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Karamo : my story of embracing purpose, healing, and hope / by Brown, Karamo,author.; Dunn, Jancee,author.;
"An insightful, candid, and inspiring memoir from Karamo Brown--Queer Eye's beloved culture expert--as he shares his story for the first time, exploring how the challenges in his own life have allowed him to forever transform the lives of those in need"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Brown, Karamo.; African American television personalities; African American gay men;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Black girls must die exhausted : a novel / by Allen, Jayne,1978-author.;
After learning she might not be able to have children, thirty-three-year-old Tabitha Walker, a black woman planning to "have it all," watches her dreams dissolve and must rely on her two best friends to get through.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; African American women journalists; African American women; Female friendship; Infertility;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Us [videorecording] / by Alex, Evan,actor.; Peele, Jordan,1979-film producer,screenwriter,film director.; Diop, Anna,1988-actor.; Hayward, Kara,1998-actor.; Heidecker, Tim,1976-actor.; Wright Joseph, Shahadi,actor.; Moss, Elisabeth,1982-actor.; Nyong'o, Lupita,actor.; Universal Studios Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Elisabeth Moss, Lupita Nyong'O, Anna Diop, Kara Hayward, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex, Tim Heidecker.Haunted by trauma from her past and compounded by a string of eerie coincidences, Adelaide grows increasingly certain that something bad is going to befall her family. After spending a tense beach day with their friends, Adelaide and her family return to their vacation home. When darkness falls, the Wilsons discover the silhouette of four figures holding hands as they stand in the driveway. The endearing American family faces doppelgangers of themselves.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0 DVS.
Subjects: Horror films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Doppelgängers; African American families; Survival;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Dream Count A novel [electronic resource] : by Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi.aut; CloudLibrary;
Named 2025's Most Anticipated Release by The New York Times • Oprah Daily • The Times • ELLE (UK) • Literary Hub • The Guardian • The New Statesman • Financial Times • Marie Claire • Harper's BAZAAR • BBC A publishing event ten years in the making—a searing, exquisite new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists—the story of four women and their loves, longings, and desires. Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until—betrayed and brokenhearted—she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. Omelogor, Chiamaka’s bold, outspoken cousin, is a financial powerhouse in Nigeria who begins to question how well she knows herself. And Kadiatou, Chiamaka’s housekeeper, is proudly raising her daughter in America—but faces an unthinkable hardship that threatens all she has worked to achieve. In Dream Count, Adichie trains her fierce eye on these women in a sparkling, transcendent novel that takes up the very nature of love itself. Is true happiness ever attainable or is it just a fleeting state? And how honest must we be with ourselves in order to love, and to be loved? A trenchant reflection on the choices we make and those made for us, on daughters and mothers, on our interconnected world, Dream Count pulses with emotional urgency and poignant, unflinching observations of the human heart, in language that soars with beauty and power. It confirms Adichie’s status as one of the most exciting and dynamic writers on the literary landscape.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Cultural Heritage; African American; Literary;
© 2025., Knopf Canada,
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People Like Us : A Novel. by Mott, Jason.;
In 'People Like Us', two Black writers are trying to find peace and belonging in a world that is riven with gun violence. One is on a global book tour after a big prize win; the other is set to give a speech at a school that has suffered a shooting. It is an utter triumph bursting with larger-than-life characters who deliver a very real take on our world. From the author of 'Hell of a Book', a National Book Award winner. #diversity.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: FICTION / African American & Black / General; FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Southern;
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Things past telling : a novel / by Williams, Sheila(Sheila J.),author.;
"Things Past Telling is a remarkable historical epic that charts one unforgettable woman's journey across an ocean of years as vast as the Atlantic that will forever separate her from her homeland. Born in West Africa in the mid-eighteenth century, Maryam Prescilla Grace--a.k.a "Momma Grace" will live a long, wondrous life marked by hardship, oppression, opportunity, and love. Though she will be "gifted" various names, her birth name is known to her alone. Over the course of 100-plus years, she survives capture, enslavement by several property owners, the Atlantic crossing when she is only eleven years of age, and a brief stint as a pirate's ward, acting as both a spy and a translator. Maryam learns midwifery from a Caribbean-born wise woman, whose "craft" combines curated techniques and medicines from African, Indigenous, and European women. Those midwifery skills allow her to sometimes transcend the racial and class barriers of her enslavement, as she walks the razor's edge trying to balance the lives and health of her own people with the cruel economic mandates of the slave holders, who view infants born in bondage not as flesh-and-blood children but as investment property. Throughout her triumphant and tumultuous life Maryam gains and loses her homeland, her family, her culture, her husband, her lovers, and her children. Yet as the decades pass, this tenacious woman never loses her sense of self. Inspired by a 112-year-old woman the author discovered in an 1870 U.S. Federal census report for Ohio, loosely based on the author's real-life female ancestors, spanning more than a hundred years, from the mid-eighteen-century to the end of America's Civil War, and spanning across the globe, from what is now southern Nigeria to the islands of the Caribbean to North America and the land bordering the Ohio River, Things Past Telling is a breathtaking story of a past that lives on in all of us, and a life that encompasses the best--and worst--of our humanity."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Epic fiction.; African American women; African Americans; Midwives; Slaves; Women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Life upon these shores : looking at African American history, 1513-2008 / by Gates, Henry Louis.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 443-455) and index.LSC
Subjects: African Americans;
© 2011., Knopf,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Black women in science : a Black history book for kids / by Pellum, Kimberly Brown.; Morris, Keisha.;
Includes bibliographical references.LSC
Subjects: African American women scientists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Leslie f*cking Jones / by Jones, Leslie,author.;
In this audacious memoir, Leslie Jones opens up for the first time about how she faltered and triumphed on the road to success and, in doing so, encourages others to let go of the fear and self-doubt that has holds them back. 'Leslie F*cking Jones' is a love letter to regular people just trying to make it day to day and proof that if you fight for yourself, you can live a bigger life than you ever imagined, and you too can be undeniable.
Subjects: Biographies.; Jones, Leslie.; Comedians; African American comedians;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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All We Were Promised A Novel [electronic resource] : by Lattimore, Ashton.aut; cloudLibrary;
A housemaid with a dangerous family secret conspires with a wealthy young abolitionist to help an enslaved girl escape, in volatile pre-Civil War Philadelphia. The rebel . . . the socialite . . . and the fugitive. Together, they will risk everything for one another in this “beguiling story of friendship, deception, and women crossing boundaries in the name of freedom” (Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends). Philadelphia, 1837. After Charlotte escaped from the crumbling White Oaks plantation down South, she’d expected freedom to feel different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. After all, Philadelphia is supposed to be the birthplace of American liberty. Instead, she’s locked away playing servant to her white-passing father, as they both attempt to hide their identities from slavecatchers who would destroy their new lives. Longing to break away, Charlotte befriends Nell, a budding abolitionist from one of Philadelphia’s wealthiest Black families. Just as Charlotte starts to envision a future, a familiar face from her past reappears: Evie, her friend from White Oaks, has been brought to the city by the plantation mistress, and she’s desperate to escape. But as Charlotte and Nell conspire to rescue her, in a city engulfed by race riots and attacks on abolitionists, they soon discover that fighting for Evie’s freedom may cost them their own.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Sagas; Historical; Contemporary Women;
© 2024., Random House Publishing Group,
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