Tag: @akashicbooks
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Are You Releasing A Book This Spring?
Calling All Authors and Publishers! Are You Releasing A Book This Spring? Are you a black author or write about black subjects? Let Us Know when you are publishing your book. Are You Releasing A Book This Spring? Let Us Know!
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{New Releases} Jan 1-7, 2018
A Delicate Affair (Decades: A Journey of African American Romance Book 1) by:Lindsay Evans Golden Worth is a proud southerner. But when some “good” Georgia boys threaten to lynch him, he runs north to Washington DC to make music and a new life for himself. He doesn’t count on falling for the untouchable Leonie Harper,…
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{New Releases} Week 37 (Sept 4-10)
Sing, Unburied, Sing by:Jesmyn Ward A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award–winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since her National Book Award–winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward…
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{New Releases} Week 7 (Feb 6-12)
The Blood of Emmett Till by:Timothy B. Tyson The event that launched the civil rights movement—the 1955 lynching of young Emmett Till—now reexamined by an award-winning author with access to never-before-heard accounts from those involved as well as recently recovered court transcripts from the trial. In 1955, a fourteen-year-old black boy named Emmett Till, who…
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{New Releases} Week 45 (Oct 31-Nov 6)
Daughters of a Nation by: Lena Hart, Piper Huguley, Kianna Alexander, and Alyssa Cole The fight for suffrage was long, hard, and carried out on many fronts. In Daughters of A Nation, Kianna Alexander, Alyssa Cole, Lena Hart, and Piper Huguley bring you four novellas full of spirit, hope, and, most importantly: LOVE. IN THE…
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{Excerpt} Pressure Makes Diamonds: Becoming the Woman I Pretended to Be by:Valerie Graves
INTRODUCTION MINING FOR GOLD IN MUDDY WATER . . . RETURNING THE PAGE The city of Pontiac, Michigan was celebrating its 150th birthday in March 2011, and my role in the festivities was “hometown girl made good.” Being honored as a lifetime achiever by Pontiac is no small thing—my hometown has produced two Olympic gold…
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{New Releases} Week 43 (Oct 17-23)
Game Changers: The Unsung Heroines of Sports History by:Molly Schiot Based on the Instagram account @TheUnsungHeroines, a celebration of the pioneering, forgotten female athletes of the twentieth century that features rarely seen photos and new interviews with past and present game changers including Abby Wambach and Cari Champion. Two years ago, filmmaker Molly Schiot began…
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