Resultados para "Crow" en Afroamericana

In Trinidad, in 1796, teenage Rosa Rendon quietly but purposefully rebels against typical female roles and behavior. Bright, competitive, and opinionated, Rosa sees no reason she should learn to cook and keep house - it is obvious her talents lie in running the farm she expects to be her birthright, despite her two older siblings. But as her homeland goes from Spanish to British rule, it becomes increasingly unclear whether its free black property owners - Rosa's family among them - will be allowed to keep their assets, their land, and ultimately, their freedom.

*Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner * New York Times Notable Book * Locus Award Finalist * Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and the Shirley Jackson Award * “You’re in for a treat...one of those books you can’t put down...Due hit it out of the park.” —Stephen King A gripping...

Her ex sold her to pay off a gambling debt. And now her body belongs to Nashville's hottest heartthrob, The rebellious guitarist Seb Jefferson. Angie hates celebrities. She would never relent to a sin-soaked playboy like him. Nothing will change her mind... Not his flawlessly chiseled body. Not his skills with his tongue... And especially not his money.

WINNER OF THE 2025 JAMES LAUGHLIN AWARD FROM THE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS A stunning new collection exploring lineage and the legacy of survival as seen through the life of the poet’s grandmother Alice—a Black woman born in the Jim Crow South—using the King James Bible as a narrative...

TANA-MARA: The Saga of Jackson Cornwall Harlow, opens with a family who settled a small farming community in Grassy Cove, Tennessee during the Civil War. A ruthless band of renegade guerillas posing as Union soldiers destroy the settlement, but not before William Harlow sets his oldest son, Jackson, bareback on a horse to escape the brutal murder of his family. Days later, Jackson appears at a tobacco plantation in Jimtown, Kentucky, and is taken in by a family of slaves. Jack’s horse dies from sand colic, and he finds himself stranded on the plantation.

Earl Wayne Jr. has filthy tastes. Most women can’t handle one night with the rock star, let alone a secret relationship. But his best friend’s nerdy, black, younger sister is impossible to resist. LaShawn was off-limits from the start. Earl knew better than to seduce the loud-mouthed woman he watched grow up—but one slip changes everything. Keeping their messed up love affair secret isn’t just dangerous because of his career—it’s life or death. If Devonté, LaShawn’s prison-hardened brother, finds out, they’re both as good as dead.

Moonstone, South Carolina. A town where nothing is what it seems. Marilyn Maxwell is an accomplished woman in all areas. But what people don’t know is she has struggled with the demon of death since she was a child. After a personal crisis forces her to re-evaluate her life, she reluctantly decides to relocate to her hometown of Moonstone, South Carolina. This decision sends her spiraling into a world full of conjure, celestial wonder, and the murky unknown.

Two people, ten years apart, both messed up from trauma and ruined for relationships. Rain tries to blackmail a superstar to save her ass from trouble she got into with her ex. The rock star in question, a 28 year old bassist with a drinking problem, doesn’t take too kindly to betrayal… After tying his new personal assistant to his bed and making some unhinged threats of his own, Mickey forces Rain into an alliance. Enemies thrown together in a gothic Southern mansion reach a compromise… keep each other satisfied, stay loyal — and never fall in love.

In this atmospheric novel set in the Jim Crow South, a powerful Black family fights to protect their empire—an "unforgettable must-read" for readers of Tayari Jones (Victoria Christopher Murray, New York Times bestselling author). Jordan Sable, a prosperous undertaker turned political boss...

Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a thought-provoking and enchanting debut about a Black woman doing whatever it takes to protect all she loves at the beginning of the civil rights movement in Alabama. It’s 1957, and after leaving the only home she has ever...

A searing volume by a poet whose work conveys “the visceral effect that prison has on identity” (New York Times). Felon tells the story of one man in fierce, dazzling poems― canvassing his wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse...

This “exuberant celebration of Black women’s joy as well as their achievements” (Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author) novelizes the life of real estate magnate Josephine N. Leary in a previously untold story of passion, perseverance, and building a legacy after emancipation in...

From the acclaimed author of “the most compelling new series in crime fiction” (Michael Koryta, New York Times bestselling author) comes “a sharply observed novel” (New York Times) that explores race, law enforcement, and justice in mid-century Atlanta. Officer Denny Rakestraw and...

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Ralph Elllison's Invisible Man is a monumental novel, one that can well be called an epic of modern American Negro life. It is a strange story, in which many extraordinary things happen, some of them shocking and brutal...

Two strangers: A biker & a black woman. One night together... No Memories... Just a creamy mess to clean up. Magnum doesn’t flirt with loud, plus-sized black women rocking bubblegum-pink hair and curves for days. He has enough problems... He knows when a woman is nothing but trouble, with a butt that could have him wrapped around her finger. Damara draws him into her honey trap with a bright smile and high cheek bones. He can't resist her curvy, deliciously sweet peach, even if he tries. Magnum had to break his rules to buy her a shot. And it's the last thing they both remember.

Her ex sold her to pay off a gambling debt... And now her body belongs to Nashville's hottest heartthrob - the rebellious guitarist Seb Jefferson. Angie hates celebrities. She would never relent to a sin-soaked playboy like him. Nothing will change her mind... Not his flawlessly chiseled body. Not his skills with his tongue... And especially not his money.