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1 - Grace
NATASHIA DEON · COUNTERPOINT
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For a runaway slave in the 1840s south, life on the run can be just as dangerous as life under a sadistic Massa. That's what fifteen-year-old Naomi learns after she escapes the brutal confines of life on an Alabama plantation. Striking out on her own, she must leave behind her beloved... |
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2 - Another Brooklyn: A Novel
Jacqueline Woodson · Amistad Press
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The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years.
Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place... |
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4 - Counting Descent
Clint Smith · Write Bloody Pub
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Clint Smith's debut poetry collection, Counting Descent, is a coming of age story that seeks to complicate our conception of lineage and tradition. Smith explores the cognitive dissonance that results from belonging to a community that unapologetically celebrates black humanity while... |
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5 - Olio
Tyehimba Jess · Wave Books
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Part fact, part fiction, Tyehimba Jess's much anticipated second book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers directly before and after the Civil War up to World War I. Olio is an effort to understand how they met, resisted,... |
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6 - Forty Acres: A Thriller
Dwayne Alexander Smith · Atria Books
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What if overcoming the legacy of American slavery meant bringing back that very institution? A young black attorney is thrown headlong into controversial issues of race and power in this page-turning and provocative new novel.Martin Grey, a smart, talented black lawyer working out of a storefront... |
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7 - Citizens Creek: A Novel
Lalita Tademy · Atria Books
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Buying his freedom after serving as a translator during the American Indian wars, Cow Tom builds a remarkable life and legacy that is sustained by his courageous granddaughter. |
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8 - Visible Man: The Life of Henry Dumas
Jeffrey B Leak · University of Georgia Press
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Henry Dumas (1934-1968) was a writer who did not live to see most of his fiction and poetry in print. A son of Sweet Home, Arkansas, and Harlem, he devoted himself to the creation of a black literary cosmos, one in which black literature and culture were windows into the human condition.... |
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9 - Book of Hours: Poems
Kevin Young · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of his father, we witness the unfolding of grief. "In the night I brush / my teeth with a razor," he tells us, in one of the collection's piercing two-line poems. Capturing the strange silence of bereavement ("Not the storm / but the calm... |
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10 - The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat
Edward Kelsey Moore · Knopf
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Meet Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean in the New York Times best-selling novel . . .
Earl's All-You-Can-Eat is home away from home for this inseparable Plainview, Indiana, trio. Dubbed "the Supremes" by high school pals in the tumultuous 1960s,... |
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11 - The Good Lord Bird: A Novel
James McBride · Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Winner of the 2013 National Book Award for FictionSoon to be a major motion picture starring Liev Schreiber and Jaden SmithA Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Oprah Magazine Top 10 Book of the YearWinner of the Morning News Tournament of Champions"A magnificent new novel by the best-selling... |
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13 - Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation
Questlove · Harper Design
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From Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson of the award-winning hip-hop group the Roots, comes this vibrant book commemorating the legacy of Soul Train—the cultural phenomenon that launched the careers of artists such as Tina Turner, Stevie Wonder, the Jackson 5, Whitney Houston, Lenny... |
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14 - Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid
Nikki Giovanni · William Morrow
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From one of America's most celebrated poets, Nikki Giovanni, comes this poignant collection of poetry that celebrates the simple pleasures of everyday life and the bonds we share with those closest to us. "This slim volume delights on every page. There are stories, imaginings,... |
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15 - The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
Ayana Mathis · Knopf
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The newest Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection The arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction. A debut of extraordinary distinction: Ayana Mathis tells the story of the children of the Great Migration through the trials of one unforgettable family. In 1923,... |
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16 - Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography
Randal Maurice Jelks · The University of North Carolina Press; 1 edition
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In this first full-length biography of Benjamin Mays (1894-1984), Randal Maurice Jelks chronicles the life of the man Martin Luther King Jr. called his "spiritual and intellectual father." Dean of the Howard University School of Religion, president of Morehouse College, and mentor... |
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17 - The 21st-Century Black Librarian in America: Issues and Challenges
Andrew P. Jackson · Scarecrow Press
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The 1970 and 1994 editions of The Black Librarian in America by E.J. Josey singled out racism as an important issue to be addressed within the library profession. Although much has changed since then, this latest collection of 48 essays by Black librarians and library supporters again identifies... |
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18 - Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place
bell hooks · The University Press of Kentucky
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Author, activist, feminist, teacher, and artist bell hooks is celebrated as one of the nation's leading intellectuals. Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, hooks drew her unique pseudonym from the name of her grandmother, an intelligent and strong-willed African American woman who inspired... |
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