Amistad
Midnight Rooms
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In England in 1840, newlyweds Orabella Mumthrope and Elias Blakersby arrive at Korringhill Manor. Black, orphaned, and exchanged by a disinterested uncle for gambling ...Read Review
The Fallen Fruit
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Madison’s new time-slip novel spotlights 200 years of the Bridge family history, from the 1760s to the 1960s. Cecily Bridge-Davis has never spoken ...Read Review
No Better Time
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When the United States enters World War II, Dorothy Thom, a librarian at Atlanta’s Spelman College, and Lelia Branch, a single mother ...Read Review
Things Past Telling
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Momma Grace could be as old as 112; no one knows her real age for sure, but there is no question that she has ...Read Review
Greenland
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The historical events evoked in this novel are those surrounding the affair between British author E. M. Forster, best known for his keen ...Read Review
A Woman of Endurance
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Puerto Rico, 1850. Pola is torn from her home on the west coast of Africa and sold into slavery. She works the sugar cane ...Read Review
The Great Mrs. Elias: A Novel Based on a True Story
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This is Chase-Riboud’s fifth installment in her “invisible” women of color series which began with Sally Hemings. The author stumbled upon the ...Read Review
Black Bottom Saints
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In Detroit in 1968, choreographer and emcee Joseph “Ziggy” Johnson lies dying in a hospital. He knows he doesn’t have long to live ...Read Review
The Rib King
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In Ladee Hubbard’s debut novel, The Talented Ribkins, bizarre superpowers juiced the hero’s struggle against race and mobsters. Now in The ...Read Review
Africaville
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Colvin’s debut novel, a literary saga spanning over seventy years, is as much about the legacy of a place as the place ...Read Review
