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Could you put your life on hold for twelve years?  A stunning love story about family, injustice and marriage, and three people at once bound and separated by forces beyond...

Racism, but "managed" through virtual reality Black Friday, except you die in a bargain-crazed throng Happiness, but pharmacologicalLove, despite everything Friday Black tackles urgent instances of racism and cultural unrest,...

A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself End the struggle, speak up for what you need, and experience the freedom of being truly yourself. Healthy boundaries. We all know we should have...

Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, this sharp and witty literary mystery explores America's painful legacy of lynching When hog thief Junior Junior Milam is found brutally murdered, the police...

A stand-out new YA romance from the number 1 bestselling author of Everything, Everything — this is Dirty Dancing with a supernatural twist.Evie is disillusioned about love ever since her...

From New York Times bestselling authors Kass Morgan and Danielle Paige comes a thrilling, dark contemporary fantasy about a prestigious sorority of witches and two girls caught up in its...

From the author of Magical NegroWinner of the National Book Critic's Circle Award Other People's Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night — the book that launched the career of one...

Essays Towards Liberation First collection of writings from one of the foremost contemporary critical thinkers on racism, geography and incarceration. Abolition Geography brings together Gilmore's essays, articles and interviews from...

Anyone else ever thrown a drink at someone's head, only to miss entirely and hit a stranger behind them? Then have that stranger fall madly in love with you because...

Black People and Love New York Times bestselling author, acclaimed visionary and cultural critic bell hooks continues her exploration of the meaning of love in contemporary American society, offering groundbreaking,...

When I was a little girl, my Ma used to read me stories every night. Some were epic adventures with high stakes and exciting twists, while others were of princesses...

The first winner of the Robinson/Little, Brown Spark sponsored New Voices Award is a book on detecting racial bias by researcher and DEI consultant Dr Evelyn Carter. This book is...

On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local, state, and federal police attempted to...

THE DAZZLING LOST CLASSIC *A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2025**A Cosmopolitan Best Book for April 2025**A New York Times Book Review Most-Anticipated Book of the Spring**A Time Best...

A vital anthology exploring the intersections between caregiving and abolition Abolition has never been a proposal to simply tear things down. As Alexis Pauline Gumbs asks, “What if abolition is...

An American Lyric The critically acclaimed exploration of mounting racial aggressions in 21st century daily life and in the mediaIn this moving, critical and fiercely intelligent collection of prose poems,...

A cozy sapphic romantasy about a teen witch trying to keep her family’s apothecary up and running, with a little help from her ex-best friend—and first crush. “Brewed with Love...

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite...

From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet Ross Gay, a fresh new volume of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in...

More than 35 years after its release, Kindred continues to draw in new readers with its deep exploration of the violence and loss of humanity caused by slavery in the United...

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER! Bridget Jones’s Diary meets Survival of the Thickest in Danielle Allen’s CURVY GIRL SUMMER, a smoking-hot, hilarious novel about the perils of online dating. “There’s got...

The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide **LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 PEN/JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION****LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDALS FOR EXCELLENCE****WINNER OF THE 2022 POZ...

'More than lives up to the hype' — Observer 'Set to become a publishing sensation' — Kirsty Lang, BBC Front Row 'An astounding achievement' — Sunday Times 'The lost giant...

For fans of Nina LaCour's We Are Okay and Adam Silvera's History Is All You Left Me, this heartfelt and ultimately uplifting novel follows one sixteen-year-old girl's friend breakup through...

'But to white readers in particular, I say: Pull up a chair, grab a pen, lay down your defenses, and listen very respectfully to Rachel Ricketts. She has offered up...

NPR Book of the Year 2020A startling debut about class and race, Lakewood evokes a terrifying world of medical experimentation — part The Handmaid’s Tale, part The Immortal Life of...

The unforgettable Richard and Judy Book Club pick An unforgettable story of friendship and forgiveness in a small town in the American South, SUGAR is a classic of commercial fiction...

The irresistible blockbuster YA romance of summer 2021 by six of the biggest voices in YA, as featured on ITV News.Perfect for fans of Jenny Han, Netflix's Let it Snow...

Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness A REESE'S BOOK CLUB X HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK PICKTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This book is my story about growing up in...

Sharp and funny, brilliant and prescient: a new collection of short stories that offer a dazzling insight into the subjects of race, grief, apology, and American history. Danielle Evans is...

From an exciting new voice comes a funny and heartfelt YA romance set in the world of competitive gaming, perfect for fans of Opposite of Always and Slay. Emilia Romero...

An NAACP Image Award Nominee, I'm Not Dying with You Tonight follows two teen girls — one black, one white — who have to confront their own assumptions about racial...

Award-winning author Andrea Hairston weaves together African folktales and postcolonial literature into unforgettable fantasy NEW MATERIAL FOR A NEW EDITION! This trade paperback includes an extensive, conversational interview between the...

The sharp, sexy and glamorous romantic comedy from the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Days in June She's finally found her soulmate. But he's completely off-limits . ....

Police, Protest and the Pursuit of Freedom How I became an abolitionist — a memoir of Black Lives Matter In the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder and the ensuing uprising,...

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 Born in the 'agrarian ghetto' of Dickens — on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles —the narrator of The Sellout is raised by...

A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua — by the author of Annie John. If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will...

Upon publication in 1975, Corregidora was hailed as a masterpiece, winning acclaim from writers including James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison and John Updike. Exploring themes such as race, sexuality...

***2020 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction******2020 Story Prize Finalist******Longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction*** An intimate, irresistible collection of stories about the hidden desires of generations of...

Terry J. Benton-Walker's contemporary fantasy debut, Blood Debts, is "an extravaganza from start to finish" (Chloe Gong) with powerful magical families, intergenerational curses, and deadly drama in New Orleans. In...

A Black Woman’s Story The incredible memoir of Elaine Brown — the first female leader of the Black Panthers "I have all the guns and all the money. I can...

**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...

A 2022 PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST An epic tale of love and liberation, set in seventeenth-century colonial Brazil From plantation to plantation, Almeyda, a young slave girl, hears whispers, rumours of...

From the author of Let's Talk About Love, this pacey YA novel follows three teens locked together in a mansion, competing for a big cash prize in a competition run...

Lessons from a Professional TroublemakerThe instant New York Times bestseller: a hilarious and transformational book about how to tackle fear — now with a brand new bonus chapter! From the...

True love never did run smooth . . . Britta is excited for the chance to finally prove herself at work when she's asked to write about a hot new...

In the second installment of C.L. Clark's Magic of the Lost trilogy, soldier Touraine and princess Luca must return to Balladaire to reclaim Luca's throne and to face the consequences...

Can Vivian find happiness after what has been done to her? To the outside observer, Vivian is a success story — a dedicated lawyer who advocates for mentally ill patients...

A deeply personal, thoroughly researched and unflinching examination of feminism through the lens of race calling for a new understanding of our relationships with ourselves and one another — from...

A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People's Business Since the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feministand Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle the big issues embroiling society...