Fiction- Historical
Fiction- Historical
Truth Be Told (An Annalee Spain Mystery)
Denver's newest detective. A garden's deadly secrets.On a lovely June night in 1924, amateur detective Annalee Spain is mingling bravely at a high-class political fundraiser in the lush backyard garden of famed political fixer Cooper Coates, one of the wealthiest...
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The Trial of Mrs. Rhinelander (Coming Soon - July 23, 2024)
Inspired by a real-life scandal that was shocking even for the tumultuous Roaring Twenties, this captivating novel tells the story of a pioneering Black journalist, a secret interracial marriage among the New York elite, and the sensational divorce case that...
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Sugar on the Bones (Hap and Leonard, 13)
In this holy mess of a case for the "perpetual bad boy" (New York Times) sleuths in the beloved Hap and Leonard series, PI Duo Hap and Leonard investigate the untimely death of a woman whose family stood much to...
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The Secret Keeper of Main Street: A Novel
Acclaimed author Trisha R. Thomas delivers a masterful new tale of scandal and intuition. In 1950s oil-rich Oklahoma, Bailey Dowery, a dressmaker with the gift of “second sight,” reluctantly reveals the true loves and intentions of her socialite clients, making...
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A Run at Love (Love in the Spotlight, 2)
"Piper McKinney dreams of her horse winning the Kentucky Derby, and with the help of her best friend, horse trainer Tucker Hale, that hope starts to become reality. Then her parents are embroiled in a scandal, and Piper is implicated....
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Ours: A Novel
“A beautifully-written and ambitious epic about the complexity of freedom.” —Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing HalfAn epic novel set in mid-nineteenth-century America about the spiritual costs of a freedom that demands fierce protectionIn this ingenious, sweeping novel, Phillip B. Williams...
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A Nurse’s Tale: An extraordinary and moving historical novel inspired by a true story of WW2!
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A Nurse’s Tale: An extraordinary and moving historical novel inspired by a true story of WW2!
Born Nigerian royalty, Princess Adenrele Ademola trained as a nurse at Guy’s Hospital in London and stepped up to serve the people of Britain when war broke out – facing both the devastation of the Blitz and the prejudice of...
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Midnight Rooms: A Novel (coming soon-July 2, 2024)
England, 1840. Orabella Mumthrope spies an unexpected visitor in her uncle’s parlor. Scruffy in appearance yet claiming to be the scion of a fabulously wealthy family, Elias Blakersby declares a deep desire to make Orabella his wife. The orphaned daughter...
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Masquerade
Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale exploring the true cost of one woman’s fight for freedom and self-discovery, and the lengths she’ll go to secure her future. Òdòdó’s hometown of Timbuktu has been...
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A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
In this sexy modern-day fairytale from the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Days in June, a free-spirited florist and an enigmatic musician share a soul mate connection told through the history, art, and magic of Harlem. Leap years are a strange,...
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The Library Thief: A Novel
A strikingly original and absorbing mystery about a white-passing bookbinder in Victorian England and the secrets lurking on the estate where we she works, for fans of Fingersmith and The Confessions of Frannie LangtonThe library is under lock and key. But...
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In a League of Her Own: A Novel (Coming soon - 08/6/2024)
From the author of Sisters in Arms comes the incredible, untold story of Effa Manley, a black businesswoman in the male dominated baseball industry, and, currently, the only woman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. 1930s, New York City An ambitious Harlem woman’s husband upends her social...
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The Monsters We Defy
"In the summer of 1925, along Washington, DC's 'Black Broadway', a malevolent entity has begun preying on Negro residents. Twenty-three-year-old Clara Johnson is determined to discover what's going on in her community. Using her natural ability to talk with spirits,...
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Frederick Douglass: A Novel (Coming soon- June 18, 2024)
Frederick Douglass was the most prominent African American of the 19th Century and Sidney Morrison has created a mesmerizing historical novel richly detailing his life and the Civil War Era. This portrayal of Douglass distinguishes him as one of the...
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Cry of Metal & Bone- Book Three (Earthsinger Chronicles, 3)
L. Penelope's stunning epic fantasy Earthsinger Chronicles continues with Cry of Metal & Bone.The Mantle dividing Elsira and Lagrimar has fallen. As the two kingdoms struggle to unify, one threat stands above them all.As desperate Lagrimari flee their barren land for a chance...
