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The Exes
The Exes Brandon Massey 9798985421644 Fiction Dark Corner Publishing Dark Corner Publishing Divorce can be deadly… Seven years ago, Austin Dash’s dangerously jealous wife, Naomi, nearly stabbed him...
Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-Possession
Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-Possession Austin Channing Brown 9780593728369 Nonfiction Convergent Books Penguin Random House In a Time of Rising Authoritarianism and Attacks...
Avery Colt Is a Snake, a Thief, a Liar
Avery Colt Is a Snake, a Thief, a Liar Ron A. Austin 9781732039919 Fiction Southeast Missouri State University Press Southeast Missouri State University Press Austin’s semi-autobiographical, linked st...
Pieces of Justice
Pieces of Justice Saundra 9780988709386 Fiction Delphine Publications Delphine Publications Making partner at Garrett & Rhem law firm and being engaged to the man she loves has Justice riding on a nat...
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival Kwame Dawes 9781936070077 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books Contributors include: Robert Pins...
Getting It Wrong: How Black Public Intellectuals Are Failing Black America
Getting It Wrong: How Black Public Intellectuals Are Failing Black America Algernon Austin 9780595385942 Nonfiction iUniverse Author Solutions Black public intellectuals, from liberal to conservative,...
Crossroads
Crossroads LaVerne Thompson, Angela Kay Austin, Naleighna Kai, Ursula Sinclair, and 16 more B07N1T887K Fiction Flavorfullove Unlimited Publishing Flavorfullove Unlimited Publishing Join 21 bestselling...
Confessions of a Reformed Cougar: Younger Isn’t Necessarily Better (Volume 2)
Confessions of a Reformed Cougar: Younger Isn’t Necessarily Better (Volume 2) Holly Mosley Cooper 9781502437983 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Chasing the young men just isn’t fun for Ja...
On the Frontline
On the Frontline Angela Kay Austin 9780615895918 Fiction Vanilla Heart Publishing Vanilla Heart Publishing For those who serve, and the ones who love them. Two Angela Kay Austin stories: Scarlet’s Tea...
Life Without Parole: America’s New Death Penalty?
Life Without Parole: America’s New Death Penalty? Austin Sarat and Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. 9780814762486 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press Is life without parole the perf...
The Road to Abolition?: The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States
The Road to Abolition?: The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States Austin Sarat and Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. 9780814762189 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press At ...
When Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice
When Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice Austin Sarat and Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. 9780814740521 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press Since 1989, there have be...
Austin Creek
Austin Creek Kimberly S. Love 9798218669324 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Messenger birds, a conscious spring, and a terracotta effigy summon back home the Dove clan of Austi...
Festival of Colors
Festival of Colors Surishtha Sehgal and Kabir Sehgal 9781481420495 Fiction Beach Lane Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Learn all about Holi, the Indian Festival of Colors, in this lush picture book from b...
From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America
From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America Austin Sarat and Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. 9780814740224 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press Since...
The Field Guide to the North American Teenager
The Field Guide to the North American Teenager Ben Philippe 9780062824110 Fiction Balzer & Bray/Harperteen HarperCollins Morris Award Winner for Best Debut YA Novel of the Year!A hilarious YA contempo...
The Top Cities for Readers of African American Literature
The Top Cities for Readers of African American Literature Troy Johnson xtopcities Nonfiction AALBC.com African American Literature Book Club Out of Print — Look out for a Future Edition The African A...
This Is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature
This Is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature Ahdaf Soueif and Omar Robert Hamilton 9781632868848 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing Writers from Ali...
Punishment in Popular Culture
Punishment in Popular Culture Austin Sarat and Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. 9781479833528 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press The way a society punishes demonstrates its commitm...
Mothership: Tales From Afrofuturism And Beyond
Mothership: Tales From Afrofuturism And Beyond Bill Campbell and Edward Austin Hall 9780989141147 Fiction Rosarium Publishing Rosarium Publishing Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond is a gr...
The Wright Choices
The Wright Choices Ronald Gauthier 9781785542398 Nonfiction Austin Macauley Austin Macauley The legacy of Richard Wright is little known. Born of personal experience, his works threw a harsh light on ...
Racial Reconciliation and the Healing of a Nation: Beyond Law and Rights
Racial Reconciliation and the Healing of a Nation: Beyond Law and Rights Austin Sarat and Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. 9781479843534 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press The work...
