Subject: African American women -- Fiction (Keywords)

In 1950, three years after Jackie Robinson first walked onto the diamond at Ebbets Field, the lily white, upper-crust National Lawn Tennis Association opened its door just a crack to receive the powerhouse player who would integrate 'the game of kings': Althea Gibson. A street-savvy young woman f...

Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything - until it wasn't. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they ambled through neighbourhood streets, Brooklyn was a place where they bel...

Aretha Franklin, 'The Queen of Soul', was the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and was twice voted Greatest Singer of All Time by Rolling Stone magazine. She was also an important activist for civil rights and women's rights. This book features stylish and quirky ill...

In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America - the first African-American to serve in that role - she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House...

It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to el...

Bessie Smith lived a life of extremes, of success as a great blues singer, and of great personal tragedy. Jackie Kay's biography concentrates on her torrid personal and public life of female lovers, an unhappy marriage and hard drinking.

This controversial lost classic of African-American literature was among the first novels to explore prejudice within the black community. It paints a heartbreaking portrait of a dark-skinned woman's search for acceptance.

Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. 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 19...

Jack Lee is a white lawyer from Freeman County, Virginia, who has never done anything to push back against racism, until he decides to represent Jerome Washington, a Black man charged with brutally killing an elderly and wealthy white couple. Doubting his decision, Lee fears that his legal skills...

Tanya Black has everything a woman could want. And yet, none of it can hide the growing turbulence in her marriage. Her husband, once a supportive partner, has grown remote, and Tanya has the uneasy feeling that her comfortable life is about to change.