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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys: a hilarious and supremely original novel set in the Hamptons in the 1980s, "a tenderhearted coming-of-age story fused...
A compelling love story—inspired by the author’s own family history—set in the segregated South during and after World War II, perfect for fans of Kristin Hannah’s The Women and Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half.When three young Black men enlist in the US Army hoping...
An NPR “Books We Love” Pick of the YearA Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of the Year“[A] radiant, rich, no-stone-unturned biography.”—Paula J. Giddings, author of When and Where I EnterA landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and...
A love just for show grows into something more in this swoonworthy romance from the author of The Romantic Agenda.Zinnia is an ambitious, successful businesswoman who is not about to wait around for her One True Love. She turns her dating profile into a...
An account of a lynching that took place in New York in 1892, forcing the North to reckon with its own racism.On June 2, 1892, in the small, idyllic village of Port Jervis, New York, a young Black man named Robert Lewis was lynched by a violent mob. The...
What would you do if one touch sent you back 1,151 years with a Viking warrior you can't resist—and the only way home meant leaving your heart behind?KAMILAH:One minute I'm cataloging artifacts in the Met's basement. The next, I'm on my knees in a Viking great hall,...
With extensive photos and first-person accounts, this companion to the PBS series is "an illuminating, succinct history of racial discrimination in the US" (Publishers Weekly).Between 1880 and 1954, African Americans dedicated their energies, and sometimes their...
Discover the groundbreaking series that became a global sensation―over 2 million books sold! An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller * A TIME Top 100 Fantasy Books of All Time * A New York Times Notable Children's Book * A Kirkus Prize Finalist * Five Starred...
From multi-award winner Whoopi Goldberg comes a new and unique memoir of her family and their influence on her early life.If it weren’t for Emma Johnson, Caryn Johnson would have never become Whoopi Goldberg. Emma gave her children the loving care and wisdom they...
In the first book of a new series inspired by African mythology, dragon gods rule the earth and sky—until the gods are betrayed, and one girl embarks on a journey to save the world from war and ruin. From the New York Times bestselling author of Skin of the Sea.The...