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Jayden's Impossible Garden

Nine-year-old Jayden loves the outdoors, but his mother is nervous about him playing in their neighborhood. With the help of his neighbor...

$18.99

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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

Hardcover

Juneteenth

Here is the master of American vernacular—the preacher’s hyperbole and the politician’s rhetoric, the rhythms of jazz and gospel and ordinary speech—at...

$17.00

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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

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Just Mercy: A Story of Ju...

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

When Bryan Stevenson graduated from Harvard Law School in 1988, he headed south to Alabama, a state on the verge of a...

$17.00

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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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Kindred

The visionary author’s masterpiece pulls us—along with her Black woman hero—through time, to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts...

$16.00

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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...

$17.00

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Last Gate of the Emperor

Yared Heywat lives an isolated life in Addis Prime, a hardscrabble city with rundown tech, lots of rules, and not much to...

$17.99

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Last Seen in Lapaz

When a whirlwind romance leads to a brutal murder and the disappearance of a young Nigerian woman, PI Emma Djan resorts to...

$17.95

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Left of Karl Marx: The Po...

Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones

In Left of Karl Marx, Carole Boyce Davies assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915–1964), a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical...

$29.95

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Legendborn (The Legendbor...

Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle)

After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A...

$13.99

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Let's Tell This Story Pro...

Let's Tell This Story Properly

WINNER OF THE WINDHAM-CAMPBELL PRIZE How far does one have to travel to find home elsewhere? The stories in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s...

$16.95

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Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Young Readers)

Life in Motion: An Unlike...

Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Young Readers)

$18.99

Hardcover

Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood

Little Man, Little Man: A...

Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood

Four-year-old TJ spends his days on his lively Harlem block playing with his best friends WT and Blinky and running errands for...

$22.95

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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Love Child

Gcina Mhlophe is a poet, playwright, performer and South Africa's favorite storyteller. In this fascinating retrospective collection, she shares her personal journey...

$17.95

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Love in Color: Mythical T...

Love in Color: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

A high-born Nigerian goddess, who has been beaten down and unappreciated by her gregarious lover,longs to be truly seen. A young businesswoman...

$16.99

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Lucy

Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah...

$15.00

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Luster

Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties―sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making...

$17.00

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M Archive: After the End ...

M Archive: After the End of the World

The second book in an experimental triptych, M Archive is a series of poetic artifacts that speculatively documents the persistence of Black...

$24.95

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Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X

Malcolm Little: The Boy W...

Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X

Malcolm X grew to be one of America’s most influential figures. But first, he was a boy named Malcolm Little. Written by...

$19.99

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Mama Day

On the island of Willow Springs, off the Georgia coast, the powers of healer Mama Day are tested by her great niece,...

$16.95

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Mango Delight (Volume 1)

What happens when your BFF becomes your EFF . . . EX-Friend-Forever? When seventh-grader Mango Delight Fuller accidentally breaks her BFF Brooklyn’s...

$6.95

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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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Maud Martha

September 2003 marked the 50th anniversary of Maud Martha, the only novel published by esteemed poet Gwendolyn Brooks. Initially entitled ""American Family...

$12.95

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Me Dying Trial

This is the story of Gwennie Glaspole, a schoolteacher trapped in an unhappy marriage. A new edition of the “remarkable first novel”...

$16.00

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Memoirs from the Women's ...

Memoirs from the Women's Prison

An autobiographical account from the late Nawal El Saadawi, one of the world's leading feminist authors. Memoirs from the Women's Prison offers...

$29.95

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Memory at Bay

Trouillot introduces us to a bedridden widow of a notorious dictator (in effect, a portrait of Papa Doc Duvalier) and the young...

$24.50

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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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Mind of My Mind

Book two of The Patternist series. A young woman with tremendous psychic power battles to set a new course for mankind. The...

$16.99

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Missing Daddy

A little girl who misses her father because he's away in prison shares how his absence affects different parts of her life....

$16.95

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Moses, Man of the Mountain

In this 1939 novel based on the familiar story of the Exodus, Zora Neale Hurston blends the Moses of the Old Testament...

$14.99

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Mother to Mother

Sindiwe Magona writes this novel when she discovers that Stanford student and Fulbright Scholar, Amy Biehl, who was killed in South Africa...

$16.00

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Mother Tongues: Poems

Tsitsi Ella Jaji’s third collection of poems, Mother Tongues, begins at home, with the first words and loves we learn, and the...

$16.95

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Mpumi's Magic Beads

The beads jingle and jangle and sparkle. The girls giggle with glee! Mpumi and her friends discover magic in her hair and...

$14.95

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Mr. Potter

Jamaica Kincaid's first obssession, the island of Antigua, comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr. Potter, an illiterate taxi chauffeur...

$16.00

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My Brother

Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often...

$15.00

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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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My Life As An Ice cream S...

My Life As An Ice cream Sandwich

Twelve-year-old Ebony-Grace Norfleet has lived with her beloved grandfather Jeremiah in Huntsville, Alabama ever since she was little. As one of the...

$8.99

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