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Set in seventeenth-century colonial Brazil, this epic rendering of a Black woman's journey from slavery to liberation marks the return of a major voice in American literature.

2) She would be king: a novel

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Moore, Wayétu

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Three extraordinary people use their unusual powers to protect the fledgling state of Liberia.

3) Beloved: a novel

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Morrison, Toni

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Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose...

4) The water dancer: a novel

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Coates, Ta-Nehisi

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"Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage--and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child--but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn't understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram's private rebellion. Spurred on by his improvised plantation...