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From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, a passionate, profound story of love and obsession that brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of Black urban life. With a foreword by the author. "As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prize-winning Beloved... Morrison conjures up the hand of slavery on Harlem's jazz generation.

A wildly charming and fast-paced mystery written with all the panache of the hardboiled classics, Fortune Favors the Dead introduces Pentecost and Parker, an audacious new detective duo for the ages. “Razor-sharp style, tons of flair, a snappy sense of humor, and all the most satisfying elements of a really good noir novel, plus plenty of original twists of its own.” —Tana French, bestselling author of The Searcher.

“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?

New York Times bestseller. The one and only Fannie Flagg, beloved author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You, is at her hilarious and superb best in this new comic mystery novel about two women who are forced to reimagine who they are. Mrs. Sookie Poole of Point Clear, Alabama, has just married off the last of her daughters and is looking forward to relaxing and perhaps traveling with her husband, Earle. The only thing left to contend with is her mother, the formidable Lenore Simmons Krackenberry.

A *New York Times* Top Ten Book of 2024 • A *New York Public Library* Top Ten Book of the Year. “Short, strange, spiky and sublime.” —Dwight Garner, *New York Times* “Funny, ghastly, eye-opening, marvelous.” —*Wall Street Journal*. From the visionary author of *Sudden Death*, a hallucinatory, revelatory colonial revenge story. One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernán Cortés enters the city of Tenochtitlan—today's Mexico City. Later that day, he will meet the emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires, two languages, two possible futures.

One of *Esquire's* Best Horror Books of 2024 • One of *Crime Reads'* Best Gothic Novels of 2024. In this Southern gothic horror debut, a young Black woman abandons her life in 1960s Chicago for a position with a mysterious family in New Orleans, only to discover the dark truth: They’re under a curse, and they think she can break it. 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.

New York Times Bestseller -- Read with Jenna's May Book Club Pick -- From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny? An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures? "Mesmerizing" -Brit Bennett -- "A page turner." -Ha Jin -- "Gorgeous, heartfelt, soaring, philosophical and deft" -Andrew Sean Greer -- "Traverses time with verve and feeling." -Raven Leilani.

Christy Award Winner -- A Colombian American journalist tries to save her career by taking an assignment somewhere she never thought she'd go-Colombia-in this heartwarming debut novel about rediscovering our family stories. "A beautiful homage to a mother's bravery and to the grace and grit that is our inheritance." -Alicia Menendez, MSNBC anchor and creator and host of the Latina to Latina podcast.

The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman. Miyamoto Musashi was the child of an era when Japan was emerging from decades of civil strife. Lured to the great Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 by the hope of becoming a samurai-without really knowing what it meant-he regains consciousness after the battle to find himself lying defeated, dazed, and wounded among thousands of the dead and dying. On his way home, he commits a rash act, becomes a fugitive, and brings life in his own village to a standstill-until he is captured by a weaponless Zen monk.

". . . a poignant story of sisterhood, motherhood, and new love found in old places. McKnight's writing is as delectable as the Gullah cuisine at the heart of the novel." —Denny S. Bryce, bestselling author of The Other Princess and Wild Women and the Blues From the beloved author of The Thing About Home comes a dual timeline tale of Lowcountry flavor, family, grief, secrets, and the sweet redemption that lies within the bonds of sisterhood.