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The Life of Herod the Great: A Novel
Zora Neale Hurston - Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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A never before published novel from beloved author Zora Neale Hurston, revealing the historical Herod the Great - not the villain the Bible makes him out to be but a religious and philosophical man who lived a life of valor and vision.In the 1950s, as a continuation of Moses, Man of the Mountain,... |
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Happy Land
Dolen Perkins-Valdez - Berkley
Format: Hardcover
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A woman learns the astonishing truth of her family's ties to a vanished American Kingdom in this riveting new novel from the New York Times bestselling, NAACP Image Award-winning author of Take My Hand.. Nikki Berry hasn't seen her grandmother in years, due to a mysterious estrangement... |
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Dream Count: A Novel
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A publishing event ten years in the making - a searing, exquisite new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists - the story of four women and their loves, longings, and desires. Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America.... |
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People of Means: A Novel
Nancy Johnson - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed author of The Kindest Lie, a propulsive novel about a mother and daughter each seeking justice and following their dreams during moments of social reckoning - 1960s Nashville and 1992 Chicago; perfect for readers of Brit Bennett and Tayari Jones."People of Means... |
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The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates - One World
Format: Hardcover
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell - and the ones we don't - shape our realities.. Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set out to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell's... |
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Harlem Rhapsody
Victoria Christopher Murray - Berkley
Format: Book
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She found the literary voices that would inspire the world ... . The extraordinary story of the woman who ignited the Harlem Renaissance, written by Victoria Christopher Murray, New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Personal Librarian. In 1919, a high school teacher from Washington,... |
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Reel
Kennedy Ryan - Forever
Format: Hardcover
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A Broadway actress has a chance at stardom when cast by a major Hollywood director, but the role of her dreams may cost her the love of a lifetime in this epic novel from "one of the finest romance writers of our age." (Entertainment Weekly) . For months I stood in the wings,... |
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A Pair of Wings: A Novel
Carole Hopson - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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A riveting, adventurous novel inspired by the life of pioneer aviatrix Bessie Coleman, a Black woman who learned to fly at the dawn of aviation, and found freedom in the air. . For fans of Hidden Figures, The Great Circle, and I Was Amelia Earhart, A Pair of Wings is an epic novel about... |
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And So I Roar: A Novel
Abi Daré - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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A stunning, heartwrenching new novel from Abi Daré, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl with the Louding VoiceWhen Tia accidentally overhears a whispered conversation between her mother - terminally ill and lying in a hospital bed in Port Harcourt, Nigeria - and her aunt, the repercussions... |
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Masquerade
O.O. Sangoyomi - Forge Books
Format: Hardcover
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Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale exploring the true cost of one woman's fight for freedom and self-discovery, and the lengths she'll go to secure her future."A bewitching, thrilling and vibrant novel that had me enthralled... |
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The Bookshop Sisterhood: A Novel
Michelle Lindo-Rice - MIRA
Format: Paperback
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"A book that will stay with the reader long after the last page. Absolutely brilliant." - Kristan Higgins, New York Times bestselling author. "This drama-packed page turner will warm your heart!" - Eliza Knight, USA Today bestselling author of The Mayfair Bookshop.... |
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The Unicorn Woman
Gayl Jones - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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Marking a dramatic new direction for Jones, a riveting tale set in the Post WWII South, narrated by a Black soldier who returns to Jim Crow and searches for a mythical ideal. Set in the early 1950s, this latest novel from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Gayl Jones follows... |
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The Road to the Country: A Novel
Chigozie Obioma - Hogarth
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping, heart-racing, mystical novel about a university student in Lagos trying to save his brother, and himself, amid the chaos of Nigeria's civil war - a story of love, friendship, and brotherhood by the two-time Booker Prize finalist and "the heir to Chinua Achebe"... |
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Between Friends & Lovers: A Novel
Shirlene Obuobi - Avon
