This powerful memoir from a #1 New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Medalist features poetry, letters, recipes, and other personal artifacts that provide an intimate look into his life and the loved ones he shares it with. In a...
African American men
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Author:Alexander, KwameSummary: - Author:Pate, Alexs D.Summary:
Edward and his family have escaped the heat and violence of inner-city Philadelphia every summer for the last 5 years. Staying at his Aunt Edna's house in West Rehoboth -- the black side of town -- Edward has the whole summer to have...
- Author:Thompson, M. DionSummary:
Skip lost his parents in a car accident when he was just a boy, and since then Grandma Sarah's been watching over him. Now he has a chance to leave the cotton fields of Texas behind and travel to Hollywood in hopes of beginning an...
- Author:Weber, CarlSummary:
Even into his middle age, James Black can please a lady from dusk till dawn. Why else would his ex Crystal keep coming back for more? Trouble is, Crystal's husband might not be too keen on the idea of James making time with his old lady...
- Author:Hunter, TravisSummary:
Jermaine Banks is a pot dealer in his Philadelphia neighborhood. He's also father to a three-year-old boy and a committed partner to his pregnant girlfriend. As he approaches his 30th birthday and suffers the loss of a close friend to...
- Author:Dexter, PeteSummary:
Lionel Walk, etter known as Train, is a young black caddy at an elite Los Angeles golf course. There, he navigates between the careless hostility of patrons and the volatile brutality of the other caddies. One day, he finds an...
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Author:McCall, NathanSummary:Barlowe, an African American in his forties, rents a ramshackle house in Atlanta's old Fourth Ward. When a white couple buys and renovates the house next door, fear and suspicion build as the neighborhood begins to change.
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Author:Ford, CattSummary:A professional life hitting all the highs is poor compensation for a personal life hitting all the lows. Myles Winston is divorced, isolated in a cocoon of loneliness when he's not at work and adrift in a sea of despondency with no idea...
- Author:Mosley, WalterSummary:
Mosley's novel features Tempest Landry, a black man shot down by an over-eager cop. But that's not the end of the line for Tempest. Unwilling to accept St. Peter's judgment that he spend eternity in Hell, Tempest is sent back to Harlem...
- Author:Mayr, SuzetteSummary:
When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the perils of white passengers, ghosts, and his secret love affair. The Sleeping Car Porter brings to life an important part of Black history...
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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 builds and secrets pile up, both of Curtis...
- Author:Jackson, BrendaSummary:
There's not a whole lot happening in Gary, Indiana. That is, until nationally renowned relationship expert Lance Montgomery bursts on to the scene. Twice divorced, Montgomery is now on a mission to perfect the art of being single....
- 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 doesn't always last. Isaiah Battle arrives...
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Author:Alexander, MichelleSummary:Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as "brave and bold," this book...
- Author:Wright, RichardSummary:
Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the city's sewer...
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Author:Harper, HillSummary:The Black community of past generations found strength in families, but today's Black children have less than a one in three chance of being raised in a two-parent household. Harper's search for answers to this phenomenon is an...
- Author:LaValle, VictorSummary:
People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook...
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Author:Johnson, James WeldonSummary:Originally published anonymously in 1912, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man revealed as never before the color line dividing America, and the price it exacted on those souls who could traverse the two worlds. The book presents the...
- Author:Weber, CarlSummary:
All's good for James and his wife Cathy--especially between the sheets. But then a woman shows up with James' love child and demands to get paid. Undeniably suave Brent's got trouble too as he's tempted by another after finding...
- Author:Beatty, PaulSummary:
Ferguson Sewell, aka DJ Darky, is a jazz enthusiast who does porno film scores to make money. Claiming to have a phonographic memory, Sewell is obsessed with the Schwa--a brilliant musician who supposedly disappeared into Cold War...
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