2022 Releases

10 Strategic Actions for Black Professionals to Reach the Top and Stay ThereA timely resource for Black professionals on how to rise to the top of their organizations or industries...

Twenty-seven well-known writers, their imaginations unleashed by anonymity…· A married woman has a BDSM-tinged encounter at a work conference· Two young boys on a sleepover feel the first stirrings of...

The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960sA radical reckoning with the racial inequality of America’s past and present, by one of the leading scholars of...

In this dangerously sexy rom-com that evokes the real-life romance between Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan Markle, a prince who wants to live out of the spotlight falls for a...

How We Grow the World We WantAn inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world—one small change at a timeLong before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing...

Isolde, newly coronated queen, has finally found a king worthy of her in the vampire Adrian. But their love for each other has cost Isolde her father and her homeland....

17 Tales Across Realms & SpaceFollow princesses warring in space, haunting ghost stories in Argentina, mermaids off the coast of the Caribbean, swamps that whisper secrets, and many more realms...

Winner of the National Book Award 1990The Apocalypse would definitely put a crimp in my career plans.Rutherford Calhoun, a puckish rogue and newly freed slave, spends his days loitering around...

Writing you I give the death I take I know I should feel wounded by your death I write to you to make a wound write backShane McCrae fashions a...

By National Book Award finalist and Dos Passos Prize winner, Rabih Alameddine, comes a transporting new novel about an Arab American trans woman's personal journey among Syrian refugees on Lesbos...

Poems & StoriesThe Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that saw an explosion of Black art, music and writing, yet few female creatives are remembered alongside their male counterparts. Part...

What the heart desires, the house destroys... Andromeda is a debtera — an exorcist hired to cleanse households of the Evil Eye. She would be hired, that is, if her...

The Racial History of an Idea The racist legacy behind the Western idea of freedom. The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and...

From the widely acclaimed author of American War, Omar El Ekkad, a beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic and profoundly moving novel that brings the global refugee crisis down to the level...

At eighteen years old, Dinah gave away her baby son to the rich couple she worked for before they left Jamaica. They never returned. She never forgot him. Eighteen years...

A swoony summer read, perfect for fans of To All the Boys I've Loved Before and The Kissing Booth. Soon to be a Netflix feature film.Clara Shin lives for pranks...

A virtuosic debut collection that roves across genres and styles, by a finalist for the Caine Prize.In her powerful, genre-bending debut story collection, Nana Nkweti’s virtuosity is on full display...

No one captures the border — its history and imagination, its danger, contradiction, and redemption — like Fernando A. Flores, whose stories reimagine and reinterpret the region’s existence with peerless...

In The Third Reconstruction, distinguished historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a powerful and personal new interpretation of recent history.The racial reckoning that unfolded in 2020, he argues, marked the climax...

"The beauty in blackness is its ability to transform. Like energy we are neither created nor destroyed, though many try." — West African ProverbThe Muungano empire strived and struggled to...

A memoirFrom the incomparable Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award winner, a powerful and revealing autobiography about race, sexuality, art, and healing.It's easy to be yourself when who and what you...

A lover of strict form, best-selling poet Victoria Chang turns to compact Japanese waka, powerfully innovating on tradition while continuing her pursuit of one of life's hardest questions: how to...

Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence Finalist for the Young Lions Fiction AwardOrphaned young, Ming Tsu, the son of Chinese immigrants, is raised by the notorious leader of a...

For elite assassin Nena Knight, eliminating dangerous players on the world stage is part of the job. The Tribe, a powerful business syndicate in Africa, ensures that she has those...

Lessons from Women in PowerWomen have been told to 'lean in' and act like men to get ahead. But as our systems crumble, isn't it time we had a different...

'An unusual, intense, experimental novel' Daily Mail In the aftermath of the Great Depression, Elle Ranier marries Simon to escape a life of destitution. She leaves New York City for Lyra,...

A Great Gatsby Remix New York City, 1922. Nicolás Caraveo, a 17-year-old Latinx transgender boy from Minnesota, has no interest in the city’s glamor. He rents a small house in...

Prudence Perry is a third-generation Ladybird Scout who must battle literal (and figurative) monsters and the weight of her legacy in Scout's Honor by Lily Anderson.Sixteen-year-old Prudence Perry is a...

Fill Your Weeknights with FlavorWhy wait for the weekend when you can have incredible home-cooked meals ready in under 30 minutes? Farrah Jalanbo uses her love and knowledge of popular...

How to Own Your Power at Work as a Woman of Color You know that feeling of not belonging when you have so much to say at a work meeting?...

Growing up in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley, Maggie Gonzalez has a great family, a goofy group of friends, and dreams of being a photographer. But when she's tasked with picking...

The lives of high school seniors Parisa Naficy and Gabriela Gonzales couldn't be more different.Parisa, an earnest and privileged Iranian American, struggles to live up to her own impossible standards....

In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a café in Cairo. He was a photographer of...

From a rising literary star, an epic historical novel, set against the tense backdrop of the Long March and Mao’s rise to power, that tells a powerful and moving story...

Who knew falling in love for the first time would be so dramatic? Maurene Goo's pop-culture-savvy rom-coms are the perfect combination of humour and heart — perfect reads for fans...

The Bold Type meets Younger in this YA fish-out-of-water contemporary novel about a teen who gets her dream job at a fashion magazine, despite being only seventeen.She may be a...

In this velvet-clad 1990s gothic horror, Aja encounters a charming vampire who wants to lure her into the woods — just like her missing sister.No one ever pays attention to...

Sometimes you need a little magic to fall in love . . .Ellie Kobata has spent most of high school on the sidelines, keeping her art Instagram private and shying...

FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDThe Birdcatcher is the new novel from a major voice in American literature, which explores artists in exile, dangerous relationships and the demands of...

Lio Min’s Beating Heart Baby is a "dizzying, sexy, and utterly heartfelt" (Mary H. K. Choi) love letter to internet friendships, anime, and indie rock, perfect for fans ready for...

People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over...

At the turn of the 20th century, minstrel shows transform into vaudeville, which slides into moving pictures. Hunkering together in dark theatres, diverse audiences marvel at flickering images. This "dreaming...

**A New York Times Best Mystery Novel of the Year** The first book in the Nanette Hayes series introduces us to New Yorker and jazz-loving street musician Nanette, whose love...

The much-anticipated third entry in New York Times bestselling author Renee Ahdieh's sumptuous and thrilling series, The Beautiful.Odette is facing the final death. The Court of the Lions have done...

Return to the startlingly original dystopian world of The Record Keeper in this stunning sequel. Join Arika Cobane as she continues her fight for freedom.General Arika Cobane, beloved leader of...

For fans ofThe Kiss Quotientand The Love Hypothesis, the next sparkling romantic comedy by Lily Menon.Lyric Bishop feels like a fraud — she's studying sexual chemistry in romantic partners and...

Brandi Maxwell is living the fashion intern dream. Except, the dream looks more like living on the breadline, scrubbing sick from couture dresses, and dealing with daily microaggressions about her...

Be prepared to swoon in this irresistible rom-com about taking a chance on love and finding yourself along the way. Perfect for fans of To All the Boys I've Loved...

Humorous, witty, horrific, and poetic, Jamal Saeed’s story is Syria’s story: surviving 12 years in brutal military prisons, an enchanted childhood, his loves, Syria’s deadly upheavals, and his family’s escape.Jamal...

The oldest trick in the book turns out to be the best thing that's ever happened . . .When Hollywood actors Jada Berklee and Tristan Maxwell are caught on camera...