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Shaker, why don't you sing? Shaker, why don't you sing? Maya Angelou Lyrical and cadent, dramatic and sometimes playful, these poems speak of love, longing, parting; of freedom and shattered dreams; of Saturday-night partying and the smells and sounds of Southern citi… OL10492930W
Janet McDonald Janet McDonald Catherine Ross-Stroud "Much has been written about the state of black adolescence - often from a sociological point of view situating black teens in an at-risk category. However, through her characters, young adult author… OL11994815W
Maya Angelou Maya Angelou Terrasita A. Cuffie Discusses the life and work of the well-known writer, entertainer, and political activist, Maya Angelou. OL14866204W
Letter to my daughter Letter to my daughter Maya Angelou For a world of devoted readers, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers.Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around … OL14951921W
Love in black and white Love in black and white William S. Cohen In a world where it was commonplace to see signs that read "whites only" or "Jews not allowed," William Cohen was born in Bangor, Maine, the eldest son of a Jewish father and a Protestant Irish mothe… OL15145446W
me and Nina me and Nina Monica A. Hand **2014 da Vinci Eye Finalist** **ForeWord Reviews‘ 2012 Book of the Year Award Finalist** **2013 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Finalist** “The message in the so-sick-it muse ic is all on the cover… OL16679813W
Glorious Glorious Bernice L. McFadden Set against the backdrops of the Jim Crow South, the Harlem Renaissance, and the civil rights era. Blending the truth of American history with the fruits of imagination, this is the story of Easter V… OL17186033W
Men We Reaped Men We Reaped Jesmyn Ward In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. But why? As she began to … OL17509612W
Imagine this Imagine this Maxine Clair "Part memoir, part guide to finding and developing creativity"--Provided by publisher. "Maxine Clair, award-winning author of the critically acclaimed short story collection Rattlebone and the novel… OL17904524W
African American women writers African American women writers Brenda Scott Wilkinson Discusses the lives and work of such notable African American women authors as: Phillis Wheatley, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni, and Terry McMillan. OL18150351W
Maya Angelou Maya Angelou L. Patricia Kite A biography of the multi-faceted African-American woman, Maya Angelou, tracing her life from her childhood in the segrated South to her prominence as a well-known writer. OL1865340W
Meaty Meaty Samantha Irby "Samantha Irby explodes onto the printed page with her debut collection of brand-new essays about trying to laugh her way through failed relationships, being black, taco feasts, bouts with Crohn's di… OL19972546W
Movement in Black Movement in Black Juan Martín Pinilla,Pat Parker,Pat Parker Pat Parker—that revolutionary, raw and as they used to say, "right-on sister"—would be celebrating her fifty-fifth birthday in 1999 had she not died of breast cancer ten years ago. To honor her work … OL2010727W
Maya Angelou Maya Angelou Sarah E. King It is a very good book that helps people like me to understand life. OL3905234W
Working Man Working Man Melanie Schuster Funny and feisty true-crime writer Dakota Phillips has almost everything she wants. She's still looking for the perfect man: very tall, very educated and very cultured--all wrapped up in rich chocola… OL5693152W
African American Women Writers in New Jersey, 1836-2000 African American Women Writers in New Jersey, 1836-2000 Sibyl E. Moses xx, 231 p. : 24 cm OL5961721W
Lyrics of sunshine and shadow Lyrics of sunshine and shadow Eleanor Alexander "On February 10, 1906, Alice Ruth Moore, estranged wife of renowned early-twentieth-century poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, boarded a streetcar, settled comfortably into her seat, and opened her newspaper… OL6208359W
All God's children need traveling shoes All God's children need traveling shoes Maya Angelou "Thoroughly enjoyable . . . an important document drawing more much-needed attention to the hidden history of a people both African and American."--Los Angeles Times Book Review.From the Trade Paperb… OL80014W
A Toast in the House of Friends A Toast in the House of Friends Akilah Oliver Written for her son, Oluchi McDonald (1982–2003), Akilah Oliver’s poems incorporate prose, theory, and lyric performance into a powerful testimony of loss and longing. In their journey through the bo… OL8804765W
Jubilee Jubilee Roxane Beth Johnson <em>Jubilee</em> by Roxane Beth Johnson won the 2005 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. "These luminous poems depict a world I never knew—or know as a child and since forgot—and they do so with the auth… OL9656650W
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