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Unexpected Interruptions
Unexpected Interruptions Trice Hickman 9780758269065 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. What happens when a young woman falls for two men—one black, one white, both determined in their pursuit...
Casualties of Truth
Casualties of Truth Lauren Francis-Sharma 9780802163783 Fiction Atlantic Monthly Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. From the author of Book of the Little Axe, nominated for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award...
The Armageddon of Funk
The Armageddon of Funk Michael Warr 9781882688425 Poetry Tia Chucha Tia Chucha Press Tracking a nonlinear trek across terrain as distinct as Timbuktu and Baton Rouge, and beliefs as “contrary” as Chri...
The Elements of Style
The Elements of Style William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White 9780205309023 Nonfiction Pearson Pearson A full summary of The Elements of Style, 4th Edition, by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White, reveals w...
Ideas in Unexpected Places: Reimagining Black Intellectual History
Ideas in Unexpected Places: Reimagining Black Intellectual History Leslie M. Alexander 9780810144736 Nonfiction Northwestern University Press Northwestern University Press This transformative collecti...
Dirty Little Secrets II: Expect the Unexpected
Dirty Little Secrets II: Expect the Unexpected L.A. Lewis 9781491228418 Fiction L.C.L Publishing L.C.L Publishing Mark and Holly James feel their marriage has endured the worst. They’ve overcome infid...
Say Yes: Give Yourself Permission to Go After Your Dreams
Say Yes: Give Yourself Permission to Go After Your Dreams Kwame Alexander 9798256508852 Nonfiction Kwame Alexander Books Sourcebooks In this inspiring manifesto, Newbery Medal-winning and #1 New York ...
I Can Feel It All Over
I Can Feel It All Over Ebonya Lia 9780063463141 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins In this radiant and incisive debut novel, a Black woman struggles to reclaim her life after a little-understood illness—an...
Notes from Beale Street
Notes from Beale Street Phyllis R. Dixon 9781496758804 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. When their family matriarch dies in 1980s Memphis, two very different sisters battle over her legacy—o...
Come Here and Cook: Stories and Recipes from a Life at the Table
Come Here and Cook: Stories and Recipes from a Life at the Table Jordan Howlett 9798217129812 Nonfiction DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) Penguin Random House For the first time, social media sensat...
Hallie’s Rules for a Recovering Romantic
Hallie’s Rules for a Recovering Romantic Jessica Lewis 9781335008473 Fiction HarperCollins US HarperCollins Perfect for fans of Erin Baldwin and Elise Bryant, this charming sapphic rom-com—the compani...
The Lovers, the Liars, and Me
The Lovers, the Liars, and Me DeAndra Davis 9781665952682 Fiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. A teen travels to Jamaica hoping to answer questions about her absent mother, ...
The Unexpected Diva
The Unexpected Diva Tiffany L. Warren 9780063322134 Fiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins Before the Civil War, Black opera singer Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield reigned supreme on Northern stag...
Someone Like Us
Someone Like Us Dinaw Mengestu 9780385350006 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House The son of Ethiopian immigrants seeks to understand a hidden family history and uncovers a past coloured by unexpected l...
Still True: The Evolution of an Unexpected Journalist
Still True: The Evolution of an Unexpected Journalist Reagan E. J. Jackson 9781609441548 Nonfiction Vertvolta Design + Press Vertvolta Press Through this collection of essays, author and activist Reag...
James: A Novel
James: A Novel Percival Everett 9780385550369 Fiction Doubleday Books Penguin Random House A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously ...
Between Fathers and Sons: An African-American Fable
Between Fathers and Sons: An African-American Fable Eric V. Copage 9798988290674 Fiction Black Pearls Living Black Pearls Living Between Fathers and Sons: It’s the dawn of the 21st century, and Miles ...
No Reservations: A Novel of Friendship
No Reservations: A Novel of Friendship Sheryl Lister 9781400245796 Fiction Harper Muse HarperCollins True friendship never ends. Joy, Diane, Rochelle, and Yvette made a vow as children to be best frie...
You’ve Been Chosen: Thriving Through the Unexpected
You’ve Been Chosen: Thriving Through the Unexpected Cynt Marshall 9780593359419 Nonfiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House A relentlessly optimistic memoir by one of the most influential Black b...
Black Girls Must Die Exhausted
Black Girls Must Die Exhausted Jayne Allen 9780063142992 Fiction Harper HarperCollins Read Jayne’s Inspiration for Black Girls Must Die Exhausted Black Girls Must Die Exhausted is the first of thre...
