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The World Is Ours to Cherish: A Letter to a Child
The World Is Ours to Cherish: A Letter to a Child Mary Annaïse Heglar 9780593568019 Nonfiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House This hopeful picture book—written in the style ...
Welcome Home, Anna Hibiscus!
Welcome Home, Anna Hibiscus! Atinuke 9781536231168 Fiction Candlewick Press (MA) Candlewick Press Back in Africa after a month’s visit with Granny Canada, Anna Hibiscus finds that some things are diff...
Merry Christmas, Anna Hibiscus!
Merry Christmas, Anna Hibiscus! Atinuke 9781536231212 Fiction Candlewick Press (MA) Candlewick Press When Anna Hibiscus leaves her family home in Africa to visit her Canadian grandmother, she discover...
A Shimmer of Red
A Shimmer of Red Valerie Wilson Wesley 9781496739650 Fiction Kensington Cozies Kensington Publishing Corp. From the award-winning creator of Newark private eye Tamara Hayle, the third installment in a...
Anna In-Between
Anna In-Between Elizabeth Nunez 9781933354842 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Read a book review by Me, You and Books Anna In-Between is Elizabeth Nunez’s finest literary achievement to da...
The Black Agenda
The Black Agenda Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman 9781250276872 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers "The Black Agenda mobilizes top Black experts from across the country to share transformative...
Troubled Waters
Troubled Waters Mary Annaïse Heglar 9781400235988 Fiction Harper Muse HarperCollins In this intimate portrait of two generations, a granddaughter and a grandmother come to terms with what it means to ...
While We Were Dating
While We Were Dating Jasmine Guillory 9780593100844 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House An instant New York Times bestseller! One of TIME Magazine’s 100 Must-Reads of 2021! Two people rea...
Elbert: The Uncaged Mind (Black Series #2)
Elbert: The Uncaged Mind (Black Series #2) Joan Vassar 9780692780077 Fiction Dream House Press Dream House Press Listen to a reading from the novel Elbert: The Uncaged Mind, book #2 in the Black s...
Anna Carries Water
Anna Carries Water Olive Senior 9781896580609 Fiction Tradewind Books Tradewind Books Anna fetches water from the spring every day, but she can’t carry it on her head like her older brothers and siste...
Anna Learns to Play the Violin
Anna Learns to Play the Violin Cathy Finch White 9781452055794 Fiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions Anna is a 9 year old girl, that loves music but does not know how to play an instrument. Anna decide...
Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us
Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us Anna Malaika Tubbs 9781250876713 Nonfiction Flatiron Books Macmillan Publishers INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • USA TODAY NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ...
Erased (hardcover): What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us
Erased (hardcover): What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us Anna Malaika Tubbs 9781250876690 Nonfiction Flatiron Books Macmillan Publishers INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA TODAY NATIONAL ...
Sankofa
Sankofa Chibundu Onuzo 9781646221585 Fiction Catapult Catapult Anna is at a stage of her life when she’s beginning to wonder who she really is. In her 40s, she has separated from her husband, her daug...
The Short Game
The Short Game J. L. Campbell 9781544745022 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Garth Chu is on his way to having the most sought-after video production outfit in Kingston, Jamaica. Everythin...
Brief Evidence of Heaven: Poems from the Life of Anna Murray Douglass
Brief Evidence of Heaven: Poems from the Life of Anna Murray Douglass M. Nzadi Keita 9780990867777 Poetry Whirlwind Press Whirlwind Press Poetry. African American Studies. Women’s Studies. BRIEF EV...
Anna In-Between
Anna In-Between Elizabeth Nunez 9781936070695 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "A psychologically and emotionally astute family portrait, with dark themes like racism, cancer and the bittersweet lo...
Miracle at St. Anna: The Motion Picture
Miracle at St. Anna: The Motion Picture Spike Lee 9780847831708 Fiction Rizzoli International Publications Rizzoli International Publications Based on the best-selling novel and with screenplay by Jam...
Miracle at St. Anna
Miracle at St. Anna James McBride 9781573229715 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award fo...
House Arrest and Piano: Two Plays
House Arrest and Piano: Two Plays Anna Deavere Smith 9781400033577 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House From the award-winning actor and playwright Anna Deavere Smith, two teeming, pungent cross-sectio...
