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Crossbones Crossbones Nuruddin Farah "A gripping new novel from today's "most important African novelist". (The New York Times Review of Books) A dozen years after his last visit, Jeebleh returns to his beloved Mogadiscio to see old f… OL15947486W
White lines II White lines II Tracy Brown "On the surface, it appears that Sunny has got it all-looks, money, a beautiful home, a healthy daughter, and friends who love her. But Sunny has a secret--something she hasn't even told her best fri… OL16152325W
Mama's child Mama's child Joan Steinau Lester "A novel about deeply entrenched conflicts between a white mother and her biracial daughter"-- OL16769498W
Charcoal Joe Charcoal Joe Walter Mosley "Easy Rawlins is back, with a new detective agency and a new mystery to solve. Charcoal Joe has asked Easy to help clear Joe's son, who was found standing over a white man's dead body in his cabin ho… OL17359866W
Sing, Unburied, Sing Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward **A SEARING AND PROFOUND SOUTHERN ODYSSEY BY NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER JESMYN WARD** In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning *Salvage the Bones*, this singular American… OL17826879W
Land of love and drowning Land of love and drowning Tiphanie Yanique In the early 1900s, an important ship sinks into the Caribbean Sea, just as the Virgin Islands are transferred from Danish to American rule. Orphaned by the sunk vessel are two sisters and their half… OL18445546W
The Gilda Stories The Gilda Stories Jewelle Gomez A very unusual vampire story. A young Black woman escapes being enslaved and ends up becoming a vampire. Takes place between the 1850s and 2020 or so. OL1865447W
The Talented Ribkins The Talented Ribkins Ladee Hubbard ""For sheer reading pleasure Ladee Hubbard's original and wildly inventive novel is in a class by itself." --Toni Morrison "The Talented Ribkins is a charming and delightful debut novel with a prof… OL19421308W
Passage Passage Khary Lazarre-White "Passage tells the story of Warrior, a young black man navigating the snowy winter streets of Harlem and Brooklyn in 1993. Warrior is surrounded by deep family love and a sustaining connection to his… OL19721939W
The portable nineteenth-century African American women writers The portable nineteenth-century African American women writers Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,Hollis Robbins "A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century. The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American W… OL19730955W
John Woman John Woman Walter Mosley At twelve years old, Cornelius, the son of an Italian-American woman and an older black man from Mississippi named Herman, secretly takes over his father's job at a silent film theater in New York's … OL19749346W
Heart of gold Heart of gold Beverly Jenkins "Henry Adams has had its fair share of drama ever since Bernadine Brown bought the town with her divorce settlement. Now just when things are starting to settle down, it's about to get crazy again...… OL19981990W
The Banks sisters The Banks sisters Nikki Turner Meet the Banks sisters--Simone, Bunny, Tallhya, and Ginger. The four beauties are living under the same roof, but they can't stand each other. Their only common denominator is their loving grandmothe… OL19998189W
The ultimate betrayal The ultimate betrayal Kimberla Lawson Roby "It's been four years since twenty-eight-year old Alicia Black, daughter of Reverend Curtis Black, divorced her second husband, the most womanizing and corrupt man she has ever known. Since then, Ali… OL20001679W
One night One night Eric Jerome Dickey An unlikely couple from opposing areas of society checks into an upscale hotel and shares twelve hours of passion, con games, and violence that culminate in bliss--and murder. OL20008373W
Dance of the Jakaranda Dance of the Jakaranda Peter Kimani Set in the shadow of Kenya's independence from Great Britain, this story reimagines the special circumstances that brought black, brown, and white men together to lay the railroad that heralded the b… OL20048098W
A blessing & a curse A blessing & a curse ReShonda Tate Billingsley "First ladies of the Baptist church and sworn frenemies Rachel Jackson Adams and Jasmine Cox Larson Bush are stunned to learn they may have more in common than they thought--like who's their daddy--i… OL20059515W
Lot Lot Bryan Washington In the city of Houston - a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America - the son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He's working at his family's restaurant, weathering his brother's … OL20161445W
Go Tell It on the Mountain Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral st… OL228705W
Cane Cane Jean Toomer This is a collection of short stories and poems written about the lives of African Americans in the 1920s. OL49843W
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