Catalog Search Results
581) Please, baby, please
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A toddler's antics keep his mother busy as she tries to feed him, watch him on the playground, give him a bath, and put him to bed.
583) Quicks
Author
Series
D-Bow's high school hoops volume 4
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Marion High, an inner-city school in Indianapolis, has never had a state championship. It's D-Bow's Senior Year, his A-Game is ready, big-time colleges are taking notice, and he's dreaming big. What's rattling D-Bow is the cocky white guy, Daryl. He wants D-Bow's job at point. It's time for D-Bow to man up. He needs to be the team leader, and he needs to bring that A-Game"--
Author
Series
Seeds of America volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"As the Revolutionary War rages on, Isabel and Curzon are reported as runaways, and the awful Bellingham is determined to track them down. With purpose and faith, Isabel and Curzon march on, fiercely determined to find Isabel's little sister Ruth, who is enslaved in a Southern state"--
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
First edition
Language
English
Description
Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
587) Bucking the Sarge
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Deeply involved in his cold and manipulative mother's shady business dealings in Flint, Michigan, fourteen-year-old Luther keeps a sense of humor while running the Happy Neighbor Group Home For Men, all the while dreaming of going to college and becoming a philosopher.
588) Sounder
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and with the help of the devoted dog Sounder.
589) Seoul food
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Hana is faced with a conundrum: what scrumptious dinner should she make for her four grandparents who are all coming for a visit? This dish isn't yummy enough, that one isn't special enough . . . What's an aspiring chef to do? Her mother tells her to cook what makes her heart happy, so Hana thinks hard. She remembers the savory gumbo that she made with Grandma and Grandpa Williams when she visited them in the South. Then she reminisces about the...
590) Wolf point
Author
Series
Ashe Cayne novel volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A Cadillac, a pistol, and a corpse make for another morning in Chicago. The body belongs to Walter Griffin, a prominent Black Chicagoan insider hailing from the city's West Side. He ascended to the upper echelons of the mayor's office only to meet his end in a watery grave at Wolf Point. Forensics finds his prints on the gun; it's ruled a suicide. But grizzled private investigator Ashe Cayne knows better. Griffin's children plead with a reluctant...
Author
Series
Dread nation volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
When families go missing in Baltimore County, Jane McKeene, who is studying to become an Attendant, finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy that has her fighting for her life against powerful enemies.
592) The scriptures
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"It is the end of days. A nuclear strike hits New York. Alfie, a young black male, survives but with no memory of what has happened. The only thing he can remember with any clarity is how to play his guitar and a few snatches of old blues and folk songs. Another survivor, Meg, has taken refuge in the hills of Vermont, and she, too, is the victim of near absolute amnesia. Her only hope is to survive these darkest of days. Across the country, a prophet...
593) Liam's first cut
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In her debut children's book, "Liam's First Cut, Taye Glover weaves together the beauty of fatherhood, community, and neurodivergence as Liam, a black boy with an autism spectrum disorder, approaches a day he's been anticipating, for quite some time. Liam takes us on a journey towards a big rite of passage in every boy's life as he prepares to get his hair cut on his first visit to a barbershop."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
First edition
Language
English
Description
After escaping a death sentence in the summer of 1775, Octavian and his tutor find shelter but no safe harbor in British-occupied Boston and, persuaded by Lord Dunmore's proclamation offering freedom to slaves who join his counterrevolutionary Royal Ethiopian Regiment, Octavian and his friends soon find themselves engaged in naval raids on the Virginia coastline as the Revolutionary War breaks out in full force.
595) A vow of seduction
Series
Kimani romance volume 489
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Hot Night in the Hamptons. A fling with the gorgeous best man is not on Elina Sinclair's to-do list as maid of honor at her best friend's Hamptons wedding. Yet former child star Gabe Anderson is intent on seduction. He's also a new client at her image consulting firm--which makes a relationship strictly forbidden. Can the onetime playboy convince her that he's the best mistake she'll ever make?
Seduced Before Sunrise. He was Willa Arthur's first...
Author
Series
Black volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Canada, 1860--While on a mission for Black, Elbert notices the lovely Anna Baker for the first time. Unable to think of much else, he leaves Canada to pursue the beauty who has captured his thoughts. Anna is unnerved by the man with the lifeless eyes, who is relentless and forward in his approach. She offers nothing of herself to the intimidating stranger, but fate has a different plan. When Anna is assaulted by slave catchers on the streets of Boston,...
598) Cualquier otro día
Author
Series
Serie negra volume 39
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
1. edición.
Language
Español
Description
En 1918 Babe Ruth, el mítico bateador de los Red Sox de Boston, se encuentra con su pelota más difícil: la huelga. Luther Laurence huye del beisbol, de Tulsa y de un rastro de sangre para cumplir lo que se espera de un negro en el Este: ser un criado. El policía Danny Coughin es enviado a inspeccionar un buque de guerra con unos cuantos soldados enfermos de vuelta de la Gran Guerra y aquejados de una rara enfermedad: una gripe de consecuencias...
599) Blood justice
Author
Series
Blood debts volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Cristina and Clement Trudeau have conjured the impossible: justice. They took back their family’s stolen throne to lead New Orleans’ magical community into the brighter future they all deserve. But when Cris and Clem restored their family power, Valentina Savant lost everything. Her beloved grandparents are gone and her sovereignty has been revoked—she will never be Queen. Unless, of course, someone dethrones the Trudeaus again. And lucky for...
600) Merge: Disciple
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"MERGE Raleigh Redman loved Nicci Charbon until she left him heartbroken. Then he hit the lotto for $26 million, quit his minimum wage job and set his sights on one goal: reading the entire collection of lectures in the Popular Educator Library, the only thing his father left behind after he died. As Raleigh is trudging through the eighth volume, he notices something in his apartment that at first seems ordinary but quickly reveals itself to be from...
Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Main Library Alliance members might be available in other libraries across New Jersey. You can search JerseyCat and place a request for the item to be sent to your library.
If your library doesn't permit JerseyCat requests or the item can't be found, you can also contact your library for assistance.Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request