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1. African Town: inspired by the true story of the last American slave ship

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Author:
Latham, Irene
Publisher:
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date:
2022
Lexile measure:
790L
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English
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Chronicles the story of the last Africans brought illegally to the United States on the Clotilda in 1860

2. Follow me down to Nicodemus town: based on the history of the African American pioneer settlement

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Author:
LaFaye, A.
Publisher:
Albert Whitman and Company
Pub. Date:
2018
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780L
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English
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When Dede sees a notice offering land for black people in Kansas, her family decides to quit sharecropping and become homesteading pioneers.

3. Going home to Nicodemus: the story of an African American frontier town and the pioneers who settled it

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Author:
Chu, Daniel
Publisher:
J. Messner
Pub. Date:
c1994
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English
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4. An African Journey: Music From Cairo to Cape Town

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Author:
Various Artists (Musical group)
Publisher:
ARC
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
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5. Kane County, Illinois African American Civil War Vets

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Author:
Raleigh Sutton Deer Meadow South of Town
Publisher:
Newman Springs Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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Prior to the Civil War, it was not allowed to have African Americans in the military, but some were accepted into the Navy. It was thought that they had neither the courage or the discipline to make good soldiers and follow orders. In the beginning the Union had man-power problems and with the draft riots and the initial victories of the Confederacy posed a huge problem. African Americans were considered as a last result. On January 1, 1863, the final...

6. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

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Author:
McBride, James, 1957-
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English
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"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...

7. To kill a mockingbird

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Author:
Lee, Harper
Series:
myPerspectives
To Kill a Mockingbird volume 1
Lexile measure:
790L
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English
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4.6 stars
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"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s....

8. The help

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Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.

9. The help

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Author:
Stockett, Kathryn
Series:
Thorndike Press large print basic
Language:
English
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In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.

10. The extraordinary life of Sam Hell: a novel

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Dugoni, Robert
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English
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Born with ocular albinism, small-town eye doctor Sam Hill must finally face a past tragedy that caused him to turn his back on his friends, his hometown, and the life he'd always known--a journey that makes him realize what truly matters.

11. The secret life of bees

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Author:
Kidd, Sue Monk
Lexile measure:
840L
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English
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14-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father and isolated on their South Carolina peach farm, spends hours imagining a blissful infancy when she was loved and nurtured by her mother, Deborah, whom she barely remembers. These consoling fantasies are her heart's answer to the family story that as a child, in unclear circumstances, Lily accidentally shot and killed her mother. All Lily has left of Deborah is a strange image of a Black Madonna, with...

12. The secret life of bees

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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
2009
Language:
English
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Set in a small southern town in 1964, fourteen-year-old Lily, haunted by the death of her mother, leaves home to escape her cruel father to live with their African American housekeeper and the Boatwright sisters.

13. Tom Clancy: weapons grade

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Author:
Bentley, Don
Series:
Jack Ryan Jr. novel volume 17
Jack Ryan Jr. novel volume 11
Thorndike Press large print high octane
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English
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The aftermath of a shocking crime sends Jack Ryan, Jr., down a path that leads to international destruction in the latest entry in this #1 New York Times bestselling series. The quiet of a Texas night is shattered by the sounds of screeching brakes, crumpling metal and, most shockingly, rapid gunfire. The auto accident Jack Ryan Jr thought he witnessed turned out to be a professional hit. Jack may be too late to save the victim, but he'll be damned...

14. Dreams from my father: a story of race and inheritance

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Author:
Obama, Barack
Lexile measure:
910L
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English
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4 stars
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Now adapted for young adults, the #1 New York times best-selling memoir offers an intimate look at Barack Obama's early days, tracing the future 44th president's odyssey through family, race, and identity. The son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. Obama retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of...

15. Sula

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Author:
Morrison, Toni
Series:
Plume contemporary fiction
Lexile measure:
1050L
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Traces the lives of two African-American women who grew up together in a small Ohio town and chose different lifestyles as adults.

16. Remember the Titans

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Remember the Titans is a real-life drama with a rousing celebration of how a town torn apart by resentment, friction and mistrust comes together in triumphant harmony. The year is 1971. After leading his team to fifteen winning seasons, football coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone, tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. How these two men overcome their differences, and turn a group of hostile...

17. Robert B. Parker's colorblind

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Author:
Coleman, Reed Farrel, 1956-
Series:
Jesse Stone novels volume 17
Thorndike Press large print core
Language:
English
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Jesse Stone is back on the job after a stint in rehab, and the road to recovery is immediately made bumpy by a series of disturbing and apparently racially motivated crimes, beginning with the murder of an African American woman. Then, Jesse's own deputy Alisha--the first black woman hired by the Paradise police force--becomes the target of a sophisticated frame-up. As he and his team work tirelessly to unravel the truth, he has to wonder if this...

18. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Author:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Series:
Oxford world's classics
Vintage classics
Rainbow classics
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Lexile measure:
990L
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3.2 stars
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"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen In recent years, neither the persistent effort to "clean up" the racial epithets in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor its consistent use in the classroom have diminished, highlighting the novel's wide-ranging influence and its continued importance in American society. An incomparable adventure story, it is a vignette of...

19. The message

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Author:
Coates, Ta-Nehisi
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English
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"Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell's classic Politics and the English Language, but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how our stories - our reporting and imaginative narratives and mythmaking - expose and distort our realities. The first of the book's three intertwining essays is set in Dakar, Senegal. Despite being raised as a strict Afrocentrist - and named for a Nubian pharaoh...

20. The house of Lincoln: a novel

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Author:
Horan, Nancy
Series:
Thorndike Press large print historical fiction
Language:
English
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"An unprecedented view of Lincoln's Springfield from the acclaimed and bestselling author of Loving Frank. Nancy Horan, author of the million-copy New York Times bestseller Loving Frank, returns with a sweeping historical novel, which tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's ascendance from rumpled lawyer to U.S. president to the Great Emancipator through the eyes of a young asylum-seeker who arrives in Lincoln's home of Springfield from Madeira, Portugal....
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