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Before All the World
Moriel Rothman-Zecher - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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A mesmerizing, inventive story of three souls in 1930s Philadelphia seizing new life while haunted by the old.
In the swirl of Philadelphia at the end of Prohibition, Leyb meets Charles. They are at a former speakeasy called Cricket’s, a bar that welcomes, as Charles... |
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Moonrise Over New Jessup
JAMILA MINNICKS - Algonquin Books
Format: Book
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An enchanting and thought-provoking debut novel about a Black woman doing whatever it takes to protect all she loves on Alabama soil during the Civil Rights Movement.
It’s 1957, and after leaving the only home she has ever known, Alice Young steps off the bus into... |
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Decent People
De'Shawn Charles Winslow - Bloomsbury Publishing
Format: Book
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A sweeping and unforgettable novel of a Black community reeling from a triple homicide, and the secrets the killings reveal.
In the still-segregated town of West Mills, North Carolina, in 1976, Marian, Marva, and Lazarus Harmon-three enigmatic siblings-are found shot to death... |
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Deacon King Kong
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.
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The Evening Road
Laird Hunt - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Book
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Two women, two secrets: one desperate and extraordinary day. In the high heat of an Indiana summer, news spreads fast. When Marvel, the local county seat, plans to lynch three young black men, word travels faster. It is August, 1930, the height of the Jim Crow era, and the prospect of the spectacle... |
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The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter
Kia Corthron - Seven Stories Press
Format: Book
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The hotly anticipated first novel by lauded playwright and The Wire TV writer Kia Corthron, The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter sweeps American history from 1941 to the twenty-first century through the lives of four men--two white brothers from rural Alabama,... |
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Those We Thought We Knew
David Joy - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Book
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From award-winning writer David Joy comes a searing new novel about the cracks that form in a small North Carolina community and the evils that unfurl from its center.
Toya Gardner, a young Black artist from Atlanta, has returned to her ancestral home in the North Carolina... |
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The Two Lives of Sara
Catherine Adel West - Park Row
Format: Book
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In 1960s Memphis, a young mother finds refuge in a boardinghouse where family encompasses more than just blood and hidden truths can bury you or set you free.
Sara King has nothing, save for her secrets and the baby in her belly, as she boards the bus to Memphis, hoping... |
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The Good Lord Bird
James McBride - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Book
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The story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown’s antislavery crusade—and who must pass as a girl to survive.
Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1856--a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces--when legendary... |
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