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Grief loosens its grip just enough to make desire feel dangerous again in a story shaped by longing and restraint.
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · People of Color
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Grief loosens its grip just enough to make desire feel dangerous again in a story shaped by longing and restraint. You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty follows Feyi Adekola as she rebuilds her life through art, intimacy, and unexpected connection after profound loss. This contemporary romance centers emotional healing, complicated attraction, and the quiet risk of choosing love while still carrying the past.
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A New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and “one of our greatest living writers” (Shondaland) reimagines the love story in this fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss.
Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again.
It’s been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she’s almost a new person now—an artist with her own studio and sharing a brownstone apartment with her ride-or-die best friend, Joy, who insists it’s time for Feyi to ease back into the dating scene. Feyi isn’t ready for anything serious, but a steamy encounter at a rooftop party cascades into a whirlwind summer she could have never imagined: a luxury trip to a tropical island, decadent meals in the glamorous home of a celebrity chef, and a major curator who wants to launch her art career.
She’s even started dating the perfect guy, but their new relationship might be sabotaged before it has a chance by the overwhelming desire Feyi feels every time she locks eyes with the one person in the house who is most definitely off-limits—his father.
This new life she asked for just got a lot more complicated, and Feyi must begin her search for real answers. Who is she ready to become? Can she release her past and honor her grief while still embracing her future? And, of course, there’s the biggest question of all—how far is she willing to go for a second chance at love? Akwaeke Emezi’s vivid and passionate writing takes us deep into a world of possibility and healing, and the constant bravery of choosing love against all odds.
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This will appeal to readers who want literary fiction centered on family control, adolescence, faith, and political change.
Purple Hibiscus
Literary Fiction · People of Color
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Fifteen-year-old Kambili lives in Nigeria under the strict control of her wealthy, fanatically religious father until political upheaval sends her and her brother to stay with their aunt. In a home filled with conversation and laughter, Kambili begins to experience a life beyond her father's authority, with a 4.2-star average from more than 151,000 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want literary fiction centered on family control, adolescence, faith, and political change.
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One of the most vital and original novelists of her generation.” —Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker
From the bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists**
Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They live in a beautiful house, with a caring family, and attend an exclusive missionary school. They're completely shielded from the troubles of the world. Yet, as Kambili reveals in her tender-voiced account, things are less perfect than they appear. Although her Papa is generous and well respected, he is fanatically religious and tyrannical at home—a home that is silent and suffocating.
As the country begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili and Jaja are sent to their aunt, a university professor outside the city, where they discover a life beyond the confines of their father’s authority. Books cram the shelves, curry and nutmeg permeate the air, and their cousins’ laughter rings throughout the house. When they return home, tensions within the family escalate, and Kambili must find the strength to keep her loved ones together.
Purple Hibiscus is an exquisite novel about the emotional turmoil of adolescence, the powerful bonds of family, and the bright promise of freedom.
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In Vegas, survival demands a strong poker face.
Ante Up
Romance · Contemporary Romance · People of Color
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In Vegas, survival demands a strong poker face. Asha and King both know the cost of trust, power, and desire. When two guarded souls collide, resisting temptation becomes the biggest risk of all. This sultry contemporary romance holds 4.7 stars on Amazon and over 3,000 Goodreads ratings.
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I know exactly why it turns you on…because you’re messed up too.
Asha’s life is no fairytale, by any stretch of the imagination. There was no kind, generous father to care for and protect her from the Vegas that exists beyond the glitz and glamour of The Strip. No wise, doting mother to look over and guide her, passing down essential lessons and leading her to the right path. And certainly no Prince Charming just around the corner, ready to rescue her from working late nights to cover steadily mounting bills.
But she’s alive. Overwhelmed with responsibility she never asked for, carrying secrets and scars that haunt her, and singularly focused on an uncertain path to escape, but… alive.
You’re not born to sharks without becoming one yourself.
In Vegas, King is exactly what his name implies. Born into money and influence, but respected – and feared – in his own right. The privileges of wealth have afforded him many things: freedom, power, massive eligibility – while simultaneously leaving him exposed to others: betrayal, exploitation, and manipulation.
But he learned. The tolls of duplicity, wrath, and vengeance have taught him to be more mindful, more shrewd, to keep himself clear of the vulnerability of certain situations, certain business deals, certain places, and certain women.
Women like Asha.
Like attracts like…
Her poker face has kept her alive all this time, and he keeps his cards close to his chest. Neither is interested in gambling their hearts, but when they can’t stay away from each other, there’s only one choice… ante up.
