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• Everything Is Fine Here

  Tushabe, Iryn,

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  Eighteen-year-old Aine Kamara's much anticipated reunion with her older sister Mbabazi sees an old fear of Aine's realized: Mbabazi is gay in a country where anti-homosexuality laws hold the power to destroy her life. Everything is Fine Here is a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Faebound

  El-Arifi, Saara,

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  Yeeran, a warrior in the elven army has known nothing but violence. Her life has been defined by the battlefield. When a fatal mistake results in Yeeran's exile from the Elven Lands, she and her sister are forced into the foreboding wilderness…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Great Black Hope

  Franklin, Robert Michael,

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  Smith, a gay black Stanford graduate still reeling from the death of a close friend, gets arrested for cocaine possession, exposing him to the institutional racism his class had previously protected him from.

• Great Expectations

  Cunningham, Vinson,

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  Cunningham’s debut novel follows David Hammond over the eighteen months he spends working for a magnetic young black senator making a bid for the US presidency.

• Little Rot

  Emezi, Akwaeke,

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  Five friends who expect a fun night, end up facing chaos, danger, violence, murder, and betrayals in the elite and corrupt underbelly of a Nigerian city.

• Love by the Book

  George, Jessica, 1994-

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  A platonic love story of the friendship of two women, Remy and Simone, whose relationship may be just what each needs to overcome their pasts and build their futures.

• Minor Black Figures

  Taylor, Brandon (Brandon L. G.),

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  The author of Real Life returns with another beautifully introspective story examining art, love and life over the course of a summer in New York City.

• Model Home

  Solomon, Rivers,

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  The three adult Maxwell siblings would like to forget their strange and traumatic childhood as the only black family living in an upper middle class gated community in Texas. But when their parents are found dead in the family home the three…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Murder for Miss Hortense

  Pennant, Mel,

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  Miss Hortense, a formidable Jamaican-born retired nurse living in England, is determined to get to the bottom of a mystery involving a local group of Black investors she was unfairly ousted from years before.

• O Sinners!

  Cuffy, Nicole,

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  Told in alternating perspectives, young journalist Faruq embeds with a mysterious California cult called "the nameless," but struggles with his own past and the pull of belief and belonging.

• Someone Like Us

  Mengestu, Dinaw, 1978-

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  Journalist Mamush returns to his mother's home in an Ethiopian community outside Washington D.C. to investigate the life of his recently deceased biological father and the unspoken truths of his early childhood.

• Theft

  Gurnah, Abdulrazak, 1948-

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  The fates of three young people in Tanzania intersect in unpredictable and impactful ways, as the pitfalls and opportunities of global change rapidly alter their country.

• The War You Don't Hate

  Ndala, Blaise, 1972-

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  The paths of an Oscar-winning Canadian documentary filmmaker collide with two ex-rebel soldiers from the Congo in a tale of revenge against those who benefit from others' misery.