#paperback #williamfredrickcooper #theresalwaysareason #africanamerican #sequel Sequel to Six Days in January 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Louisiana

This deeply emotional sequel to William Fredrick Cooper's wildly acclaimed debut novel, Six Days in January, is a powerful, heartfelt tale that will resonate with readers everywhere.

In Six Days in January, William Fredrick Cooper shed light on the insecurities and fears of African American men through the experiences of his enigmatic protagonist William McCall. As There's Always a Reason opens, William has experienced another emotional heartbreak at the hands of a woman. When he loses his job, too, William finds himself battling just to survive. Then he meets Linda Woodson, who begins to restore his faith in all areas of life, illustrating through example that a woman of enormous strength can teach a man the true meaning of love. There's Always a Reason is an uplifting and emotional journey into the complex workings of the human heart and its ability to triumph over despair.

There's Always a Reason

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

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 #women #love #romance #blackwomen

Maryland

What Matters Most 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

Bertice Berry follows her finely pitchedBlackboardbestselling debut novel,Redemption Song, with a mesmerizing cautionary tale about urban hip hop culture. In ancient West Africa, the drum was more than a musical instrument, it was a vehicle of communication-it conveyed information, told stories, and passed on the wisdom of generations. The magic of the drum remains alive in Africa today, and with her magnificent second novel, Berry brings those powerful beats to the streets of Harlem. Harry "Freedom" Hudson is the hottest hip-hop producer in New York City, earning unbelievable fees for his tunes and the innovative sound that puts his artists on the top of the charts. Harry is used to getting what he wants, so when he's irresistibly drawn to a house in Harlem, he assumes he'll be moving in as soon as the papers can be drawn up. The house, after all, has been abandoned for years. Or has it? Rumors are rife in the neighborhood that the house is haunted; that mysterious music, shouts, and sobbing can be heard late at night. Ava, Harry's strong-willed, no-nonsense agent, dismisses it all as "old folks" tales-until she opens the door and finds an eerie, silent group of black people, young and old, all gathered around a man holding an ancient African drum. They are waiting for Harry and bear a warning that touches his very soul: "We gave the drum back to your generation in the form of rap, but it's being used to send the wrong message." The Haunting of Hip Hopis a reminder of the importance of honoring the past as a means of moving safely and firmly into the future. It is sure to raise eyebrows and stir up controversy about the impact, good and bad, of rap culture.

The Haunting of Hip Hop

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

Georgia

A Novel

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

Sing, Unburied, Sing

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#sparknotes #studyguide #classics #americanclassic #africanamerican 

Texas

Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes books contain complete plot summaries and analyses, key facts about the featured work, analysis of the major characters, suggested essay topics, themes, motifs, and symbols, and explanations of important quotations.

A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine A. Hansberry

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#hardcover #africanamerican #fiction #novel 

New York

An anonymous observer narrates the moving tale of spirited ten-year-old Billy Lee, a black boy who is convicted and executed for the murder of a white girl in Banes, Mississippi, in the 1930s. A first novel. 15,000 first printing.

Billy

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#paperback #nonfiction #africanamerican #history 

Searing Memoir of Battle to Integrate Little Rock

Recounts the events as remembered by one of the first nine Black students

Warriors Don't Cry

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#hardcover #fiction #youngadult #africanamerican #relationships #contemporary #race #magicalrealism

#nonfiction #family #relationships #hardcover #AfricanAmerican

Three Young Men Learn to Forgive and Reconnect with their Fathers

The Bond

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#africanamerican #romance #music #contemporary #rockandrollandromance 

