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1) Sing, unburied, sing: a novel

Author

Ward, Jesmyn

Publication Date

2017.

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook

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"A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait...

2) Look both ways: a tale told in ten blocks

Author

Reynolds, Jason

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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Jason Reynolds conjures ten tales (one per block) about what happens after the dismissal bell rings, and weaves them into one funny, poignant look at the detours we face on the walk home, and in life.

3) 12 years a slave

Publication Date

[2014]

Physical Desc

1 videodisc (approximately 134 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

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Based on the true story of Solomon Northup. It is 1841, and Northup, an accomplished, free citizen of New York, is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Stripped of his identity and deprived of all dignity, Northup is ultimately purchased by ruthless plantation owner Edwin Epps and must find the strength within to survive. Filled with powerful performances by an astonishing cast including Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Brad...

4) Homeland: season 1

Publication Date

[2012]

Physical Desc

4 videodiscs (664 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

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Carrie Mathison, a brilliant but volatile CIA agent, suspects that a rescued American POW may not be what he seems. Is Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody a war hero or an Al Qaeda sleeper agent plotting a spectacular terrorist attack on U.S. soil? Following her instincts, Mathison will risk everything to uncover the truth - her reputation, her career, and even her sanity.