Sweet Victory
Sweet Victory Angela Kay Austin 9780615905457 Fiction Vanilla Heart Publishing Vanilla Heart Publishing Also in Audiobook and as Ebook! This edition also includes book club discussion starters. For he...
The Polished Hoe
The Polished Hoe Austin Clarke 9780060555658 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins When Mary-Mathilda, one of the most respected women on the colonized island of Bimshire (also known as Barbados), calls the p...
Applying J.L. Austin: A Black Speech ACT Workbook
Applying J.L. Austin: A Black Speech ACT Workbook Tracie Morris 9781946104656 Nonfiction Chax Press Chax Press What are early elements or features of your relationship to the idea of Blackness vis...
Sorry You’re Having A Bad Night
Sorry You’re Having A Bad Night E.K. Robertson 9780578306100 Fiction Austin House Publishing Austin House Publishing When a digital media powerhouse becomes the object of conspiracy, a corporate celeb...
The Messenger
The Messenger Marcus Anthony Hunter 9781645758938 Fiction Austin Macauley Austin Macauley Charles Kelly, a former Vietnam veteran who works as a news reporter for a Los Angeles TV station, is piloting...
This Hoe Got Roaches In Her Crib: An Urban Satire
This Hoe Got Roaches In Her Crib: An Urban Satire Quan Millz 9798736151776 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Austin Watkins, 35 and a single father, finds himself in a precarious...
Block Party 666: Mark of the Beast Volume 1
Block Party 666: Mark of the Beast Volume 1 Al-Saadiq Banks 9780997187182 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications It’s a Block Party reunion and Attorney Tony Austin is the glue, as ...
Block Party 666: Mark of the Beast Volume 2
Block Party 666: Mark of the Beast Volume 2 Al-Saadiq Banks 9780997187199 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications It’s a Block Party reunion and Attorney Tony Austin is the glue, as ...
Sojourner: The Journey to a New Beginning
Sojourner: The Journey to a New Beginning Angela Kay Austin 9780986313790 Fiction Bluff City Publishing Bluff City Publishing Sojourner knew how to run, hide and fight. She would find her family and r...
Melodee: A Song for Nora
Melodee: A Song for Nora Angela Kay Austin 9780986313783 Fiction Bluff City Publishing Bluff City Publishing Melodee King loved few people. One left her when she was a child, one died, and the other s...
Run For Freedom
Run For Freedom Angela Kay Austin 9780986313769 Fiction Bluff City Publishing Bluff City Publishing The choice was to run for freedom or die never having been valued as a human — as a woman. The penal...
Love’s Chance
Love’s Chance Angela Kay Austin 9780986313745 Fiction Bluff City Publishing Bluff City Publishing Sinclair Mosley didn’t like working in the family restaurant as a kid. But, without it, without her pa...
Beale Street Blues
Beale Street Blues Angela Kay Austin 9780986313721 Fiction Bluff City Publishing Bluff City Publishing Darling Crawford lost the man she loved to another woman. Returning to her parents was bad enough...
Give Me Everything
Give Me Everything Angela Kay Austin 9780692021408 Fiction Vanilla Heart Publishing Vanilla Heart Publishing NEW EXPANDED 2ND EDITION! He’d sat on top of the world… the perfect woman, a daughter, and ...
Rumer
Rumer Angela Kay Austin 9780615977010 Fiction Vanilla Heart Publishing Vanilla Heart Publishing Rumer Wilson married the love of her life ten years ago, has two beautiful children, and what she believ...
Give Me Everything
Give Me Everything Angela Kay Austin 9781937227579 Fiction Vanilla Heart Publishing Vanilla Heart Publishing He’d sat on top of the world… the perfect woman, a daughter, and a job that made his father...
After the Garden
After the Garden Doris Jean Austin 9780453005388 Fiction Dutton Books Penguin Random House Elzina Thompkins James, a young Black woman raised in the strict atmosphere of her over-protective grandmothe...
African American Religion
African American Religion Eddie S. Glaude Jr. 9780195182897 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Since the first African American denomination was established in Philadelphia in ...
Reflections from Zora!: Celebrating 25 Years of the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities
Reflections from Zora!: Celebrating 25 Years of the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, N. Y. Nathiri, and others 9781886104686 Nonfiction Florida Histor...
