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First Published:
Dec 2003, 160 pages
Paperback:
Dec 2004, 160 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.
Moonrise Over New Jessup
by Jamila Minnicks
"Jamila Minnicks pulled me into pages of history I'd never turned before."—Barbara Kingsolver
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.
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