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The American Queen: A Novel Based on the True Story of Appalachia’s Kingdom of the Happy Land
In 1869 a kingdom rose in the South. And Louella was its queen. Over the twenty-four years she’s been enslaved on the Montgomery Plantation, Louella learned to feel one hate. Hate for the man who sold…
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Guide Me Home (Highway 59, #3)
In the final novel in the "timely and evocative" (NPR) Highway 59 trilogy, from Edgar Award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author Attica Locke, Darren Matthews is pulled out of an early retire…
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Who's That Girl?
The definitive autobiography from Eve, the multiplatinum, Grammy Award®–winning, Emmy®-nominated rapper, singer-songwriter, actor, mother, philanthropist, and entrepreneur.In 1999, Eve Jihan Cooper ma…
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Sky Full of Elephants
In this exquisite speculative novel set in a world where white people no longer exist, college professor Charlie Brunton receives a call from his estranged daughter Sidney, setting off a chain of even…
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The Secret Keeper of Main Street
Was bedeutet es, eine Schwarze Frau in Amerika zu sein?
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Assist (St. Louis Sires 3)
The Center for the St. Louis Sires has lived an undeniably good life, but something has always been missing, something he desperately craves—a family.
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Isaac's Song
The beloved author of Don’t Cry for Me and Perfect Peace returns with a poignant, emotionally exuberant novel about a young queer Black man finding his voice in 1980s Chicago—a novel of family, forgiv…
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The First Family (Drew Collins, #2)
A mysterious murder has been committed at a mythical and magical HBCU campus.
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Harlem Rhapsody
The extraordinary story of Jessie Redmon Fauset whose exhilarating world of friends, rivals, and passions all combined to create the magic that was the Harlem Renaissance, written by Victoria Christop…
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The Secret World of Maggie Grey (Drew Collins, #1)
A vampire, a witch, and a siren get accepted into a magical HBCU. The rest I am not allowed to say but just know there is a talking cat named Quan, a few murders that went cold, and a world that is ju…
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Junie
A young girl must face a life-altering decision after awakening her sister’s ghost, navigating truths about love, friendship, and power as the Civil War looms.
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Firstborn Girls: A Memoir
From award-winning author and creative writing teacher at Tulane University comes an intimate and powerful memoir exploring inherited trauma, family secrets, and the enduring bonds of love between mot…
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This Bitter Earth (Sugar Lacey, #2)
In This Bitter Earth, Sugar Lacey is on her way out of Bigelow, Arkansas, where she’d come to break with the past. With her worn leopard-print suitcase and her head held high, she walks past the pryin…
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Songs for the Brokenhearted
1950. Thousands of Yemeni Jews have immigrated to the newly founded Israel in search of a better life. In an overcrowded immigrant camp in Rosh Ha’ayin, Yaqub, a shy young man, happens upon Saida, a b…
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Sugar (Sugar Lacey, #1)
The novel opens when a young prostitute comes to Bigelow, Arkansas, to start over, far from her haunting past. Sugar moves next door to Pearl, who is still grieving for the daughter who was murdered f…
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