Title:
Author:
Jacqueline Woodson
Genres:
Biography, African American Biography, Poetry
Summary (from publisher):
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 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement.
Tea/Coffee:
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Title:
Author:
Janet Mock
Genres:
LGBTQ+ Non-Fiction, Biography
Summary (from publisher):
With unflinching honesty and moving prose, Janet Mock relays her experiences of growing up young, multiracial, poor, and trans in America, offering readers accessible language while imparting vital insight about the unique challenges and vulnerabilities of a marginalized and misunderstood population.
Tea/Coffee:
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Title:
Between the World and Me
Author:
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Genres:
African American Biography
Summary (from publisher):
Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it?
Tea/Coffee:
Mocha using this medium dark roast and melting this chocolate in it
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Coffee, Tea, and Fiction, please 