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By: Matthews, Thea
Grime
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One of Publishers Weekly’s Most Anticipated Poetry Books for Fall!

From addiction and familial dysfunction to gentrification and police brutality, GRIME examines harsh realities through an activist len

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- Series: City Lights Spotlight #25
- Author: Matthews, Thea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 087286913X
- Language: English
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By: Laurentiis, Rickey
Death of the First Idea: Poems
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From Whiting Award-winner Rickey Laurentiis, a mythic, lyric, decade-in-the-making new collection of masterful poems that probe the meanings of trans/formation and re-creation, a new classic about gen… [more below]
- Author: Laurentiis, Rickey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0593802705
- Language: English
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By: Noble, Lauretta Malloy
Black, White, Colored: The Hidden Story of an Insurrection, a Family, a Southern Town, and Identity in America
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An absorbing investigation into a little-known historical tragedy–an insurrection which upended a resilient and wealthy Black community who found themselves in the clutches of an insurrection at the

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- Author: Noble, Lauretta Malloy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0063352222
- Language: English
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By: Dlanga, Khaya
These Things Really Do Happen To Me
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A delightful collection of everyday stories that will make you laugh, cry, and ponder life’s big questions.

Khaya Dlanga is known to many as a highly regarded marketing professional who has worked for

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- Author: Dlanga, Khaya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1770106316
- Language: English
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By: Porter, Regina
The Rich People Have Gone Away
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AN AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK – A diverse group of New Yorkers are brought together by the search for a missing woman–in this electric novel of secrets, connection, and community.

“Cinematic, preternatu… [more below]
- Author: Porter, Regina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 0593241886
- Language: English
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By: Lewis, Robin Coste
Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C. P. Cavafy
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The National Book Award, PEN/Voelcker Award, and NAACP Image Award winner returns with another inventive and boundary-breaking book: a sensual journey ignited in the archives of iconic queer Alexandri… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Robin Coste
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1524732605
- Language: English
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By: Danticat, Edwidge
We’re Alone: Essays
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A collection of exceptional new essays by one of the most significant contemporary writers on the world stage

Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat’s childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent

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- Author: Danticat, Edwidge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1644453533
- Language: English
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By: Locke, Attica
Guide Me Home
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In this stunning culmination of the award-winning Highway 59 trilogy, Detective Darren Mathews is pulled out of an early retirement to investigate the case of a missing black college student from an a… [more below]
- Series: A Highway 59 Novel
- Author: Locke, Attica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0316494593
- Language: English
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By: Rhodes, Jewell Parker
Ghost Boys: The Graphic Novel
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Experience Jewell Parker Rhodes’s award-winning storytelling in this tender yet visceral graphic novel adaptation of her New York Times bestselling novel, with poignant illustrations by Setor Fiadzigb… [more below]
- Author: Rhodes, Jewell Parker
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 031627979X
- Language: English
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By: Vanece, Ariel
Searching for Mr. Johnson’s Song
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A touching story of the friendship between a young boy and his elderly neighbor, and how that boy helps jog the man’s disappearing memory

Caius spends summer mornings on his neighbor’s porch, and alth

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- Author: Vanece, Ariel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0593617819
- Language: English
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By: Armand, Glenda
The Story of Trailblazing Actor Ira Aldridge
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This new entry in the innovative “Story” line of chapter-book biographies features Ira Aldridge, an African American actor considered one of the greatest Shakespearean performers of the nineteenth cen

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- Author: Armand, Glenda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1643790080
- Language: English
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By: Cooper, Morgan Stevenson
I Can Make a Movie!
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From self-taught, award-winning director Morgan Stevenson Cooper comes a heartfelt picture book about a girl on a mission to make her first movie—and lift her grandpa’s spirits along the way.

Norah R

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- Author: Cooper, Morgan Stevenson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0593858301
- Language: English
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By: Wideman, John Edgar
Hoop Roots
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A multilayered memoir of basketball, family, home, love, and race, John Edgar Wideman’s Hoop Roots brings “a touch of Proust to the blacktop” (Time) as it tells of the author’s love for a game he can

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- Author: Wideman, John Edgar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0618257756
- Language: English
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By: Cagney, James
Ghetto Koans: A Personal Archive
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The Japanese word ‘ koan’ is a seemingly unanswerable riddle used by practitioners of Zen Buddhism to trigger spiritual enlightenment and understanding. Ghetto Koans: A Personal Archive is a vibrant, … [more below]
- Author: Cagney, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1625571623
- Language: English
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By: B, Ashley
Deceptive Love
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When you find yourself captivated by someone genuine, love can become a whirlwind.

Legacy is young, intelligent, and possesses a figure that drives men wild. Having faced many challenges in her life,

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- Author: B, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1645567338
- Language: English
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By: Jenkins, Beverly
Calling All Blessings: A Blessings Novel
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NAACP nominee and USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins celebrates her beloved Blessings series with a heartwarming novel set in Henry Adams, Kansas.

“If you haven’t yet gotten your hands on [th

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- Author: Jenkins, Beverly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0063441276
- Language: English
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By: Rhodes, Jewell Parker
Ghost Boys: The Graphic Novel
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Experience Jewell Parker Rhodes’s award-winning storytelling in this tender yet visceral graphic novel adaptation of her New York Times bestselling novel, with poignant illustrations by Setor Fiadzigb… [more below]
- Author: Rhodes, Jewell Parker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0316279676
- Language: English
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By: Robin, Valencia
Lost Cities: Poems
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Brimming with music, bursting with flora, the poems in Valencia Robin’s second collection are both a walking tour of local neighborhoods and a journey into space and across time–ways of looking and l… [more below]
- Author: Robin, Valencia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0892556153
- Language: English
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By: Fant, Barbara
Joy in the Belly of a Riot: Poems, Prayers, Memories, and Meditations
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The acclaimed poetic force celebrates the practice of poetry as healing and prayer in this vital, life-affirming collection about surviving the void and touching the divine–the second book in a creat

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- Author: Fant, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0063447894
- Language: English
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By: Chatti, Leila
Wildness Before Something Sublime
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In dreams and memories, night poems and a centos, Wildness Before Something Sublime emerges at the edge of language to excavate the body–its desires and griefs.

Leila Chatti’s Wildness Before Somethin

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- Author: Chatti, Leila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1556597169
- Language: English