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Safari West: Poems
Safari West: Poems John A. Williams 9780969934929 Poetry Hochelaga Press Hochelaga Press With the publication of Safari West, John A. Williams turns to poetry, his first love, while never straying fro...
The King God Didn’t Save: Reflections on the Life and Death of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The King God Didn’t Save: Reflections on the Life and Death of Martin Luther King, Jr. John A. Williams 9781135818326 Nonfiction Putnam Penguin Random House Biographers have begun to descend in force ...
Flashbacks: A Twenty-Year Diary of Article Writing (Autographed)
Flashbacks: A Twenty-Year Diary of Article Writing (Autographed) John A. Williams 9780385084413 Nonfiction Anchor Books Penguin Random House Autographed Copy! A brilliant and thought-provoking collec...
Captain Blackman
Captain Blackman John A. Williams 9781566890960 Fiction Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Features an introduction by Alexs Pate John A. Williams, journalist and educator, did exceptional work ...
This is My Country Too
This is My Country Too John A. Williams thisismycount Fiction New American Library Penguin Random House In the early 1960s, novelist and journalist John A. Williams was commissioned by Holiday magazin...
The Man Who Cried I Am (2023)
The Man Who Cried I Am (2023) John A. Williams 9781598537611 Fiction Library of America Library of America Rediscover the sensational 1967 literary thriller that captures the bitter struggles of postw...
Clifford’s Blues
Clifford’s Blues John A. Williams 9781566890809 Fiction Coffee House Press Coffee House Press “John A. Williams proves again that he is the greatest American novelist of the twentieth century”—Ishmael...
!Click Song
!Click Song John A. Williams 9780938410430 Fiction Thunder’s Mouth Press Thunder’s Mouth Press Autographed Copy In my native village … the is a sing we always sing … it’s called ‘The Click Song’ by...
The Man Who Cried I Am
The Man Who Cried I Am John A. Williams 9780938410249 Fiction Thunder’s Mouth Press Thunder’s Mouth Press Originally published in 1967 Generally recognized as one of the most important novels o...
Mothersill and the Foxes
Mothersill and the Foxes John A. Williams 9780385094542 Fiction Doubleday Penguin Random House From the prolific author of Captain Blackman and The Man Who Cried I Am (to name but two) comes one of th...
Night Song
Night Song John A. Williams nightsong Fiction Farrar, Straus and Cudahy Macmillan Publishers Originally Published in 1961 Inspired by the life of Charlie “Bird” Parker, this poignant, provocative, ...
Jacob’s Ladder
Jacob’s Ladder John A. Williams 9780938410416 Fiction Thunder’s Mouth Press Thunder’s Mouth Press It’s the pre-Vietnam era, and America is intervening in the affairs of Pandemi, a small West African n...
Sons Of Darkness, Sons Of Light: A Novel of Some Probability
Sons Of Darkness, Sons Of Light: A Novel of Some Probability John A. Williams 9781555533960 Fiction Northeastern Northeastern Originally published in 1969, this parable of racial intrigue centers on t...
For Better or for Worse
For Better or for Worse John A. Williams 9780805943719 Fiction Dorrance Publishing Dorrance Publishing
One for New York
One for New York John A. Williams 9780862416485 Fiction Interlink Books Interlink Pub Group Inc An autobiographical account of Steve Hill, a young black man who goes to New York to seek his living. Fr...
The Angry Ones
The Angry Ones John A. Williams 9780393314649 Fiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. The Angry Ones is a powerful story of the hidden and (unacknowledged) racism that faces an edu...
Sissie
Sissie John A. Williams 9780938410669 Fiction Thunder’s Mouth Press Thunder’s Mouth Press Two siblings, who have been both helped and hindered by their mother’s forceful character, pay her a deathbed ...
The Junior Bachelor Society
The Junior Bachelor Society John A. Williams 9780385094559 Fiction Doubleday Penguin Random House In 1981, the Sophisticated Gents mini-series is adapted from The Junior Bachelor Society and airs on N...
