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2020 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Available Online
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"Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. She has left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, has published successful books and has been friendzoned by Hollywood, left Chicago, and moved into a house with a garden that requires repairs and know-how with her wife in a Blue town in the middle of a Red state where she now hosts book clubs and makes mason...
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Dark star trilogy (Marlon James) volume 2
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Ilsley Public Library - New Materials Area 1 available
Fiction James
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2022. | Riverhead Books | xxviii, 626 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - New Materials Area 1 available Fiction James |
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2022 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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2022 | OverDrive/Libby | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2022 | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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At the center of this fantastically inventive story is Sogolon, a fearless and resourceful woman who remembers. Mocked and bettered as a child, she is drawn into life as a servant at the royal court, where she learns that power is the ultimate goal. It's there that she comes to know Keme, a royal scout, and learns to harness her rage and becomes the Moon Witch. As teh Moon Witch, Sogolon is a match for anyone, includeing the Aesi, chancellor to the...
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2020. | Ballantine Books | pages cm | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Adult Biography 1 available Biog Thomas |
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2020 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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"R. Eric Thomas didn't know he was different until the world told him so. Everywhere he went--whether it was his rich, mostly white, suburban high school, his conservative black church, or his Ivy League college in a big city--he found himself on the outside looking in. In essays by turns hysterical and heartfelt, Eric redefines what it means to be an "other" through the lens of his own life experience. He explores the two worlds of his childhood:...
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Ilsley Public Library - Sarah Partridge Collection - Sarah Partridge Location 1 available
SP Fiction Emezi
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2020. | 248 pages ; 22 cm | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Sarah Partridge Collection - Sarah Partridge Location 1 available SP Fiction Emezi | ||
[2021] | First Riverhead trade paperback edition. | 248 pages ; 21 cm |
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2020 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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2020 | OverDrive/Libby | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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2020 | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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"One afternoon, in a town in southeastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to discover her son's body, wrapped in colorful fabric, at her feet. What follows is the tumultuous, heart-wrenching story of one family's struggle to understand a child whose spirit is both gentle and mysterious. Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienting blackouts, moments of disconnection between self and surroundings....
5) Real life
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2020 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Available Online
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"Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midwestern university town where he is working toward a biochem degree. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even within his own circle of friends--some dating each other, some dating women, some feigning straightness. But a series of confrontations with colleagues, and an unexpected encounter with...
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[2019] | G.P. Putnam's Sons | 310 pages ; 24 cm | English |
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2019 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Books on Tape | English | Available Online
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2019 | OverDrive/Libby | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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2019 | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
2 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. The store's security guard, seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar....
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Ilsley Public Library - Youth New Materials Area 1 available
Youth 323.11 Magoon
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2021. | Candlewick Press | ix, 390 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Youth New Materials Area 1 available Youth 323.11 Magoon |
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Candlewick Press | English | Checked Out
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2021 | Candlewick Press | English | Checked Out
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"In this comprehensive, inspiring, and all-too-relevant history of the Black Panther Party, Kekla Magoon introduces readers to the Panthers' community activism, grounded in the concept of self-defense, which taught Black Americans how to protect and support themselves in a country that treated them like second-class citizens. For too long the Panthers' story has been a footnote to the civil rights movement rather than what it was: a revolutionary...
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The library does not own any copies of this title.
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Presents a feminist politics designed to not be divisive, discussing accomplishments by the feminist movement in such areas as reproductive rights, female body image, and class and race struggle, identifying aspects of these issues to still be addressed, and arguing that the feminist community needs to grow.
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Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2019. | The New Press | xi, 244 pages ; 23 cm | English |
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"In these eight ... explorations on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom--award-winning professor and ... author of Lower Ed--embraces her ... role as a purveyor of wit, wisdom, and Black Twitter snark about all that is right and much that is wrong with this thing we call society"--Dust jacket flap.
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The library does not own any copies of this title.
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The library does not own any copies of this title.
Description
Celebrates the joy and beauty of nappy hair.
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Ilsley Public Library - Juvenile Non-Fiction 1 available
Juv Biog Lafayette
Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2016] | Carolrhoda Books | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Juvenile Non-Fiction 1 available Juv Biog Lafayette |
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Learn all about the man named James who was a spy.
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Ilsley Public Library - Juvenile Non-Fiction 1 available
Juv 306.8 Alko
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[2015] | First edition. | Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Juvenile Non-Fiction 1 available Juv 306.8 Alko |
Description
Learn how Richard and Mildred Loving helped to legalize interracial marriage.
14) Jackie Robinson
The library does not own any copies of this title.
Description
Tells of the story of Jack Roosevelt Robinson, a sharecropper's son who elevated an entire race and country when he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947. The film illuminates Robinson's place as a leader and icon of the civil rights movement whose exemplary life and aspirational message of equality continues to inspire generations of Americans. Includes interviews with family members and rarely-seen photographs and film footage.
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The library does not own any copies of this title.
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"The first-ever picture book biography on Senator Kamala Harris"--
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Ilsley Public Library - New Materials Area 1 available
Biog Union
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2021] | First edition. | Dey Street, an imprint of William Morrow | xi, 242 pages ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - New Materials Area 1 available Biog Union |
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | HarperAudio | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"We're Going to Need More Wine... plus a few shots- acclaimed activist, actress, and New York Times bestselling author Gabrielle Union is back with an even more intimate, revealing, and powerful collection of essays"--
Author
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Macmillan Audio | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 14 people are on the wait list.
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"From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the "me too" movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful words-me too-and how she brought empathy back to an entire generation in one of the largest cultural events in American history. Tarana didn't always have the courage to say "me too." As a child, she reeled...
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Ilsley Public Library - Teen Area 1 available
Teen Fiction Reynolds
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2015] | First edition. | Atheneum Books for Young Readers | 255 pages ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Teen Area 1 available Teen Fiction Reynolds |
Description
Soon after his mother's death, Matt takes a job at a funeral home in his tough Brooklyn neighborhood and, while attending and assisting with funerals, begins to accept her death and his responsibilities as a man.
19) As brave as you
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Ilsley Public Library - Juvenile Fiction 1 available
Juv Fiction Reynolds
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[2016] | First edition. | Atheneum Books for Young Readers | 410 pages ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Juvenile Fiction 1 available Juv Fiction Reynolds |
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Ilsley Public Library - Juvenile AV 1 available
Juv Book on Disc Reynolds
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2016] | Unabridged. | Simon & Schuster Audio | 6 sound discs (7.25 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Juvenile AV 1 available Juv Book on Disc Reynolds |
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2016 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Simon & Schuster Audio | English | Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Description
Genie learns a thing or two about being brave and becoming who you are when he and his brother spend a summer away from the city with his blind grandfather in the country.
20) Long way down
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Ilsley Public Library - Youth Fiction 1 available
Youth Fiction Reynolds
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2017] | First edition. | Atheneum | 306 pages ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Ilsley Public Library - Youth Fiction 1 available Youth Fiction Reynolds |
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2017 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Simon & Schuster Audio | English | Available Online
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Description
As Will, fifteen, sets out to avenge his brother Shawn's fatal shooting, seven ghosts who knew Shawn board the elevator and reveal truths Will needs to know.