New York Times best-selling and Emmy Award-winning author Matt Goldman new stand-alone mystery, Carolina Moonset, examines family, memories, and long-held secrets. Like his other series, Gone to Dust featuring private detective Nils Shapiro, Carolina Moonset doesn’t waste time. At the onset, we’re introduced to protagonist Joey Green, who returns to North Carolina to care for his father, who suffers from dementia, so that his mother can have a break and participate in a weekend pickle ball tournament. Soon after his arrival, his father begins to recall long lost memories about a murdered frien ..read more

Lee Cole’s debut novel, GROUNDSKEEPING, is a coming-of-age story about two lovers trying to navigate social and cultural differences during a time of great upheaval in American politics. Twenty-eight-year-old Owen returns home to rural Kentucky after a failed launch in Colorado and gets a job as a groundskeeper at a local college in exchange for taking one class free each semester. In a writing workshop, much to his surprise, he discovers that he is a writer. He meets and falls in love with Alma, the daughter of Bosnian immigrants. Alma has recently published a collection of short stories and ..read more

Brit Bennett’s novel, The Vanishing Half tells the story of twin girls, Stella and Desiree, who grow up in the fictional town of Mallard, Louisiana – a town that prides itself on the lightness of their black residents’ skin. The girls have a rough start; after their father is lynched, their mother takes in the laundry of white folks living nearby, but the girls have other ambitions. Stella has an aptitude for math and sees college as her way out of Mallard. Desiree dreams of becoming an actress and tries to talk Stella into running away. When the girls finish eighth grade, their mother decides ..read more

Promise by Minrose Gwin is a novel based on one of the worst tornadoes in the history of the country. On April 5, 1936 an F5 tornado flattened Tupelo, Mississippi killing more than two hundred people – not counting an unknown number of black citizens – one third of Tupelo’s population, who were not included in the official casualty figures but whose homes and lives were equally destroyed by the storm. The story revolves around two families, one black and one white, whose lives are inextricably bound through a traumatic event. Dovey Grand’homme is an African American washwoman who takes in the ..read more