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Library of America volume 97
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NOVEL BALDWIN
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NOVEL BALDWIN
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Library of America volume 98
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814.54 BALDWIN
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814.54 BALDWIN
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BIOGRAPHY BROOME BRIAN
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BIOGRAPHY BROOME BRIAN
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Punch Me Up to the Gods introduces a powerful new talent in Brian Broome, whose early years growing up in Ohio as a dark-skinned Black boy harboring crushes on other boys propel forward this gorgeous, aching, and unforgettable debut. Brian's recounting of his experiences--in all their cringe-worthy, hilarious, and heartbreaking glory--reveal a perpetual outsider awkwardly squirming to find his way in. Indiscriminate sex and escalating drug use help...
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"A collection drawn from June Jordan's previous books"--
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BIOGRAPHY PORTER BILLY
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BIOGRAPHY PORTER BILLY
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"From the incomparable Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award winner, a powerful and revealing autobiography about race, sexuality, art, and healing." -- Amazon.
"Before Billy Porter was slaying red carpets and giving an iconic Emmy-winning performance in the celebrated TV show Pose; before he was the groundbreaking Tony and Grammy Award-winning star of Broadway's Kinky Boots, ... Porter was a young boy in Pittsburgh who was seen as different, who didn't fit...
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BIOGRAPHY EMEZI AKWAEKE
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BIOGRAPHY EMEZI AKWAEKE
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LARGE TYPE BIOGRAPHY EMEZI AKWAEKE
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LARGE TYPE BIOGRAPHY EMEZI AKWAEKE
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"A full-throated and provocative memoir in letters from the New York Times-bestselling author of The Death of Vivek Oji, "a dazzling literary talent whose works cut to the quick of the spiritual self" (Esquire). "I want to write as if I am free," Akwaeke Emezi declares in the opening of this utterly original spiritual and creative memoir. In the novels Freshwater and The Death of Vivek Oji, Emezi introduced the landscape of Nigerian childhood through...
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TEEN BIOGRAPHY JOHNSON
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TEEN BIOGRAPHY JOHNSON
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TEEN CD BIOGRAPHY JOHNSON
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"This is a memoir of George's boyhood in New Jersey, growing up with their brother and two cousins, all under the supervision of their larger-than-life grandmother"--
George, Garrett, Rall, and Rasul were raised by Nanny, their fiercely devoted grandmother. The boys hold one another close through early brushes with racism, memorable experiences at the family barbershop, and first loves and losses. And with Nanny at their center, they are never broken....
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"Inspired by Mrs. Dalloway and Sula, The Days of Afrekete is a tender, surprising novel about two Philadelphia women at midlife who rediscover themselves-and perhaps each other"--
10) 100 boyfriends
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"Transgressive, foulmouthed, and brutally funny, Brontez Purnell's 100 Boyfriends is a revelatory spiral into the imperfect lives of queer men desperately fighting the urge to self-sabotage. As they tiptoe through minefields of romantic, substance-fueled misadventure--from dirty warehouses and gentrified bars in Oakland to desolate farm towns in Alabama--Purnell's characters strive for belonging in a world that dismisses them for being Black, broke,...