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  • The Days of Afrekete

    A Novel

    by Asali Solomon ...
    "I didn't feel like I was reading this novel—I felt like I was living it." —Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch HouseFrom award-winning author Asali Solomon, The Days of Afrekete is a tender, surprising novel of two women at midlife who rediscover themselves—and perhaps each other, i nspired by Mrs. Dalloway, Sula, and Audre Lorde's ZamiLiselle Belmont is having a d... ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Quicksand

    by Nella Larsen ...
    Series series Modern Library Torchbearers
    A classic novel of identity, sexuality, religion, and race by the author of Passing, hailed as “an original and hugely insightful writer” by The New York Times—with an introduction by Asali Solomon, author of The Days of Afrekete“Quicksand . . . open[s] up a whole world of experience and struggle that seemed to me, when I first read [it] years ago, absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

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  • Disgruntled

    A Novel

    by Asali Solomon ...
    An elegant, vibrant, startling coming-of-age novel, for anyone who's ever felt the shame of being aliveKenya Curtis is only eight years old, but she knows that she's different, even if she can't put her finger on how or why. It's not because she's black—most of the other students in the fourth-grade class at her West Philadelphia elementary school are too. Maybe it's because she celebrates Kwanzaa ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Get Down

    Stories

    by Asali Solomon ...
    Asali Solomon's characters are vivid misfits—a heathen at Jesus camp, a scheming prep-school student, a middle-aged mom pining for her salsa-dancing salad days, a scheming twentysomething virgin, a college stud in love with his weight-lifting partner, a lonely girl in love with a yellow dress. The kids in Get Down are trapped between their own good breeding and their burning desire to join the ... Read more

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  • USA Noir

    Best of the Akashic Noir Series

    by Megan Abbott, Lawrence Block, Tim Broderick, Joseph Bruchac, Jerome Charyn, Lee Child, Reed Farrel Coleman, Michael Connelly, Jeffery Deaver, Barbara DeMarco-Barret, Elyssa East, Maggie Estep, Jonathan Safran Foer, J. Malcolm Garcia, James W. Hall, Pete Hamill, Terrance Hayes, Karen Karbo, Bharti Kirchner,, William Kent Krueger, Dennis Lehane, Laura Lippman, Tim McLoughlin, Joyce Carol Oates, John O’Brien, Bayo Ojikutu, T. Jefferson Parker, George Pelecanos, Pir Rothenberg, S.J. Rozan, Lisa Sandlin, Julie Smith, Asali Solomon, Domenic Stansberry, Susan Straight, Luis Alberto Urrea, Don Winslow ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    "All the heavy hitters...came out for USA Noir...an important anthology of stories shrewdly culled by Johnny Temple."--New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)One of Zoom Street Magazine's Favorite Books of 2014Indie Books Roundup #1 Pick, Barnes & Noble Book BlogIncluded in Zoom Street Magazine's Summer Reading (Mysteries/Noir) RoundupOne of "1... ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

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    The Days of Afrekete

    A Novel

    by Asali Solomon ...
    Narrated by Karen Chilton ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 33 min

    Inspired by Mrs. Dalloway and Sula, The Days of Afrekete is a tender, surprising novel of two women at midlife who rediscover themselves—and perhaps each other.Liselle Belmont is having a dinner party. It seems a strange occasion—her husband, Winn, has lost his bid for the state legislature and they're having the key supporters over to thank them for their work. Liselle was never sure about Winn ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    Disgruntled

    by Asali Solomon ...
    Narrated by Bahni Turpin ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 6 min

    Kenya Curtis is only eight years old, but she knows that she's different, even if she can't put her finger on how or why. It's not because she's black—most of the other students in the fourth-grade class at her West Philadelphia elementary school are too. Maybe it's because she calls her father—a housepainter-slash-philosopher—"Baba," or because her parents' friends gather to pour out libations ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    The Vixen

    A Novel

    by Francine Prose ...
    Narrated by Tristan Morris ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 19 min

    Named one of the best books of 2021 by NPR, The Washington Post, and Financial Times“No one states problems more correctly, more astutely, more amusingly and more uncomfortably than Francine Prose . . . The gift of her work to a reader is to create for us what she creates for her protagonist: the subtle unfolding, the moment-by-moment process of discovery as we read and change, from not knowing ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    Everywhere You Don't Belong

    by Gabriel Bump ...
    Narrated by Korey Jackson ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 15 min

    "This book is astonishing. You'll be smiling even as your heart is breaking, and you'll tip willingly into this world Bump offers you, because what appears again and again are spectacular beams of light also called love, also called hope, also called family. Gabriel Bump has established himself as a stunning talent to be reckoned with." -Maaza Mengiste, author of Beneath the Lion's Gaze In this ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself

    by Peter Ho Davies ...
    Narrated by Christopher Ryan Grant ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 33 min

    “There are some stories that require as much courage to write as they do art. Peter Ho Davies’s achingly honest, searingly comic portrait of fatherhood is just such a story...The world needs more stories like this one, more of this kind of courage, more of this kind of love.” —Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award-winning author of The FriendA heartbreaking, soul-baring novel about the repercussions ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

  • Velvet Was the Night

    by Silvia Moreno-Garcia ...
    GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a simmering historical noir about a daydreaming secretary, a lonesome enforcer, and the mystery of the missing woman they’re both desperate to find.ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, New York Public Library, Milwaukee ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Montreal Noir

    by Jacques Filippi, John McFetridge ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    "American crime fiction fans will welcome the opportunity to sample the short fiction of some worthy Canadian authors." — Publishers WeeklyFollowing the success of Toronto Noir, the Noir Series explores new Canadian terrain, featuring both English and Francophone authors. Like the city it springs from, Montreal Noir is an intriguing mix of culture, identities, and neighborhoods with one thing in ... Read more

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