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The Roving Tree
The Roving Tree Elsie Augustave 9781617751653 Fiction Open Lens Akashic Books “…gorgeous new novel about a Haitian adoptee finding her way in many different corners of the world.”—Edwidge Dantic...
Rosewater
Rosewater LIV Little 9781638930228 Fiction Get Lifted Books Penguin Random House A TODAY and LGBTQ Reads Most Anticipated Book of 2023 - A Goodreads Buzziest Debut Novel of the New Year - An Electric ...
The Wedding Date
The Wedding Date Jasmine Guillory 9780399587665 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House One of… • Entertainment Weekly’s “12 Romances for V-Day” • Cosmopolitan’s “2018 Anticipated Read...
The Cross and the Lynching Tree
The Cross and the Lynching Tree James H. Cone 9781626980051 Nonfiction Orbis Books Orbis Books The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the Africa...
Isaac And The Bah Family Tree
Isaac And The Bah Family Tree Adrienne C. Wilson 9781606047927 Fiction Tate Publishing Tate Publishing & Enterprises, LLC Are you my family tree? In Isaac and the Bah Family Tree, new author Adrienne ...
Sister Girls
Sister Girls Angel M. Hunter 9781893196247 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Jealousy, Envy, And Pure Hateration. Maybe you’ve been there? Maybe you haven’t? Maybe you know someone that’...
The Crooked Christmas Tree: The Beautiful Meaning of Jesus’ Birth
The Crooked Christmas Tree: The Beautiful Meaning of Jesus’ Birth Damian Chandler 9781478918370 Nonfiction FaithWords Hachette Book Group In this real-life Christmas fable, when a Dad decides to let h...
Loneliness of Angels
Loneliness of Angels Myriam J. A. Chancy 9781845231224 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Offering a richly nuanced portrayal placing Haiti in a global context as a place of ethnic and cultura...
Avidly Reads Passages
Avidly Reads Passages Michelle D. Commander 9781479806171 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press “What is the value of Black life in America?” In Avidly Reads Pa...
Tamara Natalie Madden Wall Calendar 2027
Tamara Natalie Madden Wall Calendar 2027 Flame Tree Studio 9781806940677 Nonfiction Flame Tree Calendars Flame Tree Studio Tamara Natalie Madden Art Calendar celebrates the regal, glistening portraits...
Nell Plants a Tree
Nell Plants a Tree Anne Wynter 9780062865779 Fiction Balzer & Bray/Harperteen HarperCollins This gorgeous picture book shows how one little girl’s careful tending of a pecan tree creates the living ce...
Branches of the Tree of Life: The Collected Poems of Abiodun Oyewole 1969-2013
Branches of the Tree of Life: The Collected Poems of Abiodun Oyewole 1969-2013 Abiodun Oyewole 9781940939032 Poetry 2Leaf Press 2Leaf Press Branches of the Tree of Life is the first comprehensive volu...
Circles of Hope
Circles of Hope Karen Lynn Williams 9780802853967 Fiction Eerdmans Books for Young Readers Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Everyone brought a gift for baby Lucia. Facile sat high up in his mango tr...
Afrofuturism Short Stories (Part of Gothic Fantasy)
Afrofuturism Short Stories (Part of Gothic Fantasy) Isis Asare 9781835622643 Fiction Flame Tree Collections Flame Tree Publishing Exploring new Black literature, following the success of Black Sci-Fi ...
Far from the Tree
Far from the Tree Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant 9781250846631 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers From the bestselling author duo Donna Grant and Virginia DeBerry comes Far from the T...
Epoca: The Tree of Ecrof
Epoca: The Tree of Ecrof Ivy Claire Pochoda 9781949520071 Fiction Granity Studios Granity Studios Created by Kobe Bryant From the mind of basketball legend, Academy Award–winning, and New York Time...
Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents
Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents Lise Funderburg 9781496212092 Nonfiction University of Nebraska Press University of Nebraska Press It happens to us all: we think we’ve settled into an identity, ...
The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim
The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim Marcia Douglas 9781845233327 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press A much-awaited novel from an award-winning writer a reggae track...
Sleeping Under the Tree of Life
Sleeping Under the Tree of Life Sheree Renée Thomas 9781619761117 Fiction Aqueduct Press Aqueduct Press Sleeping under the Tree of Life evokes the realm of ancestral knowledge with a deep respect for ...
