Isabel Preston loves nothing more than to be defiant towards her mother by refusing to attend college with a full scholarship. Instead, she spends most of her time running the streets with a crime lord named Bruce Tripson. After a...
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Auteur:Flowers, CatherineSommaire:When her daughter is convicted of negligent homicide and goes to prison, Mavis is forced to raise her granddaughter, who is the result of her husband's betrayal.
- Auteur:Rhodes, Jewell ParkerSommaire:
Medical doctor Marie Levant--descendant of the legendary Voodoo Queen Mari Laveau--is tired of seeing blood-drained corpses arrive at the hospital each night, and tired of being haunted by their ghosts. To protect herself and her loved...
- Auteur:Davis, Angela Y.Sommaire:
Angela Davis provides a powerful history of the social and political influence of whiteness and elitism in feminism, from abolitionist days to the present, and demonstrates how the racist and classist biases of its leaders inevitably...
- Auteur:McDonough, Yona ZeldisSommaire:
In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This seemingly small act triggered civil rights protests across America and earned Rosa Parks the title "Mother of the Civil Rights...
- Auteur:McDonough, Yona ZeldisSommaire:
Born a slave in Maryland, Harriet Tubman knew first-hand what it meant to be someone's property; she was whipped by owners and almost killed by an overseer. It was from other field hands that she first heard about the Underground...
- Auteur:Little, BenildeSommaire:
Twenty-six-year-old Aisha Branch has always gotten what she wants. Now she's getting an incredibly wealthy, white husband--unless self-made black man Miles changes enjoying a richly deserved sexual re-awakening. And her grandmother...
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Auteur:McMillan, TerrySommaire:After leaving her two young sons with her mother, Betty Jean, Trinetta disappears. BJ already has her hands full dealing with her other adult children, two opinionated sisters, an ill husband, and her own postponed dreams-all while...
- Auteur:Khan-Cullors, PatrisseSommaire:
This program includes a foreword read by Angela Davis Patrisse Khan-Cullors' and asha bandele's instant New York Times bestseller, When They Call You a Terrorist is now adapted for the YA audience! A movement that started...
- Auteur:Johnson, BrandiSommaire:
Mommy and Daddy foot the bills for their little girl, Kylee Hampton, but if they looked in her closet they'd know she's living larger than her allowance, and beneath the designer clothes, skeletons would be discovered.
- Auteur:Banks, KendallSommaire:
Cold-hearted Keema takes the world by storm as she navigates her way through every trick and scam she can pull off. With four kids in tow, living off the welfare system had become her life along with the extra cash, sex, and violence...
- Auteur:Dionne, EvetteSommaire:
A poignant and ruthlessly honest journey through cultural expectations of size, race, and gender--and toward a brighter future--from National Book Award nominee Evette DionneMy body has not betrayed me; it has continued rebounding...
- Auteur:Moore, Stephanie PerrySommaire:
Even the best Christians sometimes wear their halos tilted--especially when dealing with troubled marriages. For Shari and Dillon, fissures have appeared in the bedrock of their union. So when Shari jumps on the chance to get away when...
- Auteur:Rhodes, Jewell ParkerSommaire:
Doctor Marie Levant can't explain why she's drawn to New Orleans, why it's comforting and unsettling at the same time. And she can't shake her haunting dreams. But when she delivers a dead woman's baby, Marie knows malevolent forces are...
- Auteur:Rhodes, Jewell ParkerSommaire:
In mid 19th-century New Orleans, Marie Laveau was the notorious queen of voodoo -- worshiped and feared by blacks and whites alike. Voodoo Dreams reimagines the woman behind this legend, a mesmerizing combination of history and...
- Auteur:Johnson, Alaya DawnSommaire:
"Narrators Shayna Small and Neil Shah transport listeners to 1940s New York in this dark fantasy set against a backdrop of racial tension and brewing war...Both narrators also excel at a range of accents, making this audiobook a fully...
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Auteur:Acker, CamilleSommaire:When you're black and female in America, society's rules were never meant to make you safe or free. Camille Acker's relatable yet unexpected characters break down the walls of respectability politics, showing that the only way for black...
- Auteur:Weber, CarlSommaire:
One of Virginia's most successful women, Loraine Farrow tries to focus on her marriage to Leon, but her ex-lover Michael refuses to let her go--especially when he discovers that Leon is hiding a dark secret that could break up their...
- Auteur:Frank, AlliSommaire:
The Wedding Date meets Class Mom in this delicious novel of love, money, and misbehaving parents. One of Good Housekeeping's 20 Best New Fiction Books of 2020 Good Morning America Mother's Day in Quarantine Books to Buy...
- Auteur:Turner, DawnSommaire:
A "beautiful, tragic, and inspiring" ( Publishers Weekly , starred review) memoir about three Black girls from the storied Bronzeville section of Chicago that offers a penetrating exploration of race, opportunity, friendship,...
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