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African American authors African American men Fiction African American women Fiction African Americans Fiction African Americans Juvenile fiction American fiction African American authors American fiction Indian authors Canadian fiction Indian authors Ghost stories Los Angeles (Calif.) FictionMurray, Albert
Summary: "Albert Murray (1916-2013) was one of the most provocative and original American thinkers of the twentieth century, writing with equal grace and power as an essayist and novelist."--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURHill, Donna (Donna O.)
Summary: "Shielding herself from the world behind the safety of her camera lens, photographer Ayah Fleming is pulled into the past when she returns home and uncovers the truth about her family with the help of a man who makes her long for a brighter future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sideways, an imprint of Entangled Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILWilliams, Tia
Summary: "Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning literary author who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York. When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their past buried traumas, but the eyebrows of New York's Black literati. What no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILSummary: "Glory Edim launches her Well-Read Black Girl Library with this vital anthology celebrating stories from such luminaries as Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. Since founding the Well-Read Black Girl Book Club in 2015, Glory Edim's profile has skyrocketed. From her roots in a Brooklyn-based community to a massive online following, she has been heralded as the literary tastemaker for a new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ONBurke, Chesya.
Summary: Gritty and sublime, the stories of Let's Play White feature real people facing the worlds they're given, bringing out the best and the worst of what it means to be human. If you're ready to slip into someone else's skin for a while, then it's time to come play white.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Apex Publications 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURYoungblood, Shay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YOUOverstreet, Jason
Summary: For college graduate Sidney Temple, the Roaring Twenties bring opportunities even members of his accomplished black bourgeois family couldn’t have imagined. His impulsive marriage to independent artist Loretta is a happiness he never thought he’d find. And when he’s tapped by J. Edgar Hoover to be the FBI’s first African-American agent, he sees a once-in-a-lifetime chance to secure real...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Overstreet 2016Reynolds, Jason
Summary: A celebration of Langston Hughes and African American authors he inspired, told through the lens of the party held at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in 1991.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE REYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE REYBaptist, Kelly J.
Summary: "Spunky sixth-grader Zoe Sparks has discovered a unique way to get the laptop of her dreams--to win it! If Zoe can sell more tubs of cookie dough than anyone in her school, the laptop is hers. It's the first step to becoming a prize-winning journalist! But her win-at-all-costs attitude is starting to drive a wedge between Zoe, her best friend Felix, and her family. Zoe may be a top cookie-dough...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BAPJohnson, Charles
Summary: "A masterful story collection--thirteen years in the making--from National Book Award winner Charles Johnson, showcasing the incredible range and resonant voice of this American treasure"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHMcMillan, Terry.
Summary: A sequel to "Waiting to Exhale" picks up fifteen years later to find Savannah contemplating divorce, Bernadine succumbing to painkiller addiction after a second husband's swindle, Robin falling into shopaholism, and Gloria confronting profound change after a fateful event.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMFoster, Sharon Ewell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Multnomah Publishers 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOSJames, Marlon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMMosley, Walter.
Summary: Ptolemy Grey is a 91-year-old man, suffering from dementia and living as a recluse in his Los Angeles apartment. Then Robyn Small, a 17-year-old family friend, appears and helps clean up his apartment and straighten out his life. A reinvigorated Ptolemy volunteers for an experimental medical program that restores his mind, and he uses his last days--shortened now by the medical experiment--to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSMosley, Walter.
Summary: After serving nearly three decades in prison for his deadly crimes, Socrates returns to the streets of South Central L.A. to connect with old friends and encourage new ones to join him in his campaign to get to the heart of gang violence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Civitas 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSWhitehead, Colson
Summary: Benji, one of the only black kids at an elite prep school in Manhattan, tries desperately to fit in, but every summer, he and his brother, Reggie, escape to the East End of Sag Harbor, where a small community of African American professionals has built aworld of is own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHIMosley, Walter.
Summary: Tempest Landry, a quick-witted African American resident of Harlem, NY, is walking home when a case of mistaken identity leads to his being shot by police. He finds himself standing in line at the gates of heaven waiting to talk to Saint Peter, who reviews his past transgressions and finds him wanting. Tempest is denied entry into heaven and ordered to hell. Believing his "sins" justified and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Classic Press 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection of horror, fantasy, science fiction, and gritty crime by both new and established Indigenous authors that dares to ask the question: "Are you ready to be un-settled?" Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief ranges far and wide and takes many forms; for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Brinkley, Jamel
Summary: In the nine expansive, searching stories of A lucky man, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members and confront mistakes made in the past. An imaginative young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his group from day camp at a backyard pool in the suburbs, and faces the effects of power and privilege in ways he can barely grasp. A teen intent on proving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRIAnta, Julio
Summary: "As long as he remembers to stay smart and keep his eyes open, Mateo knows that he can survive the trek across the Sonoran Desert that will take him from Mexico to the United States. That is until he's caught by the Border Patrol only moments after sneaking across the fence in the dead of night. Escaping their clutches comes at a price and, lost in the desert without a guide or water, Mateo is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 ANTKendi, Ibram X.
Summary: Born to parents who fled slavery and the Trail of Tears, Magnolia Flower is a girl with a vibrant spirit. Not to be deterred by rigid ways of the world, she longs to connect with others, who too long for freedom. She finds this in a young man of letters who her father disapproves of. In her quest to be free, Magnolia must make a choice and set off on a journey that will prove just how brave one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas LLC] 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG KENSummary: In this first-ever anthology of Indigenous science fiction, Grace Dillon collects some examples of the craft, with contributions by Native American, First Nations, Aboriginal Australian, and New Zealand Maori authors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Arizona Press 2012
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALCha, Steph.
Summary: In the wake of the police shooting of a black teenager, Los Angeles is as tense as it's been since the unrest of the early 1990s. But Grace Park and Shawn Matthews have their own problems. Grace is sheltered and largely oblivious, living in the Valley with her Korean-immigrant parents, working long hours at the family pharmacy. She's distraught that her sister hasn't spoken to their mother in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHABrown, India Hill
Summary: When eleven-year-old Iris sneaks out at night to make snow angels, she was not expecting to raise the ghost of Avery Moore, a girl her own age; but bringing to light the segregated and abandoned black cemetery seems like the perfect way to help Avery get the recognition she craves, and it will also be a good idea for the school project about the history of her small North Carolina town, where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019