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)

Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
Danyel Smith
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
Blue on a Blue Palette
Lynne Thompson
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
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
“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
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
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
Signal Fires
Dani Shapiro
“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
Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles
Clora Bryant
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
God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin
Hilton Als
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