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Watch Us Rise
Watch Us Rise Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan 9781547600083 Fiction Bloomsbury YA Bloomsbury Publishing "This stunning book is the story I’ve been waiting for my whole life; where girls rise up to claim ...
Ellen’s Broom
Ellen’s Broom Kelly Starling Lyons 9780399250033 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A young girl learns a new meaning for freedom during the time of Reconstruction...
Trespass: Portraits of Unhoused Life, Love, and Understanding
Trespass: Portraits of Unhoused Life, Love, and Understanding Kim Watson 9781506491134 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media As seen through the eyes of photographer Kim Watson, who has spent three ye...
Free Enterprise: A Novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant
Free Enterprise: A Novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant Michelle Cliff 9780872864375 Fiction City Lights Publishers City Lights Publishers In 1858, two black women meet at a restaurant and begin to plot a rev...
Black Girl You Are Atlas
Black Girl You Are Atlas Renée Watson 9780593461709 Fiction Kokila Penguin Random House A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson. In t...
Watson and Holmes: A Scandal in Harlem
Watson and Holmes: A Scandal in Harlem Brandon Easton, Karl Bollers, Greg Anderson Elysée, Lindsay Faye, and Steven Grant 9781960171030 Fiction Fairsquare Comics Fairsquare Comics Harlem, Now. The mos...
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom Ilyon Woo 9781501191053 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who ...
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom William Craft and Ellen Craft 9780820321042 Nonfiction University of Georgia Press University of Georgia Press An Important Contribution to the Birth of African Am...
Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Helene Cooper 9781451697353 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. The harrowing, but triumphant story of Ellen Johnson...
On the Block: Stories of Home
On the Block: Stories of Home Ellen Oh 9780593648445 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House From We Need Diverse Books comes an inspiring middle-grade anthology following the inter...
Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn And Made America A Democracy
Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn And Made America A Democracy Bruce Watson 9780143119432 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House A majestic history of the summer of ’64, whic...
The Student Debt Crisis: America’s Moral Urgency
The Student Debt Crisis: America’s Moral Urgency Jamal Eric Watson 9781506495163 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media The student debt crisis is a civil rights issue, and it’s time we start treating ...
Cicely Tyson
Cicely Tyson Renée Watson 9780063219991 Nonfiction Amistad Books for Young Readers HarperCollins From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Renée Watson and quilt artist Sherry Sh...
Summer Is Here
Summer Is Here Renée Watson 9781547605866 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing New York Times bestselling creators Renée Watson and Bea Jackson offer a picture book ode to a ...
Ways to Make Sunshine
Ways to Make Sunshine Renée Watson 9781547600564 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Publishing From Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award winner Ren�e Watson comes the first book i...
What Momma Left Me
What Momma Left Me Renée Watson 9781547601738 Fiction Bloomsbury YA Bloomsbury Publishing Rediscover New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor- and Coretta Scott King Author Award-winning author Ren&e...
Opal Watson: A Case Most Fowl
Opal Watson: A Case Most Fowl Brittany J. Thurman 9780063326545 Fiction Storytide HarperCollins In this second book in the middle-grade mystery series based on the popular Pinna podcast, super sleuth ...
Opal Watson: Private Eye
Opal Watson: Private Eye Brittany J. Thurman 9780063326491 Fiction Storytide HarperCollins Opal Watson, Private Eye introduces an exciting new middle grade mystery series based on the popular original...
Interview with Danger
Interview with Danger Lisa Watson 9780999891704 Fiction Lisa Y Watson Lisa Y Watson When Sasha Lambert’s debut novel, The Passport Diaries, hits the bookstores it quickly becomes a bestseller. Her ex-...
Beyond Tears: Living After Losing a Child (Revised Edition with a Chapter Written by Siblings) (Revised)
Beyond Tears: Living After Losing a Child (Revised Edition with a Chapter Written by Siblings) (Revised) Ellen Mitchell 9780312545192 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Meant to comf...
