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Glory
Glory NoViolet Bulawayo 9780525561132 Fiction Viking Penguin Random House 2022 BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST “Manifoldly clever…brilliant… Glory is its own vivid world, drawn from its own folkl...
We Need New Names: A Novel
We Need New Names: A Novel NoViolet Bulawayo 9780316230810 Fiction Reagan Arthur Books Reagan Arthur Books A remarkable literary debut — shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize! The unflinching and power...
The African Book Of Names: 5,000+ Common And Uncommon Names From The African Continent
The African Book Of Names: 5,000+ Common And Uncommon Names From The African Continent Askhari Johnson Hodari 9780757307799 Nonfiction HCI HCI From an author who adopted an African name as an adult,...
Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun
Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun Sarah Ladipo Manyika 9781911115045 Fiction Cassava Republic Press Cassava Republic Press “If aging be a lamp, then Morayo, the protagonist in Like a Mule Brin...
The Wedding Date
The Wedding Date Jasmine Guillory 9780399587665 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House One of… • Entertainment Weekly’s “12 Romances for V-Day” • Cosmopolitan’s “2018 Anticipated Read...
True Names: Four Generations of My Afro Appalachian Family
True Names: Four Generations of My Afro Appalachian Family Malaika Adero 9781478974314 Nonfiction Center Street Hachette Book Group African Americans in Southern Appalachia faced a particularly rural ...
Happiness, Like Water
Happiness, Like Water Chinelo Okparanta 9780544003453 Fiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt "Astonishing. Okparanta’s narrators render their stories with such strength and intimacy, such luc...
African Roar 2011
African Roar 2011 Emmanuel Sigauke and Ivor Hartmann 9780987008947 Fiction StoryTime StoryTime African Roar 2011, is the second in a series of annual anthologies dedicated to publishing new short fict...
Your Name Is a Song
Your Name Is a Song Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow 9781943147724 Fiction The Innovation Press The Innovation Press Frustrated by a day full of teachers and classmates mispronouncing her beautiful name, a l...
We Speak Your Names: A Celebration
We Speak Your Names: A Celebration Pearl Cleage 9780345490278 Poetry Random House Penguin Random House For centuries, African American women have been remaking the world, giving testament to the power...
All the Names Given: Poems
All the Names Given: Poems Raymond Antrobus 9781951142926 Poetry Tin House Books Tin House Books On the heels of his much-lauded debut collection, Raymond Antrobus continues his essential investigatio...
Avidly Reads Passages
Avidly Reads Passages Michelle D. Commander 9781479806171 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press “What is the value of Black life in America?” In Avidly Reads Pa...
All Our Names
All Our Names Dinaw Mengestu 9780385349987 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House From acclaimed author Dinaw Mengestu, a recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award, The New Yorker’s 20 ...
A Book of the Beginnings
A Book of the Beginnings Gerald Massey 9780933121935 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press Other volumes in this set include ISBN number(s): 0766126536. Volume one of a two volume set. (T...
Golden Names for an African People
Golden Names for an African People Nia Damali 9780945708018 Nonfiction Blackwood Press Blackwood Press Robbing peoples and countries of their rightful names was one of the cruel games that colonizers ...
What Do You Need?: How Women of Color Can Take Ownership of Their Careers to Accelerate Their Path to Success
What Do You Need?: How Women of Color Can Take Ownership of Their Careers to Accelerate Their Path to Success Lauren Wesley Wilson 9781401979904 Nonfiction Hay House Business Penguin Random House Laur...
If I Survive You
If I Survive You Jonathan Escoffery 9780374605988 Fiction MCD Macmillan Publishers "If I Survive You is a collection of connected short stories that reads like a novel, that reads like real life, that...
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power Deirdre Mask 9781250134769 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize ...
Jamel’s Deep Sea Adventure
Jamel’s Deep Sea Adventure Jamel K. Thomas-Joyce and Teresa Kemp 9781505328271 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Need a more challenging activity? Have you considered a deep sea adventur...
There Are No Names for Red
There Are No Names for Red Chris Abani and Percival Everett 9781597094573 Poetry Red Hen Press Red Hen Press There Are No Names for Red is a collaborative work featuring the poetry of Chris Abani and ...
The Hollow Sound of Lightweight Bodies
The Hollow Sound of Lightweight Bodies Unathi Slasha 9781957810485 Fiction Iskanchi Press Iskanchi Press A darkly comic and surreal literary novel set in a South African township, where a young cremat...
