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Come anima mai by Rossana Soldano
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 20 ratings“Come anima mai” è una storia ambientata nell'Inghilterra del secolo scorso, negli anni tra 1936 e il 1945. Lewis Ellsworth, futuro duca di Buccleuch e l’eccentrico Will Chase si incontrano all’università di Cambridge e si innamorano... -
![In Search of Satisfaction by J. California Cooper]()
In Search of Satisfaction by J. California Cooper
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe folk flavor of her storytelling has earned her constant comparison to Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, but through four collections of short stories and two novels, J. California Cooper has proven that hers is a wholly original talent --one that embraces readers in an ever-widening circle from one book to the next... -
![The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You by Frank Stanford]()
The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You by Frank Stanford
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPoetry. Frank Stanford was called by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Alan Dugan a brilliant poet, ample in his work, like Whitman. He was the founder of Lost Roads Publishers and the author of a number of important works, among them the epic THE BATTLEFIELD WHERE THE MOON SAYS I LOVE YOU, reprinted by Lost Roads under the editorship of Forrest Gander and C.D. Wright... -
![Born a Colored Girl by Michael Edwin Q.]()
Born a Colored Girl by Michael Edwin Q.
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the author of Pappy Moses' Peanut Plantation and A Slave's Song - Two slaves, a mother and daughter, separated during the Civil War never to see each other again. From her mother's diary, Etta Jean will learn to love the mother she never knew. And from the same diary, a mother will finally give of herself... -
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![Early Novels & Stories: Go Tell It on the Mountain / Giovanni’s Room / Another Country / Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin]()
Early Novels & Stories: Go Tell It on the Mountain / Giovanni’s Room / Another Country / Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“The civil rights struggle,” said The New York Times Book Review, “found eloquent expression in [Baldwin’s] novels. His historical importance is indisputable.” Here, in a Library of America volume edited by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, is the fiction that established James Baldwin’s reputation as a writer who fused unblinking realism and rare verbal eloquence... -
![Out of Time, Into You by Jay Bell]()
Out of Time, Into You by Jay Bell
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter graduating high school, a freak accident whisks Reggie Valentine back in time to the 1950s where he meets Daniel Parker, a sweet and wholesome guy his grandmother used to date. Reggie learns that Daniel is not only closeted, but unaware that two men can fall in love or even marry... -
![Tame the Savage Heart by Michael Edwin Q.]()
Tame the Savage Heart by Michael Edwin Q.
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the best selling author of BUT HAVE NOT LOVE and BORN A COLORED GIRL comes a love story like no other. She was a young slave girl. He was an African warrior purchased at a slave auction with the intent he would father a new breed of stronger slave. Despite all odds, a language barrier and the disapproval of her family and friends, the two fight for a life together... -
![The Wildcat by Hildie McQueen]()
The Wildcat by Hildie McQueen
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe could marry the nice local farmer, or dare she get swept away by an intimidating warrior who is very much out of reach?Gideon Ross, the youngest brother to the heroic Lion, laird to the most powerful clan finally faces his destiny and it is not at all what he would have ever expected... -
![Sweet Honesty by Joan Vassar]()
Sweet Honesty by Joan Vassar
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAtlanta, Georgia, 1950–Michael can’t believe his eyes as he watches the man he loves marry a woman from the back row of Mount Zion Baptist Church. When the beautiful couple is pronounced man and wife, he leaves his home in Georgia for the chance of a better life in New York City.Alexander is just trying to exist in Queens, New York... -
![Best Kept Secrets by Rochelle Alers]()
Best Kept Secrets by Rochelle Alers
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith the tumult of the Great War finally at an end, ambitious Samuel Cole returns from Europe determined to forge his own destiny as a wealthy entrepreneur. The lush lands of the Caribbean will provide the means to wealth, but they offer private bounty as well--"a bride. Marguerite-Josefina Diaz is the toast of Havana, the convent-educated daughter of a wealthy cigar manufacturer... -
![Forgotten by Jeanne Hardt]()
Forgotten by Jeanne Hardt
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRumor has it, the war is about to end. But that doesn’t stop Billy Denton from running away to enlist. He’s lived a privileged life on the Wellesley estate, where slavery is seen as a necessary means to operate their textile production. Believing no human should be enslaved by another, he’s willing to fight—and even die—to change the future of the woman who holds his heart... -
![RNWMP: Bride for Matthew by Kirsten Osbourne]()
RNWMP: Bride for Matthew by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSinead Williams is frustrated with the lack of opportunity for her. She’s a fully qualified doctor, but no one wants to see a woman doctor. When the opportunity presents itself for her to go West to a community where she may be of help, she jumps on it. It doesn’t matter to her at all that she has to marry a Mountie as part of the process. Matthew Montgomery knows exactly what he wants in a wife... -
