Things Past Telling
By: Sheila Williams
4.39
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The author of The Secret Woman tells the story of a brave and enduring woman as indomitable as Erne…
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1. Balm
By: Dolen Perkins-Valdez
3.41
Format: 94 pages, Hardcover
The Civil War has ended, and Madge, Sadie, and Hemp have each come to Chicago in search of a new li… read more
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2. American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World
By: David Baron
5.00
Format: 172 pages, Hardcover
"A timely tale of science and suspense." --Publishers Weekly(starred review) In the scorching summe… read more
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3. The Frozen River
By: Ariel Lawhon
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more
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4. 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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- race
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- 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
5. When the Jessamine Grows
By: Donna Everhart
4.19
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
From one of the most powerful and authentic voices in Southern fiction comes a historical novel wit… read more
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- audiobook
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6. Crow Mary
By: Kathleen Grissom
4.33
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of the book club classics The Kitchen House and Glory Over Ev… read more
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- historical
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7. Glory Be (Glory Broussard Mystery, #1)
By: Danielle Arceneaux
3.81
Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition
The first in a crime series set in the Louisiana bayou, introducing the uncensored amateur sleuth G… read more
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- african american
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- audiobook
8. The American Queen
By: Vanessa Miller
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In 1869 a kingdom rose in the South. And Louella was its queen. Over the twenty-four years she’s be… read more
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9. Her Lost Words: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
By: Stephanie Marie Thornton
4.07
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman to Frankenstein , a tale of two literary legends—a mother… read more
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10. The American Daughters
By: Maurice Carlos Ruffin
3.61
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A gripping historical novel about a spirited young girl who joins a sisterhood of Black women worki… read more
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11. A Woman Of Endurance
By: Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Combining the haunting power of Toni Morrison’s Beloved with the evocative atmosphere of Phillippa … read more
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12. My Name Is Ona Judge
By: Suzette D. Harrison
4.27
Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition
New Hampshire, 1796. “My name is Ona Judge,and I escaped from the household of the President of the… read more
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"If freedom ever knocks on your door same as it did for Mathilda and Noble... open it !"-Suzette D. Harrison, My Name Is Ona Judge
"Finding Miss Ona's journal and reading her story was a lesson in dignity. She'd been a person owned by other persons. Yet when faced with the reality of being "gifted" to yet another master, she knew…"-Suzette D. Harrison, My Name Is Ona Judge
13. Long Gone, Come Home
By: Monica Chenault-Kilgore
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Spanning from the joyous peak of the 1930s jazz era to the Great Depression and civil rights moveme… read more
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14. Wade in the Water
By: Nyani Nkrumah
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Told in two voices, Ella’s and Ms. St. James’s, and set around richly developed characters, this ri… read more
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15. Things Past Telling
By: Sheila Williams
4.39
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The author of The Secret Woman tells the story of a brave and enduring woman as indomitable as Erne… read more
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- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
16. The Other Princess
By: Denny S. Bryce
3.99
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
A stunning portrait of an African princess raised in Queen Victoria’s court and adapting to life in… read more
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17. The Prophet's Wife
By: Libbie Grant
3.78
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
A sweeping, lyrical tale of historical fiction that tells the unbelievable story of the early days … read more
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18. Child Bride
By: Jennifer Smith Turner
4.22
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
In the segregated South of the mid-1900s, fourteen-year-old Nell bears witness to a world that embr… read more
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19. A More Perfect Union
By: Tammye Huf
4.22
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Inspired by true events, A More Perfect Union is an epic story of love and courage, desperation and… read more
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20. The Townsend Family Recipe for Disaster
By: Shauna Robinson
4.02
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
From the acclaimed author of The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks and Must Love Books comes a heartf… read more
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21. The Trial of Mrs. Rhinelander
By: Denny S. Bryce
3.99
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Inspired by a real-life scandal that was shocking even for the tumultuous Roaring Twenties, this ca… read more
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