Bernice L. McFadden

Yo Gabba Gabba!

School Is Awesome! (Jul-2014)

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  Sugar
  

  • Jan-2000
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  20th Anniversary Edition -- with a New Foreword by Kimberly EliseA novel by a critically acclaimed voice in contemporary fiction, praised by Ebony for its “unforgettable images, unique characters, and moving story that keeps the pages turning until...

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  The Warmest December
  

  • Feb-2001
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  The long-awaited reissue of McFadden’s best-selling second novel praised by Toni Morrison, USA Today, Washington Post, and others -- published simultaneously with McFadden’s new novel Gathering of Waters.“McFadden’s reissued second novel take...

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  This Bitter Earth
  

  • Feb-2002
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  This powerful sequel to Bernice L. McFadden’s bestselling debut Sugar follows a young African-American woman back to her Arkansas hometown, where she must confront difficult truths about her parentage and a curse in her family’s past. When Suga...

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  Camilla's Roses
  

  • Apr-2004
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  Refusing to look back on her life or to acknowledge the people, places, and events that had scarred her childhood, Camilla is forced to come to terms with the truth about her past, the limitations of motherhood and reconciliation, and the dark legacy...

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  Nowhere Is a Place
  

  • Feb-2006
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  The long-awaited reissue of McFadden’s classic novel about a young woman on a journey of self-discovery "An engrossing multigenerational saga . . . With her deep engagement in the material and her brisk but lyrical prose, McFadden creates a poignan...

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  Glorious
  

  • May-2010
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  Glorious is set against the backdrops of the Jim Crow South, the Harlem Renaissance, and the civil rights era. Blending the truth of American history with the fruits of Bernice L. McFadden’s rich imagination, this is the story of Easter Venetta Bar...

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  Gathering of Waters
  

  • Feb-2012
  • / Literary
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  Gathering of Waters is a deeply engrossing tale narrated by the town of Money, Mississippi--a site both significant and infamous in our collective story as a nation. Money is personified in this haunting story, which chronicles its troubled history f...

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  My Name is Butterfly
  

  • Apr-2012
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  School Is Awesome!
  

  • Jul-2014
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  Yo Gabba Gabba!
  

  Go to school with the Gabba Gang in this storybook based on an episode of the popular show! It’s the first day of school in Gabba Land, and Brobee and Toodee are nervous -- what if school is hard? With a little help from Plex, the gang finds out...

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  The Book of Harlan
  

  • May-2016
  • / Historical
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  "The Book of Harlan" opens with the courtship of Harlan's parents and his 1917 birth in Macon, Georgia. After his prominent minister grandfather dies, Harlan and his parents move to Harlem, where he eventually becomes a professional musician. When Ha...

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  Praise Song for the Butterflies
  

  • Jul-2018
  • / Literary
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  Abebe Tsikata lives a comfortable, happy life in Ghana as the privileged nine-year-old daughter of a government employee and stay-at-home mother. But when the Tsikatas' idyllic lifestyle takes a turn for the worse, Abebe's father, following his mothe...

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  Tisoy
  

  • Jul-2022
  • / Literary
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  From Bernice L. McFadden, one of the most cherished voices in contemporary fiction, comes a dramatic family saga spanning two generations of one mixed-race family during the second half of the 20th century.  When we meet Joseph Patrick, he'...

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  Loving Donovan
  

  • / General Fiction
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  A long-awaited reissue of this deeply thoughtful novel about hope, forgiveness, and the cost of loving Donovan, a complex man with a shattered history“Bernice L. McFadden was one of the best writers to emerge in the postâ€"Waiting to Exhale explosi...

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Award-Winning Books by Bernice L. McFadden

Glorious
2011 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award -- Fiction