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Dolen Perkins-Valdez
A woman learns the astonishing truth of her family's ties to a real-life American Kingdom in this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Take…
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A woman learns the astonishing truth of her family's ties to a vanished American Kingdom in this riveting new novel from the New York Times bestselling, NAACP Image Award-winning author…
The New York Times bestselling author of Wench and Take My Hand returns to the Civil War era in this powerful story of love and healing
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The bestselling debut novel from Dolen Perkins-Valdez, based on little-known fact, tells the story of four Black enslaved women in the years preceding the Civil War
Inspired by true events and a landmark case in US history, the unputdownable and deeply moving story of a black nurse who makes a shocking discovery about two young girls…
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In her debut, Perkins-Valdez eloquently plunges into a dark period of American history … Heart-wrenching, intriguing, original, and suspenseful, this novel showcases [the author’s] ability to bring the unfortunate past…
Set during the [era after the Civil War] and exploring the next chapter of history–the end of slavery–this … story of love and healing is about three people who struggle…
Winner of the 2023 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction
"Deeply empathetic yet unflinching in its gaze...an unforgettable exploration of responsibility and redemption."-Celeste Ng
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Elizabeth Keckley
Behind the Scenes: or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House was first published in 1868 and is considered one of the most candid and poignant…