The Pain Tree
The Pain Tree Olive Senior 9781770864344 Fiction Cormorant Books Cormorant Books From the author of Dancing Lessons, Finalist for the 2012 Amazon.ca First Novel Award and Finalist for the 2012 Commonw...
Behind the Tupelo Tree: Secrets of the South Vols. I and II
Behind the Tupelo Tree: Secrets of the South Vols. I and II Corinda Pitts Marsh 9781500924850 Fiction Creation Publishing Group Creation Publishing Group Two strong Southern women, one a slave and the...
Bivouac (Peepal Tree Press)
Bivouac (Peepal Tree Press) Kwame Dawes 9781845231057 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press A sharply focused portrayal of Jamaica at a tipping point in its recent past, this story of one man’s ...
Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women
Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women Meri Nana-Ama Danquah 9780393325805 Fiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. "Not since Breaking Ice has an a...
Homer, the H-Shaped Tree
Homer, the H-Shaped Tree Barbara Brandon 9781412016391 Fiction Trafford Publishing Author Solutions Homer, The H-Shaped Tree is a delightful story for all children. Small children who have...
Prophets (Peepal Tree Caribbean Poetry)
Prophets (Peepal Tree Caribbean Poetry) Kwame Dawes 9780948833854 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press As 24-hour television, belching out the swaggering voices of American hellfire preachers, c...
If I Survive You
If I Survive You Jonathan Escoffery 9780374605988 Fiction MCD Macmillan Publishers "If I Survive You is a collection of connected short stories that reads like a novel, that reads like real life, that...
Something in the Water
Something in the Water Phyllis R. Dixon 9781496754196 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Buried secrets, environmental disaster, and a legacy of corruption hit too close to home when a Califor...
The Dow Twins’ Legacy: 50 Years of Disco Reflections
The Dow Twins’ Legacy: 50 Years of Disco Reflections Harold A. Dow 9798218357481 Nonfiction DT Media Group DT Media Group The legendary Dow Twins dominated the world of Black disco and entertainment f...
Particle and Wave: A Conversation
Particle and Wave: A Conversation Alexis Pauline Gumbs 9781737025504 Nonfiction 53rd State Press 53rd State Press In a roving, shimmering conversation that took place in May 2021, scholar, poet, and a...
The Hotel Westend: A Mystery
The Hotel Westend: A Mystery Ashley Lynch-Harris 9780996521017 Fiction Barrington House Publishing Barrington House Publishing Maitland Sisters Mystery (Volume 1) When the timid yet curious Elsie Mai...
There Was A Country: A Personal History Of Biafra
There Was A Country: A Personal History Of Biafra Chinua Achebe 9781594204821 Nonfiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart comes a longawaited memoir ab...
Lemon City: A Novel
Lemon City: A Novel Elaine Meryl Brown 9780345510693 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House In this wry fiction debut, Elaine Meryl Brown plunges lucky readers into a gripping narrative of ...
Gotham Diaries
Gotham Diaries Tonya Lewis Lee and Crystal Mccrary Anthony 9781401301194 Fiction Hachette Hachette Book Group A hilarious first novel that provides a peek into the world of the super-rich, super-conne...
The Chocolate Ship
The Chocolate Ship Marissa Monteilh 9780060011482 Fiction Avon A HarperCollins After three years together, Mia can’t help wondering if she’s got a real future with Miles — who’s all that and then some...
Black Friday: Short Stories from Africa
Black Friday: Short Stories from Africa Cheryl S. Ntumy 9781835623022 Fiction Flame Tree Collections Flame Tree Publishing A stunning collection in a stunning book, Cheryl S. Ntumy’s fantasy and near-...
Sauúti Terrors Short Stories
Sauúti Terrors Short Stories Eugen Bacon, Cheryl S. Ntumy, and Stephen Embleton 9781835626405 Fiction Flame Tree Collections Flame Tree Publishing A powerful dark science fiction collection in a stunn...
Bite of the Kaba Lagoon: A Branches Book (Kwame’s Magic Quest #3)
Bite of the Kaba Lagoon: A Branches Book (Kwame’s Magic Quest #3) Bernard Mensah 9781338843354 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. Kwame needs to help save the world’s source of magic, in the third...
Black Sci-Fi Short Stories
Black Sci-Fi Short Stories Tia Ross 9781839644801 Fiction Flame Tree Press Flame Tree Publishing Foreword by Temi Oh, Introduction by Dr. Sandra M. Grayson, Associate Editor Tia Ross, contributors to ...
