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YA books are life. I am so excited about this one because it explores family history and secrets. It also explores what it feels like to be racialized by others and having your identity questioned. I really love books with great female friendships so I know I'm going to love this one. QOTD: What would you do if you found a bag of money? Thanks to @penguinteen and @tlcdiversity for the gifted copy. 👑SYNOPSIS👑 From LA Times Book Prize Award Winner and Edgar Award Nominee Malla Nunn comes a stunning portrait of a family divided and the bonds that knit our communities. When Amandla wakes up on her fifteenth birthday she knows it's going to be one of her mother's difficult days. Her mother has had another vision. If Amandla wears a blue sheet her mother has loosely stitched as a dress and styles her normally braided hair in a halo around her head, Amandla's father will come home. Amandla's mother, Annalisa, always speaks of her father as if he was the prince of a fairytale, but in truth he's been gone since before Amandla was born and even Annalisa's memory of him is hazy. In fact many of Annalisa's memories from before Amandla was born are hazy. It's just one of the many reasons people in Sugar Town give Annalisa and Amandla strange looks--that and the fact her mother is white and Amandla is brown. But when Amandla finds a mysterious address in the bottom of her mother's handbag along with a large amount of cash, she decides it's finally time to get answers about her mother's life. But what she discovers will change the shape and size of her family forever. #SugarTownQueens #MallaNunn #TLCDiversity #PenguinTeen #PRHPartner #Swaziland #YALit #AfricanAuthors #ownvoices #books #BooksandMurals #BooksandArt #bookphotos #bookstagram #BIPOC #blackfiction #ReadBlackBooks #BookFeature #BookTour #reading #bookworm #newrelease #BlackLit #hardcovers #prettybooks #ReadYA #weneeddiversebooks #xorobot #crsweeneyart #Bushwick (at Bushwick) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSpr-Mbru4a/?utm_medium=tumblr

Thanks to @eclatbooks and @tlcdiversity for the gifted copy. QOTD: What is your favorite fable? Growing up I loved hearing fables, especially ones from other countries. If you are a fantasy and fable lover, then A Place Beyond Her Dreams by Nigerian author Oby Aligwekwe id the book for you. It is a story about dreams, unmasking evil and completing a special mission in order to save what you love most. 🌛SYNOPSIS🌜 At the sudden death of her grandfather, Ona’s pain drives her to mystical Luenah—a place of infinite possibilities. There, she discovers she is an Eri, chosen to accomplish a special purpose on earth, and is handed a box in exchange for what she desires the most. Burdened by her quest, Ona learns that dreams carry a hefty price, and no one is who they seem. As evil looms, she must unmask the villain and save the one she loves, even at the risk of losing everything she holds dear. Set against the backdrop of two warring towns, The Place Beyond Her Dreams delivers life lessons using a powerful fable. This coming-of-age fantasy takes the reader on the path to self-discovery and demonstrates the transformation one must go through to realize and eventually occupy their purpose. #ThePlaceBeyondHerDreams #ObyAligwekwe #EclatBooks #gifted #TLCDiversity #TLCBookTour #books #BookFeature #BookTour #lakeside #BookPhotos #booksoutside #TBR #readblack #BlackYA #bookdragon #BIPOCbookstagram #AfricanAuthor #ownvoices #fantasy #bibliophile #bookswithaview #indiebooks #fable #bookish #bookworm #reading #diversereads #bookstagram #Nigerianbooks (at Lakeside, Prospect Park, Brooklyn) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQosXS-LQeb/?utm_medium=tumblr

After reading, Too Much Lip I was eager to read more literature from Indigenous authors of Australia. I am always looking to expand my perspective and understanding outside of the U.S. experience. Books about languages, the power and resistance they hold and the importance of teaching and preservation, especially Indigenous ones, is a personal interest of mine. I know this one is going to be an impact full read for me. QOTD: What Indigenous book do you recommend? Thanks to @harpervia @tlcbooktours for the gifted copy. 🏞SYNOPSIS🏞 Knowing that he will soon die, Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spent on the banks of the Murrumby River at Prosperous House, on Massacre Plains. Albert is determined to pass on the language of his people and everything that was ever remembered. He finds the words on the wind. August Gondiwindi has been living on the other side of the world for ten years when she learns of her grandfather’s death. She returns home for his burial, wracked with grief and burdened with all she tried to leave behind. Her homecoming is bittersweet as she confronts the love of her kin and news that Prosperous is to be repossessed by a mining company. Determined to make amends she endeavours to save their land – a quest that leads her to the voice of her grandfather and into the past, the stories of her people, the secrets of the river. Profoundly moving and exquisitely written, Tara June Winch’s The Yield is the story of a people and a culture dispossessed. But it is as much a celebration of what was and what endures, and a powerful reclaiming of Indigenous language, storytelling and identity. #theyield #tarajunewinch #harpervia #tlcbooktours #tlcdiversity #booktour #bookfeature #BIPOCbookstagram #Indigenousbooks #Australia #books #Wiradjuri #ownvoices #diversereads #bookphotos #booksoutside #gifted #bookish #bookstagram #paperback #bookfeature #bookworm #reading #bibliophile #IndigenousFiction #TBR #bookrecommendation #bookdragon (at Middle Village) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQKCnUVr1If/?utm_medium=tumblr

Thanks to @thomasnelson and @tlcdiversity for the gifted copy. QOTD: What book has inspired you in some way? I am taking my time with this one and really getting to know Remi. I am enjoying reading about his Nigerian background and his father's vision for the country. I am already seeing where the seeds of his purpose and drive were being planted. I wasn't too familiar with Remi's body of work but after following him on IG and starting this book I am really interested in all the good work he is doing. 🖤SYNOPSIS🖤 Readers will be drawn to and inspired by Remi Adeleke’s personal journey of following God’s voice, overcoming the odds, and ultimately experiencing true personal transformation. Now available in trade paper. What are the odds? Statistics tell us that African American males who grow up in a single-parent household are nine times more likely to drop out of high school and twenty times more likely to end up in prison than any other demographic. But what would it take for one young man not only to rise above those statistics but also become a Navy SEAL, actor, entrepreneur, writer, and successful husband and father? In Transformed, Remi Adeleke takes you back to stories from his childhood, from living as Nigerian royalty to losing his father early in life and being stripped financially of everything by the Nigerian government. He delves into being raised by a single mother in the Bronx and doesn’t shy away from his illegal activities as a young man that threatened to derail his future. At every turn, including throughout his naval career, Adeleke found a way to overcome the odds, even when it didn’t make sense. His is an inspiring story of true personal transformation. #Transformed #RemiAdeleke #ThomasNelson #TLCDiversity #TLCBookTour #BlackMemoir #ReadBlackBooks #Bookdragon #BIPOCBookstagram #BookFeature #BookTour #Bookdragon #Bookphoto #BooksandMurals #Bookish #books #nonfiction #bibliophile #ownvoices #navyseal #BlackAuthor #giftedbook #BlackBookstagram #Nigeria #bookworm #AfricanAuthor #NewRelease #BooksandArt #BooksOutside #Paperbacks #Bronx (at Bushwick) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPRYz6BLE92/?utm_medium=tumblr