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Beneath The Lion’s Gaze: A Novel
Beneath The Lion’s Gaze: A Novel Maaza Mengiste 9780393071764 Fiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. An epic tale of a father and two sons, of betrayals and loyalties, of a family...
Addis Ababa Noir
Addis Ababa Noir Maaza Mengiste 9781617759529 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Ea...
The Shadow King
The Shadow King Maaza Mengiste 9780393083569 Fiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. With the threat of Mussolini’s army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her ...
Bivouac
Bivouac Kwame Dawes 9781617757105 Fiction Black Sheep Akashic Books “Dawes examines the complicated terrain of grief with uncanny insight and spare, lucid prose. What unfolds is a story about a man, a...
Little Lion Goes to School
Little Lion Goes to School Kellie Magnus 9789769564022 Fiction Jackmandora Jackmandora 3rd Edition Little Lion Goes to School tells the story of a young Rastafarian boy struggling to fit in at a ne...
Beyond the Door of No Return
Beyond the Door of No Return David Diop 9780374606770 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Cudahy Macmillan Publishers “Stunningly realized … Exquisite … A spellbinding novel about the high price of betrayal—of...
Everywhere You Don’t Belong
Everywhere You Don’t Belong Gabriel Bump 9781616208790 Fiction Algonquin Books Workman Publishing Co., Inc. “This book is astonishing. You’ll be smiling even as your heart is breaking, and you’ll tip ...
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...
Let The Lion Eat Straw
Let The Lion Eat Straw Ellease Southerland 9780060724214 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Hailed upon publication by writers and critics alike, including Shirley Hazzard and Charles Johnson, Let the Lion...
Nani and the Lion
Nani and the Lion Alicia D. Williams 9781665914222 Fiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. From Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King – John Steptoe Award winner Alicia D. Willi...
History of a Difficult Child
History of a Difficult Child Mihret Sibhat 9780593298633 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House “The History of a Difficult Child is an extraordinary novel.” —Maaza Mengiste, Booker Prize-shortlis...
The Lion or the Mouse? (Who’s Got Game?)
The Lion or the Mouse? (Who’s Got Game?) Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison 9781476792682 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this charmingly subversive reinterpretation of a classic...
Lion Pride
Lion Pride Roland C. Barksdale-Hall 9781937622008 Fiction Nefu Books Nefu Books Barksdale-Hall cleverly weaves together two South African folktales, the "Lion and the Ostrich" and the "Lion Who Though...
Little Lion at Bat
Little Lion at Bat Kellie Magnus 9780974421117 Fiction Jackmandora Jackmandora Little Lion at Bat is the follow up to Little Lion Goes to School . It tells the story of a young Rastafarian boy, Zac...
The Lion And The Jewel (Three Crowns Books)
The Lion And The Jewel (Three Crowns Books) Wole Soyinka 9780199110834 Fiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press This is one of the best-known plays by Africa’s major dramatist, Wole Soy...
I Hope You Find What You’re Looking for
I Hope You Find What You’re Looking for Bsrat Mezghebe 9781324092490 Fiction Liveright Publishing Corporation W. W. Norton & Company Named one of the most anticipated books of 2026 by Apple Books, The...
Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir
Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir Rebecca Carroll 9781982116255 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. A stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting...
The Memory of Love
The Memory of Love Aminatta Forna 9780802145680 Fiction Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best BookFinalist for the Orange Prize for FictionAn Essence Book...
Beneath the Shining Jewel
Beneath the Shining Jewel Balogun Ojetade 9781530583645 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Beneath the Shining Jewel takes place in Ki Khanga’s jewel city, Sati-Baa. Mba, a retired constable...
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 ...
Little & Lion
Little & Lion Brandy Colbert 9780316349000 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group A Stonewall Book Award Winner!"Little and Lion is beautifully insightful, honest, and compassionate. Br...
I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I’m Trapped in a Rom-Com
I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I’m Trapped in a Rom-Com Kimberly Lemming 9780593818633 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House A hilarious and sexy romance about a woman who gets dropped on a str...
The Teflon Queen PT 5
The Teflon Queen PT 5 Silk White 9781943686773 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing The Teflon Queen is back and better than ever. Angela and her team is sent across the country to capture a ...
