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Underground Books
Underground Books Sacramento CA Underground Books, founded in summer 2003 by St. HOPE (a 501(c)(3) nonprofit), anchors the 40 Acres Cultural Center in Oak Park. After the community lost its only libra...
Georgia “Mother Rose” West Talks about Underground Books
Georgia “Mother Rose” West Talks about Underground Books Book Spotlights Georgia “Mother Rose” West describes Underground Books, which is located in Sacramento, CA. Learn more about this bookstore an...
The Underground Bookstore
The Underground Bookstore Chicago IL How one Black-owned bookstore has navigated business since 2020 (WBEZ, Feb 19, 2025)
Sacramento BlkLit Book Fest
Sacramento BlkLit Book Fest Underground Books and The Guild Theater Sacramento California The Sac BlkLit Book Fest is a one-day celebration of Black literature, culture, and community in Sacramento. T...
David Covin on the Sacramento Black Book Fair
David Covin on the Sacramento Black Book Fair Literary Events Dr. David Covin, one of the planning committee members of the Sacramento Black Book Fair talks with AALBC.com about the Book Fair at Under...
History Smashers: The Underground Railroad
History Smashers: The Underground Railroad Kate Messner 9780593428931 Nonfiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Myths! Lies! Secrets! Uncover the hidden truth about the Unde...
Underground Publishing
Underground Publishing Underground Publishing Underground Publishing
Underground Publishing
Underground Publishing Underground Publishing Underground Publishing
Betty DeRamus
Betty DeRamus NONE Betty DeRamus is an award-winning journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist known for her nonfiction books on slavery and post-slavery era. Her works, “Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories f...
Ann Fights for Freedom: An Underground Railroad Survival Story
Ann Fights for Freedom: An Underground Railroad Survival Story Nikki Shannon Smith 9781496578532 Fiction Stone Arch Books Capstone Press Twelve-year-old Ann understands there is only one thing to be g...
Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom
Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom Shane W. Evans 9781250056757 Nonfiction Square Fish Macmillan Publishers One of School Library Journal’s Best Nonfiction Books of the Year. A few well chos...
Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad Ann Petry 9780062691309 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins This quintessential middle grade biography of Harriet Tubman now features a cover by NAAC...
The Underground Railroad: A Novel
The Underground Railroad: A Novel Colson Whitehead 9780385542364 Fiction Doubleday Penguin Random House Every now and then a book comes along that reaches the marrow of your bones, settles in, and sta...
Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Underground Economy
Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Underground Economy LaShawn Harris 9780252081668 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press During ...
Freedom’s a-Callin Me
Freedom’s a-Callin Me Ntozake Shange 9780061337413 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Award-winning poet Ntozake Shange and artist Rod Brown reimagine the journeys of the brave men and women who made th...
Harriet Tubman: Conductor On The Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman: Conductor On The Underground Railroad Ann Petry 9780064461818 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins The Horn Book called this classic biography of Harriet Tubman an "unusually well-written ...
Underground Codes: Race, Crime, and Related Fires
Underground Codes: Race, Crime, and Related Fires Katheryn Russell-Brown 9780814775417 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press Winner of a 2005 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book A...
Penguin Random House
Penguin Random House Bertelsmann 4 Color Books Ace Books Addison-Wesley Alfred A. Knopf Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers Anchor Anchor Books Anchor Press Anne Schwartz Books Avery Ballantine Bo...
Like a Broken Doll-Urban Underground
Like a Broken Doll-Urban Underground Anne Schraff 9781616510053 Fiction Saddleback Educational Publishing Saddleback Educational Publishing Accusations fly when a string of thefts hit Tubman High Scho...
The First Family: A Dark Academia Fantasy
The First Family: A Dark Academia Fantasy Granger 9798347021796 Fiction Podium Publishing Podium Publishing Beneath Atlanta lies a hidden world of magic and murder known as the Underground. And its se...
Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground
Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground Zayd Ayers Dohrn 9781324089315 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A New York Times ...
Every Where Alien
Every Where Alien Brad Walrond 9780063377998 Poetry Moore Black Press/Amistad HarperCollins “Every Where Alien is a book that asks for interaction and understanding… . Brad Walrond defies aesthetic bo...