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A century apart, two children are imprisoned in the same attic, bound by secrets left behind.
The Attic Child
Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction · People of Color
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A century apart, two children are imprisoned in the same attic, bound by secrets left behind. As one struggles to remember who he was, the other searches for truth and belonging. The Attic Child is a haunting, emotionally rich novel of identity and history with 4.6 stars on Amazon and strong reader acclaim.
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A hauntingly powerful and emotionally charged novel about family secrets, love and loss, identity and belonging.
Two children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a shared secret.
Early 1900s London: Taken from his homeland, twelve-year-old Celestine spends most of the time locked away in the attic of a large house by the sea. The only time Celestine isn’t bound by confines of the small space is when he is acting as an unpaid servant to English explorer Sir Richard Babbington, As the years pass, he desperately clings on to memories of his family in Africa, even as he struggles to remember his mother’s face, and sometimes his real name . . .
1974: Lowra, a young orphan girl born into wealth and privilege whose fortunes have now changed, finds herself trapped in the same attic. Searching for a ray of light in the darkness of the attic, Lowra finds under the floorboards an old-fashioned pen, a porcelain doll, a beaded necklace, and a message carved on the wall, written in an unidentifiable language. Providing comfort for her when all hope is lost, these clues will lead her to uncover the secrets of the attic.
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Junie follows a sixteen-year-old enslaved girl in Civil War–era Alabama whose grief awakens her sister’s ghost.
Junie
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction · People of Color
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Junie follows a sixteen-year-old enslaved girl in Civil War–era Alabama whose grief awakens her sister’s ghost. As secrets surface and love offers a fragile promise of freedom, Junie must decide what liberation truly demands. This haunting debut blends history, magic, and emotional survival, earning acclaim as a Good Morning America Book Club pick.
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GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • As the Civil War looms, a young girl must face a life-altering decision after awakening her sister’s ghost in this “poignant story of love, family and friendship [that] celebrates the power of liberation” (People).
“An enrapturing tale of survival . . . Eckstine has poured a ton of heart into her characters.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“The richly textured prose quickly pulled me into [Junie’s] treacherous yet magical world.”—Charmaine Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake
Sixteen years old and enslaved since she was born, Junie has spent her life on Bellereine Plantation in Alabama, cooking and cleaning alongside her family, and tending to the white master’s daughter, Violet. Her daydreams are filled with poetry and faraway worlds, while she spends her nights secretly roaming through the forest, consumed with grief over the sudden death of her older sister, Minnie.
When wealthy guests arrive from New Orleans, hinting at marriage for Violet and upending Junie’s life, she commits a desperate act—one that rouses Minnie’s spirit from the grave, tethered to this world unless Junie can free her. She enlists the aid of Caleb, the guests’ coachman, and their friendship soon becomes something more. Yet as long-held truths begin to crumble, she realizes Bellereine is harboring dark and horrifying secrets that can no longer be ignored.
With time ticking down, Junie begins to push against the harsh current that has controlled her entire life. As she grapples with an increasingly unfamiliar world in which she has little control, she is forced to ask herself: When we choose love and liberation, what must we leave behind?
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At Niveus Private Academy, Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo begin senior year as prefects with promising futures—until an anonymous bully called Aces starts exposing their secrets.
Ace of Spades
Teen + Young Adult · LGBTQIA+ · Romance · People of Color
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At Niveus Private Academy, Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo begin senior year as prefects with promising futures—until an anonymous bully called Aces starts exposing their secrets. As the attacks escalate from sabotage to something far more dangerous, the two must join forces to uncover the truth. A Morris Award finalist and New York Times–bestselling debut.
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New York Times-bestselling thriller by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé about two students, Devon & Chiamaka, and their struggles against an anonymous bully.
"Readers will love this thriller-mystery... A revelatory, buzzworthy debut." —School Library Journal, starred review
All you need to know is . . . I’m here to divide and conquer. Like all great tyrants do. —Aces
When two Niveus Private Academy students, Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo, are selected to be part of the elite school’s senior class prefects, it looks like their year is off to an amazing start. After all, not only does it look great on college applications, but it officially puts each of them in the running for valedictorian, too.
Shortly after the announcement is made, though, someone who goes by Aces begins using anonymous text messages to reveal secrets about the two of them that turn their lives upside down and threaten every aspect of their carefully planned futures.
As Aces shows no sign of stopping, what seemed like a sick prank quickly turns into a dangerous game, with all the cards stacked against them. Can Devon and Chiamaka stop Aces before things become incredibly deadly?