A More Perfect Union
A More Perfect Union Teri Ellen Cross Davis 9780814257784 Poetry Mad Creek Books Ohio University Press In the tender, sensual, and bracing poems of a more perfect Union, Teri Ellen Cross Davis reclaim...
Who Was Kobe Bryant?
Who Was Kobe Bryant? Ellen Labrecque 9780593225707 Nonfiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House Told in a new Who HQ Now format for trending topics, this Who Was? biography details NBA superstar K...
The Daring Escape of Ellen Craft (On My Own History)
The Daring Escape of Ellen Craft (On My Own History) Cathy Moore 9780876144626 Fiction Carolrhoda Books Lerner Publishing Group FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Recounts how Ellen Craft and her ...
Everything New Again Deluxe Limited Edition
Everything New Again Deluxe Limited Edition Renée Watson 9781547605835 Fiction Bloomsbury YA Bloomsbury Publishing Deluxe limited edition will include stenciled edges and a designed case cover! #1 ...
All the Blues in the Sky
All the Blues in the Sky Renée Watson 9781547605897 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing #1 New York Times bestselling and Newbery Honor author Renée Watson explores friendsh...
Skin & Bones
Skin & Bones Renée Watson 9780316570886 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group From the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a soulful and lyrical novel exploring sister...
Ways to Build Dreams
Ways to Build Dreams Renée Watson 9781547610181 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award winner Renée Watson continues her bestselling ...
Life Beyond Likes: Logging Off Your Screen and Into Your Life
Life Beyond Likes: Logging Off Your Screen and Into Your Life Isa Watson 9781637740934 Nonfiction BenBella Books BenBella Books With so much of our lives lived online, we’ve never been more connected—...
Born on the Water: The 1619 Project
Born on the Water: The 1619 Project Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson 9780593307359 Nonfiction Kokila Penguin Random House The 1619 Project’s lyrical picture book in verse chronicles the consequenc...
Love Is a Revolution
Love Is a Revolution Renée Watson 9781547600601 Fiction Bloomsbury YA Bloomsbury Publishing From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Ren�e Watson comes a love story about not only a ...
This Side of Home
This Side of Home Renée Watson 9781619639300 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Children's Books Bloomsbury Publishing A captivating and poignant coming-of-age urban YA debut about sisters, friends, and what it m...
Piecing Me Together
Piecing Me Together Renée Watson 9781681191058 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Children's Books Bloomsbury Publishing “Watson, with rhythm and style, somehow gets at the toxicity of sympathy, the unquenchable ...
This Side of Home
This Side of Home Renée Watson 9781599906683 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Children's Books Bloomsbury Publishing Identical twins Nikki and Maya have been on the same page for ""everything""-friends, school,...
Spice
Spice Naleighna Kai, Pat G’Orge Walker, Lisa Watson, Martha Kennerson, Michelle D. Rayford, Janice Pernell, J. L. Campbell, Kisha Green, and Terri Ann Johnson 9781732622517 Fiction Macro Publishing Gr...
Skin & Bones (paperback)
Skin & Bones (paperback) Renée Watson 9780316570893 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group Best Book of May 2024 by New York Post. Finalist for the 2024 Westport Prize for Literature. ...
Strawberry Spring
Strawberry Spring Ruth P. Watson 9781593096809 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From beloved author Ruth P. Watson comes the latest historical novel following Carrie Parker and her family ...
Cranberry Winter
Cranberry Winter Ruth P. Watson 9781593099787 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Romance, suspense, and murder are at the center of this sequel to the popular Blackberry Days of Summer and A...
What Momma Left Me
What Momma Left Me Renée Watson 9781599907048 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Children's Books Bloomsbury Publishing Serenity knows she is good at keeping secrets, and she’s got a whole lifetime’s worth of the...
