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And that’s a wrap on The World According to Fannie Davis! I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did! Feel free to leave your thoughts over at the Facebook group.

And if you’re looking for more great memoirs to read, check out this list!

💡 Points of Inspiration 💡

We asked Bridgett M. Davis to share her list of people, places and things she was thinking about while writing The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers.

Louise Meriwether’s Daddy Was a Number Runner: a coming-of-age novel about a 12-year old black girl growing up in Harlem during the Depression – and how her family and community were kept afloat by the Numbers game
The Detroit Institute of Arts, with its extraordinary Detroit Industry murals painted by Diego Rivera in the early 1930s, depicting workers in Ford Motor Co.’s River Rouge factory
Soul of the '60s 5-volume CD set of iconic songs, most of them Motown tunes
Artist Mikalene Thomas’s portraits of stylish black women, with all of their saturated color and verve
Man, Myth & Magic, the multi-volume illustrated encyclopedia of the supernatural, that included every topic from exorcism to hypnosis to Tarot to telekinesis.
Josephine Baker, as a performer and singer and trailblazing black woman
The Original Lucky Three Wise Men and Red Devil Combination dream books that provide listings of 3-digit numbers to play, all based on people, places and things
Belle Isle Park in Detroit, which sits on an island in the Detroit River, and has a beautiful water-spouting fountain, where people toss in coins for good luck
Isabel Wilkerson’s The Warmth of Other Suns, which tells the story of the Great Migration through three extraordinary yet ordinary African-Americans’ lives
Book Of Numbers, a 1973 film with a great soundtrack and featuring a very young Philip Michael Thomas — based on the novel by Robert Deane Pharr

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🎉 📚Free book giveaway winners! 🎉 📚

Earlier this month, we asked you to send us the title of your favorite YA novel for the chance to win a copy of our November pick, Frankly in Love by David Yoon. Here are our winners:

Meg Kehoe recommends The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen

Ashley Bussell recommends One Day in December by Josie Silver

Tianna Glass-Tripp recommends The Giver by Lois Lowry

Olivia Nixon-Hemelt recommends Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

Paul Mike Lara recommends The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

Sydney Parker recommends The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Erika Layden recommends I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

Nia-Symonne Martin recommends Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Jessie Altman recommends The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Monica Paola recommends The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Congratulations to our winners, and don't forget to buy or borrow our November pick, Frankly in Love!