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Chain-Gang All-Stars
by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The star of a popular, but controversial for-profit program in the private prison industry that basically turns prisoners into gladiators contemplates freedom, in the new novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Friday Black.
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All the Sinners Bleed
by S. A. Cosby
Former FBI agent Titus Crown returns to his hometown and decides to run for sheriff to fight a bigoted police force and must trust his instincts when a serial killer appears to be hiding in plain sight.
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The Reformatory
by Tananarive Due
In the Jim Crow South, 12-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., who can see ghosts, is sent to The Reformatory where boys forced to work to remediate their so-called crimes have gone missing, while his sister Gloria rallies everyone in Florida to get him out before it's too late.
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What Never Happened
by Rachel Howzell Hall
Relocating to her Catalina Island home, obituary writer Coco Weber, with a number of elderly folks dying on the island, draws connections between a serial killer's crimes and her own family tragedy while someone watching her every move is hell-bent on finally putting her past to rest.
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Lone Women
by Victor LaValle
In 1915, Adelaide Henry, after her secret sin killed her parents, sets out for Montana, dragging an enormous steamer trunk that's locked at all times, to become one of the “lone women” taking advantage of the government's offer of free land where she hopes to bury her past.
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
by James McBride
When a skeleton is unearthed in the small, close-knit community of Chicken Hill, Pennsylvania, in 1972, an unforgettable cast of characters—living on the margins of white, Christian America—closely guard a secret, especially when the truth is revealed about what happened and the part the town's white establishment played in it.
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Vengeance Is Mine
by Marie NDiaye
Hired by a man she vaguely remembers to defend his wife, who's been accused of a horrific crime, quiet middle-aged lawyer, Maître Susane finds unsettling memories coming to the surface, while becoming increasingly concerned about her housekeeper's furtive behavior.
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Night Wherever We Go
by Tracey Rose Peyton
To protect themselves, six enslaved women meet in the woods under the cover of night to formulate a plan against the plantation owners who have decided to turn around their Texas plantation's bleak financial prospects by making the women bear children.
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The Fraud
by Zadie Smith
In 1873 Victorian London, with the city mesmerized by the “Tichborne Trial,” wherein a lower-class butcher from Australia claims he is the rightful heir of a sizable estate and title, Mrs. Eliza Touchet becomes determined to find out if he's really who he says he is or if he's a fraud.
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Let Us Descend
by Jesmyn Ward
In the years before the Civil War, Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, struggles through the miles-long march, seeks comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother, opening herself to a world beyond this world.
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