African American & Black - Historical
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The Devil Three Times
$30.00 Add to cartAn audacious debut spanning eight generations of a Black family in West Tennessee as they are repeatedly visited by the Devil
Yetunde awakens aboard a slave ship en route to the United States with th- Author: Fayne, Rickey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 316575178
- Language: English
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Windy City Blues
$22.00 Add to cartIn 1960s Chicago, a young woman stands in the middle of a musical and social revolution. A new historical novel from the bestselling author of White Collar Girl and What the Lady Wants.
“The rise of t… [more below]- Author: Rosen, Ren E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 28 2017
- ISBN10: 1101991127
- Language: English
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Rootwork
$14.99 Add to cartIn the summer of 1889, the lives of three African American sisters are upended when they are abruptly sent away from their parents and the only home they’ve ever known in a small, impoverished Louisi
- Series: Conjure #1
- Author: Cross, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1958598852
- Language: English
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Behind the Waterline
$27.95 Read moreWinner of the Lee Smith Novel Prize
Behind the Waterline takes readers to the home of a teenager and his grandmother in a New Orleans neighborhood on the eve of Katrina, where there are few resources a
- Author: Walker Lemalle, Kionna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1958888214
- Language: English
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The Edge of Yesterday
$28.99 Add to cartThe Edge of Yesterday is a haunting contemporary speculative novel about time travel and finding yourself from award-winning author Rita Woods.
Greer Coffey is a principal dancer with a renowned Harle- Author: Woods, Rita
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1250805643
- Language: English
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Ours
$22.00 Add to cartChosen as a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Oprah’s Book Club, Elle, Reader’s Digest, The Rumpus, Kirkus Reviews, The Millions, Lit Hub, and more
“An inventive ode to self-determination and also a s- Author: Williams, Phillip B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0593654846
- Language: English
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Zeal
$28.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing and Caul Baby returns with an epic, multi-generational novel that illuminates the legacy of slavery and the power of romantic love.
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- Author: Jerkins, Morgan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0063234084
- Language: English
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Gullah Tears: The Enslaved Souls of Charleston
$20.95 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: October 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1646631463
- Language: English
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Night Wherever We Go
$27.99 Add to cartA RECOMMENDED READ FROM: The Washington Post – Atlanta Journal-Constitution – CrimeReads – Library Journal
A gripping, radically intimate debut novel about a group of enslaved women staging a covert re
- Author: Peyton, Tracey Rose
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0063249871
- Language: English
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The Life of Herod the Great
$33.00 Add to cartA never before published novel from beloved author Zora Neale Hurston, revealing the historical Herod the Great–not the villain the Bible makes him out to be but a religious and philosophical man who
- Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0063433451
- Language: English
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The Sable Cloak
$28.00 Add to cartAn eye-opening, atmospheric novel set in the South and Midwest during the time of Jim Crow that reveals a little-known part of American pre-civil rights history of Black intrigue and power.
In the So- Author: Grant, Gail Milissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1538742004
- Language: English
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A Right Worthy Woman
$18.99 Add to cartIn the vein of The Personal Librarian and The House of Eve, a “remarkable and stirring novel” (Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling author) based on the inspiring true story of Virginia’s … [more below]
- Author: Watson, Ruth P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1668003031
- Language: English
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The Life of Herod the Great
$28.99 Add to cartA never before published novel from beloved author Zora Neale Hurston, revealing the historical Herod the Great–not the villain the Bible makes him out to be but a religious and philosophical man who
- Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0063161001
- Language: English
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Kingdom of No Tomorrow
$28.00 Add to cartFrom a PEN/Bellwether Prizewinner, a “beautifully convincing slice of history” novel about the Black Panther Party, perfect for fans of The Love Songs of W. E. B. Dubois (Barbara Kingsolver).
Nettie- Author: Josaphat, Fabienne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1643755889
- Language: English
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Untethered
$18.99 Add to cartSometimes family is found in the most unlikely of places . . .
In the small college town of Troy, Alabama, amidst the backdrop of 1967, Katia Daniels lives a life steeped in responsibility. At the Pike
- Author: Jackson-Brown, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1400241138
- Language: English
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The Jewel of the Blues
$18.99 Add to cartSet in the sparkling 1920s jazz era, The Jewel of the Blues pulls back the curtain on all the romance, danger and drama in the bustling backstage life of a young performer.
Lucille Arnetta Love has alw… [more below]
- Author: Chenault-Kilgore, Monica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1525805061
- Language: English
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The Perishing
$16.95 Read moreA Black immortal in 1930’s Los Angeles must recover the memory of her past in order to discover who she truly is in this extraordinarily affecting novel for readers of N. K. Jemisin and Octavia E. But… [more below]
- Author: Deón, Natashia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1640095608
- Language: English
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Empty Vows: A Riveting Depression Era Historical Novel
$26.00 Read moreIn this gripping follow-up to the Depression-era saga Mrs. Wiggins, the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author transports readers to the Deep South, as a proper church-going woman determi… [more below]
- Series: A Lexington, Alabama Novel
- Author: Monroe, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1496732618
- Language: English
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Yo, Tituba, La Bruja Negra de Salem
$28.95 Read moreThis wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten in jail until the gen… [more below]
- Author: Conde, Maryse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 8418668288
- Language: Spanish
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Mustard Seed
$14.95 Read moreThe bestselling author of Yellow Crocus returns with a haunting and tender story of three women returning to the plantation they once called home.
Oberlin, Ohio, 1868. Lisbeth Johnson was born into pri
- Series: Yellow Crocus #2
- Author: Ibrahim, Laila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1542045568
- Language: English
