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Summer 2013

Need a book for the beach or for a rainy day? Enjoy these recommended reads from the staff at the Griot Institute. Happy summer!

• Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention -- Manning Marable
  (order it on Amazon) (read the NYT Review)
• Sag Harbor -- Colson Whitehead
  (order it on Amazon) (read the NYT Review)
• Brother, I'm Dying -- Edwidge Danticat
  (order it on Amazon) (read the NYT Review)
• This Strange Land -- Shara McCallum
  (order it on Amazon) (read reviews and a selection here)
• Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood -- Jill Watt
  (order it on Amazon) (read the NYT Review)
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks -- Rebecca Skloot
  (order it on Amazon) (read the Smithsonian review)

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