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Solitary
Solitary Albert Woodfox 9780802148308 Nonfiction Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTIONSolitary is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more ...
Albert Murray: Collected Novels & Poems: Train Whistle Guitar / The Spyglass Tree / The Seven League Boots / The Magic Keys/ Poems (The Library of America)
Albert Murray: Collected Novels & Poems: Train Whistle Guitar / The Spyglass Tree / The Seven League Boots / The Magic Keys/ Poems (The Library of America) Albert Murray 9781598535617 Fiction Library ...
Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs
Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs Albert Murray 9781598535037 Nonfiction Library of America Library of America In his 1970 classic The Omni-Americans, Albert Murray (1916€“2013) took aim at ...
Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues
Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues Albert Murray 9780816699551 Nonfiction University of Minnesota Press University of Minnesota Press The year 2016 will mark the centennial of the bir...
A Sorrowful Joy
A Sorrowful Joy Albert J. Raboteau 9781610979573 Nonfiction Wipf and Stock Publishers Wipf and Stock Publishers Albert Raboteau was born into a Catholic family in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, three mon...
Conversations With Albert Murray (Literary Conversations Series)
Conversations With Albert Murray (Literary Conversations Series) Roberta S. Maguire 9781578060078 Nonfiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi As a cultural critic, biogr...
Billy
Billy Albert French 9780140179088 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House Albert French lights up the monstrous face of American racism in this harrowing tale of ten-year-old Billy Lee Turner, who ...
How We Love Matters
How We Love Matters Albert Tate 9781546000532 Nonfiction FaithWords Hachette Book Group This powerful book reimagines discipleship by begging us to acknowledge that racism exists in the Church—and off...
American Prophets: Seven Religious Radicals and Their Struggle for Social and Political Justice
American Prophets: Seven Religious Radicals and Their Struggle for Social and Political Justice Albert J. Raboteau 9780691181127 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press A powe...
One More Dino On the Floor
One More Dino On the Floor Kelly Starling Lyons 9780807515983 Fiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company Ever since I was a kid, I’ve loved science and dance. My new picture book, publi...
I Am Albert Einstein
I Am Albert Einstein Brad Meltzer 9780803740846 Nonfiction Dial Books Penguin Random House We can all be heroes. That’s the inspiring message of this New York Times Bestselling picture book biography ...
Cinder
Cinder Albert French 9780436204678 Fiction Harvill Secker Penguin Random House This title is set in Banes, Mississippi, 1938. The Catfish creek separates the Patch from the town, black from white. T...
Sitting Bull and His World
Sitting Bull and His World Albert Marrin 9780525459446 Nonfiction Dutton Juvenile Penguin Random House Richly researched, told with sweep, speed, and balance, here is a biography of the man who was ar...
I Can’t Wait on God
I Can’t Wait on God Albert French 9780385483643 Fiction Doubleday Penguin Random House The crowded joys and familiar despair of poor, back-alley life in postwar Pittsburgh have a hold on most people...
The Seven League Boots
The Seven League Boots Albert Murray 9780679758587 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House In the triumphant concluding volume of the trilogy that began with Whistle Guitar and The Spyglass Tree, Albert ...
Patches of Fire: A Story of War and Redemption
Patches of Fire: A Story of War and Redemption Albert French 9780385483636 Fiction Doubleday Penguin Random House Personal, lyrical, and extraordinary, Patches of Fire is a memorable exploration of ...
The Hero And the Blues
The Hero And the Blues Albert Murray 9780679762201 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House Book by Murray, Albert
South To A Very Old Place
South To A Very Old Place Albert Murray 9780679736950 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House Book by Murray, Albert
The Omni-Americans: Black Experience And American Culture (Da Capo Press Paperback)
The Omni-Americans: Black Experience And American Culture (Da Capo Press Paperback) Albert Murray 9780306803956 Nonfiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group The Omni-Americans is a classic collection ...
Freedom at Dawn: Robert Smalls’s Voyage Out of Slavery
Freedom at Dawn: Robert Smalls’s Voyage Out of Slavery Leah Schanke 9780807524282 Fiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company The true story of one man’s brave plan to free his family fr...
