Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A debut novel everyone will be talking about," Avery Cunningham's epic love story is "a triumph" and "a tale of intrigue, racial tension, and class warfare, set against the glamorous and gritty backdrop of early 20th century Chicago."
When a rich Black debutante enlists the help of a low-level speakeasy manager to identify the head of an underground crime syndicate, the two are thrust into the dangerous world of Prohibition-era Chicago.
The
3) Hello
Author
Language
English
Description
Hello is a series about missing triplets with three sub-titles namely, Hello stranger, Hello brave and Hello beautiful ones. Hello stranger a reconstruction from factual documents as well as from memory is a moving prose. At best a tribute to the quest for chasing the truth. Hello stranger is a scene-setter, a backstory that tells the reader what happen before the triplets were born how their birth mother snatched them from a hospital where they were...
Author
Language
English
Description
They were turbulent years, the ones following America's Civil War. The emancipation of those held in slavery opened new ministry opportunities for Northern churches. Previously blocked from reaching any held as slaves, they now were free to preach the Good News to the poor, helping "bind up the nation's wounds." They did their best to follow the Lord's example--setting prisoners free, releasing the oppressed, and especially as Adventists, proclaiming...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
What do you do when you like someone...like REALLY like someone, but the timing is all wrong...?Gemma has always been Gianna's chief priority, but now Gianna feels guilty for allowing her involvement with Ramsey to come between her close bond with her sister. Drowning amidst her own internal conflicts with her mother whom she resents so much while continuously caring for her ill sister, Gianna doesn't know what happiness is anymore. Scratch that....
Author
Language
English
Description
In his book, "In Defense of the Nation: Black Iowans at War", William chronicles the contributions and trials of black soldiers from the Civil War to the Persian Gulf War . In his unique storytelling style, Morris shares the personal accounts and heroic actions of Black soldiers, along with an impressive set of photographs and documentation. Morris says every soldier he interviewed said essentially the same thing; "We didn't fight for America as...
Author
Language
Español
Description
Vitória nació en Angola, pero tuvo que exiliarse a Portugal sin poder conocer a su madre revolucionaria. Años después, al regresar a buscarla, todo, incluido Angola, parece ser distinto a lo imaginado, y Vitória, de la mano de gente diversa, como un general implicado en el tráfico de armas, pero que declama poesía, y una excéntrica viuda, comenzará su búsqueda en Luanda. Habrá de enfrentarse al pasado y consigo misma, a su sexualidad, su...
Author
Language
English
Description
Twelve jurors, one trial, and one man's freedom on the line.
When a young black man is accused of raping a white woman, his arrest and the resulting trial send shockwaves through the local city courthouse. Twelve ordinary people are brought together to deliver a verdict – and make a decision that will change lives forever.
But as tensions rise and personalities clash, the case quickly erupts into a sweeping debate about justice, guilt, racism,...
9) Hello brave
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In Hello brave the attention shifts to the antagonist, Mastandi the father of the triplets narrated from the antagonist point of view. Mastandi a handsome, middle-age, unmarried man, his handsomeness had only intensified over the years. The hair at his temples has begun to turn grey and has grown a thin salt‑and‑pepper moustache that made him look like Omar Sharif. Like a film star, he wore sunglasses everywhere. But it wasn't only his bronzed...
Author
Language
English
Description
From the nationally bestselling and Hurston/Wright award-winning author Tracy Price-Thompson comes a heartbreaking story of loyalty and love that goes beyond the ultimate sacrifice.
Coming of age in the heart of crime-ridden Brooklyn, Shyne Blackwood is one in a set of triplets born into poverty and great tragedy. While his brothers are raised to seek a life of promise, Shyne's path veers early on. A street-seasoned hustler, he becomes known as...
