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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...
A sweeping look back at the protest movements that changed America from activist and NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, with personal and historical insights into lessons they can teach us today“A compelling case for standing up for justice at a time when everything, it...
Influencer-turned-bakery-owner Maddy Montgomery has sold plenty of wedding cakes before, but before she turns one out for her and her fiancé’s wedding, she’ll have to solve a little case of murder . . .Aunt Octavia would be so proud! Maddy has turned Baby Cakes...
After being let down by the first man that was supposed to love and protect her, Fatima swears to never give another man the power to make her feel that abandonment again. Only dealing with guys that are just as emotionally unavailable as her, she continues guarding...
“The most profound terror is rooted in love—the terror of losing love, of love betrayed, of love in peril. Justin C. Key’s work is a cold knife through a hot heart, a surgical blade unleashing gouts of searing fear.”—Cory Doctorow, author of Red Team Blues, Little...
Syxe St. James was once the perfect wife—prim, polished, and quietly miserable. When her marriage to a powerful doctor crumbles overnight, she’s left broke, stranded, and desperate. The only person willing to help? Montana “Monty Geez” Ortiz—Philly’s hottest rapper…...