A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream-the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New...
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Author: Mbue, ImboloSummary:Genre: Domestic fiction -
Author: Arnove, Anthony, Zinn, HowardSummary:Here are selected testimonies to living history--speeches, letters, poems, songs--offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites...
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Author: Folarin, TopeSummary:A stunning debut novel, from Rhodes Scholar and winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, Tope Folarin about a Nigerian family living in Utah and their uncomfortable assimilation to American...
Genre: Bildungsromans -
Author: Winter, EvanSummary:Game of Thrones meets Gladiator in this debut epic fantasy about a world caught in an eternal war, and the young man who will become his people's only hope for survival.The Omehi people have been...
Genre: Fantasy fiction -
Author: Drayden, NickySummary:In South Africa, the future looks promising. In the bustling coastal town of Port Elizabeth, the economy is booming, thanks to the genetic engineering industry, which has found a welcome home...
Genre: Fantasy fiction -
Author: Winter, EvanSummary:"Intense, inventive and action-packed from beginning to end - a relentlessly gripping, brilliant read." — James Islington. In order to reclaim her throne and save her people, an ousted queen must...
Genre: Fantasy fiction -
Author: Child, Lee.Summary:
Inspired by the ongoing international success of the city-based Akashic Noir Series ( Brooklyn Noir, Boston Noir, Paris Noir , etc.), Akashic created the Drug Chronicles Series in 2011. Following...
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Author: Randall, AliceSummary:
From the Great Depression through the post-World War II years, Joseph "Ziggy" Johnson, has been the pulse of Detroit's famous Black Bottom. As he lays dying in the black-owned-and-...
Genre: Historical fiction -
Author: McBride, JamesSummary:
The stories in Five-Carat Soul--none of them ever published before--spring from the place where identity, humanity, and history converge. They're funny and poignant, insightful and...
Genre: Short stories -
Author: Jeffers, Honoree FanonneSummary:
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB SELECTION LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION. An Instant Washington Post, USA Today, and Indie Bestseller "Epic.... I was...
Genre: Epic fiction -
Author: Iweala, UzodinmaSummary:In the long-anticipated novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Beasts of No Nation, a revelation shared between two privileged teenagers from very different backgrounds sets off a chain...
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Author: Mbue, ImboloSummary:
'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the...
Genre: Literary fiction -
Author: Marz, Leigh, Zorn, JustinSummary:
Justin Zorn and Leigh Marz take us on an unlikely journey to explore the meaning of silence and the art of finding it in any situation.
Genre: Self-help publications -
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A collection of significant speeches by those who held the reins of power, and those who didn't, at significant times in American history. Hear the original words, sometimes abridged and...
Genre: Discursive works, Juvenile nonfiction