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Series: In the Light of You Paperback Nathan Singer 9781982174927 $22.99 FICTION Aug 31, 2021

“One of the finest coming-of-age novels published so far this century” (John Connolly, New York Times bestselling author), In the Light of You is a timely and powerful story about the consequences of intolerance and the agonies of being young and disillusioned in a racially divided America.Angry, disaffected sixteen-year-old Mikal Fanon has just moved out of his poor Kentucky suburb to an even poorer Black neighborhood in Ohio. Feeling like an outsider in a world he perceives to be pitted against him, Mikal joins a gang of Neo-Nazi skinheads fo... + Read More
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Series: Show Them You're Good Four Boys and the Quest for College Paperback Jeff Hobbs 9781982116347 $23.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 17, 2021

The acclaimed, award-winning author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace presents a “carefully observed journalistic account [that] widens our view of the modern ‘immigrant experience’” (The New York Times Book Review) as he closely follows four Los Angeles high school boys as they apply to college.Four teenage boys are high school seniors at two very different schools within the city of Los Angeles, the second largest school district in the nation with nearly 700,000 students. In this “exceptional work of investigative journalism…laced... + Read More
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Series: The New American A Novel Paperback Micheline Aharonian Marcom 9781982120733 $26.99 FICTION Aug 17, 2021

This “harrowing, heartbreaking story” (Kirkus Reviews) depicts the epic journey of a young Guatemalan American college student, a “dreamer,” who gets deported and decides to make his way back home to California.One day, Emilio learns the shocking secret: he is undocumented. His parents, who emigrated from Guatemala to California, had never told him. Emilio slowly adjusts to his new normal. All is going well, he’s in his second year at UC Berkeley...then he gets into a car accident, and—without a driver’s license or any ID—the policeman on the s... + Read More
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Series: I Will How Four American Indians Put Their Lives on the Line and Changed History Hardcover Sheron Wyant-Leonard 9781951627768 $36.99 HISTORY Jul 20, 2021

A unique portrayal of four members of the American Indian Movement--with fascinating full-color images created by Leonard Peltier! In I Will, Sheron Wyant-Leonard weaves the personal recollections of four members of the American Indian Movement--Leonard Peltier, Dennis Banks, Dorothy Ninham, and her husband Herb Powless--into a unique narrative to expose their trials and tribulations over the course of two decades. When the last gunshots of the Indian Wars of the nineteenth century faded away, a dark and desperate time began for Native America... + Read More
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Series: Miss: Better Living Through Crime Paperback Philippe Thirault 9781643377988 $29.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Jul 13, 2021

The tale of two very unlikely partners in crime set in New York City's Roaring Twenties.Nola is a poor white girl living on the streets who has learned to survive by any means necessary. Slim is a black pimp with a shady history, constantly looking over his shoulder in fear of his own past. When their options run out and their paths cross, Nola and Slim forge a partnership as hired killers. Miss: Better Living Through Crime is a story about what it takes two people to survive when all they have is a gun and each other.
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Series: Barack Obama's Promised Land Deplorables Need Not Apply Hardcover Jack Cashill 9781642939057 $37.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jul 06, 2021

Black Americans hoped Barack Obama would lead them to the “Promised Land,” and white Americans hoped he would reconcile the races, but by failing to understand his country or himself, Obama pulled the nation apart.In his introduction to the world at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, then state senator Barack Obama insisted, “There is not a liberal America and a conservative America—there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America—there’s the United States of Amer... + Read More
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Series: The Year of Dangerous Days Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in Miami 1980 Paperback Nicholas Griffin 9781501191039 $25.99 HISTORY Jul 06, 2021

In the tradition of The Wire, the “utterly absorbing” (The New York Times) story of the cinematic transformation of Miami, one of America’s bustling cities—rife with a drug epidemic, a burgeoning refugee crisis, and police brutality—from journalist and award-winning author Nicholas Griffin.Miami, Florida, famed for its blue skies and sandy beaches, is one of the world’s most popular vacation destinations, with nearly twenty-three million tourists visiting annually. But few people have any idea how this unofficial capital of Latin America came t... + Read More
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Series: The World's Fastest Man The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America's First Black Sports Hero Paperback Michael Kranish 9781501192609 $26.00 HISTORY Jun 29, 2021