Florida

A Story of Love, Loss, and Rock-And-roll

Her name's Antonia "Toni" Bennette (yeah, she's heard all the jokes before) and she's not a rock star. Neither are the Lillys--not yet. But the difference between being famous and being almost famous can be a single wrong note...or the start of something that'll change your life forever. Growing up in dive bars up and down the East Coast, Toni Bennette's guitar was her only companion...until she met Sebastian Quick. Seb was a little older, a lot wiser, and before long he was Toni's way out, promising they'd escape their stifling small town together. Then Seb turned eighteen and split without looking back. Now, Toni's all grown up and making a name for herself in Philadelphia's indie scene. When a friend suggests she try out for a hot new up-and-coming band, Toni decides to take a chance. Strong, feminist, and fierce as fire, Toni B. and the Lillys are the perfect match...except Seb's now moonlighting as their manager. Whatever. Toni can handle it. No problem. Or it wouldn't be if Seb didn't still hold a piece of her heart...not to mention the key to her future.

The Girl with Stars in Her Eyes

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#hardcover #fiction #youngadult #awardwinningauthor #africanamerican #botm 

#paperback #africanamerican #comingofage #fiction #historical #literaryfiction #southern #ya 





"The most powerful and also the most lyrical novel about race, racism, and denial in the American South since To Kill a Mockingbird."

-- Lee Smith, author of On Agate Hill

"Exquisitely beautiful... The novel grips the reader from its first page and relentlessly drives us to its conclusion."

-- William Ferris, author of Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues

An atmospheric debut novel about growing up in the changing South in 1960s Mississippi in the tradition of Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees and Kathryn Stockett's The Help. In the words of Jill McCorkle (Going Away Shoes), "Minrose Gwin is an extremely gifted writer and The Queen of Palmyra is a brilliant and compelling novel."

The Queen of Palmyra

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

#hardcover #nonfiction #race #africanamerican

Looks at the issues facing African Americans, including the new Black conservatism, Black-Jewish relations, discrimination, racial sterotypes, and despair

Race Matters

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#hardcover #fiction #historicalfiction #historical #conjurewomen #africanamerican #historicalficition 

Pennsylvania

"Conjure Women is a sweeping story that brings the world of the South before and after the Civil War vividly to life. Spanning eras and generations, it tells of the lives of three unforgettable women: Miss May Belle, a wise healing woman; her precocious and observant daughter Rue, who is reluctant to follow in her mother's footsteps as a midwife; and their master's daughter Varina. The secrets and bonds among these women and their community come to a head at the beginning of a war and at the birth of an accursed child, who sets the townspeople alight with fear and a spreading superstition that threatens their newly won, tenuous freedom."--Publisher's description.

Conjure Women

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Ex-library copy #hardcover #africanamerican #history #nonfiction #ww2 #civilrights

All-Black Combat Squadrons of World War II

"Sandler does a fine job of emphasizing the unjustness of the segregation policy as well as the excellence of the men who flew in segregated skies. He provides a good look at this lesser known aspect of (World War II).--"Retired Officer". 38 photos.

Segregated Skies

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#hardcover #memoir #nonfiction #theyellowhouse #neworleans #heartfelt #africanamerican #race #bookclub #history

A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East.

The Yellow House

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A Parable of American Healing

"One of the nation's most prominent civil rights leaders" (Washington Post), a New York Times bestselling author, community organizer, investigative journalist, Ivy League professor, and former head of the NAACP, Ben Jealous draws from a life lived on America's racial fault line to deliver a series of gripping and lively parables that call on each of us to reconcile, heal, and work fearlessly to make America one nation.

Never Forget Our People Were Always Free illuminates for each of us how the path to healing America's broken heart starts with each of us having the courage to heal our own.The son of parents who had to leave Maryland because their cross-racial marriage was illegal, Ben Jealous' lively, courageous and empathetic storytelling calls on every American to look past deeply-cut divisions and recognize we are all in the same boat now. Along the way Jealous grapples with hidden American mysteries, including:

 * Why do white men die from suicide more often than black men die from murder?
 * How did racial profiling kill an American president?
 * What happens when a Ku Klux Klansman wrestles with what Jesus actually said? 
 * How did Dave Chappelle know the DC Snipers were Black? 
 * Why shouldn't the civil rights movement give up on rednecks?
 * When is what we have collectively forgotten about race more important than what we actually know?
 * What do the most indecipherable things our elders say tell us about ourselves?