The Talking Baobab Tree
The Talking Baobab Tree Nelda LaTeef 9789988860387 Fiction Sub-Saharan Publishers Sub-Saharan Publishers The Talking Baobab Tree is derived from a story the author heard while visiting a Wolof village...
Under the Freedom Tree
Under the Freedom Tree Susan VanHecke 9781580895514 Poetry Charlesbridge Charlesbridge Taut free verse tells the little-known story of the first contraband camp of the Civil War—seen by some historian...
Albert Murray: Collected Novels & Poems: Train Whistle Guitar / The Spyglass Tree / The Seven League Boots / The Magic Keys/ Poems (The Library of America)
Albert Murray: Collected Novels & Poems: Train Whistle Guitar / The Spyglass Tree / The Seven League Boots / The Magic Keys/ Poems (The Library of America) Albert Murray 9781598535617 Fiction Library ...
Under The Sycamine Tree
Under The Sycamine Tree Aminah Paden 9781545138281 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Envision a new life, and you shall attain all that you see. The peace of mind that you seek is waiting f...
The Sea Grape Tree: A Novel (A Shadrack Myers Mystery)
The Sea Grape Tree: A Novel (A Shadrack Myers Mystery) Gillian Royes 9781476762388 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Set in a sun-kissed Caribbean paradise, this third book in the Shad detect...
The Last Mapou
The Last Mapou Edwidge Danticat 9780615740058 Fiction One Moore Book One Moore Book The Last Mapou Written by: Edwidge Danticat Illustrated by: Edouard Duval-Carrié Grade Level: 3rd-5th grade I...
Guardian
Guardian Julius Lester 9780061558900 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins There are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity on that tree and topple it ...
Rockin’ Around That Christmas Tree: A Holiday Novel
Rockin’ Around That Christmas Tree: A Holiday Novel Donna Hill and Francis Ray 9780312321956 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Tis the season to be merry and the Morrison family are abou...
Far From The Tree
Far From The Tree Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant 9780312202910 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Celeste English and Ronnie Frazier are sisters, but they couldn’t be more different. C...
Learning Tree
Learning Tree Gordon Parks 9780449215043 Fiction Fawcett Fawcett “A fine novel.” —THE BOSTON HERALD Photographer, writer, and composer, Gordon Parks has written a moving, true-to-life novel of grow...
Quick Reads Penguin Readers: Boys Don’t Cry
Quick Reads Penguin Readers: Boys Don’t Cry Malorie Blackman 9780241688106 Fiction Penguin Group USA Penguin Random House A gripping Quick Read about family and growing up from bestselling author, Mal...
The Rib King
The Rib King Ladee Hubbard 9780062979070 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Thrillist - 30 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2021Book Riot - Our Most Anticipated Releases of 2021Real Simple - The Best New Boo...
Beyond Bourbon Street
Beyond Bourbon Street Nikesha Elise Williams 9781733584869 Fiction NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications How does a couple survive when the one thing that brought them together threatens to te...
Lessons We Were Never Taught
Lessons We Were Never Taught Nikesha Elise Williams 9781733584852 Poetry NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications Lessons We Were Never Taught is author Nikesha Elise Williams’s first collection ...
Musical Youth
Musical Youth Joanne C. Hillhouse 9781733829960 Fiction Caribbean Reads Publishing Caribbean Reads Publishing 2nd place in the 2014 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature. #12 in Amazon Hot New Releases ...
Adulting
Adulting Nikesha Elise Williams 9781733584821 Fiction NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications Can she have it all? Naomi Grace is determined to lay hold of the life she’s always wanted. In her v...
Love Never Fails
Love Never Fails Nikesha Elise Williams 9781733584807 Fiction NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications “If I were honest, I’d be divorced right now.” When it comes to marriage, nothing is guar...
Carter Reads the Newspaper
Carter Reads the Newspaper Deborah Hopkinson 9781561459346 Nonfiction Peachtree Publishers Peachtree Publishers Essential Black History Reading The first-ever picture book biography of Carter G. Wo...
Finding Peace Isn’t Peaceful: Overcoming the Struggle Within to Heal My Soul
Finding Peace Isn’t Peaceful: Overcoming the Struggle Within to Heal My Soul Ma’Ronda X 9781943409563 Nonfiction Pure Thoughts Publishing Pure Thoughts Publishing, LLC Finding Peace Isn’t Peaceful is ...