Double Tax: How Women of Color Are Overcharged and Underpaid
Double Tax: How Women of Color Are Overcharged and Underpaid Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman 9780593714256 Nonfiction Portfolio Penguin Random House Why is it so expensive to be a woman in America? From a ri...
The Just Kitchen: Invitations to Sustainability, Cooking, Connection and Celebration
The Just Kitchen: Invitations to Sustainability, Cooking, Connection and Celebration Derrick Weston and Anna Woofenden 9781506484112 Nonfiction Beaming Books 1517 Media Join the call of a just kitchen...
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation Anna Malaika Tubbs 9781250756138 Nonfiction Flatiron Books Macmillan Publishers From Gates S...
The Three Mothers (Hardcover)
The Three Mothers (Hardcover) Anna Malaika Tubbs 9781250756121 Nonfiction Flatiron Books Macmillan Publishers Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin’s son James, about Alberta King’s son Martin Lu...
Anna’s Boy
Anna’s Boy Tom Wood 9781098320874 Nonfiction BookBaby BookBaby Anna’s Boy is the saga of the grandson of an American slave’s journey from Harlem;To become the first black member of a major U.S. bank b...
A Voice from the South
A Voice from the South Anna J. Cooper 9798684587252 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published First published in 1892, A Voice from the South is a collection of essays focusing on...
Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story
Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story Paula Yoo 9781600602597 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books The true story of Chinese American film star Anna May Wong, whose trail-blazing career in Holly...
Douglass’ Women: A Novel
Douglass’ Women: A Novel Jewell Parker Rhodes 9780743410106 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the critically acclaimed author of Voodoo Dreams, a powerful and provocative fic...
The Map of Love: A Novel
The Map of Love: A Novel Ahdaf Soueif 9780385720113 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House Booker Prize Finalist Here is an extraordinary cross-cultural love story that unfurls across Egypt, England, and...
Fires in the Mirror
Fires in the Mirror Anna Deavere Smith 9780385470148 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House Derived from interviews with a wide range of people who experienced or observed New York’s 1991 Crown Heights...
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 Anna Deavere Smith 9780385473767 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House Anna Deavere Smith’s stunning new work of “documentary theater” in which she uses verbatim the words of...
Talk to Me: Travels in Media and Politics
Talk to Me: Travels in Media and Politics Anna Deavere Smith 9780385721745 Nonfiction Anchor Penguin Random House Anna Deveare Smith’s award-winning one-woman shows were borne of her uniquely brillian...
Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind
Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind Anna Deavere Smith 9781400032389 Nonfiction Anchor Penguin Random ...
The Ladies Hall
The Ladies Hall Vanessa Miller 9781400351107 Fiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing Three courageous women realize it will take their hearts, their minds, their friendship, and their...
Leo Loves Daddy
Leo Loves Daddy Anna McQuinn 9781623542412 Fiction Charlesbridge Charlesbridge Leo, Lola’s little brother from Leo Loves Baby Time, is back in a new adventure with Daddy! Perfect for Father’s Day or e...
Lola at the Library with Mommy
Lola at the Library with Mommy Anna McQuinn 9781623541798 Fiction Charlesbridge Charlesbridge Learn about the library, checking out books, and story time with Lola. Every Tuesday Lola and her mommy go...
Lola Loves Stories with Daddy
Lola Loves Stories with Daddy Anna McQuinn 9781623541804 Fiction Charlesbridge Charlesbridge Bookworms big and small will be charmed by lovable Lola in this delightful sequel to LOLA AT THE LIBRARY th...
I Look Up To… Serena Williams
I Look Up To… Serena Williams Anna Membrino 9780525644422 Nonfiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House If you can see it, you can be it! Introduce your child to powerful femini...
I Look Up To…Misty Copeland
I Look Up To…Misty Copeland Anna Membrino 9781984852144 Nonfiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House If you can see it, you can be it! Introduce your child to powerful feminist...
Mr. Moore’s Menagerie
Mr. Moore’s Menagerie Anna Christian 9780998141909 Fiction Dadielte Production Dadielte Production Almost every day Bobby, Sonny, and Max watch their new neighbor, Mr. Moore, as he carries mysterious ...
