | 7 audio discs (528 min.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Adult AV 1 available AUDIO CD 792.7028 NOAH |
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[2016] | Unabridged. | Brilliance Audio | 1 audio disc (mp3 format) (8 hr., 46 min.) ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available from another library
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2016 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2020 | 1 book club kit (contents vary). | Available from another library
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2019 | 1 kit (8 books) ; in reinforced, zippered bag 36 x 48 x 15 cm + 1 reading group guide sheet | Available from another library
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[2018] | Unabridged. | Findaway World, LLC | 1 audio media player (approximately 9 hours) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | Available from another library
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Noah's path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother, at the time such a union was punishable by five years in prison. As he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist, his mother is determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. With an incisive...
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[2014] | Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) | 336 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 22 cm | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Juvenile Non-Fiction 1 available J811 WOODSON | |
2016. | Puffin Books | 349 pages : genealogical tables ; 21 cm | Available from another library
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Villa Park Public Library - Juvenile Audiobooks 1 available
AUDIO CD J811 WOODSON
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[2014] | Unabridged. | Listening Library | 4 audio discs (4 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Juvenile Audiobooks 1 available AUDIO CD J811 WOODSON |
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2014 | Penguin Young Readers Group | English | Available Online
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Villa Park Public Library - Juvenile Non-Fiction 1 available
LARGE PRINT J811 WOODSON
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[2017] | Large print edition. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company | 411 pages (large print) : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Juvenile Non-Fiction 1 available LARGE PRINT J811 WOODSON |
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Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child's soul as she searches for her place in the world. Woodson's...
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Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 2 available
305.5122 WIL
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[2020] | First edition. | Random House | xvii, 476 pages ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 2 available 305.5122 WIL |
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[2020] | Unabridged. | Random House Audio | 12 audio discs (approximately 14 hr., 27 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available from another library
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2020 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
9 copies, 17 people are on the wait list.
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2021. | Large print edition. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company | 709 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. | English | Available from another library
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"As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not." In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched...
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Legacy of Orisha volume 1
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Villa Park Public Library - Fiction 1 available
HS ADEYEMI, T.
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2018. | First edition. | Henry Holt and Company | 531 pages : maps ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Fiction 1 available HS ADEYEMI, T. |
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2018. | Unabridged. | Macmillan Audio | 14 audio discs (approximately 18 hours) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available from another library
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2018 | Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) | English | Available Online
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[2018] | Unabridged. | Playaway | 1 audio media player (18 hrs.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | Available from another library
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.
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Villa Park Public Library - Fiction 1 available
F MOSLEY, W.
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2018. | First edition. | Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company | 322 pages ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Fiction 1 available F MOSLEY, W. |
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[2018] | Unabridged. | Hachette Audio | 6 audio discs (ca. 465 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available from another library
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2018 | Little, Brown and Company | English | Available Online
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2018. | Large print edition, First edition. | Mullholland Books, Little, Brown and Company | 419 pages (large print) ; 25 cm | English | Available from another library
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[2018] | Unabridged. | Playaway | 1 sound media player (approximately 7 hr., 30 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | Available from another library
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Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's finest investigators, until, dispatched to arrest a well-heeled car thief, he is framed for assault by his enemies within the NYPD, a charge which lands him in solitary at Rikers Island.A decade later, King is a private detective, running his agency with the help of his teenage daughter, Aja-Denise. Broken by the brutality he suffered and committed in equal measure while behind bars, his work and his daughter...
13) The fifth season
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Broken Earth novels volume 1
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Villa Park Public Library - Sci-Fi/Fantasy 1 available
SF JEMISIN, N.
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2015. | First edition. | Orbit | 498 pages ; 21 cm. | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Sci-Fi/Fantasy 1 available SF JEMISIN, N. |
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Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, masquerading as an ordinary schoolteacher in a quiet small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Mighty Sanze, the empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock for a thousand years, collapses as its greatest city is destroyed by a madman's vengeance. And worst of all, across the heartland of the world's sole continent,...
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Everyman's library volume 371
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2013. | First Vintage International paperback edition. | Vintage International | 226 pages ; 21 cm | Available from another library
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2005. | Dial Press Trade Paperbacks | 226 pages ; 21 cm | Available from another library
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1995. | 1995 Modern Library edition. | Modern Library | vii, 291 pages ; 20 cm | Available from another library
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2016. | Alfred A. Knopf | xxvii, 236 pages ; 22 cm. | Available from another library
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[1985] | Dell | 221 pages ; 18 cm | Available from another library
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2013. | Vintage International mass market edition. | Vintage International | 263 pages ; 18 cm | Available from another library
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1980. | Dell mass market edition. | Bantam Dell | 263 pages ; 18 cm | Available from another library
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1963, c1953, t.p. 1963 | Dial Press | 253 pages ; 21 cm | Available from another library
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[1985] | Dell mass market edition, 1980. | Bantam Dell | 263 pages ; 18 cm | Available from another library
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[2013] | Unabridged. | AudioGO | 7 audio discs (8 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available from another library
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2013 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Blackstone Publishing | English | Available Online
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2013 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"The haunting coming-of-age story that has become a major American classic, now in an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition. Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was James Baldwin's first major work, based in part on his own childhood in Harlem. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old...
