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ZONE ONE
Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Sunny Solomon

Zone One

Colson Whitehead, winner of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Whiting Writers’ Award, and a keen observer of the American way of life, has written a story

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Authors of color
Brandy Burgess

Apex Hides the Hurt

Ignorance is not bliss after all. You won’t see Band-Aids the same way after reading Apex Hides the Hurt.  Apex tells the story of the

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Memoir
Sunny Solomon

The Noble Hustle

THE NOBLE HUSTLE, POKER, BEEF JERKY AND DEATH Pulitzer Prize Winner (“The Underground Railroad”) Colson Whitehead has done it again, written a book unlike any

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The Underground Railroad
African American Writers
Sunny Solomon

The Underground Railroad

THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Is it true that Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Underground Railroad “traces the terrible wounds of slavery,” as Michael Schaub wrote

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The Underground Railroad
Fiction
Neal Ferguson

The Underground Railroad

THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Cora, born a slave, abandoned by her mother, beaten and whipped repeatedly, gang-raped at thirteen, nevertheless acts with courage and integrity in

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This 'N That
Sunny Solomon

Black History Month, Or Not

It is February fellow-Americans, and we know, as readers, students, television programmers and booksellers, what that means: It’s Black History Month! What I’ve never understood

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Book Club
Sunny Solomon

NOVEMBER

The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead – November 5, 2018 – 7:00 pm – Clayton Community Library  PLEASE NOTE EARLIER MEETING DATE  

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