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• Butter Honey Pig Bread

  a Novel

  Ekwuyasi, Francesca, 1990-

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  Adult - Told through the interwoven stories of twin sisters, Kehinde and Taiye, and their mother, Kambirinachi, this is a story of choices and their consequences, of motherhood, of the malleable line between the spirit and the mind, of finding new…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Skin We're in

  a Year of Black Resistance and Power

  Cole, Desmond, 1982-

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  Adult - A bracing, provocative, and perspective-shifting book from one of Canada's most celebrated and uncompromising writers, Desmond Cole. The Skin We're In will spark a national conversation, influence policy, and inspire activists.

• Girl, Woman, Other

  Evaristo, Bernardine, 1959-

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  Adult - Girl, Woman, Other is a celebration of the diversity of Black British experience. Moving, hopeful, and inventive, this extraordinary novel is a vivid portrait of the state of contemporary Britain and the legacy of Britain's colonial history…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Girl With the Louding Voice

  a Novel

  Daré, Abi,

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  Adult - Adunni, a 14-year-old Nigerian girl who longs for an education, must find a way for her voice to be heard loud and clear in a world where she and other girls like her are taught to believe, through words and deeds, that they are nothing.

• Black Matters

  Cooper, Afua,

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  Adult-Halifax’s former Poet Laureate Afua Cooper and photographer Wilfried Raussert collaborate in this book of poems and photographs focused on everyday Black experiences. The result is a jambalaya — a dialogue between image and text. Cooper…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Real Life

  Taylor, Brandon (Brandon L. G.),

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  Adult - Keeping his head down at a lakeside Midwestern university where the culture is in sharp contrast to his Alabama upbringing, an introverted African-American biochem student endures unexpected encounters that bring his orientation and defenses…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Willie

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

  O'Ree, Willie, 1935-

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  Adult - An inspiring memoir that shows that anyone can achieve their dreams if they are willing to fight for them.

• The Vanishing Half

  Bennett, Brit,

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  Adult - Twin sisters, inseparable as children, ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.

• They Said This Would Be Fun

  Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up

  Martis, Eternity,

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  Young Adults/Teens - Winner of the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Nonfiction Nominated for the Evergreen Award. A powerful, moving memoir about what it's like to be a student of colour on a predominantly white campus.

• The Hate U Give

  Thomas, Angie,

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  Teen - After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.

• Long Way Down

  the Graphic Novel

  Reynolds, Jason,

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  Teen - As Will, fifteen, sets out to avenge his brother Shawn's fatal shooting, seven ghosts who knew Shawn board the elevator and reveal truths Will needs to know.

• Learning to Breathe

  Mather, Janice Lynn,

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  Teen - Sixteen-year-old Indy struggles to conceal that she is pregnant by rape and then, turned out by relatives, must find a way to survive on her own in Nassau.

• Children of Blood and Bone

  Adeyemi, Tomi,

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  Teen - Coming of age in a land where her magi mother was killed by the zealous king's guards along with other former wielders of magic, Zelie embarks on a journey alongside her brother and a fugitive princess to restore her people's magical…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Gilded Ones

  Forna, Namina,

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  Teen - A debut entry in a series inspired by West African culture finds a supernatural teen ostracized by her superstitious community because of her differences before a mysterious woman invites her to fight for the emperor in an all-woman army.

• Independence

  a Novel

  Foster, Cecil, 1954-

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  Teen - A deeply moving story of the coming of age of a country and a boy, at the time of Barbados' independence from Britain in 1966.

• The 57 Bus

  a True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives

  Slater, Dashka,

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  Teen - Both Sasha (a white, agender private school teenager) and Richard (an African-American public school student who had lost numerous loved ones to murder) rode the 57 bus every day. One afternoon, Richard-egged on by friends-lit the sleeping…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brown Girl Dreaming

  Woodson, Jacqueline,

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  School Age - Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• New Kid

  Craft, Jerry,

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  School Age - Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Gene Luen Yang, New Kid is a timely, honest graphic novel about starting over at a new school where diversity is low and the struggle to fit in is real.

• It All Comes Down to This

  English, Karen,

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  School Age - In the summer of 1965, Sophie's family becomes the first African Americans to move into their upper middle-class neighborhood in Los Angeles. When riots erupt in nearby Watts, she learns that life and her own place in it are a lot more…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• It's Trevor Noah

  Born a Crime : Stories From a South African Childhood

  Noah, Trevor, 1984-

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  School Age - The host of The Daily Show, Trevor Noah, shares his personal story and the injustices he faced while growing up half black, half white in South Africa under and after apartheid in this New York Times bestselling young readers’…Read moreRead more of this annotation