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A Brief History of Seven ...

A Brief History of Seven Killings

On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica...

$18.00

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A Death in Harlem

In A Death in Harlem, famed scholar Karla FC Holloway weaves a mystery in the bon vivant world of the Harlem Renaissance....

$18.95

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A Family Affair

Family is complicated… Meet the Mafus, a close-knit, traditional family with three daughters. As leaders of their church, The Kingdom of God,...

$21.99

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A Girl Is a Body of Water

In her thirteenth year, Kirabo confronts a piercing question: who is my mother? Kirabo has been raised by women in the small...

$17.95

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A Million Aunties

After a personal tragedy upends his world, American-born artist Chris travels to his mother's homeland in the Caribbean hoping to find some...

$16.95

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A Small Silence

Imprisoned for ten years for his rage against society, activist and retired academic Prof resolves to live a life of darkness after...

$15.95

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A Story about Afiya

Some people have dresses for every occasion but Afiya needs only one. Her dress records the memories of her childhood, from roses...

$17.99

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A Tall History of Sugar

A Tall History of Sugar tells the story of Moshe Fisher, a man who was "born without skin," so that no one...

$28.95

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A Tempest

Césaire’s rich and insightful adaptation of The Tempest draws on contemporary Caribbean society, the African-American experience and African mythology to raise questions...

$15.95

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Adulthood Rites

Book two of the Xenogenesis trilogy. After the near-extinction of the human race, one young man with extraordinary gifts will reveal whether...

$18.99

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Xenogenesis

Lilith’s Brood

African Love Stories: An ...

African Love Stories: An Anthology

This radical collection of short stories is a double award-winning book. The stories deal with challenging themes representing some of the most...

$17.95

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African Tales: A Barefoot...

African Tales: A Barefoot Collection

This anthology includes eight traditional tales from all over Africa. Sumptuous hand-sewn collage artwork decorated with African beads adorns these unforgettable tales...

$16.99

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After the Rain

After the Rain is a graphic novel adaptation of Nnedi Okorafor’s short story “On the Road.” The drama takes place in a...

$16.99

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Akata Warrior

A year ago, Sunny Nwazue, an American-born girl Nigerian girl, was inducted into the secret Leopard Society. As she began to develop...

$12.99

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Akata Witch

Sunny Nwazue lives in Nigeria, but she was born in New York City. Her features are West African, but she’s albino. She’s...

$12.99

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Akissi: Tales of Mischief...

Akissi: Tales of Mischief: Akissi Book 1

Poor Akissi! The neighborhood cats are trying to steal her fish, her little monkey Boubou almost ends up in a frying pan,...

$14.99

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Angel

Chronicling the events that took place in Grenada from 1951—when workers revolted against the white owners of the sugar and cocoa estates—to...

$21.95

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Annie John

Annie John is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua. A classic coming-of-age...

$14.00

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At the Bottom of the River

Jamaica Kincaid's At the Bottom of the River ... inspired, lyrical short stories. Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, into another...

$13.00

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Augustown

Augustown--set in the backlands of Jamaica--is a magical and haunting novel of one woman's struggle to rise above the brutal vicissitudes of...

$16.00

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Bacchanal

Evil lives in a traveling carnival roaming the Depression-era South. But the carnival's newest act, a peculiar young woman with latent magical...

$14.95

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Banana Bottom

Bita is adopted and sent to England from Jamaica by white missionary benefactors and returns to her home village of Banana Bottom...

$19.00

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Beauty's Gift

Five Firm Friends – Edith, Cordelia, Amanda, Doris and Beauty – are five career women who confront life head-on. But when Beauty...

$14.50

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Beloved

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate...

$17.00

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Beneath the Lion's Gaze

The memorable, heartbreaking story opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a revolution. Yonas kneels in his mother’s prayer...

$15.95

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Better Never Than Late

Religious fervour culminates in an exorcism for one unfortunate maid. A harrowing encounter on a train haunts Añuli. A mother abandons her...

$14.95

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Betty Before X

In Detroit, 1945, eleven-year-old Betty’s house doesn’t quite feel like home. She believes her mother loves her, but she can’t shake the...

$7.99

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Beyond Babylon

An epic spread across three nations, Beyond Babylon casts a probing, endlessly perceptive eye on the lasting effects of traumas both national...

$22.95

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Binti

Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University,...

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Binti: Home

The thrilling sequel to the Hugo and Nebula-winning Binti by Nnedi Okorafor, and a finalist for the 2018 Hugo and Nommo Awards...

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Binti: The Night Masquerade

The concluding part of the highly-acclaimed science fiction trilogy that began with Nnedi Okorafor's Hugo- and Nebula Award-winning BINTI. Binti has returned...

$14.99

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Bitter

After a childhood in foster care, Bitter is thrilled to have been chosen to attend Eucalyptus, a special school where she can...

$12.99

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Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories...

Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood

Black boy joy is… Picking out a fresh first-day-of-school outfit. Saving the universe in an epic intergalactic race. Finding your voice—and your...

$8.99

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Black Leopard, Red Wolf

In the stunning first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star trilogy, myth, fantasy, and history come together to explore what happens when...

$18.00

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Black No More

It’s New Year’s Day 1933 in New York City, and Max Disher, a young black man, has just found out that a...

$16.00

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Blood Grove

It is 1969, and flames can be seen on the horizon, protest wafts like smoke though the thick air, and Easy Rawlins,...

$18.99

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Bloodchild and Other Stories

Appearing in print for the first time, "Amnesty" is a story of a woman aptly named Noah who works to negotiate the...

$14.00

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Bunheads

From prima ballerina and New York Times bestselling author Misty Copeland comes the story of a young Misty, who discovers her love...

$17.99

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By Love Possessed: Stories

Internationally renowned and award-winning poet Lorna Goodison brings us By Love Possessed, her long-anticipated collection of short fiction. Making dazzling use of...

$15.99

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Can't Scare Me!

From a celebrated illustrator comes a trickster tale from the French Antilles. A fearless little boy ignores Grandma's warning about nighttime monsters...

$16.99

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