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All God's Children Need T...

All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

In 1962 the poet, musician, and performer Maya Angelou claimed another piece of her identity by moving to Ghana, joining a community...

$15.95

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Always Another Country: A...

Always Another Country: A Memoire of Exile and Home

Born in exile, in Zambia, to a guerrilla father and a working mother, Sisonke Msimang is constantly on the move. Her parents,...

$16.99

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Among Flowers: A Walk in ...

Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya

In this travel memoir, the acclaimed novelist Jamaica Kincaid chronicles a three-week trek through Nepal, the spectacular Himalayan land, where she and...

$17.00

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Bird of Paradise: How I B...

Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

Digging through memories long buried, Cepeda journeyed not only into her ancestry but also into her own history. Born in Harlem to...

$17.00

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Black Boy [Seventy-Fifth ...

Black Boy [Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Edition]

When it exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, Black Boy was both praised and condemned. Orville Prescott of the New York...

$17.99

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Black Cuban, Black Americ...

Black Cuban, Black American: A Memoir

Ybor City, Florida, was once a thriving factory town populated by cigar-makers, mostly emigrants from Cuba and Spain. Growing up in Ybor...

$13.95

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Born a Crime: Stories fro...

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth....

$28.00

Hardcover

Brother, I'm Dying

When she was four, Edwidge Danticat’s mother left Haiti to join her father who had gone to New York two years earlier,...

$16.00

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Create Dangerously: The I...

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work

In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile. Inspired by Albert Camus and adapted...

$15.95

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Dear Senthuran: A Black S...

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

Through candid, intimate correspondence with friends, lovers, and family, Emezi traces the unfolding of a self and the unforgettable journey of a...

$27.00

Hardcover

Heavy: An American Memoir

In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies,...

$16.00

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If I Can Cook/You Know Go...

If I Can Cook/You Know God Can: African American Food Memories, Meditations, and Recipes ( Celebr...

A delightfully eclectic tribute to black cuisine as a food of life that reflects the spirit and history of a people. This...

$15.00

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Just as I Am: A Memoir

"Just As I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished, with the glitter and garland set aside. In these...

$28.99

Hardcover

Longthroat Memoirs: Soups...

Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, Sex and Nigerian Taste Buds

Longthroat Memoirs presents a sumptuous menu of essays about Nigerian food, lovingly presented by the nation's top epicurean writer. As well as...

$16.95

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Manifesto: On Never Givin...

Manifesto: On Never Giving Up

Bernardine Evaristo’s 2019 Booker Prize win was an historic and revolutionary occasion. The first Black woman and first Black British person ever...

$18.00

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Men We Reaped: A Memoir

In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life--to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow...

$17.00

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My Grandmother's Hands: R...

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered...

$17.95

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Notes on Grief

Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s beloved father’s...

$16.00

Hardcover

The Chicken Chronicles: S...

The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Ruf...

Alice Walker shares her experiences raising and caring for a flock of chickens. In pieces that are by turns moving, thoughtful, and...

$17.95

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The Cooking Gene

In this illuminating memoir, a renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry—both...

$16.99

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