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Happy Pub Week To @tayari, @Larnelle_Harris, @JoeKellyMOA, @DavidPeisner, @sweetpotatosoul, @smallsalexander, @vvchambers, @DDGilliard and Many More! What books are you buying this week? #newreleases, #newrelease

Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice That Restores by:Dominique DuBois Gilliard The United States has more people locked up in jails, prisons, and detention centers than any other country in the history of the world. Mass incarceration has become a lucrative industry, and the criminal justice system is plagued with bias and unjust practices. And the church has unwittingly contributed…

Check Out These New Releases by @IamCarlWeber, @JasonOverstreet, @IyanlaVanzant, @VanessaRiley, @authorMsBev, @LLcoolJill, @Blakekarrington, @MorganJerkins, @beingmrsjones, @RebeccaRissman, @iammarleydias, @AuthorSaundra, @JeanneTheoharis, and More!

Black Fortunes by:Shomari Wells The astonishing untold history of America’s first black millionaires—former slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass and maintain their wealth for a century, from the Jacksonian period to the Roaring Twenties—self-made entrepreneurs whose unknown success mirrored that of American business heroes such as Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Thomas Edison.

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The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun @AtriaBooks #WeNeedDiverseReads #MMRomCom #SweetlyFunny #MentalHealth @alisoncochrun

Alison Cochrun comes to the blog with a story of reality television, Cinderella, dreams coming true and fate taking over with   The Charm Offensive   To start with – I ADORED both of the MC’s in this story: Charlie and Dev are both a bit ‘lost boy’, with their own individual issues of anxiety, depression, OCD, family struggles and romantic dearth, and while Dev is successfully producing a…

It Had to be You by Georgia Clark @AtriaBooks #MultiplePOV #Romantic #SecondChances #WeNeedDiverseReads @georgialouclark

Georgia Clark comes to the blog with an integrated story that all starts with a death and a wedding planner in   It Had to be You   Liv and Eliot have a well-known and respected wedding planning business, In Love In New York, that they have run for most of their marriage.  But when Eliot has a sudden and fatal heart attack, Liv is left unmoored – focusing on her grief, her young son and little…

The Memory Collectors by Kim Neville @AtriaBooks #Debut #LitFic #MagicalRealism @kaneville13

Kim Neville comes to the blog with her debut offering, one that uses emotions, found things and memories to create a story with   The Memory Collectors   Told in two perspectives, we have women who discover that they can ‘relive’ emotions and memories from found objects.  While Ev believes that her “gift” is more of a curse, and the objects she finds need to be handled carefully and then…

Lana’s War by Anita Abriel @AtriaBooks #ResistanceStory #Historic #Loss #France #WWII @abrielanita

Anita Abriel comes to the blog with a story from the French Resistance and one woman’s attempt to bring the war to an end with Lana’s War Lana, a daughter of a Russian countess is married and living with her husband in Paris during the war. When she visits the school to inform him that she’s pregnant with their first child, she witnesses his murder at the hands of the Gestapo for teaching a young…

Sin Eater by Megan Campisi @AtriaBooks #HistoricFiction #subjugation #TudorEra #Intense #MeganCampisi

Megan Campisi comes to the blog with one of the more unique, dark and eerie historic fictions that I’ve ever read with

Sin Eater

Let’s start with an explanation: a sin eater is a woman, shunned from society and performs the ritual of consuming a meal, thus the sins of the dead, taking on those sins as a way to atone for their own. Our story starts with fourteen year old May, marked for the task…

To Have and to Hoax by Martha Waters @AtriaBooks #HistoricRomCom #SecondChances #Fave #Debut @marthabwaters

Martha Waters comes to the blog with her debut offering, a romantic comedy set in the Regency era with

To Have and to Hoax

Violet and James met at a ball just over five years ago, and fell into love almost instantly. And from the beginning it is clear that they are the perfect match, even though both are very young and immature. Just how immature and young isn’t truly clear until we pick up with…