Ethnic Orientation/African American
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Blues in the Blood
$25.00 Read moreA moving ode to the Mississippi delta inspired by magical realism and written in vibrant and poetic prose.
Blues in the Blood is an ode to the spring of 1932 in the Mississippi delta, when stifling he- Series: French List
- Author: Delmaire, Julien
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1803092467
- Language: English
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Lizzo
$12.79 Read moreLizzo explores how Lizzo has made incredible contributions to American music and culture, captivating audiences with memorable melodies and rhythms. Covers early life, her rise to fame with her music,… [more below]
- Series: Groundbreakers: Black Musicians
- Author: Markovics, Joyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1668928892
- Language: English
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How It Feels to Be Colored Me
$9.95 Add to cart“How It Feels To Be Colored Me” by Florida native Zora Neale Hurston was originally published in The World Tomorrow in May 1928. In this autobiographical piece about her own color, Hurston reflects on… [more below]
- Series: American Roots
- Author: Hurston, Zora
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 30 2015
- ISBN10: 1429096179
- Language: English
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Emma’s Postcard Album: Black Lives in the Early Twentieth Century
$66.67 Read moreBCALA 2023 Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation Award winner
The turn of the twentieth century was an extraordinarily difficult period for African Americans, a time of unchecked lynchings,- Series: Atlantic Migrations and the African Diaspora
- Author: Mitchell, Faith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1496843150
- Language: English
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Zoo Day
$8.99 Read moreBeloved author Anne Rockwell celebrates animals of all kinds with a gorgeous new picture book about a child’s first visit to the zoo
A young boy and his family visit the zoo for the very first time.- Series: A My First Experience Book
- Author: Rockwell, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 1481427350
- Language: English
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You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen
$7.99 Read moreIn this “masterful, inspiring evocation of an era” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford “wields the power of poetry to tell [the] gripping historical story”… [more below]
- Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1481449397
- Language: English
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Sarah Journeys West: An Oregon Trail Survival Story
$27.99 Read moreIn 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496587189
- Language: English
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Counting the Stars: The Story of Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician
$18.99 Read more“A detail-rich picture book.” —Kirkus Reviews
From award-winning author Lesa Cline-Ransome and acclaimed illustrator Ra l Col n comes the sens
“Straightforward and inviting.” —School Library Journal- Author: Cline-Ransome, Lesa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1534404759
- Language: English
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Puppy Truck
$17.99 Read moreA School Library Journal Best Picture Book of 2019
Find out what happens when a boy who wants a puppy gets a truck instead in this simple and sweet picture book from Caldecott Honor winner Brian Pink- Author: Pinkney, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: June 25 2019
- ISBN10: 1534426876
- Language: English
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Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary
$17.00 Read more“Harryette Mullen is a magician of words, phrases, and songs . . . No voice in contemporary poetry is quite as original, cosmopolitan, witty, and tragic.” –Susan Stewart, citation for the Academy of
- Author: Mullen, Harryette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: November 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1555976565
- Language: English
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Since I Laid My Burden Down
$17.95 Read moreWhiting Award winner Brontez Purnell’s debut novel is an uninhibited portrait of growing up gay in 1980s Alabama: exploring art and sex with “more layered insight than the page count should allow” (Ha
- Author: Purnell, Brontez
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 13 2017
- ISBN10: 1558614311
- Language: English
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365 Days/365 Plays
$24.95 Read more“Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the most important dramatists America has produced.”–Tony Kushner
“The plan was that no matter what I did, how busy I was, what other commitments I had, I would write a pl- Author: Parks, Suzan-Lori
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 426
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1559362863
- Language: English
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Howard Thurman’s Great Hope
$10.95 Read moreBorn in segregated Daytona, Florida, in 1899, Howard Thurman grew up dreaming of a better life–a life where his mother and grandmother would not have to cook and clean for other people; a life where
- Author: Issa, Kai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1600608906
- Language: English
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Build Yourself a Boat
$16.00 Add to cartBuild Yourself a Boat redefines the language of collective and individual trauma through lyric and memory.
- Author: Felix, Camonghne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: April 23 2019
- ISBN10: 1608466116
- Language: English
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Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation
$29.73 Add to cartThe groundbreaking, bestselling history of slavery, with a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed
“As vital and necessary a historical document as anyone has ever produ
- Author: Berlin, Ira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1620970287
- Language: English
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Gordon Parks: The Atmosphere of Crime, 1957
$50.00 Read moreGordon Parks’ ethically complex depictions of crime in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles, with previously unseen photographs
A New York Times Book Review 2020 holiday gift guide pick
Whe- Author: Parks, Gordon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: June 16 2020
- ISBN10: 3958296963
- Language: English
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Freedom Summer for Young People: The Violent Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
$22.95 Read moreThis latest edition in Triangle Square’s For Young People series is a gripping account of the summer that changed America.
In the summer of 1964, as the Civil Rights movement boiled over, the Student- Author: Watson, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 164421010X
- Language: English
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Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose
$19.99 Add to cartOne of America’s most celebrated poets challenges us with this powerful and deeply personal collection of verse that speaks to the injustices of society while illuminating the depths of her own heart.
- Author: Giovanni, Nikki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0062995286
- Language: English
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Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem: A Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “Dapper Dan is a legend, an icon, a beacon of inspiration to many in the Black community. His story isn’t just about fashion. It’s about tenacity, curiosity, artistry, hust… [more below]
- Author: Day, Daniel R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0525510532
- Language: English
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Wolf Point
$15.95 Read moreIn the second installment of the suspense-filled series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ian K. Smith, an ex-cop turned private investigator seeks to fight corruption on the streets of Chicag
- Series: Ashe Cayne #2
- Author: Smith, Ian K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1542022711
- Language: English
