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Series: Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? Paperback Lizzie Damilola Blackburn 9780385696975 $19.95 FICTION Dec 27, 2022

“Modern and fresh. Like Bridget Jones, Yinka is a lovable and relatable disaster—which is to say, she isn’t actually a disaster at all…I adore her.” —Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of People We Meet on VacationMeet Yinka: a thirty-something, Oxford-educated, British Nigerian woman with a well-paid job, good friends, and a mother whose constant refrain is “Yinka, where is your huzband?”Yinka’s Nigerian aunties frequently pray for her delivery from singledom, her work friends think she’s too traditional (she’s saving herself fo... + Read More
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Series: Cook As You Are Recipes for Real Life, Hungry Cooks, and Messy Kitchens: A Cookbook Hardcover Ruby Tandoh 9780593321546 $47.00 COOKING Nov 08, 2022

A BON APPETIT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A cookbook for the real world: a beautifully illustrated, inclusive, and inspiring collection of delectable and doable recipes for home cooks of all kinds that shows you don’t have to be an aspiring chef to make great food—or for cooking to be a delight. Just cook as you are."Not simply a recipe book, but a warm invitation to relax into and enjoy the experience of cooking and eating. Ruby Tandoh offers understanding, encouragement and completely glorious food.” —NIGELLA LAWSON, author of Cook, Eat, RepeatFr... + Read More
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Series: The Violin Conspiracy A Novel Paperback Brendan Slocumb 9780593315422 $23.00 FICTION Dec 06, 2022

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK! • Ray McMillian is a Black classical musician on the rise—undeterred by the pressure and prejudice of the classical music world—when a shocking theft sends him on a desperate quest to recover his great-great-grandfather’s heirloom violin on the eve of the most prestigious musical competition in the world.“I loved The Violin Conspiracy for exactly the same reasons I loved The Queen’s Gambit: a surprising, beautifully rendered underdog hero I cared about deeply and a fascinating, cutthroat world I knew nothing... + Read More
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Series: The Forerunner A Story of Pain and Perseverance in America Hardcover Cori Bush 9780593320587 $37.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 04, 2022

From one of America’s most transformative politicians and activists, a powerful and inspiring memoir that sheds light on a harrowing personal journey and reveals how urgently we need our political leadership to prioritize meeting the needs of our most marginalized communities.“Piercing and gripping… Bush’s words are beautifully devastating.” —The Cut Having worked as a nurse, a pastor, and a community organizer in St. Louis, Missouri, Cori Bush hadn’t initially intended to run for political office. But when protests in Ferguson erupted in 2014,... + Read More
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Series: Palmares Paperback Gayl Jones 9780807007150 $23.95 FICTION Sep 13, 2022

2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in FictionA NPR BOOKS WE LOVE 2021 SelectionA New York Times “Biggest New Books Coming Out in September” Selection · A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Pick · A Guardian “50 Biggest Books of Autumn 2021” Selection · An Esquire “Best Books of Fall 2021” Selection · A Buzzfeed “Best Books Coming Out This Fall” Selection · A Bustle “Most Anticipated Books of September 2021” Selection · A LitHub “22 Novels You Need to Read This Fall” Selection · A Kirkus Reviews “16 Best Books to Read in September” Selection ·... + Read More
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Series: Kindred, Gift Edition Hardcover Octavia Butler 9780807006924 $36.95 FICTION Sep 20, 2022

The New York Times best-selling author’s time-travel classic that makes us feel the horrors of American slavery and indicts our country’s lack of progress on racial reconciliationThe series adaption from FX premieres December 13 on Hulu. Developed for television by writer/executive producer Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Watchmen), executive producers also include Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields (The Americans, The Patient), and Darren Aronofsky (The Whale). Janicza Bravo (Zola) is director and an executive producer of the pilot. Kindred stars Mallori Jo... + Read More
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Series: Quilt of Souls A Memoir Hardcover Phyllis Biffle Elmore 9781623545161 $27.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 08, 2022

The Yellow House meets Hidden in Plain View in this multigenerational memoir that celebrates African American quilting, family, and honoring the past.At age four, Phyllis Biffle Elmore was plucked off her front porch in Detroit and dropped on her grandmother Lula Horn’s doorstep in rural Alabama. Phyllis felt utterly abandoned until Grandma Lula showed her both all-encompassing love and her intricate “Quilts of Souls.” Phyllis listened intently as Lula told epic stories of folks who had passed on as she turned their clothing into breathtaking q... + Read More
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Series: Iyanu: Child of Wonder Volume 2 Paperback Roye Okupe 9781506723051 $25.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Oct 25, 2022

