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By: Davis, Milton J.
Muscadine Wine
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Lightning bugs on a summer evening. A lazy river filled from a spring rain. The taste of honeysuckles. The aroma of wild grapes ripe on the vine. A collection of fantasy and contemporary fiction stori

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- Author: Davis, Milton J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: August 25 2022
- ISBN10: 9798985733631
- Language: English
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By: Hunter, Laura
Summer of No Rain
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As a timid biracial girl growing up in Sweetwater, Alabama during the 1960s, Margaret Ann

Odom’s childhood was all but pleasant. Constantly targeted by her peers due to her different

texture of hair, an

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- Author: Hunter, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: February 07 2022
- ISBN10: 194971182X
- Language: English
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By: Shange, Ntozake
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
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Ntozake Shange’s beloved Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo is the story of three sisters and their mother from Charleston, South Carolina.

“A jubilant celebration of womanhood–as moving as the moon . . .

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- Author: Shange, Ntozake
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0312541244
- Language: English
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By: Catherine Adel West
The Two Lives of Sara
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Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Ms. Magazine, The Root, Popsugar, Bustle, and many more!

“An utterly absorbing and dazzling novel about the stories we tell to stay alive and the secrets we ke
- Author: West, Catherine Adel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 0778333221
- Language: English
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By: Pitts Jr, Leonard
The Last Thing You Surrender: A Novel of World War II
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Could you find the courage to do what’s right in a world on fire?

Pulitzer-winning journalist and bestselling novelist (Freeman) Leonard Pitts, Jr.’s new historical page-turner is a great American ta

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- Author: Pitts Jr, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1572842458
- Language: English
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By: Monroe, Mary
Empty Vows: A Riveting Depression Era Historical Novel
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In this gripping follow-up to the Depression-era saga Mrs. Wiggins, the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author transports readers to the Deep South, as a proper church-going woman determi… [more below]
- Series: A Lexington, Alabama Novel
- Author: Monroe, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1496732626
- Language: English
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By: Jackson-Brown, Angela
When Stars Rain Down
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Opal is an eighteen-year-old Black woman working as a housekeeper in a small Southern town in the 1930s–and then the Klan descends. A moving story that confronts America’s tragic past, When Stars Rai

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- Author: Jackson-Brown, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 0785240446
- Language: English
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By: Juanita, Judy
Virgin Soul
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Written in first-person point of view, Virgin Soul is the semi-autobiographical tale of a young woman’s struggle for identity and purpose during one of the most politically and racially charged eras o

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- Author: Juanita, Judy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: July 06 2017
- ISBN10: 0971635242
- Language: English
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By: Dorothy West
The Wedding
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In her final novel, “a beautiful and devastating examination of family, society and race” (The New York Times), Dorothy West offers an intimate glimpse into the Oval, a proud, insular community made u

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- Author: West, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0385471440
- Language: English
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By: Gerard, Philip
Cape Fear Rising
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In August 1898, Wilmington, North Carolina, was a mecca for middle-class black citizens. Many of the city’s lawyers, businessmen, and other professionals were black, as were all the tradesmen and stev… [more below]
- Author: Gerard, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1949467023
- Language: English
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By: William Gardner Smith
The Stone Face
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A roman ? clef about racism, identity, and bohemian living amidst the tensions and violence of Algerian War-era France, and one of the earliest published accounts of the Paris massacre of 1961.

As a t

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- Author: Smith, William Gardner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1681375168
- Language: English
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By: Peyton, Tracey Rose
Night Wherever We Go
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A RECOMMENDED READ FROM: The Washington Post – Atlanta Journal-Constitution – CrimeReads – Library Journal

A gripping, radically intimate debut novel about a group of enslaved women staging a covert re

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- Author: Peyton, Tracey Rose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 006324988X
- Language: English
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By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Water Dancer
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK – From the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss,… [more below]
- Author: Coates, Ta-Nehisi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0399590595
- Language: English
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By: Lola Jaye
The Attic Child
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A hauntingly powerful and emotionally charged novel about family secrets, love and loss, identity and belonging.

Two children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a shared secret
- Author: Jaye, Lola
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 0063260379
- Language: English
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By: Llanos-Figueroa, Dahlma
A Woman of Endurance
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- Author: Llanos-Figueroa, Dahlma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0063062232
- Language: English
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By: Black, Daniel
Don’t Cry for Me
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*A Book of the Month Club Pick*

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK IN ESSENCE MAGAZINE, THE MILLIONS AND BOOKISH

“Don’t Cry for Me is a perfect song.”–Jesmyn Ward

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- Author: Black, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 133542573X
- Language: English
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By: Gorsuch, Greta
Key City on the River
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On a cold November afternoon in 1833, two wagons are about to cross the dark Mississippi River into Iowa Territory on a tiny boat. Penny Cooper, Nate Tilden, Aunt Sunday, and Jonathan and Ella Butterm

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- Series: Gemma Open Door
- Author: Gorsuch, Greta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: March 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1936846799
- Language: English
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By: Walker, Margaret
Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition)
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The best-selling classic about a mixed-race child in the Civil War-era South that “chronicles the triumph of a free spirit over many kinds of bondage” (New York Times Book Review).

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- Author: Walker, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0544812123
- Language: English
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By: Monroe, Mary
Mrs. Wiggins
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From the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of the classic, captivating, and scandalous Mama Ruby series, comes a church-going matriarch’s rags to riches Depression era story set in t… [more below]
- Series: A Lexington, Alabama Novel
- Author: Monroe, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1496732596
- Language: English
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By: Alderson, Kaia
Sisters in Arms: A Novel of the Daring Black Women Who Served During World War II
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“Sisters in Arms is heartwarming but fierce, a novel brimming with camaraderie and fire, starring women you’d love to make your friends. Prickly, musical Grace and bubbly, privileged Eliza may not mak

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- Author: Alderson, Kaia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0062964585
- Language: English