Ethnic Orientation/African
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Too Late the Phalarope
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Cry, The Beloved Country comes a powerful novel of terror and remorse “written in exquisitely balanced prose” (Chicago Sun-Times) about a white policeman who has an affair with a na… [more below]
- Author: Paton, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 03 1996
- ISBN10: 0684818957
- Language: English
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Maps
$17.99 Add to cart“Nuruddin Farah is one of the real interpreters of experience in our troubled continent. His insight goes deep, beyond events.”–Nadine Gordimer
Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literatu- Series: The Blood in the Sun Trilogy #1
- Author: Farah, Nuruddin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 02 2016
- ISBN10: 1628725850
- Language: English
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The Impostor
$17.00 Add to cartDamon Galgut is one of South Africa’s most exciting new literary voices. In The Impostor, his first novel since The Good Doctor, Galgut leads his readers into the developing heart of postapartheid Sou… [more below]
- Author: Galgut, Damon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 06 2009
- ISBN10: 802170536
- Language: English
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At the Full and Change of the Moon
$17.00 Add to cartWritten with lyrical fire in a chorus of vividly rendered voices, Dionne Brand’s second novel is an epic of the African diaspora across the globe. It begins in 1824 on Trinidad, where Marie-Ursule, qu… [more below]
- Author: Brand, Dionne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 14 2000
- ISBN10: 0802137237
- Language: English
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Africa: The Definitive Visual History of a Continent
$50.00 Add to cartImmerse yourself in Africa’s vast and intricate story and discover Africa’s true place in world history.
Spanning more than 200,000 years, from the emergence of the first humans to the rise of megacit- Series: DK Definitive Visual Histories
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0744060109
- Language: English
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Akissi: More Tales of Mischief: Akissi Book 2
$14.99 Add to cartThe plucky, troublemaking Akissi is back with her mischief on The Ivory Coast! This time, she has to keep herself from drowning, stand up to a bully, make peace with her arch nemesis–the prettiest gi… [more below]
- Author: Abouet, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 16 2019
- ISBN10: 1912497174
- Language: English
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Possessing the Secret of Joy
$30.00 Add to cartA provocative novel about an African tribal woman’s battle with madness after the trauma of a childhood genital mutilation.
- Author: Walker, Alice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 30 1992
- ISBN10: 0151731527
- Language: English
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The Infamous Rosalie
$19.95 Add to cartLisette, a Saint-Domingue-born Creole slave and daughter of an African-born bossale, has inherited not only the condition of slavery but the traumatic memory of the Middle Passage as well. The stories
- Author: Trouillot, Évelyne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0803240260
- Language: English
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The Royal Trials (Last Gate of the Emperor #2)
$17.99 Read moreFrom Kwame Mbalia and Prince Joel David Makonnen comes an Afrofuturist adventure about a mythical Ethiopian empire. Sci-fi and fantasy combine in this epic journey to the stars.
Yared has traveled a l
- Author: Mbalia, Kwame
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1338665952
- Language: English
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The Girl Who Married a Skull and Other African Stories: And Other African Stories
$15.00 Add to cart“Dynamic and thought-provoking.” – KIRKUS
Have you heard the one about the skull who borrowed body parts to pass himself off as a human so he could trick the village beauty into marriage? No? Well, w- Series: Cautionary Fables and Fairytales
- Author: McDonald, Kel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 209
- Publish Date: December 25 2018
- ISBN10: 1945820241
- Language: English
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The Life of Olaudah Equiano
$7.00 Read moreSlave narratives are powerful indictments of the horrors of slavery and oppression, invaluable not only for the stories they tell but also for the consistently high quality of their literary style. Th
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Equiano, Olaudah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 26 1999
- ISBN10: 048640661X
- Language: English
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Happiness
$18.00 Add to cart“Throughout Happiness, Forna stops in our tracks . . . Reminiscent at times of Michael Ondaatje’s novel Anil’s Ghost . . . Happiness is a meditation on grand themes: Love and death, man and nature, cr
- Author: Forna, Aminatta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 22 2019
- ISBN10: 0802129188
- Language: English
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African Proverbs for All Ages
$20.99 Add to cartAfrican Proverbs for All Ages is a beautifully-illustrated, engaging picture book about the power of proverbs, how they evolve over time, and the wisdom of various cultures in Africa.
It has been said- Author: Cole, Johnnetta Betsch
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1250756065
- Language: English
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Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture
$18.99 Add to cartA Kirkus Best Book of the Year
Stamped from the Beginning meets You Can’t Touch My Hair in this timely and resonant essay collection from Guardian contributor and prominent BBC race correspondent Emma
- Author: Dabiri, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 23 2020
- ISBN10: 0062966723
- Language: English
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Black Voices: Inspiring & Empowering Quotes from Global Thought Leaders
$19.99 Read moreFind wisdom, inspiration, and new insight in this definitive volume of empowering quotes from the Pan African world.
With over 60 quotations–carefully researched by National Black Cultural Informati- Author: Mitchell Aiwuyor, Jessica Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1577153774
- Language: English
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From Somalia to Snow: How Central Minnesota Became Home to Somalis
$20.00 Add to cartFrom Somalia to Snow: How Central Minnesota Became Home to Somalis gives readers an invaluable insider’s look into the lives and culture of our Somali neighbors and the important challenges they face.
- Author: Ibrahim, Hudda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1737931265
- Language: English
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Akissi: Tales of Mischief: Akissi Book 1
$14.99 Add to cart“utterly unputdownable”–The New York Times
A Kirkus Best Book of 2018, Akissi: Tales of Mischief brings together the first volume of the hilarious and heartfelt Akissi comics by Marguerite Abouet, th- Author: Abouet, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 191117147X
- Language: English
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Where the Children Take Us: How One Family Achieved the Unimaginable
$21.99 Add to cartIn this spellbinding memoir, popular CNN anchor Zain E. Asher pays tribute to her mother’s strength and determination to raise four successful children in the shadow of tragedy.
Awaiting the return of
- Author: Asher, Zain E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0063048841
- Language: English
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Brother Alive
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the winner of the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award, CLMP Firecracker Award, and Bard Fiction Prize, National Book Award “5 Under 35” Honoree, and finalist for the NBCC John Leonard Prize, an astoni… [more below]
- Author: Khalid, Zain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0802161723
- Language: English
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The Red Pencil
$34.99 Add to cart“Amira, look at me,” Muma insists.She collects both my hands in hers.“The Janjaweed attack without warning.If ever they come— run.”
Finally, Amira is twelve. Old enough to wear a toob, old enough for … [more below]- Author: Pinkney, Andrea Davis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 16 2014
- ISBN10: 0316247804
- Language: English
