African American & Black - General

  • Black No More

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    The landmark comic satire that asks, “What would happen if all black people in America turned white?”–for fans of the Oscar-nominated film American Fiction

    A Penguin Classic

    It’s New Year’s Day 1933

    • Author: Schuyler, George S.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: January 16, 2018
    • ISBN10: 0143131885
    • Language: English
  • Mama Day

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    A powerful generational saga at once tender and suspenseful, overflowing with magic and common sense, this book “resonates with genuine excitement … a big, strong, admirable novel” (New York Times B[more below]

    • Series: Vintage Contemporaries #0000
    • Author: Naylor, Gloria
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: April 23 1989
    • ISBN10: 0679721819
    • Language: English
  • The Unsettled

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    A 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: 480
    • Publish Date: October 17, 2023
    • ISBN10: 059379303X
    • Language: English
  • Hell of a Book: National Book Award Winner (a Novel)

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    ***2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER***

    ***THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER***

    Winner of the 2021 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize Finalist, 2022 Chautauqua Prize Finalist,

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    • Author: Mott, Jason
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: June 28 2022
    • ISBN10: 0593330986
    • Language: English
  • House Gone Quiet: Stories

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    Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence Named a Best Book of 2023 by Library Journal and Debutiful

    An eerie, irresistible debut story collection about the bonds and bounds of community and w

    • Author: Norris, Kelsey
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: October 17, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1668016311
    • Language: English
  • Recitatif: A Story

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    NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Nobel Prize winner–for the first time in a beautifully produced [more below]

    • Author: Morrison, Toni
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: January 01, 1970
    • ISBN10: 0593315030
    • Language: English
  • Friday Black

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    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    “An unbelievable debut, one that announces a new and necessary American voice.”–New York Times Book Review

    The acclaimed debut collection from the author of Chain Gang All S

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    • Author: Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: October 23, 2018
    • ISBN10: 1328911241
    • Language: English
  • Temple Folk

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    Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction

    A groundbreaking debut collection portraying the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with faith, family, and freedom in America.

    In Templ

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    • Author: Bilal, Aaliyah
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: July 04 2023
    • ISBN10: 1982191813
    • Language: English
  • The Unsettled

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    A 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

    • Author: Mathis, Ayana
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: September 26, 2023
    • ISBN10: 0525519939
    • Language: English
  • The New Naturals

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    **A 2023 NEW YORK TIMES and WASHINGTON POST Notable Book and a BOSTON GLOBE Best Book of the Year**

    From the Ernest J. Gaines Award-winning author of Everywhere You Don’t Belong, a touching, timely n

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    • Author: Bump, Gabriel
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: November 14 2023
    • ISBN10: 1616208805
    • Language: English
  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Warbler Classics)

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    Recalling the great confessional narratives from St. Augustine to Jean Jacques Rousseau, from Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass to Henry Adams, James Weldon Johnson relates the emotionally grip… [more below]

    • Author: Johnson, James Weldon
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 190
    • Publish Date: May 25, 2020
    • ISBN10: 1735121215
    • Language: English
  • Have You Seen Luis Velez?

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    An Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestseller.

    New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde brings heartwarming authenticity to the story of two strangers who find that kindness is a pow

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    • Author: Hyde, Catherine Ryan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: May 21 2019
    • ISBN10: 1542042364
    • Language: English
  • What Napoleon Could Not Do

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    One of the Books Barack Obama Is Reading This Summer
    One of Vulture‘s Best Books of 2023
    One of Goodreads’ Buzziest Debut Novels of 2023
    One of Essence‘s 31 Books You Must Read
    One of the most antici
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    • Author: Nnuro, Dk
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: February 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 0593420349
    • Language: English
  • Symphony of Secrets

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    A gripping page-turner from the celebrated author of book club favorite The Violin Conspiracy Music professor Bern Hendricks discovers a shocking secret about the most famous American composer of all [more below]

    • Author: Slocumb, Brendan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 448
    • Publish Date: January 23 2024
    • ISBN10: 0593315456
    • Language: English
  • Mr. High Maintenance

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    Meet Jerome, Lamant, and Marcus, three single men who share one thing in common: their high maintenance needs drive women away.
    Jerome Hart’s ideal relationship is not to be in one. He enjoys his sing

    • Series: Urban Renaissance
    • Author: Ellis, Nishawnda
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: September 01, 2010
    • ISBN10: 1601622244
    • Language: English
  • Sorrowland

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    A TIME 100 Must-Read Book of 2021

    A New York Times Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2021

    The Stonewall Book Award winner of 2022

    Named a Best Book of 2021 by NPR, The New York Public Library, P

    • Author: Solomon, Rivers
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: May 03, 2022
    • ISBN10: 1250849268
    • Language: English
  • Lot: Lot: Stories

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    One of Barack Obama’s “Favorite Books of the Year”

    “Phenomenal” –Justin Torres, author of We the Animals
    “Brilliant” –Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of Here Comes the Sun
    “A profound exploration of the t

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    • Author: Washington, Bryan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: March 17 2020
    • ISBN10: 0525533680
    • Language: English
  • Heads of the Colored People: Stories

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    *Winner of the PEN Open Book Award*
    *Winner of the Whiting Award*
    *Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award and Aspen Words Literary Prize*
    *Nominated for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize*
    *Finali[more below]

    • Author: Thompson-Spires, Nafissa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: January 22 2019
    • ISBN10: 1501168002
    • Language: English
  • The Deep

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    Octavia E. Butler meets Marvel’s Black Panther in The Deep, a story rich with Afrofuturism, folklore, and the power of memory, inspired by the Hugo Award-nominated song “The Deep” from Daveed Diggs’s

    • Author: Solomon, Rivers
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: August 04, 2020
    • ISBN10: 1534439870
    • Language: English
  • Silver Sparrow

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    From the New York Times Bestselling Author of An American Marriage

    “A love story . . . Full of perverse wisdom and proud joy . . . Jones’s skill for wry understatement never wavers.”
    O: The Oprah

    • Author: Jones, Tayari
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: May 08, 2012
    • ISBN10: 1616201428
    • Language: English
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