Man Called Horse: John Horse and the Black Seminole Underground Railroad
Man Called Horse: John Horse and the Black Seminole Underground Railroad Glennette Tilley Turner 9781419749339 Nonfiction Harry N. Abrams Harry N. Abrams From award-winning children’s author Glennette...
William Still and His Freedom Stories: The Father of the Underground Railroad
William Still and His Freedom Stories: The Father of the Underground Railroad Don Tate 9781561459353 Nonfiction Peachtree Publishers Peachtree Publishers From Ezra Jack Keats Award-winning author-illu...
Colson Whitehead Wins National Book Award for, The Underground Railroa
Colson Whitehead Wins National Book Award for, The Underground Railroa Book Spotlights Colson Whitehead Wins National Book Award for his novel The Underground Railroad. The award was presented during ...
Underground: Finding The Light To Freedom
Underground: Finding The Light To Freedom Shane W. Evans 9781596435384 Fiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers A family silently crawls along the ground. They run barefoot through unlit woods,...
Free!: Great Escapes From Slavery On The Underground Railroad
Free!: Great Escapes From Slavery On The Underground Railroad Lorene Cary 9780883782682 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press Stories based upon actual incidents of Black people escaping from...
The Underground Railroad in Illinois
The Underground Railroad in Illinois Glennette Tilley Turner 9780938990055 Nonfiction Newman Educational Publishing Company Newman Educational Publishing Company Uses maps, rare photographs, backgroun...
Teresa Kemp
Teresa Kemp NONE Teresa R. Kemp, a 5th-generation quilter and military historian, is a passionate advocate for cultural preservation and anti-human trafficking. She's a graduate of WVSU and DeVry Uni...
Itah Sadu
Itah Sadu NONE Itah Sadu, an award-winning author and bookstore owner, is known for sharing diverse oral traditions and creating youth programs. She's a founder of several initiatives like the Emanci...
Susan Keeter
Susan Keeter NONE Susan Keeter has illustrated over a dozen titles, including picture books on Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman and 18th-century poet Phillis Wheatley. Susan Keeter has ...
Tales
Tales Amiri Baraka 9781617753954 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books A reissue of a 1967 story collection shows a mind in motion and graphs Baraka’s thoughts during that turbulent period.“Baraka’s sto...
Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad In The Sky
Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad In The Sky Faith Ringgold 9780517885437 Fiction Dragonfly Books Dragonfly Books
Ellen Levine
Ellen Levine 0000000115622847 Author Ellen Levine is captivated by tales of justice and extraordinary feats by ordinary people, like Henry “Box” Brown's escape as depicted in The Underground Railroad...
Vagabonds!
Vagabonds! Eloghosa Osunde 9780593330036 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the...
Mosquito
Mosquito Gayl Jones 9780807006627 Fiction Beacon Press Beacon Press Bury those easy-to-read Black romance books. Mosquito is where African-American literature is heading as we approach the twenty-firs...
The Man Who Lived Underground
The Man Who Lived Underground Richard Wright 9781598536768 Fiction Library of America Library of America A major literary event: an explosive, previously unpublished novel from the 1940s by the legend...
Eliza’s Freedom Road: An Underground Railroad Diary
Eliza’s Freedom Road: An Underground Railroad Diary Jerdine Nolen 9781416958147 Fiction Paula Wiseman Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. It is 1852 in Alexandria, Virginia. Eliza’s mother has been sent away...
Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories from the Underground Railroad
Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories from the Underground Railroad Betty DeRamus 9780743482646 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Forbidden Fruit is a collection of fascinating, largely untold tal...
Freedom by Any Means: True Stories of Cunning and Courage on the Underground Railroad
Freedom by Any Means: True Stories of Cunning and Courage on the Underground Railroad Betty DeRamus 9781439126752 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Freedom by Any Means explains how Africa...
Glennette Tilley Turner
Glennette Tilley Turner NONE Glennette Tilley Turner has also written collections of biographies of notable African Americans for adults and serves as an advisor to the National Park Service, where s...
