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1) Becoming
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Pub. Date
2018.
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"In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her-from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world's most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and...
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"The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian-who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true. In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture on the New York society scene and...
3) By the book
Author
Series
Meant to be volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
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A young, black woman working in publishing makes a surprise connection with an author who has failed to deliver his highly anticipated manuscript.
4) Queen sugar
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
ix, 372 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A mother-daughter story of reinvention-about an African American woman who unexpectedly inherits a sugarcane farm in Louisiana. Why exactly Charley Bordelon's late father left her eight hundred sprawling acres of sugarcane land in rural Louisiana is as mysterious as it was generous. Recognizing this as a chance to start over, Charley and her eleven-year-old daughter, Micah, say good-bye to Los Angeles. They arrive just in time for growing season...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
viii, 292 pages ; 21 cm
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When Bea and her husband Lonnie move to an upper-class neighborhood, she relies on her childhood best friend Awilda to help her cope with the pressure she is feeling, and when secrets threaten to ruin her new life, she must find the courage to continue on.
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Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2017]
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viii, 227 pages ; 24 cm
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The popular comedian traces her youth in Atlanta's most troubled neighborhood at the height of the crack epidemic, discussing her experiences with petty crime and prostitution that led to her becoming a mother at age thirteen before resolving to secure a better life for her children.
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Black girls must die exhausted volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
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'Black girls must die exhausted' is something that 33-year-old Tabitha Walker has heard her grandmother say before. Of course, her grandmother (who happens to be white) was referring to the 1950's and what she observed in the nascent times of civil rights. With a coveted position as a local news reporter, Marc-- a "paper-perfect" boyfriend, and a standing Saturday morning appointment with a reliable hairstylist, Tabitha never imagined how this phrase...
8) The help
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In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.
12) Hidden figures
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As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented...
13) The color purple
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Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband has been keeping her sister's letters from her and the rage she feels, combined with an example of love...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
418 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
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A comprehensive portrait of the First Lady describes her working-class upbringing on Chicago's South Side, her education at Princeton and Harvard during the racially charged 1980s, and her marriage to the future forty-fourth president.
With disciplined reporting and a storyteller's eye for revealing detail, Peter Slevin follows Michelle to the White House from her working-class childhood on Chicago's largely segregated South Side.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; cm
Description
"In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes that altered the character of everyday life and challenged traditional Victorian beliefs about...
17) Respect
Pub. Date
[2021]
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Offers a look into the life of Aretha Franklin: from her childhood traumatized by the loss of her mother through her difficult rise to international fame in the sixties, when she was also struggling with an abusive marriage and alcohol problems.
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Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
47 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Description
Details the life and career of the brilliant mathematician who worked at NASA and helped plan the trajectories for the Mercury and Apollo missions, including the one that landed a man on the moon.
20) Getting to happy
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
375 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
A sequel to "Waiting to Exhale" picks up fifteen years later to find Savannah contemplating divorce, Bernadine succumbing to painkiller addiction after a second husband's swindle, Robin falling into shopaholism, and Gloria confronting profound change after a fateful event.
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