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When Angela Toussaint returns to her childhood home, she’s ready to face the grief that drove her away.
The Good House
Horror · Occult Horror · People of Color
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When Angela Toussaint returns to her childhood home, she’s ready to face the grief that drove her away. But the Good House hides more than memories. As she uncovers her grandmother’s secret battle with an ancient evil, Angela realizes the curse isn’t finished. The Good House brings Tananarive Due’s acclaimed supernatural suspense to chilling perfection.
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Two years ago, Angela Toussaint lost her son in the house where she grew up. Now she’s come back to face what still lives there.
In the quiet town of Sacajawea, Washington, the Good House was once a place of warmth and family. But after tragedy struck, its name became a cruel reminder of everything Angela lost. Grief has followed her for years, yet the deeper she digs into her grandmother’s mysterious past, the more she feels the same darkness stirring again.
As ancient powers awaken and old sins resurface, Angela must confront the evil that destroyed her family or let it claim her town forever.
With 4.4 stars on Amazon and critical acclaim from The New York Times, The Good House cements Tananarive Due as a modern master of supernatural suspense.
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In Baxter’s Beach, Barbados, beauty and brutality coexist.
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
Literary Fiction · People of Color
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In Baxter’s Beach, Barbados, beauty and brutality coexist. When a robbery shatters the lives of a young mother and her husband, the illusion of paradise begins to crumble. How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones is a searing, lyrical novel about violence, class, and the haunting legacy of stories told to keep women safe.
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In paradise, every story hides a wound.
On the glittering beaches of Barbados, beneath the sun and sand of Baxter’s Beach, lives are bound together by violence and longing. Lala grows up with her grandmother’s warning about the one-armed sister, a tale meant to keep girls safe from the dangers that lurk beneath the surface. But adulthood brings its own traps.
When her husband’s botched robbery ignites a chain of tragedy, Lala’s world collides with that of the wealthy tourists and desperate locals who share the same fragile shore.
Cherie Jones’s How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House is a fierce, heart-wrenching novel about class, power, and survival in a paradise built on pain—a story as luminous as it is devastating.
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A New York Times bestseller, Oprah’s Book Club selection, and PEN/Faulkner Award winner, Behold the Dreamers follows Jende and Neni Jonga, a Cameroonian couple building a life in…
Behold the Dreamers
Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Contemporary Fiction · People of Color
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A New York Times bestseller, Oprah’s Book Club selection, and PEN/Faulkner Award winner, Behold the Dreamers follows Jende and Neni Jonga, a Cameroonian couple building a life in New York after Jende becomes chauffeur to a Lehman Brothers executive shortly before the financial collapse, with a 3.9-star average from more than 87,400 Goodreads ratings. Readers drawn to literary fiction about immigration, marriage, class, and the American Dream should find plenty to consider here.
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A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream—the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy
New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award • Longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award • An ALA Notable Book
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
NPR • The New York Times Book Review • San Francisco Chronicle • The Guardian • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • Chicago Public Library • BookPage • Refinery29 • Kirkus Reviews
Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six-year-old son. In the fall of 2007, Jende can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. Clark demands punctuality, discretion, and loyalty—and Jende is eager to please. Clark’s wife, Cindy, even offers Neni temporary work at the Edwardses’ summer home in the Hamptons. With these opportunities, Jende and Neni can at last gain a foothold in America and imagine a brighter future.
However, the world of great power and privilege conceals troubling secrets, and soon Jende and Neni notice cracks in their employers’ façades.
When the financial world is rocked by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the Jongas are desperate to keep Jende’s job—even as their marriage threatens to fall apart. As all four lives are dramatically upended, Jende and Neni are forced to make an impossible choice.
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Best for readers who like West African-inspired YA fantasy, deadly contests, political unrest, ancient magic, and reluctant attraction.
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin
People of Color · Romantasy · Teen + Young Adult
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Crown Princess Karina needs a king’s heart to resurrect her murdered mother, while refugee Malik must kill Karina to free his abducted sister. When Malik enters the competition for Karina’s hand, their secret missions and growing attraction put them on a collision course. Best for readers who like West African-inspired YA fantasy, deadly contests, political unrest, ancient magic, and reluctant attraction.
