October’s Booklist @ SCC Library

If you enjoy Terry McMillan’s Books try………

Sula

Toni Morrison

PS3563. O8749 S8 1987

 

The Women of Brewster Place

Gloria Naylor

PS3564. A895 W6 1983

 

The Color Purple

Alice Walker

PS3573. A425 C6 1992

 

Big Girls Don’t Cry

Connie Briscoe

PS 3552. R4894 B54 1999

 

Sassafrass, Cypress, and Indigo

Ntozake Shange

PS3569. H3324 S2 1996

 

Sister, Sister

Eric Jerome Dickey

PS3554. I319 S57 1997

 

Tar Baby

Toni Morrison

PS3563. O8749 T37 1987

List of Terry McMillan’s Books at SCC Libraries:

The Interruption of Everything  PS3563. C3868 I58 2006

Mama  PS3563. C3868 M3 1987

How Stella Got Her Groove Back  PS3563. C3868 H68 1996

Waiting to Exhale  PS3563. C3868 W35

Celebrate Black History

Celebrate Black History Month at the SCC Library

Breath, Eyes, Memory                                                                                                                    

by, Edwidge Danticat     

PS3554. A5815 B74  1994

This novel is told by Sophie, a young Haitian American girl.  Sophie follows her mother to the United States from Haiti. As her mother finds work, Sophie must come to terms with the conflicts of growing up in New York.

Escape to Freedom: a Play About Young Frederick Douglass

by, Ossie Davis

PS3507. A74444 E84 1990

Frederick Douglass became the first black man to hold a diplomatic office. This book emphasizes his contributions to black history.

The Darker Face of the Earth: a Play

by, Rita Dove

PS3554. O884 D68 2000

This book uncovers the tragedy of interracial love on a plantation during the  pre-Civil War in South Carolina. A rich white woman who gives birth to a slave’s child.

The Good House

by, Tananarive Due

PS3554. U3413 2003

This novel centers on a haunted house under a deadly family curse. Angela Toussaint returns to her dead grandmother’s house seeking to heal her relationships with her son and husband. What planned to be a family retreat becomes destruction, Angela must somehow uncover the secrets of her unknown heritage before everything is lost.

                                                                                             

Celebrate Black History

Celebrate Black History Month at the SCC Library

 Singing in the Comeback Choir

by Bebe Moore Campbell

PS3553. A4395 S56 1996

Maxine McCoy, professional television produced in L.A., returns to Philadelphia to check on her grandmother. During her visit, she rediscovers her roots and learns the true meaning of community.

 A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But a Sandwich

by Alice Childress

PS3553. H553 H476 2003

Benjie Johnson, a thirteen year old, is on his way to becoming a heroin addict on the streets of Harlem, New York. The reader will have a clear viewpoint of an addict and witness that affects drugs has on everyone involved.

What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

by Pearl Cleage

PS3553. L389 W48 1995

Ava Johnson decided to sell everything in Atlanta and move to San Francisco. On the way, she visits family in northern Michigan where she grew up.  Ava needs to make a decision, move on or begin a new life in Michigan.

 A Mother’s Love

by Francine Craft, Bette Ford, and Mildred Riley

PS3556. O67 M684 1996

Three stories in one novel is a treat for any romance reader.   Take a peek at three women’s lifestyle, experience motherhood with them, and envy the men who love them.

 Bud, Not Buddy

by Christopher Paul Curtis

PZ7. C94137 BU 2000

Bud is ten years old and living in a foster home in Michigan. One day he escaped the foster home and begins a journey in search to find his father. Bud’s only information about the man is that he is a famous bandleader.