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At the end of the 1700s, French Saint Domingue was the richest and most brutal colony in the West...

A powerful new novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the most reviled, celebrated, and legendary of...

A Vietnam vet returns to rural Tennessee in this acclaimed novel from the National Book Awardnomi...

Akashic stages a major coup in recruiting Edwidge Danticat, one of the truly great contemporary w...

Madison Smartt Bell is one of the most versatile and gifted authors of his generation, a lit...

Two small-time thieves get in over their heads in this literary thriller from the ';virtuoso nove...

A story collection spanning New York to Haiti and beyond from the National Book Award–final...

"e;A serious historical novel that reads like a dream."e; --The Washington Post Book Worl...