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• Money Devils 1

  a Cartel Novel

  Ashley, 1985-

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  A Black American tale about a beautiful and dangerous family of sisters whose powers are becoming increasingly unmatched, in business and in love.

• Black Buck

  Askaripour, Mateo

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  A satirical fiction about a college grad with a new startup job who schemes to make America's salesforce more diverse.

• The Vanishing Half

  Bennett, Brit

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  Twins Stella and Desiree Vignes have drastically different experiences in the world when Stella decides to pass as white.

• A Little Bit of Karma

  a Novel

  Billingsley, ReShonda Tate

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  Shannon and Jay are the perfect power couple with a popular call-in radio show. Then the romance fizzles and the drama begins.

• Everywhere You Don't Belong

  Bump, Gabriel

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  A darkly humorous coming-of-age novel about growing up on the southside of Chicago.

• The Water Dancer

  a Novel

  Coates, Ta-Nehisi

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  A magical force saves the life of an escaped Virginia slave, beginning a system of events that bring him to the Underground, a network of secret agents who work to free slaves.

• The Game Never Ends

  Crown, Zaire

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  Rising in the social ranks, Tuesday Knight bites off more than she can chew, finding herself on the run with her two daughters from a drug lord who threatens the safety of her family.

• Everything Inside

  Stories

  Danticat, Edwidge, 1969-

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  This collection of short stories, most of which are set in Haiti, the Caribbean, and POC neighborhoods in Florida, explores U.S. cultural and racial divides.

• Patsy

  a Novel

  Dennis-Benn, Nicole

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  Patsy leaves Jamaica to find her friend and ex-lover Cicely, but once she arrives in the U. S. discovers the challenges of being an undocumented immigrant.

• The Business of Lovers

  Dickey, Eric Jerome

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  Two brothers struggle in love and in business while fighting not to compare each other's successes and failures.

• Book of the Little Axe

  a Novel

  Francis-Sharma, Lauren

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  With 1796 Trindad changing from Spanish to British rules, Rosa and her family's way of life comes under fire in this historical fiction novel about perseverance.

• Lakewood

  a Novel

  Giddings, Megan

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  Dropping out of school to support her family, Lena makes big personal sacrifices when she becomes a test subject at a secret laboratory to take responsibility for her loved ones.

• Transcendent Kingdom

  Gyasi, Yaa

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  A family of Ghanian immigrants struggle with addiction and depression, supporting research that leads to groundbreaking progress in the medical community.

• MAAFA

  HOLIDAY, HARMONY

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  Swahili for catastrophe or holocaust, this novel is based on the myth of Ulysses.

• The Rib King

  a Novel

  Hubbard, Ladee

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  After being taken in to work as a servant for a white family in 1914, a Black orphan is forlorn at having been taken advantage of by his employer.

• Black Leopard, Red Wolf

  James, Marlon, 1970-

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  Book one of the Dark Star trilogy follows Tracker, who, hired to find a mysterious boy who disappeared three years before, joins a search party that is quickly targeted by deadly creatures.

• Reconstruction

  Stories

  Johnson, Alaya Dawn, 1982-

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  A collection of speculative fiction complete with vampires, post apocalyptic worlds, unjust political structures and more.

• The Prophets

  a Novel

  Jones, Robert, Jr., 1971-

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  This historical debut centers on the love between two men, both slaves in the Deep South.

• Heaven, My Home

  Locke, Attica

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  A Black Texas Ranger searches for the missing son of a white supremacist.

• It's Not All Downhill From Here

  a Novel

  McMillan, Terry

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  After a sudden change of plans, a remarkable woman and her loyal group of friends try to figure out what she's going to do with the rest of her life.