In this “sharp-eyed account of a nearly forgotten African-American sports legend” (Publishers Weekly)—the remarkable Major Taylor who became the world’s fastest bicyclist at the height of the Jim Crow era—“Kranish has done historians and fans a service by reminding us that such immortals as Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, Serena Williams and Tiger Woods all followed in Major Taylor’s wake” (The Washington Post).In the 1890s, the nation’s promise of equality had failed spectacularly. While slavery had ended with the Civil War, the Jim Crow laws still se... + Read More
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Series: The Afrominimalist's Guide to Living with Less Hardcover Christine Platt 9781982168049 $29.99 HOUSE & HOME Jun 15, 2021

Forget the aesthetics of mainstream minimalism and discover a life of authenticity and intention with this practical guide to living with less…your way.When Christine Platt set out on her journey to live with less, she never intended to become The Afrominimalist. She just wanted to tame the chaos in her closet! But after struggling with the austerity and whiteness of mainstream minimalism, Christine realized why minimalism often seems unattainable for so many: the emphasis on all-white, barren aesthetics distracts from the practice of living wi... + Read More
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Series: Long Division A Novel Hardcover Kiese Laymon 9781982177362 $35.00 FICTION Jun 01, 2021

From Kiese Laymon, author of the critically acclaimed memoir Heavy, comes a “funny, astute, searching” (The Wall Street Journal) debut novel about Black teenagers that is a satirical exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in post-Katrina Mississippi. Written in a voice that’s alternately humorous, lacerating, and wise, Long Division features two interwoven stories. In the first, it’s 2013: after an on-stage meltdown during a nationally televised quiz contest, fourteen-year-old Citoyen “City” Coldson becomes ... + Read More
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Series: Prophetic City Houston on the Cusp of a Changing America Paperback Stephen L. Klineberg 9781501177934 $25.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Jun 01, 2021

Sociologist Stephen Klineberg presents “a trailblazing study” (Kirkus Reviews) that shows how the city of Houston has emerged as a microcosm for America’s future—based on a meticulously researched, thirty-eight-year study of its changing economic, demographic, and cultural landscapes.Houston, Texas, long thought of as a traditionally blue-collar black/white Southern city, has transformed into one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse metro areas in the nation, surpassing even New York by some measures. With a diversifying economy and la... + Read More
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Series: Chicken Soup for the Soul: I'm Speaking Now Black Women Share Their Truth in 101 Stories of Love, Courage and Hope Paperback Amy Newmark 9781611590838 $17.95 SELF-HELP Jun 01, 2021

Now more than ever, the strong, independent, courageous voices of Black women are being heard loud and clear. They share their truth about life, love, family, faith and hope in these 101 personal stories and 12 powerful poems. The world is listening. Black women are speaking, for themselves and their families, and everyone is listening. This unique collection of stories is for readers of all colors, not just the Black community, as these contributors share their dreams, their triumphs and failures, and their lives, which have unique challenge... + Read More
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Series: Hoax Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth Paperback Brian Stelter 9781982142452 $25.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Jun 08, 2021

The instant New York Times bestseller that reveals the collusion between Fox News and Donald Trump—with explosive new reporting covering the election and the January 6 riot.As the nation recovers from the Trump presidency, many questions remain: Why was the COVID-19 pandemic so grossly mishandled? How did we get so politically polarized? What caused white nationalist groups to come out of the shadows, and are they here to stay? The answers lie the twisted story of the relationship between Donald Trump and Fox News. Through firsthand accounts f... + Read More
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Series: The End of the Day Paperback Bill Clegg 9781476798219 $22.99 FICTION May 18, 2021

Following his acclaimed New York Times bestseller Did You Ever Have a Family, Bill Clegg returns with a “delicate, deeply observed, and deftly crafted” (Nickolas Butler, author of Shotgun Lovesongs) second novel about the complicated bonds and breaking points of friendship, the corrosive forces of secrets, the heartbeat of longing, and the redemption found in forgiveness.A retired widow in rural Connecticut wakes to an unexpected visit from her childhood best friend whom she hasn’t seen in forty-nine years. A man arrives at a Pennsylvania hotel... + Read More
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Series: State of Emergency How We Win in the Country We Built Hardcover Tamika D. Mallory 9781982173463 $35.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE May 11, 2021

“A masterful book…reaffirms the urgency of the current state of Black people in America and the power we all have to win transformative change.” —Marc Lamont Hill, New York Times bestselling author “Gives us the words and tools to fight for the justice our families deserve.” —Tamika Palmer, mother of Breonna Taylor “A powerful voice in consistently reminding us that we all have a stake in the fight for a just, fair, and equitable America.” —Jada Pinkett Smith, actor, producer, entrepreneur Social justice leader Tamika D. Mallory states her cas... + Read More
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Series: Black Sheep A Blue-Eyed Negro Speaks of Abandonment, Belonging, Racism, and Redemption Paperback Ray "BEN" Studevent 9780757323812 $21.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY May 04, 2021

