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Roots [sound recording] : [the saga of an American family] / Alex Haley.

Author: Haley, Alex.

Edition: 30th anniversary ed.

Publisher: North Kingstown, RI : BBC Audio, p2007, c1974.

ISBN: 9781602831971
1602831971

Description: 24 sound discs (ca. 30 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject: Haley, Alex.
Haley family.
Kinte family.
African Americans Biography.
African American families Biography.
Audiobooks.
Audiobooks.

Performers: Narrated by Avery Brooks ; introduction read by Michael Eric Dyson.

Notes: Subtitle from container.
Unabridged.
Compact disc.
"Published by arrangement with Vanguard Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group."
Pulitzer Prize Winner.

Summary: Available for the first time on audio, Roots begins with a birth in an African village in 1750, and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. In that time span, an unforgettable cast of men, women, and children come to life, many of them based on the people from Alex Haley's own family tree.

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Albany Park Adult E185.97.H24A33 2007 Audiobook CD In transit between libraries 01/21/2012
Archer Heights Adult E185.97.H24A33 2007 Audiobook CD Not checked out 12/12/2011
Bezazian Adult E185.97.H24A33 2007 Audiobook CD Not checked out 11/30/2011
Chicago Lawn Adult E185.97.H24A33 2007 Audiobook CD Not checked out 10/14/2011
Chinatown Adult E185.97.H24A33 2007 Audiobook CD Not checked out 09/24/2011
Clearing Adult E185.97.H24A33 2007 Audiobook CD Not checked out 12/13/2007
Jefferson Park Adult E185.97.H24A33 2007 Audiobook CD Not checked out 07/07/2009
Lincoln Belmont Adult E185.97.H24A33 2007 Audiobook CD Not checked out 11/05/2011
Logan Square Adult E185.97.H24A33 2007 Audiobook CD Date Due 03/07/2012
McKinley Park Adult E185.97.H24A33 2007 Audiobook CD Not checked out 09/28/2009
Portage-Cragin Adult E185.97.H24A33 2007 Audiobook CD Not checked out 07/07/2011
Pullman Adult E185.97.H24A33 2007 Audiobook CD Not checked out 11/07/2011
Roden Adult E185.97.H24A33 2007 Audiobook CD Not checked out 12/21/2011
Rogers Park Adult E185.97.H24A33 2007 Audiobook CD Date Due 02/16/2012
Scottsdale Adult E185.97.H24A33 2007 Audiobook CD Not checked out 11/07/2011
Sulzer Regional Adult E185.97.H24A33 2007 Audiobook CD Not checked out 12/13/2011
Toman Adult E185.97.H24A33 2007 Audiobook CD Not checked out 05/13/2011
Vodak-East Side Adult E185.97.H24A33 2007 Audiobook CD Not checked out 01/05/2010
Walker Adult E185.97.H24A33 2007 Audiobook CD Not checked out 08/15/2011
Woodson Regional Adult E185.97.H24A33 2007 coll. Heritage Collection Audiobook CD Date Due 02/14/2012