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📘 Read Now     📥 Download The bestselling author of Yellow Crocus returns with a haunting and tender story of three women returning to the plantation they once called home. Oberlin, Ohio, 1868. Lisbeth Johnson was born into privilege in the antebellum South. Jordan Freedman was born a slave to Mattie, Lisbeth’s beloved nurse. The women have an unlikely bond deeper than friendship. Three years after the Civil War, Lisbeth and Mattie are tending their homes and families while Jordan, an aspiring suffragette, teaches at an integrated school.When Lisbeth discovers that her father is dying, she’s summoned back to the Virginia plantation where she grew up. There she must face the Confederate family she betrayed by marrying an abolitionist. Jordan and Mattie return to Fair Oaks, too, to save the family they left behind, who still toil in oppression. For Lisbeth, it’s a time for reconciliation. For Jordan and Mattie, it’s time for liberation.As the Jo...

📘 Read Now     📥 Download Winner of the L.A. Times Ray Bradbury Prize Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award The New York Times Bestseller Named a Best Book of 2019 by The Wall Street Journal, TIME, NPR, GQ, Vogue, and The Washington Post "A fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made." --Neil Gaiman "Gripping, action-packed....The literary equivalent of a Marvel Comics universe." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times The epic novel, an African Game of Thrones , from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings In the stunning first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when a mercenary is hired to find a missing child.  Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rul...

📘 Read Now     📥 Download In 1960s Chicago, a young woman stands in the middle of a musical and social revolution. A new historical novel from the bestselling author of White Collar Girl and What the Lady Wants.   “The rise of the Chicago Blues scene fairly shimmers with verve and intensity, and the large, diverse cast of characters is indelibly portrayed with the perfect pitch of a true artist.” —Melanie Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of  The Swans of Fifth Avenue    Leeba Groski doesn’t exactly fit in, but her love of music is not lost on her childhood friend and neighbor, Leonard Chess, who offers her a job at his new record company in Chicago. What starts as answering phones and filing becomes more than Leeba ever dreamed of, as she comes into her own as a songwriter and crosses paths with legendary performers like Chuck Berry and Etta James. But it’s Red Dupree, a black blues guitaris...

📘 Read Now     📥 Download Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by Ms. Magazine, USA Today Book Riot, The Rumpus, Library Journal, PureWow, The Every Girl, Parade and more. “ Forever and to the end . That’s what they say instead of I love you .” When Ruby King’s mother is found murdered in their home in Chicago’s South Side, the police dismiss it as another act of violence in a black neighborhood. But for Ruby, it’s a devastating loss that leaves her on her own with her violent father. While she receives many condolences, her best friend, Layla, is the only one who understands how this puts Ruby in jeopardy.Their closeness is tested when Layla’s father, the pastor of their church, demands that Layla stay away. But what is the price for turning a blind eye? In a relentless quest to save Ruby, Layla uncovers the murky loyalties and dangerous secrets that have bound their families together for generations. Only by facing this le...

📘 Read Now     📥 Download In Part Four, the final volume of The Dogwood Plantation story, Meggie and Charles work on problems of married life and children while “Mr. John” becomes embroiled again with the vicious envy of the Buck family, both before and after the Civil War. Meanwhile, Meggie embarks on her bold plan with big changes for her family and for the plantation. However, in the decade of the 1850’s it is the larger struggle between North and South that grows more dangerous and difficult to contain. The politicians in Washington DC, unable to reach a settlement on the slavery issue, submit to the horrors of war and risk a failure of the republican, democratic, way of government.This war, with its destruction of towns and landscapes, with death and injury to many young boys, arrives in eastern North Carolina, where the citizens of the Dogwood Plantation stand and watch as Union troops move along the highway towards town. The battle there in 18...

📘 Read Now     📥 Download This is the novel of the Old South, a world few people knew existed - a world of violence, cruelty, greed, and lust. Mandingo brings to vivid life the sounds, the smells, the terrible reality of the slave-breeding farms and plantations where men and women were mated and bred like cattle. Set in the 1830s around a plantation in Alabama owned by a planter named Maxwell, his son Hammond, and the Mandingo slave Ganymede, or Mede, Mandingo is a tale of cruelty toward the black people of that time and place, detailing the overwhelmingly dehumanizing behavior meted out to the slaves, as well as vicious fights, poisoning, and violent death. When first published in the 1950s, millions of readers found it to be an unforgettable read.  eBook details Title: Mandingo Author : Kyle Onstott Release Date : * Genre: Kindle Store,Kindle eBooks,Literature & Fiction Pages : * pages Size : * KB PDF Books "Mandingo" Online...

