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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...
2) By the book
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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.
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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.
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Viking
Pub. Date
2010
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375 p. ; 24 cm.
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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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2022.
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"Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as roommates in St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only later to find each other again at a diner, a grocery store, and again at a protest. Seemingly at opposite ends of every problem, and at each other's throats each time they meet, the two women still cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience...
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Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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246 pages ; 24 cm
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In the Gen, an upscale fifty-five-plus community, Cynthia befriends two other black residents, as well as a woman who everyone assumes is from India, creating a camaraderie that becomes the catalyst for secrets to be exposed.
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Viking
Pub. Date
©2016.
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610 pages ; 24 cm
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A historical tale inspired by the decades-long relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings details their first encounters in late-eighteenth-century Paris and the inconsistent values that shaped their affair.
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St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2021.
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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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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
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270 p. ; 25 cm.
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Just when it appears that all her hard work on Barack Obama's presidential campaign is about to pay off with a White House job, thirty-five-year-old Ida B. Wells Dunbar finds herself on Washington, D.C.'s post-election sidelines even as her twentysomething counterparts overrun the West Wing. She returns home to Atlanta, and her controversial civil rights icon father, Reverend Horace A. Dunbar.
13) Life after death
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Coldest Winter ever volume 2
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2021.
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341 pages ; 22 cm.
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With her jail sentence coming to a close, Winter is ready to step back into the spotlight and reclaim her throne.
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Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2006
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[42] p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
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Describes Tubman's spiritual journey as she hears the voice of God guiding her north to freedom on that very first trip to escape the brutal practice of forced servitude. Tubman would make nineteen subsequent trips back south, leading many others to freedom, never being caught, but none as profound as this first one.
15) Wash day diaries
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Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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191 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
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"A graphic novel love letter to the beauty and resilience of Black women, their hair, and friendships"--
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Feminist Press, at the City University of New York
Pub. Date
2015.
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348 pages ; 22 cm
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"Feminist icon Letty Cottin Pogrebin's second novel follows Zach Levy, the left-leaning son of Holocaust survivors who promises his mother that he'll marry within the tribe. But when Zach falls for Cleo, an African American activist grappling with her own inherited trauma, he must reconcile the family he loves with the woman who might be his soul mate. A New York love story complicated by the legacies and modern tension of Jewish American and African...
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Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
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370 pages ; 21 cm
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"She just witnessed her uncle's murder, she's running for her life, and now Dr. Katelyn Lyda is face-to-face with a man who could be her salvation. It's too bad Sebastian Caine is one of the bad guys...skilled at separating prized possessions from their owners. Sebastian is after an ancient relic. But he reconsiders the job when he finds himself staring at the wrong end of a gun. The lady with her finger on the trigger seems to have everything he...
18) Cane River
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Tademy family chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
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xvi, 529 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
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"Beginning with her great-great-great-great grandmother, a slave owned by a Creole family, Lalita Tademy chronicles four generations of strong, determined black women as they battle injustice to unite their family and forge success on their own terms. They are women whose lives begin in slavery, who weather the Civil War, and who grapple with contradictions of emancipation, Jim Crow, and the pre-Civil Rights South. As she peels back layers of racial...
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Oak Bluffs volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
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"Welcome to Oak Bluffs, the most exclusive black beach community in the country. Known for its gingerbread Victorian-style houses and modern architectural marvels, this picturesque town hugging the sea is a mecca for the crème de la crème of black society...Thirty years ago, Amelia Vaux Tanner and her husband built a house high on the bluffs, a cottage they named Chateau Laveau. For decades, "Ama" played host to American presidents, Wall Street...
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Generations of Montrose women--Augusta, Victoria, Willow--have lived together in their quaint two-story bungalow in California for years. They keep to themselves, never venture far from home, and their collection of tinctures and spells is an unspoken bond between them. But when seventeen-year-old Nickie Montrose brings home a boy for the first time, their quiet lives are thrown into disarray. For the other women have been withholding a secret from...
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