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Notes on Grief
Notes on Grief Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9780593320808 Nonfiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wa...
One World: A global anthology of short stories
One World: A global anthology of short stories Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jhumpa Lahiri, and 21 Other Authors 9781906523138 Fiction New Internationalist New Internationalist This book is made up of twe...
The Best Short Stories 2021: The O. Henry Prize Winners
The Best Short Stories 2021: The O. Henry Prize Winners Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9780593311257 Fiction Anchor Books Penguin Random House Twenty prizewinning stories selected from the thousands publish...
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9781524733131 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be ...
The Thing Around Your Neck
The Thing Around Your Neck Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9780307455918 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House In these twelve dazzlng stories, the bestselling, award-winning Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explores ...
Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9781400095209 Fiction Alfred A. Knopf Penguin Random House A masterly, haunting new novel from a writer heralded by The Washington Post Book World as “the...
Author: The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan
Author: The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan Beowulf Sheehan 9780316515153 Nonfiction Black Dog & Leventhal Hachette Book Group A beautiful and moving collection of photographs by Beowulf Sheehan, whose w...
(s)Kinfolk: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah
(s)Kinfolk: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah Tochi Onyebuchi 9780999431696 Nonfiction Fiction Advocate Fiction Advocate Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. When Did You First...
We Should All Be Feminists
We Should All Be Feminists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9781101911761 Nonfiction Anchor Penguin Random House In this personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from her much-admired TEDx talk of the same n...
Americanah
Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9780307271082 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a dazzling new novel: a story of love and race centered arou...
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 ...
Dream Count
Dream Count Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9780593802724 Fiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House A publishing event ten years in the making—a searing, exquisite new novel by the bestselling and ...
Dead and Alive: Essays
Dead and Alive: Essays Zadie Smith 9780593834688 Nonfiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House A profound and unparalleled literary voice, Zadie Smith returns with a resounding collection of essays ...
Dream Count (Large Print)
Dream Count (Large Print) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9798217014361 Fiction Random House Large Print Penguin Random House New York Times Bestseller • A publishing event ten years in the making—a sea...
The Arrangements
The Arrangements Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie B01M3SOJYH Fiction Random House Audio Penguin Random House The Arrangements is a short story originally published for The New York Times Book Review, which co...
Grand Union: Stories
Grand Union: Stories Zadie Smith 9780525558996 Fiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House A dazzling collection of short fiction. Zadie Smith has established herself as one of the most iconic, crit...
Mama’s Sleeping Scarf
Mama’s Sleeping Scarf Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9780593535578 Fiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House The first children’s book from the best-selling author of We Should All Be Feminists an...
Zikora: A Short Story
Zikora: A Short Story Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie B08K942N84 Fiction Amazon Original Stories Amazon Publishing The emotional storms weathered by a mother and daughter yield a profound new understanding i...
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent Margaret Busby 9780062912985 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins The companion to the classic anthology Daughters o...
Minutes of Glory: And Other Stories
Minutes of Glory: And Other Stories Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 9781620974650 Fiction The New Press The New Press A dazzling short story collection from the person Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls one of the grea...
Purple Hibiscus: A Novel
Purple Hibiscus: A Novel Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9781616202415 Fiction Algonquin Books Workman Publishing Co., Inc. Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu...
Feel Free: Essays
Feel Free: Essays Zadie Smith 9781594206252 Nonfiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House From Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved authors of her generation, a new collection of essays Since she burs...
The Embassy of Cambodia
The Embassy of Cambodia Zadie Smith 9780241146521 Fiction Hamish Hamilton Penguin Random House UK Revisiting the terrain of her acclaimed novel NW, The Embassy of Cambodia is another remarkable work o...
NW: A Novel
NW: A Novel Zadie Smith 9781594203978 Fiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House Selected as one of the 100 Notable Books of 2012 by the New York Times “A boldly Joycean appropriation, fortunat...
On Beauty
On Beauty Zadie Smith 9780143037743 Fiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House Winner of the 2006 Orange Prize for fiction, another bestselling masterwork from the celebrated author of White Teeth ...
White Teeth: A Novel
White Teeth: A Novel Zadie Smith 9780375703867 Fiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House Zadie Smith’s dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dic...
No Sweetness Here and Other Stories (Revised)
No Sweetness Here and Other Stories (Revised) Ama Ata Aidoo 9781558611191 Fiction The Feminist Press The Feminist Press From the author of Changes: these stories “of post-independence Ghana in the lat...
Intimations: Six Essays
Intimations: Six Essays Zadie Smith 9780593297612 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House Intimations captures the uneasiness of our modern moment as Smith reflects on the COVID-19 pandemic and ...
