The Fiction of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka [foreword by Greg Tate]
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A big fan of architecture. Alden Dow studied with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin.
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The Murder of Cleopatra - Pat Brown - Prometheus Books 2013
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Subtitled: History's Greatest Cold Case.
Did Octavian dispatch Cleopatra and put out the suicide story for his own benefit? History is written by victors. The story is speculative but interesting.
Black Moses - Alain Mabanckou
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A clever 1970s Congolese take on Oliver Twist.
They Called Us Exceptional....Other Lies That Raised Us - Prachi Gupta
The Death of Vivek Oji - Akwaeke Emezi
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Thr tagline of this novel is: What does it mean for a family to lose a child they never really knew? Not even 30 pages in...and I'm shattered.
Half an Inch of Water: Stories - Percival Everett
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The fiction master returns with a collection of offbeat stories set in the American West.
Josephine Baker's Last Dance - Sherry Jones
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The French music-hall queen/WWII Résistance spy/civil rights icon gets the historical fiction treatment.
Pym - Mat Johnson
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A fired literature professor goes on a wild quest through Antarctica to uncover the Black roots of Poe's only novel.
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks - Jeanne Theoharis
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She was not some hapless, unwitting seamstress who one day got tired on a Jim Crow bus but a fierce, tireless civil rights tactician and organizer many years before her storied arrest and for decades afterward. This biography explodes the myths and illuminates her life and work.
Didn't We Almost Have It All: In Defense of Whitney Houston - Gerrick Kennedy
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This author does a fantastic job of nailing the essence of what made the world fall in love with Whitney--and explores why that same world tore her down with glee in her darkest hours. Recommended.
The Housing Lark - Sam Selvon
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A group of Caribbean immigrants comically plot to buy a house together in repressive, racist 1960s London.
In West Mills - De'Shawn Charles Winslow
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A four-decade-spanning saga of the loves and secrets of an independent, hard-living, outspoken woman in rural North Carolina.
A Haunting on the Hill
Book review: Elizabeth Hand's 'A Haunting on the Hill' honors Shirley Jackson : NPR
Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life - Jonathan Gould
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Exhaustive and long-overdue.
Where The Dead Wait...Ally Wilkes
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Slave Old Man - Patrick Chamoiseau
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The title character engages in a lyrical battle with nature--namely a hound on his trail--as he escapes his bondage in Martinique.
Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation - Imani Perry
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A critical analysis of the concept of patriarchy in global culture from the Enlightenment to the present.
Black Deutschland - Darryl Pinckney
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A gay, Black American man goes on a quest to escape his past and find love and fulfillment in 1980s Berlin.
The Changeling - Victor LaValle
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Myth, phantasmagoria and social commentary collide in this horror fable set in late-20th-century outer-borough New York.
Decent People - De'Shawn Charles Winslow
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A small-town triple homicide lays bare all manner of secrets and evasions.
The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar- Robin R. Means Coleman, Ph.D. and Mark R. Harris
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A must for fans of Black film and horror nerds alike. Encyclopedic, engrossing and mordantly funny.