Dream a World Anew: The African American Experience and the Shaping of America
Dream a World Anew: The African American Experience and the Shaping of America National Museum of African American History and Culture 9781588345684 Nonfiction Smithsonian Books Smithsonian Books Drea...
The Annotated African American Folktales (The Annotated Books)
The Annotated African American Folktales (The Annotated Books) Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 9780871407535 Fiction Liveright W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. These nearly 150 African American folktales animate o...
Rise to the Sun
Rise to the Sun Leah Johnson 9781338662238 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. From the author of You Should See Me in a Crown, Leah Johnson delivers a stunning novel about being brave enough to ...
Through the African American Lens: Double Exposure
Through the African American Lens: Double Exposure National Museum of African American History and Culture 9781907804465 Nonfiction Smithsonian Books Smithsonian Books Double Exposure is a major new s...
Thursday Night Lights: The Story of Black High School Football in Texas
Thursday Night Lights: The Story of Black High School Football in Texas Michael Hurd 9781477310342 Nonfiction University of Texas Press University of Texas Press At a time when "Friday night lights" s...
African American Firsts: Famous, Little-Known and Unsung Triumphs of Blacks in America (4th Edition)
African American Firsts: Famous, Little-Known and Unsung Triumphs of Blacks in America (4th Edition) Joan Potter 9780758292414 Nonfiction Down & Out Books Down & Out Book Updated With The Latest Facts...
Preserving HBCUs’ Billion Dollar Legacy: International Law, Self-Determination and the Right to Institutions
Preserving HBCUs’ Billion Dollar Legacy: International Law, Self-Determination and the Right to Institutions International Human Rights Association of American Minorities 9780986085369 Nonfiction Clar...
Transatlantic Dialogue: Contemporary Art in and Out of Africa
Transatlantic Dialogue: Contemporary Art in and Out of Africa Michael D. Harris 9780295979335 Nonfiction Oakland Museum of California Oakland Museum of California "Transatlantic Dialogue" opens an exc...
1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African American History
1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African American History Jeffrey C. Stewart 9780385485760 Nonfiction Three Rivers Press Three Rivers Press Where can one go to get a comprehensive and entertaini...
Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture
Begin with the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture Mabel O. Wilson 9781588345691 Nonfiction Smithsonian Books Smithsonian Books Rising on the National Mall next ...
African Life and Customs
African Life and Customs Edward Wilmot Blyden 9780933121430 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press African life and Customs is an essential collection of Edward Wilmont Blyden s articles t...
Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African-American Cooking
Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African-American Cooking Toni Tipton-Martin 9781524761738 Nonfiction Clarkson Potter Penguin Random House Adapted from historical texts and rare African-American...
Introduction to African American Studies
Introduction to African American Studies James Stewart and Talmadge Anderson 9781580730396 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press Highly Recommended. All levels/libraries—CHOICE Everything...
Working The Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing
Working The Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing Michele E. Lee 9780692857878 Nonfiction Wadastick Wadastick African American traditional medicine is an American classic that ...
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature Third Ed. Vol. 1
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature Third Ed. Vol. 1 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Valerie A. Smith 9780393923698 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. An excitin...
Juneteenth Texas: Essays in African-American Folklore
Juneteenth Texas: Essays in African-American Folklore Alan B. Govenar, Francis Edward Abernethy, Patrick B. Mullen 9781574412833 Nonfiction University of North Texas Press University of North Texas Pr...
African American Literature Beyond Race
African American Literature Beyond Race Gene Andrew Jarrett 9780814742884 Fiction New York University Press New York University Press It is widely accepted that the canon of African American literatur...
Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation
Stony the Road We Trod: African American Biblical Interpretation Cain Hope Felder 9780800625016 Nonfiction Fortress Press 1517 Media Contents: Preface; Map; Introduction. Part One: The Relevance of Bi...
National Museum of African American History and Culture: A Souvenir Book
National Museum of African American History and Culture: A Souvenir Book National Museum of African American History and Culture 9781588345707 Nonfiction Smithsonian Books Smithsonian Books This souve...
The Black Chicago Renaissance (New Black Studies Series)
The Black Chicago Renaissance (New Black Studies Series) Darlene Clark Hine and John McCluskey Jr. 9780252078583 Fiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press Beginning in the 193...