Lyrical Underground
Lyrical Underground Kensington Publishing Corp. Kensington Publishing Corp.
The Secret World of Maggie Grey: A Dark Academia Fantasy
The Secret World of Maggie Grey: A Dark Academia Fantasy Granger 9798347021789 Fiction Podium Publishing Podium Publishing This is the Underground. We go by a different set of rules here—ones steepe...
Love in the Age of Dragons
Love in the Age of Dragons Fatima R. Henson 9781684631636 Fiction SparkPress SparkPress “This fast-paced dystopian fantasy is intensely captivating until the very last page.” —BookLife Reviews Two ...
Scavenger: A Mystery
Scavenger: A Mystery Christopher Chambers 9781941110942 Fiction Three Rooms Press Three Rooms Press In the lively, but desperate world of D.C.’s underbelly, a Black homeless man must quickly learn the...
Remembrance
Remembrance Rita Woods 9781250298454 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers Remembrance by Rita Woods is a breakout historical debut with modern resonance, perfect for the many fans of The Underground Rai...
The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead 9780345804327 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House
Clayton Byrd Goes Underground
Clayton Byrd Goes Underground Rita Williams-Garcia 9780062215918 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins A National Book Award Longlist title that has earned 5 starred reviews!"This slim novel strikes a strong ...
Free Your Mind: An African American Guide to Meditation and Freedom
Free Your Mind: An African American Guide to Meditation and Freedom Cortez R. Rainey 9781492769200 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Although more and more Americans are practicing meditati...
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 ...
Lost in the Tunnel of Time, 2 (Reissue)
Lost in the Tunnel of Time, 2 (Reissue) Sharon M. Draper 9781442427044 Fiction Aladdin Paperbacks Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this second book of the classic chapter book series by award-winning author ...
Freedom is Not Free
Freedom is Not Free King James 9780578065458 Fiction Underground Publishing Underground Publishing Freedom is Not Free is about a Houston Police Officer named Rashard “Stone” Williams. Stone is apar...
Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad Ellen Levine 9780439777339 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom b...
Following Freedom’s Star: The Story of the Underground Railroad
Following Freedom’s Star: The Story of the Underground Railroad James Haskins 9780761412298 Nonfiction Cavendish Square Publishing Cavendish Square Publishing The series itself focuses on major popula...
On the Real Side: A History of African American Comedy (Revised)
On the Real Side: A History of African American Comedy (Revised) Mel Watkins 9781556523519 Nonfiction Chicago Review Press Chicago Review Press This comprehensive history of black humor sets it in the...
Escape from Slavery: Five Journeys to Freedom
Escape from Slavery: Five Journeys to Freedom Doreen Rappaport 9780064461696 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Freedom!Eliza and her baby, running across the ice. Selena and Cornelia Jackson, mas...
Groove, Bang, and Jive Around
Groove, Bang, and Jive Around Steve Cannon 9781885478535 Fiction Genesis Press Genesis Press “…an underground classic of such legendary stature that New York’s black cognoscenti have transformed the w...
The Underground Railroad: First-Person Narratives of Escapes to Freedom in the North
The Underground Railroad: First-Person Narratives of Escapes to Freedom in the North Charles L. Blockson 9780139357435 Nonfiction Prentice Hall Press Prentice Hall Press
Johan Kuelberg
Johan Kuelberg NONE Johan Kugelberg, born May 6, 1965, is a renowned editor, curator, and author of multiple publications such as The Velvet Underground: A New York Art and Punk: An Aesthetic. Joha...
Underground Railroad Reading Station Bookstore & Giftshop
Underground Railroad Reading Station Bookstore & Giftshop Detroit MI website and facebook pages are down phone disconnected
Virginia Hamilton
Virginia Hamilton 0000000114915488 Growing up on a small farm near Yellow Springs, Ohio, in the 1940s, Virginia Hamilton was lovingly embraced by the sights, sounds and smells of rural...
The Black Dot
The Black Dot NONE The Black Dot is renowned for his insight into the metaphysical aspects of Hip Hop, contributing to various media outlets and authoring the game-changing book, “Hip Hop Decoded.” A...