A MORRIS AWARD FINALIST
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER
AN INDIE BESTSELLER
A NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER
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After losing her job and facing yet another rejection, Zelu writes a strange, far-future novel that unexpectedly propels her to literary fame—and threatens to consume both her life…
Death of the Author
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Magical Realism · People of Color · Speculative Fiction
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After losing her job and facing yet another rejection, Zelu writes a strange, far-future novel that unexpectedly propels her to literary fame—and threatens to consume both her life and the story she meant to tell. From Chicago to Lagos and beyond, she confronts identity, autonomy, and the cost of creation. An instant national bestseller praised for its ambition and emotional depth.
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THE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Recommended by New York Times Book Review• People • NPR • Rolling Stone• Los Angeles Times• Reader's Digest• and more!
“This one has it all.” — George R.R. Martin • “As delicious as it is disorienting.” — Zakiya Dalila Harris • “Suspenseful, timely, and heartfelt.” — People • “Mind-bending.” — New York Times Book Review
In this exhilarating tale by New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor, a disabled Nigerian American woman pens a wildly successful Sci-Fi novel, but as her fame rises, she loses control of the narrative—a surprisingly cutting, yet heartfelt drama about art and love, identity and connection, and, ultimately, what makes us human. This is a story unlike anything you’ve read before.
The future of storytelling is here.
Disabled, disinclined to marry, and more interested in writing than a lucrative career in medicine or law, Zelu has always felt like the outcast of her large Nigerian family. Then her life is upended when, in the middle of her sister’s lavish Caribbean wedding, she’s unceremoniously fired from her university job and, to add insult to injury, her novel is rejected by yet another publisher. With her career and dreams crushed in one fell swoop, she decides to write something just for herself. What comes out is nothing like the quiet, literary novels that have so far peppered her unremarkable career. It’s a far-future epic where androids and AI wage war in the grown-over ruins of human civilization. She calls it Rusted Robots.
When Zelu finds the courage to share her strange novel, she does not realize she is about to embark on a life-altering journey—one that will catapult her into literary stardom, but also perhaps obliterate everything her book was meant to be. From Chicago to Lagos to the far reaches of space, Zelu’s novel will change the future not only for humanity, but for the robots who come next.
A book-within-a-book that blends the line between writing and being written, Death of the Author is a masterpiece of metafiction that manages to combine the razor-sharp commentary of Yellowface with the heartfelt humanity of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Surprisingly funny, deeply poignant, and endlessly discussable, this is at once the tale of a woman on the margins risking everything to be heard and a testament to the power of storytelling to shape the world as we know it.
“An ambitious, inventive tribute to the power of storytelling itself.” — Nikki Erlick, New York Times bestselling author of The Measure
“A deeply felt dazzle. A blaze. It is true deep to the bones.” — Luis Alberto Urrea, Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of The House of Broken Angels
"There’s more vivid imagination in a page of Nnedi Okorafor’s work than in whole volumes." — Ursula K. Le Guin
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Growing up in Indiana, Ashley Ford longs for her incarcerated father while navigating poverty, adolescence, and a volatile bond with her mother.
Somebody’s Daughter
Biographies & Memoirs · People of Color
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Growing up in Indiana, Ashley Ford longs for her incarcerated father while navigating poverty, adolescence, and a volatile bond with her mother. After an assault she hides from her family, the truth about her father’s imprisonment shatters what she thought she knew. Somebody’s Daughter is a powerful, widely acclaimed memoir about identity, pain, and the enduring pull of family.
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NBCC John Leonard Prize Finalist
Indie Bestseller
“This is a book people will be talking about forever.” —Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed
“Ford’s wrenchingly brilliant memoir is truly a classic in the making. The writing is so richly observed and so suffused with love and yearning that I kept forgetting to breathe while reading it.” —John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author
One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the looming absence of her incarcerated father.
Through poverty, adolescence, and a fraught relationship with her mother, Ashley C. Ford wishes she could turn to her father for hope and encouragement. There are just a few problems: he’s in prison, and she doesn’t know what he did to end up there. She doesn’t know how to deal with the incessant worries that keep her up at night, or how to handle the changes in her body that draw unwanted attention from men. In her search for unconditional love, Ashley begins dating a boy her mother hates. When the relationship turns sour, he assaults her. Still reeling from the rape, which she keeps secret from her family, Ashley desperately searches for meaning in the chaos. Then, her grandmother reveals the truth about her father’s incarceration . . . and Ashley’s entire world is turned upside down.
Somebody’s Daughter steps into the world of growing up a poor Black girl in Indiana with a family fragmented by incarceration, exploring how isolating and complex such a childhood can be. As Ashley battles her body and her environment, she embarks on a powerful journey to find the threads between who she is and what she was born into, and the complicated familial love that often binds them.