Unexpected Serenity
Unexpected Serenity Jacquelin Thomas 9798743182824 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Ten years ago, Sheila Moore pushed Nicholas Washington out of her life because of her need to...
The Unexpected Journey: Fire and Gold
The Unexpected Journey: Fire and Gold Dedrick Moone and Haelee Moone 9780578871486 Nonfiction Rules of a Big Boss Rules of a Big Boss This award winning book is the journey of a single father who risk...
Yesterday Is History
Yesterday Is History Kosoko Jackson 9781492694342 Nonfiction Sourcebooks Fire Sourcebooks One of PopSugar’s Best New YA Novels of 2021A Buzzfeed Top LGBTQ+ YA BookA Lambda Literary YA Book to Add to Y...
But, Know This
But, Know This Cheryl Robinson 9781644380291 Fiction Booklocker Booklocker.com, Inc. Single-handedly, Lynn shatters the hopes and dreams of her close-knit family and severs the bond with her twin sist...
Remembrance
Remembrance Mary Monroe 9781496715821 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In this moving, unforgettable novel from New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe, a successful, happily married m...
Her Unexpected Valentine
Her Unexpected Valentine Sherelle Green 9781335216540 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Romance Harlequin Enterprises Limited His Rules of Engagement Miami’s steamy fashion and beauty scene is finally takin...
An Unexpected Holiday Gift (The Kingsleys of Texas)
An Unexpected Holiday Gift (The Kingsleys of Texas) Martha Kennerson 9780373865277 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Romance Harlequin Enterprises Limited A Season for Seduction NBA star and oil company heir K...
Heiress (Smells Like Teen Spirit) (Volume 1)
Heiress (Smells Like Teen Spirit) (Volume 1) Keisha Ervin 9781539115090 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Heavy was the crown but Heiress Von Weber wore it with ease. Known as the Givenchy ...
The Strivers’ Row Spy
The Strivers’ Row Spy Jason Overstreet 9781496701763 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Stunning, suspenseful, and unforgettably evocative, Jason Overstreet’s debut novel glitters with the vib...
Unveiling Love: Episode III
Unveiling Love: Episode III Vanessa Riley 9781943885121 Fiction Gallium Optronics Gallium Optronics Romantic Suspense in the courtrooms and hidden places of Regency England Barrington Norton has alwa...
Praise For Christmas (Praise Him Anyhow Series) (Volume 6)
Praise For Christmas (Praise Him Anyhow Series) (Volume 6) Vanessa Miller 9781502772749 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC A new baby, a wedding and an unexpected illness all collide to ma...
Unexpected Stories
Unexpected Stories Octavia E. Butler B00K04NWG0 Fiction Open Road Media Open Road Integrated Media The novella “A Necessary Being” showcases Octavia E. Butler’s ability to create alien yet fully belie...
How To Slowly Kill Yourself And Others In America
How To Slowly Kill Yourself And Others In America Kiese Laymon 9781932841770 Fiction Agate Bolden Agate Publishing, Inc Author and essayist Kiese Laymon is one of the most unique, stirring, and powerf...
Money Kings: Just Like Daddy 2 (Volume 2)
Money Kings: Just Like Daddy 2 (Volume 2) Thomas Long 9780971553064 Fiction Rock Solid Media Group LLC dba Streetwise Publishing Rock Solid Media Group LLC dba Streetwise Publishing In this sequel to ...
Reckless
Reckless Cydney Rax, Niobia Bryant, and Grace Octavia 9780758265418 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Desire raises the stakes—and the danger…Desperate Housewife by Cydney RaxCarmen Foster ...
Ship Of Souls
Ship Of Souls Zetta Elliott 9781612182681 Fiction Skyscape Amazon Publishing When Dmitri, an 11-year-old bird watcher and math whiz, loses his mother to breast cancer, he is taken in by Mrs. Martin, a...
I Hate Muscular Dystrophy Loving A Child With A Life-Altering Disease
I Hate Muscular Dystrophy Loving A Child With A Life-Altering Disease Star Bobatoon 9780981711188 Fiction Blackcurrant Press Company Blackcurrant Press Company Is it possible to face unexpected challe...
The Devil Is a Lie
The Devil Is a Lie ReShonda Tate 9781416578048 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. All that glitters isnt gold in this new compelling tale of love, money, and divorce gone wrong from award...
The New Moon’s Arms
The New Moon’s Arms Nalo Hopkinson 9780446576918 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group First it’s her mother’s missing gold brooch. Then, a blue and white dish she hasn’t seen in years....
