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Black Literature April/May 2024
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One of us knows : a thriller
by Alyssa Cole
A resident caretaker of a historic home, Kenetria, diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder, finds their newfound life disrupted by a group of strangers, including the man who destroyed her life, and when he turns up dead, they must prove their innocence or risking losing their future—and their life. Simultaneous.
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Ours
by Phillip B. Williams
Sweeping through 1830s Arkansas to rescue enslaved people, Saint, a fearsome conjuror, creates a town magically concealed from outsiders, named Ours, but, over time, as the town becomes vulnerable to intruders, some people wonder whether the community's safety might by yet another form of bondage.
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Come and get it : a novel
by Kiley Reid
A senior resident assistant at the University of Arkansas accepts an easy yet unusual opportunity offered by a visiting professor and things get messy when her new side-hustle is jeopardized by strange new friends and illicit and vengeful dorm antics.
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The jazzmen : how Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie transformed America
by Larry Tye
Based on more than 250 interviews, this meticulously researched history of Black America in the early-to-mid 1900s through three longtime kings of jazz—Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie—who opened America's eyes and souls to their magnificent music, writing the soundtrack for the civil rights movement. Illustrations.
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A love song for Ricki Wilde : a novel
by Tia Williams
Leaving behind her socialite family in Atlanta, Ricki Wilde moves to New York to open a flower shop as the Harlem Renaissance swirls around her, in the new novel from the author of Seven Days in June. 150,000 first printing.
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Legacy : a black physician reckons with racism in medicine
by Uchâe Blackstock
Part searing indictment of our healthcare system, part generational family memoir, part call to action, a physician and thought leader on bias and racism in healthcare recounts her journey to finally seizing her own power as a health equity advocate against the backdrop of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement. Illustrations.
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Ella : a novel
by Diane Richards
Follows the life of legendary singer Ella Fitzgerald from her escape from an infamous training school/prison that forced her to dance on the street for money to her 1934 first amateur appearance at the Apollo Theatre. 100,000 first printing.
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The library thief : a novel
by Kuchenga Shenjâe
A white-passing bookbinder in Victorian England, Florence, restoring a collection of rare books in the forbidding Rose Hall, hears whispers about Lord Belfield's late wife, and when the library is broken into and his wife's secret diary is burned, she realizes with horror it may have held the clue to her fate.
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Long after we are gone : a novel
by Terah Shelton Harris
Told from alternating points of view from all four siblings, this emotional story about the power of family and letting go follows CeCe, Junior, Nance and Angeline, each fighting their own personal battles, as they return home to save their ancestral land—and themselves—after the death of their father.
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