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A Mercy

In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in …

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The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection--a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning f…

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Twenty-Four Seconds from Now...A Love Story

Jason Reynolds tackles it—you know…it—from the guy’s perspective in this stream of consciousness story of a teen boy about to experience a huge first.

Twenty-four months ago: Neon gets chased by a dog …

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Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler

From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler.

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Grown Women

In this stunning debut novel, four generations of complex Black women contend with motherhood and daughterhood, generational trauma and the deeply ingrained tensions and wounds that divide them as the…

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Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me

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The Unboxing of a Black Girl

Finalist, 2024 National Book Award for Young People's Literature

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God Help the Child

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 th…

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Time of the Child

From the author of This Is Happiness, a compassionate, life-affirming novel about the Christmas season that transforms the small Irish town of Faha.

Doctor Jack Troy was born and raised in Faha, but hi…

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Neighbors and Other Stories

A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-centu…

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Deluge

A woman’s impression of her family is dismantled by revelations of the past in a haunting story about identity, memories, and the power of secrets by the New York Times bestselling author of Black Cak…

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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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Stranded

2 hours and 7 minutes

A brand-new comedy starring Taraji P. Henson and Tracee Ellis Ross.

Separated by 10 years, 3,000 miles, and the unrelenting stresses of adulthood, best friends Janet and Serena pla…

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Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

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Blood at the Root (Blood at the Root, #1)

A teenager on the run from his past finds the family he never knew existed and the community he never knew he needed at an HBCU for the young, Black, and magical . Enroll in this fresh fantasy debut w…

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James

A brilliant reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn—both harrowing and satirical—told from the enslaved Jim's point of view

When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans,…

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American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress

“American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is.” — Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist

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Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

From multi-award winner Whoopi Goldberg comes a new and unique memoir of her family and their influence on her early life.

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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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