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If I Survive You
If I Survive You

A collection of humorous and harrowing linked stories following a Jamaican-American family as they seek stability upon…

Big Girl
Big Girl

For Malaya, the pressures of her predominantly white Upper East Side prep school and her painfully proper mother are…

On the Rooftop
On the Rooftop

A mother's dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters' ambitions for their own lives.…

Nightcrawling
Nightcrawling

A young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system.

Something Good
Something Good

When three women find their lives inextricably linked after one terrible mistake, they must work together to make the…

Take My Hand

A Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients.

Cherish Farrah
Cherish Farrah

Seventeen-year-old Farrah Turner is one of two Black girls in her country club community, and the only one with Black…

Promise Broken
Promise Broken

Two teenage girls struggle to survive their senior year in the Brick City of Newark, where gangsters battle for power,…

 A spy in the struggle
A spy in the struggle

One successful lawyer must decide whether to put everything on the line to right the deep inequities faced in one under-…

The Unbroken
The Unbroken

Touraine is a Sand: one of many children kidnapped by Balladaire and raised to be soldiers willing to live and die for…

 When stars rain down
When stars rain down

After the unthinkable happens, the black community simmers like an unwatched pot. Can there be peace with the white folks…

Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be
Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be

Combining her sharp wit, stellar pop culture sensibility, and trademark spirited storytelling, Nichole boldly tackles the…

We Need New Stories
We Need New Stories

A rigorous examination of six political myths used to deflect and discredit demands for social justice. 

Better, Not Bitter
Better, Not Bitter

An inspirational memoir that serves as a call to action from prison reform activist Salaam of the Exonerated Five.

Notes on Grief
Notes on Grief

From the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author of We Should All Be Feminists, a timely and deeply personal…

 Footnotes
Footnotes

For readers of Hidden Figures and Something Wonderful, Footnotes is the story of New York in the roaring twenties and the…

Somebody's Daughter
Somebody's Daughter

A childhood defined by the ever looming absence of her incarcerated father.

How the Word Is Passed
How the Word Is Passed

The legacy of slavery that is preserved in monuments and landmarks that hold violent and racist symbolism.

Dear Senthuran
Dear Senthuran

Electrifying and radically honest, animated by the same voracious intelligence that distinguishes their fiction, Dear…

The Ugly Cry
The Ugly Cry

A sharp, hilarious memoir about a nontraditional upbringing and growing up Black in a predominantly white community.

What White People Can Do Next
What White People Can Do Next

In the spirit of We Should All Be Feminists and How to Be an Antiracist, a poignant and sensible guide to questioning the…

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