Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - African American & Black
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Scale Boy: An African Childhood
$35.00 Add to cartAn extraordinary chronicle of youth that evokes the paradoxes of modern Africa–complex, contradictory, and full of conflict, tragedy, and joy.
Patrice Nganang, the acclaimed author of Dog Days, Mount- Author: Nganang, Patrice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 0374614512
- Language: English
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American Negra: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartAward-winning journalist Natasha S. Alford grew up between two worlds as the daughter of an African American father and Puerto Rican mother. In American Negra, a narrative that is part memoir, part cu
- Author: Alford, Natasha S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0063237113
- Language: English
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No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
A Best Book of the Year — NPR, Esquire, Elle
Finalist for the Writers’ League of Texas Book Award
Longlisted for Reading the West
“Brilliant . . . stunning . . . deserves a
- Author: Labrie, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0063280736
- Language: English
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It’s Never Too Late: A Memoir
$28.99 Add to cartThe star of classic television series, including The Jeffersons and 227, reveals her difficult journey from a tempestuous childhood to becoming a confident Hollywood powerbroker and groundbreaker who
- Author: Gibbs, Marla
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0063356635
- Language: English
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From the Outhouse to the White House: A Fatherless Journey
$33.95 Add to cartThis book is my story of survival, resilience, and triumph against the odds. It is a testament to the power of determination and faith. But it is also a story that I hope will offer readers a new pers
- Author: T. Jackson, Kenneth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: August 28 2025
- ISBN10: 9798899228728
- Language: English
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It’s No Wonder: The Life and Times of Motown’s Legendary Songwriter Sylvia Moy
$30.00 Add to cartThe biography of Sylvia Moy, Motown’s first certified female in-house producer and songwriter, and one of the authors behind classic hits like “My Cherie Amour,” “Uptight (Everything’s Alright),” and
- Author: Christian, Margena A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0306833638
- Language: English
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The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram: The Man Who Stared Down World War II in the Name of Love
$30.00 Add to cartThe dramatic and heartrending true story of one remarkable young man’s account of love in the time of war, by a celebrated historian of untold Black stories
On the eve of World War II, a handsome youn- Author: Whitmire, Ethelene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0593654196
- Language: English
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Faith Over Fear: Harnessing Resilience in the Face of Uncertainty
$26.99 Add to cart“A powerful story of faith, perseverance, and resilience.” — Anthony Fauci, M.D., #1 New York Times bestselling author and former Director of the NIAID
Faith Over Fear isn’t just Michael Leach’s stor
- Author: Leach, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0063442965
- Language: English
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Beneath the Skin of Sorrow: Improvisations on Loss
$27.95 Add to cartOver a period of just six months, eminent jazz vocalist and composer Nnenna Freelon’s life changed irrevocably. Her soulmate and husband of nearly forty years, the renowned architect Phil Freelon, pas… [more below]
- Author: Freelon, Nnenna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1478029110
- Language: English
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The Rediscovery of George “Nash” Walker: The Price of Black Stardom in Jim Crow America
$29.95 Add to cartThe first biography of George Walker, a uniquely Afro-American tale of innovation and triumph despite the odds; the story of an underdog with a bite!
The Rediscovery of George “Nash” Walker is the firs
- Author: Atkinson, Daniel E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798855803181
- Language: English
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Jermain Wesley Loguen: Defiant Fugitive
$30.00 Add to cartA gripping biography of a man who escaped slavery to become an influential abolitionist, famously known as the “King of the Underground Railroad”
Jermain Wesley Loguen (1813-1872) was a fugitive from- Series: Black Lives
- Author: Murphy, Angela F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0300279574
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
$8.95 Add to cartFrederick Douglass, the renowned nineteenth-century orator, editor, publisher, and statesman, was born into slavery in Maryland and escaped in 1838. He quickly became a national leader of the abolitio… [more below]
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: September 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1957240911
- Language: English
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Yes! There Are Black People in Utah No! I Am Not a Mormon: A Black Girl’s Journey to Belonging in 1960s and 70s Utah: The Power of Kindness
$18.95 Add to cartIn 1958, a six-pound, seven-ounce baby girl was born in Ogden, Utah. She was born “cursed” according to the teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) because she was Black
- Author: Cosby, Eileen Tucker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: July 31 2025
- ISBN10: 9798891128217
- Language: English
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Ordered Steps: The Life and Career of Dr. Audrey Forbes Manley
$40.00 Add to cartDr. Audrey Forbes Manley’s journey arcs from Mississippi cotton fields to the highest levels of American medicine. Born in Depression-era Jackson, she was four when her beloved grandmother was rushed
- Author: Amaki, Amalia K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: June 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1966214456
- Language: English
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John Lewis: A Life
$23.00 Add to cartNew York Times Book Review Top 100 Books of 2024
Explore the “comprehensive and compelling” (Jon Meacham) biography of civil rights leader John Lewis, celebrated as “the conscience of Congress,” thro- Author: Greenberg, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1982143002
- Language: English
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Black, White, Colored: The Hidden Story of an Insurrection, a Family, a Southern Town, and Identity in America
$29.99 Add to cartAn absorbing investigation into a little-known historical tragedy–an insurrection which upended a resilient and wealthy Black community who found themselves in the clutches of an insurrection at the
- Author: Noble, Lauretta Malloy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0063352222
- Language: English
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Hoop Roots
$18.99 Add to cartA multilayered memoir of basketball, family, home, love, and race, John Edgar Wideman’s Hoop Roots brings “a touch of Proust to the blacktop” (Time) as it tells of the author’s love for a game he can
- Author: Wideman, John Edgar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0618257756
- Language: English
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How to Be Unmothered: A Trinidadian Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartMapping the fault lines between mother and child (humanity’s first and supposedly strongest bond), and with a poet’s homeric vision of her native Trinidad, Camille U. Adams weaves the Caribbean island
- Author: Adams, Camille U.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1632063956
- Language: English
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Beautiful Butterfly
$11.95 Add to cartBeautiful Butterfly is a book written for everyone who is going through the process of God’s development. Sometimes we are given a dream or vision, and we do not understand the path we must take to ge
- Author: Alexander, Darien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: June 27 2025
- ISBN10: 9798894854366
- Language: English
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From the Outhouse to the White House: A Fatherless Journey
$17.95 Add to cart- Author: Jackson, Kenneth T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: July 16 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893159271
- Language: English
