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FICTION Fruit of the Lemon
by Andrea Levy
Allah Is Not Obliged Faith’s roots are in Jamaica, but it
by Ahmadou Kourouma wasn’t until she started to experience
Eleven-year-old Birahima tells of his frequent racism that she decided to
three years as a child soldier fighting return for a visit.
wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
A Hire Love
The Beautiful Things by Candice Dow
That Heaven Bears After two years as a widow, Fatima
by Dinaw Mengestu Mayo decides to date again. But how
Ethiopian emmigrant Sepha to find the man of her dreams?
Stephanos reflects on his life while
Knots
running a grocery store in inner-city
by Nuruddin Farah
Washington D.C.
Cambara returns to Mogadishu,
Blonde Faith Somalia to mourn her nine-year-old
by Walter Mosley son and to reclaim her family’s home
Middle-age has not been kind to which was taken over by a warlord.
Los Angeles private investigator Easy
The Last Street Novel
Rawlins. His lover left him and he is
by Omar Tyree
looking for two friends, one of whom
Romance author Shareef Crawford
the police are out to kill.
is persuaded to write a book
Casanegra: about a drug dealer in the Harem
A Tennyson Hardwick Story neighborhood where both grew up.
By Blair Underwood
Man Gone Down
Gorgeous actor and gigolo Tennyson
by Michael Thomas
Hardwick has to work to avoid taking
A father of three in a biracial marriage
the rap for the murder of his off and
confronts his past growing up in
on lover Afrodite.
Boston during the busing crisis and
Confessions of a Gambler his striving present.
by Rayda Jacobs
Measuring Time
Beeda’s Muslim religion forbids
by Helon Habila
gambling, and as her favorite son is
A proud Nigerian father watches his
dying of AIDS and needs her, she
strong son go off to war while the
continues her daily visits to the casino.
sickly twin is encouraged to study.
BLACK IS... 2008 « Booklists for Adults
Never Enough: A View Park Novel Waking with Enemies
by Angela Winters by Eric Jerome Dickey
The millionaire founders of a Hitman Gideon faces his own mortality
successful beauty company have when he learns that a hired gun is
a large family whose indulgences, after him and that he must rely on his
addictions, and desires are never out enemies to survive.
of reach.
We’ll Never Tell
New England White by Kayla Perrin
By Stephen L. Carter Sorority sisters decide to haze
Lemaster Carlyle, the African- Shandra because she keeps
American president of an elite stealing their men, but then
New England college, discovers Shandra disappears.
the body of Professor Kellen Zant,
his wife’s former lover. NONFICTION
The New Moon’s Arms
28: Stories of AIDS in Africa
by Nalo Hopkinson
by Stephanie Nolen
Caribbean grandmother Calamity
RA643.86.A3 N65 2007x
Lambkin’s ability to find things returns
during menopause when she finds a Aaron Douglas:
four-year-old boy who has just washed African-American Modernist
up on the beach. Edited by Susan Earle
N6537.D62 A4 2007
Them
by Nathan McCall Acolytes: Poems
A middle-aged man becomes by Nikki Giovanni
embroiled in the conflicts between PS3557.155 A63 2007
his African-American neighbors and
Beats, Rhymes & Life:
the white newcomers who wish to
What We Love and Hate
develop their Atlanta neighborhood.
about Hip-Hop
This Fire Down in my Soul Editted by Kenji Jasper
by J.D. Mason and Ytasha Womack
Dr. Faye, a counselor at Hope Filled 2185.50.6/37 0.2008
Christian Church, had a bullet ready
Being A Black Man:
for her preacher husband's mistress,
At the Corner of Progress
but he beat her to it.
