African American & Black - General
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God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer
$17.99 Add to cartAn “intoxicating, propulsive…utterly mesmerizing” novel about Black life in Philadelphia and the struggle to build intimate connections through the eyes of a struggling ex-Army grad student (Kaveh A… [more below]
- Author: Thomas, Joseph Earl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1538740990
- Language: English
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Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
$27.99 Add to cart“It’s a knockout.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
From RuPaul’s Drag Race winner and host of HBO’s We’re Here comes an inventive, wondrous novel about American hero Harriet Tubman that remixes hi- Author: Bob the Drag Queen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 166806197X
- Language: English
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The Souls of Black Folk
$19.99 Add to cartThis landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black
- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: August 18 2016
- ISBN10: 1684110327
- Language: English
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Dominion
$27.00 Add to cartIn this taut Southern family drama, the sins of a favorite son rock a small Mississippi town.
Reverend Sabre Winfrey, shepherd of the Seven Seals Baptist Church, believes in God, his own privilege, an- Author: Citchens, Addie E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 0374609330
- Language: English
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Sing the Truth: The Kweli Journal Short Story Collection
$18.00 Add to cartA powerful must-read collection of bold BIPOC voices. All proceeds support The Kweli Journal’s mission to nurture emerging writers of color and foster a vibrant literary community.
“It gave me great p- Author: Pegram, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Dixon, Descending
$19.00 Add to cart“Compelling.”–The Boston Globe
“Poignant…heartbreaking.”–The Christian Science Monitor
“This one hits hard.”–Publishers Weekly
When Nate suggests that they attempt to be the first Black American… [more below]- Author: Outen, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593473477
- Language: English
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Ethic 5
$26.90 Add to cartLife has never been easy for Ethic. Since he was a young boy he has battled loss after loss while struggling to navigate through a treacherous world. When he met Alani Lenika Hill he knew that he had
- Author: Antoinette, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1732831351
- Language: English
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The Dark Maestro
$31.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Violin Conspiracy and Symphony of Secrets comes a mesmerizing page-turner about a young Black musical virtuoso at the peak of his career who’s forced into hiding when his family… [more below]
- Author: Slocumb, Brendan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79822E+12
- Language: English
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Days Running
$17.95 Read moreA dynamic portrait of one queer, Black boy’s experience in 1970s Cincinnati.
Sixteen-year-old Cliffy Douglas’s life is leveling up. An academic superstar on an accelerated path, he’s about to put high- Author: Ruff, Shawn Stewart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1635902231
- Language: English
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The Fantasies of Future Things
$27.99 Add to cartIn this powerful debut reminiscent of Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight, two men in Atlanta reconcile their human dignity against the price of their professional ambitions working for a real estate developmen… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Doug
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1668016281
- Language: English
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The Dark Maestro
$29.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Violin Conspiracy and Symphony of Secrets comes a mesmerizing page-turner about a musical virtuoso who’s forced into hiding when his family runs afoul of a ruthless criminal org… [more below]
- Author: Slocumb, Brendan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 593687612
- Language: English
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The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2022)
$26.99 Add to cartThis is the follow up to the highly acclaimed 2021 anthology described as containing “some of the most exciting voices, old and new, from Africa and the diaspora, published in the 2020 year.”
The first
- Author: Ekpeki, Oghenechovwe Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1647100763
- Language: English
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After the Lights Go Out
$16.00 Read moreA harrowing and spellbinding story about family, the complications of mixed-race relationships, misplaced loyalties, and the price athletes pay to entertain–from the critically acclaimed author of Th… [more below]
- Author: Vercher, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1641294620
- Language: English
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Hadriana in All My Dreams
$18.95 Read more“One-of-a-kind . . . [A] ribald, free-wheeling magical-realist novel, first published in 1988 and newly, engagingly translated by Glover . . . An icon of Haitian literature serves up a hotblooded, rib
- Author: Depestre, René
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1617755338
- Language: English
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The System of Dante’s Hell
$17.95 Read more“Much of the novel is an expression of the intellectual and moral lost motion of the age . . . the special agony of the American Negro.” —New York Times Book Review
“A fevered and impressionistic rif
- Series: Akashiclassics: Renegade Reprint
- Author: Baraka, Amiri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 16 2016
- ISBN10: 1617753963
- Language: English
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Blues in the Blood
$25.00 Read moreA moving ode to the Mississippi delta inspired by magical realism and written in vibrant and poetic prose.
Blues in the Blood is an ode to the spring of 1932 in the Mississippi delta, when stifling he- Series: French List
- Author: Delmaire, Julien
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1803092467
- Language: English
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Since I Laid My Burden Down
$17.95 Read moreWhiting Award winner Brontez Purnell’s debut novel is an uninhibited portrait of growing up gay in 1980s Alabama: exploring art and sex with “more layered insight than the page count should allow” (Ha
- Author: Purnell, Brontez
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 13 2017
- ISBN10: 1558614311
- Language: English
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A Different Drummer
$16.00 Add to cartThe stunning, thought-provoking first novel by a “lost giant of American literature” (The New Yorker)
June, 1957. One hot afternoon in the backwaters of the Deep South, a young black farmer named Tuck- Author: Kelley, William Melvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0385413904
- Language: English
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Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable
$15.95 Read moreRediscover this gripping 1965 novel about race in America–set in a rural corner of Mississippi where slavery never ended
From the Civil Rights Era comes an urgent allegory about the terror and traged- Author: Fair, Ronald L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 125
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1598537636
- Language: English
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Perish
$18.00 Read more“A brave triumph of a novel that readers won’t forget long after finishing it.”–The New York Times Book Review
Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Good Morning America * Essence* Esquire * T… [more below]- Author: Watkins, Latoya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0593185927
- Language: English
