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Book Recommendations for General Fiction, set in Mis. Ala. Ga.

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  • Sky Full of Elephants
    Cebo Campbell
    Hardcover: 09/10/2024
     
    In a world without white people, what does it mean to be black?
  • The Unsettled
    The Unsettled: A Novel
    Ayana Mathis
    Paperback: 06/04/2024
     
    From the best-selling author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, a searing multi-generational novel—set in ...
  • We Deserve Monuments
    Jas Hammonds
    Paperback: 02/06/2024
     
    Family secrets, a swoon-worthy romance, and a slow-burn mystery collide in We Deserve Monuments, a YA debut ...
  • Moonrise Over New Jessup
    Jamila Minnicks
    Paperback: 11/28/2023
     
    Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a thought-provoking and enchanting debut...
  • The Kingdoms of Savannah
    George Dawes Green
    Paperback: 10/17/2023
     
    Savannah may appear to be "some town out of a fable," with its vine flowers, turreted mansions, and ghost ...
  • Salvage This World
    Michael Farris Smith
    Hardcover: 04/25/2023
     
    In this "tense, brooding" novel, a young woman returns home with her child to her ghost-haunted father, while ...
  • Take My Hand
    Dolen Perkins-Valdez
    Paperback: 04/04/2023
     
    Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in post-...

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