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Author
Publisher
The Cartel Publications
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"On the opening night of his restaurant, bad boy Tye Gates discovers a diary moments after being unfaithful to his fianc�ee. Trying to identify its owner, he delves into the words of a woman who considers herself unattractive and worthy of physical and emotional abuse. Before long he neglects his own life, which is already showing signs of weakness. Soon, reading the diary becomes the perfect excuse to escape his responsibilities. Besides, the ugly...
Author
Publisher
The Cartel Publications
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In, "An Ugly Girl's Diary 3", we delve back into the life of Courtney Martin, a bold podcast host who's suddenly caught up in a scary situation when she gets a creepy message live on air, saying that her end is near. Courtney's life turns upside down as she tries to figure out who's after her, with danger hiding around every corner. She's not alone though - her brother Posea, cousin Yo-Yo, new friend Sakura, loyal engineer Adrienne, and her boyfriend...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"An electric essay collection about Blackness, art, and dreaming of new possibilities in a time of constriction. This collection of innovative, penetrating, and lively essays features swimming pools and poets, road trips and museums, family dinners and celebrity sightings. In a voice that is at once piercing, mournful, and slyly comic, Aisha Sabatini Sloan inhabits several roles: she is an art enthusiast in Los Angeles during a city-wide manhunt;...
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive collection featuring over 150 poems, including works that explore joy, love, origin, race, resistance, and praise.
In this comprehensive and vibrant poetry anthology, bestselling author and poet Kwame Alexander curates a collection of contemporary anthems at turns tender and piercing and deeply inspiring throughout. Featuring work from well-loved poets such as Rita Dove, Jericho Brown, Warsan Shire, Ross Gay, Tracy K. Smith, Terrance...
Author
Publisher
Lock Down Publications
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Nephew is a gangsta that lives by the sword and takes what he wants. Life changes for the worst when he gets knocked for robbery and ends up on lock. While sitting in a cell, he realizes that street life will only get him back in jail, or dead, so he turns to God. He returns to the streets a different man, only to discover the streets ain't so forgiving. Old enemies have new issues and want his head. Charlene is a beautiful and kind woman that gets...
Author
Publisher
Lock Down Publications
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Now that the lovely ladies of the night who danced for MICHEAL from city to city had embedded their signature into the heads and mouths of the many men they encountered along the way, they never knew that death was right around the corner, nor that the Devil had a hold on the necks of some of the ladies they danced with. Not only were they in immediate danger, but so were the many beautiful women who shared Michael's bed and his lonely heart. Micheal...
Author
Publisher
Lock Down Publications
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Markio Earl has $5 million in cold hard cash that belongs to a Chicago heroin kingpin, and his refusal to return it has led to a deadly string of shootings that leaves local police and federal agents baffled. When all leads point to Markio, police chief Martin "Swizz" Swiztak orders his underlings to send every confidential informant on his department's payroll at the handsome, young gangster, whose propensity for dating attractive, black women has...
Author
Publisher
Lock Down Publications
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Malachi receives the blessings from Blanka, the head of the deadliest cartel in Mexico, to start his own cartel. But with it comes an obligation that will test Malachi to the limit. Murder, extortion, and coruption are Blanka's creed and he expects the same from those he has given his blessings to. Will Malachi remain loyal or will Blanka's demands become too outrageous for Malachi to fulfill?
9) Juneteenth
Author
Publisher
Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
10) Juneteenth is
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This book is an ode to the history of the Black community in the United States, a tribute to Black joy, and a portrait of familial love"--
A girl contemplates what Juneteenth means to her, her family, and her community.
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A powerful and needed collection of essays by accomplished women writers on violence and injustice toward Black men. The catalyst for a national conversation, this book shines a new light on the dangers Black men face daily, and the emotional toll anti-Black violence takes on the women who love them, casting a vision for future activism"--
Author
Publisher
Black Privilege Publishing/Atria
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author with a "lively, engaging, and often wise" (The New York Times Book Review) voice, offers a lyrical, introspective, and unforgettable account of her past and her search for the first family of Black country music. Country music had brought Randall and her activist mother together and even gave Randall a singular distinction in American music history: she is the first Black woman to cowrite...
13) Butter soft
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nea and Amber are two college freshmen attending Clinton Hill University in South Carolina. The roommates come from different worlds: Nea is from Brooklyn, New York, and Amber is from a small town called Tyron, North Carolina. They build a friendship in the first semester of school but take different directions regarding love. Nea is coming off the death of her boyfriend, who was murdered before her eyes two weeks before her first day of classes....
14) One big open sky
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska"--
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
It's the first day of school for Zoe, a young girl with hearing loss who dreams of playing on her school's soccer team. But, self-conscious of her hearing aids, Zoe is too nervous to try out. With the help of and perspectives from new friends, what begins as a bumpy, anxiety-filled start for Zoe, soon transitions into an eye-opening experience about what it means to be different--and what it means to be extraordinary. I Am Extraordinary teaches kids...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"A bestselling music historian follows Jelly Roll Morton on a journey through the hidden worlds and forbidden songs of early blues and jazz. In Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories, Elijah Wald takes readers on a journey into the hidden and censored world of early blues and jazz, guided by the legendary New Orleans pianist Jelly Roll Morton. Morton became nationally famous as a composer and bandleader in the 1920s, but got his start...
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles, 1965. Tempers have boiled over in the Watts neighborhood, sparked by the traffic stop of two Black motorists, the Frye brothers, by the Highway Patrol. Freelance crime photographer Harry Ingram is on the scene, capturing images of the cops as they unleash batons, dogs, and water hoses on the predominantly Black crowd. When he snaps proof of an unarmed man being shot down by the LAPD, he winds up in the hospital, beaten, his camera confiscated....
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Jericka Walker had planned to spend the summer before senior year soaking up the sun with her best friend on the Jersey Shore. Instead she finds herself in Coldwater, Maryland, a small town with a dark and complicated past where her estranged grandmother lives--someone she knows only two things about: her name and the fact that she left Jericka's mother and uncle when they were children. But now Jericka's grandmother is dying, and her mother has dragged...
19) Patina
Author
Series
Track volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
Description
Fantasma. Lu. Patina. Sunny. Cuatro jóvenes de familias completamente diferentes, con personalidades que se vuelven explosivas al chocar. Pero son también cuatro jóvenes de secundaria que fueron escogidos para un equipo de élite de atletismo... un equipo que los podría ayudar a clasificarse para las Olimpiadas Juveniles. Todos tienen mucho que perder, pero también tienen mucho que demostrar, no solo a sus compañeros sino a sí mismos. Patina...
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