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Friends: A Love Story by Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance

SLS Recommended Books

MOTIVATIONAL

0743482298 Wealth of Wisdom: Legendary African American Elders Speak by Camille O Cosby; More than 50 of the most accomplished African-American elders in the nation share their stories and words of wisdom in one beautifully illustrated collection, now available in paperback with a new Introduction.

RELIGION

160266658X Finding Peace Through Faith (Paperback) by Daphne L. Clarke

Do you yearn for peace? Hope and reality for peace can be attained through your faith! If you desire to have peace, prepare yourself for a journey that shows the Holy Spirit directing the author of Finding Peace Through Faith - A Personal Experience, in the midst of daunting challenges. Through the power of the supernatural, peace prevailed, which inspired and motivated Daphne Clarke to communicate that, indeed, God is a Master of the impossible. Ms. Clarke uses examples of individuals in the Bible who walked closely with God, and received breakthrough to promises by having the impossible become reality. Read more about author Daphne L. Clarke

YOUNG READERS (YOUNG ADULT)

0590939742 African Americans Who Made A Difference by Joyce Hansen

Joyce Hansen's brief, well-crafted biographies, and the striking black-and-white photographs that accompany them, reveal the remarkable strength of thirteen African American women. Spanning over a century, these women, including Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Marian Wright Edelman, Toni Morrison, and Mae C. Jamison, blazed uncharted paths in journalism, politics, education, law, science, and the arts.

1416906711 The Baptism by Shelia Moses

The author of the National Book Award finalist "The Legend of Buddy Bush" returns with this heartwarming novel about 12-year-old twin brothers who manage to save themselves while also unexpectedly saving their entire family in a week's time.

043966098X Friendship for Today by Patricia McKissack

In 1954 Missouri, 12-year-old Rosemary Patterson is about to make history as one of the first African-American students to enter the all-white school in her town. When the girl who has shown her the most cruelty becomes an unlikely confidante, Rosemary learns important truths about the power of friendship to overcome prejudice.

0763628859 On My Journey Now: Looking at African-American History Through the Spirituals by Nikki Giovanni;With the passion of a poet and the knowledge of a historian, Giovanni tells the story of African-Americans through 46 spirituals celebrating a people who overcame enslavement and found a way to survive, worship, and build. Includes the full lyrics to the songs.

0152058516 White Lilacs by Carolyn Meyer;In 1921 in Dillon, Texas, 12-year-old Rose Lee Jefferson sees trouble threatening her black community when the whites decide to take the land there for a park and forcibly relocate the black families to an ugly stretch of territory outside the town. Includes a reader's guide.

HISTORY

0674023072 Class of Their Own: Black Teachers in the Segregated South by Adam Fairclough;In this major undertaking, noted civil rights historian Fairclough chronicles the odyssey of black teachers in the South from emancipation in 1865 to integration 100 years later.

0806527846 Freemasons in America (HB) by Paul H. Jeffers;Jeffers' follow-up to his 2005 historical overview Freemasons takes a look at famous Masons in America, a list that includes 14 presidents, from Washington to Ford, as well as Benjamin Franklin, Davy Crockett and Neil Armstrong. Instead of exploring the influence that the secret society may have had on men like these, however, Jeffers contents himself to recording Mason-related historical anecdotes. Appealing to those interested in the topic.

038551431X From Midnight to Dawn: The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad by Jacqueline Tobin;This extraordinary narrative offers a fresh perspective on the Underground Railroad as it traces the perilous journeys of fugitive ex-slaves from the US to free black settlements in Canada.

0810954761 M.L.K.: The Journey of a King by Tonya Bolden;Coretta Scott King Honor winner Tonya Bolden focuses her critical eye on Martin Luther King, Jr., bringing words and pictures together to tell the life story of one of America's greatest figures in an inspirational, one-of-a-kind biography. Full color.

1557090173 Maryland Slave Narratives by Applewood Books;Compiled in 17 states during the years 1936-38, the collection consists of more than 2,000 interviews with former slaves, most first-person accounts of slave life and the respondents' own reactions to bondage. The interviews afforded aged ex-slaves an unparalleled opportunity to give their personal accounts of life. This edition of all of the Maryland narratives is reprinted in facsimile from the typewritten pages of the interviewers, just as they were originally typed.

1565849248 Say It Plain (HB): Live Recordings of the 20th Century's Great African-American Speeches with CD (Audio) by Steven Smith and Kate Ellis; From Booker T. Washington to Maya Angelou, this compilation assembles actual recordings of speeches by the 20th century's leading African-American cultural, literary, and political figures. Two digitally remastered CDs are accompanied.

1557090254 Virginia Slave Narratives by Applewood Books;Compiled in seventeen states during the years 1936-38, the collection consists of more than two thousand interviews with former slaves, most of them first-person accounts of slave life and the respondents' own reactions to bondage.