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7-10 Split: My Journey As America’s Whitest Black Kid
7-10 Split: My Journey As America’s Whitest Black Kid Michael Gordon Bennett 9780986416200 Nonfiction Bennett Global Entertainment Bennett Global Entertainment Reflecting on America’s Civil Rights Era...
Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Gwendolyn Bennett’s Selected Writings
Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Gwendolyn Bennett’s Selected Writings Belinda Wheeler and Louis J. Parascandola 9780271080963 Nonfiction Penn State University Press Penn State University...
My Friend, My Hero: The Hero Book Series 1
My Friend, My Hero: The Hero Book Series 1 Jerald LeVon Hoover 9781734111033 Fiction Jerald L. Hoover Productions Jerald L. Hoover Productions Bennett Wilson has the world at his fingertips. One of th...
The Manual: A Guide To Achievement & Enlightment In The Urban Community
The Manual: A Guide To Achievement & Enlightment In The Urban Community James Bennett Jr. 9781478157625 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC In this book, 21 year-old journalist James Benne...
The People Can Fly: American Promise, Black Prodigies, and the Greatest Miracle of All Time
The People Can Fly: American Promise, Black Prodigies, and the Greatest Miracle of All Time Joshua Bennett 9780316576024 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group What does it mean to be d...
Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America
Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America E. James West 9780252043116 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press From its launch in 1945...
Black Out Loud: The Revolutionary History of Black Comedy from Vaudeville to ’90s Sitcoms
Black Out Loud: The Revolutionary History of Black Comedy from Vaudeville to ’90s Sitcoms Geoff Bennett 9780063418172 Nonfiction Harper HarperCollins Black comedians have long played a pivotal role in...
Owed
Owed Joshua Bennett 9780143133858 Poetry Penguin Books Penguin Random House From one of the most impressive voices in poetry today (Dissent magazine), a new collection that shines a light on forgotte...
A Hopeful Hero: The Hero Book Series 3
A Hopeful Hero: The Hero Book Series 3 Jerald LeVon Hoover 9781734111057 Fiction Jerald L. Hoover Productions Jerald L. Hoover Productions Kirby’s life has come full circle. Ten years ago, he was on t...
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man Joshua Bennett 9780674980303 Nonfiction Belknap Press Harvard University Press A prize-winning poet argues that blackness acts as the caesura b...
Can We All Be Feminists?
Can We All Be Feminists? June Eric-Udorie, Soofiya Andry, Gabrielle Bellot, Caitlin Cruz, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Brit Bennett, Evette Dionne 9780143132370 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House Ca...
Before the Mayflower: A History of the Negro in America, 1619-1962
Before the Mayflower: A History of the Negro in America, 1619-1962 Lerone Bennett 9781684115341 Nonfiction BN Publishing BN Publishing The black experience in America—starting from its origins in west...
The Sobbing School
The Sobbing School Joshua Bennett 9780143111863 Poetry Penguin Books Penguin Random House A "sharp" and "scintillating" (Publishers Weekly) debut collection of poetry, selected by Eugene Gloria as a w...
F*ck Feelings: One Shrink’s Practical Advice for Managing All Life’s Impossible Problems
F*ck Feelings: One Shrink’s Practical Advice for Managing All Life’s Impossible Problems Michael Bennett and Sarah Bennett 9781476789996 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. New York Tim...
Recognition
Recognition O.H. Bennett 9781932841794 Fiction Agate Bolden Agate Publishing, Inc This fourth novel by O.H. Bennett represents a departure from his earlier work, characterized by rich depictions of Af...
Miss Lou: Louise Bennett and Jamaican Culture
Miss Lou: Louise Bennett and Jamaican Culture Mervyn Morris 9789766378660 Nonfiction Ian Randle Publishers Ian Randle Publishers Louise Bennett Coverley, ’Miss Lou’, has for decades represented the ’f...
The Shaping of Black America: The Struggles and Triumphs of African-Americans, 1619-1990s
The Shaping of Black America: The Struggles and Triumphs of African-Americans, 1619-1990s Lerone Bennett 9780140175684 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House What forces transformed Africans in...
We (the People of the United States)
We (the People of the United States) Joshua Bennett 9780143138648 Poetry Penguin Books Penguin Random House “An essential addition to the American poetic canon.” —Booklist From an award-winning poe...
