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Annis est encore une enfant quand sa mère est vendue à un autre propriétaire. Et n'est guère plus âgée quand son maître, qui est aussi l'homme qui a violé sa mère, se débarrasse d'elle avec d'autres esclaves. Lors de leur terrible marche vers les plantations de La Nouvelle-Orléans, Annis tente de se raccrocher à la vie et aux enseignements de sa mère : se battre, toujours, avec les armes et les sagesses qu'elle lui a transmises.

In 1843 New Orleans, the reigning Voodoo queen is Marie Laveau, feared by her enemies and followers alike. Her daughter, Marie "Ree" Laveau the Second, is everything her cutthroat and principled mother is not—spoiled and entitled, with a wickedly rebellious streak—and defies her mother at every turn. But Ree’s world is turned upside down when she finds Marie comatose in the bayou, cursed by exiled Voodoo king Jon the Conjurer—Marie’s former teacher, lover, and greatest enemy.

After storming the scene with Stereo(TYPE), the PEN America Award–winning poet makes his highly anticipated return—with a virtuosic sophomore collection that plunges the reader into the tenebrous realm between dreams and reality, and firmly establishes him as an essential voice in American poetry.

We is a formally and thematically ambitious collection inspired by Virgil’s Georgics that examines community, the weight of history, and what we owe one another from a Black American perspective. It evolves from the personal—Bennett’s family history in New York and current life in Massachusetts—to the historical, linking the past and present through place. The collection concludes with an epic poem that traces African American life in the twentieth century through four iconic figures: George Washington Carver, George Jackson, George Taliaferro, and George Clinton.

Olivia owes everything to Celia's Place. It’s where she learned how to be a great chef. It’s also where she first fell in love. But at nineteen, Olivia had a wanderlust she couldn’t deny. And Carmello, whose mother owned the restaurant, couldn’t leave Celia's Place behind any more than he could force Olivia to stay.

Estudiante de doctorado en neurociencia, Gifty explora la conducta en ratones para investigar el funcionamiento de los circuitos neuronales de la depresión y la adicción, dos enfermedades que han causado estragos entre sus seres más queridos: su hermano, Nana, era una promesa del atletismo que murió hace años a causa de una sobredosis de heroína tras una lesión de tobillo y la dependencia al OxyContin, mientras que su madre ha vuelto a caer en una depresión severa.

In the winter of 1846, after attending a performance of Shakespeare in Detroit, young wife Claire Hinman is found stabbed and bludgeoned in a snowy field. The person behind her death has devised a scheme to implicate Claire's husband, Carl. To avoid arrest, Carl flees to Ohio with his young daughter, Mariel. But the past soon catches up with him. Claire's father comes from the East Coast demanding answers, while a mysterious medicine show also begins to close in, for reasons of its own. When Mariel becomes ill, her only hope is a doctor in Detroit.

New York in the 1900s. A young girl, fascinated by rare books, defies the odds and climbs all the ranks. She becomes the director of the fabulous library of the magnate J. P. Morgan and the darling of the international aristocracy, under the false name of Belle da Costa Greene. Although she looks white, she is actually African American and, moreover, the daughter of a famous black activist who sees her desire to hide her origins as a betrayal.

From the coast of Africa to the homestead of Skuna Valley Mississippi comes a twisted tale of hoodoo magic, slavery, rape, torture, and murder. On the banks of Turkey Creek, a hoodoo magic curse is cast to avenge the mistreatment of innocent slaves. Plantation owner Cassius Lue Shannon's years of horrifying culture towards slaves bring down a living hell upon his family. Almost 160 years later Henry and Sharron Matoske build their dream house just off Turkey Creek not knowing the dark secrets haunting the once proud plantation land.

In an unforgettable portrait of Southern scheming, greed, and brutality a high-end criminal turned suburban mom in hiding must fight against the dangerous fallout from her corrupt past and escape a calculated enemy hell-bent on revenge.

