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African American Authors April 2017
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No one is coming to save us
by Stephanie Powell Watts
A tale inspired by The Great Gatsby is set in the contemporary South and follows the difficulties endured by an extended black family with colliding visions of the American dream. A first novel by the author of We Are Taking Only What We Need. 50,000 first printing.
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What is not yours is not yours : stories
by Helen Oyeyemi
A collection of stories by the award-winning author of Boy, Snow, Bird features entries about literal and metaphorical keys that open or shut the fates of lovers, the heart of a puppeteering student and the doors of a house of locks that holds unobservable developments.
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Never trust a stranger
by Mary Monroe
Taking incrementally greater risks to pursue the love and excitement they have always craved, best friends Lola Poole and Joan Proctor-Riley are drawn in by the fantasy life of seemingly kind and responsible trucker Calvin, whose talented sexual healing leads to the revelation of a deadly secret.
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Finding Gideon
by Eric Jerome Dickey
Calling in support from the beautiful Hawks when his latest job takes an unprecedented toll, jet-setting contract killer Gideon launches a plan to take down his nemesis, Midnight, who has assembled a team of mercenaries targeting Gideon's loved ones. By the best-selling author of The Blackbirds.
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The blood of Emmett Till
by Timothy B Tyson
Draws on previously untapped firsthand testimonies and recovered court transcripts to present a scholarly account of the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till and its role in launching the civil rights movement. By the award-winning author of Blood Done Sign My Name.
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Locking up our own : crime and punishment in black America
by James Forman
A consequential argument about race, crime and law in today's America by a Yale legal scholar and former public defender examines the urgent debates surrounding the criminal justice system and its activities involving mass incarceration, aggressive police tactics and their impact on at-risk people of color and beleaguered law-enforcement officers.
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The life and the adventures of a haunted convict
by Austin Reed
This recently-discovered memoir describes the life of a young, black man who was born a free man, but sent to juvenile reform school in Manhattan and then repeatedly incarcerated in a state prison throughout his adult life in the 18th century.
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