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Land Of Love And Drowning
Land Of Love And Drowning Tiphanie Yanique 9781594488337 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House Recipient of the 2014 American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Foundation AwardA major debut from an a...
I Am The Virgin Islands
I Am The Virgin Islands Tiphanie Yanique 9781934370308 Poetry Little Bell Caribbean Little Bell Caribbean What does it mean to be a Virgin Islander? Author Tiphanie Yanique explores this question in h...
How To Escape From A Leper Colony: A Novella And Stories
How To Escape From A Leper Colony: A Novella And Stories Tiphanie Yanique 9781555975500 Fiction Graywolf Press Graywolf Press An enthralling debut collection from a singular Caribbean voiceFor a leper...
Monster in the Middle
Monster in the Middle Tiphanie Yanique 9781594633607 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House Monster in the Middle takes the reader on a generational love journey that spans some of America’s mos...
The Saving Work
The Saving Work Tiphanie Yanique 9781888553239 Fiction Kore Press Kore Press Short story chapbook, laser printed and hand assembled with unique burn mark on cover. This is the first in a series of sho...
The Best Short Stories 2021: The O. Henry Prize Winners
The Best Short Stories 2021: The O. Henry Prize Winners Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9780593311257 Fiction Anchor Books Penguin Random House Twenty prizewinning stories selected from the thousands publish...
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...
Another English: Anglophone Poems From Around The World
Another English: Anglophone Poems From Around The World Catherine Barnett and Tiphanie Yanique 9781936797400 Poetry Tupelo Press, Inc. Tupelo Press, Inc. Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Monroe Poetry Inst...
Trinidad Noir
Trinidad Noir Lisa Allen-Agostini and Jeanne Mason 9781933354552 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books The Caribbean provides no shelter from the delicious terror of the Akashic Noir Series. Trinidad...
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...
Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership
Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership Brea Baker 9780593447376 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House Why is less than 1% of rural land in the U...
Drowning in the Sea of Love: Musical Memoirs
Drowning in the Sea of Love: Musical Memoirs Al Young 9780880013888 Poetry Ecco Press HarperCollins Drowning In The Sea Of Love: Musical Memoirs, by Young, Al
Drowning Boy’s Guide to Water
Drowning Boy’s Guide to Water Cameron Barnett 9781938769269 Poetry Autumn House Press Autumn House Press Winner of the inaugural Autumn House Press Rising Writer Prize, Cameron Barnett’s debut The Dro...
Love Is Never Painless: Three Novellas
Love Is Never Painless: Three Novellas Zane 9781416543701 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Three prolific authors bring truth to the title of this heart-wrenching book, Love Is Never Painles...
I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land Alaina E. Roberts 9780812253030 Nonfiction University of Pennsylvania Press University of Pennsylvania Press Perhaps no other symbol has more...
Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico
Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 9780806138336 Nonfiction University of Oklahoma Press University of Oklahoma Press An updated edition of a seminal work...
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...
Frantz Fanon’s Plays: The Plays
Frantz Fanon’s Plays: The Plays Frantz Fanon 9781350126572 Fiction Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Publishing Prior to becoming a psychiatrist, Frantz Fanon wanted to be a playwright and his interest i...
Will’s Race for Home (paperback)
Will’s Race for Home (paperback) Jewell Parker Rhodes 9780316299435 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Winner of the Coretta Scott King Book Award! A New York Times...
Will’s Race for Home
Will’s Race for Home Jewell Parker Rhodes 9780316299336 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Will’s Race for Home Debuted at #6 on the New York Times Bestsellers List, Feb...
Steps to the Promised Land
Steps to the Promised Land Gregg Riley 9781511704809 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Recognizing trouble in the land, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood against the darkness. “Only when it’...
Forty Acres: A Novel
Forty Acres: A Novel Phyllis R. Dixon 9780974954059 Fiction New Generation Press New Generation Press Folks sure do act funny, when it comes to money. No one gave the Washington family forty acres or ...
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...
Happy Land
Happy Land Dolen Perkins-Valdez 9780593337721 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House A woman learns the astonishing truth of her family’s ties to a vanished American Kingdom in this riveting new n...
