Daniel Black

Saga of The New Gods

1 - Be Careful What You Wish For (Jun-2011)
2 - The Death of Magic (Jul-2013)

Tommy Lee Tyson

1 - They Tell Me of a Home (Oct-2005)
2 - Twelve Gates to the City (Dec-2011)

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  They Tell Me of a Home
  

  • Oct-2005
  • / Literary
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  Tommy Lee Tyson - 1
  

  A stunning literary debut about coming back home again.Twenty-eight-year-old protagonist Tommy Lee Tyson steps off the Greyhound bus in his hometown of Swamp Creek, Arkansas -- a place he left when he was eighteen, vowing never to return. Yet fate an...

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  The Sacred Place
  

  • Feb-2007
  • / Literary
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  In the summer of 1955, fourteen-year-old Clement enters a general store in Money, Mississippi to purchase a soda. Unaware of the consequences of flouting the rules governing black-white relations in the South, this Chicago native defies tradition, b...

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  Perfect Peace
  

  • Mar-2010
  • / Literary
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  The heartbreaking portrait of a large, rural southern family's attempt to grapple with their mother's desperate decision to make her newborn son into the daughter she will never have When the seventh child of the Peace family, named Perfect, turns...

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  Be Careful What You Wish For
  

  • Jun-2011
  • / Fantasy
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  Saga of The New Gods - 1
  

  The time has come, Hells gates shall be thrown wide and the power of creation shall run rampant upon the earth.In this, the first book of the “Saga of the New Gods,” a group of young college students bring about Armageddon in the most literal sen...

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  Twelve Gates to the City
  

  • Dec-2011
  • / Literary
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  Tommy Lee Tyson - 2
  

  A novel of self-discovery, family bonds and the healing of one small southern town Twelve Gates to the City is the much-anticipated sequel to Black's acclaimed debut, They Tell Me of a Home. In this novel, Sister assumes the voice of the narrator,...

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  The Death of Magic
  

  • Jul-2013
  • / Epic Fantasy
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  Saga of The New Gods - 2
  

  KIRKUS REVIEWFrom author Black (Be Careful What You Wish For, 2013, etc.) comes the second installment in an urban-fantasy series about a group of young people with magical powers.A group of college students has gone from unleashing the magic of Dung...

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  The Coming
  

  • Oct-2015
  • / Historical
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  Lyrical, poetic and hypnotizing, the Coming tells the story of a people's capture and sojourn from their homeland across the Middle Passage. ...

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  Listen to the Lambs
  

  • Feb-2016
  • / Literary
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  In Listen to the Lambs by Daniel Black, nothing can convince Lazarus Love III to return to the lifestyle of affluence and social status he once knew. Longing for a freedom of the soul that the world of capitalism cannot provide, Lazarus leaves all th...

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  Don't Cry for Me
  

  • Feb-2022
  • / General Fiction
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  A Black father makes amends with his gay son through letters written on his deathbed in this wise and penetrating novel of empathy and forgiveness, for fans of Ta-Nehisi Coates, Robert Jones Jr. and Alice Walker As Jacob lies dying, he begins to w...

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  Isaac's Song
  

  • Feb-2025
  • / Literary
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  The beloved author of Don’t Cry for Me and Perfect Peace returns with a poignant, emotionally exuberant novel about a young queer Black man finding his voice in 1980s Chicago—a novel of family, forgiveness and persever...

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