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African American Fiction October 2025 |
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It's me they follow : a romance by Jeannine A. Cook In a magical bookshop where stories guide hearts, a bookseller who helps others find love through fiction confronts her own long-buried longing for a vanished customer and discovers that her story may still hold a happy ending. 75,000 first printing.
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Great black hope : a novel by Rob FranklinA young Black man is caught between worlds of race and class, glamour and tragedy a friend's mysterious death and his own arrest. An arrest for cocaine possession on the last day of a sweltering New York summer leaves Smith, a queer Black Stanford graduate, in a state of turmoil. Pulled into the court system and mandated treatment, he finds himself in an absurd but dangerous situation: his class protects him, but his race does not.
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Meet me at the crossroads : a novel by Megan GiddingsAyanna and Olivia, two Black Midwestern teens—and twin sisters—have different ideas of what may lie beyond the seven mysterious doors that suddenly appeared one ordinary summer morning, but when one twin goes missing, will her sister uncover what happened to her once constant companion and best friend?
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My train leaves at three : a novel
by Natalie Guerrero
Afro-Latina singer and actress Xiomara, mourning her sister and living in a tiny apartment in Washington Heights with her ultra-Catholic Puerto Rican mother, gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to audition for Manny Santos, but when Xiomara faces the ugliest sides of the industry, she must decide how much she's willing to sacrifice.
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This here is love : a novel by Princess Joy L. PerryIn 17th-century Virginia, enslaved girl Bless, freeborn Black child David, and indentured servant Jack Dane each grapple with survival, identity, and belonging as their lives converge on contested land, forcing them to redefine freedom, family and love in a brutal new world.
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