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Amplifying Black Voices

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	The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates Find it in our catalog Summary: A Virginia slave narrowly escapes a drowning death through the intervention of a mysterious force that compels his escape and personal underground war against slavery. Other formats available: Audio Book on CD
	The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray Find it in our catalog Summary: When their formidably strong-willed eldest sister is arrested, abruptly transitioning their family from respectability to disgrace, two younger sisters confront complicated dynamics in their family and identities to uncover what really happened.
	The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead Find it in our catalog Summary: Follows the experiences of two African-American teenagers at an abusive reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. Other formats available: Audio Book on CD E-Book
	Africaville by Jeffrey Colvin Find it in our catalog Summary: Three generations of a family of former slaves, the founders of a small Nova Scotia community, navigate prejudice, harsh weather and estrangements against a backdrop of the historical events of the 20th century.
	American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson Find it in our catalog Summary: A Cold War FBI intelligence officer joins an undercover task force to seduce a revolutionary African Communist president she secretly admires and comes to love, in a story inspired by true events.
	Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson Find it in our catalog Summary: Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. Other formats available: Audio Book on CD
	The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Find it in our catalog Summary: Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl in an America, prays for her eyes to turn blue, so that she will be beautiful, people will notice her, and her world will be different. Other formats available: Audio Book on CD
	Americanah by Chimamandah Ngozi Adichie Find it in our catalog Summary: Separated by differing ambitions after falling in love in occupied Nigeria, beautiful Ifemelu experiences triumph and defeat in America, while Obinze endures an undocumented status in London until the pair is reunited in their homeland fifteen years later. Other formats available: Digital Audio Book
	Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler Find it in our catalog Summary: In 2025 California, an eighteen-year-old African American woman, suffering from a hereditary trait that causes her to feel others’ pain as well as her own, flees northward from her small community and its desperate savages. Other formats available: Audio Book on CD Graphic Novel
	We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo Find it in our catalog Summary: Follows ten-year-old Zimbabwe native, Darling, as she escapes the closed schools and paramilitary police control of her homeland in search of opportunity and freedom with an aunt in America.