Martha and Hanwell
Martha and Hanwell Zadie Smith 9780141023120 Fiction Hamish Hamilton Penguin Random House UK Martha and Hanwell is a Penguin Pocket collection of two short stories by British author, Zadie Smith.“Mart...
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker William Jelani Cobb and David Remnick 9780063017597 Nonfiction Ecco Press HarperCollins A collection of The New Yorker’s groundbreaking writing o...
In the Wild
In the Wild Zadie Smith and Nick Laird 9798217038725 Fiction Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Acclaimed authors Zadie Smith and Nick Laird are back with a brand-new picture book abo...
The Fraud
The Fraud Zadie Smith 9780525558965 Fiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal tri...
Recitatif
Recitatif Toni Morrison 9780593315033 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER• A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the le...
Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times in Today’s New York
Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times in Today’s New York Zadie Smith, Junot Diaz, Teju Cole, John Freeman, and others 9780143128304 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House Thirty maj...
The Autograph Man
The Autograph Man Zadie Smith 9780375703874 Fiction Random House Penguin Random House Alex-Li Tandem sells autographs. His business is to hunt for names on paper, collect them, sell them, and occasion...
African Love Stories: An Anthology
African Love Stories: An Anthology Ama Ata Aidoo 9780954702366 Fiction Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ayebia Clarke Publishing This radical collection of short stories is a double award-winning book aimed a...
Last Seen in Lapaz
Last Seen in Lapaz Kwei Quartey 9781641293396 Fiction Soho Crime Soho Crime Kwei Quartey transports readers to Ghana with this riveting third installment in the Shamus Award-winning Private Investigat...
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...
Before the Mango Ripens
Before the Mango Ripens Afabwaje Kurian 9781950539994 Fiction Dzanc Books Dzanc Books In Rabata, everyone has secrets—especially since the arrival of the white American missionaries. Twenty-y...
Yoruba Boy Running
Yoruba Boy Running Biyi Bandele 9780063417083 Fiction Harper HarperCollins “A true artist. A brilliant writer. An original thinker.”—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie A captivating, fictionalized retelling ...
Blessings
Blessings Chukwuebuka Ibeh 9780385550642 Fiction Doubleday Books Penguin Random House A BBC Best Book Of 2024 - A Most Anticipated Book - Moonlight Meets Purple Hibiscus In This Coming-Of-Age Novel Ab...
How to Write about Africa: Collected Works
How to Write about Africa: Collected Works Binyavanga Wainaina 9780812989656 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House From one of Africa’s most influential and eloquent essayists, a posthumous collec...
A Spell of Good Things
A Spell of Good Things Ayobami Adebayo 9780525657644 Fiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House A dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, ro...
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth Wole Soyinka 9780593320167 Fiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House The first Black person ever to win the Nobel Prize in Literature gives u...
Revival Season
Revival Season Monica West 9781982133306 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. The daughter of one of the South’s most famous Baptist preachers discovers a shocking secret about her father t...
Red Island House: A Novel
Red Island House: A Novel Andrea Lee 9781982138189 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. From National Book Award–nominated writer Andrea Lee comes Red Island House, a travel epic that ...
Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening
Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 9781620972403 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press One of Oprah.com’s "17 Must-Read Books for the New Year" and O Magazine’s "10 Titl...
Every Day Is For The Thief: Fiction
Every Day Is For The Thief: Fiction Teju Cole 9780812995787 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY DWIGHT GARNER, THE NEW YORK TIMES • NAMED ONE OF THE...
Best African American Fiction: 2009
Best African American Fiction: 2009 E. Lynn Harris and Gerald L. Early 9780553385342 Nonfiction Bantam Penguin Random House Introducing the first volume in an exciting new annual anthology featu...
Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems
Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems Patricia Smith 9781668055724 Poetry Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. “Patricia Smith is the greatest living poet. Every book is better than th...
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Gift Edition)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Gift Edition) Zora Neale Hurston 9780063068537 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins The beloved Zora Neale Hurston Classic—a PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick—now available i...
Swing Time
Swing Time Zadie Smith 9781594203985 Fiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of W...
Hurricane
Hurricane Andrew Salkey 9781845231804 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press “…[Hurricane was] the book that made me want to write. He [Salkey] was the most wonderful writer for children.”—Zadi...
Sleepless Nights: The Drew Smith Series (Book 1)
Sleepless Nights: The Drew Smith Series (Book 1) Norwood Holland 9780983165620 Fiction Windmill Books Windmill Books Sleepless Nights abounds with despicable and loveable characters. Trial attorney Dr...
Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith (Sporting)
Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith (Sporting) Tommie Smith, Delois Smith, and David Steele 9781592136407 Nonfiction Temple University Press Temple University Press At the 1968 Olympics,...
