Word for word unabridged recording of The Acts of the Apostles, narrated in contemporary language for easy understanding.
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Author:Summary:Genre: Religion and spirituality
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Word for word unabridged recording of The Gospel According to St. Luke, narrated in contemporary language for easy understanding.
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Author: Hopkinson, NaloSummary:
The rich and privileged have fled the city, barricaded it behind roadblocks and left it to crumble. The inner city has had to revive old ways - farming, barter, herb lore. With nowhere to turn, a...
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Author: Hill, ErnestSummary:
When Tyrone Stokes was sent to prison, he left his wife to raise their son, Marcus, alone. Now Tyrone is free, but 17-year-old Marcus is on Louisiana's death row for the murder of a young white...
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Author: Mason, FeliciaSummary:
For eighteen years Roger McKenzie has led a gospel singing group, The Triumphant Voices of Praise. But The Voices have failed to win commercial or critical success. When Roger's leadership is...
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Author: Whitehead, ColsonSummary:
A small Midwestern town is having an identity crisis--should they have a new techno-savvy name or a name honoring the freedmen who founded the town? Or is the current name just fine? They call in...
Genre: Humorous fiction -
Author: Whitehead, ColsonSummary:
Lila Mae Watson -- the first black female inspector in the world's tallest city -- has the highest performance rating of anyone in the Department of Elevator Services. This upsets her superiors...
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Author: Bader, BonnieSummary:
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was only 25 when he helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott and was soon organizing black people across the country in support of the right to vote, desegregation,...
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Author: Wilson, John W.Summary:
The Great Depression continues to sweep across the land where the Brazos and Navasota rivers meet, taking with it the hope of many poor black farmers. One of these farmers, young Cleveland Webster...
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Author: Simon, MichaelSummary:
When an assassination attempt on a black community activist kills a young girl and leaves a little boy critically wounded, Detective Dan Reles heads the investigation. The brass decide, however,...
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Author: Roby, Kimberla LawsonSummary:
The Reverend Curtis Black hasn't spoken to his son, Matthew, in over a year. Then there's Dillon Whitfield-Curtis's long-lost-son-who has settled in as a member of the Black family. As jealousy...
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Author: Bowers, RickSummary:
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission compiled secret files on more than 87,000 private citizens in the most extensive state spying program in U.S. history. Its...
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Author: Lester, TobySummary:
Lester spotlights Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 world map and recounts the epic tale of the mariners and scholars who facilitated this watershed of Western history.
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Author: Pinkney, Andrea DavisSummary:
In 1862 eleven-year-old Summer and her thirteen-year-old brother Rosco take turns describing how life on the quiet Virginia plantation where they are slaves is affected by the Civil War.
Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Author: Ndibe, OkeySummary:
Okey Ndibe's funny, charming, and penetrating memoir tells of his move from Nigeria to America, where he came to edit the influential-but forever teetering on the verge of insolvency-African...