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Featured: Black Interest

Bernice L. McFadden Digit

In honor of her 2012 New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year selection—and in anticipation of the just-released paperback edition of Nowhere Is a Place, our Bernice L. McFadden Digit features excerpts from all four of her Akashic titles: Gathering of Waters, The Warmest December, Glorious, and Nowhere Is a Place.

False Idols: A Reluctant King Novel

When the patriarch Chancellor King gets dethroned, the “Monarchy” of New York City’s Five Points falls into disarray, giving way to a bloody battle for the crown.

*While supplies last, books ordered through the website will include a bookplate SIGNED by K’wan!

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The Wishing Pool and Other Stories

Now in paperback, this blockbuster story collection further cements Tananarive Due’s status as a leading innovator in Black horror and Afrofuturism; featuring the 2023 World Fantasy Award–winning story, “Incident at Bear Creek Lodge,” and two new stories!

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Upcoming Events

Kwame Dawes — Woodland Pattern (Milwaukee, WI)

1/14/26, 7:00pm

Kwame Dawes and poets present Kumi Na Moja: New-Generation African Poets, A Chapbook Box Set.

Plenty for All Book Launch / Tribute to Rick Fröberg — Porter Square Books (Boston, MA)

1/14/26, 7:00pm

Sohrab Habibion (Obits, Savak), Chris Brokaw (Come, Codeine), TW Walsh, Johnny Temple (Girls Against Boys), Alexis Fleisig (Girls Against Boys), Brad Searles (Bradley’s Almanac), & Drew O’Doherty present Plenty for All: The Art of Rick Fröberg; followed by a short musical tribute to Rick Fröberg