Fiction
COPYCAT
Befriending Traci Calloway Cole is the best thing Simone Phillips has ever done. Traci is the kind of woman Simone wants to be-in every way possible. She begins copying her role model. Not because she wants to be Traci. She just wants...
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DROWN
A coming-of-age story of unparalleled power, Drown introduced the world to Junot Díaz's exhilarating talents. It also introduced an unforgettable narrator— Yunior, the haunted, brilliant young man who tracks his family’s precarious journey from the barrios of Santo Domingo to the tenements of...
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GATHERING OF WATERS
One of Essence's Best Books of the Decade! A New York Times Notable Book of 2012! Gathering of Waters is a finalist for a Phillis Wheatley Fiction Book Award! Gathering of Waters was named a finalist for a 2013 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award! Gathering of Waters has been selected...
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CITIZENS CREEK
The New York Times bestselling author of the Oprah Book Club Pick Cane River brings us the evocative story of a once-enslaved man who buys his freedom after serving as a translator during the American Indian Wars, and his granddaughter, who sustains his legacy...
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BENEATH THE LION'S GAZE
This memorable, heartbreaking story opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a revolution. Yonas kneels in his mother’s prayer room, pleading to his god for an end to the violence that has wracked his family and country....
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HERE COMES THE SUN
Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole Dennis- Benn pens a tender hymn to a world hidden among pristine beaches and the wide expanse of turquoise seas. At an opulent resort in Montego Bay, Margot hustles to...
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BALM: A NOVEL (PB)
The New York Times bestselling author of Wench returns to the Civil War era to explore the next chapter of history—the trauma of the War and the end of slavery—in this powerful story of love and healing about three people who struggle...
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NEW PEOPLE
As the twentieth century draws to a close, Maria is at the start of a life she never thought possible. She and Khalil, her college sweetheart, are planning their wedding. They are the perfect couple, "King and Queen of the...
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GHANA MUST GO (PB)
Electric, exhilarating, and beautifully crafted, Ghana Must Go introduces the world to Taiye Selasi, a novelist of extraordinary talent. In a sweeping narrative that takes readers from Accra to Lagos to London to New York, it is at once a portrait of...
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A GATHERING OF OLD MEN
Set on a Louisiana sugar cane plantation in the 1970s, A Gathering of Old Men is a powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man. The best written...
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A MERCY (PB)
In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in “flesh,” he takes a...
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DUST TRACKS ON A ROAD
Dust Tracks on a Road is the bold, poignant, and funny autobiography of novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, one of American literature’s most compelling and influential authors. Hurston’s powerful novels of the South—including Jonah’s Gourd Vine and, most famously, Their Eyes Were...
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HONEY, HUSH!: AN ANTHOLOGY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S HUMOR
In this "dazzling anthology" (Publishers Weekly), Daryl Cumber Dance has collected the often hard-hitting, sometimes risqué, always dramatic humor that arises from the depth of black women's souls and the breadth of their lives. The eloquent wit and laughter of...
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MONEY CAN'T BUY LOVE
From a New York Times bestselling author comes a quirky and outrageous story of a middle-aged women sitting behind the scenes of luxury until she wins the lottery and now has the money to buy everything she needs -- or does she?Lenora...
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A SINFUL CALLING (REVEREND CURTIS BLACK NOVELS)
Dillon hadn't been called by anyone. He'd called himself and he wasn't ashamed of it. But no good can come from . . .Two years ago, to everyone's surprise, Dillon Whitfield Black, the secret son of Reverend Curtis Black, boldly...
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BUTTERFLY
“Run away from the boy that gives you butterflies, he's going to break your heart.”Morgan Atkins had been told that phrase ever since she was a little girl and still she allowed herself to fall for the boy that made...
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BETTER THAN I KNOW MYSELF
The beloved #1 Essence bestselling authors of Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made now deliver a novel in which you'll meet their most unforgettable characters yet. Carmen, Jewel, and Regina could not be more different. When they meet as freshmen at Columbia...
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A CHRISTMAS PRAYER
Title: A Christmas Prayer Binding: Hardcover Author: KimberlaLawsonRoby Publisher: GrandCentralPublishing Product details ASIN : 1455526045 Publisher : Grand Central Publishing; 1st Printing edition (October 28, 2014) Language : English Hardcover : 192 pages ISBN-10 : 9781455526048 ISBN-13 : 978-1455526048 Item Weight : 11.2 ounces Dimensions : 6 x...
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DAUGHTER OF A DAUGHTER OF A QUEEN
The compelling, hidden story of Cathy Williams, a former slave and the only woman to ever serve with the legendary Buffalo Soldiers. “Here’s the first thing you need to know about Miss Cathy Williams: I am the daughter of a...
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JONAH'S GOURD VINE
Jonah's Gourd Vine, Zora Neale Hurston's first novel, originally published in 1934, tells the story of John Buddy Pearson, "a living exultation" of a young man who loves too many women for his own good. Lucy, his long-suffering wife, is...
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