The Appeal of Ebony Jones
The Appeal of Ebony Jones Nikesha Elise Williams 9780692123942 Fiction NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications Guilty. Not Guilty. Those are the only options facing Ebony Jones. She is standing ...
Lost! A Caribbean Sea Adventure
Lost! A Caribbean Sea Adventure Joanne C. Hillhouse 9780999237212 Fiction Caribbean Reads Publishing Caribbean Reads Publishing Beautifully illustrated by Trinidadian artist Danielle Boodoo-Fortun&eac...
Four Women
Four Women Nikesha Elise Williams 9780692962916 Fiction NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications What happens to four strangers when the present meets the past and the whole world is watching? Th...
Letter to Jimmy
Letter to Jimmy Alain Mabanckou 9781593766016 Fiction Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press Written on the twentieth anniversary of James Baldwin’s death, Letter to Jimmy is African writer Alain Mabanckou...
The Missing Cupcake Mystery (Tony and Lauren Dungy Ready-to-Reads)
The Missing Cupcake Mystery (Tony and Lauren Dungy Ready-to-Reads) Tony Dungy 9781442454637 Fiction Simon Spotlight Simon & Schuster, Inc. The Dungy kids learn that honesty is the best policy—even whe...
Shahid Reads His Own Palm
Shahid Reads His Own Palm Reginald Dwayne Betts 9781882295814 Poetry Alice James Books Alice James Books Reginald Dwayne Betts sings mournfully, bearing witness within prisoners’ cells, pulling reader...
The Night Before Christmas: A New Christmas Tradition
The Night Before Christmas: A New Christmas Tradition Candice Bradley 9781665937917 Fiction Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this adaptation of Clement C. Moore’s bel...
Kin: Practically True Stories
Kin: Practically True Stories V. Efua Prince 9780814351505 Fiction Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press Kin is a story and a celebration of Black womanhood, of resistance, and of ...
Countdown to Christmas: A Brown Baby Parade Book
Countdown to Christmas: A Brown Baby Parade Book Nikki Shannon Smith 9780593566039 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House It’s almost Christmas! Count down the days with festive ac...
Countdown to Christmas: A Brown Baby Parade Book
Countdown to Christmas: A Brown Baby Parade Book Nikki Shannon Smith 9780593566046 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House It’s almost Christmas! Count down the days with festive ac...
Kin: Rooted in Hope
Kin: Rooted in Hope Carole Boston Weatherford 9781665913621 Fiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. A powerful portrait of a Black family tree shaped by enslavement and freedom...
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, the Graphic Novel
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, the Graphic Novel Kwame Mbalia 9781368072809 Fiction Rick Riordan Presents Rick Riordan Presents The best-selling and awarding-winning novel about a Black boy...
Rick Riordan Presents Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, the Graphic Novel
Rick Riordan Presents Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, the Graphic Novel Kwame Mbalia 9781368075008 Fiction Rick Riordan Presents Rick Riordan Presents The talented team of Robert Venditti an...
Heartwood (Expanded)
Heartwood (Expanded) Nikky Finney 9780813151076 Fiction University Press of Kentucky University Press of Kentucky When Trina Sims and Jenny Bryan first meet, they don’t relate well to each other. Jenn...
A Portable Paradise
A Portable Paradise Roger Robinson 9781845234331 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Roger Robinson’s range is wide: the joys and pains of family life; the ubiquitous presence of racism; observ...
An Angel in Mucky Shorts
An Angel in Mucky Shorts Elizabeth-Irene Baitie 9789988298050 Fiction Education Logistics Education Logistics Auntie Lulu has a monster living in her house. It’s got a boxy head like a milk carton, ha...
Death Register
Death Register Dwight Thompson 9781845234072 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press In this searingly honest debut novel, Jamaican author Dwight Thompson fearlessly and candidly explores themes o...
A New Beginning
A New Beginning Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella 9781845234249 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press When Speak from Here to There was published in 2016 it was, remarkably, doing something quite new...
The Revelation Begins…with the Mercy Tree
The Revelation Begins…with the Mercy Tree Shimira Cole 9780692044131 Fiction Shimira Cole Shimira Cole Wellington Kole, a genius and an office clerk at a botanist industrial company, change the course...
