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• A Raisin in the Sun

  Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965

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  Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of Black America—and changed American theater forever.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Raisin in the Sun

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  It's always interesting to watch the movie after you read the book...and compare! This version stars Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee.

• One Hundred Years of Solitude

  García Márquez, Gabriel, 1928-

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  One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude remains a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. One Hundred Years of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rubyfruit Jungle

  Brown, Rita Mae

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  A landmark coming-of-age novel that launched the career of one of this country’s most distinctive voices, Rubyfruit Jungle remains a transformative work more than forty years after its original publication. In bawdy, moving prose, Rita Mae…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wild Seed

  Butler, Octavia E.,

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  Doro knows no higher authority than himself. An ancient spirit with boundless powers, he possesses humans, killing without remorse as he jumps from body to body to sustain his own life. With a lonely eternity ahead of him, Doro breeds…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Carry Me Like Water

  a Novel

  Sáenz, Benjamin Alire

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  With Carry Me Like Water, Benjamin Alire Sáenz unfolds a beautiful story about hope and forgiveness, unexpected reunions, an expanded definition of family, and, ultimately, what happens when the disparate worlds of pain and privilege…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What the Fireflies Knew

  a Novel

  Harris, Kai,

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  A coming-of-age novel told by almost-eleven-year-old Kenyatta Bernice (KB), as she and her sister try to make sense of their new life with their estranged grandfather in the wake of their father's death and their mother's disappearance …Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Turner House

  Flournoy, Angela

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  This is a bonus book since the book club is not meeting in December! For over fifty years the Turners have lived on Yarrow Street. Their house has seen thirteen children get grown and gone—and some return; it has seen the arrival of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

  Smith, Betty, 1896-1972

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  From the moment she entered the world, Francie Nolan needed to be made of stern stuff, for growing up in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn, New York demanded fortitude, precocity, and strength of spirit. Often scorned by neighbors for her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Their Eyes Were Watching God

  Hurston, Zora Neale

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  One of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston's beloved 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. Told in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Their Eyes Were Watching God

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  Halle Berry stars in the movie adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston's classic book.

• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

  Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

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  ELPL's Centennial Book Club kicks off on January 30 discussing this classic Agatha Christie novel published in 1926. Considered to be one of Agatha Christie's most controversial mysteries, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd breaks all the rules…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

  Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

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  For those of you who prefer reading on a device, here's our January 30 selection.