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| 1993. | First Vintage International edition. | Vintage International | 106 pages ; 21 cm | On Shelf
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| 1995 | Modern Library ed. | Modern Library | vii, 105 p. ; 19 cm. |
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| 1963 | Dial Press | 120 p. ; 21 cm. | Available at another branch (library use only)
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| p2008 | BBC Audiobooks America | 2 sound discs (2 hr., 25 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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| 2013 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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| [released 2008], c2008 | Unabridged. | Playaway Digital Audio : | 1 sound media player (2 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English |
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Contains a letter to Baldwin's nephew on the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Also describes his childhood, views on Black Muslims, and his visions.
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| 2013, ©1981 | 1st Vintage International pbk. ed. | Vintage International | 226 pages ; 21 cm | On Shelf
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| 1985, c1953 | Dell Pub | 221 p. ; 18 cm. | On Shelf
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| 2016. | Everyman's Library/Alfred A. Knopf | xxvii, 236 pages ; 22 cm. | On Shelf
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| [2016] | MackinVIA | Unabridged. | [AudioGO] | 1 online resource (1 audio file (8 hr., 45 min.)) : digital | English | Available Online
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| 2013 | OverDrive | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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| 2013. | MackinVIA | Vintage International | 1 online resource (226 pages) | English | Available Online
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| 2013 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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| [2013] | Unabridged. | Findaway World, LLC | 1 audio media player (8 hr., 45 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | On Shelf
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Originally published in 1953, this is "a hardcover edition of James Baldwin's classic coming-of-age novel set in Harlem in the 1930s, with a new introduction by Edwidge Danticat"--
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| 1986, c1974 | Dell | 213 p. ; 18 cm. | On Shelf
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| 1974 | Dial Press | 197 p. ; 22 cm. | Available at another branch (library use only)
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| [2016] | Unabridged. | Blackstone Audio, Inc | 6 audio discs (7 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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| [2017] | MackinVIA | Unabridged. | [Blackstone Audio] | 1 online resource (1 audio file (7 hr., 7 min.)) : digital | English | Available Online
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"Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncerain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions -- affection, despair, and hope."--Page 4 of cover
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| 1988, c1956 | Dell | 224 p. ; 18 cm. | Available at another branch
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| 2016. | Everyman's Library | xxxi, 159 pages ; 22 cm. | Available at another branch
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| p2013 | Unabridged. | AudioGO | 6 sound discs (6 hr., 49 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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| 2013 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Blackstone Publishing | English | Available Online
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"The groundbreaking novel by one of the most important twentieth-century American writers--now in an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition. Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. David has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while she is away on a trip he becomes involved in a doomed affair...
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| 1993 | Vintage Books | 436 p. ; 21 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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| p2009 | BBC Audiobooks America | 13 sound discs (16 hr., 12 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English |
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"Brilliantly and fiercely told." —The New York Times
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read
Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions—sexual, racial, political, artistic—that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped...
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read
Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions—sexual, racial, political, artistic—that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped...
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| 1995 | 1st Vintage International ed. | Vintage Books | 249 p. ; 21 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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| p2011 | AudioGO | 7 sound discs (7 hr., 48 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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"There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their head above water. It may be the heroin that a down-and-out jazz pianist uses to face the terror of pouring his life into an inanimate instrument. It may be the brittle piety of...
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Maplewood High - Teen Non-Fiction
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Nashville School of the Arts - Teen Non-Fiction
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| 2017. | First vintage international edition. | Vintage Books | xxiii, 18 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. | English | On Shelf
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Transcript of the documentary film, I am not your negro, by Raoul Peck composed of unpublished and published writings, interviews, and letters by James Baldwin on the subject of racism in America.
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| [2021], c1964. | Beacon Press | xix, 83 pages ; 19 cm | English | Available at another branch
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| 2021 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Beacon Press | English | Available Online
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| 2021 | OverDrive | Beacon Press | English | Available Online
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| 2021 | Beacon Press | English | Available Online
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"Baldwin's critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation, race, and police brutality to a new generation of readers"--
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| ©2012 | Revised ed. | Beacon Press | xxiv, 179 pages ; 23 cm | English | Available at another branch
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The author shares his views of black thought and the conditions of black life in America during the 1940's and early 1950's.
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Giovanni's Room, Baldwin's second novel, deals frankly with homosexuality in a manner daring for its time. It depicts a white American struggling to accept his homoerotic desires. David, the protagonist, like Baldwin himself, feels alienated from his native country and moves to Paris in search of a freer life. In the passage Baldwin reads on this recording, David recalls a childhood sexual encounter with another boy-an encounter that left him deeply...
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Baldwin recounts many legends and stories from Ancient Greek in manner appropriate to grammar school children. Most of the Greek tales are told in the manner of fairy tales and should be appealing to students of any age. Some of the more famous stories retold in this volume include the legends of Atlanta, Cadmus and Europa, Prometheus, Io and Hera, and Medusa.
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Maplewood High - Teen Movie
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| [2017] | Magnolia Home Entertainment | 1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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Master documentary filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin's original words and a flood of rich archival material. A journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter.
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| c1998 | Library of America : | x, 869 p. ; 21 cm. | English | On Shelf
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| [2019] | Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment | 1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
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A timeless love story set in early 1970s Harlem involving newly engaged nineteen-year- old Tish and her fiance Fonny who have a beautiful future ahead. But their plans are derailed when Fonny is arrested for a crime he did not commit. Now the pair and their families must fight for justice in the name of love and the promise of the American dream.
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A scalding, uplifting, sorrowful, and exultant masterpiece of the modern American theater, The Amen Corner is a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black fathers and black sons.
In his first work for the theater, James Baldwin brought all the fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront churches of his childhood along with an unwavering awareness of the price those churches exacted from...
In his first work for the theater, James Baldwin brought all the fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront churches of his childhood along with an unwavering awareness of the price those churches exacted from...
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| 1998 | 1st Vintage International ed. | Vintage International | 484 p. ; 21 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, Baldwin shows the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable.
For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the intoxicating world of the theater lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. An adored older brother vanishes into
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"Probing perhaps more deeply than ever before into American racial practices." —The Nation
Baldwin’s personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also an appraisal of American racial politics. Offering an incisive look at racism in American movies and a vision of America’s self-delusions and deceptions, Baldwin challenges the underlying assumptions in such films as In the Heat...
Baldwin’s personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also an appraisal of American racial politics. Offering an incisive look at racism in American movies and a vision of America’s self-delusions and deceptions, Baldwin challenges the underlying assumptions in such films as In the Heat...
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| 2014 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Blackstone Publishing | English | Available Online
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New York's Greenwich Village in the 1950s, the gathering place of artists, writers, and musicians, is the setting of Another Country, Baldwin's third novel. The characters, all involved in complex interracial relationships, cluster around Rufus, a jazz musician whose suicide affects them profoundly. For Baldwin, Rufus represents "the black corpse floating in the national psyche." Baldwin's first reading on this recording portrays Rufus' state of
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| 1972. | Dial Press | 197 pages ; 22 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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| 2017 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Blackstone Publishing | English | Checked Out
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A searing memoir and an extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies, No Name in the Street is James Baldwin's powerful commentary on the political and social agonies of America's contemporary history. The prophecies of The Fire Next Time have tragically been realized--through assassinations, urban riots, and increased racial polarization--and the hope for justice seems more elusive than ever. Through it all, Baldwin's uncompromising...
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