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January and February 2023 |
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Hungry ghosts : a novel
by Kevin Jared Hosein
After a young man from the poorest part of Trinidad goes missing during the end of British colonialism, a farmhand is offered a generous stipend to become a watchman and determine what happened to the missing man.
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Love, honor, betray
by Mary Monroe
With their sham of a marriage in danger, Jessie and Hubert Wiggins, desperately trying to maintain their devout facade and respectable standing, must decide whether or not to reveal the person who might be behind the serial murders plaguing their town, which would risk their own web of lies being exposed.
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The neighbor favor
by Kristina Forest
Enlisting the help of her new neighbor to find a date for her sister's wedding, not realizing he is her favorite fantasy author - the very same one who ghosted her months ago - aspiring children's book author Lily Greene finds this simple favor between them becoming anything but.
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A spell of good things
by Ayobami Adebayo
The lives of two Nigerians, Eniola, who spends his days running small errands and begging and Wuraola, an exhausted young doctor from a wealthy family, are intertwined when sudden violence shatters them both.
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Time's undoing : a novel
by Cheryl A. Head
Searching for answers in the unsolved murder of her great-grandfather decades ago, Meghan Mackenzie, the youngest reporter at the Detroit Free Press, spurred by the urgency of the Black Lives Matter movement, travels to Birmingham where she uncovers secrets that put her own life in danger.
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Every man a king
by Walter Mosley
NYPD investigator Joe King Oliver is tested when asked by his billionaire friend to defend a White nationalist who has been accused of murder, in the sequel to the Edgar Award-winning Down the River Unto the Sea.
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Age of vice
by Deepti Kapoor
After a speeding car kills five people late at night in New Delhi, the driver, a shell-shocked servant is unable to explain the series of strange events that lead to the crime.
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The bandit queens : a novel
by Parini Shroff
Considered a self-made widow after the disappearance of her husband, Geeta, when other women in the village ask her for help in getting rid of their own no-good husbands, must decide how far she is willing to go to protect her fearsome reputation and the life she's built.
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City under one roof
by Iris Yamashita
Detective Cara Kennedy investigates a murder in a small Alaskan town after a local teen discovers a severed hand and foot washed up on the shore, teaming up with a town police officer as bad weather approaches.
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The furrows : a novel
by Namwali Serpell
Haunted by the accidental death of her little brother Wayne years ago, Cassandra Williams begins seeing her brother everywhere and meets a man both mysterious and familiar who is also searching for someone and for his own place in the world - his name is Wayne.
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Heart of the sun warrior
by Sue Lynn Tan
Xingyin is forced to flee again and venture to the Immortal Realm where she and her companions encounter legendary creatures and shrewd monarch, in the second novel of the series following Daughter of the Moon Goddess.
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In the upper country
by Kai Thomas
Summoned to a neighboring farm to gather testimony after an old woman who recently arrived via the Underground Railroad kills a slave hunter, Lensinda Martin accepts the woman's proposed barter of a story for a story instead of a confession.
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Maame
by Jessica George
A young British Ghanaian woman navigates her 20s and finds her place in the world.
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Moonrise over New Jessup
by Jamila Minnicks
In 1957, Alice Young arrives in the all-Black town of New Jessup, Alabama, a place of opposing viewpoints on desegregation at the beginning of the civil rights movement, where she falls in love with Raymond Campbell, whose clandestine organizing activities could expel them from the home they love.
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River sing me home
by Eleanor Shearer
In 1834 Barbados, after the master of the Providence plantation in Barbados refuses to let them go even though the king has decreed an end to slavery, Rachel escapes and embarks on a grueling, dangerous journey to find her five children who survived at birth and were sold.
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White horse
by Erika T. Wurth
A gritty, vibrant debut novel about an Indigenous woman who must face her past when she discovers a bracelet haunted by her mother's spirit.
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