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“The last novel where I rooted for every character, and the last to make me cry.” - Marlon James, Elle From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory and the Oprah's Book Club selection Bewilderment comes Richard Powers's magnificent, multifaceted novel about...
2025 American Fiction Awards Winner "Mystery/Suspense: Multicultural and Diverse"Osborne delivers a heart-pounding, whodunnit murder mystery! Emerson's Vietnam-era dual timeline will resonate with readers familiar with characters Harry Bosch or Walt Longmire." –Cam...
The beloved characters from The Best Man movies and hit television series reunite for a sexy and soulful, heartbreaking and hilarious reckoning of love.Recently divorced and fresh off a Pulitzer Prize win, Harper Stewart is in a new era. He’s working on a movie and...
The long-awaited paperback reissue of Booker–Prize Winner Marlon James's debut novel.—Marlon James won the 2015 Man Booker Prize for his third novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings.—Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize"A...
Ruth Croome, a Blackamoor heiress, was supposed to get married in a gorgeous wedding gown, made from her father’s exquisite fabrics. Instead, they eloped to Gretna Green and upon returning, their carriage was beset by highwaymen and she witnessed the murder of her new...
After seeing the man she’s been dating post an engagement announcement, Jahnae Greer is devastated. With the advice from her friends, she goes out and has a drunken one-night stand with a handsome stranger. Months later when she finds out her ex-boyfriend isn’t the...
"LaTanya McQueen's When The Reckoning Comes is so deliciously uncomfortable there were moments where I had to put the book down, take a deep breath, and like Mira, its protagonist, urge myself to go further. This is a novel, like Octavia Butler's Kindred, that reminds...
A Jamaican-inspired fantasy debut about two enemy witches who must enter into a deadly alliance to take down a common enemy.Divided by their order. United by their vengeance.Iraya has spent her life in a cell, but every day brings her closer to freedom—and...
From the acclaimed Harlem Renaissance author of Passing, a novel of one mixed-race woman's far-reaching quest to discover identity and happiness. At twenty-three, Helga Crane teaches in 1920s Georgia at one of the country's finest colleges for African Americans, and...
A definitive, sweeping account of the Underground Railroad’s long-overlooked maritime origins, from a pre-eminent scholar of Atlantic history and the award-winning author of The Slave Ship As many as 100,000 enslaved people fled successfully from the horrors of...