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The Color Purple is the story of two sisters -- one a missionary to Africa and the other a child wife living in the South -- who remain loyal to one another across time, distance, and silence. Beautifully imagined and deeply compassionate, this classic American literature is rich with passion, pain, inspiration, and an indomitable love of life--Cover.
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Manchester City Library - Movies & TV - Main Floor - Blu-ray Shelves
BLU COL
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BLU COL
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DVD COL
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A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to freedom. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds remarkable strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
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[Hate u give volume 1
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Manchester City Library - Teen Fiction - Main Floor - Teen Area - Fiction Shelves
YA THOMAS, A.
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YA THOMAS, A.
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Manchester City Library - Audiobooks - Main Floor - Teen Area - Audiobook Shelves
YA SR THOMAS, A.
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YA SR THOMAS, A.
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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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Manchester City Library - Movies & TV - Main Floor - DVD Shelves
DVD HAT
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DVD HAT
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Starr Carter navigates the perilous waters between her poor, black neighborhood and her prestigious, mainly white private school. This all changes when she finds herself in the middle of racial activism after her best friend is shot by police officers, and she's forced to make a decision. Allow the media to skewer her friend to protect the status quo, or stand up and tell the truth in memory of Khalil?
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Manchester City Library - Fiction - Main Floor - Fiction Shelves
FICTION HURSTON, Z.
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FICTION HURSTON, Z.
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One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Out of print for almost thirty years—due largely to initial audiences’ rejection of its strong black female protagonist—Hurston’s classic has since its 1978 reissue become perhaps the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the...
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FICTION BENNETT, B.
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FICTION BENNETT, B.
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Manchester West Branch - Fiction - Main Floor - Fiction Shelves
FICTION BENNETT, B.
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FICTION BENNETT, B.
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Manchester City Library - Large Print Books - Main Floor - Large Print Shelves
LP BENNETT, B.
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LP BENNETT, B.
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SR BENNETT, B.
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SR BENNETT, B.
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3 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
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"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...
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2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey,...
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Manchester West Branch - Nonfiction - Main Floor - Biography Shelves
B ANGELOU, M.
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B ANGELOU, M.
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A continuation of Maya Angelou's autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," picking up in her teen years just after the birth of her son.
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Manchester City Library - Nonfiction - Main Floor - Nonfiction Shelves
305.800973 COA
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305.800973 COA
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Manchester City Library - Audiobooks - Main Floor - Audiobook Shelves
SR 305.800973 COA
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SR 305.800973 COA
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Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of "race," a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men -- bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can...
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Manchester City Library - Fiction - Main Floor - Fiction Shelves
FICTION WHITEHEAD, C.
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FICTION WHITEHEAD, C.
1 available
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Manchester City Library - Large Print Books - Main Floor - Large Print Shelves
LP WHITEHEAD, C.
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LP WHITEHEAD, C.
1 available
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Manchester City Library - Audiobooks - Main Floor - Audiobook Shelves
SR WHITEHEAD, C.
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SR WHITEHEAD, C.
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eBooks
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18 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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18 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially...
11) Beloved
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Manchester City Library - Fiction - Main Floor - Fiction Shelves
FICTION MORRISON, T.
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FICTION MORRISON, T.
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5 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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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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The controversial leader of the Black Muslims tells the story of his life and his part in the civil rights movement.
13) Homegoing
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12 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Manchester City Library - Fiction - Main Floor - Fiction Shelves
FICTION GYASI, Y.
2 available
FICTION GYASI, Y.
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4 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
eBooks
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5 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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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 imprisoned beneath...
14) The New Jim Crow
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as "brave and bold," this book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama signals a new era of colorblindness. With dazzling candor, legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that "we have not ended racial caste in
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Manchester City Library - Nonfiction - Main Floor - Nonfiction Shelves
364.973 ALE
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364.973 ALE
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Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New...
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Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow.
Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been
adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of
the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the
winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has
spent nearly...
Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been
adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of
the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the
winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has
spent nearly...
17) Americanah
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Manchester City Library - Large Print Books - Main Floor - Large Print Shelves
LP ADICHIE, C.
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LP ADICHIE, C.
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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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Manchester City Library - Nonfiction - Main Floor - Nonfiction Shelves
304.80973 WIL
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304.80973 WIL
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SR 304.80973 WIL
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SR 304.80973 WIL
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4 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
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In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America.
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Manchester West Branch - Children's Nonfiction - Children's Room - Biography Shelves
J B WOODSON
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J B WOODSON
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"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. 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...
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305.89607 BAL
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305.89607 BAL
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6 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The book that galvanized the nation, gave voice to the emerging civil rights movement in the 1960s—and still lights the way to understanding race in America today. - "The finest essay I've ever read." —Ta-Nehisi CoatesAt once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document
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