Fiction

Any Good Books Lately? 

Submitted by admin on January 1, 2012 - 9:50pm

Is it me or are fewer titles in the African American fiction genre being released by major publishers? Are these new releases becoming harder to find in at a brick and mortar book store?

The Loom 

Submitted by admin on January 1, 2012 - 9:17pm
Author: 
Sheila Gillus
ISBN: 
0824948165
Publish Date: 
2011-12-01
New Release?: 
1
Show Date: 
2012-01-01

Lydia was a common slave with a common life until the day she entered a world no slave had gone before. Pale skin and deceit opened the door to wealth and a power she had only dreamed of. But what she didn’t count on was falling in love. What she didn’t realize was life was not always black or white.

Running the Rift 

Submitted by admin on January 1, 2012 - 9:12pm
Author: 
Naomi Benaron
ISBN: 
1616200421
Publish Date: 
2012-01-03
New Release?: 
1
Show Date: 
2012-01-01

Running the Rift follows Jean Patrick Nkuba, a gifted Rwandan boy, from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life, a ten-year span in which his country is undone by the Hutu-Tutsi tensions. Born a Tutsi, he is thrust into a world where it’s impossible to stay apolitical—where the man who used to sell you gifts for your family now spews hatred, where the girl who flirted with you in the lunchroom refuses to look at you, where your Hutu coach is secretly training the very soldiers who will hunt down your family. Yet in an environment increasingly restrictive for the Tutsi, he holds fast to his dream of becoming Rwanda’s first Olympic medal contender in track, a feat he believes might deliver him and his people from this violence. When the killing begins, Jean Patrick is forced to flee, leaving behind the woman, the family, and the country he loves. Finding them again is the race of his life.