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A Fire in My Head: Poems for the Dawn
A Fire in My Head: Poems for the Dawn Ben Okri 9781635423082 Poetry Other Press (NY) Other Press From the renowned Booker Prize-winning author, a powerful collection of poems covering topics of the da...
Prayer for the Living
Prayer for the Living Ben Okri 9781617758638 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Topical and timely, Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri’s new collection of short stories blurs parallel realities and...
African Stories
African Stories Ben Okri 9781101908334 Fiction Everyman’s Library Everyman’s Library A Pocket Classics hardcover collection of a century of 36 terrific stories by major writers from across Africa, sel...
Wild: Poems
Wild: Poems Ben Okri 9781635422924 Poetry Other Press (NY) Other Press A rich, joyful collection of poems on living and loving from the Booker Prize-winning author. Freedom is the most precious com...
Stars Of The New Curfew
Stars Of The New Curfew Ben Okri 9780099283881 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House To enter the world of Ben Okri’s stories is to surrender to a new reality. Set in the chaotic streets of Lagos and the...
The Freedom Artist
The Freedom Artist Ben Okri 9781617757914 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Okri’s somber, fablelike novel is a call to rally against oppressive institutions and for broader social consciousness. I...
Wild
Wild Ben Okri 9781846043307 Poetry Rider Books Penguin Random House Ben Okri is a prolific Booker-Prize winning novelist and essayist, but has published only two collections of poetry. The first was "...
An African Elegy: Poems
An African Elegy: Poems Ben Okri 9781635423105 Poetry Other Press (NY) Other Press This moving poetry collection from the Booker Prize-winning author finds strength and hope while reflecting on the co...
Astonishing the Gods
Astonishing the Gods Ben Okri 9781635422658 Fiction Other Press (NY) Other Press One of the BBC’s “100 Novels That Shaped Our World,” a much-needed fable that could change how we see ourselves and our...
The Landscapes Within
The Landscapes Within Ben Okri 9780582785397 Fiction Prentice Hall Press Prentice Hall Press In 1981, Nigerian author Ben Okri published The Landscapes Within, a novel about a young painter’s life and...
An African Elegy Paperback
An African Elegy Paperback Ben Okri 9780099736011 Poetry Vintage Books USA Penguin Random House Dreams are the currency of Okri’s writing, particularly in this first book of poems, An African Elegy, b...
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story Ben Carson 9780310332909 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Read our Interview with Dr Carson about this book and film adaptation starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. ...
The Age of Magic
The Age of Magic Ben Okri 9781635422689 Fiction Other Press (NY) Other Press In this enchanting novel from the Booker Prize-winning author, a group of world-weary travelers discover the meaning of lif...
Time for New Dreams
Time for New Dreams Ben Okri 9781846042683 Poetry Rider Books Penguin Random House Booker Prize-winning novelist and one of Britain’s foremost poets, Ben Okri is a passionate advocate of the written w...
Mental Fight: An Epic Poem
Mental Fight: An Epic Poem Ben Okri 9781635422900 Poetry Other Press (NY) Other Press An epic poem touching on issues of racism, intolerance, and environmental destruction, from the Booker Prize-winni...
Changing Destiny (paperback)
Changing Destiny (paperback) Ben Okri 9781635422269 Fiction Other Press (NY) Other Press A bold new adaptation of the 4,000-year-old Egyptian poem about Warrior King Sinuhe that captures the essence o...
Dangerous Love
Dangerous Love Ben Okri 9781635422665 Fiction Other Press (NY) Other Press With the simplicity and innocence of Narayan or Seth, he tells the story of a young man, Omovo, an office-worker and artist w...
The Last Gift of the Master Artists
The Last Gift of the Master Artists Ben Okri 9781635422795 Fiction Other Press (NY) Other Press The Booker Prize-winning author, a child of the Nigerian Civil War, reinvents through the story of the A...
Every Leaf a Hallelujah
Every Leaf a Hallelujah Ben Okri 9781635422702 Fiction Other Press (NY) Other Press An environmental fairytale that speaks eloquently to the most pressing issues of our times, from the Booker Prize–wi...
Changing Destiny
Changing Destiny Ben Okri 9781350260122 Fiction Methuen Drama Bloomsbury Press Two actors, a thousand characters, and the story of how a kingdom is changed… An epic new adaptation of the 4,000-year...
