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Ravalette: The Rosicrucian’s Story
Ravalette: The Rosicrucian’s Story Paschal Beverly Randolph 9781162772592 Nonfiction Kessinger Publishing Kessinger Publishing 1939. With Prologue, Notes, and Epilogue to this philosophical and spirit...
Paschal Beverly Randolph: A Nineteenth-Century Black American Spiritualist, Rosicrucian, and Sex Magician
Paschal Beverly Randolph: A Nineteenth-Century Black American Spiritualist, Rosicrucian, and Sex Magician John Patrick Deveney 9780791431207 Nonfiction State University of New York Press State Univers...
Our Story Starts in Africa: A Picture Book
Our Story Starts in Africa: A Picture Book Patrice Lawrence 9781419760228 Fiction Harry N. Abrams Harry N. Abrams Award-winning writer Patrice Lawrence’s picture book Our Story Starts in Africa is a s...
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans Kadir Nelson 9780061730795 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins From Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans, written an...
The Road to Freedom: A Story of the Reconstruction (Jamestown’s American Portraits)
The Road to Freedom: A Story of the Reconstruction (Jamestown’s American Portraits) Jabari Asim 9780769634326 Fiction School Specialty, Inc. School Specialty, Inc. It is 1865, and freedom is in thw ai...
Self-Value: The Story of Me
Self-Value: The Story of Me Brandon Williams 9781790553693 Nonfiction Kindle Direct Publishing Amazon Digital Services, Inc. Limited-Time Promotional Price!Please review and rate my story on Amazon! ...
Grandpa! Tell Us a Story Drinking from Ancient Wells the Story of the Game Black People Play/Trilogy Book One: The Game’s Soul
Grandpa! Tell Us a Story Drinking from Ancient Wells the Story of the Game Black People Play/Trilogy Book One: The Game’s Soul Orchester Benjamin 9780977342112 Fiction SoulViewWorld SoulViewWorld OLD ...
Gabriel’s Story
Gabriel’s Story Thumper Book Review Right now I’m scanning my slightly used memory attempting to determine the last time a debut novel moved me as much as Gabriel’s Story, the debu...
Woleté The Story of an Enslaved Ethiopian Girl
Woleté The Story of an Enslaved Ethiopian Girl Aklilu Kidanu Woldegiorgis 9781569029053 Fiction The Red Sea Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press Woleté is inspired by a true, contempora...
Don Fulton
Don Fulton NONE Don Fulton, a Washington D.C. native, is a screenwriter inspired by the lack of quality and diverse Christmas films in Hollywood. His screenplay, “Please Come Home for Christmas,” is ...
Second Story Press
Second Story Press Second Story Press Second Story Press Second Story Press is dedicated to publishing books that focus on social justice, human rights, and feminist issues, particularly for children...
Second Story Press
Second Story Press Second Story Press Second Story Press Second Story Press is dedicated to publishing books that focus on social justice, human rights, and feminist issues, particularly for children...
The Story of the Solar System: A Visual Journey
The Story of the Solar System: A Visual Journey Maggie Aderin-Pocock 9781785949203 Nonfiction BBC Books BBC Studios Distribution “The nation’s go-to woman for all things space… her joy for the subject...
How to Tell the Truth: The Story of How God Saved Me to Win Hearts—Not Just Arguments
How to Tell the Truth: The Story of How God Saved Me to Win Hearts—Not Just Arguments Preston Perry 9781496466891 Nonfiction Tyndale Elevate Tyndale House The story of Preston Perry’s path toward God....
Barracoon Adapted for Young Readers: The Story of the Last Black Cargo
Barracoon Adapted for Young Readers: The Story of the Last Black Cargo Zora Neale Hurston and Adapted by Ibram X. Kendi 9780063098336 Nonfiction Amistad Books for Young Readers HarperCollins In the fi...
Psalms of My People: A Story of Black Liberation as Told through Hip-Hop
Psalms of My People: A Story of Black Liberation as Told through Hip-Hop Lenny Duncan 9781506479026 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media If you want to understand the Black experience in the US, you ...
Seeking Shanti: A Family’s Story of Climate Migration
Seeking Shanti: A Family’s Story of Climate Migration Jesse Byrd 9781223191492 Fiction Paw Prints Publishing Baker & Taylor Publisher Services Seeking Shanti: A Family’s Story of Climate Migration is ...