Lord of My Land: 5 Steps to Homeownership
Lord of My Land: 5 Steps to Homeownership Jay Morrison 9781943686582 Nonfiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing Jay, "Mr. Real Estate," Morrison has authored another informative, step-by-step gu...
The Land (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner)
The Land (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner) Mildred D. Taylor 9780803719507 Fiction Dial Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Winner of the Coretta Scott King Award! Millions of fans ha...
I Have Heard of a Land
I Have Heard of a Land Joyce Carol Thomas 9780064436175 Fiction HarperCollins Publishers HarperCollins I have heard of a landWhere the imagination has no fencesWhere what is dreamed one nightIs accom...
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land Aimé Césaire 9780819564528 Poetry Wesleyan University Press Wesleyan University Press Aimé Césaire’s masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Nati...
A Promised Land
A Promised Land Barack Obama 9781524763169 Nonfiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House Enter our raffle to win a deluxe, autographed copy of A Promised Land ▶ A riveting, deeply pe...
This Land Is Our Land: A History of American Immigration
This Land Is Our Land: A History of American Immigration Linda Barrett Osborne 9781419716607 Nonfiction Abrams Books for Young Readers Abrams A 2017 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction finalist! American a...
In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South (New Narratives in American History)
In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South (New Narratives in American History) John Hope Franklin 9780195160871 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press The mat...
Land of Many Colors and Nanna-ya
Land of Many Colors and Nanna-ya Maryse Conde 9780803214880 Fiction University of Nebraska Press University of Nebraska Press Land of Many Colors is set in the fictional city of Fort Pilote in the Fre...
Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 Scott Ellsworth 9780807117675 Nonfiction LSU Press Louisiana State University Press Widely believed to be the most extreme incidence of white raci...
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 ...
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 Prisoner’s Wife
The Prisoner’s Wife asha bandele 9780671021481 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. “This is a terrifying, heart-breaking and, ultimately, important book. While bandele’s narrat...
Mina’s Joint 2: The Perfect Illusion
Mina’s Joint 2: The Perfect Illusion Keisha Ervin 9781539651840 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC After praying that someone would catch her, 10 years have flown by with her husband, Victor...
Cursed Daughters
Cursed Daughters Oyinkan Braithwaite 9780385551472 Fiction Doubleday Books Penguin Random House A young woman must shake off a family curse and the widely held belief that she is the reincarnation of ...
A Time to Praise: A Christmas Anthology
A Time to Praise: A Christmas Anthology Renée Allen McCoy 9781534893412 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Four lives intersect at a crossroad, prompting each to seek God’s direction. Benjam...
Stripped Bare: The 12 Truths That Will Help You Land the Very Best Black Man
Stripped Bare: The 12 Truths That Will Help You Land the Very Best Black Man LaDawn Black 9780345483669 Nonfiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House Tired of hearing (and believing) the lies t...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Questions, Christ and the Quarter-life Crisis: Sometimes It Takes Getting Lost To Discover Who and Whose You Are.
Questions, Christ and the Quarter-life Crisis: Sometimes It Takes Getting Lost To Discover Who and Whose You Are. Morgan Richard Olivier 9781948581745 Nonfiction Lincross Publishing Lincross Publishin...
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...
Imperfectly Happy
Imperfectly Happy Sharina Harris 9781496725639 Fiction Kensington Publishing Corporation Kensington Publishing Corp. When four college friends formed the Brown Sugarettes Mastermind Group, they had ve...
Conjugal Visits
Conjugal Visits Al Young 9780887391187 Poetry Creative Arts Book Company Creative Arts Book Company From the unpredictable author of Seduction by Light, Drowning in the Sea of Love, and Heaven comes t...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Zong!: As Told to the Author by Setaey Adamu Boateng
Zong!: As Told to the Author by Setaey Adamu Boateng M. NourbeSe Philip 9781644453049 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press A new and expanded edition of one of the essential works of twenty-first-cent...
Open Wounds: A Story of Racial Tragedy, Trauma, and Redemption
Open Wounds: A Story of Racial Tragedy, Trauma, and Redemption Phil Allen Jr. 9781506469331 Nonfiction Fortress Press 1517 Media On December 10, 1953, tragedy hit a family when Nathaniel Allen was mur...
