|
Gathering of waters
|
Bernice L. McFadden |
The story is narrated by the town of Money, Mississippi. Tass Hilson and Emmett Till were young and in love when Emmett was murdered in 1955. Anxious to escape the town, Tass marries Maximillian May … |
OL16704300W |
|
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 |
|
A life apart
|
L. Y. Marlow |
"From the author of Color Me Butterfly, the poignant story of a decades-long love affair that creates complicated and unbreakable ties between two families that live worlds apart. When Morris Sulliva… |
OL18010727W |
|
Another Brooklyn
|
Jacqueline Woodson |
For August, running into a long-ago friend sets in motion resonant memories and transports her to a time and a place she thought she had mislaid: 1970s Brooklyn, where friendship was everything. Augu… |
OL18020219W |
|
Darktown
|
Thomas Mullen |
"Responding to orders from on high, the Atlanta Police Department is forced to hire its first black officers, including war veterans Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith. The newly minted policemen are met w… |
OL19715144W |
|
Children are diamonds
|
Edward Hoagland |
This is not the Africa of Isak Dinesen, nor the Africa of Joy Adamson. This is the Africa of civil wars and tribal massacres, where the Lord's Resistance Army recruits child-soldiers after forcing th… |
OL19967768W |
|
The Turner house
|
Angela Flournoy |
The Turners have lived on Yarrow Street for over fifty years. Their house has seen thirteen children grown and gone--and some returned; it has seen the arrival of grandchildren, the fall of Detroit's… |
OL20033402W |
|
Jubilee
|
Margaret Walker |
A novel based on the life of the author's great-grandmother follows the story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and one of his slaves, through the years of the Civil War and Reconstructi… |
OL20051327W |