Unshuttered: Poems
Unshuttered: Poems Patricia Smith 9780810145634 Poetry TriQuarterly Books Northwestern University Press Unshuttered by Patricia Smith Award-winning poet Patricia Smith presents Unshuttered, a vivid p...
Such Color: New and Selected Poems
Such Color: New and Selected Poems Tracy K. Smith 9781644450673 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press Celebrated for its extraordinary intelligence and exhilarating range, the poetry of Tracy K. Smith ...
Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems
Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems Danez Smith 9781555977856 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press The highly anticipated second collection by Danez Smith―“Hallelujah is an understatement” (Patricia Smith)Award...
Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah
Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah Patricia Smith 9781566892995 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Winner of 2013 Wheatley Book Award in PoetryFinalist for 2013 William Carlos Williams AwardWinner o...
B. Smith Cooks Southern-Style
B. Smith Cooks Southern-Style B. Smith 9781451671971 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. Barbara Smith, the famed fashion model who was the first African American to appear on the ...
B. Smith Cooks Southern-Style
B. Smith Cooks Southern-Style B. Smith 9781416553540 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. Barbara Smith, the famed fashion model who was the first African American to appear on the ...
B. Smith: Rituals & Celebrations
B. Smith: Rituals & Celebrations B. Smith 9780375502361 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House Television lifestyle expert B. Smith shares her passion and ideas for entertaining, cooking, and cr...
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...
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America Morgan Jerkins 9780062666154 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins From one of the fiercest cr...
Tempting the Billionaire (Passion Grove)
Tempting the Billionaire (Passion Grove) Niobia Bryant 9781335216892 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Arabesque Harlequin Enterprises Limited An irresistible but forbidden temptation…Betrayed by his fianc&eac...
The Forest: Poems
The Forest: Poems Tracy K. Smith 9781644454312 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press A visionary new collection by former poet laureate of the United States and winner of the Pulitzer Prize Tracy K. Sm...
Above Ground (paperback)
Above Ground (paperback) Clint Smith 9780316702577 Poetry Little, Brown Paperbacks Hachette Book Group A New York Times bestselling poetry collection from Clint Smith, author of #1 bestseller and Nati...
Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System—And Pocketed $40 Million
Never Saw Me Coming: How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System—And Pocketed $40 Million Tanya Smith 9780316569163 Nonfiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group “What Does It Ta...
Powerhouse Radio: Rough Roads, Radiance, and Rebirth
Powerhouse Radio: Rough Roads, Radiance, and Rebirth Kingsley H. Smith 9798350912029 Nonfiction BookBaby BookBaby Powerhouse Radio: Rough Roads, Radiance, and Rebirth; My True AM - FM - Satellite - an...
Above Ground
Above Ground Clint Smith 9780316543033 Poetry Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group A remarkable poetry collection from Clint Smith, the #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Critics...
Shine Bright: A Personal History of Black Women in Pop
Shine Bright: A Personal History of Black Women in Pop Danyel Smith 9780593132715 Nonfiction Roc Lit 101 Penguin Random House American pop music is arguably this country’s greatest cultural contributi...
Bessie Smith: A Poet’s Biography of a Blues Legend
Bessie Smith: A Poet’s Biography of a Blues Legend Jackie Kay 9780593314272 Nonfiction Vintage Penguin Random House A beautiful genre-bending tribute to the larger-than-life blues singer Bessie Smith....
Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream
Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream Mychal Denzel Smith 9781568588735 Nonfiction Bold Type Books Hachette Book Group A New York Times bestselling writer’s bold vision for how to move past cr...
Homie: Poems
Homie: Poems Danez Smith 9781644450109 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press Danez Smith is our presidentHomie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the lo...
Think Yourself Thin: A 30-Day Guide to Permanent Weight Loss
Think Yourself Thin: A 30-Day Guide to Permanent Weight Loss J.J. Smith 9781501177132 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller 10-Day Green Smo...
Red Seas: Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the United States and Jamaica
Red Seas: Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the United States and Jamaica Gerald Horne 9780814737408 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press During the heyday of the ...
The Winner Names the Age: A Collection of Writings by Lillian Smith
The Winner Names the Age: A Collection of Writings by Lillian Smith Lillian Smith and Michelle Cliff 9780393300444 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. “This book brings Lill...
How the Word Is Passed (Adapted for Young Readers): Remembering Slavery and How It Shaped America
How the Word Is Passed (Adapted for Young Readers): Remembering Slavery and How It Shaped America Clint Smith 9780316578509 Nonfiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Adapted...
