Perfect for fans of The Black Kids, Songs of Irie is a sweeping coming-of-age novel from Asha Bromfield about a friendship struggling to survive amidst the Jamaican civil unrest of the 1970s.

It's 1976 and Jamaica is on fire. The country is on the eve of important elections and the warring political parties have made the divisions between the poor and the wealthy even wider. And Irie and Jilly come from very different Irie is from the heart of Kingston, where fighting in the streets is common. Jilly is from the hills, where mansions nestled within lush gardens remain safe behind gates. But the two bond through a shared love of Reggae music, spending time together at Irie's father's record store, listening to so-called rebel music that opens Jilly's mind to a sound and a way of thinking she's never heard before.

As tensions build in the streets, so do tensions between the two girls. A budding romance between them complicates things further as the push and pull between their two lives becomes impossible to bear. For Irie, fighting—with her words and her voice—is her only option. Blood is shed on the streets in front of her every day. She has no choice. But Jilly can always choose to escape.

Can their bond survive this impossible divide?

Asha Bromfield has written a compelling, emotional and heart-rending story of a friendship during wartime and what it means to fight for your words, your life, and the love of your life.

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“Once in a while, a writer comes along with a brilliance that stops the breath. Kim Coleman Foote is that writer.” —Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award–winning author of Red at the Bone “A masterpiece. Brilliant, vivid, heartbreaking, epic, beautiful, raw and true . . . This is the American story.” ―Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Less Is Lost
“Kim Coleman Foote has the rare talent of completely immersing you in time and place . . . A sweeping yet intimate family saga.” —Sarah Jessica Parker
Coleman Hill is the exhilarating story of two American families whose fates become intertwined in the wake of the Great Migration. Braiding fact and fiction, it is a remarkable, character-rich tour de force exploring the ties that bind three generations.
In 1916, Celia Coleman and Lucy Grimes flee the racism and poverty of their homes in the post–Civil War South for the “Promised Land” of the North. But soon they learn that even in Vauxhall, New Jersey, black women are mainly hired for domestic work, money is scarce, children don’t progress in school, and black men die young. Within a few short years, both women’s husbands are dead. Left to navigate this unwelcoming place alone, Celia and Lucy turn to one another for support in raising their children far from home. They become one another’s closest confidantes and, encouraged by their mothers’ friendship, their children’s lives become enmeshed as well. However, with this closeness comes complication. As the children grow into adolescence, two are caught in an impulsive act of impropriety, and Celia and Lucy find themselves at irreconcilable odds over who’s to blame. The ensuing fallout has dire consequences that reverberate through the next two generations of their families. A stunning biomythography—a word coined by the late great writer Audre Lorde— Coleman Hill draws from the author’s own family legend, historical record, and fervent imagination to create an unforgettable new history.

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I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father.'

Drawing on James Baldwin's own boyhood in a religious community in 1930s Harlem, his first novel tells the story of young Johnny Grimes. Johnny is destined to become a preacher like his father, Gabriel, at the Temple of the Fire Baptized, where the church swells with song and it is as if 'the Holy Ghost were riding on the air'. But he feels only scalding hatred for Gabriel, whose fear and fanaticism lead him to abuse his family. Johnny vows that, for him, things will be different. This blazing tale is full of passion and guilt, of secret sinners and prayers singing on the wind.

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As Prohibition era speakeasies and Jazz Age excitement reign supreme throughout a deeply divided country at the height of the Roaring 20s, a young psychic in small town Illinois helps the Black community fight crime and corruption in this thrilling historical mystery written by a real-life psychic medium and jazz pianist.

After the death of her brave Harlem Hellfighter husband during the First World War, young widow Nola Ann Jackson returned to her hometown of Agate, Illinois, to live with her Aunt Sarah, a known local psychic. Under her aunt’s care and tutelage, Nola has been learning how to tap into her own intuitive gifts and communicate with the spirits. And she will rely on their insightful guidance when she’s asked to help investigate a woman’s disappearance.

Lilly Davidson, the missing woman, was living at the Phyllis Wheatley Institute for Colored Girls where young ladies are educated and prepared to follow bright futures. But she vanished after a night at the Wham Bam Club where jazz music swings, prohibition is defied, and other vices are encouraged. Lilly was seen fraternizing with Eddie Smooth, trumpeter and leader of the St. Louis Stompers—and a notorious pimp. Nola finds Lilly at the club alive and well, supposedly engaged to Eddie. That same night, the Wham Bam is set afire and Eddie is killed by gunfire, leaving Lilly on the run, a suspected murderer.

Eddie Smooth had shady dealings with Agate’s wealthy elite, Black and white, making plenty of enemies with motives for wanting him dead. He was also a notorious womanizer who left several broken hearts in his wake. To prove Lilly’s innocence, Nola must listen to her spiritual instincts to unravel political schemes and personal vendettas to find a killer desperate to cover up a scandalous conspiracy . . .

",{"_436":53,"_33":94,"_498":561,"_500":67},"Kensington",257,"July 29, 2025","July 29","9781496754714","1496754719","#480818",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/12481i/ea6a2f96-9420-4838-a3fd-c9ac070ca1ef/1791257029.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F12481i%2Fea6a2f96-9420-4838-a3fd-c9ac070ca1ef%2F1791257029.jpg","Psychics and Soul Food Mystery","e5a446a0-217f-4578-8f7b-a59378828da9","order",{"_436":595,"_33":341,"_467":596,"_505":-5,"_506":-5,"_507":42,"_508":597,"_510":48},"c54d8cf2-cad5-4d88-875a-b2015a5615eb","2477-carolyn-marie-wilkins",[511],"d84b6d7d-3b0a-49b2-a45c-1ecf2b4d819c",12602,"4.11",[],[622],"The Quarter Queen","306bf3a1-1a9a-4dcf-bdf4-e6af10ad2f93",2026,"Mar 2026","2026-03-31","13355-the-quarter-queen","A Voodoo witch must navigate a magically and racially divided nineteenth century New Orleans to save her mother—and the soul of the city itself—in this lush debut novel inspired by the life of Marie Laveau.

In 1843 New Orleans, the reigning Voodoo queen is Marie Laveau, feared by her enemies and followers alike. Her daughter, Marie \"Ree\" Laveau the Second, is everything her cutthroat and principled mother is not—spoiled and entitled, with a wickedly rebellious streak—and defies her mother at every turn. But Ree’s world is turned upside down when she finds Marie comatose in the bayou, cursed by exiled Voodoo king Jon the Conjurer—Marie’s former teacher, lover, and greatest enemy.

As Marie hovers on the brink of death, Ree races to uncover the secrets of her mother’s life in search of a cure and gradually uncovers a web of alliances, dangers, and deception. What’s worse, Henryk Broussard, Ree’s long-missing childhood best friend, returns as a witch hunter of the Church, tasked with investigating her. With so many enemies circling, including a puritanical-minded Brotherhood of alchemists and the slave-holding mayor of the city, Ree must confront the past and face her mother’s demons that have now become her own—or die trying.

Told in alternating timelines between Ree in the present and Marie’s rise to power twenty-five years earlier, The Quarter Queen is an intimate yet epic portrait of a mother and daughter who have struggled all their lives to understand one another, and a captivating exploration of racism, family, and womanhood.",{"_436":53,"_33":94,"_498":561,"_500":67},"Ballantine Books",384,"March 31, 2026","March 31","9780593976760","0593976762","#180828",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/12602i/306bf3a1-1a9a-4dcf-bdf4-e6af10ad2f93/1791416754.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F12602i%2F306bf3a1-1a9a-4dcf-bdf4-e6af10ad2f93%2F1791416754.jpg",{"_436":623,"_33":348,"_467":624,"_505":-5,"_506":-5,"_507":42,"_508":625,"_510":48},"da140b67-a480-4c4e-bc77-f31dfdd20763","2505-kayla-hardy",[511],"d20aa2c0-bd09-4503-8ff9-046d2edfd71c",12816,[],[649],"American Ghoul","9dc30e2d-bd97-41f5-8555-fb33cd8ef20b",2024,"Sep 2024","2024-09-03","13580-american-ghoul","A wildly entertaining debut from Michelle McGill-Vargas, American Ghoul deftly combines horror and social commentary—with a dash of a buddy comedy—in an innovative twist on the vampire genre.

