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  • Dawn

    One woman is called upon to rebuild the future of humankind after a nuclear war, in this revelatory post-apocalyptic tale from the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower.When Lilith lyapo wakes from a centuries-long sleep, she finds herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. She discovers that the Oankali—a seemingly benevolent alien race—intervened in the fate of the humanity ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • The Deep

    Octavia E. Butler meets Marvel’s Black Panther in The Deep, a story rich with Afrofuturism, folklore, and the power of memory, inspired by the Hugo Award–nominated song “The Deep” from Daveed Diggs’s rap group Clipping.Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • Seven Days in June

    by Tia Williams ...
    Two writers get a second chance at love in this romantic, sexy-as-hell New York Times bestselling novel.Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer. Shane Hall is a reclusive, award-winning novelist. When the two meet at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their buried traumas, but the eyebrows of the Black literati. What no one knows is that when they were teenager, Eva ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • Giovanni's Room

    by James Baldwin ...
    Series series Vintage International
    From one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century comes a groundbreaking novel set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris, about love and the fear of love—“a book that belongs in the top rank of fiction” (The Atlantic).One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsIn the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Living Blood

    *From the author of The Reformatory—A New York Times Notable Book of 2023*The bestselling author of Joplin's Ghost delivers a riveting novel of supernatural suspense—a gripping tale that showcases a writer at the pinnacle of her astounding storytelling abilities.“Due has become a modern-day Octavia Butler, a talented storyteller who stands tall among her horror cohorts Anne Rice and Stephen King.” ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • Lovecraft Country

    A Novel

    by Matt Ruff ...
    Now an HBO® Series from J.J. Abrams (Executive Producer of Westworld), Misha Green (Creator of Underground) and Jordan Peele (Director of Get Out)The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects in this brilliant and wondrous work of the imagination that melds historical fiction, pulp noir, and Lovecraftian horror and fantasy ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • Exiled by Iron

    A Novel

    Series Book 2 - The Tainted Blood Duology
    The spellbinding conclusion to the international bestseller Forged by Blood delves deeper into Nigerian mythology as the Oluso uprising comes to a head…and the young woman caught in between comes to her breaking point. Return to this highly atmospheric, complex world full of magic and romance and war, in which unity is the goal, blood is the sacrifice, and love is at stake.The King is dead. The ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Parable of the Sower

    From a celebrated, award-winning author, a modern classic about a young girl fighting for survival in a post-apocalyptic world, perfect for fans of N.K. Jemisin and Margaret Atwood.Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding social chaos and anarchy caused by climate change and economic crisis. In a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Lagoon

    It’s up to a famous rapper, a marine biologist, and a rogue soldier to handle humanity’s first contact with an alien ambassador—and prevent mass extinction—in this novel that blends magical realism with high-stakes action.After word gets out on the Internet that aliens have landed in the waters outside of the world’s fifth most populous city, Lagos, Nigeria, chaos ensues. Soon the military, ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • Chain Gang All Stars: A Read with Jenna Pick

    National Book Award Finalist

    **A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION • A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America’s own in this explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Friday Black • LONGLISTED ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Good Negress

    A Novel

    “Haunting . . . this novel has all the dimension and beauty of song. To read The Good Negress **is to fall under a spell, to open a window, to fly.” —**Los Angeles Times Book ReviewWinner of the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and LettersBlack Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards Honor Book in Fiction... ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • Run

    A Novel

    by Ann Patchett ...
    "Engaging, surprising, provocative and moving...a thoroughly intelligent book, an intimate domestic drama that nonetheless deals with big issues touching us all: religion, race, class, politics and, above all else, family." -- Washington PostFrom New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett comes an engrossing story of one family on one fateful night in Boston where secrets are unlocked and new ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Death of the Author

    A Novel

    THE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERRecommended by New York Times Book Review• People • NPR • Rolling Stone• Los Angeles Times• Reader's Digest• and more!“This one has it all.” — George R.R. Martin • “As delicious as it is disorienting.” — Zakiya Dalila Harris • “Suspenseful, timely, and heartfelt.” — Peop... ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $12.99 USD

