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1) Dear Martin
Author
Language
English
Description
Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
Author
Language
English
Description
A New York Times bestseller and Oprah Book Club 2.0 selection, the epic, unforgettable story of a man determined to protect the woman he loves from the town desperate to destroy her. This beautiful and devastating debut heralds the arrival of a major new voice in fiction.
Ephram Jennings has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their small East Texas town....
Ephram Jennings has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their small East Texas town....
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A New York Times Notable Book • This fiery and provocative novel from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult.
At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused...
At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused...
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Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1
Language
English
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Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
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Language
English
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Description
Elizabeth Berg, bestselling author of The Art of Mending and The Year of Pleasures, has a rare talent for revealing her characters’ hearts and minds in a manner that makes us empathize completely. We Are All Welcome Here features three women, each struggling against overwhelming odds for her own kind of freedom.
It is the summer of 1964. In Tupelo, Mississippi, the town of Elvis’s birth, tensions...
It is the summer of 1964. In Tupelo, Mississippi, the town of Elvis’s birth, tensions...
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Series
Sweet unrest volume 2
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When Chloe Sabourin suspects that her mother has returned with her dark magic, she joins forces with the mysterious Mama Legba and ends up in a desperate race to rescue her boyfriend Piers.
Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
The new 'Benjamin January' novel from the best-selling author - Abishag Shaw is seeking vengeance for his brother's murder - and Benjamin January is seeking money after his bank crashes. Far beyond the frontier, in the depths of the Rocky Mountains, both are to be found at the great Rendezvous of the Mountain Men: a month-long orgy of cheap booze, shooting-matches, tall tales and cut-throat trading. But at the rendezvous, the discovery of a corpse...
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Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Severn House Pub Ltd
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The new 'Benjamin January' novel from the best-selling author - New Orleans, 1836. When free black musician and surgeon Benjamin January attends the funeral of a friend, an accident tips the dead man out of his coffin - only to reveal an unexpected inhabitant. Just one person recognises the corpse of the white man: Hannibal Sefton, fiddle-player and one of January's closest friends. But he seems unwilling to talk about his connection to the dead man...
10) My first Kwanzaa
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A girl describes how she and her family celebrate the seven days of Kwanzaa.
11) Legendborn
Author
Series
Legendborn volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"To discover the truth behind her mother's mysterious death, a teen girl infiltrates a magical secret society claiming to be the descendants of King Arthur and his knights"--
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 1
Language
English
Description
Told that they will have to move out of their Harlem brownstone just after Christmas, the five Vanderbeeker children, ages four to twelve, decide to change their reclusive landlord's mind.
15) Hush
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Toswiah finds her life changed when her family enters the witness protection program.
Author
Series
Door of no return volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"A novel in verse about an Asante boy who is captured and taken from his village during the nineteenth century"--
17) Hair love
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Zuri's hair has a mind of its own. It kinks, coils, and curls every which way. Zuri knows it's beautiful. When Daddy steps in to style it for an extra special occasion, he has a lot to learn. But he LOVES his Zuri, and he'll do anything to make her--and her hair--happy."
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Tired of being singled out at her mostly-white private school as someone who needs support, high school junior Jade would rather participate in the school's amazing Study Abroad program than join Women to Women, a mentorship program for at-risk girls.
20) Middle passage
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Series
Language
English
Description
A freed slave escapes his bad debts in New Orleans by stowing away on a slave ship en route to Africa.
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