Minorities in the City
Minorities in the City John A. Williams minoritiesint Nonfiction Harper & Row HarperCollins
Africa: Her History, Lands and People, Told with Pictures
Africa: Her History, Lands and People, Told with Pictures John A. Williams 9780815402589 Nonfiction Rowman & Littlefield Rowman & Littlefield
Conversations with John A. Williams
Conversations with John A. Williams Jeffrey Allen Tucker and John A. Williams 9781496818171 Nonfiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi One of the most prolific African ...
Dear Chester, Dear John
Dear Chester, Dear John John A. Williams and Lori Williams 9780814333556 Nonfiction Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press Chester Himes and John A. Williams met in 1961, as Himes w...
If I Stop, I’ll Die: The Comedy and Tragedy of Richard Pryor
If I Stop, I’ll Die: The Comedy and Tragedy of Richard Pryor John A. Williams and Dennis A. Williams 9781560259183 Fiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group Though it is hard to imagine what America w...
If I Stop I’ll Die: The Comedy and Tragedy of Richard Pryor
If I Stop I’ll Die: The Comedy and Tragedy of Richard Pryor John A. Williams and Dennis A. Williams 9781560250623 Fiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group Though it would be hard to imagine an Americ...
The Second Crucifixion of Nat Turner
The Second Crucifixion of Nat Turner John Henrik Clarke 9780933121959 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press The Second Crucifixion of Nat Turner was originally published in 1968. Edited b...
Epistrophy
Epistrophy Dennis A. Williams 9781461049883 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC A deadlocked presidential election that triggers a constitutional crisis. A grass-roots movement to limit gover...
Defining Ourselves: Black Writers in the 90s
Defining Ourselves: Black Writers in the 90s Brenda M. Greene and Elizabeth Nunez 9780820442617 Nonfiction Peter Lang Publishing Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. Defining Ourselves offers perspectives on b...
Unstoppable John: How John Lewis Got His Library Card—And Helped Change History
Unstoppable John: How John Lewis Got His Library Card—And Helped Change History Pat Zietlow Miller 9780593524909 Nonfiction Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A poignant picture book ...
George Washington Williams: A Biography
George Washington Williams: A Biography John Hope Franklin 9780822321644 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books In George Washington Williams, John Hope Franklin reconstruc...
Little John Crow
Little John Crow Ziggy Marley and Orly Marley 9781617759802 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books After being abandoned by his animal friends, Little John Crow must come to terms with what it means to b...
Me and Momma and Big John
Me and Momma and Big John Mara Rockliff 9780763643591 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press Momma is a stonecutter at the cathedral called Big John — and little John and his sisters can’t wait to ...
The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World
The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World Dave Zirin and John Wesley Carlos 9781608461271 Nonfiction Haymarket Books Haymarket Books Nominated for an NAACP Image Award, Outstandi...
Gook: John McCain’s Racism and Why It Matters
Gook: John McCain’s Racism and Why It Matters Irwin A Tang 9780967943343 Nonfiction Paul Revere Books Paul Revere Books I hate the gooks, said John McCain, I will hate them as long as I live. Senator ...
Black and White Airmen: Their True History
Black and White Airmen: Their True History John Fleischman 9780618562978 Nonfiction HMH Books for Young Readers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Here is the true history of a friendship that almost wasn’t.Jo...
Eric Williams: The Myth and the Man
Eric Williams: The Myth and the Man Selwyn Ryan 9789766402075 Nonfiction University of the West Indies Press University of the West Indies Press Eric Williams: The Myth and the Man seeks to illuminate...
John Lewis
John Lewis Denise Lewis Patrick 9781665907880 Nonfiction Simon Spotlight Simon & Schuster, Inc. Get to know John Lewis, social justice activist and politician, in this fascinating nonfiction Level 3 R...
Batman by John Ridley the Deluxe Edition
Batman by John Ridley the Deluxe Edition John Ridley 9781779511263 Fiction DC Comics DC Comics LIGHT THE BAT-SIGNAL! Legendary screenwriter John Ridley takes over Gotham in a new way! Writing the worl...
The Story of Civil Rights Hero John Lewis the Story of Civil Rights Hero John Lewis
The Story of Civil Rights Hero John Lewis the Story of Civil Rights Hero John Lewis Kathleen Benson 9781620148549 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books This new entry in the innovative “Story” li...
John Woman
John Woman Walter Mosley 9780802128416 Fiction Atlantic Monthly Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. A convention-defying novel by bestselling writer Walter Mosley, John Woman recounts the transformation of an ...
