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Thicker Than Water: New Writing from the Caribbean

The latest release from Caribbean publisher Peekash Press celebrates some of the major new voices in Anglophone Caribbean literature

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Makeda

The debut title from Akashic’s Open Lens imprint: a universal tale of family, heritage, and the ties that bind, from the nationally best-selling author Randall Robinson.

Tigerbelle: The Wyomia Tyus Story

A timely memoir about world record–breaking Tyus’s 1964 and 1968 Olympic victories, amid the turbulence of the 1960s, along with contemporary reflections.

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