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African American Newsletter March 2020
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The Family Business 5
by Carl Weber
Vegas, Junior and Rio uncover devastating secrets while working to clear their father’s name, while Paris discovers clues that Niles Monroe might still be alive.
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Africaville: A Novel
by Jeffrey Colvin
Three generations of a family of former slaves, the founders of a small Nova Scotia community, navigate prejudice, harsh weather and estrangements against a backdrop of the historical events of the 20th century.
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The Revisioners
by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
The author of the National Book Award-nominated A Kind of Freedom explores the impact of racism and interracial relationships between women through the story of an early 20th-century farmer and her unemployed single mother descendant.
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Delayed But Not Denied by Teresa BSelina and Joseph were madly in love during their college years. They married and created a picture-perfect family. But, after only a few years of love and happiness, Selina discovers a horrible secret about her Mr. Right's past. It was hidden in the most unexpected place, his Bible.
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Nappily Married
by Trisha R. Thomas
In the sequel to Nappily Ever After, Venus Johnson is happily married to a former rap star turned fashion mogul and blessed with a beautiful baby daughter, but she is ready to put stay-at-home-motherhood behind her to apply for a high-profile PR job, against her husband's wishes, to save a struggling city hospital managed by her ex-boyfriend. Original. 35,000 first printing.
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Collusion
by De'nesha Diamond
Desperate to clear her name, Abrianna Parker, framed for a high-profile murder, goes after the most powerful man in the country, her billionaire adoptive father, Cargille Parker, which forces her off the grid and into the arms of an ex-con turned private investigator who agrees to help her unravel a web of deception to find the truth.
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Property of the State
by Kiki Swinson
Imprisoned after killing her boyfriend in self-defense, a young woman escapes violent prison gangs by relocating to a medical facility where she is unwittingly rendered a test subject in illegal laboratory experiments. By the author of Wifey.
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Back to Life Again: Love After Heartbreak
by Shantaé
Having finally found good men, cousins Dakota and Breelyn are sidelined when tragedy strikes while Rah realizes he can’t make it through a difficult time without the woman he loves, in the second novel of the urban romance series.
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The author has experienced many Midnights that have strengthened him and given him insight and expertise on making it to daybreak. In Beyond Midnight: Helping You Make It To Daybreak, he shares powerful quotes and words of wisdom to strengthen you on your journey.
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The Yellow House
by Sarah M. Broom
Describes the author’s upbringing in a New Orleans East shotgun house as the unruly 13th child of a widowed mother, tracing a century of family history and the impact of class, race and Hurricane Katrina on her sense of identity.
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Red At the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson 5 stars ***** Jacqueline Woodson is a gifted story teller who writes so beautifully. This was an emotional and heartwarming story that is captivating and will definitely tug at your heart strings. This is a coming of age story that reflects upon the past so smoothly. Red at The Bone is entertaining as well as poetic. Woodson creates a tale about love, class, teen pregnancy and death with very few words but these sparse words on the pages evokes so many emotions from the reader. The way Woodson writes always envelops the reader into this fictional world that she creates so effortlessly.
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Forsyth County Public Library 660 W 5th Street Winston Salem, North Carolina 27101 336-703-3030www.forsythlibrary.org |
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