African Americans
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Joe Turner’s Come and Gone: A Play in Two Acts
$15.00 Add to cartFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences comes Joe Turner’s Come and Gone—Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play.
“The glow accompanying August Wilson’s place in con- Author: Wilson, August
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 94
- Publish Date: October 30 1988
- ISBN10: 0452260094
- Language: English
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Amos Fortune, Free Man
$8.99 Add to cartA Newbery Medal Winner
When Amos Fortune was only fifteen years old, he was captured by slave traders and brought to Massachusetts, where he was sold at auction. Although his freedom had been taken, A- Series: Newbery Library, Puffin
- Author: Yates, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 01, 1989
- ISBN10: 0140341587
- Language: English
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MIA Mayhem and the Cat Burglar
$6.99 Add to cartMia and her cat, Chaos, come face-to-face with the Cat Burglar in this twelfth adventure of the Mia Mayhem chapter book series!
Chaos Macarooney, Mia’s cat, gets a special invitation to the PITS! Turn- Series: MIA Mayhem #12
- Author: West, Kara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1665917210
- Language: English
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Sarah Journeys West: An Oregon Trail Survival Story
$9.99 Add to cartIn the midst of the California Gold Rush, twelve-year-old Sarah and her family are living in the North as free Black people. Seeking a better life, Sarah’s parents decide they will venture west on the… [more below]
- Series: Girls Survive
- Author: Smith, Nikki Shannon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496592182
- Language: English
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Acts of Faith: 25th Anniversary Edition
$19.99 Add to cart“The most powerful spiritual healer, fixer, teacher on the planet.” –Oprah Winfrey
In an updated and expanded 25th anniversary edition, the beloved “purple book” Acts of Faith guides people of color- Author: Vanzant, Iyanla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1982106840
- Language: English
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Black Brother, Black Brother
$16.99 Add to cartA Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection!
From award-winning and bestselling author, Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a powerful coming-of-age story about two brothers, one who presents as white, the- Author: Rhodes, Jewell Parker
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0316493805
- Language: English
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Decent People
$28.00 Read moreFrom Center for Fiction First Novel Prize winning author De’Shawn Charles Winslow, a sweeping and unforgettable novel of a Black community reeling from a triple homicide, and the secrets the killings
- Author: Winslow, De’shawn Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 163557532X
- Language: English
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The Vanderbeekers to the Rescue
$19.99 Add to cartHarlem’s favorite family returns in the third installment in the Vanderbeerkers series! In To the Rescue, the Vanderbeeker kids find themselves racing to save their mother’s baking business from city
- Series: Vanderbeekers #3
- Author: Glaser, Karina Yan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 17, 2019
- ISBN10: 1328577570
- Language: English
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For Beautiful Black Boys Who Believe in a Better World
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2020 Goddard Riverside CBC Youth Book Prize for Social Justice
A Top Ten Selection of the 2021 In the Margins Book Awards
A Texas Institute of Letters 2021 Finalist for Best Picture Book
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- Author: Waters, Michael W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 1947888080
- Language: English
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Monster
$19.99 Add to cartThis New York Times bestselling novel from acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers tells the story of Steve Harmon, a teenage boy in juvenile detention and on trial.
Presented as a screenplay of Steve’s own
- Series: Monster
- Author: Myers, Walter Dean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 21 1999
- ISBN10: 0060280778
- Language: English
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Mahogany: A Little Red Riding Hood Tale
$17.99 Add to cartA clever, Black contemporary twist on Little Red Riding Hood, Mahogany embraces the beauty–and magic–within herself to thwart the Big Bad Wolf.
Mahogany is a spunky girl who loves to sew, listen to- Author: Brown-Wood, Janay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1623543673
- Language: English
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On a Mission
$16.95 Read moreJoin Essence(R)-bestselling authors Ms. Michel Moore and T.C. Littles, along with Novelist Blacc Topp, as they each give you heart-racing, gritty tales of what being On a Mission on the block ultimate… [more below]
- Author: Moore, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1645565416
- Language: English
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The Scary Library Shusher
$7.99 Add to cartIt’s Desmond and Andres versus a spooky library shusher in the fifth book of the Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol series
It’s no surprise that the library is one of Desmond Cole’s favorite haunts. After all- Series: Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol #5
- Author: Miedoso, Andres
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 1534426914
- Language: English
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Ruined (TCG Edition)
$16.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
“A powerhouse drama. . . . Lynn Nottage’s beautiful, hideous and unpretentiously important play is] a shattering, intimate journey into faraway news reports
- Author: Nottage, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 1, 2009
- ISBN10: 155936355X
- Language: English
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Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographers
$50.00 Add to cartA timely reconsideration of the history of photography that places Black studio photographers, and their subjects, at the center
From photography’s beginnings in the United States, Black studio photo- Author: Piper, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 030026738X
- Language: English
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Parker Grows a Garden: Ready-To-Read Level 1
$17.99 Read moreThe New York Times bestselling team behind Parker Looks Up returns with this Level 1 Ready-to-Read about the joy of growing a garden.
Parker is growing her own backyard garden! She plants tulips with- Series: A Parker Curry Book
- Author: Curry, Parker
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1665931035
- Language: English
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Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism
$16.95 Read moreIn the speeches and articles collected in this book, the black activist, organizer, and freedom fighter Stokely Carmichael traces the dramatic changes in his own consciousness and that of black Americ… [more below]
- Author: Carmichael (Kwame Ture), Stokely
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1556526490
- Language: English
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Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World’s Fastest Woman
$11.99 Add to cartThis award-winning true story of Black Olympic runner Wilma Rudolph, who overcame childhood polio and eventually went on to win three gold medals, is illustrated by Caldecott medal-winning artist Davi
- Author: Krull, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 44
- Publish Date: February 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0152020985
- Language: English
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All Different Now: Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom
$17.99 Add to cartExperience the joy of Juneteenth in this celebration of freedom from the award-winning team of Angela Johnson and E.B. Lewis.
Through the eyes of one little girl, All Different Now tells the story of- Author: Johnson, Angela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 6, 2014
- ISBN10: 068987376X
- Language: English
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Chocolate Me!
$8.99 Read moreA timely book about how it feels to be teased and taunted, and how each of us is sweet and lovely and delicious on the inside, no matter how we look.
The boy is teased for looking different than the o- Author: Diggs, Taye
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1250068010
- Language: English
