Ethnic Orientation/African American
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My Name Is Tani . . . and I Believe in Miracles: The Amazing True Story of One Boy’s Journey from Refugee to Chess Champion
$19.99 Add to cartIn their escape from Boko Haram’s reign of terror in Nigeria, Tani’s family’s journey to the United States was nothing short of a miracle. Then 8-year-old Tani started competing with his public school
- Author: Adewumi, Tanitoluwa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0785232737
- Language: English
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My Life with Earth, Wind & Fire
$16.99 Read moreForeword by Steve Harvey and afterword by David Foster
The Grammy-winning founder of the legendary pop/R&B/soul/funk/disco group tells his story and charts the rise of his legendary band in this sincer
- Author: White, Maurice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 24 2018
- ISBN10: 0062329162
- Language: English
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Beware the Werewolf
$17.99 Read moreA werewolf has everyone chasing their tails in this twelfth spooky adventure in the Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol series
Kersville has a furry problem: there’s dogcatcher on the loose And he’s snatching- Series: Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol #12
- Author: Miedoso, Andres
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1534479562
- Language: English
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Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made
$18.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist comes “the best Jordan book so far” (The Washington Post), the story of Michael Jordan’s legendary years with the Chicago Bulls, ca… [more below]
- Author: Halberstam, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0767904443
- Language: English
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With Books and Bricks: How Booker T. Washington Built a School
$17.99 Read more2016-2017 Young Hoosier Book Award Intermediate Nominee
Booker T. Washington had an incredible passion for learning. Born a slave, he taught himself to read. When the Civil War ended, Booker finally fu
- Author: Slade, Suzanne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0807508977
- Language: English
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One Day When I Was Lost: A Scenario Based on Alex Haley’s the Autobiography of Malcolm X
$15.00 Add to cartA rare, lucidly composed screenplay from one of America’s greatest writers, based on the bestselling classic The Autobiography of Malcolm X. – “Sharp…. Precise…. There is no questioning the depth … [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 14 2007
- ISBN10: 0307275949
- Language: English
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Party Music: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers’ Band and How Black Power Transformed Soul Music
$19.95 Add to cartConnecting the black music tradition with the black activist tradition, Party Music brings both into greater focus than ever before and reveals just how strongly the black power movement was felt on t… [more below]
- Author: Vincent, Rickey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1613744927
- Language: English
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Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears
$18.99 Add to cart“In this Caldecott Medal winner, Mosquito tells a story that causes a jungle disaster. “Elegance has become the Dillons’ hallmark. . . . Matching the art is Aardema’s uniquely onomatopoeic text . . . … [more below]
- Author: Aardema, Verna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 1975
- ISBN10: 0803760892
- Language: English
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Betye Saar: Heart of a Wanderer
$48.00 Read moreA richly illustrated look at how travel influenced the work of renowned contemporary artist Betye Saar
Betye Saar (b. 1926) is an artist whose assemblages tell visual stories and convey powerful polit- Author: Greenwald, Diana Seave
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0691973857
- Language: English
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Intellectuals and Race
$28.00 Add to cartThomas Sowell’s incisive critique of the intellectuals’ destructive role in shaping ideas about race in America
Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of one that goes to the r- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 12 2013
- ISBN10: 0465058728
- Language: English
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Africa’s Gift to America: The Afro-American in the Making and Saving of the United States
$24.95 Add to cartClassic work of black study indicating a place for African people within Western history
Originally published in 1959 and revised and expanded in 1989, this book asserts that Africans had contributed m
- Author: Rogers, J. A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 18 2014
- ISBN10: 081957516X
- Language: English
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Sukey and the Mermaid
$8.99 Read moreA mermaid offers a young girl a magical escape in this lushly told and luminously illustrated Coretta Scott King Honor-winning picture book.
Sukey’s new step-pa is a mean, bossy man she calls “Mister- Author: San Souci, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 01 1996
- ISBN10: 068980718X
- Language: English
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This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
$17.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
One of The Roots’ 28 Brilliant Books by Black Authors in 2018
“A writer to be reckoned with.” –Roxane Gay
Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2018 by Esquire, Elle, Vo
- Author: Jerkins, Morgan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0062666150
- Language: English
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Freedom! the Story of the Black Panther Party
$12.99 Add to cartBooklist Editors’ Choice
WINNER of the Russell Freedman Award for Non-Fiction for a Better World
WINNER – International Literacy Association (ILA) – Young Adult Nonfiction
HONOR – 2023 Malka Penn A- Author: Martin, Jetta Grace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1646144104
- Language: English
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Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation
$20.00 Add to cartIt’s time for a black exit.
Political activist and social media star Candace Owens addresses the many ways that Democrat Party policies hurt, rather than help, the African American community, and why- Author: Owens, Candace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1982133287
- Language: English
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Strange Fruit, Volume I: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History Volume 1
$23.95 Add to cartStrange Fruit Volume I is a collection of stories from early African American history that represent the oddity of success in the face of great adversity. Each of the nine illustrated chapters chronic… [more below]
- Series: Strange Fruit #01
- Author: Gill, Joel Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1938486293
- Language: English
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Supreme Models: Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionized Fashion
$60.00 Add to cartEntertainment reporter Marcellas Reynolds’s“coffee-table book is the first-ever collection of works devoted to celebrating black models. Fashion devotees will find glorious images of supers such as Im
- Author: Reynolds, Marcellas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1419736140
- Language: English
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Mirror
$21.99 Read moreAn innovative, two-in-one picture book follows a parallel day in the life of two families: one in a Western city and one in a North African village.
Somewhere in Sydney, Australia, a boy and his fami- Author: Baker, Jeannie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: November 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0763648485
- Language: English
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Rainbow Joe and Me
$11.95 Add to cartA girl learns the power of imagination from her blind neighbor.
Eloise likes colors. Her friend, Rainbow Joe, likes colors, too. But Rainbow Joe is blind, so Eloise tells him about the colors she mixes
- Author: Diaz Strom, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 1584300507
- Language: English
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The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
$18.99 Add to cartIn this outstanding cultural biography, the author of the New York Times bestseller A Slave in the White House chronicles a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and
- Author: Taylor, Elizabeth Dowling
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0062346105
- Language: English