Soon to be an animated series from HBO Max, Cartoon Network, and Lion Forge Animation!The orphan Iyanu is thrust into the wildlands beyond the safety of the walls of her home!She must quickly learn to work with an exile and the people of the Riverlands Settlement if she hopes to save her mentor. Meanwhile, Chancellor Nuro finalizes a diabolical plan that threatens to destroy the entirety of Yorubaland in his greedy hunt to capture Iyanu, also known now as the Chosen One! The YouNeek line at Dark Horse expands with this fantastic graphic novel s... + Read More
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Series: Boogie Down Predictions Hip-Hop, Time, and Afrofuturism Paperback Roy Christopher 9781913689285 $28.95 MUSIC Sep 13, 2022

Essays that explore the connections between time, representation, and identity within hip-hop culture.“This book, edited by Roy Christopher, is a moment. It is the deconstructed sample, the researched lyrical metaphors, the aha moment on the way to hip-hop enlightenment. Hip-hop permeates our world, and yet it is continually misunderstood. Hip-hop’s intersections with Afrofuturism and science fiction provide fascinating touchpoints that enable us to see our todays and tomorrows. This book can be, for the curious, a window into a hip-hop-infused... + Read More
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Series: In the Black Fantastic Hardcover Ekow Eshun 9780262047258 $53.95 ART Sep 06, 2022

A richly illustrated exploration of Black culture at its most wildly imaginative, artistically ambitious, and politically urgent.A richly illustrated exploration of Black culture at its most wildly imaginative and artistically ambitious, In the Black Fantastic assembles art and imagery from across the African diaspora. Embracing the mythic and the speculative, it recycles and reconfigures elements of fable, folklore, science fiction, spiritual traditions, ceremonial pageantry, and the legacies of Afrofuturism. In works that span photography, pa... + Read More
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Series: The Color Line A Novel Paperback Igiaba Scego 9781635420869 $25.99 FICTION Oct 04, 2022

Inspired by true events, this gorgeous, haunting novel intertwines the lives of two Black female artists more than a century apart, both outsiders in Italy. It was the middle of the nineteenth century when Lafanu Brown audaciously decided to become an artist. In the wake of the American Civil War, life was especially tough for Black women, but she didn’t let that stop her. The daughter of a Native American woman and an African-Haitian man, Lafanu had the rare opportunity to study, travel, and follow her dreams, thanks to her indomitable spirit,... + Read More
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Series: Super Soul Food with Cousin Rosie 100+ Modern Twists on Comfort Food Classics Paperback Rosie Mayes 9781632174239 $27.00 COOKING Oct 04, 2022

Rosie Mayes, popular author of I Heart Soul Food, and creator of I Heart Recipes, serves up 100+ amped-up, super soul food recipes—including fan favorites—guaranteed to bring her cousins joy!If I Heart Soul Food left you satisfied yet also hungry for more, you’re going to love Super Soul Food with Cousin Rosie! Here, Rosie shares more of her comfort soul food dishes, starting with traditional southern and creole favorites and jazzing them up with her own “special sauce.” Rosie organizes these recipes by type of meal and adds in side dishes, bre... + Read More
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Series: Little Black Lives Matter Hardcover Khodi Dill 9781644211878 $25.95 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 3 - 6 Jan 10, 2023

An inspiring, life-affirming debut activist board book in rhyming couplets and triplets about Black heroes for little ones, their families, and anyone who loves A is for Activist and Antiracist Baby.Little Black Lives Matter empowers all children, but Black children especially, by affirming that their lives, however little they may yet be, matter. Featuring fifteen great Black heroes of the past and the powerful words they spoke and actions they took, Little Black Lives Matter is a rhyming board book that incorporates memorable quotations and a... + Read More
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Series: Miss Major Speaks Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary Paperback Toshio Meronek 9781839763342 $25.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 16, 2023

The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former sex worker, and a transgender elder and activist who has survived Bellevue psychiatric hospital, Attica Prison, the HIV/AIDS crisis and a world that white supremacy has built. She has shared tips with other sex workers in the nascent drag ball scene of the late 1960s, and helped found one of America’s first needle exchange clinics from the back of her van.Miss Maj... + Read More
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Series: Standing in the Need of Prayer A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual Hardcover Carole Boston Weatherford 9780593306345 $24.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 6 - 9 Sep 20, 2022

CORETTA SCOTT KING ILLUSTRATOR AWARD WINNER! A stunning and deeply moving picture book based on the popular spiritual from an award-winning author and critically acclaimed illustrator. The classic lyrics have been reworked to chronicle the milestones, struggles, tragedies, and triumphs of African American history. A perfect gift or timeless keepsake!★ “Gorgeous and enlightening.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review This inspirational book encapsulates African American history and invites conversations at all levels. Stretching more than four hundred... + Read More
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Series: Mama's Home Hardcover Shay Youngblood 9780593180228 $24.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Oct 18, 2022

