Octavia E. Butler : Kindred, Fledgling, collected stories - Butler, Octavia E.,

Summary: This first volume in the Library of America edition of Octavia E. Butler's collected works opens with her masterpiece, Kindred, one of the landmark American novels of the last half century. Its...

Contents: Introduction / by Nisi Shawl --Kindred --Fledgling --Collected stories:Childfinder ;Crossover;Near of Kin ;Speech Sounds ;Bloodchild ;The Evening and the Morning and the Night ;Amnesty ;The Book of...

Honey girl - Rogers, Morgan (Morgan A.),

Summary: With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, 28-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls' trip to Vegas to celebrate. She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married...

Natalie Tan's book of luck and fortune - Lim, Roselle,

Summary: At the news of her mother's death, Natalie Tan returns home. The two women hadn't spoken since Natalie left in anger seven years ago, when her mother refused to support her chosen career as a chef....

When the emperor was divine : a novel - Otsuka, Julie, 1962-

Summary: Otsuka's commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any previously written--a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and an unmistakably resonant lesson for...

Jam on the vine : a novel - Barnett, LaShonda K. (LaShonda Katrice), 1974-

Summary: "Follows the story of Ivoe Williams, an African American woman journalist, through the start of the twentieth century"--Provided by publisher.

The kiss quotient - Hoang, Helen,

Summary: "A heartwarming and refreshing debut novel that proves one thing: there's not enough data in the world to predict what will make your heart tick. Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that...

Long black veil - Boylan, Jennifer Finney, 1958-

Summary: When the body of a college friend is discovered twenty years after her disappearance, Judith, the only witness who can testify to the innocence of the chief suspect, is forced to confront dark...

Little fish - Plett, Casey,

Summary: Wendy Reimer is a thirty-year-old trans woman in Winnipeg who comes across evidence that her late grandfather, a devout Mennonite farmer, might have been transgender as well. At first she dismisses...