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During a Boston snowstorm, an argument leads Tip and Teddy Doyle into an accident that entangles them with a stranger and her child.
Run
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · People of Color
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During a Boston snowstorm, an argument leads Tip and Teddy Doyle into an accident that entangles them with a stranger and her child. Over one turbulent day, the family faces long buried secrets, shifting loyalties, and the divide between privilege and poverty. Ann Patchett crafts a poignant, suspenseful story about responsibility and the unexpected ties that define us.
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In the middle of a Boston snowstorm, one split second shatters the fragile balance of the Doyle family. Tip and Teddy have spent their lives shaped by their father’s ambitions, pushed toward political futures they have never wanted. Since their mother’s death, Bernard Doyle has clung tightly to his sons, convinced he alone can guide their paths.
But an argument on an icy street draws a stranger and her young daughter into their orbit, setting off a chain of revelations that forces every member of the family to confront buried truths. Over the next twenty four hours, privilege intersects with hardship, and unexpected bonds take shape in the most unlikely places.
Acclaimed author Ann Patchett delivers a moving, deeply humane novel about responsibility, connection, and the enduring reach of family.
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Kidnapped from Africa and enslaved in the American colonies, Aminata Diallo survives through memory and learning.
Someone Knows My Name
Historical Fiction · People of Color
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Kidnapped from Africa and enslaved in the American colonies, Aminata Diallo survives through memory and learning. Her escape during the Revolutionary War leads her to Manhattan, then Nova Scotia, and eventually back to Africa and London as she becomes a witness to injustice and a keeper of stories. Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, this novel offers a moving portrait of resilience.
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Torn from her home and carried across an ocean, Aminata Diallo enters a world shaped by violence, resilience, and the will to survive. As a child enslaved in South Carolina, she learns to hold tight to memory and language, the pieces of herself no one can steal.
War grants her a narrow chance at freedom, and in Manhattan she becomes a scribe, recording the names of Black men and women who earned passage to Nova Scotia. Yet life in the new colony brings fresh hardship, pushing her toward a journey that leads back to Africa and onward to London.
Across each place she touches, Aminata stands as witness, storyteller, and keeper of truth. Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Someone Knows My Name is a powerful portrait of endurance and hope.
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Briseis can make plants bloom with a touch, but her newfound inheritance hides secrets as deadly as her gift.
This Poison Heart
Fantasy · LGBTQIA+ · Teen + Young Adult · People of Color
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Briseis can make plants bloom with a touch, but her newfound inheritance hides secrets as deadly as her gift. In a remote estate with a garden full of poisonous wonders, she uncovers a legacy tied to magic and danger. This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron is a gripping contemporary fantasy about power, ancestry, and self-discovery.
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Power can flourish like a vine, but it can also choke what you love most.
Briseis has always feared her gift. With a single touch she can coax seeds into bloom, an ability as wondrous as it is dangerous. When her aunt dies and leaves her a crumbling estate in upstate New York, Bri hopes the quiet gardens will finally help her control what she carries. Instead, she finds locked instructions, a walled sanctuary of lethal plants, and secrets rooted deep in her family’s past.
As dark forces stir around the estate, Bri must unravel the truth behind her inheritance before the power she wields consumes her.
This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron is a lush contemporary fantasy of magic, legacy, and the courage to face the darkness within.
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When sixteen-year-old Little Bee escapes Nigeria and crosses paths with British journalist Sarah O’Rourke, their lives become intertwined by tragedy and grace.
Little Bee
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · People of Color · Psychological Fiction
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When sixteen-year-old Little Bee escapes Nigeria and crosses paths with British journalist Sarah O’Rourke, their lives become intertwined by tragedy and grace. Years later, a knock at the door reunites them and forces both to face the past. Chris Cleave’s Little Bee is a powerful novel of hope, survival, and the courage to begin again.
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On a sunlit beach in Nigeria, two lives collide and are changed forever.
Sixteen-year-old Little Bee has fled a world of unimaginable violence. In England, Sarah O’Rourke lives a life of comfort until one moment of choice binds her fate to the girl she barely knows. When Little Bee arrives at Sarah’s doorstep years later, both women must confront the price of survival and the meaning of compassion.
What follows is a story of hope, humor, and humanity in the face of the unthinkable—a novel that reveals how small acts of courage can bridge worlds.
Chris Cleave’s Little Bee is a deeply moving, unforgettable story about love, loss, and the invisible ties that connect us across continents.
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