You can’t kill someone already dead.

That’s what Lavinia keeps telling her jailer after—allegedly—killing her mistress, Simone Arceaneau. But how could Simone be dead when she was taking callers just a few minutes before? And why was her house always so dark?

Lavinia, a recently freed slave, met Simone, a recently undead vampire, on a plantation in post-Civil War Georgia. With nothing remaining for either woman in the South, the two form a fast friendship and head north. However, Lavinia quickly learns that teaming up with this white woman may be more than she bargained for.

Simone is reckless and impulsive—which would’ve been bad enough on its own, but when combined with her particular diet Lavinia finds herself in way over her head. As she is forced to repeatedly compromise her morals and struggle to make lasting human connections, Lavinia begins to wonder if is she truly free or if has she merely exchanged one form of enslavement for another. As bodies pile up in the small Indiana town they’ve settled in, people start to take a second look at the two newcomers, and Simone and Lavinia’s relationship is stretched to its breaking point...",{"_436":53,"_33":94,"_498":561,"_500":67},"Blackstone Publishing, Inc.",304,"September 3, 2024","September 3","9798212224567","B0CVL2X4XX","#081838",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/12816i/9dc30e2d-bd97-41f5-8555-fb33cd8ef20b/1791570890.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F12816i%2F9dc30e2d-bd97-41f5-8555-fb33cd8ef20b%2F1791570890.jpg",{"_436":650,"_33":340,"_467":651,"_505":-5,"_506":-5,"_507":42,"_508":652,"_510":48},"120f7e5c-e7bb-4f23-97a5-13e2e9755ee3","2556-michelle-mcgill-vargas",[511],"f4bcfb6c-ef5e-4a0c-8dde-24a98d8cd925",12838,"4.17",25,[],[678,679],"The Personal Librarian","abe84ebe-5cea-448d-a1ac-2a46b5a524fb",2021,"Jun 2021","2021-06-29","13604-the-personal-librarian","The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian - who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray.

In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture on the New York society scene and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps build a world-class collection.

But Belle has a secret, one she must protect at all costs. She was born not Belle da Costa Greene but Belle Marion Greener. She is the daughter of Richard Greener, the first Black graduate of Harvard and a well-known advocate for equality. Belle's complexion isn't dark because of her alleged Portuguese heritage that lets her pass as white—her complexion is dark because she is African American.

The Personal Librarian tells the story of an extraordinary woman, famous for her intellect, style, and wit, and shares the lengths to which she must go—for the protection of her family and her legacy—to preserve her carefully crafted white identity in the racist world in which she lives.

This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780593101537.",{"_436":53,"_33":94,"_498":561,"_500":67},"Berkley Books",341,"June 29, 2021","June 29","9780593101537","B08HL999ZD","#f8e8d8",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/12838i/abe84ebe-5cea-448d-a1ac-2a46b5a524fb/1791726316.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F12838i%2Fabe84ebe-5cea-448d-a1ac-2a46b5a524fb%2F1791726316.jpg",{"_436":683,"_33":360,"_467":684,"_505":-5,"_506":-5,"_507":53,"_508":685,"_510":48},{"_436":680,"_33":375,"_467":681,"_505":-5,"_506":-5,"_507":205,"_508":682,"_510":48},"12aa078d-697a-4f84-96a5-4c982e306e23","1165-victoria-christopher-murray",[511],"09f48df6-c1aa-4ffa-9e92-bc5c4c8ae0f8","1168-marie-benedict",[511],"27ca019a-6ae9-4009-bea8-459a7152fe15",13055,"4.25",[],[712],"A Caribbean Heiress in Paris","3dd9f84e-f7c3-4e09-b7a6-07164fa1877a",{"_21":710,"_436":711,"_593":42},2022,"May 2022","2022-05-31","13899-a-caribbean-heiress-in-paris","\n Paris, 1889\n

The Exposition Universelle is underway, drawing merchants from every corner of the globe. Luz Alana Heith-Benzan set sail from Santo Domingo armed with three hundred casks of rum, her two best friends and one simple rule: under no circumstances is she to fall in love.

The City of Light is where Luz Alana will expand Caña Brava, the rum business her family built over three generations. It’s a mission that’s taken on new urgency after her father’s untimely death and the news that her trust fund won’t be released until she marries. But buyers and shippers alike are rude and dismissive; they can’t imagine doing business with a woman…never mind a woman of color.

From her first tempestuous meeting with James Evanston Sinclair, Earl of Darnick, Luz Alana is conflicted. Why is this man—this titled Scottish man—so determined to help her? And why, honestly, is he so infuriatingly charming?

All Evan Sinclair ever wanted was to find a purpose away from his father’s dirty money and dirtier politics. Ignoring his title, he’s built a whiskey brand that’s his biggest—and only—passion. That is, until he’s confronted with a Spanish-speaking force of nature who turns his life upside down.

Evan quickly suspects he’ll want Luz Alana with him forever. Every day with her makes the earl wish for more than her magnificent kisses or the marriage of convenience that might save them both. But Luz Alana sailed for Paris with her eyes on liquor, money and new beginnings. She wasn't prepared for love to find her.

Las Leonas

Book 1: A Caribbean Heiress in Paris

",{"_436":42,"_33":96,"_498":561,"_500":67},"HQN",368,"May 31, 2022","May 31","B0FSK97CRP","#40796c",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/13055i/3dd9f84e-f7c3-4e09-b7a6-07164fa1877a/1791915133.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F13055i%2F3dd9f84e-f7c3-4e09-b7a6-07164fa1877a%2F1791915133.jpg","Las Leonas","ce0eabbf-c2e9-49b5-a258-c6cb9018fa6f",{"_436":713,"_33":345,"_467":714,"_505":-5,"_506":-5,"_507":42,"_508":715,"_510":48},"62686ada-4b17-4717-831f-bc81a0fd4488","2603-adriana-herrera",[511],"8061e82b-c5e6-4f0e-a145-f71604c14071",13061,[],[741],"The Lady of Rapture","dec662b5-27bc-49fc-a1a8-e6e6bc232ea5",{"_21":739,"_436":740,"_593":192},"Apr 2024","2024-04-16","13905-the-lady-of-rapture","Penny Dreadful meets The Gilded Wolves in this breathtaking finale to young adult historical fantasy Bones of Ruin trilogy!

For years, the elite secret society called the Enlightenment Committee has waited for the apocalyptic force known as Hiva to destroy the world as it has so many times before. What the Committee didn’t know, however, was that Hiva wasn’t an event—it was a person.

Iris Marlow. An African tightrope dancer with no memories of her past. A girl who cannot die.

At least, she couldn’t die. Until her own friends discovered her one weakness and murdered her once and for all. The world-ending threat she posed should be gone too, but there’s one more Hiva out there, and unlike Iris, this one has no love for humanity. In her absence, this Hiva has taken it upon himself to judge if humanity deserves to live.

But when it comes to Hivas, the judgment is always the same. The ending is always total destruction. And while Iris is dead, she’s not gone—and after the betrayal that ended her life as Iris, she is now out for revenge.

The world’s days are numbered. The Cataclysm has begun.",{"_436":53,"_33":94,"_498":561,"_500":67},"Margaret K. McElderry Books",496,"April 16, 2024","April 16","9781534453623","1534453628","#6e447b",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/13061i/dec662b5-27bc-49fc-a1a8-e6e6bc232ea5/1791915478.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F13061i%2Fdec662b5-27bc-49fc-a1a8-e6e6bc232ea5%2F1791915478.jpg","The Bones of Ruin","4922fd06-c8c6-4ee1-89ab-6a7415b10184",{"_436":742,"_33":383,"_467":743,"_505":-5,"_506":-5,"_507":83,"_508":744,"_510":48},"a3c114df-b814-46a6-823d-8152a99b1dbb","2119-sarah-raughley",[511],"7709d7cf-dc59-4522-8997-79bfdfe17a22",13375,[],[768],"Small Island","db252e26-5432-463f-98cf-6b9a14f74366",2004,"Jan 2004","2004-01-01","14256-small-island","Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart broken, her resolve intact. Her husband, Gilbert Joseph, returns from the war expecting to be received as a hero, but finds his status as a black man in Britain to be second class. His white landlady, Queenie, raised as a farmer's daughter, befriends Gilbert, and later Hortense, with innocence and courage, until the unexpected arrival of her husband, Bernard, who returns from combat with issues of his own to resolve.

