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Scattered Seed

Three sisters navigate the horrors of the Middle Passage in a powerful historical novel about family, honor, and the will to live. Drawing from her ancestry, Howard gives an authentic voice to the horrors of the Middle Passage—and an empowered one to a girl who is determined to survive, to honor her father and Timbuktu, and to ensure that her and her sisters’ names will never be forgotten…

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Paris Noire

The vision of Paris-in-the-Spring, the center of eternal beauty, culture, and love, submerges in the reality of Black Parisians celebrating the day of liberation from the Nazis…

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The Daughter of Union County

A wealthy White man with a barren wife is determined to have an heir…

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Page from a Tennessee Journal

The rules are strict and unforgiving. Page shines a hard and lesser-known truth on the laws and customs governing Black/White interaction in the Jim Crow south of 1913 rural Tennessee…

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A Waltz in Tennessee

This long-awaited follow-up to Page from a Tennessee Journal springs forward to 1930 and travels between Illinois and Tennessee…

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The Sisterhood Hyphen


The Sisterhood wraps a series of mind-raising questions in the gauzy trappings of a not-so-conventional romance. What is an African American? Who is an American? Why the hyphen for some Americans, and not others?

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