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A visitation of spirits
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Randall Kenan |
From Publishers Weekly
As its title suggests, a powerful strain of mysticism runs through this story of personal awakening in a black North Carolina family, but first-time novelist Kenan has a rare … |
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Sweetsmoke
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David Fuller |
The year is 1862, and the Civil War rages through the South. On a Virginia tobacco plantation, another kind of battle soon begins. There, Cassius Howard, a skilled carpenter and slave, risks everythi… |
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The Sweet Hell Inside
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Edward Ball |
Recounts the lives of the Harleston family of South Carolina, the progeny of a Southern gentleman and his slave who cast off their blemished roots and achieved affluence in part through a surprisingl… |
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Not all Black girls know how to eat
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Stephanie Covington Armstrong |
Describing her struggle as a black woman with an eating disorder that is consistently portrayed as a white woman's problem, this insightful and moving narrative traces the background and factors that… |
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Extraordinary, Ordinary People
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Condoleezza Rice |
Condoleezza Rice has achieved extraordinary levels of achievement and attributes her success to the standards and sacrifices made by several generations of her loving family. Her description of her p… |
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Child of God
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Lolita Files |
A tragedy brings the dark past of the Boten family to light in the small town of Downtown, Tennessee. |
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Walking through mirrors
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Brian Keith Jackson |
A black photographer recalls his sad childhood on his return to Louisiana for the funeral of his father. The mother died, the father abandoned him, and he was brought up by his grandmother. |
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Unspoken lies
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Darrien Lee |
"Cherise McKenzie, an Atlanta crime scene investigator, and her husband, Detective Mason McKenzie, have experienced some turbulent ups and downs in their marriage over the years. With demanding care… |
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Say amen, again
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ReShonda Tate Billingsley |
The spirited Houston congregation featured in bestselling author ReShonda Tate Billingsley’s Let the Church Say Amen and Everybody Say Amen has a major scandal unfolding—and, as always, the outspoken… |
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Makeda
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Randall Robinson |
Makeda Gee Florida Harris March is a proud matriarch, the anchor and emotional bellwether who holds together a hard-working African American family living in 1950s Richmond, Virginia. Lost in shadow … |
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Deceit and devotion
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Johnson, R. M. |
"A page-turning urban drama revolving around a family and the interconnected branches of its extended world"-- |
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
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Jesmyn Ward |
**A SEARING AND PROFOUND SOUTHERN ODYSSEY BY NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER JESMYN WARD**
In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning *Salvage the Bones*, this singular American… |
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After the feeling
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T. N. Williams |
As a husband and wife battle over individual ideals and find their love for each other tested, it will take a great influence from God to halt a pending tragedy. |
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An American Marriage
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Tayari Jones |
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into t… |
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Grandma Lois remembers
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Ann Morris |
An African American grandmother relates family and cultural history to her grandson in their Queens, New York, apartment as she tells of growing up in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. Includes a recip… |
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Gettin' Through Thursday
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Melrose Cooper |
Since money is tight on Thursdays, the day before his mother's payday, Andre is upset when he realizes that his report card and the promised celebration for making the honor roll will come on a Thurs… |
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Tar Beach
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Faith Ringgold |
Cassie Louise Lightfoot, eight years old in 1939, has a dream: to be free to go wherever she wants for the rest of her life. One night, up on "tar beach" --the rooftop of her family's Harlem apartmen… |
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The Talented Ribkins
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Ladee Hubbard |
""For sheer reading pleasure Ladee Hubbard's original and wildly inventive novel is in a class by itself." --Toni Morrison "The Talented Ribkins is a charming and delightful debut novel with a prof… |
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Unspoken lies
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Darrien Lee |
"Cherise McKenzie, an Atlanta crime scene investigator, and her husband, Detective Mason McKenzie, have experienced some turbulent ups and downs in their marriage over the years. With demanding caree… |
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Passage
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Khary Lazarre-White |
"Passage tells the story of Warrior, a young black man navigating the snowy winter streets of Harlem and Brooklyn in 1993. Warrior is surrounded by deep family love and a sustaining connection to his… |
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