African American & Black
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Charlotte Ray: Trailblazing Lawyer
$10.99 Add to cartIn 1872, Charlotte E. Ray made history as the first Black female lawyer in the United States.
At a time when women were often denied education, jobs, and the right to vote, Charlotte defied societal
- Series: Difference Makers
- Author: Loewen, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 195922364X
- Language: English
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People of Means
$18.99 Add to cartOne of NPR’s Books We Love This Year!
“A powerful, thought-provoking saga.” —Woman’s World
“An evocative story of love and sacrifice.”–People
From the acclaimed author of The Kindest Lie, a heartrendin
- Author: Johnson, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0063157535
- Language: English
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Boy 2.0
$8.99 Add to cartAn action-packed superhero story from New York Times bestselling author Tracey Baptiste.
Win “Coal” Keegan has just landed in his latest foster home, with a big, noisy, slightly nosy family named the
- Series: Boy 2.0 #1
- Author: Baptiste, Tracey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1523530626
- Language: English
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Cash on the Block: The Broken Promise of Reinvestment in Black Urban Neighborhoods
$35.00 Read moreAn incisive history of government and corporate failures to infuse capital into Black urban neighborhoods–as well as the organizers and activists who stood up to predatory financial practices.
In the- Author: Satter, Beryl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 067427847X
- Language: English
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Jefferson’s Wolf: A Founding Father’s Troubling Answer to the Problem of Slavery
$29.95 Read moreA decisive reassessment of Thomas Jefferson’s long-debated views on slavery, showing that his chief antislavery strategy was racial exclusion: the removal of emancipated Black people from the United S
- Author: Dierksheide, Christa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 0674278321
- Language: English
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Our Minds Were Always Free: A History of How Black Brilliance Was Exploited–And the Fight to Retake Control
$29.00 Read moreAn exploration of how African American innovators and artists–whose impact and financial value in American music, movies, and TV is disproportionately greater than their numbers–have fought for and … [more below]
- Author: Davis, Lisa E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1982175990
- Language: English
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A Song for Juneteenth
$18.99 Read moreThis emotional and lyrical picture book by acclaimed poet Zetta Elliott celebrates the importance of Juneteenth as well as the resilience of Black families and the power of community- featuring stunni… [more below]
- Author: Elliott, Zetta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 0316575135
- Language: English
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Honeybird Blue
$19.99 Read moreA cheeky and colorful debut picture book about a father-daughter birding adventure–illustrated by Coretta Scott King Honoree Raissa Figueroa.
Can you spot two early birds EARbirding on a father-daug- Author: English, Taunya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 0063321955
- Language: English
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On Witness and Respair: Essays
$29.00 Read moreThe collected creative nonfiction of a singular American writer, Jesmyn Ward, including widely shared classics, three never-before-published speeches, and an introductory essay.
Respair (noun, obsolet- Author: Ward, Jesmyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 166806426X
- Language: English
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Death of the Soccer God
$27.00 Read moreA global soccer star’s epic ride to the 1950 World Cup places him in shooting distance of his dreams and his own death.
Gilbert Chevalier’s life is a mid-century miracle: wealthy, handsome, beloved by- Author: Léger, Dimitry Elias
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 0374619883
- Language: English
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Common Sense (1776), Addressed to Today’s Citizens of America: An Erasure
$21.95 Read moreA revolutionary work of erasure poetry that exposes the contradictions in Thomas Paine’s Common Sense–calling for a new definition of citizenship that embraces all Americans
In his famous cry for inh- Author: Smith, Crystal Simone
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0807023388
- Language: English
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Losin’ Control
$19.99 Add to cartA Detroit bad boy and legendary rapper sets his sights on a woman whose dark past may keep her from a chance at happily ever after in this urban romance.
At one point, Marley had it all figured out. Sh
- Author: Nesha, Ladii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 9798347021833
- Language: English
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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography
$28.00 Add to cartA new Penguin Vitae hardcover edition of Audre Lorde’s trailblazing biomythography that cemented the poet’s legacy as a leading voice in intersectional feminism and 20th century literature.
In her 198- Series: Penguin Vitae
- Author: Lorde, Audre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0143139169
- Language: English
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She Outgrew the Wound
$18.99 Add to cartA heartfelt return to form for veteran poet r.h. Sin, She Outgrew the Wound speaks softly to the resiliency of growth, maturity, and life-altering self-love.
For over 10 years, poet r.h. Sin has prov- Author: Sin, R. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 9798881608460
- Language: English
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Learn Baby Learn: The Shindana Toy Factory’s Legacy of Black Pride
$19.95 Add to cartOut of the ashes and rubble of the Watts Rising in South Central Los Angeles in the mid-1960s arose a project called Operation Bootstrap that provided training and education for community members. Its… [more below]
- Author: Watson Sherman, Charlotte
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1478890592
- Language: English
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Genevieve
$22.00 Add to cartLearn exactly why Eric Jerome Dickey was renowned for his novels starring “bold, smart women oozing sexuality and vulnerability” (The Atlantic) in this New York Times bestseller.
Genevieve is brillian- Author: Dickey, Eric Jerome
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 04 2006
- ISBN10: 0451218493
- Language: English
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Naughtier Than Nice
$22.00 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey revisits the scene of his sexy holiday romp Naughty or Nice, as the McBroom sisters’ romantic adventures make for a white (hot) Christmas.
The liv- Author: Dickey, Eric Jerome
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0451476727
- Language: English
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Sunset Over Napa Valley
$18.95 Read moreThe call of summer, sisterhood, and hearts in need of healing bring two best friends and their
college-age daughters to Napa Valley, California’s breathtaking wine country–where a long-held secret th… [more below]- Author: Garner, Monica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 149675042X
- Language: English
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Obsidian Sun: A Poetry Compilation of Fiery Blackness
$20.00 Add to cartObsidian Sun is Black brilliance, burden, beauty, and bravery captured in verse. These poems confront the ways society distorts Blackness – how our light is too often dimmed by a skewed lens – yet the
- Author: Jones, Tyler Auston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: January 14 2026
- ISBN10: 9798988846376
- Language: English
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Belonging to the Air
$27.95 Add to cart- Author: Irons, Avery
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1967165009
- Language: English