The Water Dancer
The Water Dancer Tony Lindsay Book Review To mix magical realism with historical fiction is a bold task. To discuss the topic of family pride from the perspective of the offspring of a slave and a ma...
Love in the Age of Dragons
Love in the Age of Dragons Robert Fleming Book Review Fatima R. Henson’s Love In The Age Of Dragons has all of the best ingredients of fantasy, speculative fiction, and science fiction. There i...
Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Simon & Schuster, Inc. KKR & Co. Inc. Aladdin Aladdin Paperbacks Atheneum Atheneum Books for Young Readers Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books Atria / 37 Ink Atria / Black Privilege Publishing Atria / One S...
April 18, 2017 Newsletter: New Books, Vote for Your Favorite Author, and More
April 18, 2017 Newsletter: New Books, Vote for Your Favorite Author, and More Troy Johnson Article AALBC.com Congratulates all the Winners of Pulitzer Prizes in the Letters and Drama Categories Fict...
Destroyer of Light
Destroyer of Light Jennifer Marie Brissett 9781250268631 Fiction Tor Books Macmillan Publishers The Matrix meets an Afro-futuristic retelling of Persephone set in a science fiction underworld of alien...
When Harriet Met Sojourner
When Harriet Met Sojourner Catherine Clinton 9780060504274 Nonfiction Katherine Tegen Books HarperCollins The life stories of two pivotal figures in American history—Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth...
Akashic Books
Akashic Books Akashic Books Akashic Books AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series Black Goat Black Sheep Edge of Sports Enemy Books Infamous Books Open Lens Peekash Press The Armory Uglytown Productio...
Harriet Tubman: Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary: From Her Roots in Ghana to Her Legacy on the Eastern Shore
Harriet Tubman: Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary: From Her Roots in Ghana to Her Legacy on the Eastern Shore Jean Marie Wiesen and Rita Daniels 9781639368136 Nonfiction Pegasus Books Pegasus Boo...
The Sweetness of Water (Paperback)
The Sweetness of Water (Paperback) Nathan Harris 9780316461245 Fiction Back Bay Books Hachette Book Group An Instant New York Times bestseller / An Oprah’s Book Club Pick In the spirit of The Know...
Resistance to Slavery: From Escape to Everyday Rebellion
Resistance to Slavery: From Escape to Everyday Rebellion Cicely Lewis 9781728448190 Nonfiction Read Woke Books Lerner Publishing Group In addition to slave uprisings and escapes on the Underground Rai...
James Ransome
James Ransome 0000000030399412 James E. Ransome is an award-winning illustrator known for his children's books. His accolades include the Coretta Scott King Award, IBBY Honor Award, and NAACP Image A...
Anna Murray Douglass: Biography of a Revolutionary
Anna Murray Douglass: Biography of a Revolutionary Celeste-Marie Bernier 9781478034209 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books Working with family descendants and based on t...
Kensington Publishing Corp.
Kensington Publishing Corp. Kensington Publishing Corp. Aphrodisia Brava Kensington Hardcover Kensington Mass-Market Kensington Trade Paperback Lyle Stuart Books Lyrical Press Lyrical Shine Lyrical U...
Punk Rock Karaoke
Punk Rock Karaoke Bianca Xunise 9780593464502 Fiction Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A debut young adult graphic novel from Ignatz Award-winning and nationally syndicated cartooni...
Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War
Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War Edda L. Fields-Black 9780197552797 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Booklist Top Ten H...
The Sisterhood of Secrets
The Sisterhood of Secrets Winnifred Tataw 9798838054265 Fiction Win’s Books Win’s Books Author Winnifred Tataw explores kingdoms and worldbuilding in this fantasy novel full of secrets and twists in h...
The Sweetness of Water
The Sweetness of Water Nathan Harris 9780316362481 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER / AN OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK PRESIDENT OBAMA’S SUMMER 2021 ...
Trouble the Saints
Trouble the Saints Alaya Dawn Johnson 9781250175342 Fiction Tor Books Macmillan Publishers “Juju assassins, alternate history, a gritty New York crime story…in a word: Awesome.” —N.K. Jemisin, New Yor...
