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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...
"Alternately funny, shocking, and sad" this novel about female rivalry and polygamy is "a complex depiction of family and culture in modern-day Nigeria." —Sacramento Book ReviewWhen Baba Segi woke up with a bellyache for the sixth day in a row, he knew it was time to...
Winner of the Stonewall Book Award: a YA verse novel about coming of age, being yourself, and the power of drag.Michael is a mixed-race gay teen growing up in London. All his life, he's navigated what it means to be Greek-Cypriot and Jamaican—but never quite feeling...