Libertie
By: Kaitlyn Greenidge
3.49
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The critically acclaimed and Whiting Award–winning author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman returns w…
Want to Read $ 10.99"Being a mother means being someone's God, if only briefly."-Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie
"If I burn her words, I will be free of whatever she wants of me. Instead I stuffed the papers back in my drawer."-Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie
"And I decided when you were born that I would hide my heart from you, because I worried I would love you into nervous oblivion."-Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie
"The only good poem I’ve ever written is you. A daughter is a poem. A daughter is a kind of psalm. You, in the world, responding to me, is the song I made. I cannot make another."-Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie
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1. Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile - 57 B.C.
By: Josephine Bailey , Kristiana Gregory
3.90
Format: 4 pages, Audio CD
Established "Dear America" author Kristiana Gregory kicks off "The Royal Diaries" with the captivat… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Princess," he said, spreading his arms in a shrug, "how does such a little thing like you get such a big temper?" I held up my hand to shield my eyes from the sun. "Marc Antony," I said, "how does su…"-Josephine Bailey, Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile - 57 B.C.
2. Lazaretto
By: Diane McKinney-Whetstone
3.92
Format: 381 pages, Hardcover
Diane McKinney-Whetstone's nationally bestselling novel, Tumbling, immersed us into Philadelphia's … read more
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3. Isabella Warrior Queen
By: Michael G. Kramer
4.30
Format: None pages, ebook
The complete story of Isabella, her husband King Edward II, their son who was King Edward III and t… read more
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- historical
"Eliza answered, “My Lady, that was Sir Roger Mortimer!"-Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen
"Cynthia said, “How are things going for you with this birth?"-Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen
"When speaking to her husband, Isabella replied, Mon tresdoutz coer, (My very sweet heart) please do that and perhaps I shall be able to continue to perform official functions on your behalf!"-Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen
"On the 16th of Febuary 1312, when Isabella was aged sixteen years, the couple were at their hunting lodge when Edward suddenly took Isabella into his arms and began to kiss her and pay her a lot of a…"-Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen
4. Let Us Descend
By: Jesmyn Ward
3.70
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- race
- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend
5. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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- literary fiction
- race
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
6. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
By: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
4.52
Format: 816 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial epic—an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force of Homegoing;… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- race
- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
"These are the incongruities of memory. It is hard to hold on to the entirety of something, but pieces may be held up to light."-Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
7. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By: James McBride
4.00
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- adult
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- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
8. Take My Hand
By: Dolen Perkins-Valdez
4.37
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in po… read more
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- adult fiction
- race
- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
"There wasn’t any justice for little Black girls, and never had been."-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand
"The world was an enigma. My country was an enigma. Still, she was mine. And I loved every square inch of her."-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand
"The past doesn't work that way. You can't just make it disappear. You can't pretend certain things didn't happen."-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand
"She wore a belted yellow dress that screamed springtime even though it was chilly out. Anybody in a dress that bright had to be doing some good in the world, I decided."-Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Take My Hand
9. Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
3.89
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars
10. The Great Divide
By: Cristina Henríquez
3.70
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Ada had always believed that her mother, in rebuilding the house only three miles from where it had once been, had kept her world piteously small, but maybe what mattered, Ada thought as she gazed at…"-Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide
11. Olga Dies Dreaming
By: Xóchitl González
3.98
Format: 369 pages, Hardcover
It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"It's a myth about motherhood, Olga felt, that the time in utero imbues mothers with a lifelong understanding of their children. Yes, they know their essences, this she didn't doubt, but mothers are s…"-Xóchitl González, Olga Dies Dreaming
12. Woman of Light
By: Kali Fajardo-Anstine
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano fa… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"The fact that the protection she craved from men was mostly to ward off incidents with other men frightened her."-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Woman of Light
"Mama had once told Luz that being raped was worse than being murdered. And Luz wondered how that could be. To be raped and to live seemed more desirable than to no longer exist. Luz did not want to f…"-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Woman of Light
13. The Sentence
By: Louise Erdrich
3.95
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
The Sentence asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small in… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
"I'd taken a pink eraser to my childhood and blurred the pain."-Louise Erdrich, The Sentence
"A newborn baby has a powerful effect on character. But so does a toddler. A child. A preteen. A teenager. A mother changes with every stage. Some stages are within a mother's skill set. Some stages a…"-Louise Erdrich, The Sentence
14. Black Cake
By: Charmaine Wilkerson
4.10
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
We can’t choose what we inherit. But can we choose who we become? In present-day California, Ele… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"But trying to undo the worry is like trying to undo his blackness."-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake
"More people’s lives have been shaped by violence than we like to think. And more people’s lives have been shaped by silence than we think."-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake
"Some people think surfing is a relationship with the sea...but surfing is really a relationship between you and yourself. The sea is going to do whatever it wants."-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake
"Young people had always wanted to do things their own way, and Bert had been no different. Only nowadays, there seemed to be this compulsion to eat up everything that was available to you and to let …"-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake
15. Memphis
By: Tara M. Stringfellow
4.10
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding debut novel tracing three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter’s … read more
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- literary fiction
- race
- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
16. Libertie
By: Kaitlyn Greenidge
3.49
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The critically acclaimed and Whiting Award–winning author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman returns w… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- race
- feminism
- historical
- adult
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
"Being a mother means being someone's God, if only briefly."-Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie
"If I burn her words, I will be free of whatever she wants of me. Instead I stuffed the papers back in my drawer."-Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie
"And I decided when you were born that I would hide my heart from you, because I worried I would love you into nervous oblivion."-Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie
"The only good poem I’ve ever written is you. A daughter is a poem. A daughter is a kind of psalm. You, in the world, responding to me, is the song I made. I cannot make another."-Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie
17. Subdivision
By: J. Robert Lennon
3.77
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
A heady, inventive, fantastical novel about the nature of memory and the difficulty of confronting … read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
18. In Concrete
By: Anne Garréta
3.31
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
Garreta’s first new novel in a decade follows two young sisters who are dragged into one adventure … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
19. Nervous System
By: Lina Meruane
3.35
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
An electrifying novel about illness, displacement, and what holds us together, by the author of See… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
20. The Confession of Copeland Cane
By: Keenan Norris
3.71
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Copeland Cane V, the child who fell outta Colored People Time and into America, is a fugitive… H… read more
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- race
- fiction
- audiobook
21. Moon in Full: A Modern Day Coming-of-Age Story
By: Marpheen Chann
4.06
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In his memoir, Moon in Full, Marpheen Chan recounts an emotional and modern day coming-of-age stor… read more
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"If you run from something you fear, it gives that fear power and that fear will continue to chase and haunt you. But if you turn around and face it, only then can you begin to see it for what it is a…"-Marpheen Chann, Moon in Full: A Modern Day Coming-of-Age Story
"Changing hearts and minds requires humbleness, empathy, and understanding. It requires that we maintain our optimism about other people and their ability to evolve and change. It means not giving up …"-Marpheen Chann, Moon in Full: A Modern Day Coming-of-Age Story
"In many ways, the pain was born of guilt. Guilt that I couldn’t turn back time and fix everything… Part of healing means confronting these very difficult feelings and emotions. For years, I wrestled …"-Marpheen Chann, Moon in Full: A Modern Day Coming-of-Age Story
