The Fallen Fruit by Shawntelle Madison
c.2024, Amistad $28.00 437 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor You’re lucky you didn’t hit your head! The damage you did to yourself was bad enough, you […]
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A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune by Noliwe Rooks
c.2024, Penguin Press $28.00 208 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Ten feet tall. Larger than life. Surely, that describes the person in history you most admire. He was a giant among […]
The Insatiable City: Food and Race in New Orleans by Theresa McCulla
c.2024, The University of Chicago Press $32.50 345 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor You’ve spent a lot of time scouring the internet in search of menus. Will you try this dish, […]
Kid Olympians: Summer by Robin Stevenson, illustrated by Allison Steinfeld
c.2024, Quirk Books $14.99 240 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributer You can kick a ball harder than any kid you know. You just haul your leg back, point […]
Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh
c.2024, Doubleday $28.00 288 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Sometimes, you just need to step back a minute. You need time to regroup, to think things […]
The Outsider Advantage: Because You Don’t Need to Fit In to Win by Ciera Rogers
c.2024, Portfolio $29.00 272 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Some say that you march to a different drummer. You follow the music you hear in your soul, blazing your own path while […]
54 Miles by Leonard Pitts, Jr.
c.2024, Agate $19.95 344 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Deep down inside, there’s a part of you that always wants […]
Sharks Don’t Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist by Jasmin Graham
c.2024, Pantheon Books $28.00 213 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Oh, those teeth! Your finger practically bleeds just looking at them: three rows of perfect, razor-sharp white triangles that you know […]
Treating Violence: An Emergency Room Doctor Takes On a Deadly American Epidemic by Rob Gore, MD
c.2024, Beacon Press $27.95 200 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor Well, thank you so much to your co-worker. That’s where you got this ick, this scratchy-throat, achy-body, upset-stomach, can’t-sleep virus. […]
Traveling without Moving: Essays from a Black Woman Trying to Survive in America by Taiyon J. Coleman
c.2024, University of Minnesota Press $18.95 160 pages By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Truth Contributor One step forward, two steps back. That’s how it goes: every time you think you’re getting […]