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  • The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

    A Novel

    by James McBride ...
    **AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR/FRESH AIR, WASHINGTON POST, THE NEW YORKER, AND TIME MAGAZINEONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023“A murder mystery locked inside a Great American Novel . . . Charming, smart, heart-blistering, and heart-healing.” —Danez Smith, The New York Times Book Review“We all need—we all *d... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Monsters We Defy

    "[P]itch perfect, with wit, romance, and a lovable found family." ―Publishers Weekly (starred review)"This smart and entertaining, magical heist novel hits all the right notes!" ―T.L. HuchuNPR Best Book of 2022! Paste Best Fantasy Book of 2022!"Never make a deal with shadows at night, especially ones that know your name.”Washington D. C., 1925:Clara Johnson can talk to spi... ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • Erasure

    A Novel

    Percival Everett's blistering satire about race and publishing, now adapted for the screen as the Academy Award-winning AMERICAN FICTION, directed by Cord Jefferson and starring Jeffrey WrightThelonious "Monk" Ellison's writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more because his previous novels have been "critically ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Dr. No

    A Novel

    **WINNER OF THE 2023 PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARDA sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star keeps rising**The protagonist of Percival Everett’s puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. (Wala, he explains, means “nothing” in Tagalog, and Kitu is Swahili for “nothing.”) He is an expert on nothing. That is to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Parable of the Sower

    This acclaimed post-apocalyptic novel of hope and terror from an award-winning author "pairs well with 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale" and includes a foreword by N. K. Jemisin (John Green, New York Times).When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s, California becomes full of dangers, from pervasive water shortage to masses of vagabonds who will do anything ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • When the Reckoning Comes

    A Novel

    "LaTanya McQueen's When The Reckoning Comes is so deliciously uncomfortable there were moments where I had to put the book down, take a deep breath, and like Mira, its protagonist, urge myself to go further. This is a novel, like Octavia Butler's Kindred, that reminds its readers that as long as people don't acknowledge how much of the past still shapes the present, it will bring its whips, its ... Read more

    $14.49 USD $1.99 USD

  • Collected Fictions

    “An event, and cause for celebration.” —The New York TimesFor the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called “the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century” collected in a single volumeA Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged paperFor some fifty years, in intriguing and ingenious fictions that reimagined the very form of the short story—from ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Open City

    A Novel

    by Teju Cole ...
    “Cerebral and capacious, Teju Cole’s novel asks what it means to roam freely.”—The New York Times (One of the 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years)“Influential . . . makes you think about what kind of city is revealed to us based on where we cannot go.”—Katie Kitamura, bestselling author of IntimaciesONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, NPR • WINNER: PEN ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $5.99 USD

  • The Street

    by Ann Petry ...
    WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR TAYARI JONES“How can a novel’s social criticism be so unflinching and clear, yet its plot moves like a house on fire? I am tempted to describe Petry as a magician for the many ways that The Street amazes, but this description cheapens her talent . . . Petry is a gifted artist.” — Tayari Jones, from the IntroductionThe Street follows ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Pendulum War

    Pendulum Heroes, #3

    by James Beamon ...
    Series Book 3 - Pendulum Heroes
    Jason is the Chosen One of Prophecy... maybe.His unmarked body may be the catalyst that brings about the return of the corrupting God of Power, and with him, the threat of madness and chaos. That's enough for the Holy Aian Empire to stop at nothing to see Jason dead, even if that means total war with the peoples of the Free States.Little do they know Jason's not truly aian or that his ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beloved

    Pulitzer Prize Winner

    by Toni Morrison ...
    Series series Vintage International
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES **BESTSELLER • A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author.This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner.**Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Fires of Vengeance

    by Evan Winter ...
    Series Book 2 - The Burning
    In this "relentlessly gripping, brilliant" epic fantasy (James Islington), an ousted queen must join forces with a young warrior in order to reclaim her throne and save her people.Tau and his Queen, desperate to delay the impending attack on the capital by the indigenous people of Xidda, craft a dangerous plan. If Tau succeeds, the Queen will have the time she needs to assemble her forces and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Delay of Game