  • The Good Lord Bird (National Book Award Winner)

    A Novel

    by James McBride ...
    Now a Showtime limited series starring Ethan Hawke and Daveed DiggsWinner of the National Book Award for FictionFrom the bestselling author of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, Deacon King Kong (an Oprah Book Club pick) and The Color of Water comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown’s antislavery crusade—and who must pass as a girl to survive.Henry Shackleford is a ... ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Lore of the Tides

    A Novel

    Series Book 2 - The Lore of the Wilds Duology
    From the author of Lore of the Wilds comes the exciting and passionate conclusion, as Lore navigates Fae magic amid looming dangers that threaten to destroy her world.Lore Alemeyu wakes up to discover she’s on a ship in the middle of the ocean. Held prisoner and with no way to escape, she’s faced with a dire set of circumstances…A crew that’s distrustful of Lore’s magic capabilities…Her betrayal ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Parable of the Talents

    From a celebrated author, the thrilling sequel to The Parable of the Sower—a cautionary novel ahead of its time, perfect for fans of The Broken Earth trilogy.In 2032, Lauren Olamina has survived the destruction and ruin of everything she knew. Her peaceful community based on her newly founded faith, Earthseed, provides refuge for outcasts facing persecution after the election of an ultra ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Maame

    A Today Show Read With Jenna Book Club Pick

    AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! • A Today Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick • A February 2023 Indie Next Pick**"****Sparkling." —**The New York Times"An utterly charming and deeply moving portrait of the joys**—and the guilt—**of trying to find your own way in life." **—**Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times bests... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Rage of Dragons

    by Evan Winter ...
    Series Book 1 - The Burning
    Game of Thrones meets Gladiator in this blockbuster 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.ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S TOP 100 FANTASY BOOKS OF ALL TIMEWinner of the Reddit/Fantasy Award for Best Debut Fantasy NovelThe Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable war for almost two hundred years. The lucky ones ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Great Black Hope

    A Novel

    by Rob Franklin ...
    “If Tom Wolfe, Jay McInerney, and Margo Jefferson somehow collaborated, this might have been the delightful result.” —Boris Kachka, The Atlantic“Incandescent…full of sentences I want to cut out and glue to my forehead.” —Kaveh Akbar, New York Times bestselling author of Martyr!“A masterpiece…At once fresh and original while delighting the reader with hints of Franzen, McInerny, Baldwin. Th... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Night Song

    A Traitorous Heart . . .Cara Lee Henson knows no soldier can be trusted to stay in one place—and that includes handsome Sergeant Chase Jefferson of the Tenth Cavalry. Dallying with the dashing man in blue could cost the pretty, independent Kansas schoolteacher her job and her reputation. So Cara is determined to repel Chase’s advances—even though her aloof facade barely masks her smoldering desire ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Violin Conspiracy

    A Novel (Good Morning America Book Club)

    GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK! • Ray McMillian is a Black classical musician on the rise—undeterred by the pressure and prejudice of the classical music world—when a shocking theft sends him on a desperate quest to recover his great-great-grandfather’s heirloom violin on the eve of the most prestigious musical competition in the world.“I loved The Violin Conspiracy for exactly the same ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $8.99 USD

  • The Bluest Eye

    by Toni Morrison ...
    Series series Vintage International
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtlety and grace.In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Memory Librarian

    And Other Stories of Dirty Computer

    New York Times bestseller!In The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, singer-songwriter, actor, fashion icon, futurist, and worldwide superstar Janelle Monáe brings to the written page the Afrofuturistic world of one of her critically acclaimed albums, exploring how different threads of liberation—queerness, race, gender plurality, and love—become tangled with future ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Girl, Woman, Other

    A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)

    Series series Booker Prize Winner
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE“A must-read about modern Britain and womanhood . . . An impressive, fierce novel about the lives of black British families, their struggles, pains, laughter, longings and loves . . . Her style is passionate, razor-sharp, brimming with energy and humor. There is never a single moment of dullness in this book and the pace does not allow you to turn away ... Read more

    $12.99 USD