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You Don’t Know Me: Reflections of My Father, Ray Charles
You Don’t Know Me: Reflections of My Father, Ray Charles Ray Charles Robinson Jr. 9780307462930 Fiction Crown Penguin Random House A deeply personal memoir of the private Ray Charles - the man behin...
Until Ray (Book 1)
Until Ray (Book 1) Cheryl Robinson B07379LFY5 Fiction Rose Colored Books Rose Colored Books Book 1 of the Until Ray Trilogy Two people in the same city but worlds apart. Until Ray is an unconven...
Ex-Ray: Book Two of the Until Ray Trilogy
Ex-Ray: Book Two of the Until Ray Trilogy Cheryl Robinson 9780984711048 Fiction Rose Colored Books Rose Colored Books In this journey into second-chance love, author Cheryl Robinson invites us to pond...
Thunderclouds in the Forecast
Thunderclouds in the Forecast Clarence Major 9780810144262 Fiction TriQuarterly Books Northwestern University Press Thunderclouds in the Forecast traverses the linked histories of two friends—one Blac...
W.I.F.E PT 2
W.I.F.E PT 2 Raneissa Baker 9781947340626 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing With Ray and Donna back living together, Ray having custody of his daughter Pooh, and a steady stream of income ...
Man Ray: American Artist
Man Ray: American Artist Neil Baldwin 9780306810145 Nonfiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group The definitive biography of one of the most influential surrealists and a quintessential modernist. Fig...
Harlem Shuffle
Harlem Shuffle Colson Whitehead 9780525567271 Fiction Anchor Books Penguin Random House New York Times Bestseller From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The...
The Violin Conspiracy
The Violin Conspiracy Brendan Slocumb 9780593315415 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK! • Ray McMillian is a Black classical musician on the rise—undeterred by the...
Zuri Ray Tries Ballet
Zuri Ray Tries Ballet Tami Charles 9780062914897 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins From New York Times bestselling author Tami Charles and rising star illustrator Sharon Sordo comes the first boo...
W.I.F.E
W.I.F.E Raneissa Baker 9781947340596 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing After surviving almost seven hard years of federal prison, Ray "Assa" Jones returned to his hometown of Milwaukee, Wi...
All That I Desire: A Grayson Friends Novel
All That I Desire: A Grayson Friends Novel Francis Ray 9781250624116 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Francis Ray (1944-2013) is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of...
All City
All City Joshunda Sanders 9781533686008 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Little Ray knows the Bronx better than anyone. He has been a proud train operator for many years. But while the Bro...
I Am the River: Sarah E. Ray and the Bob-Lo Boat
I Am the River: Sarah E. Ray and the Bob-Lo Boat Patricia Lee Gauch and Leah Henderson 9781646145805 Nonfiction Levine Querido Levine Querido I am the river. Blue and green, fast and flowing, sweepin...
Between Good and Evil
Between Good and Evil Rochelle Alers 9781496742766 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In the tradition of Studs Lonigan and A Stone for Danny Fisher, a transporting historical saga about three...
Cord Swell
Cord Swell Brittny Ray Crowell 9781324111153 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. How can we memorialize our dead? How can that memorialization rend the veil between the dead and...
Della’s House of Style: An Anthology
Della’s House of Style: An Anthology Rochelle Alers, Donna Hill, Felicia Mason, and Francis Ray 9781250834195 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Rochelle Alers’ “Sweet Surrender” Manic...
The Sun Does Shine (Young Readers Edition): An Innocent Man, A Wrongful Conviction, and the Long Path to Justice
The Sun Does Shine (Young Readers Edition): An Innocent Man, A Wrongful Conviction, and the Long Path to Justice Anthony Ray Hinton, with Lara Love Hardin and Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich 97812508173...
Rosie’s Curl and Weave
Rosie’s Curl and Weave Rochelle Alers, Donna Hill, Felicia Mason, and Francis Ray 9781250817655 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers A reissue of the popular anthology by four bestselling...
You Make It Feel Like Christmas
You Make It Feel Like Christmas Donna Hill and Francis Ray 9781250818560 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers You Make It Feel Like Christmas is a 2-in-1 bindup of two novellas filled wit...
