"Jackson brings the quaint Southern town to life in a memorable holiday romance complete with affable characters."-Publishers Weekly on One Christmas Wish. It's Christmas in Catalina Cove, a time of promise and second...
African Americans
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Author:Cole, AlyssaSummary:When Likotsi and Fabiola meet on a stalled subway, Fab asks for just one cup of tea. Likotsi, hoping to know why she was unceremoniously dumped, agrees. Tea and food soon leads to them exploring the city together, and their past, with...
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Author:Thomas, AngieSummary:Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least get some streams on her mix tape. But when her mom unexpectedly loses her job and homelessness stares her family down, Bri no longer just wants to...
- Author:Gordon-Reed, AnnetteSummary:
The essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth's integral importance to American history, as told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Texas native. Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of...
- Author:Holmes, BrittneySummary:
Devon Torres and Shaniece Simmons are drawn to each other. After Devon is arrested, Shaniece continues to see him. Will Devon let go of the streets and let Shaniece guide him in the right direction?
- Author:Ford, Clyde W.Summary:
Clyde W. Ford tells the story of how Black labor helped to create and sustain the wealth of the white one percent throughout American history.
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Author:Draper, Sharon M.Summary:A teenaged boy's death in a hazing accident has lasting effects on his pregnant girlfriend and his guilt-ridden cousin, who gives up a promising music career to play football during his senior year in high school.
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Author:Baldwin, JamesSummary:Notes of a Native Son is the book that established Baldwin's voice as a social critic, and it remains one of his most admired works. These essays create a cohesive sketch of black America and reveal an intimate portrait of Baldwin's own...
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Author:Collins, KathleenSummary:A stunning collection of fiction, diary entries, screenplays, and scripts which spans genres to reveal the breadth and depth of the late author's talent. The compilation is anchored by Collins' short stories, which, striking and...
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Author:Mathieu, Sarah-JaneSummary:North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada after the end of Reconstruction in the United States. Through the experiences of black...
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Author:Baldwin, JamesSummary:Records the last months of Baldwin's ten-year self-exile in Europe, his return to Harlem, and his first trip south at the time of the school integration battles.
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Author:Oasis, Hampton, BrendaSummary:A crippled economy changes Lola Jones' silver spoon status to copper and threatens to rip her sheltered family from the upper echelons of society and drop them in the slums of East St. Louis. One thing can save Lola's children from the...
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Author:Baldwin, JamesSummary:A classic memoir recounting Baldwin's early life in Harlem, the civil rights struggle, the murders of Malcolm X and MLK, and his eventual confrontation with the violent American South.
- Author:Jackson, BrendaSummary:
Lance Montgomery, renowned relationship expert, has perfected the art of being a playa. His acclaimed workshops and bestselling books prove it. His most popular title, The Playa's Handbook, caused a major uproar among black women and...
- Author:Hunt, La JillSummary:
Former player Terrell thinks he's got it going on. Then the past comes calling and suddenly his best prospects are endangered.
- Author:BrickSummary:
"My husband was down on his knees, bloodied, battered, and beaten to the point he could barely hold himself up. He'd always been a warrior, my warrior. They would kill him, I knew that. I felt it with everything within me. My...
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Author:Rhodes, Jewell ParkerSummary:In New Orleans' Ninth Ward, twelve-year-old Lanesha, who can see spirits, and her adopted grandmother have no choice but to stay and weather the storm as Hurricane Katrina bears down upon them.
- Author:Mottley, LeilaSummary:
A dazzling novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system--the debut of a blazingly original voice that "bursts at the seams of every page and swallows you...
- Author:Jenkins, BeverlySummary:
Cara Lee Henson knows no soldier can be trusted to stay in one place, and that includes handsome Sergeant Chase Jefferson of the Tenth Cavalry. Dallying with the dashing man in blue could cost the pretty, independent Kansas...
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Author:Thorne, Jenn MarieSummary:Ruby has always been Ruby Chertok: future classical pianist and daughter of renowned composer Martin Chertok. But after her horrendous audition for the prestigious music school where her father is on faculty, it's clear that music has...
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