A gorgeously illustrated picture book that is a powerful love letter to chosen families and the village that raises us. A young girl basks in the love of her community—which includes not only her mother but the many different women who make up her world.Home can be a blue house with white trim you share with your mama. But it can be bigger than that, with lots of Big Mamas to take care of you when your mom works—different houses for every day of the week. Mondays mean Nurse Louella and bike riding. Tuesdays mean eating fufu with your fingers wi... + Read More
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Series: Me and the Boss A Story About Mending and Love Hardcover Michelle Edwards 9780593310670 $24.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Oct 11, 2022

CORETTA SCOTT KING ILLUSTRATOR HONOR AWARD WINNERCHARLOTTE ZOLOTOW AWARD WINNERAll the highs and lows of having a bossy, protective, and loving older sibling are depicted in this heartwarming picture book by a critically acclaimed author and award-winning illustrator. Meet Lee, a little boy who won’t give up until he learns how to sew, and Zora, the sister who watches him try—and ultimately succeed!“I know big sisters. Zora, the boss, she’s mine,” explains Lee as he and Zora head to the library, where Mrs. C is teaching the children how to sew... + Read More
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Series: Holler of the Fireflies Hardcover David Barclay Moore 9781524701284 $23.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 Sep 27, 2022

A boy from the hood in Brooklyn travels to a STEM camp in an Appalachian holler for one epic, life-changing summer in this brilliant novel from the award-winning author of The Stars Beneath Our Feet.Javari knew that West Virginia would be different from his home in Bushwick, Brooklyn. But his first day at STEM Camp in a little Appalachian town is still a shock. Though run-ins with the police are just the same here. Not good.Javari will learn a lot about science, tech, engineering, and math at camp. And also about rich people, racism, and hidden... + Read More
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Series: FUTURELAND Futureland: Battle for the Park Hardcover H.D. Hunter 9780593479421 $23.49 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Nov 08, 2022

When an extraordinary flying theme park arrives above Atlanta, one boy must stop a sinister force from stealing the park’s tech and taking over the world. An electrifying illustrated series with the Afrofuturism of Black Panther that took the world by storm. Perfect for fans of Spider-Man: Miles Morales.“Hold on tight, Futureland will be the ride of your life…and maybe the last!” —Kwame Mbalia, #1 New York Times bestselling authorWelcome to the most spectacular theme park in the world.Everyone wants a ticket to Futureland, where you can literal... + Read More
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Series: Of Mermaids and Orisa Soul of the Deep Hardcover Natasha Bowen 9780593120989 $25.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14 Sep 27, 2022

The stunning sequel to New York Times bestseller Skin of the Sea, in which the world must pay the price for one mermaid’s choice, and a dark force reverberates across realms. Perfect for anyone eagerly anticipating the live-action The Little Mermaid.One life.One choice.One sacrifice.To save those closest to her, Simi traded away everything: her freedom, her family, and the boy she loves. Now she is sworn to serve a new god, watching over the Land of the Dead at the bottom of the ocean.But when signs of demons begin to appear, it’s clear there a... + Read More
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Series: OF MERMAIDS AND ORISA Skin of the Sea Paperback Natasha Bowen 9780593120972 $15.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14 Jul 26, 2022

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The must-read Black mermaid fantasy series that #1 NYT bestselling author Nicola Yoon calls “epic and original,” in which one mermaid takes on the gods themselves. Perfect for fans of Children of Blood and Bone and anyone who can’t wait for the live-action The Little Mermaid.“Riveting.” —NPR“Evocative.” —Entertainment Weekly“Remarkable.” —BuzzfeedA way to survive.A way to serve.A way to save.Simi prayed to the gods, once. Now she serves them as Mami Wata—a mermaid—collecting the souls of those who die at sea ... + Read More
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Series: Caste (Adapted for Young Adults) Hardcover Isabel Wilkerson 9780593427941 $25.99 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Age (years) from 12 Nov 22, 2022

In this young adult adaptation of the Oprah Book Club selection and New York Times bestselling nonfiction work, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson explores the unspoken hierarchies that divide us across lines of race and class. Revealing and timely, this work will speak to young people who are engaged more than ever with the world around them, or to anyone who believes in a more just existence for all.Readers will be fascinated by this young adult adaptation of the New York Times bestselling nonfiction work as they follow masterful ... + Read More
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Series: In the Upper Country A Novel Hardcover Kai Thomas 9780735243460 $36.00 FICTION Jan 10, 2023

