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1) The 1619 Project (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): a new origin story

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"The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric and unprecedented system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country's original sin, but it is more...

2) 1984 (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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A chilling portrait of a totalitarian society under the ever-watchful gaze of Big Brother, where love, privacy, and individuality are banned.

3) The 57 bus (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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A gender-nonconforming teenager was attacked by another teenager on a public bus.

4) The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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Alexie, Sherman

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Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot

5) The adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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Collins classics

6) All American boys (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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Reynolds, Jason

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When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints.

7) All boys aren't blue (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): a memoir-manifesto

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Johnson, George M

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In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual relationships, this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys

8) All the king's men (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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Warren, Robert Penn

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"Winner of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize, All the King's Men is one of the most famous and widely read works in American fiction. Its original publication by Harcourt catapulted author Robert Penn Warren to fame and made the novel a bestseller for many seasons. Set in the 1930s, it traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie [Stark] Talos, a fictional Southern politician who resembles the real-life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana. Talos begins his career...

9) The amber spyglass (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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Pullman, Philip

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His dark materials volume 3

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Lyra and Will find themselves at the center of a battle between the forces of the Authority and those gathered by Lyra's father, Lord Asriel

10) American born Chinese (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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Yang, Gene Luen

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"Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format"--Title page verso.

11) American psycho (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): a novel

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Ellis, Bret Easton

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Vintage contemporaries original

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In a black satire of the eighties, a decade of naked greed and unparalleled callousness, a successful Wall Street yuppie cannot get enough of anything, including murder. Now a major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films, released Spring 2000, starring Christian Bale (Metroland), Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco), Jared Leto (My So Called Life), and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions), and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol). In American...

12) An American tragedy (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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Dreiser, Theodore

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Clyde Griffiths finds his social-climbing aspirations and love for a rich and beautiful debutante threatened when his lower-class pregnant girlfriend gives him an ultimatum.

13) Animal farm (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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The animals of the farmyard rebel against Farmer Jones in the name of equality.

14) Anne Frank (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): the diary of a young girl

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The journal of a Jewish girl in her early teens describes both the joys and torments of daily life, as well as typical adolescent thoughts, throughout two years spent in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of Holland.

15) Anne Frank's diary (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): the graphic adaptation

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"The only graphic biography of Anne Frank's diary that has been authorized by the Anne Frank Foundation and that uses text from the diary--it will introduce a new generation of young readers to this classic of Holocaust literature. This adaptation of Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl into a graphic version for a young readership, maintains the integrity and power of the original work. With stunning, expressive illustrations and ample direct quotation...

16) Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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Sènz, Benjamin Alire

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Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.

17) The art of racing in the rain (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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Evaluating his llife on the eve of his death, atypical canine Enzo considers the sacrifices his master Denny Swift has made in his pursuit of becoming a professional race car driver, and the dog's own efforts to preserve the Swift family.

18) As I lay dying (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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Faulkner, William

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As I Lay Dying is the harrowing, darkly comic tale of the Bundren family's trek across Mississippi to bury Addie, their wife and mother, as told by each of the family members--including Addie herself.

19) Assata (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): an autobiography

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"On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur, a k a JoAnne Chesimard, lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local, state, and federal police attempted to question her about the shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike that claimed the life of a white state trooper. Long a target of J. Edgar Hoover's campaign to defame, infilitrate, and criminalize Black nationalist organizations and their leaders, Shakur was incarcerated for four...

20) The autobiography of Malcolm X (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection)

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The controversial leader of the Black Muslims tells the story of his life and his part in the civil rights movement