Bump and Run: It made me. It saved me.
Bump and Run: It made me. It saved me. Victor McGlothin 9781653271337 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published Bump and Run tells the story of Ray Crockett, an undersized football pl...
Nobody But You: A Grayson Friends Novel
Nobody But You: A Grayson Friends Novel Francis Ray 9781250623898 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Nobody But You is the second book in the popular erotic romance Grayson Friends seri...
The Way You Love Me: A Grayson Friends Novel
The Way You Love Me: A Grayson Friends Novel Francis Ray 9781250624031 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers A reissue of The Way You Love Me, the first book in the popular erotic romance ...
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row Anthony Ray Hinton, with Lara Love Hardin 9781250205797 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Oprah’s Book Club Summer 2018 S...
Ray of Hope
Ray of Hope Vanessa Davis Griggs 9780758259615 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Teen sisters Sahara and Crystal Nichols are acting up, and their risqué behavior is more than their mot...
Blue Butterfly
Blue Butterfly Marian L. Thomas 9780984896752 Fiction L.B Publishing L.B Publishing There have been five black ballerinas that have made a noticeable mark in the world of ballet. Five that have fought...
All I Ever Wanted: A Grayson Friends Novel
All I Ever Wanted: A Grayson Friends Novel Francis Ray 9781250082404 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers "Ray pens a wonderfully sensitive story of an evil subject — spousal abuse. Thoug...
When Morning Comes: A Family Affair Novel
When Morning Comes: A Family Affair Novel Francis Ray 9780312681623 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers In her unforgettable new novel When Morning Comes, Francis Ray delivers an emotion...
Ray Of Hope
Ray Of Hope Vanessa Davis Griggs 9780758259608 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. "Vanessa is a superb storyteller." —ReShonda Tate Billingsley"I absolutely love Vanessa’s unique writing style...
Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson (Borzoi Books)
Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson (Borzoi Books) Wil Haygood 9781400044979 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House From the author of the critically acclaimed In Black and White: The ...
Dreaming of You
Dreaming of You Francis Ray 9780312939731 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Readers everywhere fell in love with the mesmerizing, unforgettable Grayson family and their loves. Now best...
Ray Charles en Espanol (Spanish Edition)
Ray Charles en Espanol (Spanish Edition) Sharon Bell Mathis 9781584302810 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books As a young boy he fell in love with music, and as a man, the world fell in love wit...
Any Rich Man Will Do
Any Rich Man Will Do Francis Ray 9780312324315 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers In this new novel from the national bestselling author Francis Ray, a bad girl falls on hard times, and...
Let’s Get It On
Let’s Get It On Rochelle Alers, Donna Hill, Brenda Jackson, and Francis Ray 9780312325923 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Welcome back to Leo’s supper club, where seduction is always...
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...
Gettin’ Merry
Gettin’ Merry Beverly Jenkins, Geri Guillaume, Francis Ray, and Monica Jackson 9780312982195 Fiction St. Martin’s Paperbacks Macmillan Publishers Four of today’s hottest romance writers invite you to ...
Everything In Its Place
Everything In Its Place Evelyn Palfrey 9780671042240 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Bobble Strickland, an Austin elementary school principal, didn’t really believe ex-army officer Ray Cald...
Ray Charles
Ray Charles Sharon Bell Mathis 9781584300182 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books A beautiful new edition of this 1973 multiple, award-winning biography, young readers learn the, rags-to-riches ...
Spirit of the Season
Spirit of the Season Donna Hill, Francis Ray, Margie Walker 9780786000777 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Arabesque Harlequin Enterprises Limited Last year’s holiday season romance bestseller, here are three...
Conjure Tales
Conjure Tales Charles W. Chesnutt and Ray Anthony Shepard 9780525281405 Fiction Dutton Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Book by Shepard, Ray Anthony, Chesnutt, Charles Waddell
Holistic Money Mindset: Mental Preparation for Abundance
Holistic Money Mindset: Mental Preparation for Abundance Ray’Chel Wilson 9781087994956 Nonfiction Quality Press Amber Communications Group, Inc. I operate from a deep belief that we are all meant for ...
