MzVee

Summary: "Inspired by her hit song "Natural Girl" and featuring charming watercolor illustrations, this joyful picture book from award-winning musician MzVee and debut illustrator Lisbeth Checo is an ode to young girls on their journey to self-empowerment, sisterhood, and embracing their natural selves. With a message that speaks to beauty inside and out, Natural Me invites readers to celebrate all the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MZV

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MZV

Raybon, Patricia

Summary: "Can an amateur detective solve the cold case mystery of her father's murder? In the winter of 1923, Professor Annalee Spain -- a daring but overworked theologian at a small Chicago Bible college -- receives a cryptic telegram calling her home to Denver to solve the mystery of the murder of her beloved but estranged father. For a young Black woman, searching for answers in a city ruled by the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC RAY

Guillory, Jasmine

Summary: Isabelle is completely lost. When she first began her career in publishing right out of college, she did not expect to be twenty-five, living at home, still an editorial assistant, and the only Black employee at her publishing house. Overworked and underpaid, constantly torn between speaking up or stifling herself, Izzy thinks there must be more to this publishing life. So when she overhears...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Avenue 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUI

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Guillory

Walker, David

Summary: "Monster-hunting has been the Sangerye family business for generations as they battle the jinoo - hideous creatures born out of hate and racism. But now the Sangeryes face a different threat -- the deadly inzondo, a new kind of monster born out of grief and trauma. With one of their own turning into an inzondo and an army of tortured souls on the attack in 1920s Harlem, the Sangerye family must...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BIT

Hall, Rachel Howzell

Summary: "Colette "Coco" Weber has relocated to her Catalina Island home, where, twenty years before, she was the sole survivor of a deadly home invasion. All Coco wants is to see her aunt Gwen, get as far away from her ex as possible, and get back to her craft -- writing obituaries. Thankfully, her college best friend, Maddy, owns the local paper and has a job sure to keep Coco busy, considering the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC HAL

Thomas, Angie

Summary: Starr a 16 ans, elle est noire et vit dans un quartier difficile, rythmé par les guerres de gangs, la drogue et les descentes de police. Tous les jours, elle rejoint son lycée blanc situé dans une banlieue chic; tous les jours, elle fait le grand écart entre ses deux vies, ses deux mondes. Mais tout vole en éclats le soir où son ami d'enfance Khalil est tué. Sous ses yeux, de trois balles dans...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Nathan 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD FRENCH THO