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"An award-winning journalist, TV political analyst, and creator of TheGrio documentary, Afro-Latinx Revolution: Puerto Rico, recounts her experiences as an African American and Puerto Rican woman, reflecting on her improbable journey from Syracuse to Harvard, hedge fund boardrooms to newsrooms, and beyond in pursuit of America's infinite opportunities. Part inspiring memoir, part cultural analysis, with remarkable self-determination, Natasha S. Alford...
3) Ti amo
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Battaglia mafia ; 2
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The Diva's Pen
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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Let there be war... Don Giovanni Battaglia will have his revenge. A bloody Mafia war has ravaged the southern region of Italy. Every man, woman, and child born under the name Calderone must be made to atone. That is the law. After two years of blood and bullets, the men sworn to follow without question find themselves wanting peace. But how can there be peace when the one person able to save their Don from the destructive path he is on is beyond their...
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[Mia Black]
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"Que and Jazmine tried to get out of town before the people from Que's past could find them, but now that's out the question. After slipping up with concealing their identities, the two lovers are captured by the very people they were hiding from. Now Que and Jazmine will be forced to do the unthinkable! --From back cover.
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[Mia Black]
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"After finding out Que's shocking secret, Jazmine she decides to go against her better judgment and follow her heart. She is willing to stay by his side and hold him down. Yet when Que's haunting past reappears and threatens the both of them, Jazmine finds herself on the run. Now she is at the crossroads, is their love worth losing everything she worked so hard for? Find out what happens in part two of Loving The Wrong Man!"--Back cover.
7) Destino
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The Diva's Pen
Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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"Mira Ellison is poised to have it all. In 1989, she is the first prominent African American fashion designer redefining change for both beauty and style among the renowned in Italy. That happens until the evening she meets a tall, mysteriously charming Sicilian businessman who orchestrates a friendship that awakens a wicked sexual heat she has long forgotten. Who is he really? What harm could a little fling in one of the most beautiful countries...
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Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Cowboy Ross Burris has an image problem, and he needs to fix it in a hurry. When sports reporter Celeste Montgomery comes to town for an interview, opportunity knocks—and Ross answers. He can’t believe it when he proposes to the city girl, but no one is more surprised than Celeste when she actually says “I do!” to the sexy rodeo star. But she quickly realizes she’s made a terrible mistake, because all she wants is to make her fake Mr. a...
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[Tanisha Stewart]
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Mia thinks her life is completely normal. She has a loving boyfriend, great and supportive friends, and a close relationship with her mother. Things take an interesting turn, however, when she is almost run down by a car one day. Then come messages from an untraceable number. Not to mention the heartbreaking secret that is revealed shortly thereafter. Suddenly, everything that Mia thought was right in her life goes wrong. She has no idea why, but...
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Viking
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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Before she became one of the most famous basketball players on the planet, before she began speaking out for prison reform, Maya Moore was just a kid. In this chapter book biography by acclaimed author Andrew Maraniss, readers learn more about the life and work of Maya Moore--from growing up with a single mother in Jefferson City, Missouri, to her journey to becoming a star player at UConn and the WNBA, to her social justice fighting for prison reform...
12) Drylongso
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Criterion collection ; 1190
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A rediscovered treasure of 1990s DIY filmmaking, Cauleen Smith's Drylongso embeds an incisive look at racial injustice within a lovingly handmade buddy movie/murder mystery/romance. Alarmed by the rate at which the young Black men around her are dying, brash Oakland art student Pica attempts to preserve their existence in Polaroid snapshots, along the way forging a friendship with a woman in an abusive relationship and experiencing love, heartbreak,...
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Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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This inspiring true story of the Pulitzer Prize- and Nobel Prize-winning author shows how she went from being the only Black child in her first-grade classroom — and the only student who could read — to becoming one of the greatest writers in modern history.
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Vanderbilt University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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This volume tells the stories of Black working women who resisted employment inequality in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from the 1940s to the 1970s. The book explores the job-related activism of Black Midwestern working women and uncovers the political and intellectual strategies they used to dismantle unjust structures, and transform their lives.
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