Lola Goes to School
Lola Goes to School Anna McQuinn 9781580899383 Fiction Charlesbridge Charlesbridge Spunky Lola embarks on a new adventure—the first day of school! Lola and her family prepare for the first day of scho...
Notes from the Field
Notes from the Field Anna Deavere Smith 9780525564591 Nonfiction Anchor Penguin Random House From the Tony- and Pulitzer-nominated playwright, actress, and activist: shining a light on the school-to-p...
I Look Up To… Michelle Obama
I Look Up To… Michelle Obama Anna Membrino 9780525579540 Nonfiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House If you can see it, you can be it! Introduce your child to your role models...
Tulsa Burning: Friends Show Their True Colors in Times of Trouble
Tulsa Burning: Friends Show Their True Colors in Times of Trouble Anna Myers 9781937054663 Fiction Roadrunner Press Roadrunner Press Aamila spends every summer vacation with her grandparents. Usually,...
Lola Gets a Cat
Lola Gets a Cat Anna McQuinn 9781580897365 Fiction Charlesbridge Charlesbridge Lola wants a cat, but Mommy says taking care of a pet is a lot of work. So Lola does her homework. At the library she fin...
Leo Can Swim
Leo Can Swim Anna McQuinn 9781580897259 Fiction Charlesbridge Charlesbridge Leo, Lola’s little brother from Leo Loves Baby Time, is back in a new adventure at the pool. Leo loves the water! Leo and D...
Even in Paradise
Even in Paradise Elizabeth Nunez 9781617754401 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books “Nunez has always had the power to get to the essence of what makes human beings take right and wrong turns.”—Edward ...
Then Sings My Soul
Then Sings My Soul Anna Christian 9780979927324 Fiction Dadielte Production Dadielte Production Told from the points of view of Hazel Porter, her mother Sarah (Ma’dear), 17 year-old Tricia, and 14 yea...
Mycroft Holmes
Mycroft Holmes Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse 9781783291533 Fiction Titan Books Titan Publishing Group
The Illest Na Na
The Illest Na Na Tamika Newhouse and Anna Black 9781507723937 Fiction Delphine Publications Delphine Publications The first ever drama series filled with more sex, drama, scandals, and shocking twists...
Boyfriend Shopping: An Anthology
Boyfriend Shopping: An Anthology Earl Sewell, Caridad Ferrer, and Deidre Berry 9780373091355 Fiction Kimani Press Kimani Press Holidays mean family, friends, presents—and extra doses of drama! But fo...
Lola Plants a Garden
Lola Plants a Garden Anna McQuinn 9781580896948 Fiction Charlesbridge Charlesbridge How does your garden grow? Book-loving Lola is inspired by a collection of garden poems that she reads with her momm...
The Newcomer
The Newcomer Anna Christian 9780979927355 Fiction Dadielte Production Dadielte Production The residents of 21 Bradhurst are up in arms. Someone has been overturning the trashcans, smashing out the lig...
Daniel’s Wife
Daniel’s Wife Anna Christian 9780979927331 Fiction Dadielte Production Dadielte Production Jessica Weaver’s life was perfect. Her handsome, gregarious husband, a public consultant, made a good salary ...
Between The Sheets
Between The Sheets Tamika Newhouse, Anna Black, and Various Artists 9780982145562 Fiction Delphine Publications Delphine Publications Between the Sheets is a compilation of stories from African Americ...
Moses And The Monster And Miss Anne
Moses And The Monster And Miss Anne Carole C. Marks 9780252033940 Fiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press This engaging history presents the extraordinary lives of Patty Cann...
The Big Table
The Big Table Anna Christian 9780979927348 Fiction Dadielte Production Dadielte Production The Big Table is the story of a young boy’s rite-of-passage from the children’s table to the family table. A ...
Lola at the Library
Lola at the Library Anna McQuinn 9781580891424 Fiction Charlesbridge Charlesbridge Lola has a big smile on her face. Why? Because it’s Tuesday—and on Tuesdays, Lola and her mommy go to the library. Jo...
Mrs. Griffin is Missing and other stories
Mrs. Griffin is Missing and other stories Anna Christian 9780595370412 Fiction iUniverse Author Solutions Mrs. Griffin, the neighborhood mentor, is missing. Loved by all the children in her Harlem nei...