Seasonal Adventures
Seasonal Adventures Johnny Ray Moore 9781478872399 Nonfiction Reycraft Books Reycraft Books As the reader experiences the sights, sounds, and activities of each season through the authors poetic words...
The Story of Martin Luther King Jr.
The Story of Martin Luther King Jr. Johnny Ray Moore 9781546034421 Nonfiction Worthy Kids Hachette Book Group Teach little learners about beloved civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. with this 2...
Equality Girls and the Purple Reflecto-Ray
Equality Girls and the Purple Reflecto-Ray Aya de León 9781734910605 Fiction Aya De León Aya De León Fourth grader Daniela and her friends get mad when they see girls being excluded or p...
Truth Has a Power of Its Own: Conversations about a People’s History
Truth Has a Power of Its Own: Conversations about a People’s History Howard Zinn 9781620975176 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press Never before published, an extraordinarily inspiring and radical c...
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life, Freedom, and Justice
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life, Freedom, and Justice Anthony Ray Hinton 9781250309471 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers
Chasing King’s Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Assassin: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Assassin
Chasing King’s Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Assassin: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Assassin James L. Swanson 9780545723336 Nonfiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. "Jame...
Now or Never!: Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry’s War to End Slavery
Now or Never!: Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry’s War to End Slavery Ray Anthony Shepard 9781629793405 Fiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press Here is the riveting dual biography of two little-know...
The Last Kings 2
The Last Kings 2 C. N. Phillips 9781622867721 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Back from the dead, Sadie is hungrier and more ruthless than ever. With a heart black as night and an itch...
A Single Link (The WERK Chronicles, Volume 1)
A Single Link (The WERK Chronicles, Volume 1) Balogun Ojetade 9781493740659 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC "A Single Link NEVER Breaks!" After suffering a brutal rape at the hands of a m...
You Might Just Get Burned: A Novel (Zane Presents)
You Might Just Get Burned: A Novel (Zane Presents) Shamara Ray 9781593094416 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. What happens when the man you fall for isn’t who he says he is? As games are p...
Close Quarters: A Novel (Zane Presents)
Close Quarters: A Novel (Zane Presents) Shamara Ray 9781593094430 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Can men and women live together as friends or are sparks destined to fly? When the tensio...
Break Every Rule: A Falcon Novel
Break Every Rule: A Falcon Novel Francis Ray 9780312365097 Fiction St. Martin’s Paperbacks Macmillan Publishers After falling for a charmer who was only after her money, socialite Dominique Falcon has...
Recipe For Love (Zane Presents)
Recipe For Love (Zane Presents) Shamara Ray 9781593093273 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. All the ingredients for the quintessential guilty pleasure: one part culinary delight, with a das...
Heart of the Falcon
Heart of the Falcon Francis Ray 9781250157867 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Madelyn Taggart has shattered her share of glass ceilings. As a young engineer at a Houston oil company,...
Only Hers: The Taggart Brothers
Only Hers: The Taggart Brothers Francis Ray 9781250082541 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers When St. Louis nurse Shannon Johnson inherits a cabin in Texas, she hopes it will be the per...
Into Africa: The Return
Into Africa: The Return Yvonne Blackwood 9781426902659 Nonfiction Trafford Publishing Author Solutions Blackwood’s remarkable story, articulated in Into Africa: a Personal Journey, told about her firs...
One Night With You (Grayson Friends)
One Night With You (Grayson Friends) Francis Ray 9780312365066 Fiction St. Martin’s Paperbacks Macmillan Publishers Cougars, brush fires, snow storms―rancher Duncan McBride tackles it all without a fl...
And Mistress Makes Three
And Mistress Makes Three Francis Ray 9780312573683 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Gina Rawlins is dealing with a cheating husband, a messy divorce, two unhappy children, and a floun...
The Air Between Us: A Novel
The Air Between Us: A Novel Deborah Johnson 9780061255588 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Revere, Mississippi, with its population of "20,000 and sinking," is not unlike most Southern towns in the 1960s...
Nobody But You
Nobody But You Francis Ray 9780312946852 Fiction St. Martin’s Paperbacks Macmillan Publishers NASCAR star Cameron Dunlap is poised to win this year’s Sprint Cup. But being a successful race-car driver...
