New York Timesbestseller! Blade never asked for a life of the rich and famous. In fact, he'd give anything not to be the son of Rutherford Morrison, a washed-up rock star and drug addict with delusions of a comeback. Or to no longer be...
Black Authors
Collection of titles by Black Authors. Titles include Fiction, Nonfiction, Children’s Books, Young Adult, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Plays and more!
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Auteur:Alexander, Kwame, Hess, Mary RandSommaire: - Auteur:Ford, Ashley C.Sommaire:
Through poverty, adolescence, and a fraught relationship with her mother, Ashley Ford wishes she could turn to her father for hope and encouragement. There are just a few problems: he's in prison, and she doesn't know what he did to end...
- Auteur:Morrison, ToniSommaire:
Morrison narrates for three hours and lays out before us the complex lives and backgrounds of four generations of black family life in the south. Central is the character Milkman--an unfortunate nickname owed to his lengthy nursing...
- Auteur:L'Abbé, SonnetSommaire:
In 'Sonnet's Shakespeare,' one young, half-dougla (mixed South Asian and Black) poet tries to use 'the master's tools' on the Bard's 'house,' attempting to dismantle his monumental place in her psyche and in the poetic canon. In a...
- Auteur:Perry, ImaniSommaire:
Imani Perry presents an essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South, as well as an argument for why you must understand the South in order to understand America.
- Auteur:Iweala, UzodinmaSommaire:
In the long-anticipated novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Beasts of No Nation, a revelation shared between two privileged teenagers from very different backgrounds sets off a chain of events with devastating consequences...
- Auteur:Kendi, Ibram X., Reynolds, JasonSommaire:
Race has always been used to gain and keep power, creating dynamics that separate and silence. This exploration reveals the history of racism in America and inspires hope for an antiracist future.
- Auteur:Draper, Sharon M.Sommaire:
When a burning cross set by the Klan causes panic and fear in 1932 Bumblebee, North Carolina, fifth-grader Stella must face prejudice and find the strength to demand change in her segregated town.
- Auteur:Reid, KileySommaire:
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- Auteur:Morrison, ToniSommaire:
Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of...
- Auteur:Slocumb, BrendanSommaire:
A gripping page-turner from the celebrated author of book club favorite The Violin Conspiracy: Music professor Bern Hendricks discovers a shocking secret about the most famous American composer of all time - his music may have been...
- Auteur:Baldwin, JamesSommaire:
Between Leo Proudhammer's childhood and his arrival into the world of the theater lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. There are love affairs with both a man and a woman. And everywhere exists the anguish of being black...
- Auteur:Hannah-Jones, NikoleSommaire:
A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of...
- Auteur:Hannah-Jones, NikoleSommaire:
The 1619 Project's lyrical picture book in verse chronicles the consequences of slavery and the history of Black resistance in the United States, thoughtfully rendered by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and Newbery...
- Auteur:Gilroy, PaulSommaire:
An account of the location of black intellectuals in the modern world following the end of racial slavery. The lives and writings of key African Americans such as Martin Delany, W.E.B. Dubois, Frederick Douglas and Richard Wright are...
- Auteur:Jones, Monique L.Sommaire:
There's more than one way to make a difference: The achievements of the Black Americans included in this book range from athletic to artistic, literary to scientific. Their biographies vary greatly, but each one contributes to the...
- Auteur:Hill, LawrenceSommaire:
Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her village in West Africa and forced to walk for months to the sea in a coffle--a string of slaves-- Aminata Diallo is sent to live as a slave in South Carolina. But years later, she forges her way...
- Auteur:Walker, AndersSommaire:
A startling and gripping reexamination of the Jim Crow era, as seen through the eyes of some of the most important American writers In this dramatic reexamination of the Jim Crow South, Anders Walker investigates how prominent...
- Auteur:Jackson, BrendaSommaire:
Chase's new neighbor, Jessica Claiborne, is as deliciously enticing as the confections she creates. And Jessica can't deny the heat that sparks every time Chase is near. But she has a secret, one that could destroy the desire she sees...
- Auteur:MCBRIDE, JamesSommaire:
James McBride grew up one of twelve siblings in an all-black housing project in Brooklyn, the son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she was white. His mother was an inspiring figure who saw her dozen children through...
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