The Pan-Africanists
The Pan-Africanists Dudley Thompson and Barrington Watson 9780865438101 Nonfiction Ian Randle Publishers Ian Randle Publishers This book celebrates the lives of seventeen Black leaders who have made o...
Some Places More Than Others
Some Places More Than Others Renée Watson 9781681191089 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Publishing RENÉE WATSON is the Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award-winning author ...
Scottsboro: A Novel
Scottsboro: A Novel Ellen Feldman 9780393064902 Fiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A powerful novel about race, class, sex, and a lie that refused to die. Alabama, 1931. A pos...
Short Works of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Short Works of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Frances E. W. Harper 9781374876163 Fiction Pinnacle Kensington Publishing Corp. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is...
Flying Lessons & Other Stories
Flying Lessons & Other Stories Ellen Oh 9781101934593 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Whether it is basketball dreams, family fiascos, first crushes, or new neighborhoods, t...
One Death, Nine Stories
One Death, Nine Stories Marc Aronson and Charles R. Smith Jr. 9780763652852 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press How could one teenage boy’s life elicit other kids’ first experiences — even after...
Flying Lessons & Other Stories (paperback)
Flying Lessons & Other Stories (paperback) Ellen Oh 9781101934623 Fiction Yearling Penguin Random House Published in partnership with We Need Diverse Books, this middle-grade anthology brings together...
Trial and Triumph
Trial and Triumph Frances E. W. Harper 9781508847038 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Trial and Triumph is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by ...
The Rise: Where Neighbors Are Sometimes More
The Rise: Where Neighbors Are Sometimes More Chantal Ellen 9780978678609 Nonfiction Lion’s Den Publishing Lion’s Den Publishing Exploring issues of self-esteem, family discord, sisterhood, faith, and ...
Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad Ellen Levine 9780439777339 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom b...
Brooklyn Noir
Brooklyn Noir Tim McLoughlin 9781888451580 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Akashic Books announces Brooklyn novelist Tim McLoughlin as the editor of the anthology (in addition to his contributing ...
A Fence Away From Freedom
A Fence Away From Freedom Ellen S. Levine 9780399226380 Nonfiction Putnam Juvenile Penguin Random House A series of interviews with Japanese Americans, who were placed in internment camps during World...
Globalization, Sovereignty and Citizenship in the Caribbean
Globalization, Sovereignty and Citizenship in the Caribbean Hilbourne A. Watson 9789766405502 Nonfiction University of the West Indies Press University of the West Indies Press The contributors to Glo...
Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry
Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry Charlotte Watson Sherman 9780060553517 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins A powerful collection of original and recent stories and poems by some of...
This Opening Sky
This Opening Sky Kelly Hollman and Charlotte Watson Sherman 9781638192152 Fiction Milk + Cookies Bushel & Peck Books Historical fiction at its finest! A sweet and sensitive, accessible middle grade n...
Turning Point (Paperback)
Turning Point (Paperback) Paula Chase 9780062965677 Fiction Greenwillow Books HarperCollins When being yourself isn’t good enough, who should you be? Told in dual perspectives, this provocative and t...
Turning Point
Turning Point Paula Chase 9780062965660 Fiction Greenwillow Books HarperCollins When being yourself isn’t good enough, who should you be? Told in dual perspectives, this provocative and timely novel ...
A Right Worthy Woman
A Right Worthy Woman Ruth P. Watson 9781668003022 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In the vein of The Personal Librarian and The House of Eve, a "remarkable and stirring novel" (Patti Callah...
One Dark Body
One Dark Body Charlotte Watson Sherman 9780984709533 Fiction Sweet Inspiration Press Sweet Inspiration Press Set in Pearl, Washington, One Dark Body is the story of Raisin, a twelve-year-old girl aban...
Elderberry Fall
Elderberry Fall Ruth P. Watson 9781593095154 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. This sequel to the historical bestseller Blackberry Days of Summer reunites the people of Jefferson County, V...