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...
Lion Lights: My Invention That Made Peace with Lions
Lion Lights: My Invention That Made Peace with Lions Richard Turere and Shelly Pollock 9780884488859 Nonfiction Tilbury House Publishers Tilbury House Publishers Winner of the 2023 Children’s Africana...
Larry The Lending Lion
Larry The Lending Lion Aisha Hall 9780578660813 Fiction Manish Publishing Manish Publishing Larry the Lending Lion is a rhyming children’s book about finance. In this story, Larry goes on an adventure...
The Lion Awakes: Adventures in Africa’s Economic Miracle
The Lion Awakes: Adventures in Africa’s Economic Miracle Ashish J. Thakkar 9781137280145 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Three little known facts: Africa is now the world’s fastest ...
The Lion & the Mouse
The Lion & the Mouse Jerry Pinkney 9780316013567 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group The Caldecott Award-winning and New York Times bestselling fable of compassion and ki...
Little Lion Goes for Gold
Little Lion Goes for Gold Kellie Magnus 9780974421124 Fiction Jackmandora Jackmandora Little Lion leads the pack! Young Zachariah Zion returns for his third challenge — winning a medal for his school’...
The World Beneath: A Novel
The World Beneath: A Novel Janice Warman 9780763678562 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press At the height of South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle, a boy must face life decisions that test what ...
The Thunder Beneath Us
The Thunder Beneath Us Nicole Blades 9781496704597 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. To the world, Best Lightburn is a talented writer rising up the masthead at international style magazine J...
Side Notes from the Archivist: Poems
Side Notes from the Archivist: Poems Anastacia-Reneé 9780063221710 Poetry Amistad HarperCollins The award-winning, genre-crossing writer demonstrates her power as a funkadelic and formidable feminist ...
Beneath the Dawn
Beneath the Dawn Brenda Jackson 9798993256955 Fiction Madaris Publishing Madaris Publishing On the rugged coast of Oregon, secrets wash ashore with the tide… After learning that her ex-boyfriend, n...
The Stars Beneath Our Feet
The Stars Beneath Our Feet David Barclay Moore 9781524701246 Fiction Knopf Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A boy tries to steer a safe path through the projects in Harlem in the wake of h...
Lion’s Blood: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom in an Alternate America
Lion’s Blood: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom in an Alternate America Steven Barnes 9780446526685 Fiction Aspect Hachette Book Group The novel takes place in approximately 1850 AD, and involves two mai...
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...
Beneath the Surface
Beneath the Surface Tony Ginyard 9781587364174 Fiction Iceni Books Iceni Books Read a Book Excerpt Book description: There are some secrets that lie… Beneath The Surface Seventeen-year-old Andre D...
Griots Beneath The Baobab: Tales From Los Angeles
Griots Beneath The Baobab: Tales From Los Angeles Randy Ross, Octavia E. Butler, Erin Aubry Kaplan, Eric Jerome Dickey, and Jervey Tervalon 9780966267518 Nonfiction Larod Publishing Company Larod Publ...
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...
The Rise: Where Neighbors Are Sometimes More
The Rise: Where Neighbors Are Sometimes More Chantal Ellen 9780978678609 Nonfiction Lion’s Den Publishing Lion’s Den Publishing Exploring issues of self-esteem, family discord, sisterhood, faith, and ...
Layla’s Happiness
Layla’s Happiness Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie 9781592702886 Fiction Enchanted Lion Books Enchanted Lion Books Winner Ezra Jack Keats Award for Illustration and 2020 Ezra Jack Keats Writer Honor Book for...
Kamau and Zuzu Find a Way: A Picture Book
Kamau and Zuzu Find a Way: A Picture Book Aracelis Girmay 9781592703890 Fiction Enchanted Lion Books Enchanted Lion Books A stirring story of African diaspora, resourcefulness, and intergenerational l...
The Boy and the Lion: A True Story of a Lost Maasai Boy Mysteriously Protected by a Wild Lioness
The Boy and the Lion: A True Story of a Lost Maasai Boy Mysteriously Protected by a Wild Lioness Mike Saito 9781957810423 Nonfiction Iskanchi Press Iskanchi Press A true survival memoir about a five-y...
