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Black History Month: Staff Favorites
Navigate through the slides and click on any cover to locate the item in the PrairieCat Catalog. Many titles can also be found in Hoopla, Libby, or Axis360.
Biography and Memoir
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Jesmyn Ward - Men We Reaped: A Memoir
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Billy Porter - Unprotected: A Memoir (also available in Axis360, Hoopla, and Libby)
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Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele - When They Call You a Terrorist
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Angela Davis - Angela Davis: An Autobiography (also available in Hoopla)
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Ashley C. Ford - Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir (also available in Axis360, Hoopla, and Libby)
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Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X (also available in Libby)
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Stephanie Johnson - Tanqueray (also available in Axis360 and Libby)
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Michele Harper - The Beauty in Breaking (also available in Axis360 and Libby)
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Michelle Obama - Becoming (also available in Axis360 and Libby)
Fiction
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Brit Bennett - The Vanishing Half (also available on Axis360 and Libby)
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David Walker - Bitter Root (also available on Hoopla)
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Brendan Slocumb - The Violin Conspiracy (also available on Axis360 and Libby)
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Tade Thompson - Rosewater
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Nnedi Okorafor - Binti (also available on Axis360 and Hoopla)
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Ta-Nehisi Coates - Black Panther (also available on Hoopla, and Libby)
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James Baldwin - Go Tell It On the Mountain (also available on Axis360 and Libby)
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Jasmine Guillory - By the Book (also available on Axis360, Hoopla, and Libby)
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N.K. Jemisin - The Fifth Season (also available on Axis360 and Libby)
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Zakiya Dalila Harris - The Other Black Girl (also available on Axis360 and Libby)
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Colson Whitehead - Harlem Shuffle (also available on Axis360 and Libby)
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John Layman and Rob Guillory - Chew (also available on Hoopla)
Nonfiction
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Hanif Abdurraqib: A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance (also available in Axis360)
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Resmaa Meakem - My Grandmother's Hands : Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies (also available in Hoopla)
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bell hooks - The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
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Janet Mock - Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love and So Much More
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Mikki Kendall - Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot (also available in Axis360 and Libby)
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Ibram X. Kendi - How to Be an Antiracist (also available in Axis360 and Libby)
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Michelle Obama - The Light We Carry (also available in Axis360 and Hoopla)
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Isabel Wilkerson - Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (also available in Axis360 and Libby)
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Terry Crews - Manhood
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Stacey Abrams - Our Time is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America (also available in Axis360 and Libby)
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Ricky Turner - And the Category Is...: Inside New York's Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community
Teens
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Jay Coles - Tyler Johnson Was Here (also available in Axis360)
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Kristina Forest - Zyla & Kai (also available in Axis360)
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George M. Johnson - All Boys Aren't Blue (also available in Axis360, Hoopla, and Libby)
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Dhonielle Clayton - Whiteout
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Dhonielle Clayton - The Belles (also available in Hoopla)
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Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi - Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (also available in Axis360 and Libby)
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Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé - Ace of Spades (also available in Axis360, Hoopla, and Libby)
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Nic Stone - Dear Martin (also available in Axis360 and Libby)
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Nicole Yoon - The Sun is Also a Stor (also available in Axis360 and Libby)
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Angie Thomas - Concrete Rose (also available in Axis360, Hoopla, and Libby)
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Justina Ireland - Rust in the Root (also available in Libby)
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Angie Thomas - The Hate U Give (also available in Axis360, Hoopla, and Libby)
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Justina Ireland - Dread Nation (also available in Axis360, Hoopla, and Libby)
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Angie Thomas - On the Come Up (also available in Axis360, Hoopla, and Libby)
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Tracy Deonn - Legendborn (also available in Axis360 and Libby)
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Jason Reynolds and Danica Novgorodoff - Long Way Down (also available in Axis360 and Libby)
Music
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Chuck Berry - The Definitive Collection
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Sam Cooke - The Best of Sam Cooke
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Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers
"Kendrick once again shows how his creativity and self-expression are at the highest level. "
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Tupac - All Eyez on Me
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Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain
"Anything by Prince."
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Otis Redding - The Very Best of Otis Redding
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Trombone Shorty - Backatown
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John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
"Arguably Coltrane’s greatest album and one of the greatest albums in Jazz."
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Beyoncé - Renaissance
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Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope
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Ray Charles - The Ultimate Ray Charles Collection
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Curtis Mayfield - Super Fly
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Leon Bridges - Gold-Diggers Sound
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Amos Lee - Mountains of Sorrow, Rivers of Song
"His music is a combination of folk, soul, jazz, Americana, roots rock, and country."
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Bill Withers - The Best of Bill Withers Lean On Me
"I know, I know, I know...you'll love this CD."
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Solange - A Seat at the Table
"Standout track: Don't Touch My Hair."