Join us on this emotional roller coaster as Sevyn struggles with her heart and mind, secretly in love with a man who is off-limits: her best friend, Wave. Her busy life isn’t enough to keep her happy, and she’s fed up with having to hide who she is to meet the standards of someone else's lifestyle. The tough Chicago girl is faced with depression and hard decisions when confronted with choosing between what she needs and what she wants. Will she let herself drown in her sorrows, or will she emerge stronger?

Flight attendant Makenna Akins has received a text from the man she loves every year for eight years, but they haven’t spoken a word to one another. Distraught over a harrowing decision that she made at a critical time in her life, Makenna has become a fraction of her former self. When she sees the man who once held her heart on a busy street one night in Vegas, Makenna wonders if she’s losing it.

One final fling was the gift her fiancé had given her. One wild weekend in Vegas was what her friends planned. A hidden identity and four hot nights were what she gave a stranger in Vegas. Then how did social media influencer London Pharr become a runaway bride? He was a player who didn't do relationships. She was a temporary escape for the weekend. Then why did MLB player Carter Lockwood find himself crashing the wedding of a woman he could not forget?

Kaos Montgomery is one of four managing partners at Montgomery, Pierce, Walker, and Gough Law Firm. He handles the organized crime unit, defending mafia leaders, drug lords, and assassins. Though Kaos spent his younger days in the underworld, he thrives and takes pride in the legit life he lives now . . . though some people in his past and personal life wish they could bring back the old him.

She was born behind the walls of the big house, raised to serve a master who was also her father. But survival under his roof came at a cruel cost. Rose knows the horrors hidden behind lace curtains and Sunday prayers. She knows what it means to be owned, to be silenced, to be broken and expected to smile through it. When a moment of bloodshed shatters the chains holding her in place, Rose flees into a world just as dangerous as the one she left behind. Hunted, wounded, and haunted, she journeys toward something she’s only ever heard whispered about—freedom.

When Lisa Doris makes the tough call to leave her new love interest and work things out with her ex, did she make the right one? Years after her decision, she’s carved out a new life that seemed to be divinely led. As a music journalist for a hip, Black-owned magazine, and a wife and mother expecting baby number two, her plate is full. How could she not have it all? Yet, for years, the behind-the-scenes turmoil from the estrangement of her mother and the nagging absence of her father remained buried. When her father returns to her life, old resentments relentlessly fly to the surface.

What happens when unpacking your emotional baggage reveals more than you bargained for? On Chicago's South Side, in the fictional close-knit community of Ebondale, four friends join a unique therapy group, where secrets and long-hidden truths rise to the surface, testing the bonds of their sisterhood in ways that could either tear them apart or bring them closer than ever.

Chicago’s finest are scouring the city for a tainted new opioid making the rounds, but they’re coming up empty. With five people already dead—a college kid, a new mother, and three poker players—all they really know is the drug’s name: Edge. Where it’s coming from is still anyone’s guess. Detective Harriet Foster doesn’t have time for guessing games. She needs answers. And when the next overdose hits Homicide where it hurts most, Harri is determined to get what she wants. But keeping her eyes squarely on the prize proves harder than expected.

You’d think it was the perfect setup: living next door to the grumpy single dad who needs my help with his troublemaking kids—just until football season is over. Swoony stuff, right? You know who’s not swooning? Me. I’m as grumpy as he is, and I’m fairly certain that for NFL Coach Barrett King, it was hate at first sight. It’s nothing I’ll lose sleep over because 1) the feeling is mutual, and 2) I’m not a people person. Just me and my dog, Larry, moving around when the mood strikes, is what I prefer.

Dealing with being a new mother and grieving the death of her mom causes Sloane to shut down on everyone around her. It seems like the more she tries to fight her current state, the worse it becomes. With her husband and the rest of her family by her side, she's determined to overcome the obstacles in front of her. Join the last Parker sister for this emotional rollercoaster.