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  • Deconstructing Sammy : music, money, madness, and the mob / Matt Birkbeck.

    • Text
    • New York : Amistad, ©2008.
    • 2008
    • 2 Items
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    Text Sc E 08-1550Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGYB (Davis) 18-6518Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave [electronic resource] / written by himself ; with an introduction and notes by Robert O'Meally ; George Stade, consulting editorial director.

    • Text
    • New York, NY : Barnes & Noble Classics, c2003.
    • 2003

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  • A final reckoning : a Hannover family's life and death in the Shoah / Ruth Gutmann ; foreword by Kenneth Waltzer.

    • Text
    • Tuscaloosa : University Alabama Press, [2013]
    • 2013-2013
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *PXS 14-114Schwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111

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  • Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave / Frederick Douglass ; edited with an introduction by Ira Dworkin.

    • Text
    • New York : Penguin Classics, [2014]
    • 2014-1845
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc C 15-86Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The Palgrave handbook of contemporary heritage research / edited by Emma Waterton Associate Professor, University of Western Sydney, Australia, Steve Watson, Professor, York St. John University, UK.

    • Text
    • Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
    • 2015
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 15-5140Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Threading my prayer rug : one woman's journey from Pakistani Muslim to American Muslim / Sabeeha Rehman.

    • Text
    • New York : Arcade Publishing, [2016]
    • 2016
  • The Arab of the future. 2 : a graphic memoir. A childhood in the Middle East (1984-1985) / Riad Sattouf ; translated by Sam Taylor.

    • Text
    • New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2016.
    • 2016-2016
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 17-3265Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • The misadventures of Awkward Black Girl / Issa Rae.

    • Text
    • New York, NY : Atria Books/37 Ink, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2015.
    • 2015
    • 1 Resource

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  • White birch, red hawthorn : a memoir / Nora Murphy.

    • Text
    • Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
    • 2017
    • 1 Resource

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  • White birch, red hawthorn : a memoir / Nora Murphy.

    • Text
    • Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]
    • 2017
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 17-3776Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Adventures of a ballad hunter / John A. Lomax.

    • Text
    • Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017.
    • 2017-2017
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JNE 17-173Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • The futilitarians [electronic resource] : our year of thinking, drinking, grieving, and reading / Anne Gisleson.

    • Audio
    • [Ashland, OR] : Blackstone Audio, 2017.
    • 2017
    • 1 Resource

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  • Real American [electronic resource] : a memoir / Julie Lythcott-Haims.

    • Audio
    • New York : Macmillan Audio, p2017.
    • 2017
    • 1 Resource

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  • The newcomers [electronic resource] : finding refuge, friendship, and hope in an American classroom / Helen Thorpe.

    • Audio
    • Chicago : Dreamscape Media, LLC., p2017.
    • 2017
    • 1 Resource

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  • The line becomes a river : dispatches from the border / Francisco Cantú.

    • Text
    • New York, New York : Riverhead Books, 2018.
    • 2018
    • 1 Resource

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  • Smoketown : the untold story of the other great black renaissance / Mark Whitaker.

    • Audio
    • Ashland : Blackstone Audio, 2018.
    • 2018
    • 1 Resource

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  • God save Texas : A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State / Lawrence Wright.

    • Text
    • New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
    • 2018
  • The world in flames : a black boyhood in a white supremacist doomsday cult / Jerald Walker.

    • Text
    • Boston : Beacon Press, [2016].
    • 2016
    • 1 Resource

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  • The lightless sky : a twelve-year-old refugee's harrowing escape from Afghanistan and his extraordinary journey across half the world / Gulwali Passarlay.

    • Audio
    • [New York] : HarperAudio, [2016].
    • 2016
    • 1 Resource

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  • The last cowboys : a pioneer family in the new West / John Branch.

    • Audio
    • Ashland : Blackstone Publishing, 2018.
    • 2018
    • 1 Resource

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  • Inheritance : a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love / Dani Shapiro.

    • Text
    • New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
    • 2019-2019
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 19-1936Schwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111

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  • The portable Frederick Douglass / Frederick Douglass ; edited by John Stauffer ; introduction by Henry Louis Gates.

    • Text
    • New York : Penguin Classics, [2016]
    • 2016

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  • Twisted : the dreadlock chronicles / Bert Ashe.

    • Text
    • Chicago : Agate Bolden, 2015.
    • 2015
    • 1 Resource

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  • Body leaping backward : memoir of a delinquent girlhood / Maureen Stanton.

    • Text
    • Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
    • 2019
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 19-6935Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Pauli Murray : a personal and political life / Troy R. Saxby.

    • Text
    • Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
    • 2020
    • 1 Resource

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  • The world is a carpet : four seasons in an Afghan village / Anna Badkhen.

