<div>A successful female DJ refuses to let a few romantic catastrophes keep her down in award-winning author April Sinclair&rsquo;s dazzlingly soulful novel that was hailed as &ldquo;a Bridget Jones&rsquo;s Diary for black women&rdquo; by the New York Times Book Review Daphne &ldquo;Dee Dee&rdquo; Dupree has arrived at age 41 with a career she loves, but a romantic life she doesn&rsquo;t. Insecure about her weight and protective of her often-broken heart, Dee Dee is an expert at hiding her inward struggles from the thousands of Chicago residents who hear her on the radio every night. A successful, charismatic DJ for the local blues station, Dee Dee is still looking for the type of love she&rsquo;s missed since her divorce. After a traumatic event at work, Dee Dee meets Skylar, a union mediator who could be just what she&rsquo;s looking for&mdash;if only there weren&rsquo;t so many obstacles in their way. Meanwhile, Dee Dee&rsquo;s coworker Jade is nearing her own divorce; her best friend, Sharon, has come out of the closet; and Sharon&rsquo;s teenage daughter is dangerously close to a breakdown. As Dee Dee works to ease the problems of her friends, she finally faces her own troubles&mdash;both old and new&mdash;in this uplifting, thought-provoking novel. </div>

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I Left My Back Door Open

<div>Stevie Stevenson graduates from college and embraces the liberating California lifestyle in award-winning author April Sinclair&rsquo;s follow-up to her &ldquo;vivid and brilliant&rdquo; (San Francisco Review of Books) debut novel Coffee Will Make You Black Growing up black in 1960s Chicago, Jean &ldquo;Stevie&rdquo; Stevenson came of age amid the tumult of the civil rights movement, learning to value not just her race and gender but her sexuality as well. Now, nearly a decade later, Stevie is a college graduate enjoying a week of vacation in San Francisco. After getting a taste of the bohemian life, she can&rsquo;t bring herself to return home to her family and journalism career in Chicago. Instead, she&rsquo;s determined to spread her wings and discover her true self, experimenting with free love, gay pride, and vegetarianism; forging a friendship with a gay disco queen; and taking a job at the feminist Personal Change Counseling Center. As she falls in and out of love, Stevie takes time to observe both the absurd and the liberating qualities of the West Coast hippie lifestyle&mdash;and is constantly reminded that the journey to self-discovery likely has no end point. Written with the same bright wit and endless charm that made Coffee Will Make You Black such a beloved book, Ain&rsquo;t Gonna Be the Same Fool Twice is a delightful continuation of Stevie&rsquo;s story that was hailed by Salon as &ldquo;ripely funny, unpretentious, and sincere.&rdquo; </div>

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<div>&ldquo;A funny, fresh novel about growing up African-American in 1960s Chicago&rdquo; by an author who &ldquo;writes like Terry McMillan&rsquo;s kid sister&rdquo; (Entertainment Weekly). In this hilarious and insightful coming-of-age novel, author April Sinclair introduces the charming Jean &ldquo;Stevie&rdquo; Stevenson, a young woman raised on Chicago&rsquo;s South Side during an era of irrevocable social upheaval. Curious and witty, bold but na&iuml;ve, Stevie grows up debating the qualities of good hair and dark skin. As the years pass, her family and neighborhood are changed by the times, from the War on Poverty to race riots and the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., from &ldquo;Black Is Beautiful&rdquo; to Black Power. Against this remarkable backdrop, Stevie makes the sometimes harrowing, often comic, always enthralling transformation into a young adult&mdash;socially aware, discovering her sexuality, and proud of her identity. &ldquo;Whether she&rsquo;s dealing with a subject as monumental as the civil rights movement or as intimate as Stevie&rsquo;s first sexual encounters,&rdquo; writes the Los Angeles Times, &ldquo;Sinclair never fails to make you laugh and never sacrifices the narrative to make a point.&rdquo; Winner of the Carl Sandburg Award from the Friends of the Chicago Public Library and named a best book of the year in young adult fiction by the American Library Association, Coffee Will Make You Black is an exquisite portrait of adolescence that will resonate with readers of all ages. </div>

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