The fates of two unforgettable women—one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery and the other completing her life’s last vital act—intertwine in this sweeping, deeply researched debut set in the Black communities of Ontario that were the last stop on the Underground Railroad.Young Lensinda Martin is a protegee of a crusading Black journalist in mid-18th century southwestern Ontario, finding a home in a community founded by refugees from the slave-owning states of the American south—whose agents do not always stay on their side... + Read More
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Series: Monster in the Middle A Novel Paperback Tiphanie Yanique 9780593332252 $23.00 FICTION Oct 18, 2022

From the award-winning author of Land of Love and Drowning, a new novel that maps the romantic history and emotional inheritance of one couple newly in love.When Fly and Stela meet in 21st Century New York City, it seems like fate. He’s a Black American musician from a mixed-religious background who knows all about heartbreak. She is a Catholic science teacher from the Caribbean, looking for lasting love. But are they meant to be? The answer goes back decades—all the way to their parents’ earliest loves.Vibrant and emotionally riveting, Monster... + Read More
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Series: A Visible Man A Memoir Hardcover Edward Enninful 9780593299487 $41.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 06, 2022

From one of fashion’s most important changemakers, a memoir of breaking barriersWhen Edward Enninful became the first Black editor in chief of British Vogue, few in the world of fashion wanted to confront how it failed to represent the world we live in. But Edward, a champion of inclusion throughout his life, rapidly changed that.Edward grew up in Ghana in a world of beauty, riotous color, and strong Black women. Nurtured by his mother, a dressmaker whose West African designs had a flair for drama, he learned in her atelier what it meant for a ... + Read More
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Series: Better than Fiction Paperback Alexa Martin 9780593337226 $23.00 FICTION Nov 08, 2022

Love isn’t always by the books in this charming romantic comedy about a bookseller discovering how to be the main character in her story.As a self-proclaimed book hater and a firm believer that the movie is always better, Drew Young didn’t anticipate inheriting her grandma’s bookstore, the Book Nook. She’s in way over her head even before the shop’s resident book club, comprising seven of the naughtiest old ladies ever, begin to do what they do best—meddle.Bestselling author Jasper Williams is a hopeless romantic. When he meets Drew at his Book... + Read More
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Series: Drunk on Love Paperback Jasmine Guillory 9780593100882 $23.00 FICTION Sep 20, 2022

An intoxicating and sparkling new romance by New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory.Margot Noble needs some relief from the stress of running the family winery with her brother. Enter Luke: sexy, charming, and best of all in the too-small world of Napa, a stranger. The chemistry between them is undeniable, and Margot is delighted that she lucked into the perfect one-night stand she’ll never have to see again. That is, until the winery’s newest hire, Luke, walks in the next morning. Margot is determined to keep things purely professi... + Read More
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Series: Where We End & Begin Paperback Jane Igharo 9780593440230 $23.00 FICTION Sep 27, 2022

Star-crossed lovers get a second chance at romance when they’re reunited at a wedding in Nigeria, in a heartfelt novel from the acclaimed author of The Sweetest Remedy.Dunni hasn’t seen her high school boyfriend, Obinna, since she left Nigeria to attend college in America. Before their devastating separation, they vowed to find their way back to each other one day.Twelve years later, and their vow is a thing of the past. Dunni works as a geneticist in Seattle and is engaged to a man she doesn’t love but one her parents approve of. Her future is... + Read More
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Series: In It to Win It Paperback Sharon C. Cooper 9780593335277 $23.00 FICTION Dec 13, 2022

Two entrepreneurs compete for a property but secure the biggest win of all—each other—in this second chance romantic comedy by USA Today bestselling author Sharon C. Cooper.Spoiled, fickle, and prissy are only a few of the adjectives that have been used to describe Morgan Redford. Though she’s never had to worry about money, she’s determined to make a name for herself on her own terms. Her new venture won’t be an epic fail like her former professional cuddling service or the short-lived pet hotel. This time, through the nonprofit she cofounded,... + Read More
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Series: A Dash of Salt and Pepper Paperback Kosoko Jackson 9780593334461 $23.00 FICTION Dec 06, 2022

Sometimes two cooks in the kitchen are better than one in this swoony romantic comedy from the author of I’m So (Not) Over You.Xavier Gorman is doing less than stellar. He just got dumped, was passed over for a prestigious fellowship, and to top it all off he’s right back home in Harpers Cove, Maine (population: 9,000). The last thing he wants to do is to work as a sous-chef in the kitchen of the hip new restaurant in town, The Wharf. Especially since the hot, single-father chef who owns it can’t delegate to save his life.Logan O’Hare doesn’t u... + Read More
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Series: On Girlhood 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library Paperback Glory Edim 9781324092353 $22.95 FICTION Oct 04, 2022