A Rage of Lions (the Shadow Prince #3)
A Rage of Lions (the Shadow Prince #3) David Anthony Durham 9781643797434 Fiction Tu Books Lee & Low Books In the third installment in The Shadow Prince saga, Ash and his friends race against time...
Them That Are Called: An Epic
Them That Are Called: An Epic J.G. Parker 9798991766906 Fiction Looking Lion Books Looking Lion Books An indomitable horde, nearly immune to the weight of time, marauds through the cosmos. From the se...
A Beach Tail
A Beach Tail Karen Lynn Williams 9781635925531 Fiction Boyds Mills Press Boyds Mills Press A charming tale of creativity and discovery. —School Library Journal, starred review A creative and intellig...
What Do You Know?
What Do You Know? Aracelis Girmay 9781592703210 Fiction Enchanted Lion Books Enchanted Lion Books What might a well, a bear, a farmer, and a historian respond when Love asks, “What do you know?” This ...
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain 9780593134047 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House A chorus of extraordinary voices comes ...
Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History
Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History Walter Dean Myers 9780060277093 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House Jon Meacham 9781400063253 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House The definitive biography of a larger-than-life president who defied norms, divid...
The Lion’s Brood: The Story of Hannibal
The Lion’s Brood: The Story of Hannibal Rafael Scott 9781413712605 Fiction PublishAmerica PublishAmerica It is 238 B.C. The First Punic War has ended and dark times have befallen the great African em...
Lion and the Ostrich Chicks: And Other African Folk Poems
Lion and the Ostrich Chicks: And Other African Folk Poems Ashley Bryan 9780689313110 Nonfiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. Includes four traditional tales told by the Haus...
I Had a Brother Once: A Poem, a Memoir
I Had a Brother Once: A Poem, a Memoir Adam Mansbach 9780593134795 Poetry One World Penguin Random House A brilliant, genre-defying work—both memoir and epic poem—about the struggle for wisdom, grace,...
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 ...
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 ...
Minaret: A Novel
Minaret: A Novel Leila Aboulela 9780802170149 Fiction Black Cat Grove Atlantic, Inc. Leila Aboulela’s American debut is a provocative, timely, and engaging novel about a young Muslim woman — once priv...
Beneath a Meth Moon
Beneath a Meth Moon Jacqueline Woodson 9780399252501 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s LiteratureLaurel Daneau...
Bestiary: Poems
Bestiary: Poems Donika Kelly 9781555977580 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press Donika Kelly’s bold debut collection, longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award and winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poet...
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...
The Deep
The Deep Zetta Elliott 9781492902119 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press THE DEEP plunges readers into a dangerous, underground world policed by members of The League, a secret group of women and men ...
Colored Television
Colored Television Danzy Senna 9780593544372 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House A brilliant dark comedy about love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial-identity-industrial c...
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...
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 ...
Mr. Potter: A Novel
Mr. Potter: A Novel Jamaica Kincaid 9780374528744 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers The story of an ordinary man, his century, and his home: "Kincaid’s most poetic and affecting n...
The Narrows
The Narrows Ann Petry 9780063259997 Fiction Mariner Books Classics Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A novel first published in 1953. From author of the bestselling novel The Street, a “masterpiece of social...
You Might Just Get Burned: A Novel (Zane Presents)
You Might Just Get Burned: A Novel (Zane Presents) Shamara Ray 9781593094416 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. What happens when the man you fall for isn’t who he says he is? As games are p...
The Enneagram for Black Liberation: Return to Who You Are Beneath the Armor You Carry
The Enneagram for Black Liberation: Return to Who You Are Beneath the Armor You Carry Chichi Agorom 9781506478968 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media Am I worthy of belonging? Am I loved just as I a...
Secret Soldiers
Secret Soldiers Keely Hutton 9780374309039 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers Macmillan Publishers Over a quarter million underage British boys fought on the Allied front line...
The Stars Beneath Our Feet
The Stars Beneath Our Feet David Barclay Moore 9781524701277 Fiction Yearling Penguin Random House
Beneath the Darkest Sky
Beneath the Darkest Sky Jason Overstreet 9781496701787 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In this riveting and emotionally powerful historical drama, an ex-FBI agent plunges into the darkest s...
