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Highway 59 volume 3
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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The case of a missing Black college student who has disappeared from her all-white sorority pulls Darren out of an early retirement; the third and final novel in the "timely and evocative" (NPR) Highway 59 trilogy, from Edgar Award-winning New York Times-Bestselling author Attica Locke.
Texas Ranger Darren Mathews isn’t sure he’s been a good cop, but believes he’s got a shot...
Texas Ranger Darren Mathews isn’t sure he’s been a good cop, but believes he’s got a shot...
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"In this Southern gothic horror debut, a young Black woman abandons her life in 1960s Chicago for a position with a mysterious family in New Orleans, only to discover the dark truth: They're under a curse, and they think she can break it. In the fall of 1962, twenty-seven-year-old Jemma Barker is desperate to escape her life in Chicago-and the spirits she has always been able to see. When she receives an unexpected job offer from the Duchon family...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"A brilliant dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity-industrial complex Jane has high hopes her life is about to turn around. After years of living precariously, she, her painter husband, Lenny, and their two kids have landed a stint as house sitters in a friend's luxurious home high in the hills above Los Angeles, a gig that coincides magically with Jane's sabbatical. If she can just finish her latest novel,...
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Publisher
Zando
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize 2024
"Extraordinary . . . a powerful and poignant exploration of the African diaspora and global Black identity . . . This book moves like the storm Sennaar begins it with." —New York Times
A Real Simple Best Book of 2024
A "luminous" (Tara Conklin) literary
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Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
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"Marking a dramatic new direction for Jones, a riveting tale set in the Post WWII South, narrated by a Black soldier who returns to Jim Crow and searches for a mythical ideal. Set in the early 1950s, this latest novel from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Gayl Jones follows the witty but perplexing army veteran Buddy Ray Guy as he embodies the fate of Black soldiers who return, not in glory, but into their Jim Crow communities. A cook...
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