Starbook
Starbook Ben Okri 9781846040917 Fiction Random House Uk Ltd Random House Uk Ltd At one level, Starbook tells the delicate story of a prince and a maiden who are both tested by trials in a mythical lan...
Astonishing The Gods
Astonishing The Gods Ben Okri 9780753808641 Fiction Phoenix Orion Publishing Group This is a story for all ages, set in a time and place best known to lovers of fairytales and myths. It is a modern f...
Infinite Riches (The Famished Road)
Infinite Riches (The Famished Road) Ben Okri 9780753806807 Fiction Phoenix Orion Publishing Group Azaro is a spirit child. He made a pact with his spirit companions that when he was born he would die...
A Way Of Being Free
A Way Of Being Free Ben Okri 9780753801413 Fiction Phoenix Orion Publishing Group In this inspirational volume, the Booker Prize-winning author of THE FAMISHED ROAD makes essays into an art form. The ...
The Famished Road
The Famished Road Ben Okri 9780385425131 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House In the decade since it won the Booker Prize, Ben Okri’s Famished Road has become a classic. Like Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’...
Incidents At The Shrine
Incidents At The Shrine Ben Okri 9780099983002 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House Incidents at the Shrine is the first collection of stories by the author of 1991 Booker Prize-winning novel, The Fam...
Songs Of Enchantment
Songs Of Enchantment Ben Okri 9780385471572 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House In this remarkable sequel to his Booker Prize-winning novel The Famished Road, Okri continues the story of the spirit-ch...
In Arcadia
In Arcadia Ben Okri 9780753817070 Fiction Orion Orion Publishing Group A group of angry and ill-assorted people accept an invitation to make a journey. Inspired by a painting and financed by a myster...
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story Ben Carson 9780310214694 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Ben Carson, M.D., works medical miracles. Today, he’s one of the most celebrated neurosurgeons in the world...
Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance
Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance Ben Passmore 9780593316122 Nonfiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House From the Ignatz and Eisner Award–winning cartoonist Ben Passmore come...
Blue Beach
Blue Beach Karyn Parsons 9780316575751 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Perfect for fans of Promise Boys, this gripping historical mystery follows a teenager who finds...
This Blinding Absence of Light. Tahar Ben Jelloun
This Blinding Absence of Light. Tahar Ben Jelloun Tahar Ben Jelloun 9780141022826 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House In this extraordinary non-fiction novel, based on a true story, Tahar Ben J...
Crisis in the Classroom: Crisis in Education
Crisis in the Classroom: Crisis in Education Ben Carson, Ben Crump, and Armstrong Williams 9781510776883 Nonfiction Skyhorse Publishing Skyhorse Publishing Individuals from vastly different political ...
Sure, I’ll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump
Sure, I’ll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump Ben Philippe 9780063065062 Nonfiction Harper HarperCollins In the biting, hilarious vein of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You ...
Tiger Work: Stories, Essays and Poems about Climate Change
Tiger Work: Stories, Essays and Poems about Climate Change Ben Okri 9781635423365 Fiction Other Press (NY) Other Press A Best Book of 2023 by The New Yorker In this poignant, timely collection, the...
Tales of Freedom
Tales of Freedom Ben Okri 9781846041594 Fiction Rider Books Penguin Random House
The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them
The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them Ekow Eshun 9780063450523 Nonfiction Harper HarperCollins “Moving, thoughtful, redemptive. The Strangers is an important book. ...
Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted
Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted Ben Okri 9781635425284 Fiction Other Press (NY) Other Press In this modern fable with the impish magic of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a masked ba...
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Art and Objecthood
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Art and Objecthood Ben Okri 9783775753319 Nonfiction Hatje Cantz Hatje Cantz Verlag The first book on Basquiat’s ingenious uses of found objects and unconventional materials. ...
Step Into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature
Step Into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature Kevin Powell 9780471442561 Fiction Wiley Wiley Read more about the contributors to this fantastic volume of work “Kevin Powell is...
Rise Like Lions: Poetry for the Many
Rise Like Lions: Poetry for the Many Ben Okri 9781473676145 Poetry Hodder & Stoughton General Division Hodder & Stoughton Publishing
The Magic Lamp: Dreams of Our Age
The Magic Lamp: Dreams of Our Age Ben Okri 9781786694508 Fiction Head of Zeus Head of Zeus A lamp found in the attic of a London house inspires a sequence of images and writings. Meditations or storie...
