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A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America by Trymaine LeeWith unflinching honesty, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Trymaine Lee takes readers on a journey, from almost being caught up in gun violence as a young man, to tracing the legacy of the Middle Passage in Ghana through his ancestors' footsteps, to confronting the challenges of representing his people in an overwhelmingly white and often hostile media world, and most importantly, to celebrating the enduring strength of his family and community.
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Cudi: The Memoir by Scott MescudiThe long-awaited memoir from Scott Mescudi, better known by his stage name Kid Cudi, traces his career as a Grammy Award–winning rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor and fashion designer.
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Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler by Susana M. MorrisPositive Obsession places Butler's story within the cultural, social, and historical context that shaped her life—the Civil Rights Movement, Black Power, women's liberation, queer rights, and Reaganomics—revealing how these influences impacted Butler's personal and intellectual trajectory and shaped the ideas central to her writing.
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Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight For a Black State by Caleb GayleA powerful account of Edward McCabe's bold attempt to establish a Black-governed state in Oklahoma, exploring how racism, political resistance and white greed ultimately derailed his vision of self-determination and opportunity for Black Americans after Reconstruction.
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Gray Dawn by Walter MosleyRunning a successful detective agency in 1970s L.A., Easy Rawlins is hired to find a dangerous woman whose secrets threaten to upend the city's fragile balance in the latest addition to the long-running series following Farewell, Amethystine.
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Sweet Heatby Bolu BabalolaTwenty-eight-year-old Kiki dishes out life advice on her podcast, but as she prepares to be Maid of Honor in her best friend's wedding, everything starts to unravel; finding herself face-to-face with Best Man and ex Malakai, and they are hell-bent on ignoring their smoldering chemistry.
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Black Cherokeeby Antonio Michael DowningAs her hometown faces environmental and cultural collapse, Ophelia Blue Rivers embarks on a powerful journey to understand her Cherokee Freedmen heritage and what it means to truly belong when identity comes at a cost.
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The Cruel Dawn by Rachel Howzell HallThe explosive second book in the Vallendor series―a sweeping romantasy where gods bleed, realms fall, and one woman stands between salvation and ruin.
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Loved One by Aisha MuharrarJulia's first-love-turned-close-friend, Gabe, dies unexpectedly at twenty-nine, and after beginning an intercontinental quest to recover his possessions, she collides with Elizabeth, the last woman he loved, who insists on withholding Gabe's beloved guitar—both women, it turns out, have something to hide.
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660 W. Fifth St., Winston-Salem, NC 27101
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