African American & Black - Historical
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The River Remembers
$17.95 Read moreSamantha Lockwood, Day Sets, and Harriet Robinson come to Fort Snelling from very different backgrounds. It’s 1835 and the world is changing, fast, and they are all struggling to keep up. After she re… [more below]
- Author: Ulleseit, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 164742450X
- Language: English
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The Attic Child
$19.99 Add to cartA hauntingly powerful and emotionally charged novel about family secrets, love and loss, identity and belonging.
Two children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a shared secret
- Author: Jaye, Lola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0063260387
- Language: English
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Invisible No More: A Historical Novel
$24.95 Add to cartWilmeth Sidat-Singh is the greatest athlete you’ve never heard of–and so much more. A rocket-armed passer on the football field, an ankle-breaking playmaker on the basketball court, he was also a sch… [more below]
- Author: Pitoniak, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1637558635
- Language: English
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Before 13th: A Graphic Novel
$28.99 Add to cartA gorgeous full-color graphic historical novel, sure to become an instant classic, that explores the friendship and feud between Ida B. Wells and Frederick Douglass, offering new insights into slavery
- Author: Ralph, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0063097125
- Language: English
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In a League of Her Own
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the author of Sisters in Arms comes the incredible, untold story of Effa Manley, a black businesswoman in the male dominated baseball industry, and, currently, the only woman inducted into the Ba
- Author: Alderson, Kaia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0063228386
- Language: English
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We Are a Haunting
$18.00 Add to cartWINNER, The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize Longlist A Best Book of 2023 – NPR, Electric Literature, Largehearted Boy, Black Girl Nerds, Le Noir Auteur “An abs- Author: White, Tyriek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1662602669
- Language: English
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Remnant
$26.00 Add to cartKidnapped along with her brother Ledu (Olaudah Equiano) at the tender age of eleven, Olu is dragged across Nigeria, deposited on a slave ship for the Middle Passage, and dropped on a rice plantation i… [more below]
- Author: Sweeting, Katie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: April 24 2024
- ISBN10: 9798385203710
- Language: English
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Before the Mango Ripens
$27.95 Add to cartSet against the backdrop of 1970s Nigeria teetering between post-colonial dependency and self-rule, Before the Mango Ripens examines the enduring themes of faith, disillusionment, and the search for b… [more below]
- Author: Kurian, Afabwaje
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1950539997
- Language: English
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Winona: A Tale of Negro Life
$7.99 Add to cartWinona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest (19902-1903) is a novel by African American author Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins. Originally published in The Colored American Magazine, America’s f
- Series: Mint Editions (Black Narratives)
- Author: Hpokins, Pauline E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: March 24 2021
- ISBN10: 1513280120
- Language: English
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In the Face of the Sun: A Fascinating Novel of Historical Fiction Perfect for Book Clubs
$15.95 Add to cart“Bryce excels at placing readers in a glamorous time and place…riveting and vibrant.” – Booklist
Go On Girl Book Club 2021 New Author of the Year She Reads Best Literary Historical Fiction Coming in… [more below]- Author: Bryce, Denny S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1496730100
- Language: English
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Bone Broth
$16.95 Add to cartJustine Holmes is a widow, former activist, and funeral thief, mourning her husband’s death during the aftermath of the Ferguson unrest in St. Louis, Missouri. As family tensions deepen between Justin
- Author: Ellis, Lyndsey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1736551906
- Language: English
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Chasing the Black Eagle
$19.99 Read moreAgainst a backdrop of the Harlem Renaissance and Haile Selassie’s Ethiopia, a young man tails Hubert Julian — a pilot, inventor, adventurer, charlatan, and possible threat to America.
Facing an attemp
- Author: Geddes, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1459750594
- Language: English
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The Emancipation of Evan Walls
$29.95 Add to cart“If you aren’t already ‘woke, ‘ you will be after reading this book.”–Mary Batten, author of Aliens from Earth
EVAN WALLS IS TERRIFIED by the birth of his first child because he doesn’t want h
- Author: Blount, Jeffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: June 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1633939162
- Language: English
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The Sweetness of Water
$47.00 Add to cartAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER / AN OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK
Winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence
ONE OF PRESIDENT OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021
Winner of the Willie Mo- Author: Harris, Nathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0316362891
- Language: English
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Lonely Crusade
$24.99 Add to cartA classic of African-American fiction, Chester Himes’s tale of a young black man who becomes a union organizer during WWII examines major problems in American life: racism, anti-Semitism, labor strife… [more below]
- Series: Himes, Chester
- Author: Himes, Chester
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 398
- Publish Date: November 19 2007
- ISBN10: 1560251425
- Language: English
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With Eyes Wide Open: The Execution of Quentin Marshall
$21.95 Add to cartWith Eyes Wide Open is the story of Quentin Marshall, an African American man falsely charged with raping and murdering Carley Andrews, a young White woman. The action unfolds in a fictional town in t
- Author: Roberts, John W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: November 30 2022
- ISBN10: 9798887631813
- Language: English
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Homegoing
$33.00 Add to cartWinner of the NBCC’s John Leonard First Book Prize
A New York Times 2016 Notable Book
One of Oprah’s 10 Favorite Books of 2016
NPR’s Debut Novel of the Year
One of Buzzfeed’s Best Fiction Books Of 2016
One… [more below]- Author: Gyasi, Yaa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0735208190
- Language: English
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Across the Way
$15.95 Add to cartNeighborhood tensions reach a breaking point in the finale of New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe’s captivating series. Across the Way sweeps readers back to 1930s Alabama and into the lives
- Series: Neighbors #3
- Author: Monroe, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1496716183
- Language: English
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Lost Souls Recovered
$24.99 Add to cartOne man’s journey toward a better life.
When the wife of a plantation owner dies on a fateful night in 1887, John Billingsly makes the gut-wrenching decision to leave his mother and everything he knows
- Author: Walker, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 438
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1611534747
- Language: English
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Remembrance
$16.99 Add to cartRemembrance by Rita Woods is a breakout historical debut with modern resonance, perfect for the many fans of The Underground Railroad and Orphan Train.
Remembrance…It’s a rumor, a whisper passed in t- Author: Woods, Rita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1250298466
- Language: English
