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Author
Publisher
Lock Down Publications
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Whoever said love was pain knew how difficult relationships are, but they left out the part about love being savage. It can make you and destroy you in the same breath. So, beware! For David Bishop love has been illusive since he lost his first love, and then unexpected circumstances bring him that feeling from a different woman. The price isn't cheap though, and loyalty ain't an option, it's a demand that comes with a death threat. David will learn...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Elegant, profound, and intoxicating--this is the author's first major collection of poetry after winning the Pulitzer Prize for Digest. Moving fluidly between considerations of the hip-hop group NWA, Tituba, the only Black woman to be accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials, MOVE, the movement and militant separatist group famous for its violent stand-offs with the Philadelphia Police Department ("flames rose like orchids . . . blocks...
Publisher
TMW Media Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The Great Depression worsened financial struggles and unemployment for African Americans, who still faced racial segregation due to Jim Crow laws. The NAACP was established in 1909 to advocate for equal treatment under the law. In the 1930s, the NAACP worked with the Congress of Industrial Organizations to secure jobs for Black Americans and Eleanor Roosevelt helped outlaw job discrimination. Thurgood Marshall led NAACP's Legal Defense and Educational...
5) Track star
Author
Series
Miles Lewis volume 4
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Determined to be a top runner at his school's annual Fun Run, Miles creates a health regimen to boost his endurance, but on the big day, he notices a friend struggling to keep going, forcing Miles to decide what winning really means to him.
Series
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
This documentary follows the journey of Ronald Troy Collins, a gifted songwriter living on the streets of Skid Row, and the impact he makes on those who come to love him. A living example of redemption and what it means to transform oneself from rock bottom. MIGHTY GROUND was an Official Selection at the **LA Film Festival** and an Audience Favorite Award winner at the **Calgary International Film Festival**.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Sunny Behre has four siblings, but only one is a murderer. With the death of Sunny's mother, matriarch of the wealthy Behre family, Sunny's once picture-perfect life is thrown into turmoil. Her mother had groomed her to be the family's next leader, so Sunny is confused when the only instructions her mother leaves is a mysterious note: 'Take care of Dom.' The problem is, her youngest brother, Dom, has always been a near-stranger to Sunny...and seemingly...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kinisha Jordan has always been a socialite, treating society like her personal revolving door. She doesn't dwell on people that have no place in her life. She simply moves on, trying her best not to let it affect her. However, seeing her friends find happiness and love is starting to weigh on her. Lonely nights are beginning to take a toll on her, and she finds herself in an undesirable predicament. Things spiral out of control, and she starts to...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Love and loss aren't unfamiliar territory to Nyimah Deveraux. She's learned to live after losing the love of her life and found the courage to love again. The man she moves on with keeps her pockets lined but doesn't know how to love her correctly. Cree Baptiste is the head of the infamous Baptiste Crime Family. He has more riches and power than the average man, but he yearns for the right woman to take her place by his side. When fate aligns the...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In Black Elders, Frederick C. Knight explores the experiences of African Americans with aging and in old age during the eras of slavery and emancipation. Though slavery put a premium on young labor, elders worked as caregivers, domestics, cooks, or midwives and performed other tasks in the margins of Southern and Northern economies. Looking at black families, churches, mutual aid societies, and homes for the aged, Knight demonstrates the pivotal...
Author
Publisher
Lock Down Publications
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Robert, a motivational speaker, has been through the ringer in life and love. After going through the ups and downs of relationships, he's determined to become celibate. But carnal desires might be too powerful to ignore. HEAVEN is a nurse who has been used and abused much of her young life. When she runs away from her tortured past to start a new beginning those old skeletons follow her and threaten to destroy the new life she has built. By chance,...
Publisher
Amberjack Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"We are all familiar with tropes of the horror genre: slasher and victims, demon and the possessed. Bloody screams, haunted visions, and the peddler of wares we aren't sure we can trust. In this young adult horror anthology, fans of Jordan Peele, Lovecraft Country, and Horror Noire will get a little bit of everything they love--and a lot of what they fear--through a twisted blend of horror lenses, from the thoughtful to the terrifying. From haunted,...
13) King of the ice
Author
Series
Miles Lewis volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When his friend RJ bets that Miles will wipe out at the ice rink, he is determined to prove him wrong."--
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain.
15) Whiz kid
Author
Series
Miles Lewis volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When Miles teams up with his friends to enter a citywide science competition, his cousin Cam, who made it to regionals the year before, offers to help, but while everyone else is rocking the project, Miles feels like the weak link.
16) Dear yesteryear
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 2020, Kimberly Annece Henderson started Emaline and Them, an Instagram-based archival image repository that features portraiture of everyday African Americans from the late 1800s and early 1900s. Dear Yesteryear is a beautiful and lyrical continuation of that project that addresses the past, honoring the ancestors who made the present possible and celebrating the ordinary goings on of Black Americans."--
Author
Publisher
Plata
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
Español
Description
"Kiara Johnson no sabe lo que es tener la vida de una chica de diecisiete años normal. Con su madre en un hogar de transición tras salir de la cárcel y un hermano mayor que solo dedica su tiempo y su dinero a un estudio de grabación, tiene que valerse por sí misma; también intenta ayudar a Trevor, un crío de nueve años a cuya madre le da por desaparecer varios días seguidos cuando le viene en gana. Cuando el arrendador de su bloque de pisos...
Author
Language
English
Description
When the murder of his classmate at an elite boarding school seems to be forgotten overnight, seventeen-year-old Douglas must confront centuries of secrets in the school's past and a vengeful creature in the forest surrounding the campus.
Regent Academy has a long and storied history in Winslow, Vermont, as does the forest that surrounds it. The school is known for molding teens into leaders, but its history is far more nefarious. Then a student...
20) Matchmaker
Author
Series
Miles Lewis volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miles and his friend Jada both plan on inviting their grandparents to help in science class, and with Valentine's Day approaching, they realize Miles's Nana and Jada's Pop Pop might be a perfect match.
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