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22) SONG OF SOLOMON
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric...
Perfect.
Privileged.
Strong.
Spoiled.
Uptight.
Useless.
If there's any one thing Pierre and Logan have in common, it's their ability to invite snap judgements based on shallow views of who they are.
Logan is the privileged only daughter of a respected family whose legacy runs long and deep.
Pierre is the moody, orphaned son of big screen royalty who couldn't possibly live up to the prestige of his
...24) New Kid
Winner of the Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Author Award, and Kirkus Prize for Young Readers' Literature!
Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Gene Luen Yang, New Kid is a timely, honest graphic novel about starting over at a new school where diversity is low and the struggle to fit in is real, from award-winning author-illustrator Jerry Craft.
Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing
...From New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe comes a poignant and passionate new novel featuring lifelong friends Annette Goode Davis and Rhoda O'Toole–two women whose best intentions don't always yield the best results. This time around, Annette is devastated when one of her greatest fears comes true and there may be nothing she can do about it. . .
Even though her life has its ups and downs, Annette Goode Davis feels lucky
...26) The upper room
Mama Ruby's known for taking things that aren't rightfully hers, like her best friend's stillborn infant, who she brought back to life and christened Maureen. She's also rumored to have done away with her husband. Some fear her, others try their best to avoid...
But Xavier is.
There's something about...
AAMBC Christian Fiction Writer of the Year Award Winner
When one woman is caught in the act of her greatest transgression, it's the beginning of her greatest transformation...
It started innocently: a coincidental meeting between old high school friends—first loves—at Butterfly's business, The Painted Lady Flower Shop. Then came lunch, then confessions...
“If you wanted a poem,” wrote Gwendolyn Brooks, “you only had to look out of a window. There was material always, walking or running, fighting or screaming or singing.” From the life of Chicago’s South Side she made a forceful and passionate poetry that fused Modernist aesthetics...
33) The Red Garden
“[A] dreamy, fabulist series of connected stories . . . [These] tales, with their tight, soft focus on America, cast their own spell.”—The...
34) Dodgers: A Novel
It is the story of a young LA gang member named East, who is sent by his uncle along with some other teenage boys—including East's hothead younger brother—to kill a key witness hiding out in Wisconsin. The journey takes East out of a city he's never left and into an America that...
36) If She Says Yes
Tomaś Martinez has had a crush on his, Darcy MacFarland, best friend's mother, for longer than he's willing to admit.
Would it be wrong to make those feelings known the weekend of his best friend's wedding?
Or would that a big time party foul?
Tying himself up and offering up his body for her to defile wouldn't be on his list of best man duties either, huh?
What if he
...The year is 1947, and Ms. Etta's Fast House is the hottest nightclub this side of Chicago. The city's slickest street hustlers rub elbows here with the rich and famous, and anyone with enough cash can drink like a king and dance...
New York City, 1945. The war in Europe is in its final days and life in the Big Apple may soon be back to normal. Harlem Private Detective Walter Morris is hired by the reclusive tycoon, Cuthbert Hayden, to find his maid's missing daughter. Walter begins a journey into the dark and seedy underworld of the city—through a world of back-alley nightclubs, gangsters, double agents, serial killers, black market surgeons, and scientifically engineered
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