THE BOOK REPORT: DECEMBER'S NEW AND COMING SOON

New African American Interest Books and Authors

Looking for something to read from an African/African American point of view and or written by someone from the Diaspora? Browse our list of new books available now or coming soon to the Denver Public Library. Updated monthly...check out our list for December.

Featured Titles:

Sweet Silver Bells

Rochelle Alers

Brief encounter...or forever love? Being chosen to design luxury hotels in Charleston is a career coup for privileged Crystal Eaton. Meeting charismatic corporate attorney Joseph Cole-Wilson is an unexpected bonus. Until one passion-filled night in Joseph's penthouse changes her life forever. Haunted by sensual memories, Joseph can't accept their short-lived liaison as a onetime fling. And when a chance encounter reunites him with the Florida beauty, the Cole heir vows she won't get away a second time. Even after discovering Crystal's secret, Joseph knows nothing can dim his desire. He'll prove it with sweet words of love that could make this a Christmas to remember. More books by Rochelle Alers.

A Christmas Prayer

Kimberla Lawson Roby

Alexis Fletcher hasn't had a merry Christmas in five years-not since her mother passed away. Every December she remembers the joy her mother brought to everyone during the holiday season and feels the pain of her absence, even more so now that she and her sister are barely speaking. More than anything, Alexis wishes her family could be whole again. However, with her wedding fast approaching, Alexis might just be ready to make some holiday memories with a new family of her own. Alexis's fiancé, Chase Dupont, is everything she ever dreamed of. He's kind, handsome, fully supportive of Alexis's career, and the CEO of a large company. But outside forces threaten to derail this happy couple from ever reaching the altar. As tensions rise, a dramatic event causes Alexis to question everything. Will fate give her what she needs to finally embrace the season that has brought her so much pain? Will Alexis get her wish for a happy holiday? Or will her Christmas prayer go unanswered? More books by Kimberla Lawson Roby.

Fiction:

Africa39: New Writing From Africa South of the Sahara

Edited by Ellah Waktama Allfrey

The Perfect Deception

Lutishia Lovely

Tangled Roots

Marianne K. Martin

Forty Acres: A Thriller

Dwayne Smith

NonFiction

James Baldwin: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations

James Baldwin

Widow Basquiat: A Love Story

Jennifer Clement

More Love, Less Panic: 7 Lessons I Learned About Life, Love, and Parenting After We Adopted Our Son from Ethiopia

Claude Knobler

Let's Go Crazy: Prince and the Making of Purple Rain

Alan Light

God'll Cut You Down: The Tangled Tale of a White Supremacist, a Black Hustler, a Murder, and How I Lost a Year in Mississippi

John Safran

Becoming Richard Pryor

Scott Saul

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