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The first in a gripping fantasy duology inspired by West African folklore in which a grieving crown princess and a desperate refugee find themselves on a collision course to murder each other despite their growing attraction—from debut author Roseanne A. Brown. Perfect for fans of Tomi Adeyemi, Renée Ahdieh, and Sabaa Tahir.
For Malik, the Solstasia festival is a chance to escape his war-stricken home and start a new life with his sisters in the prosperous desert city of Ziran. But when a vengeful spirit abducts his younger sister, Nadia, as payment to enter the city, Malik strikes a fatal deal—kill Karina, Crown Princess of Ziran, for Nadia’s freedom.
But Karina has deadly aspirations of her own. Her mother, the Sultana, has been assassinated; her court threatens mutiny; and Solstasia looms like a knife over her neck. Grief-stricken, Karina decides to resurrect her mother through ancient magic . . . requiring the beating heart of a king. And she knows just how to obtain one: by offering her hand in marriage to the victor of the Solstasia competition.
When Malik rigs his way into the contest, they are set on a heart-pounding course to destroy each other. But as attraction flares between them and ancient evils stir, will they be able to see their tasks to the death?
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An Oprah’s Book Club Pick and instant New York Times bestseller, Nathan Harris’ The Sweetness of Water is a “miraculous debut” (Washington Post).
The Sweetness of Water
Literary Fiction · LGBTQIA+ · Historical Literary Fiction · People of Color
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An Oprah’s Book Club Pick and instant New York Times bestseller, Nathan Harris’ The Sweetness of Water is a “miraculous debut” (Washington Post). Set in Reconstruction-era Georgia, it follows two freed brothers, a grieving couple, and a forbidden love that fractures a town. With a 4.4 out of 5 stars rating, this epic blends beauty, terror, and hard-won hope.
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In The Sweetness of Water, the Civil War has ended, but peace is fragile and grief is everywhere.
Brothers Prentiss and Landry, newly freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, search for safety and a way forward. They find it on the farm of George and Isabelle Walker, a grieving couple who hire the brothers and forge an unlikely bond of hope.
But Old Ox is a town steeped in secrets and resentments. A forbidden romance between two Confederate soldiers ignites scandal, violence, and murder, threatening to unravel fragile alliances.
As the community convulses with anger and loss, it is Isabelle who rises, offering a vision of healing when everything seems broken.
Nathan Harris delivers a luminous debut about love, resilience, and humanity’s fight to endure.
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Tiffany D. Jackson’s White Smoke—an Amazon Best Book of the Month and YALSA pick—delivers a terrifying YA haunted house thriller.
White Smoke
People of Color · Teen + Young Adult · Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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Tiffany D. Jackson’s White Smoke—an Amazon Best Book of the Month and YALSA pick—delivers a terrifying YA haunted house thriller. With 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this modern mashup of The Haunting of Hill House and Get Out unravels secrets, corruption, and ghosts both real and metaphorical. A masterclass in psychological suspense from a bestselling author.
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Marigold needs a reset. Her family’s move to Cedarville comes with a renovated house courtesy of the Sterling Foundation, a new start in a city trying to rebuild. But Maple Street is not what it seems. The neighbors are suspicious. The houses around them are crumbling. And the walls of their perfect home whisper secrets only Mari seems to hear.
Doors slam, shadows move, and a rancid smell seeps through the vents. Worse, her ten-year-old stepsister insists she has a friend who wants Mari gone. As the house tightens its grip, Mari realizes the rot isn’t confined to Maple Street—Cedarville itself is hiding something much darker.
Ghosts, corruption, and buried truths collide in this chilling YA thriller that blends The Haunting of Hill House with Get Out.
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A sudden absence reshapes the country and the people left behind.
