A ninety-two-year-old Mississippi bluesman needs investigator Leonid McGill's help with a simple task: deliver a letter revealing the black lineage of a wealthy heiress and her corrupt father.
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Author: Mosley, WalterSummary:
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Author: Beah, IshmaelSummary:
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of A Long Way Gone . A powerful novel about young people living at the margins of society, struggling to replace the homes they have lost with the...
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Author: Baldwin, JamesSummary:
Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race, and America in the 1950s. Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country tells...
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Author: Eggers, DaveSummary:
From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Circle comes an exciting new follow-up. When the world's largest search engine/social media company, the Circle, merges with the planet'...
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Author: Whitehead, ColsonSummary:
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER -From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set...
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Author: Myers, ChristopherSummary:
Two friends get highly imaginative on an urban basketball court as they try to one-up the other in a popular game that turns into a humorous and inventive celebration of athletics and creativity...
Genre: Juvenile fiction, Picture books -
Author: Asim, JabariSummary:
Jabari Asim goes beyond what's taught in the classroom and tells a fact-filled history of African Americans through politics, activism, sports, entertainment, music, and much more.
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Author: Mohlin, PeterSummary:
The propulsive new John Adderley case and follow-up to the award-winning, international bestselling Scandi noir thriller The Bucket List Alicia Bjelke has always been "the other sister....
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Author: Johnson, VarianSummary:
"With a deft hand, Johnson shows us there's no such thing as "too young" when it comes to questioning big ideas like manhood, or even family."--Jason Reynolds, New York...
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Author: Seabrook, JohnSummary:
Over the last two decades a new type of song has emerged. Today's hits bristle with "hooks," musical burrs designed to snag your ear every seven seconds. Painstakingly crafted to...
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Author: Staples, WillSummary:
When rhino poachers kill two of his fellow rangers in Kruger Park, South African Defense Force veteran Cobus Venter reaches his breaking point. Quitting his job, he embarks on a vigilante mission...
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Author: Grann, DavidSummary:
On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to...
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Author: Turnbull, CadwellSummary:
One October morning, Laina gets the news that her brother has been shot and killed by Boston cops. But what looks like a case of police brutality soon reveals something much stranger. Monsters are...
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Author: Andrews, TroySummary:
The stunning story and exquisite illustrations in this Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Award-winning book can now be savored along with Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews reading the...
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Author: Grisham, JohnSummary:
After seventeen-year-old Samuel "Sooley" Sooleymon receives a college scholarship to play basketball for North Carolina Central, he moves to Durham from his native, war-torn South Sudan...
Genre: Sports fiction