Until There Was You
Until There Was You Francis Ray 9781250082572 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers All he was looking for was some peace and quiet. Instead, what ex-FBI agent Luke Grayson finds in the secl...
Not Even If You Begged
Not Even If You Begged Francis Ray 9780312948177 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Widow Traci Evans happily sits in on meetings with the lovely ladies of the Invincible Sisterhood sol...
Irresistible You (The Graysons, Book 4)
Irresistible You (The Graysons, Book 4) Francis Ray 9780312939748 Fiction St. Martin’s Paperbacks Macmillan Publishers Pierce Grayson is a marked man: if his mother, Ruth, has her way, his carefree si...
In Another Man’s Bed
In Another Man’s Bed Francis Ray 9780312356132 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers When Justine Crandall walks in on her husband of six years with another woman, she flees their home, decl...
Uh Huh!: The Story Of Ray Charles (Modern Music Masters)
Uh Huh!: The Story Of Ray Charles (Modern Music Masters) John Duggle 9781931798655 Nonfiction Morgan Reynolds Publishing Morgan Reynolds Publishing Book by Duggleby, John
You and No Other: A Grayson Novel
You and No Other: A Grayson Novel Francis Ray 9780312986780 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers The protégé of a world-renowned artist, sculptress Phoenix Banister dreams o...
Like the First Time
Like the First Time Francis Ray 9780312324292 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers THE GOOD SISTER. Claire Bennet has lost her job for the second time in as many years due to downsizing. ...
Dive: A Novel
Dive: A Novel Lisa Teasley 9781582343983 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing Lisa Teasley’s seductive debut novel is at once a thriller, a love story, and a meditation on what makes each one ...
Rockin’ Around That Christmas Tree: A Holiday Novel
Rockin’ Around That Christmas Tree: A Holiday Novel Donna Hill and Francis Ray 9780312321956 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Tis the season to be merry and the Morrison family are abou...
Somebody’s Knocking at My Door: A Novel
Somebody’s Knocking at My Door: A Novel Francis Ray 9780312307349 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Kristen Wakefield grew up the privileged, beloved daughter and sister of a wealthy f...
I Know Who Holds Tomorrow: A Novel
I Know Who Holds Tomorrow: A Novel Francis Ray 9780312300500 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers In her mind’s eyes, she could see Wes, tall and elegant in his tailored tuxedo with a pat...
Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones
Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones Quincy Jones 9780385488969 Nonfiction Doubleday Penguin Random House Musician, composer, producer, arranger, and pioneering entrepreneur Quincy Jones has lived lar...
Dark: A Novel
Dark: A Novel Kenji Jasper 9780767907071 Fiction Broadway Books Penguin Random House Thai Williams is walking a thin line between two worlds. On one side he has his job as a filing clerk for the Wash...
Curtis Twist and Shout
Curtis Twist and Shout Ray Billingsley 9780345383549 Fiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House A second collection of hilarious and heartwarming comic strips starring one of America’s hottest new...
Curtis
Curtis Ray Billingsley 9780345381101 Fiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House Eleven-year-old Curtis and his family enjoy more adventures, in a debut collection of comics by the nationally syndi...
Sneakers
Sneakers Ray Anthony Shepard 9780525395102 Fiction Dutton Books Penguin Random House A black boy finally admits to himself that his attitudes toward the team’s white co-captain is more important to wi...
Epic Harlem: A Narrative History
Epic Harlem: A Narrative History Herb Boyd 9781531514433 Nonfiction Fordham University Press Fordham University Press A sweeping, deeply rooted history of Harlem at the center of Black cultural, polit...
Cool Machine
Cool Machine Colson Whitehead 9780385550505 Fiction Doubleday Books Penguin Random House From #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer winner Colson Whitehead, an exuberantly ent...
Doe
Doe Rebecca Barrow 9798217006335 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House Thrilling crossover YA horror perfect for fans of Krystal Sutherland and Tiffany D. Jackson, where the captain of a hi...
Phases: A Memoir
Phases: A Memoir Brandy 9781335013279 Nonfiction Hanover Square Press Hanover Square Press INSTANT #1 BLK Bestseller and #1 New York Times Bestseller! The iconic, multiplatinum, Grammy Award®–winni...
