#hardcover #ya #paperback #contemporary #fiction #lgbtq #africanamerican #poetry 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Iowa

A thrilling, heartbreaking page-turner, Nothing Burns as Bright as You is an impassioned tale of queer love, grief, and the complexity of female friendship from New York Times best-selling author Ashley Woodfolk.

Nothing Burns As Bright As You

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#hardcover #africanamerican #familytradition #johnransome 

Ohio

Sunday afternoons are special for Sarah and Susan because that's when they visit Aunt Flossie -- she has a memorable collection of hats, each with a special story.

Aunt Flossie's Hats (and Crab Cakes Later)

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#summeronthebluffs #romance #family #sisters#paperback #paperback #summer #africanamerican #families #fiction #marthasvineyard #women 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Washington

A Novel

New York Times Bestseller!

The View cohost and New York Times bestselling author Sunny Hostin dazzles with this brilliant novel about a life-changing summer along the beaches of Martha's Vineyard.

Welcome to Oak Bluffs, the most exclusive Black beach community in the country. Known for its gingerbread Victorian-style houses and modern architectural marvels, this picturesque town hugging the sea is a mecca for the crème de la crème of Black society--where Michelle and Barack Obama vacation and Meghan Markle has shopped for a house for her mom. Black people have lived in this pretty slip of the Vineyard since the 1600s and began buying property in the 1800s, making this posh town the embodiment of "old money."

Thirty years ago, Amelia Vaux Tanner and her husband built a house high on the bluffs, a cottage they named Chateau Laveau. For decades, "Ama" played host to American presidents, Wall Street titans, and cultural icons. But her favorite guests have always been her three "goddaughters:" Esperanza "Perry" Soto, a beautiful, talented Afro-Latina lawyer with Ama's strong, yet guarded personality; Olivia Jones, a gifted Wall Street analyst with Ama's brilliant, logical mind; and Billie Hayden, a gifted marine biologist and rule-breaker with Ama's courageous free spirit.

Growing up, these three goddaughters from different backgrounds came together each summer at Chateau Laveau. As adults, the cottage is a place this trio of successful yet very different women go to escape, to slow down from their hectic lives, share private time with Ama, and enjoy the gorgeous weather, cool water, and stunning views Oak Bluffs offers. 

This summer on the Bluffs, however, will be different. An era is ending: Ama, now nearing seventy-one, is moving to the south of France to reunite with her college sweetheart. She has invited Perry, Olivia, and Billie to spend one last golden summer together with her the way they did when they were kids. And when fall comes, she is going to give the house to one of them.

Each of the women wants the house desperately. Each is grappling with a secret she fears will hurt her and her chances. By the end of summer, old ties will fray, new bonds will be created, and these three found sisters will discover they aren't the only ones with something to hide. Ama has a few secrets of her own. What she has to give them is far more than property. Between Memorial Day and Labor Day, she will tell these surrogate daughters she fiercely loves and protects everything they never knew they needed to know.

Summer on the Bluffs

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#hardcover #fiction #detective #africanamerican #truestoryinspired #mississippi 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Georgia

The Secret of Magic

#hardcover #africanamerican #mlk #martinlutherkingjr #americanhistory

Indiana

Includes 120 excerpts from speeches, sermons, and writings, and chronology.

The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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#hardcover #romance #love #drama #africanamerican#blackromance

Florida

In Another Man’s Bed 

#hardcover #fiction #historicalfiction #brooklyn #africanamerican #

Another Brooklyn (ADVANCE READING BOOK)

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From the author whose first novel was crowned as an impressive debut' by none other than Eric Jerome Dickey, comes a sizzling sequel to his Blackboard best-seller A Man Most Worthy. Reunited in a lively and poignant new story, the much beloved Moore clan are back again - Myles and Marisa are celebrating their recent marriage, while Kenya and Amir have their hands full with a difficult seven-year-old. Jasmine, Myles and Amir's teenage cousin, is rocking the family boat. ..until a stunning and explosive secret comes to light from the older generation of the family...'

A Family Affair 

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#hardcover #youngmaninamerica #reynolds #africanamerican

Kentucky

When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints.

All American Boys

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#hardcover #africanamerican #blm #blackhistory #generationaltrauma

New York

The Louis Till File

Wideman "traces the life of the father of iconic civil rights martyr Emmett Till--a man who was executed by the Army ten years before Emmett's murder--presenting an ... exploration of individual and collective memory in America by one of the most formidable black intellectuals of our time"--Amazon.com.

Writing to Save a Life

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#historical #hardcover #historicalfiction #africanamerican 

Michigan

The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia, 1859

A Picture of Freedom

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#fiction #africanamericanwomen #zinziclemmons #africanamerican #comingofage #loss #love #hardcover 

Pennsylvania

a novel

What we lose

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#hardcover #fiction #africanamerican #crossover #kwamealexander #newberry #ya #youngadult 

West Virginia

A middle-grade novel in verse follows the experiences of twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan, who struggle with challenges on and off the court while their father ignores his declining health. 20,000 first printing.

The Crossover

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#hardcover #africanamerican #storytime #exlibrarycopy

A Game

Sophie lives with Mama and Daddy and Grandpa, who spends his days by the window. Every day after school, it's Grandpa whom Sophie runs to.

"Here I am, Grandpa!"
"Ah, Sophie, how was your day?"