NPR • Best Books of 2021 Proudly introducing the Well-Read Black Girl Library Series, On Girlhood is a lovingly curated anthology celebrating short fiction from such luminaries as Rita Dove, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and more. “When you look over your own library, who do you see?” Since founding the beloved Well-Read Black Girl book club in 2015, Glory Edim has emerged as a literary tastemaker for a new generation. Continuing her life’s work to brighten and enrich American reading lives through the work of legendary Black authors, she now la... + Read More
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Series: Born in Blackness Africa and the Making of the Modern World Paperback Howard W. French 9781324092407 $25.95 HISTORY Oct 25, 2022

Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history. Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. Some credit the fifteenth-century Age of Discovery and the maritime connection it established between West and East; others the accidental unearthing of the “New World.” Still others point to the development of the scientific method, or the spread of Judeo-Christian beliefs; and ... + Read More
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Series: Children of Stardust Hardcover Edudzi Adodo 9781324030775 $24.95 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 9 - 12 Oct 04, 2022

"Brimming with adventure, tenacity, and magic.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review This exhilarating and playful middle grade novel rockets through space on an epic quest to protect the galaxy.Zero Adedji dreams of joining one of the Saba guilds—groups of intergalactic travelers who explore space, retrieve lost treasures, and hunt down criminals. Instead, he must scrape by as a guide to travelers stranded on his home planet of Anansi 12. Then he meets Wanderblatch, a strange creature with an even stranger object: a golden pyramid that houses a lege... + Read More
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Series: Victory. Stand! Raising My Fist for Justice Hardcover Tommie Smith 9781324003908 $29.95 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Age (years) from 13 - 17 Sep 27, 2022

On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold medal winner in the 200-meter sprint, and John Carlos, the bronze medal winner, stood on the podium in black socks and raised their black-gloved fists to protest racial injustice inflicted upon African Americans. Both men were forced to leave the Olympics, received death threats, and faced ostracism and continuing economic hardships. In his first-ever memoir for young readers, Tommie Smith looks back on his childhood growing up in rural Texas thro... + Read More
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Series: When They Tell You To Be Good A Memoir Hardcover Prince Shakur 9781953534422 $36.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 04, 2022

After immigrating from Jamaica to the United States, Prince Shakur’s family is rocked by the murder of Prince’s biological father in 1995. Behind the murder is a sordid family truth, scripted in the lines of a diary by an outlawed uncle hell-bent on avenging the murder of Prince’s father. As Shakur begins to unravel his family’s secrets, he must navigate the strenuous terrain of coming to terms with one’s inner self while confronting the steeped complexities of the Afro-diaspora. When They Tell You to Be Good charts Shakur’s political coming of... + Read More
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Series: The Perishing A Novel Paperback Natashia Deón 9781640095601 $23.00 FICTION Nov 01, 2022

A Black immortal in 1930’s Los Angeles must recover the memory of her past in order to discover who she truly is in this extraordinarily affecting novel for readers of N. K. Jemisin and Octavia E. Butler.Lou, a young Black woman, wakes up in an alley in 1930s Los Angeles with no memory of how she got there or where she’s from. Taken in by a caring foster family, Lou dedicates herself to her education while trying to put her mysterious origins behind her. She’ll go on to become the first Black female journalist at the Los Angeles Times, but Lou’... + Read More
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Series: The Survivalists A Novel Hardcover Kashana Cauley 9781593767273 $35.00 FICTION Jan 10, 2023

A Phenomenal Book Club Pick“A great and engrossing read, Kashana humanizes a way of life that is often made fun of and makes the reader understand why someone would go to such great lengths to prepare for the future, so much so she almost sold me on those Life Preserver soy bars!” —Trevor Noah A single Black lawyer puts her career and personal moral code at risk when she moves in with her coffee entrepreneur boyfriend and his doomsday-prepping roommates in a novel that’s packed with tension, curiosity, humor, and wit from a writer with serious ... + Read More
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Series: Shotgun Seamstress An Anthology Hardcover Osa Atoe 9781593767396 $48.00 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Nov 29, 2022

A cut & paste celebration of Black punk and outsider identity, this is the only complete collection of the fanzine Shotgun Seamstress, a legendary DIY project that centered the scope of Blackness outside of mainstream corporate consumerist identityIn 2006, Osa Atoe was inspired to create an expression out of the experience of being the only Black kid at the punk show—and Shotgun Seamstress was born.Like a great mixtape where radical politics are never sidelined for an easier ride, Shotgun Seamstress was a fanzine by and for Black punks that exp... + Read More
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Series: Jean-Michel Basquiat Of Symbols and Signs Hardcover Dieter Buchhart 9783791379579 $73.00 ART Dec 06, 2022

