You are dressed too well to be innocent

Book Recommendation, Innocent Spouse: A Memoir

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The day after Carol Ross Joynt's husband died, she learned that he was being investigated for criminal federal tax fraud. She discusses the tax clause that protected her from the liabilities of her husband's actions.

This one may be more popular to adults, rather than YAs. Read an except and listen to an interview with the author here

Book Recommendation:Black Woman Redefined: Dispelling Myths And Discovering Fulfillment In The Age Of Michelle Obama

"The twenty-first-century successful black woman is brilliant and tenacious and not afraid to flex her intellectual, spiritual, or financial muscles. "- Excerpt from Sophia Nelson's Black Woman Redefined: Dispelling Myths And Discovering Fulfillment In The Age Of Michelle Obama

Book Recommendation: Silver Sparrow

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tale of secret sistersby Tayari Jones

African-American History: Book Recommendation

NPR's New Discoveries in Black History host Michel Martin speaks with Rick Bowers, author of Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy of the Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement. Listen