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African American Authors October 2017
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Sing, unburied, sing : a novel
by Jesmyn Ward
Living with his grandparents and toddler sister on a Gulf Coast farm, Jojo navigates the challenges of his tormented mother's addictions and his grandmother's terminal cancer before the release of his father from prison prompts a road trip of danger and hope. By the National Book Award-winning author of Salvage the Bones.
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Lightning men : a novel
by Thomas Mullen
Officers Smith, Rake and Boggs and their sergeant navigate volatile racial tensions in 1950 Atlanta, including Rake's once-white neighborhood's violent efforts to force out Smith's black family and an upsurge in drug territory wars. By the award-winning author of The Last Town on Earth.
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The Inheritance
by Rochelle Alers
A widowed attorney, still stinging from her late husband’s infidelities, returns home to the Garden District in New Orleans and convinces three of her friends to help her turn her family’s 200 year-old DuPont House into an inn.
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We were eight years in power : an American tragedy
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
A compelling portrait of the historic Barack Obama era, combining new and annotated essays from the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me, includes the articles, "Fear of a Black President" and "The Case for Reparations" as well as two new pieces on the Obama administration and what is coming next.
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We're going to need more wine : stories that are funny, complicated, and true
by Gabrielle Union
A powerful collection of essays on gender, sexuality, race, beauty, Hollywood and the realities of modern women also includes the author's wrenching experiences as a survivor of sexual assault, in a volume that seeks to raise awareness about the needs of victims of sexual violence. 200,000 first printing.
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Iron ambition : my life with Cus D'Amato
by Mike Tyson
The former heavyweight champion and best-selling memoirist presents an intimate look at the life and leadership lessons of the legendary boxing trainer, exploring D'Amato's pivotal role in the careers of multiple World Champions and his legal adoption of Tyson in the aftermath of the latter's mother's death.
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Recommended Fiction and Nonfiction
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March. Book one
by John Lewis
A first-hand account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights spans his youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement
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The taste of salt
by Martha Southgate
When Josie Henderson's brother Tick arrives on her doorstep fresh from rehab and on the edge of a relapse, Josie must finally face her family's past and her own patterns of addiction
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The sellout
by Paul Beatty
After his down-trodden hometown is removed from the map of California to save the state further embarrassment, a young man undertakes a course of action to draw attention to the town, resulting in a racially charged trial that sends him to the Supreme Court
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