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Black & African-American Voices

6/4/2020

 
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The Toni Morrison Book Club, Juda Bennett, et al., 374.22 BEN
The Yellow House, Sarah Broom, 814 BRO *
Speaking of Summer, Kalisha Buckhanon, F BUC *
Everywhere You Don’t Belong, Gabriel Bump, F BUM *
Queenie, Candice Carty-Williams, F CAR *ª
A Princess in Theory, Alyssa Cole, R COL REL-1 *
Jay-Z: Made in America, Michael Eric Dyson, 781.649 DYS
Hunger, Roxane Gay, 921 GAY *ª
The Proposal, Jasmine Guillory, R GUI *ª
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Get a Life, Chloe Brown, Talia Hibbert, R HIB *ª
The Sun Does Shine, Anthony Ray Hinton, 364.66092 HIN *ª
Wow, No Thank You, Samantha Irby, 814 IRB *ª
The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin, SF JEM GRE-1 *ª
This Will Be My Undoing, Morgan Jerkins, 305.48 JER *
How We Fight for Our Lives, Saeed Jones, 811 JON *ª
The Other Madisons, Bettye Kearse, 973.5 KEA
Heavy: an American Memoir, Kiese Laymon, 305.896 LAY *ª
From Scratch, Tembi Locke, 791.45 LOC *ª
Deacon King Kong, James McBride, F MCB *ª
On the Other Side of Freedom, DeRay Mckesson, 323.09 MCK *

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Riot Baby, Tochi Onyebuchi, SF ONY 
Diamond Doris, Doris Payne, 364.162 PAY
Song of Blood and Stone, L. Penelope, SF PEN EAR-1
Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid, F REI *ª
The Revisioners, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, F SEX *
Don’t Call Us Dead, Danez Smith, 811 SMI
More than Enough, Elaine Welteroth, 070.92 WEL *ª
Red at the Bone, Jacqueline Woodson, F WOO *ª

Note from Laura: this is a small sampling of the new books by Black authors that we have added to our shelves in the last few years. Enjoy these romances, family stories, essays, fiction, memoirs and more, and please ask our team if you're looking for more suggestions.
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    Booklists and reading suggestions from the team at Monroe Public Library.

    After each title, you'll find links to reserve these items on LINKcat and Wisconsin's Digital Library. In many cases, you can choose from print, large print, audio CD, and Playaway, or ebooks and eaudiobooks.

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    Titles with an asterisk * are available as ebooks and titles with an ª are available as digital audiobooks on Wisconsin's Digital Library.
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