Results for General Fiction + African American Authors & Leads

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  • Five-Carat Soul
    Five-Carat Soul
    James McBride
    Paperback: 09/25/2018
     
    Exciting new fiction from James McBride, the first since his National Book Award–winning novel The Good ...
  • The Twelve-Mile Straight
    The Twelve-Mile Straight: A Novel
    Eleanor Henderson
    Paperback: 09/18/2018
     
    From New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Henderson, an audacious American epic set in rural Georgia ...
  • Brother
    Brother
    David Chariandy
    Hardcover: 07/31/2018
     
    In luminous, incisive prose, a startling new literary talent explores masculinity, race, and sexuality against...
  • Mississippi Blood
    Mississippi Blood: A Natchez Burning Novel #3
    Greg Iles
    Paperback: 06/05/2018
     
    The final chapter in the Natchez Burning trilogy.
  • Piecing Me Together
    Piecing Me Together
    Renee Watson
    Paperback: 06/05/2018
     
    A timely and powerful story about a teen girl striving for success in a world that too often feels like it ...
  • The Mercy Seat
    The Mercy Seat
    Elizabeth H. Winthrop
    Hardcover: 05/08/2018
     
    An incisive, meticulously crafted portrait of race, racism, and injustice in the Jim Crow era South that is as...
  • Sing, Unburied, Sing
    Sing, Unburied, Sing
    Jesmyn Ward
    Paperback: 05/08/2018
     
    A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.

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