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- As you wish / by Jones, Nashae.;
- After feelings for her best friend Deve become complicated, thirteen-year-old African American Birdie makes a wish with a West African trickster god that goes awry.
- Subjects: Romance fiction.; Best friends; Friendship; Wishes; Tricksters; African Americans;
- Mia Mayhem stops time! / by West, Kara.; Hernandez, Leeza.;
- Ages 5-9.LSC
- Subjects: Macarooney, Mia (Fictitious character); Superheroes; African American children; Time;
- Seven days in June : a novel / by Williams, Tia,1975-author.;
- "Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning literary author who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York. When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their past buried traumas, but the eyebrows of New York's Black literati. What no one knows is that twenty years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love. They may be pretending that everything is fine now, but they can't deny their chemistry-or the fact that they've been secretly writing to each other in their books ever since. Over the next seven days in the middle of a steamy Brooklyn summer, Eva and Shane reconnect, but Eva's not sure how she can trust the man who broke her heart, and she needs to get him out of New York so that her life can return to normal. But before Shane disappears again, there are a few questions she needs answered ... With its keen observations of Black life and the condition of modern motherhood, as well as the consequences of motherless-ness, Seven Days in June is by turns humorous, warm and deeply sensual"--
- Subjects: Romance fiction.; Authors; African Americans; Man-woman relationships;
- Boom Town / by Stone, Nic,author.;
- "Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl meets P-Valley in Nic Stone's adult thriller debut about two missing erotic dancers from Atlanta's most notorious gentlemen's club and the woman committed to finding them. When Damaris "Charm" Wilburn, a new daytime dancer, is missing for her shift at Boom Town, former headliner Michah "Lyriq" Johanssen suspects something more than a "no call, no show." As Lyriq's former headline partner and lover-Felice "Lucky" Carothers-also vanished under similar circumstances, Lyriq decides she's going to find them. Delving deeper into Charm and Lucky's disappearances, Lyriq uncovers a tangled web of deceit, privilege, and power. The line between friend and foe blurs, forcing Lyriq to confront the question: Is finding for these women worth the threat to her own life? This tantalizing thriller will take you on a heart-pounding and page turning journey through the peaks and valleys of Atlanta's underworld"--
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; African American women; Deception; Missing persons; Stripteasers; Women detectives;
- Crown : an ode to the fresh cut / by Barnes, Derrick D.; James, Gordon C.;
- Celebrates the magnificent feeling that comes from walking out of a barber shop with newly-cut hair.LSC
- Subjects: African Americans; Haircutting; Barbershops; Self-confidence;
- Fish fry Friday / by Bingham, Winsome.; Esperanza, C. G.(Charles George);
- A young African American girl joins her grandma's weekly ritual of catching and frying fish for a big family dinner.
- Subjects: Picture books.; Grandparent and child; Grandmothers; Fishing; African Americans;
- Kin : rooted in hope / by Weatherford, Carole Boston,1956-; Weatherford, Jeffery Boston.;
- Includes bibliographical references.A multi-generational family history told in the voices of the author's ancestors, spanning enslavement alongside Frederick Douglass at Maryland's Wye House plantation, service in the U.S. Colored Troops, and the founding of all-Black Reconstruction-era communities.Ages 10 up.
- Subjects: Novels in verse.; Historical fiction.; African Americans; Families; Slavery;
- My hair is like yours / by Detrick-Jules, St. Clair.; Brown, Tabitha(Illustrator);
- Cornrows, curls, fros, and swirls! How do you wear your hair? Featuring photographs of real kids whose hairstyles match those of family and friends, little ones will love seeing themselves mirrored in these pages and in the world around them. Beautifully photographed by St. Clair Detrick-Jules and with vibrant illustrations by Tabitha Brown, this timeless children's book celebrates community and joyful self-expression.For ages 0 to 3.
- Subjects: Board books.; African Americans; Hair; Hairstyles; Body image;
- Boy 2.0 / by Baptiste, Tracey.;
- When thirteen-year-old African American Coal discovers he can turn invisible, he searches for answers about his past with the help of his friends and his new foster family.
- Subjects: Superhero fiction.; Superheroes; Foster children; African Americans; Ability; Invisibility;
- Fast pitch / by Stone, Nic.;
- "Shenice Lockwood dreams of leading the Fulton Firebirds to the U12 softball regional championship. But Shenice's focus gets shaken when her great-uncle Jack reveals that a career-ending-and family-name-ruining-crime may have been a setup. It's up to Shenice to discover the truth about her family's past-and fast-before secrets take the Firebirds out of the game forever"--Provided by publisher.LSC
- Subjects: Baseball stories.; Softball; Racism; African Americans; Families; Family secrets;
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