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Lynell George Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Lynell George is a journalist and essayist . journalist/essayist #la native | #nola roots. alum @latimes, @laweekly. #Grammy winner. #Hugo finalist—"A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky" (@angelcitypress)

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Book Cover for: Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop, Danyel Smith

Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop

Danyel Smith
Lynell GeorgeLynell George

Faceted, Shine Bright is part memoir, part historical excavation, exploring the role of Black women musical artists—spanning genres and decades. Smith’s lifelong love of music is the throughline ... Deeply researched, poetically assembled, it’s told with lots of heart.

Paperback, 2023

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Blue on a Blue Palette, Lynne Thompson

Blue on a Blue Palette

Lynne Thompson
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It’s #internationalteaday and I’m traveling with Lynne Thompson—across borders, territories, moods and history.

Paperback, 2024

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler
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“Freedom is dangerous but it’s precious, too. You can’t throw it away or let it slip away. You can’t sell it for bread or pottage.” — Octavia E. Butler, “Parable of the Sower”

Paperback, 2019

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler
Lynell GeorgeLynell George

It’s not too late to be part of Pasadena’s Octavia Butler Sci-Fi Book Club. 7/29 at 3pm is the next meet up at La Pintoresca Library, one on Butler’s personal map.. The book for this meet up is “Parable of the Sower.” Contact the library for more details. https://t.co/XBkVP0wbcK

Paperback, 2019

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Signal Fires, Dani Shapiro

Signal Fires

Dani Shapiro
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“His gratitude is so wide and deep that it feels, instead, like shame.” — Dani Shapiro “Signal Fires” #SundaySentence

Paperback, 2023

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles, Clora Bryant

Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles

Clora Bryant
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One of my favorite L.A. history books is ‘Central Avenue Sounds,’ a lively collection of oral histories told by jazz musicians who were part of the L.A. scene during the second wave of the Great Migration... I love this chorus of voices through a lens of music.

Paperback, 1999

$33.95$16.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin, Hilton Als

God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin

Hilton Als
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I have so been looking forward to this one….Thank you for ordering it for me, @octavias_bookshelf 🙏🏾

Hardcover, 2024

$39.95$19.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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