The Deal, The Dance, And The Devil: A Novel
The Deal, The Dance, And The Devil: A Novel Victoria Christopher Murray 9781439194256 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. What would you do for five million dollars? Adam and Evia Langston have ...
Blood in the Water
Blood in the Water Tiffany D. Jackson 9781338849912 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. This stunning edition features sprayed edges. While supplies last! Mega bestselling and award-winning au...
A Song Below Water
A Song Below Water Bethany C. Morrow 9781250315328 Fiction Tor Teen Macmillan Publishers Bethany C. Morrow’s A Song Below Water is the story for today’s readers — a captivating modern fantasy about bl...
Death in the City
Death in the City Keith Kareem Williams 9781541139596 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC A mother loses her son and completely loses her faith in the God that she had served faithfully for h...
Second House from the Corner
Second House from the Corner Sadeqa Johnson 9781250074140 Fiction Thomas Dunne Books Macmillan Publishers Second House from the Corner centers on the story of Felicia Lyons, a stay-at-home mother of t...
Dark Town Redemption: Inspired By True Events
Dark Town Redemption: Inspired By True Events Gary Hardwick 9780972480413 Fiction HardBooks Publishing HardBooks Publishing Anger… Fire… and Murder. A boy is killed in 1967 Detroit after the worse ri...
Amigas #1: Fifteen Candles
Amigas #1: Fifteen Candles Veronica Chambers 9781423123620 Fiction Disney-Hyperion Disney Publishing Worldwide Summer has arrived in Miami and that means quinceanera season. With an internship at the ...
Kindred
Kindred Octavia E. Butler 9780807083697 Fiction Beacon Press Beacon Press Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from h...
Going to Meet the Man: Stories
Going to Meet the Man: Stories James Baldwin 9780679761792 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House ""There’s no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it.” The men a...
Death at the Voyager Hotel
Death at the Voyager Hotel Kwei Quartey 9789964705220 Fiction Afram Publications Afram Publications In the city of Accra, the Voyager Hotel is widely known as a well-run lodging perfectly suited to ca...
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land David K. Shipler 9780553447514 Nonfiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House The expanded and updated edition of David Shipler’s Pulitzer Priz...
Goliath
Goliath Ronald Lee Robertson 9781668204016 Fiction Atlantic Monthly Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. A young Black man feels called irresistibly to farmland he has never seen, where a fateful feud simmers b...
Finding Daisy: From the Deep South to the Promised Land
Finding Daisy: From the Deep South to the Promised Land Kathy Lynne Marshall 9780999201428 Fiction Kanika Marshall Art & Books Kanika Marshall Art & Books Grandma Daisy lied to me about her birthplace...
Clap When You Land
Clap When You Land Elizabeth Acevedo 9780062882769 Fiction HarperTeen HarperCollins In a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times-bestselling autho...
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches Martin Luther King, Jr. 9780060646912 Nonfiction HarperOne HarperCollins "We’ve got some difficult days ahead," civil rights activist Martin Lu...
Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists
Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists Leah Penniman 9780063160903 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins A soulful collection of illuminating essays and interviews that expl...
Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists
Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists Leah Penniman 9780063160897 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins A soulful collection of illuminating essays and interviews that expl...
Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape Lauret Savoy 9781619025738 Fiction Counterpoint Counterpoint Sand and stone are Earth’s fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape ...
May a Divine Awaken
May a Divine Awaken Michael A. Tinsley 9798217087648 Fiction Storehouse Voices Penguin Random House In the first book of a heart-pounding new YA fantasy series, an orphaned teen is thrust into a divin...
The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America
The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America Aaron Robertson 9780374604981 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers One of Literary Hub’s most anticipat...
Then Came You
Then Came You Martha Kennerson B07NDSXB4Y Fiction Amazon Digital Services Amazon Digital Services, Inc. India Slone has one thing on her mind, expanding her already flourishing advertising agency. Tha...
Transformations of Freedom in the Land of the Maroons: Creolization in the Cockpits Jamaica
Transformations of Freedom in the Land of the Maroons: Creolization in the Cockpits Jamaica Jean Besson 9789766374082 Nonfiction Ian Randle Publishers Ian Randle Publishers Despite outstanding histori...
