Olayemi Olurin Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Giving a Damn: Racism, Romance and Gone with the Wind
Patricia Williams
Book recommendation where I got this information: Giving A Damn by Patricia Williams https://t.co/KpVhjSSwDZ https://t.co/eW3OzMH03O
Hardcover, 2021
$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Autobiography: I Wonder as I Wander
Langston Hughes
@___inCANdescent Have you read langston hughes autobiography the big sea? I really liked the portions about zora because it seems clear she was always broke, talented, and still the life of the party. And once anybody wronged her, including langston, she did not mess around gettin her lick back😂
Hardcover, 2003
$54.00$29.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Saving Nine
Mike Lee
Republican Utah Senator Mike Lee appeared on the show to promote his book “Saving Nine: The Fight Against the Left’s Audacious Plan to Pack the Supreme Court and Destroy American Liberty” I pushed back— reminding him 9 is not set in stone and we’ve changed that number many times https://t.co/Qder6dpJey
Paperback, 2023
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Yonder Come Day: Exploring the Collective Witness of the Formerly Enslaved
Jasmine L. Holmes
I cannot recommend this book highly enough to anyone trying to learn more about immigration in America
Paperback, 2024
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Mikki Kendall
I’ve been reading Hood Feminism but I’m pausing to read Patriarchy Blues (new instant NYT bestseller from @FredTJoseph) today because I’m hype for it! https://t.co/si0kj4jwLN
Paperback, 2021
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Love
Toni Morrison
For Valentine’s Day: here’s a list of amazing books about love you should read by the late great bell hooks and Toni Morrison! https://t.co/5nwaliX20U
Paperback, 2005
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Women I Love
Francesco Pacifico
I don’t read much fiction but I loved this author’s book “The Women I Love” so I decided to buy his other novels https://t.co/rdVHiT99kc
Paperback, 2022
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
People Person
Candace Cartywilliams
I finished this and I LOVED it. I’ll probably reread this a few times. This even outdid her debut novel Queenie for me, highly recommend
Hardcover, Large Print, 2023
$32.99$16.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Big Sea: An Autobiography
Langston Hughes
@___inCANdescent Have you read langston hughes autobiography the big sea? I really liked the portions about zora because it seems clear she was always broke, talented, and still the life of the party. And once anybody wronged her, including langston, she did not mess around gettin her lick back😂
Paperback, 1993
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Blackness: The Life and Times of an Unpopular People
T. Nicole Shockley
Just finished this book, recommend. Very honest and insightful telling of one Black man’s (@ijbailey) experiences in the south, receiving relentless pushback and disrespect as he covered issues on race, and reconciling what he was taught about his own Blackness w/ its real beauty https://t.co/2Cxff9c8Bq
Paperback, 2016
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book