Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance more books like this

by 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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Alex Cross's Trial more books like this

by 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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The Rose That Grew from Concrete more books like this

by Tupac Shakur

By the time of his murder at the age of 25, Tupac Shakur was a major force in rap music, with a dozen albums and six movies under his belt. But this collection of poems, written in a poetry workshop by the future star at the age of 19, shows that Shakur possessed both a poet's disarming simplicity and a writer's raw talent well before the start of ...

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Forged by Fire more books like this

by Sharon Mills Draper

When his mother leaves him at home while she goes to buy drugs, 3-year-old Gerald Nickelby accidentally starts a fire and is badly burned. Afterward, his mother is charged with child neglect and sentenced to jail, and Gerald is sent to live with his firm but loving Aunt Queen. Six years later, after his mother is released from jail and Aunt Queen ...

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Fences: A Play more books like this

by August Wilson, Lloyd Richards (Introduction by)

The author of the 1984-85 Broadway season's best play, MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM, returns with another powerful, stunning dramatic work that has won him new critical acclaim and the Pulitzer Prize. The protagonist of FENCES, Troy Maxson, is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be - to survive. For Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America ...

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Roll of thunder, hear my cry more books like this

by Mildred D Taylor

'We have no choice of what colour we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here.' The Mississippi of the 1930s was a hard place for a black child to grow up in, but still Cassie didn't understand why farming his own land meant so much to her father. ...

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Up to No Good more books like this

by Mr. Carl Weber

There's always a man around the corner, and church trustee James Black should know--he's usually that very man. The "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Something on the Side" introduces a deliciously dysfunctional family in this new page-turning novel filled with intrigue, sex, and surprises.

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Fallen Angels more books like this

by Walter Dean Myers

An account of the Vietnam War as told by a young African American foot soldier. Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry enlists in the Army as a means of escaping what he sees as his dead end life in Harlem. He arrives in Vietnam in 1967 and quickly discovers the horrible reality of war and the true meaning of friendship and survival.

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The Heat Seekers more books like this

by Zane

Tempest and Geren fall in love, but their relationship is threatened by voices from the past--and by Tempest's friend Janessa's affair with Geren's best friend.

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Souls of Black Folk more books like this

by W E B Du Bois, PH.D.

This fictionalized account of the life of aviatrix Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman, the first female African-American to receive a pilot's license, is told through a series of poems/eulogies presented at her funeral by those who knew her or knew of her adventures, celebrating Coleman's achievements while informing readers of the circumstances of her ...

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Skyscraper more books like this

by Zane

Most corporations hand out bonus checks for the holidays. Automobile manufacturer Wolfe Industries, on the other hand, passes out drama - and plenty of it. Zane's latest sizzler follows the sexual adventures of lust-struck employees through a carnival of corporate carnality. Anastasia spends her nights in the secret penthouse maintained by company ...

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Death Before Dishonor more books like this

by 50 Cent, Nikki Turner

The first time Sunni fell in love, it landed her in jail - facing forty years along with her so-called thug love, swearing on a stack of bibles that the drugs weren't hers. When she got out of prison, she beat the odds by opening a one of a kind, 24-hour beauty salon where both money and gossip flowed freely. And although she now could afford a ...

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Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class more books like this

by Larry Tye

Drawing on extensive interviews with dozens of porters and their descendants, Tye reconstructs the complicated world of the Pullman porter and the vital cultural, political, and economic roles they played as forerunners of the modern black middle class.

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Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 more books like this

by Christopher Paul Curtis

Nine-year-old Kenny narrates this story about his middle-class, African-American family and their 1963 trip from Flint, Michigan to Birmingham, Alabama. The trip's purpose is two-fold--to visit their grandmother, and to get Kenny's older brother away from the rough crowd he has been running with. Sadly, racism rears its ugly head as the family ...

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The strange career of Jim Crow more books like this

by C. Vann Woodward

This study of segregation was first published in 1955 and has long been considered a classic work in the history of the American South.

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True to the Game II more books like this

by Teri Woods

Picking up where True to the Game left off, Quadir is dead, and Gena is now seeing a new guy named Jay. Little does she know that this man she has fallen in love with is actually Jerrell Jackson, Quadir's former arch-rival jerrell jackson! Unfortunately Jerrell is determind to get his revenge of Quadir's crew - starting with Gena!

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The Norton Anthology of African American Literature more books like this

by Nellie Y McKay (Editor), Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Editor), William L Andrews (Editor)

Organized chronologically, this anthology of African-American literature brings together the work of 123 writers from 1746 to the present. This second edition features a varied selection of genres and a wealth of vernacular forms.

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After Tupac and D Foster more books like this

by Jacqueline Woodson

A lot can happen to three girls in a two-year period--especially when the rap music of Tupac Shakur is the glue holding them together.

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True to the Game: A Teri Woods Fable more books like this

by Teri Woods

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Come on People: On the Path from Victims to Victors more books like this

by Bill Cosby, Alvin F Poussaint

Bill Cosby and Alvin F. Poussaint have a powerful message for families and communities as they lay out their visions for strengthening America, or for that matter the world. They address the crises of people who are stuck because of feelings of low self-esteem, abandonment, anger, fear, sadness, and feelings of being used, undefended and ...

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Hope on a Tightrope: Words and Wisdom more books like this

by Cornel West

Offering openhearted wisdom for modern times, this courageous collection of quotations, speech excerpts, letters, and photographs by the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Democracy Matters" includes an original CD that highlights Dr. West's outstanding spoken-word artistry.

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The Water Is Wide: A Memoir more books like this

by Pat Conroy

Reissued in trade paper, this is the first-person account of the year spent by the author teaching black children on an impoverished island off the South Carolina coast.

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Quade's Babies more books like this

by Brenda Jackson

Quade Westmoreland's one-night love affair with Cheyenne had branded him body and soul, but he'd never even learned her last name. Almost a year later, driven by memories and one incriminating photo, the sexy operative had finally tracked her down--and discovered three little babies bearing his features. Learning he was a father made Quade even ...

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Copper Sun more books like this

by Sharon Mills Draper

Slave traders invade Armari's African village and she is dragged to a ship bound for the Carolinas. Bought by a plantation owner, Amari befriends a white indentured servant named Polly and struggles to hold on to her memories, in this Coretta Scott King Award-winning novel.

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A Piece of Cake: A Memoir more books like this

by Cupcake Brown (Read by)

From beloved daughter to abused foster child to prostitute and gang member, Brown took on the worst of contemporary urban life and survived it. Now an attorney at one of the largest firms in California, she vividly recounts her story.

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