Told in these four voices, Small Island is a courageous novel of tender emotion and sparkling wit, of crossings taken and passages lost, of shattering compassion and of reckless optimism in the face of insurmountable barriers---in short, an encapsulation of the immigrant's life.
",{"_436":42,"_33":96,"_498":561,"_500":67},"Picador USA",441,"January 1, 2004","January 1","9780312424671","B001WBAKJC","#e8b868",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/13375i/db252e26-5432-463f-98cf-6b9a14f74366/1792008083.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F13375i%2Fdb252e26-5432-463f-98cf-6b9a14f74366%2F1792008083.jpg",{"_436":769,"_33":385,"_467":770,"_505":-5,"_506":-5,"_507":85,"_508":771,"_510":48},"b11912cc-a606-47d2-b78b-6797e2e7c1ac","2616-andrea-levy",[511],"66f17c54-f67c-4eed-a537-b7188fb328a7",13376,[],[794],"The Long Song","f5fc856e-b5f5-4a45-bd44-27e6c883a49c",2010,"Feb 2010","2010-02-04","14257-the-long-song","You do not know me yet. My son Thomas, who is publishing this book, tells me, it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within these pages. As your storyteller, I am to convey that this tale is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that followed. July is a slave girl who lives upon a sugar plantation named Amity and it is her life that is the subject of this tale. She was there when the Baptist War raged in 1831, and she was present when slavery was declared no more. My son says I must convey how the story tells also of July's mama Kitty, of the negroes that worked the plantation land, of Caroline Mortimer the white woman who owned the plantation and many more persons besides - far too many for me to list here. But what befalls them all is carefully chronicled upon these pages for you to peruse. Perhaps, my son suggests, I might write that it is a thrilling journey through that time in the company of people who lived it. All this he wishes me to pen so the reader can decide if this is a novel they might care to consider. Cha, I tell my son, what fuss-fuss. Come, let them just read it for themselves.",{"_436":53,"_33":94,"_498":561,"_500":67},"Farrar, Straus and Giroux",313,"February 4, 2010","February 4","9780374192174","0374192170",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/13376i/f5fc856e-b5f5-4a45-bd44-27e6c883a49c/1792008083.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F13376i%2Ff5fc856e-b5f5-4a45-bd44-27e6c883a49c%2F1792008083.jpg",{"_436":769,"_33":385,"_467":770,"_505":-5,"_506":-5,"_507":85,"_508":795,"_510":48},[511],"eaafcc05-4514-4c06-8954-b9d1a8ef73a4",13377,[],[818],"Fruit of the Lemon","7a159ec5-7940-498c-ad41-64dba5c80c82",1999,"Jan 1999","1999-01-01","14258-fruit-of-the-lemon","From Andrea Levy, author of Small Island and winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year and the Best of the Best Orange Prize, comes a story of one woman and two islands.

Faith Jackson knows little about her parents' lives before they moved to England. Happy to be starting her first job in the costume department at BBC television, and to be sharing a house with friends, Faith is full of hope and expectation. But when her parents announce that they are moving home to Jamaica, Faith's fragile sense of her identity is threatened. Angry and perplexed as to why her parents would move to a country they so rarely mention, Faith becomes increasingly aware of the covert and public racism of her daily life, at home and at work.

At her parents' suggestion, in the hope it will help her to understand where she comes from, Faith goes to Jamaica for the first time. There she meets her Aunt Coral, whose storytelling provides Faith with ancestors, whose lives reach from Cuba and Panama to Harlem and Scotland. Branch by branch, story by story, Faith scales the family tree, and discovers her own vibrant heritage, which is far richer and wilder than she could have imagined.

Fruit of the Lemon spans countries and centuries, exploring questions of race and identity with humor and a freshness, and confirms Andrea Levy as one of our most exciting contemporary novelists.",{"_436":42,"_33":96,"_498":561,"_500":67},"Picador",340,"January 1, 1999","9780312426644","031242664X","#d8d8c8",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/13377i/7a159ec5-7940-498c-ad41-64dba5c80c82/1792008083.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F13377i%2F7a159ec5-7940-498c-ad41-64dba5c80c82%2F1792008083.jpg",{"_436":769,"_33":385,"_467":770,"_505":-5,"_506":-5,"_507":85,"_508":819,"_510":48},[511],"37d3af40-bf62-4071-977e-b6104aeeb4c4",13378,[],[842],"Every Light in the House Burnin'","93a982ce-698d-4fd7-a4cf-9faad1319831",1994,"Jan 1994","1994-01-01","14259-every-light-in-the-house-burnin","The remarkable, emotional debut novel, both funny and moving, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, from the critically aclaimed Andrea Levy, author of the Orange Prize winning SMALL ISLAND and the Man Booker shortlisted THE LONG SONG.

'Better opportunity' - that's why Angela's dad sailed to England from America in 1948 on the Empire Windrush. Six months later her mum joined him in his one room in Earl's Court...

...Twenty years and four children later, Mr Jacob has become seriously ill and starts to move unsteadily through the care of the National Health Service. As Angela, his youngest, tries to help her mother through this ordeal, she finds herself reliving her childhood years, spent on a council estate in Highbury.",{"_436":42,"_33":96,"_498":561,"_500":67},"Headline Review",306,"January 1, 1994","9780747246534","074724653X","#f88878",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/13378i/93a982ce-698d-4fd7-a4cf-9faad1319831/1792008083.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F13378i%2F93a982ce-698d-4fd7-a4cf-9faad1319831%2F1792008083.jpg",{"_436":769,"_33":385,"_467":770,"_505":-5,"_506":-5,"_507":85,"_508":843,"_510":48},[511],"c3482b76-5fec-4192-8ca1-d5d8a05ee16f",13379,[],[865],"Never Far from Nowhere","fba58afc-8299-4771-b342-a1f19f5774b5",1996,"Jan 1996","1996-01-01","14260-never-far-from-nowhere","A passionate and perceptive story full of the pain and the humour of growing up, from Andrea Levy, author of the Orange Prize winning SMALL ISLAND and the Man Booker shortlisted THE LONG SONG.

'NEVER FAR FROM NOWHERE' is the story of two sisters, Olive and Vivien, born in London to Jamaican parents and brought up on a council estate. They go to the same grammar school, but while Vivien's life becomes a chaotic mix of friendships, youth clubs, skinhead violence, A-levels, discos and college, Olive, three years older and a skin shade darker, has a very different tale to tell...",{"_436":42,"_33":96,"_498":561,"_500":67},282,"January 1, 1996","9780747252139","0747252130","#e85868",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/13379i/fba58afc-8299-4771-b342-a1f19f5774b5/1792008084.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F13379i%2Ffba58afc-8299-4771-b342-a1f19f5774b5%2F1792008084.jpg",{"_436":769,"_33":385,"_467":770,"_505":-5,"_506":-5,"_507":85,"_508":866,"_510":48},[511],"7ad08289-1551-44eb-9c6d-f3554179d500",13404,"4.0",[],[890],"Island Songs","e48f10a6-85b5-4fc5-b79f-da02158a713c",2005,"Jan 2005","2005-01-01","14289-island-songs","\"She wondered what kind of world she had brought her two daughters into – the tedious cycle of rural Jamaican life. No chance for them to set off upon adventures and see the outside world.\"

But sisters Jenny and Hortense Rodney, descendants of the fierce Maroon people, do get to see the world, and Island Songs is their story. Growing up in rural Claremont, working amid the hustle and bustle, lawn parties and ‘houses of joy’ in Trenchtown, the two sisters take a chance and move to England with their husbands, that far-off land of riches, where they settle down to motherhood amongst the jazz cafés and bleak streets of Brixton.