Meet It, Greet It and Defeat It
Meet It, Greet It and Defeat It Anna Christian 9781881524472 Nonfiction Professional Publishing House Professional Publishing House Actress, activist, community organizer, Frances E. Williams was one ...
The View From Here
The View From Here Brian Keith Jackson 9780671568962 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A stunning debut novel in the tradition of Alice Walker and Toni Morrison. Anna Anderson Thomas has de...
Africa, the Wonder & the Glory
Africa, the Wonder & the Glory Anna M. Graves 9780933121126 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press
How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington
How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington Marcia Chatelain 9780553387254 Nonfiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House From the Pulitzer Prize-winning ...
The Portable Feminist Reader
The Portable Feminist Reader Roxane Gay 9780143110392 Nonfiction Penguin Classics Penguin Random House A dynamic and strikingly relevant look at a feminist canon as expansive rather than definitive ...
Prince Among Slaves: The Remarkable True Story of an African Prince Enslaved in Mississippi, and His Journey Home
Prince Among Slaves: The Remarkable True Story of an African Prince Enslaved in Mississippi, and His Journey Home N. H. Senzai 9781984816986 Nonfiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House This be...
Nina and the Mysterious Mailbox (Secret Society of Rebel Girls)
Nina and the Mysterious Mailbox (Secret Society of Rebel Girls) Marti Dumas 9798889641018 Fiction DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) Penguin Random House “Girls running for office, secret leadership l...
Colton’s Blizzard Hideout
Colton’s Blizzard Hideout Deborah Fletcher Mello 9781335502414 Fiction Harlequin Romantic Suspense Harlequin Enterprises Limited Safe from the storm … not from her stalker. Lizzy Colton’s never had...
What Love Looks Like
What Love Looks Like Laura Obuobi 9780063222434 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins From Laura Obuobi, author of Black Gold an NAACP Image Award nominee, and illustrator Anna Cunha comes a whimsical b...
I’m Not Small Board Book
I’m Not Small Board Book Nina Crews 9780063058279 Fiction Greenwillow Books HarperCollins What makes you big? What makes you small? From acclaimed author-illustrator Nina Crews comes a board book that...
Trust
Trust Rhonda M. Lawson 9798987242926 Fiction Meet the World Image Solutions Meet the World Image Solutions Saivon Lincoln is an ordinary man blessed with extraordinary charm. With his boyish good look...
The Garretts of Columbia: A Black South Carolina Family from Slavery to the Dawn of Integration
The Garretts of Columbia: A Black South Carolina Family from Slavery to the Dawn of Integration David Nicholson 9781643364544 Nonfiction University of South Carolina Press University of South Carolina...
Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies
Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 9798888900574 Nonfiction Haymarket Books Haymarket Books “Th...
First-Year Orientation
First-Year Orientation Lauren Gibaldi 9781536224498 Fiction Candlewick Press (MA) Candlewick Press Sixteen acclaimed authors—including a National Book Award nominee, a New York Times best-selling nove...
What’s Next? Short Fiction in Time of Change
What’s Next? Short Fiction in Time of Change Sharyn Skeeter 9781950584864 Fiction Green Writers Press Green Writers Press Transition and change are 21st-century lived experiences. We want to know “wha...
Eternally Yours
Eternally Yours Patrice Caldwell 9780593206874 Fiction Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Give in to this irresistible paranormal romance anthology filled with tales of the mortal and...
Boonoonoonous Hair (paperback)
Boonoonoonous Hair (paperback) Olive Senior 9781926890227 Fiction Tradewind Books Tradewind Books In this beautifully illustrated picture book written by Commonwealth Prize winning author Olive Senior...
A Universe of Wishes: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology
A Universe of Wishes: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology Dhonielle Clayton 9781984896230 Fiction Ember Ember Published in partnership with We Need Diverse Books, this YA fantasy anthology brings togeth...
The Last Gift
The Last Gift Abdulrazak Gurnah 9781639730001 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Publishing From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, an astounding meditation on family, self and th...
The Hero Next Door: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology
The Hero Next Door: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich 9780525646334 Fiction Yearling Penguin Random House From We Need Diverse Books comes a middle-grade short-story coll...
Accra Noir
Accra Noir Meri Nana-Ama Danquah 9781617758898 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. E...
