Tag: Edwidge Danticat

• {New Releases} Jan 29-Feb 4, 2018

  

  Black Fortunes by:Shomari Wells The astonishing untold history of America’s first black millionaires—former slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass and maintain their wealth for a century, from the Jacksonian period to the Roaring Twenties—self-made entrepreneurs whose unknown success mirrored that of American business heroes such as Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Thomas Edison.…

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  January 29, 2018

  in Every Issue, New Releases

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• {2015 New Releases} Week 35: Aug 24-30

  

  The Grand Opening by: Carl Weber and Eric Pete Before there was the family, there was just the business. From the minds of New York Times bestselling authors Carl Weber and Eric Pete comes the game-changing prequel to their blockbuster Family Business saga. Travel back to a small Southern town where, before there was Duncan…

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  August 24, 2015

  New Releases

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• {Book Attraction} Under the Udala Trees by:Chinelo Okparanta

  

  Inspired by Nigeria’s folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly. Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is eleven when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to safety, she…

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  April 29, 2015

  Book Attraction

  Chinelo Okparanta, Edwidge Danticat, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Nigeria