A hauntingly and beautifully written evocation of twentieth-century Jamaica, its history and traditions, Island Songs is an epic of love, laughter and sorely tested family loyalties. Many stories are told, but many more secrets are never revealed.",{"_436":42,"_33":96,"_498":561,"_500":67},"Allison & Busby",336,"January 1, 2005","9780749082437","0749082437","#f8d888",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/13404i/e48f10a6-85b5-4fc5-b79f-da02158a713c/1792008500.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F13404i%2Fe48f10a6-85b5-4fc5-b79f-da02158a713c%2F1792008500.jpg",{"_436":891,"_33":366,"_467":892,"_505":-5,"_506":-5,"_507":85,"_508":893,"_510":48},"ddd9a65d-11ec-46d3-ac24-e1cca81c1f53","2623-alex-wheatle",[511],"c62e627d-b0eb-4594-967f-cebc6ba43eb9",13406,"5.0",[],[913],"Brixton Rock","63e53882-6fcc-418e-ba97-16adfb2329b1","14291-brixton-rock","Set against the backdrop of the Brixton race riots in London in the 1980s, this novel tells a story of overcoming obstacles from a teen's perspective. Brenton Brown, a 16-year-old mixed-race youth, has lived in a children's home all his life and is haunted by the absence of his mother. Complications arise, however, when he finally meets his mother and then falls dangerously in love with his half-sister. Killer Terry Flynn also scars Brenton's life and leaves him wanting revenge. Through it all, this determined teen is driven to pursue education and recognize his true self in the midst of chaos.",{"_436":42,"_33":96,"_498":561,"_500":67},"Arcadia Books Ltd",255,"9781901969153","1901969150","#e85848",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/13406i/63e53882-6fcc-418e-ba97-16adfb2329b1/1792008501.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F13406i%2F63e53882-6fcc-418e-ba97-16adfb2329b1%2F1792008501.jpg",{"_436":891,"_33":366,"_467":892,"_505":-5,"_506":-5,"_507":85,"_508":914,"_510":48},[511],"1ed7ac12-eee0-4d9f-9d31-8e42cc1a369c",13409,"4.39",22,[],[938],"Happy Land","2cb1be31-2226-44a2-8a7e-33636f3d1bcd","Apr 2025","2025-04-08","14295-happy-land","A 2026 NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction

A woman learns the incredible story of a real-life American Kingdom—and her family’s ties to it—in this enthralling novel from the New York Times bestselling, NAACP Image Award-winning author of Take My Hand.

As featured in The Washington Post ∙ People ∙ Harper's Bazaar ∙ NPR ∙ TODAY ∙ ELLE ∙ PopSugar ∙ Reader's Digest ∙ SheReads ∙ Woman’s World ∙ Real Simple ∙ BookBrowse ∙ and more!

Nikki hasn’t seen her grandmother in years. So when the elder calls out of the blue with an urgent request for Nikki to visit her in the hills of western North Carolina, Nikki hesitates only for a moment. After years of silence in her family, due to a mysterious estrangement between her mother and grandmother, she’s determined to learn the truth while she still can.

But instead of answers about the recent past, Mother Rita tells Nikki an incredible story of a kingdom on this very mountain, and of her great-great-great grandmother, Luella, who would become its queen.

It sounds like the makings of a fairy tale—royalty among a community of freed people. But the more Nikki learns about the Kingdom of the Happy Land, and the lives of those who dwelled in the ruins she discovers in the woods, the more she realizes how much of her identity and her family’s secrets are wrapped up in these hills. Because this land is their legacy, and it will be up to her to protect it before it, like so much else, is stolen away.

Inspired by true events, Happy Land is a transporting multi-generational novel about the stories that shape us and the dazzling courage it takes to dream.",{"_436":53,"_33":94,"_498":561,"_500":67},"Berkley","April 8, 2025","April 8","9780593337721","0593337727","#e2bb92",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/13409i/2cb1be31-2226-44a2-8a7e-33636f3d1bcd/1792008521.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F13409i%2F2cb1be31-2226-44a2-8a7e-33636f3d1bcd%2F1792008521.jpg",{"_436":939,"_33":349,"_467":940,"_505":-5,"_506":-5,"_507":53,"_508":941,"_510":48},"9c4abbb4-5861-4020-ae4f-51da3a368b01","1244-dolen-perkins-valdez",[511],"3f284205-dc61-4d6b-88b8-681dd108c09b",13410,"3.5",[],[965],"John Crow's Devil","2bf679e6-3988-4fa7-b3ee-d562673eaa66","Sep 2005","2005-09-01","14296-john-crow-s-devil","This stunning debut novel tells the story of a biblical struggle in a remote Jamaican village in 1957. With language as taut as classic works by Cormac McCarthy, and a richness reminiscent of early Toni Morrison, Marlon James reveals his unique narrative command that will firmly establish his place as one of today's freshest, most talented young writers.

In the village of Gibbeah--where certain women fly and certain men protect secrets with their lives--magic coexists with religion, and good and evil are never as they seem. In this town, a battle is fought between two men of God. The story begins when a drunkard named Hector Bligh (the \"Rum Preacher\") is dragged from his pulpit by a man calling himself \"Apostle\" York. Handsome and brash, York demands a fire-and-brimstone church, but sets in motion a phenomenal and deadly struggle for the soul of Gibbeah itself. John Crow's Devil is a novel about religious mania, redemption, sexual obsession, and the eternal struggle inside all of us between the righteous and the wicked.
",{"_436":42,"_33":96,"_498":561,"_500":67},"Akashic Books",226,"September 1, 2005","September 1","9781888451825","1888451823","#081818",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/13410i/2bf679e6-3988-4fa7-b3ee-d562673eaa66/1792008532.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F13410i%2F2bf679e6-3988-4fa7-b3ee-d562673eaa66%2F1792008532.jpg",{"_436":966,"_33":380,"_467":967,"_505":-5,"_506":-5,"_507":85,"_508":968,"_510":48},"e32f5eaf-b768-423d-9bf1-dbe1e5e016c0","440-marlon-james",[511],"25a069b4-22c9-48c7-884e-8a5f3aae9c68",13744,[],[991],"The Song of Wrath","ce9d31fe-16b1-4dc4-ba44-10b17ea0cbc3",{"_21":739,"_436":740,"_593":53},"Apr 2023","2023-04-18","14663-the-song-of-wrath","Penny Dreadful meets The Gilded Wolves in this captivating sequel to young adult historical fantasy The Bones of Ruin that follows immortal Iris as she desperately tries to thwart her destructive destiny.

Iris Marlow can’t die. For years, she was tormented by her missing memories and desperate to learn her real identity. So when the mysterious Adam Temple offered to reveal the truth of who she was in exchange for her joining his team in the Tournament of Freaks, a gruesome magical competition, it was an offer she couldn’t refuse. But the truth would have been better left buried.

Because Adam is a member of the Enlightenment Committee, an elite secret society built upon one fundamental idea: that the apocalypse known as Hiva had destroyed the world before and would do it again, and soon. But what the Committee—and Iris—never guessed is that Hiva is not an event. Hiva is a person—Iris.

Now, no matter how hard Iris fights for a normal life, the newly awakened power inside her keeps drawing her toward the path of global annihilation. Adam, perversely obsessed with Iris, will stop at nothing to force her to unlock her true potential, while a terrifying newcomer with ties to Hiva’s past is on the hunt for Iris.

All Iris wants is the freedom to choose her own future, but the cost might be everything Iris holds dear—including the world itself.",{"_436":53,"_33":94,"_498":561,"_500":67},432,"April 18, 2023","April 18","9781534453593","1534453598","#f8a828",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/13744i/ce9d31fe-16b1-4dc4-ba44-10b17ea0cbc3/1792020727.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F13744i%2Fce9d31fe-16b1-4dc4-ba44-10b17ea0cbc3%2F1792020727.jpg",{"_436":742,"_33":383,"_467":743,"_505":-5,"_506":-5,"_507":83,"_508":992,"_510":48},[511],"36223adb-0a23-45f9-b677-5eb740a95134",13746,[],[1013],"f04b7e6b-a947-4c8c-a6f3-3e1ad49ca22e",{"_21":739,"_436":740,"_593":42},"Sep 2021","2021-09-07","14666-the-bones-of-ruin","An African tightrope walker who can’t die gets embroiled in a secret society’s deadly gladiatorial tournament in this thrilling historical fantasy set in an alternate 1880s London, perfect for fans of The Last Magician and The Gilded Wolves.