Harlem’s Little Blackbird
Harlem’s Little Blackbird Renée Watson 9780375869730 Nonfiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Zora and Langston. Billie and Bessie. Eubie and Duke. If the Harlem Renaissanc...
Operation Sisterhood
Operation Sisterhood Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich 9780593379929 Fiction Yearling Penguin Random House Fans of the Netflix reboot of The Babysitters Club will delight as four new sisters band together...
A Good Kind of Trouble
A Good Kind of Trouble Lisa Moore Ramée 9780062836687 Fiction Balzer & Bray/Harperteen HarperCollins Recipient of the 2020 Walter Honors, Younger Readers Category from We Need Diverse ...
Beyond Fragility: A Skills-Based Guide to Effective Anti-Racist Allyship
Beyond Fragility: A Skills-Based Guide to Effective Anti-Racist Allyship Yara Mekawi, Natalie Watson-Singleton, and Danyelle Dawson 9781962305068 Nonfiction Bridge City Books PESI Publishing Anti-raci...
The Evolution of Al Sharpton: The Provocative Politics of the People’s Preacher
The Evolution of Al Sharpton: The Provocative Politics of the People’s Preacher Jamal Eric Watson 9781932841732 Nonfiction Agate Bolden Agate Publishing, Inc Once marginalized merely as a “rabble rous...
Blackberry Days of Summer
Blackberry Days of Summer Ruth P. Watson 9781593094133 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In an exciting historical whodunit, a young black man is murdered and even though suspects abound, n...
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America Ibi Zoboi 9780062698728 Fiction Balzer + Bray HarperCollins Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, and featuring some of the most acc...
A Fiance for Christmas (A Man for Every Occasion) (Volume 1)
A Fiance for Christmas (A Man for Every Occasion) (Volume 1) Lisa Watson 9781505808599 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Alyssa Bailey and Niles Hawthorne are an accident waiting to happen!...
Love by Design (The Match Broker)
Love by Design (The Match Broker) Lisa Watson 9780373863754 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Harlequin Enterprises Limited He lost her once. Is this their second chance? Transforming a vision for Belle Cove R...
A Place Where Hurricanes Happen
A Place Where Hurricanes Happen Renée Watson 9780385376686 Fiction Dragonfly Books Dragonfly Books New Orleans is known as a place where hurricanes happen … but that’s just one side of the story.Child...
Mermaid Kenzie: Protector of the Deeps
Mermaid Kenzie: Protector of the Deeps Charlotte Watson Sherman 9781635923100 Fiction Boyds Mills Press Boyds Mills Press Kenzie turns her fierce love for the ocean into action, resourcefully cleaning...
Brown Sugar Babe
Brown Sugar Babe Charlotte Watson Sherman 9781635921380 Fiction Boyds Mills Press Boyds Mills Press Brown is beautiful. Brown is powerful! “This is the book I want to give to my future daughter.” —...
Two Hearts for Christmas (Love at Christmastime) (Volume 2)
Two Hearts for Christmas (Love at Christmastime) (Volume 2) Lisa Watson 9781517314019 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC In Two Hearts for Christmas, the Darcys have a two year old son, a pr...
Blackout
Blackout Ibi Zoboi, Tracey Baptiste, Coe Booth, Dhonielle Clayton, Brandy Colbert, Jay Coles, Lamar Giles, Leah Henderson, Justina Ireland, Varian Johnson, Kekla Magoon, Jason Reynolds, Nic Stone, Re...
CJ’s Big Dream
CJ’s Big Dream C.J. Watson 9781087854779 Fiction Quiet Storm 32 Quiet Storm 32 With his dreams set on the NBA, CJ must now prepare for his biggest basketball game thus far! From pep talks to lucky soc...
Touch (Revised)
Touch (Revised) Charlotte Watson Sherman 9780060927530 Fiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins Rayna Sargent is a thirty-five-year-old artist who supports herself by working as a telephone crisis-line ...
Everyday illusions: Turning life experiences into laughter while gaining knowledge.