Minor Notes, Volume 2
Minor Notes, Volume 2 Joshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy 9780143137276 Poetry Penguin Classics Penguin Random House The second volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black po...
Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation
Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation Bennett Parten 9781668034682 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. A groundbreaking account of Sh...
Minor Notes, Volume 1
Minor Notes, Volume 1 Joshua Bennett and Jesse McCarthy 9780143137269 Poetry Penguin Group USA Penguin Random House The first volume in an anthology series that amplifies the voices of unsung Black po...
Just Keep Living: Conversations with Granny
Just Keep Living: Conversations with Granny Lisa M. Bennett 9781737819608 Nonfiction Naked Truth Publishing Naked Truth Publishing Just keep living. That’s the wisdom that Lisa Bennett’s grandmother s...
He Was My Hero, Too: The Hero Book Series 2
He Was My Hero, Too: The Hero Book Series 2 Jerald LeVon Hoover 9781734111040 Fiction Jerald L. Hoover Productions Jerald L. Hoover Productions Kirby’s life changed one memorable afternoon with the mu...
The Vanishing Half
The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett 9780525536291 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House From The New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparab...
A Likkle Miss Lou: How Jamaican Poet Louise Bennett Coverley Found Her Voice
A Likkle Miss Lou: How Jamaican Poet Louise Bennett Coverley Found Her Voice Nadia L. Hohn 9781771473507 Nonfiction Owlkids Owlkids A Kirkus Reviews most anticipated picture book of fall 2019 by Nadia...
The Mothers: A Novel
The Mothers: A Novel Brit Bennett 9780399184529 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Fantastic… a book that feels alive on the page.” —The Washington Post A dazzli...
What Manner of Man: A Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
What Manner of Man: A Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Lerone Bennett 9780874850277 Nonfiction Johnson Publishing Company, Inc. Johnson Publishing Company, Inc. A Biography of Martin Luther King J...
Shoe Fetish 2: Grown Into High Heels
Shoe Fetish 2: Grown Into High Heels Sharon Bennett and Beatrice Moore 9781478758983 Fiction Amazon Digital Services Amazon Digital Services, Inc. There is definitely an immediate emotional attachment...
Creatures Here Below
Creatures Here Below O.H. Bennett 9781932841626 Fiction Agate Bolden Agate Publishing, Inc This powerful new novel by O. H. Bennett tells the story of a makeshift family struggling to stay together as...
Black Voices
Black Voices Abraham Chapman, James Baldwin, Arna Bontemps, Gwendolyn Brooks, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Richard Wright, Lerone Bennett, and Malcolm X 978045152782...
Pioneers in Protest
Pioneers in Protest Lerone Bennett 9780874850260 Nonfiction Johnson Publishing Company, Inc. Johnson Publishing Company, Inc. Without being preachy or pedantic, Bennett warmly relates the conviction,...
The Inheritance
The Inheritance Bennett Capers 9780063489912 Fiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Percival Everett meets Sinners in this gripping, haunting novel of history, rebellion, and the unpredictabl...
Critical Evidence
Critical Evidence Bennett Capers 9781009851589 Nonfiction Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press Critical Evidence explores a growing body of scholarship demonstrating that evidence law...
Adventures with Claudie
Adventures with Claudie Brit Bennett 9781683372080 Fiction American Girl Publishing American Girl Publishing Claudie is traveling from Harlem to Georgia with Mama and Cousin Sidney to meet her grandmo...
Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Criminal Law Opinions
Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Criminal Law Opinions Bennett Capers 9781009095976 Nonfiction Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press “Is it possible to be both a judge and a feminis...
Meet Claudie
Meet Claudie Brit Bennett 9781683372028 Fiction American Girl Publishing American Girl Publishing Claudie Wells wants more than anything to be a person whose imagination can fly, instead of a person w...
Critical Race Judgments
Critical Race Judgments Bennett Capers 9781316616451 Nonfiction Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press By rewriting U.S. Supreme Court opinions that implicate critical dimensions of rac...
I Remember: Poems and Pictures of Heritage
I Remember: Poems and Pictures of Heritage Lee Bennett Hopkins 9781620143117 Poetry Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books From the joyous to the poignant, poems by award-winning, diverse poets are paired wi...