Before John Was A Jazz Giant: A Song Of John Coltrane
Before John Was A Jazz Giant: A Song Of John Coltrane Carole Boston Weatherford 9780805079944 Nonfiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers Young John Coltrane was all ears. And there was a lot...
The Last ’Darky’: Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
The Last ’Darky’: Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora (a John Hope Franklin Center Book) Louis Chude-Sokei 9780822336433 Fiction Duke University Press Books Duke Univers...
Once upon a time in Harlem
Once upon a time in Harlem Moses Miller 9780979703102 Fiction F.E.D.S. Magazine F.E.D.S. Magazine Once upon a time in Harlem there was a man named, John Williams that single-handedly conspired and plo...
Memoirs of Robert and Mabel Williams: African American Freedom, Armed Resistance, and International Solidarity
Memoirs of Robert and Mabel Williams: African American Freedom, Armed Resistance, and International Solidarity Robert F. Williams and Mabel R. Williams 9781469680132 Nonfiction University of North Car...
The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal
The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal Brian H. Williams 9781506483122 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media A tour de force that diagnoses...
My Father’s House: An Ode to America’s Longest-Serving Black Congressman
My Father’s House: An Ode to America’s Longest-Serving Black Congressman John Conyers III 9780063336810 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In this moving work, part clear-eyed assessment, part memoir, t...
Johnny Was His Name: The Boy Who Grew Up To Become John H. Johnson
Johnny Was His Name: The Boy Who Grew Up To Become John H. Johnson Friends of John H. Johnson Museum 9798385011254 Nonfiction WestBow Press WestBow Press Johnny Was His Name offers a captivating journ...
Who Was John Lewis?
Who Was John Lewis? Crystal Hubbard 9780593658512 Nonfiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House Learn about the incredible legacy of civil rights legend and Georgia congressman John Lewis in this i...
Because of You, John Lewis
Because of You, John Lewis Andrea Davis Pinkney 9781338759082 Nonfiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. An inspiring story of a friendship between Congressman John Lewis and 10-year-old activist Tyb...
Preaching to the Chickens
Preaching to the Chickens Jabari Asim 9780399168567 Nonfiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House Critically acclaimed author Jabari Asim and Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator E. B. Lewis gi...
March Book One
March Book One John Lewis and Andrew Aydin 9781603093002 Nonfiction Top Shelf Productions Top Shelf Productions Congressman John Lewis is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights m...
Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin
Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin John Hope Franklin 9780374530471 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers John Hope Franklin lived through America’s most defin...
Don’t Start Me to Talking… The Selected Plays of John O’Neal
Don’t Start Me to Talking… The Selected Plays of John O’Neal John O’Neal 9781559364195 Fiction Theatre Communications Group Theatre Communications Group A collection of eight plays by the acclaimed pe...
The Legacy of Eric Williams
The Legacy of Eric Williams Colin A. Palmer 9789766405564 Nonfiction University of the West Indies Press University of the West Indies Press This is the first comprehensive historical assessment of ...
Black and White: The Way I See It
Black and White: The Way I See It Richard Williams 9781476704210 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. The fascinating, revealing, and in-depth memoir of Richard Williams, a self-made business...
Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) Heather Andrea Williams 9780807858219 Nonfiction University of No...
The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery
The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery John Swanson Jacobs 9780226684307 Nonfiction University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press Lost on the oth...
Black Panther by John Ridley Vol. 1: The Long Shadow
Black Panther by John Ridley Vol. 1: The Long Shadow John Ridley 9781302928827 Fiction Marvel Marvel Comics Academy Award-winning writer John Ridley (12 Years a Slave) and Stormbreaker artist Juann Ca...
Punks: New & Selected Poems
Punks: New & Selected Poems John Keene 9781737277521 Poetry The Song Cave The Song Cave A landmark collection of poetry by acclaimed fiction writer, translator, and MacArthur Fellow John Keene, PUNKS:...
Run: Book One
Run: Book One John Lewis and Andrew Aydin 9781419730696 Nonfiction Abrams ComicArts Abrams First you march, then you run. From the #1 bestselling, award–winning team behind March comes the first book ...