Sky Full of Elephants
People of Color · Literary Fiction · Magical Realism
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A sudden absence reshapes the country and the people left behind. Sky Full of Elephants follows Charlie Brunton as he answers a call from the daughter he has never known and journeys with her across a transformed America. As they confront trauma, identity, and inherited distance, the novel explores belonging and reconciliation through speculative fiction grounded in grief, connection, and hard-earned understanding.
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In this “bold and imaginative” (Tananarive Due) “truly powerful and riveting story” (Booklist) set in a world where white people no longer exist, college professor Charlie Brunton receives a call from his estranged daughter Sidney, setting off a chain of events as they journey across a truly “post-racial” America in search of answers.
In a world without white people, what does it mean to be Black?
One day, a cataclysmic event occurs: all of the white people in America walk into the nearest body of water. A year later, Charlie Brunton is a Black man living in an entirely new world. Having served his time in prison for a wrongful conviction, he’s now a professor of electric and solar power systems at Howard University when he receives a call from someone he wasn’t even sure existed: his daughter Sidney, a nineteen-year-old left behind by her white mother and step-family.
Traumatized by the event, and terrified of the outside world, Sidney has spent a year in isolation in Wisconsin. Desperate for help, she turns to the father she never met, a man she has always resented. Sidney and Charlie meet for the first time as they embark on a journey across a truly “post-racial” America in search for answers. But neither of them are prepared for this new world and how they see themselves in it.
Heading south toward what is now called the Kingdom of Alabama, everything Charlie and Sidney thought they knew about themselves, and the world, will be turned upside down. Brimming with heart and humor, “this stunning allegory will spark much discussion” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) about the power of community and connection, about healing and self-actualization, and a reckoning with what it means to be Black in America, in both their world and ours.
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A strong match for readers drawn to literary science fiction about power, caste, resistance, racism, and survival under authoritarian rule.
An Unkindness of Ghosts
People of Color · Sci-Fi
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Called “intensely thought-provoking,” An Unkindness of Ghosts follows Aster, a lowdeck resident aboard the HSS Matilda, a generation ship structured like the antebellum South, as she confronts oppression, a brutal overseer, and the possibility of civil war, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 1,800 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers drawn to literary science fiction about power, caste, resistance, racism, and survival under authoritarian rule.
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An "intensely thought-provoking" science fiction debut from a worthy successor to Octavia Butler (LeVar Burton Reads).
One of Esquire magazine's 50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time
Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her an ogre and a freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she was truly a monster, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remained of her world.
Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way, the ship's leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster. Embroiled in a grudge with a brutal overseer, Aster learns there may be a way to improve her lot—if she's willing to sow the seeds of civil war.
"Solomon debuts with a raw distillation of slavery, feudalism, prison, and religion that kicks like rotgut moonshine . . . Stunning." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
"What Solomon achieves with this debut—the sharpness, the depth, the precision—puts me in mind of a syringe full of stars. . . . its only imperfection is that it ended." —NPR
"It's structurally and thematically daring and manages to include a little bit of hope while leveling a devastating critique at racism and fascism." —Los Angeles Times
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Neena Viel’s Listen to Your Sister is one of the year’s Most Anticipated books (Goodreads, People, BookRiot, and more).
Listen to Your Sister
Horror · Thriller · People of Color
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Neena Viel’s Listen to Your Sister is one of the year’s Most Anticipated books (Goodreads, People, BookRiot, and more). With 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this speculative horror debut blends Jordan Peele vibes, Stranger Things nostalgia, and razor-sharp family drama. Terrifying, heartfelt, and unforgettable—this is the knockout novel everyone’s talking about.
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Calla Williams didn’t ask to become the glue holding her family together. At twenty-five, she’s worn thin by responsibility, haunted by recurring nightmares of her brothers dying in ways she can’t prevent.
Her younger brother Jamie is sixteen, reckless, and more interested in fighting for causes—or finding trouble—than staying safe. Dre, the middle brother, promised to help but disappeared once the paperwork was signed. Calla is left to pick up the pieces.
