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On the left is a photo of author Shonda Rhimes. She looks glamorous in a red top and a diamond bracelet and ring. On the right is the cover of her book, "Year of Yes."
On the left is author Renée Watson. On the right is the cover of ther book "Piecing Me Together." It is a collage of a Black girl and a colorful city behind her.
Author Mikki Kendall displaying Black Joy in a gorgeous skirt, held up like she's dancing, and a huge, beautiful smile on her face.
The cover of Michelle Obama's book, "Becoming." It displays a photograph of the author looking GORGEOUS in a white top, off one shoulder; loose, flowing black curls; and a big smile.
The main picture is a black & white portrait of the author Lesa Cline-Ransome. She is a pretty Black woman with a big smile. Inset is the cover of her book, "Finding Langston." It depicts a Black boy in overalls standing in the light of a streetlamp, surrounded by tall block buildings, like city apartments.
The cover of the graphic novel, "Space Chasers, "by Leland Melvin. It depicts a comic book drawing of six astronauts of various genders and colors, and two dogs, floating in a space capsule, with the eart depicted through a porthole behind them.
The cover of the book, "Chasing Space: An Astronaut's Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances," by Leland Melvin. The author is pictured on the front in the best official astronaut photo ever - in his orange space suit with his two dogs, one licking his face, the other jumping onto his lap.
On the left is the cover for Jasmine Guillory's book, "The Wedding Date." On the right is a picture of writer Jasmine Guillory. She is a pretty Black woman with a big smile and smiling eyes.
The quote, "I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now." by Jacqueline Woodson from her book Brown Girl Dreaming. The background is a turquoise and gold sky, like near sunset. There is a brown silhouette of a young girl in a dress with braids. She is holding a book that blue, green, and gold silhouettes of butterflies are swooping out of.
On the left is the Cover for Camryn Garrett’s book, FRIDAY I’M IN LOVE. It features a young Black woman dancing in a rainbow-colored fancy dress with a big grin on her face and her long, curly black hair flipped in the air. On the right is Camryn Garrett, a smiling young Black woman in a short dress and jean jacket. The skirt of the dress flares around her like she just finished spinning around.
There is only one unpardonable sin — deliberate cruelty. Truman Capote, THE THANKSGIVING VISITOR
On the left side is author Ben Philippe. He is a young Black man with a slightly bemused expression on his face. He is holding a large white dog. On the right side is the cover of his book, "Charming as a Verb." It pictures a tall, Black, teen boy in a white t-shirt and jeans walking a dog through a crosswalk on a busy NYC street. A Black teen girl in a school uniform is walking in front of him but turned back towards him.
Photo of author Barabara Neely. She is a Black woman in round glasses dressed in red in black sitting on weathered steps. There are rough-hewn baskets of plants on the steps beside her.
Author Annette Gordon-Reed, an attractive Black woman with a lovely smile in a dark suit jacket, in front of white pillars like on the front of a colonial-style building.
Picture of author Alyssa Cole, a gorgeous black woman with a huge smile. Her quote, "My characters are fictional, but I want them to feel as fully formed and human to someone who has a similar background as I would want to feel reading about someone like myself," is displayed beside her picture.
Cover for the book, American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road by Nick Bilton
Cover for the book, "The Housekeeper and the Professor," by Yoko Ogawa. The cover is a bright blue sky with math symbols that look like they're petals being blown off of the blooming cherry tree.
Cover for the book, "Several People are Typing," by Calvin Kasulke
Book cover for Helene Hanff's book, "84 Charing Cross Road."
Cover for the book, "The Uncommon Reader," by Alan Bennett. Cover shows a silhouette of the Queen of Englan reading a book.
Cover of the book, "Northanger Abbey," by Jane Austen
Cover for Agatha Christie's book, "And Then There Were None"
Covers of Becky Chamber's Monk & Robot duology, "A Psalm for the Wild Buildt," and "A Prayer for the Crown Shy."
Cover for McKiney & Company's Business Book of the Year Winner of 2019, "Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men" by Caroline Criado Perez. The image is a repeating patern of men symbols in black and women in very, very light grey.