Format: Hardcover
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Talia Hibbert meets Carley Fortune in this swoon-worthy story of love and friendship in the age of social media - where what you see might not be all you get. To her countless Instagram followers Josephine Boateng is the dazzling Dr. Jojo - and her opinions on health, growth, and self-love... |
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Let the Games Begin: A Novel
Rufaro Faith Mazarura - Flatiron Books
Format: Paperback
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Set against a sizzling-hot Greek summer filled with sunshine and souvlaki, Rufaro Faith Mazarura's Let the Games Begin is a page-turning debut rom-com about two strangers at the top of their game.. Athens, 2024. Olivia Nkomo has always been ambitious, smart, and an overall go-getter.... |
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Grown Women: A Novel
Sarai Johnson - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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In this stunning debut novel, four generations of complex Black women contend with motherhood and daughterhood, generational trauma and the deeply ingrained tensions and wounds that divide them as they redefine happiness and healing for themselves.Erudite Evelyn, her cynical daughter Charlotte,... |
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A Gamble at Sunset (Betting Against the Duke Book 1)
Vanessa Riley - Zebra Books
Format: Paperback
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Award-winning author Vanessa Riley turns all convention on its head for the first in an enchanting, dazzlingly diverse new Regency romance trilogy featuring a duke, three sisters, and a tantalizing bet with a most desirable reward.... When a duke discovers the woman he loves was tricked... |
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Curvy Girl Summer
Danielle Allen - Bramble
Format: Paperback
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Bridget Jones meets Insecure in CURVY GIRL SUMMER, a smoking-hot, hilarious novel about the perils of online dating.. Aaliyah is determined to celebrate her thirtieth birthday with a boyfriend. And after a failed blind date, the local bartender, Ahmad, suggests she joins a dating app..... |
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They Dream in Gold: A Novel
Mai Sennaar - SJP Lit
Format: Hardcover
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For fans of Tara M. Stringfellow's Memphis and Abi Daré's The Girl with the Louding Voice comes a stunning literary debut about one intercultural family's search for home and the power of a lifelong dream.. It is summer 1969 in the Swiss countryside, and the house on the hill... |
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The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye: A Novel
Briony Cameron - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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This epic, dazzling tale based on true events illuminates a woman of color's rise to power as one of the few purported female pirate captains to sail the Caribbean, and the forbidden love story that will shape the course of history.. In the tumultuous town of Yáquimo, Santo Domingo,... |
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What You Leave Behind: A Novel
Wanda M. Morris - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning author Wanda Morris returns with a powerful, haunting thriller following a lawyer who after the mysterious disappearance of a local landowner and the death of his sister just months before, uncovers a conspiracy that dates back to Reconstruction and persists in half the United... |
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Ella: A Novel
Diane Richards - Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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In the vein of The Paris Wife and The Personal Librarian comes this debut novel, a magnificent work of "biographical fiction" that reimagines the turbulent and triumphant early years of Ella Fitzgerald, arguably the greatest singer of the twentieth century.When fifteen-year-old... |
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While We Were Burning
Sara Koffi - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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Parasite meets Such a Fun Age in a scorching debut that is as heartbreaking as it is thrilling, examining the intersection of race, class, and female friendship, and the devastating consequences of everyday actions.. After her best friend's mysterious death, Elizabeth Smith's picture-perfect... |
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James: A Novel
Percival Everett - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. * From the "literary icon" (Oprah Daily) , Pulitzer Prize Finalist, and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime.... |
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Ours: A Novel
Phillip B. Williams - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"A beautifully-written and ambitious epic about the complexity of freedom." - Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half. An epic novel set in mid-nineteenth-century America about the spiritual costs of a freedom that demands fierce protection. In this ingenious, sweeping novel,... |
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This Could Be Us
Kennedy Ryan - Forever
Format: Hardcover
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"Heart-searing, sensual, and life affirming." -- EMILY HENRY, #1 New York Times bestselling author. Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. She designs everything. She fixes everything. She's a domestic goddess who's... |
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Pride and Joy: A Novel
