Title The Nickel boys : a novel / Colson Whitehead.

Publication Info.	[Westminster, Md.] : Books on Tape ; [New York] : Random House Audio, [2019]
	℗2019

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Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department	CDBK F WHITEHEAD, C.	Check Shelf
Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department	FIC CD WHITEHEAD, C.	Storage
Bristol, Main Library - Audio Materials	CDBOOK WHITEHEAD	Check Shelf
Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Main Level	CD BOOK WHITEHEAD	Check Shelf
East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department	BCD F WHITEHEAD	Check Shelf
Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department	SPO CD WHITEHEAD DISCS 1-6	Check Shelf
Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department	CDBK WHITEHEAD	Check Shelf
Manchester, Main Library - Basement Materials	CD BOOK WHITEHEAD	Check Shelf
Manchester, Main Library - Media Room	CD BOOK WHITEHEAD	Check Shelf
Manchester, Whiton Branch - Media Room	CD BOOK WHITEHEAD	Check Shelf

Edition	Unabridged.
Description	6 audio discs (7 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time	070000
Description	digital rdatr
	optical rdarm
	audio file rdaft
	CD audio
Note	Title from web page.
Performer	Read by the author (acknowledgments) and JD Jackson.
System Details	Compact disc.
Summary	"As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone"... Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South in the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood is sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called The Nickel Academy... [It] is a grotesque chamber of horrors, where the sadistic staff beats and sexually abuses the students, and any boy who resists is likely to disappear "out back." Stunned to find himself in such a vicious environment, Elwood tries to hold on to Dr. King's ringing assertion "Throw us in jail and we will still love you." His friend Turner thinks Elwood is worse than naive, that the world is crooked and the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. The tension between Elwood's ideals and Turner's skepticism leads to a decision with repercussions that will echo down the decades."--Container.
	Follows the experiences of two African-American teenagers at an abusive reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.
Subject	African American teenagers -- United States -- Fiction.
	Reformatories -- Florida -- Fiction.
	Racism -- United States -- Fiction.
	African Americans -- Segregation -- United States -- Fiction.
	African Americans -- Civil rights -- Fiction.
	FICTION / Coming of Age.
	African American teenagers. (OCoLC)fst00799406
	African Americans -- Segregation. (OCoLC)fst00799695
	Reformatories. (OCoLC)fst01092581
	Florida -- Fiction.
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Novels. (OCoLC)fst01921742
	Historical fiction.
	Novels.
	Audiobooks.
	Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640
Added Author	Jackson, JD, narrator.
Standard No.	DD44940
ISBN	9781984891396
	1984891391
	9781984891372
	1984891375
Standard No.	9781984891372 53500
Music No.	PRHA 8848 Books on Tape

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