Caught Up in the Rapture
By: Sheneska Jackson
4.14
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
THE #1 BLACKBOARD BESTSELLER Meet Jazmine Deems: she's twenty-six, steppin' out from under her o…
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1. Push
By: Sapphire
3.87
Format: 177 pages, Paperback
Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible: invisible to the f… read more
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- african american
"Depression is anger turned inward."-Sapphire, Push
"How is something a memory if you never forgit?"-Sapphire, Push
"Show me what's inside the crystal ball. She look at it a long time then say, Ahh Negrita, you don't want to know."-Sapphire, Push
"One thing I say about Farrakhan and Alice Walker they help me like being black. I wish I wasn't fat but I am. Maybe one day I like that too, who knows."-Sapphire, Push
2. The Buddha in the Attic
By: Julie Otsuka
3.70
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Julie Otsuka’s long-awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine is a tour de force of economy … read more
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"„Niekas nelaimi karo.Visi pralaimi"-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic
"We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting."-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic
"Or was their guilt written plainly, and for all the world to see, across their face? Was it their face, in fact, for which they were guilty?"-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic
"Soon we could barely recognize them. They were taller than we were, and heavier. They were loud beyond belief. I feel like a duck that's hatched goose's eggs."-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic
3. Another Brooklyn
By: Jacqueline Woodson
4.32
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
Running into a long-ago friend sets memories from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her … read more
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4. Their Eyes Were Watching God
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries … read more
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- african american
5. A Lesson Before Dying
By: Ernest J. Gaines
3.48
Format: None pages,
A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black… read more
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6. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
By: Dusti Bowling
3.27
Format: None pages, Hardcover
*"Aven is a perky, hilarious, and inspiring protagonist whose attitude and humor will linger even a… read more
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7. The Housekeeper and the Professor
By: Yōko Ogawa , Stephen Snyder
2.86
Format: 442 pages, Paperback
He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem--ever since a traumatic head injury, he ha… read more
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8. A Piece of Cake
By: Cupcake Brown
4.24
Format: 472 pages, Paperback
This is the heart-wrenching true story of a girl named Cupcake and it begins when, aged eleven, she… read more
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- african american
"You do the foot work, and leave the results up to God."-Cupcake Brown, A Piece of Cake
"It's okay to be afraid. It's not okay to let the fear STOP you."-Cupcake Brown, A Piece of Cake
"Instead of asking WHY you had to do it, how about just thanking Him for safely bringing you THROUGH it."-Cupcake Brown, A Piece of Cake
"Oprah got her money," she snapped. "You trying to get YOURS! No, turn off that fuckin' TV and get to studying!"-Cupcake Brown, A Piece of Cake
9. Raybearer (Raybearer, #1)
By: Jordan Ifueko
4.33
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
Tarisai has always longed for the warmth of a family. She was raised in isolation by a mysterious, … read more
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- romance
"Didn't I tell you a bath would help?"-Jordan Ifueko, Raybearer (Raybearer, #1)
"Some demons could not be soothed by any lullaby."-Jordan Ifueko, Raybearer (Raybearer, #1)
"You have never worried me, daughter. You have only disappointed."-Jordan Ifueko, Raybearer (Raybearer, #1)
"And the more I learn, the farther I feel. I don’t know where home is anymore."-Jordan Ifueko, Raybearer (Raybearer, #1)
10. Redemptor (Raybearer, #2)
By: Jordan Ifueko
4.24
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
For the first time, an Empress Redemptor sits on Aritsar's throne. To appease the sinister spirits … read more
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- romance
"I clenched my fists. Not all pain was worthless. Sometimes, pain could write a story."-Jordan Ifueko, Redemptor (Raybearer, #2)
"Do not confuse guilt with conviction. Guilt is self-centered, and leads only to destructive obsession. But conviction brings balance—a sense of purpose beyond oneself."-Jordan Ifueko, Redemptor (Raybearer, #2)
"I want to live," I said, replacing Ye Eun's lily behind my ear, "because life is . . . life is worth it. Because as long as we can imagine a better world, we should stick around to see it. Even if it…"-Jordan Ifueko, Redemptor (Raybearer, #2)
11. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
By: Deesha Philyaw
4.17
Format: 179 pages, Paperback
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls da… read more
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- african american
"Careful you go looking for something, you just might find it."-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
"The Bible is the inerrant word of God,' Eula whispers, as defiantly as a whisper can be. 'And you only believe that because of how another group of men interpret the first group of men. People say yo…"-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
"You chide yourself for walking too far ahead, for regressing into 80s song lyrics territory so soon. But then he says, "The supermassive black hole at the center of the milky way recently sparked 75 …"-Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
12. How to Say Babylon
By: Safiya Sinclair
4.47
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more
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"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon
13. Recitatif
By: Toni Morrison
4.31
Format: 19 pages, Audiobook
A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the … read more
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- african american
"Difficult to “move on"-Toni Morrison, Recitatif
14. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
By: Susannah Cahalan
4.09
Format: 300 pages, ebook
An award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting med… read more
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"To move foward, you have to leave the past behind"-Susannah Cahalan, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
"there’s nothing worse than seeing pity radiating from the eyes of a former lover."-Susannah Cahalan, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
"Unutmanın varlığı asla kanıtlanmamıştır. Tek bildiğimiz, bazı şeylerin istediğimiz zaman aklımıza gelmemesidir."-Susannah Cahalan, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
"Like daffodils in the early days of spring, my neurons were resprouting receptors as the winter of the illness ebbed."-Susannah Cahalan, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
15. The Pull of the Stars
By: Emma Donoghue
3.96
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospita… read more
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"Guilt was the sooty air we breathed these days."-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars
"I’m beginning to know enough to know that I know nothing."-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars
"I seem to have stumbled onto love, like a pothole in the night."-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars
"Neither of us mentioned the kissing, so as not to burst the bubble by touching it. So as not to think about what it meant for the two of us to kiss."-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars
16. The Marvellers (The Conjureverse, #1)
By: Dhonielle Clayton
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Author Dhonielle Clayton makes her middle-grade debut with a fantasy adventure set in a global magi… read more
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17. House of Marionne (House of Marionne, #1)
By: J. Elle
3.66
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Rich is the blood of the chosen 17 year-old Quell has lived her entire life on the run. She and … read more
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- romance
18. The Memory Thieves (Conjureverse, #2)
By: Dhonielle Clayton
4.16
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Eager to wield their stapiers for Marvel Combat, Ella, Brigit, and Jason are back for their second … read more
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19. Della's House of Style
By: Rochelle Alers
4.28
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Specializing in Cuts, Weaves, Manicures, Pedicures. . . and Passion. Della's House of Style is back… read more
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- african american
20. Caught Up in the Rapture
By: Sheneska Jackson
4.14
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
THE #1 BLACKBOARD BESTSELLER Meet Jazmine Deems: she's twenty-six, steppin' out from under her o… read more
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- chick lit
- african american
- romance