As an African tightrope dancer in Victorian London, Iris is used to being strange. She is certainly a strange sight for leering British audiences always eager for the spectacle of colonial curiosity. But Iris also has a secret that even “strange” doesn’t capture…

She cannot die.

Haunted by her unnatural power and with no memories of her past, Iris is obsessed with discovering who she is. But that mission gets more complicated when she meets the dark and alluring Adam Temple, a member of a mysterious order called the Enlightenment Committee. Adam seems to know much more about her than he lets on, and he shares with her a terrifying revelation: the world is ending, and the Committee will decide who lives…and who doesn’t.

To help them choose a leader for the upcoming apocalypse, the Committee is holding the Tournament of Freaks, a macabre competition made up of vicious fighters with fantastical abilities. Adam wants Iris to be his champion, and in return he promises her the one thing she wants most: the truth about who she really is.

If Iris wants to learn about her shadowy past, she has no choice but to fight. But the further she gets in the grisly tournament, the more she begins to remember—and the more she wonders if the truth is something best left forgotten.",{"_436":53,"_33":94,"_498":561,"_500":67},"September 7, 2021","September 7","9781534453562","1534453563","#f8c858",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/13746i/f04b7e6b-a947-4c8c-a6f3-3e1ad49ca22e/1792020729.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F13746i%2Ff04b7e6b-a947-4c8c-a6f3-3e1ad49ca22e%2F1792020729.jpg",{"_436":742,"_33":383,"_467":743,"_505":-5,"_506":-5,"_507":83,"_508":1014,"_510":48},[511],"144a14fe-37fb-4fba-925f-8760ada5aa88",13747,[],[1040],"Queen of the Conquered","df82a79a-376a-4957-a835-6c7a32f51135",{"_21":1038,"_436":1039,"_593":42},2019,"Nov 2019","2019-11-12","14668-queen-of-the-conquered","An ambitious young woman with the power to control minds seeks vengeance against the royals who murdered her family, in a Caribbean-inspired fantasy world embattled by colonial oppression.

Sigourney Rose is the only surviving daughter of a noble lineage on the islands of Hans Lollik. When she was a child, her family was murdered by the islands’ colonizers, who have massacred and enslaved generations of her people—and now, Sigourney is ready to exact her revenge.

When the childless king of the islands declares that he will choose his successor from amongst eligible noble families, Sigourney uses her ability to read and control minds to manipulate her way onto the royal island and into the ranks of the ruling colonizers. But when she arrives, prepared to fight for control of all the islands, Sigourney finds herself the target of a dangerous, unknown magic.

Someone is killing off the ruling families to clear a path to the throne. As the bodies pile up and all eyes regard her with suspicion, Sigourney must find allies among her prey and the murderer among her peers... lest she become the next victim.

Queen of the Conquered reckons with the many layers of power and privilege in a lush fantasy world—perfect for readers of V. E. Schwab, Kiersten White, and Marlon James.",{"_436":42,"_33":96,"_498":561,"_500":67},"Orbit","November 12, 2019","November 12","9780316454933","0316454931","#f8f8f8",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/13747i/df82a79a-376a-4957-a835-6c7a32f51135/1792020730.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F13747i%2Fdf82a79a-376a-4957-a835-6c7a32f51135%2F1792020730.jpg","Islands of Blood and Storm","d7bf7b28-7a10-41e3-9c13-aac12e7c4746",{"_436":1041,"_33":1042,"_467":1043,"_505":-5,"_506":-5,"_507":192,"_508":1044,"_510":48},"115b319e-882e-4dd8-84ad-77fc968625f4","Kacen Callender","2403-kacen-callender",[511],"6d4dc09e-c768-442a-8b9b-2ac080f2b4a0",13750,[],[1067],"Root Magic","b88e8ed4-a662-41d9-9614-8c3b6d8c81f7","Jan 2021","2021-01-05","14677-root-magic","\"A poignant, necessary entry into the children's literary canon, Root Magic brings to life the history and culture of Gullah people while highlighting the timeless plight of Black Americans. Add in a fun, magical adventure and you get everything I want in a book!\"--Justina Ireland, New York Times bestselling author of Dread Nation

Debut author Eden Royce arrives with a wondrous story of love, bravery, friendship, and family, filled to the brim with magic great and small.

It's 1963, and things are changing for Jezebel Turner. Her beloved grandmother has just passed away. The local police deputy won't stop harassing her family. With school integration arriving in South Carolina, Jez and her twin brother, Jay, are about to begin the school year with a bunch of new kids. But the biggest change comes when Jez and Jay turn eleven-- and their uncle, Doc, tells them he's going to train them in rootwork.

Jez and Jay have always been fascinated by the African American folk magic that has been the legacy of their family for generations--especially the curious potions and powders Doc and Gran would make for the people on their island. But Jez soon finds out that her family's true power goes far beyond small charms and elixirs...and not a moment too soon. Because when evil both natural and supernatural comes to show itself in town, it's going to take every bit of the magic she has inside her to see her through.",{"_436":53,"_33":94,"_498":561,"_500":67},"Walden Pond Press",352,"January 5, 2021","January 5","9780062899576","0062899570","#386878",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/13750i/b88e8ed4-a662-41d9-9614-8c3b6d8c81f7/1792069862.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F13750i%2Fb88e8ed4-a662-41d9-9614-8c3b6d8c81f7%2F1792069862.jpg",{"_436":1068,"_33":374,"_467":1069,"_505":-5,"_506":-5,"_507":53,"_508":1070,"_510":48},"8b67ef31-dd12-4491-800b-ccab2a2d6300","2320-eden-royce",[511],"c7e8ac97-d499-4e17-9359-c5037b9abcd0",13758,[],[1092],"Nigeria Jones","4c23a506-2e5c-45c8-bba3-58c377e863d7","May 2023","2023-05-09","14690-nigeria-jones","Warrior Princess.

That’s what Nigeria’s father calls her. He’s raised her as part of the Movement, a Black separatist group based in Philadelphia. Nigeria is homeschooled and vegan and participates in traditional rituals that connect her and other kids from the group to their ancestors. But when her mother—the perfect matriarch to their Movement—disappears, Nigeria’s world is upended. She finds herself taking care of her baby brother and stepping into a role she doesn’t want.

Nigeria’s mother had secrets. She wished for a different life for her children, which includes sending her daughter to a private Quaker school outside of their strict group. Despite her father’s disapproval, Nigeria attends the school with her cousin, Kamau, and Sage, who used to be a friend. There, she slowly begins to blossom and expand her universe.

As Nigeria searches for her mother, she starts to uncover a shocking truth. One that will lead her to question everything she thought she knew about her life and her family.

From award-winning author Ibi Zoboi comes a searing, powerful coming-of-age story about discovering who you are in the world—and fighting for that person—by having the courage to remix the founding tenets of your life to be your own revolution.",{"_436":53,"_33":94,"_498":561,"_500":67},"Versify","May 9, 2023","May 9","9780062888846","0062888846","#d8b868",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/13758i/4c23a506-2e5c-45c8-bba3-58c377e863d7/1792140899.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F13758i%2F4c23a506-2e5c-45c8-bba3-58c377e863d7%2F1792140899.jpg",{"_436":1093,"_33":1094,"_467":1095,"_505":-5,"_506":-5,"_507":192,"_508":1096,"_510":48},"99fcd310-9ced-4f28-b256-42f023f47a12","Ibi Zoboi","1412-ibi-zoboi",[511],"da1a67fb-bd93-44bc-a97a-e72b2915a574",13759,[],[1114],"The Light on Halsey Street","bec8d543-ab31-4b9d-ab76-ac6ea8a144bf","14692-the-light-on-halsey-street","Two girls’ lives are irrevocably intertwined the summer of 1985 in the streets of Brooklyn, New York, and neither will ever be the same in this coming-of-age story that spans decades.