 Told as a series of parables, Never Forget Our People Were Always Free features intimate glimpses of political, and faith leaders as different as Jack Kemp, Stacey Abrams, and the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu and heroes as unlikely as a retired constable, a female pirate from Madagascar, a long lost Irishman, a death row inmate, and a man with a confederate flag over his heart.

More than anything, Never Forget Our People Were Always Free offers readers hope America's oldest wounds can heal and her oldest divisions be overcome.

Never Forget Our People Were Always Free

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The life and times of Hot Johnny are seen through the eyes of the women who loved him, including Peaches, the prostitute who names him; his college soulmate Tree; Etta, the older woman who teaches him about love; and Destiny, his young wife.

Hot Johnny (And the Women Who Loved Him)

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Illinois

A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together

The co-author relates how he was held under plantation-style slavery until he fled in the 1960s and suffered homelessness for an additional eighteen years before the wife of the other co-author, an art dealer accustomed to privilege, intervened.

Same Kind of Different as Me

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Beloved

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One Name, Two Fates

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The "compassionate" (People), "startling" (Baltimore Sun), "moving" (Chicago Tribune) true story of two kids with the same name from the city: One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. 
 
In development as a feature film executive produced by Stephen Curry, who selected the book as his "Underrated" Book Club Pick with Literati

The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.

In December 2000, the Baltimore Sun ran a small piece about Wes Moore, a local student who had just received a Rhodes Scholarship. The same paper also ran a series of articles about four young men who had allegedly killed a police officer in a spectacularly botched armed robbery. The police were still hunting for two of the suspects who had gone on the lam, a pair of brothers. One was named Wes Moore. 

Wes just couldn't shake off the unsettling coincidence, or the inkling that the two shared much more than space in the same newspaper. After following the story of the robbery, the manhunt, and the trial to its conclusion, he wrote a letter to the other Wes, now a convicted murderer serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. His letter tentatively asked the questions that had been haunting him: Who are you? How did this happen?

That letter led to a correspondence and relationship that have lasted for several years. Over dozens of letters and prison visits, Wes discovered that the other Wes had had a life not unlike his own: Both had had difficult childhoods, both were fatherless; they'd hung out on similar corners with similar crews, and both had run into trouble with the police. At each stage of their young lives they had come across similar moments of decision, yet their choices would lead them to astonishingly different destinies.

Told in alternating dramatic narratives that take readers from heart-wrenching losses to moments of surprising redemption, The Other Wes Moore tells the story of a generation of boys trying to find their way in a hostile world.

William Fredrick Cooper

There's Always a Reason

Kwame Alexander

The Crossover

Francine Craft

What Matters Most

Bertice Berry

The Haunting of Hip Hop

Jesmyn Ward

Sing, Unburied, Sing

SparkNotes

A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine A. Hansberry

Albert L. French

Billy

Melba Pattillo Beals

Warriors Don't Cry

Jesmyn Ward

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt, George Jenkins

The Bond

Xio Axelrod

The Girl with Stars in Her Eyes

Jesmyn Ward

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Minrose Gwin

The Queen of Palmyra

Jesmyn Ward

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Cornel West (Editor)

Race Matters

Afia Atakora

Conjure Women

Stanley Sandler

Segregated Skies

Sarah M. Broom

The Yellow House

Benjamin Todd Jealous

Never Forget Our People Were Always Free

Afia Atakora

Conjure Women

Sandra Jackson Opoku

Hot Johnny (And the Women Who Loved Him)

Ron Hall; Denver Moore; Lynn Vincent (As told to)

Same Kind of Different as Me

Toni Morrison

Beloved

Wes Moore

The Other Wes Moore