11) Noir Pays
Author
Language
Français
Description
Rentrer chez soi est censé apporter du bonheur. Après avoir trimé à New York o il a fini par faire fortune, décidé à ne plus se laisser enfermer dans une vie étriquée, Julien s'envole pour son île natale afin de renouer des liens avec sa mère qui le déteste. Personne ne doit savoir qu'il est devenu riche, ni sa mère ni sa compagne. Cela fausserait leurs relations. Comme lui, le pays a beaucoup changé. Avant d'y investir, il doit trouver...
Author
Language
English
Description
"It was supposed to be the highlight of her career, the pinnacle for which she'd worked all her life. And as Hattie McDaniel took the stage in 1940 to claim an honor that would make her the first African-American woman to win an Academy Award, she tearfully took her place in history. Between personal triumphs and tragedies, heartbreaking losses, and severe setbacks, this historic night of winning best supporting actress for her role as the sassy Mammy...
Author
Language
English
Description
The poems in Night's Glass Table are tight and emotionally powerful, and deal with themes such as death, grief and love.
Zelas chooses her words with care, and her poems are always eloquent and evocative. She demonstrates a sound use of conventions, and her writing is well-crafted and technically excellent.
Night's Glass Table won the 2012 IP Picks Best First Book Award.
14) Snap.Shot
Author
Language
English
Description
Confronting held narratives of black queer life, Snap.Shot strives to answer questions of belonging, identity, and survival. In poems directed by personal narrative, engagement with art, and the erotic, Snap.Shot grounds the reader in a fragmented speaker in order to create a self resilient enough to brave devastation. From sword swallower to bug, mother to dominatrix, these poems shapeshift and ask the reader to trace their own moments of tribulation...
15) I Want Us
Author
Language
English
Description
Jazlyn Mackie and Rome Ellis were platonic best buddies…until they're snowed in together during a blizzard and end up keeping each other warm all night. After that, they're feeling anything but platonic about each other. All would be beautiful except for the fact that they were both in relationships, however imperfect, and only one of them is feeling the guilt over what they did. Then Rome's jilted girlfriend Nell hits Jazlyn with a strange request:...
Author
Language
English
Description
It's the nineties, an era of upheaval. But Denise is too caught up in her own battle to notice. Terry is her mother, or that's what Denise's birth certificate says anyway (she checked to make sure). Their life is as picture perfect as Terry can possibly make it, which is to say that it's not picture perfect at all. There's the missing father. Then there's the pregnancy at nineteen.Now Terry has to decide-does she let Denise and her baby destroy the...
17) Gone by the C
Author
Language
English
Description
When moving up the corporate ladder depends on the success to the second language proficiency test, an employee's anxiety could reach a dramatic height.
"The funny part about Perdida's cry was the tears. Normally, except for Black Africans, people's tears run through their noses. Don't ask me why. That really baffles me. On the other hand, African people's tears come directly out of their eyes and quietly run through their cheeks before vanishing...
Author
Language
English
Description
Nearly a year after his arrest and subsequent conviction for drug possession, Jim Reid is struggling to rebuild his life. All he wants is a second chance, but it seems society will not allow him to forget the mistakes of his past. Battling unemployment, financial ruin, and his own personal demons, Jim realizes that he needs help. Instead of turning to the only one who can help, Jim begins to rely on his new friend, Smoke, a small time drug dealer...
Author
Language
English
Description
Let Thy Will Be Done. The Everlasting Poet is the final word through this humbled servant of God. Although, I am not worthy of any grace given me in this guise of poetry, which I represent and have represented in my writings, it has been my constant understanding that the poetry that I write is not less poetry, but it represents "my truth," showered upon me and voiced through led by the Spirit of Truth. This Spirit, which I first came to know in my...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Alisha and Jason have been through many ups and downs in their relationship. Now, they are stronger than ever and planning their happily ever after.A visitor from Jason's past reappears and threatens to bring down everything that he and Alisha have worked so hard to build. The way they react to the situation will determine if they will have their forever after.