Carry on: Reflections for a New Generation
Carry on: Reflections for a New Generation John Lewis 9781538707128 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group A brilliant and empowering collection of final reflections and words of wisd...
His Truth Is Marching on: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
His Truth Is Marching on: John Lewis and the Power of Hope Jon Meacham 9781984855022 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U...
American Histories
American Histories John Edgar Wideman 9781501178344 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. In a new short story collection, John Edgar Wideman—the acclaimed author of Writing to Save a L...
The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch
The Amazing Age of John Roy Lynch Chris Barton 9780802853790 Nonfiction Eerdmans Books for Young Readers Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company John Roy Lynch spent most of his childhood as a slave in Mis...
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (Reissue)
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (Reissue) John Lewis and Michael D'Orso 9781476797717 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. An award-winning national bestseller, Walking w...
March Book Two
March Book Two John Lewis and Andrew Aydin 9781603094009 Nonfiction Top Shelf Productions Top Shelf Productions Don’t miss the long-awaited sequel to the #1 bestseller March: Book One! Congressman ...
Freedom Summer: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Summer Maya Angelou 9781481422987 Fiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. Friendship defies racism for two boys ...
All Stories Are True: History, Myth, and Trauma in the Work of John Edgar Wideman
All Stories Are True: History, Myth, and Trauma in the Work of John Edgar Wideman John Edgar Wideman and Tracie Church Guzzio 9781617038334 Nonfiction University Press of Mississippi University Press ...
Spirit Seeker: John Coltrane’s Musical Journey
Spirit Seeker: John Coltrane’s Musical Journey Gary Golio 9780547239941 Nonfiction Clarion Books HarperCollins Growing up, John was a seeker. He wondered about spirit, and the meaning of life. And whe...
John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement
John Lewis in the Lead: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement Kathleen Benson 9781584302506 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books How does an Alabama sharecropper’s son grow up to help change his ...
John Henry Days
John Henry Days Colson Whitehead 9780385498203 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House Colson Whitehead’s eagerly awaited and triumphantly acclaimed new novel is on one level a multifaceted retelling of...
John Coltrane: His Life And Music (The Michigan American Music Series)
John Coltrane: His Life And Music (The Michigan American Music Series) Lewis Porter 9780472086436 Nonfiction University of Michigan Press University of Michigan Press This is a definitive assessment o...
John Henry
John Henry Julius Lester 9780140566222 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney’s warm, humorous retelling of a popular African-American folk ballad. When John Henry w...
The Stories of John Edgar Wideman
The Stories of John Edgar Wideman John Edgar Wideman 9780679407195 Fiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House This work reprints PEN/Faulkner award winner Wideman’s collections Damballah (Avon, 1981)...
John Henry: An American Legend
John Henry: An American Legend Ezra Jack Keats 9780394890524 Fiction Dragonfly Books Dragonfly Books Caldecott Medalist Ezra Jack Keats’s vibrant retelling of the popular African American folk ballad....
Scenes from My Life: A Memoir
Scenes from My Life: A Memoir Michael K. Williams 9780593240373 Nonfiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR When Michael K. Williams died on Septem...
Capitalism and Slavery, Third Edition
Capitalism and Slavery, Third Edition Eric Williams 9781469663685 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in E...
Who Are Venus and Serena Williams?
Who Are Venus and Serena Williams? James Buckley Jr. 9780515158038 Nonfiction Grosset & Dunlap Penguin Random House The dynamic story of the Williams sisters, both top-ranked professional tennis playe...
Help Me To Find My People: The African American Search For Family Lost In Slavery
Help Me To Find My People: The African American Search For Family Lost In Slavery Heather Andrea Williams 9780807835548 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press...
Losing My Cool: How A Father’s Love And 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture
Losing My Cool: How A Father’s Love And 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture Thomas Chatterton Williams 9781594202636 Nonfiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House A pitch-perfect account of how hip-hop ...
Is the Bitch Dead, Or What?: The Ritz Harper Chronicles Book 2
Is the Bitch Dead, Or What?: The Ritz Harper Chronicles Book 2 Wendy Williams and Karen Hunter 9780767924870 Fiction Broadway Books Penguin Random House DJ Ritz Harper used every trick in the book to ...
Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America—and What We Can Do About It
Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America—and What We Can Do About It Juan Williams 9780307338235 Nonfiction Crown Penguin Random House H...
Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power
Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power Timothy B. Tyson 9780807849231 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press This book tells the re...
Negroes With Guns
Negroes With Guns Robert F. Williams 9781639230273 Nonfiction Lushena Books Lushena Books Born in Jim Crow–era Monroe, North Carolina, Robert F. Williams and Mabel R. Williams were the state’s most le...
Genesis Begins Again
Genesis Begins Again Alicia D. Williams 9781481465809 Fiction Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. “Reminiscent of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye—New York Times 2020 Winner of The...
Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle
Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle Shannen Dee Williams 9781478018209 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books In Subversive...
Sisters and Champions: The True Story of Venus and Serena Williams
Sisters and Champions: The True Story of Venus and Serena Williams Howard Bryant 9780399169069 Nonfiction Philomel Books Penguin Random House From Sisters and Champions: The True Story of Venus ...
Pretty Powerful: Appearance, Substance, and Success
Pretty Powerful: Appearance, Substance, and Success Eboni K. Williams 9781635966626 Nonfiction Viva Editions Viva Editions FOX News co-host and radio personality Eboni K. Williams believes that women...
Black STEM USA: America’s Next Civil Rights Movement
Black STEM USA: America’s Next Civil Rights Movement Sharon Ewell Foster 9780996870702 Nonfiction C. M. Williams & Associates Press C. M. Williams & Associates Press America is losing ground in the gl...
Us (A.)
Us (A.) Saul Williams 9781476779324 Poetry MTV Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In his greatly anticipated new full-length book of poetry, the first since The Dead Emcee Scrolls in 2006, “the poet laureat...
Sprinting Through Life: The Willie Williams Story
Sprinting Through Life: The Willie Williams Story Willie J. Williams 9780910671033 Nonfiction Path Press Path Press This is a memoir recounting the life and career of the first person to break Jesse O...
You Have No Idea: A Famous Daughter, Her No-nonsense Mother, and How They Survived Pageants, Holly wood, Love, Loss (and Each Other)
You Have No Idea: A Famous Daughter, Her No-nonsense Mother, and How They Survived Pageants, Holly wood, Love, Loss (and Each Other) Vanessa L. Williams 9781592407590 Nonfiction Avery Penguin Random H...
To All Gentleness: William Carlos Williams, The Doctor Poet
To All Gentleness: William Carlos Williams, The Doctor Poet Neil Baldwin 9781580730389 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press Published to coincide with the 125th anniversary of William Ca...
Capitalism And Slavery
Capitalism And Slavery Eric Williams 9780807844885 Fiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantatio...
Eric E. Williams Speaks: Essays On Colonialism And Independence
Eric E. Williams Speaks: Essays On Colonialism And Independence Eric Williams and Selwyn Reginald Cudjoe 9780870238888 Nonfiction Calaloux Pubns Calaloux Pubns This volume reproduces Eric E. Williams’...
Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words
Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words John McWhorter 9780593713280 Nonfiction Avery Penguin Random House With his trademark humor and flair, bestselling linguist John McWhorter busts ...
The Family I’m in
The Family I’m in Sharon G. Flake 9781338573206 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. The bestselling and award-winning author of The Skin I’m In and The Life I’m In returns with a novel that explo...
Slaveroad
Slaveroad John Edgar Wideman 9781668057216 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. Major literary figure and “master of language” (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman uses his unique g...
Fighting with Love: The Legacy of John Lewis
Fighting with Love: The Legacy of John Lewis Lesa Cline-Ransome 9781534496620 Nonfiction Paula Wiseman Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book of the Year The “informative, ...
Black Panther by John Ridley Vol. 2: Range Wars
Black Panther by John Ridley Vol. 2: Range Wars John Ridley 9781302928834 Fiction Marvel Marvel Comics Betrayal casts its shadow on the Black Panther’s reign! The reveal of T’Challa’s darkest secret h...
The Other History of the DC Universe
The Other History of the DC Universe John Ridley 9781779511973 Fiction DC Comics DC Comics Academy Award-winning screenwriter John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, Let It Fall) examines the mythology of the ...