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Small Island

Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart broken, her resolve intact. Her...

$19.00

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Some Places More Than Others

All Amara wants for her birthday is to visit her father's family in New York City--Harlem, to be exact. She can't wait...

$7.99

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Sorrowland

Vern―seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised―flees for the shelter of the woods. There,...

$18.00

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Stella by Starlight

Stella lives in the segregated South—in Bumblebee, North Carolina, to be exact about it. Some stores she can go into. Some stores...

$9.99

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Stranger Faces

If evolutionary biologists, ethical philosophers, and social media gurus are to be believed, the face is the basis for what we call...

$15.95

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Summer in the City (Volum...

Summer in the City (Volume 2) (Mango Delight)

<p style="font-size: 20px;">Where Mango goes, drama is sure to follow! It’s summer break, and Mango is content to spend her time babysitting...

$16.95

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Surfacing: On Being Black...

Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa

The writers within these pages use creative expression, photography and poetry in eclectic, interdisciplinary ways to unearth and interrogate representations of blackness,...

$35.00

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Take Back the Block

$8.99

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Tales from the Heart: Tru...

Tales from the Heart: True Stories from My Childhood

In this collection of autobiographical essays, Maryse Condé vividly evokes the relationships and events that gave her childhood meaning: discovering her parents’...

$16.00

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Talk Stories

Talk Stories is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid's original writing for the New Yorker's "Talk of the Town," composed during the time...

$24.00

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Tar Baby

Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect...

$15.00

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Ten Black Dots

What can you do with ten black dots? One dot can make a sun, two dots can make the eyes of a...

$8.99

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Thank You, Omu!

Everyone in the neighborhood dreams of a taste of Omu's delicious stew! One by one, they follow their noses toward the scrumptious...

$18.99

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The 1619 Project: A New O...

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July...

$25.00

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The Autobiography of My M...

The Autobiography of My Mother

Powerful, disturbing, stirring, Jamaica Kincaid's novel is the deeply charged story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica. Xuela Claudette...

$16.00

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The Avenue, Clayton City

"In a direct line of descent from both Richard Wright's "Native Son" and Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God," C....

$25.95

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The Belly of the Atlantic

Salie lives in Paris. Back home on the Senegalese island of Niodior, her football-crazy brother Madické counts on her to get him...

$16.95

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The Black Woman: An Antho...

The Black Woman: An Anthology

A collection of early, emerging works from some of the most celebrated African American female writers who remain strong when the weight...

$21.99

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The Blessed Girl

Young, beautiful and ambitious, Bontle Tau has Johannesburg wrapped around her finger. It's her duty to look fabulous - after all, people...

$21.00

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The Bridge of Beyond (Rev...

The Bridge of Beyond (Revised)

A lyrical and magical story of several generations of Caribbean women suffering and triumphing with perserverance and love against the awful inheritance...

$16.95

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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 Christian Imagination...

The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race

Why has Christianity, a religion premised upon neighborly love, failed in its attempts to heal social divisions? In this ambitious and wide-ranging...

$27.50

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The City We Became

In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember who he is, where he's from, or...

$17.99

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The Coldest Winter Ever

I came busting into the world during one of New York's worst snowstorms, so my mother named me Winter. Winter is the...

$17.00

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The Color Line

It was the middle of the nineteenth century when Lafanu Brown audaciously decided to become an artist. In the wake of the...

$19.99

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The Conjure Woman and Oth...

The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales

Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an author, essayist and political activist whose works addressed the complex issues of racial and social identity...

$25.95

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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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The Death of Vivek Oji

What does it mean for a family to lose a child they never really knew? One afternoon, in a town in southeastern...

$17.00

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The Disordered Cosmos: A ...

The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

In The Disordered Cosmos, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein shares her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies...

$17.99

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The Famished Road

In the decade since it won the Booker Prize, Ben Okri's Famished Road has become a classic. The narrator, Azaro, is an...

$16.95

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The Farming of Bones

It is 1937 and Amabelle Désir, a young Haitian woman living in the Dominican Republic, has built herself a life as the...

$17.00

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The Female King of Coloni...

The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe

In this unique biography, Achebe traces the roots of Ugbabe's rise to fame and fortune. While providing critical perspectives on women, gender,...

$29.00

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The Fires of Vengeance

Desperate to delay an impending attack by the indigenous people of Xidda, Tau and his queen craft a dangerous plan. If Tau...

$19.99

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The Fraud

It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper—and cousin by marriage—of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with...

$29.00

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The Future of Black: Afro...

The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry

This groundbreaking collection highlights work from poets who have written verse within this growing tradition, including Terrance Hayes, A. Van Jordan, Glenis...

$20.95

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The Heart of Redness

Camugu, recently returned to Johannesburg and disillusioned by the new democracy, moves to the remote Eastern Cape. There, two groups are at...

$18.00

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The Hidden Star

Nolitye lives with her mother Thembi in Johannesburg. She is good at maths and likes collecting stones, which she places in a...

$10.99

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The Hill We Climb: An Ina...

The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country

On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Taking...

$15.99

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The Hills of Hebron

The Hills of Hebron, was one of the first attempts to present the lives of black Jamaicans not as colonial subjects, but...

$18.95

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The Housing Lark

Set in London in the 1960’s, when the UK encouraged its Commonwealth citizens to emigrate as a result of the post-war labor...

$15.00

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The Icarus Girl

Drawing on Nigerian mythology to present a strikingly original variation on a classic literary theme--the existence of "doubles," both real and spiritual,...

$16.95

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The Last Warner Woman

Adamine Bustamante is born in one of Jamaica’s last leper colonies. When Adamine grows up, she discovers she has the gift of...

$16.00

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The Little Girl Who Didn'...

The Little Girl Who Didn't Want to Grow Up

Little Ayanda loves her father with all her heart. One day he goes away, and doesn't return. She is so sad that...

$14.99

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The Love Songs of W.E.B. ...

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Oprah's Book Club Novel

The great scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois, once wrote about the Problem of race in America, and what he called “Double...

$28.99

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The Madonna of Excelsior

In 1971, nineteen citizens of Excelsior in South Africa's white-ruled Free State were charged with breaking apartheid's Immorality Act, which forbade sex...

$18.00

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