African Americans

  • The Toni Morrison Book Club

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    In this startling group memoir, four friends-black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American-born-use Toni Morrison’s novels as a springboard for intimate and revealing conversations about t… [more below]

    • Author: Bennett, Juda
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: February 04 2020
    • ISBN10: 029932494X
    • Language: English
  • Zyla & Kai

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    A fresh love story about the will they, won’t they–and why can’t they–of first love.

    While on a school trip to the Poconos Mountains (in the middle of a storm) high school seniors, Zyla Matthews an

    • Author: Forest, Kristina
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: June 07, 2022
    • ISBN10: 0593407245
    • Language: English
  • November Blues

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    In this second novel in Sharon M. Draper’s Jericho Trilogy and Coretta Scott King Honor Book, Jericho and November are locked together in pain from the past and fear for the future, and it feels as th[more below]

    • Series: Jericho Trilogy #2
    • Author: Draper, Sharon M.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: July 11 2017
    • ISBN10: 1481490311
    • Language: English
  • Darkness Before Dawn

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    Hope shines in the face of fear in this conclusion to Sharon M. Draper’s award-winning Hazelwood High trilogy.

    In her senior year, things are finally looking a little brighter for Keisha. Still haunte

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    • Series: Hazelwood High Trilogy #3
    • Author: Draper, Sharon M.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: July 23 2013
    • ISBN10: 1442489154
    • Language: English
  • Come Juneteenth

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    Sis Goose is a beloved member of Luli’s family, despite the fact that she was born a slave. But the family is harboring a terrible secret. And when Union soldiers arrive on their Texas plantation to a

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    • Series: Great Episodes
    • Author: Rinaldi, Ann
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: May 01 2009
    • ISBN10: 152063927
    • Language: English
  • Heaven Is All Goodbyes: Pocket Poets No. 61

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    Shortlisted for the 2018 Griffin International Poetry Prize

    2018 American Book Award Winner

    2018 PEN Oakland Award Winner

    Winner of the 2018 California Book Award for Poetry

    2018 NCIBA Poetry Book of the

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    • Series: City Lights Pocket Poets #61
    • Author: Eisen-Martin, Tongo
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 136
    • Publish Date: September 26 2017
    • ISBN10: 0872867455
    • Language: English
  • Olio

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    Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry

    Winner of the 2017 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry

    Winner of the 2017 Book Award from the Society of Midland Authors for Poetry

    2016 National Book Criti

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    • Author: Jess, Tyehimba
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: April 05 2016
    • ISBN10: 1940696208
    • Language: English
  • Affrilachia: Poems

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    A milestone book of poetry at the intersection of Appalachian and African American literature. In this pathbreaking debut collection, poet Frank X Walker tells the story of growing up young, Black, ar… [more below]

    • Author: Walker, Frank X.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: November 17 2020
    • ISBN10: 0967542405
    • Language: English
  • Punching the Air

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    New York Times and USA Today bestseller * Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor * Walter Award Winner * Goodreads Finalist for Best Teen Book of the Year * Time Magazine Best Book of the Year * Publishers Week

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    • Author: Zoboi, Ibi
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: September 01 2020
    • ISBN10: 0062996487
    • Language: English
  • School Clothes: A Collective Memoir of Black Student Witness

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    A chorus of Black student voices that renders a new story of US education–one where racial barriers and violence are confronted by freedom dreaming and resistance

    Black students were forced to live a

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    • Author: Givens, Jarvis R.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: February 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 080705481X
    • Language: English
  • Briarcliff Prep

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    A 2024 TAYSHAS Reading List selection!

    Set at a luxe, aspirational boarding school inspired by the author’s beloved alma mater Spelman College, this debut is a captivating celebration of the friends w

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    • Author: Peppins, Brianna
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: November 15 2022
    • ISBN10: 1368078370
    • Language: English
  • Heavy: An American Memoir

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    *Named a Best Book of 2018 by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, Buzzfeed (Nonfiction), The Undefeated, Library Journal (Biography/Memoirs), The Washington Post (Nonfiction), Souther[more below]

    • Author: Laymon, Kiese
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: October 16 2018
    • ISBN10: 1501125656
    • Language: English
  • Black Indian Slave Narratives

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    Few people realize that Native Americans were enslaved right alongside the African Americans in this country. Fewer still realize that many Native Americans owned African Americans and Native American

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    • Series: Real Voices, Real History Series
    • Author: Minges, Patrick
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 200
    • Publish Date: January 01 2004
    • ISBN10: 0895872986
    • Language: English
  • Blood Ties & Brown Liquor

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    Sean Hill’s debut collection, imaginative in the characters it invents and in the formal literary traditions it juxtaposes, is nevertheless firmly rooted in Hill’s hometown of Milledgeville, Georgia,

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    • Author: Hill, Sean
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: March 15 2008
    • ISBN10: 0820330930
    • Language: English
  • Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

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    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – ONE OF ESSENCE‘S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS

    In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama “guides us straight to the intersection of the

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    • Author: Obama, Barack
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 464
    • Publish Date: January 09 2007
    • ISBN10: 0307383415
    • Language: English
  • Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons: The Story of Phillis Wheatley

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    Kidnapped from her home in Senegal and sold as a slave in 1761, a young girl is purchased by the wealthy Wheatley family in Boston. Phillis Wheatley–as she comes to be known–has an eager mind and it

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    • Series: Great Episodes
    • Author: Rinaldi, Ann
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: March 01 2005
    • ISBN10: 015205393X
    • Language: English
  • Black Pearls: Daily Meditations, Affirmations, and Inspirations for African-Americans

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    Eric V. Copage’s Black Pearls is an extraordinary book of inspirational thoughts and practical advice for African-Americans. The 365 quotes that begin each day’s entry range from African proverbs to w

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    • Author: Copage, Eric V.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: February 09 2005
    • ISBN10: 0688122914
    • Language: English
  • Panther Baby

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    In the 1960s he exhorted students at Columbia University to burn their college to the ground. Today he’s chair of their School of the Arts film division. Jamal Joseph’s personal odyssey–from the stre… [more below]

    • Author: Joseph, Jamal
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 290
    • Publish Date: February 07 2012
    • ISBN10: 1616201290
    • Language: English
  • African American Almanac: 400 Years of Black Excellence

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    Courage, resilience and triumph! Celebrating the African American experience, the extraordinary people, and their profound influence on American history!

    African Americans helped build the United Stat

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