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by Bromfield, Asha

Book - 2021

Tilla has spent her entire life trying to make her father love her. But every six months, he leaves their family and returns to his true home: the island ...Show more Tilla has spent her entire life trying to make her father love her. But every six months, he leaves their family and returns to his true home: the island of Jamaica. This summer, Tilla is joining him, and is forced to face the storm that unravels in her own life as she learns about the dark secrets that lie beyond the veil of paradise. A powerful coming of age story that deals with colorism, classism, young love, the father-daughter dynamic—and what it means to discover your own voice in the center of complete destruction. Show less

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Book of Wings

A Novel

by Evanson, Tanya

Book - 2021

In this sweeping, allusive novel, Evanson comes to terms with what it means to stand on one’s own two feet in an uncertain world. The acclaimed Antiguan-C...Show more In this sweeping, allusive novel, Evanson comes to terms with what it means to stand on one’s own two feet in an uncertain world. The acclaimed Antiguan-Canadian artist traces a global journey from Vancouver to the United States, Caribbean, Paris, and Morocco as a relationship with her lover and travel partner disintegrates and she finds herself on a path toward personal discovery and spiritual fulfillment that leads her deep into the North African landscape. Show less

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The Son of the House

by Onyemelukwe-Onuobia, Cheluchi

Book - 2021

Shortlisted for the 2021 Giller Prize, this book pulses with vitality and intense human drama. The lives of two Nigerian women divided by class and social...Show more Shortlisted for the 2021 Giller Prize, this book pulses with vitality and intense human drama. The lives of two Nigerian women divided by class and social inequality intersect when they're kidnapped, held captive, and forced to await their fate together. Show less

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The Junta of Happenstance

by Oloruntoba, Tolu

Book - 2021

Personal, primordial, and pulsing with syncopated language, Tolu Oloruntoba’s poetic debut, The Junta of Happenstance, is a compendium of dis-ease. In the...Show more Personal, primordial, and pulsing with syncopated language, Tolu Oloruntoba’s poetic debut, The Junta of Happenstance, is a compendium of dis-ease. In the face of struggles against social injustice, Oloruntoba navigates the contemporary moment with empathy and intelligence, finding beauty in chaos, and strength in suffering. Show less

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Son of Elsewhere

A Memoir in Pieces

by Abdelmahmoud, Elamin

Book - 2022

An enlightening and deliciously witty collection of essays on Blackness, faith, pop culture, and the challenges--and rewards--of finding one's way in the ...Show more An enlightening and deliciously witty collection of essays on Blackness, faith, pop culture, and the challenges--and rewards--of finding one's way in the world, this memoir from BuzzFeed editor and podcast host Elamin Abdelmahmoud balances relatable humor with intellectual ferocity, Son of Elsewhere confronts what we know about ourselves, and most important, what we're still learning. Show less

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The Midnight Bargain

by Polk, C. L.

Book - 2020

A Regency fantasy novel about a sorceress who practices magic in secret, terrified of the day she will marry and be cut off from her powers by a collar. S...Show more A Regency fantasy novel about a sorceress who practices magic in secret, terrified of the day she will marry and be cut off from her powers by a collar. She finds a grimoire that contains the key to becoming a Magus, but it comes at an exacting price: love at the cost of magic, and the complicated choice of following her dreams or giving up what makes her who she is. Show less

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Butter Honey Pig Bread

by Ekwuyasi, Francesca

Book - 2020

Kambirinachi, the mother of twin sisters Kehinde and Taiye, feels she was born an Ogbanje, a spirit that plagues families with misfortune by dying in chil...Show more Kambirinachi, the mother of twin sisters Kehinde and Taiye, feels she was born an Ogbanje, a spirit that plagues families with misfortune by dying in childhood to cause its mother misery. When tragedy befalls one of the sisters and their lives take separate paths, it seems she was proven right. A story of choices and their consequences, of motherhood, of the malleable line between the spirit and the mind, of finding new homes and mending old ones, of voracious appetites, of queer love, of friendship, faith, and above all, family. Show less

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Washington Black

A Novel

by Edugyan, Esi

Book - 2018

Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born. When he becomes the manse...Show more Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born. When he becomes the manservant of his master's eccentric brother, the naturalist Christopher Wilde, Wash discovers a world where a flying machine can carry a man across the sky; where two people, separated by an impossible divide, might begin to see each other as human; and where a boy born in chains can embrace a life of dignity and meaning. But when a man is killed and a bounty is placed on Wash's head, Titch abandons everything to save him in a wild flight along the eastern coast of America, and, finally, to a remote outpost in the Arctic, where Wash, left on his own, must invent another new life, one which will propel him further across the globe. Show less

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Willie

The Game-changing Story of the NHL's First Black Player

by O'Ree, Willie

Book - 2020

An inspiring memoir that shows that anyone can achieve their dreams if they are willing to fight for them. When Willie O'Ree stepped out onto the ice agai...Show more An inspiring memoir that shows that anyone can achieve their dreams if they are willing to fight for them. When Willie O'Ree stepped out onto the ice against the Montreal Canadiens, not only did he fulfil the childhood dream he shared with so many other Canadian kids, he did something that had never been done before: he broke hockey's colour barrier. Show less

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Welcome to the Cypher

by Dill, Khodi

eBook - 2021

Words burn bright in this joyful celebration of rap, creativity, and self-expression. Starting with beatboxes and fingersnaps, an exuberant narrator intro...Show more Words burn bright in this joyful celebration of rap, creativity, and self-expression. Starting with beatboxes and fingersnaps, an exuberant narrator introduces kids in his community to the powerful possibilities of rap, from turning “a simple phrase/into imagery that soars” to proclaiming, “this is a voice that represents me!” Show less

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The Skin We're in

A Year of Black Resistance and Power

by Cole, Desmond

Book - 2020

Cole’s activism and journalism find vibrant expression here. Puncturing the bubble of Canadian smugness and naive assumptions of a post-racial nation, Cole chronicles just one year—2017—in the struggle against racism in this country. Cole’s activism and journalism find vibrant expression here. Puncturing the bubble of Canadian smugness and naive assumptions of a post-racial nation, Cole chronicles just one year—2017—in the struggle against racism in this country. Show less

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