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Queenie By Candice Carty-Williams

Can’t front. Saw this fly-ass book cover ☛QUEENIE [pub: Gallery/Scout Press] floating around Instagram and immediately followed author Candice Carty-Williams on Twitter and Insta. Did some digging and learned that the Jamaican British writer landed a six-figure deal for her debut novel.

Cravings: Hungry For More By Chrissy Teigen

Chrissy Teigen and Adeena Sussman‘s second cookbook ☛CRAVINGS: HUNGRY FOR MORE  [pub: Clarkson Potter] dropped yesterday. I caught the hilarious mom of two promoting her latest work on Good Morning America. While the Everything Bagel Cream Cheese Breakfast Bake looked a lil’

Pride By Ibi Zoboi

Ibi Zoboi‘s second young adult novel ☛PRIDE [pub: Balzer + Bray] drops today. Issa contemporary Brooklyn-based remix of Jane Austen’s classic PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. Zoboi’s first YA novel AMERICAN STREET was a 2017 National Book Award finalist.

Looking for Lorraine By Imani Perry

Happiest of pub days to Imani Perry! ☛LOOKING FOR LORRAINE: THE RADIANT AND RADICAL LIFE OF LORRAINE HANSBERRY [pub: Beacon Press] is the Princeton University professor’s third book published in 2018 alone! Featured above is the trailer for PBS’ Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart which aired in January of this year.

In Intimate Detail By Cora Harrington

I am absolutely smitten with Cora Harrington’s book cover ☛IN INTIMATE DETAIL: HOW TO CHOOSE, WEAR, AND LOVE LINGERIE [pub: Ten Speed Press]. The comprehensive guide to undergarments is just so pretty and feminine and, yeah, pink. Can’t wait to display it, read it and learn from it. 

Nostrand Avenue by Kenji Jasper

Salute to Kenji Jasper on the release of his fourth novel ☛NOSTRAND AVENUE [pub: Kensington]! “The first volume in the ‘Kango Watts Trilogy’, a new literary experience that melds street fiction with Afrofuturism, erotica and meditations on yoga and African-centered religions.” Here for it.

 

She Would Be King By Wayétu Moore

Wayétu Moore is busy and booked for the next couple of months! The debut author’s highly-anticipated novel ☛SHE WOULD BE KING [pub: Graywolf Press] drops next Tuesday, September 11th. Plus, the One Moore Book founder is going on a nationwide tour. Catch the Howard alum September 12th in conversation with Yahdon Israel at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in New York City.

Praise Song For The Butterflies By Bernice L. McFadden

Happiest of Pub Days to Bernice L. McFadden! The Brooklyn native’s 10th book [under the name her mama gave her], ☛PRAISE SONG FOR THE BUTTERFLIES  [pub: Akashic Books] drops today. McFadden has written five additional novels under the pseudonym Geneva Holliday.

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