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Sacrificio
$16.00 Read moreSet in Cuba in 1998, Sacrificio is a triumphant and mesmeric work of violence, loss, and identity, following a group of young HIV-positive counterrevolutionaries who seek to overthrow the Castro gover… [more below]
- Author: Mestre-Reed, Ernesto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 164129485X
- Language: English
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The Glint of Light
$32.95 Read more“This naturalistic novel follows a Black environmental scientist [Mark Smith]. The story is shaped by several cataclysmic events, which suit the novel’s backdrop, in which the Presidency of Barack Oba
- Author: Major, Clarence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1988168996
- Language: English
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The New Naturals
$18.99 Add to cartCritically acclaimed, for readers of Paul Beatty’s The Sellout and Jennifer Egan’s The Candy House, a moving and darkly funny novel about an attempt to found an underground Utopia.
An abandoned resta- Author: Bump, Gabriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1643755331
- Language: English
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Zachary’s Tooth Lesson
$15.95 Add to cartUnlike the average child, Zachary gets toys under his pillow after losing a tooth. Because of his greediness and selfishness, he decides to become a “tooth collector,” only to learn a shocking “toothl
- Author: Davis, Eldona S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 20 2024
- ISBN10: 9798890437471
- Language: English
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The Unsettled
$18.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK – A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – From the best-selling author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, a searing multi-generational novel–set in the 1980s in racially and politically … [more below]
- Author: Mathis, Ayana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0525435611
- Language: English
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This Great Hemisphere
$31.00 Read more“This Great Hemisphere is an inventive and immersive epic that follows its brave invisible protagonist as she navigates a futuristic new world that often mirrors our own. A thrilling page-turner.” –B… [more below]
- Author: Askaripour, Mateo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0593915402
- Language: English
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Time’s Undoing
$18.00 Read moreA searing and tender novel about a young Black journalist’s search for answers in the unsolved murder of her great-grandfather in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, decades ago–inspired by the author’s … [more below]
- Author: Head, Cheryl A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 593471849
- Language: English
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Temple Folk
$17.99 Add to cartFinalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction
A “splendid and grand collection” (Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Known World) portraying the lived experiences of Black M- Author: Bilal, Aaliyah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1982191821
- Language: English
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Recitatif: A Story
$18.00 Add to cartA beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Toni Morrison.
In this 1983 short story–the only short story Morrison ever wrote–we meet Twy- Author: Morrison, Toni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 059355664X
- Language: English
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Keep It 100: 100-Word Stories
$12.99 Add to cart100-word stories. Drabbles. Short short stories. Whatever you call them, they pack quite a powerful punch for such a small size.
In Keep It 100, Ran Walker explores a variety of different genres and th
- Author: Walker, Ran
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1020001267
- Language: English
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Not Without Laughter
$25.00 Read moreA collectible hardcover edition of our greatest African American poet’s award-winning first novel about a black boy’s coming-of-age in a largely white Kansas town, featuring an introduction by Nationa… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Vitae
- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0143134426
- Language: English
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The World Is Full of Champions
$19.00 Read moreThe World is Full of Champions spans more than thirty years from the ’60s to the late ’90s in race-torn Philadelphia as two proud Black families–one wealthy, the other not–confront major change when… [more below]
- Author: Sullivan, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1637588585
- Language: English
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Stigmata
$24.00 Add to cartWhen Lizzie Du Bose inherits a handmade quilt willed to her by a maternal grandmother she has never met, her life is forever changed. The figures sewn into the quilt tell the stories of Lizzie’s grand… [more below]
- Author: Perry, Phyllis Alesia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0786864087
- Language: English
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The Freed Church Boy
$16.00 Add to cartBurned by his faith. Abandoned by his family. Coming out was nothing compared to finding a reason to forgive…
Embittered, Lawrence Greene can’t catch a break. He loathes his dead-end job, and his lo
- Author: Johnson, Lloyd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 28 2021
- ISBN10: 9798985220506
- Language: English
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The Essay
$14.99 Add to cart“Like Annie Proulx, Richard Russo, and Richard Ford, Robin Yocum knows how to stake out a claim to a very particular part of America and make it uniquely his own…. A book that young adults and veter… [more below]
- Author: Yocum, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 25 2016
- ISBN10: 1628727179
- Language: English
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Black Empire
$18.00 Read moreA pioneering work of Afrofuturism and antiracist fiction by the author of Black No More, about a Black scientist who masterminds a worldwide conspiracy to take back the African continent from imperial… [more below]
- Author: Schuyler, George S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0143137077
- Language: English
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These Black Bodies Are…
$30.00 Add to cartThe beautiful cover art, “Shared Knowledge” by Charles Bibbs, frames the anthology These Black Bodies Are…. This collection provides snapshots of the human condition in melanated skin and kinky hair
- Author: Washington, Romaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: June 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1955969183
- Language: English
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Banjo
$22.99 Add to cartFrom the author of Home to Harlem, a novel about dreams, diaspora, and drifting back home
Lincoln Agrippa Daily, known to his drifter cohorts on the 1920s Marseilles waterfront as “Banjo,” passes his d
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: McKay, Claude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0156106752
- Language: English
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The Son of Mr. Suleman
$17.00 Read moreNamed in USA Today‘s “5 books not to miss,” and New York Post‘s “The best new books to read”
From New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey–named one of USA Today‘s 100 Black Novelists and- Author: Dickey, Eric Jerome
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1524745243
- Language: English
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This Is Life: Rediscovered Short Fiction by Frank London Brown
$10.99 Add to cartFrank London Brown is one of the most important voices in Black Chicago literature. A singer, factory worker, and union organizer, he died of leukemia at the age of 35 in 1962. Brown’s 1959 novel Trum… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Frank London
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987574324
- Language: English
