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101) Louisiana bigshot
Author
Series
Baroness Pontalba novels volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
303 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Increasingly disturbed by her inability to uncover the true identity of an old friend, New Orleans private investigator and poet Talba Wallis takes on a suspicious new client and encounters an ugly secret in the small town of Clayton, Louisiana.
102) Cane River
Author
Series
Tademy family chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Physical Desc
xii, 418 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows four generations of African American women from slavery to the early twentieth century as they struggle for economic security and the future of their families along the Cane River in rural Louisiana.
103) Louisiana hotshot
Author
Series
Baroness Pontalba novels volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Talba Wallis--African American poet, leader of New Orleans' café society, and fledgling private detective--is hired by veteran sleuth Eddie Valentino to find a dangerous lothario who seduces teenage black girls who then mysteriously vanish.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
418 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive portrait of the First Lady describes her working-class upbringing on Chicago's South Side, her education at Princeton and Harvard during the racially charged 1980s, and her marriage to the future forty-fourth president.
106) Ripe: essays
Author
Series
Publisher
Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xiii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Essays at the intersection of race, sexuality, and pop culture that confront Kaudo's experience as a Black woman and ask what it means to own one's Blackness when contemporary white America simultaneously denigrates and appropriates Black culture"--
108) Counting the stars
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The story of Katherine Johnson, an African American mathematician whose work was critical to the first US space flight"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as 'human computers' used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in...
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
[Widescreen ed.].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Helen McCarter would seem to have it all. She's married to Charles who is one of Atlanta's most successful attorneys. But despite having wealth and prestige, things are not as they seem in the McCarter home. On the evening of their anniversary, Charles drops a bombshell on Helen - he's divorcing her for another woman. Thrown out of the house with nowhere to go, Helen moves in with her grandmother Madea, a sassy woman with no shortage of opinions and...
Author
Language
English
Description
A young mother finds refuge and friendship at a boardinghouse in 1960s Memphis, Tennessee, where family encompasses more than just blood and hidden truths can bury you or set you free.
Sara King has nothing, save for her secrets and the baby in her belly, as she boards the bus to Memphis, hoping to outrun her past in Chicago. She is welcomed with open arms by Mama Sugar, a kindly matriarch and owner of the popular boardinghouse The Scarlet Poplar....
112) Broken places
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Former cop Cass Raines has found the world of private investigation a less stressful way to eke out a living in the Windy City. But when she stumbles across the dead body of a respected member of the community, it's up to her to prove a murderer is on the loose." -- Publisher annotation.
Former cop Cass Raines has found the world of private investigation a less stressful way to eke out a living in the Windy City. When Father Ray Heaton asks Cass...
113) Nappily ever after
Author
Series
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First paperback edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
What happens when you toss tradition out the window and really start living for yourself? Venus Johnston has a great job, a beautiful home, and a loving live-in boyfriend named Clint, who happens to be a drop-dead gorgeous doctor. She also has a weekly beauty-parlor date with Tina, who keeps Venus's long, processed hair slick and straight. But when Clint--who's been reluctant to commit over the past four years--brings home a puppy instead of an engagement...
Author
Publisher
Legacy Lit
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
177 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Cultural criticism and pop culture history intertwine to dissect how hip hop has sidelined Black women's identity and emotional well-being"--
A "ride-or-die chick" is a woman who holds down her family and her community. She does anything for her family, friends and significant other, even at the cost of her own well-being. Hubbard argues that this way of life has left Black women exhausted, overworked, overlooked, and feeling depleted. She urges...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
1 volume : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The inspiring autobiography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, who helped launch Apollo 11."--
116) For colored girls
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"A vibrant world where friends and strangers dream, fear, cry, love, and laugh out loud in an attempt to find their true selves. Adapted by writer/director Tyler Perry from Ntozake Shange's acclaimed choreopoem, this gripping film paints an unforgettable portrait of what it means to be a woman of color in the modern world"--Container.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 200 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The documentary follows a defiant movement of women of color as they transform politics from the ground up. Filmed during the historic 2018 midterm elections, the series follows organizers and candidates (including Rashida Tlaib and Stacey Abrams) as they fight for a truly reflective government, asking whether democracy can be preserved, and made stronger, by those most marginalized.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and "one of our greatest living writers" (Shondaland) reimagines the love story in this fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss. Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again. It's been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she's almost a new person now-an artist with her own studio, and sharing a brownstone...
Author
Publisher
Crossing Press
Pub. Date
[1982]
Edition
First Crossing Press edition.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde's work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her... Lorde brings into play her craft of lush description and characterization. It keeps unfolding page after page."--Off Our Backs.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Diane, Michelle, Kenya, and Lynette have known each other since they were small children. They grew up in different neighborhoods, but they also grew up in the same church (which is how they first met), and while they each attended different colleges, they never lost touch with each other. So much so, they regularly planned trips to come home on the same weekends, and outside of time spent with their family and dating, they enjoyed all their summers...
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