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  • The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

    The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    A breath-taking debut novel that chronicles the journey of generations of one American family, from the centuries of the colonial slave trade to our own tumultuous eraThe great scholar, W.E.B. Du Bois, once wrote about the Problem of race in America, and what he called ‘Double Consciousness,’ a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive...
  • Indigo by Beverly Jenkins

    Indigo by Beverly Jenkins

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 25 ratings
    As a child Hester Wyatt escaped slavery, but now the dark skinned beauty is a dedicated member of Michigan's Underground railroad, offering other runaways a chance at the freedom she has learned to love. When one of her fellow conductors brings her an injured man to hide, Hester doesn't hesitate even after she is told about the price on his head...
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  • Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson

    Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Called “wholly engrossing” by New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Grissom, this “fully immersive” (Lisa Wingate, #1 bestselling author of Before We Were Yours) story follows an enslaved woman forced to barter love and freedom while living in the most infamous slave jail in Virginia.Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a relatively sheltered life...
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    black-mc  historical  african-american  war  racism  abuse
  • Butterfly 2 by Ashley Antoinette

    Butterfly 2 by Ashley Antoinette

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    “One of the biggest names in Urban-fiction, Ashley Antoinette, is back … An intense start to this new series with characters that are real and genuine. It’s a story about love, trying to put the past behind and moving on with your life” - Red Carpet Crash on ButterflyMorgan Atkins is used to losing, but losing Messiah Williams was the most tragic of them all...
    Categorized as:
    black-mc  african-american  historical
  • Little Black Girl Lost by Keith Lee Johnson

    Little Black Girl Lost by Keith Lee Johnson

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Johnnie Wise was just fifteen years old when her mother sold her virginity to an unscrupulous white insurance man named Earl Shamus. Stunningly beautiful, with long naturally wavy black hair, she possessed the voluptuous body of a thirty-year-old woman. Her skin was the color of brown sugar. Johnnie had heard about Earl Shamus and his escapades among the poor black women in New Orleans...
  • The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson

    The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife, a daring and redemptive novel set in 1950s Philadelphia and Washington, DC, that explores what it means to be a woman and a mother, and how much one is willing to sacrifice to achieve her greatest goal...
  • Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s...
  • Grand Opening by Carl Weber, Eric Pete

    Grand Opening by Carl Weber, Eric Pete

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Before there was the family, there was just the business. From the minds of New York Times bestselling authors Carl Weber and Eric Pete comes the game-changing prequel to their blockbuster Family Business saga. Travel back to a small Southern town where, before there was Duncan Motors, there were the Duncan brothers: Louis, aka Sweet Lou, a lover of ladies and life . .
    Categorized as:
    black-mc  african-american  mafia  historical
  • Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

    Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 47 ratings
    James Baldwin’s groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris.In the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality...
  • God Still Don't Like Ugly by Mary Monroe

    God Still Don't Like Ugly by Mary Monroe

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe's heart-stopping tale about a woman who's suffered too much to give up on herself, even if everyone else has. . . Growing up, Annette Goode thought all men were as low-down as the father who abandoned her, including the boarder who abused her for years and the men she slept with to earn the money she needed to run away from her life...
  • Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson

    Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    In the tradition of Wench and Twelve Years a Slave, this harrowing story follows an enslaved woman forced to barter love and freedom while living in the most infamous slave jail in Virginia.Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Brown was promised her freedom on her eighteenth birthday...
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    black-mc  historical  african-american  war
  • Jewel by Beverly Jenkins

    Jewel by Beverly Jenkins

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 14 ratings
    A proposal she had no choice but to accept . . . Though Eli Grayson is one of the most handsome, charming, and intelligent men in Grayson Grove, no one will take a chance on a confirmed bachelor. Unwilling to give up his dreams, Eli convinces his friend Jewel to pose as his wife. Their masquerade is to last just one night . .
  • For Your Love by Beverly Jenkins

    For Your Love by Beverly Jenkins

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    NAACP nominee and bestselling author Beverly Jenkins returns to Henry Adams, Kansas—an unforgettable place that anyone would want to call home—with a story of family, friends, and the powerful forces from our past that can irrevocably shape our future...
  • Wild, Beautiful, and Free by Sophfronia Scott

    Wild, Beautiful, and Free by Sophfronia Scott

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    From award-winning author Sophfronia Scott comes the story of one young woman’s bold journey to reclaim her birthright and carve out her own place in a world that tells her she doesn’t belong. Born the daughter of an enslaved woman and a Louisiana plantation owner, Jeannette Bébinn is raised alongside her white half sister―until her father suddenly dies...
  • Captured by Beverly Jenkins

