Their Highest Potential
By: Vanessa Siddle Walker
4.03
Format: 276 pages, Paperback
African American schools in the segregated South faced enormous obstacles in educating their studen…
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1. All About Love: New Visions
By: bell hooks
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more
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"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
2. Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935
By: James D. Anderson
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern black education from Reconstruction … read more
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- education
3. A Visit from the Goon Squad
By: Jennifer Egan
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging f… read more
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4. All My Rage
By: Sabaa Tahir
4.50
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arrange… read more
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"Songs help me process life. They help me feel."-Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage
"The more you ask for," she'd say, "the better. Because it means you put your fait in something greater than yourself."-Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage
"The more you ask for," she'd say, "the better. Because it means you put your faith in something greater than yourself."-Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage
"Oh God, Toufiq," I whispered. "So much money we put in. What will we do now? I am a fool!" "Kindness is not foolish, my heart." He put his arm around me. "Anyway. At least they didn't steal the pictu…"-Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage
5. Nothing to See Here
By: Kevin Wilson
3.96
Format: 288 pages, ebook
Lillian and Madison were unlikely roommates and yet inseparable friends at their elite boarding sch… read more
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"That would be perfect,"-Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
"A wicked child is the most beautiful thing in the world."-Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
"What’s the point of having money if you can’t use it to make people like you?"-Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
"I grew up in the valley of that mountain, just poor enough that I could imagine a way out."-Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here
6. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
By: Stephanie Foo
4.52
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the… read more
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7. Somebody's Daughter
By: Ashley C. Ford
4.04
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: … read more
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"I wanted to be seen, but I didn't want to be watched."-Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter
"There are few words worthy of the wonders they describe, but sunrise sounds like it feels. A u sunken to the bottom of one's throat, and an i, pointing upward and onward to a warm beyond."-Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter
"I wanted to assert my own style, which posed a problem, because I didn't really have any style. Grandma would shake her head at me and say, "Someday baby, you'll really understand how to dress. I'm j…"-Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter
8. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
By: Clint Smith
4.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Poet and contributor to The Atlantic Clint Smith’s revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a… read more
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"How do you tell a story that has been told the wrong way for so long?"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"Just as he did during the Slavery at Monticello tour, David did not mince words. "There’s a chapter in Notes on the State of Virginia ,"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"Jefferson believed himself to be a benevolent slave owner, but his moral ideals came second to, and were always entangled with, his own economic interests and the interests of his family."-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"But not enough people spoke about the reasons so many black children grow up communities saturated with poverty and violence. Not enough people spoke about how these realities were the result of deci…"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
9. You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
By: Akwaeke Emezi
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss. Feyi Adekola … read more
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"if it's real, the distance won't change it."-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
"Get into the rooms you need to be in so your work can do what it needs to do."-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
"That she had braids like gold, glittering under the sun. The kind of deep, black skin that always looks perfect, like a goddess"-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
"She wanted to take a picture of it but she already knew half the beauty would die inside a camera lens and she'd never quite catch the edges of it."-Akwaeke Emezi, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
10. While We Were Dating (The Wedding Date, #6)
By: Jasmine Guillory
3.74
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Two people realize that it's no longer an act when they veer off-script in this sizzling romantic c… read more
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"I love you so much," he said, she said, they said."-Jasmine Guillory, While We Were Dating (The Wedding Date, #6)
11. Memphis
By: Tara M. Stringfellow
4.10
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding debut novel tracing three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter’s … read more
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12. The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)
By: Helen Hoang
3.94
Format: 339 pages, Paperback
A woman struggling with burnout learns to embrace the unexpected—and the man she enlists to help he… read more
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"This yearning for her, this craving, it's sunk so deep into me that it's part of me now. This is how Quan is now. He's crazy about this one girl."-Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)
"I want to be the person she thought I was, a confident motherfucker who wouldn't give a shit about any of this. But I do give a shit. I want to be enough —for her, for me, for the people in my life."-Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)
"I don't life that Priscilla blaming herself when she did all that she could, all that anyone could, really. But I guess that's how it must be when someone's standards are so impossibly high and their…"-Helen Hoang, The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient, #3)
13. Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching
By: Jarvis R. Givens
4.57
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A fresh portrayal of one of the architects of the African American intellectual tradition, whose fa… read more
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14. Their Highest Potential
By: Vanessa Siddle Walker
4.03
Format: 276 pages, Paperback
African American schools in the segregated South faced enormous obstacles in educating their studen… read more
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