Browsing: Black Stories & Experiences

In this “exemplary, inviting” account (Kirkus Reviews), a food historian traces African American cooking and its influence on the US through his own family’s experiences. “A valuable addition to culinary and Old South historiography” (Library Journal starred review), with over 900 five-star Goodreads ratings.

A New York Times bestseller and NPR Best Book of 2020 from a Pulitzer Prize–winning author: In the wake of World War II, Jack, the white son of a small-town minister from Iowa, and Della, a Black schoolteacher, find their lives colliding. With “richness and depth at every turn” (O, The Oprah Magazine).

Billionaire Easton needs to marry to retain control of his company, while Zola is in desperate need of financial help. A marriage of convenience could solve both of their problems — but nothing will prepare them for the real-life sparks that fly between them…

Captured and sold into slavery, a young African girl faces a harrowing new life in 19th-century America… Meet Judah in a powerful historical novel that reveals the life of one of the many enslaved people at Virginia’s Belle Grove Plantation.