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Get Yours!
Amy DuBois Barnett
Do you want more from your job, your man, your life? Well, in this insightful guide, Amy DuBois Barnett, the deputy editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar, shows you how to Get Yours!...today.
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Heat
Geneva Holliday
It's spring in New York City, but in the lives of these four friend there's plenty of HEAT.
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Harriet Tubman: Imagining a Life
Beverly Lowry
Now, from the award-winning novelist and biographer, an astonishing reimagining of the remarkable life of Harriet Tubman—the "Moses of Her People."
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Gold Diggers
Tracie Howard
"Gucci, Glitz, and Glamour" reign in this deliciously decadent title.
Enter the Gold Diggers' Treasure Sweepstakes for a chance to win one of three gold necklaces, plus the first 100 readers who enter will receive a free copy of Gold Diggers.
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Beats Rhymes & Life
Kenji Jasper and Ytasha Womack, editors
In this in-your-face, innovative collection of essays on hip-hop culture, music journalists take on some of the most volatile ideas and images in rap today—featuring interviews with some of hip-hop's legendary stars, including, Nelly, Ludacris, Common, and Mos Def.
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Ghettonation
Cora Daniels
From an award-winning journalist comes a provocative examination of the impact of "ghetto" mores and attitudes on urban communities & American culture in general.
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I Got Your Back
Sr. Eddie Levert, Gerald Levert, and Lyah Leflore
In a heartfelt, and now bittersweet, love song, Eddie and Gerald Levert, R&B's most beloved father-son duo, offer straight talk about family, fatherhood and more.
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The Notorious PH.D.'s Guide to the Super Fly '70s
Dr. Todd Boyd
This richly informative journey into the 1970s captures the explosive power of the black performers, musicians, filmmakers, and athletes who ignited a cultural revolution.
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Stay Out of the Kitchen!
Mable John and David Ritz
The second book in the Albertina Merci series, featuring the return of everyone's favorite blues singer turned evangelist.
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After
Marita Golden
In her fifth novel, acclaimed writer Marita Golden takes another unflinching look into the face of family, race, love, and identity. Golden "ably walks the line between predictable morality tale and compelling personal journey." — The Washington Post Book World
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Weapons of Mass Seduction
Lori Bryant-Woolridge
An Essence Book Club Recommended Reading Title
This fun, sexy romp follows a beautiful and driven career woman as she's tricked into attending a flirting seminar and realizes she still possesses a set of seductive tools she thought were lost long ago.
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Songs in the Key of My Life
Ferentz Lafargue
A moving memoir inspired by the sounds of Stevie Wonder's smash '70s double-album Songs in the Key of Life.
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Supreme Discomfort
Kevin Merida and Micahel Fletcher
"An engrossing biography of a conflicted man...[Merida and Fletcher] have done a superb job with this both harsh and sympathetic life of Clarence Thomas...an unflinching look at success and race in America."—Kirkus Reviews (starred)
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Tambourines to Glory
Langston Hughes
In this sparkling gem from Langston Hughes, an unlikely team of friends decide to use a thrift-store tambourine and a layaway Bible to start a church, which takes off even as one of the friends falls for a scam artist.
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The Heart of Happy Hollow
Paul Laurence Dunbar
First published in 1904, THE HEART OF HAPPY HOLLOW features sixteen short stories that provide rare glimpses into the lives of African Americans after the Civil War. Through characters ranging from schemers to preachers, Paul Laurence Dunbar crafted a rare snapshot of long-lost communities and their poignant sensibilities.
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Soulscript: A Collection of African American Poetry
Edited by June Jordan
A collection of poems featuring such luminaries as Gwendolyn Brooks, Countee Cullen, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Audre Lorde, Claude McKay, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, and Richard Wright, as well as the fresh voices of the turbulent 1970s' younger writers.
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The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel
W.E.B. Du Bois
This first novel by world-famous sociologist and civil-rights leader W.E.B. Du Bois chronicles the complex interactions between Northern financing and Southern politics as it follows free-spirited Southerner Zora in her romance with Yankee-educated Bles.
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Voices in the Mirror
Gordon Parks
Acclaimed photographer, film director, author, and composer Gordon Parks recounts his inspiring life story, showing what a man once on the outskirts of society can achieve through sheer force of will.
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The Colonel's Dream
Charles W. Chestnutt
In this provocative novel of reconstruction and race, a Civil War veteran tries to create a new utopia in his Southern hometown after gaining enlightenment and riches in the North.
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Pride of Family: Four Generations of American Women of Color
Carole Ione
This dazzling true story of an upper-middle-class African American clan and its four generations of extraordinary women will have readers enthralled to learn about the author's heritage of rebel daughters—from physicians to composers, show girls to abolitionists.
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