Louisa Onomé - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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Black Cake meets Death at a Funeral in this heartwarming and hilarious novel about three generations of a Nigerian Canadian family grappling with their matriarch's sudden passing while their auntie insists that her sister is coming back - from an author with a "razor-sharp, smart,... |
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Pardon My Frenchie
Farrah Rochon - Forever
Format: Paperback
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The New York Times bestselling author of Almost There delivers the start of a new rom-com series with an enemies-to-lovers romance, perfect for readers of Abby Jimenez and Jasmine Guillory.. Ashanti Wright is thrilled over the success of her doggie daycare, Barkingham Palace. But handling... |
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The Blueprint: A Novel
Rae Giana Rashad - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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"The Blueprint is an astounding work, an unflinching portrait of misogyny and racism in a speculative world terrifyingly close to our own. Rae Giana Rashad chronicles the generational ghosts of womanhood, and how we understand ourselves through the stories of those we come from, in a way I've... |
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The Only Black Girl in the Room: A Novel
Alex Travis
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An ambitious reporter stuck doing diversity checks for her white colleagues gets her big break in this compelling debut novel perfect for fans of Jayne Allen, Jasmine Guillory, and Zakiya Dalila Harris.. Genevieve Francis, a 25-year-old Black reporter, assumed she'd go into her fo |
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Allow Me to Introduce Myself: A Novel
Onyi Nwabineli
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Ever since she was a child, Anuri's life was chronicled and monetized by her influencer stepmother. Now an adult, she's finally broken free. But when her stepmother starts preying on her young half sister, Anuri decides she must stop the cycle of abuse. Really Good, Actually meets |
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The Sun Sets in Singapore: A Novel
Kehinde Fadipe - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Basking in Singapore's nonstop sunshine, Dara, Amaka, and Lillian are living the glamorous expat dream - until their carefully constructed lives are upended by a handsome and mysterious new arrival: "Wanderlust-inducing . . . A rich celebration of the nuanced complexities of Black... |
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Acts of Forgiveness: A Novel
Maura Cheeks - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this stirring, tender-hearted debut about ambition and inheritance, a family grapples with how much of their lineage they're willing to unearth in order to participate in the nation's first federal reparations program.. Every American waits with bated breath to see whether or not the country's... |
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The Good Ones Are Taken: A Romance Novel
Taj McCoy
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"If you haven't read Taj McCoy's books, you are missing out on some seriously stunning love stories!" - Jesse Sutanto, author of Dial A for Aunties. When Maggie's best friend admits he's in love with her, she'll have to decide whether it's worth giving up something good |
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Jewel Me Twice
Charish Reid
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"Charish writes characters you can't help but fall in love with and stories you can't put down." - Denise Williams, author of Love and Other Flight Delays. Love can catch you red-handed.. He was her partner - both in crime and between the sheets. It's been five years si |
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The American Daughters: A Novel
Maurice Carlos Ruffin - One World
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping historical novel about a spirited girl who joins a sisterhood working to undermine the Confederates - from the award-winning author of We Cast a Shadow. Ady, a curious, sharp-witted girl, and her fierce mother, Sanite, are inseparable. Enslaved to a businessman in the French... |
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Neighbors and Other Stories
Diane Oliver - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-century African American literature, with an introduction by Tayari JonesA remarkable talent... |
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Fake Famous: A Novel
Dana L. Davis - Skyscape
Format: Hardcover
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In this breezy novel from the author of Somebody That I Used to Know, one Iowa farm girl - a dead ringer for a global pop star - gets an unlikely shot at stardom. Will she choose fame ... or the family farm?Red Morgan is fresh out of high school. With signature red curls and a remarkable... |
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Sounds Like a Plan: A Novel
Pamela Samuels Young
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Reluctantly joining forces after discovering they've both been hired on the same missing person case, two rival Black private investigators find their mutual dislike evolves into an undeniable attraction in this rollicking, romantic thrill ride told in alternate perspectives from |
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Where There's Smoke
Kiki Swinson - Dafina
Format: Hardcover
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In her nationally-bestselling novels, Kiki Swinson ignites an unforgettable portrait of Dirty South scheming, greed, desire--and brutal dead ends. Now the stakes have never been more lethal as a compromised female firefighter starts burning down her all-too-corrupt past . . .. Kill your... |