The Night Before Freedom: A Juneteenth Story
The Night Before Freedom: A Juneteenth Story Glenda Armand 9780593567463 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House This moving picture book tells the story of Juneteenth with all the ...
An American Story
An American Story Kwame Alexander 9780316473125 Nonfiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group New York Times Bestselling author Kwame Alexander pens a powerful picture book that...
Introducing An American Story
Introducing An American Story Kwame Alexander Article An American Story Written by Kwame Alexander, Art by Dare Coulter Kwame Alexander, the #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning ...
The Devil’s Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South’s Most Notorious Slave Jail
The Devil’s Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South’s Most Notorious Slave Jail Kristen Green 9781541675636 Nonfiction Seal Press Seal Press The inspiring true story of an ens...
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...
The Epic Story of Toussaint Louverture
The Epic Story of Toussaint Louverture Denizé Lauture 9781736725634 Nonfiction Thorobred Books Thorobred Books The Epic Story of Toussaint Louverture is the coming of age story of one the worlds most ...
Shirley Chisholm Dared: The Story of the First Black Woman in Congress
Shirley Chisholm Dared: The Story of the First Black Woman in Congress Alicia D. Williams 9780593123683 Nonfiction Anne Schwartz Books Penguin Random House Discover the inspiring story of Shirley Chis...
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...
Tigerbelle: The Wyomia Tyus Story
Tigerbelle: The Wyomia Tyus Story Wyomia Tyus and Elizabeth Terzakis 9781617756580 Nonfiction Edge of Sports Akashic Books "Wyomia Tyus may not be as well known as Wilma Rudolph or Billie Jean King, b...
Water: New Short Story Fiction from Africa: An Anthology from Short Story Day Africa
Water: New Short Story Fiction from Africa: An Anthology from Short Story Day Africa Rachel Zadok 9781780263083 Fiction New Internationalist New Internationalist Short Story Day Africa presents its an...
First Dark: A Buffalo Soldier’s Story - Sesquicentennial Edition
First Dark: A Buffalo Soldier’s Story - Sesquicentennial Edition Bob Rogers 9781634906968 Fiction Booklocker Booklocker.com, Inc. First Dark is a coming-of-age story, an epic adventure, and a compelli...
Death Wish: A Story of the Mafia
Death Wish: A Story of the Mafia Iceberg Slim 9781936399178 Fiction Cash Money Content Simon & Schuster, Inc. This is the original mafia story that spawned all the rest, the story of Chicago’s ruthles...
Brave Music of a Distant Drum
Brave Music of a Distant Drum Manu Herbstein 9780889954700 Fiction Red Deer Press Red Deer Press In Brave Music of a Distant Drum, a blind old slave woman, Ama, summons her son to come and write dow...
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self Danielle Evans 9781594485367 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House Introducing a new star of her generation, an electric debut story collection about mix...
Scholastic Reader Level 2: Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story: My True Story
Scholastic Reader Level 2: Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story: My True Story Ruby Bridges 9780545108553 Nonfiction Cartwheel Books Scholastic Inc. The extraordinary true story of Ruby Bridges,...
Leon’s Story
Leon’s Story Leon Walter Tillage 9781439518588 Fiction Square Fish Macmillan Publishers ”Leon’s Story is a powerful, wonderful thing!” — Nikki GiovanniI remember that as a young boy I used to look in ...
We Are The Ship: The Story Of Negro League Baseball
We Are The Ship: The Story Of Negro League Baseball Kadir Nelson 9780786808328 Nonfiction Disney-Hyperion Disney Publishing Worldwide "We are the ship; all else the sea."-Rube Foster, founde...
The Future Has a Past
The Future Has a Past Thumper Book Review The Future Has A Past is the latest short story collection by author J. California Cooper. In case you don’t know, I adore J. California Cooper! I&rs...
Raising Fences: A Black Man’s Love Story
Raising Fences: A Black Man’s Love Story Michael Datcher 9781573221719 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House Immediate, dramatic, illuminating-through his own riveting story, Michael Datcher, a...
Brandon Williams
Brandon Williams NONE Brandon Williams, author of “Self-Value: The Story of Me,” shares his inspiring journey from childhood homelessness and delinquency to success. Raised in a low-income community,...
