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Too Important To Fail: Saving America’s Boys (Tavis Smiley Reports)
Too Important To Fail: Saving America’s Boys (Tavis Smiley Reports) Tavis Smiley 9781401939113 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House Too Important to Fail: Saving America’s Boys is the companion...
Doing What’s Right: How to Fight for What You Believe—And Make a Difference
Doing What’s Right: How to Fight for What You Believe—And Make a Difference Tavis Smiley 9780385499316 Nonfiction Anchor Penguin Random House In Doing What’s Right, Tavis Smiley shows how each one of ...
The Rich And The Rest Of Us: A Poverty Manifesto
The Rich And The Rest Of Us: A Poverty Manifesto Tavis Smiley and Cornel West 9781401940638 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House Record unemployment and rampant corporate avarice, empty houses ...
Fail Up: 20 Lessons on Building Success from Failure
Fail Up: 20 Lessons on Building Success from Failure Tavis Smiley 9781401933913 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House This timeless quote by Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett has served as an inspir...
My Journey with Maya
My Journey with Maya Tavis Smiley with David Ritz 9780316341776 Nonfiction Little, Brown Paperbacks Hachette Book Group A remarkable story of friendship, love, and courage. When Maya Angelou and Ta...
50 for Your Future: Lessons from Down the Road
50 for Your Future: Lessons from Down the Road Tavis Smiley 9781401948399 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House Stepping into your authentic life can be difficult. There are pitfalls of ego, of ...
The Covenant with Black America - Ten Years Later
The Covenant with Black America - Ten Years Later Tavis Smiley 9781401951498 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House In 2006, Tavis Smiley teamed up with other leaders in the Black community to cr...
Keeping the Faith: Stories of Love, Courage, Healing, and Hope from Black America
Keeping the Faith: Stories of Love, Courage, Healing, and Hope from Black America Tavis Smiley 9780385721691 Nonfiction Anchor Penguin Random House In Keeping the Faith, nationally acclaimed author an...
Death Of A King: The Real Story Of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Final Year
Death Of A King: The Real Story Of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Final Year Tavis Smiley 9780316332767 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group A revealing and dramatic chronicle of the ...
Covenant with Black America - Twenty Years Later
Covenant with Black America - Twenty Years Later Tavis Smiley 9781401994235 Nonfiction Hay House Penguin Random House Twenty years after sparking a national dialogue, The Covenant with Black America r...
Before You Judge Me: The Triumph and Tragedy of Michael Jackson’s Last Days
Before You Judge Me: The Triumph and Tragedy of Michael Jackson’s Last Days Tavis Smiley 9780316259095 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group A powerful chronicle of the sixteen weeks ...
The Covenant In Action
The Covenant In Action Tavis Smiley 9781401918521 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House The Covenant in Action was developed to continue the inspirational spirit of the Covenant With Black Amer...
America I Am Legends: Rare Moments And Inspiring Words
America I Am Legends: Rare Moments And Inspiring Words Smiley Books 9781401924058 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House “Would America have been America without her Negro people?” — W. E. B. Du ...
Accountable: Making America As Good As Its Promise
Accountable: Making America As Good As Its Promise Tavis Smiley with Stephanie Robinson 9781439100028 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Accountable provides real-life examples of how cruci...
The Covenant with Black America
The Covenant with Black America Tavis Smiley 9780883782774 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press Read more about the The State of the Black Union 2006 and The Covenant with Black America ...
Faith In The Fire: Wisdom For Life
Faith In The Fire: Wisdom For Life Gardner C. Taylor 9781401929626 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House “Waiting on God is difficult. We have not been promised a smooth voyage, but God does pro...
America I Am Pass It Down Cookbook: Over 130 Soul-Filled Recipes
America I Am Pass It Down Cookbook: Over 130 Soul-Filled Recipes Jeff Henderson 9781401931353 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House The smells in the kitchen, the unforgettable f...
For-Profit Universities: The Shifting Landscape of Marketized Higher Education (2017)
For-Profit Universities: The Shifting Landscape of Marketized Higher Education (2017) Tressie McMillan Cottom 9783319471860 Nonfiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers This edited volume propos...
Kingdom Principles: Preparing for Kingdom Experience and Expansion
Kingdom Principles: Preparing for Kingdom Experience and Expansion Myles Munroe 9780768423730 Nonfiction Destiny Image Destiny Image EXPLORING THE NATURE OF TRUE KINGDOMS "It is my conviction that not...
The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States
The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States William Loren Katz 9780684814780 Nonfiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster,...
American Prophets: Seven Religious Radicals and Their Struggle for Social and Political Justice
American Prophets: Seven Religious Radicals and Their Struggle for Social and Political Justice Albert J. Raboteau 9780691181127 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press A powe...
