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2024.
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"The paths of three young Black women in pre-Civil War Philadelphia unexpectedly-and dangerously-collide in this dramatic debut novel inspired by the explosive history of a city at war with itself. Philadelphia, 1837. When nineteen-year-old Charlotte escaped from the deteriorating White Oaks plantation four years ago, she'd expected freedom to look completely different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. Instead, she's locked away playing...
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"Generations of American history students have grown up believing that slave rebellion was relatively rare, that slaves accepted their lot and became attached to their masters, and that they were ultimately liberated with little or no effort of their own. Centering Black voices and slave narratives, celebrated historian and children's book author, William Loren Katz offers a thoroughly researched look at the lives of enslaved people in the United...
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Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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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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Melville House
Pub. Date
2024.
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"Nate Evers, a young black political activist, struggles with rage as his people are still being killed in the streets...When his little cousin is murdered, Nate shuns the graffiti murals, candlelight vigils, and Twitter hashtags that are commonplace after these senseless deaths. Instead, he leads 3 grief-stricken friends on a mission of retribution, kidnapping the descendants of long-ago perpetrators of hate crimes, confronting the targets with their...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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"Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. She designs everything. She fixes everything. She's a domestic goddess who's never met a party she couldn't host or a charge she couldn't lead. The one withall the answers and the perfect vinaigrette for that summer salad. But none of her varied talents can save her when catastrophe strikes, and the life she built with the man who was supposed to be her...
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Black Dog and Leventhal
Pub. Date
[2023]
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288 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 30 cm
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"Over the past decade, television has seen an explosion of acclaimed and influential debut storytellers including Issa Rae (Insecure), Donald Glover (Atlanta), and Michaela Coel (I May Destroy You). This golden age of Black television would not be possible without the actors, showrunners, and writers that worked for decades to give voice to the Black experience in America. Written by veteran TV reporter Bethonie Butler, Black TV tells the stories...
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Heroes of Liberty
Pub. Date
[2021]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color map ; 28 cm
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"Growing up, he never got the chance to know his mother and father. And he often had no money for new shoes, or even for bus fare. When Thomas Sowell left home at age seventeen, all he had in the world fit into a single suitcase. While he looked for work, he often had nothing to eat save for some stale bread and a little jelly. But Sowell refused to give in to despair or self-pity. He was determined to make his life better--and to do it on his own,...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2021.
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374, 10 pages : illustration ; 21 cm.
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Grace Steele and Eliza Jones may be from completely different backgrounds, but when it comes to the army, specifically the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), they are both starting from the same level. Not only will they be among the first class of female officers the army has even seen, they are also the first Black women allowed to serve. As these courageous women help to form the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, they are dealing with...
12) Flames of wrath
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Nearly beaten to death by a group of people she thought were her friends, Alexia Leighton survives, recovers and watches her attackers become victims themselves of mysterious acts of violence, leaving the authorities stumped.
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"Raised in one of the few well to do areas left in metro Detroit, Morgan's parents spoiled their daughter with the most lavish life they could afford and placed her on a pedestal of greatness. With dreams of her becoming a top-tier businesswoman working in the newly revised Downtown Detroit district, her parents were shocked when their daughter ran off with Javon Bates, one of the most dangerous thugs in the city. He’s better known as Always...
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Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
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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...
16) Soul Seasons
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The time of day, love experienced vicariously in real time as well as during dream times. All begins in the awakened mind, that feels, compares and processes varying signs, whether it be celestial, terrestial throughout times. The following poetic prose is my attempt to define the feeling and directive of being alive.
17) 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...
18) 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
19) Ravelling
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In this offering, Sue Nyamnjoh takes on universal themes of love, grief, joy, and loneliness from a deeply personal lens. Using colourfully lyrical and prosaic language. Sue dives into the beauty of [un]ravelling, and with each poem, invites the reader to consider their own experience of feeling in full. Sue Nyamnjoh is a Cameroonian-born creative living in Cape Town with a background in languages and media studies. She enjoys large doses of music,...
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