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African American Fiction November 2020
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Hoopla
Check out up to 8 titles a month.
Bonus borrows are back!
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A Million Aunties
by Alecia McKenzie
American-born artist Chris is forced to reconsider his own concept of "family" during a visit to his mother's Caribbean homeland.
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Idlewild
by Treasure Hernandez
When the death of her father compels her return to a beloved childhood home after a long absence, Desiree navigates dysfunctional sibling hostility while reconnecting with the man who broke her heart years earlier. Original.
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Remembered
by Yvonne Battle-Felton
It is 1910 and Philadelphia is burning.
The last place Spring wants to be is in the run-down, colored section of a hospital surrounded by the groans of sick people and the ghost of her dead sister. But as her son Edward lays dying, she has no other choice.
There are whispers that Edward drove a streetcar into a shop window. Some people think it was an accident, others claim that it was his fault, the police are certain that he was part of a darker agenda. Is he guilty? Can they find the truth?
All Spring knows is that time is running out. She has to tell him the story of how he came to be. With the help of her dead sister, newspaper clippings, and reconstructed memories, she must find a way to get through to him. To shatter the silences that governed her life, she will do everything she can to lead Edward home.
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The Queen's diamond
by Niyah Moore
Working in a gentleman’s club to support herself until turning 21, Desirae discovers her talent for rap music and becomes famous overnight, before her success is threatened by a rival newcomer and a friend’s brutal murder. Original.
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Money devils 1 : a cartel novel
by Ashley
From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Cartel series comes a new chapter in a world that only Ashley and JaQuavis know how to bring to life. The LaCroixs are four beautiful Haitian American women bound by money and blood. On the surface The LaCroix Group is a venture capitalist company, but underneath it's so much more. The four sisters run long cons, targeting wealthy, prominent business figures. They have a system. Find the perfect mark, create the problem, then present the solution. For a cost...
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Transcendent kingdom
by Yaa Gyasi
"A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford school of medicine studying the neural circuits of reward seeking behavior in mice"
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Luster
by Raven Leilani
"Sharp, comic, disruptive, tender, Raven Leilani's debut novel, Luster, sees a young black woman fall into art and someone else's open marriage"
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Book of the little axe : a novel
by Lauren Francis-Sharma
Quietly but purposefully rebelling against the life others expect of her in late-18th-century Trinidad, Rosa loses her family’s farm when her homeland transitions to British rule, before her half-Crow son finds his coming-of-age challenged by decades-old secrets.
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