What we are reading this month...

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Some of these books are being published this month, some came out earlier-- but they are all highly recommended by our library staff!

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Celebrate Black History Month with New Nonfiction Must-reads

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• Four Hundred Souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019.

​​       Edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain

• Ida B. the queen : the extraordinary life and legacy of Ida B. Wells.

       Michelle Duster

• Just As I Am. Cicely Tyson

• Soul City : race, equality, and the lost dream of an American utopia. Thomas Healy

• The three mothers : how the mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin shaped a nation. Anna Malaika Tubbs

• Vanguard : how black women broke barriers, won the vote, and insisted on equality for all. Martha S. Jones

• Wandering in strange lands : a daughter of the Great Migration reclaims her roots. Morgan Jerkins

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Happily Ever After Love Stories

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• Wild Rain. Beverly Jenkins

• The Boyfriend Project. Farrah Rochon

• A Cowboy To Remember. Rebekah Weatherspoon

• Jackson. LaQuette

• Honey Girl. Morgan Rogers

• How to Catch a Queen. Alyssa Cole. 

• How to Fail at Flirting.  Denise Williams

Fantastic Fiction and Poetry by African-American Authors

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• Black Buck. Mateo Askaripour

• Everywhere You Don't Belong. Gabriel Bump

• Kindest Lie. Nancy Johnson

• Luster. Raven Leilani

• The Prophets. Robert Jones, Jr.

• Real Life. Brandon Taylor

• Riot Baby. Tochi Onyebuchi

• The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. Deesha Philyaw

• When No One is Watching. Alyssa Cole. 

• African American poetry : 250 years of struggle & song. Edited by Kevin Young

• Homie. Danez Smith

• Just Us: An American Conversation. Claudia Rankine

• Woke: A Young Poets Call to Justice. Mahogany L. Browne

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