Fearless Mary: Mary Fields, American Stagecoach Driver
Fearless Mary: Mary Fields, American Stagecoach Driver Tami Charles 9780807523094 Nonfiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company A little-known but fascinating and larger-than-life chara...
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America Carole Boston Weatherford 9780807530153 Nonfiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company The Society of Illustrators Ori...
Song in a Rainstorm: The Story of Musical Prodigy Thomas Blind Tom Wiggins
Song in a Rainstorm: The Story of Musical Prodigy Thomas Blind Tom Wiggins Glenda Armand 9780807509418 Nonfiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company Born blind into a life of slavery, T...
Race for the Net: When African Americans Controlled the Internet and What Happens Now?
Race for the Net: When African Americans Controlled the Internet and What Happens Now? Albert E. White 9781098321239 Nonfiction BookBaby BookBaby In 1993, an African American company achieved one of t...
Tiara’s Hat Parade
Tiara’s Hat Parade Kelly Starling Lyons 9780807579459 Fiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company Tiara has a gift for storytelling; her momma has a gift for making hats. When a new stor...
Black, White, Just Right!
Black, White, Just Right! Marguerite W. Davol 9780807507889 Fiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company Celebrating the differences between a mother and father that blend to make the per...
Follow Me Down to Nicodemus Town: Based on the History of the African American Pioneer Settlement
Follow Me Down to Nicodemus Town: Based on the History of the African American Pioneer Settlement A. LaFaye 9780807525357 Fiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company When Dede sees a not...
My Hair Is a Garden
My Hair Is a Garden Cozbi A. Cabrera 9780807509234 Fiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company After a day of being taunted by classmates about her unruly hair, Mackenzie can’t take any ...
Charlie Takes His Shot
Charlie Takes His Shot Nancy Churnin 9780807511282 Nonfiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company Charlie Sifford loved golf, but in the 1930’s only white people were allowed to play in ...
Dorothea Lange: The Photographer Who Found the Faces of the Depression
Dorothea Lange: The Photographer Who Found the Faces of the Depression Carole Boston Weatherford 9780807516997 Nonfiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company Before she raised her lens t...
Bunnybear
Bunnybear Andrea J. Loney 9780807509388 Fiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company Although Bunnybear was born a bear, he feels more like a bunny. He prefers bouncing in the thicket to ...
An Apple for Harriet Tubman
An Apple for Harriet Tubman Glennette Tilley Turner 9780807503966 Nonfiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company Best Children’s Books of the Year, Bank Street College One day I am go...
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America Carole Boston Weatherford 9780807530177 Nonfiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company His white teacher tells her all...
With Books and Bricks: How Booker T. Washington Built a School
With Books and Bricks: How Booker T. Washington Built a School Suzanne Slade 9780807508978 Nonfiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company Booker T. Washington had an incredible passion f...
Sugar Hill: Harlem’s Historic Neighborhood
Sugar Hill: Harlem’s Historic Neighborhood Carole Boston Weatherford 9780807576502 Fiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company Take a walk through Harlem’s Sugar Hill and meet all the am...
H.N.I.C.
H.N.I.C. Albert “Prodigy” Johnson 9781617752360 Fiction Infamous Books Akashic Books "A gritty, fast-paced tale of revenge…Tight, terse prose harkens back to pulp fiction of the 1950s…The work is a br...
H.N.I.C.
H.N.I.C. Albert “Prodigy” Johnson 9781617752322 Fiction Infamous Books Akashic Books "A gritty, fast-paced tale of revenge…Tight, terse prose harkens back to pulp fiction of the 1950s…The work is a br...
My Infamous Life: The Autobiography Of Mobb Deep’s Prodigy
My Infamous Life: The Autobiography Of Mobb Deep’s Prodigy Albert “Prodigy” Johnson 9781439103180 Nonfiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. From one of the greatest rappers of all time, a memoir ab...
