Black Women Writers: Part III

  05/12/2022

Since 1987, March has been observed as Women’s History Month, beginning with International Women’s Day in 1909, and Women’s History Week in the US since 1980. Immediately following Black History Month, March has been used to honor the accomplishments of wo...

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Black Women Authors, Part II

  04/21/2022

Since 1987, March has been observed as Women’s History Month, beginning with International Women’s Day in 1909, and Women’s History Week in the US since 1980. Immediately following Black History Month, March has been used to honor the accomplishments of wo...

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Black Women Authors, Part I

  03/31/2022

Since 1987, March has been observed as Women’s History Month, beginning with International Women’s Day in 1909, and Women’s History Week in the US since 1980. Immediately following Black History Month, March has been used to honor the accomplishments of wo...

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Rose's Booklist Number Ten

  03/09/2022

91, ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE by Gabriel Garcia Marquez "ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. . . . Mr. Garcia Marquez has done nothing less...

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Rose's Booklist Number Nine

  01/05/2022

81. AS THE WICKED WATCH, premier novel by talk show host Tamron Hall Emmy-award-winning talk show host, wife, mother, and my former student, has found the time to write her first novel! So proud of what she's accomplished and her love of words and writing...

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Rose's Booklist Number Eight

  10/27/2021

71. The biography, ALICE WALKER; A LIFE, by Evelyn C. White Alice Walker's life is remarkable not only because she was the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in fiction (the book that won her that award, THE COLOR PURPLE, has been translated into...

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Rose's Booklist Number Seven

  08/25/2021

61. SING, UNBURIED, SING by Jesmyn Ward Jesmyn Ward’s historic second National Book Award–winner is “perfectly poised for the moment” (The New York Times), an intimate portrait of three generations of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle. “Ward’...

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Rose's Booklist Number Six

  06/17/2021

The first four books were recommended in April, National Poetry Month, so I chose to cover poetry books, a genre I had neglected. - THE HILL WE CLIMB by Amanda Gorman We were so taken by her performance on Inauguration Day, we missed some of the message...

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Rose's Booklist Number Five

  04/01/2021

41. THE TRUTHS WE HOLD by Kamala Harris With all the celebration of Kamala Harris and her "chucks & pearls," I thought her book would be a great fit. It also comes in a young adult edition. From Vice President Kamala Harris, one of America's most inspirin...

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Rose's Booklist Number Four

  01/21/2021

--- - I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS by Maya Angelou In this first of six volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with...

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