Trouble Don’t Last Always
Trouble Don’t Last Always Francis Ray 9780312321635 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Desperate to escape her abusive marriage, Lilly Crawford files for divorce, then slips away from her...
The Summer Before the Whole Sixth Grade
The Summer Before the Whole Sixth Grade Sherri Winston 9780316605236 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Brianna Justice won the fifth-grade presidency, but can she win h...
Life is a K Drama: A Novel
Life is a K Drama: A Novel Sherri Shepherd with Jayci Lee 9780778332398 Fiction Mira Books Harlequin Enterprises Limited A heartfelt, interracial contemporary romance debut—and a love letter to K-dram...
Bet on Yourself: Why Faith and Fierceness Are All You Need
Bet on Yourself: Why Faith and Fierceness Are All You Need 9798217509416 Nonfiction From the Emmy Award-winning host of Tamron Hall comes a candid and deeply personal memoir that shares hard-earned...
Ellie Ellie
Ellie Ellie K. Ancrum 9781250265272 Fiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers From National Book Award Longlist honoree K. Ancrum comes a striking YA novel about the unexpected bond between a ...
Two Can Play That Game
Two Can Play That Game Zakiya N. Jamal 9780593953853 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House After a chance courtside encounter, a fake relationship between a rising influencer and a WNBA star beco...
Nola and Baldwin
Nola and Baldwin Donna Hill 9780063443389 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Inspired by Their Eyes Were Watching God for a new generation longing for a romantic finale, Nola and Baldwin is a sweeping hist...
Everything’s Not Lost
Everything’s Not Lost Frederick Joseph 9798217040599 Fiction Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A heart-wrenching yet vividly hopeful novel about a Black girl’s struggle to find the q...
Back: Essays on the Soul and Spine of America
Back: Essays on the Soul and Spine of America Lauren Michele Jackson 9780063043909 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Acclaimed New Yorker contributor Lauren Michele Jackson delivers a thought-provoking...
Dasia (Forever)
Dasia (Forever) Nic Stone 9798217229307 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House From the New York Times bestselling author of the Dear Martin series comes a spin-off novel written i...
The Unhaunting
The Unhaunting Micaiah Johnson 9798217181131 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Penguin Random House Award-winning author Micaiah Johnson delivers a chilling supernatural novel in which a mysterious house pro...
The a Word: A Mother’s Journey Through Autism and Love
The a Word: A Mother’s Journey Through Autism and Love Tisha Campbell 9780063446489 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Actress, comedian, and mother Tisha Campbell (Martin, My Wife and Kids) shares her ...
You’ve Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Love Stories Set at Hbcus
You’ve Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Love Stories Set at Hbcus Ebony LaDelle 9780593875193 Fiction Dell Publishing Penguin Random House A heartwarming and unforgettable collection of lo...
My Train Leaves at Three
My Train Leaves at Three Natalie Guerrero 9780593977354 Fiction One World Penguin Random House By a striking new voice in fiction, this electric coming-of-age novel follows an ambitious young Afro-Lat...
Divine Oaths (Special Limited Edition)
Divine Oaths (Special Limited Edition) Elizabeth Agyemang 9780316601269 Fiction Requited Hachette Book Group Ninth House meets Legendbornin this thrilling dark academia novel following a new student f...
Divine Oaths
Divine Oaths Elizabeth Agyemang 9780316605816 Fiction Requited Hachette Book Group Available in a gorgeous Special Limited Edition paperback featuring luxe sprayed edges. Ninth House meets Legendborn...
The Heart Trials
The Heart Trials J. Elle 9798217238224 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House In a world where love is forbidden, one girl must fight for her heart and freedom through...
The Sunken, the Adored
The Sunken, the Adored Donyae Coles 9780063458628 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins A chilling Lovecraftian horror novel from the author of Midnight Rooms, in which a recently freed enslaved woman seeking...
The Risk Worth Taking: A Story of Breaking Free and Trading for a Life You Love
The Risk Worth Taking: A Story of Breaking Free and Trading for a Life You Love Teri Ijeoma 9781637634653 Nonfiction Frederick Douglass Books Forefront Books What if the life you dream of isn’t just p...
No Words for the Dead: A Cole Moneye Hip-Hop Mystery
No Words for the Dead: A Cole Moneye Hip-Hop Mystery Marcus Kareem 9798905537899 Fiction In the Stream Publishing In the Stream Publishing No Words for the Dead is the second installment in the COLE M...
