K. Ancrum | The Weight of the Stars | Ryann dreams of traveling across the stars, but a career in space isn’t an option for a girl who lives in a trailer park on the wrong side of town. Al
Moi?se, Lenelle, | Haiti Glass | ‘This is prose and verse that moves deftly between girlhood memories of growing up as a Haitian immigrant in the suburbs of Boston, to bearing witness
Audre Lorde | The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde | A complete collection-over 300 poems-from one of this country’s most influential poets. ‘These are poems which blaze and pulse on the page.’–Adrienne
Brandy Colbert | Little & Lion (Little And Lion) | ‘Suzette returns home to Los Angeles from boarding school and grapples with her bisexual identity when she and her brother Lionel fall in love with th
Gloria Naylor | The Women of Brewster Place (Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series) | The National Book Award-winning novel–and contemporary classic–that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor
Gloria T. Hull | Give Us Each Day | A significant life, scrappily skimmed. Alice Dunbar-Nelson (I 875-1935) was the widow of black poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar (d. 1906), and a writer and a
A.C. Wise | The Kissing Booth Girl And Other Stories | Some story collections are tied together by themes, others voice, still others ideas. A.C.Wise’s second collection, The Kissing Booth Girl and Other S
Nicky Drayden | The Prey of Gods | In South Africa, the future looks promising. Personal robots are making life easier for the working class. The government is harnessing renewable ener
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
Zelda Lockhart | Fifth Born Ii: the Hundredth Turtle | Fifth Born II: The Hundredth Turtle is sequel to the novel Fifth Born. Set in New York s Harlem and in rural Mississippi during the late 1970 s
