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• Colored Television

  Senna, Danzy

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  A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex.

• Who's That Girl?

  a Memoir

  Eve (Musician),

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  This fearless, empowering, and inspirational memoir takes a look at the hip-hop sensation. Eve explores her rise to stardom as a female MC, her lasting legacy on pop culture and music, and her incredible yet enduring struggle balancing her personal…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sky Full of Elephants : A Novel

  Campbell, Cebo

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  In this exquisite speculative novel set in a world where white people no longer exist, college professor Charlie Brunton receives a call from his estranged daughter Sidney, setting off a chain of events as they journey across a truly “post-racial”…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lovely One

  A Memoir

  Jackson, Ketanji Brown

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  In this inspiring, intimate memoir, the first Black woman to ever be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court chronicles her extraordinary life story. With this unflinching account, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson invites readers into her life and world,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Real Ones

  a Novel

  Vermette, Katherena, 1977-

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  From the author of the nationally bestselling Strangers saga comes a heartrending story of two Michif sisters who must face their past trauma when their mother is called out for false claims to Indigenous identity.

• Yonder Come Day

  Exploring the Collective Witness of the Formerly Enslaved

  Holmes, Jasmine L.

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  Yonder Come Day brings hidden histories into the light in an unconventional yet powerful way. Drawing from the recorded interviews of more than 3,000 formerly enslaved people from across the South collected in the 1930s, Jasmine L. Holmes creates a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Motherless Land

  a Novel

  May, Nikki

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  Moving between Somerset and Lagos over the course of two decades, This Motherless Land is a sweeping examination of identity, culture, race, and love that asks how we find belonging and whether a family’s generational wrongs can be righted.

• The Message

  Coates, Ta-Nehisi,

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  This book is so timely. It’s a collection of essays that explores how the stories we construct distort reality. He travels to Senegal, South Carolina, and Palestine, contending with myth and reality in each place.

• Jamaica Ginger

  and Other Concoctions

  Hopkinson, Nalo

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  Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as having “an imagination that most of us would kill for,” Nalo Hopkinson and her Afro-Caribbean, Canadian, and American influences shine in truly unique stories that are gorgeously strange, inventively subversive,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sunshine and Spice

  a Novel

  Palit, Aurora

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  When two complete opposites agree to fake date in order to solve their cultural dilemmas, they find the only force more powerful than an immigrant mother’s matchmaking schemes might just be true love.

• A Sunny Place for Shady People

  Stories

  Enriquez, Mariana

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  A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, goblins, and the macabre, by “one of Latin America’s most exciting authors” (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)

• Most Famous Girl in the World : A Novel

  Hariri-Kia, Iman

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  The Most Famous Girl in the World is both a scathing indictment of modern celebrity and a thrilling rollercoaster ride of unhinged hijinks that will keep you gasping at every turn of the page.

• Love After Midnight

  a Novel

  Souljah, Sister

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  Sister Souljah returns to her beloved character Winter Santiaga in the captivating and heart-pounding sequel to instant #1 New York Times bestseller Life After Death.

• Devils Kill Devils

  Compton, Johnny

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  Johnny Compton returns with his sophomore novel—a Southern gothic horror set in the sticky Texas where devils, angels, and assorted monsters walk among us

• Songs for the Brokenhearted

  a Novel

  Tsabari, Ayelet, 1973-

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  A young Yemeni Israeli woman learns of her mother’s secret romance in a dramatic journey through lost family stories, revealing the unbreakable bond between a mother and a daughter — the debut novel of an award-winning literary voice.

• The Ending Fire

  a Novel

  El-Arifi, Saara

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  Rebellions are like fires—something needs to burn to make a flame. Return to the Wardens’ Empire in this riveting conclusion to the visionary fantasy trilogy inspired by the mythology of Africa and Arabia.

• We Came to Welcome You : A Novel of Suburban Horror

  Tirado, Vincent

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  The Other Black Girl meets Midsommar in this spine-chilling, propulsive psychological adult debut from highly acclaimed author Vincent Tirado, in which a married couple moves into a gated “community” that slowly creeps into a pervasive dread akin to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Heir

  Tahir, Sabaa

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  With Heir, Tahir returns to YA fantasy with a story that follows three young people—an orphan, an outcast, and a prince— as they try their best to navigate what is, at times, a brutal empire.

• Immortal Dark

  Girma, Tigest

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  In this book, lost heiress Kidan Adane infiltrates Uxlay University, where students dedicate themselves to studying to preserve peace between humans and vampires. But Kidan is there because her family was killed and her sister kidnapped, with all…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Where the Library Hides

  a Novel

  Ibañez, Isabel (Novelist)

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  The stunning conclusion to the story that started in What the River Knows. A lush immersive historical fantasy set in Egypt filled with adventure, and a rivals-to-lovers romance like no other!