📘 Read Now     📥 Download “ Calling My Name is a treasure.”—Nic Stone, New York Times –bestselling author of Dear Martin Calling My Name is a striking, luminous, and literary exploration of family, spirituality, and self—ideal for readers of Jacqueline Woodson, Jandy Nelson, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Sandra Cisneros.This unforgettable novel tells a universal coming-of-age story about Taja Brown, a young African American girl growing up in Houston, Texas, and deftly and beautifully explores the universal struggles of growing up, battling family expectations, discovering a sense of self, and finding a unique voice and purpose.Told in fifty-three short, episodic, moving, and iridescent chapters, Calling My Name follows Taja on her journey from middle school to high school. Literary and noteworthy, this is a beauty of a novel that captures the multifaceted struggle of finding where you belong and why you matter. eBook details Title: Calling M...

📘 Read Now     📥 Download Overall, the fabulous Nikki Bolton knows that she’s living a very blessed life. She has a loving family and friends...and even better, a beautiful relationship with her God. She owns her own home, a brand new car, and is the co-owner of a very successful bakery. But everything that glitters isn’t gold. In her mind, not having a husband is the fly in the ointment of her life. She’s come close to grasping a happily-ever-after a couple of times. But a private shame that she’s hiding seems to keep getting in the way. As the saying goes, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Will Nikki eventually realize that she has beauty beyond her flaws? If she does, she might just get a chance to end up with the husband of her dreams. She might just get a chance to have it all. eBook details Title: Beauty Beyond My Flaws: A Christian Romance Novel (Faith...Flaws & All Book 2) Author : Taretha Jones Release Date : * ...

📘 Read Now     📥 Download Oprah’s Book Club Pick A New York Times  best seller   From the author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird and the best-selling modern classic The Color of Water , comes one of the most celebrated novels of the year.   In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and, in front of everybody, shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of Deacon King Kong, James McBride's funny, moving novel and his first since his National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird. In Deacon King Kong, McBride brings to vivid life the people affected by the shooting: the victim, the African-American and Latinx residents who witnessed it, the white neighbors, the loc...

📘 Read Now     📥 Download An enthralling literary tour-de-force that pays tribute to Detroit's legendary neighborhood, a mecca for jazz, sports, and politics, Black Bottom Saints is a powerful blend of fact and imagination reminiscent of E.L. Doctorow's classic novel Ragtime and Marlon James' Man Booker Award-winning masterpiece, A Brief History of Seven Killings. From the Great Depression through the post-World War II years, Joseph “Ziggy” Johnson has been the pulse of Detroit’s famous Black Bottom. A celebrated gossip columnist for the city’s African-American newspaper, the Michigan Chronicle, he is also the emcee of one of the hottest night clubs, where he’s rubbed elbows with the legendary Black artists of the era, including Ethel Waters, Billy Eckstein, and Count Basie. Ziggy is also the founder and dean of the Ziggy Johnson School of Theater. But now the doyen of Black Bottom is ready to hang up his many dapper hats.  As he ...

📘 Read Now     📥 Download “ American Spy  updates the espionage thriller with blazing originality.” ( Entertainment Weekly )  “There has never been anything like it.” (Marlon James,  GQ )  “So much fun.... Like the best of John le Carré, it’s extremely tough to put down.” (NPR)  Named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year By Chicago Tribune  and One of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review   Time NPR Entertainment Weekly   Esquire BuzzFeed   Vulture  Real Simple   Good Housekeeping The New York Public Library   What if your sense of duty required you to betray the man you love?  It’s 1986, the heart of the Cold War, and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She’s brilliant, but she’s also a young Black woman working in an old boys’ club. Her career has stalled out, she’s...

📘 Read Now     📥 Download They say a woman will forgive a man who cheats, but a man will never forgive a woman...Melanie begged and pleaded for Kylon to come home for months.And he did.But only because his ex kicked him out.Now she is stuck in a cycle of drama and tension.While Melanie scrambles to pick up the pieces in her life and marriage, her girls Gina and Keisha have troubles of their own.In the beginning, Melanie and Kylon were like a match made in heaven… now, not so much.Will they stay together because of the better, or decide on divorce because of the worse? eBook details Title: For My Good: Better or Worse (For My Good Series Book 5) Author : Tanisha Stewart Release Date : * Genre: Kindle Store,Kindle eBooks,Literature & Fiction Pages : * pages Size : * KB PDF Books Download "For My Good: Better or Worse (For My Good Series Book 5)" Online ePub Kindle

📘 Read Now     📥 Download In 1850 Charleston, South Carolina, brutality and cruelty simmer just under the genteel surface of Southern society. Beautiful and headstrong Willow Hendricks lives in an era where ladies are considered nothing more than property. Her father rules her life, filling it with turmoil, secrets, and lies. She finds a kindred spirit in spunky, outspoken Whitney Barry, a northerner from Boston. Together these Charleston belles are driven to take control of their own lives as they are plunged into fear and chaos on their quest to fight for the rights of slaves. Against all odds, these feisty women fight to secure freedom and equality for those made powerless and persecuted by a supposedly superior race.Only when they’ve lost it all do they find a new beginning.Book 1 presents Willow and Whitney—and the reader—with the hardships the slaves endure at the hands of their white masters. eBook details Title: A Slave of the...