In the Garden with Dr. Carver
In the Garden with Dr. Carver Susan Grigsby 9780807536308 Fiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company Sally is a young girl living in rural Alabama in the early 1900s, a time when people...
Albert Murray And The Aesthetic Imagination Of A Nation
Albert Murray And The Aesthetic Imagination Of A Nation Barbara A. Baker 9780817355937 Fiction Pebble Hill Books Pebble Hill Books Sir John Cotesworth Slessor (1897-1979) was one of Great Britain’s mo...
Lucky Beans
Lucky Beans Becky Birtha 9780807547823 Fiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company Like so many people during the Great Depression of the 1930s, Marshall Loman’s dad has lost his job. Th...
If I Ran For President
If I Ran For President Catherine Stier 9780807535448 Nonfiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company If you ran for president, you would have to do a lot of hard work. You would study the...
The Magic Keys
The Magic Keys Albert Murray 9781400095537 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House If Gabriel García Márquez had chosen to write about Pakistani immigrants in England, he might have produce...
A Pride of African Tales
A Pride of African Tales Donna L. Washington 9780060249298 Nonfiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company This treasure trove of lavishly illustrated stories comes from different regions...
A Bus of Our Own
A Bus of Our Own Freddi Williams Evans 9780807509715 Fiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company Mable Jean wants to go to school. She has to walk five miles to get there, though, and he...
Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story
Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story Angela S. Medearis 9780807573167 Fiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award 2001 Notable Social Stu...
Train Whistle Guitar: A Novel
Train Whistle Guitar: A Novel Albert Murray 9780375703362 Fiction Vintage Books Penguin Random House First published in 1975, this is a coming of age novel. Scooter, growing up in Alabama in the 1920’...
The Riches of Oseola McCarty
The Riches of Oseola McCarty Evelyn Coleman 9780807569610 Nonfiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company A brief biography of Oseola McCarty, a hard-working washer woman who, without a f...
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 9780679776666 Nonfiction Vintage Penguin Random House “This is a book of stories,” writes Henry Louis Gates, “and all might be described ...
A Portrait of Spotted Deer’s Grandfather
A Portrait of Spotted Deer’s Grandfather Amy Littlesugar 9780807566220 Fiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company A touching story of how Moose Horn came to allow his picture to be pain...
White Socks Only
White Socks Only Evelyn Coleman 9780807589564 Fiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company In the segregated south, a young girl thinks that she can drink from a fountain marked "Whites O...
Holly
Holly Albert French 9780670857463 Fiction Viking Press Penguin Random House A poor, white girl in 1944 North Carolina finds her lonely life transformed by a handsome, educated black soldier, but th...
Kehinde
Kehinde Buchi Emecheta 9780435909857 Fiction Heinemann Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Kehinde is a Nigerian woman, unsure of herself, not quite certain she has the right to be happy. With her husband, Albe...
The Spyglass Tree
The Spyglass Tree Albert Murray 9780679730859 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House A deeply affecting, stylishly elegant novel of remembrance about a young African-American man’s advent into the world...
Black Christian Nationalism
Black Christian Nationalism Albert B. Cleage, Jr. 9780941205016 Nonfiction Luxor Luxor Cleage’s second book, published in 1972, was called Black Christian Nationalism. It was focused on the idea that ...
Stomping The Blues (Da Capo Paperback)
Stomping The Blues (Da Capo Paperback) Albert Murray 9780306803628 Nonfiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group This study of the blues by one of America’s premier essayists and novelists will change ...
The Black Messiah: On Black Consciousness and Black Power
The Black Messiah: On Black Consciousness and Black Power Albert B. Cleage, Jr. 9780865430785 Nonfiction Lushena Books Lushena Books Reprint. Originally published: Sheed and Ward, 1968. For nearly ...
Surprise for Mrs. Burns
Surprise for Mrs. Burns Glennette Tilley Turner 9780807576694 Fiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company When they discover she is leaving, Mrs. Burns’ class decides to give her a party...
Mary Jo’s Grandmother
Mary Jo’s Grandmother Janice May Udry 9780807549841 Fiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company When her grandmother is hurt in a fall, Mary Jo must get help to the remote farm where the...