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The Partner Plot
Kristina Forest - Berkley
Format: Paperback
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Two former high school sweethearts get a second chance in this marriage of convenience romance by Kristina Forest, author of The Neighbor Favor.. To Violet Greene, fashion is everything. As a successful celebrity stylist, she travels all over the world, living out her dreams. Professionally,... |
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Between Friends and Lovers: A Novel
Shirlene Obuobi
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Talia Hibbert meets Carley Fortune in this swoon-worthy story of love and friendship in the age of social media - where what you see might not be all you get. To her countless Instagram followers Josephine Boateng is the dazzling Dr. Jojo - and her opinions on health, growth, and |
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The Mayor of Maxwell Street
Avery Cunningham - Hyperion Avenue
Format: Hardcover
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"A debut novel everyone will be talking about," Avery Cunningham's epic love story is "a triumph" and "a tale of intrigue, racial tension, and class warfare, set against the glamorous and gritty backdrop of early 20th century Chicago.". When a rich Black... |
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When I Think of You
Myah Ariel
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In this sweeping second chance romance from debut author Myah Ariel, the unexpected spark of two former flames may force them to choose between their dreams and each other.. Kaliya Wilson has paid her dues. But all the years behind the reception desk at a flashy film studio have o |
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The Kiss Countdown
Etta Easton
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A struggling event planner and a sinfully hot astronaut must decide if their fake relationship is worth a shot at happily-ever-after, in this starry debut.. Risk-averse event planner Amerie Price is jobless, newly single, and about to lose her apartment. With no choice but to gamb |
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The Reformatory: A Novel
Tananarive Due - Gallery / Saga Press
Format: Hardcover
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A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he's sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead.. Gracetown, Florida, summer 1950. Robert Stephens... |
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Tremor: A Novel
Teju Cole - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful, intimate novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violent world - from the award-winning author of Open City. Life is hopeless but it is not serious. We have to have danced while we could and, later, to have danced again in the telling.. A weekend... |
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Black Cake: A Novel
Charmaine Wilkerson - Ballantine Books
Format: Paperback
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY * Two estranged siblings delve into their mother's hidden past - and how it all connects to her traditional Caribbean black cake - in this immersive family saga, "a character-driven, multigenerational... |
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Crook Manifesto: A Novel
Colson Whitehead - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory.. It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy,... |
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Rebecca, Not Becky: A Novel
Christine Platt - Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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In the vein of Such a Fun Age, a whip-smart, compulsively readable novel about two upper-class stay-at-home mothers - one white, one Black - living in a "perfect" suburb that explores motherhood, friendship, and the true meaning of sisterhood amidst the backdrop of America's... |
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Gaslight: A Novel
Femi Kayode - Mulholland Books
Format: Book
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In this follow-up to Kayode's "action-packed and spirited debut" Philip Taiwo returns to solve a missing-persons case, and in so doing, uncovers dark secrets the church has worked tirelessly to hide (Oyinkan Braithwaite, author of My Sister, the Serial Killer) .. A shadow... |
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You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty: A Novel
Akwaeke Emezi
Format: Hardcover
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A New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and "one of our greatest living writers" (Shondaland) reimagines the love story in this fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss.Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive... |
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Chain Gang All Stars: A Novel
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover
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The explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of Friday Black, about two top women gladiators fighting for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America's own. * "A new and necessary American voice."... |
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A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
Tia Williams - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Days in June, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde is an epic love story one hundred years in the making ... Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. And for some, even a single February can be life-changing.Ricki Wilde has many talents, but being... |
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Her Own Happiness
Eden Appiah-Kubi - Montlake
Format: Paperback