Land of Shadows
Land of Shadows Rachel Howzell Hall 9780765336354 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers "A fresh voice in crime fiction. Fast, funny, heartbreaking and wise…Elouise Norton is the best new character you’l...
Return to my Native Land
Return to my Native Land Aimé Césaire 9781935744948 Poetry Archipelago Archipelago A work of immense cultural significance and beauty, this long poem became an anthem for the African diaspora and the ...
The Original 1939 Notebook of a Return to the Native Land: Bilingual Edition
The Original 1939 Notebook of a Return to the Native Land: Bilingual Edition Aimé Césaire 9780819573704 Poetry Wesleyan University Press Wesleyan University Press Aimé Césaire’s masterpi...
In the Land of Milk and Honey
In the Land of Milk and Honey Joyce Carol Thomas 9780060253837 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins I ease myself back in the window seat and breathe in as the train breathes out We’re on our way! On o...
I See The Promised Land: A Life Of Martin Luther King, Jr.
I See The Promised Land: A Life Of Martin Luther King, Jr. Arthur R. Flowers 9789380340043 Nonfiction Tara Books Tara Books "Both evocative and factually rich…Older teens, in addition to adults, will ...
Daufuskie Island: 25th Anniversary Edition
Daufuskie Island: 25th Anniversary Edition Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe 9781570038822 Nonfiction University of South Carolina Press University of South Carolina Press First published in 1982, Daufuskie Isl...
Quitting America: The Departure of a Black Man from His Native Land
Quitting America: The Departure of a Black Man from His Native Land Randall Robinson 9780525947585 Nonfiction Dutton Adult Penguin Random House Bestselling author Randall Robinson, one of our nation’s...
Manchild in the Promised Land
Manchild in the Promised Land Claude Brown 9780451157416 Fiction New American Library Penguin Random House With more than two million copies in print, Manchild in the Promised Land is one of the most...
Seasons in Hippoland
Seasons in Hippoland Wanjiku Wa Ngugi 9780857428943 Fiction Seagull Books Seagull Books An enchanting novel of magical realism. Victoriana is a country ruled by an Emperor-for-Life who is dying fro...
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth Wole Soyinka 9780593320167 Fiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House The first Black person ever to win the Nobel Prize in Literature gives u...
We Are Each Other’s Harvest
We Are Each Other’s Harvest Natalie Baszile 9780062932563 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins From the author of Queen Sugar — now a critically acclaimed series on OWN directed by Ava Duvernay — comes a ...
The Wolf Queen: The Promise of Aferi Book II
The Wolf Queen: The Promise of Aferi Book II Cerece Rennie Murphy 9780998274935 Fiction LionSky Publishing LionSky Publishing To claim their future, she must avenge her past. War has come to the La...
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca: The Extraordinary Tale of a Shipwrecked Spaniard Who Walked Across America in the 16th Century
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca: The Extraordinary Tale of a Shipwrecked Spaniard Who Walked Across America in the 16th Century Andrés Reséndez 9780465068418 Nonfiction Basic Boo...
Abraham’s Well: A Novel
Abraham’s Well: A Novel Sharon Ewell Foster 9780764228872 Fiction Bethany House Baker Publishing Group I have discovered there’s Indian in my family heritage…. The time is 1838. Armentia pointed to...
In The Land Of Words: New And Selected Poems
In The Land Of Words: New And Selected Poems Eloise Greenfield 9780060289935 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins This treasured poetry collection by Coretta Scott King Award-winning collaborators Eloise ...
The Land
The Land Mildred D. Taylor 9780142501467 Fiction Penguin Young Readers Group Penguin Random House The son of a prosperous landowner and a former slave, Paul-Edward Logan is unlike any other boy he kno...
Manchild in the Promised Land
Manchild in the Promised Land Claude Brown 9780684864181 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. "Manchild in the Promised Land" is indeed one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time. Thi...
Visions of America: Personal Narratives from the Promised Land
Visions of America: Personal Narratives from the Promised Land Wesley Brown and Amy Ling 9780892553785 Nonfiction Persea Books Persea Books In this rich and diverse collection, three dozen 20th-centur...
Manchild In The Promised Land
Manchild In The Promised Land Claude Brown 9781451631579 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. Since it’s release in 1965 Manchild is the 2nd best selling book ever published by Macmillan (over 4...