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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. And for some, even a single February can be life-changing. Ricki Wilde has many talents, but being a Wilde isn't one of them. As the impulsive, artistic daughter of a powerful Atlanta dynasty, she's the opposite of her famous socialite sisters. Where they're long-stemmed roses, she's a dandelion: an adorable bloom that's actually a weed, born to float wherever the wind blows. In her bones, Ricki knows that...
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 1
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The Vanderbeekers have always lived in the brownstone on 141st Street. It's practically another member of the family. So when their reclusive, curmudgeonly landlord decides not to renew their lease, the five siblings have eleven days to do whatever it takes to stay in their beloved home and convince the dreaded Beiderman just how wonderful they are. And all is fair in love and war when it comes to keeping their home.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
1980, New York City. Burned by her traumatic past, Angel is new to the drag world, new to ball culture, and has a yearning inside of her to help create family for those without. When she falls in love with Hector, a beautiful young man who dreams of becoming a professional dancer, the two decide to form the House of Xtravaganza, the first-ever all-Latino house in the Harlem ball circuit. But when Hector dies of AIDS-related complications, Angel must...
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xliii, 252 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1925, Zora Neale Hurston was living in New York as a fledgling writer. This collection of stories, found in archives after her death, reveal African American folk culture in Harlem in the 1920s. This book includes eight of Hurston's "lost" Harlem gems.
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 2
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When catastrophe strikes their beloved upstairs neighbors, the Vanderbeeker children set out to build the best, most magical healing garden in Harlem--in spite of a locked fence, thistles and trash, and the conflicting plans of a wealthy real estate developer"--
Author
Language
English
Description
""Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a...
7) The poet X
Author
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Language
English
Description
When Xiomara Batista, who pours all her frustrations and passion into poetry, is invited to join the school slam poetry club, she struggles with her mother's expectations and her need to be heard.
Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours her frustration...
Author
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unable to celebrate the holidays in the wake of his older brother's death in a gang-related shooting, Lolly Rachpaul struggles to avoid being forced into a gang himself while constructing a fantastically creative LEGO city at the Harlem community center.
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Two stories about Harlem; the first chronicles the adventures of a four-year-old Black girl named Harlem, and the second describes the history of the New York neighborhood of Harlem and the start of America's Great Black Migration.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
It's summer on 141st Street, and the Vanderbeekers are looking forward to Papa's surprise fortieth birthday party. But then Papa must leave town to help his best friend and the Vanderbeeker children are surprised to find their maternal grandparents on their doorstep. Grandma is very critical of everything they do. Meanwhile, they find themselves learning more about their papa's father than ever before, and wishing they could have known him a bit better....
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
384 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
When Samuelsson opened Red Rooster in Harlem, he envisioned more than a restaurant. It would be the heart of his neighborhood and a meet-and-greet, serving Southern black and cross-cultural food... and reflect Harlem's history. This book covers the multicultural recipes that are featured in the restaurant, and details how it personifies both Harlem and this country.
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
351 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Vanderbeeker children, ages six to thirteen, race to help save their mother's baking business from closure after it fails an inspection. --
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 7
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
402 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Amidst the anticipation of Mr. B and Aunt Penny's wedding, the Vanderbeekers' lives take an unexpected turn as Laney receives a dire diagnosis, leading them to the hospital where, despite their own challenges, they form a bond with a critically ill new friend in need of their support.
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Killing machine Thompson Boyd is after high school student Geneva Settle, and it's up to detective Lincoln Rhyme and his protegee to figure out why. The motive may have to do with Geneva's term paper about her ancestor, Charles Singleton, a former slave who was active in the early civil rights movement until he was arrested for theft and disgraced. Deaver's stunning twists strike at the very heart of the U.S. Constitution.
15) Crook manifesto
Author
Series
Ray Carney volume 2
Language
English
Description
"It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown, furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over. It's strictly the straight-and-narrow for him until he needs...
16) H is for Harlem
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
"A richly informative alphabet picture book celebrating Harlem's vibrant traditions, past and present" --
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 4
Pub. Date
2020.
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When autumn arrives on 141st Street, the Vanderbeekers are busy helping Mr. Beiderman get ready for the New York City Marathon and making sure the mysterious person sleeping in the community garden gets enough to eat. But when they discover the true identity of the person making a home in the community garden's shed, their world turns upside down as they learn what it means to care for someone in an impossible situation."--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Vanderbeekers depart Harlem to celebrate their dad's birthday. But their surprise road trip turns rocky when the younger kids try to keep their family from ever facing change. Our beloved Harlem family is putting the VAN in Vanderbeekers as they hit the highway to give their dad the best birthday surprise EVER! Re-creating a road trip Papa never got the chance to take with his own father, the whole crew is packed and ready for a cross-country...
Author
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"With Harlem in the grips of an unprecedented heat wave, the people look to their hero--the unbreakable man, Luke Cage! But the heat wave turns out to be the least of Harlem's worries. Someone has their sights set on the city's 1%, and the rich and powerful are dropping dead from mysterious illnesses. It's up to Luke Cage to stop the Everyman killer--even though he's just received a grim diagnosis of his own... By the time Luke discovers the true...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
AD 610L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"A lyrical, vibrant tribute to the amazing life and legacy of Pura Belpř, a lauded storyteller, librarian, and pioneer of bilingual storytimes" -- Amazon.com.
In this fictional biography, Pura Belpré breaks the rules of storytime by telling unpublished stories from her homeland of Puerto Rico. Includes author's note.