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African American Newsletter June 2018
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A Sister's Secret
by Cydney Rax
After their mother’s death, five sisters—Burgundy, Elyse, Coco, Drucilla and Alita—meet twice a month to bond, vent, cope and tell each other some hard truths, but when Elyse reveals something that shatters Burgundy’s perfect world beyond repair, the sisters must come together to help her pick up the pieces.
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An Honorable Seduction
by Brenda Jackson
This navy SEAL is on a top-secret mission of seduction… David Holloway is used to hard assignments. Now he faces his most difficult yet: cozying up to the soft curves of Swan Jamison. He wants to know the island beauty…in every way. But romancing Swan as part of his SEAL team’s mission tests his honor, even as his feelings become increasingly real. Soon he must make a choice: duty…or desire?
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Back to Life: Love After Heartbreak
by Shantae
Talented author Dakota Bibbs has deemed herself unlucky in love. After ending a tumultuous five-year relationship, Dakota has decided to focus on herself and her blossoming business for the time being. Love will just have to wait.
Then on cue, Giannis Williams enters her life. A boss in his own right, Giannis possesses just the right amount of hood, a double dose of sexy, and a dash of crazy.
Breelyn Waiters seems to have found herself in the same boat as her cousin Dakota, she has weaned herself off her most painful addiction—David Parrish. DeMario Taylor is proof positive that David is no longer the only man Breelyn’s heart will beat for.
Watching over Dakota and Breelyn is Elijah ‘Rah’ Waiters, a complicated man with a demeanor only those close to him can understand. He will tolerate a lot, but coming for his family isn’t one of them. He contemplates letting love in for the first time, but something is holding him back.
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Broken Together
by K. L. Gilchrist
Tracey Jones life is picture-perfect––she's crazy in love with her attractive doctor husband and her only job is raising two healthy children in their stunning suburban home. But looks can be deceiving. When Tracey discovers her husband's involvement with a young nurse at his private practice, it becomes a challenge to hold together a household falling apart. As the full extent of Dr. Jones secrets come to light, a series of events leads Tracey to do the unthinkable. But in order to heal and start over, Tracey must face a painful past that forces her to offer grace and empathy to someone who may need it even more than she does.
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Everybody's Son
by Thrity N Umrigar
A lawman struggles to come to terms with the moral fallout of crimes committed by his loved ones when he learns that he was wrongly taken from his biological mother and that his grieving foster father exploited their family's influence to retain custody.
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Mem
by Bethany C. Morrow
Set in the glittering art deco world of a century ago, MEM makes one slight alteration to history: a scientist in Montreal discovers a method allowing people to have their memories extracted from their minds, whole and complete. The Mems exist as mirror-images of their source ― zombie-like creatures destined to experience that singular memory over and over, until they expire in the cavernous Vault where they are kept. And then there is Dolores Extract #1, the first Mem capable of creating her own memories. An ageless beauty shrouded in mystery, she is allowed to live on her own, and create her own existence, until one day she is summoned back to the Vault. What happens next is a gorgeously rendered, heart-breaking novel in the vein of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go.
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Memoirs of An Accidental Hustler
by J. M. Benjamin
Follows Kamil from his childhood to adult life as makes a pact with his friends to stay in school and off the streets, has his childhood crush develop into something more, and vows to avoid the mistakes of his father.
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Fiction by African Authors
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Evening Primrose
by Kopano Matlwa
"Compelling and heart-wrenching, Evening Primrose explores issues of race, poverty, and gender in post-apartheid South Africa through the eyes of a junior doctor... When Masechaba finally achieves her childhood dream of becoming a doctor, her ambition istested as she faces the stark reality of South Africa's public health care system. As she leaves her deeply religious mother and makes friends with the politically-minded Nyasha, Masechaba's eyes are opened to the rising xenophobic tension that carries echoes of apartheid. Battling her inner demons, she must decide if she should take a stand to help her best friend, even if it comes at a high personal cost. A powerfully insightful novel from "South Africa's Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie" (The Bookseller), Evening Primrose explores issues of race, gender, and the medical profession with tenderness and urgency"
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Welcome to Lagos: A Novel
by Chibundu Onuzo
“Chike Ameobi may be an army officer in Nigeria but he doesn’t take orders from just anyone. When he’s commanded to take innocent lives, he sets off to Lagos where he gets involved in the midst a new scandal with a new group of misfits, all destined to make a change.” ―Parade
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Minority Leader: How to Lead From the Outside and Make Real Change
by Stacey Abrams
A guide to harnessing the strengths of being an outsider by the political activist slated to become America's first black-woman governor shares the story of her own humble origins and rise through educational and political arenas, counseling women of color on how to overcome self-sabotaging beliefs while highlighting the strengths of their differences to gain a competitive edge in the real world.
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So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y'all Don't Even Know
by Retta
In her hilarious book of essays, Parks and Recreation star Retta shares the stories that led to her success in Hollywood. In So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y’all Don’t Even Know, Parks and Recreation star Retta takes us on her not-so-meteoric rise from roaches to riches (well, rich enough that she can buy $15,000 designer handbags yet scared enough to know she’s always a heartbeat away from ramen with American cheese). Throwing her hard-working Liberian parents for a loop, Retta abandons her plan to attend med school after graduating Duke University to move to Hollywood to star in her own sitcom―like her comedy heroes Lucille Ball and Roseanne. After winning Comedy Central’s stand-up competition, she should be ready for prime time―but a fear of success derails her biggest dream. Whether reminiscing about her days as a contract chemist at GlaxoSmithKline, telling “dirty” jokes to Mormons, feeling like the odd man out on Parks, fending off racist trolls on Twitter, flirting with Michael Fassbender, or expertly stalking the cast of "Hamilton," Retta’s unique voice and refreshing honesty will make you laugh, cry, and laugh so hard you’ll cry. By the end of So Close to Being the Sh*t, you’ll be rooting for Retta to be the next one-named wonder to take over your television.
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The Road to Dawn: Josiah Henson and the Story That Sparked the Civil War
by Jared Brock
This biography immortalizes the man who was the inspiration for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin in an epic tale of courage and bravery in the face of unimaginable trials. Josiah Henson overcame incredible odds to escape from slavery and improve the lives of hundreds of freedmen throughout his long life. He found international fame--including visits to Windsor Castle and the White House--as the real "Uncle Tom" in the novel that fueled the abolitionist movement and ignited the Civil War. But his story has been mostly lost to history, until now.
Henson spent forty-one years in bondage before he was finally able to escape with his wife and four children, carrying the youngest two on his broken shoulders for 600 miles. He eventually settled with his family as a free man across the border in Canada. Once there, Henson agitated for racial equality, raised millions for the abolitionist cause, won a medal at the first World's Fair in London, and became a beloved preacher. He returned to America and rescued 118 more slaves, including his own brother, and helped purchase land to build what would become one of the final stops on the Underground Railroad, a 500-person freedman settlement called Dawn.
The Road to Dawn retraces Henson's improbable journey from slavery to freedom and restores a hero of the abolitionist movement to his rightful place in history.
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