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Murderville: First of a Trilogy by Ashley and JaQuavis

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Two children from Sierra Leone, Liberty and A’shai, are brought together by chance only to be forced apart by the most inevitable and tragic fate. Ashley and JaQuavis bring us this classic love story set against modern life’s most horrifying realities. Liberty is dying of a fatal heart … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Africa, Ashley, Authors, Books, Coleman, JaQuavis, Detroit, Fiction, Last Name (A-B), Last Name (C-D), Last Name (H - J), Settings Tagged With: , , ,

LITTLE BLACK GIRL LOST 4: THE DIARY OF JOSEPHINE BAPTISTE by Keith Lee Johnson

Fans of the Little Black Girl Lost series have become fascinated by the complex character pf Johnnie Wise. In this fourth installment of the series, author Keith Lee Johnson takes us all the way back to the beginning, to the root of Johnnie's family tree... In an African village, a beautiful … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Africa, Fiction, Johnson, Keith Lee, New Orleans, Relationships, Urban Books

MIDNIGHT by Odie Hawkins

Midnight is one of Odie Hawkins’ finest and most sensitive works, a view inside the soul of a black man of the LA streets, a former gang leader, influenced by a man he meets in prison to search for his true identity outside the narrow confines of the ghetto – to look back to Africa to find who … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Africa, Fiction, Gangs, Hawkins, Odie, Holloway House, Los Angeles, Old School