African American women
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All the Blood Involved in Love
$17.00 Read moreMaya Marshall is a formidable emerging poet. With this debut, she joins a vital literary heritage of Black poets whose stewardship rivals their written contributions. Comparable titles: The Black Unic
- Author: Marshall, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: June 28, 2022
- ISBN10: 1642596957
- Language: English
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The Love Prison Made and Unmade: My Story
$19.99 Add to cartA Notable Memoir by the New York Times
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With echoes of Just Mercy and An American Marriage, a remarkable memoir of a woman who falls in love with an incarc
- Author: Roberts, Ebony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 19 2020
- ISBN10: 0062876651
- Language: English
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Woke Up No Light: Poems
$28.00 Read moreA poignant, rousing debut book of poetry, full of life, from the former Youth Poet Laureate of Oakland, California
woke up no light is a Black girl’s saunter turned to a woman’s defiant strut. These a- Author: Mottley, Leila
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0593319710
- Language: English
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A Sojourner’s Truth: Choosing Freedom and Courage in a Divided World
$19.99 Add to cartA Sojourner’s Truth is an African American girl’s journey from South Carolina to the United States Naval Academy, and then to her calling as an international speaker, mentor, and thought-leader. Inter
- Author: Robinson, Natasha Sistrunk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 0830845526
- Language: English
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We Find Our Way
$16.99 Add to cart“To describe this book, I wrote from the perspective of the black experience. My experience particularly. It’s a book about grief, death, rebirth, ancestors, and spirit. I talk about the matrix and wa… [more below]
- Author: Biddy, Reyna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1524873861
- Language: English
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The Book of Awesome Black Women: Sheroes, Boundary Breakers, and Females Who Changed the World (Historical Black Women Biographies) (Ages 13-18)
$18.99 Add to cartAuthor and educator M.J. Fievre, BS Ed, and bestselling author Becca Anderson have teamed up in The Book of Awesome Black Women. In it, they share an uncensored history of the power of Black women lik… [more below]
- Series: Awesome Books
- Author: Anderson, Becca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1642509299
- Language: English
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The Other Side of Yet: Finding Light in the Midst of Darkness
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the 2023 Memoir Prize for Books from Memoir Magazine and the Christopher Award
A “contemplative, emotional, and spiritual” (Shondaland) memoir about how resilience, hope, and defiant faith c- Author: Hord, Michelle D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 198217353X
- Language: English
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Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting for
$22.00 Add to cartRecalling pivotal moments from her dynamic career on the front lines of American diplomacy and foreign policy, Susan E. Rice–National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama and US Ambassador to t… [more below]
- Author: Rice, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1501189980
- Language: English
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Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys Into Race, Motherhood, and History
$15.95 Read moreAs a working mother and poet-lecturer, Camille Dungy’s livelihood depended on travel. She crisscrossed America and beyond with her daughter in tow, history shadowing their steps, always intensely awar
- Author: Dungy, Camille T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 0393356086
- Language: English
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How It Happens
$18.99 Add to cartIntergenerational story of three Black women and their struggle to stake their claim to the American dream.
- Author: Elster, Jean Alicia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0814348696
- Language: English
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Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic
$16.99 Add to cartA People Pick
“One of the year’s must-reads.” -ELLE
” A] provocative, heart-breaking, and frequently hilarious collection.” -GLAMOUR
“Essential, vital, and urgent.” -HARPER’S BAZAAR
In the vein of Roxane
- Author: Hunt, Kenya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0062987666
- Language: English
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Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells
$27.00 Add to cartJournalist. Suffragist. Antilynching crusader. In 1862, Ida B. Wells was born enslaved in Holly Springs, Mississippi. In 2020, she won a Pulitzer Prize.
Ida B. Wells committed herself to the needs of- Author: Duster, Michelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1982129816
- Language: English
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Say Her Name
$18.99 Read moreFrom award-winning author Zetta Elliott comes a stirring and powerful poetry collection that reveals the beauty, danger, and magic found at the intersection of race and gender.
Inspired by the #SayHe- Author: Elliott, Zetta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1368045243
- Language: English
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Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
$16.99 Add to cartAn extraordinary retrospective covering over thirty years of work, From a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement and the American Poetry Society’s 2018 Wallace Stevens Award-winner.
Shake Loose My S… [more below]- Series: Bluestreak #12
- Author: Sanchez, Sonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 07 2000
- ISBN10: 0807068535
- Language: English
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Faith in the Valley: Lessons for Women on the Journey Toward Peace
$18.99 Add to cart“The most powerful spiritual healer, fixer, teacher on the planet.” –Oprah Winfrey
In this companion volume to her bestselling book Acts of Faith, bestselling author and star of Iyanla: Fix My Life- Author: Vanzant, Iyanla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 08 1996
- ISBN10: 0684801132
- Language: English
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Or, on Being the Other Woman
$17.95 Add to cartIn or, on being the other woman, Simone White considers the dynamics of contemporary black feminist life. Throughout this book-length poem, White writes through a hybrid of poetry, essay, personal nar… [more below]
- Author: White, Simone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1478018461
- Language: English
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Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero
$22.00 Read moreThe essential, “richly researched”* biography of Harriet Tubman, revealing a complex woman who “led a remarkable life, one that her race, her sex, and her origins make all the more extraordinary” (*Th… [more below]
- Series: Many Cultures, One World
- Author: Larson, Kate Clifford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0345456289
- Language: English
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Bicycles: Love Poems
$18.99 Add to cartIn her legendary career, artist and activist Nikki Giovanni has established herself as a writer who can entertain and challenge, and a voice for social justice who can inform and inspire in times of n
- Author: Giovanni, Nikki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0061726494
- Language: English
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We Want Our Bodies Back: Poems
$22.99 Add to cart“WE WANT OUR BODIES BACK URGES BLACK WOMEN TO DEMAND BETTER FROM MEN.” -ESSENCE
“MASTER POET JESSICA CARE MOORE GIFTS US THIS LATEST COLLECTION OF SHARP, SMART AND DEFIANT PIECES.” -MS. MAGAZINE
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- Author: Moore, Jessica Care
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062955284
- Language: English
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Remember Me Now: A Journey Back to Myself and a Love Letter to Black Women
$23.00 Read moreAn unforgettable invitation to treat our lives as the sacred things they are–and a call to embrace the love, dreams, and healing that only we can choose for ourselves.
“A must-read for all Black wom- Author: Brooks, Faitth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0593194152
- Language: English
