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018665
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London, Vintage, 2005.
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xiii, 322pBlack spine
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Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.
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9780099273936 Pb.
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| I01371 | 813.54/MOR | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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018666
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London, Vintage Books, 1970.
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xi, 212pWhite spine
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Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl in an America whose love for blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all others, prays for her eyes to turn blue, so that she will be beautiful, people will notice her, and her world will be different. The story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, the tragic heroine of Toni Morrison's haunting first novel, grew out of her memory of a girlhood friend who wanted blue eyes. Shunned by the town's prosperous black families, as well as its white families, Pecola lives with her alcoholic father and embittered, overworked mother in a shabby two-room storefront that reeks of the hopeless destitution that overwhelms their lives. In awe of her clean well-groomed schoolmates, and certain of her own intense ugliness, Pecola tries to make herself disappear as she wishes fervently, desperately for the blue eyes of a white girl. In her afterward to this novel, Morrison writes of the little girl she once knew: "Beauty was not simply something to behold, it was something one could do. The Bluest Eye was my effort to say something about that; to say something about why she had not, or possibly never would have, the experience of what she possessed and also why she prayed for so radical an alteration. Implicit in her desire was racial self-loathing. And twenty-years later I was still wondering about how one learns that. Who told her? Who made her feel that it was better to be a freak that what she was? Who had looked at her and found her so wanting, so small a weight on the beauty scale? The novel pecks away at the gaze that condemned her.
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9780099759911 Pb.
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022878
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Lincoln, Cliff's Notes, Inc., 1997.
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98pYellow spine
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Cliff's Notes
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Includes life and background of the author, introductions to the novels, lists of characters, critical commentaries, genealogies and more.
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9780822002512 Pb.
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| I02093 | 813.54/MOR | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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018973
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London, Chatto & Windus, 2015.
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178pWhite spine
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Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child - the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment - weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love. There is Booker, the man Bride loves, and loses to anger. Rain, the mysterious white child with whom she crosses paths. And finally, Bride's mother herself, Sweetness, who takes a lifetime to come to understand that "what you do to children matters. And they might never forget.
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9780701186050 Hb.
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020594
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Please, Louise
/ Morrison, Toni; Morrison, Slade; Strickland, Shadra (ill.)
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2013
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New York, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers, 2013.
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24pGrey Spine
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On a gray, rainy day, everything seems particularly frightening and bad to Louise until she enters a library and finds books that help her to know and imagine the beauty and wonder that have been there all along.
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9781416983392 Pb.
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014305
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New York, Vintage international, 2004.
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337pBlue spine
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Morrison lays out before us the complex lives and backgrounds of four generations of black family life in the south. Central is the character Milkman--an unfortunate nickname owed to his lengthy nursing period and delayed coming of age. Although a late starter, Milkman develops into a fundamentally strong person, who eventually learns to cherish his family and the importance of his roots
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9781400033423 Pb.
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| I00613 | 813.54/MOR | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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Sula
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2016
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London, Vintage, 2016.
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xv, 174pPurple spine
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The rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines--from their growing up together in a small Ohio town, through their sharply divergent paths of womanhood, to their ultimate confrontation and reconciliation.
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9780099760016 Pb.
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018649
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London, Vintage, 2004.
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xiv, 306pWhite spine
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Tar Baby is Toni Morrison's reinvention of the love story. Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of obligation and betrayal between blacks and whites, masters and servants, and men and women
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9780099760214 Pb.
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| I01324 | 813.54/MOR | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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