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2013 | 417 pages ; 24 cm | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Fiction 1 available F MCBRIDE, J. | |||
2014. | First Riverhead trade paperback edition. | Riverhead Books | 458 pages ; 21 cm | Available from another library
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2020. | Riverhead trade paperback Showtime tie-in edition. | Riverhead Books | 458 pages ; 21 cm | Available from another library
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[2014] | Penguin Audio | 14 audio discs (approximately 14 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | Available from another library
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2013. | Unabridged. | Dreamscape Media | 12 audio discs (876 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | Available from another library
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2013 | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2013. | Large print edition. | Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning | 641 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. | English | Available from another library
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Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1856 - a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces - when legendary abolitionist John Brown arrives. When an argument between Brown and Henry's master turns violent, Henry is forced to leave town - along with Brown, who believes Henry to be a girl and his good-luck charm. Over the ensuing months, Henry, whom Brown nicknames Little Onion, conceals his true identity to stay...
16) The hate u give
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[2017] | First edition. | Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers | 444 pages ; 22 cm | Available from another library
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2018. | Movie tie-in edition. | Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | 473 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm | Available from another library
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2018. | Collector's edition. | Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | 499 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm | Available from another library
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2018. | Walker Books | 437 pages ; 20 cm | Available from another library
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Harper Collins Publishers | 10 audio discs (11 hr., 45 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | Available from another library
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HarperCollins | 9 audio discs (approximately 705 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | Available from another library
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[2017] | Unabridged. | HarperCollins | 1 audio disc (mp3 format) (11 3/4 hr.) : digital, MP3 ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available from another library
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2017 | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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2017. | Large print edition. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning | 531 pages (large print) ; 23 cm | English | Available from another library
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[2017] | Unabridged. | Findaway World, LLC | 1 audio media player (690 min) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | Available from another library
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"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...
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2016. | Knopf | 305 pages ; 24 cm | Available from another library
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2017. | First Vintage Books edition. | Vintage Books | 305 pages ; 21 cm | Available from another library
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[2016] | Unabridged. | Books on Tape | 11 audio discs (13 hr., 11 min.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available from another library
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2016 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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[2016] | First large print edition. | Random House Large Print | 468 pages (large print) ; 24 cm | English | Available from another library
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[2016] | Unabridged. | Findaway World, LLC | 1 audio media player (approximately 13 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | Available from another library
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"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be captured in a raid...
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[2019] | One World | viii, 305 pages ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 1 available 305.8 KEN |
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[2020] | Unabridged. | Random House Audio | 9 audio discs (approximately 10 hr., 44 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available from another library
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2019 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
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[2020] | First large print edition. | Random House Large Print | viii, 610 pages (large print) ; 21 cm | English | Available from another library
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""The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it -- and then dismantle it." Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America -- but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an...
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[1970] | Random House | 281 pages ; 22 cm | On Shelf
Villa Park Public Library - Nonfiction 1 available 818.54 ANGELOU | ||
[2015]. | Random House | 281 pages ; 22 cm | Available from another library
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2009. | Ballantine Books mass market edition. | Ballantine Books | 289 pages ; 18 cm | Available from another library
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2009. | Random House trade paperback edition. | Random House Trade Paperbacks | 289 pages ; 21 cm | Available from another library
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1997. | Bantam trade edition. | Bantam Books | 290 pages ; 21 cm | Available from another library
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2015. | Ballantine books mass market edition. | Ballantine Books | ix, 289 pages ; 18 cm | Available from another library
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1971, c1969 | Bantam Books | 246 pages ; 18 cm | Available from another library
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1993. | Bantam Books | 289 pages ; 18 cm | Available from another library
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1995. | Heinemann | 244 pages ; 20 cm. | Available from another library
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[1986] | Random House Audiobooks | 2 audiocassettes (179 min.) : analog, Dolby processed | English | Available from another library
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[2011] | Library edition. | Books on Tape | 8 audio discs (approximately 77 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | Available from another library
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[1996] | Random House Audiobooks | 3 audio discs (approximately 180 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | Available from another library
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2009 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Description
Maya Angelou's autobiographical account of her childhood and early youth in 1930s America is an evocation of a black girl's struggle against her oppressors.
20) Kindred
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[2003] | Twenty-fifth anniversary edition. | Beacon Press | 287 pages ; 21 cm. | Available from another library
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[2009?] | Beacon Press | 264 pages ; 22 cm | Available from another library
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[1988] | Beacon Press | xxvii, 264 pages ; 21 cm. | Available from another library
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1979. | First edition. | Doubleday & Company, Inc | 264 pages ; 22 cm |
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[1998] | Recorded Books | 9 audio discs (11 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available from another library
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2004 | OverDrive | Beacon Press | English | Available Online
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2004 | Beacon Press | English | Available Online
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[1998] | Recorded Books | 1 audio media player (11 hr.) : digital ; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 cm + 1 set of earphones + 1 AAA battery | English |
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Description
Dana, a Black woman, finds herself repeatedly transported to the antebellum South, where she must make sure that Rufus, the plantation owner's son, survives to father Dana's ancestor.
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned...