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Series
Publisher
Kensington Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Monica, a CEO with celebrity clients, loves her life. But when her man loses his high-powered corporate job and pressures her to start a family, Monica finds herself involved with a client who wants to mix business with pleasure--or else...Successful author Keesha is blowing through her money--and cheating on her fiancé. When her new friend, Jeremiah, discovers her deception, Keesha stands to lose everything...Danielle has fame and fortune as a...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"An autobiography through the previously unpublished letters of the renowned author of Invisible Man, with insights into the riddle of American identity, the writer's craft, and his own life and work. Over six decades (1933 to 1993), Ralph Ellison's extensive and revealing correspondence remarkably details his aspirations and anxieties, confidence and uncertainties throughout his personal and professional life. From early notes to his mother, as an...
Author
Series
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
The classic collection of sixteen sermons preached and compiled by Dr. King As Dr. King prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love, a volume of his best-known homilies.
45) BFF's: 3
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"When it comes to a real friendship, Kayla, Evelyn, and Trina have one last opportunity to get it right. If only for a short period, they appear to be on the same path and willing to put their chaotic past behind them. Evelyn{u2019}s near-death experience has everyone embracing her, even Kayla{u2019}s ex-husband, Cedric, who uses his wealth and power to get whatever his heart desires. To help him settle scores with individuals he now considers his...
46) Heist 2
Author
Publisher
Dafina
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In "The Last Heist," Shannon must use her wiles to stay out of her wronged husband's way, and in "Caked Up," Harlem, in an effort to help his ill daughter, must try to recover his stashed loot before his former partner-in-crime.
Series
Girls from da hood volume 8
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Three girlfriends who vow to escape the ghetto find that life gets in the way and no one will help them but themselves.
Author
Publisher
Life Changing Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
V.I.P. is an explicit tale of two beautiful women both determined to become very important people 'by any means necessary'. After living in a world where you're only cool if you're the wife of an athlete, or a current T.V star they are both suddenly faced with jealousy and lies. Neither realize ...fame comes with a high, and sometimes deadly price tag. Meet India, the star struck, money hungry honey from Brooklyn, who's dead set on marrying someone...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A personal, social, and intellectual self-portrait of the beloved and enormously influential late Randall Kenan, a master of both fiction and nonfiction. Virtuosic in his use of literary forms, nurtured and unbounded by his identities as a Black man, a gay man, an intellectual, and a Southerner, Randall Kenan was known for his groundbreaking fiction. Less visible were his extraordinary nonfiction essays, published as introductions to anthologies...
Series
Street chronicles volume 2
Publisher
One World Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Why? distills the conversations many children and adults are having about race, injustice, and anger in communities throughout our country, and gives them context that young readers can connect with. Heartfelt and deeply piercing illustrations from Shane W. Evans will leave a lasting impact on readers of any age. One that will hopefully lead to more conversations, change, and peace within our own communities and the world." --
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Hurston and Hughes, two giants of the Harlem Renaissance and American literature, were best friends--until they weren't. Zora Neale Hurston (Their Eyes Were Watching God) and Langston Hughes ('The Negro Speaks of Rivers,' 'Let America Be America Again') were collaborators, literary gadflies, and close companions. They traveled together in Hurston's dilapidated car through the rural South collecting folklore, worked on the play Mule Bone, and wrote...
Author
Publisher
Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"One of the most acclaimed artists of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston was a gifted novelist, playwright, and essayist. Drawn from three decades of her work, this anthology showcases her development as a writer, from her early pieces expounding on the beauty and precision of African American art to some of her final published works, covering the sensational trial of Ruby McCollum, a wealthy Black woman convicted in 1952 for killing a white...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Haunted and haunting, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir. Jones tells the story of a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears. Through a series of vignettes that chart a course across the American landscape, Jones draws readers into his boyhood and adolescence--into tumultuous relationships with his...
Publisher
One World/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A collection that celebrates the contributions of African-American authors features short stories and novel excerpts by Michael Thomas, Jacqueline Woodson, Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie, Stephen Carter, and Christopher Paul Curtis.
60) Blackbirds singing: inspiring Black women's speeches from the Civil War to the twenty-first century
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An uplifting collection of speeches by African American women, curated by civil and human rights activist, scholar, and author Janet Dewart Bell. These magnificent speakers explore ethics, morality, courage, authenticity, and leadership, and Bell's substantive introductions provide rich new context for each woman's speech, highlighting Black women speaking truth to power in service of freedom and justice"--
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