The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir
The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir André Leon Talley 9780593129258 Nonfiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House “Discover what truly happens behind the scenes in the world of high fashion in this deta...
A Story About Afiya
A Story About Afiya James Berry 9781911373339 Fiction Lantana Publishing Lantana Publishing In 1991, prolific Jamaican poet and Coretta Scott King Honor author James Berry (A Thief in the Village) wro...
The Hero Next Door
The Hero Next Door Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich 9780525646303 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House From We Need Diverse Books, the organization behind Flying Lessons & Other Sto...
Boonoonoonous Hair
Boonoonoonous Hair Olive Senior 9781926890074 Fiction Tradewind Books Tradewind Books In this beautifully illustrated picture book written by Commonwealth Prize winning author Olive Senior and illustr...
Luca’s Bridge/El Puente de Luca
Luca’s Bridge/El Puente de Luca Mariana Llanos 9780998799957 Fiction Penny Candy Books Penny Candy Books The bilingual picture book Luca’s Bridge / El Puente de Luca, by Mariana Llanos with illustrati...
The Wives We Play
The Wives We Play Briana Cole 9781496721969 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. "Briana Cole takes her characters through hell in this book. And this is just exactly what the readers will enjoy...
The Book in Room 316
The Book in Room 316 ReShonda Tate Billingsley 9781501156663 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. #1 national bestselling and award-winning author ReShonda Tate Billingsley delivers another mo...
On African-American Rhetoric
On African-American Rhetoric Keith Gilyard 9781138090446 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge On African-American Rhetoric traces the arc of strategic language use by African Americans from rhetorical forms...
Faces of Praise!: Photos and Gospel Inspirations to Encourage and Uplift
Faces of Praise!: Photos and Gospel Inspirations to Encourage and Uplift Carol Mackey 9781478917526 Nonfiction FaithWords Hachette Book Group Photography by B. Jeffrey Grant-Clark This full-color p...
The Princess Bed
The Princess Bed LaVerne Thompson 9781548352950 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Once upon a time… After all this time, at thirty Anna’s dream of finishing college was coming true, but she...
Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women
Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women Brittney Cooper 9780252040993 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press Beyond Respectability charts the develo...
Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway?: Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro Era
Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway?: Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro Era Shannon King 9781479889082 Fiction New York University Press New York University Press Read the Intro...
Our Black Sons Matter: Mothers Talk about Fears, Sorrows, and Hopes
Our Black Sons Matter: Mothers Talk about Fears, Sorrows, and Hopes George Yancy 9781442269118 Nonfiction Rowman & Littlefield Rowman & Littlefield Our Black Sons Matter is a powerful collection of or...
Initiation (Sapphires Social Club)
Initiation (Sapphires Social Club) Nicole J. Knight 9781944359270 Fiction Brown Girls Books Brown Girls Books It’s the last Monday in September. For sophomore girls at Moreland High, it’s the most imp...
African Heroes and Heroines
African Heroes and Heroines Carter G. Woodson 9781574781281 Nonfiction The Woodson Series Black Classic Press Black Classic Press, in partnership with the Association for the Study of African American...
I’m a Pretty Little Black Girl!
I’m a Pretty Little Black Girl! Betty K. Bynum 9780615785516 Fiction Dreamtitle Publishing Dreamtitle Publishing I’M A PRETTY LITTLE BLACK GIRL! introduces adorable Mia, who wakes with her hair just-a...
On the Come Up: A Novel, Based on a True Story
On the Come Up: A Novel, Based on a True Story Hannah Weyer 9780385537322 Fiction Nan A. Talese Nan A. Talese Based on a true story, an impassioned and propulsive debut novel about a headstrong girl f...
Another Man Will
Another Man Will Daaimah S. Poole 9780758246233 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Essence® bestselling author Daaimah S. Poole serves up a sexy tale of three sisters who long for the successf...
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays Zadie Smith 9781594202377 Nonfiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House A sparkling collection of Zadie Smith?s nonfiction over the past decade. Zadie Smith brings ...
I Am Your Sister: Collected And Unpublished Writings Of Audre Lorde (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies In Black Politics And Black Communities)
I Am Your Sister: Collected And Unpublished Writings Of Audre Lorde (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies In Black Politics And Black Communities) Audre Lorde 9780195341485 Nonfiction Oxford University P...