Carolivia Herron

• May-1991
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Thereafter Johnnie by Carolivia Herron weaves beauty, sorrow and tragic vision into the fall of an incestuous African American family. The failure of this middle-class family of Washington, DC is linked to failures of national destiny, religion, and ...

• Jan-1999
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Now in Dragonfly: a lively, empowering story about Brenda's knotted-up, twisted, nappy hair and how it got to be that way Told in the African-American " call and response" tradition, this story leaps off the page, along with vibrant illust...

• May-2006
• / General Fiction
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Come to Kenilworth, a neighborhood in Washington, DC in the year 1931, where Little Georgia Johnson lives with her seven siblings and their parents. On a very hot August day Little Georgia leaves her sisters and brothers at the house, and makes the l...

• Jan-2012
• / General Fiction
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An elderly black grandmother passes on the story of the familys Jewish origins to her young granddaughter, Carol Olivia. As family members flee the Spanish Inquisition, are kidnapped by pirates and eventually sail to America, one daughter in each gen...

• Nov-2014
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Volume 1 of the 2 volume novel, Asenath and Our Song of Songs, shares scenes from the life of Shirah Shulamit Ojero, an African American Jewish girl and woman, growing up in Washington, DC. Shirah reexamines and affirms her Judaic ancestry, becomes a...

• Jul-2016
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Shirah Shulamit Ojero has four loves, her African American culture, her Jewish heritage, academic study -- especially the study of literary epics -- and her city, Washington, DC. Peacesong DC displays the interconnection of these four loves as Sh...