A chorus of extraordinary voices comes together to tell one of history’s great epics: the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present—edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author...
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Author: Kendi, Ibram X.Summary:
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Author: Feldman, SuzanneSummary:
Cassie, self-educated and brown skinned, works in a laundry in rural Mississippi. Judith, illiterate and white, dreams of life as a big-city radio star. These teenage girls are half sisters, and...
Genre: Bildungsromans -
Author: Hamilton, VirginiaSummary:
Eleven-year-old Valena lives both in the present and the past as she struggles with racism in her daily life and listens to her mother's tales of her family's proud history.
Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Author: Hamilton, VirginiaSummary:
The kids in class call Natalie "Bluish" because her skin is tinted blue from chemotherapy. Though weak, she also wants to be independent. Dreenie is fascinated by Bluish and wants to be her friend...
Genre: Juvenile fiction -
Author: Perkins-Valdez, DolenSummary:
In the bitter aftermath of a terrible, bloody war, as a divided nation tries to come together once again, Madge, Sadie, and Hemp are caught up in a desperate, unexpected battle for survival in a...
Genre: Historical fiction, Fantasy fiction -
Author: Forster, GwynneSummary:
Leticia Langley is used to fighting for what she wants. That's how she wound up being the first in her family to graduate from college. So what if she's never had a date' All that's about to...
Genre: Urban fiction -
Author: Beals, MelbaSummary:
The author describes the threats and emotional abuse she endured from white students and adults along with her fears of endangering her family as she commited to being one of the first African...
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Author: Couto, MiaSummary:
Told through two haunting, interwoven diaries, this novel reveals the mysterious world of Kulumani, a village in Mozambique whose traditions and beliefs are threatened when ghost-like lionesses...
Genre: Diary fiction -
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A collection of significant speeches by those who held the reins of power, and those who didn't, at significant times in American history. Hear the original words, sometimes abridged and...
Genre: Discursive works, Juvenile nonfiction -
Author: Doctorow, CorySummary:
A man known as Hubert, Etc. finds he has no place in society except among the dregs of disaffected youth who party all night and heap scorn on those taking the morning commute. Falling in with...
Genre: Dystopian fiction, Science fiction -
Author: Sekyiamah, Nana DarkoaSummary:
Blogger Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah has spent decades talking openly and intimately to African women around the world about sex. For this book she spoke to more than thirty African women across the...
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Author: Abercrombie, Joe, Ryman, Geoff, Tidhar, Lavie, Bacigalupi, Paolo, Bodard, Aliette de, Novik, Naomi, Gregory, Daryl, Valente, Catherynne M., Jemisin, N. K., Valentine, Genevieve, Liu, Ken, Wong , AlyssaSummary:
Jonathan Strahan, the award-winning and much lauded editor of many of genre's best known anthologies is back with his 11th volume in this fascinating series, featuring the best science fiction and...
Genre: Science fiction, Short stories