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Roots
by Alex Haley
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7 editions published between 1981 and 2011 in English and held by 2,698 WorldCat member libraries worldwide An adaptation of Alex Haley's Roots, in which he traces his family's history from the mid-18th century when one of his ancestors, Kunta Kinte, was captured and sold into slavery. The series follows the struggle for freedom which began with the young man's abduction and was continued by his descendants
The NeverEnding story
by Wolfgang Petersen
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13 editions published between 1984 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 1,712 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Join the young warrior Atreyu and the faith of a young boy, Bastian, as they battle the unknown of 'The Nothing' to save the creatures of Fantasia and their Childlike Empress
Shaft
by John Singleton
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42 editions published between 1970 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 1,295 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Detective John Shaft is hired by a Harlem mobster to find his kidnapped teenage daughter and finds himself up against some Mafia chieftains who want to take over a chunk of the black underworld's uptown territory
Ragtime
by E. L Doctorow
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6 editions published between 1986 and 2004 in 3 languages and held by 683 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City
The House of Dies Drear
by Virginia Hamilton
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6 editions published between 1990 and 2004 in English and held by 653 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A story about the secrets walled within an old house reaches back to the days of slavery and underground railroads
Heartbreak Ridge
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8 editions published between 1986 and 2010 in English and held by 639 WorldCat member libraries worldwide There are no wars to fight. But Gunnery Sgt. Tom Highway, a dog-faced relic of past wars, still has a lot of fight in him. He is a Marine Corps lifer who, started his last tour of duty before retirement, and sees the bumpy road his life has taken become more complicated, due to feisty recruits, by-the-book officers, and a salty ex-wife to whom he's still attracted
Brother Future
by Alan Smithee
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5 editions published between 1992 and 2014 in English and held by 489 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A slick inner-city youth is knocked unconscious and wakes up to find he has been transported back through time to 1822 Charleston, S.C., where he is taken captive as a slave
The women of Brewster Place
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2 editions published between 2001 and 2011 in English and held by 466 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Mattie Michael, whose life has been plagued by misfortunes, is alone in a ghetto tenement on Brewster Place. She gradually unites the other tenement women to help them struggle for a new life
Rollerball
by John McTiernan
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7 editions published between 1987 and 2014 in English and Spanish and held by 373 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In a dystopic future world run entirely by a few powerful corporations, the brutal sport of rollerball has taken the place of both warfare and traditional athletic competition. The greatest player in the history of rollerball, Jonathan E, receives pressure from these corporations to retire. When he refuses, both his life and his sport descend into chaos and bloodshed
Cornbread, Earl and me
by Ronald L Fair
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8 editions published between 1974 and 2006 in English and held by 310 WorldCat member libraries worldwide When a promising high school basketballer (Cornbread) is accused of rape and kill him, it is up to his 11-year old brother Wilford and his pal Earl to find the courage to speak up and clear Cornbread's name
Perfect harmony
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3 editions published between 2003 and 2004 in English and held by 293 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Set in South Carolina during the 1950's, two boys form a friendship in spite of the racial barriers that divide the town
Black brigade
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16 editions published between 1991 and 2006 in English and held by 250 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A top-secret allied invasion will fail unless a strategic dam can be saved from German forces! An untested black army unit, which has worked itself deep behind Nazi lines, is the only hope for saving the dam. Racial tension explodes when a prejudiced white commando officer is sent to forge the soldiers into a lethal combat outfit. Facing certain suicide, the soldiers and their commanding officer must earn each other's respect!
Shaft's big score
by Gordon Parks
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12 editions published between 1972 and 2000 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 213 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Private eye John Shaft runs afoul of the underworld as he investigates a friends murder
Amityville
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4 editions published between 1982 and 2013 in English and held by 167 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Taking place before the events of The Amityville horror, tells the story of the Montelli family whose son becomes possessed by a demon despite a cleansing of the house by a priest
Black pioneers in American history
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10 editions published between 1968 and 1972 in English and held by 165 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "Autobiographical narratives of four 19th-20th century Black Americans: Mary Church Terrel, W.E.B. Du Bois, Josiah Henson and William Parker. Each of these four, in his own way, represents the striving of his people."
First breeze of summer
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5 editions published between 2000 and 2003 in English and held by 130 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Deals with the conflicts between a stern, hard-working father and his two discontented sons. Also tells the story of the man's elderly mother who recalls, through flashbacks the romances of her youth with three different men who all abandoned her
Roots
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3 editions published between 1992 and 2007 in English and Spanish and held by 98 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In Gambia, West Africa, Kunta Kinte distinguishes himself in manhood training rituals, but is then captured by slave traders and begins an agonized journey to the New World
Amazing Grace
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2 editions published between 1974 and 2001 in No Linguistic content and English and held by 93 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A black pious church-going widow and grandmother takes over the political campaign of a neighbor running for mayor of Baltimore, transforming him from a white man's pawn into a serious challenger of Baltimore's blue-blood establishment
The Killing floor
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5 editions published between 1984 and 1990 in English and held by 91 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Frank Custer was a Southern black sharecropper who got a job in a Chicago slaughterhouse in the early 1900's. The horrible working conditions cause him to become a Union activist. But racial tensions lead to a violent confrontation in the streets of Chicago
Father Murphy a horse from heaven
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4 editions published in 1992 in English and held by 74 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Murphy and a local school-teacher decide to take on the responsibility for the well being of a group of children orphaned by a gun battle more
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African American families African American private investigators African Americans African American soldiers African American women African American youth America American Invasion of Grenada (1983) American Revolution (1775-1783) Basketball players Blacks Divorced men Dystopias Emotions Empresses Extreme sports Families Fantasy Fantasy drama Grenada Haley, Alex Haley family Imagination Jackson family Kinte family Korean War (1950-1953) Man-woman relationships Moore family Naylor, Gloria Oligarchy Poor African Americans Professional athletes Race relations Ragtime music Shaft, John (Fictitious character) Slaveholders Slavery Soldiers Soldiers--Family relationships South Carolina--Charleston Southern States Time travel Underground Railroad United States United States.--Marine Corps United States--Confederate States of America Veterans Vietnam War (1961-1975) Violence in sports World War (1939-1945)
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