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As teenagers, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love in a Nigeria under military dictatorship. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America, where Obinze hopes to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, after so long apart and so many changes, will they find the courage to meet again, face to face?

Salima Navarro, a driven young woman with dreams larger than her current circumstances, takes a job at the upscale Aura nightclub to support herself and her recovering mother. This decision unexpectedly propels her into an unfamiliar world. Deuce Dillinger, the commanding heir to a powerful family empire, is accustomed to control in all aspects of his life. Upon seeing Salima, he resolves to make her his, despite her initial resistance to his domineering personality and lifestyle.

At a young age, Dom Kincaid thought he had met the girl of his dreams, Zoree Boudreaux. However, fate had other plans. Forced apart, their lives travel down different path until those paths cross years later. Forced together out of necessity, the two have to perpetuate the ultimate commitment, marriage. Will the arrangement give the two a second chance at love? Or will the past that separated them keep them apart? To protect their families, the arrangement began but the true question is how will it end.

Brought to you by Penguin. Winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize for Literature 2018 The bestselling epic novel of family, treachery, rivalry, religious fervour and the turbulent fate of a royal African dynasty It is 1797 and the African kingdom of Segu, born of blood and violence, is at the...

The Earth barely survived the Third World War. It isn’t ready for the War of the Worlds. A beam of pure Chaos has descended on the Earth connecting it to the Labyrinth Universe. Monsters will spawn, heroes will level and nations will fall. Chaos will Awaken!

REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK A gripping novel about two trailblazing women on opposite sides of the law—a prosecutor and a madam—who team up to bring down notorious Mob boss Lucky Luciano in 1930s New York, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the million-copy bestseller The...

From sissies who are brave enough to go search out the men of their dreams, through to those who need a little help from their wives or female friends, this book sees sissies get all dolled up and then down and dirty!

Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1856. When an argument between Henry's master and legendary abolitionist John Brown turns violent, Henry is forced to leave town - along with Brown, who believes Henry to be a girl and his good luck charm. An absorbing mixture of history and imagination, The Good Lord Bird is both a rousing adventure story and a moving exploration of identity and survival.

The acclaimed actor makes his fiction debut with this enthralling urban fantasy in which a holy warrior must convince a doctor with no faith to help stop a powerful demon and his minions from succeeding in creating hell on earth—a thrilling adventure of science and faith, good and evil...

Riley and Jen have been best friends since they were children and they thought their bond was unbreakable. It never mattered to them that Riley is Black and Jen is white. Then Jen's husband, a Philadelphia police officer, is involved in the shooting of an unarmed Black teenager and everything changes in an instant.

I Am Not Sidney Poitier is a comic tour de force from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, twice Booker Prize-shortlisted author of James and Erasure. The sudden death of Not Sidney Poitier’s mother orphans him at age eleven. He is left with a name no one understands, an uncanny resemblance to an...

As seen on TikTok, Daniel Black’s Perfect Peace is the heartbreaking portrait of a large, rural southern family’s attempt to grapple with their mother’s desperate decision to make her newborn son into the daughter she will never have—“a complex, imaginative story of one unforgettable...

A down-to-earth, free spirited architectural landscape photographer that has lost her muse who upon returning home, meets a man who is is going to stand in opposition to her in this enemies-to-lovers romance. Ava Hamilton is a down-to-earth, free spirit that broke down barriers between the haves...

If there's one thing Farrah Gray can't stand, it's the smug, arrogant, slightly gorgeous Mekhi Venzant. He misjudged her from the day he met her, and they've been enemies ever since. The heated back and forth, the sarcastic commentary, the sly insults—they all infuriate her… almost as much...

In the final, everything comes full circle for everyone. Will Milan decide to keep she and Bubba's relationship, or did she lose Bubba's heart to Anaya? Bubba is caught between two women and his heart is conflicted. Does he trust Milan again after what she did, or does he go with Anaya, who...

Mackenzie Levi Smith is New York's most sought-after celebrity photographer, focused on her studio, Divine Expressions, and too busy for distractions. Then comes Jackson Porter, a world-famous painter with talent and attitude to spare. When they are paired for the Visionaries exhibit, their...

Tyler's childhood ends the night her mother makes a selfish decision that changes the trajectory of both of their lives. The blood, the screaming, and the helplessness shapes Tyler into a defensive adult full of open wounds that she refuses to face. By twenty-five, she's a rising singer with a...

Advokaten Johan Olsson har lämnat den stora byrån för att bygga upp sin egen verksamhet. När en klient med ett enormt arv anlitar honom ser han en möjlighet att säkra sin framtid och Johans etik sätts på prov. Vad som börjar som en chans att hjälpa någon i nöd blir snabbt ett farligt...

Mina älskade föräldrar. Hur är det med er? Var är ni? Vad händer med er? Jag vill fråga er, fråga igen och igen. Snälla svara mig omedelbart och ge mig er adress. Lever ni fortfarande??? Dessa ord skriver Wilma Ermann till sina föräldrar i Tyskland i oktober 1941. Hon får tillbaka...

När Peter får anställning inom restaurangvärlden tänker han att allting äntligen kommer att falla på plats. Men säg den lycka som varar ... Det efterlängtade jobbet visar sig ha en mörkare sida och snart blir han indragen i skumma affärer, där drogernas betydelse är centrala...