Great Moments in Black History: Wade in the Water
Great Moments in Black History: Wade in the Water Lerone Bennett 9780874850789 Nonfiction Johnson Publishing Company, Inc. Johnson Publishing Company, Inc. Featuring a 15 dramatic episodes in black hi...
Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America
Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America Lerone Bennett 9781639234035 Nonfiction Lushena Books Lushena Books Originally published by Johnson Publishing Company, Inc.The black experience in Ame...
A Passionate Love (The Bennett Triplets)
A Passionate Love (The Bennett Triplets) Delaney Diamond 9781940636313 Fiction Garden Avenue Press Garden Avenue Press
A Passionate Kiss
A Passionate Kiss Sharon C. Cooper 9780997614138 Fiction Amaris Publishing Amaris Publishing Retired Marine, Mason Bennett, has two goals: adjust to civilian life and keep drama out of it. His focus i...
Loving You Always
Loving You Always Kennedy Ryan 9781455556847 Fiction Forever Yours Hachette Book Group From the bestselling and RITA Award-winning author of The Kingmaker comes an epic story of forbidden love about a...
Worst Impressions: a Romantic Comedy
Worst Impressions: a Romantic Comedy K. L. Brady 9780615462738 Fiction LadyLit Press LadyLit Press Pride & Prejudice with an Urban Teen Twist… Ever been a stand out who doesn’t fit in? Ever dream of f...
Visible Lives: Three Stories in Tribute To E. Lynn Harris
Visible Lives: Three Stories in Tribute To E. Lynn Harris Terrance Dean, James Earl Hardy, and Stanley Bennett Clay 9780758255754 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. Visible Lives: Three S...
The Lie
The Lie O.H. Bennett 9781565125735 Fiction Algonquin Books Workman Publishing Co., Inc. For Terrell Matheus, the decision to lie about his brother’s death is an immediate reaction to the panic he feel...
Sam Langford: Boxing’s Greatest Uncrowned Champion
Sam Langford: Boxing’s Greatest Uncrowned Champion Clay Moyle 9781934733028 Fiction Bennett & Hastings Publishing Bennett & Hastings Publishing Standing no more than five-feet, seven-inches; tall, Sam...
Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln’s White Dream
Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln’s White Dream Lerone Bennett 9780874850024 Nonfiction Johnson Publishing Company, Inc. Johnson Publishing Company, Inc. Beginning with the argument that the Emancipa...
Shoe Fetish 1: A Woman’s Love for Her Shoes & Her Men
Shoe Fetish 1: A Woman’s Love for Her Shoes & Her Men Sharon Bennett and Beatrice Moore 9781588986719 Fiction BookSurge Publishing On-Demand Publishing LLC Shoe Fetish is a casually written novella ab...
Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln’s White Dream
Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln’s White Dream Lerone Bennett 9780874850857 Nonfiction Johnson Publishing Company, Inc. Johnson Publishing Company, Inc. Beginning with the argument that the Emancipa...
The Colored Garden
The Colored Garden O.H. Bennett 9780965970198 Fiction Laughing Owl Pub Inc Laughing Owl Pub Inc The Colored Garden is a story about storytellers: a boy called Sarge and his grandmother, Ruth, whose fa...
Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America; Sixth Revised Edition
Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America; Sixth Revised Edition Lerone Bennett 9780140178227 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House Traces black history from its origins in western Afri...
Surprises (I Can Read Book 3)
Surprises (I Can Read Book 3) Lee Bennett Hopkins 9780064441056 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins ‘These thirty-eight poems offer beginning readers a chance to try some verse. With drawings that pack a l...
Belonging to the Air: A Novel
Belonging to the Air: A Novel Avery Irons 9781967165001 Fiction Screen Door Press University Press of Kentucky Honest "Bird" Bennett is a young Black girl with a hunger to learn what lies beyond the w...
Inharmonious
Inharmonious Tammye Huf 9798874868376 Fiction Blackstone Publishing Blackstone Publishing A compelling love story—inspired by the author’s own family history—set in the segregated South during and aft...
The Stories We Carry
The Stories We Carry Robin W. Pearson 9798400501258 Fiction Tyndale Fiction Tyndale House A small-town bookstore owner finds herself at odds with a newcomer bent on disrupting her quiet life in this S...
The Wilderness
The Wilderness Angela Flournoy 9780063318779 Fiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Finalist for the 2025 Kirkus Prize for Fiction Named a most anticipated book by New York Times, Washingt...
