Tarpley, 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 TAR

Williams, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIL

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

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE MZV

Hall, Tamron

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 HAL
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Kyles, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CED

Elhillo, 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 ELH

Winston, Sherri

Summary: Seventh-grader Sharkita "Kita" embarks on a tumultuous journey to keep her family together while handling the consequences of her mother's alcoholism.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2024

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Stringfellow, 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 Adult, Call number: FIC STR

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Curry, 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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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN CUR

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

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUI

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Alston, 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 ALS

Koffi, Sara

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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Williams, Tia

Summary: Jenna Jones is broke and desperate for a second chance. When she's dumped by her longtime fiancé and fired from Darling magazine, she begs for a job at StyleZine.com from her old arch nemesis, Darcy Vale. But Jenny soon realizes she's in over her head. She's working with digital-savvy millennials half her age, has never even "Twittered," and pretends to still be a Fashion Somebody while living...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Brown Girls Books 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIL

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

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

Burch, 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 New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC BUR

Dameron, DéLana R. A.

Summary: ""Mika, you sit at our feet all these hours and days, hearing us tell our tales. You have all these stories inside you: all the stories everyone in our family knows and all the stories everyone in our family tells. You write 'em in your books and show everyone who we are." So begins DéLana R.A. Dameron's stunning novel-in-stories, Redwood Court. The baby of the family, Mika Mosby spends much of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2024

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC DAM

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Daise, Natalie

Summary: Papa has something special planned for tonight's family dinner--and Bobo can't wait! Excited to learn how to make okra stew like his ancestors, Bobo helps Papa pick veggies from the garden, catch shrimp from the creek, rain down rice in the pot, simmer the stew, and even make a tasty side of cornbread. When the stew begins to bubble and pop, Bobo and his family gather around for a mouthwatering...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DAI

Good Marable, Karen

Summary: On the first day of spring, a young New Yorker, with her mother and aunts, takes the train to the ocean to make an offering of flowers and fruit to Mama Ocean, thanking her for her magnificence, and welcoming the new year.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GOO

Nyoko, Mel

Summary: A Black mother replaces common misconceptions with empowering statements and lets her daughter know there are no limits to what she can achieve.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NYO

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Thurman, Brittany

Summary: Exploring the day-to-day life of a young Black child and her family, this lyrical picture book centers around Olivia, who, worrying about her father while he's at work, anxiously awaits his return, knowing that when he gets home, the evening will be full of love and fun.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THU

Agostini, 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 AGO