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  • Sorrowland

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    A TIME 100 Must-Read Book of 2021

    A New York Times Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2021

    The Stonewall Book Award winner of 2022

    Named a Best Book of 2021 by NPR, The New York Public Library, P

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    • Author: Solomon, Rivers
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: May 04 2021
    • ISBN10: 0374266778
    • Language: English
  • Where Wild Peaches Grow

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    In a deeply emotional novel of family, cultural heritage, and forgiveness, estranged sisters wrestle with the choices they’ve made and confront circumstances beyond their control.

    Nona “Peaches” Davenp

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    • Author: Bentley, Cade
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 291
    • Publish Date: August 30 2022
    • ISBN10: 1542031214
    • Language: English
  • The Longest Summer

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    Being queer in a small town? Bad. Your employer believing you stole ten thousand dollars? Worse.

    Abboton, IN has kept hard-partying Victor Adewale in the closet for his entire life. So he makes a deal

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    • Author: Ogundimu, Alexandrine
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 264
    • Publish Date: June 20 2023
    • ISBN10: 1955904731
    • Language: English
  • The House Behind the Cedars

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    The House Behind the Cedars (1900) is African-American writer Charles Chesnutt’s debut novel. Inspired by his own experience as a Black man capable of passing for white–which Chesnutt consciously cho

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    • Series: Mint Editions (Black Narratives)
    • Author: Chestnutt, Charles W.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 186
    • Publish Date: November 17 2020
    • ISBN10: 1513266438
    • Language: English
  • Uncle Yah Yah: 21st Century Man of Wisdom

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    Read this book and you will agree that if there ever was any One Who Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest, it had to be Al Dickens the author of this book. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Even nature

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    • Author: Dickens, Al
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 206
    • Publish Date: February 26 2010
    • ISBN10: 0975964682
    • Language: English
  • Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas

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    African futurism, gothic romance, ghost story, parable, psychological thriller, inner-space fiction–Dumas’s stories form a vivid, expansive portrait of Black life in America.

    Henry Dumas’s fabulist

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    • Author: Dumas, Henry
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: May 04 2021
    • ISBN10: 156689607X
    • Language: English
  • What Napoleon Could Not Do

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    One of the Books Barack Obama Is Reading This Summer
    One of Vulture‘s Best Books of 2023
    One of Goodreads’ Buzziest Debut Novels of 2023
    One of Essence‘s 31 Books You Must Read
    One of the most antici
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    • Author: Nnuro, Dk
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: February 06 2024
    • ISBN10: 0593420357
    • Language: English
  • The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2021)

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    WINNER BEST ANTHOLOGY, WORLD FANTASY AWARDS

    “You are bound to be wonderstruck.”–Lightspeed Magazine
    “A must-read.”–Locus Magazine
    “Highly recommended.”–The British Fantasy Society

    The Year’s Best Afri

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  • Hatred

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    It was a hard-knock life for Mr. Earl Harris, and it was only because he was born Black. Born and raised in the small town of Green Bay, Wisconsin, where it was predominantly White, Mr. Earl Harris ob

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    • Author: Heron, Quentin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 122
    • Publish Date: September 22 2023
    • ISBN10: 9798887937281
    • Language: English
  • Down Home Blues

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    HOME IS THE PLACE WHERE WHEN YOU HAVE TO GO

    THERE THEY HAVE TO LET YOU IN.

    Eden, Arkansas is a town you are from, not move to. But when divorce, foreclosure, domestic violence, and an all-expense pa

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    • Author: Dixon, Phyllis R.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 298
    • Publish Date: January 06 2016
    • ISBN10: 0974954004
    • Language: English
  • High Cotton

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    No one sat me down and told me I was a Negro. That was something I figured out on the sly…

    So begins acclaimed critic and novelist Darryl Pinckney’s debut novel, High Cotton, an elegant and insightfu

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    • Author: Pinckney, Darryl
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: February 07 2017
    • ISBN10: 0312420226
    • Language: English
  • Blue in Green: A Novella

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    The latest work from the veteran novelist called “one hell of a writer” by James Baldwin and “wonderfully wry” by Donald Barthelme: a timely meditation on the psychological impact of police brutality,

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    • Author: Brown, Wesley
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 68
    • Publish Date: November 15 2022
    • ISBN10: 1953691110
    • Language: English
  • Hey, Brown Girl

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    17-year old Raven Jamison, and her three best friends, Nia, Jasmine, and Trinity, make up “The Brown Girl Club.” The girls spend long carefree days in their bayou town of Lake Lacroix, nestled behind … [more below]

    • Author: Harden, Janay
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 236
    • Publish Date: March 15 2021
    • ISBN10: 173654120X
    • Language: English
  • Milwaukee Blues

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    The deaths of unarmed Black male citizens at the hands of police from Eric Garner’s in New York City in 2014 to George Floyd’s in Minneapolis in May 2020 provide the impetus behind Louis-Philippe Dale

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    • Author: Dalembert, Louis-Philippe
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 260
    • Publish Date: May 02 2023
    • ISBN10: 1639640096
    • Language: English
  • We Love You, Charlie Freeman

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    A FINALIST FOR THE 2016 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE AND THE 2017 YOUNG LIONS AWARD

    Don’t miss Kaitlyn Greenidge’s second novel, Libertie, which is available now

    “A terrifically auspicious d

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    • Author: Greenidge, Kaitlyn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: January 31 2017
    • ISBN10: 1616206446
    • Language: English
  • The Man Who Cried I Am: A Novel

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    Rediscover the sensational 1967 literary thriller that captures the bitter struggles of postwar Black intellectuals and artists

    With a foreword by Ishmael Reed and a new introduction by Merve Emre abo

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    • Author: Williams, John A.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 500
    • Publish Date: November 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 159853761X
    • Language: English
  • Symphony of Secrets

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    A riveting page-turner about a determined professor who uncovers a shocking secret about the most famous American composer of all time–that his music was stolen from someone else, a young Black woman[more below]

    • Author: Slocumb, Brendan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 592
    • Publish Date: April 25 2023
    • ISBN10: 0593678346
    • Language: English
  • The Man Who Lived Underground

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    New York Times Bestseller One of the Best Books of the Year by Time magazine, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, and Esquire, and one of Oprah’s 15 Favorite Books of the Year

    From the legendary

    • Author: Wright, Richard
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: November 08, 2022
    • ISBN10: 0062971484
    • Language: English
  • Not Without Laughter

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    Our greatest African American poet’s award-winning first novel, about a black boy’s coming-of-age in a largely white Kansas town

    When first published in 1930, Not Without Laughter established Langsto

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    • Author: Hughes, Langston
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: January 16 2018
    • ISBN10: 0143131869
    • Language: English
  • God Still Don’t Like Ugly

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    In this haunting and powerful novel, national bestselling author Mary Monroe revisits Annette Goode, Rhoda Nelson, and the other unforgettable characters she introduced in GOD DON’T LIKE UGLY. After f… [more below]

    • Series: God #2
    • Author: Monroe, Mary
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 325
    • Publish Date: August 01 2004
    • ISBN10: 0758203438
    • Language: English
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