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Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"An incandescent collection that interrogates the personal and political nature of desire, freedom, and disaster. In his brilliant, expansive second volume, Whiting Award-winning poet Roger Reeves probes the apocalypses and raptures of humanity-climate change, anti-Black racism, familial and erotic love, ecstasy and loss. The poems in Best Barbarian roam across the literary and social landscape, from Beowulf's Grendel to the jazz musician Alice Coltrane,...
2) Shark teeth
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventh-grader Sharkita "Kita" embarks on a tumultuous journey to keep her family together while handling the consequences of her mother's alcoholism.
Author
Series
Dragons in a bag volume 5
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amidst the search for a peaceful resolution, Jax and his friends find themselves facing an imminent war as the witches gear up for battle against the formidable Scourge, threatening to drain all magic from both realms.
Author
Series
Cookies and milk volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After twelve-year-old Ellis's big break turns into his most embarrassing moment ever and his relationship with his dad and their cookie store starts to change, Ellis hatches plans to get his life back on track."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Middle school is just around the corner, which means it's time to start thinking about plans for the future, and not just how Ryan Hart is going to prank her brother, Ray. She'd like to make sure she goes to middle school with her friends, and that is up in the air since Kiki's mom wants to send Kiki to a different school next year. Ryan also wonders who she wants to be when she grows up, and if that's more than just what her job will be. She'd like...
6) We could fly
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"At a sparrow's urging, a young girl feels a mysterious trembling in her arms, a lightness in her feet, a longing to be free. Her mother tells her that her Granny Liza experienced the same, as did many of their people before her. Perhaps it's time, Mama says, to slip the bonds of earth and join the journey started long ago. To hold each other tight and rise"--
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning author, scholar, and social visionary George Yancy brings together the greatest minds of our time to speak truth to power and welcome everyone into a conversation about the pursuit of justice, equality, and peace"--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
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.
11) Finch house
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Micah has no interest in moving out of her grandfather's house. She loves living with Poppop and their shared hobby of driving around rich neighborhoods to find treasures in others' trash. To avoid packing, Micah goes for a bike ride and ends up at Finch House, the decrepit Victorian that Poppop says is Off Limits. Except when she gets there, it's all fixed up and there's a boy named Theo in the front yard. Surely that means Finch...
12) One big open sky
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska"--
13) The Blackwoods
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told from multiple points of view, Ardith and Hollis Blackwood's lives are upended when their great-grandmother, legendary actress Blossom Blackwood, passes away, and family secrets emerge.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Jackie Ormes sees an opportunity, she takes it. She's a journalist, cartoonist, fashionista, philanthropist, and activist -- and she wants to use her artistry to bring joy and hope to Black people everywhere. But in post-World War II America, Black people are still being denied their civil rights, and Jackie has a dilemma: How can her art remain true to her signature Jackie joy, while also staying honest about the inequalities Black people have...
15) Nigeria Jones
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,|c[2023]
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"A sixteen-year-old girl whose father is the leader of a Black liberation group discovers her own place in the world"--|cProvided by publisher.
16) Cookies & milk
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Ellis discovers family secrets, makes new friends, and adjusts to his parents' recent divorce during a hijinks-filled summer helping his father open the world's first chocolate chip cookie store in 1976 Hollywood.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1106
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A fictional account of one amazing night where icons Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown gathered discussing their roles in the Civil Rights Movement and cultural turmoil of the '60s.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state's Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers behind the brick...