Announcing LyricPop: A New Picture Book Series!
Akashic Books is pleased to announce LyricPop, A New Picture Book Series Presenting Your Favorite Song Lyrics, Launching in June 2020
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Heatin’ Up: Ben Okri’s THE FREEDOM ARTIST
Ben Orki’s new novel The Freedom Artist is receiving fantastic advance praise!
“The Good and the Bad” by Kristen Petry
Melanie and Matt drove past their potential client’s house, a white stucco tear-down on a lesser street in one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the country.
“Barbecue” by Carol Wakefield
I liked cooking meat over coals outside on the patio barbeque for the taste and the smoky flavor and of course less kitchen mess.
“The Shit Machine” (or “ShitMo”) by Nkosi Ife Bandele
None of the men in my wife’s family ever changed a diaper. Not one. Not ever.
“A Face in the Crowd” by B.L. Conradis
Max Renzi was running out of time. Scurrying through the crowd, his beady eyes scanning over the policemen, the TV reporters, the children clogging the sidewalk, he figured he had an hour, maybe two, before D.C. got too hot for him.
“Ride-Along” by Ron Riekki
He’s a cop. I’m not. It’s a Ride-Along Program. I did one before. With a cop who wouldn’t talk.
A TALL HISTORY OF SUGAR Is One of Vanity Fair‘s Best of 2019!
Curdella Forbes’s A Tall History of Sugar, released in October 2019, was selected as an Editors’ Pick for Vanity Fair‘s Best Books of 2019 by Copy Production Director Anderson Tepper. His recommendation reads: “Curdella Forbes’s A Tall History of Sugar is the most recent in an impressive new wave of novels by Jamaican writers—from Marlon James‘s Booker […]
Featured: Black Interest
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Game World
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Nairobi Noir (Kenya)
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So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival
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Bivouac
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African
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You Throw Like a Girl: The Blind Spot of Masculinity
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I Am a Promise
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The Lost Treasures of R&B: A D Hunter Mystery
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Black History Digit
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Home Girl
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Lagos Noir (Nigeria)
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A Simple Distance