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• Sweetness in the Skin

  a Novel

  Robinson, Ishi, author

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  Fiction: Historical, Coming of Age. "A winning debut novel about a young teenage girl in Jamaica determined to bake her way out of her dysfunctional family and into the opportunity of a lifetime. Pumkin Patterson is a thirteen-year-old…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Swift River

  a Novel

  Chambers, Essie,

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  Fiction: Historical, Coming of Age. "In 1987, the only Black person in all Swift River after her Pop disappeared seven years ago, Diamond Newberry, receiving a letter from a relative she's never met, is introduced to two generations of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

  a Novel

  Williams, Tia, 1975-

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  Fiction: Romance, Historical Fiction, Harlem Renaissance. "Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. And for some, even a single February can be life-changing. Ricki Wilde has many talents, but being a Wilde isn't one of them. As the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye

  a Novel

  Cameron, Briony,

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  Fiction: Historical. "In the tumultuous town of Yáquimo, Santo Domingo, Jacquotte Delahaye is an unknown but up-and-coming shipwright. Her dreams are bold but her ambitions are bound by the confines of her life with her self-seeking French…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Coming Home

  Griner, Brittney,

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  Non-Fiction: Memoir. "On February 17, 2022, Brittney Griner arrived in Moscow ready to spend the WNBA offseason playing for the Russian women’s basketball team where she had been the centerpiece of previous championship seasons. Instead, a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Daughter of the Merciful Deep

  Penelope, L., 1978-

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  Fiction: Historical Fantasy, Magical Realism. "'Our home began, as all things do, with a wish.' Jane Edwards hasn't spoken since she was eleven years old, when armed riders expelled her family from their hometown along with every other…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Blueprint

  a Novel

  Rashad, Rae Giana,

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  Fiction: Speculative Science Fiction. "Solenne Bonet is DoS--a Descendant of Slave--and has always known that her destiny would be in the service of men. At school, it is what she has been trained for, waiting for an algorithm to assign…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Motherless Land

  May, Nikki,

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  Fiction: Literary Fiction. From the acclaimed author of Wahala, a vibrant decolonial retelling of Mansfield Park, exploring identity, culture, race, and love. Quiet Funke is happy in Nigeria. She loves her art teacher mother, her professor…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Allow Me to Introduce Myself

  a Novel

  Nwabineli, Onyi,

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  Fiction: Contemporary. "Anuri Chinasa has had enough. And really, who can blame her? She was the unwilling star of her stepmother’s social media empire before “momfluencers” were even a thing. For years, Ophelia documented every birthday,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Cursed House

  Sandeen, Del,

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  Fiction: Horror. ""In this Southern gothic horror debut, a young Black woman abandons her life in 1960s Chicago for a position with a mysterious family in New Orleans, only to discover the dark truth: They're under a curse, and they think…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• While We Were Burning

  Koffi, Sara,

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  Fiction: Mystery Thriller. "After her best friend's mysterious death, Elizabeth Smith's picture-perfect life in the Memphis suburbs has spiraled out of control--so much so that she hires a personal assistant to keep her on track. Composed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All We Were Promised

  a Novel

  Lattimore, Ashton,

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  Fiction: Historical. "Philadelphia, 1837. When nineteen-year-old Charlotte escaped from the deteriorating White Oaks plantation four years ago, she'd expected freedom to look completely different from her former life as an enslaved…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Colored Television

  Senna, Danzy,

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  Fiction: Literary Fiction. "A brilliant dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity-industrial complex. Jane has high hopes her life is about to turn around. After years of living precariously, she, her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bookshop Sisterhood

  Lindo-Rice, Michelle,

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  Fiction: Contemporary, Romance. "When life rewrites the story, only friendship will see them through. After years of hard work, four best friends—Celeste, Yasmeen, Toni and Leslie—are finally on the verge of opening the bookstore of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Womb City

  Tsamaase, Tlotlo,

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  Fiction: Science Fiction, Horror. "This genre-bending Africanfuturist horror novel blends The Handmaid's Tale with Get Out in an adrenaline-packed, cyberpunk body-hopping ghost story exploring motherhood, memory, and a woman's right to her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What Fire Brings

  a Thriller

  Hall, Rachel Howzell,

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  Fiction: Mystery Thriller. "Bailey Meadows has just moved into the remote Topanga Canyon home of thriller author Jack Beckham. As his writer-in-residence, she's supposed to help him once again reach the bestseller list. But she's not there…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Kingdom of No Tomorrow

  Josaphat, Fabienne,

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  Fiction: Historical. "It's that pivotal year, 1968, and Nettie Boileau, a young Haitian student in Oakland, gets caught up in the ongoing revolutionary fever. With her friend Clia Brown, she uses her public health skills to help operate…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Masquerade

  Sangoyomi, O. O.,

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  Fiction: Historical Fantasy. "Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale exploring the true cost of one woman's fight for freedom and self-discovery, and the lengths she'll go to secure…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Good Dirt

  a Novel

  Wilkerson, Charmaine,

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  Fiction: Historical. " When ten-year-old Ebby Freeman heard the gunshot, time stopped. And when she saw her brother, Baz, lying on the floor surrounded by the shattered pieces of a centuries-old jar, life as Ebby knew it shattered as well.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• And So I Roar

  a Novel

  Daré, Abi,

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  Fiction: Literary Fiction. "A stunning, heartwrenching new novel from Abi Daré, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl with the Louding Voice. When Tia accidentally overhears a whispered conversation between her mother--terminally…Read moreRead more of this annotation