Category: United States

Wade in the Water: Poems

Wade in the Water: Poems

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The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United States In Wade in the Water, Tracy K. Smith boldly ties America’s contemporary moment both to our nation’s fraught founding history and to a...
Category: African American
Duende

Duende

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Every poem is the story of itself. Pure conflict. Its own undoing. Breeze of dreams, then certain death. –from “History” Duende, that dark and elusive force described by Federico García Lorca, is the creative and ecstatic...
Category: African American
Maizon at Blue Hill

Maizon at Blue Hill

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Maizon takes the biggest step in her life when she accepts a scholarship to boarding school and says good-bye to her grandmother and her best friend, Margaret. Blue Hill is beautiful, and challenging-but there are only five black students,...
Category: African American
Whispers in the Dark

Whispers in the Dark

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Ptolemy Bent–“Popo”–is different. At an age when most babies are cooing “Mama, ” Popo was speaking in complete sentences. He was reading college textbooks when he was still too young for nursery school. Popo may...
Category: African American
Rose Gold (Easy Rawlins #13)

Rose Gold (Easy Rawlins #13)

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Rose Gold is two colors, one woman, and a big headache. In this new mystery set in the Patty Hearst era of radical black nationalism and political abductions, a black ex-boxer self-named Uhuru Nolica, the leader of a revolutionary cell...
Category: African American
New York Karma

New York Karma

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Bestselling mystery writer Walter Mosley's electric new novel introduces a brand new investigator – Leonid McGill – and a gripping new set of challenges. We follow former rule-breaker Leonid McGill as he's buffeted between the...
Category: African American
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