This exciting, color-filled retrospective monograph offers new insights into Basquiat’s unique visual language and helps illuminate messages about political and social issues that feel as urgent today as they did a half-century ago.Jean-Michel Basquiat’s symbolic, complex, and often emotionally charged work made a huge impact on the 1980s downtown New York City art scene. And though his all-too-brief career ended when he died at age 27, Basquiat left behind an enormous legacy—not only in the number of works he produced, but also in the messages... + Read More
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Series: Where it Rains in Color Paperback Denise Crittendon 9781915202123 $22.99 FICTION Dec 06, 2022

Lileala has just been named the Rare Indigo – beauty among beauties – and is about to embrace her stardom, until something threatens to change her whole lifestyle and turn the planet of Swazembi upside down.—Colonized by the descendants of Earth’s West African Dogon Tribe, the planet of Swazembi is a blazing, color-rich utopia and famous vacation center of the galaxy. No one is used to serious trouble in this idyllic, peace-loving world, least of all the Rare Indigo.But Lileala’s perfect, pampered lifestyle is about to be shattered. The unthink... + Read More
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Series: Seton Girls Hardcover Charlene Thomas 9780593529348 $24.99 YOUNG ADULT FICTION Age (years) from 14 Aug 30, 2022

A smart and twisty debut YA that starts off like Friday Night Lights and ends with the power and insight of Dear White People.Seton Academic High is a prep school obsessed with its football team and their thirteen-year conference win streak, a record that players always say they’d never have without Seton’s girls. What exactly Seton girls do to make them so valuable, though, no one ever really says. They’re just “the best.” But the team’s quarterback, the younger brother of the Seton star who started the streak, wants more than regular season g... + Read More
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Series: Before the Ever After Paperback Jacqueline Woodson 9780399545443 $11.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 10 Sep 06, 2022

WINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARDWINNER OF THE CORETTA SCOTT KING AUTHOR AWARDNational Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson’s stirring novel-in-verse explores how a family moves forward when their glory days have passed, and the cost of professional sports on Black bodies. Now in paperback.For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has been everyone’s hero. As a charming, talented pro football star, he’s as beloved to the neighborhood kids he plays with as he is to his millions of adoring sports fans. But lately life at ZJ’s house is anything but ch... + Read More
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Series: Me and Muhammad Ali Hardcover Jabari Asim 9781524739881 $23.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Oct 18, 2022

A little boy’s joyous encounter with his hero, boxing champion and poet Muhammad Ali, is everything he’s dreamed of—and more!Like most of the kids he knows, Langston is a huge fan of boxing champ Muhammad Ali. After all, Ali is the greatest for so many reasons—his speed, his strength, his confidence—and his poetry. Langston loves that Ali can float like a butterfly and sting like a bee, and Ali’s words give him confidence to spin his own poems. When Langston hears the champ is coming to the local high school, he’s ecstatic—this will be a day th... + Read More
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Series: My Fade Is Fresh Hardcover Shauntay Grant 9780593387085 $23.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 3 - 7 Nov 01, 2022

A little girl makes sure she walks out of the barbershop rocking the fabulous hair style she chooses.Learn the importance of speaking up for what you want through this fun and empowering picture book.When a little girl walks into her local barbershop, she knows she wants the flyest, freshest fade on the block! But there are so many beautiful hairstyles to choose from, and the clients and her mother suggest them all: parts, perms, frizzy fros, dye jobs, locs, and even cornrows!But this little girl stays true to herself and makes sure she leaves ... + Read More
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Series: Little Black Girl Oh, the Things You Can Do! Hardcover Kirby Howell-Baptiste 9780593406236 $24.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Nov 15, 2022

An empowering and joyous picture book by actress Kirby Howell-Baptiste (The Sandman) that instills confidence and encourages little Black girls to reach for their wildest dreams.Illustrated by the talented Paul Davey, this inspiring picture book celebrates all little Black girls, the power of community, and the joy and hope of being a child.In beautiful, lyrical text actress Kirby Howell-Baptiste tells the story of one Black girl and her limitless potential as she pursues her dream of robotics. Determined to have her robot ready for the school ... + Read More
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Series: Little Black Boy Oh, the Things You Will Do! Hardcover Kirby Howell-Baptiste 9780593406267 $24.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 4 - 8 Nov 15, 2022

