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Black History Month (Staff Picks 2024)

 

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1. Go tell it on the mountain

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Author:
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
Average Rating:
3 stars
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Description:
The story of a teenager's conversion to religion and of the history of a black American family. A reissue. James Baldwin's stunning first novel is now an American classic. With startling realism that brings Harlem and the black experience vividly to life, this is a work that touches the heart with emotion while it stimulates the mind with its narrative style, symbolism, and excoriating vision of racism in America. Moving through time from the rural...

2. Invisible man

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Author:
Ellison, Ralph
Average Rating:
4 stars
Formats:
Book, Audio CD, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook
Description:
First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare novels that have changed the shape of American literature. For not only does Ralph Ellison's nightmare journey across the racial divide tell unparalleled truths about the nature of bigotry and its effects on the minds of both victims and perpetrators, it gives us an entirely new model of what a novel can be. As he journeys from the Deep South to the...