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The Deep

by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes ...

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Winner of the 2021 Audie AwardONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society—and must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in this brilliantly imaginative novella inspired by the Hugo Award–nominated song “The Deep” from Daveed Diggs’s rap group clippingYetu holds the memories for ... Read more

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Winner of the 2021 Audie AwardONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society—and must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in this brilliantly imaginative novella inspired by the Hugo Award–nominated song “The Deep” from Daveed Diggs’s rap group clippingYetu holds the memories for
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The Deep

by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes ...

Octavia E. Butler meets Marvel’s Black Panther in The Deep, a story rich with Afrofuturism, folklore, and the power of memory, inspired by the Hugo Award–nominated song “The Deep” from Daveed Diggs’s rap group Clipping.Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, ... Read more

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Octavia E. Butler meets Marvel’s Black Panther in The Deep, a story rich with Afrofuturism, folklore, and the power of memory, inspired by the Hugo Award–nominated song “The Deep” from Daveed Diggs’s rap group Clipping.Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past,
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Black Imagination

Black Voices on Black Futures

by Natasha Marin ...

Narrated by Daveed Diggs, Lena Waithe ...

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Recommended by Jason Reynolds on PBS News Hour“Don’t think for one minute that Black Imagination is easy. As you will read here, it is hard-earned and sometimes dangerous, but it’s necessary, and radical, to claim and work towards. Listening to my people in this book gave me so much life, and I’m pretty sure, dear reader, you’re in for the same.” —from the Foreword by Steven Dunn“Witnessing is ... Read more

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Recommended by Jason Reynolds on PBS News Hour“Don’t think for one minute that Black Imagination is easy. As you will read here, it is hard-earned and sometimes dangerous, but it’s necessary, and radical, to claim and work towards. Listening to my people in this book gave me so much life, and I’m pretty sure, dear reader, you’re in for the same.” —from the Foreword by Steven Dunn“Witnessing is
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An Unkindness of Ghosts

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An "intensely thought-provoking" science fiction debut from a worthy successor to Octavia Butler (LeVar Burton Reads).One of Esquire magazine's 50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All TimeAster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her an ogre and a freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she was truly a monster, she'd be powerful enough to ... Read more

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An "intensely thought-provoking" science fiction debut from a worthy successor to Octavia Butler (LeVar Burton Reads).One of Esquire magazine's 50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All TimeAster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her an ogre and a freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she was truly a monster, she'd be powerful enough to
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Black Voices on Black Futures

by Natasha Marin, Steven Dunn ...

Recommended by Jason Reynolds on PBS News Hour"(D)on't think for one minute that Black Imagination is easy. As you will read here, it is hard-earned and sometimes dangerous, but it's necessary, and radical, to claim and work towards. Listening to my people in this book gave me so much life, and I'm pretty sure, dear reader, you're in for the same." —from the Foreword by Steven DunnWhat is your ... Read more

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Recommended by Jason Reynolds on PBS News Hour"(D)on't think for one minute that Black Imagination is easy. As you will read here, it is hard-earned and sometimes dangerous, but it's necessary, and radical, to claim and work towards. Listening to my people in this book gave me so much life, and I'm pretty sure, dear reader, you're in for the same." —from the Foreword by Steven DunnWhat is your
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Model Home

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by Rivers Solomon ...

LOCUS AWARD FINALISTWelcome to Rivers Solomon’s dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel.The three Maxwell siblings keep their distance from the lily-white gated enclave outside Dallas where they grew up. When their family moved there, they were the only Black family in the neighborhood. The neighbors acted nice enough, but right away bad things, scary things—the strange and ... Read more

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LOCUS AWARD FINALISTWelcome to Rivers Solomon’s dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel.The three Maxwell siblings keep their distance from the lily-white gated enclave outside Dallas where they grew up. When their family moved there, they were the only Black family in the neighborhood. The neighbors acted nice enough, but right away bad things, scary things—the strange and
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Escaping Exodus

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by Nicky Drayden ...

Narrated by Cherise Boothe, Adenrele Ojo ...

