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Black Cake: A Novel
Charmaine Wilkerson - Ballantine Books
Format: Book
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In present-day California, following her death, Eleanor Bennett leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous... |
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The Nickel Boys: A Novel
Colson Whitehead - Doubleday
Format: Book
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Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes a strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood Curtis is about to enroll in the local... |
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The Intangible: A Novel
C. J. Washington
Format: Book
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Amanda Jackson and longs for motherhood. The early weeks of her first pregnancy are filled with happiness and excited anticipation as she and her husband prepare for the journey of parenthood. Then comes a devastating loss. Even though the doctors tell her otherwise,... |
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A Dash of Salt and Pepper
Kosoko Jackson - Berkley Romance
Format: Paperback
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Xavier Reynolds is doing less than stellar. He just got dumped, was passed over for a prestigious fellowship, and to top it all off he's right back home in Harper's Cove, Maine. The last thing he wants to do is to work as a prep chef in the kitchen of the hip new restaurant in town,... |
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Wahala: A Novel
Nikki May - Custom House
Format: Book
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An incisive and exhilarating debut novel following three Anglo-Nigerian best friends and the lethally glamorous fourth woman who infiltrates their group. Ronke wants happily ever after and 2.2. kids. She's dating Kayode and wants him to be "the one" (perfect, like... |
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Deacon King Kong: A Novel
James McBride - Riverhead Books
Format: Book
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In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range.The reasons for this... |
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The City We Became: A Novel
N. K. Jemisin - Orbit
Format: Book
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Five New Yorkers must come together to defend their city from an ancient evil in this stunning new novel by Hugo Award-winner and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin. Every great city has a soul. Some are as ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children.... |
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