Before Goodbye
Before Goodbye Devin K. Asante 9798184374857 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Renzo Ferrante spent his life chasing fame. By twenty-eight, he has achieved everything he dreamed ...
The Missed Connection
The Missed Connection Tia Williams 9781538770269 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group New York Times bestselling author Tia Williams returns with an intensely romantic, deliciously...
The Fourth Cross
The Fourth Cross Spike Adams 9798218733711 Fiction CJ Sparrow Publication CJ Sparrow Publication Patricia Horn knows how easily a young Black life can be lost to a system where truth matters less than...
Blue Smoke Rises
Blue Smoke Rises Damone Bester 9781611884272 Fiction Story Plant Gold Story Plant Gold Blue Smoke Rises is the thrilling sequel to the coming-of-age story Mendel, set in the mid-1980s on Chicago’s Sou...
A Harlem Wedding
A Harlem Wedding Tiffany L. Warren 9780063322172 Fiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins From The Unexpected Diva author Tiffany Warren comes a dishy and dramatic novel of the Harlem Renaissanc...
Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead: A Memoir
Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead: A Memoir Angela Nissel 9780063345119 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Television writer, producer, and bestselling author of the acclaimed The Broke Diaries an...
Leave Your Mess at Home
Leave Your Mess at Home Tolani Akinola 9780593834190 Fiction Pamela Dorman Books Penguin Random House A Most Anticipated Book of April: The Millions, Atlantic Journal-Constitution, The Root, Muses of ...
Rich and Rotten
Rich and Rotten Jahquel J. 9781957950891 Fiction Black Odyssey Media Black Odyssey Media Explosive, sensual, and unapologetically raw, Rich and Rotten delivers Jahquel J.’s signature blend of passiona...
Kid X
Kid X Tracey Baptiste 9781643753829 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group The thrilling sequel to Boy 2.0, from New York Times bestselling author Tracey Baptiste, perfect f...
Where the Wildflowers Grow
Where the Wildflowers Grow Terah Shelton Harris 9781464229220 Fiction Sourcebooks Landmark Sourcebooks Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Goodreads, Essence, Sunset Magazine, SheReads, BookB...
Where the Wildflowers Grow
Where the Wildflowers Grow Terah Shelton Harris 9781464272561 Fiction Sourcebooks Landmark Sourcebooks From acclaimed author Terah Shelton Harris comes a poignant story of survival and redemption that...
Jukes and Tonks
Jukes and Tonks Gary Phillips and Michael Bracken 9781972046036 Fiction Audecyn Books Audecyn Books Whether their cover bands play Willie Dixon or Willie Nelson, juke joints and honky-tonks appeal to ...
Keeper of Lost Children
Keeper of Lost Children Sadeqa Johnson 9781668069912 Fiction Atria / 37 Ink Simon & Schuster, Inc. Join Our Book Discussion on Zoom ● August 30, 2026 ● 2 p.m. EDT In this new novel from the N...
If I Ruled the World
If I Ruled the World Amy DuBois Barnett 9781250378125 Fiction Flatiron Books Macmillan Publishers A fast-paced, juicy debut novel that peeks behind the curtain at the cutthroat world of hip-hop music ...
Unfunny Bunny
Unfunny Bunny Kenan Thompson and Bryan Tucker 9781250364814 Fiction Feiwel & Friends Macmillan Publishers From the beloved longest-tenured cast member of Saturday Night Live, Kenan Thompson, comes a h...
Ghost Prison: Blood Pact
Ghost Prison: Blood Pact Herbert S McKinney 9780983018575 Fiction Steele Publications Steele Publications Jon Bowman’s shocking conviction came with an unexpected twist when he learned the prison ...
Model Citizen: The Autobiography of Jeremy Meeks
Model Citizen: The Autobiography of Jeremy Meeks Jeremy Meeks 9781954220669 Nonfiction Kingston Imperial Kingston Imperial Jeremy Meeks First Catapulted to Fame When His Mugshot Went Viral, Earning Hi...
Bitter Honey
Bitter Honey Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström 9780063317024 Fiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins Spanning four decades and three continents, Bitter Honey is a story about a mother and daughter divide...
Palaver
Palaver Bryan Washington 9780374609078 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers A life-affirming novel of family, mending, and how we learn to love, from the award-winning Bryan Washingt...
Surprise … Swipe Right: A Big Easy Holiday Comedy
Surprise … Swipe Right: A Big Easy Holiday Comedy Rhonda M. Lawson 9798998862625 Fiction Meet the World Image Solutions Meet the World Image Solutions She didn’t swipe right. Her daughter did it for h...
