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First Published:
Jun 2003, 336 pages
Paperback:
Jun 2004, 288 pages
Wade in the Water
by Nyani Nkrumah
A gripping debut novel of female power and vulnerability, race, and class set in a small Mississippi town in the early 1980s.
River Sing Me Home
by Eleanor Shearer
A remarkable debut about a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery.
This Other Eden
by Paul Harding
A novel inspired by the true story of Malaga Island from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Tinkers.
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