    Captured by Beverly Jenkins

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 16 ratings
    She was the most irresistible treasure of all . . . Dominic LeVeq, the most notorious privateer ever to command the high seas, has just captured a coveted prize: a British frigate. On a dangerous mission against the Crown, Dominic should be thinking only of his ship's safety. But the rebel captain is utterly entranced by Clare Sullivan, the stunning slave on board...
  • The Edge of Midnight by Beverly Jenkins

    The Edge of Midnight by Beverly Jenkins

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sarita Grayson is desperate. That's the only explanation for her late night rendezvous with a bag of stolen diamonds. But then a handsome stranger stands between her and a clean getaway. In the struggle for freedom, she accidentally shoots him.Mykal Chandler, head of a covert government agency NIA, can't believe he's been shot...
  • To Catch a Raven by Beverly Jenkins

    To Catch a Raven by Beverly Jenkins

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    The newest novel in USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins’s compelling Women Who Dare series features a fearless grifter who goes undercover to reclaim the stolen Declaration of Independence.Lying and cheating may be sins to some people, but for Raven Moreaux, it is a way of life. She comes from a long line of grifters and couldn’t be prouder…Until she’s forced to help the government...
  • Things Past Telling by Sheila Williams

    Things Past Telling by Sheila Williams

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The author of The Secret Woman tells the story of a brave and enduring woman as indomitable as Ernest Gaines' legendary Miss Jane Pittman, in a breathtaking novel that combines the epic romance and adventure of Outlander, the sweeping drama of Roots, and the haunting historical power of Barracoon...
  • The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate

    The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 30 ratings
    A new novel inspired by historical events: a story of three young women on a journey in search of family amidst the destruction of the post-Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who rediscovers their story and its connection to her own students' lives...
  • Second Sunday by Michele Andrea Bowen

    Second Sunday by Michele Andrea Bowen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    St. Louis, 1975. Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church's pastor has gone on to see the King...
  • This Bitter Earth by Bernice L. McFadden

    This Bitter Earth by Bernice L. McFadden

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In This Bitter Earth, Sugar Lacey is on her way out of Bigelow, Arkansas, where she’d come to break with the past. With her worn leopard-print suitcase and her head held high, she walks past the prying eyes of its small-minded, cruel-hearted townsfolk, praying for the strength to keep going. She doesn’t stop until she arrives at her childhood home in Short Junction...
  • Midnight by Beverly Jenkins

    Midnight by Beverly Jenkins

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 13 ratings
    In a time of peril, she fears nothing—except the forbidden passions of her heart. In Boston, revolution is in the wind—yet none would ever suspect Faith Kingston of treason. But under cover of darkness, the beautiful daughter of a Tory tavern owner becomes the notorious spy “Lady Midnight,” passing valuable secrets to the rebels...
  • Wild Sweet Love by Beverly Jenkins

    Wild Sweet Love by Beverly Jenkins

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 14 ratings
    Teresa July has led a hard life, but now she has a chance to put her train robbing past behind her. Armed with a new job as a cook to one of Philadelphia's elite families, Teresa is determined to start her life anew, and nothing––not even her boss's stuck–up (and far too handsome) son––is going to stand in her way...
  • Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim

    Yellow Crocus by Laila Ibrahim

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Mattie was never truly mine. That knowledge must have filled me as quickly and surely as the milk from her breasts. Although my family ‘owned’ her, although she occupied the center of my universe, her deepest affections lay elsewhere. So along with the comfort of her came the fear that I would lose her some day. This is our story..
  • Vivid by Beverly Jenkins

    Vivid by Beverly Jenkins

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 19 ratings
    It's 1876 and Dr.Viveca Lancaster is frustrated by the limits placed upon female physicians of color. When she is offered the chance to set up a practice in the small all Black community of Grayson Grove, Michigan she leaves her California home and heads east...
  • Hold You Down by Tracy Brown

    Hold You Down by Tracy Brown

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    'Hold You Down' is an edgy novel from rising star Tracy Brown about the perils of love and the ties that...
  • Sister of Mine by Sabra Waldfogel

    Sister of Mine by Sabra Waldfogel

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When two Union soldiers stumble onto a plantation in northern Georgia on a warm May day in 1864, the last thing they expect is to see the Union flag flying high—or to be greeted by a group of freed slaves and their Jewish mistress. Little do they know that this place has an unusual history...
  • Mrs. Wiggins by Mary Monroe

    Mrs. Wiggins by Mary Monroe

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe returns to the Deep South Depression-era town of her scandalous Mama Ruby series, in this tale of a woman determined to have a respectable life--and she'll do anything to keep it...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...
  • Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

    Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 66 ratings
    After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC–Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape—until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus.A flying demon feeding on human energies...
  • The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah

    The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 33 ratings
    Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read .Renowned hip-hop artist, writer, and activist Sister Souljah brings the streets of New York to life in a powerful and utterly unforgettable first novel.I came busting into the world during one of New York's worst snowstorms, so my mother named me Winter...
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