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• Lone Women

  a Novel

  LaValle, Victor, 1972-

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  "The year is 1915, and Adelaide is in trouble. Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and make her way to Montana as a homesteader. Dragging the trunk with her at every stop, she will become one of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ours

  Williams, Phillip B.,

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  "In this ingenious, sweeping novel, Phillip B. Williams introduces us to an enigmatic woman named Saint, a fearsome conjurer who, in the 1830s, annihilates plantations all over Arkansas to rescue the people enslaved there. She brings those she has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ring Shout

  Or, Hunting Ku Kluxes in the End Times

  Clark, P. Djèlí,

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  "In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America, swelling the Klan's ranks and drinking deep from the darkest thoughts of white folk. All across the nation they ride, spreading fear and violence among the vulnerable. They plan to bring…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Vampires of El Norte

  Cañas, Isabel,

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  "As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters—her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north. But something more sinister lurks near the ranch at night, something that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  "A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jackal

  a Novel

  Adams, Erin E.,

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  "Liz Rocher is coming home . . . reluctantly. As a Black woman, Liz doesn’t exactly have fond memories of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a predominantly white town. But her best friend is getting married, so she braces herself for a weekend of awkward,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lovecraft Country

  a Novel

  Ruff, Matt,

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  "Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing, 22-year-old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George—publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide—and his childhood friend…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dread Nation

  Rise Up

  Ireland, Justina,

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  "Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania—derailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever. In this new America, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Reformatory

  a Novel

  Due, Tananarive, 1966-

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  "Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens Jr. is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ballad of Black Tom

  LaValle, Victor, 1972-

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  "People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fledgling

  a Novel

  Butler, Octavia E.,

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  "Fledgling, Octavia Butler’s last novel, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Gilda Stories

  a Novel

  Gomez, Jewelle, 1948-

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  "This remarkable novel begins in 1850s Louisiana, where Gilda escapes slavery and learns about freedom while working in a brothel. After being initiated into eternal life as one who "shares the blood" by two women there, Gilda spends the next two…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Killadelphia. Vol. One, Sins of the Father

  Barnes, Rodney (Producer),

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  "When a small town beat cop comes home to bury his murdered father-the revered Philadelphia detective James Sangster Sr.-he begins to unravel a mystery that leads him down a path of horrors and shakes his beliefs to their core. The city that was…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Passing Through a Prairie Country

  a Novel

  Staples, Dennis E.,

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  "For decades, a dark force has terrorized the Languille Lake reservation. Spoken of only in whispers as “the sandman,” he lurks in the Hidden Atlantis Lake Resort and Casino, the reservation’s main attraction and source of revenue, leeching its…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Cursed House

  a Novel

  Sandeen, Del,

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  "In the fall of 1962, twenty-seven-year-old Jemma Barker is desperate to escape her life in Chicago—and the spirits she has always been able to see. When she receives an unexpected job offer from the Duchon family in New Orleans, she accepts,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Year of the Witching

  Henderson, Alexis,

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  "In the lands of Bethel, where the Prophet's word is law, Immanuelle Moore's very existence is blasphemy. Her mother’s union with an outsider of a different race cast her once-proud family into disgrace, so Immanuelle does her best to worship the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Certain Dark Things

  a Novel

  Moreno-Garcia, Silvia,

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  "Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is just trying to survive its heavily policed streets when a jaded vampire on the run swoops into his life. Atl, the descendant of Aztec blood…Read moreRead more of this annotation