After Othella--the daughter of the town tramp in Shreveport, Louisiana--convinces her to give her baby away, fifteen-year-old Ruby Jean Upshaw runs away to New Orleans, where nothing can quell her simmering rage at Othella for...
African American women
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Author:Monroe, MarySummary: -
Author:Naylor, GloriaSummary:A "wonderful novel" steeped in the folklore of the South from the New York Times-bestselling author of The Women of Brewster Place (The Washington Post Book World). On an island off the coast of Georgia, there's a place where...
- Author:Morrison, ToniSummary:
May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida--even L: all women obsessed with Bill Cosey. The wealthy owner of the famous Cosey's Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend, yearnings that...
- Author:Sherrod, Leslie J.Summary:
While sorting out the painful details of her personal life, social worker Sienna St. James finds herself in the middle of a city-wide scandal involving a new teen client, a missing girl, two suspicious foster parents and a mega-church...
- Author:Harrison, VashtiSummary:
This book seeks to educate and inspire, bringing to life iconic and lesser-known female figures of Black history such as abolitionist Sojourner Truth, pilot Bessie Coleman, chemist Alice Ball, politician Shirley Chisholm, mathematician...
- Author:Johnson, Keith Lee.Summary:
Revealing the roots of Johnnie Wise's family tree, the author takes readers to Nigeria where a beautiful sixteen-year-old girl, preparing to marry a much older man, escapes with her young lover on a Dutch slave ship bound for America...
- Author:Shange, NtozakeSummary:
Through the polyphonic voices of Liliane Lincoln's childhood friends, lovers, and conversations with her psychoanalyst, Ntozake Shange weaves the life of a remarkable young woman. Liliane Lincoln is an artist who exposes what she knows...
- Author:Weber, NatalieSummary:
Serenity, beginning a new life after the death of her lover, Sadie, meets Cass, and she feels an instant attraction to him, but she is sleeping with Cass' sister Heaven and finds herself unable to break things off.
- Author:Jackson, SheneskaSummary:
At age 30, strong-willed Madison, also known as Li'l Mama, always follows her "rules of dating". But even within the safe confines of her rules, she always seems to get herself into some kind of trouble--man trouble to be exact.
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A necessary and relevant addition to the Black LGBTQ literary canon, which oftentimes overlooks Black lesbian writing, Lez Talk is a collection of short stories that embraces the fullness of Black lesbian experiences. The contributors...
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Three Urban Books authors join forces to entertain listeners with erotic tales of forbidden lesbian love.
- Author:Grimes, NikkiSummary:
From Children's Literature Legacy Award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes a feminist-forward new collection of poetry celebrating the little-known women poets of the Harlem Renaissance—paired with full-color, original art from today's...
- Author:Stimpson, MichelleSummary:
Single mother Peaches Miller is rattled when her fiancé gets a promotion that would require they move far away. Then, her son's father comes back into her life. But Peaches isn't sure either man can make her happy--or whether she needs...
- Author:Gomez, ParadiseSummary:
Sammy and Mouse were once best friends known as the rap duo Vixen Chaos. When both got pregnant by the same man, however, things fell apart. Now both women are new mothers with great responsibilities and plenty of problems.
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Author:Hooks, BellSummary:Twenty-three essays written from a black and feminist perspective ; they consider the bitter difficulties of racism by envisioning a world without it.
- Author:Thomas, JacquelinSummary:
All her life, small-town Georgia girl Jessie Belle Holt has known how to use men. Her ticket out of Mayville is Traynor Deveraux, a trusting pastor with a brilliant career ahead. Seduced by the trappings of position and power, Jessie...
- Author:Robinson, CherylSummary:
Olena Day's first love died tragically, and her college boyfriend left her for another woman. Now a successful, independent 43-yearold, she begins a passionate relationship with Matthew, a man 18 years her junior. Can a relationship...
- Author:Forster, GwynneSummary:
Coreen Treadwell heads a prominent social welfare agency, but she is haunted by her past. Raped and impregnated as a teenager, she gave up her baby, Frieda, without ever seeing her. The legacy of violence continues in her daughter's...
- Author:Black, AnnaSummary:
Tiffany Richardson went from the bottom to the top in a matter of months, because she stumbled into a job that landed her executive producer and head writer for a hit television series called Boy Crazy. All was well and things were...
- Author:Meltzer, BradSummary:
Deeply influential cultural icon Oprah Winfrey is the twenty-fifth hero in this New York Times bestselling picture book biography series, adapted for audio. This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes...
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