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Recent releases and Bolden news
Bolden Books is Agate's imprint dedicated to publishing both fiction and nonfiction dealing with the African-American experience—intelligent, accessible, and thought-provoking new work by some of America's best black writers. Since 2003, Agate Bolden has published numerous award-winning titles that have also earned recognition on local and national bestseller lists.
Recent Titles
Creatures Here Below
A story of a mother, a son, and the extended family that passes in and out of the boarding house where they live, which renders with tremendous richness and care the life of a black teenaged male whose life is taking a turn toward the worse.
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Freeman
A compelling, important, page-turning historical novel set at the end of the Civil War, in which an escaped slave first returns to his old plantation and then walks across the ravaged South in search of his lost wife.
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Wading Home
A Novel of New Orleans
In this follow up to her critically acclaimed More Than You Know, Rosalyn Story has written a vivid and compelling story of how the complex culture of New Orleans and Louisiana has been marked forever by Katrina, even as it persists.
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Straight from Your Gay Best Friend
The Straight-Up Truth About Relationships, Work, and Having a Fabulous Life
Direct, poignant, tongue in cheek, advice for women from Terrance Dean, their new gay best friend, on some of life's most challenging issues--family, friends, career, love, sex, and intimate relationships with men.
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Forward from this Moment
Selected Columns, 1994–2009
From Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr., his first-ever collection.
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Racing the Dark
A brilliant debut fantasy novel with a powerful female sensibility by a youthful writer to watch.
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Family Affair
What It Means to be African American Today
A wide-ranging collection of essays and personal reflections, many by major public figures and celebrities, delving deep into the topic of black identity in America today—from the editor of Not In My Family.
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Freshwater Road
Freshwater Road is the story of Celeste Tyree's journey into adulthood via the political and social upheavals of the civil rights movement. She confronts not only the political realities of race and poverty, but also truths about herself and her family.
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Before I Forget
From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Leonard Pitts, a powerful debut novel about the challenges of fatherhood among three generations of black men.
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Where the Line Bleeds
Set on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, this powerful debut tells a timeless story of two brothers whose paths diverge in the summer after leaving high school.
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God Gave Me Some Bad Advice
The stories of too many black men's lives today are full of waste, violence, struggle, and self-destruction. But there are many black men who grow up in challenging circumstances and find success. Byron Harmon's story is a powerful and compelling example.
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Skull Cage Key (the)
A hard-boiled story of conspiracy, decadence, and high-tech designer drug crime in mid-twenty-first century Harlem—a fast-moving, thought-provoking debut that calls to mind Moseley, Murakami, and Houllebecq.
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Somebody's Someone
A Memoir
Never before has the voice of an abandoned child been so captured so unforgettably. A shattering account of loss and survival--now a one-woman show.
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Sole Sisters
The Joys and Pains of Single Black Women
A compassionate, insightful, and in-depth look at the lives of single black women and their unique struggles, strengths, pleasures, griefs, and hopes, written by a veteran journalist who draws on interviews with single black women around the country.
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