The Water Dancer
The Water Dancer Ta-Nehisi Coates 9780399590597 Fiction One World Penguin Random House In his boldly imagined first novel, Ta-Nehisi Coates, the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World...
Harriet Tubman (Little People, Big Dreams)
Harriet Tubman (Little People, Big Dreams) Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara 9781786032270 Nonfiction Frances Lincoln Children’s Books The Quarto Group New in the Little People, Big Dreams series, discover ...
Dark Days
Dark Days James Baldwin 9780241337547 Nonfiction Penguin Modern Penguin Random House “So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded.” Drawi...
The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House
The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House Audre Lorde 9780241339725 Nonfiction Penguin Modern Penguin Random House From the self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,&rdqu...
Chasing Freedom: The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, Inspired by Historical Facts
Chasing Freedom: The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, Inspired by Historical Facts Nikki Grimes 9780439793384 Fiction Orchard Books Orchard Books Nikki Grimes offers a glimpse int...
The Chitlin’ Circuit: And The Road To Rock &rsquoN&rsquo Roll
The Chitlin’ Circuit: And The Road To Rock &rsquoN&rsquo Roll Preston Lauterbach 9780393076523 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Chosen by The Wall Street Journal as one o...
Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-Itchyfooted Mutha
Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-Itchyfooted Mutha Melvin Van Peebles 9781933354866 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Nearly forty years after breaking his way into public consciousness, the indefatigable...
Liberated Territory: Untold Local Perspectives on the Black Panther Party
Liberated Territory: Untold Local Perspectives on the Black Panther Party Yohuru Williams 9780822343264 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books With their collection In Sear...
Fatal Remains (A Marti MacAlister Mystery)
Fatal Remains (A Marti MacAlister Mystery) Eleanor Taylor Bland 9780312300975 Fiction Minotaur Books Minotaur Books When Marti MacAlister and her partner Matthew "Vik" Jessenovik respond to a report o...
The REV. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman: A Narrative of Real Life
The REV. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman: A Narrative of Real Life Jermain Wesley Loguen 9781418116293 Nonfiction University of Michigan Library University of Michigan Library This work is a...
Brothers, Lust, and Love: Thoughts on Manhood, Sex, and Romance
Brothers, Lust, and Love: Thoughts on Manhood, Sex, and Romance William July II 9780385491495 Nonfiction Main Street Books Main Street Books William July, II is an author to watch. In June 1996, his ...
Enemy Books
Enemy Books Akashic Books Akashic Books Enemy Books, launched in June 2023, is curated by Chuck D, and hosted by Brooklyn’s Akashic Books. Enemy Books will have a strong focus on visual art....
Just Us Books, Inc.
Just Us Books, Inc. Just Us Books, Inc. Just Us Books Marimba Books Sankofa Books http://www.justusbooks.com Wade and Cheryl Hudson were parents on a desperate search for children’s books th...
December eNewsletter Great New Children's Books and More
December eNewsletter Great New Children's Books and More Troy Johnson Article Great Children’s Books Coming Soon I’m always on lookout terrific for children’s books, even before they are a...
Black Books Galore! Guide to Great African American Children’s Books about Girls
Black Books Galore! Guide to Great African American Children’s Books about Girls Donna Rand and Toni Trent Parker 9780471375265 Nonfiction Wiley Wiley "Offers a wonderful overview of literature with b...
The Genie Game
The Genie Game Jordan Ifueko 9781419764370 Fiction Amulet Books Abrams Harriet the Spy meets Black Mirror in The Genie Game, the start of a thrilling new middle-grade series from Jordan Ifueko, author...
Shut Up and Read: A Memoir from Harriett’s Bookshop
Shut Up and Read: A Memoir from Harriett’s Bookshop Jeannine A. Cook 9780063428232 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins The author of It’s Me They Follow chronicles the improbable true story of how she le...
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...
Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore
Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore Char Adams 9780593474235 Nonfiction Tiny Reparations Books Penguin Random House Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore is...
Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right: A King Oliver Novel
Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right: A King Oliver Novel Walter Mosley 9780316573269 Fiction Mulholland Books Hachette Book Group In the latest from “mystery master” Walter Mosley, a family member&...