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas Henry Dumas 9781566895125 Fiction Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Praise for Henry Dumas:"[Henry Dumas] had completed work, the quality and ...
Prophets
Prophets Kwame Dawes 9781845234041 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Set in Jamaica in the late 1980s and 1990s, Prophets is a poem of rhythmic and metaphoric inventiveness that portrays the ...
Doe Songs
Doe Songs Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné 9781845234188 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press
Tell No-One About This
Tell No-One About This Jacob Ross 9781845233525 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press This substantial collection brings together short stories written over a span of forty years, including thos...
Curfew Chronicles: A Fiction
Curfew Chronicles: A Fiction Jennifer Rahim 9781845233624 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press In 2011, the Trinidad government declared a state of emergency and an overnight curfew. The SoE, b...
Come Let Us Sing Anyway
Come Let Us Sing Anyway Leone Ross 9781845233341 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press From headless schoolgirls, to talking food and threesomes, pretty much anything can happen in these witty, ...
Fossil 2016 (Inscribe Chapbook Series)
Fossil 2016 (Inscribe Chapbook Series) Kadija Sesay 9781845232986 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press
With Grace
With Grace Joanne C. Hillhouse 9781934370629 Fiction Little Bell Caribbean Little Bell Caribbean “With Grace explores a Caribbean space richly woven with magic, mystery and fantasy—an engaging fable, ...
The Bone Readers
The Bone Readers Jacob Ross 9781845233358 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Secrets can be buried, but bones can speak… When Michael (Digger) Digson is recruited into DS Chilman’s new plain ...
Kingston Buttercup
Kingston Buttercup Ann-Margaret Lim 9781845233303 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Longlisted: 2017 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Jamaican poet, Ann Margaret Lim, follows her crit...
Five Golden Rings: A Christmas Novella
Five Golden Rings: A Christmas Novella K. L. Brady 9780996708364 Fiction LadyLit Press LadyLit Press Girl trips over Boy…and Boy falls for Girl. Kristie fell out of love with Christmas in D.C. when h...
Water with Berries
Water with Berries George Lamming 9781845231675 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Teeton lives multiple lives in England. One is with a bohemian group of Caribbean artist exiles; another is ...
The Repenters
The Repenters Kevin Jared Hosein 9781845233310 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Longlisted: 2017 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature When the infant Jordan Sant is taken to the St Aster...
Speak from Here to There
Speak from Here to There Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella 9781845233198 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press For six months during 2015, two poets known for their capacity to create lyric responses...
Track Three
Track Three John Gibson 9781610092173 Fiction Oak Tree Press Oak Tree Press In I Come along for the ride when a popular and top-rated investigative journalist, Elliott Lawder, and Katherine Lambert, a...
The Gymnast and Other Positions: Stories, Essays, Interviews
The Gymnast and Other Positions: Stories, Essays, Interviews Jacqueline Bishop 9781845233150 Nonfiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Beginning with the promptings of the transgressively erotic ...
Wife
Wife Tiphanie Yanique 9781845232948 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press The title of Wife is both ironic and deeply serious. There are wittily sharp poems on the gender inequalities and potenti...
Closure: Contemporary Black British Short Stories (Inscribe)
Closure: Contemporary Black British Short Stories (Inscribe) Jacob Ross and Kadija Sesay 9781845232887 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press From well-known and award-winning authors—including B...
Ground Level
Ground Level Jennifer Rahim 9781845232054 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press
Reader, I Married Him & Other Queer Goings On
Reader, I Married Him & Other Queer Goings On Dorothea Smartt 9781845232870 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press
Sounding Ground
Sounding Ground Vladimir Lucien 9781845232399 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Winner of: 2015 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Vladimir Lucien is a young poet with so many gifts; hi...
Difficult Fruit
Difficult Fruit Lauren K. Alleyne 9781845232276 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press "Readers will enjoy this body of work because of its unconventional approach and Alleyne’s personal touch is ...
Night Vision
Night Vision Kendel Hippolyte 9781845232351 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press With his dexterity as a writer, Kendel Hippolyte speaks through and beyond tradition. He writes in sonnet, triole...
Writing Down the Vision: Essays & Prophecies
Writing Down the Vision: Essays & Prophecies Kei Miller 9781845232283 Nonfiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press When Kei Miller describes these as essays and prophecies, he shares with the reader...