JD Jackson
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"Magic Johnson is one of the most beloved, and at times controversial, athletes in history. His iconic smile lifted the dowdy sport of American pro basketball from a second tier sport with low ratings into the global spotlight, a transformation driven by his ability to eviscerate opponents with a style that featured his grand sense of fun. He was a master entertainer who directed Los Angeles Lakers "Showtime" basketball to the heights of both glory...
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"A powerful, heart-wrenching debut novel about ambition, survival, and our responsibility toward one another. Dixon was once an Olympic-level runner. But he missed the team by two-tenths of a second, and ever since that pain decades ago, he hasn't allowed a goal to consume him. But when his charming older brother, Nate, suggests that they attempt to be the first Black American men to summit Mount Everest, Dixon can't refuse. The brothers are determined...
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"Paul Bunyan--legendary larger-than-life lumberjack--is a man down on his luck. With a load of family debts on his broad back, he ekes out a miserable miner's living in Lump Town, a bleak hamlet controlled by famed industrialist El Boffo. When Bunyan's wife, Lucette, falls ill with a disease caused by the mysterious mineral Lump, he embarks on a mission to save her. Bunyan's path leads to the Windy City--and to John Henry. Like Bunyan, Henry is not...
4) Dark Corner
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2006
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Winner of the Gold Pen Award from the Black Writers Alliance, author Brandon Massey writes chilling novels of terror and suspense. In Dark Corner, a Mississippi backwater harbors a growing evil. After David Hunter learns of his estranged father's death in a freak boating accident, he travels to the famed author's home in the quaint burg of Mason's Corner to discover the man he never knew-and something terrifying about himself. "Mr. Massey's gripping...
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One of the most influential anthologies of all time returns to print, as relevant now as when it was first published. Anthologies seldom make history, but Harlan Ellison's 1967 collection of science fiction stories is a grand exception. Along with Moorcock's New Worlds, it defined the New Wave movement. Dangerous Visions set an almost impossibly high standard, as more than a half dozen of its stories won major awards-not surprising with a contributors...