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When No One is Watching: A Thriller by Alyssa ColeFinding unexpected support from a new friend while collecting stories from her rapidly vanishing Brooklyn community, Sydney uncovers sinister truths about a regional gentrification project and why her neighbors are moving away.
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The Cutting Season by Attica LockeWhen the dead body of a young woman is found on the grounds of Belle Vie, the estate's manager, Caren Gray, launches her own investigation into Belle Vie's history, which leads her to a centuries old mystery involving the plantation's slave quarters--and her own past.
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Forty Acres: A Thriller by Dwayne SmithBefriended by some of America's most successful and wealthy Black men, a talented African-American lawyer working out of a Queens storefront accepts their invitation to a weekend getaway only to learn that they are part of a secret organization that would promote white slavery.
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American Spy: A Novel by Lauren WilkinsonA Cold War FBI intelligence officer joins an undercover task force to seduce a revolutionary African communist president she secretly admires and comes to love, in a story inspired by true events.
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Bad Men and Wicked Women by Eric Jerome DickeyWhen his pregnant and bitter daughter blackmails him for $50,000, Los Angeles enforcer Ken Swift embarks on a clash of wills that is complicated by a contract that spirals out of control, revealing the vengeful nature of a dangerous adversary.
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Bluebird, Bluebird: A Novel by Attica LockeForced 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. By the award-winning author of Pleasantville.
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They All Fall Down by Rachel Howzell HallFor fans of thrilling contemporary suspense, Rachel Howzell Hall's brilliant stand-alone novel brings seven sinners to a private island for a reckoning that will leave you breathless. It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime. Delighted by a surprise invitation, Miriam Macy sails off to a luxurious private island off the coast of Mexico with six other strangers. Surrounded by miles of open water in the gloriously green Sea of Cortez, Miriam is soon shocked to discover that she and the rest of her companions have been brought to the remote island under false pretenses--and all seven strangers harbor a secret. Danger lurks in the lush forest and in the halls and bedrooms of the lonely mansion. Sporadic cell-phone coverage and miles of ocean keeps the group trapped in paradise. And strange accidents stir suspicions, as one by one . . . they all fall down.
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Fearless Jones: A Novel by Walter MosleyIn the debut of a new mystery series set in 1950s Los Angeles, small-time used bookstore owner Paris Minton enlists the aid of his friend, Fearless Jones, to uncover the identity of a mysterious and beautiful woman who seems to be linked to a series of bizarre attacks against Minton.
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Broken Places by Tracy P. ClarkFormer Chicago cop-turned-private investigator Cass Raines tackles a spate of vandalism at a local church where she discovers the dead bodies of a priest and a gang member and resolves to bring their killer to justice.
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New England White
by Stephen L. Carter
In the peaceful New England university town of Elm Harbor, a murder threatens to unravel the thin veneer hiding the racial complications of the town's past, the hidden secrets of a prominent family, and African-American political influence in the United States. By the author of The Emperor of Ocean Park.
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The Changeling: A Novel by Victor D. LaValleThe wildly imaginative story of one man's thrilling odyssey through an enchanted world to find his wife, who has disappeared after having seemingly committed an unforgivable act of violence, from the award-winning author of The Devil in Silver and Big Machine.
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Who Fears Death by Nnedi OkoraforBorn into post-apocalyptic Africa to a mother who was raped after the slaughter of her entire tribe, Onyesonwu is tutored by a shaman and discovers that her magical destiny is to end the genocide of her people.
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Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon JamesHired 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.
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Redemption in Indigo: A Novel by Karen LordWhen Paama leaves her husband, she attracts the attention of the undying ones who present her with the Chaos Stick, which allows her to manipulate the subtle forces of the world.
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The Rage of Dragons by Evan WinterBorn without talents in a world dominated by rare dragon-summoning women and magical soldier men, young Tau survives murderous attacks on his loved ones before resolving to become society's greatest swordsman.
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Parable of the Sower by Octavia E ButlerThe time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers and a roaming band of people addicted to a drug that activates an orgasmic desire to burn, rape and murder. When one small community is overrun, Lauren Olamina, an eighteen-year-old Black woman with the hereditary trait of 'hyperempathy' - which causes her to feel others' pain as her own - sets off on foot along the dangerous coastal highways, moving north into the unknown.
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The Fifth Season by N. K JemisinA first entry in a new trilogy by the award-winning author of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms finds the sole continent of the earth threatened by murder, betrayal, a super-volcano and overlords who use the planet's power as a weapon.
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Rosewater by Tade ThompsonRosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry, and the helpless--people eager for a glimpse inside the dome or a taste of its rumored healing powers. Kaaro is a government agent with a criminal past. A sensitive, he can navigate the massive psychic space created by the dome. But when something within the dome begins killing other sensitives, Kaaro must defy his masters to avert a horrifying future.
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Do you Dream of Terra-Two? by Temi OhWhen an Earth-like planet is discovered, a team of six teens, along with three veteran astronauts, embark on a twenty-year trip to set up a planet for human colonization--but find that space is more deadly than they ever could have imagined.
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Aftermath by LeVar BurtonAfter America is devastated by war in the year 2019, Rene Reynolds develops a visionary device to heighten brain functions, but she is kidnapped before she can reveal her miraculous creation and must rely on three strangers to rescue her and save the world.
