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A moving and inspiring memoir from a former Obama White House staffer, about his rural Maryland family’s untold history, the merger of three churches—one Black, two white—and how a radical embrace of community became their salvation, and his.“A moving and important...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this gripping thriller, truth and justice are called into question when a Black man is gunned down in cold blood—the first novel in a riveting series from renowned civil rights attorney Ben Crump.“A sensationally good crime and legal...
A TONIGHT SHOW SUMMER READS FINALISTAn electrifying first novel from "a riveting new voice in American fiction" (George Saunders): A young woman returns to her childhood home in the American South and uncovers secrets about her father's life and deathBillie James'...
Award-winning author Vanessa Riley turns all convention on its head for the first in an enchanting, dazzlingly diverse new Regency romance trilogy featuring a duke, three sisters, and a tantalizing bet with a most desirable reward...“A triumphant return to...
"A triumph of scholarly maturity, imagination, and narrative art." —Arnold RampersadSojourner Truth: formerly enslaved person and unforgettable abolitionist of the mid-nineteenth century, a figure of imposing physique, a riveting preacher and spellbinding singer who...
OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • A HARPERS BAZAAR BEST BOOK OF 2022 • A PARADE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • A MARIE CLAIRE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK“It’s clear from the first page that Davis is going to serve a more intimate, unpolished account than is typical of the average (often...
One of Esquire's Best Horror Books of 2024One of Crime Reads' Best Gothic Novels of 2024In this Southern gothic horror debut, a young Black woman abandons her life in 1960s Chicago for a position with a mysterious family in New Orleans, only to discover the dark...
A searing exploration of home, race, and gender in America, from the heroic lawyer who spoke out against Clarence Thomas“Anita Hill looks at home as a physical space, but also as a microcosm of American society . . . After reading this book, you will never see a house...
"Well written, moving . . . stimulating," this account of racially unified abolitionism "could provide the occasion for a constructive national conversation" (New York Times). The civil war brought to a climax the country's bitter division. But the beginnings of...
"A well-told, stereotype-busting tale about a nineteenth century black financier who dared to be larger than life, and got away with it!" —Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, New York Times–bestselling authorIn the middle decades of the nineteenth century Jeremiah G. Hamilton...