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With these awesome African American fiction titles! |
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A princess in theory
by Alyssa Cole
Mistaken by his betrothed as a pauper instead of a prince, Prince Thabiso, the sole heir to the throne of Thesolo, decides to keep his real identity a secret as he experiences life and love with Naledi Smith—until the truth comes out, which changes everything. Original. 100,000 first printing.
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Take a hint, Dani Brown : a novel
by Talia Hibbert
A young woman who agrees to fake-date her friend after a video of him “rescuing” her from their office building goes viral. Original. 75,000 first printing.
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Bluebird, bluebird : a novel
by Attica Locke
Forced by duty to return to his racially divided East Texas hometown, an African-American Texas Ranger risks his job and reputation to investigate a highly charged double-murder case involving a black Chicago lawyer and a local white woman
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August Snow
by Stephen Mack Jones
A debut mystery by an award-winning playwright finds mixed-race Detroit police officer August Snow winning a wrongful dismissal case, only to return to the city 12 years later to discover that his innumerable enemies have scores to settle.
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How long 'til black future month?
by N. K Jemisin
Offers a collection of the author's short fiction, including "The City Born Great," where a young street kid fights to give birth to an old metropolis's soul
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Black leopard, red wolf
by Marlon James
Hired to find a mysterious boy who disappeared three years before, Tracker joins a search party that is quickly targeted deadly creatures in the first novel of a new trilogy from the author of A Brief History of Seven Killings. (fantasy). Simultaneous
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In West Mills : a novel
by De'Shawn Charles Winslow
A woman in mid-20th-century rural North Carolina, determined to live on her own terms in spite of community gossip, finds unexpected support from a veteran fixer who struggles with an inability to correct his own troubled past.
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The water dancer : a novel
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
A Virginia slave narrowly escapes a drowning death through the intervention of a mysterious force that compels his escape and personal underground war against slavery
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Binti
by Nnedi Okorafor
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between thestars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs. Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter has long warred with the Meduse, an alien race that has become the stuff of nightmares. Oomza University has wronged the Meduse, and Binti's stellar travel will bring her within their deadly reach. If Binti hopes to survive the legacy of a war not of her making, she will need both the gifts of her people and thewisdom enshrined within the University, itself--but first she has to make it there, alive
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Kindred
by Octavia E. Butler
Dana, a black woman, finds herself repeatedly transported to the antebellum South, where she must make sure that Rufus, the plantation owner's son, survives to father Dana's ancestor
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