National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems...
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Author: Ward, JesmynSummary:Genre: Social science, Essays
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Author: TouréSummary:
Soul City is an urban utopia, where the local house of worship is St. Pimp's House of Baptist Rapture, and the candidates for mayor are locked in a fierce battle for DJ supremacy. Into this...
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Author: Taylor, BrandonSummary:
A FINALIST FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE “A blistering coming of age story” — O: The Oprah Magazine Named a Best...
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Author: Andraka, JackSummary:
Featured in the 2018 movie Science Fair! A National Science Teachers Association Best STEM Book of 2017. In this acclaimed memoir, teen innovator and scientist Jack Andraka tells the story behind...
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Author: Raines, Ben.Summary:
The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry...
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Author: Douglass, RyanSummary:
An Instant New York Times Bestseller! Get Out meets Holly Jackson in this YA social thriller where survival is not a guarantee. Sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston sees dead people everywhere. But he...
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Author: Natsukawa, SosukeSummary:
AN INDIE NEXT PICK! From the #1 bestselling author in Japan comes a celebration of books, cats, and the people who love them, infused with the heartwarming spirit of The Guest Cat and The...
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Author: Morgan, RobertSummary:
On a moonless night in the spring of 1851, a young slave makes a bid for freedom with only the North Star to guide him. Jonah Williams, on his eighteenth birthday, flees the South Carolina...
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Author: Black, MilleniaSummary:
For six years, Reginald Brooks--slick Disney marketing VP--has pulled off the perfect scam. He has juggled two families without the other one finding out. He stays two weeks in Miami with his wife...
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Author: Cannon, JanellSummary:
A young python does not want to grow slow and boring like the older snakes he sees in the tropical jungle where he lives.
Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Author: Harper, HillSummary:
A Brown University and Harvard Law School alum, Harper is also a passionate public servant. In this book he offers comforting advice for today's youth through his own wisdom as well as that of...
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Author: Massey, BrandonSummary:
Gabriel Reid has led a life of good luck. From a loving family, well educated, and now quite wealthy, he holds an important office in a prominent Atlanta construction company. But good fortune...
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Author: Massey, BrandonSummary:
Jason thinks his worst problems are his recovering alcoholic mother and his workaholic father -- until some unexplainable events occur. After a nightmare that he can't seem to recall, Jason finds...
Genre: Horror fiction -
Author: Hunter, TravisSummary:
Raised by a bootlegger in a bad section of town, Karim Spencer becomes a successful businessman. His sister is a stripper with a gangsta-wannabe son, and his brother is serving a life sentence for...
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Author: Marusek, DavidSummary:
Life in the year 2134 is nearly perfect, with nanotechnology and medical science granting people near-immortality. But when Sam Harger is flagged as a terrorist, his powerful wife dies in a plane...
Genre: Science fiction