Teenage America, a not-black, not-white, not-anything boy who has spent many years in institutions for disturbed, antisocial behavior, tries to piece his life together.
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Author: Frank, E. R.Summary:Genre: Young adult fiction
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Author: Haywood, Gar AnthonySummary:
Errol "Handy" White is a man whose past has come back to haunt him. Years ago, Handy left his life as a Los Angeles thief behind, and now lays low in the Twin Cities. But when he hears that his...
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Author: Coates, Ta-NehisiSummary:
Son of Vietnam vet and black awareness advocate Paul Coates--a poor man who set out to publish lost classics of black history--Ta- Nehisi drifts toward salvation at Howard University, while his...
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Author: Myers, Walter DeanSummary:
Seeing no way out of his difficult life in Harlem, seventeen-year-old Jeremy "Lil J" Dance flees into a house after a drug deal goes awry and meets a weird man who shows different turning points...
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Author: Myers, Walter DeanSummary:
Teenage Reese, serving time at a juvenile detention facility, gets a lesson in making it through hard times from an unlikely friend with a harrowing past.
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Author: Myers, Walter DeanSummary:
Robin Perry, from Harlem, is sent to Iraq in 2003 as a member of the Civilian Affairs Battalion, and his time there profoundly changes him.
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Author: Rhodes, EvieSummary:
Years ago when Micah Jordan-Wells was born, a rift was created between two worlds. Today, Micah is a detective in New Jersey--a local hero for bringing the merciless killer Silky to justice. But...
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Author: Robinson, C. KellySummary:
Tony is known as something of a ladie's man, famous for his fast cars and hot women. But his job at the radio station isn't as sweet as it used to be, and a recent encounter with his only true...
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Author: Sitomer, Alan LawrenceSummary:
Seventeen-year-old Teddy Anderson, who is known on the streets as T-Bear, decides to seek revenge on the person responsible for his little sister's death, which was caused by a stray bullet from a...
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Author: Phillips, GarySummary:
O'Conner needs a place to hole up after an especially bloody job. Tooling his sputtering motorcycle into the suburban community of Willow Ridge, he expects to find a place of refuge. Instead, he...
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Author: Westhoff, BenSummary:
Ben Westhoff explores how hip-hop burst into mainstream America at a time of immense social change, and became the most dominant musical movement of the last thirty years. Original Gangstas is a...
Genre: Biographies and autobiographies, Music -
Author: Weber, CarlSummary:
It was the night before his wedding, fifteen years ago, that Jay Crawford was locked up for a crime he never committed. Now, he's escaped prison and wants to clear his name and protect his family...
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Author: Gifford, JustinSummary:
The first and definitive biography of one of America's bestselling, notorious, and influential writers of the twentieth century: Iceberg Slim, ne Robert Beck, author of the multimillion-copy...
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Author: Myers, Walter DeanSummary:
As a fourteen-year-old, he was Malcolm Little, the president of his class and a top student. At sixteen, he was hustling tips at a Boston nightclub. In Harlem, he was known as Detroit Red, a slick...
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Author: Locke, AtticaSummary:
A "heartbreakingly resonant" thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy-winning Fox TV show Empire ( USA Today ). "In Bluebird,...