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This multi-generational novel about an African-American family in Oakland begins in 1959, when Ruby and Easton Washington leave South Carolina for California, and follows them and their family through the trials of the second half of the 20th century, including the civil rights movement, drug addiction, sexual abuse, misguided social workers, and various forms of racism, AUTHOR: Richard Dry
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Farmer Will by Jane Cowen-Fletcher
While playing with a collection of toys, a young boy imagines he is a farmer working on his very own farm. Pastel and colored pencil illustrations accompany the text. AUTHOR: Jane Cowen-Fletcher
PUBLISHER: Candlewick Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Sky So Big and Black by John Barnes
Life as a colonist in Martian school offers few thrills, and colonist Terpischore Murray wants to quit school and do what her father does: eco-prospect. Her father has other ideas, and sensing her waywardness, he asks her to aid him in conducting a field trip with a group of younger students. Disaster looms and Terpischore will have to lead the children to safety alone--and face the wilds of Mars in a journey that will define her future and that of human history. AUTHOR: John Barnes
PUBLISHER: Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | The Mipbing Beach by Melvin Berger
Description not available.When a wave carries off T-Bone's new beach ball, Clifford and his friends search all over for it, and make some unexpected friends in the process. AUTHOR: Melvin Berger
PUBLISHER: Scholastic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | P Is for Peril by Judy Kaye, Sue Grafton
Kinsey Millhone investigates the disappearance of a well-to-do doctor named Dowan Purcell. She finds evidence of Medicare fraud at Purcell`s hospital, and suspicious behavior on the part of the doctor`s wife, a former stripper named Crystal. AUTHOR: Judy Kaye, Sue Grafton
PUBLISHER: Random House Audio Publishing Group
FORMAT: Audio
CATEGORY: General
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 | Underground Man by Milton Meltzer
Josh, a logger on the Ohio River, helps runaway slaves escape to freedom. When he is betrayed, Josh is captured and thrown in prison. AUTHOR: Milton Meltzer
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Children's Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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