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• An American Marriage

  Jones, Tayari,

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  Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Spy

  a Novel

  Wilkinson, Lauren, 1984-

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  "It's 1986, the heart of the Cold War, and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She's brilliant, but she's also a young black woman working in an old boys' club. Her career has stalled out, she's overlooked for every…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Histories

  Stories

  Wideman, John Edgar,

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  "In this singular collection, John Edgar Wideman, the acclaimed author of Writing to Save a Life, blends the personal, historical, and political to invent complex, charged stories about love, death, struggle, and what we owe each other.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Charcoal Joe

  Mosley, Walter,

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  1968: Life for Easy Rawlins is surprisingly... easy. He's living off the proceeds of his last case, trying to keep out of trouble. Of course it's not going to last. Because Easy's old friend Mouse knocks on his door. Mouse is one of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Confessions of Frannie Langton

  a Novel

  Collins, Sara,

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  A servant and former slave is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in this historical thriller that moves from a Jamaican sugar plantation to the fetid streets of Georgian London.

• Delicious Foods

  a Novel

  Hannaham, James,

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  "Darlene, once an exemplary wife and a loving mother to her young son, Eddie, finds herself devastated by the unforeseen death of her husband. Unable to cope with her grief, she turns to drugs, and quickly forms an addiction. One day she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Nickel Boys

  a Novel

  Whitehead, Colson, 1969-

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  1960s Florida. Kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood Curtis is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South, one mistake is enough to destroy the future. He is sentenced to a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sellout

  Beatty, Paul,

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  "Raised in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens--improbably smack in the middle of downtown L.A.--the narrator of The Sellout resigned himself to the fate of all other middle-class Californians: "to die in the same bedroom you'd grown up in,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Their Eyes Were Watching God

  a Novel

  Hurston, Zora Neale

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  "Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person -- no mean feat for a black woman in the '30s. Janie's quest for identity takes her through three marriages and into a journey back to her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sing, Unburied, Sing

  a Novel

  Ward, Jesmyn,

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  "Jojo and his toddler sister, Kayla, live with their grandparents, Mam and Pop, and the occasional presence of their drug-addicted mother, Leonie, on a farm on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Leonie is simultaneously tormented and comforted…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Riot Baby

  Onyebuchi, Tochi,

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  "Rooted in foundational loss and the hope that can live in anger, Riot Baby is both a global dystopian narrative and an intimate family story with quietly devastating things to say about love, fury, and the black American experience. Ella…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Such a Fun Age

  a Novel

  Reid, Kiley,

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  Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Vanishing Half

  Bennett, Brit,

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  "The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Water Dancer

  a Novel

  Coates, Ta-Nehisi,

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  "Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage--and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child--but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The World Doesn't Require You

  Stories

  Scott, Rion Amilcar,

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  "Cross River, Maryland: Established by the leaders of America's only successful slave revolt, the town still evokes the fierce rhythms of its founding. Among its residents are David Sherman, a struggling musician who just happens to be…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Americanah

  a Novel

  Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-

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  "A young woman from Nigeria leaves behind her home and her first love to start a new life in America, only to find her dreams are not all she expected"-- Provided by publisher.

• Red at the Bone

  Woodson, Jacqueline,

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  Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. Moving forward and backward in time... [this] new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in…Read moreRead more of this annotation