Mourning
Mourning Karen Williams 9781957810478 Fiction Iskanchi Press Iskanchi Press Literary historical fiction set in post-war Freetown, where a widow fleeing violence must navigate grief, memory, and the fr...
Magically Black and Other Essays (paperback)
Magically Black and Other Essays (paperback) Jerald Walker 9780063161047 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay In this engaging...
Dying Eyes Don’t Lie
Dying Eyes Don’t Lie Keith Mosley 9798991958707 Fiction Amazon Digital Services Amazon Digital Services, Inc. When Detective Albert Yelsom’s shaman grandmother breathed life into his stillborn body, i...
The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America
The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America Aaron Robertson 9780374604981 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers One of Literary Hub’s most anticipat...
Magically Black and Other Essays
Magically Black and Other Essays Jerald Walker 9780063161078 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In this engaging follow-up to How to Make a Slave and Other Essays, the recipient of the PEN New England A...
Object Lesson: On the Influence of Richard Benson
Object Lesson: On the Influence of Richard Benson Dawoud Bey 9781597114950 Nonfiction Aperture Books Aperture Books Through engaging testimonials and anecdotes from photographers, curators, printers, ...
Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anti-Colonialism, and the African World
Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anti-Colonialism, and the African World Quito Swan 9781479885084 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press A lively living history of anti-colonialist mov...
Trailblazers Martin Luther King, Jr.: Fighting for Civil Rights
Trailblazers Martin Luther King, Jr.: Fighting for Civil Rights Christine Platt 9780593124550 Nonfiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Bring history home and meet one of th...
Frantz Fanon’s Plays: The Plays
Frantz Fanon’s Plays: The Plays Frantz Fanon 9781350126572 Fiction Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Publishing Prior to becoming a psychiatrist, Frantz Fanon wanted to be a playwright and his interest i...
Cinderella Is Dead
Cinderella Is Dead Kalynn Bayron 9781547603879 Fiction Bloomsbury YA Bloomsbury Publishing “Wholly original and captivating.” —Brigid Kemmerer, New York Times bestselling author of A Curse So Dark and...
Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation
Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson 9781568528403 Fiction Konecky & Konecky Konecky & Konecky Decembe...
The Absurd Man: Poems
The Absurd Man: Poems Major Jackson 9781324004554 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Inspired by the philosophy of Albert Camus, Major Jackson’s fifth volume subtly configures ...
Trailblazers: Beyoncé: Queen of the Spotlight
Trailblazers: Beyoncé: Queen of the Spotlight Ebony Joy Wilkins 9780593124437 Nonfiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Bring history home and meet some of the world’s great...
By and By: Charles Tindley, the Father of Gospel Music
By and By: Charles Tindley, the Father of Gospel Music Carole Boston Weatherford 9781534426368 Nonfiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. A stirring picture book biography from...
The Romare Bearden Reader
The Romare Bearden Reader Robert G. O’Meally 9781478000587 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books The Romare Bearden Reader brings together a collection of new essays and c...
Field Theories
Field Theories Samiya Bashir 9781937658632 Poetry Nightboat Books Nightboat Books Field Theories wends its way through quantum mechanics, chicken wings, Newports, and love, melding blackbody theory (i...
The Game Don’t Change The Players Do…
The Game Don’t Change The Players Do… Mazaradi Fox 9781617754821 Fiction Infamous Books Akashic Books The posthumous novel from legendary Queens rapper Mazaradi Fox, who was a member a 50 Cent’s G-Uni...
The Collected Poems of E. Ethelbert Miller
The Collected Poems of E. Ethelbert Miller E. Ethelbert Miller 9780996139021 Poetry Aquarius Press/Willow Books Aquarius Press/Willow Books “The volume itself and the poems chosen for its publication ...
Sunfail
Sunfail Steven Savile 9781617754067 Fiction Infamous Books Akashic Books Dogs howl in the streets, running wild. Birds fall dead from the sky. Even the sun itself is failing. As darkness descends all ...
