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Black Fiction and Nonfiction December 2023 |
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Holiday Hours at all locations Early closing Monday, December 18 to Thursday, December 21, 10AM to 6PM Regular hours Friday, December 22, 10AM to 5PM CLOSED Saturday, December 23 to Wednesday, December 27 Early closing Thursday, December 28, 10AM to 6PM Regular hours Friday, December 29 and Saturday, December 30, 10AM to 5PM CLOSED Sunday, December 31 and Monday, January 1 |
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eResource of the month: Career and Education databases |
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The unfortunates
by J K. Chukwu
A queer, half-Nigerian college sophomore, Sahara, who feels like an all-around failure, finds hope, answers and unexpected redemption when she sets out to find the truth about The Unfortunates—the unlucky subset of black undergrads who have been mysteriously dying.
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Fire rush
by Jacqueline Crooks
A British woman of Jamaican heritage in the 1980s loses everything in a devastating cascade of violence that pits state power against her community and embarks on a transformative journey that takes her back to her homeland.
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Deceitful vows
by Trinity DeKane
Having had enough of her husband's countless affairs, Paula Smith decides it is time to leave and move on, but getting away from Michael, who is crazy and obsessed with her isn't going to be easy.
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What the fireflies knew
by Kai Harris
A coming-of-age novel told from the perspective of an eleven-year-old over the course of a single summer, as she tries to make sense of her new life with her estranged grandfather and sister after the death of her father and disappearance of her mother.
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Where we end & begin
by Jane Igharo
Returning to Nigeria for a friend's wedding, Dunni, engaged to a man she doesn't love, runs into her high school boyfriend, Obinna, and has a passionate affair with this now sophisticated, confident man until secrets are revealed and the reckless actions of the past bring new challenges.
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Every man a king
by Walter Mosley
NYPD investigator Joe King Oliver is tested when asked by his billionaire friend to defend a White nationalist who has been accused of murder, in the sequel to the Edgar Award-winning Down the River Unto the Sea.
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Decent people
by De'Shawn Charles Winslow
When three siblings are found shot to death in the still-segregated town of West Mills, North Carolina, in 1976, and the white authorities show no interest in solving the case, Josephine Wright sets out to prove the innocence of her childhood sweetheart,Olympus "Lymp" Seymore, the murder victims' half-brother and the leading suspect in the case
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Truth's table : Black women's musings on life, love, and liberation
by Ekemini Uwan
A collection of essays and stories documenting the lived theology and spirituality from the co-hosts of the Truth's Table podcast- Christina Edmondson, Michelle Higgins, and Ekemini Uwan. Stories by Black women and for Black women examining theology, politics, race, culture, and gender matters through a Christian lens. For anyone seeking to explore the spiritual dimensions of hot-button issues within the church, or anyone thirsty to deepen their faith, Truth's Table provides exactly the survival guide we need.
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Black AF history : the un-whitewashed story of America
by Michael Harriot
The acclaimed columnist and political commentator presents a sharp and often hilarious retelling of American history that focuses on the overlooked contribution of Black Americans and corrects the idea that American history is white history.
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True : the four seasons of Jackie Robinson
by Kostya Kennedy
True is a probing, richly-detailed, unique biography of Jackie Robinson, one of baseball's--and America's--most significant figures. For players, fans, managers, and executives, Jackie Robinson remains baseball's singular figure, the person who most profoundly extended, and continues to extend, the reach of the game.
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Black women's wellness : your I've got this! guide to health, sex & phenomenal living
by Melody Theresa McCloud
Black women carry the worst prognoses and suffer the least successful health-care outcomes for diseases many other women survive. Written for Black women by a Black MD in a conversational tone, with illustrations and schematics about head-to-toe medical conditions, the book presents the ever-present physical challenges to help Black women be happier and healthier.
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Black ball : Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the generation that saved the soul of the NBA
by Theresa Runstedtler
The supposed decline of pro basketball in the 1970s became a metaphor for the first decades of integration in America: the rules of the game had changed, allowing more Black people onto a formerly white playing field, and now they were ruining everything. But Black Ball argues that this much-maligned period was pivotal to the rise of the NBA as the star-laden powerhouse we know today. Spotlighting legendary players like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bernard King, and Connie Hawkins, scholar Theresa Runstedtler expertly rewrites basketball's "Dark Ages," with incisive social and political analysis of the era. Black ballers created an aerial, improvisational, and creative style derived from the playground courts of their neighborhoods, laying the foundation for the explosive popularity and profitability of the league in subsequent decades. They also transformed labor in the pro-basketball world, filing lawsuits and organizing unions to demand better salaries and greater autonomy. Without their skills, style, and savvy, there would be no Michael Jordan, Allen Iverson, or LeBron James today.
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Jazz diasporas : race, music, and migration in post-World War II Paris
by Rashida K. Braggs
Jazz Diasporas challenges the notion that Paris was a color-blind paradise for African Americans. Examining a number of players in the jazz scene, she investigates the impact of this post-war musical migration, identifies how they performed and created with French musicians and how their role in French society challenged their American identity and illusions of France as a racial safe haven. Sliding in and out of black and white and American and French identities, both groups created collaborative spaces for mobilized musical identities.
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Black pearls : blues queens of the 1920s
by Daphne Duval Harrison
Offers profiles of Alberta Hunter, Edith Wilson, Victoria Spivey, and Sippie Wallace, and looks at the history of the blues, and the vaudeville circuit
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What happened, Miss Simone? : a biography
by Alan Light
A biography of the beloved singer, inspired by the acclaimed Netflix documentary, explores both her public persona and her private life, including her love of classical music despite her heartbreaking rejection from that field, her successful rise in the world of soul and her civil rights activism. By the author of The Holy or the Broken and Let's Go Crazy.
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I take my coffee black : reflections on Tupac, musical theater, faith, and being black in America
by Tyler Merritt
Tyler Merritt's viral video "Before You Call the Cops" bridges the divides that seem to grow wider every day. He talks about growing up in a multi-cultural community and realizing that he wasn't always welcome. He shares how he quit sports for musical theater (that's where the girls were), to how Jesus barged in uninvited and changed his life forever, to how he ended up at a small Bible college in Santa Cruz because he thought they had a great theater program (they didn't). Throughout his stories, he also seamlessly weaves in lessons about privilege and the legacy of lynching and sharecropping and why you don't cross black mamas, teaching readers about the history of encoded racism that still undergirds our society today. By turns witty, insightful, and laugh-out-loud funny, he paints a portrait of black manhood in America that enlightens and entertains.
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Heart full of rhythm : the big band years of Louis Armstrong
by Ricky Riccardi
Focusing on the most transformative period of the 20th century's first "King of Pop", Louis Armstrong was an New Orleans and Harlem Renaissance trumpeter who transformed jazz in the 1920s, but that changed by the next decade. During his mid-career period he was vilified by the Black press, lost and regained his Black fan base, developed his singing skills, was physically unable to play his trumpet for a while, become the first Black man to host a nationally sponsored radio show, received star billing in a Hollywood movie, was a hero of the brand-new Apollo Theater, was arrested, and held at gunpoint by gangsters. By the end of his career he was an international pop star who knocked the Beatles off the top of the chart and described as "the embodiment of jazz."
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