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Summary: His mother is a BLM activist. Mason Tyndall is an aspiring rap artist whose mother is a BLM activist. She saw fatal officer-involved shootings as senseless tragedies. He viewed them as trending hashtags--that is, until he almost became one. Mason Zy'Aire Tyndall has big dreams. Dreams of sick beats, epic mic-drops, sold out stadiums. Mason's going to be a rap star--and you don't become a rap...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Central Avenue Publishing 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC CARTarpley, Natasha Anastasia
Summary: Keyana's latest big idea is to have backyard movie soiree for all her relatives! When her twin cousins' fighting knocks over the projector movie night seems heading for disaster-- until Keyana comes up with an even better idea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TARLindo-Rice, Michelle
Summary: While working toward the grand opening of their Black-owned bookstore, four best friends are each told four little words that upend their lives, forcing them to lean on each other--and the books they love--to navigate the changes or risking losing the business and their friendships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LINWilliams, Sheila (Sheila J.)
Summary: Born in West Africa in the mid-eighteenth century, Maryam Prescilla Grace--a.k.a "Momma Grace" will live a long, wondrous life marked by hardship, oppression, opportunity, and love. Though she will be "gifted" various names, her birth name is known to her alone. Over the course of 100-plus years, she survives capture, enslavement by several property owners, the Atlantic crossing when she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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Summary: "Founded in the late 1800s by the son of Frederick Douglass, Highland Beach along the Chesapeake Bay is the oldest Black resort community in America. Inside this proud and secluded beach community of about 100 private homes is Olivia Jones’s legacy. But Oliva’s legacy comes with thorns—intertwined are secrets of her aunt’s death; a controlling grandmother who is determined to crush anyone or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Senna, Danzy
Summary: "A brilliant dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity-industrial complex Jane has high hopes her life is about to turn around. After years of living precariously, she, her painter husband, Lenny, and their two kids have landed a stint as house sitters in a friend's luxurious home high in the hills above Los Angeles, a gig that coincides magically with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2024
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Summary: Journalist Jordan Manning delves into the case of a mother in danger and uncovers a dangerous web of secrets that could lead right to the missing woman--or put Jordan in the crosshairs of her abductors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC HALElhillo, Safia
Summary: "Samira is determined to have a perfect summer filled with fun parties, exploring DC, and growing as a poet--until a scandalous rumor has her grounded and unable to leave her house. When Samira turns to a poetry forum for solace, she catches the eye of an older, charismatic poet named Horus. For the first time, Samira feels wanted. But soon she's keeping a bigger secret than ever before--one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Make Me A World 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ELHAlston, Bria
Summary: Meet Claudie Wells. She is 9 years old and is surrounded by artists, writers, dancers, and the culture of the Harlem Renaissance during 1922. Everyone seems to be good at something, but Claudie can't find her special talent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE ALSAgostini, Alliah L.
Summary: Shane, a boy with big dancing dreams, learns the meaning of courage and community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE AGOMorris, Wanda M. (Wanda Michelle)
Summary: Returning to her childhood home in Georgia, Deena Wood, when a landowner fighting to keep his family's land, dating back to the Civil War, disappears, and his property is quickly put up for sale, exposes a deadly scheme of illegal land grabs and property redevelopment that threatens her community and family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC MORBurch, Ciera
Summary: Jericka Walker had planned to spend the summer before senior year soaking up the sun with her best friend on the Jersey Shore. Instead she finds herself in Coldwater, Maryland, a small town with a dark and complicated past where her estranged grandmother lives--someone she knows only two things about: her name and the fact that she left Jericka's mother and uncle when they were children. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BURStringfellow, Tara M.
Summary: "In the summer of 1995, ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father's violence to the only place they have left: her mother's ancestral home in Memphis. Half a century ago, Joan's grandfather built this majestic house for her grandmother--only to be lynched, days after becoming the first Black detective in Memphis, by his all-white police squad. This wasn't the first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2022
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEAddison, Esme
Summary: Thirty-year-old Black woman Camille Fitzsimons is a talented early American history professor, working in fast-paced Washington DC, with her eyes on promotion. She's also currently persona non grata. Who knew that making an inconvenient historical discovery would see her stuck at her desk, shuffling paper? So when she receives an anonymous and very cryptic invitation to visit historic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ADDCurry, Parker
Summary: With a little help from her mom, Parker tries to turn a bad day into a good one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2023
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Summary: "After losing her child and seeing the world as an increasingly dangerous place, a young Black woman from Boston decides to construct a separate society at an abandoned restaurant in Western Massachusetts. She locates a benefactor and soon it all begins to take shape, but it doesn't take long for problems to develop"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUMPayne, Nikki
Summary: "Two sisters roll up their sleeves to run a dilapidated beach-town inn but must learn to work with the current tenants in this deliciously spicy reimagining of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility by Nikki Payne. Nora needs a reinvention fast. But where can you go when the entire Internet knows your face? (And ass... but Nora tries not to talk about that.) After discovering at her father's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PAYTripplett, Natasha
Summary: "This book is an ode to the history of the Black community in the United States, a tribute to Black joy, and a portrait of familial love"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE TRIBaldacci, David
Summary: "When two wealthy white landowners are found dead, the whole country immediately thinks it must be Jerome Washington, the hired help, who killed them. He was standing over the bodies when the police responded to an anonymous call and the only one on the property at the time of death. As far as the state is concerned, it's an open and shut case. Jack Lee, born and raised in Freeman County, knows...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2024
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Summary: "After her best friend's mysterious death, Elizabeth Smith's picture-perfect life in the Memphis suburbs has spiraled out of control-so much so that she hires a personal assistant to keep her on track. Composed and elegant, Brianna is exactly who she needs and slides so neatly into Elizabeth's life, almost like she belonged there from the start. Soon, the assistant Elizabeth hired to distract...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEKann, Claire
Summary: "Joy is in love with Malcolm. Malcolm wants to date Summer. Summer is in love with love. And Fox is Summer's ex-boyfriend. Thirty, flirty, and asexual, Joy is secretly in love with her best friend, Malcolm, but she's never been brave enough to say so. When he unexpectedly announces that he's met the love of his life-and no, it's not Joy-she's heartbroken. Malcolm invites her on a weekend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KANKyles, Cedric
Summary: "Cedric The Entertainer's debut novel Flipping Boxcars is a valentine to close-knit black families and tightly woven communities during the Depression and World War II. The story is also an homage to Cedric's grandfather, who in this tale emerges as Babe. He is a charismatic and widely loved man. He is also a gambler, whose gift of gab often gets him out of tricky situations, which is often....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2023
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Summary: To her countless Instagram followers Josephine Boateng is the dazzling Dr. Jojo, and her opinions on health, growth, and self-love matter. Her message: be smart (she has a medical degree after all), be significant, and do not put up with foolish men. But behind the camera, Jo's story is more complicated, she finds her influencer career underwhelming; her potential career in medicine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: This is the Spanish text edition of the New York Times best selling novel, "The Secret Life of Bees". It is a beautifully written, coming of age story, set in rural South Carolina in 1964 against the back drop of the civil rights movement. It is the touching story of a young white girl, fourteen year old Lily Owens, whose mother died in a tragic accident when Lily was about four. Lily lives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2005