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Whispers of Shadow & Flame: Earthsinger Chronicles, Book Two (Earthsinger Chronicles, 2)
The Mantle that separates the kingdoms of Elsira and Lagrimar is about to fall. And life will drastically change for both kingdoms.Born with a deadly magic she cannot control, Kyara is forced to become an assassin. Known as the Poison...
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Ella: A Novel
In the vein of The Paris Wife and The Personal Librarian comes this debut novel, a magnificent work of “biographical fiction” that reimagines the turbulent and triumphant early years of Ella Fitzgerald, arguably the greatest singer of the twentieth century. When fifteen-year-old Ella Fitzgerald’s...
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Double Lives
Award-winning New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe returns with an outrageous new tale of Depression-era Southern drama starring identical twin sisters with a talent for switching lives and hiding the scandalous results—until one risk too many changes the game forever ....
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Daughter of the Merciful Deep
A woman journeys into a submerged world of gods and myth to save her home in this powerful historical fantasy that shines a light on the drowned Black towns of the American South. “Our home began, as all things do, with...
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Code Name Butterfly
Inspired by the incredible true story of Josephine Baker's role in the French Resistance, this is a heart-wrenching, unforgettable tale of the strength of the human spirit in the darkest days of World War II. Paris, 1941. With Nazi occupation imminent,...
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Can't We Be Friends: A Novel of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe
Award-winning author Denny S. Bryce and USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight collaborate on a brilliant novel that uncovers the boundary-breaking, genuine friendship between Ella Fitzgerald, the Queen of Jazz, and iconic movie star Marilyn Monroe. One woman was recognized as the...
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Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Destiny: A Novel
A large-hearted reimagining of beloved all-American legends, this epic debut novel brings men of myth Paul Bunyan and John Henry alive like never before, teaming up for an adventure quest with deeper interrogations of race, class, and industrialization.Paul Bunyan—legendary larger-than-life...
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Blackheart Man
The magical island of Chynchin is facing conquerors from abroad and something sinister from within in this entrancing fantasy from the Grand Master Award–winning author Nalo Hopkinson.Veycosi, in training as a griot (an historian and musician), hopes to sail off...
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The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye: A Novel
This epic, dazzling tale based on true events illuminates a woman of color’s rise to power as one of the few purported female pirate captains to sail the Caribbean, and the forbidden love story that will shape the course of...
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American Daughters: A Novel
In the vein of America’s First Daughter, Piper Huguley’s historical novel delves into the remarkable friendship of Portia Washington and Alice Roosevelt, the daughters of educator Booker T. Washington and President Teddy Roosevelt. At the turn of the twentieth century, in...
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All We Were Promised: A Novel
A housemaid with a dangerous family secret conspires with a wealthy young abolitionist to help an enslaved girl escape, in volatile pre-Civil War Philadelphia.The rebel . . . the socialite . . . and the fugitive. Together, they will risk everything...
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All the Glimmering Stars: A Novel
Inspired by a true story, two teens kidnapped by an African warlord find salvation through love in a powerful and healing historical novel from the #1 bestselling author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky and The Last Green Valley. Anthony Opoka and Florence Okori...
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Yoruba Boy Running: A Novel
“Run, Àjàyí, run!” When Malian slave traders invaded the Nigerian town of Òsogùn, thirteen-year-old Àjàyí's life is split in two. Before, there was his childhood, surrounded by friends and family, watched over by the ancient Yorùbá gods of forest and...
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Oshun's Flow (Yoruba Orisa Children's) (hardcover)
Oshun makes the water flow. The water makes everything grow. For this flow, Oshun needs respect and thanksgiving. The people of Osogbo remember this, but some people in the world do not. So can the water still flow everywhere? Find...
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Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined (Coming soon-October 15, 2024)
A thrilling graphic novel reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that follows Jim, an enslaved man on a journey towards freedom, and his sidekick, Huck, in the antebellum South—from the team behind the Eisner Award–winning The Black Panther Party.Commonly regarded as one of...
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