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Publisher
Visual Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2016, 1999.
Language
English
Description
Mother and daughter Nikki and Kim Parker both attend Santa Monica College. Nikki got pregnant with Kim and dropped out of school but now, just as Kim is getting ready for college, Nikki decides it's her turn to finish getting her education.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A powerful, timely debut, The Turner House marks a major new contribution to the story of the American family. The Turners have lived on Yarrow Street for over fifty years. Their house has seen thirteen children grown and gone--and some returned; it has seen the arrival of grandchildren, the fall of Detroit's East Side, and the loss of a father. The house still stands despite abandoned lots, an embattled city, and the inevitable shift outward to...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait...
5) Mrs. Wiggins
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The daughter of a prostitute mother and an alcoholic father, Maggie Franklin knew her only way out was to marry someone upstanding and church-going. Someone like Hubert Wiggins, the most eligible man in Lexington, Alabama--and the son of its most revered preacher. Proper and prosperous, Hubert is glad to finally have a wife, even one with Maggie's background. For Hubert has a secret he desperately needs to stay hidden. And Maggie's unexpected charm,...
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Lottie Rebecca Lee is spoken into the world in Fayetteville, North Carolina by a Black nurse who declares, "Lord Jesus, if that ain't the blackest little baby born this side of heaven." Later, Lottie will prove that she is the ancestors' promise to unearth the Mississippi and Ghanaian atrocities that have tormented Benjamin Lee, her grandfather, who was born during the Great Depression in Mississippi's red clay tobacco fields, and Benjamin Junior,...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"At seventy-two, Johnny Ribkins shouldn't have such problems: He's got one week to come up with the money he stole from his mobster boss or it's curtains for Johnny. What may or may not be useful to Johnny as he flees is that he comes from an African-American family that has been gifted with rather super powers that are rather sad, but superpowers nonetheless. For example, Johnny's father could see colors no one else could see. His brother could scale...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In 1925, Josephine is the proud owner of a thriving farm. As a child, she channeled otherworldly power to free herself from slavery. Now, her new neighbor, a white woman named Charlotte, seeks her company, and an uneasy friendship grows between them. But Charlotte has also sought solace in the Ku Klux Klan, a relationship that jeopardizes Josephine's family. Nearly one hundred years later, Josephine's descendant, Ava, is a single mother who has just...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Life lessons and laughs go hand in hand with the Winslow family and their ever-present neighbor Steve Urkel. Michelle Thomas stars as Steve's girlfriend, Myra. Don't miss Myra wooing Steve with her accordion, or the epic episode where Carl and Steve compete on American Gladiators in hope of settling a dispute, or the one when Steve literally glues himself to Laura's side. Join Urkel and the Winslow family in all 24 season four episodes.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The final season ups the ante with a multicharacter tour-de-farce, while completing Laura and Eddie Winslow's journeys to maturity. Its wedding bells as Laura accept, but with dueling proposals from Steve and his clone, Stefan, the question is, for whom? Meanwhile, Myrtle makes her final play for Eddie, Steve's cousin Original Gangsta Dawg wreaks havoc, and Halloween signals the return of evil dummy Stevil , now joined by Carlsbad a disturbing, diminutive...
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Heir to the Duncan and Zuniga crime family fortunes, Nevada Duncan must attend the world's most elite school for the children of underworld figures where he learns the importance of friendship as an enemy who wants what Nevada has lurks in the shadows.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Urkel's freshman year brings fresh fun for the Winslow family as Urkel becomes a martial artist to battle a playground menace, Eddie finds southern belle Myrtle Urkel haunting his dreams, the house gets haunted by Urkel's living ventriloquist dummy, Stefan sings with New Edition, and Aunt Oona goes on a date.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The blockbuster seventh season starts off with a bang as Urkel's transformation chamber runs amok and creates the incredible shrinking Carl and Urkel. You'd think things might get easier after surviving giant fruit and monstrous house cats but then you wouldn't know Urkel. Quicker than a "Did he do that?" the Winslow clan and company are faced with accidental nude encounters, entomologist infatuations, IRS audits and more.
15) Influence
Author
Series
Influence (Carl Weber) volume 1
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When famed attorney Bradley Hudson learns of his youngest son Langston's arrest for drug trafficking, he immediately assembles a team of lawyers and investigators, including members of his own family, to build a defense. With his reputation for being a shark in the courtroom, Bradley is confident he will get justice for his son--until he realizes he will be going up against an old foe, Assistant District Attorney James Brown. Is the ADA allowing his...
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In her first new book in seven years, Tananarive Due further cements her status as a leading innovator in Black horror and Afrofuturism American Book Award-winning author Tananarive Due's second collection of stories ranges from horror to science fiction to suspense. From the mysterious, magical town of Gracetown to the aftermath of a pandemic to the reaches of the far future, Due's stories all share a sense of dread and fear balanced with heart...
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"According to the 2010 US Census, more than seventy percent of Black women in America are unmarried today. Sweeping in scope and expansively researched, Black Women, Black Love reveals how four hundred years of the laws, policies, and customs have created that crisis for Black women in America today. Stewart begins her investigative analysis in the earliest years of the slave state, showing that American slavery could only flourish if its stakeholders...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Evelyn Del Rey is Daniela's best friend. They do everything together and even live in twin apartments across the street from each other: Daniela with her mami and hamster, and Evelyn with her mami, papi, and cat. But not after today--not after Evelyn moves away. Until then, the girls play amid the moving boxes until it's time to say goodbye, making promises to keep in touch, because they know that their friendship will always be special. The tenderness...
19) Memphis: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1995, ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father's violence to the only place they have left: her mother's ancestral home in Memphis. Half a century ago, Joan's grandfather built this majestic house for her grandmother--only to be lynched, days after becoming the first Black detective in Memphis, by his all-white police squad. This wasn't the first time violence altered the course of Joan's family's trajectory,...
20) Song of Solomon
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 216
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An official Oprah Winfrey’s “The Books That Help Me Through” selection • The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner transfigures the coming-of-age story with this brilliantly imagined novel. Includes a new foreword by the author.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric...
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric...
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