Do Me Twice: My Life after Islam
Do Me Twice: My Life after Islam Kam Williams Book Review "The story I must tell in order to be transformed is the story of my coming out — out of Islam, out of my parents’ hous...
I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness to "The Blind Side" and Beyond
I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness to "The Blind Side" and Beyond Kam Williams Book Review "I didn’t write this book just to revisit The Blind Side… I want to help sepa...
The Loving Story
The Loving Story Kam Williams the-loving-story.jpg Film Review Civil Rights Documentary Recounts Landmark Supreme Court Decision on Interracial Marriage The Loving Story (2012) In Theaters: Dec 10...
Red Dirt Witch: A Graphic Novel
Red Dirt Witch: A Graphic Novel N. K. Jemisin 9781419753732 Fiction Abrams ComicArts Abrams A graphic novel adaptation of #1 New York Times bestselling author N. K. Jemisin’s acclaimed short story “Re...
Story Merchant Books
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Story Press Africa
Story Press Africa Story Press Africa Story Press Africa
Story Plant Gold
Story Plant Gold Story Plant Gold Story Plant Gold
Story Merchant Books
Story Merchant Books Story Merchant Books Story Merchant Books
Story Plant Gold
Story Plant Gold Story Plant Gold Story Plant Gold
Story Press Africa
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The Risk Worth Taking: A Story of Breaking Free and Trading for a Life You Love
The Risk Worth Taking: A Story of Breaking Free and Trading for a Life You Love Teri Ijeoma 9781637634653 Nonfiction Frederick Douglass Books Forefront Books What if the life you dream of isn’t just p...
Abolition and the African American Story
Abolition and the African American Story Patricia Williams Dockery 9780593811368 Nonfiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Until now, you’ve only heard one side of the story: how A...
Marina: A Story about Plastic and the Planet
Marina: A Story about Plastic and the Planet Jesse Byrd 9781223188645 Fiction Paw Prints Publishing Baker & Taylor Publisher Services Discover the eye-opening journey of a single piece of plastic in M...
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...
Sankofa: A Culinary Story of Resilience and Belonging
Sankofa: A Culinary Story of Resilience and Belonging Eric Adjepong 9780593385944 Nonfiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House Inspired by acclaimed chef Eric Adjepong’s own childhood, Sankofa is ...
Zora, the Story Keeper
Zora, the Story Keeper Ebony Joy Wilkins 9781984816917 Fiction Kokila Penguin Random House A young Black girl and her aunt celebrate the wonder and magic of their family’s legacy through storytelling....
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America Michael Harriot 9780358439165 Nonfiction Dey Street Books HarperCollins From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a sear...
Addicted to Crack, Basketball Great Chris Washburn Tells His Story
Addicted to Crack, Basketball Great Chris Washburn Tells His Story Author Interviews Chris Washburn, a former high school basketball phenom, tells his emotional story about losing millions of dollars ...
Freedom! the Story of the Black Panther Party
Freedom! the Story of the Black Panther Party Jetta Grace Martin, Joshua Bloom, and Waldo E. Martin Jr. 9781646140930 Nonfiction Levine Querido Levine Querido Read a PDF of the first Chapter 1, Cruisi...
Call and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter
Call and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter Veronica Chambers 9780358573418 Nonfiction Versify Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter is a broad and powerf...
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America Clint Smith 9780316492935 Nonfiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group "We need this book." —Ibram X. Kendi, ...
When My Cousins Come to Town
When My Cousins Come to Town Angela Shanté 9781513267227 Fiction West Margin Press West Margin Press A fun, lively story of Black family and cousin culture that celebrates individuality and embraces d...
Game, Set, Sisters!: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams
Game, Set, Sisters!: The Story of Venus and Serena Williams Jay Leslie 9781250307408 Nonfiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers A stirring picture book biography of Venus and Serena Williams...
One Dark Body
One Dark Body Charlotte Watson Sherman 9780984709533 Fiction Sweet Inspiration Press Sweet Inspiration Press Set in Pearl, Washington, One Dark Body is the story of Raisin, a twelve-year-old girl aban...