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The Wedding Date by Jasmine GuilloryStranded together in an elevator during a power outage, Drew and Alexa agree to pose as a couple at an ex's wedding and discover afterwards that they are unable to forget each other.
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An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa ColeDuring the Civil War two undercover agents, Elle Burns, a former slave, and Malcolm McCall a detective in Pinkerton’s Secret Service uncover a plot that could lead to a Confederate victory and vow to preserve the Union at any cost.
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32 Candles: A Novel by Ernessa T. CarterTeenage ugly duckling, Davie, runs away to Los Angeles after a particularly cruel high school prank, where she eventually transforms herself into a beautiful, successful lounge singer, and meets up with her former football-player crush who doesn't recognize her.
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Get a Life, Chloe Brown: A Novel by Talia HibbertChloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. She's come up with seven directives to help her "Get a Life", and she's already completed the first: finally moving out of her family's mansion. She's ready to enjoy a drunken night out, ride a motorcycle, and other adventures. But it's not easy being bad, and Chloe knows just the man to help her complete her list. Redford 'Red' Morgan is a handyman with tattoos, a motorcycle, and sex appeal, who paints at night but hides his work. When she enlists Red to help her rebel, she discovers what really lies beneath his rough exterior.
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Rafe - A Buff Male Nanny by Rebekah WeatherspoonAfter a nasty divorce and a thousand mile move, Dr. Sloan Copeland and her twin daughters are finally getting the hang of their new life in Los Angeles. When their live-in nanny bails with no warning, Sloan is left scrambling to find a competent caretaker to wrangle her smart, sensitive girls. Nothing less will do. Enter Rafe Whitcomb. He's all of those things, not to mention good-natured and one heck of a whiz in the kitchen. He's also tall, and handsome, and bearded, and ripped, and tatted, wrist to neck. It doesn't take long for the Copelands to invite Rafe into their home. Just as quickly, both Sloan and Rafe find themselves succumbing to a heady mutual attraction, neither of them wants to deny. With every minute they spend under the same roof, this working mom can't help but wonder if Rafe can handle all her needs.
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We Cast a Shadow: A Novel by Maurice Carlos RuffinIn a near-future Southern city, everyone is talking about a new experimental medical procedure that boasts unprecedented success rates. In a society plagued by racism, segregation, and private prisons, this operation saves lives with a controversial method--by turning people white. Like any father, our unnamed narrator just wants the best for his son Nigel, a biracial boy whose black birthmark is getting bigger by the day. But in order to afford Nigel's whiteness operation, our narrator must make partner as one of the few Black associates at his law firm, jumping through a series of increasingly absurd hoops--from diversity committees to plantation tours to equality activist groups--in a tragicomic quest to protect his son. This electrifying, suspenseful novel is, at once, a razor-sharp satire of surviving racism in America and a profoundly moving family story. In the tradition of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, We Cast a Shadow fearlessly shines a light on the violence we inherit, and on the desperate things we do for the ones we love.
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The White Boy Shuffle by Paul BeattyGunnar Kaufman, an awkward Black surfer bum, is moved from Santa Monica to urban West Los Angeles, where he begins to undergo a transformation from neighborhood outcast to basketball superstar, eventually becoming the reluctant messiah of a "divided, down-trodden people."
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Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-BrenyahA raw debut story collection from a young writer is a treacherously surreal, and, at times, heartbreakingly satirical look at what it’s like to be young and Black in America.
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Heads of the Colored People: Stories by Nafissa Thompson-SpiresEach captivating story plunges headfirst into the lives of new, utterly original characters. Some are darkly humorous--from two mothers exchanging snide remarks through notes in their kids' backpacks, to the young girl contemplating how best to notify her Facebook friends of her impending suicide--while others are devastatingly poignant--a new mother and funeral singer who is driven to madness with grief for the young Black boys who have fallen victim to gun violence, or the teen who struggles between her upper middle class upbringing and her desire to fully connect with Black culture. Thompson-Spires fearlessly shines a light on the simmering tensions and precariousness of Black citizenship. Her stories are exquisitely rendered, satirical, and captivating in turn, engaging in the ongoing conversations about race and identity politics, as well as the vulnerability of the Black body. Boldly resisting categorization and easy answers, Nafissa Thompson-Spires is an original and necessary voice in contemporary fiction.
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Pym: A Novel by Mat JohnsonA comic reimagining of America's racial history by a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award-winning writer follows a book collector's enslavement by giant Antarctic ice creatures after he learns that Edgar Allan Poe's unfinished novel is actually a true story.
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Invisible Man by Ralph EllisonBoth a deeply compelling bestselling novel and an epic milestone of American literature. The book's nameless narrator describes growing up in a Black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of "the Brotherhood", before retreating amid violence and confusion to the basement lair of the Invisible Man he imagines himself to be. Originally published in 1952 as the first novel by a then unknown author, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers of the century. The book is a passionate and witty tour de force of style, strongly influenced by T.S. Eliot's The Waste Landhttps://web-iii.yolocounty.org/search~S23?/aCarter%2c+Ernessa+T./acarter+ernessa+t/-3%2C0%2C0%2CB/frameset&FF=acarter+ernessa&1%2C1%2C/indexsort=-, Joyce, and Dostoevsky.
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