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Beloved turns haunting into memory made flesh, following a woman whose escape from slavery cannot free her from what survival demanded.
Beloved
Literary Fiction · People of Color
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Beloved turns haunting into memory made flesh, following a woman whose escape from slavery cannot free her from what survival demanded. Sethe lives in Ohio with the trauma of Sweet Home still pressing against her present, until the ghost tied to her dead child transforms grief into something impossible to ignore. This is literary fiction shaped by horror, history, motherhood, and the brutal cost of being unowned.
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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This "powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinching look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. With an afterword by the author and a new introduction by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.
“A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard, Los Angeles Times
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.
“Dazzling. . . . Magical. . . . An extraordinary work.” —The New York Times
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Perfect for fans of Toni Morrison.
The Prophets
Historical Fiction · LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction
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Isaiah and Samuel’s forbidden love is their only refuge on a Deep South plantation—until betrayal threatens their existence. The Prophets, a National Book Award finalist and New York Times Bestseller, is a lyrical, powerful debut about love, resilience, and the brutal legacy of slavery. Perfect for fans of Toni Morrison.
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Finalist for the National Book Award • New York Times Bestseller • One of The New York Times Best Historical Fiction of the Year
On a Deep South plantation, Isaiah and Samuel have only each other. In the barn, amidst the cruelty and violence of their enslavement, they find refuge—transforming the hollowed space into one of love, intimacy, and hope. But when a fellow enslaved man seeks favor by preaching the master’s gospel, the plantation’s fragile harmony fractures. Isaiah and Samuel’s forbidden love, once a quiet sanctuary, becomes a dangerous threat.
With lyricism reminiscent of Toni Morrison, Robert Jones, Jr.’s The Prophets is a stunning debut that gives voice to both the enslaved and the oppressors, exploring the devastating weight of inheritance, the resilience of community, and the transformative power of love.
Named one of The New York Times Notable Books of the Year, this is a story of beauty, pain, and truth you won’t forget.
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A strong match for readers drawn to multigenerational historical fiction about family, displacement, slavery, and its lasting legacy.
Homegoing
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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An international bestseller and winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, this novel begins with two half-sisters in 18th-century Ghana: one marries an Englishman while the other is captured and sold into slavery. Their descendants’ stories unfold across eight generations, two continents, and three centuries. A strong match for readers drawn to multigenerational historical fiction about family, displacement, slavery, and its lasting legacy.
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE'S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE • WINNER OF THE PEN / HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION • Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and sold into slavery.
One of Oprah’s Best Books of the Year, Homegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold Coast to the plantations of Mississippi, from the American Civil War to Jazz Age Harlem. Yaa Gyasi’s extraordinary novel illuminates slavery’s troubled legacy both for those who were taken and those who stayed—and shows how the memory of captivity has been inscribed on the soul of our nation.
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When Apollo Kagwa’s wife commits a horrific act and vanishes with their child, his search plunges him into a dark fairy tale rooted in myth, madness, and love.
The Changeling
Horror · Literary Fiction · Thriller · Contemporary Fiction · Speculative Fiction
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When Apollo Kagwa’s wife commits a horrific act and vanishes with their child, his search plunges him into a dark fairy tale rooted in myth, madness, and love. The Changeling, now an Apple TV+ series, is an award-winning, haunting thriller “you won’t be able to put down” (Oprah Magazine).
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Now an Apple TV+ Series starring Lakeith Stanfield · Winner of multiple awards, including the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel · One of TIME’s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time
When Apollo Kagwa’s father vanished, he left behind only a box of books and haunting dreams. Now a father himself, Apollo’s life unravels when his wife, Emma, begins acting strangely. What seems like postpartum depression quickly spirals into horror as Emma commits an unthinkable act—and disappears with their child.
Apollo’s desperate search for his family leads him through the shadowy corners of New York, a forgotten island, and forests where immigrant legends still breathe. Along the way, he confronts ancient myths, buried secrets, and the terrifying truth about his family.
The Changeling is a mesmerizing dark fairy tale of love, loss, and madness, hailed by The New York Times and Oprah Magazine as a must-read modern classic.
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When sixteen-year-old Starr witnesses her unarmed best friend shot by police, she becomes the only person who knows the truth.
The Hate U Give
Teen + Young Adult
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When sixteen-year-old Starr witnesses her unarmed best friend shot by police, she becomes the only person who knows the truth. But speaking out could shatter her world—and risk her life. The Hate U Give, a #1 NYT Bestseller and William C. Morris Award Winner, is “absolutely riveting” (Jason Reynolds).
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#1 New York Times Bestseller · Winner of the William C. Morris Award · Printz Honor Book · Coretta Scott King Honor Book · National Book Award Longlist
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter navigates two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the elite prep school she attends. But her delicate balance shatters when she witnesses her unarmed childhood best friend, Khalil, fatally shot by a police officer.
