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The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks By Shauna Robinson Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781728246444
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Published: Sourcebooks Landmark - November 1st, 2022

"A sparkling bookish story about rules just begging to be broken." — Abby Jimenez, New York Times bestselling author of Part of Your World and The Friend Zone

I, Maggie Banks, solemnly swear to uphold the rules of Cobblestone Books. If only, I, Maggie Banks, believed in following the rules.


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

BOOK OF THE MONTH MAY 2023 PICK

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


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Symphony of Secrets: A novel By Brendan Slocumb Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593315446
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Published: Anchor - April 18th, 2023

A gripping page-turner from the celebrated author of book club favorite The Violin Conspiracy: Music professor Bern Hendricks discovers a shocking secret about the most famous American composer of all time—his music may have been stolen from a Black Jazz Age prodigy named Josephine Reed.


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Big Girl: A Novel By Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781324093596
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Published: Liveright - June 13th, 2023

Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
Shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award
A Phenomenal Book Club Pick
TIME • Best Books of the Month
New York Times • Editors’ Choice
Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year by Vulture, Goodreads, Essence, Ms. Magazine, and SheReads.com


The Expendable Man By Dorothy B. Hughes, Walter Mosley (Afterword by) Cover Image
By Dorothy B. Hughes, Walter Mosley (Afterword by)
$16.95
ISBN: 9781590174951
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Published: NYRB Classics - July 3rd, 2012

“It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated, civilized man.” And Hugh Denismore, a young doctor driving his mother’s Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix, is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged, would seem to have the world at his feet, even. Then why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him?


Mumbo Jumbo By Ishmael Reed Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780684824772
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Published: Scribner - June 11th, 1996

New in 2023, the 50th anniversary edition of the classic, freewheeling novel by one of the most iconic satirists of our time—now with a new introduction by the author.

“Part vision, part satire, part farce… A wholly original, unholy cross between the craft of fiction and witchcraft.” —The New York Times

It is the 1920s in N


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The Thing Around Your Neck By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780307455918
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Published: Vintage - June 1st, 2010

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists—a dazzling story collection filled with "indelible characters who jump off the page and into your head and heart" (USA Today).


Clay's Ark (Patternist #3) By Octavia E. Butler Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781538751503
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Published: Grand Central Publishing - September 1st, 2020

A powerful story of survival in unprecedented times, from the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower.


Going to Meet the Man: Stories (Vintage International) By James Baldwin Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780679761792
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Published: Vintage - April 25th, 1995

A major collection of short stories by one of America’s most important writers—informed by the knowledge the wounds racism leaves in both its victims and its perpetrators. • “If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one.” —Michael Ondaatje, Booker Prize-winner of The English Patient


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Salvage the Bones: A Novel By Jesmyn Ward Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781608196265
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Published: Bloomsbury USA - April 24th, 2012

Winner of the National Book Award

Jesmyn Ward, two-time National Book Award winner and author of Sing, Unburied, Sing, delivers a gritty but tender novel about family and poverty in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina.


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The Sellout: A Novel By Paul Beatty Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781250808240
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Published: Picador - September 7th, 2021

Winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize

Winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction


Named one of the best books of 2015 by The New York Times Book Review and the Wall Street Journal


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Red at the Bone: A Novel By Jacqueline Woodson Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780525535287
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Published: Riverhead Books - September 1st, 2020

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

"A spectacular novel that only this legend can pull off." -Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of  HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST, in The Atlantic