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Shakur's protagonist is Lapeace, the leader of the Eight Tray Crips gang in South Central Los Angeles. In a deadly gunfight with Anyhow, a Blood and Lapeace's rival since childhood, eight innocent civilians are killed. Anyhow is captured. Lapeace becomes a fugitive and he must hide out in the home of his girlfriend Tashima, a hip-hop mogul, as a pair of crooked LA detectives, John Sweeney and Jesse Mendoza, attempt to track him down.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, read by Dominic Hoffman. Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader's wife. The consequences of their fate reverberate through the generations...

The daughter of a prostitute mother and an alcoholic father, Maggie Franklin knew her only way out was to marry someone upstanding and church-going. Someone like Hubert Wiggins, the most eligible man in Lexington, Alabama - and the son of its most revered preacher. Proper and prosperous, Hubert is glad to finally have a wife, even one with Maggie's background. For Hubert has a secret he desperately needs to stay hidden. And Maggie's unexpected charm, elegance, and religious devotion makes her the perfect partner in lies.... 

Brought to you by Penguin. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK From the winner of a National Book Award and author of The Good Lord Bird, soon to be a TV series starring Ethan Hawke The year is 1969. In a housing project in south Brooklyn, a shambling old church deacon...

'RaMell Ross's transcendentally moving and frightening film' (Guardian, New York Film Festival) now a major motion picture and shortlisted for a Golden Globe. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020 Winner of the Library of Congress...

Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction Winner of the Gotham Book Prize One of Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of the Year" Oprah's Book Club Pick New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Named one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK From the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom. “This potent book about America’s most...

James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel with a new introduction. Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. David has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while...

Brooke: I messed up big time and broke a reporter’s most crucial rule: Always ensure your mic is turned to the off position between shoots. As penance for my mistake, the network has relegated me to Comic Con. The last place I want to be. It’s hot, crowded, and strange costumed characters surround me. What’s worse, a guy stole my freaking latte. On purpose! All I have to do is suffer through these next four days, but Benton Davis is doing his best to make it impossible.

Essence best-selling author Keith Lee Johnson's popular series continues with this fourth book, which reaches back to unearth the roots of JohnnieWise's family tree. On the eve of her arranged marriage in an African village, a 16-year-old girl elopes with her fiancé's younger brother. But the lovers are captured and sold into American slavery - and the girl wonders if she'll ever see her man again.

An intoxicating debut novel of "one motherless daughter's discovery of...the strange and wonderful places we find love" —The Washington PostSue Monk Kidd's ravishing debut novel has stolen the hearts of reviewers and readers alike with its strong, assured voice. Set in South Carolina in...

Ella has a Thing. She sees a classmate grow up to become a caring nurse. A neighbor's son murdered in a drive-by shooting. Things that haven't happened yet. Kev, born while Los Angeles burned around them, wants to protect his sister from a power that could destroy her. But when Kev is incarcerated, Ella must decide what it means to watch her brother suffer while holding the ability to wreck cities in her hands. Rooted in the hope that can live in anger, Riot Baby is as much an intimate family story as a global dystopian narrative.

A ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winner “Arresting images, fierce intelligence, poetic language . . . One becomes entranced by Toni Morrison’s story.” —The Washington Post Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model...

Sonny Rollins is one of the towering masters of American music, a virtuoso of the saxophone, and an unequaled improviser whose live performances are legendary and who has reshaped modern jazz over the course of a career lasting more than sixty years. A turning point in that legendary career came...

Advokaten Johan Olsson har lämnat den stora byrån för att bygga upp sin egen verksamhet. När en klient med ett enormt arv anlitar honom ser han en möjlighet att säkra sin framtid och Johans etik sätts på prov. Vad som börjar som en chans att hjälpa någon i nöd blir snabbt ett farligt...

Erik är fjorton år och har misslyckats i skolan. Lösningen verkar enkel. Han skickas till farmor Astrid för att "rätta till sig". Bara en termin. Bara tillfälligt. Så var det sagt. Det är Lena, Eriks mamma, som ser det första tecknet. Erik slutar svara i telefon. "Han pluggar", säger...

Bröderna Jakob och Joakim hittar bräder med långa spikar och annat skräp som har slängts i skogen utanför Björkviken. För att inga djur ska skadas bestämmer sig killarna för att städa undan allt. Men tänk om den som har skräpat ner kommer tillbaka? Tillsammans ger sig killarna ut...

När Peter får anställning inom restaurangvärlden tänker han att allting äntligen kommer att falla på plats. Men säg den lycka som varar ... Det efterlängtade jobbet visar sig ha en mörkare sida och snart blir han indragen i skumma affärer, där drogernas betydelse är centrala...

Mina älskade föräldrar. Hur är det med er? Var är ni? Vad händer med er? Jag vill fråga er, fråga igen och igen. Snälla svara mig omedelbart och ge mig er adress. Lever ni fortfarande??? Dessa ord skriver Wilma Ermann till sina föräldrar i Tyskland i oktober 1941. Hon får tillbaka...

Nätstrippan Ken hittas halvnaken och död vid Stadshusbron i Stockholm. Kommissarie Jörgen Bergh och hans utredningsgrupp tar sig an fallet. Genom många och långa förhör och undersökning av den tekniska bevisningen hittar de en misstänkt. Samtidigt utreder advokat Astrid Olofsson på...