Motswana: Africa, Dream Again
Motswana: Africa, Dream Again Donald Molosi 9780996577052 Fiction The Mantle The Mantle Drama. African & African American Studies. History & Politics. MOTSWANA: AFRICA, DREAM AGAIN is the story of Bot...
Protecting Our Own: Race, Crime, and African Americans
Protecting Our Own: Race, Crime, and African Americans Katheryn Russell-Brown 9780742545717 Nonfiction Rowman & Littlefield Rowman & Littlefield Inspired by the O.J. Simpson case, Protecting Our Own e...
In The Company Of Black Men: The African Influence On African American Culture In New York City
In The Company Of Black Men: The African Influence On African American Culture In New York City Craig Wilder 9780814793688 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press From the subal...
Another Chance Maybe The Last,Relations Between African Americans And Africans
Another Chance Maybe The Last,Relations Between African Americans And Africans Keleti Sanon 9780615305073 Fiction Mandingo Publishing Mandingo Publishing What will you find when you read through the p...
50 Billion Dollar Boss: African American Women Sharing Stories of Success in Entrepreneurship and Leadership
50 Billion Dollar Boss: African American Women Sharing Stories of Success in Entrepreneurship and Leadership Kathey Porter and Andrea Hoffman 9781137475015 Nonfiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publ...
The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature: An Anthology
The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature: An Anthology William L. Andrews 9780807856659 Fiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press The first African A...
The African Book Of Names: 5,000+ Common And Uncommon Names From The African Continent
The African Book Of Names: 5,000+ Common And Uncommon Names From The African Continent Askhari Johnson Hodari 9780757307799 Nonfiction HCI HCI From an author who adopted an African name as an adult,...
Representing the Race
Representing the Race Gene Andrew Jarrett 9780814743393 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press The political value of African American literature has long been a topic of great...
The Ancestors Are Smiling!
The Ancestors Are Smiling! Kathy Lynne Marshall 9780999201404 Nonfiction Kanika African Sculptures Kanika African Sculptures The Ancestors Are Smiling! is a collection of uplifting, funny, touching, a...
African Intellectual Heritage (African American Studies)
African Intellectual Heritage (African American Studies) Molefi Kete Asante 9781566394031 Nonfiction Temple University Press Temple University Press Organized by major themes such as creation stories,...
Jam On The Vine: A Novel
Jam On The Vine: A Novel LaShonda Katrice Barnett 9780802123343 Fiction Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. A new American classic: a dynamic tale of triumph against the odds and the compelling story of ...
Kwanzaa!: Africa Lives in a New World Festival
Kwanzaa!: Africa Lives in a New World Festival Sule Greg C. Wilson 9780823918577 Nonfiction Rosen Publishing Rosen Publishing Discusses the history, observance, and significance of the African America...
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Encyclopedia of African American History: [3 Volumes]
Encyclopedia of African American History: [3 Volumes] Leslie M. Alexander 9781851097692 Nonfiction ABC-CLIO ABC-CLIO Encyclopedia of African American History introduces readers to the significant peop...
The Oxford Handbook Of African American Theology
The Oxford Handbook Of African American Theology Katie G. Cannon and Anthony B. Pinn 9780199755653 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Named an Honor Book for Nonfiction by the ...
The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism
The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 9780195060751 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s original...
King Penguin
King Penguin Jesse Byrd 9780692909256 Fiction Jesse B. Creative Jesse B. Creative PARIS BOOK FESTIVAL Top 3 Book of the Year!LOS ANGELES BOOK FESTIVAL: Top 10 Book of the Year!"Reminiscent of Watershi...
Chicken Soup For The African American Soul: Celebrating And Sharing Our Culture, One Story At A Time (Chicken Soup For The Soul)
Chicken Soup For The African American Soul: Celebrating And Sharing Our Culture, One Story At A Time (Chicken Soup For The Soul) Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Lisa Nichols, and Tom Joyner 9780757...
Boys Into Men: Raising Our African American Teenage Sons
Boys Into Men: Raising Our African American Teenage Sons Nancy Boyd-Franklin and A. J. Franklin 9780525944966 Nonfiction Dutton Adult Penguin Random House Two noted psychologists, who are parents them...
African American Lives
African American Lives Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 9780195160246 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press African American Lives offers up-to-date, authorit...
