Summary: A collection of fifteen horror stories centering on Black girls who battle monsters, both human and supernatural, face down death, and survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLABrinkley, Jamel
Summary: In these ten stories, each set in the changing landscapes of contemporary New York City, a range of characters--from children to grandmothers to ghosts--live through the responsibility of perceiving and the moral challenge of speaking up or taking action. Though they strive to connect, to remember, to stand up for, and to really see each other, they often fall short, and the structures they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRIMosley, Walter
Summary: "Bestselling author Walter Mosley has proven himself a master of narrative tension, both with his extraordinary fiction and gripping writing for television. The Awkward Black Man collects seventeen of Mosley's most accomplished short stories to display the full range of his remarkable talent. Mosley presents distinct characters as they struggle to move through the world in each of these stories...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2020
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Summary: "A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-century African American literature. A remarkable talent far ahead of her time, Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of twenty-two, leaving behind these crisply told and often chilling tales that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OLIWatkins, LaToya
Summary: "In Holler, Child's eleven brilliant stories, LaToya Watkins presses at the bruises of guilt, love, and circumstance. Each story introduces us to a character irrevocably shaped by place and reaching toward something-hope, reconciliation, freedom. In 'Cutting Horse,' the appearance of a horse in a man's suburban backyard places a former horse breeder in trouble with the police. In 'Holler,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiny Reparations Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATSummary: "We are all familiar with tropes of the horror genre: slasher and victims, demon and the possessed. Bloody screams, haunted visions, and the peddler of wares we aren't sure we can trust. In this young adult horror anthology, fans of Jordan Peele, Lovecraft Country, and Horror Noire will get a little bit of everything they love--and a lot of what they fear--through a twisted blend of horror...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amberjack Publishing 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALLWideman, John Edgar
Summary: In his sixth story collection, John Edgar Wideman continues exploring themes of family, loss, the penal system, Pittsburgh, physical and emotional life, and memory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIDHurston, Zora Neale
Summary: In 1925, Zora Neale Hurston was living in New York as a fledgling writer. This collection of stories, found in archives after her death, reveal African American folk culture in Harlem in the 1920s. This book includes eight of Hurston's "lost" Harlem gems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HURHubbard, Ladee
Summary: A collection of short stories captures powerful and poignant moments in everyday lives of African American families, friends, and neighbors in the years spanning from the beginning of the Clinton presidency to the eve of Barack Obama's election.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 35, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUBWideman, John Edgar
Summary: Fifty-seven short stories drawn from past collections celebrate the lifelong significance of this major American writer's essential contribution to a form-illuminating the ways that he has made it his own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIDHamilton, Virginia
Summary: "Rediscover America's most honored writer of children's literature in this deluxe collector's edition of her finest work: five classic novels about African American young people confronting the world and its many challenges. Playing out themes of memory, folklore, and tradition in enthralling, often wildly inventive stories, Virginia Hamilton transformed American children's literature in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America Young Readers 2021