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African American Fiction & Nonfiction June 2017
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Sanctuary Cove: A Cavanaugh Island Novel by Rochelle AlersAfter her husband's death, Deborah Robinson packs up her family and returns to her grandmother's ancestral home on Cavanaugh Island where she gets a fresh start, especially when she meets a handsome doctor who is also recovering from a great loss.
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Angels Landing by Rochelle AlersWhen her biological father leaves her a large estate in Angels Landing, California, New York City social worker Kara Newell rediscovers her love for life and starts a relationship with former marine and sheriff Jeff Hamilton, who comes to her rescue when someone tries to kill her.
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City of Saviors by Rachel Howzell HallAn LAPD homicide detective looks deeper into the death of a 73-year-old woman who was a congregant of a megachurch that may be protecting a murderer, in the latest addition to the series following Trail of Echoes.
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Locked in Temptation by Brenda JacksonHis job is to protect her…no matter the cost
Police detective Joy Ingram's connection to elite security expert Stonewall Courson is instant. Undeniable. Electric. But her commitment to protect and serve has always come first. Everything else is secondary—especially when she uncovers an underground surrogate baby-making ring. Joy can't risk a distraction during the most important case of her career, not even one as sexy as reformed ex-con Stonewall.
There are few things Stonewall values more than a strong woman. But when Joy's investigation draws her into a deadly conspiracy that goes deeper than she ever imagined, he must convince her that he's the best man to protect her. And while he puts his life on the line to save hers, the insatiable attraction between them becomes the one danger neither of them can escape.
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Bed of Lies by Shelly EllisFinally finding happiness with his longtime friend turned fiancée, Evan Murdoch finds his joy short lived and his family thrust back in the spotlight when his party-boy brother is seriously injured in a car accident and his little sister becomes pregnant, but doesn't know if the father is her husband or her blackmailing ex.
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Lust & Loyalty by Shelly EllisTorn between his pregnant fiancée and his soon-to-be ex-wife who is fighting their divorce at every turn, Evan Murdoch must harbor a dangerous secret, while his party-boy brother recovers from a car accident and his half-brother sets in motion a plan to destroy them all.
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A Blessing & A Curse by ReShonda Tate BillingsleyBaptist church first ladies and sworn frenemies Rachel and Jasmine find their rivalry further complicated by a murky murder cover-up, an outrageous reality television show and a shocking revelation about their shared family ties.
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Chasing Down a Dream by Beverly JenkinsJack and Rocky try to plan their wedding while Tamar drops everything for her dying cousin and Gemma tries to foster a pair of orphaned siblings in the latest novel of the series following Stepping to a New Day.
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The Streets Have No King by JaQuavisWhile teaching a college class, drug mogul Kane takes on a student, heroin dealer Basil, as a protégé and they build a drug trafficking business, but when Basil meets Kane's daughter, lines are crossed and the business union becomes a deadly rivalry.
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The wide circumference of love : a novel by Marita GoldenA respected family court judge who has spent her life making tough calls, Diane Tate must make the toughest one yet in her own life when her 68-year-old husband is diagnosed with early onset dementia and, along with her children, must reexamine her connection to the man he once was—and learn to love the man he has become.
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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane GayThe popular Tumblr blogger and best-selling author of Bad Feminist explores the devastating act of violence that triggered her personal challenges with food and body image, sharing advice for caring for oneself and eating in healthful and satisfying ways.
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Chokehold: Policing Black Men by Paul ButlerCops, politicians, and ordinary people are afraid of black men. The result is the Chokehold: laws and practices that treat every African American man like a thug. In this explosive new book, an African American former federal prosecutor shows that the system is working exactly the way it's supposed to. Black men are always under watch, and police violence is widespread--all with the support of judges and politicians. In his no-holds-barred style, Butler, whose scholarship has been featured on 60 Minutes, uses new data to demonstrate that white men commit the majority of violent crime in the United States. For example, a white woman is ten times more likely to be raped by a white male acquaintance than be the victim of a violent crime perpetrated by a black man. Butler also frankly discusses the problem of black on black violence and how to keep communities safer--without relying as much on police. Chokehold powerfully demonstrates why current efforts to reform law enforcement will not create lasting change. Butler's controversial recommendations about how to crash the system, and when it's better for a black man to plead guilty--even if he's innocent--are sure to be game-changers in the national debate about policing, criminal justice, and race relations.
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Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women by Brittney C. CooperBeyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the evolution of their thought from the end of the 1800s through the Black Power era of the 1970s. Eschewing the Great Race Man paradigm so prominent in contemporary discourse, Brittney C. Cooper looks at the far-reaching intellectual achievements of female thinkers and activists like Anna Julia Cooper, Mary Church Terrell, Fannie Barrier Williams, Pauli Murray, and Toni Cade Bambara. Cooper delves into the processes that transformed these women and others into racial leadership figures, including long-overdue discussions of their theoretical output and personal experiences. As Cooper shows, their body of work critically reshaped our understandings of race and gender discourse. It also confronted entrenched ideas of how--and who--produced racial knowledge.
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Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me by Janet MockThe transgender activist and best-selling author of Redefining Realness presents a memoir of her search for purpose, love and self-realization in an early adulthood marked by her education at the University of Hawaii, a defining relationship and her entry into journalism.
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The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea by Christopher J LebronThe Making of Black Lives Matter presents a condensed and accessible intellectual history that traces the genesis of the ideas that have built into the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Drawing on the work of revolutionary black public intellectuals, including Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, Langston Hughes, Zora Neal Hurston, Anna Julia Cooper, Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, and Martin Luther King Jr., Lebron clarifies what it means to assert that "Black Lives Matter" when faced with contemporary instances of anti-black law enforcement. He also illuminates the crucial difference between the problem signaled by the social media hashtag and how we think that we ought to address the problem. As Lebron states, police body cameras, or even the exhortation for civil rights mean nothing in the absence of equality and dignity. To upset dominant practices of abuse, oppression and disregard, we must reach instead for radical sensibility. Radical sensibility requires that we become cognizant of the history of black thought and activism in order to make sense of the emotions, demands, and argument of present-day activists and public thinkers. Only in this way can we truly embrace and pursue the idea of racial progress in America.
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Chasing Grace: What the Quarter Mile Has Taught Me About God and Life by Sanya Richards-rossSanya shares triumphant as well as heartbreaking stories as she reveals her journey to becoming a world-class runner. From her childhood in Jamaica to Athens, Beijing and London Olympics, readers will find themselves inspired by the unique insights she’s gained through her victories and losses, including her devastating injury during the 2016 Olympic Trials forcing career retirement just weeks before Rio. Sanya demonstrates how even this devastating loss brought her closer to the ultimate goal of becoming all God created her to be.
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Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan by Elaine M. HayesAn account of the life of the influential jazz artist and civil rights advocate shares additional insights into her lesser-known contributions as an African-American woman, drawing on inside sources to discuss her creative process and challenge misperceptions about her character.
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