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• All the Sinners Bleed

  Cosby, S. A.,

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  After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, Virginia and becomes the first Black sheriff in the history of the county. As he investigates a shocking crime, he must navigate through the complexities…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Chain-gang All-stars

  Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame,

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  A brutally gripping and necessary tale set in a dystopian alternate U.S. where people incarcerated in an expansive private prison system have the option to fight for their freedom in gladiator-style death matches.

• Escaping Mr. Rochester

  McKinney, L. L. (Leatrice L.),

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  In this empowering Black queer romance reimagining of Charlotte Brontë's classic novel, Jane Eyre, the new governess at Thornfield Hall discovers her cruel employer has locked away his wife as revenge for withholding her inheritance and,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Family Meal

  Washington, Bryan, 1993-

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  Cam is living in Los Angeles and falling apart after the love of his life has died. Kai's ghost won't leave Cam alone; his spectral visits wild, tender, unexpected, and explosive. When Cam returns to his hometown of Houston, he crashes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Far From the Tree

  DeBerry, Virginia,

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  After their father's death, sisters Celeste English and Ronnie Frazier leave their hollow lives and travel to Prosper, North Carolina, with their mother, Della, to come to terms with their pasts and their futures.

• Great Expectations

  Cunningham, Vinson,

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  When David first hears the Senator from Illinois speak, he feels deep ambivalence. Intrigued by the Senator's idealistic rhetoric. David also wonders how he'll balance the fervent belief and inevitable compromises it will take to become…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

  McBride, James, 1957-

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  The story is a vibrant tale of Chicken Hill, a working-class neighborhood of Jewish, Black, and European immigrant families in Pottstown, Pa., where the 1972 discovery of a human skeleton unearths events that took place several decades…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• James

  Everett, Percival,

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  James is a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view.

• Lone Women

  LaValle, Victor, 1972-

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  The year is 1915 and Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It's locked at all times. When the trunk is opened, people around her start to disappear. Dragging the trunk with her at every stop, she will…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Long After We Are Gone

  Harris, Terah Shelton,

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  "Don't let the white man take the house" aare the last words King Solomon says to his son before he dies. Now all four Solomon siblings must return to North Carolina to save the Kingdom, their ancestral home and 200 acres of land, from a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Maame

  George, Jessica, 1994-

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  Narrator Maddie Wright is a people pleaser who earns the nickname Maame ("the responsible one") from her family. The work's ample magnetism resides in the savvy portrayal of Maddie as a complicated, sharp, and vulnerable person who is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Neighbors and Other Stories

  Oliver, Diane, 1943-1966,

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  A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-century African American literature.

• One of Our Kind

  Yoon, Nicola,

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  When Jasmyn and King Williams move their family to the planned Black utopia of Liberty, California, they hope to find a community of like-minded people, a place where their growing family can thrive. As Jasmyn learns more about Liberty and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• One of Us Knows

  Cole, Alyssa,

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  Diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder, Kenetria "Ken" Nash and her other identities get a job as caretaker of an island estate. As a nor'easter begins to brew, a murder also storms in, washing Ken up as the main suspect. She and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Someone Like Us

  Mengestu, Dinaw, 1978-

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  After abandoning his once-promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush meets Hannah--a photographer whose way of seeing the world shows him the possibility of finding not only love but family. Now, five years…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tangleroot

  Williams, Kalela,

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  When eighteen-year-old Noni moves to Tangleroot plantation in rural Virginia for her mom's new position as a college president, she uncovers long-buried secrets of the town's racist past and present.

• Weird Black Girls

  Cotman, Elwin, 1984-

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  From Philip K. Dick Award finalist Elwin Cotman, an irresistibly unnerving collection of stories that explore the anxieties of living while Black--a high-wire act of literary-fantastical hybrid fiction.