Acclaimed author of Island Queen Vanessa Riley brings listeners a vivid, sweeping novel of the Haitian Revolution based on the true-life stories of two extraordinary women: the first Empress of Haiti, Marie-Claire Bonheur, and Gran Toya, a West African-born warrior who helped lead the rebellion that drove out the French and freed the enslaved people of Haiti. Gran Toya:

"Joseph has learned a great deal from Bell Hooks here, and I think she would be proud because Patriarchy Blues is such a moving, inspiring, rigorous vision for living." -Robert Jones, Jr., New York Times bestselling author of The Prophets"With tremendous vulnerability and humility, Joseph peels back the layers of his life to demonstrate that disrupting pa

James Patterson and award-winning author Ellen Banda-Aaku deliver an unforgettable story of a girl, an elephant, and their life-changing friendship. Clever, sensitive Jama likes elephants better than people. While her classmates gossip - especially about the new boy, Leku - twelve-year-old Jama takes refuge at the watering hole outside her village. There she befriends a

"Heady and dark and dangerous, The Pink Hotel is an intoxicating binge of a book. Liska Jacobs' stunning indictment of a society teetering towards apocalypse is one you won't easily forget." (New York Times best-selling author Janelle Brown) Confined to an opulent Beverly Hills hotel during a raging wildfire, a young couple is caught in the escalating t

A surprising history of gerrymandering in America, from the Founding Fathers to Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, and Reconstruction; to the twentieth century's legislative battles at the Supreme Court; to today's high-tech manip­ulation of election districts: the story of how we got here and what we must do to protect our most sacred, hard-fought principle of one

As 1947 opens, Eva Cardon is the twenty-four-year-old owner of Washington, D.C.'s, most famous Black-owned restaurant. When her path crosses with Courtland, a handsome white senator from Georgia, both find themselves drawn to one another - but the danger of a relationship between a Black woman and a white man from the South could destroy them and everything they'

Perfect for fans of Emily Giffin and Jojo Moyes,Lindsay MacMillan's debut novel deftly captures the feeling of being adrift in your late twenties, with poignant commentary on female friendships, mental health, and what happiness really looks like.Rae is in a romantic recession. The Wall Street banker is single in New York City and overwhelmed by the pressure to scra

A gripping, terrifying road trip through the heat of the post-apocalyptic American desert from the author of Netflix's The Silence. This action-packed and thought-provoking eco-nightmare will appeal to fans of Benjamin Percy, Christopher Golden and Josh Malerman.With global warming out of control, large swathes of North America have been struck by famine and drought

An unforgettable debut novel from an award-winning writer: a lively, daring ghost story about a teenage ghost who falls in love with a writer who doesn't know she exists.In 1473, fourteen-year-old Blanca dies in a hilltop monastery in Mallorca. Nearly four hundred years later, when George Sand, her two children, and her lover Frederic Chopin arrive in the village, Bl