As Sophie and her grandpa talk, he asks her to find items he's "lost" throughout the day, guiding Sophie on a tour through his daily life and connecting their generations in this sweet, playful picture book from Richard Jackson, illustrated by Caldecott Medalist and Laura Ingalls Wilder Award winner Jerry Pinkney.

In Plain Sight

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Texas

Learning that a company plans to dig up the area where her mother is buried, supposedly with a cache of jewels, Billy Beede, poor and pregnant, heads for Arizona to rescue her mother's body and search for the jewels that could bring her a new life.

Getting Mother's Body

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#hardcover #nonfiction #baseball #williemays #halloffame #africanamerican #history #legend #athletes #sports

The Life, the Legend

In a biography authorized by the baseball great himself, the best-selling author of Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter offers a gripping account of Willie Mays's life, drawn from interviews with the icon, as well as friends, family members and teammates.

Willie Mays

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#hardcover #fiction #romance #africanamerican #womenslit  364 pages

The perfect wife and mother of three grown children, Marilyn Grimes copes with the problems of midlife as she struggles to recall some of her own postponed dreams and reinvent her marriage, friendships, family, and herself.

The Interruption of Everything

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#hardcover #fiction #youngadult #awardwinningauthor #africanamerican #botm #africanamericans #relationships 

"A searing and profound Southern odyssey through Mississippi's past and present"--

Sing, Unburied, Sing

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#youngadult #fiction #hardcover #pride #retelling #prejudice #africanamerican #representation #retellings #youngadultfiction

South Carolina

Pride

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#fiction #paperback #slavery #heritage #literaryfiction #africanamerican

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, The Known World is a daring and ambitious work by Pulitzer Prize winner Edward P. Jones. The Known World tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia. Making certain he never circumvents the law, Townsend runs his affairs with unusual discipline. But when death takes him unexpectedly, his widow, Caldonia, can't uphold the estate's order, and chaos ensues. Jones has woven a footnote of history into an epic that takes an unflinching look at slavery in all its moral complexities.

The Known World

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School library copy. Has school stamps inside on various pages. #hardcover #Christmas #africanamerican #santa #youngadult #ya 

A Novel of Christmas Present and Past

Long, long ago Santa Claus had an African partner named Pete, who helped with the holiday rounds. Together the friends brought the spirit of Christmas to America's first settlers and shaped future celebrations of the holiday. But through the years Pete's contribution was forgotten.

Now "Santa & Pete" restores the legacy in a delightful story of hope and racial harmony as a grandfather passes the tale on to his grandson during the course of a snowy bus ride.

Santa and Pete

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Ten People Who Shaped History

Every year, American schoolchildren celebrate Black History Month. They study almost exclusively American stories, which are not only rooted in struggle over enslavement or oppression, but also take in only four hundred years of a rich and thrilling history that goes back many millennia across the African continent. Through portraits of ten historical figures - from Menes, the first ruler to be called Pharaoh, to Queen Idia, a sixteenth-century power broker, visionary, and diplomat - African Iconstakes readers on a journey across Africa to meet some of the great leaders and thinkers whose ideas built a continent and shaped our world.

African Icons

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Novel  Zane Presents

Daddy By Default 

Arkansas

Socrates Fortlow, an ex-convict forced to define his own morality in a lawless world, confronts wrongs that most people would rather ignore and comes face-to-face with the most dangerous emotion: hope. It has been nine years since his release from prison, and he still makes his home in a two-room shack in a Watts alley. But he has a girlfriend now, a steady job, and he is even caring for a pet, the two-legged dog he calls Killer. These responsibilities make finding the right path even harder - especially when the police make Socrates their first suspect in every crime within six blocks.--BOOK JACKET. "In each chapter of Walkin' the Dog, Socrates challenges a different conundrum of modern life. In "Blue Lightning, " he is offered a better-paying job but has to consider whether the extra pay is worth the freedom he would have to give up. In "Promise, " he keeps a vow made long ago to a dying friend, and learns that a promise to one person can mean damage to another. In "Mookie Kid, " he gets a telephone and,learns that the price of being able to reach others is that others can contact him - whether he wants to be reached or not."--BOOK JACKET. "Walkin' the Dog builds to a stunning climax as Socrates takes on a rogue cop who has terrorized his neighborhood."--BOOK JACKET.

Ashley Woodfolk

Nothing Burns As Bright As You

Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard; James E. Ransome (Illustrator)

Aunt Flossie's Hats (and Crab Cakes Later)

Sunny Hostin

Summer on the Bluffs

Deborah Johnson

The Secret of Magic

Coretta Scott King; Martin Luther King

The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Francis Ray

In Another Man’s Bed

Jacqueline Woodson

Another Brooklyn (ADVANCE READING BOOK)

Marcus Major

A Family Affair

Jason Reynolds; Brendan Kiely

All American Boys

John Edgar Wideman

Writing to Save a Life

Patricia C. McKissack

A Picture of Freedom

Zinzi Clemmons

What we lose

Kwame Alexander

The Crossover

Richard Jackson; Jerry Pinkney (Illustrator)

In Plain Sight

Suzan-Lori Parks

Getting Mother's Body

James S. Hirsch

Willie Mays

Terry McMillan

The Interruption of Everything

Jesmyn Ward

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Ibi Aanu Zoboi

Pride

Edward P. Jones

The Known World

Christopher Paul Moore; Pamela Johnson

Santa and Pete

Tracey Baptiste

African Icons

Pat Tucker

Daddy By Default

Walter Mosley

Walkin' the Dog