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It's never too late to come of age in this compassionate and refreshing novel about friendship, self-discovery, and moving on by the author of The Bennet Women.Maya Davis is living in paradise until her apartment, her career, and her dreams fall away in a horrible and dramatic fashion.... |
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Women of the Post: A Novel
Joshunda Sanders - Park Row; Original edition
Format: Paperback
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"What a beautifully imagined and important narrative. Sanders' clear-eyed and powerful writing made this a hard one to stop reading!" - Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award-Winning Author"This is a novel to cherish and share. And this is a history to sing about... |
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Queen of Exiles: A Novel
Vanessa Riley - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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"A sweeping look at the political, social, and romantic intrigue surrounding Haiti's first and only queen. Riley's depiction is richly imagined and wholly original." - Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Magnolia PalaceAcclaimed historical novelist... |
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The Art of Scandal
Regina Black - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A "Wildly steamy, utterly heartwarming" (Tia Williams) debut filled with romance, artistic ambitions, political scandal, and finding love where you least expect it. . "Love would be so much easier if it were perfect..." . On the night of her husband Matt's fortieth... |
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Homebodies: A Novel
Tembe Denton-Hurst - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Urgent, propulsive, and strikingly insightful, Homebodies is a thrilling debut novel about a young Black writer whose world is turned upside down when she loses her coveted job in media and her searing manifesto about racism in the industry goes viral.Mickey Hayward dreams of writing stories... |
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Let Us Descend: A Novel
Jesmyn Ward - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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From Jesmyn Ward - the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow - comes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War.. "'Let us descend,'... |
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Maame: A Novel
Jessica George
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"An utterly charming and deeply moving portrait of the joys--and the guilt--of trying to find your own way in life." --Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times bestselling author"Meeting Maame feels like falling in love for the first time: warm, awkward, joyous, a little bit h |
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The Duchess Effect: A Novel
Tracey Livesay - Avon
Format: Paperback
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Tracey Livesay returns in this seriously sexy sequel to American Royalty, following Duchess and Prince Jameson as they strive to turn their romance into a relationship, beneath the relentless glare of the spotlight.Against all odds, sexy American rapper, Danielle "Duchess" Nelson... |
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What Never Happened: A Thriller
Rachel Howzell Hall - Thomas & Mercer
Format: Hardcover
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It's murder in paradise as a woman uncovers a host of secrets off the rocky California coast in a gripping novel of suspense by New York Times bestselling author Rachel Howzell Hall.Colette "Coco" Weber has relocated to her Catalina Island home, where, twenty years before,... |
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Intercepted
Alexa Martin - Berkley
Format: Paperback
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Marlee thought she scored the man of her dreams only to be scorched by a bad breakup. But there's a new player on the horizon, and he's in a league of his own...Marlee Harper is the perfect girlfriend. She's definitely had enough practice by dating her NFL-star boyfriend for the last ten years.... |
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The Neighbor Favor
Kristina Forest - Berkley
Format: Paperback
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A shy bookworm enlists her charming neighbor to help her score a date, not knowing he's the obscure author she's been corresponding with, in this sparkling and heart-fluttering romance by Kristina Forest.Shy, bookish, and admittedly awkward, Lily Greene has always felt inadequate... |
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A Sweet Lowcountry Proposal: A Novel
PRESLAYSA WILLIAMS - Avon
Format: Paperback
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Preslaysa Williams, author of the "emotionally stirring debut" A Lowcountry Bride (Oprah Daily) , returns to the Lowcountry with a heartwarming story about a second chance romance.It was supposed to be the happiest day of Jaslene Simmons' life, the day she'd say "I... |
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Black Cloud Rising
David Wright Falade - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover
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By fall of 1863, Union forces had taken control of Tidewater Virginia, and established a toehold in eastern North Carolina, including along the Outer Banks. Thousands of freed slaves and runaways flooded the Union lines, but Confederate irregulars still roamed the region. In December, the newly... |
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Token: A Novel
Beverley Kendall - Graydon House
Format: Paperback
