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At the heart of Sula is a bond between to women, a friendship whose intensity first sustains, then injuries. Sula and Nel are both black, both smart, and both poor. Through their girlhood years, they share everything. All this changes when Sula gets out of the Bottom, the hilltop neighborhood where there hides a fierce resentment at the invisible line that cannot be overstepped.

When she is chosen to headline her record label's first-ever all-female national tour, Deza, a young female rap superstar, goes up against brutal industry misogyny and corporate big money to claim respect for herself—and for everyone and everything she believes in.

When she discovers that she is pregnant, attorney Devon Gilmore leaves her fast-paced life behind to settle down on Cavanaugh Island, where sparks fly between her and David Sullivan, who may not be ready for an instant family.

In this novel of love, longing, and betrayal, thirty-two-year-old Adrian Cage, who has just jumped from the roof of the Landmark II building in downtown Chicago, shares her tragic life story, from her painful childhood to her nightmarish marriage, as she hurtles to her death.

Follows four generations of African American women from slavery to the early twentieth century as they struggle for economic security and the future of their families along the Cane River in rural Louisiana.

"Meet Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean...Earl's All-You-Can-Eat is home away from home for this inseparable Plainview, Indiana, trio. Dubbed "the Supremes" by high school pals in the tumultuous 1960s, they weather life's storms together for the next four decades. Now, during their most challenging year yet, dutiful, proud, and talented Clarice must struggle to keep up appearances as she deals with her husband's humiliating infidelities. Beautiful,...

Cast into mid-1800s America, Yemaya, a deity in the religion of Africa’s Yoruba people, as she grows into her powers, must confront the greatest evils of this era while searching for the man who sacrificed his own freedom for the chance at hers.

"...this is the searing story of Tashi, a tribal African woman first glimpsed in The Color Purple whose fateful decision to submit to the tsunga's knife and be genitally mutilated leads to a trauma that informs her life and fatefully alters her existence."--

An interracial relationship between a Union soldier from Vermont and a runaway slave at the end of the Civil War initiates a haunting family legacy of war, racism, and secrets that follows three generations from the end of the Civil War to the Great Depression.