![Horatio by T.J. Klune]()
Horatio by T.J. Klune
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn October 15, 1979, two men take to the road, leaving their town behind, waiting for the peanut farmer president to come onto the radio to make an important announcement about the future of all mankind. In the hours leading up to the broadcast, Jamie and Harry will look back on their relationship, and what it means to live in defiance like there's no tomorrow... -
![Extra Scenes by S.A. Chakraborty]()
Extra Scenes by S.A. Chakraborty
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn addition to the main trilogy books, there have been a number of alternate, deleted, or extra scenes involving the main characters that have been posted online by the author. Some were pre-order bonuses, fluff written during the Covid-19 quarantine, or old scenes that got cut from the final book script.As a treat for readers in the lead-up to the publication of The Empire of Gold, S.A... -
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![The Consequences: Stories by Manuel Muñoz]()
The Consequences: Stories by Manuel Muñoz
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShimmering stories set in California’s Central Valley, the first book in a decade from a virtuoso story writer.“Her immediate concern was money.” So begins the first story in Manuel Muñoz’s dazzling new collection... -
![Wanted, an Author by K.J. Charles]()
Wanted, an Author by K.J. Charles
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWanted, an Author is a 5000-word story set in 1807. It returns to the characters of Wanted, a Gentleman, and also introduces a character from KJ Charles' forthcoming novel, Band Sinister... -
![Counternarratives by John Keene]()
Counternarratives by John Keene
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsConjuring slavery and witchcraft, and with bewitching powers all its own, Counternarratives continually spins history—and storytelling—on its headRanging from the 17th century to the present and crossing multiple continents, Counternarrative’s novellas and stories draw upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, interrogation transcripts, and speculative fiction to create new and... -
![Now & Then by William Corlett]()
Now & Then by William Corlett
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNow: Christopher Metcalfe returns to his family home in Kent after the death of his standoffish father. Sorting through a box of memorabilia from his days at boarding school, Chris finds himself confronted by a photograph and a face that has haunted him for thirty years...Categorized as:
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![The Priest and the Shepherd by Chloe Gong]()
The Priest and the Shepherd by Chloe Gong
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsInitially released as a bonus short story in the B&N/Indigo Exclusive Edition of Foul Lady Fortune, The Priest and the Shepherd is now free to read on Simon Teen... -
![That Could Be Enough by Alyssa Cole]()
That Could Be Enough by Alyssa Cole
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsMercy Alston knows the best thing to do with pesky feelings like "love" and "hope": avoid them at all cost. Serving as a maid to Eliza Hamilton, and an assistant in the woman's stubborn desire to preserve her late husband's legacy, has driven that point home for Mercy—as have her own previous heartbreaks... -
![Thicker Than Water by Michael Edwin Q.]()
Thicker Than Water by Michael Edwin Q.
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen her aunt who raised her dies, sixteen-year-old Alana goes to live with her uncle on another plantation, the plantation her deceased parents lived on. After months of inquiries, she questions if they're really dead. She sets off to discover the past...her past... -
![Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris]()
Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation--in the breeze, in the cotton fields...and in the crack of the whip. It's an antebellum fever-dream, where fear and desire entwine in the looming shadow of the Master's House... -
![Ravensong by Lee Maracle]()
Ravensong by Lee Maracle
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLee Maracle, author of the best-selling I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism, sets this novel in an urban Native American community on the Pacific Northwest coast in the early 1950s. Ravensong is by turns damning, humorous, inspirational, and prophetic... -
![Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories by Bienvenido N. Santos]()
Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories by Bienvenido N. Santos
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis collection of sixteen short stories brings the work of a distinguished Filipino writer to the attention of an American audience. Bienvenido N. Santos first came to the United States in 1941, and since then, he has lived intermittently here and in the Philippines, writing in English about his experiences... -
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![The Uncle's Story by Witi Ihimaera]()
The Uncle's Story by Witi Ihimaera
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMichael Mahana's personal disclosure to his parents leads to the uncovering of another family secret-about his uncle, Sam, who had fought in the Vietnam War.Now, armed with his uncle's diary, Michael goes searching for the truth about his uncle, about the secret the Mahana family has kept hidden for over thirty years, and what happened to Sam... -
![Jazz On A Saturday Night by Leo Dillon, Diane Dillon]()