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"This romance has it all - flirty banter, deep emotion, and a smart, sassy heroine." - JENNIFER PROBST, New York Times bestselling authorShe's brilliant, beautiful ... and tired of being the only Black woman in the room.Two years ago, Kennedy Mitchell was plucked from the reception... |
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Memphis: A Novel
Tara M. Stringfellow - The Dial Press
Format: Hardcover
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Summer 1995: Ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father’s explosive temper and seek refuge at her mother’s ancestral home in Memphis. This is not the first time violence has altered the course of the family’s trajectory. Half a century earlier,... |
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On the Rooftop: A Novel
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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A stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters' ambitions for their own lives - set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San FranciscoAt home they are just sisters, but on stage, they are The Salvations. Ruth,... |
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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
Deesha Philyaw - West Virginia University Press
Format: Paperback
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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. The nine stories in this collection feature four generations of characters grappling with who they want to be in the world,... |
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The Bennet Women
Eden Appiah-Kubi - Montlake
Format: Paperback
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Welcome to Bennet House, the only all-women's dorm at prestigious Longbourn University, home to three close friends who are about to have an eventful year. EJ is an ambitious Black engineering student. Her best friend, Jamie, is a newly out trans woman studying French and theatre. Tessa... |
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Long Past Summer: A Novel
Noué Kirwan - HQN
Format: Paperback
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"Noué Kirwan's exquisitely-written debut left me breathless." - Farrah Rochon, USA Today bestselling author of The Dating PlaybookIt's hard to move on from a broken heart--and harder to move on from a broken friendship.Mikaela Marchand is living the polished life she always... |
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The Many Dates of Indigo
Amber Samuel - W by Wattpad Books
Format: Paperback
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Hair done. Nails too. Make-up flawless. Indigo Clark is an accomplished, independent woman. Now she wants a partner to share her fabulous life.. Standing on the sidelines of her sisters third baby shower with her thirtieth birthday around the corner, Indigo is feeling the pressure about... |
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The Other Black Girl: A Novel
Zakiya Dalila Harris - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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"A thrilling, edgier Devil Wears Prada that explores privilege and racism." - The Washington Post Urgent, propulsive, and sharp as a knife, The Other Black Girl is an electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop... |
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Honey and Spice: A Novel
Bolu Babalola
Format: Hardcover
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"Babalola's writing shines whether she's writing parry-riposte banter or fresh, evocative interiority." - New York Times Book Review"Babalola's hilarious romance debut will have you laughing out loud and reconsidering first impressions." - BuzzfeedBreakout... |
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On Rotation: A Novel
SHIRLENE OBUOBI - Avon
Format: Hardcover
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ONE OF TEEN VOGUE'S "25 BOOKS BY BLACK AUTHORS THEY CAN'T WAIT TO READ THIS YEAR"ONE OF BETCHES' "22 BOOKS YOU NEED TO READ THIS YEAR""As a fan of Grey's Anatomy (and Chicago Med!) , I couldn't put down On Rotation, and you won't be able... |
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We Lie Here: A Thriller
Rachel Howzell Hall - Thomas & Mercer
Format: Hardcover
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A woman's trip home reveals frightening truths in a twisty novel of murder and family secrets by the New York Times bestselling author of And Now She's Gone and These Toxic Things.TV writer Yara Gibson's hometown of Palmdale, California, isn't her first choice for a vacation.... |
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Sisters in Arms: A Novel
Kaia Alderson - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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Kaia Alderson's debut historical fiction novel reveals the untold, true story of the Six Triple Eight, the only all-Black battalion of the Women's Army Corps, who made the dangerous voyage to Europe to ensure American servicemen received word from their loved ones during World War II.Grace... |
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The Two Lives of Sara: A Novel
Catherine Adel West - Park Row
Format: Hardcover
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"An utterly absorbing and dazzling novel about the stories we tell to stay alive and the secrets we keep to protect ourselves." - Nancy Jooyoun Kim, New York Times Bestselling author of The Last Story of Mina LeeA young mother finds refuge and friendship at a boardinghouse in 1960s... |
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The Great Mrs. Elias: A Novel
Barbara Chase-Riboud
Format: Book
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The author of the award-winning Sally Hemings now brings to life Hannah Elias, one of the richest black women in America in the early 1900s, in this mesmerizing novel swirling with atmosphere and steeped in history.