Khalil’s death becomes a national headline. Some call him a thug, a drug dealer, a gangbanger. Protesters flood the streets demanding justice, while police and local criminals threaten Starr and her family. Starr is the only person who knows the truth about what happened that night. But speaking up could upend her community—and endanger her life.
With 8 starred reviews and praised as “absolutely riveting” by Jason Reynolds, The Hate U Give is a powerful, unforgettable novel about courage, injustice, and finding your voice.
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For too long, Africa’s rich history has been overshadowed by Western narratives.
An African History of Africa
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For too long, Africa’s rich history has been overshadowed by Western narratives. In An African History of Africa, international bestseller Zeinab Badawi offers a sweeping, powerful retelling of Africa’s dazzling civilizations, remarkable rulers, and its rightful place in our global story. “Gripping and galvanizing.” —British Vogue
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Already a major international bestseller, An African History of Africa by Zeinab Badawi offers a groundbreaking, much-needed retelling of Africa’s rich legacy—from prehistory to the present—through the voices of Africans themselves.
For too long, Africa’s story has been overshadowed by Western narratives of slavery and colonialism or ignored altogether. Now, Badawi sets the record straight, guiding readers through the continent’s dazzling civilizations, powerful queens and kings, medieval empires, and the struggles and triumphs of conquest and independence.
Based on research across 30 countries and interviews with historians, archaeologists, and local storytellers, this epic, sweeping history finally gives Africa its rightful place in our global story.
“Equal parts gripping and galvanizing… a book that feels both long-overdue—and wholly worth the wait.” —British Vogue
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Ghosts travel with the living in Sing, Unburied, Sing, where family love and inherited violence share the same road through rural Mississippi.
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Literary Fiction · Coming of Age
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Ghosts travel with the living in Sing, Unburied, Sing, where family love and inherited violence share the same road through rural Mississippi. As Jojo journeys with his mother to collect his father from Parchman, Jesmyn Ward builds a literary novel steeped in grief, memory, and the unfinished wounds of the South, with a haunting presence that deepens every reckoning.
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*Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times *WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and a New York Times bestseller, this majestic, stirring, and widely praised novel from two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, the story of a family on a journey through rural Mississippi, is a “tour de force” (Oprah Daily) and a timeless work of fiction that is destined to become a classic.
Jesmyn Ward’s historic second National Book Award–winner is “perfectly poised for the moment” (The New York Times), an intimate portrait of three generations of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle. “Ward’s writing throbs with life, grief, and love… this book is the kind that makes you ache to return to it” (Buzzfeed).
Jojo is thirteen years old and trying to understand what it means to be a man. He doesn’t lack in fathers to study, chief among them his Black grandfather, Pop. But there are other men who complicate his understanding: his absent White father, Michael, who is being released from prison; his absent White grandfather, Big Joseph, who won’t acknowledge his existence; and the memories of his dead uncle, Given, who died as a teenager.
His mother, Leonie, is an inconsistent presence in his and his toddler sister’s lives. She is an imperfect mother in constant conflict with herself and those around her. She is Black and her children’s father is White. She wants to be a better mother but can’t put her children above her own needs, especially her drug use. Simultaneously tormented and comforted by visions of her dead brother, which only come to her when she’s high, Leonie is embattled in ways that reflect the brutal reality of her circumstances.
When the children’s father is released from prison, Leonie packs her kids and a friend into her car and drives north to the heart of Mississippi and Parchman Farm, the State Penitentiary. At Parchman, there is another thirteen-year-old boy, the ghost of a dead inmate who carries all of the ugly history of the South with him in his wandering. He too has something to teach Jojo about fathers and sons, about legacies, about violence, about love.
Rich with Ward’s distinctive, lyrical language, Sing, Unburied, Sing is a majestic and unforgettable family story and “an odyssey through rural Mississippi’s past and present” (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
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Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson tells the powerful story of the Great Migration through the lives of three unforgettable individuals.
The Warmth of Other Suns
Historical Literary Fiction
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Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson tells the powerful story of the Great Migration through the lives of three unforgettable individuals. The Warmth of Other Suns, a New York Times Bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award winner, is a beautifully written, essential modern classic of American history. One of the NYT’s Five Best Books of the 21st Century.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
In The Warmth of Other Suns, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson delivers a sweeping, beautifully written account of the Great Migration—one of the most transformative, yet untold, stories in American history. Between World War I and 1970, six million Black Americans fled the oppressive South in search of a better life in the North and West.
Through the lives of three unforgettable individuals—Ida Mae Gladney, George Starling, and Robert Foster—Wilkerson humanizes this mass exodus, capturing their treacherous journeys, struggles, and triumphs.