Penitentiary Tales: A Love Story
Penitentiary Tales: A Love Story EA Luetkemeyer 9780578581224 Fiction Laughing Buddha Books Laughing Buddha Books Penitentiary Tales: A Love Story recounts the escapades of Dean Davis, a thirty-someth...
The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family
The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family Ibtihaj Muhammad 9780316519007 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group The instant New York Times bestseller! A powerful, vibra...
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 ...
Hidden Figures, Young Readers’ Edition (large print): The Untold True Story of Four African American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation Into Space
Hidden Figures, Young Readers’ Edition (large print): The Untold True Story of Four African American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation Into Space Margot Lee Shetterly 9781432850258 Nonfiction Thorndi...
Chasing Space: An Astronaut’s Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances
Chasing Space: An Astronaut’s Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances Leland Melvin 9780062496720 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In this moving, inspirational memoir, a former NASA astronaut and NF...
Vanessa a Love Story
Vanessa a Love Story Sandra L. Manigault 9780965854139 Fiction Godosan Publications Godosan Publications When Vanessa, a beautiful young psychology professor who has fled to New Mexico in the wake of ...
A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day
A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day Andrea Davis Pinkney 9780425287682 Poetry Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A celebration of the ex...
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat Javaka Steptoe 9780316213882 Nonfiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group A visually stunning picture book biograp...
Believing in Magic: My Story of Love, Overcoming Adversity, and Keeping the Faith
Believing in Magic: My Story of Love, Overcoming Adversity, and Keeping the Faith Cookie Johnson with Denene Millner 9781501125157 Nonfiction Howard Books Howard Books In her new memoir, Cookie Johnso...
A Doctor For Christmas: A Bachelor of Shell Cove Novella
A Doctor For Christmas: A Bachelor of Shell Cove Novella Siera London 9781535241021 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC ZARI OKORO NEEDS A MAN. A not so friendly wager between sisters has the...
Erotic Escapades
Erotic Escapades Kisha Green, Kenni York, MiChaune, Tee Renee, and Nea 9780692654927 Fiction DivaBooks DivaBooks Erotic Escapades is a plethora of sensual tales brought to you by some very talented la...
Fairest: The Lunar Chronicles: Levana’s Story
Fairest: The Lunar Chronicles: Levana’s Story Marissa Meyer 9781250073556 Fiction Square Fish Macmillan Publishers Mirror, mirror, on the wall. Who is the Fairest of them all? Pure evil has a name...
Tomlinson Hill: The Remarkable Story of Two Families Who Share the Tomlinson Name - One White, One Black
Tomlinson Hill: The Remarkable Story of Two Families Who Share the Tomlinson Name - One White, One Black Chris Tomlinson 9781250070449 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers A New York T...
Story/Time: The Life Of An Idea (The Toni Morrison Lecture Series)
Story/Time: The Life Of An Idea (The Toni Morrison Lecture Series) Bill T. Jones 9780691162706 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press In this ceaselessly questioning book...
Mayor For Life: The Incredible Story of Marion Barry Jr.
Mayor For Life: The Incredible Story of Marion Barry Jr. Marion Barry Jr. and Omar Tyree 9781593095055 Nonfiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Four-time mayor of Washington, DC, Marion Barry, ...
Prince Among Slaves - Abdul Rahman Sori’s Story
Prince Among Slaves - Abdul Rahman Sori’s Story Troy Johnson Article With the recent popularity of the film 12 Years a Slave and focus on Solomon Northup’s the tragic story story, we tend to forget ...
Nine Faces of Love
Nine Faces of Love Timmothy B. McCann 9781495913426 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Nine Faces of Love is a collection of love story from a National Best Selling Novelist described by Pub...
This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration
This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration Jacqueline Woodson 9780399239861 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House The story of one family’s journey north during the Great Migration ...
Guilty By Association (The Jamieson Legacy)
Guilty By Association (The Jamieson Legacy) Pat Simmons 9780802403681 Fiction Lift Every Voice Moody Publishers There are three books in the Jamieson Legacy series: Guilty by Association (Kidd’s story...
Trick Baby
Trick Baby Iceberg Slim 9781936399017 Fiction Cash Money Content Simon & Schuster, Inc. The author that brought black literature to the streets is back. Weaving stories of deceit, sex, humor and race ...
