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Non-fiction: Set your mind at ease with some disruptive thinking
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Disruptive Thinkingby T. D. JakesIn this book for leaders, thinkers, doers and creators, Bishop T.D. Jakes illuminates the pathway to encouraging and unleashing disruptive thinking and provides the wisdom and practical skills we need to evolve our most original and potentially transformational ideas from vision to reality. Through his insight into how our minds and emotions work and through his experiences as a pastor, entrepreneur, and creator, Bishop Jakes leads us into a new way of relating to and transforming the world around us for good. Disruptive Thinking will show you the mindset and the tools you need to create groundbreaking and meaningful change in your own life and in the world around you.
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Get Honest or Die Lying: Why Small Talk Sucks by Charlamagne Tha GodEmbracing his life roles as a cultural curator, social commentator, job creator and Girl Dad, the cohost of the nationally syndicated morning radio institution The Breakfast Club shares his thoughts on growth, empowerment and evolution in our fast-changing world—in short, it's time to stop lying to each other, and ourselves.
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I Curse You With Joy by Tiffany HaddishThe comedian, actress and best-selling author presents a collection of essays chronicling the lessons learned on her journey to superstardom, from the legacy of her childhood trauma to difficulties being a Black woman in the entertainment industry.
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Top Billin': Stories of Laughter, Lessons, and Triumph by Bill BellamyThe MTV trailblazer, stand-up comedian and actor, in this original and outrageous tour through the eternally iconic world of ‘90s pop culture, provides an all-access backstage pass to his career and life, showing how he broke color and class barriers during one of the most exciting and innovative periods.
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Fiction: Relax, relate and release
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Skin & Bonesby Renee WatsonWhen a confession on her wedding day shifts her world, 40-year-old Lena, trying to teach her daughter self-love while struggling to do so herself, questions everything she's learned about dating, friendship and motherhood while working tirelessly to bring the oft-forgotten Black history of Oregon to the masses.
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBrideWhen a skeleton is unearthed in the small, close-knit community of Chicken Hill, Pennsylvania, in 1972, an unforgettable cast of characters—living on the margins of white, Christian America—closely guard a secret, especially when the truth is revealed about what happened and the part the town's white establishment played in it.
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Control by Omar TyreeDetermined to prevent a tragedy, an Atlanta therapist uncovers a common denominator that is plaguing six of her clients from the rap and film world and debates the merits of violating her professional position to save lives.
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Double Lives by Mary MonroeDepression-era, Southern identical twin sisters decide to switch places when one is being stifled in a passionless marriage and the other is heartbroken over losing her true love, in the fourth novel of the series following Love, Honor, Betray.
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The House of Eveby Sadeqa JohnsonIn 1950s Philadelphia and Washington, DC, the lives of 15-year-old Ruby Pearsall, whose taboo affair threatens her dreams of being the first in her family to attend college, and Eleanor Quarles, who hopes having a baby will gain her husband's wealthy family's acceptance, collide in the most unexpected of ways.
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