In the summer of 1985, Lisa Whitaker is a church kid headed to college on a scholarship while her best friend, Dana, is floundering in the wake of her mother’s latest eviction. Though Lisa tries to help, their paths diverge. Fifteen years later, Lisa has a beautiful family and is stepping into her dream job as the director for a social services organization. Everything is going right—until her future is snatched away by identity theft. Her life begins to unravel, and Lisa wants nothing more than to see the woman responsible pay for her crimes.

When she was a teenager, Dana Jones always felt alone in this world. Her mother was addicted to drugs, her boyfriend was entering a life of crime, and it seemed Dana, too, was heading down the wrong path. The only bright light was her friendship with Lisa. Now, in the new millennium, Dana finally gives herself permission to dream—to believe she is stepping into better days. But when the betrayal of their friendship comes to light, it will take a lifetime to forgive the destruction that youthful summer in Bed-Stuy set in motion.

In this latest story from beloved author Vanessa Miller, two girls from the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, find that their paths have been woven together by the love of community and a friendship that is tested by time, betrayal, and unforgiveness.",{"_436":42,"_33":96,"_498":561,"_500":67},"Thomas Nelson","9780840709936","0840709935","#f8a878",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/13759i/bec8d543-ab31-4b9d-ab76-ac6ea8a144bf/1792140900.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F13759i%2Fbec8d543-ab31-4b9d-ab76-ac6ea8a144bf%2F1792140900.jpg",{"_436":1115,"_33":361,"_467":1116,"_505":-5,"_506":-5,"_507":192,"_508":1117,"_510":48},"bcc332e7-22c6-473c-b965-3c7d565077cd","747-vanessa-miller",[511],"158ee451-c557-492c-bbeb-598578ae1371",13762,[],[1143],"Over the Fence","5bd1c83c-1f5e-4102-9428-1cc250a5ca19",{"_21":1141,"_436":1142,"_593":53},"Mar 2019","2019-03-26","14697-over-the-fence","In this page-turning novel set in the Depression-era South, New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe transports readers to a small Alabama town where home is not always a sanctuary, and two neighboring families let pleasantries mask increasing resentment. . . Bootlegging was Milton and Yvonne Hamilton’s ticket out of poverty, prison time, and plain bad luck. Now they’ve moved on—to a bigger, richer pool of clientele—right in their own respectable new middle-class backyard. And their growing friendship with seemingly-perfect couple Joyce and Odell Watson is proving golden in more ways than one . . . As Milton soon learns, Odell is hiding an outside family and dubious business dealings. It’s the perfect recipe for a blackmail scheme that will help Milton hide his own dirty secrets—even from Yvonne. Better yet, he can take ever more dangerous risks to ace out his liquor-smuggling rivals—and add a lucrative temptation to his illicit services. And Yvonne, emboldened by her husband’s new gravy train, delights in tormenting Joyce about everything the snobbish matron doesn’t have—especially children. But even a winning hand can be played too far. Pushed past their limits, Odell and Joyce will play on Milton’s careless boasting—to get him and Yvonne out of their lives for good. And soon, a devastating frame-up will plunge one couple into a living nightmare—and set the stage for explosive retribution . . .",{"_436":192,"_33":92,"_498":499,"_500":67},"Dafina",354,"March 26, 2019","March 26","9781496716163","B07F5XR99T","#a8d8e8",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/13762i/5bd1c83c-1f5e-4102-9428-1cc250a5ca19/1792140901.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F13762i%2F5bd1c83c-1f5e-4102-9428-1cc250a5ca19%2F1792140901.jpg","The Neighbors","974e55a8-76ef-4c04-b8d5-d02283421db2",{"_436":1144,"_33":387,"_467":1145,"_505":-5,"_506":-5,"_507":71,"_508":1146,"_510":48},"bf75b286-a190-473f-9bf4-c672edfe165d","1207-mary-monroe",[511],"3e5dd692-9b1d-43fc-8be8-0b00279e01e8",13770,[],[1170],"The Black God's Drums","1e261ceb-02e6-4174-8697-3e3a68a102ca",2018,"Aug 2018","2018-08-21","14708-the-black-god-s-drums","Rising SFF star P. Djèlí Clark brings an alternate New Orleans of orisha, airships, and adventure to life in his immersive debut novella The Black God's Drums

In an alternate New Orleans caught in the tangle of the American Civil War, the wall-scaling girl named Creeper yearns to escape the streets for the air – in particular, by earning a spot on-board the airship Midnight Robber. Creeper plans to earn Captain Ann-Marie’s trust with information she discovers about a Haitian scientist and a mysterious weapon he calls The Black God’s Drums.

But Creeper also has a secret Oya, the African orisha of the wind and storms, speaks inside her head, and may have her own ulterior motivations.

Soon, Creeper, Oya, and the crew of the Midnight Robber are pulled into a perilous mission aimed to stop the Black God’s Drums from being unleashed and wiping out the entirety of New Orleans.

“Asinewy mosaic of Haitian sky pirates, wily street urchins, and orisha magic.Beguiling and bombastic!” —Scott Westerfeld, New York Times bestselling author

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.",{"_436":192,"_33":92,"_498":499,"_500":67},"Tordotcom",114,"August 21, 2018","August 21","9781250294708","B0791JV58Z","#e8b848",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/13770i/1e261ceb-02e6-4174-8697-3e3a68a102ca/1792142462.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F13770i%2F1e261ceb-02e6-4174-8697-3e3a68a102ca%2F1792142462.jpg",{"_436":1171,"_33":353,"_467":1172,"_505":-5,"_506":-5,"_507":192,"_508":1173,"_510":48},"5189eeb4-53bc-4209-8942-7dc02bfc7db6","449-p-djeli-clark",[511],"d395709a-dd7c-48b3-adea-d2931b6970e9",13773,"3.95",[],[1196],"The Water Dancer","d2eab36a-087f-4e3f-b150-641713660b35","Sep 2019","2019-09-24","14711-the-water-dancer","An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here and here.

Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he’s ever known.

So begins an unexpected journey that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginia’s proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the Deep South to dangerously idealistic movements in the North. Even as he’s enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved, Hiram’s resolve to rescue the family he left behind endures.

This is the dramatic story of an atrocity inflicted on generations of women, men, and children—the violent and capricious separation of families—and the war they waged to simply make lives with the people they loved. Written by one of today’s most exciting thinkers and writers, The Water Dancer is a propulsive, transcendent work that restores the humanity of those from whom everything was stolen.",{"_436":53,"_33":94,"_498":561,"_500":67},"One World",416,"September 24, 2019","September 24","B07NKMZT7T","#184868",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/13773i/d2eab36a-087f-4e3f-b150-641713660b35/1792142464.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F13773i%2Fd2eab36a-087f-4e3f-b150-641713660b35%2F1792142464.jpg",{"_436":1197,"_33":1198,"_467":1199,"_505":-5,"_506":-5,"_507":53,"_508":1200,"_510":48},"e5495c9e-3bd9-4312-beeb-45405a300096","Ta-Nehisi Coates","2211-ta-nehisi-coates",[511],"d67d2b0c-7675-4ebb-b524-b34061d93cac",13778,"4.38",[],[1224],"Daughter of the Merciful Deep","5b32d124-a569-44e1-8259-2c82c0930d3d","Jun 2024","2024-06-04","14737-daughter-of-the-merciful-deep","A woman journeys into a submerged world of gods and myth to save her home in this powerful historical fantasy that shines a light on the drowned Black towns of the American South.

“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 Black resident. Now, twelve years later, she’s found a haven in the all-Black town of Awenasa. But the construction of a dam promises to wash her home under the waters of the new lake.

Jane will do anything to save the community that sheltered her. So, when a man with uncanny abilities arrives in town asking strange questions, she wonders if he might be the key. But as the stranger hints at gods and ancestral magic, Jane is captivated by a bigger mystery. She knows this man. Only the last time she saw him, he was dead. His body laid to rest in a rushing river.

Who is the stranger and what is he really doing in Awenasa? To find those answers, Jane will journey into a sunken world, a land of capricious gods and unsung myths, of salvation and dreams made real. But the flood waters are rising. To gain the miracle she desires, Jane will have to find her voice again and finally face the trauma of the past.

