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The American Daughters: A Novel

Maurice Carlos Ruffin - One World
Format: Hardcover

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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Brooklyn

Tracy Brown - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

Tracy Brown crafts a tale about a master manipulator and serial survivor, who will scorch earth to get what she wants. The question isn't who murdered her; the question is who wouldn't?Brooklyn Melody James has finally gotten the punishment she deserves after leaving a web of lies,...
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Come and Get It

Kiley Reid - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

From the celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Such a Fun Age comes a fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a professor and three unruly students.. It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident...
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Dominoes: A Novel

Phoebe McIntosh - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

A tender and provocative debut novel about a mixed-race British woman who makes the shocking discovery in the days leading up to her wedding that her fiancé's family may have enslaved her ancestors. "Simultaneously sweet and sobering, this is one you will not want to miss."...
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Double Lives (A Lexington, Alabama Novel)

Mary Monroe - Dafina
Format: Hardcover

The latest shocking twist-filled novel in the award-winning New York Times bestselling author's Depression-era Alabama saga tells the riveting tale of identical twin sisters with a talent for switching lives and hiding their scandals - until one risk too many changes their lives forever....
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Dysfunction Junction

Robin W. Pearson - Tyndale House Publishers
Format: Hardcover

When three women receive an unexpected phone call that leaves them reeling, they have no other choice but to reckon with a lifetime of memories they've long tried to bury. Only in facing the past will they find their path forward.. Frances Mae Livingston's firm grip of her family's...
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Frenemy Fix-Up

Yahrah St. John - Afterglow Books by Harlequin
Format: Hardcover

Free-spirited yoga guru Shay Davis has only ninety days to get her workaholic former classmate Colin Anderson from work all day to namaste ... All they need is a little common ground.. Accountant Colin Anderson is working himself into an early grave.. Shay Davis is finally living her dream...
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Girls with Bad Reputations (The Lillys, 2)

Xio Axelrod - Sourcebooks Casablanca
Format: Paperback

All her life, Kayla heard the same refrain: Don't be so loud. Don't act so wild. Don't take up so much space. Now she's the beating heart of an up-and-coming rock band ... and the whole world is going to know her name.Once upon a time, the pressure to be the perfect daughter...
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Island Witch

Amanda Jayatissa - Berkley
Format: Hardcover

Inspired by Sri Lankan folklore, award-winning author Amanda Jayatissa turns her feverish, Gothic-tinged talents to late nineteenth-century Sri Lanka where the daughter of a traditional demon-priest - relentlessly bullied by peers and accused of witchcraft herself - tries to solve the mysterious...
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Lore of the Wilds: A Novel

Analeigh Sbrana - Harper Voyager
Format: Hardcover

A stunning Romantasy debut about an enchanted library, two handsome Fae, and one human who brings them all together. A library with a deadly enchantment. A Fae lord who wants in.A human woman willing to risk it all for a taste of power.In a land ruled by ruthless Fae, twenty-one-year-old...
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A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

Tia Williams - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

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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The Mayor of Maxwell Street

Avery Cunningham - Hyperion Avenue
Format: Paperback

"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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The Partner Plot

Kristina Forest - Berkley
Format: Paperback

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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The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel

ReShonda Tate - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

Bestselling author ReShonda Tate presents a fascinating fictional portrait of Hattie McDaniel, one of Hollywood's most prolific but woefully underappreciated stars - and the first Black person ever to win an Oscar for her role as Mammy in the critically acclaimed film classic Gone With...
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Redwood Court: Fiction

DéLana R. A. Dameron - The Dial Press
Format: Hardcover

A breathtaking debut about one unforgettable Southern Black family, seen through the eyes of its youngest daughter as she comes of age in the 1990s.. "A beautiful exploration of a family . . . deeply moving." Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Hello Beautiful....
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Smoke Kings

Jahmal Mayfield - Melville House
Format: Paperback

"A fresh and fierce new voice to crime fiction...a stunning book that takes the reader on an intense and harrowing journey that is truly unforgettable. Consider me a big fan." - Don Winslow, New York Times bestselling author of The Cartel, The Force and City on Fire. "Jahmal...
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That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf (Mead Mishaps Book 2)

Kimberly Lemming - Orbit
Format: Hardcover

Cheesemaker Brie has the world's worst luck in love, which is how she ends up falling for a lactose intolerant werewolf, in this raunchy, laugh-out-loud rom-com fantasy by the genre's freshest new voice, Kimberly Lemming. Brie's never been particularly coordinated ... or lucky....
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This Could Be Us

Kennedy Ryan - Forever
Format: Hardcover

"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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Watch Where They Hide: A Jordan Manning Novel

Tamron Hall - HarperAudio
Format: Hardcover

Following her powerhouse debut, As the Wicked Watch, Emmy Award winner Tamron Hall returns with another edge-of-your-seat Jordan Manning thriller. This time Jordan delves into the case of a missing mother of two and uncovers a dangerous and scandalous web of secrets that could lead right...
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