Jazz On A Saturday Night by Leo Dillon, Diane Dillon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCelebrated illustrators Leo and Diane Dillon have won the Caldecott Medal twice, and now they present stunning illustrations of an evening of jazz music, complete with a special CD.If you have ever been lucky enough to hear great jazz, then you will understand the pure magic of this book... -
![Courting the West: A Boxed Set of Ten Western Romances by Debra Holland, Kirsten Osbourne]()
Courting the West: A Boxed Set of Ten Western Romances by Debra Holland, Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCourting the West 10 Western Novels Available as a boxed set for a limited time! NYT, USA Today and Bestselling authors bring you ten Western romance novels featuring sexy cowboys and sultry heroines. This boxed set is loaded with a variety of sweet to steamy romances designed to entice your senses and warm your heart... -
![Jazz Moon by Joe Okonkwo]()
Jazz Moon by Joe Okonkwo
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a lyrical, captivating debut set against the backdrop of the Harlem Renaissance and glittering Jazz Age Paris, Joe Okonkwo creates an evocative story of emotional and artistic awakening.On a sweltering summer night in 1925, beauties in beaded dresses mingle with hepcats in dapper suits on the streets of Harlem. The air is thick with reefer smoke, and jazz pours out of speakeasy doorways... -
![Race Traitor: BWWM Romance Novel for Adults by Jamila Jasper]()
Race Traitor: BWWM Romance Novel for Adults by Jamila Jasper
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings0.99 cents for a limited time only! Get the discounted price for this standalone full-length 50,000+ word interracial romance novel with NO cliffhanger and guaranteed HEA. This BWWM novel is an extra-steamy read so hot it might melt your Kindle. Janie Ross meets the hottest guy she’s ever seen in the Mississippi backwoods... -
![Etiquette For Runaways by Liza Nash Taylor]()
Etiquette For Runaways by Liza Nash Taylor
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1924. May Marshall is determined to spend the dog days of summer in self-imposed exile at her father’s farm in Keswick, Virginia. Following a naive dalliance that led to heartbreak and her expulsion from Mary Baldwin College, May returns home with a shameful secret only to find her father’s orchard is now the site of a lucrative moonshining enterprise...Categorized as:
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![Midnight Sweatlodge by Waubgeshig Rice]()
Midnight Sweatlodge by Waubgeshig Rice
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMidnight Sweatlodge tells the tale of family members, friends and strangers who gather together to partake in this ancient healing ceremony. Each person seeks wisdom and insight to overcome their pain and hardship. Through their stories we get glimpses into their lives that are both tearful and true... -
![Unholy Ghosts by Richard Zimler]()
Unholy Ghosts by Richard Zimler
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA novel of adventure, personal disclosure, violence, and finally--a strange redemption... -
![But Have Not Love by Michael Edwin Q.]()
But Have Not Love by Michael Edwin Q.
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the author of BORN A COLORED GIRL and PAPPY MOSES’ PEANUT PLANTATION – By a twist of fate, a runaway slave girl and a wounded Confederate officer are thrown together, and must rely on each other to survive... -
![The Membranes by Chi Ta-wei]()
The Membranes by Chi Ta-wei
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all of T City. Humanity has migrated to domes at the bottom of the sea to escape devastating climate change. The world is dominated by powerful media conglomerates and runs on exploited cyborg labor... -
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![What Souls Are Made Of: A Wuthering Heights Remix by Tasha Suri]()
What Souls Are Made Of: A Wuthering Heights Remix by Tasha Suri
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAs the abandoned son of a Lascar—a sailor from India—Heathcliff has spent most of his young life maligned as an "outsider." Now he's been flung into an alien life in the Yorkshire moors, where he clings to his birth father's language even though it makes the children of the house call him an animal, and the maids claim he speaks gibberish... -
![Bitter Creek's Redemption by T.A. Chase]()
Bitter Creek's Redemption by T.A. Chase
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBitter Creek is a town on the brink of war. Lines are being drawn and sides taken as two powerful men gather armies of gunfighters. The townspeople are helpless and the law worthless. One man has already died in the opening salvo of this land war and an air of fearful anticipation hangs over the town... -
![Harlem Shadows: Poems by Claude McKay]()
Harlem Shadows: Poems by Claude McKay
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA harbinger of the Harlem Renaissance first published in 1922, this collection of poignant, lyrical poems explores the author's yearning for his Jamaican homeland and the bitter plight of Black people in America--now with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown... -
![Taj: A Story of Mughal India by Timeri N. Murari]()
Taj: A Story of Mughal India by Timeri N. Murari
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen his queen Arjumand Banu-Mumtaz-i-Mahal-the Chosen One of the Palace-died, Shah Jahan wanted to build a monument that was the image of his perfect love for her. For twenty-two years, twenty thousand men laboured day and night to fulfill the emperor's obsession. The result was the Taj Mahal, a marble mausoleum lined with gold, silver and precious jewels... -
![The Archer by Shruti Swamy]()
The Archer by Shruti Swamy
