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Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"They've worked together for years. But one weekend away will change everything". Dominic Ferrell is the ultimate fixer. If a problem has to disappear, Dominic is the one to call. So when senatorial candidate Byron Robidoux needs help tracking down a woman from his past, Dominic can't resist taking the job and enlisting the best PI he knows to help. It's an open-and-shut case".or at least it was supposed to be. From the moment Dominic walks into her...
82) Ollie Miss
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Ollie Miss is a character you don't forget ... this book is part of American as well as Black American literature. Academic Library Book Review Men are paralyzed in the presence of Ollie Miss, stunned by her vivid sensuality. Combining beauty, strength, composure, and self-sufficiency, she emerges from nowhere to take an all-black backwoods settlement in Macon Country, Georgia, by storm. Despite her poverty and her lack of education, Ollie Miss is...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A special three-in-one edition by bestselling author Sandra Kitt, featuring the passionate contemporary urban romances Serenade, Sincerely, and Suddenly Serenade: Once, they made beautiful music together. Alexandra Morrow was a college freshman when she met composer-musician Parker Harrison. Drawn together by music, they became lovers . . . only to have it end in heartache. Ten years later, Parker is a world-renowned jazz musician, and the two meet...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Amazing stories of 100 Black Americans who everyone should know-for kids eight and up
Engaging and packed with facts, 100 African Americans Who Shaped American History is the perfect history gift for curious kids!
This biography book for kids features
• 100 easy-to-read one-page biographies: Find out how these Black Americans changed the course of history!
• Illustrated portraits: Each biography includes an illustration to help bring history...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
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Thirteen-year-old Amari, a poor Black girl from the projects, gets an invitation from her missing brother to join the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs and join in the fight against an evil magician.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The companion book to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s PBS series, And Still I Rise -- a timeline and chronicle of the past fifty years of black history in the U.S. in more than 350 photos. Beginning with the assassination of Malcolm X in February 1965, And Still I Rise: From Black Power to the White House explores the last half-century of the African American experience. More than fifty years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the birth of Black...
87) Juneteenth
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In Juneteenth, young readers will learn about this American holiday and the ways people celebrate it. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage emergent readers as they explore this unique holiday.
A labeled diagram helps readers understand the symbols of Juneteenth, while a picture glossary reinforces new vocabulary. Children can learn more about Juneteenth online using our safe search engine that provides relevant, age-appropriate...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A startling debut about class and race, Lakewood evokes a terrifying world of medical experimentation-part The Handmaid's Tale , part The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Electric Literature: One of 55 Books by Women and Nonbinary Writers of Color to Read in 2020 | Lit Hub & The Millions: Most Anticipated Books of 2020 | Ms. Magazine: Anticipated 2020 Feminist Books | Refinery29: Books by Black Women We are Looking Forward To Reading | One of The...
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Looking for entertaining stories of drama, glamour and passion featuring sophisticated and sensual African American and multicultural heroes and heroines? Harlequin Kimani Romance brings you all this and more with these four new full-length books for one great price! #565 STILL LOVING YOU The Grays of Los Angeles Sheryl Lister Malcolm Gray is Lauren Emerson's biggest regret. Eight years ago, a lack of trust cost her a future with the star running...
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Between 1760 and 1902, more than 200 book-length autobiographies of ex-slaves were published; together they form the basis for all subsequent African American literature. I Was Born a Slave collects the 20 most significant "slave narratives." They describe whippings, torture, starvation, resistance, and hairbreadth escapes; slave auctions, kidnappings, and murders; sexual abuse, religious confusion, the struggle of learning to read and write; and...
93) Sexy/Dangerous
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Wearing her shades, a black Stetson, and snakeskin cowboy boots, security agent Maxine "Max" Blake is the baddest thing walking. Ex-marine, ex-cop, and a whole lotta 'tude, Max doesn't have time for anything but her job. Her latest assignment: to protect Dr. Adam Gary. Her problem: he doesn't want her there. Adam wants to focus on his work, not to be distracted by this tall, sexy woman. A foiled kidnapping attempt may have forced him to take an undercover...
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The surprising alliance between Japan and pro-Tokyo African Americans during World War II In November 1942 in East St. Louis, Illinois a group of African Americans engaged in military drills were eagerly awaiting a Japanese invasion of the U.S. -- an invasion that they planned to join. Since the rise of Japan as a superpower less than a century earlier, African Americans across class and ideological lines had saluted the Asian nation, not least because...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An offer he couldn't refuse ... One week of mind-blowing sex on a beautiful Caribbean island. Of all the business proposals financial tycoon Dominic Saxon has heard, Taylor Steele's is definitely the most tempting. All Taylor wants in return is for Dominic to father her baby. No strings, no commitments ... just a mutually satisfying arrangement. Make that very satisfying. For a man with no intention of marrying again, it sounds ideal. Taylor wants...
Author
Language
English
Description
Presents the final novel by author Ralph Ellison, telling the story of Adam Sunraider, a race-baiting senator from New England who, upon being shot while on the Senate floor, calls for Reverend Alonzo Hickman, the African-American Baptist minister who cared for the orphaned Sunraider when he was a child known as Bliss.
97) Captured
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Captured is a high-stakes historical romance from Beverly Jenkins, award-winning author of Night Song and Jewel, in which a stunning young slave and a roguish privateer share forbidden passion on the high seas.
98) Dear Martin
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
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Language
English
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Set in west Philadelphia in the early sixties, Tempest Rising tells the story of three sisters, Bliss, Victoria, and Shern, budding adolescents raised in a world of financial privilege among the upper-black-class. But their lives quickly unravel as their father's lucrative catering business collapses. He disappears and is presumed dead, and their mother suffers an apparent breakdown. The girls are wrenched from their mother, and as the novel opens...
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Language
English
Description
In 1860 Louisiana, eighty-year-old Madame Sylvie decides to sit for a portrait, as horrific stories that span generations from the big house and the fields are revealed.
1860, Louisiana. After serving as mistress of Le Petit Cottage for more than six decades, Madame Sylvie Guilbert has decided, in spite of her family's indifference, to sit for a portrait. It will be a testament to all the hardships she overcame, the glory her life ought to have been....
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