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02323aim a2200373 a 4500 001 113D0054DE6B11DF9C83A1F56AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20101023010128 008 100815s2007 000 0 eng u 020 $a 9780792749677 020 $a 0792749677 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)\9780792749677 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) 040 $a TEFOD $d SILO 100 1 $a Haley, Alex. 245 1 $a Roots [electronic resource] : $b [the saga of an American family] $c by Alex Haley. 260 $a [North Kingstown, R.I.] $b Sound Library $c 2007. 300 $a Mode of access: $b World Wide Web. Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 432682 KB). 500 $a Downloadable audio file. 500 $a Duration: 30:06:06. 500 $a Title from: Title details screen. 500 $a Unabridged. 511 0 $a Read by Avery Brooks. 520 $a It begins with a birth in an African village in 1750, and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. And 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. When Alex was a boy growing up in Tennessee, his grandmother used to tell him stories about their family, stories that went way back to a man she called the African who was taken aboard a slave ship bound for Colonial America. As an adult, Alex spent twelve years searching for documentation that might authenticate what his grandmother had told him. In an astonishing feat of genealogical detective work, he discovered the name of the "African"--Kunta Kinte--as well as the exact location of the village in West Africa from where he was abducted in 1767. Roots is based on the facts of his ancestry, and the six generations of people. 650 $a African American families $x Biography. 650 $a African Americans $x Biography. 650 $a Audiobooks. 650 $a Haley family. 650 $a Haley, Alex. 650 $a Kinte family. 700 $a Brooks, Avery. 856 $u http://wilbor.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=F06BFFD6-7250-4882-A12F-1DF42E28BEE6 $3 URL 941 $a 2 952 $l GUPF501 $d 20111119011051.0 952 $l XBPE737 $d 20101023011152.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=113D0054DE6B11DF9C83A1F56AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search