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Edition 45 (2024)

Literary awardMulticultural literatureNo genre restrictions (novels, poetry, non-fiction, etc.)

Winners

31 people

THREE SISTERS. THEIR UNBREAKABLE BOND.

THREE SISTERS.

258 pages
Fictionnovel

The much-mythologized Indigenous woman takes control of her own narrative in this "formally inventive, historically eye-opening novel" ( The New York Times). In my seventh winter, when my head only reached my Appe's rib, a White Man came into camp.

The much-mythologized Indigenous woman takes control of her own narrative in this "formally inventive, historically eye-opening novel" ( The New York Times).

215 pages
Fictionnovel

The long-awaited full-length debut of poems by the nationally-celebrated, award-winning spoken word artist, playwright, and educator Paul S. Flores.

The long-awaited full-length debut of poems by the nationally-celebrated, award-winning spoken word artist, playwright, and educator Paul S.

110 pages
poetryFlores

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE, THE NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARD, & THE BROOKYLN PUBLIC LIBRARY PRIZE • Set in the Arab immigrant enclave of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, following three siblings coming of age over the course of one Ramadan, "a moving look at family, survival, and celebration" (Hanif Abdurraqib, author of A Little Devil in America). "Breathtaking.” —New York Times Book Review "A gorgeously written and profoundly intimate debut." —Etaf Rum, author of New York Times bestseller A Woman Is No Man It’s the holy month of Ramadan, and twin sisters Amira and Lina are about to graduate high school in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE, THE NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARD, & THE BROOKYLN PUBLIC LIBRARY PRIZE • Set in the Arab immigrant enclave of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, following three siblings coming of age over the course of one Ramadan, "a moving look at family, survival, and celebration" (Hanif Abdurraqib, author of A Little Devil in America).

330 pages
Fictionnovel

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from the biographer who solved the mystery of her identity, with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr. In 1857, a woman escaped enslavement on a North Carolina plantation and fled to a farm in New York.

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from the biographer who solved the mystery of her identity, with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

519 pages
Historyshort stories

A new critical edition of Toussaint Louverture, the play written by the Trinidadian intellectual and activist C. L.

A new critical edition of Toussaint Louverture, the play written by the Trinidadian intellectual and activist C.

222 pages
Biography & Autobiographyshort stories
Nic Watts Winner

An extraordinary graphic novel of a groundbreaking play When C.L.R. James's Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History opened in London featuring Paul Robeson in 1936, it was the first time black actors starred on a British stage in a play written by a black playwright.

An extraordinary graphic novel of a groundbreaking play When C.L.R.

274 pages
Comics & Graphic Novelsliterary nonfiction

Longlisted for the American Library in Paris Book Award Winner of the American Book Award Winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award PERHAPS THE GREATEST VICTORY OF THE OPPRESSED OVER THEIR OPPRESSORS IN ALL HISTORY The end of slavery started in what was then San Domingo. In 1791, the enslaved people of the most prized French sugar plantation colony revolted against their masters.

Longlisted for the American Library in Paris Book Award Winner of the American Book Award Winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award PERHAPS THE GREATEST VICTORY OF THE OPPRESSED OVER THEIR OPPRESSORS IN ALL HISTORY The end of slavery started in what was then San Domingo.

254 pages
Comics & Graphic Novelsliterary nonfiction
R. F. Kuang Winner

June Hayward dan Athena Liu sama-sama penulis. Athena, keturunan Asia, ternyata lebih ngetop.

June Hayward dan Athena Liu sama-sama penulis.

296 pages
Young Adult Fictionliterary nonfiction

Like Volumes One and Two, Volume Three of the Galanor Saga has been written in three parts, or “Books”, of five chapters each. But, unlike its predecessors this novel treats each of the three Books, as a distinct, five chapter novella, with its own cast of characters, plotline and story arc.

Like Volumes One and Two, Volume Three of the Galanor Saga has been written in three parts, or “Books”, of five chapters each.

532 pages
Fictionliterary nonfiction
Fae Myenne Ng Winner

From the bestselling and award-winning author of novels Bone and Steer Toward Rock, Fae Myenne Ng's Orphan Bachelors is an extraordinary memoir of her beloved San Francisco's Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion In pre-Communist China, Fae Myenne Ng's father memorized a book of lies and gained entry to the United States as a stranger's son, evading the Exclusion Act, an immigration law which he believed was meant to extinguish the Chinese American family. During the McCarthy era, he entered the Confession Program in a failed attempt to salvage his marriage only to have his citizenship revoked to resident alien.

From the bestselling and award-winning author of novels Bone and Steer Toward Rock, Fae Myenne Ng's Orphan Bachelors is an extraordinary memoir of her beloved San Francisco's Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion In pre-Communist China, Fae Myenne Ng's father memorized a book of lies and gained entry to the United States as a stranger's son, evading the Exclusion Act, an immigration law which he believed was meant to extinguish the Chinese American family.

256 pages
Biography & Autobiographyliterary nonfiction

Dark Days in Chile - An Account of the Revolution of 1891 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature.Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only.

Dark Days in Chile - An Account of the Revolution of 1891 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892.

348 pages
essaysReeves

The intense social and environmental fervor that arose in the 1960s and 1970s in response to assaults on the planet's life support systems, degradation of communities, and socio-economic inequality unleashed revolutionary change at all levels of society. Out of the turmoil of that era, community-based ecological design emerged as a powerful creative force for reshaping the commons, bringing people together, and forming ecologically sustainable relationships with the environment.