The Rib King
The Rib King Ladee Hubbard 9780062979070 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Thrillist - 30 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2021Book Riot - Our Most Anticipated Releases of 2021Real Simple - The Best New Boo...
The GoldDiggers
The GoldDiggers Sue Nyathi 9781770105942 Fiction Pan MacMillan Macmillan Publishers We all know our final destination, but we have no idea what will cross our path as we journey there. It is 2008, ...
Finding Peace Isn’t Peaceful: Overcoming the Struggle Within to Heal My Soul
Finding Peace Isn’t Peaceful: Overcoming the Struggle Within to Heal My Soul Ma’Ronda X 9781943409563 Nonfiction Pure Thoughts Publishing Pure Thoughts Publishing, LLC Finding Peace Isn’t Peaceful is ...
Little Troublemaker Defends Her Name
Little Troublemaker Defends Her Name Luvvie Ajayi Jones 9780593694251 Fiction Philomel Books Penguin Random House A story about a little troublemaker with a big heart who must defend her name from a...
I’m So (Not) Over You
I’m So (Not) Over You Kosoko Jackson 9780593334447 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House One of… Essence’s New Books We Can’t Wait To Read In 2022 Oprah Daily’s Most Anticipated Romance Novels of...
Lessons We Were Never Taught
Lessons We Were Never Taught Nikesha Elise Williams 9781733584852 Poetry NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications Lessons We Were Never Taught is author Nikesha Elise Williams’s first collection ...
The Hero Next Door: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology
The Hero Next Door: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich 9780525646334 Fiction Yearling Penguin Random House From We Need Diverse Books comes a middle-grade short-story coll...
The Man I Need
The Man I Need Shanora Williams 9781070195445 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published There are things that women want, and things that women need. I know deep down, with every fiber i...
A Family Affair
A Family Affair Sue Nyathi 9781770107519 Fiction Pan MacMillan Macmillan Publishers Shortlisted for the University of Johannesburg Prize for South African Writing in English (2021 Main Prize) Longl...
Love Never Fails
Love Never Fails Nikesha Elise Williams 9781733584807 Fiction NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications “If I were honest, I’d be divorced right now.” When it comes to marriage, nothing is guar...
Adulting
Adulting Nikesha Elise Williams 9781733584821 Fiction NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications Can she have it all? Naomi Grace is determined to lay hold of the life she’s always wanted. In her v...
Shadows
Shadows Novuyo Rosa Tshuma 9780795704802 Fiction Kwela Books Kwela Books A gripping novella by one of Southern Africa’s rising stars of literature, Novuyo Rosa Tshuma’s Shadows is set in the ghettos o...
Musical Youth
Musical Youth Joanne C. Hillhouse 9781733829960 Fiction Caribbean Reads Publishing Caribbean Reads Publishing 2nd place in the 2014 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature. #12 in Amazon Hot New Releases ...
The Appeal of Ebony Jones
The Appeal of Ebony Jones Nikesha Elise Williams 9780692123942 Fiction NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications Guilty. Not Guilty. Those are the only options facing Ebony Jones. She is standing ...
Alma and How She Got Her Name
Alma and How She Got Her Name Juana Martinez-Neal 9780763693558 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press ★ 2019 Caldecott Honor ★ 2019 Ezra Jack Keats Award Writer Honor ★ 2019 NC...
We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter
We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter Celeste Headlee 9780062669018 Nonfiction Harper HarperCollins How to Have Conversations That Matter They are, perhaps, the most dreaded four w...
Beyond Bourbon Street
Beyond Bourbon Street Nikesha Elise Williams 9781733584869 Fiction NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications How does a couple survive when the one thing that brought them together threatens to te...
Four Women
Four Women Nikesha Elise Williams 9780692962916 Fiction NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications What happens to four strangers when the present meets the past and the whole world is watching? Th...
Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience
Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience Jill Nelson 9780140237160 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House When Jill Nelson became the first black woman to write for The Washington Post’...
The Dead Don’t Need Reminding: In Search of Fugitives, Mississippi, and Black TV Nerd Shit
The Dead Don’t Need Reminding: In Search of Fugitives, Mississippi, and Black TV Nerd Shit Julian Randall 9781645030263 Nonfiction Bold Type Books Hachette Book Group The Dead Don’t Need Reminding is ...
