African American & Black - Historical
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The Trial of Mrs. Rhinelander
$17.95 Read moreInspired by a real-life scandal that was shocking even for the tumultuous Roaring Twenties, this captivating novel tells the story of a pioneering Black journalist, a secret interracial marriage among… [more below]
- Author: Bryce, Denny S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1496737873
- Language: English
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Masquerade
$27.99 Add to cartPEOPLE MAGAZINE BEST NEW BOOK
NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE
GOODREADS CHOICE NOMINEE
AUDIBLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
INDIE NEXT PICK
Selected for best-of lists from Book Riot, Kirkus Reviews, Ms. Magazine, Electric L- Author: Sangoyomi, O. O.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1250904293
- Language: English
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Raptors in the Ricelands
$21.95 Add to cartIn the twenty-first century fictional community of Georgetown, SC, a story unfolds revealing family secrets and conflicts that challenge cultural beliefs. With bighearted intention, newlyweds Florence
- Author: Daise, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 195875482X
- Language: English
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The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye
$28.99 Add to cartThis “thrilling, swashbuckling story” (People) based on true events illuminates a woman of color’s rise to power as one of the few female pirate captains to sail the Caribbean, and a forbidden love st… [more below]
- Author: Cameron, Briony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1668051028
- Language: English
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The World So Wide
$24.95 Read moreFelicity Alexander should be charming audiences at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, not under house arrest in Grenada in October 1983, as rumours swirl that United States troops are preparing to invade.
- Author: Jones, Zilla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: May 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1770867759
- Language: English
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Junie
$32.00 Add to cartA young girl must face a life-altering decision after awakening her sister’s ghost, navigating truths about love, friendship, and power as the Civil War looms.
“The richly textured prose quickly pulle- Author: Eckstine, Erin Crosby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79822E+12
- Language: English
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The Unexpected Diva
$19.99 Add to cart“Beautifully crafted and captivating.This triumphant tale is sure to be an instant classic.”–Victoria Christopher Murray, New York Times bestselling co-author of The Personal Librarian
“How do we not
- Author: Warren, Tiffany L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0063322137
- Language: English
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Home and Away
$17.95 Add to cartSpanning more than eighty years, from Memphis in the 1930s and 1940s to present-day Chicago, this sweeping novel draws on the turbulent history of the Negro Baseball Leagues, as the great-granddaughte… [more below]
- Author: Alers, Rochelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1496742745
- Language: English
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Good Dirt
$30.00 Add to cartThe daughter of an affluent Black family pieces together the connection between a childhood tragedy and a beloved heirloom in this moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake… [more below]
- Author: Wilkerson, Charmaine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0593358368
- Language: English
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Their Eyes Were Watching God (Deluxe Edition)
$29.99 Add to cartZora Neale Hurston’s beloved classic–a PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick–available in a special deluxe edition featuring gold sprayed edges, foil, embossed lettering, and a custom foil stamp on t
- Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0063447827
- Language: English
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Gullah Tears: The Enslaved Souls of Charleston
$29.95 Add to cartIn the Deep South of antebellum Charleston, enslaved Gullah woman Hentie survives the day-to-day sufferings brought on by her cruel master and the white planter society that controls the institution o… [more below]
- Author: Olsvig, Josie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: October 30 2020
- ISBN10: 164663148X
- Language: English
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This Here Is Love
$29.99 Add to cartAs the seventeenth century burns to a close in Tidewater, Virginia, America’s character is wrought in the fires of wealth, race, and freedom.
Young Bless, the only child left to her enslaved mother, st
- Author: Perry, Princess Joy L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105976
- Language: English
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The Unicorn Woman
$17.95 Add to cart“One of our greatest living authors.”–Lauren LeBlanc, The Boston Globe
Marking a dramatic new direction for Jones, a riveting tale set in the Post WWII South, narrated by a Black soldier who returns- Author: Jones, Gayl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 08 2025
- ISBN10: 807019623
- Language: English
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No Better Time: A Novel of the Spirited Women of the Six Triple Eight Central Postal Directory Battalion
$18.99 Add to cart“Just the novel to elevate these unforgettable voices.”–Shelf Awareness
The acclaimed author of The Secret Women and Things Past Telling returns with an engrossing historical novel about a little know
- Author: Williams, Sheila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0063307952
- Language: English
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These Heathens
$29.00 Add to cartIn this vibrant, gratifying novel, a pious, small-town teenager travels to Atlanta to get an abortion and finds herself smack in the middle of the civil rights movement and the secret lives of queer B… [more below]
- Author: McKenzie, Mia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 0593596943
- Language: English
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The Great Mann
$28.00 Add to cartIn this poignant retelling of The Great Gatsby, set amongst L.A.’s Black elite, a young veteran finds his way post-war, pulled into a new world of tantalizing possibilities–and explosive tensions.
I- Author: Davis Lurie, Kyra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 593800869
- Language: English
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The Blackbirds of St. Giles
$28.00 Add to cartFrom the brutal horrors of Jamaican plantations to the teeming streets of 19th century London, through lavish manor houses and across dangerous seas, escaped enslaved siblings survive the American War… [more below]
- Author: Cain, Lila
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1496755626
- Language: English
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Standing in the Gap
$19.95 Add to cartAlthough freedom came to enslaved African Americans after the Civil War, many Gullah families remained isolated on South Carolina barrier islands where they worked the land, the rivers and the sea. St
- Author: Pyatt, Sherman E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: July 31 2024
- ISBN10: 1929647980
- Language: English
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Family
$20.00 Add to cartIn this wise, beguiling, and beautiful novel set in the era of the Civil War, award-winning playwright and author J. California Cooper paints a haunting portrait of a woman named Always and four gener… [more below]
- Author: Cooper, J. California
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0385411723
- Language: English
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Ernest J. Gaines: Four Novels (Loa #383): The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman / In My Father’s House / A Gathering of O LD Men / A Lesson Before Dy
$42.50 Add to cart“The best black writer in America” (Time) joins the Library of America with a volume collecting 4 landmark novels about race and the legacy of slavery in America
Includes A Lesson Before Dying, winner- Author: Gaines, Ernest J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 847
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1598537903
- Language: English
