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African American Fiction October 2019
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A prince on paper
by Alyssa Cole
Forced into a pretend engagement with real-life celebrity prince Johan von Braustein, whom she loves to hate, Nya Jerami starts falling for him and wonders if they are destined for their own happily ever after. (romance).
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The world doesn't require you : stories
by Rion Amilcar Scott
This collection of short stories, set in fictional Cross River, Maryland, includes the tales of a struggling musician who is God’s last son and a Ph.D. candidate whose dissertation about a childhood game sparks a riot in a once-segregated town.
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Black card : a novel
by Chris L Terry
The award-winning author of Zero Fade presents a darkly comedic exploration of American identity that follows the misadventures of a mixed-race punk rock musician who, in his attempt to prove his cultural worthiness, becomes implicated in a violent crime.
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Red at the bone
by Jacqueline Woodson
As Melody celebrates a coming of age ceremony at her grandparents’ house in 2001 Brooklyn, her family remembers 1985, when Melody’s own mother prepared for a similar party that never took place in this novel about different social classes. (general fiction). (This book was listed in a previous issue of Forecast.)
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