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• A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

  a Novel

  Williams, Tia, 1975-

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  Ricki Wilde is trying to prove her independence to her family and opens up her own flower shop. While working hard towards growing her business, she encounters a handsome stranger with a mysterious past and a musical gift from the Harlem…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An Autobiography of Skin

  Carr, Lakiesha,

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  A fiction based in truth about being a black woman and the grief that they cannot escape from.

• Before I Let Go

  Ryan, Kennedy,

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  A second-chance romance between a married couple. If they can’t work things out, then their family and their restaurant could be jeopardized.

• Queenie

  a Novel

  Carty-Williams, Candice, 1989-

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  A Jamaican-British woman in her mid-twenties is navigating her life in London after a nasty breakup, and questioning her identity.

• Seven Days in June

  a Novel

  Williams, Tia, 1975-

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  Eva and Shane spent one week in love as teenagers. Twenty years later, their writing brings them back together, after writing each other in their novels for several years. But things have changed; Eva is a single mom and she’s gotten used to her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Buck

  Askaripour, Mateo,

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  A young black man goes from Starbucks barista to salesman superstar at a mysterious startup in a social experiment.

• My Sister, the Serial Killer

  a Novel

  Braithwaite, Oyinkan

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  A dark humor slasher about a female serial killer from the perspective of her older sister.

• Memphis

  a Novel

  Stringfellow, Tara M.,

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  At the young age of only ten years old, Joan and her mother and sister run away from her violent father to her mother’s old home in Memphis. The next few years are spent facing former abuse and channeling these tribulations through her art by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Redwood Court

  Fiction

  Dameron, DéLana R. A.,

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  This novel is an analysis about what it means to be black for individuals young and old. As the youngest child in her family, Mika witnesses hard lessons learned from her reclusive older sister, her parents who tirelessly work multiple jobs, and her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Not Without Laughter

  Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967,

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  America’s greatest black poet, Langston Hughes’ debut novel. A coming of age story about a young black boy whose mother works as a maid for a rich, white family in early twentieth century Kansas.

• Perish

  Black, Lisa, 1963-

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  Told through four alternating POVs, “Perish” delves into the effects of generational trauma and the path to forgiveness as the Turner clan are called home to say goodbye to their mother and grandmother.

• The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls

  Gray, Anissa,

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  After their older sister and her husband are arrested, Viola and Lillian step in to care for their teenage nieces.

• The Twelve Tribes of Hattie

  Mathis, Ayana

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  Hattie Shepherd moves from Georgia to Philadelphia to start a new life, and eventually starts a new family. She raises her children with the perspective that they need to have thick skin and cannot know tenderness if they are to survive the…Read moreRead more of this annotation