Swing
Swing Miasha 9781617752643 Fiction Infamous Books Akashic Books "Wise librarians will stock up and ’swing’ this one over to erotica fans."—Library Journal"This newest offering from Miasha packs quite ...
Age of Entanglement: German and Indian Intellectuals Across Empire
Age of Entanglement: German and Indian Intellectuals Across Empire Kris Manjapra 9780674725140 Nonfiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press Age of Entanglement explores patterns of con...
Mastery
Mastery Robert Greene 9780143124177 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House The #1 New York Times-bestseller from the author of The 48 Laws of PowerEach one of us has within us the potential to ...
“ In a Single Garment of Destiny:” A Global Vision of Justice
“ In a Single Garment of Destiny:” A Global Vision of Justice Martin Luther King, Jr. 9780807086056 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press An unprecedented and timely collection that captures the globa...
I Didn’t Ask To Be Born: (But I’m Glad I Was)
I Didn’t Ask To Be Born: (But I’m Glad I Was) Bill Cosby 9780892969203 Nonfiction Center Street Hachette Book Group In this hilarious collection of observations, Cosby brings us more of his wonderful ...
Damn Near White: An African American Family’s Rise From Slavery To Bittersweet Success
Damn Near White: An African American Family’s Rise From Slavery To Bittersweet Success Carolyn Marie Wilkins 9780826218995 Nonfiction University of Missouri Press University of Missouri Carolyn Wilkin...
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist At Work
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist At Work Edwidge Danticat 9780691140186 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press The Toni Morrison Lecture Series "Create dangerously...
Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music
Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music Amiri Baraka 9780520265820 Nonfiction University of California Press University of California Press For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka ...
Digging: The Afro-American Soul Of American Classical Music
Digging: The Afro-American Soul Of American Classical Music Amiri Baraka 9780520257153 Nonfiction University of California Press University of California Press For almost half a century, Amiri Baraka ...
Quantum Lyrics: Poems
Quantum Lyrics: Poems A. Van Jordan 9780393333121 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. "Fearless hybridization…. Jordan creates spaces where physics and poetry, comic books and j...
Quantum Lyrics: Poems
Quantum Lyrics: Poems A. Van Jordan 9780393064995 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. This provocative, ambitious collection explores the intersection of the infinite world of p...
Wind in a Box (Penguin Poets)
Wind in a Box (Penguin Poets) Terrance Hayes 9780143036869 Poetry Penguin Books Penguin Random House The third collection of poetry from the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award...
In The Break: The Aesthetics Of The Black Radical Tradition
In The Break: The Aesthetics Of The Black Radical Tradition Fred Moten 9780816641000 Nonfiction University of Minnesota Press University of Minnesota Press In his controversial essay on white jazz mus...
Walking Bones
Walking Bones Charlotte Carter 9781852426804 Fiction Serpent’s Tail Serpent’s Tail Walking Bones is an American love story cast in deepest noir. It’s the story of a black woman named Nettie who came t...
Shackling Water
Shackling Water Adam Mansbach 9780385502054 Fiction Doubleday Penguin Random House Written in a lyrical, exhilarating, and intoxicating style that brilliantly evokes the moods and cadences of jazz and...
African American Writers: Portraits and Visions
African American Writers: Portraits and Visions Lynda Koolish 9781578062584 Nonfiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi Ai Will Alexander Robe...
Merlin’s Tour Of The Universe
Merlin’s Tour Of The Universe Neil deGrasse Tyson 9780385488358 Fiction Main Street Books Main Street Books Merlin, a fictional visitor from the Andromeda Galaxy, Planet Omniscia, has been friends wit...
The Homewood Books
The Homewood Books John Edgar Wideman 9780822938316 Fiction University of Pittsburgh Press University of Pittsburgh Press Edgar Wideman’s The Homewood Books is so named because they share characters,...
Malcolm X: The Man and His Times
Malcolm X: The Man and His Times John Henrik Clarke 9780865432017 Nonfiction Africa Research and Publications Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press The full impact of Malcolm X, his personality and h...