Cover for the book, "And Then There Were None," by mystery's number one best selling author, Agatha Christie. Image is of a lone man looking out over a blue sea from a dark cliff top.
Cover for the national bestselling book, "Lab Girl," by Hope Jahren Lab is spelled out in soil. The A in "Lab" has a tree seedling (probably oak) growing out of it. Below the word, "Girl," is a pair of tweezers holding an acorn.
Book cover for, "Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays," by New York Times bestselling author Phoebe Robinson. Cover photo is Phoebe looking fierce in a dark green sparkly dress and natural hair on a plum couch.
Cover for the book "The Inn at lake Devine," by Elinor Lipman. The cover picture looks like a vintage postcard with red adirondack chairs on lush green grass overlooking a blue green lake. There are trees on a shoreline and low mountains in the distance.
Cover of the book, "The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence" by Gavin de Becker
Cover of the book, "Matilda," by Roald Dahl, Illustrated by Quentin Blake. The cover art is a girl sitting on an upturned crate surrounded by books. She looks contemplative.
Cover to the #1 New York Times Bestselling book, "Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir," by Jenny Lawson, aka The Blogess. The cover photo is a white mouse wearing white collar ruff and red cape and holding a mouse skull (like Hamlet).
Cover for the book "Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that addicted America," by Beth Macy Image is of a street of nice two-story homes with the Blue Ridge Mountains in the background.
Cover of the Pulitzer Prize winning and New York Times bestselling book, "Demon Copperhead" by Barbara Kingsolver
Cover of the #1 New York Times Bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winning book, "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" by Isabel Wilkerson
Cover of the book "The Elegnace of the Hedgehog" by Muriel Barbery. Image on cover is of Paris row houses.
Cover of the Pulitzer Prize winning book, "Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War" by Tony Horwitz. A black & white photo of a severe looking man wearing a plaid shirt, with a beard and long gun.
Cover of the book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Cover of the book"Stumbling on Happiness" by Daniel Gilbert. The cover includes an upside down bowl on top of spilled cherries.
Cover for the book, "the curious incident of the dog in the night-time" by Mark Haddon. There is a black silhouette of a poodle dog upside down on a red background.
Sean Doolittle, pitcher for the Washington Nationals, leaps in the air after the final out as the Nationals beat the Dodgers 7-3 in game 5 of the 2019 NLDS.
Cover for the New York Times bestseller, "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich The phot on the cover is a woman dress like a waitress at the window to the kitchen like in a diner.
Cover of eleanor & park, a novel by rainbow rowell The picture is a drawing of the back of the two heads, one with long curly red hair and one with short black hair. They are each listening to headphones connected by a wire that forms the "&" in the title.
Cover of eleanor & park, a novel by rainbow rowell The picture is a drawing of the back of the two heads, one with long curly red hair and one with short black hair. They are each listening to headphones connected by a wire that forms the "&" in the title.
The cover of "Stuart: a life backwards" by Alexander Masters
Cover of The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin It depicts a house made of dollar bills with fireworks going off above it.
Tweet that reads, "and another thing: im not mad. please don't put in the newspaper that i got mad."
Me holding a baby tiger
A bright blue but cloud filled sky is reflected in a rippling lake. Fall colored trees are on the opposite shore.
Best single line from a song. Not best chorus, verse, or bridge. Just one line.
an ABSOLUTLEY adorable black highland cow stuffed animal. They're the emo cows with the long hair in their eyes and big horns, if you're not a cow connoisseur.
Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds, and Gene Kelly from Singing in the Rain.
A lovely three story brick building surrounded by snow covered trees and lawn.
Signs of a stroke can be remembered with BE FAST, which stands for balance, eyes, face, arm, speech, and time. If any are off, face droops, speech slurred, arm weak, call for an ambulance.
Picture of a mountain with, "When sleeping women wake, mountains move. - Chinese Proverb"
Picture of a mountain with the words, "When sleeping women wake, mountains move. - Chinese Proverb."