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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 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 Man Who Is Not a Man

Thando Mgqolozana brings us a raw, revelatory and heart-warming novel about 18-year old Lumkile's journey into manhood. This deftly written novel is...

$15.95

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A Small Place

"If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land...

$14.00

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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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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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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,...

$14.95

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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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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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Banana Bottom

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

$18.95

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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...

$16.00

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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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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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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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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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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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Cane Warriors

Moa is fourteen. The only life he has ever known is toiling on the Frontier sugarcane plantation for endless hot days, fearing...

$15.95

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Changes: A Love Story

Changes explores the complex world in which the lives of professional working women have changed sharply, but the cultural assumptions of men's...

$16.95

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Chicken in the Kitchen

What would you do if you woke up one night to find the shadow of a giant chicken passing your bedroom door?...

$17.99

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Clap When You Land

Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when...

$18.99

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Daddy Was a Number Runner

Depression-era Harlem is home for twelve-year-old Francie Coffin and her family, and it’s both a place of refuge and the source of...

$16.95

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Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance

Dance We Do: A Poet Explo...

Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance

In her first posthumous work, the revered poet crafts a personal history of Black dance and captures the careers of legendary dancers...

$19.95

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Down Second Avenue

Nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1969, Es'kia Mphahlele is considered the Dean of African Letters and the father of black South...

$17.00

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Eight Days: A Story of Haiti

While Junior is trapped for 8 days beneath his collapsed house after an earthquake, he uses his imagination for comfort. Drawing on...

$17.99

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Everything Inside: Stories

A romance unexpectedly sparks between two wounded friends. A marriage ends for what seem like noble reasons, but with irreparable consequences. A...

$16.00

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Exile: According to Julia

Gisèle Pineau was born, and spent the first fourteen years of her life, in Paris. Her parents, originally from the island of...

$23.50

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Facing the Sun

Set in the Caribbean, a story about four friends who experience unexpected changes in their lives during the summer when a hotel...

$18.99

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Felix Ever After

Felix Love has never been in love—and, yes, he’s painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it’s like...

$18.99

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Ghost Boys

Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better. Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who...

$7.99

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Go Tell It on the Mountain

In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity. Baldwin's rendering of...

$7.99

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Harare North

In an astonishing, revelatory original debut, Caine Prize for African Writing winner Brian Chikwava tackles head-on the realities of life as a...

$16.95

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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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Home Girl

This isn’t my home. Haven’t had a proper home since . . . This is just somewhere I’ll be resting my bones...

$38.95

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Home Home

Moving from Trinidad to Canada wasn't her idea. But after being hospitalized for depression, her mother sees it as the only option....

$17.99

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House of Stone

Pulsing with wit, seduction, and dark humor, House of Stone is a masterful debut that explores the creative—and often destructive—act of history-making....

$17.95

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How to Slowly Kill Yourse...

How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays

Author and essayist Kiese Laymon is one of the most unique, stirring, and powerful new voices in American writing. How to Slowly...

$16.00

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I, Tituba, Black Witch of...

I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

This novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested...

$19.50

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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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In the Castle of My Skin ...

In the Castle of My Skin (Revised)

Nearly forty years after its initial publication, George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin is considered a classic narrative of the...

$19.95

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It's Trevor Noah: Born a ...

It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers)

We do horrible things to one another because we don’t see the person it affects. . . . We don’t see them...

$8.99

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Jump at the Sun: The True Life Tale of Unstoppable Storycatcher Zora Neale Hurston

Jump at the Sun: The True...

Jump at the Sun: The True Life Tale of Unstoppable Storycatcher Zora Neale Hurston

Zora was a girl who hankered for tales like bees for honey. Now, her mama always told her that if she wanted...

$17.99

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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

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Kaffir Boy: The True Stor...

Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youths Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa

I am always asked to explain what it felt like to grow up black under South Africa's system of legalized racism known...

$18.00

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King and the Dragonflies

Twelve-year-old Kingston James is sure his brother Khalid has turned into a dragonfly. When Khalid unexpectedly passed away, he shed what was...

$17.99

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Kintu

"A soaring and sublime epic. One of those great stories that was just waiting to be told."—Marlon James, Man Booker Prize-winning author...

$16.95

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Land of Love and Drowning

In the early 1900s, the Virgin Islands are transferred from Danish to American rule, and an important ship sinks into the Caribbean...

$16.00

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