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10 hours 8 min

""Don't be alarmed - that dizzy pleasurable sensation you're experiencing is just your brain slowly exploding from all the wild magnificent worldbuilding in Nicky Drayden's Escaping Exodus. I loved these characters and this story, and so will you.""- Sam J. Miller, Nebula-Award-winning author of The Art of Starving and Blackfish CityThe Compton Crook award–winning author of The Prey of Gods and <e ... Read more

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""Don't be alarmed - that dizzy pleasurable sensation you're experiencing is just your brain slowly exploding from all the wild magnificent worldbuilding in Nicky Drayden's Escaping Exodus. I loved these characters and this story, and so will you.""- Sam J. Miller, Nebula-Award-winning author of The Art of Starving and Blackfish CityThe Compton Crook award–winning author of The Prey of Gods and <e
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Black Powerful

Black Voices Reimagine Revolution

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Award-winning viral curator and poet Natasha Marin follows-up her acclaimed Black Imagination with a brilliant new collection of sharply-rendered, breathtaking reflections from more than two dozen Black voices.What does it sound like when you claim yourself? When do you feel most at home in yourself? What is your relationship to Africa, real or imagined?Black Powerful examines Black Americans' ... Read more

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Award-winning viral curator and poet Natasha Marin follows-up her acclaimed Black Imagination with a brilliant new collection of sharply-rendered, breathtaking reflections from more than two dozen Black voices.What does it sound like when you claim yourself? When do you feel most at home in yourself? What is your relationship to Africa, real or imagined?Black Powerful examines Black Americans'
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Sorrowland

A Novel

by Rivers Solomon ...

A TIME 100 Must-Read Book of 2021A New York Times Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2021The Stonewall Book Award winner of 2022Named a Best Book of 2021 by NPR, The New York Public Library, Publishers Weekly and more!**A triumphant, genre-bending breakout novel from one of the boldest new voices in contemporary fiction.Vern—seven months pregnant and desperat... ... Read more

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A TIME 100 Must-Read Book of 2021A New York Times Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2021The Stonewall Book Award winner of 2022Named a Best Book of 2021 by NPR, The New York Public Library, Publishers Weekly and more!**A triumphant, genre-bending breakout novel from one of the boldest new voices in contemporary fiction.Vern—seven months pregnant and desperat...
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Black Powerful

by Natasha Marin ...

Narrated by Gin Hammond, Chinua Hawk ...

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Award-winning viral curator and poet Natasha Marin follows up her acclaimed Black Imagination with a brilliant new collection of sharply rendered, breathtaking reflections from more than one hundred Black voices.- When do you feel most indigenous?- What does it sound like when you claim yourself?- When do you feel most powerful?Black Powerful explores the monumental resilience, joy, and triumph of ... Read more

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Award-winning viral curator and poet Natasha Marin follows up her acclaimed Black Imagination with a brilliant new collection of sharply rendered, breathtaking reflections from more than one hundred Black voices.- When do you feel most indigenous?- What does it sound like when you claim yourself?- When do you feel most powerful?Black Powerful explores the monumental resilience, joy, and triumph of
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Listen to the Lambs

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by Daniel Black ...

"Daniel Black's novel . . . dramatizes the trials and tribulations of a group of homeless outcasts who push beyond their failings to form a family." —Jeffery Renard Allen, author of Fat Time and Other StoriesIn Listen to the Lambs by Daniel Black, nothing can convince Lazarus Love III to return to the lifestyle of affluence and social status he once knew. Longing for a freedom of the soul that ... Read more

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"Daniel Black's novel . . . dramatizes the trials and tribulations of a group of homeless outcasts who push beyond their failings to form a family." —Jeffery Renard Allen, author of Fat Time and Other StoriesIn Listen to the Lambs by Daniel Black, nothing can convince Lazarus Love III to return to the lifestyle of affluence and social status he once knew. Longing for a freedom of the soul that
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Blood Is Another Word for Hunger

A Tor.com Original

by Rivers Solomon ...

Anger is an energy. A young girl, a slave in the South, is presented with a moment where she can grasp for freedom, for change, for life. She grabs it with both hands, fiercely and intensely, and the spirit world is shaken, in Rivers Solomon's astonishing Blood Is Another Word for Hunger: A Tor.com Original short story.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights ... Read more

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Anger is an energy. A young girl, a slave in the South, is presented with a moment where she can grasp for freedom, for change, for life. She grabs it with both hands, fiercely and intensely, and the spirit world is shaken, in Rivers Solomon's astonishing Blood Is Another Word for Hunger: A Tor.com Original short story.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights
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