Forever Is Now
Forever Is Now Mariama J. Lockington 9781250806826 Fiction Square Fish Macmillan Publishers SCHNEIDER FAMILY BOOK AWARD WINNER • A poignant and lyrical young adult novel-in-verse about a Black te...
Groove
Groove Bernice L. McFadden 9780593472828 Fiction Plume Penguin Random House The first of two steamy and entertaining romance novels, published under the beloved and distinguished author’s real name fo...
The Natural Order of Things: Poems
The Natural Order of Things: Poems Donika Kelly 9781644453599 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press An extraordinary and unexpected book of finding happiness, by the award-winning author of The Renunci...
Jump and Find Joy: Embracing Change in Every Season of Life
Jump and Find Joy: Embracing Change in Every Season of Life Hoda Kotb 9798217043880 Nonfiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Penguin Random House From #1 New York Times bestselling author and beloved former Toda...
Princess and the P.I.
Princess and the P.I. Nikki Payne 9780593817360 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House An amateur online sleuth must enlist the help of a jaded PI to clear her name while taking down a shady tech ...
The Risk of Loving You: When Danger Meets Desire
The Risk of Loving You: When Danger Meets Desire Dana Bari 9798999868909 Fiction AscendED AscendED Sixty-year-old Frederick “Rick” Thompson has spent a lifetime drifting from one situationship to anot...
Let’s Get Together
Let’s Get Together Brandy Colbert 9780063092488 Fiction Clarion Books HarperCollins Boston Globe–Horn Book Award–winning author Brandy Colbert gives The Parent Trap a fresh, funny, and delightfully un...
Little Movements
Little Movements Lauren Morrow 9780593736753 Fiction Random House Penguin Random House A page-turning, tenderhearted debut about a Black woman who is finally given a chance to pursue her dream of beco...
Amity
Amity Nathan Harris 9780316456241 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group From the New York Times bestselling author of The Sweetness of Water comes a gripping story about a brother and ...
You’ve Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Love Stories Set at HBCUs
You’ve Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Love Stories Set at HBCUs Ebony LaDelle 9780593875179 Fiction Delacorte Press Penguin Random House A heartwarming and unforgettable collection of lo...
Watch Out for Falling Iguanas
Watch Out for Falling Iguanas Edwidge Danticat 9781636142326 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Perfect for readers of all ages, this captivating picture book teaches children about iguanas’ unique b...
Necessary Fiction
Necessary Fiction Eloghosa Osunde 9780593851203 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House From the acclaimed author of Vagabonds!: an audacious and eye-opening exploration of cross-generational que...
More than Enough: The Debra Tucker Story
More than Enough: The Debra Tucker Story Akilah Trinay 9798992994414 Fiction ReVision Publishing ReVision Publishing In a family built on secrets, sometimes the hardest truth to face is your own. I...
Ruby Rene Always Gets Her Way
Ruby Rene Always Gets Her Way Ashley Iman 9780593858882 Fiction Kokila Penguin Random House A sequel to Ruby René Had So Much to Say that explores the importance of listening, making new friend...
Midnight Rooms
Midnight Rooms Donyae Coles 9780063228108 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Set in a foreboding Gothic mansion and infused with the heightened paranoia and creeping horror of novels like Catherine House a...
Soundtrack
Soundtrack Jason Reynolds 9780593863466 Fiction Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group Penguin Random House #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds transports us back to the early 200...
Good Intentions
Good Intentions Brandon Massey 9798985421682 Fiction Dark Corner Publishing Dark Corner Publishing Nate Noble has it all—a thriving business, a loving fiancée, and a bright future. But his world takes...
Friends and Lovers Omnibus
Friends and Lovers Omnibus Nicole Falls 9798283832999 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published f*ck and fall in love: for Jane and Nigel, timing is everything. f*ck around and find o...
The Devil Three Times: A Novel
The Devil Three Times: A Novel Rickey Fayne 9780316575171 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group An audacious debut spanning eight generations of a Black family in West Tennessee as the...
A Gardin Wedding: A Gardins of Edin Novel
A Gardin Wedding: A Gardins of Edin Novel Rosey Lee 9780593445518 Fiction WaterBrook Press Penguin Random House One of the Gardin women must navigate a season rich with unexpected challenges in the fo...
Blood at the Root (paperback)
Blood at the Root (paperback) LaDarrion Williams 9780593711934 Fiction Labyrinth Road Penguin Random House INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A COSMOPOLITAN BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK OF THE YEAR ...