Everyday illusions: Turning life experiences into laughter while gaining knowledge. Renée Watson 9781520407715 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published A small collection of poetry f...
A Heart for Christmas (Love at Christmastime) (Volume 1)
A Heart for Christmas (Love at Christmastime) (Volume 1) Lisa Watson 9781502869180 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Sometimes a glimpse of the past can hold the key to your future. Three y...
Love Contract (The Match Broker)
Love Contract (The Match Broker) Lisa Watson 9780373863044 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Romance Harlequin Enterprises Limited There are no deals when it comes to love…The charismatic force behind one of C...
Ways to Share Joy
Ways to Share Joy Renée Watson 9781547612727 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing
Ways to Make Sunshine
Ways to Make Sunshine Renée Watson 9781547606658 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing
CJ’s Big Project
CJ’s Big Project C.J. Watson 9781087870489 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published CJ’s back for the win but there’s one thing standing in his way, his class project. In order to play ...
Piecing Me Together
Piecing Me Together Renée Watson 9781681191072 Fiction Bloomsbury YA Bloomsbury Publishing
Her Heart’s Desire (The Match Broker)
Her Heart’s Desire (The Match Broker) Lisa Watson 9780373863563 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Romance Harlequin Enterprises Limited Love’s his only mission After a series of dating disasters, Tiffany Gentr...
Touch
Touch Charlotte Watson Sherman 9781450282048 Fiction iUniverse Author Solutions A woman on the verge of falling in love must tell her new lover she’s contracted a life-threatening disease.
Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840-1865
Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840-1865 William L. Andrews 9780197547311 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press “The distincti...
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...
Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank
Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank Justene Hill Edwards 9781324073857 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. In the years immediately after the Civ...
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...
Sweet Liberia: Lessons from the Coal Pot
Sweet Liberia: Lessons from the Coal Pot Susan D. Peters 9780982712504 Fiction Sunrise Consulting Sunrise Consulting Many have wondered what it would be like to pack up our things and move to a new co...
Slavery and the Making of America
Slavery and the Making of America James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton 9780195179033 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press The history of slavery is central to understanding the...
Rock ’Til You Drop: The Decline from Rebellion to Nostalgia
Rock ’Til You Drop: The Decline from Rebellion to Nostalgia John Strausbaugh 9781859846292 Nonfiction Verso Books Verso Books In the 1960s and early 70s rock and rebellion went arm in arm. This was th...
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...
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson 9780525580454 Nonfiction Random House Children’s Books and Just Us Books Penguin Random House and Just Us Books Fifty of th...
The Wind on Her Tongue
The Wind on Her Tongue Anita Kopacz 9781668052211 Fiction Atria / Black Privilege Publishing Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this lyrical and stirring companion to the “spellbinding” (Harper’s Bazaar) Shall...
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All Martha S. Jones 9781541600256 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books The epic history of African American women’...
The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life’s Direction and Purpose
The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life’s Direction and Purpose Oprah Winfrey 9781250307507 Nonfiction Flatiron Books Macmillan Publishers Everyone has a purpose. And, according to Oprah Winfrey, “...
Black Eye
Black Eye Sharon Dennis Wyeth 9781635344639 Poetry Finishing Line Press Finishing Line Press Sharon Dennis Wyeth’s poetry mines a family triangle to reveal an "ache of flowering." After the "Black Eye...
The Oprah Winfrey Show: Reflections on an American Legacy
The Oprah Winfrey Show: Reflections on an American Legacy Deborah Davis 9781419700590 Nonfiction Abrams Books Abrams The Oprah Winfrey Show came to an end on May 25, 2011, after 25 years on television...
William Still and His Freedom Stories: The Father of the Underground Railroad
William Still and His Freedom Stories: The Father of the Underground Railroad Don Tate 9781561459353 Nonfiction Peachtree Publishers Peachtree Publishers From Ezra Jack Keats Award-winning author-illu...
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...
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...