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One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years A modern masterpiece about love and kinship, about living in an America birthed from slavery. Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison gives life to characters who struggle with what society tells them to be, and the love they...

Ein kleiner Ort im ländlichen Louisiana. Seine afroamerikanischen Bewohner blicken mit Stolz auf eine lange Tradition und Geschichte, und vor allem auf ihre Kinder, die von Generation zu Generation hellhäutiger zu werden scheinen. Stella und Desiree etwa, Zwillingsschwestern von ganz unterschiedlichem Wesen. Aber in einem sind sie sich einig: Hier sehen sie keine Zukunft für sich. In New Orleans trennen sich ihre Wege. Denn Stella tritt unbemerkt in eine nur weißen Amerikanern vorbehaltene Welt - und bricht alle Brücken hinter sich ab.

An important medical breakthrough has a shameful history. In 1840s Alabama, a slave-owning doctor performs medical experiments on involuntary subjects - enslaved women - in an effort to solve the problem of fistulas, a post-childbirth anomaly. As the experiments proceed, and he gets close to a solution, the women try to survive and even find dignity in the face of inhuman treatment.

Airyon has always lived according to her parents' strict expectations, relentlessly pursuing academic success. But one fateful night shatters her carefully constructed world, when a passionate encounter with Zayne, a brilliant tech wiz, ignites an undeniable spark between them. Awakening alone the next morning, Zayne is left yearning for more, even as Airyon disappears from his life. But destiny intervenes, reuniting them when Airyon starts working under Zayne. They soon discover their night of passion bore unexpected fruit—Airyon is pregnant.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Will an ancient curse darken the skies over Camino Island? Bruce Cable and Mercer Mann are about to find out. Look for John Grisham’s forthcoming legal thriller, The Widow. This time, the verdict isn’t the end of the story. Mercer Mann, a popular writer from...

As irmãs Vignes são gêmeas idênticas. Quando, aos 16 anos, resolvem fugir de casa, elas não fazem ideia de como isso vai alterar suas trajetórias. Mais de uma década depois, uma delas volta para a cidade natal—uma comunidade negra no sul dos Estados Unidos obcecada por novas gerações de pele cada vez mais clara—e o choque não poderia ser maior. Porque ela não apenas chega sem a irmã, mas com uma criança. Uma criança de pele muito escura.

The protagonist of Percival Everett's puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. (Wala, he explains, means "nothing" in Tagalog, and Kitu is Swahili for "nothing.") He is an expert on nothing. That is to say, he is an expert, and his area of study is nothing, and he does nothing about it.

Having just celebrated her 26th birthday in 1976 California, Dana, an African-American woman, is suddenly and inexplicably wrenched through time into antebellum Maryland. After saving a drowning White boy there, she finds herself staring into the barrel of a shotgun and is transported back to the present just in time to save her life. During numerous such time-defying episodes with the same young man, she realizes she's been given a challenge.

Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by society and abused by her own family. She strives to protect her sister, Nettie, from a similar fate, and while Nettie escapes to a new life as a missionary in Africa, Celie is left behind without her best friend and confidante, married off to an older suitor, and sentenced to a life alone with a harsh and brutal husband. In an attempt to transcend a life that often seems too much to bear, Celie begins writing letters to God. The letters, spanning 20 years, record a journey of self-discovery and empowerment guided by the light of a few strong women.

What happens when a heartbroken therapist hires a handsome but hot-headed private chef for a dinner she was supposed to share with the man who wrecked her in the first place? She ends up being fed more than the three-course meal he came to serve. Iyla Fisher thought her solo anniversary dinner would be a quiet night of self-care until Keywan Glover, a chef with a short fuse and a violent past, strolls into her life and flips the script.

An unforgettable, poetic, raw, and emotional debut novel about love, secrets, and survival, perfect for fans of Jahquel J., Shvonne Latrice, and Elle Kayson. Niyah Evans is a registered nurse with a bleeding heart and a backbone built from survival. After raising her younger brother on her own...

From their high school days to long nights in college, she poured her heart into Derek—believing they'd build a life together. But now, he’s chasing a dream that leaves no room for her, and Imara is left holding the pieces of a relationship that only works when she sacrifices herself. When Derek chooses career over commitment—again—Imara is forced to confront a truth she’s long ignored: loving someone shouldn’t mean losing yourself.

(نور الدين)، (سلوى)، (رمزي)، (محمود) إنه الفريق الذي يختص كل شخص فيه بمجال معين يختلف عن الآخر ويجتمع الكل معا ليكونوا خليطا متماسكا يجتاز الصعاب والمحن.. ضابط المخابرات والطبيب النفسي ومهندسة الإتصالات وأخصائي علم الأشعة هؤلاء جميعا يصطحبون القراء إلى العديد من المغامرات المستقبلية.. عالم الفضاء ومدينة الأعماق و الثلوج الساخنة والشمس الزرقاء وزمن الدم، وغيرها من الملفات التى تسافر بنا إلى الغد ..إلى المستقبل.. جميعها قصص نجدها ونستمتع بمذاق المغامرة والخيال فيها في هذه السلسلة الشيقة لاغيرها..

When Tunde Adebayo and Nkem Eze say “I do,” it isn’t for love — it’s for appearances. Pressured by family, church, and culture, their picture-perfect wedding masks the quiet fracture between them. They’ve known each other all their lives... but that doesn’t mean they know what they’re walking into.

Titus Briggs's second chance has become a first-rate, alien-crushing, rebel-stomping success. The MOCOM units are turning the tide of the war, and the Moonlight Rebellion is on the ropes. But if these treasonous humans, who worship alien invaders as gods, are to be finally defeated, it means cutting off the supply of weapons and equipment from their Thephari overlords... if Briggs and his team can find out how they are doing it.

Mona Kitt has it all. A high-powered job at Kline Turner Solutions. Expensive taste. A revolving door of suitors. And… the ability to see the future. This has, of course, afforded her the luxury of staying three steps ahead of everyone around her. She sees future lovers, future opportunities, and future scandals to use as blackmail fodder. But unfortunately for Mona, she also sees Death, and she's in a race against time to save her soul. Can Mona confront her past to change her future?

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Essence Knox never thought she'd be starting over at her age. After two decades of teaching math at Hardwood High, raising her daughters, and keeping everything together, she's faced with a quiet house and tough decisions. Selling the family home seems like the right move, but letting go of the past and the pain that comes with it is easier said than done. Little did she know, her fresh start would come in the form of a new colleague. Enter Xavier Sharpe, the retired military man turned high school teacher.

A strange email from a college student pulls Mythical agents Himora Clarke and Trevor Coleman into a hidden world of doors, memory spells, and a powerful vampire family who'll do anything to keep their secrets buried. What begins as a simple lead unravels into a generational story meant to stay buried. Secrets that refuse to die, and sins that never stop feeding. As our unlikely agents are pulled closer to each other, their bond stirs a darkness that could be the very thing that destroys them both, just as it did once before.