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Jamise Harper

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Jamise Harper is an avid reader, wine enthusiast, influencer, and champion for amplifying marginalized voices. A passion for reading diverse books led her to create the #diversespines hashtag and Diverse Spines® book community on social media, which highlights literature by Black women and women of color. She is the co-author, along with Jane Mount, of Bibliophile: Diverse Spines (Chronicle Books, 2021), and the creator of Spines & Vines®, a social media platform dedicated to enhancing reading experiences with curated book and wine pairings. She is also the host of Literary Wine Down , a book + wine conversational series on Instagram Live featuring debut and bestselling authors.

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Average rating: 4.37 · 1,089 ratings · 268 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	Bibliophile: Diverse Spines by Jamise Harper (Goodreads Author), Jane Mount (Goodreads Author) (Author/Illustrator) 4.38 avg rating — 1,086 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bibliophile Diverse Spines 2023 Wall Calendar by Jane Mount (Goodreads Author), Jamise Harper (Goodreads Author) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Bibliophile (2 books)
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Jamise Harper (Goodreads Author),

Jane Mount (Goodreads Author) (Author/Illustrator)

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A Guardian and a Thief

by Megha Majumdar (Goodreads Author)

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We Are All Guilty Here (North Falls, #1)

by Karin Slaughter (Goodreads Author)

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Dominion

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“In creating this miscellany, our goal is for you to find at least ten new-to-you and irresistible books by authors of backgrounds different from your own...that you'll read in the next year...The idea is to keep seeking out and reading diverse stories.”
― Jamise Harper, Bibliophile: Diverse Spines

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Jamise’s Quotes

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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“Deal with yourself as a individual worthy of respect, and make everyone else deal with you the same way.”
― Nikki Giovanni

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“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
― Maya Angelou

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“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

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“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
― Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu

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