When Jamie’s protest spirals into chaos, the siblings flee to a remote cabin straight out of a slasher film. But Calla’s visions aren’t just dreams. They’re warnings. And the thing she fears most isn’t outside—it’s already unraveling their reality.
They should have listened. Now survival means facing the nightmare head-on.
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National Geographic explorer Tara Roberts’s Written in the Waters is a searing memoir tracing the wrecks of slave ships across the Atlantic.
Written in the Waters
Biographies & Memoirs · People of Color
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National Geographic explorer Tara Roberts’s Written in the Waters is a searing memoir tracing the wrecks of slave ships across the Atlantic. With 4.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon and praise from Elizabeth Gilbert, Roberts blends travel, history, and personal reckoning in a lyrical account that spans continents while diving deep into ancestry, identity, and the legacy of slavery.
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Tara Roberts wasn’t looking for a life-changing journey when she visited the Smithsonian. But a single photograph—of Black divers exploring the wrecks of slave ships—pulled her into a story larger than herself.
Compelled to follow, Roberts strapped on her own diving gear and began tracing the transatlantic slave trade through the ocean’s hidden graveyards. From Mozambique to Benin, Costa Rica to St. Croix, she joined archaeologists and historians searching for the long-lost ships that carried 12.5 million souls across the Middle Passage.
Along the way, Roberts also dove inward—reckoning with her own identity, family history, and the weight of generational memory. Lush, lyrical, and deeply moving, Written in the Waters is a memoir of exploration, grief, resilience, and the healing power of connection.
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In a magical version of contemporary America, a teen who can summon animal spirits investigates her cousin’s death after his ghost reveals it was murder.
Elatsoe
People of Color · Literary Fiction · Teen + Young Adult · Indigenous Fiction · Magical Realism
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In a magical version of contemporary America, a teen who can summon animal spirits investigates her cousin’s death after his ghost reveals it was murder. Drawing on family, history, and ancestral knowledge, she confronts a town built on secrets. This award-winning YA fantasy holds 4.4 stars on Amazon and widespread critical acclaim.
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A Texas teen comes face-to-face with a cousin's ghost and vows to unmask the murderer.
Elatsoe—Ellie for short—lives in an alternate contemporary America shaped by the ancestral magics and knowledge of its Indigenous and immigrant groups. She can raise the spirits of dead animals—most importantly, her ghost dog Kirby. When her beloved cousin dies, all signs point to a car crash, but his ghost tells her otherwise: He was murdered.
Who killed him and how did he die? With the help of her family, her best friend Jay, and the memory great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother, Elatsoe, must track down the killer and unravel the mystery of this creepy town and its dark past. But will the nefarious townsfolk and a mysterious Doctor stop her before she gets started?
A breathtaking debut novel featuring an asexual, Apache teen protagonist, Elatsoe combines mystery, horror, noir, ancestral knowledge, haunting illustrations, fantasy elements, and is one of the most-talked about debuts of the year.
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Gods of Jade and Shadow is a Nebula Award finalist and NPR Best Book of the Year.
Gods of Jade and Shadow
Historical Fantasy · Magical Realism · People of Color
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Gods of Jade and Shadow is a Nebula Award finalist and NPR Best Book of the Year. With 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this dazzling 1920s fairy tale follows Casiopea, a young woman who unleashes the Mayan god of death and joins him on a perilous quest through Mexico’s jazz age and underworld.
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Casiopea Tun spends her days scrubbing floors in her grandfather’s house, dreaming of escape. Her life feels as small as her dusty town in southern Mexico—until she opens a forbidden wooden box and unleashes a god. Not just any god, but Hun-Kamé, the Mayan god of death, betrayed and dethroned by his brother.
Bound to him by fate, Casiopea must help reclaim his throne or face destruction herself. Her journey spans 1920s Mexico, from Yucatán’s jungles to Mexico City’s glittering jazz halls, and finally into the obsidian depths of Xibalba, the underworld.
As myth and modernity collide, Casiopea finds not only danger but freedom, identity, and even love. But the road to destiny is paved in shadows—will she survive the gods’ game?
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