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Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After losing her child and seeing the world as an increasingly dangerous place, a young Black woman from Boston decides to construct a separate society at an abandoned restaurant in Western Massachusetts. She locates a benefactor and soon it all begins to take shape, but it doesn't take long for problems to develop"--
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The cofounder of BET and the first African American woman billionaire vividly details her struggles, including racism, loss, emotional abuse and depression, that she overcame to become one of the most accomplished businesswomen in America, finally finding herself and her place in this world.
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The eighty-year anniversary edition of the once-banned, #1 New York Times –bestselling novel of interracial romance and discrimination in Georgia. Alice Walker said it best: “The South can hardly be said to recognize itself without this book.” Igniting controversy upon its publication in 1944, Strange Fruit was banned in Boston and Detroit and the US Postal Service refused to send it through the mail until Eleanor Roosevelt intervened--all because...
Publisher
Nomadic Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by New York Times bestseller "The Other Wes Moore", Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning producer/director Tod Lending presents ALL THE DIFFERENCE, an acclaimed film about African-American manhood. Filmed over five and a half years, ALL THE DIFFERENCE weaves together the stories of two tough, yet promising young black men as they navigate broken homes and low-income, high-risk communities in Chicago. Although statistics predict they will...
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
THE LAND BENEATH OUR FEET follows a young Liberian man uprooted by war, who returns from the USA with never-before-seen footage of Liberia's past. The uncovered footage is embraced as a national treasure. Depicting a 1926 corporate land grab, it is also an explosive reminder of eroding land rights.
7) King: a life
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English
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"The first full biography in decades, "King" mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times"--
"Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.--and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist...
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English
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A ground-breaking, personal exploration of America's obsession with continuing human bondage from the editor of the New York Times-bestselling Barracoon. Freedom and equality are the watchwords of American democracy. But like justice, freedom and equality are meaningless when there is no corresponding practical application of the ideals they represent. Physical, bodily liberty is fundamental to every American's personal sovereignty. And yet, millions...
9) Soul Seasons
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English
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The time of day, love experienced vicariously in real time as well as during dream times. All begins in the awakened mind, that feels, compares and processes varying signs, whether it be celestial, terrestial throughout times. The following poetic prose is my attempt to define the feeling and directive of being alive.
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How does South Africa deal with public art from its years of colonialism and apartheid? How do new monuments address fraught histories and commemorate heroes of the struggle? Across South Africa, statues commemorating figures such as Cecil Rhodes have provoked heated protests, while new works commemorating icons of the liberation struggle have also sometimes proved contentious. In this lively volume, Kim Miller, Brenda Schmahmann and an international...
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Language
English
Description
James Harris takes you on a roller-coaster ride through his life from From the Fields to the Feds. Starting as early as the age of seven years old, all odds were stacked against James. Born and raised in East St. Louis, not many people make it out. Due to his quick and critical thinking, James was able to succeed on and off the field to a certain extent. With various obstacles and everything under the sun, you will enjoy this ride with James and examine...
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English
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Dances on the Plains seeks to reflect the period between March and July, 2014, during the Nigerian National Conference 2014, when a cross section of Nigerians at home and in diaspora were selected, gathered in Abuja, Nigeria and mandated to discuss, negotiate, ventilate and proffer solutions to all the nagging problems presently troubling and militating against all facets of the Nation: socially, economically, religiously and so on: presumably, in...
13) Ravelling
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English
Description
In this offering, Sue Nyamnjoh takes on universal themes of love, grief, joy, and loneliness from a deeply personal lens. Using colourfully lyrical and prosaic language. Sue dives into the beauty of [un]ravelling, and with each poem, invites the reader to consider their own experience of feeling in full. Sue Nyamnjoh is a Cameroonian-born creative living in Cape Town with a background in languages and media studies. She enjoys large doses of music,...
14) Art of Storm
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English
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“Art of Storm” is a nonfiction book that delves into one particular family's tragedies in western Cameroon in Africa. The book begins with the story of the author's great-grandfather, continuing with a detailed account of a war that erupts, displacing t
15) Anteros
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English
Description
anteros is a poetry book that aims to motivate, teachand entatain through countelss poems, love articles andbest love quotes.this poetry book is specially dedicated to those bleedingsouls who tries everyday to move on but it is never easy.to those who who are slowly getting there and have not losthope in love no matter how many times they have been betrayed.it included lots of poems, love/life quotes and articlesrelated to boost and help broken souls...
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Afraid he won't live long enough to see his grandchildren or an heir to his throne and with his only son, Jean, refusing to start a family right after getting married, King Koffi asks Brenda, a servant whom he has raised like his daughter, to lure his son into getting her pregnant so she can give him the child. However, when Jean finds out about his father's disgraceful plan after the fact, he vows to never let him see the child.
Forced to raise...
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Wakizingatia historia ndefu ya uandishi katika lugha ya Kiswahili, majaji wa Tuzo ya Kiswahili ya Mabati-Cornell ya Fasihi ya Afrika wameeleza: Mashairi yaliyomo katika diwani hii yametumiliwa lugha iliyojaa taswira na majazanda yanayowakilisha vyema hisia zinazoelezwa katika dhamira mbalimbali. Mshairi amefaulu sana kuzitumia mbinu na miundo kadha wa kadha ili kuyajadili maswala yanayohusu hali na mazingira tafauti tafauti katika maisha ya binadamu....
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A tree is known by its fruit, not the roots. In the Efik communities, we sing and dance when we are happy and when we are sad. There are seasonal, celebratory, occupational and occasional songs and dances, reflecting the whole gamut of existence as appreciated within our cosmology. It is also through these songs and dances that we preserve, enhance, reflect, consolidate and propagate our feelings and way of life. Our culture. My Song (And other Poems)...
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Step forward
There was a boy that likes a girl. He always took notice of her even when she wasn't aware of his presence. With his nerdy appearance and his black-rimmed eyeglasses. He thought it was improbable that he could have a chance with her. He was just a nobody
Always afraid of taking chances, fearing of stumbling in the midst of his words, and his confidence shirking, even the thought of her, he has the butterflies growing in his stomach. With...
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