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Nightcrawling
Nightcrawling

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

Take My Hand

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

When You Are Mine
When You Are Mine

Philomena McCarthy has defied the odds and become a promising young officer with the Metropolitan Police despite being…

Rabbit Hole
Rabbit Hole

Alice Armitage is a police officer. Or she was. Or perhaps she just imagines she was. Whatever the truth is, following a…

The Drowning Kind
The Drowning Kind

Investigating an estranged sibling's suspicious drowning at their grandmother's estate, a social worker connects the …

The First Day of Spring
The First Day of Spring

Twenty years after killing a boy when she was eight years old, Chrissie wants a fresh start for her and her 6-year-old…

The Forest of Vanishing Stars
The Forest of Vanishing Stars

Raised in the unforgiving wilderness eastern Europe after being kidnapped, a young German woman, in 1941, vows to teach a…

The Final Girl Support Group
The Final Girl Support Group

A real-life "final girl"--the one girl always left standing at the end of a horror movie, Lynette Tarkington, who…

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…

Lucky
Lucky

When talented grifter Lucky Armstrong discovers that a lottery ticket she bought on a whim is worth millions, she must…

 The Last House on Needless Street
The Last House on Needless Street

When a neighbor moves in next door, a family of three -- a teenage girl who isn't allowed outside, a man with memory loss…

Reprieve
Reprieve

A chilling and blisteringly relevant literary novel of social horror centered around a brutal killing that takes place in…

 The Sanatorium
The Sanatorium

A chilling debut in which a detective must uncover the dark history of a luxury hotel in the Alps if she has any hope of…

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