• Time's Undoing

    Time's Undoing

    Head, Cheryl A.

    Journalist Meghan McKenzie heads to Alabama in search of the truth behind her great-grandfather’s murder, uncovering events from the distant past that are still too close for comfort.

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  • The House of Eve

    The House of Eve

    Johnson, Sadeqa

    Aspiring young women Eleanor and Ruby overcome racist and colorist biases only to learn how easily a dream can be deferred or derailed by unplanned parenthood in 1950’s America.

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  • Butter

    Butter

    Jones, Gayl

    Literary legend Jones offers up a dazzling range of long and short fiction narrated by Black, Brown and Indigenous men and women, in diverse locales, time periods, styles and moods.

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  • When Trying to Return Home

    When Trying to Return Home

    McCauley, Jennifer Maritza

    The Black and Latine characters in these masterful, resonant stories reflect the moral and cultural tensions and warring identities within families and individuals.

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  • Savvy Sheldon Feels Good as Hell

    Savvy Sheldon Feels Good as Hell

    McCoy, Taj

    When her boyfriend dumps her for “an upgrade,” Savannah Sheldon decides to upgrade her own situation, hiring a swoon-worthy contractor to renovate her house.

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  • The Color of Family

    The Color of Family

    McGill, Jerry

    Football hero brothers in a car wreck: one walks away, and one doesn’t, but which is the lucky one? This is just one of many fateful, morally charged events in the intriguing saga of the Payne family.

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  • Moonrise Over New Jessup

    Moonrise Over New Jessup

    Minnicks, Jamila

    In 1957 in the thriving all-Black township of New Jessup, Alabama, activists pushing for integration meet resistance from many who favor segregation, revealing the hidden complexities of civil rights.

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  • Wade in the Water

    Wade in the Water

    Nkrumah, Nyaneba

    For young Ella, struggling against colorist persecution from her own family, the caring attention of white Princeton researcher Katherine seems like a godsend. Then Ella learns about Katherine’s past.

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  • Pride and Protest

    Pride and Protest

    Payne, Nikki

    This sexy Jane Austen remake pits fiery DJ-activist Liza Bennet against straightlaced real estate mogul Dorsey Fitzgerald in a love/hate struggle over gentrification of her Washington, D.C. neighborhood.

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  • Symphony of Secrets

    Symphony of Secrets

    Slocumb, Brendan

    A musicologist researching a long-lost symphony by his idol reads between the lines to discover the real genius behind his career, a woman forced into the margins and all but erased.

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