Princess and the P.I.
Princess and the P.I. Nikki Payne 9780593817360 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House An amateur online sleuth must enlist the help of a jaded PI to clear her name while taking down a shady tech ...
Masters of the Game
Masters of the Game Brenda Jackson B0FDLG2PF6 Fiction Madaris Publishing Madaris Publishing Some games are just meant to be lost … For triplets, Cortez, Colton, and Cobra Masters, when something ha...
People of Means: A Novel
People of Means: A Novel Nancy Johnson 9780063157514 Fiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins From the acclaimed author of The Kindest Lie, a propulsive novel about a mother and daughter each se...
This Great Hemisphere
This Great Hemisphere Mateo Askaripour 9780593472347 Fiction Dutton Books Penguin Random House “This Great Hemisphere is an inventive and immersive epic that follows its brave invisible protagonist as...
If Beale Street Could Talk (Deluxe Edition)
If Beale Street Could Talk (Deluxe Edition) James Baldwin 9780593688984 Fiction Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Penguin Random House A stunning edition of James Baldwin’s timeless novel, with a new i...
James Baldwin 3-Book Box Set: Giovanni’s Room, If Beale Street Could Talk, and Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin 3-Book Box Set: Giovanni’s Room, If Beale Street Could Talk, and Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin 9780593689714 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House Celebrating the Centenary of ...
Garvey’s Choice: The Graphic Novel
Garvey’s Choice: The Graphic Novel Nikki Grimes 9781662660023 Fiction Wordsong Boyds Mills Press Award-winning author Nikki Grimes’s beloved novel in verse Garvey’s Choice is now a graphic novel, imag...
Beyonce: A Little Golden Book Biography
Beyonce: A Little Golden Book Biography Lavaille Lavette 9780593568125 Nonfiction Golden Books Penguin Random House This captivating Little Golden Book biography celebrates Beyoncé’s rise from ...
Pride and Protest
Pride and Protest Nikki Payne 9780593440940 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House A Phenomenal Book Club pick for November 2022! A woman goes head-to-head with the CEO of a corporation threateni...
Garvey in the Dark
Garvey in the Dark Nikki Grimes 9781635925265 Fiction Wordsong Boyds Mills Press Winner, 2023 Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award Capturing the shock and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic through the ey...
The Black Kids (Reprint)
The Black Kids (Reprint) Christina Hammonds Reed 9781534462731 Fiction Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. A New York Times bestseller A William C. Morris Award Finalist ...
Black Cake
Black Cake Charmaine Wilkerson 9780593358337 Fiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House “Exquisite and expansive, Black Cake took ahold of me from the first page and didn’t let go. This is a novel ...
One True Loves
One True Loves Elise Bryant 9780062982865 Fiction Balzer & Bray/Harperteen HarperCollins From the author of Happily Ever Afters comes another irresistible YA romantic comedy full of self-discovery and...
Superman Red & Blue
Superman Red & Blue John Ridley 9781779512802 Fiction DC Comics DC Comics The Man of Steel Stars in DC’s New Superman: Red & Blue anthology mini-series! In the spirit of DC’s iconic Eisner Award-...
African Proverbs for All Ages
African Proverbs for All Ages Johnnetta Betsch Cole 9781250756060 Fiction Roaring Brook Press Macmillan Publishers An Oprah Book about the power of proverbs, how they evolve over time, and the wisdom ...
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance Hanif Abdurraqib 9781984801197 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House A stirring meditation on Black performance in America from t...
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song Kevin Young 9781598536669 Poetry Library of America Library of America A Library of America AnthologyA literary landmark: the biggest, most ambiti...
The Black Kids
The Black Kids Christina Hammonds Reed 9781534462724 Fiction Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. Recipient of a 2021 William C. Morris Honor for a debut book published by a...
Finding Daisy: From the Deep South to the Promised Land
Finding Daisy: From the Deep South to the Promised Land Kathy Lynne Marshall 9780999201428 Fiction Kanika Marshall Art & Books Kanika Marshall Art & Books Grandma Daisy lied to me about her birthplace...
