In this spellbinding memoir, popular CNN anchor Zain E. Asher pays tribute to her mother's strength and determination to raise four successful children in the shadow of tragedy. Awaiting the return of her husband and young son from...
Women, Black
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Author:Asher, Zain E.Summary: - Author:Dionne, EvetteSummary:
A poignant and ruthlessly honest journey through cultural expectations of size, race, and gender--and toward a brighter future--from National Book Award nominee Evette DionneMy body has not betrayed me; it has continued rebounding...
- Author:Robson, Wanda, Reynolds, GrahamSummary:
For many Canadians, the first introduction to Viola Desmond will have been was seeing her portrait on the new $10 banknote. Those who are familiar with her life Others know that she was wrongfully arrested in 1946 for refusing to give...
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Author:Massaquoi, Notisha, Wane, Njoki NathaniSummary:Theorizing Empowerment: Canadian Perspectives on Black Feminist Thought is a collection of articles by Black Canadian feminists centralizing the ways in which Black femininity and Black women’s experiences are integral to...
- Author:Sekyiamah, Nana DarkoaSummary:
Blogger Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah has spent decades talking openly and intimately to African women around the world about sex. For this book she spoke to more than thirty African women across the globe while chronicling her own journey...
- Author:VAN RIEL, FransjeSummary:
The Crowing of the Roosters is a remakable modern day tale of South Africa's former apartheid regime and one black woman's struggle to free herself from its chains. When Nomfusi Yekani sets her mark at the polling station...
- Author:Hibbert, TaliaSummary:
One of Oprah Magazine's 21 Romance Novels That Are Set to Be the Best of 2020 Talia Hibbert returns with another charming romantic comedy about a young woman who agrees to fake date her friend after a video of him "rescuing...
- Author:SkyySummary:
Willow is at a crossroads. When a fluke change in the weather brings a sexy stranger into her life, she decides to throw caution to the wind and take her chances on love, which brings her to Memphis, Tennessee. Seeing her happily ever...
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Author:Foggo, CherylSummary:The 30th anniversary edition of Cheryl Foggo's landmark work about growing up Black on the Canadian prairies Cheryl Foggo came of age during the 1960s in Calgary, a time when a Black family walking down the street still drew stares from...
- Author:Caplan, RonaldSummary:
In a winning new book, Pearleen Oliver: Canada's Black Crusader for Civil Rights brings to life a compassionate and passionate African Nova Scotian, the story of her growth and activism - a book that shows how one woman's...
- Author:Solie, KarenSummary:
In Modern and Normal, Karen Solie takes her on-the-road fascination with being between places to a new level, exploring conceptual and perceptual states of in-betweenness - for example, between what is perceived and what is actually...
- Author:Evaristo, BernardineSummary:
Bernardine Evaristo shares an account of life and career as she rebelled against the mainstream and fought over several decades to bring her creative work into the world. It's a manifesto for anyone who has ever stood on the...
- Author:George, JessicaSummary:
Maame (ma-meh) has many meanings in Twi but in my case, it means woman. It's fair to say that Maddie's life in London is far from rewarding. With a mother who spends most of her time in Ghana (yet still somehow manages to be...
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Author:Prince, AltheaSummary:Ladies of the Night is set in Toronto and Antigua. With women's loves and lives as their focus, the stories contain dramatic twists and turns: some humorous, others shocking and disturbing, all leaving a haunting melody behind. The...
- Author:Knight, CheleneSummary:
A riveting exploration of the complexity within mother-daughter relationships and the dynamic vitality of Vancouver's former Hogan's Alley neighbourhood. 1930s, Hogan's Alley--a thriving Black and immigrant community...
- Author:Åkerström, Lolá ÁkínmádéSummary:
Three Black women are linked in unexpected ways to the same influential white man in Stockholm as they build their new lives in the most open society run by the most private people. Successful marketing executive Kemi Adeyemi is lured...
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Author:Brand, DionneSummary: - Author:Wesley, Gloria AnnSummary:
If This Is Freedom continues the story of struggle for Loyalist settlers in Nova Scotia after the American Revolutionary War. In the black settlement of Birchtown, times are especially hard for the former slaves. They face the...
- Author:Gibson, Chantal N.Summary:
"How she read" is a collection of genre-blurring poems about the representation of Black women, their hearts, minds and bodies, across the Canadian cultural imagination. Drawing from grade-school vocabulary spellers, literature, history...
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