The Evening News - Essays And Commentaries From NPR And Other Clouds
The Evening News - Essays And Commentaries From NPR And Other Clouds S. Pearl Sharp 9780936068244 Nonfiction Poets Pay Rent, Too Poets Pay Rent, Too A selection of forty of S. Pearl Sharp’s wide-rangi...
Colorblind: The Rise Of Post-Racial Politics And The Retreat From Racial Equity (City Lights Open Media)
Colorblind: The Rise Of Post-Racial Politics And The Retreat From Racial Equity (City Lights Open Media) Tim Wise 9780872865082 Nonfiction City Lights Publishers City Lights Publishers "It’s a great b...
What Would Martin Say?
What Would Martin Say? Clarence B. Jones and Joel Engel 9780061672675 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins “What Would Martin Say? about the pressing issues of our time is a bold question to ask....
The Money Coach’s Guide to Your First Million: 7 Smart Habits to Building the Wealth of Your Dreams
The Money Coach’s Guide to Your First Million: 7 Smart Habits to Building the Wealth of Your Dreams Lynnette Khalfani-Cox 9780071470810 Nonfiction Advantage World Press Advantage World Press As seen o...
Black Men: In Their Own Words
Black Men: In Their Own Words Patricia M. Hinds and Susan L. Taylor 9780609603666 Nonfiction Crown Penguin Random House From ESSENCE Books comes an exquisitely designed collection of essays from some ...
I Am Beautiful: The Evolution of Beauty
I Am Beautiful: The Evolution of Beauty Karla Renee Floyd, Elona Washington, Shennetta Smith, Joy Blakeney, Annette Smiley, Cheryl Peavy, Sharon Blake, Sahsha Campbell-Garbutt, Kim Bjanes, and Stephan...
Tapping the Power Within: A Path to Self-Empowerment for Women: 20th Anniversary Edition
Tapping the Power Within: A Path to Self-Empowerment for Women: 20th Anniversary Edition Iyanla Vanzant 9781401957216 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House The revised and expanded 20th-annivers...
The African Americans: Many Rivers To Cross
The African Americans: Many Rivers To Cross Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 9781401935153 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross is the companion book to the si...
Trust: Mastering the 4 Essential Trusts
Trust: Mastering the 4 Essential Trusts Iyanla Vanzant 9781401943981 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House You just can’t trust anyone—it’s a constant refrain in the modern world, and learning t...
Forgiveness: 21 Days to Forgive Everyone for Everything
Forgiveness: 21 Days to Forgive Everyone for Everything Iyanla Vanzant 9781401943615 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House Too many of us feel trapped in stagnant romantic, family, or workplace ...
If You Can See It, You Can Be It: 12 Street-Smart Recipes For Success
If You Can See It, You Can Be It: 12 Street-Smart Recipes For Success Jeff Henderson 9781401940607 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House In his latest book, Chef Jeff Henderson, the New Yor...
Soulacoaster: The Diary Of Me
Soulacoaster: The Diary Of Me R. Kelly with David Ritz 9781401928353 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House Who is R. Kelly? Three-time Grammy winner, who has sold more than 35 million records wo...
Peace From Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You’re Going Through
Peace From Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You’re Going Through Iyanla Vanzant 9781401928230 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House New York Times best-selling author Iyanla Vanzant recoun...
Health First!: The Black Woman’s Wellness Guide
Health First!: The Black Woman’s Wellness Guide Eleanor Hinton Hoytt and Hilary Beard 9781401936952 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House The story of Black women in America is one of triumph an...
Hope On A Tightrope: Words And Wisdom
Hope On A Tightrope: Words And Wisdom Cornel West 9781401930769 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House Includes a free CD! The New York Times best-selling author of Race Matters and Democracy Ma...
Peace From Broken Pieces: How To Get Through What You’re Going Through
Peace From Broken Pieces: How To Get Through What You’re Going Through Iyanla Vanzant 9781401928223 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House New York Times best-selling author Iyanla Vanzant recoun...
Black Business Secrets: 500 Tips, Strategies, And Resources For The African American Entrepreneur
Black Business Secrets: 500 Tips, Strategies, And Resources For The African American Entrepreneur Dante Lee 9781401929541 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House "Should I lower my price point? Gi...
Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir
Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir Cornel West 9781401921903 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House New York Times best-selling author Cornel West is one of America’s most provoc...
America I Am Journal
America I Am Journal Clarence V. Reynolds 9781401924072 Fiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House What will you leave behind? It’s time to discover the unique and indelible life imprint that only you c...
Brainwashed
Brainwashed Tom Burrell 9781401925925 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House "Black people are not dark-skinned white people," says advertising visionary Tom Burrell. In fact, they are ...