Cursebound: The Faebound Trilogy Book #2
Cursebound: The Faebound Trilogy Book #2 Saara El-Arifi 9780593723036 Fiction Del Ray Penguin Random House The Faebound Trilogy: Book #2 They’re no longer prisoners to the fae court, but now two el...
The Look
The Look Michelle Obama 9780593800706 Nonfiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House As a cultural icon known for redefining traditional style, Michelle Obama makes another fashion statement w...
The Look (Signed Deluxe Edition)
The Look (Signed Deluxe Edition) Michelle Obama 9798217033898 Nonfiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House As a cultural icon known for redefining traditional style, Michelle Obama makes ano...
Bad Boy: A Graphic Memoir
Bad Boy: A Graphic Memoir Walter Dean Myers 9780063099920 Nonfiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins A gripping graphic memoir adaptation of legendary, multi-award-winning author Walter Dean Myers’s au...
Space for Everyone
Space for Everyone Seina Wedlick 9780593647639 Fiction Random House Studio Penguin Random House This lyrical and heartwarming picture book follows a Nigerian girl who worries about her family’s upcomi...
Encounters with James Baldwin: Celebrating 100 Years
Encounters with James Baldwin: Celebrating 100 Years Kadija Sesay and Cheryl Robson 9781913641412 Nonfiction Aurora Metro Books Aurora Metro Publications Encounters with James Baldwin celebrates the c...
The Unicorn Woman
The Unicorn Woman Gayl Jones 9780807030035 Fiction Beacon Press Beacon Press Marking a dramatic new direction for Jones, a riveting tale set in the Post WWII South, narrated by a Black soldier who r...
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...
Crook Manifesto (paperback)
Crook Manifesto (paperback) Colson Whitehead 9780525567288 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Harlem Shuffle ...
My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music’s Black Past, Present, and Future
My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music’s Black Past, Present, and Future Alice Randall 9781668018408 Nonfiction Atria / Black Privilege Publishing Simon & Schuster, Inc. Alice Randall, awar...
The Battle Drum
The Battle Drum Saara El-Arifi 9780593356999 Fiction Del Ray Penguin Random House Book Two of The Ending Fire Trilogy Murder. Secrets. Sacrifice: Three women seek the truth of the empire’s past. And ...
Ways to Build Dreams
Ways to Build Dreams Renée Watson 9781547610181 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award winner Renée Watson continues her bestselling ...
Crook Manifesto
Crook Manifesto Colson Whitehead 9780385545150 Fiction Doubleday Books Penguin Random House Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertai...
Murder on Federal Street: Tyrone Everett, the Black Mafia, Fixed Fights, and the Last Golden Age of Philadelphia Boxing
Murder on Federal Street: Tyrone Everett, the Black Mafia, Fixed Fights, and the Last Golden Age of Philadelphia Boxing Sean Nam 9798218137298 Nonfiction Rushcutters Bay Books Rushcutters Bay Books “N...
The Rhythm of Time
The Rhythm of Time Questlove and S. A. Cosby 9780593354063 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House From the Academy Award-winning, Grammy-winning, and New York Times be...
Minor Notes, Volume 1
Minor Notes, Volume 1 Joshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy 9780143137269 Poetry Penguin Group USA Penguin Random House The first volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black po...
The Final Strife
The Final Strife Saara El-Arifi 9780593356968 Fiction Del Ray Penguin Random House Book One of The Ending Fire Trilogy ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Oprah Daily, Autostraddle Red is the blo...
Straight Shooter: A Memoir of Second Chances and First Takes
Straight Shooter: A Memoir of Second Chances and First Takes Stephen A. Smith 9781982189495 Nonfiction Gallery Books/13A Simon & Schuster, Inc. America’s most popular sports media figure tells it like...
The Attic Child
The Attic Child Lola Jaye 9780063260375 Fiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins A hauntingly powerful and emotionally charged novel about family secrets, love and loss, identity and belonging. ...
The Women Could Fly
The Women Could Fly Megan Giddings 9780063116993 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Reminiscent of the works of Margaret Atwood, Shirley Jackson, and Octavia Butler, a biting social commentary from the acc...