Ethnic Orientation/African American
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Camp William Penn: 1863-1865: 1863-1865
$29.99 Read moreLocated in Chelten Hills just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Camp William Penn was the largest and first Civil War facility to exclusively train Northern-based federal black soldiers during th… [more below]
- Author: Scott, Donald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0764342533
- Language: English
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The Lord’s Prayer
$10.00 Read moreOur Father in Heaven,
The beloved words of The Lord’s Prayer serve as the text for this remarkable book, in which Tim Ladwig illustrates how the words of this ancient pray
Hallowed by your name. . .- Author: Ladwig, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: July 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0802852386
- Language: English
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And Sometimes I Wonder about You
$17.00 Add to cartP.I. Leonid McGill isn’t usually one to refuse a case. But when Hiram Stent, a man down on his luck, begs him to find a cousin who is about to inherit millions of dollars, he senses something fishy. H… [more below]
- Series: Leonid McGill Mystery #5
- Author: Mosley, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 19 2016
- ISBN10: 0804172099
- Language: English
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Annotations
$12.95 Read moreAn experimental first novel of poem-like compression, Annotations has a great deal to say about growing up Black in St. Louis. Reminiscent of Jean Toomer’s Cane, the book is in part a meditation on Af… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #0809
- Author: Keene, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 17 1995
- ISBN10: 0811213048
- Language: English
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White Rat: Short Stories
$17.95 Read moreThe acclaimed author’s first collection of stories, reissued to coincide with the paperback publication of her second and latest, Butter
“Gayl Jones’s work represents a watershed in American literatur- Author: Jones, Gayl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0807012947
- Language: English
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Gone Like Yesterday
$18.00 Read moreA GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK
A lyrical debut novel that asks what we owe to our families, what we owe to our ancestors, and what we owe to ourselves. Janelle M. Williams’s Gone Like Yesterday empl- Author: Williams, Janelle M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0593471652
- Language: English
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All Shot Up
$17.00 Read moreIn this gripping installment of the maverick Harlem Detectives series, Coffin Ed Johnson and Gravedigger Jones investigate a series of seemingly unrelated, brutal crimes.
A gold Cadillac, about as lar- Series: Harlem Detectives
- Author: Himes, Chester
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 059368611X
- Language: English
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Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement: A Brief Introduction
$16.95 Read more“When you make an observation, you have an obligation.”
–M.K. AsanteDeidra R. Moore-Janvier, Esq.–African American wife, mother, attorney, and advocate for social change–did just that. It was in 201
- Author: Moore, Deidra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1645438554
- Language: English
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Discordant
$16.95 Read moreLyrical poetry offering multilayered examinations of injustices–from mass incarceration to failing schools and right-wing fascism.
Richard Hamilton’s second poetry collection, Discordant, is a sear- Author: Hamilton, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1637680732
- Language: English
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Erotic Defiance: Womanism, Freedom, and Resistance
$29.00 Read moreThe West fears desire. It fears ecstasy. It fears flesh. It copes with its fears by deploying its intellectual, political, and religious instruments to regulate, discipline, and punish. Western fear o
- Author: Bryant, Courtney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1506478697
- Language: English
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Kendrick Lamar
$12.79 Read moreKendrick Lamar explores how Kendrick Lamar has made incredible contributions to American music and culture, captivating audiences with memorable melodies and rhythms. Covers early life, his rise to fa… [more below]
- Series: Groundbreakers: Black Musicians
- Author: Markovics, Joyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1668928884
- Language: English
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Spider-Man: Miles Morales Vol. 4
$17.99 Read moreCollects Spider-Man (2016) #234-240. The Sinister Six reborn! Miles Morales’ world has been shaken up lately, but nothing compares to what the mysterious Iron Spider and his new group of super villain… [more below]
- Series: Spider-Man
- Author: Bendis, Brian Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1302905988
- Language: English
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The Sound of Stars
$18.99 Read more“This debut has it all: music, books, aliens, adventure, resistance, queerness, and a bold heroine tying it all together. “–Ms. Magazine
Can a girl who risks her life for books and an Ilori who loves … [more below]
- Author: Dow, Alechia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1335911553
- Language: English
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A Redemptive Path Forward: From Incarceration to a Life of Activism
$16.95 Read moreA motivational memoir by a formerly incarcerated man who transformed from founder and leader of the Dallas Bloods to a practitioner of peace and nonviolence in the neighborhood he once helped destroy … [more below]
- Author: Lucky, Antong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1640095934
- Language: English
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Theatre of Marvels
$18.99 Read moreBehind the spectacle, there are always secrets.
Unruly crowds descend on Crillick’s Variety Theatre. The young, mixed-race actress Zillah is headlining tonight as “The Great Amazonia, a Savage Queen fr
- Author: Dillsworth, Lianne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0063271532
- Language: English
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Whitfield Lovell: Passages
$50.00 Read moreThe most comprehensive survey to date of the contemporary artist Whitfield Lovell, whose poetic and intricately crafted tableaux and installations document and pay tribute to the history and cultural … [more below]
- Author: Wije, Michele
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0847872998
- Language: English
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Desegregation in Northern Virginia Libraries
$23.99 Read moreA Hidden History of Unequal Access During the Jim Crow era, many public libraries were segregated. The public library plays a fundamental role in communities by providing free educational resources, b… [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Barbuschak, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1467152897
- Language: English
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Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
$9.99 Read moreBooker T. Washington’s famous 1901 memoir, Up From Slavery, charts Washington’s rise from an enslaved child with a passion for learning to the nation’s most prominent Black educator and first presiden… [more below]
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Washington, Booker T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1454949996
- Language: English
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Soul and Substance: A Poet’s Examination Papers
$29.95 Read moreA collection of new and startlingly original essays from an acclaimed poet, essayist, and playwright
Jay Wright is widely recognized as one of the most important American poets of the past half centur- Author: Wright, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0691245967
- Language: English
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The African Desperate
$15.95 Read moreThe acerbically funny and intimate screenplay for acclaimed visual artist Martine Syms’s debut film, The African Desperate.
The African Desperate follows Palace Bryant on one very long day in 2017 that
- Author: Syms, Martine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 164362170X
- Language: English
