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sTole) qitjecm ie) aXe (Ul ic 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 DVDs American Gangster Blood Diamond ae, es Daddy Day Camp : Ao ier eae Daddy’s Little Girls ¢ Venise VEbOEr Amy Manson Feel the Noise e Margaret Phillibert The Game Plan 8 Anne Smart ! 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