    • Text
    • New York, New York : Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2013.
    • 2013
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 13-5194Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Big little man : in search of my Asian self / Alex Tizon.

    • Text
    • Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
    • 2014
    • 1 Item
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    Text IEA 14-6378Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • A Chinaman's chance : one family's journey and the Chinese American dream / Eric Liu.

    • Text
    • New York : PublicAffairs, 2014.
    • 2014
    • 1 Item
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    Text IEA 14-7179Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Moonshine : a cultural history of America's infamous liquor / Jaime Joyce.

    • Text
    • Minneapolis, MN, USA : Zenith Press, 2014.
    • 2014
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFC 14-277Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Beijing bastard : into the wilds of a changing China / Val Wang.

    • Text
    • New York, New York : Gotham Books, 2014.
    • 2014
    • 1 Item
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    Text IEA 16-3977Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Welcome to my breakdown : a memoir / Benilde Little.

    • Text
    • New York : Atria Books, 2015.
    • 2015
    • 1 Item

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    Text Sc E 15-708Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Holding fast to dreams : empowering youth from the civil rights crusade to STEM achievement / Freeman A. Hrabowski, III.

    • Text
    • Boston : Beacon Press, [2015]
    • 2015
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 15-1272Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The millionaire and the bard : Henry Folger's obsessive hunt for Shakespeare's first folio / Andrea E. Mays.

    • Text
    • New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.
    • 2015
  • Twisted : my dreadlock chronicles / Bert Ashe.

    • Text
    • Chicago : Bolden, an Agate imprint, [2015].
    • 2015
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 16-175Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Walking with Abel : journeys with the nomads of the African savannah / Anna Badkhen.

    • Text
    • New York : Riverhead Books, 2015.
    • 2015
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 15-1469Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Born on the bayou : a memoir / Blaine Lourd.

    • Text
    • New York : Gallery Books, 2015.
    • 2015
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ITQ (New IBeria) 16-3679Schwarzman Building M2 - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • The hundred-year walk : an Armenian odyssey / Dawn Anahid MacKeen.

    • Text
    • Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
    • 2016
    • 2 Items
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    Text JFE 17-6192Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • The lightless sky : a twelve-year-old refugee's harrowing escape from Afghanistan and his extraordinary journey across half the world / Gulwali Passarlay with Nadene Ghouri.

    • Text
    • New York, NY : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016]
    • 2016
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 16-1833Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • The song poet : a memoir of my father / Kao Kalia Yang.

    • Text
    • New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, [2016]
    • 2016
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 16-3766Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Street of Eternal Happiness : big city dreams along a Shanghai road / Rob Schmitz.

    • Text
    • New York : Crown Publishers, [2016]
    • 2016
    • 2 Items
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    Text JFE 17-6197Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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    Text JFE 16-8999Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Famous Nathan : a family saga of Coney Island, the American dream, and the search for the perfect hot dog / Lloyd Handwerker and Gil Reavill.

    • Text
    • New York : Flatiron Books, 2016.
    • 2016
    • 1 Item
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    Text JBD 17-69Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315

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  • My (underground) American dream : my true story as an undocumented immigrant who became a Wall Street executive / Julissa Arce, with Mark Dagostino.

    • Text
    • New York : Center Street, 2016.
    • 2016
    • 1 Item
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    Text JBE 17-1031Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315

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  • Les Parisiennes : how the women of Paris lived, loved, and died under Nazi occupation / Anne Sebba.

    • Text
    • New York : St. Martin's Press, 2016.
    • 2016-2016
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 16-13314Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Every Frenchman has one / by Olivia de Havilland.

    • Text
    • New York : Crown Archetype, [2016]
    • 2016-1961
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.: The last interview : and other conversations / Martin Luther King, Jr.

    • Text
    • Brooklyn : Melville House, [2017]
    • 2017-2017
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc D 17-883Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The original Black elite : Daniel Murray and the story of a forgotten era / Elizabeth Dowling Taylor.

    • Text
    • New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
    • 2017-2017
    • 2 Items
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    Text Sc E 17-924Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Flight risk : memoirs of a New Orleans bad boy / James Nolan.

    • Text
    • Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2017.
    • 2017
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 17-9423Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Good Friday on the Rez : a Pine Ridge odyssey / David Hugh Bunnell.

    • Text
    • New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017.
    • 2017
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 17-3162Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Making rent in Bed-Stuy : a memoir of trying to make it in New York City / Brandon Harris.

    • Text
    • New York : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017]
    • 2017-2017
    • 2 Items
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    Text Sc D 17-2521Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • My curious and jocular heroes : tales and tale-spinners from Appalachia / Loyal Jones.

    • Text
    • Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
    • 2017
    • 1 Item
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