Earthquake
Earthquake Andrew Salkey 9781845231828 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Ricky Thomas, his brother Doug, and his sister Polly spend their summer holidays in the coffee walk surrounding their...
Storms Beneath the Skin
Storms Beneath the Skin Regie Gibson 9780970801203 Poetry EM Press EM Press Regie Gibson’s first full-length book of poetry. A collection of poems and chants which the critically acclaimed poet has be...
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...
Chaser: A Novel
Chaser: A Novel Miasha 9781416589860 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the bestselling author of Never Enough, a novel about two young lovers who will stop at nothing to succeed. Chaser i...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Finding Yvonne
Finding Yvonne Brandy Colbert 9780316349055 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group For fans of Nicola Yoon and Nina LaCour comes a striking novel about difficult choices fro...
The Speech of Angels
The Speech of Angels Sharon Maas 9780007123865 Fiction Bookouture Bookouture Jyothi is a child of the slums and the streets, with a faint memory of past happiness: green hills at dawn, a boy’s clear a...
They Dream in Gold
They Dream in Gold Mai Sennaar 9781638931102 Fiction SJP Lit Zando Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize 2024 “Extraordinary … a powerful and poignant exploration of the African ...
Forbidden Fruit
Forbidden Fruit Stanley Gazemba 9780998642307 Fiction The Mantle The Mantle Desperate to make ends meet, Ombima commits a “harmless” crime. When he tries to conceal his misdeed, the simple farm labore...
Lady Jasmine: A Novel
Lady Jasmine: A Novel Victoria Christopher Murray 9781416589174 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. The beloved—and hated—Jasmine larson bush returns to battle her own past in a compelling new n...
The Summer of my Fifteenth Year
The Summer of my Fifteenth Year Geri Spencer Hunter 9780984435050 Fiction Blue Nile Press Blue Nile Press Geri Spencer Hunter is a formidable storyteller who has crafted a genuine masterpiece with The...
Tempest
Tempest Beverly Jenkins 9780062389046 Fiction Avon Books HarperCollins From USA Today and AALBC.com Bestselling Author Beverly Jenkins comes a new novel in a mesmerizing series set in the Old West, wh...
Country Place: A Novel
Country Place: A Novel Ann Petry 9780063260092 Fiction Mariner Books Classics Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A novel first published in 1947“Petry is the writer we have been waiting for; hers are the stori...
Zulu Heart: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom in an Alternate America
Zulu Heart: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom in an Alternate America Steven Barnes 9780446611954 Fiction Aspect Hachette Book Group Barnes delivers the explosive follow-up to his groundbreaking alternat...
Homegoing: A Novel
Homegoing: A Novel Yaa Gyasi 9781101947135 Fiction Random House Penguin Random House Yaa Gyasi’s London Book Fair 2015: In Pre-Fair Deals, Debut Sells to Knopf for Rumored 7 Figures A riveting, kal...
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...
Minor Black Figures
Minor Black Figures Brandon Taylor 9780593332368 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House From the Booker Prize Finalist and Bestselling Author: A Perceptive Novel About a Gay Black Painter Naviga...
White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia
White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia Kiki Petrosino 9781946448545 Poetry Sarabande Books Sarabande Books In her fourth full-length book, White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia, Kiki Petrosino turns her gaze to ...
Speak Gigantular
Speak Gigantular Irenosen Okojie 9781909762299 Fiction Jacaranda Jacaranda Speak Gigantular is a startlingly short story collection from one of Britain’s rising literary stars. These stories are capti...
Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems
Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems Nikki Giovanni 9780060099527 Poetry William Morrow HarperCollins “One of her best collections to date.” —EssenceQuilting the Black-Eyed Pea is a ...
Filthy Animals
Filthy Animals Brandon Taylor 9780525538912 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Time, Elle, Entertainment Weekly, Cosmopolitan, O: The Oprah Magaz...
A More Perfect Union
A More Perfect Union Teri Ellen Cross Davis 9780814257784 Poetry Mad Creek Books Ohio University Press In the tender, sensual, and bracing poems of a more perfect Union, Teri Ellen Cross Davis reclaim...