For more from Leslye Penelope, check out The Monsters We Defy.",{"_436":42,"_33":96,"_498":561,"_500":67},"Redhook",398,"June 4, 2024","June 4","9780316378222","0316378224","#e8e8d8",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/13778i/5b32d124-a569-44e1-8259-2c82c0930d3d/1792142623.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F13778i%2F5b32d124-a569-44e1-8259-2c82c0930d3d%2F1792142623.jpg",{"_436":1225,"_33":355,"_467":1226,"_505":-5,"_506":-5,"_507":192,"_508":1227,"_510":48},"add61038-cda8-41d6-a432-98f1bb5afb16","749-leslye-penelope",[511],"a26bdf7b-c8eb-4582-ac2c-29ace3f62886",13806,"4.08",[],[1254],"A Hope Divided","97be50ed-fed6-4163-832c-9dc2de553079",{"_21":1252,"_436":1253,"_593":53},2017,"Nov 2017","2017-11-28","14798-a-hope-divided","

The Civil War has turned neighbor against neighbor--but for one scientist spy and her philosopher soldier, war could bind them together . . .

For three years of the War Between the States, Marlie Lynch has helped the cause in peace: with coded letters about anti-Rebel uprisings in her Carolina woods, tisanes and poultices for Union prisoners, and silent aid to fleeing slave and Freeman alike. Her formerly enslaved mother's traditions and the name of a white father she never knew have protected her--until the vicious Confederate Home Guard claims Marlie's home for their new base of operations in the guerilla war against Southern resistors of the Rebel cause.

Unbeknowst to those under her roof, escaped prisoner Ewan McCall is sheltering in her laboratory. Seemingly a quiet philosopher, Ewan has his own history with the cruel captain of the Home Guard, and a thoughtful but unbending strength Marlie finds irresistible.

When the revelation of a stunning family secret places Marlie's freedom on the line, she and Ewan have to run for their lives into the hostile Carolina night. Following the path of the Underground Railroad, they find themselves caught up in a vicious battle that could dash their hopes of love--and freedom--before they ever cross state lines.

",{"_436":42,"_33":96,"_498":561,"_500":67},320,"November 28, 2017","November 28","9781496707468","149670746X","#e8c888",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/13806i/97be50ed-fed6-4163-832c-9dc2de553079/1792156413.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F13806i%2F97be50ed-fed6-4163-832c-9dc2de553079%2F1792156413.jpg","The Loyal League","28f393ab-9d8d-4fd4-9360-0e2b29524f3b",{"_436":1255,"_33":369,"_467":1256,"_505":-5,"_506":-5,"_507":388,"_508":1257,"_510":48},"e84f76bb-8fa4-4a21-950a-6673a8f43210","900-alyssa-cole",[511],"2cd1131f-bbc5-4363-98f9-8700da05ca54",13818,"4.19",[],[1281],"The Mayor of Maxwell Street","4bed6b2c-636f-4b67-a482-a29129582d3a","Jan 2024","2024-01-30","14811-the-mayor-of-maxwell-street","

When a rich Black debutante enlists the help of a low-level speakeasy manager to identify the head of an underground crime syndicate, the two are thrust into the dangerous world of Prohibition-era Chicago.

The year is 1921, and America is burning. A fire of vice and virtue rages on every shore with Chicago at its beating heart.

Twenty-year-old Nelly Sawyer is the daughter of the alleged “wealthiest Negro in America,” a Kentucky horse breeder whose wealth and prestige catapults his family to the heights of the exclusive, elite Black society. After the unexpected death of her brother—the family’s presumed heir—Nelly goes from being virtually unknown to a premier debutante overnight. But Nelly has aspirations beyond society influence and marriage. For the past year, she has worked undercover as an investigative journalist for the Chicago Defender , sharing the achievements and tribulations of everyday Black people living in the shadow of Jim Crow. Now, her latest assignment thrusts her into the den of a dangerous vice the so-called Mayor of Maxwell Street.

Charming and mysterious, Jay Shorey strives to balance his connection to the Chicago underworld with his desperate yearning for the refinement and protection of high society. Born to a murdered bi-racial couple in rural Alabama, he knows firsthand what it means to be denied a chance at the American dream. When a tragic turn of fate gave Jay a rare path out, he took it without question. He washed up on Chicago’s storied shores and never looked back, until now.

When Nelly’s and Jay’s paths cross, she recruits him to help expose the Mayor and bring about a lasting change in a corrupted city. Trapped between the monolith of Jim Crow, the inflexible world of the Black upper class, and the violence of Prohibition-era Chicago, Jay and Nelly work together and stoke the flames of a love worth fighting for. And yet, as with all things in America, there is a price to be paid. What risk is Nelly willing to take for a young man willing to risk it all?

Debut author Avery Cunningham’s stunning novel is at once an epic love story, a riveting historical drama, and a brilliant exploration of Black society and perseverance when the ‘20s first began to roar.

",{"_436":53,"_33":94,"_498":561,"_500":67},"Hyperion Avenue",528,"January 30, 2024","January 30","9781368093002","1368093000","#084848",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/13818i/4bed6b2c-636f-4b67-a482-a29129582d3a/1792156905.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F13818i%2F4bed6b2c-636f-4b67-a482-a29129582d3a%2F1792156905.jpg",{"_436":1282,"_33":344,"_467":1283,"_505":-5,"_506":-5,"_507":42,"_508":1284,"_510":48},"298186db-5db3-451d-8b0a-6502bb8922c8","2663-avery-cunningham",[511],"70ca1086-2058-41b6-bc14-da5c20d7cda2",13821,[],[1307],"No Better Time: A Novel of the Spirited Women of the Six Triple Eight Central Postal Directory Battalion","dd331dd6-63bd-4d2d-980e-ee1502cecfd5","Feb 2024","2024-02-27","14814-no-better-time","

The acclaimed author of The Secret Women and Things Past Telling returns with an engrossing historical novel about a little known aspect of World War II--the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the only Black WACs to serve overseas during the conflict.

In the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Dorothy Thom, Spelman graduate, librarian and Francophile, joins the Women's Army Corps wanting to do her part for the war effort. Longing for adventure, she has one question for the recruiter: \"Do you think I'll get to go abroad?\"

As Dorothy and her sister WACs discover, life in the Army is an adventure filled with unexpected deprivations and culture shock. Women from all levels of society, secretaries, teachers, and sharecroppers, work together to navigate a military segregated by race and gender. At boot camp, the \"colored girls\" are separated for processing. At Ft. Riley, the women's barracks are rustic and heated by coal-burning pot-bellied stoves while German POWs spend their incarceration in buildings with central heat and hot water.

In early 1945, Dorothy and eight hundred African American WACs cross the turbulent North Atlantic to their post in England. Their orders are to process the mail sent to GIs from their loved ones back home, an estimated 17 million pieces. The women arrive to find mail stockpiled for over two years in warehouses and airplane hangars, many pieces in poor condition, the names illegible.

In England and France, the WACs traverse a landscape of unimagined possibilities. With their outlooks changed forever, they return to the United States as the catalysts for change in America and build lives that transcend anything their ancestors ever dreamed of.

No Better Time illuminates a love of country and duty that has been overlooked until now.

",{"_436":53,"_33":94,"_498":561,"_500":67},"Amistad",240,"February 27, 2024","February 27","9780063307933","0063307936","#087868",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/13821i/dd331dd6-63bd-4d2d-980e-ee1502cecfd5/1792156986.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F13821i%2Fdd331dd6-63bd-4d2d-980e-ee1502cecfd5%2F1792156986.jpg",{"_436":1308,"_33":346,"_467":1309,"_505":-5,"_506":-5,"_507":42,"_508":1310,"_510":48},"4a9bf081-8e4a-463a-955a-84cf0795e1fe","2666-sheila-williams",[511],"18cc2b69-03c5-482d-b8a6-3c0efc0c2332",13868,[],[1332],"Curdle Creek","d9ff033e-4344-48c0-9b9a-e92ad8a71539","Oct 2024","2024-10-15","14861-curdle-creek","

For fans of “The Lottery” and The Hunger Games, this novel set in a small town with a sinister tradition is chilling in the best possible way.

