African American Fiction (21st Century), Cryptocurrency, and #HelpLMFind

 

 

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Special Collections Update  -  February 11, 2022

African American Fiction (21st Century), Cryptocurrency, and #HelpLMFind


LM InteriorAfrican American Fiction (21st Century) at the Library of Michigan: Selected authors and titles

The 21st century has been a fruitful time for African American fiction authors from Michigan, or who write about Michigan. The Library of Michigan’s collection includes a broad range of genres: romance, crime, memoir, urban and historical. To see the full list of African American Fiction (21st Century) authors/titles, visit the Michigan Booklists section on the Library of Michigan's website.

Burton, Rainelle
The Root Worker
PS3602.U87 R66 2001

Cintron, Esperanza
Shades: Detroit Love Stories (Michigan Notable Book, 2020)
PS3603.I5 S533 2019

Cooper, Desiree
Know the Mother (Michigan Notable Book 2017)
PS3603.O582615 K66 2016

Flournoy, Angela
The Turner House (Michigan Notable Book, 2016)
PS3606.L6813 T87 2015

Giddings, Megan
Lakewood (Michigan Notable Book 2021)
PS3607.I2748 L35 2020

Gray, Anissa
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls (Michigan Notable Book 2020)
PS3607.R3876 C37 2019

Head, Cheryl A.
Warn Me When It's Time
PS3608.E227 W37 2021
Wake Me When It's Over
PS3608.E33 W3 2018
Bury Me When I'm Dead
PS3608.E233 B87 2016

Jones, Stephen Mack
Dead of Winter (Michigan Notable Book, 2022)
PS3610.O6289 D43 2021
Lives Laid Away
PS3610.O6289 L35 2019
August Snow (Michigan Notable Books, 2018)
PS3610.O6289 A94 2017

McFarland, Jeni
The House of Deep Water
PS3613.C43945 H68 2020

Randall, Alice
Black Bottom Saints (Michigan Notable Book 2021)
PS3568.A486 B53 2020

African American Fiction


Timely Topics - Cryptocurrency

Compiled by Special Collections staff members Diane Donham and Bernadette Bartlett, Timely Topics issues gather and organize sources to help state employees, legislators, and Michiganders stay informed on important and challenging topics in the news. This issue of Timely Topics covers the mysterious world of cryptocurrency, offer reliable sources to help us all better understand this technology and its implications.

Read the entire issue at Timely Topics - Cryptocurrency.

Find past issues of Timely Topics on the Library of Michigan's website.

Timely Topics Cryptocurrency

#HelpLMFind: Journal of the Annual Session of the Michigan Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church

The Library of Michigan is seeking additional print issues of the Journal of the Annual Session of the Michigan Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The journals include not only the conference proceedings, but also names and updates from from member churches, conference participants, individual members, ministers, deceased ministers, ministers' wives and missionaries, as well as works taken on by the churches and missionaries. These journals provide a wealth of historic information for researchers of all kinds. The Library of Michigan can provide these materials a permanent home and public access for researchers for generations to come. Anyone with information on how to locate issues of the Journal of the Annual Session of the Michigan Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (or other published journals/conferences proceedings from Michigan-based religious denominations) should contact the Library of Michigan at Librarian@Michigan.gov.

HelpLMFind AME Church Journal

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