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Push
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Sapphire
Claireece Precious Jones is an overweight, illiterate black teenager pregnant with her second child--both the result of incest by her father--and infected with the AIDS virus--also thanks to her father. This first novel by the poet and performance artist Sapphire tells the story of how Precious miraculously finds redemption and deliverance through ...
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The Help
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Kathryn Stockett
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
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Barack Obama (Read by)
At the heart of The Audacity of Hope is Senator Obama?s vision of how his country can move beyond its divisions to tackle concrete problems. He examines the growing economic insecurity of American families and the racial and religious tensions within the body politic, and considers the nature of threats from outside America?s borders. By returning ...
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Poisonwood Bible
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Barbara Kingsolver
In 1959, a missionary named Nathan Price transports his wife and four daughters to a remote village in the Belgian Congo to convert the natives. The family is met with hostility from the locals, particularly a vengeful witch doctor. They also face bands of desperate rebels, dangerous wildlife, and the inevitable petty inconveniences a hyper ...
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
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Alexander McCall Smith
Precious Ramotswe lives to help people, a predilection that directs her to embark on a career as a private detective. It proves to be a remarkably prescient notion as upon opening the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, she is inundated with cases--including tracking down a missing boy who appears to have been kidnapped by witchdoctors.
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Cross Country
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James Patterson
After the home of Alex Cross's oldest friend is turned into the worst murder scene Alex has ever seen, the destruction leads him to believe that he's chasing a horrible new breed of killer. Soon Alex and his girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, become entangled in the deadly African underworld of Washington, D.C.
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
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Barack Obama
The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. Many years later, Obama receives a phone call from Nairobi: his father is dead. This sudden news inspires an emotional odyssey for Obama, determined to learn the truth of his father's life and reconcile his divided ...
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I, Alex Cross
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James Patterson
Alex Cross's niece is found brutally murdered. Overcome with grief, Alex vows to take down her killer before he strikes again. But shortly after he begins the investigation, Alex discovers that his niece had gotten mixed up with some very important, very dangerous people.
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Tears of the Giraffe
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Alexander McCall Smith
In her second outing (following THE NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY), Precious Ramotswe tries to help a women whose son disappeared into the plains years earlier, while also dealing with a number of changes at the agency and in her personal life.
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Kalahari Typing School for Men
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Alexander McCall Smith
Now that the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is established, its founder, Precious Ramotswe, can look upon her life with pride. But life is never without its problems, as she discovers in this fourth book in a series the "Los Angeles Times" calls "thoroughly engaging and entertaining."
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Alex Cross's Trial
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James Patterson, Richard DiLallo
Detective Alex Cross tells an ancestor's story, in this astonishing account of one man's bold pursuit of justice in the face of racism and violence. Unlike any story Patterson has ever told before, "Alex Cross's Trial" still offers the astounding action and breakneck speed of any Alex Cross novel to date.
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Cutting for Stone
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Abraham Verghese, M.D.
A stunning debut novel from the author of "My Own Country": an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, fathers and sons, doctors and patients, exile and home.
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Uncommon: Finding Your Path to Significance
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Tony Dungy, Nathan Whitaker
Super Bowl-winning coach Dungy reflects on what it takes to achieve significance.
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The Miracle at Speedy Motors
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Alexander McCall Smith
In the ninth mystery of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Precious Ramotswe visits a game preserve to uncover the truth about an elderly American traveler whose safari proves to be his last journey.
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Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
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Benjamin S Carson, Sr., M.D.
Gifted Hands dose not just shed light on a ghetto youth with failing grades who became director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Univesity Hospital at age 33. It takes readers into the operating room to watch incredibly complex, delicate, life-saving surgeries. "He is a model to all the youth of today".--Jesse Jackson.
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King Leopolds' Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
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Adam Hochschild
First published in 1999, Hochschild provides a riveting account of the Congo massacres, peopled by callous monarchs, corrupt adventurers and a handful of genuine heroes. This exemplary piece of history writing gives the facts that caused those atrocities.
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Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, & Priorities of a Winning Life
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Tony Dungy (Read by), Nathan Whitaker
In this inspiring and reflective memoir, Dungy, the first African-American coach to win a Super Bowl title, tells the story of a life lived for God and family--and challenges readers to redefine their ideas of what it means to succeed.
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Hope in the Unseen
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Ron Suskind
As an honor student walking the gauntlet of sneers and threats at his crime-infested high school in Washington, D.C., Cedric Jennings achieved the impossible: a 4.02 grade-point average and acceptance into Brown University. Suskind won a Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for his stories about Jennings and now expands them into this full-length, nonfiction ...
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The Mis-Education of the Negro
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Carter Godwin Woodson
Originally released in 1933, The Mis-Education of the Negro continues to resonate today, raising questions that readers are still trying to answer. The impact of slavery on the Black psyche is explored and questions are raised about our education system, such as what and who African Americans are educated for, the difference between education and ...
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Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
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Annette Gordon-Reed
This epic work tells the story of the Hemings family, whose close blood ties to the third president of America had been systematically expunged from history until very recently. Now, historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed traces the Hemingses from their origins in Virginia in the 1700s to the family's dispersal after Thomas Jefferson's ...
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In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
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Alexander McCall Smith
This time around, the charming and ever-resourceful Precious Ramotswe finds herself overly beset by problems. She is busier than usual at the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, when a strange intruder in her house forces her to confront a painful secret from her past.
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Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your Destiny
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Hill Harper
Straight talk and inspiring advice for America's youth are offered by the powerhouse public speaker and star of "CSI: NY." 8-page color insert.
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Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: Revised Edition
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Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D.
The fifth-anniversary edition of the best-selling work on the development of racial identity. . Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see black youth seated together in the cafeteria. Of course, it's not just the black kids sitting together-the white, Latino, Asian Pacific, and, in some regions, American Indian youth are clustered ...
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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Douglas A Blackmon
Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history, the late 1870s through the 1940s when thousands of African-American men were arbitrarily arrested, hit with fines, charged for room and board in state and county jails, and then forced to work off the debt as unpaid laborers.
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Autobiography of Malcolm X
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Malcolm X
Malcolm X was a controversial figure in the early sixties as one of the most forceful and eloquent spokesmen for African-Americans. In his writings and public appearances he addressed the issues of Black pride, separatism (a position he eventually renounced), and self-esteem. In the years prior to his assassination in 1965, he granted Alex Haley, ...
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