Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are off to Alabama to visit their grandmother Big Ma and her mother Ma Charles. Across the way lives Ma Charles' half sister, though the two haven't spoken in years. But when tragedy strikes, Delphine...
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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Author:Williams-Garcia, RitaSummary: - Author:Ashley AntoinetteSummary:
The Red Bottom Bandits may be the world's most fashion-forward gang of masked outlaws. They're the talk of D. C. for their daring robberies and fly gear. When the innocent, naïve Gucci recognizes ringleader Sunny Raegan during a holdup...
- Author:RuPaulSummary:
A timeless collection of philosophies from renaissance performer and the world's most famous shape-shifter, RuPaul, whose sage outlook has created an unprecedented career for more than thirty-five years.
- Author:Jackson, BrendaSummary:
The Texas rancher and Navy SEAL who fathered Bristol Lockett's son died a hero's death--or so she was told. Yet when Laramie Cooper strolls into her exhibit at an art gallery three years later, he is very much alive--and still making...
- Author:Hurston, Zora NealeSummary:
A collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African American folk culture. Brought together for the first time in one volume, they include eight of Hurston's "lost" Harlem...
- Author:Clark, WahidaSummary:
Tasha and Trae try to save their marriage.
- Author:Pesta, Abigail, Uwiringiyimana, SandraSummary:
A girl from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sandra was just ten years old when she found herself with a gun pointed at her head. Remarkably, she escaped. Here she tells the story of her survival, of finding her place in a new...
- Author:Gibson, Chantal N.Summary:
"How she read" is a collection of genre-blurring poems about the representation of Black women, their hearts, minds and bodies, across the Canadian cultural imagination. Drawing from grade-school vocabulary spellers, literature, history...
- Author:Mason-John, ValerieSummary:
Valerie Mason-John's poetry collection, I Am Still Your Negro, blends spoken word and hashtags with villanelles, sonnets, and haiku to traverse the African Diaspora experience through place, time, and circumstance. Blak Inglis street...
- Author:JaQuavis, AshleySummary:
Carter has no idea how to rebuild his kingdom, and now he must stay off the radar of the feds until he can figure out how to get his lady out of prison.
- Author:Ellison, RalphSummary:
When Invisible Man first appeared in 1952, it remained on best-seller lists for 16 weeks, won the National Book Award, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the pillars of 20th-century American literature. Expelled from a southern...
- Author:Jackson, BrendaSummary:
Pretending to be attorney Jared Westmoreland's fiancée isn't high on Dana Rollins's list of priorities. But she owes him a favor, and his persuasive charm and sinful masculinity, not to mention his sizzling kisses, are impossible to...
- Author:Stevenson, BryanSummary:
The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama recounts his experiences as a lawyer working to assist those desperately in need, reflecting on his pursuit of the ideal of compassion in American justice.
- Author:JaQuavis, AshleySummary:
When a set-up goes wrong and Six finds herself sleeping with the enemy, who will she choose, the man she loves, or the man she's supposed to hate?
- Author:Prince, AltheaSummary:
Ladies of the Night is set in Toronto and Antigua. With women's loves and lives as their focus, the stories contain dramatic twists and turns: some humorous, others shocking and disturbing, all leaving a haunting melody behind. The...
- Author:Giddings, MeganSummary:
Lena Johnson drops out of college to support her family and takes a job in the mysterious and remote town of Lakewood, Michigan. On paper, her new job is too good to be true. High paying. No out of pocket medical expenses. A free place...
- Author:Cardenas, Teresa, Unger, DavidSummary:
The narrator of Letters to My Mother is a young Afro-Cuban girl who, upon the death of her mother, must live with her aunt and cousins. Dependent on them and their good will, she finds their taunts about how dark her skin is and their...
- Author:Garbes, AngelaSummary:
Journalist and mother Angela Garbes offers a rigorously researched and compelling look at the physiology, biology, and psychology of pregnancy and motherhood, informed by in-depth reportage and personal experience. With the curiosity of...
- Author:Colbert, BrandySummary:
When Suzette comes home to Los Angeles from her boarding school in New England, she isn't sure if she'll ever want to go back. But as she settles into her old life, she finds herself falling for someone new … the same girl her...
- Author:JaQuavis, AshleySummary:
Miami was forever changed when Carter and Miamor came to town. Carter II and his cousin Mo attempt to carry on the legacy of their fathers.
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