Brother West: Living And Loving Out Loud, A Memoir
Brother West: Living And Loving Out Loud, A Memoir Cornel West 9781401921897 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House New York Times best-selling author Cornel West is one of America’s most provoc...
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Iyanla Vanzant 9781401921880 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House The revised and expanded 20th-anniversary edition of Iyanla Vanzant’s first published work offers a powerful path to s...
The Power Of Intention
The Power Of Intention Wayne W. Dyer 9781401902162 Fiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House Intention is generally viewed as a pit-bull kind of determination propelling one to succeed at all costs by ...
Who Are You?
Who Are You? Stedman Graham 9781401903466 Fiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House Most of us take years trying to figure out just who we are, and if we fail to define ourselves, we risk being defined...
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...
Revival: Alien Holiday
Revival: Alien Holiday Stafford L. Battle B0FXLNCFRQ Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Revival: Alien Holiday — Book One In Earth’s near future, Udo — a Nigerian temp worker —...
The Life of Herod the Great
The Life of Herod the Great Zora Neale Hurston 9780063161009 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins A never before published novel from beloved author Zora Neale Hurston, revealing the historical Herod the Gre...
How to Build a Democracy: From Fannie Lou Hamer and Barbara Jordan to Stacey Abrams
How to Build a Democracy: From Fannie Lou Hamer and Barbara Jordan to Stacey Abrams Christina M. Greer 9781009500807 Nonfiction Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press From the groundbre...
There’s No Way I’d Die First
There’s No Way I’d Die First Lisa Springer 9780593643204 Fiction Random House Children’s Books Penguin Random House A spine-tingling contemporary horror-comedy novel that follows a scary-movie buf...
The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church Rachel L. Swarns 9780399590870 Nonfiction Random House Trade Paperbacks Penguin Random House “An absolutely essen...
The 1619 Project (paperback): A New Origin Story
The 1619 Project (paperback): A New Origin Story Nikole Hannah-Jones 9780593230596 Nonfiction Random House Publishing Group Penguin Random House #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER...
How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged
How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged Kimberly Jones 9781250805126 Nonfiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers A breakdown of the economic and social injusti...
Panthers That Make Salat: Memoirs of Incarceration, Survival and Resistance (1971-1981)
Panthers That Make Salat: Memoirs of Incarceration, Survival and Resistance (1971-1981) Khalid Raheem 9798781560240 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published This powerful collection ...
Renegades (Special): Born in the USA (Deluxe Signed Edition)
Renegades (Special): Born in the USA (Deluxe Signed Edition) Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen 9780593577929 Nonfiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House DELUXE CLOTHBOUND EDITION IN SLIPCA...
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story Nikole Hannah-Jones 9780593230572 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House Donate a Copy The 1619 Project to the Literary Freedom Project A dramatic expansion ...
Renegades: Born in the USA
Renegades: Born in the USA Barack Obama 9780593236314 Nonfiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House New York Times bestseller • Two longtime friends share an intimate and urgent conversa...
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America Joshua D. Rothman 9781541616615 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing forgotten stor...
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...
The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World
The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World Kehinde Andrews 9781645036920 Nonfiction Bold Type Books Hachette Book Group A damning exploration of the many ways in which the ...
The World History of the Black Race
The World History of the Black Race Clyde Winters 9798708650375 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published The World History of the Black Race tells the story of the Black African or N...
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...
Book of the Little Axe
Book of the Little Axe Lauren Francis-Sharma 9780802129369 Fiction Atlantic Monthly Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. Ambitious and masterfully-wrought, Lauren Francis-Sharma’s Book of the Little Axe is an i...
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory Claudio Saunt 9780393609844 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Finalist for the 20...
Black Panther Book 8: The Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda Part Three
Black Panther Book 8: The Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda Part Three Ta-Nehisi Coates 9781302914462 Fiction Marvel Marvel Comics Has T’Challa learned what it means to be king just in time to lose his ...
The New Noir: Race, Identity, and Diaspora in Black Suburbia
The New Noir: Race, Identity, and Diaspora in Black Suburbia Clerge Orly 9780520296763 Nonfiction University of California Press University of California Press The expansion of the Black American mi...
Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States
Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States Tony Platt 9781250085115 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers A groundbreaking investigation into the roots of th...
100+ Black Women in Horror
100+ Black Women in Horror Sumiko Saulson 9781387587469 Fiction Lulu Lulu Containing the biographies of over one hundred black women who write horror, 100+ Black Women in Horror is a reference guide, ...
The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Bulls: A Decade-by-Decade History
The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Bulls: A Decade-by-Decade History Chicago Tribune Staff 9781572842021 Nonfiction Agate Midway Agate Publishing The Chicago Bulls, one of the NBA’s most storied ...