Winner of multiple prestigious awards and hailed as one of The New York Times’s Five Best Books of the 21st Century, The Warmth of Other Suns is a modern classic that redefines the American experience.
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In Astray, Poppy Fitzgerald crafts a dark romantic suspense that explores betrayal, obsession, and the fragility of trust.
Astray
Romance · Thriller · Romantic Suspense
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In Astray, Poppy Fitzgerald crafts a dark romantic suspense that explores betrayal, obsession, and the fragility of trust. With a 4.2-star rating on Amazon, readers praise its gripping storyline and authentic emotional depth. Experience the tension and passion that have captivated readers. Available now on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.
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Eloise Fitzpatrick's routine life takes an unexpected turn when a mysterious stranger steals a forbidden kiss during a girls' night out. This encounter awakens desires she thought were long gone, leaving her torn between guilt and a longing for passion. Determined to rekindle her marriage with her workaholic husband, Caleb, Eloise resolves to forget the stranger's allure. But the enigmatic man has other plans, and his growing obsession threatens to unravel not just her marriage, but her entire world. As Eloise navigates a treacherous path of betrayal, desire, and danger, she must decide what she's willing to sacrifice to protect those she loves. Will she find a way to escape his grasp, or will she be led completely astray?
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When their father dies, the Solomon siblings return home to save the Kingdom—their ancestral land—from a developer’s grasp.
Long After We Are Gone
Literary Fiction · Historical Fantasy
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When their father dies, the Solomon siblings return home to save the Kingdom—their ancestral land—from a developer’s grasp. But as they fight for their family’s legacy, long-buried secrets surface, threatening to tear them apart. Long After We Are Gone is “explosive and emotionally charged” (Etaf Rum)—a powerful story of love, loss, and legacy.
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"Don’t let the white man take the house." Those are King Solomon’s final words to his son before he dies. Now, his four children must return to North Carolina to save the Kingdom—their ancestral home and 200 acres of land—from a developer eager to turn it into a luxury resort.
But saving the Kingdom means facing more than just legal battles. Junior, the eldest, hides his love for another man. Mance’s temper has cost him his freedom more than once. CeCe, a high-powered lawyer, is drowning in embezzlement secrets. And Tokey, the youngest, is desperate to understand why she’s always felt like an outsider in her own family.
Told in alternating viewpoints, Long After We Are Gone is a searing, emotional story of family, legacy, and the truths that set us free.
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Perfect for fans of Shadow and Bone!
Air and Ashes
Dystopian · Mystery · Teen + Young Adult
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Emma thought her mom died of cancer. She was wrong. Thrust into a hidden world of Elementums—super soldiers who control the elements—Emma discovers she’s a rare Halfbreed, hunted by the ruthless Clinic. To survive, she’ll have to uncover her mom’s dark past and resist the allure of the enigmatic Kaden Hale. Perfect for fans of Shadow and Bone!
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What if everything you believed about your life was a lie?
Seventeen-year-old Emma Cross thought her mom died of cancer. She was wrong. Her mother was murdered, and now Emma is thrust into a hidden world where Elementums—genetically engineered super soldiers who control the elements—are locked in a deadly war against the ruthless Clinic.
Emma’s convinced she doesn’t belong—until she’s targeted as a rare Halfbreed. With danger closing in, she must train to survive while resisting the pull of Kaden Hale, an icy Elementum with secrets as deep as her own. But when Emma uncovers a classified project tied to her mom’s death, she realizes her past is the key to the war’s future.
Air and Ashes is a heart-pounding tale of elemental powers, forbidden romance, and devastating betrayals—perfect for fans of Shadow and Bone and The Darkest Star.
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Inspired by The Flying Dutchman and Beauty and the Beast, The Audient and The Phantom Night delivers steamy romance, cursed pirates, and outlawed magic on the high seas.
The Audient and the Phantom Night
Romantasy · Steampunk
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Inspired by The Flying Dutchman and Beauty and the Beast, The Audient and The Phantom Night delivers steamy romance, cursed pirates, and outlawed magic on the high seas. With 4.2 stars on Amazon, this pirate fantasy romance will sweep you away. Ready to face the storm? Grab your copy now!
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Fenna Terrigan never thought her quiet life in a seaside bookshop would be shattered by a pirate—especially one cursed to walk on land only one day every seven years. When her desperate brother drags her into his mess, Fenna takes on his debt to the brooding Captain Devlin Cato, boarding his haunted ship, The Phantom Night. But life at sea isn’t just stormy skies and outlawed magic. As Fenna's loyalty to her brother clashes with her growing passion for Devlin, she uncovers a secret that could topple the continent’s fragile peace—and paint a target on her back. Can she break the captain’s curse without losing her heart, or will the waves claim her soul? Set sail on this high-stakes, steamy adventure today!
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