Carter Reads the Newspaper
Carter Reads the Newspaper Deborah Hopkinson 9781561459346 Nonfiction Peachtree Publishers Peachtree Publishers Essential Black History Reading The first-ever picture book biography of Carter G. Wo...
Lost! A Caribbean Sea Adventure
Lost! A Caribbean Sea Adventure Joanne C. Hillhouse 9780999237212 Fiction Caribbean Reads Publishing Caribbean Reads Publishing Beautifully illustrated by Trinidadian artist Danielle Boodoo-Fortun&eac...
The Missing Cupcake Mystery (Tony and Lauren Dungy Ready-to-Reads)
The Missing Cupcake Mystery (Tony and Lauren Dungy Ready-to-Reads) Tony Dungy 9781442454637 Fiction Simon Spotlight Simon & Schuster, Inc. The Dungy kids learn that honesty is the best policy—even whe...
Quick Reads Penguin Readers: Boys Don’t Cry
Quick Reads Penguin Readers: Boys Don’t Cry Malorie Blackman 9780241688106 Fiction Penguin Group USA Penguin Random House A gripping Quick Read about family and growing up from bestselling author, Mal...
Letter to Jimmy
Letter to Jimmy Alain Mabanckou 9781593766016 Fiction Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press Written on the twentieth anniversary of James Baldwin’s death, Letter to Jimmy is African writer Alain Mabanckou...
Shahid Reads His Own Palm
Shahid Reads His Own Palm Reginald Dwayne Betts 9781882295814 Poetry Alice James Books Alice James Books Reginald Dwayne Betts sings mournfully, bearing witness within prisoners’ cells, pulling reader...
Kin: Rooted in Hope
Kin: Rooted in Hope Carole Boston Weatherford 9781665913621 Fiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. A powerful portrait of a Black family tree shaped by enslavement and freedom...
Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America
Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America Curtis Bunn, Michael H. Cottman, Patrice Gaines, Nick Charles, and Keith Harriston 9781538737828 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette...
Finish the Fight!: The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote
Finish the Fight!: The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote Veronica Chambers 9780358408307 Nonfiction Versify Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Who was at the forefront of women’s r...
Hijacking the Runway: How Celebrities Are Stealing the Spotlight from Fashion Designers
Hijacking the Runway: How Celebrities Are Stealing the Spotlight from Fashion Designers Teri Agins 9781592408146 Nonfiction Avery Penguin Random House A fascinating chronicle of how celebrity has inun...
No Doubt: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant
No Doubt: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant Thandisizwe Chimurenga 9781489596291 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC No Doubt is the chilling and compelling story of the 2009 murder of 22-ye...
Freedomways Reader: Prophets In Their Own Time
Freedomways Reader: Prophets In Their Own Time Esther Cooper Jackson 9780813367699 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books From 1961 to 1985, a period of massive social change for African Americans, Free...
Book of African Names
Book of African Names Chief Osuntoki 9780933121249 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press Book by Osuntoki
The Winner Names the Age: A Collection of Writings by Lillian Smith
The Winner Names the Age: A Collection of Writings by Lillian Smith Lillian Smith and Michelle Cliff 9780393300444 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. “This book brings Lill...
Taking names and pointing fingers
Taking names and pointing fingers V.S. Chochezi and Staajabu 9780964234031 Fiction Straight Out Scribes Straight Out Scribes
12 Honeymoons: A Novel
12 Honeymoons: A Novel K. L. Brady 9780983920281 Fiction LadyLit Press LadyLit Press Publisher’s Weekly hails K.L. Brady’s work "comic and charming…" RT Book Reviews calls Brady’s work "Hilarious!"…an...
Fresh Ink: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology
Fresh Ink: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology Lamar Giles 9781524766313 Fiction Ember Ember Published in partnership with We Need Diverse Books, this YA anthology brings together thirteen acclaimed and...
Pimpology: The 48 Laws of the Game
Pimpology: The 48 Laws of the Game Pimpin’ Ken and Karen Hunter 9781416961048 Fiction Karen Hunter Publishing Simon & Schuster, Inc. Star of the HBO documentaries Pimps Up, Ho’s Down and American Pimp...
2009 Guide To Literary Agents
2009 Guide To Literary Agents Chuck Sambuchino 9781582975481 Nonfiction Writer’s Digest Books Writer’s Digest Books Now, more than ever, in a market glutted with aspiring writers and a shrinking numbe...