and Peril
Edited by Kevin Merida
E1s5.36 Ber. 7 2008
The Birth of Black America: The Devil Came on Horseback:
The First African Americans and Bearing Witness to the Genocide
the Pursuit of Freedom In Darfur
at Jamestown by Brian Steidle
by Tim Hashaw and Gretchen Steidle Wallace
boos H2so 2O0/ D1159.6.D2/7 S/420G8
Black Panther: Dreams of Africa in Alabama:
The Revolutionary Art The Slave Ship Clotilda and
of Emory Douglas the Story of the Last Africans
Edited by Sam Durant Brought To America
NC1850.D68 B53 2007x by Sylviane A. Diouf
E445.A3 D56 2007
Bridging the Divide: My Life
by Edward W. Brooke Escape on the Pearl:
E840.8 B76 A3 2007 The Heroic Bid for Freedom
on the Underground Railroad
Brother, ’m Dying
by Mary Kay Ricks
by Edwidge Danticat
E445.D6 R53 2008
PS3554.A5815 Z46 2007
The Five Percenters: Islam,
Can We Talk About Race?:
Hip Hop and the Gods of New York
And Other Conversations in
by Michael Muhammad Knight
an Era of School Resegregation
BP221.25 N4 200
by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Eipooey oof 2007 From The Heart:
Seven Rules to Live By
Cooked:
by Robin Roberts
From the Streets to The Stove,
BF63/.58 R5/83 407
From Cocaine to Foie Gras
by Jeff Henderson Ghettonation: A Journey into
HV5805.H37 A3 2007 the Land of Bling and the Home
of the Shameless
The Confidante:
by Cora Daniels
Condoleezza Rice and
HN59.2 D383 2007
the Creation of the Bush Legacy
by Glenn Kessler Going Down Jericho Road:
E840.8.R48 K475 2007 The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther
King’s Last Campaign
by Michael K. Honey
HD5325.82572 1968 M465 2007
The Haitian Vodou Handbook: — A Long Way Gone:
Protocols for Riding with the Law Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Kenaz Filan by Ishmael Beah
sue out foo 2007 DT516.828.B43 A3 2007
Harlem Speaks: A Living History Lose Your Mother: A Journey
of the Harlem Renaissance along the Atlantic Slave Route
Edited by Cary D. Wintz by Saidiya Hartman
PS153.N5 H267 2007 DTG Fori2uUr
Held at a Distance: The Marines of Montford Point:
A Rediscovery of Ethiopia America’s First Black Marines
by Rebecca G. Haile by Melton McLaurin
DT378.3 .H385 2007 VEZ3 eVico 200F
House of Stone: Missing Pages:
The True Story of a Family Divided Black Journalists of Modern
in War-Torn Zimbabwe America: An Oral History
by Christina Lamb by Wallace Terry
HD992.Z63 L385 2007
PN4871.5 .147 2007
! Got Your Back:
Modern Caribbean Cuisine
A Father and Son Keep It Real
by Wendy Rahamut
About Love, Fatherhood, Family,
TXALGA IRS4 -2 007
and Friendship |
by Eddie Levert, Sr. and Gerald Levert One Drop: My Father’s Hidden
ML400 .L65 2007 Life—A Story of Race and
Family Secrets
The Invisible Cure: Africa, the
by Bliss Broyard
West, and the Fight against AIDS
PS3552:R19154 246: 200%
by Helen Epstein
RA643.86.A35 E674 2007 Oscar Micheaux, The Great and
Only: The Life of America’s First
Jerk from Jamaica:
Black Filmmaker
Barbecue Caribbean Style
by Patrick McGilligan
by Helen Willinsky
PN1998.3 M494 M34 2007
TX716.J27 W55 2007
Raising Kanye: Life Lessons from
Know What I Mean?:
the Mother of a Hip-Hop Superstar
Reflections on Hip-Hop
by Donda West
by Michael Eric Dyson
ML420.W452 W47 2007
ML3531 .D97 2007x
BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
The Real Pepsi Challenge: Triumph: The Untold Story
The Inspirational Story of of Jesse Owens and
Breaking the Color Barrier Hitler’s Olympics
in American Business by Jeremy Schaap
by Stephanie Capparell GV697,09 S33 2007
HD9349.S634 P462 2007
Untapped: The Scramble
Redbone: Money, Malice, for Africa’s Oil
and Murder in Atlanta by John H. Ghazvinian
by Ron Stodghill HD957.7.A2 G43 2007
HV6534.A7 S86 2007
The Vixen Diaries
Reposition Yourself: by Karrine Steffans
Living Life without Limits PN2287.S6765 A3 2007
by T.D. Jakes
We Gotta Have It: Twenty Years
BV4598.3.J36 2007
of Seeing Black at the Movies,
Selected Poems 1986-2006
by Derek Walcott by Esther lverem
PR9272.9.W3 A6 2007 PN1995.9.N4 194 2007x
The Soul of Baseball: The Women Who Raised Me:
A Road Trip through A Memoir
Buck O’Neil’s America by Victoria Rowell
by Joe Posnanski PN2287.R774 A3 2007x
GV863.A1 P67 2007
The Words and Music
Timbuktu: The Sahara’s of Bob Marley
Fabled City of Gold by David Moskowitz
by Marg DevVilliers ML420.M3313 M67 2007
D1551.9.1T48 D48'2007
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