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Crook Manifesto: A Novel By Colson Whitehead Cover Image
$29.00
ISBN: 9780385545150
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Published: Doubleday - July 18th, 2023

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Harlem Shuffle continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory.

“Dazzling” –Walter Mosley, The New York Times Book Review.


The First Ladies By Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593440285
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Published: Berkley - June 27th, 2023

The Instant New York Times Bestseller! 

A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune—an unlikely friendship that changed the world, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Good Morning America Book Club pick The Personal Librarian.


Flags on the Bayou By James Lee Burke Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780802161697
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Published: Atlantic Monthly Press - July 11th, 2023

From New York Times-bestselling author James Lee Burke comes a novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of characters - enslaved and free women, plantation gentry, and battle-weary Confederate and Union soldiers - are caught in the maelstrom


Family Lore: A Good Morning America Book Club Pick By Elizabeth Acevedo Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780063207264
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Published: Ecco - August 1st, 2023

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK!

Longlisted for The Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize


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All the Sinners Bleed: A Novel By S. A. Cosby Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9781250831910
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Published: Flatiron Books - June 6th, 2023

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Fresh and exhilarating. . . Cosby keeps his eye on the story and the pedal to the metal.” —Stephen King, The
New York Times Book Review

A Black sheriff. A serial killer. A small town ready to combust.


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Chain Gang All Stars: A Novel By Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9780593317334
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Published: Pantheon - May 2nd, 2023

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK • Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America’s own in this explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Friday Black


Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?: A Novel By Crystal Smith Paul Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9781250815309
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Published: Henry Holt and Co. - May 2nd, 2023

REESE'S BOOK CLUB MAY 2023 PICK

A multigenerational saga that traverses the glamour of old Hollywood and the seductive draw of modern-day showbiz

When Kitty Karr Tate, a White icon of the silver screen, dies and bequeaths her multimillion-dollar estate to the St. John sisters, three young, wealthy Black women, it prompts questions. Lots of questions.


You Were Always Mine: A Novel By Christine Pride, Jo Piazza Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781668005507
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Published: Atria Books - June 13th, 2023

The acclaimed authors of the “emotional literary roller coaster” (The Washington Post) and Good Morning America book club pick We Are Not Like Them return with this moving and provocative novel about a Black woman who finds an abandoned white baby, sending her on a collision course with her past, her family, and a birth mother who doesn’t want to be found.


Summer on Sag Harbor: A Novel (Summer Beach #2) By Sunny Hostin Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780062994219
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Published: William Morrow - May 2nd, 2023

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The View cohost and three-time Emmy Award winner Sunny Hostin spirits readers away to the warm beaches of Sag Harbor in the second novel of her bestselling Summer series.


And Then He Sang a Lullaby By Ani Kayode Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9780802160751
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Published: Roxane Gay Books - June 6th, 2023

A searingly honest and resonant debut from a Nigerian writer and queer liberation activist, exploring what love and freedom cost in a society steeped in homophobia

The inaugural title from the most buzzed-about new imprint in years, And Then He Sang a Lullaby is a powerful, luminous debut that establishes its young author as a masterful talent.


The Museum of Ordinary People By Mike Gayle Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781538740842
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Published: Grand Central Publishing - May 30th, 2023

In this “pure, unadulterated feel-good” and warmhearted novel, an old set of encyclopedias leads a young woman to a curious museum and one profoundly moving lesson: that every life is an extraordinary life (Kirkus).  

BookRiot Most Anticipated Beach Reads of 2023
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Still reeling from the sudden death


The Nigerwife: A Novel By Vanessa Walters Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9781668011089
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Published: Atria Books - May 2nd, 2023

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK

“The perfect beach read…catapults you into a world that most of us have never seen before—and will have you glued to every page.” —HuffPost

White Lotus meets Big Little Lies” (Good Morning America) in this riveting domestic drama about a