Mental Fight
Mental Fight Ben Okri 9780753810675 Fiction Phoenix Orion Publishing Group This epic poem is intended as a celebration of humanity’s achievements at the end of this millennium, and a rallying cry for ...
Birds Of Heaven
Birds Of Heaven Ben Okri 9781857995930 Fiction Weidenfeld & Nicolson Orion Publishing Group This text contains two inspirational essays from the author of "The Famished Road", on the meaning of langua...
Flowers and Shadows (African Classics)
Flowers and Shadows (African Classics) Ben Okri 9780582035362 Fiction Longman Penguin Random House
About My Mother: A Novel
About My Mother: A Novel Tahar Ben Jelloun 9781846592010 Fiction Telegram Books Telegram Books "Morocco’s greatest living author."—The Guardian UK"A writer of social and moral acuteness."—Los Angeles ...
Abeng
Abeng Michelle Cliff 9780452274839 Fiction Plume Penguin Random House Ever since Abeng was first published in 1984, Michelle Cliff has steadily become a literary force. Her novels evoke both the clear...
The Third World of Theory (Clarendon Lectures in English Literature)
The Third World of Theory (Clarendon Lectures in English Literature) Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 9780198123842 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press The Third World of Theory, original...
Education: Assumptions versus History: Collected Papers (Hoover Institution Press Publication)
Education: Assumptions versus History: Collected Papers (Hoover Institution Press Publication) Thomas Sowell 9780817981129 Nonfiction Hoover Institution Press Hoover Institution Press In the papers co...
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...
This Blinding Absence of Light
This Blinding Absence of Light Tahar Ben Jelloun 9780143035725 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House An immediate and critically acclaimed bestseller in France, This Blinding Absence of Light is ...
Take The Risk: Learning To Identify, Choose, And Live With Acceptable Risk
Take The Risk: Learning To Identify, Choose, And Live With Acceptable Risk Ben Carson 9780310259732 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins No risk, pay the cost. Know risk, reap the rewards. In our risk-av...
This Blinding Absence of Light: A Novel
This Blinding Absence of Light: A Novel Tahar Ben Jelloun 9781565847231 Fiction The New Press The New Press An immediate and critically acclaimed bestseller in France and winner of the 2004 Internatio...
America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great
America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great Ben Carson 9780310330912 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In America the Beautiful, Dr. Ben Carson helps us learn from our past in orde...
In Strict Confidence
In Strict Confidence Dwayne S. Joseph 9781625173683 Fiction Brown Girls Books Brown Girls Books Psychiatrist Allen Kline is forced to make the agonizing choice of life over death when a killer approac...
The Last Friend
The Last Friend Tahar Ben Jelloun 9780143038481 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House Renowned for his compeling , humane portraits of everyday Arab lives, Tahar Ben Jelloun has affirmed his plac...
Never Forget Our People Were Always Free
Never Forget Our People Were Always Free Ben Jealous 9780062961747 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins “One of the nation’s most prominent civil rights leaders” (Washington Post), a New...
Black Liberation / Red Scare: Ben Davis and the Communist Party
Black Liberation / Red Scare: Ben Davis and the Communist Party Gerald Horne 9780717808625 Nonfiction International Publishers International Publishers Black Liberation/Red Scare is a study of an Afri...
More Than Love
More Than Love Sharon C. Cooper 9781946172235 Fiction Amaris Publishing Amaris Publishing Going from friends to lovers doesn’t come easy…Corporate attorney Benjamin Jenkins is one of Cincinnati’s most...
Daddy’s Girl
Daddy’s Girl Ben Burgess Jr. 9780988374577 Fiction Ben Burgess Jr. Ben Burgess Jr. Nick Johnson has always been an underachieving, borderline alcoholic. He soon finds himself in over his head when his...
The Happy Marriage
The Happy Marriage Tahar Ben Jelloun 9781612194653 Fiction Melville House Melville House “Ben Jelloun is arguably Morocco’s greatest living author, whose impressive body of work combines intellect and...
Wounded
Wounded Ben Burgess Jr. 9780988374522 Fiction Ben Burgess Jr. Ben Burgess Jr. Samantha Miller didn’t have an easy start. Molested as a child and subsequently forced into prostitution by her drug-addic...
Forgetful
Forgetful Nick Mann 9781625168573 Fiction Strategic Book Publishing Strategic Book Publishing A persuasive dean from a historically black university in Washington, D.C. talks Dr. Benjamin Parks into l...