The intense social and environmental fervor that arose in the 1960s and 1970s in response to assaults on the planet's life support systems, degradation of communities, and socio-economic inequality unleashed revolutionary change at all levels of society.

308 pages
short storiesRoberts

A powerful and inspiring biography of Merze Tate, a trailblazing Black woman scholar and intrepid world traveler Born in rural Michigan during the Jim Crow era, the bold and irrepressible Merze Tate (1905–1996) refused to limit her intellectual ambitions, despite living in what she called a “sex and race discriminating world.” Against all odds, the brilliant and hardworking Tate earned degrees in international relations from Oxford University in 1935 and a doctorate in government from Harvard in 1941. She then joined the faculty of Howard University, where she taught for three decades of her long life spanning the tumultuous twentieth century.

A powerful and inspiring biography of Merze Tate, a trailblazing Black woman scholar and intrepid world traveler Born in rural Michigan during the Jim Crow era, the bold and irrepressible Merze Tate (1905–1996) refused to limit her intellectual ambitions, despite living in what she called a “sex and race discriminating world.” Against all odds, the brilliant and hardworking Tate earned degrees in international relations from Oxford University in 1935 and a doctorate in government from Harvard in 1941.

317 pages
Biography & Autobiographyhistory

“An absolutely essential addition to the history of the Catholic Church, whose involvement in New World slavery sustained the Church and, thereby, helped to entrench enslavement in American society.”—Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello and On Juneteenth New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Time, Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Reviews In 1838, a group of America’s most prominent Catholic priests sold 272 enslaved people to save their largest mission project, what is now Georgetown University. In this groundbreaking account, journalist, author, and professor Rachel L.

“An absolutely essential addition to the history of the Catholic Church, whose involvement in New World slavery sustained the Church and, thereby, helped to entrench enslavement in American society.”—Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello and On Juneteenth New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Time, Chicago Public Library, Kirkus Reviews In 1838, a group of America’s most prominent Catholic priests sold 272 enslaved people to save their largest mission project, what is now Georgetown University.

361 pages
Historyliterary nonfiction

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • Winner of the 2024 American Book Award and the 2024 JJA Jazz Award • An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a powerful meditation on history, race, capitalism, and art. A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, NPR, The New Yorker Henry Threadgill has had a singular life in music.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • Winner of the 2024 American Book Award and the 2024 JJA Jazz Award • An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a powerful meditation on history, race, capitalism, and art.

416 pages
Biography & Autobiographyliterary nonfiction

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a powerful meditation on history, race, capitalism, and art. A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, NPR, The New Yorker Henry Threadgill has had a singular life in music.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • An autobiography of one of the towering figures of contemporary American music and a powerful meditation on history, race, capitalism, and art.

416 pages
Biography & Autobiographyliterary nonfiction

The latest novel in a thrilling cozy mystery series featuring Odessa Jones—a sudden widow juggling a promising catering business, a full-time real estate gig—and a psychic gift that leads her to solve mysteries whenever they appear to her—which is often. From the award-winning creator of Newark private eye Tamara Hayle, will appeal to fans of cozy mysteries and multicultural fiction.

The latest novel in a thrilling cozy mystery series featuring Odessa Jones—a sudden widow juggling a promising catering business, a full-time real estate gig—and a psychic gift that leads her to solve mysteries whenever they appear to her—which is often.

209 pages
Fictionliterary nonfiction
Rosanna Xia Winner

"An exploration of the responses that sea level rise demands along the West Coast"--

"An exploration of the responses that sea level rise demands along the West Coast"--

336 pages
Coast changesliterary nonfiction
John Yau Winner

A collection of essays about contemporary art, artists and culture. Please Wait by the Coat Room includes essays on sculptors of color Luis Jimenez and John Outterbridge; a section on Korean abstract painters who were considered part of the Dansaekhwa movement (which has been translated as "monochromatic painting"); a section on "second generation Abstract Expressionists" such as the Black painter Ed Clark and the Japanese American painter Matsumi Kanemitsu.

A collection of essays about contemporary art, artists and culture.

248 pages
Artliterary nonfiction
Monica Youn Winner

A Publishers Weekly and New York Times Book of the Year 2023 Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry 2023 Monica Youn's first UK collection is her fourth and most ambitious book. It ends with prose, or at least with paragraphs, the long lyrical essay 'In the Passive Voice', and the intense 'Detail of the Rice Chest', explorations of race, identity and belonging seldom so directly broached in poetry, though they are the unspoken theme of much of our silenced discourse.

A Publishers Weekly and New York Times Book of the Year 2023 Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry 2023 Monica Youn's first UK collection is her fourth and most ambitious book.

162 pages
Poetryliterary nonfiction
Jessica Hagerdon Lifetime Achievement Award
Jeff Deutsch Winner
Asna Tabassum Winner

A queer, Black "biography in essays" about the performer who gave us "Hound Dog," "Ball and Chain," and other songs that changed the course of American music.

A queer, Black "biography in essays" about the performer who gave us "Hound Dog," "Ball and Chain," and other songs that changed the course of American music.

207 pages
Biography & Autobiographyliterary nonfiction
Mehdi Hasan Winner
Kate Wagner Winner

Patents for Inventions is a work by Kate Wagner.

Patents for Inventions is a work by Kate Wagner.

998 pages
Patentsliterary nonfiction