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Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1856. When an argument between Henry's master and legendary abolitionist John Brown turns violent, Henry is forced to leave town - along with Brown, who believes Henry to be a girl and his good luck charm. An absorbing mixture of history and imagination, The Good Lord Bird is both a rousing adventure story and a moving exploration of identity and survival.

Charlie and Demi are the most unlikely of suitors. They are polar opposites in every way, but somehow fate still brought them to one another. After hearing Charlie sing one night in a random smokey bar, Demi finds himself revisiting the hole in the wall just to see her. When given the chance to know her, he realizes that the life he's been living for fifteen years has led him in the wrong direction. With love as their compass, Charlie and Demi must trust themselves enough to get lost in love and in one another as they fight against gravity to let their love fly high.

There are moments in life that are mountainous. They are big, scary, and insurmountable. For Demetrius Sky this moment is the death of his only son. After finding a great love in the alluring, hippie, songstress, Charlie, he thought he'd found his forever. But when grief causes a rift between them he must decide where his loyalty truly lies. With an allegiance to his ex-wife, Lauren, the divorcees must face a sorrowful goodbye, and the only way to get through it is together.

Two broken wings. One beautiful crash. Noa Green has spent the last four years of her life living with lupus. She has gotten used to people seeing her wheelchair before they see her. She paints because it's the only thing lupus didn't take from her. Her sister and her paintbrush are all she has...

Bluebird, Bluebird: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! * Winner of the 2018 Edgar Award for Best NovelWhen it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too...

Maya Angelou’s memoir is a modern American classic, capturing the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life...

Now a Showtime limited series starring Ethan Hawke and Daveed Diggs Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction From the bestselling author of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, Deacon King Kong (an Oprah Book Club pick) and The Color of Water comes the story of a young boy born a slave who...

In a world where family ties are tested by deceit and hidden truths, our tale unfolds like a quest of epic proportions, a dark odyssey that splits the once-united Clark family. Sisters Aubrey and Taylor, raised beneath the same roof yet strangers to each other, are thrust onto opposing paths in a shadowy vendetta.

The Goode-Brown family, led by matriarch and pillar of the community Minnie Mae, is plagued by old secrets and embarrassment over mental illness and illegitimacy. Meanwhile, single mother Francine Clark is haunted by her dead, lightning-struck husband and forced to fight against both the moral judgment of the community and her own rebellious daughter, Mona. The residents of Opulence struggle with vexing relationships to the land, to one another, and to their own sexuality. 

Prentice Tasifa is an investigative hawk whose been deployed from The Order to the small egg of Gould, a mountain village. A missing girl had been found dead. Hawks investigate strange and difficult situations throughout the kingdom of Aves. They can “see the unseen,” by accessing a unique ability to activate hawk-like vision, a trait they carry through their bloodlines.

A major poet, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was one of the first African American writers to garner international recognition in the wake of emancipation. In this definitive biography, the first full-scale life of Dunbar in half a century, Gene Andrew Jarrett offers a revelatory account of a writer whose Gilded Age celebrity as the "poet laureate of his race" hid the private struggles of a man who, in the words of his famous poem, felt like a "caged bird" that sings.

Birdie Boucher is a woman who lives her life in the shadows of her infamous mother. A powerful voodoo priestess of the south who uses magic to wreak havoc on the lives of anyone who gets in her way. And any woman she believes is the lover of her philandering husband.

A quietly influential force in African American literature and art, Clarence Major makes his Penguin Classics debut with the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of Dirty Bird Blues The PRH Audio book of Dirty Bird Blues by Clarence Major won a 2022 EARPHONE AWARD. Narrated by Dion Graham. A Penguin...

When the Revolutionary War begins, Guy Watson is a slave to the Hazzard family in Rhode Island, but he is soon engaged in service for the American army by Samuel Ward, head of one New England's most prominent families. Torn about leaving his beloved June and the other slaves who have become his family, Guy eventually sets out with Samuel Ward and a battalion of men on a treacherous and legendary trek to Quebec.

In a war between man and machine, he must find a way to protect them all... After a devastating war forced humans to rely on synths for survival, the two have learned to coexist peacefully. Until now... When detective Dhata Mays is called in to investigate a homicide, what he uncovers threatens the serenity of this futuristic society. The gruesome murder means only one thing: someone is ready to incite another war. Now, it's up to Dhata to ensure that the truth stays hidden - to protect both sides of the battle. But can he be unbiased in a world that forces him to take sides?

Would you like to live forever, Discover the sensation of love for the first time, become lost and confused in an ebony cloud, and celebrate love in a sky highway? Let Aubrey E. Drummond take you on a journey through the ups and downs of life, the passions of love, the joy and sorrows of song, the depression of racism and lastly walk with him into the dark pits of evil and witness the sight of its birth.