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Winner of the John Newbery Medal - Winner of the Coretta Scott King Author Award - An Indiebound Bestseller - A New York Times Bestseller Award-win...

For readers of Oyinkan Braithwaite's My Sister the Serial Killer and Bella Mackie's How to Kill Your Family, this is a monstrous, gleeful, bitingly...

A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me An inspiring memoir of family, community, and resilience, and an ode to the power of books to help us...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - WINNER OF THE 2019 BOOKER PRIZE From one of Britain's most celebrated writers of color, a magnificent portrayal of the inters...

The Lillys, Book #2 All her life, Kayla heard the same refrain: Don't be so loud. Don't act so wild. Don't take up so much space. Now she's the bea...

The daughter of an affluent Black family pieces together the connection between a childhood tragedy and a beloved heirloom in this moving novel fro...

An instant New York Times bestseller! "Grown exposes the underbelly of a tough conversation, providing a searing examination of misogynoir, rape cu...

Hairiette of Harlem, Book #1 Hip, hip, hooray! It's Hairiette's Birthday! With her glowy hair done and the perfect dress picked out, Hairiette is r...

Named a Most Anticipated book of 2025 by People ∙ Harper's Bazaar ∙ PopSugar ∙ Reader's Digest ∙ SheReads ∙ Woman's World ∙ BookBrowse ∙ and more! ...

Ray Carney, Book #1 From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a gloriously entertaining nov...

A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American no...

Introducing internationally bestselling author Bolu Babalola's dazzling debut novel, full of passion, humor, and heart, that centers on a young Bla...

On the run from her own dark secrets, a teen girl becomes the nanny for a prestigious family on their Jamaican estate, where she quickly discovers ...

Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminist...

A young woman is drawn into the upper echelons of a society where blood is power, in this dark and enthralling gothic novel from the author of The ...

From the celebrated author of the New York Times bestseller Behold the Dreamers, comes a sweeping, wrenching story about the collision of a small A...

A young girl with vitiligo celebrates her skin in this joyful picture book by debut author Lid'ya C. Rivera and illustrated by #1 New York Times be...

A Book about Ubuntu We may be different, but our hearts beat the same. In southern Africa, there is a belief called ubuntu - the idea that we are a...

Susan Choi's Trust Exercise meets Nick Hornby's High Fidelity in a Black woman's coming-of-age story, chronicling a life-changing friendship, the i...

Living the Power of My Dreams The sensational two-time Olympian Jordan Chiles's heartfelt, inspiring memoir chronicling her unlikely path to the po...

From the author of Sisters in Arms comes the incredible, untold story of Effa Manley, a black businesswoman in the male dominated baseball industry...

The fates of two unforgettable women - one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery and the other completing her life's last vital ...

A story for all ages from the author of the #1 bestselling Born a Crime "What will we find in the uncut grass?""It depends on what we're looking fo...

The beloved author of Don't Cry for Me and Perfect Peace returns with a poignant, emotionally exuberant novel about a young queer Black man finding...