The Book Report: October's New and Coming Soon

New African American Interest Books and Authors

Looking for something to read from an African/African American point of view and or written by someone from the Diaspora? Browse our list of new books available now or coming soon to the Denver Public Library. Updated monthly...check out our list for October. Book summaries provided by ProQuest Syndetics.

Featured Titles:
Ghost Summer: Stories 
Tananarive Due

In her debut collection of short fiction, Due takes us to Gracetown, a small Florida town that has both literal and figurative ghost; into future scenarios that seem all too real; and provides empathetic portraits of those whose lives are touched by otherness. Featuring an award-winning novella and fifteen stories-one of which has never been published before-Ghost Summer: Stories, is sure to both haunt and delight. More books by Tananarive Due.

The Microbiome Solution: A Radical New Way to Heal Your Body from the Inside Out
Robynne Chutkan

​The author of Gutbliss and one of today's preeminent gastroenterologists distills the latest research on the microbiome into a practical program for boosting overall health. Synthesizing the latest findings, Dr. Robynne Chutkan explains how the standard Western diet and lifestyle are starving our microbiome, depleting the good bugs that keep us healthy and encouraging overgrowth of exactly the wrong type of bacteria. The resulting imbalance makes us more prone to disease and obesity and negatively affects our metabolism, our hormones, our cravings, our immunity, and even our genes. But beyond the science, what sets this book apart is Dr. Chutkan's powerful three-level program for optimizing your gut bacteria for good health.

Fiction:
Untwine 
Edwidge Danticat

Slick 2
Brenda Hampton

The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin

What He's Been Missing
Grace Octavia

Lagoon
Nnedi Okorafor

Wifey's Next Come Up
Kiki Swinson

The Favorite Son
Tiffany L. Warren

Nonfiction:
The Next Africa: An Emerging Continent Becomes a Global Powerhouse
Jake Bright

Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope
Jonathan M. Bryant

The Emperor of Water Clocks: Poems
Yusef Komunyakaa

Eighty-Eight Years: The Long Death of Slavery in the United States, 1777-1865
Patrick Rael

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