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Publisher
Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
Elijah wants the perfect Easter outfit, but feels discouraged after a failed shopping trip until two community elders encourage him to create his own Easter masterpiece.
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Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
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Jericka Walker had planned to spend the summer before senior year soaking up the sun with her best friend on the Jersey Shore. Instead she finds herself in Coldwater, Maryland, a small town with a dark and complicated past where her estranged grandmother lives—someone she knows only two things her name and the fact that she left Jericka's mother and uncle when they were children. But now Jericka's grandmother is dying, and her mother has dragged...
3) Art of Storm
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“Art of Storm” is a nonfiction book that delves into one particular family's tragedies in western Cameroon in Africa. The book begins with the story of the author's great-grandfather, continuing with a detailed account of a war that erupts, displacing t
4) Anteros
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anteros is a poetry book that aims to motivate, teachand entatain through countelss poems, love articles andbest love quotes.this poetry book is specially dedicated to those bleedingsouls who tries everyday to move on but it is never easy.to those who who are slowly getting there and have not losthope in love no matter how many times they have been betrayed.it included lots of poems, love/life quotes and articlesrelated to boost and help broken souls...
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Publisher
Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
237 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
Long inspired by mature adults daring to express their creativity and individuality through their style choices, New York Times bestselling novelist Connie Briscoe shines a light on these often overlooked and underappreciated sharply attired individuals. Accompanied by the marvelously talented Milton Washington's dazzling photographs, Briscoe's vision comes alive in these pages. From intrepid to chic, and sophisticated to free-spirited--Stepping Out...
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"A Window in at a Moment in Time" is a collection of poems written almost thirty years ago when Francois was a teenager. These poems were influenced by Francois' experiences as a teenager including his arising awareness of the need for conservation and the damage we as humanity were causing even then.Closer to home, some poems reflect his opinions which were more socially influenced by subjects that were discussed by teenagers at the time and which...
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Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 21 cm
Description
2019, The Year of Return. It has been exactly 400 years since the first slave ships left Ghana for America. Ghana has now opened its doors to Black diasporans, encouraging them to return and get to know the land of their ancestors. Elton, Vincent, and Scott arrive from America to visit preserved sites from the transatlantic slave route, and to explore the country's underground queer scene. Their activities are narrated by their two combative guides:...
10) Wash day diaries
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Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
191 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Description
"A graphic novel love letter to the beauty and resilience of Black women, their hair, and friendships"--
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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Set in 1865, a young girl named Lettie saves her money so she and her uncle can place an advertisement to find the members of their family that were separated under slavery.
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Insatiable EmotionsByDavid L BoyesLife itself is Emotions whether night or day we go through so many emotions dailyWhether happy or sad joy or pain daily life brings with it all that different emotions we sometimes don't even want to feelUnsatisfying emotions is those that doesn't matter where you are they find you whether its someone you know something you see something you read it just makes you think and keeps you thinking of it even when you don't...
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Once upon a time, She is called Mona, his longtime friend, the beloved of his soul. Personally, he called her the flower of the desert, the anticipated queen of the Toda kingdom before they parted on Davy's journey to seek the value of his death, when he who was an obedient famous poet slave within ancient Thebes. They didn't communicate even when they wrote letters, none of which reached their intended recipient. Their thoughts spoke together as...
14) Homegrown
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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"While her mother puts the finishing touches on her twists, a young girl asks what it means to be 'homegrown'. Touring precious memories and lively rooms warmed by family, Mama and Granny explain that home isn't just a place, but rather a reflection of people who support and love one another." --publisher's website.
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Publisher
Amistad Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaginated) : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 21 cm
Description
"A First Folktale from the creators of Magnolia Flower, Zora Neale Hurston and Ibram X. Kendi, about the origin of butterflies. 'The Creator wuz all finished and thru makin' de world.' But soon, the Creator finds themselves flying through the sky, making gorgeous butterflies of every color, shape, and size. Find out why butterflies were made in Zora Neale Hurston's stunning and layered African American folktale retold by #1 New York Times bestselling...
16) One
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Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 17 cm
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"From the bestselling author of Curls, Glow, Bloom, and Ours comes a counting board book about ten friends who add up to something wonderful!"--
18) We could fly
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Description
"At a sparrow's urging, a young girl feels a mysterious trembling in her arms, a lightness in her feet, a longing to be free. Her mother tells her that her Granny Liza experienced the same, as did many of their people before her. Perhaps it's time, Mama says, to slip the bonds of earth and join the journey started long ago. To hold each other tight and rise. Drawing on lyrics from the song "We Could Fly" by Rhiannon Giddens and Dirk Powell, which...
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Words and Other Weapons is an abstract literary art piece that refuses to categorise itself in any singular literary genre. Instead, it offers a scenic, panoramic window into the relationships women have with self and society, diligently exploring questions of identity and adulthood, motherhood and marriage, relationships and careers, among others, and how these are reconciled with the maddening complexities and uncertainties of the external world....
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