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism Edward E. Baptist 9780465049660 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institut...
Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour
Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour Neil deGrasse Tyson 9780691157245 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWelcome to the Universe is ...
Afro-mexican Constructions of Diaspora, Gender, Identity and Nation
Afro-mexican Constructions of Diaspora, Gender, Identity and Nation Paulette A. Ramsay 9789766405793 Nonfiction University of the West Indies Press University of the West Indies Press Paulette Ramsay’...
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 9780807057834 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press New York Times Bestseller Now part of the HBO docuseries "Exterminate All...
The Civil War and Reconstruction Eras (African American Experience: From Slavery to the Presidency)
The Civil War and Reconstruction Eras (African American Experience: From Slavery to the Presidency) Tracey Baptiste 9781680480399 Nonfiction Rosen Education Service Rosen Publishing This extensive gui...
American Uprising
American Uprising Daniel Rasmussen 9780061995224 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins A gripping and deeply revealing history of an infamous slave rebellion that nearly toppled New Orleans and ch...
Legacy: Book Two of the Chronicles of the Nubian Underworld
Legacy: Book Two of the Chronicles of the Nubian Underworld Shakir Rashaan 9781593095468 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A tale unlike anything else, this second installment in the Nubian...
Ain’t I a Womanist, Too?: Third Wave Womanist Religious Thought
Ain’t I a Womanist, Too?: Third Wave Womanist Religious Thought Monica A. Coleman 9780800698768 Nonfiction Fortress Press 1517 Media Third wave womanism is a new movement within religious studies with...
The Color Of Christ: The Son Of God And The Saga Of Race In America
The Color Of Christ: The Son Of God And The Saga Of Race In America Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey 9780807835722 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press How is...
The Rights of the People: How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties
The Rights of the People: How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties David K. Shipler 9781400079285 Nonfiction Vintage Penguin Random House An impassioned, incisive look at the violations of civi...
Black Gotham: A Family History Of African-Americans In Nineteenth Century New York City
Black Gotham: A Family History Of African-Americans In Nineteenth Century New York City Carla L. Peterson 9780300181746 Nonfiction Yale University Press Yale University Press Part detective tale, part...
The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave – Breeding Industry
The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave – Breeding Industry Ned Sublette and Constance Sublette 9781613738931 Nonfiction Chicago Review Press Chicago Review Press “Planters said that slavery ...
Wingshooters
Wingshooters Nina Revoyr 9781936070718 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Michelle LeBeau, the child of a white American father and a Japanese mother, lives with her grandparents in Deerhorn, Wiscons...
An Introduction to Africana Philosophy
An Introduction to Africana Philosophy Lewis R. Gordon 9780521675468 Nonfiction Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press In this undergraduate textbook Lewis R. Gordon offers the first co...
Rock Harbor
Rock Harbor Carl Phillips 9780374251406 Poetry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers A masterful new collection by one of our most important contemporary lyric poetsWind as a face gone red wi...
Creating an Old South: Middle Florida’s Plantation Frontier before the Civil War
Creating an Old South: Middle Florida’s Plantation Frontier before the Civil War Edward E. Baptist 9780807853535 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press Set on...
In His Own Voice: Dramatic & Other Uncollected Works
In His Own Voice: Dramatic & Other Uncollected Works Paul Laurence Dunbar 9780821414217 Poetry Ohio University Press Ohio University Press Paul Laurence Dunbar, introduced to the American public by Wi...
Toni Morrison’s Beloved: A Casebook
Toni Morrison’s Beloved: A Casebook Nellie Y. McKay 9780195107975 Nonfiction Oxford University Press, USA Oxford University Press With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural work...
Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898
Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898 Ada Ferrer 9789766400804 Nonfiction University of the West Indies Press University of the West Indies Press In the late nineteenth century, in a...
The Life and Times of Menelik II: Ethiopia 1844-1913
The Life and Times of Menelik II: Ethiopia 1844-1913 Harold G. Marcus 9781569020104 Nonfiction The Red Sea Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press Of all the major African countries only Ethiopia...
La Carreta Made A U-Turn (English and Spanish Edition)
La Carreta Made A U-Turn (English and Spanish Edition) Tato Laviera 9781558850644 Poetry Arte Público Press Arte Público Press "…a clear and refreshing note of affirmation, humaneness, j...
Cold Case Suspect
Cold Case Suspect Kayla Perrin 9781335582157 Fiction Harlequin Intrigue Harlequin Enterprises Limited A woman determined to clear her name. A lawman sworn to justice. After fleeing Sheridan Falls...
Grace After Midnight: A Memoir
Grace After Midnight: A Memoir Felicia Pearson 9780446195188 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group While Felicia is a brilliant actor in a truly chilling role, what’s most remarkable...