Anika Noni Rose
2) Roots
Author
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of an African slave sold to colonial America and his descendants.
Series
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency HBO volume 1
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Follows Mma Ramotste, a recently bereaved woman, as she sets up the only woman-run Private Detective Agency in Botswana and her attempts to get it off the ground. She gets help from Mma Makutsi, her new secretary, and Mr. JLB Matekoni, the owner and super mechanic of the wonderful Speedy Motors. Mma Ramotste takes on cases, meets many new people who need her help - from a woman who thinks the man who has turned up at her door is not her father, to...
6) Dreamgirls
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Three young women, Deena Jones, Effie White and Lorrell Robinson desire to become pop stars. They get their wish when they are picked to be backup singers for the legendary James "Thunder" Early. When they are set free for leads, Curtis Taylor and Effie's brother C.C. decide that Deena should be the lead singer, which upsets Effie. The girls discover exactly what it takes to be in the music business and what they must give up to realize their dreams....
Author
Language
English
Description
"For answers and a dose of good luck, twelve-year-old Maya turns to her Wheel of Fortunes, a cardboard circle covered with the small slips of wisdom she's collected from fortune cookies. But can the fortunes answer her deep-down questions? The ones she's too scared to ask out loud? Such as, where did Mama's smile go, the real one that lit up everything around her? When will Daddy move back home? And, most of all, does she have enough courage to truly...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
Set between the New York Times bestseller Shadowshaper and its upcoming sequel Shadowhouse Fall, this novella of mystery, love and loss will draw you deep into Daniel José Older's magical Brooklyn."A Brooklyn with a heart that pounds as mightily as the characters Older has created." — Bustle"The perfect sequelita to #Shadowshaper." — Black Girl NerdsTrying to shake off the strange malaise that
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Series
Shadowshaper cypher volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
Shadowhouse rising
Sierra and her friends love their new lives as shadowshapers, making art and creating change with the spirits of Brooklyn. Then Sierra receives a strange card depicting a beast called the Hound of Light - an image from the enigmatic, influential Deck of Worlds. The Deck tracks the players and powers of all the magical houses in the city, and when the real Hound begins to stalk Sierra through the streets, the shadowshapers know...
10) Shadowshaper
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
Come to the crossroads, to the crossroads come
Sierra Santiago planned an easy summer of making art and hanging with her friends. But then a corpse crashes the first party of the season. Her stroke-ridden grandfather starts apologizing over and over. And when the murals in her neighborhood begin to weep real tears ... Well, something more sinister than the usual Brooklyn ruckus is going on.
Where the powers converge and become one
With the help...