A murder and a case of mistaken identity brings the police... |
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Can't Resist Her
Afdeling bestuursrechtspraak van de Raad van State. - Montlake
Format: Hardcover
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Two very determined women - in love, at odds, and risking a lot on a second chance.After years away from home, Summer Graves is back in Austin, Texas, to accept a new teaching position. Of all the changes to the old neighborhood, the most dispiriting one is the slated demolition of the high... |
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Harlem Shuffle: A Novel
Colson Whitehead - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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"Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked . . ."To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their... |
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Sister Friends Forever
Kimberla Lawson Roby
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New York Times bestselling author, Kimberla Lawson Roby returns with the perfect story of friendship.Serena, Michelle, Kenya, and Lynette have known each other since they were small children. They grew up in different neighborhoods, but they also grew up in the same c |
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The Personal Librarian
Marie Benedict - Berkley Books
Format: Hardcover
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In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture on the New York society scene and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world,... |
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The Hookup Plan
FARRAH ROCHON - Forever
Format: Hardcover
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Strong female friendships and a snappy enemies-to-lovers theme take center stage in this highly anticipated romantic comedy from the USA Today bestselling author of The Dating Playbook.Successful pediatric surgeon London Kelley just needs to find some balance and de-stress. According to her friends... |
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Recitatif: A Story
Toni Morrison - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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In this 1983 short story--the only short story Morrison ever wrote--we meet Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as roommates in St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only later... |
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When Stars Rain Down
Angela Jackson-Brown
Format: Paperback
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This summer has the potential to change everything.The summer of 1936 in Parsons, Georgia, is unseasonably hot, and Opal Pruitt can sense a nameless storm coming. She hopes this foreboding feeling won't overshadow her upcoming eighteenth birthday or the annual Founder's Day celebration... |
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By the Book: A Meant to be Novel
Jasmine Guillory - Hyperion Avenue
Format: Paperback
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Isabelle is completely lost. When she first began her career in publishing right out of college, she did not expect to be twenty-five, living at home, still an editorial assistant, and the only Black employee at her publishing house. Overworked and underpaid, constantly torn between... |
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The Nickel Boys: A Novel
Colson Whitehead - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced... |
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The Vanishing Half: A Novel
Brit Bennett - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together... |
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Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen
SARAH BIRD - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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The compelling, hidden story of Cathy Williams, a former slave and the only woman to ever serve with the legendary Buffalo Soldiers."Here's the first thing you need to know about Miss Cathy Williams: I am the daughter of a daughter of a queen and my Mama never let me forget... |
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An American Marriage: A Novel
Tayari Jones - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover
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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTION "Haunting . . . Beautifully written." --The New York Times Book Review "Brilliant and heartbreaking . . . Unforgettable." --USA Today "A tense and timely love story... |
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Bad Men and Wicked Women
ERIC JEROME DICKEY - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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Affairs of the heart can be lethal in New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey's latest sensual novel.As a low-level enforcer in Los Angeles, Ken Swift knows danger, but nowhere does he feel it more than in his tangled romances. Divorced from one woman, in love with another,... |
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The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
Anissa Gray - Berkley
Format: Hardcover
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The Mothers meets An American Marriage in this dazzling debut novel about mothers and daughters, identity and family, and how the relationships that sustain you can also be the ones that consume you.The Butler family has had their share of trials - as sisters Althea, Viola,... |
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No One Is Coming to Save Us: A Novel
Stephanie Powell Watts - Ecco
Format: Hardcover
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*THE INAUGURAL SARAH JESSICA PARKER PICK FOR BOOK CLUB CENTRAL*NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY The Washington Post * Refinery29 * St. Louis Post-Dispatch * Bookpage NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2017 BY Entertainment Weekly * Nylon * Elle * Redbook * W Magazine * The Chicago... |
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Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Paperback
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village,... |
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The Mothers: A Novel
Brit Bennett - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Ferociously moving ... despite Bennett's thrumming plot, despite the snap of her pacing, it's the always deepening complexity of her characters that provides the book's urgency." -The New York Times Book Review"Luminous ... engrossing... |
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Cross Justice
James Patterson - Little
Format: Print book
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The toughest cases hit closest to home. Alex Cross left his hometown, and some awful family tragedies, for a better life with Nana Mama in Washington, DC. He hasn't looked back. Now his cousin Stefan has been accused of a horrible, unthinkable murder, and Cross drives south with Bree, Nana... |
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I Almost Forgot About You: A Novel