The Sand Child
The Sand Child Tahar Ben Jelloun 9780801864407 Fiction Johns Hopkins University Press Johns Hopkins University Press In this lyrical, hallucinatory novel set in Morocco, Tahar Ben Jelloun offers an im...
The Sacred Night
The Sacred Night Tahar Ben Jelloun 9780801864414 Fiction Johns Hopkins University Press Johns Hopkins University Press The Sacred Night continues the remarkable story Tahar Ben Jelloun began in The ...
Ben Carson
Ben Carson Ben Carson 9780310586418 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins The Today’s Heroes series introduces readers ages 8-12 to modern, well-known Christians who have shown courage and persistence in the ...
African Origins Of Major "Western Religions"
African Origins Of Major "Western Religions" Yosef Ben-Jochannan 9780933121294 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press African Origins of the Major "Western Religions" first published in 19...
The Trial of Robert Mugabe
The Trial of Robert Mugabe Chielo Zona Eze 9780615278117 Fiction Okri Books Okri Books Unable to recall when exactly he died, Robert Mugabe is shocked to be in the presence of God for trial. Facing hi...
Dispatches from the Vanguard: The Global International African Arts Movement Versus Donald J. Trump
Dispatches from the Vanguard: The Global International African Arts Movement Versus Donald J. Trump Patrick A. Howell 9781912248667 Nonfiction Repeater Books Repeater Books A collection of writers, po...
Afrikan-Centered Consciousness Versus the New World Order: Garveyism in the Age of Globalism
Afrikan-Centered Consciousness Versus the New World Order: Garveyism in the Age of Globalism Amos N. Wilson 9781879164093 Nonfiction Afrikan World Books Afrikan World Books
Bookmarks: Reading in Black and White A Memoir
Bookmarks: Reading in Black and White A Memoir Karla FC Holloway 9780813539072 Fiction Rutgers University Press Rutgers University Press What are you reading? What books have been important to you? Wh...
Ben and the Emancipation Proclamation
Ben and the Emancipation Proclamation Pat Sherman 9780802853196 Nonfiction Eerdmans Books for Young Readers Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company After the Civil War breaks out, young Ben finds himself i...
Grand Canyon, Inc.
Grand Canyon, Inc. Percival Everett 9780970481702 Fiction Versus Press Versus Press Tanner, call him Rhino Tanner, his friends do because they’re afraid of him. He’s a self-made man who makes his livi...
The Heart of the Artist
The Heart of the Artist Rory Noland 9780310224716 Fiction Zondervan HarperCollins Christian Publishing Over 100,000 sold •Great for individuals and teams •Includes provocative discussion q...
Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays
Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays Thomas Sowell 9780688086701 Nonfiction William Morrow HarperCollins Essays analyze American social conditions, foreign policy, economics, law, education, and r...
Your Black Friend
Your Black Friend Ben Passmore 9781945509032 Fiction Silver Sprocket Silver Sprocket Ben Passmore’s necessary contribution to the dialogue around race in the United States, Your Black Friend is a lett...
Stories for Kids Who Dare to Be Different: True Tales of Amazing People Who Stood Up and Stood Out
Stories for Kids Who Dare to Be Different: True Tales of Amazing People Who Stood Up and Stood Out Ben Brooks 9780762468553 Nonfiction Running Press Kids Hachette Book Group Ben Brooks is the author o...
Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential For Excellence
Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential For Excellence Ben Carson 9780310214595 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In this follow-up to his best-selling Gifted Hands, Dr. Ben Carson prescribes his personal...
State of Absense
State of Absense Tahar Ben Jelloun 9780704370838 Fiction Quartet Books Quartet Books Book by Ben Jelloun, Tahar
African Origins of the Major World Religions Paperback (Revised)
African Origins of the Major World Religions Paperback (Revised) Amon Saba Saakana 9780907015758 Nonfiction Lushena Books Lushena Books African Origins of the Major “Western Religions” first published...
Open Season (paperback): Legalized Genocide of Colored People
Open Season (paperback): Legalized Genocide of Colored People Ben Crump 9780062375100 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Genocide—the intent to destroy in whole or in part, a group of people. TIME’s ...
Troubling the Water: The Urgent Work of Radical Belonging
Troubling the Water: The Urgent Work of Radical Belonging Ben McBride 9781506489858 Nonfiction Beaming Books 1517 Media Can you imagine a future that includes your enemies? If not, what happens next? ...