God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer
God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer Joseph Earl Thomas 9781538740989 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group One of the Millions’ Most Anticipated Books of 2024, Named Best of June by The Wash...
Devil’s Dream: A Novel About Nathan Bedford Forrest
Devil’s Dream: A Novel About Nathan Bedford Forrest Madison Smartt Bell 9780375424885 Fiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House From the author of All Souls’ Rising which The Washington Post called ...
Help I Need a Fan: A Rite of Passage from Woman to Goddess
Help I Need a Fan: A Rite of Passage from Woman to Goddess Rashida Aisha Ali 9780974762708 Nonfiction Royal House Publishing Company Royal House Publishing Company Help I Need A Fan is a non fictional...
Icons of Design (Black Lives #2): A Nonfiction Graphic Novel
Icons of Design (Black Lives #2): A Nonfiction Graphic Novel Tonya Bolden 9781419752711 Nonfiction Abrams Fanfare Abrams Learn about the remarkable work of costume designers, toy makers, and architect...
Needy Little Things
Needy Little Things Channelle Desamours 9781250334817 Fiction Wednesday Books Macmillan Publishers In this debut speculative YA mystery, a Black teen with premonition-like powers must solve her friend...
In the Face of the Sun: A Fascinating Novel of Historical Fiction Perfect for Book Clubs
In the Face of the Sun: A Fascinating Novel of Historical Fiction Perfect for Book Clubs Denny S. Bryce 9781496730107 Fiction Kensington Publishing Corporation Kensington Publishing Corp. “Bryce excel...
The Truth about Men: What Men and Women Need to Know
The Truth about Men: What Men and Women Need to Know DeVon Franklin 9781982101282 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. The New York Times bestselling author of The Wait and “spiritual teacher...
Start Your Own Indie Publishing Company!: Everything You Need to Know!
Start Your Own Indie Publishing Company!: Everything You Need to Know! K Kelly McElroy 9781681210223 Nonfiction Uptown Media Joint Ventures Uptown Media Joint Ventures Don’t get ripped off paying a, s...
All You Need to Know About the Music Business 6th Edition
All You Need to Know About the Music Business 6th Edition Donald S. Passman 9780743293181 Nonfiction Hal Leonard Hal Leonard For fifteen years, All You Need to Know About the Music Business has been ...
Bedrock Faith
Bedrock Faith Eric Charles May 9781617751967 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books One of Roxane Gay’s Top 10 Books of 2014One of Booklist’s Top 10 First Novels of 2014One of the Chicago Reader’s Favori...
Rosewater
Rosewater LIV Little 9781638930228 Fiction Get Lifted Books Penguin Random House A TODAY and LGBTQ Reads Most Anticipated Book of 2023 - A Goodreads Buzziest Debut Novel of the New Year - An Electric ...
The Reading Adventure: 100 Books to Check Out Before You’re 12
The Reading Adventure: 100 Books to Check Out Before You’re 12 We Need Diverse Books 9780744057881 Nonfiction DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) Penguin Random House Discover your next read with this ...
A Universe of Wishes: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology
A Universe of Wishes: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology Dhonielle Clayton 9781984896230 Fiction Ember Ember Published in partnership with We Need Diverse Books, this YA fantasy anthology brings togeth...
Memphis
Memphis Tara M. Stringfellow 9780593230480 Fiction The Dial Press Penguin Random House A spellbinding debut novel tracing three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter’s discovery that...
The Gone Dead
The Gone Dead Chanelle Benz 9780062490698 Fiction Ecco Press HarperCollins A TONIGHT SHOW SUMMER READS FINALIST An electrifying first novel from "a riveting new voice in American fiction"...
Caught Up
Caught Up Shannon Holmes 9781617753749 Fiction Infamous Books Akashic Books "Holmes…is a noted pioneering street lit author. His smooth-flowing narrative mixes crime, sex, and sassy street language, g...
Only Black Girl in the Room
Only Black Girl in the Room Alex Travis 9781639106936 Fiction Alcove Press Alcove Press An ambitious reporter stuck doing diversity checks for her white colleagues gets her big break in this compellin...
Things Past Telling (paperback)
Things Past Telling (paperback) Sheila Williams 9780063097087 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins “This is a truly character-driven novel that explores how people define themselves, the creation of family a...
Easier Said Than Done
Easier Said Than Done Nikki Woods 9780991532247 Fiction Brown Girls Books Brown Girls Books Easier Said Than Done is a touching new novel of love and risk, featuring a sassy and skillfully created ca...
