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1) Mrs. Wiggins
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A tale set in Depression-era Alabama follows the experiences of a woman from an at-risk family who marries the son of a respected preacher to establish a safer life before discovering her husband's desperate secret.
The daughter of a prostitute mother and an alcoholic father, Maggie Franklin knew her only way out was to marry someone upstanding and church-going. Someone like Hubert Wiggins, the most eligible man in Lexington, Alabama--and the son...
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Black girls must die exhausted volume 1
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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.
At 33 years old, Tabby receives an unexpected diagnosis that brings her picture-perfect life crashing down, jeopardizing the keystone she took for granted: having children. The fight is all consuming, demanding a steep price that forces...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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A brief biography of the first African-American woman astronaut, Mae C. Jemison. Readers will discover that she is also a doctor, dancer, businesswoman, and educator. Learn about how Mae went from a child with big dreams to a woman who inspires many.
4) Passing
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Restless Classics presents the ninetieth anniversary edition of an undersung gem of the Harlem Renaissance: Nella Larsen's Passing, a captivating and prescient exploration of identity, sexuality, self-invention, class, and race set amidst the pealing boisterousness of the Jazz Age.
When childhood friends Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry cross paths at a whites-only restaurant, it's been decades since they last met. Married to a bigoted white man who...
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It's less than a week before Sonya Morrison's wedding when she decides to pass her legendary little black book on to her cousin Courtney Andrews along with all of her best wishes. Courtney, who's fast approaching thirty, thinks every woman she knows has somehow met a man who is husband material except for her. So Sonya's little black book seems to be just what she needs. That's until Courtney discovers she and her cousin have completely different...
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Meant to be volume 2
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Isabelle is completely lost. When she first began her career in publishing right out of college, she did not expect to be twenty-five, living at home, still an editorial assistant, and the only Black employee at her publishing house. Overworked and underpaid, constantly torn between speaking up or stifling herself, Izzy thinks there must be more to this publishing life. So when she overhears her boss complaining about a beastly high-profile author...
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New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe's extraordinary novel celebrates life, love, and the power of sisterhood--proving that friends, like fine wine, only get better with age. . .
Gorgeous, successful executive Teri Stewart spends her days working for L.A.'s hottest record company--and her nights all alone. Her best friend Nicole is determined to find Teri a man, but she hasn't had much luck. . . because Teri wants more than Mr. Maybe. She's...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
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One of the most important works of the twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston's beloved 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. Told in the captivating voice of a woman who refuses to live in sorry, bitterness, fear, or foolish romantic dreams, it is the story of fair-skinned, fiercely independent Janie Crawford, and her evolving self hood through...
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Letitia holds nothing more dear than the papers that prove she is no longer a slave. Nancy Hawkins is loathe to leave her settled life for the treacherous journey by wagon train, but she will follow her husband anywhere. Betsy is a Kalapuya Indian, the last remnant of a once proud tribe in the Willamette Valley in Oregon territory. As season turns to season, suspicion turns to friendship, and fear turns to courage, three spirited women will discover...
10) Lost daughters
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When her new husband Mel and her daughter Lorretta, an aspiring model, run off together, claiming they are in love, Maureen Montgomery must confront her tragic past to find the strength to overcome this devastating betrayal and make a new life for herself that is all her own.
11) Sin of a woman
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"Raven Black is bouncing back after her very public divorce from Dillon. He's done everything he can to discredit her, but she's learned from her mistakes and him. In fact, she's become her ex-husband in more ways than one and is slowly but surely leading those connected to her down a terrible path of destruction. Playing with the lives of innocent people has dire consequences, the kind that Raven won't see coming."--
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Omar Tyree returns to the story of Tracy Ellison, the spirited heroine of his best-selling Flyy Girl. Now 28 years old and on the verge of superstardom as a screen writer and actress, Tracy is going back east to reconnect with family and friends. Tracy's worked hard for her success. She's made it in Hollywood on her own terms and without compromise. But returning to Philly proves to be more than the happy homecoming she expects. While trying to decide...
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Popular, generous, forty-something widow Jessie Tucker decides to make herself indispensable to recently widowed Hubert Wiggins but is disappointed when he is not everything she dreamed he would be and instead turns her attentions to a much younger man.
14) The inheritance
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Innkeepers (Rochelle Alers) volume 1
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Corporate attorney Hannah DuPont-Lowell always pictured herself returning to New Orleans to retire-just not yet. But after her Manhattan company abruptly lays off its staff, there's no better place to figure out a next move than the porch of her plantation-style home.
15) Misty Copeland
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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"Learn about how Misty Copeland broke barriers for dancers of color and worked her way to the top"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
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For August, running into a long-ago friend sets in motion resonant memories and transports her to a time and a place she thought she had mislaid: 1970s Brooklyn, where friendship was everything. August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi shared confidences as they ambled their neighborhood streets, a place where the girls believed that they were amazingly beautiful, brilliantly talented, with a future that belonged to them. But beneath the hopeful promise there...
20) Say her name
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Inspired by the #SayHerName campaign launched by the African American Policy Forum, these poems pay tribute to victims of police brutality as well as the activists insisting that Black Lives Matter. Elliott engages poets from the past two centuries to create a chorus of voices celebrating the creativity, resilience, and courage of Black women and girls. This collection features forty-nine powerful poems, four of which are tribute poems inspired by...
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