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir Sly Stone and Ben Greenman 9780374606978 Nonfiction AUWA Books Macmillan Publishers One of the few indisputable geniuses of pop music, Sly Stone is a ...
Wounded
Wounded Nick Mann 9781681813028 Fiction Strategic Book Publishing Strategic Book Publishing Three lifelong friends — Ben, Levi, and Tracy — take very different paths after high school, but all have br...
A Palace in the Old Village: A Novel
A Palace in the Old Village: A Novel Tahar Ben Jelloun 9780143118473 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House The latest novel from "Morocco’s greatest living author" (The Guardian) Award-winning,...
Leaving Tangier: A Novel
Leaving Tangier: A Novel Tahar Ben Jelloun 9780143114659 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House From one of the world’s great writers, a breakthrough novel about leaving home for a better life In ...
The Black Man’s North and East Africa
The Black Man’s North and East Africa Yosef Ben-Jochannan and George Simmonds 9781574780321 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press Few of Dr. Ben’s books are written with co-authors. The B...
Understanding the African Philosophical Concept Behind the "Diagram of the Law of Opposites"
Understanding the African Philosophical Concept Behind the "Diagram of the Law of Opposites" Yosef Ben-Jochannan 9781574780352 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press Published while teachi...
Baby Girl
Baby Girl Jihad Shaheed Uhuru 9781893196230 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Baby Girl: This is a story of a girl born to L.A."s rich and elite. She’s known simply as Baby Girl. After...
A Chronology Of The Bible: Challenge To The Standard Version
A Chronology Of The Bible: Challenge To The Standard Version Yosef Ben-Jochannan 9780933121287 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press A chronology of the Bible (first published in 1972) is...
Worse than a Lie: A Beau Lee Cooper Novel
Worse than a Lie: A Beau Lee Cooper Novel Ben Crump 9780593875704 Fiction Bantam Penguin Random House In this gripping thriller, truth and justice are called into question when a Black man is gunned d...
Created Equal: The Painful Past, Confusing Present, and Hopeful Future of Race in America
Created Equal: The Painful Past, Confusing Present, and Hopeful Future of Race in America Ben Carson 9781546002789 Nonfiction Center Street Hachette Book Group In this New York Times bestselling book,...
The Perilous Fight: Overcoming Our Culture’s War on the American Family
The Perilous Fight: Overcoming Our Culture’s War on the American Family Ben Carson 9780310368373 Nonfiction Zondervan HarperCollins Christian Publishing Learn from one of our leading conservative voic...
The Big Picture: Getting Perspective on What’s Really Important
The Big Picture: Getting Perspective on What’s Really Important Ben Carson 9780310363552 Nonfiction Zondervan HarperCollins Christian Publishing Dr. Ben Carson is known as the originator of groundbrea...
Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different: True Tales of Amazing Boys Who Changed the World Without Killing Dragons
Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different: True Tales of Amazing Boys Who Changed the World Without Killing Dragons Ben Brooks 9780762465927 Nonfiction Running Press Kids Hachette Book Group New York ...
Swimming with Fishes
Swimming with Fishes Rasheda Ashanti Malcolm 9781909762459 Fiction Jacaranda Jacaranda “I dream you last night.’ Mother Cynthy’s smile, like her eyes, courted mischief. ‘Dream you were swimming with f...
Romance for the Streets (Abednego’s Free)
Romance for the Streets (Abednego’s Free) Marlon McCaulsky, K. Roland Williams, and Ben Blaze 9781934195697 Fiction Abednego’s Free Abednego’s Free Some people go around looking for love in the wrong ...
Voices (American Poets Continuum)
Voices (American Poets Continuum) Lucille Clifton 9781934414118 Poetry BOA Editions BOA Editions In 2007, Lucille Clifton became the first African American woman to win the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, on...
Times Have Changed And Life Is Strange: Collective Works Of Urban Poetry And Story-Telling
Times Have Changed And Life Is Strange: Collective Works Of Urban Poetry And Story-Telling Ben Burgess Jr. 9781434398536 Poetry AuthorHouse Author Solutions This book is a collection of my experiences...
Seeking Salamanca Mitchell: A Novel
Seeking Salamanca Mitchell: A Novel Kenji Jasper 9780767916752 Fiction Harlem Moon Penguin Random House The thrilling new novel of crime, music, and redemption from the acclaimed author of Dark and Da...