Category: Award Winner

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Trio by Dorothy Baker

Dorothy Baker | Trio | ‘Trio is the story of the crucial decisive moment in the lives of three people. Pauline Maury is a professor of French in a Western university; both c

Posted in Award Winner Black Interest Fiction

Under The Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta

Chinelo Okparanta | Under The Udala Trees | Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is 11 when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to s

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Three Lives (Biblio Bazaar) by Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein | Three Lives (Biblio Bazaar) | Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounde

Posted in Award Winner Romance

The Price of Salt by Claire Morgan

Claire Morgan | The Price of Salt | The Price of Salt has grown in popularity and in importance, and is now recognized as an American masterwork.  Highsmith has given us the enthralling

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Leaving Earth by Helen Humphreys

Helen Humphreys | Leaving Earth | On August 1, 1933, two young women, the famous aviatrix Grace O’Gorman and the inexperienced Willa Briggs, take off in a tiny Moth biplane to break th

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

Trumpet by Jackie Kay

Jackie Kay | Trumpet | Jackie Kay’s mesmerizing and powerfully moving first novel is about the extraordinary life and seeming dissolution of a family — about the boundaries

Posted in Award Winner Black Interest YA Fiction (Young Adult)

Autobiography of a Family Photo by Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson | Autobiography of a Family Photo | In her first adult novel, Woodson–already acclaimed in both the African-American and lesbian and gay worlds for her award-winning short fiction–pain

Posted in Award Winner Black Interest Fiction

Soul Kiss by Shay Youngblood

Shay Youngblood | Soul Kiss | Soul Kiss, an eloquent first novel from well-known African-American playwright Shay Youngblood, opens as seven-year-old Mariah Kim Santos is un

Posted in Award Winner Romance

The Price of Salt by Claire Morgan

Claire Morgan | The Price of Salt | The Price of Salt has grown in popularity and in importance, and is now recognized as an American masterwork.  Highsmith has given us the enthralling

Posted in Award Winner Fiction

The IHOP Papers by Ali Liebegott

Ali Liebegott | The IHOP Papers |

Francesca, a disgruntled nineteen-year-old lesbian, tries desperately to pull together the pieces of her scattered life. This hilarioius, heartfe