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• One of Us Knows

  a Thriller

  Cole, Alyssa,

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  A riveting thriller about the new caretaker of a historic estate who finds herself trapped on an island with a murderer—and the ghosts of her past.

• A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

  a Novel

  Williams, Tia, 1975-

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  A swoon-worthy love story of two passionate artists drawn to the magic, romance, and opportunity of New York, and whose lives are uniquely and irreversibly linked.

• Neighbors and Other Stories

  Oliver, Diane, 1943-1966,

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  A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism.

• What You Leave Behind

  a Novel

  Morris, Wanda M. (Wanda Michelle), 1959-

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  A powerful, haunting thriller following a lawyer who after the mysterious disappearance of a local landowner and the death of his sister just months before, uncovers a conspiracy that dates back to Reconstruction and persists in half the United…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls

  Gray, Anissa,

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  The Butler family has had their share of trials, as sisters Althea, Viola, and Lillian can attest, but nothing prepared them for the literal trial that will upend their lives. They are as stunned as the rest of the small community when Althea and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What We Lose

  a Novel

  Clemmons, Zinzi,

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  Raised in Pennsylvania, Thandi views the world of her mother’s childhood in Johannesburg as both impossibly distant and ever present. She is an outsider wherever she goes, caught between being black and white, American and not. She tries to connect…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Kind of Freedom

  a Novel

  Sexton, Margaret Wilkerson,

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  Evelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War Two. Her family inhabits the upper echelon of Black society and when she falls for no-name Renard, she is forced to choose between her life of privilege and the man…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

  a Novel

  Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne, 1967-

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  The great scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois, once wrote about the Problem of race in America, and what he called “Double Consciousness,” a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. Since childhood, Ailey Pearl Garfield has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The House of Deep Water

  McFarland, Jeni,

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  River Bend, Michigan, is the kind of small town most can't imagine leaving, but three women couldn't wait to escape. When each must return, their paths collide under Beth's father's roof. As one town struggles to contain all of their love affairs…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick

  Stories From the Harlem Renaissance

  Hurston, Zora Neale,

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  Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick is an outstanding collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African American folk culture. Brought together for the first time in one volume,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Deacon King Kong

  McBride, James, 1957-

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  In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Other Black Girl

  a Novel

  Harris, Zakiya Dalila,

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  Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she’s thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Saving Ruby King

  West, Catherine Adel,

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  When Ruby King’s mother is found murdered in their home in Chicago’s South Side, the police dismiss it as another act of violence in a black neighborhood. But for Ruby, it means she’ll be living alone with her violent father. The only person who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sent for You Yesterday

  Wideman, John Edgar

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  Reimagining the black neighborhood of his youth Homewood, Pittsburgh, Wideman creates a dazzling and evocative milieu. From the wild and uninhibited 1920s to the narcotized 1970s, he establishes a mythological and symbolic link between character and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Another Country

  Baldwin, James, 1924-1987

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  Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions, sexual, racial, political, artistic, that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ramadan Ramsey

  a Novel

  Edwards, Louis, 1962-

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  Ramadan Ramsey is the improbable love story between Alicia Ramsey, a ninth generation New Orleans African American, and Mustafah Tota, a Syrian refugee in the city’s Ninth Ward. Through a series of familial betrayals, Mustafah returns to Syria…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Nickel Boys

  a Novel

  Whitehead, Colson, 1969-

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  Elwood Curtis has taken the words of Dr Martin Luther King to heart: he is as good as anyone. Abandoned by his parents, brought up by his loving, strict and clear-sighted grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But given…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lazaretto

  a Novel

  McKinney-Whetstone, Diane,

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  Isolated on an island where two rivers meet, the Lazaretto quarantine hospital is the first stop for immigrants who wish to begin new lives in Philadelphia. The Lazaretto’s black live-in staff forge a strong social community, and when one of them…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• One Night in Georgia

  a Novel

  Norfleet, Celeste O.,

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  At the end of a sweltering summer shaped by the tragic assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy, race riots, political protests, and the birth of Black power, three coeds from New York City pack into Veronica’s new Ford Fairlane…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Africaville

  a Novel

  Colvin, Jeffrey,

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  Structured as a triptych, Africaville chronicles the lives of three generations of the Sebolt family, Kath Ella, her son Omar/Etienne, and her grandson Warner, whose lives unfold against the tumultuous events of the twentieth century from the Great…Read moreRead more of this annotation