Bluff: Poems
Bluff: Poems Danez Smith 9781644452981 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Minneapo...
To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul
To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul Tracy K. Smith 9780593534762 Nonfiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House A stunning personal manifesto on memory, family, and history that...
Worthy
Worthy Jada Pinkett Smith 9780063320680 Nonfiction Dey Street Books HarperCollins A gripping, at times painfully honest, and ultimately inspirational memoir from global superstar and creator of the Re...
Home Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition: A Black Feminist Anthology
Home Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition: A Black Feminist Anthology Barbara Smith 9781978838994 Nonfiction Rutgers University Press Rutgers University Press Home Girls, the pioneering anthology of Black ...
Straight Shooter: A Memoir of Second Chances and First Takes
Straight Shooter: A Memoir of Second Chances and First Takes Stephen A. Smith 9781982189495 Nonfiction Gallery Books/13A Simon & Schuster, Inc. America’s most popular sports media figure tells it like...
Hoop Kings 2: New Royalty
Hoop Kings 2: New Royalty Charles R. Smith Jr. 9781536210354 Nonfiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press With this high-energy collection of poems and dynamic photos celebrating twelve pro ballers, C...
Big Black: Stand at Attica
Big Black: Stand at Attica Frank Smith 9781684154791 Nonfiction Archaia BOOM! Studios A graphic novel memoir from Frank "Big Black" Smith, a prisoner at Attica State Prison in 1971, whose rebellion ag...
Wade in the Water: Poems (paperback)
Wade in the Water: Poems (paperback) Tracy K. Smith 9781555978365 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection The ...
Minus One: The Drew Smith Series (Book 2)
Minus One: The Drew Smith Series (Book 2) Norwood Holland 9780983165637 Fiction Windmill Books Windmill Books In this prequel to the Drew Smith Series Norwood Holland takes us back to the beginning wh...
Material Witness: The Drew Smith Series (Book 3)
Material Witness: The Drew Smith Series (Book 3) Norwood Holland 9780983165699 Fiction Windmill Books Windmill Books In the third installment of Drew Smith Series, the attorney works to free an innoce...
Wade in the Water: Poems
Wade in the Water: Poems Tracy K. Smith 9781555978136 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press The extraordinary new poetry collection by Tracy K. Smith, the Poet Laureate of the United StatesEven the men...
Incendiary Art: Poems
Incendiary Art: Poems Patricia Smith 9780810134331 Poetry TriQuarterly Books Northwestern University Press One of the most magnetic and esteemed poets in today s literary landscape, Patricia Smith fea...
Green Smoothies for Life
Green Smoothies for Life J.J. Smith 9781501100659 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A brand-new meal plan that will assist readers with incorporating green smoothies into their everyday ro...
Counting Descent
Counting Descent Clint Smith 9781938912658 Poetry Write Bloody Publishing Write Bloody Publishing Winner, 2017 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary AwardFinalist, 2017 NAACP Image...
Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man’s Education
Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man’s Education Mychal Denzel Smith 9781568585284 Nonfiction Bold Type Books Hachette Book Group A New York Times Bestseller and New York Tim...
Staten Island Noir (Akashic Noir)
Staten Island Noir (Akashic Noir) Patricia Smith 9781617751295 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books When They Are Done with Us” by Patricia Smith was selected for inclusion in The Best American Myster...
The One: The Life and Music of James Brown
The One: The Life and Music of James Brown RJ Smith 9781592406579 Nonfiction Gotham Penguin Random House The definitive biography of James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, with fascinating findings on ...
Blood Dazzler
Blood Dazzler Patricia Smith 9781566892186 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press In minute-by-minute detail, Patricia Smith tracks Hurricane Katrina as it transforms into a full-blown mistress ...
Teahouse Of The Almighty (National Poetry)
Teahouse Of The Almighty (National Poetry) Patricia Smith 9781566891936 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press A National Poetry Series winner, chosen by Edward Sanders.“What power. Smith’s poe...
Bliss: A Novel
Bliss: A Novel Danyel Smith 9781400046423 Fiction Crown Penguin Random House Danyel Smith is one of the most acclaimed music journalists of her generation, a prose stylist who “writes with music in he...
Just the Two of Us
Just the Two of Us Will Smith 9780439669436 Fiction Scholastic Paperbacks Scholastic Inc. Superstar Will Smith’s touching ode to fatherhood. Let the Scholastic Bookshelf be your guide through the whol...
Girls Hold Up This World
Girls Hold Up This World Jada Pinkett Smith 9780439087933 Nonfiction Cartwheel Books Scholastic Inc. Actress Jada Pinkett Smith—wife of superstar Will Smith—lovingly captures the strength, unity, and ...