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Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel
JESMYN WARD · Scribner
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction "The heart of Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing is story - the yearning for a narrative to help us understand ourselves, the pain of the gaps we'll never fill, the truths that are failed by words and must be translated through ritual... |
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Island Beneath the Sea: A Novel
Isabel Allende · Harper; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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“Allende is a master storyteller at the peak of her powers.” — Los Angeles Times From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, the latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende (Inés... |
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Stand the Storm: A Novel
Breena Clarke · Little, Brown and Co.
Pages: 321
Format: Print book
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Even though Sewing Annie Coats and her son, Gabriel, have managed to buy their freedom, their lives are still marked by constant struggle and sacrifice. Washington's Georgetown neighborhood, where the Coatses operate a tailor's shop and laundry, is supposed to be a "promised... |
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Someone Knows My Name: A Novel
Lawrence Hill · W. W. Norton & Company; First American Edition First Printing edition
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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"You feel you are turning the pages of history, the pages of truth."—Austin Clarke, author of The Polished HoeAbducted from Africa as a child and enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom—and of the knowledge she needs to get home. Sold... |
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Mudbound
Hillary Jordan · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 328
Format: Print book
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In Jordan's prize-winning debut, prejudice takes many forms, both subtle and brutal. It is 1946, and city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm - a place she finds foreign and frightening. In the midst of the family's struggles,... |
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Grant Park
Leonard Pitts · Bolden an Agate imprint
Pages: 391
Format: Print book
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"A novel as significant as it is engrossing." - BOOKLIST , starred reviewGrant Park is a page-turning and provocative look at black and white relations in contemporary America, blending the absurd and the poignant in a powerfully well-crafted narrative that showcases Pitts's... |
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The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead · Doubleday
Pages: 306
Format: Hardcover
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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 in Georgia.... |
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Underground Airlines
Ben H Winters · Mulholland Books
Pages: 327
Format: Print book
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Now a New York Times bestseller It is the present-day, and the world is as we know it: smartphones, social networking and Happy Meals. Save for one thing: the Civil War never occurred. A gifted young black man calling himself Victor has struck a bargain with federal law enforcement, working... |
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The Healing
Jonathan Odell · Nan A. Talese; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"Compelling, tragic, comic, tender and mystical... Combines the historical significance of Kathryn Stockett's The Help with the wisdom of Toni Morrison's Beloved." —Minneapolis Star TribuneRich in mood and atmosphere, The Healing is a warmhearted novel about... |
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Joshua: A Brooklyn Tale
Andrew Kane · Abbott Press
Pages: 484
Format: Hardcover
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Against a backdrop of racial tensions and spanning four decades, Joshua: A Brooklyn Tale explores the entanglements of three lives: Joshua Eubanks, a young black man struggling to overcome the crime, drugs, and despair of the streets; Rachel Weissman, daughter of a Hassidic rabbi, wrestling... |
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