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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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Ring Shout
P. Djèlí Clark - Tor.com
Format: Hardcover
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Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djl Clark returns with Ring Shout, a dark fantasy historical novella that gives a supernatural twist to the Ku Klux Klan's reign of terrorD. W. Griffith is a sorcerer, and The Birth of a Nation is a spell that drew upon the darkest thoughts and wishes... |
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When No One Is Watching: A Thriller
Alyssa Cole - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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Rear Window meets Get Out in this gripping thriller from a critically acclaimed and New York Times Notable author, in which the gentrification of a Brooklyn neighborhood takes on a sinister new meaning ... Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, but her beloved neighborhood seems to change... |
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The Blackbirds
Eric Jerome Dickey - Dutton Books
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey delivers his next delectable, erotic romance They call themselves the Blackbirds. Kwanzaa Brown, Indigo Abdulrahaman, Destiny Jones, and Erica Stockwell are four best friends who are closer than sisters, and will go to the ends of the earth... |
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Transcendent Kingdom: A novel
Yaa Gyasi - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking... |
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Delicious Foods: A Novel
James Hannaham - Little
Format: Hardcover
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"Darlene, once an exemplary wife and a loving mother to her young son, Eddie, finds herself devastated by the unforeseen death of her husband. Unable to cope with her grief, she turns to drugs, and quickly forms an addiction. One day she disappears without a trace. Unbeknownst to eleven-year-old... |
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The City We Became: A Novel
N. K. Jemisin - Orbit
Format: Hardcover
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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. New York City?... |
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Rebel
Beverly Jenkins - Avon
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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The first novel in USA Today Bestselling Author Beverly Jenkins's compelling new series follows a Northern woman south in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War . . .Valinda Lacey's mission in the steamy heart of New Orleans is to help the newly emancipated community survive and flourish.... |
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Deacon King Kong: A Novel
James McBride - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting.In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses... |
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God Help the Child: A novel
Toni Morrison - Random House Large Print
Format: Paperback
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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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Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both.Alix... |
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New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
Nisi Shawl - Solaris
Format: Paperback
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Anthology of contemporary stories by emerging and seasoned writers of many racesThere's nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns," proclaimed Octavia E Butler. New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color showcases emerging and seasoned writers of many races... |
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An Unkindness of Ghosts
Rivers Solomon - Akashic Books
Format: Paperback
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"Harrowing and beautiful, this is SF at its best: showing the possible future but warning of the danger of bringing old prejudices and cruelties to that new world. While a story about enslaved people in space could be a one-note polemic, the fully rounded characters bring nuance and genuine... |
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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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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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Red at the Bone: A Novel
Jacqueline Woodson - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary new novel about the influence of history on a contemporary family, from the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming.Two families from different social classes are joined together... |
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