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Balm

By Dolen Perkins-Valdez - Published 2015

Genres:

Literary

Balm is a literary historical, the second by Dolen Perkins-Valdez to explore race and society in 19th-century America. This novel opens in the ...Read Review

Finding Samuel Lowe: China, Jamaica, Harlem

By Paula Williams Madison - Published 2015

Genres:

Nonfiction

As a child in Jamaica in the mid-20th century, Nell Vera Lowe always wanted to belong to a large family like her ...Read Review

Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press

By James McGrath Morris - Published 2015

Genres:

Nonfiction

As race relations take center stage in the public consciousness, this exhaustive biography of one of America’s most prominent black journalists offers ...Read Review

Wench

By Dolen Perkins-Valdez - Published 2010

Genres:

Saga

Three black slave women—Lizzie, Sweet and Reenie—have achieved a certain social status in the complex world of American antebellum plantation society: ...Read Review

The Known World

By Edward P. Jones - Published 2003

Genres:

LiterarySaga

This novel (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and National Book Award nominee) opens with the death of Henry Townsend, a ...Read Review