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“[Swamy’s] prose is so assured . . . The Archer dazzles as it asks: How does a woman remain an artist?” —The New York Times Book Review Recommended by: BuzzFeed * The Millions * Book Riot * Literary Hub * Bookmarks * Ms...Categorized as:
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![Las hermosas by Inga Gaile, Rafael Martín Calvo]()
Las hermosas by Inga Gaile, Rafael Martín Calvo
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEn Las hermosas, Inga Gaile intenta comprender cómo ella y sus contemporáneos han sido afectados por dos de las mayores tragedias del siglo XX en Europa: el nazismo y el estalinismo. La novela describe la existencia humana durante y después del totalitarismo, y plantea la pregunta acerca de qué queda de una persona tras esa experiencia... -
![A Raisin in the Sun and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window by Lorraine Hansberry]()
A Raisin in the Sun and The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window by Lorraine Hansberry
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsBy the time of her death thirty years ago, at the tragically young age of thirty-four, Lorraine Hansberry had created two electrifying masterpieces of the American theater. With A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry gave this country its most movingly authentic portrayal of black family life in the inner city... -
![I Left My Back Door Open: A Novel by April Sinclair]()
I Left My Back Door Open: A Novel by April Sinclair
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA successful female DJ refuses to let a few romantic catastrophes keep her down in award-winning author April Sinclair’s dazzlingly soulful novel that was hailed as “a Bridget Jones’s Diary for black women” by the New York Times Book Review Daphne “Dee Dee” Dupree has arrived at age 41 with a career she loves, but a romantic life she doesn’t... -
![All Inclusive by Farzana Doctor]()
All Inclusive by Farzana Doctor
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"By turns funny, moving, thoughtful, and erotic, All Inclusive is a powerful meditation on life, love, and loss. Farzana Doctor spins a passionate, page-turning tale about the sometimes invisible ties that bind. This is brilliant storytelling...Categorized as:
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![Lazaretto by Diane McKinney-Whetstone]()
Lazaretto by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDiane McKinney-Whetstone’s nationally bestselling novel, Tumbling, immersed us into Philadelphia’s black community during the Civil Rights era, and she returns to the city in this new historical novel about a cast of 19th-century characters whose colorful lives intersect at the legendary Lazaretto—America’s first quarantine hospital...Categorized as:
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![The Fantasies of Future Things by Doug Jones]()
The Fantasies of Future Things by Doug Jones
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA compelling and timely debut novel following two Black men tasked with overseeing the destruction and gentrification of the predominantly Black neighborhoods surrounding Atlanta before the 1996 Olympics.The Fantasies of Future Things follows two Black men working for the real estate development company responsible for the revitalization of Summerhill in Atlanta, Georgia, for the 1996 Olympics...Categorized as:
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![Ravage the Dark by Tara Sim]()
Ravage the Dark by Tara Sim
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFor seven long years, while she was imprisoned on a debtor's ship, Amaya Chandra had one plan: to survive. But now, survival is not enough. She has people counting on her; counting on her for protection, for leadership, for vengeance. And after escaping Moray by the skin of her teeth, she's determined to track down the man who betrayed her and her friends... -
![Kersenbloed by Floortje Zwigtman]()
Kersenbloed by Floortje Zwigtman
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEngeland, 1880: Vincent wordt door zijn ouders naar kostschool gestuurd. Hij moet erg wennen aan de strenge regels van de leraren, maar ook aan de regels waar niemand over praat. Langzaam maar zeker ontdekt hij dat de oudste jongens de eerstejaars terroriseren en dat er tussen hen geheimzinnige dingen plaatsvinden... -
![Eva - A Novel by Carry Van Bruggen: Translated and with a Commentary by Jane Fenoulhet by Carry van Bruggen]()
Eva - A Novel by Carry Van Bruggen: Translated and with a Commentary by Jane Fenoulhet by Carry van Bruggen
Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“I let these years slip through my fingers like a stream of dry, glinting sand.” Eva is a coming-of-age story told in fluid, stream-of-consciousness prose that takes readers through the eponymous main character’s orthodox Jewish girlhood to marriage to, finally, independence and sexual freedom... -
![The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr]()
The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWhen a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the perils of white passengers, ghosts, and his secret love affairThe Sleeping Car Porter brings to life an important part of Black history in North America, from the perspective of a queer man living in a culture that renders him invisible in two ways...Categorized as:
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![Three Princes by Ramona Wheeler]()
Three Princes by Ramona Wheeler
Rated: 2.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLord Scott Oken, a prince of Albion, and Professor-Prince Mikel Mabruke live in a world where the sun never set on the Egyptian Empire. In the year 1877 of Our Lord Julius Caesar, Pharaoh Djoser-George governs a sprawling realm that spans Europe, Africa, and much of Asia...
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