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  • Cover Image of Heavy
    • Electronic Audiobook
    • computer
    • 2018
    • Unabridged.

    Heavy

    an American memoir

    Kiese Laymon

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    • Biography
    • 2019

    Hurricanes

    a memoir

    Rick Ross, (1976-)

    Neil Martinez-Belkin

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  • Cover Image of Roots
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    • 2014
    • First Da Capo Press edition, Miniseries tie-in edition.

    Roots

    the saga of an American family

    Alex Haley

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  • Cover Image of Stolen
    • Non-fiction
    • 2019
    • First 37 INK/Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

    Stolen

    five free boys kidnapped into slavery and their astonishing odyssey home

    Richard Bell, (1978-)

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  • Cover Image of Heavy
    • Biography
    • 2018
    • First Scribner hardcover edition.

    Heavy

    an American memoir

    Kiese Laymon

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  • Cover Image of Bone black
    • Biography
    • 1996
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    Bone black

    memories of girlhood

    bell hooks, (1952-)

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  • Cover Image of Barracoon
    • Biography
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    • 2018
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    Barracoon

    the story of the last "Black cargo"

    Zora Neale Hurston

    Deborah G. Plant, (1956-)

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    • Biography
    • 2018

    There will be no miracles here

    Casey Gerald

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  • Cover Image of The road to Dawn
    • Biography
    • 2018
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    The road to Dawn

    Josiah Henson and the story that sparked the Civil War

    Jared Brock

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    • 2018
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    To the promised land

    Martin Luther King and the fight for economic justice

    Michael K. Honey

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