    An One Night Stand, Opposites Attract, Hockey Romance

    by Aliyah Burke ...
    Series Book 6 - Springwood
    It only takes one moment to change the game forever…Sergej Markovich is the star player, the left winger, for the Washington Raptors. And he wants the Stanley Cup. Asked by his friend and teammate to pick up a woman from the airport, he doesn't realize that this woman is the one, the only one, who would be able to delay his game. She's not at all as he expected and now that he's met her, all he ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Symphony of Secrets

    A novel

    **A gripping page-turner from the celebrated author of book club favorite The Violin Conspiracy: Music professor Bern Hendricks discovers a shocking secret about the most famous American composer of all time—his music may have been stolen from a Black Jazz Age prodigy named Josephine Reed.Determined to uncover the truth that a powerful organization wants to keep hidden, Bern will stop at nothing ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $11.99 USD

  • Lore of the Wilds

    A Novel

    A stunning Romantasy debut about an enchanted library, two handsome Fae, and one human who brings them all together.A library with a deadly enchantment.A Fae lord who wants in.A human woman willing to risk it all for a taste of power.In a land ruled by ruthless Fae, twenty-one-year-old Lore Alemeyu’s village is trapped in a forested prison. Lore knows that any escape attempt is futile—her sc... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Chain Gang All Stars

    National Book Award Finalist

    **A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION • A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America’s own in this explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Friday Black • LONGLISTED ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Body By Night

    by Zuri Day ...
    A woman on a quest to gain control of her life is distracted by her sexy personal trainer in this contemporary romance by the author of Lies Lovers Tell.D'Andra Smalls has had enough. She's tired of being overweight, she's had it with her overbearing family, and she's fed up with settling for any guy who'll have her—especially since she caught her boyfriend cheating with her best friend.But ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Oreo

    A pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from Philadelphia searching for her Jewish father in New York CityOreo is raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, and her Jewish deadbeat dad disappeared when she was an infant, leaving behind a mysterious note that triggers her quest to find him. What ensues is a playful, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Wild Seed

    In an "epic, game-changing, moving and brilliant" story of love and hate, two immortals chase each other across continents and centuries, binding their fates together -- and changing the destiny of the human race (Viola Davis).Doro knows no higher authority than himself. An ancient spirit with boundless powers, he possesses humans, killing without remorse as he jumps from body to body to sustain ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Sellout

    A Novel

    by Paul Beatty ...
    Winner of the Man Booker PrizeWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in FictionWinner of the John Dos Passos Prize for LiteratureNew York Times Bestseller**Los Angeles Times BestsellerNamed One of the 10 Best Books of the Year by** The New York Times Book ReviewNamed a Best Book of the Year by Newsweek</em... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

    *FINALIST for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction**WINNER of the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award**WINNER of the 2020 Story Prize**WINNER of the 2020 L.A. Times Book Prize, Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction*“Beguiling.” —The New Yorker“Tender, fierce, proudly black and beautiful, these stories will sneak inside you and take root.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Triumphant.”</s... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Welcome to Braggsville

    A Novel

    LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2015 BY THE WASHINGTON POST, TIME, MEN’S JOURNAL, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, KANSAS CITY STAR, BROOKLYN MAGAZINE, NPR, HUFFINGTON POST, THE DAILY BEAST, AND BUZZFEEDWINNER OF THE 2015 ERNEST J. GAINES AWARD FOR LITERARY EXCELLENCELONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN... ... Read more

    $10.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Butterfly

    Butterfly is the first novel in an all new series by New York Times bestselling author Ashley Antoinette and an instant USA Today bestseller!“Run away from the boy that gives you butterflies, he's going to break your heart.”Morgan Atkins had been told that phrase ever since she was a little girl and still she allowed herself to fall for the boy that made her heart flutter. After losing her first ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Personal Librarian

    A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)

    **The Instant New York Times Bestseller! A Good Morning America* Book Club Pick!Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR! Named a Notable Book of the Year by the Washington Post!“Historical fiction at its best!”*A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white in order to leave a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD