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BOOK RIOT’S BEST NEW ROMANCES BY BLACK AUTHORS “In a memorable journey of love, healing, fulfillment in one's career and family, and second chances, Aries Skye’s Love on Board is a flawlessly delivered and entertaining story that true love can weather any storm and...
From international bestselling author Dorothy Koomson, a gripping, thought-provoking novel that will appeal to fans of Jodi Picoult and Emma Donoghue, about a woman hellbent on uncovering the truth about her husband's last marriage and its tragic conclusion. Libby has...
Named a Best Book of 2025 by The New Yorker, TIME, Vanity Fair, and Kirkus Reviews • One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2025"Smart, somber . . . There’s pleasure in watching a novelist wired to see all sides at once wrangle with her own dynamic subjectivity." -...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The daughter of an affluent Black family pieces together the connection between a childhood tragedy and a beloved heirloom in this moving novel from the bestselling author of Black Cake, a Read with Jenna Book Club Pick“Engrossing . . . Wilkerson...
New York Times –Bestselling Author: "A compelling biography of Daniel Murray and the group the writer-scholar W.E.B. DuBois called 'The Talented Tenth.'" —Patricia Bell-Scott, National Book Award nominee and author of The Firebrand and the First Lady In this...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • USA TODAY BESTSELLER • LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER “Richie is refreshingly open in the book, which functions as both a fun memoir and a love letter to music and his beloved Tuskegee… There’s an abundance of love and gratitude in this...
No Man Could Tame Her Jessi Rose Clayton would do anything to keep the family ranch from falling into the wrong hands-even agree to take on a rough-and-tumble outlaw as her protector. With his rugged, handsome face and muscular bronze body, Griffin Blake can draw a...
Following her best-selling, award-winning novel Glorious , McFadden produces a fantastical historical novel featuring the spirit of Emmett Till. —One of Essence' s "Best Books of the Decade" —A New York Times Notable Book of 2012 — Gathering of Waters wa s a finalist...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The book that galvanized the nation, gave voice to the emerging civil rights movementin the 1960s—and still lights the way to understanding race in America today. • "The finest essay I’ve ever read.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates At once a powerful evocation...
This "viscerally powerful . . . compilation of firsthand accounts of the Jim Crow era" won the Lillian Smith Book Award and the Carey McWilliams Award ( Publisher's Weekly , starred review). Based on interviews collected by the Behind the Veil Oral History Project at...