A little Black boy finds the courage to go after his dreams in this empowering and inspirational picture book by actress Kirby Howell-Baptiste (The Sandman) with actor Larry Fields.With vivid, dimensional illustrations by Paul Davey, this encouraging and hopeful picture book celebrates the joy of being a little Black boy and their bright futures.Fascinated by marine wildlife, a little Black boy dreams of one day swimming in the ocean alongside all the creatures that make it their home. It will take courage to move from the safety of the swimmin... + Read More
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Series: Black Joy Hardcover Various 9780241519660 $31.95 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Age (years) from 14 Sep 27, 2022

Black joy is… The babble and buzz of the barber shop. Chicken and chips after school with your girls. Stepping foot in your mother country for the very first time. Feeling at one with nature. Learning to cook souse with your mum. Connecting with the only other Black colleague in your workplace. Loving and finding complete happiness in your fatness. Joy surrounds us. It can be found it in the day to day. It’s what we live for. So why do we so rarely allow ourselves to revel in it? This must-read anthology is your invitation to do so - and... + Read More
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Series: Words with Wings Paperback Nikki Grimes 9781635924787 $13.99 JUVENILE FICTION Age (years) from 8 - 12 Sep 06, 2022

In this Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book, Children’s Literature Legacy Award-winner Nikki Grimes explores though her celebrated poetry how a supportive teacher can be the key to unlocking a dreamer’s imaginative power through creative writing.Gabby’s world is filled with daydreams. However, what began as an escape from her parents’ arguments has now taken over her life. But with the help of a new teacher, ’Gabby the dreamer’ might just become ’Gabby the writer’ and the words that once carried her away might allow her to soar. Written in viv... + Read More
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Series: Just a Lucky So and So The Story of Louis Armstrong Paperback Lesa Cline-Ransome 9780823452408 $11.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Age (years) from 6 - 9 Dec 27, 2022

He was born “Black, poor, and lucky.” The glowing story of “Satchmo”—the great jazz musician, Louis Armstrong.Louis Armstrong has been called the most important improviser in the history of jazz. Although his New Orleans neighborhood was poor in nearly everything else, it was rich in superb music. Young Louis took it all in, especially the cornet blowing of Joe “King” Oliver. But after a run-in with the police, 11-year-old Louis was sent away to the Colored Waif’s Home for Boys where he became a disciplined musician in the school’s revered mar... + Read More
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Series: The Fortune Men A novel Paperback Nadifa Mohamed 9780593467435 $23.00 FICTION Nov 01, 2022

BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • Based on a true event, this novel is “a blues song cut straight from the heart…about the unjust death of an innocent Black man caught up in a corrupt system” (Walter Mosley, best-selling author of Devil in a Blue Dress).In Cardiff, Wales in 1952, Mahmood Mattan, a young Somali sailor, is accused of a crime he did not commit: the brutal killing of Violet Volacki, a shopkeeper from Tiger Bay. At first, Mahmood believes he can ignore the fingers pointing his way; he may be a gambler and a petty thief, but he is no murderer.... + Read More
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Series: The Birdcatcher Hardcover Gayl Jones 9780807029947 $33.95 FICTION Sep 13, 2022

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST 2022Publishers Weekly Top 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2022“Gayl Jones’s work represents a watershed in American literature."—Imani PerryLegendary writer Gayl Jones returns with a stunning new novel about Black American artists in exileGayl Jones, the novelist Toni Morrison discovered decades ago and Tayari Jones recently called her favorite writer, has been described as one of the great literary writers of the 20th century. Now, for the first time in over 20 years, Jones is publishing again. In the wake of her long-awaited fif... + Read More
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Series: If I Survive You Hardcover Jonathan Escoffery 9780771001178 $32.95 FICTION Sep 06, 2022

A major debut, blazing with style and heart, that follows a Jamaican family striving for more in Miami, and introduces a generational storyteller.In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. But America, as the couple and their two children learn, is far from the promised land. Excluded from society as Black immigrants, the family pushes on first through Hurricane Andrew and later the 2008 recession, living in a house so cursed that the pet fish launches itself out of its own tank rather tha... + Read More
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Series: The Journey Prize Stories 33 The Best of Canada's New Black Writers Paperback David Chariandy 9780771047381 $19.95 FICTION Feb 07, 2023

