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13.

Dazzling Zelda : the story of fashion designer Zelda Wynn Valdes

Lewis, Aura, author, illustrator.

Publication Date

2024

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Call Number

746.92 LEW

Available: Holds: Copies:

SD_ILS:799642

14.

Better living through birding [large print] : notes from a Black man in the natural world

Cooper, Christian, author.

Publication Date

2023

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Books

Call Number

598.072347471 COO

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SD_ILS:705740

15.

Colin Kaepernick : change the game : a graphic novel

Kaepernick, Colin, 1987- author.

Publication Date

2023

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Call Number

796.332 KAE

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SD_ILS:682579

16.

I color myself different

Kaepernick, Colin, 1987- author.

Publication Date

2022

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KAE

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SD_ILS:649278

17.

Agent Josephine : American beauty, French hero, British spy

Lewis, Damien, author.

Publication Date

2022

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Call Number

927.928 BAK

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SD_ILS:650219

18.

Marian Anderson

Russell-Brown, Katheryn, 1961- author.

Publication Date

2022

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Call Number

782.1 RUS

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SD_ILS:650150

19.

Fruit punch : a memoir

Allen, Kendra, 1994- author.

Publication Date

2022

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920.72 ALL

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SD_ILS:655290

20.

Admissions : a memoir of surviving boarding school

James, Kendra, author.

Publication Date

2022

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370 JAM

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SD_ILS:640447

21.

Coretta Scott King

Lyons, Kelly Starling, author.

Publication Date

2022

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Call Number

323 LYO

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SD_ILS:638309

22.

How to raise an antiracist

Kendi, Ibram X., author.

Publication Date

2022

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305.800973 KEN

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SD_ILS:646013

23.

Amanda Gorman

Sánchez Vegara, Ma Isabel (María Isabel), author.

Publication Date

2022

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Call Number

811.6 SAN

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SD_ILS:701783

24.

The book of awesome Black women : sheroes, boundary breakers, and females who changed the world

Fièvre, M. J. (Michèle-Jessica), author.

Publication Date

2022

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Call Number

920.72089 FIE

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SD_ILS:651838

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Basie, Count, 1904-1984.

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