“Curdle Creek is a thoughtful, sinister tour-de-force.”―Tananarive Due, L.A. Times Book Prize-winning author of The Reformatory

Welcome to Curdle Creek, a place just dying to make you feel at home. Osira, a forty-five-year-old widow, is an obedient follower of the strict conventions of Curdle Creek, an all-Black town in rural America stuck in the past and governed by a tradition of ominous rituals. Osira is considered blessed, but her luck changes when her children flee, she comes second to last in the Running of the Widows and her father flees when his name is called in the annual Moving On ceremony.

Forced into a test of allegiance, Osira finds herself transported back in time, then into another realm where she must answer for crimes committed by Curdle Creek. Exile forces her to jump realms again, landing Osira even farther away from home, in rural England. Safe as long as she sticks to the rules, she quickly learns there are consequences for every kindness. Each jump could lead Osira anywhere but back home.

Curdle Creek is a unique, inventive novel exploring themes of home, belonging, motherhood and what we inherit from society. This American gothic offers a mash-up of the surreal and literary horror that will appeal to fans of Ring Shout, The Underground Railroad and Lovecraft Country. Yvonne Battle-Felton’s fever dream of a tale is enthralling, layered and quite unlike anything else.

",{"_436":53,"_33":94,"_498":561,"_500":67},"Henry Holt and Co.","October 15, 2024","October 15","9781250362018","1250362016","#082838",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/13868i/d9ff033e-4344-48c0-9b9a-e92ad8a71539/1792159542.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F13868i%2Fd9ff033e-4344-48c0-9b9a-e92ad8a71539%2F1792159542.jpg",{"_436":1333,"_33":342,"_467":1334,"_505":-5,"_506":-5,"_507":42,"_508":1335,"_510":48},"2cabe3a8-426c-4e7a-ba60-621c8a678af2","2673-yvonne-battle-felton",[511],"36ab4dd9-7e02-4f76-b3a0-dda6acfb8fed",13922,"4.4",[],[1354],"One Blood","170692e9-1e3c-4e6c-b749-672a58a71136","14917-one-blood","

Homegoing meets The Mothers where three women are tied together by blood, love, and family secrets in this searing novel by New York Times bestseller Denene Millner.

Raised by her beloved grandmother in tension-filled, post-segregation Virginia, Grace is barely a teenager when she loses her Maw Maw. Shellshocked, she is shipped up North to live with her formidably ambitious Aunt Hattie—a woman who firmly left behind her “undesirable” Southern roots in pursuit of upward mobility. Thrust into the world of the Black and socially ambitious, Grace finds herself trapped in a society of stifling respectability, fancy teas, and coveted debutante balls. Feeling like a fish out of water, Grace’s only place of sweet comfort is with the smart, handsome son of one of the society’s grand dames. However, when Dale gets caught up in a racial police killing and Grace ends up pregnant, she is quickly hidden away and his is promptly shipped off to college. Then in the ultimate act of betrayal, Grace is deceived by Hattie and her brand new baby girl is given up for adoption.

Beautiful, intelligent and fierce, Delores a.k.a. Lolo has never had it easy. Her life has been riddled with pain and loss. Once she makes it up north, she puts aside her dream of being a model to do what she has to do to survive as a woman with little money and no get married and have a family of her own. And she will tell lies and keep secrets to obtain it. Then Lolo does have it a doting husband, a beautiful son and daughter, and a lovely home. When secrets start to spill out and she and her family slowly begin to unravel, Lolo is willing to do whatever it takes to keep her dream intact and those she loves together.

When Lolo’s headstrong daughter, Rae discovers that she is adopted, it is just one secret among others that her family is keeping. Not out of a desire to deceive, but out of a determination to survive and protect. When Rae finds out that she is about to become a mother herself, she knows that there is an important reckoning that must be faced about herself and her two mothers.

Potent, poetic, powerful, told with deep love, and spanning from the Great Migration to the civil unrest of the 1960s to the quest for women’s equality in early 2000s, Denene Millner’s beautifully wrought novel explores three women’s intimate struggle with generational trauma and healing.

",{"_436":53,"_33":94,"_498":561,"_500":67},"Forge Books","9781250276193","1250276195","#f8b808",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/13922i/170692e9-1e3c-4e6c-b749-672a58a71136/1792181114.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F13922i%2F170692e9-1e3c-4e6c-b749-672a58a71136%2F1792181114.jpg",{"_436":1355,"_33":347,"_467":1356,"_505":-5,"_506":-5,"_507":83,"_508":1357,"_510":48},"5f316019-b4cd-4a59-a96f-7563a4b7471d","2688-denene-millner",[511],"4e3a9676-5f4e-4099-81bc-30452b9f8e6f",13924,"4.09",16,[],[1381],"Lone Women","f067ea24-4216-4700-976e-69da33319073","Mar 2023","2023-03-28","14919-lone-women","

Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past, a mysterious trunk, a town on the edge of nowhere, and an “absorbing, powerful” (BuzzFeed) new vision of the American West, from the award-winning author of The Changeling .

Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It’s locked at all times. Because when the trunk opens, people around Adelaide start to disappear.

The year is 1915, and Adelaide is in trouble. Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and make her way to Montana as a homesteader. Dragging the trunk with her at every stop, she will become one of the “lone women” taking advantage of the government’s offer of free land for those who can tame it—except that Adelaide isn’t alone. And the secret she’s tried so desperately to lock away might be the only thing that will help her survive the harsh territory.

Crafted by a modern master of magical suspense, Lone Women blends shimmering prose, an unforgettable cast of adventurers who find horror and sisterhood in a brutal landscape, and a portrait of early-twentieth-century America like you’ve never seen. And at its heart is the gripping story of a woman desperate to bury her past—or redeem it.

",{"_436":53,"_33":94,"_498":561,"_500":67},275,"March 28, 2023","March 28","9780525512080","052551208X","#f8e8c8",[],[],"https://cdn.blackauthored.com/books/13924i/f067ea24-4216-4700-976e-69da33319073/1792182889.jpg","https://img.blackauthored.com/?preset=poster_thumb&image=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.blackauthored.com%2Fbooks%2F13924i%2Ff067ea24-4216-4700-976e-69da33319073%2F1792182889.jpg",{"_436":1382,"_33":362,"_467":1383,"_505":-5,"_506":-5,"_507":192,"_508":1384,"_510":48},"9a25c615-e11c-460a-a1d7-d4baf57c2257","2170-victor-lavalle",[511],"41e6ffd3-ffbe-4436-a583-0231f9c9e4ea",13950,[],[1407],"Serious Music","b1aef573-5c2e-4030-8fcd-a3dbadeef42e",2027,"Mar 2027","2027-03-02","14945-serious-music","

A thrilling, darkly comic journey of a Black musician making his way from the trenches of the Somme, to the jazz clubs of Harlem, to the illicit inner sanctum of Woodrow Wilson’s White House, by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of James.

In 1918, Arthur Champion is one of a handful of Black students attending the Oberlin Conservatory of Music when he runs afoul of a vindictive professor and finds himself unceremoniously enlisted in the United States Army. What ensues is one man’s sweeping voyage through the decade, a kaleidoscopic view of America during seismic social shifts from the author hailed by The Chicago Tribune as “our current Great American Novelist.”

A brilliant interrogation of racism and ownership in art, Serious Music is a breakneck, high-octane read, thrumming with the electrifying humor and rigorous moral clarity that is the hallmark of this masterful writer’s contribution to American letters.

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This spellbinding short story from the award-winning author of The Reformatory reimagines the Wild West through the eyes of a young Black girl with a gift.

1871: Ten-year-old Lucy Freeman and her family flee threats in Kentucky for a new life in the post–Civil War frontier. Their refuge is Zipporah Ranch, a hidden settlement founded by Black women and children that thrives, if the folktales are true, on magic. But a mob of bounty hunters is bringing hell to paradise, and it’s Lucy’s own secret magical ability that may be the only defense.

Tananarive Due’s Battle of the Round House is part of the Magic & Mystery collection, puzzle-box mysteries from top fantasy authors. They can be read or listened to in one enchanting sitting.

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