This much-anticipated, game-changing special edition of Canada’s premier annual fiction anthology celebrates the country’s best emerging Black writers.For over thirty years, The Journey Prize Stories has consistently introduced readers to the next generation of great Canadian writers. The 33rd edition of Canada’s most prestigious annual fiction anthology proudly continues this tradition by celebrating the best emerging Black writers in the country, as selected by a jury comprising internationally acclaimed, award-winning writers David Chariandy... + Read More
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Series: No Bootstraps When You're Barefoot My rise from a Jamaican plantation shack to the boardrooms of Bay Street Hardcover Wes Hall 9781039002371 $34.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Oct 04, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom one of Canada’s most successful business leaders, the founder of the BlackNorth Initiative and the newest and first Black Dragon in the Dragon’s Den comes a rags-to-riches story that also carries a profound message of hope and change.Wes Hall spent his early childhood in a zinc-roofed shack, one of several children supported by his grandmother. That was paradise compared to the two years he lived with his verbally abusive and violent mother; at thirteen, his mother threw him out, and he had to live by his wits for the ne... + Read More
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Series: Nadiya's Everyday Baking From Weeknight Dinners to Celebration Cakes, Let Your Oven Do the Work Hardcover Nadiya Hussain 9780593579053 $39.99 COOKING Oct 11, 2022

The beloved Netflix host and New York Times bestselling author of Nadiya Bakes and Time to Eat presents more than ninety sweet and savory recipes for every meal, occasion, or mood.Nadiya Hussain, winner of The Great British Baking Show knows what we bake depends on the day of the week and what mood we’re in. In Nadiya’s Everyday Baking, Nadiya shares nearly 100 simple and achievable recipes for breakfast, dinner, dessert, and everything in between. Organized by situation and occasion, Nadiya’s recipes are designed to always provide for a delici... + Read More
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Series: AphroChic Celebrating the Legacy of the Black Family Home Hardcover Jeanine Hays 9780593234006 $47.00 ARCHITECTURE Nov 15, 2022

A powerful, visually stunning celebration of Black homeownership, featuring inspiring homes and family histories of notable Black Americans—including chef Alexander Smalls and actor Danielle Brooks.In their new book, Jeanine Hays and Bryan Mason explore the Black family home and its role as haven, heirloom, and cornerstone of Black culture and life. Sixteen gorgeous house tours invite you into the intimate spaces of actors and musicians, the creative studios of artists and curators, the “boss” offices of entrepreneurs and executives, and homes ... + Read More
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Series: The Furrows A Novel Hardcover Namwali Serpell 9780593448915 $37.00 FICTION Sep 27, 2022

How do you grieve an absence? A brilliantly inventive novel about loss and belonging, from the award-winning author of The Old Drift.ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022—Vulture, Lit Hub, Electric Lit, Millions and New York MagazineI don’t want to tell you what happened. I want to tell you how it felt. Cassandra Williams is twelve; her little brother, Wayne, is seven. One day, when they’re alone together, there is an accident and Wayne is lost forever. His body is never recovered. The missing boy cleaves the family with doubt. Their father... + Read More
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Series: The Black Period On Personhood, Race, and Origin Hardcover Hafizah Augustus Geter 9780593448649 $38.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 20, 2022

An acclaimed poet reclaims her origin story as the queer daughter of a Muslim Nigerian immigrant and a Black American visual artist in this groundbreaking memoir, combining lyrical prose, biting criticism, and haunting visuals.“Hafizah Augustus Geter is a genuine artist, not bound by genre or form. Her only loyalty is the harrowing beauty of the truth.”—Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage“I say, ‘the Black Period,’ and mean ‘home’ in all its shapeshifting ways.” In The Black Period, Hafizah creates a space for the beauty of Blackness, ... + Read More
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Series: A Few Days Full of Trouble Revelations on the Journey to Justice for My Cousin and Best Friend, Emmett Till Hardcover Reverend Wheeler Parker Jr. 9780593134269 $38.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 10, 2023

In a hypnotic interplay between uncovered facts and vivid recall, the last surviving eyewitness to the lynching of Emmett Till tells his story, with moving recollections of Till as a boy, critical insights into the recent investigation, and powerful lessons for racial reckoning, both then and now.In 1955, Emmett Till was lynched when he was 14 years old. That remains an undisputed fact of the case that ignited a flame within the civil rights movement that has yet to be extinguished. Yet the rest of the details surrounding the case remain distor... + Read More
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Series: Jackal A Novel Hardcover Erin E. Adams 9780593499306 $37.00 FICTION Oct 04, 2022

A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white Rust Belt town. But she’s not the first—and she may not be the last….“I read this thriller that is Get Out meets The Vanishing Half in one night.”—BuzzFeed “Extraordinary…A terrifying tale of fears and hatreds generated by racism and class inequality.”—Associated PressA PHENOMENAL BOOK CLUB PICKIt’s watching.Liz Rocher is coming home…reluctantly. As a Black woman, Liz doesn’t exactly have fond memories of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a predominantly white town. But her best friend is ge... + Read More