From the church pew to the dinner table, the stories and lessons handed down from one generation to another impart the messages that guide and shape our lives. The contributors to this collection distill that age-old wisdom into rich...
African Americans
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- Author:Ione, CaroleSummary:
Born in 1937 and raised by her physician great aunt, chorus-line dancing grandmother, and glamorous murdermystery writing mother, psychotherapist Carole Ione knew more about the men in her family than she did about her secretive female...
- Author:Grant, MicheleSummary:
When his brother kicks him out of his house, Avery Beauregard Montgomery, who is unemployed and basically homeless, decides to stay at his sister's apartment where he discovers exactly what he wants--his sister's roommate,...
- Author:McKissack, PatSummary:
Home alone with a stomachache while the family works in the fields, a young girl faces up to the horrifying Boo Hag that her brother warned her about.
- Author:Octavia, GraceSummary:
Tamia, Troy and Tasha, three New York City "It Girls," must try to balance life, love and their careers while they search for something, or someone, to believe in.
- Author:Swinson, KikiSummary:
Yoshi Lomax loves playing dirty. She'll do whatever it takes to win a case--including bribing cops, sleeping with her superiors, and convincing her DEA pals to make evidence disappear. But when Yoshi runs out of tricks while...
- Author:Tyree, OmarSummary:
Ivan David is an accountant slowly growing fed up with his rich, spoiled clientele. He has a plan to promote business networking parties, but when he meets local diva Lucina Gallo, his simple plan becomes more trouble than it's...
- Author:Bentley, TyroneSummary:
With a drug addict mother and a drug lord father, Aphtan learns how to fend for herself at an early age. Being the princess of an empire has its perks-until her father gets arrested. From stealing clothes and food to committing fraud,...
- Author:Skinner, Robert E.Summary:
Autumn, 1940: A black woman named Louise Blanc is found tortured to death in her Gentilly home. Sergeant Israel Daggett can't make anything of it until a Treasury agent arrives on the scene to let him know that Louise Blanc was the...
- Author:hooks, bellSummary:
According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore bell hooks' electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, Outlaw Culture...
- Author:Jackson, BrendaSummary:
Riley Westmoreland never mixes business with pleasure--until he meets his company's gorgeous new party planner. But when he gets Alpha Blake into bed, he realizes one night will never be enough. That's when her past threatens...
- Author:Bowen, RhondaSummary:
Cutthroat Atlanta reporter Toni Shields is looking for a scoop at Jacob House, a local rehab center, when she locks horns with the clinic's director, Adam Bayne. Adam doesn't appreciate Toni's attempts to find headlines...
- Author:Joy, E. N.Summary:
What does crazy look like' Let Deborah tell it, it's the reflection that looks back at her in the mirror. She has a career she loves, two beautiful children and a handsome and successful husband. Her life seems to be the...
- Author:Williams-Garcia, RitaSummary:
In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their...
- Author:Abdul-Jabbar, KareemSummary:
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar examines some of the leading political and cultural figures of the Harlem Renaissance--including Marcus Garvey,W.E.B. Du Bois, Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Langston Hughes, and many more.
- Author:Abdul-Jabbar, KareemSummary:
Listen as jazz critic Stanley Crouch describes the Roaring Twenties and Kareeem discusses how jazz influenced his life.
- Author:Abdul-Jabbar, KareemSummary:
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar recounts the birth of Harlem, from the boll weevil to the Great Migration, and discusses how Harlem influenced his life.
- Author:Draper, Sharon M.Summary:
A teenaged boy's death in a hazing accident has lasting effects on his pregnant girlfriend and his guilt-ridden cousin, who gives up a promising music career to play football during his senior year in high school.
- Author:Baldwin, JamesSummary:
Notes of a Native Son is the book that established Baldwin's voice as a social critic, and it remains one of his most admired works. These essays create a cohesive sketch of black America and reveal an intimate portrait of Baldwin's own...
- Author:Baldwin, JamesSummary:
Records the last months of Baldwin's ten-year self-exile in Europe, his return to Harlem, and his first trip south at the time of the school integration battles.