Outliers: The Story of Success
Outliers: The Story of Success Malcolm Gladwell 9780316017930 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group There is a story that is usually told about extremely successful people, a story t...
A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother
A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother Janny Scott 9781594487972 Nonfiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House A major publishing event: an unprecedented look into the life of t...
The Next Big Story: My Journey Through The Land Of Possibilities (Celebra Books)
The Next Big Story: My Journey Through The Land Of Possibilities (Celebra Books) Soledad O’Brien 9780451231376 Nonfiction Celebra Penguin Random House An intimate look behind the CNN journalist’s most...
The Gods of the Bacteria: The World Before Darwin
The Gods of the Bacteria: The World Before Darwin Billy Z. Earley 9781432762490 Fiction Outskirts Press Outskirts Press Amazon.com ReviewThe long awaited, eagerly anticipated, controversial, action pa...
The Memory Quilt: A Christmas Story For Our Times
The Memory Quilt: A Christmas Story For Our Times T. D. Jakes 9781439170458 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. T.D. Jakes’s first Christmas story features a grandmother seeking inspiration ...
Panama Fever: Digging Down Gold Mountain
Panama Fever: Digging Down Gold Mountain W. B. Garvey 9780982229408 Nonfiction Jonkro Books Jonkro Books A tragic story of love, corruption and ambition, W. B. Garvey’s novel Panama Fever: Digging Dow...
A Conversation with the Mann
A Conversation with the Mann John Ridley 9780446690751 Fiction Warner Books Hachette Book Group An evocative novel of an aspiring black comics rise to near-fame and fortune during the Rat Pack era, by...
The Things I Could Tell You!
The Things I Could Tell You! J.L. Woodson 9780970269966 Nonfiction Macro Publishing Group Macro Publishing Group The Things I Could Tell You! by J. L. Woodson, is the story of Cameron Spears, a Chicag...
Nobody’s Son: Notes from an American Life
Nobody’s Son: Notes from an American Life Luís Alberto Urrea 9780816522705 Fiction University of Arizona Press University of Arizona Press Here’s a story about a family that comes from Tijuana and set...
The Doris Ross Reddick Story
The Doris Ross Reddick Story Ersula Knox Odom 9780979156038 Nonfiction Sula Too LLC Sula Too LLC The first Black woman to serve on and chair the Hillsborough County School Board was Doris Ross Reddick...
Fred W. Kennedy
Fred W. Kennedy 0000000062844912 Fred W. Kennedy is a former secondary school teacher and principal who has transitioned into writing Jamaican historical fiction. His latest work, “Huareo: Story of a...
Kiran H. J. Dellimore
Kiran H. J. Dellimore NONE Kiran Dellimore, a scientist, inventor, and author based in Utrecht, has authored three books on diverse topics. A keen runner, squash player, and rock climber, he is curre...
Mbozi Haimbe
Mbozi Haimbe NONE Mbozi Haimbe, a Zambian author, writes African-inspired fiction. Her work has been published by Granta, Catapult, and Catalyst Press. She's a panelist, guest speaker, scriptwriter, ...
Idza Luhumyo
Idza Luhumyo NONE Idza Luhumyo, born in 1993, is a rising star in African literature, known for her award-winning works. She earned the Margaret Busby New Daughters of Africa Award in 2020 and the Sh...
Louise Story and Ebony Reed
Louise Story and Ebony Reed MULTIPLE Louise Story is a renowned investigative journalist and Yale professor, known for her work at The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and for her investig...
Nadia Salomon
Nadia Salomon NONE Nadia Salomon is a #PitMad Success Story and award-winning author of A Voice of Hope: The Myrlie Evers Williams Story, the first picture book biography ever written about the iconi...
Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story
Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story Troy Johnson books-place.jpg Film Review Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story Click to rent or buy th...
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story Shannon Simpson Book Review Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story by Ben Carson During Black History Month, one of my Facebook friends was posting pictures of influe...
Grandpa! Tell Us a Story Drinking from Ancient Wells the Story of the Game Black People Play/Trilogy Book One: The Game’s Soul
Grandpa! Tell Us a Story Drinking from Ancient Wells the Story of the Game Black People Play/Trilogy Book One: The Game’s Soul Orchester Benjamin Excerpt If you dig deep en...