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1) Swing time
Author
Language
English
Description
Two dancers with different approaches to their craft share a complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, in a story that transitions from northwest London to West Africa.
Author
Series
The Brown sisters volume 3
Language
English
Description
When his life is taken over by a purple-haired tornado of a woman named Eve Brown, B&B owner Jacob Wayne tries to fight his attraction to this sunny, chaotic woman who is his natural-born enemy.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Striking a deal with the river of blood to take center stage in the Parisian ballet, Black dancer Laure gains everything she’s dreamed of and worked toward until she discovers, despite her vicious desires, she isn’t the only monster around.
Author
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Aphrodite Du Bell has always resented her name. While the members of the ton, and even the queen herself, praise her warm brown skin, perfect curls, and exquisite features, Aphrodite can't help but think that living up to the literal goddess of beauty is asking a bit much. Her renowned loveliness certainly didn't stop the love of her life from jilting her and marrying another woman four years ago. When Aphrodite's formidable mother summons her back...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nineteen years old, broke, and effectively an orphan, Magnolia doesn't have much to look forward to. She feels stuck and haunted: by her overdrawn bank account, by her predatory landlord, by the ghost of her late grandmother Mama Brown. One night while working at her dead-end job, a mysterious, slick stranger named Cotton walks in and offers to turn Magnolia's luck around. He offers her a lucrative "modeling" job at his family's funeral home. Magnolia...
8) Assembly
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The narrator of Assembly is a black British woman. She is preparing to attend a lavish garden party at her boyfriend's family estate, set deep in the English countryside. At the same time, she is considering the carefully assembled pieces of herself. As the minutes tick down and the future beckons, she can't escape the question: is it time to take it all apart? Assembly is a story about the stories we live within--those of race and class, safety...
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A popular CNN anchor pays tribute to her mother, a widowed immigrant in South London who raised four successful children alone, including Oscar-nominated actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, painting a powerful portrait of the strength, tenacity, love and perseverance embodied in one woman.
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Two Jamaican-Trinidadian sisters in Brooklyn, Zora and Sasha Porter, drifting apart as they bear witness to their father's violence and their mother's worsening illness, must come together to answer to something more ancient and powerful than they know--and confront a long-buried family secret.
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