Animating Black and Brown Liberation: A Theory of American Literatures
Animating Black and Brown Liberation: A Theory of American Literatures Michael Datcher 9781438473406 Nonfiction State University of New York Press State University of New York Press Animating Black an...
midnight & indigo Issue 1: Celebrating Black female writers
midnight & indigo Issue 1: Celebrating Black female writers Ianna A. Small 9781732891715 Fiction Midnight & Indigo Midnight & Indigo Publishing midnight & indigo is a literary journal dedicated to sho...
We Matter: Athletes and Activism
We Matter: Athletes and Activism Etan Thomas 9781617755941 Nonfiction Edge of Sports Akashic Books "Etan confronts our collective challenges and reminds us that life is not just a game, but demands a ...
Character Building
Character Building Booker T. Washington 9781331520993 Nonfiction Forgotten Books Forgotten Books Excerpt from Character Building: Being Addresses Delivered on Sunday Evenings to the Students of Tuskeg...
Delayed But Not Denied 2: Real Stories About Hope, Faith and Triumph
Delayed But Not Denied 2: Real Stories About Hope, Faith and Triumph Toni Coleman Brown and Julia D. Shaw 9780978756833 Nonfiction Collaborative Experience Collaborative Experience Delayed But Not Den...
The Walking Bathroom
The Walking Bathroom Shauntay Grant 9781771085564 Fiction Nimbus Publishing Nimbus Publishing It’s Halloween and Amayah doesn’t have a costume to wear to school. She dressed as a ghost for the last th...
We Can’t Talk about That at Work!: How to Talk about Race, Religion, Politics, and Other Polarizing Topics
We Can’t Talk about That at Work!: How to Talk about Race, Religion, Politics, and Other Polarizing Topics Mary-Frances Winters 9781523094264 Nonfiction Berrett-Koehler Publishers Berrett-Koehler Publ...
See Me, Too (Volume 2)
See Me, Too (Volume 2) Adrienne Thompson 9780997146165 Fiction Pink Cashmere Publishing Company Pink Cashmere Publishing Company “Love is as destructive as it is generative, as perfidious as it is dev...
Provenance: A Novel
Provenance: A Novel Donna Drew Sawyer 9780991614325 Fiction Creative Cache Creative Cache A vivid portrait of a family’s determination to live undefined by race. Hank Whitaker longed for more than ...
Love Was the Case That They Gave Me 2
Love Was the Case That They Gave Me 2 Mz. Lady P 9781517197681 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Being in love tends one to be in a battle with the mind and the heart. The mind is telling y...
Love Was the Case That They Gave Me
Love Was the Case That They Gave Me Mz. Lady P 9781515026891 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Someone to love is something that all women want. Often times love has a way of clouding a wom...
Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean
Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean James Davis 9780231157841 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press Eric Walrond (1898-1966) was ...
Be Mine Forever
Be Mine Forever Kennedy Ryan 9781455556878 Fiction Forever Yours Hachette Book Group Find out if a secret crush become the love of a lifetime in this emotional read from the bestselling and RITA Award...
A Cleansing Flame
A Cleansing Flame Charles A. Davis 9780910671040 Fiction Path Press Path Press “This is an historical novel set in the Civil War. The relationship between the slave master and the slave was very close...
Jamaica Fi Real!: Beauty, Vibes and Culture
Jamaica Fi Real!: Beauty, Vibes and Culture Kevin O’Brien Chang 9789766373979 Nonfiction Ian Randle Publishers Ian Randle Publishers Beautiful; aggressive; exuberant, talkative; humorous; resourceful;...
The Age of Dreaming
The Age of Dreaming Nina Revoyr 9781933354460 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Jun Nakayama was a silent film star in the early days of Hollywood, but by 1964, he is living in complete obscurity—u...
The Hot Spot
The Hot Spot TaRessa Stovall 9781583146156 Fiction Kimani Press Kimani Press Public relations whiz Kendra Harrell is hopelessly in love with love. But her latest crush presents a real conflict of inte...
The Savvy Sistahs: A Novel
The Savvy Sistahs: A Novel Brenda Jackson 9780312315122 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Amber, Carla and Brandy—-known as the "ABCs"—-are intelligent businesswomen who met in their b...
Baby Beat
Baby Beat Sandra Canfield, Sandra Kitt, and Marisa Carroll 9780373201204 Fiction Harlequin Harlequin Enterprises Limited Lieutenant Jake Cameron, Detective Cole Bennett, and Special Agent Seth Norri...