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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, land of moonshine and cornbread, fist fights and honeysuckle. Seeing his hometown struggling with a bigoted police force inspires him to run for sheriff. He wins, and becomes the first Black sheriff in the history of the county. Then a year to the day after his election, a young Black man is fatally shot by Titus's deputies. Titus pledges to follow the truth wherever...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncerain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions -- affection, despair, and hope."--Page 4 of cover
3) Baldwin
Author
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Early Novels and Stories. Go Tell It on the mountain, Giovsnni's Room, Another Country, Going to Meet the Man.
6) Native son
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels
“If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of Native Son.” – Henry Louis Gates Jr.
""The most powerful American novel to appear since The Grapes of Wrath."" —The New Yorker
When
...8) Homie: poems
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Homie is Danez Smith's magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith's close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer. In poems of rare power and generosity, Smith acknowledges that in a country overrun by violence, xenophobia, and disparity, and in a body defined by race, queerness, and diagnosis, it can be hard to...
Publisher
Atria Paperback, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this timely and important collection of personal essays, black men from all walks of life share their inspiring stories and how each, in his own way, became a source of hope for his community and country.
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Set in the frame of a deathbed vigil, this story is a multi generational saga centered on the assassination of the controversial, race-baiting U.S. senator Adam Sunraider, who's being tended to by "Daddy" Hickman, the elderly black jazz musician turned preacher who raised the orphan Sunraider as a light-skinned black in rural Georgia.
14) Invisible man
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
A Black man's search for success and the American dream leads him out of college to Harlem and a growing sense of personal rejection and social invisibility.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow and Co
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Golf and the game of life. The protagonist is Rannulph Junah, Southern aristocrat and World War I hero. In a tournament in Savannah, he defeats two golf pros by following the teachings of his guru, Bagger Vance, a black mystic serving as his caddie. A metaphysical fable.
Publisher
published by Uplifting Visions (via CreateSpace)
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The authors each tell their story, from growing up in New York City and Washington, D.C., Chicago, and New Orleans, to their meeting as premed students at Xavier University of Louisiana, to becoming board certified physicians, fathers and community mentors.
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