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An American Marriage: A Novel

Tayari Jones - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTION One of the most anticipated novels of 2018 according to Entertainment Weekly * Goodreads * Esquire * Elle * Cosmopolitan *BBC * Huffington Post * Bustle * Southern Living * Newsday * Bookish * Nylon * iBooks Store "Transcendent . . . Triumphant . . . Gorgeous."-Elle...
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Another Brooklyn: A Novel

Jacqueline Woodson - Amistad Press
Format: Hardcover

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years.Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where...
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8. Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Print book

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER | NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER | PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST | NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST | NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review * O: The Oprah Magazine * The Washington...
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Bluebird, Bluebird

ATTICA LOCKE - Mulholland Books
Format: Hardcover

A "heartbreakingly resonant" thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy-winning Fox TV show Empire. (USA Today) *Winner of the 2018 Edgar Award for Best Novel**Coming soon...
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The Book of Delights: Essays

Ross Gay - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

"Ross Gay's eye lands upon wonder at every turn, bolstering my belief in the countless small miracles that surround us." - Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize winner and U.S. Poet Laureate The winner of the NBCC Award for Poetry offers up a spirited collection of short lyric essays,...
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Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's

Tiffany Midge - Bison Books
Format: Hardcover

Why is there no Native woman David Sedaris Or Native Anne Lamott Humor categories in publishing are packed with books by funny women and humorous sociocultural-political commentary - but no Native women. There are presumably more important concerns in Indian Country. More important than...
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The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin - Vintage International
Format: Book

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial...
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Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

Mira Jacob - One World
Format: Hardcover

A bold, wry, and intimate graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us, from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing."By turns hilarious and heart-rending, it's exactly the book America needs at this moment."...
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Homegoing: A novel

Yaa Gyasi - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the NBCC's John Leonard First Book PrizeA New York Times 2016 Notable BookOne of Oprah's 10 Favorite Books of 2016NPR's Debut Novel of the YearOne of Buzzfeed's Best Fiction Books Of 2016One of Time's Top 10 Novels of 2016, Winner of 2017 PEN Hemingway award for debut...
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Hunger: A Memoir of

Roxane Gay - Harper
Format: Print book

"New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes...
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The Leavers: A Novel

Lisa Ko - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

FINALIST FOR THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Entertainment Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, BuzzFeed, Bustle, and Electric Literature "There was a time I would have called Lisa Ko's novel beautifully written,...
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Long Way Down

JASON REYNOLDS - Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Format: Hardcover

A Newbery Honor Book A Coretta Scott King Honor Book A Printz Honor Book A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner for Young Adult Literature Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature Winner of the Walter Dean Myers Award An Edgar Award Winner for Best Young...
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The Other Americans: A Novel

Laila Lalami - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, author of The Moor's Account--a timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant that is at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, all of it informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture.Late...
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Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions

VALERIA LUISELLI - Coffee House Press
Format: Paperback

A damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children seeking a new life in the US.
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There There: A novel

Tommy Orange - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

ONE OF THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR - THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWWINNER OF THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZEOne of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, O, The Oprah Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Dallas Morning...
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