The Dating Playbook
The Dating Playbook Farrah Rochon 9781538716670 Fiction Forever Grand Central Publishing When a personal trainer agrees to fake date her client, all rules are out the window in this "fun, heartfe...
Tempest Rising: A Novel
Tempest Rising: A Novel Diane McKinney-Whetstone 9780688166403 Fiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins Set in west Philadelphia in the early sixties, Tempest Rising tells the story of three sisters, Bl...
All We Were Promised: A Novel
All We Were Promised: A Novel Ashton Lattimore 9780593600153 Fiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, She Reads Philadelphia, 1837....
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls Anissa Gray 9781984802439 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House "If you enjoyed An American Marriage by Tayari Jones, read The Care and Feeding of ...
A Pair of Aces
A Pair of Aces Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray 9780593637937 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House A gripping novel about two trailblazing women on opposite sides of the law—a pros...
We Can’t Talk about That at Work!: How to Talk about Race, Religion, Politics, and Other Polarizing Topics
We Can’t Talk about That at Work!: How to Talk about Race, Religion, Politics, and Other Polarizing Topics Mary-Frances Winters 9781523094264 Nonfiction Berrett-Koehler Publishers Berrett-Koehler Publ...
The Museum of Ordinary People
The Museum of Ordinary People Mike Gayle 9781538740842 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group In this “pure, unadulterated feel-good” and warmhearted novel, an old set of encyclopedias l...
The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story Of Sally Miller And Her Fight For Freedom in Old New Orleans
The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story Of Sally Miller And Her Fight For Freedom in Old New Orleans John Bailey 9780871139214 Nonfiction Atlantic Monthly Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. I...
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair 9781615192533 Nonfiction The Experiment The Experiment The internationally bestsell...
Dear Jackie
Dear Jackie Jessixa Bagley 9781534496583 Fiction Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. A middle schooler’s plan to fit in with her new friends by writing herself a fake love ...
Who Put This Song On?
Who Put This Song On? Morgan Parker 9780525707516 Fiction Delacorte Press Penguin Random House Unflinchingly irreverent, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartbreakingly honest. —Elizabeth Acevedo, National ...
Just Wanna Testify: A Novel
Just Wanna Testify: A Novel Pearl Cleage 9780345506368 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House Familiar faces and places meet fresh twists and turns in this enthralling novel from acclaimed ...
Sister Betty Says I Do
Sister Betty Says I Do Pat G’Orge Walker 9780758289858 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. An inspiring, devilishly funny tale of hope, secrets—and hard-knock faith that can make the most impos...
Words Need Love Too (Salt Modern Poets)
Words Need Love Too (Salt Modern Poets) Kamau Brathwaite 9781876857493 Poetry Salt Publishing Salt Publishing Words Need Love Too represents, perhaps Kamau Brathwaite’s most concentrated effort at fas...
Words Need Love Too
Words Need Love Too Kamau Brathwaite 9780913441473 Poetry House of Nehesi Publishers House of Nehesi Publishers Poetry. African American Studies. Kamau Brathwaite was born in Barbados in 1930, and fou...
People Like Us
People Like Us Jason Mott 9798217047116 Fiction Dutton Books Penguin Random House One of USA Today’s 15 Books You Should Read This Summer One of Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Hot New Summer Reads O...
The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues
The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues Angela Y. Davis 9780872865808 Nonfiction City Lights Publishers City Lights Publishers What is the meaning of freedom? Angela Y. Davis’ life and w...
Onward Christian Soldiers: A Novel of Resistance
Onward Christian Soldiers: A Novel of Resistance Terrill North 9798258268952 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published By the early 1700s, the central African Kingdom of Kongo was three ...
The Mad Sister
The Mad Sister Carol Denise Mitchell 9781462675630 Fiction America Star Books America Star Books Mercy Jean Diamond was the fat, un-liked daughter of a good doctor and deranged mother who hated her. A...
Long Way Home: A World War II Novel
Long Way Home: A World War II Novel Cheryl A. Head 9781500523947 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Georgette Newton seems to have a predictable future. She will work on the family farm, mar...
Something Old, Something New: A Blessings Novel (Blessings Series)
Something Old, Something New: A Blessings Novel (Blessings Series) Beverly Jenkins 9780061990793 Fiction William Morrow Paperbacks HarperCollins Beloved bestselling author Beverly Jenkins introduced r...