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Featured: Black Interest

The Girl with the Golden Shoes

A dazzling coming-of-age novella, now an Essence Magazine best seller, by Jamaica’s top-selling writer.

Party: A Mystery

A beautifully illustrated story of three girls caught up in the most curious of mysteries.

*While supplies last, books ordered through the website will be SIGNED by Ricardo Cortés.

The Duppy

Oddball sexuality, acts of perversion, and out-of-order behavior from the acclaimed Jamaican author of The Lunatic and Dog War.

How funny is this social satire? Akashic Books’s pledge to our readers: Laugh out loud at least once or your money back. Seriously.

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6/18/25, 6:00pm

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6/27/25, 7:30pm

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