Terry Mcmillan - Crown
Format: Print book
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting To Exhale is back with the inspiring story of a woman who shakes things up in her life to find greater meaningIn I Almost Forgot About You, Dr. Georgia Young's wonderful life--great... |
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Balm: A Novel
Dolen Perkins-Valdez - Amistad Press
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of Wench returns to the Civil War era to explore the next chapter of history - the trauma of the War and the end of slavery - in this powerful story of love and healing about three people who struggle to overcome the pain of the past and define their... |
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Lavina
Mary Marcus - Story Planthing
Format: Hardcover
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Mary Jacob grew up as an anomaly. A child of Louisiana in the early sixties, she found little in common with most of the people in her community and in her household, and her best friend was Lavina, the black woman who cooked and cleaned for her family. Now, in the early nineties, Mary... |
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God Help the Child: A novel
Toni Morrison - Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child - the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment - weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black... |
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The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead - Doubleday
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation... |
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Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule
Jennifer Chiaverini - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker and Mrs. Lincoln's Rival imagines the inner life of Julia Grant, beloved as a Civil War general's wife and the First Lady, yet who grappled with a profound and complex relationship with the slave who was her namesake... |
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The Scribe: A Novel
Matthew Guinn - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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"It's a whodunit with a twist ... a heady mix of history, sizzle, punch, and danger. A definite keeper." -- Steve Berry, New York Times best-selling author of The Patriot ThreatAfter leaving Atlanta in disgrace three years before, detective Thomas Canby is called back to the city... |
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Fumbled
Alexa Martin - Berkley
Format: Paperback
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A second chance doesn't guarantee a touchdown in this new contemporary romance from the author of Intercepted.Single-mother Poppy Patterson moved across the country when she was sixteen and pregnant to find a new normal. After years of hard work, she's built a life she loves. It may include... |
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Ruby: A Novel
Cynthia Bond - Crown Publishing Group
Format: Print book
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The newest Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selectionThe epic, unforgettable story of a man determined to protect the woman he loves from the town desperate to destroy her - this beautiful and devastating debut heralds the arrival of a major new voice in fiction. Ephram Jennings has never forgotten... |
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The Replacement Wife
Tiffany L. Warren - A Mass Paper
Format: Print book
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"I just love her work." --Victoria Christopher MurrayIn this page-turning new novel from Essence® bestselling author Tiffany L. Warren, Atlanta's most eligible widower isn't looking to remarry--but for one woman, that's a mere detail. . .Five years after his beloved... |
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The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
Ayana Mathis - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The newest Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection The arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction. A debut of extraordinary distinction: Ayana Mathis tells the story of the children of the Great Migration through the trials of one unforgettable family. In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie... |
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The Eternal Engagement
Mary B. Morrison - Dafina
Format: Paperback
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From New York Times bestselling author Mary B. Morrison comes a moving, unforgettable story of lives at a crossroads, love lost and found, and the price of secrets. . .After her high school sweetheart proposed and joined the military, Mona Lisa Ellington thought she'd never feel love... |
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The Kid
Sapphire - Penguin Press HC, The; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Fifteen years after the publication of Push one year after the Academy Award-winning film adaptation Sapphire gives voice to Preciouss son Abdul In The Kid bestselling author Sapphire tells the electrifying story of Abdul Jones the son of Pushs unforgettable heroine PreciousA story... |
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The Wedding Date
Jasmine Guillory - Berkley
Format: Paperback
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THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER#5 LibraryReads PickOne of...Entertainment Weekly's "12 Romances for V-Day"Cosmopolitan's "2018 Anticipated Reads"Elle's "2018 Must Reads"Harpers Bazaar's "New January Must Reads"The Fug Girls' "Best Books of the Year"Elle... |
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Red River
Lalita Tademy - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Hailed as "powerful,""accomplished," and "spellbinding," Lalita Tademy's first novel Cane River was a New York Times bestseller and the 2001 Oprah Book Club Summer Selection. Now with her evocative, luminous style and painstaking research, she takes her family's... |
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Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Anchor
Format: Paperback
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The bestselling novel - a love story of race and identity - from the award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele.Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadIfemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they... |
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Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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"A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world." - Barack Obama Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadThings Fall Apart is the first... |
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Swing Time
Zadie Smith - Penguin Press
Format: Print book
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An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On BeautyTwo brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black... |
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