Black Spirituality and Black Consciousness: Soul Force, Culture and Freedom in the African-American Experience
Black Spirituality and Black Consciousness: Soul Force, Culture and Freedom in the African-American Experience Carlyle Fielding Stewart, III 9780865436633 Nonfiction Africa World Press Africa World Pr...
100 Greatest African Americans: A Biographical Encyclopedia
100 Greatest African Americans: A Biographical Encyclopedia Molefi Kete Asante 9781573929639 Nonfiction Prometheus Books Prometheus Books Since 1619, when Africans first came ashore in the swampy Ches...
Official Guide to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Official Guide to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture National Museum of African American History and Culture 9781588345936 Nonfiction Smithsonian Books Smithsonian...
Becoming American: The African-American Journey
Becoming American: The African-American Journey Howard Dodson 9781402754074 Nonfiction Sterling Books Sterling Publishing Co., Inc Far too many Americans, of all races, are unaware of the pivotal role...
No Longer Slaves: Galatians and African American Experience
No Longer Slaves: Galatians and African American Experience Brad R. Braxton 9780814659489 Nonfiction Liturgical Press Liturgical Press No Longer Slaves brings the ancient New Testament message into co...
Innocent Crook
Innocent Crook d. E. Rogers 9780970880895 Fiction REGI Books REGI Books When one is born into a family of crime, can he rise above and become someone? Are we forever bound by what life has dealt us or...
Stirring Up the African American Spirit
Stirring Up the African American Spirit Ida Green 9781881165194 Nonfiction People Skills International People Skills International The African American experience is about hardship, overcoming adversi...
A Taste of Heritage: The New African-American Cuisine
A Taste of Heritage: The New African-American Cuisine Joe Randall and Toni Tipton-Martin 9780028603827 Nonfiction Wiley Wiley Chef Joe Randall and Toni Tipton-Martin showcase the rich heritage of Afri...
The Counter Revolution of 1836: Texas slavery & Jim Crow and the roots of American Fascism
The Counter Revolution of 1836: Texas slavery & Jim Crow and the roots of American Fascism Gerald Horne 9780717800018 Nonfiction International Publishers International Publishers When Mexico moved to ...
The Festival of Wild Orchid
The Festival of Wild Orchid Ann-Margaret Lim 9781845232016 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Alert to all the contradictions of contemporary Jamaica, these lyric and delicate poems find fresh...
The Darker Face of the Earth: Completely Revised Second Edition
The Darker Face of the Earth: Completely Revised Second Edition Rita Dove 9781885266194 Poetry Story Line Press Red Hen Press The Darker Face of the Earth, the first full-length play by Pulitzer Prize...
African American Audio Experience
African American Audio Experience Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, Nikki Giovanni, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Gwendolyn Brooks 9780060535278 Nonfiction Caedmon HarperCollins The leadi...
Proverbs For The People: Contemporary African-American Stories
Proverbs For The People: Contemporary African-American Stories Tracy Price-Thompson and TaRessa Stovall, with Pearl Cleage, Donna Hill, Parry Brown, Omar Tyree 9780758202871 Fiction Kensington Kensing...
Saving American Beach: The Biography of African American Environmentalist Mavynee Betsch
Saving American Beach: The Biography of African American Environmentalist Mavynee Betsch Heidi Tyline King 9781101996294 Nonfiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House This...
Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry: Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Series
Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry: Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Series Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781636142555 Nonfiction Akashic Books Akashic Bo...
A History of the African American Novel
A History of the African American Novel Valerie Babb 9781107061729 Nonfiction Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press African American novels have moved from being a literature of neces...
My Holy Bible For African-American Children, Kjv
My Holy Bible For African-American Children, Kjv Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson 9780310719878 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins "African-American parents long for a Bible that can help them expla...
State of Emergency: We Must Save African American Males
State of Emergency: We Must Save African American Males Jawanza Kunjufu 9780913543733 Nonfiction African American Images African American Images This critical analysis looks at the dire state of Afric...
Africology and the African Diaspora: Agency, Culture, and Change
Africology and the African Diaspora: Agency, Culture, and Change Molefi Kete Asante 9798765152713 Nonfiction Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Publishing Examining the African Diaspora in Africology, t...
Kill Them Before They Grow: Misdiagnosis of African American Boys in American Classrooms
Kill Them Before They Grow: Misdiagnosis of African American Boys in American Classrooms Michael Porter 9780913543542 Nonfiction African American Images African American Images Examining how African A...