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African American & Black Authors

Starting Wednesday, February 2, we will be featuring items from our collection which were written by African American and black authors.

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry; Robert Nemiroff (Foreword by)
Call Number: PS3515 .A515 A6 1987
Publication Date: 1987
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Call Number: PS3610.O63 A84 2018
Publication Date: 2018
As Brave As You by Jason Reynolds
Call Number: Juvenile PZ7 .R33593 A7 2016
Publication Date: 2016
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X; Alex Haley (As told to)
Call Number: BP223 .Z8 L57943 1992B
Publication Date: 1992
Becoming Billie Holiday by Carole Boston Weatherford; Floyd Cooper (Illustrator)
Call Number: Juvenile PZ7.5 .W31 B4 2008
Publication Date: 2008
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
Call Number: PS3613.B84 B44 2015
Publication Date: 2016
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Call Number: PS3563 .O8749 B4 1988
Publication Date: 1987
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Call Number: E185.615 .C6335 2015
Publication Date: 2015
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
Call Number: PR9265.9.J358 B58 2019
Publication Date: 2019
Black Resonance : iconic women singers and African American literature by Emily J. Lordi
Call Number: ONLINE
Publication Date: 2013
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Call Number: Juvenile PS3573 .B64524 Z46 2014
Publication Date: 2014
The care and feeding of ravenously hungry girls by Anissa Gray
Call Number: ONLINE
Publication Date: 2019
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Call Number: Young Adult PZ7.1.A24 C45 2018
Publication Date: 2018
Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
Call Number: Young Adult PZ7.5.A35 C43 2020
Publication Date: 2020
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Call Number: PS3573 .A425 C6 1982
Publication Date: 1982
The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Gene Andrew Jarrett
Call Number: ONLINE
Publication Date: 2006
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
Call Number: Young Adult PZ7.5 .A44 C7 2014
Publication Date: 2014
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Call Number: Young Adult PZ7.1.S7546 D437 2017
Publication Date: 2017
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
Call Number: PS3613.C28 D43 2020
Publication Date: 2020
Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Call Number: Juvenile PZ7.C622812 F563 2018
Publication Date: 2018
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
Call Number: PS3573.H4768 H37 2021
Publication Date: 2021
Heaven by Angela Johnson
Call Number: Juvenile PZ7 .J629 H43 1998
Publication Date: 1998
Her Stories by Virginia Hamilton; Leo Dillon (Illustrator); Diane Dillon (Illustrator)
Call Number: Picture books PZ8.1 .H154 H47 1995
Publication Date: 1995
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Call Number: PS3607 .Y37 H66 2016
Publication Date: 2016
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou; Oprah Winfrey (Foreword by)
Call Number: PS3551 .N464 Z466 1969
Publication Date: 2002
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Call Number: PS3552 .A45 I3
Publication Date: 1974
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Call Number: PS3555 .L625 I5 1952B
Publication Date: 1952
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley
Call Number: PS3563 .O88456 L37 2010
Publication Date: 2010
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Call Number: Young Adult PZ7.5.R49 L66 2017
Publication Date: 2017
Never Forgotten by Patricia C. McKissack
Call Number: Picture books PZ7.5 .M45 N48 2011
Publication Date: 2011
The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) by Colson Whitehead
Call Number: PS3573.H4768 N53 2019
Publication Date: 2019
The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison
Call Number: ONLINE
Publication Date: 2017
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Call Number: PS3608.A783293 O85 2021
Publication Date: 2021
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler; Gloria Steinem (Introduction by)
Call Number: PS3552.U827 P37 2016
Publication Date: 2017
The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
Call Number: ONLINE
Publication Date: 2021
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Call Number: PS3620.A93534 R43 2020
Publication Date: 2020
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Call Number: PS3623.A7323 S56 2017
Publication Date: 2017
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Call Number: PS3618.E5363 S83 2019
Publication Date: 2019
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; Mary Helen Washington (Foreword by); Henry Louis Gates (Afterword by)
Call Number: PS3515 .U789 T5 1998
Publication Date: 1998
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe; Anthony Appiah (Introduction by)
Call Number: PR9387.9 .A3 T5 1992
Publication Date: 1992
The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club) by Colson Whitehead
Call Number: PS3573 .H4768 U53 2016
Publication Date: 2016
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Call Number: PS3602.E66444 V36 2020
Publication Date: 2020
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Call Number: PS3603.O17 W38 2019
Publication Date: 2019
While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams
Call Number: PS3601.B746 W48 2021
Publication Date: 2021

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