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African American Fiction and Nonfiction June 2020
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Conjure women : a novel
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Afia Atakora
A midwife and conjurer of curses reflects on her life before and after the Civil War, her relationships with the families she serves and the secrets she has learned about a plantation owner’s daughter.
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Africaville : a novel
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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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A death in Harlem : a novel
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Karla F. C. Holloway
By African American studies scholar Karla Holloway professor, dean, and administrator at Duke University. In this Harlem Renaissance mystery, Weldon Haynie Thomas is Harlem's first "colored" policeman who is blessed with insight, humor, resourcefulness, and a deep intuition. Officer Thomas investigates the light-enough-to-pass woman who jumped, fell, or was pushed from the Hotel Theresa during the Opportunity Magazine Awards Banquet.
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Memphis
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Raynesha Pittman
As a teenager, Ethan Wade Carruthers ran away from Chicago, and his coke-addicted parents, and has now resurfaced in Memphis as “Joe,” a man determined to take over the city’s crime scene.
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The deep
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Rivers Solomon
The historian of the water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slaves thrown overboard by slavers keeps all the memories of her people both painful and miraculous, until she discovers that their future lies in returning to the past.
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Destined
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Stacy-deanne
Connie tries to stop a murder before it happens when a mysterious caller makes Connie participate in a sadistic game to save a woman's life. Meanwhile, CeCe finds a new object for his twisted affections. Can Connie save her before she becomes his next victim? Winston is determined to rescue Lydia, Dee, and his baby from Jonathan's wrath, but things go awry when he becomes a prisoner himself. Jonathan intends to marry Dee and raise her baby as his own and will destroy anyone who tries to stop him. Everything comes to a head in the explosive final installment of the Stripped Series. Only available as an ebook in NHCPL's catalog.
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The family business 5
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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. By the best-selling author of The Preacher’s Son.
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Officer Clemmons : a memoir
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François Clemmons
An intimate debut memoir by the Grammy Award-winning artist who famously played "Officer Clemmons" on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood traces his Oberlin College music studies, his embrace of his sexual orientation and his life-changing chance encounter with Fred Rogers.
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Black Radical : The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter
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Kerri K. Greenidge
A portrait of the lesser-known, turn-of-the-20th-century civil rights activist explores how he used his influence as an emancipator and the editor of the Guardian to promote gradualist politics and rally black working-class Americans throughout the post-Reconstruction era.
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Five days : the fiery reckoning of an American city
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Wes Moore
An account of the 2015 police-brutality killing of Freddie Gray retraces key events from the perspectives of seven insiders, including a conflicted Baltimore Police Department captain, the victim’s sister and the owner of the Baltimore Orioles.
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The chiffon trenches : a memoir
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André Leon Talley
A deeply revealing memoir by a noted style icon captures the fashion world from the inside out, in its most glamorous and most cutthroat moments.
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Lagniappe-- new children's and teen books
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The secret garden of George Washington Carver
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Gene Barretta
A picture book account inspired by George Washington Carver’s secret childhood garden describes how his experiences with growing things helped him develop a love of nature that shaped his adult achievements as a botanist, scientist and inventor. Juvenile biography.
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Black girl unlimited : the remarkable story of a teenage wizard
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Echo Brown
A largely autobiographical story infused with magical realism follows the transcendent coming-of-age of a teen from the East Side who transitions from the world of her home to that of a privileged West Side school while navigating an ominous veil of depression. YA fiction.
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Deathless Divide
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Justina Ireland
A sequel to the best-selling Dread Nation finds a devastating loss throwing everything Jane believes into question, before encounters with familiar faces in Summerland enmeshes her in a maelstrom of deception and private demons. YA fiction.
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All boys aren't blue : a memoir-manifesto
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George M. Johnson
A first book by the prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist shares personal essays that chronicle his childhood, adolescence and college years as a Black queer youth, exploring subjects ranging from gender identity and toxic masculinity to structural marginalization and Black joy. YA nofiction.
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Black brother, black brother
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Jewell Parker Rhodes
Routinely compared to his submissive lighter-skinned brother, a black boy at an elitist prep school is unfairly suspended in the wake of an incident involving the school bully, whom he tries to defeat in a fencing competition. By the award-winning author of Ghost Boys. Juv fiction.
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Clean getaway
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Nic Stone
An 11-year-old boy confronts the realities of race relations, past and present, and his unconventional grandmother’s mysterious agenda during an unplanned Spring Break road trip through the once-segregated American South. By the award-winning author of Dear Martin. J fiction.
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All the days past, all the days to come
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Mildred D. Taylor
A long-awaited conclusion to the story that began in the Newbery Medal-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry finds young adult Cassie Logan searching for a sense of belonging before joining the Civil Rights Movement in 1960s Mississippi. YA fiction.
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