A captivating memoir of a biracial boy growing up in Washington, D.C., abandoned by his birth parents, and lovingly raised by a woman with deep emotional scars from her upbringing in the segregated South.The unforgettable memoir Black Sheep opens with a middle-aged Ray Studevent returning to Washington, D.C., to his “momma,” Lemell Studevent. She didn’t give birth to him, but she is the woman who raised him. She is the woman who stood by him through thick and thin. She is the woman who saved his life. But now in her late 80s, Lemell is lost to ... + Read More
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Series: Cancel This Book The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture Hardcover Dan Kovalik 9781510764989 $33.99 POLITICAL SCIENCE Apr 27, 2021

Examining a phenomenon that is sweeping the country, Cancel This Book shines the spotlight on the suppression of open and candid debate. The public shaming of individuals for actual or perceived offenses, often against emerging notions of proper racial and gender norms and relations, has become commonplace. In a number of cases, the shaming is accompanied by calls for the offending individuals to lose their jobs, positions, or other status. Frequently, those targeted for “cancellation” simply do not know the latest, ever-changing norms (ofte... + Read More
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Series: We Refuse to Be Enemies How Muslims and Jews Can Make Peace, One Friendship at a Time Hardcover Sabeeha Rehman 9781951627331 $36.99 RELIGION Apr 20, 2021

For readers of The Faith Club, Sons of Abraham, and The Anatomy of Peace, a call for mutual understanding and lessons for getting thereWe Refuse to Be Enemies is a manifesto by two American citizens, a Muslim woman and Jewish man, concerned with the rise of intolerance and bigotry in our country along with resurgent white nationalism. Neither author is an imam, rabbi, scholar, or community leader, but together they have spent decades doing interfaith work and nurturing cooperation among communities. They have learned that, through face-to-face ... + Read More
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Series: Fault Lines The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism's Looming Catastrophe Hardcover Voddie T. Baucham Jr. 9781684511808 $32.99 RELIGION Apr 06, 2021

USA TODAY BESTSELLER! The Ground Is Moving The death of George Floyd at the hands of police in the summer of 2020 shocked the nation. As riots rocked American cities, Christians affirmed from the pulpit and in social media that “black lives matter” and that racial justice “is a gospel issue.” But what if there is more to the social justice movement than those Christians understand? Even worse: What if they’ve been duped into preaching ideas that actually oppose the Kingdom of God? In this powerful book, Voddie Baucham, a preacher, professor, ... + Read More
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Series: Comeback Season My Unlikely Story of Friendship with the Greatest Living Negro League Baseball Players Hardcover Cam Perron 9781982153601 $36.00 SPORTS & RECREATION Mar 30, 2021

The uplifting, unlikely, and inspirational true story of the friendships formed between Cam Perron—a white, baseball-obsessed teenager from Boston—and hundreds of former professional Negro League players, who were still awaiting the recognition and compensation that they deserved from Major League Baseball more than fifty years after their playing days were over. Featuring the players’ fascinating stories and original photographs.Cam Perron always loved history, and from an early age, he had a knack for collecting. But when he was twelve and bo... + Read More
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Series: The Final Revival of Opal & Nev Hardcover Dawnie Walton 9781982140168 $36.00 FICTION Mar 30, 2021

An electrifying novel about the meteoric rise of an iconic interracial rock duo in the 1970s, their sensational breakup, and the dark secrets unearthed when they try to reunite decades later for one last tour. A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY BARACK OBAMA * THE WASHINGTON POST * NPR * ESQUIRE * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * GOODREADS * THE MILLIONS * READER’S DIGEST * PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER * EERIE READER * PUBLIC RADIO TULSA * CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY * KIRKUS REVIEWS “Feels truer and more mesmerizing than some true stories.... + Read More
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Series: Billie Holiday: The Graphic Novel Women in Jazz Hardcover Ebony Gilbert 9781970047134 $33.99 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS Apr 20, 2021

Dive into the celebrated life of “Lady Day” with this fully-illustrated graphic novel that tells the story of Billie Holiday’s rapid—and, at times, grueling—rise to become one of the best musicians who ever lived.From her days as a young entertainer performing for small jazz clubs in Harlem, to headlining sold-out shows at Carnegie Hall, every trouble and triumph of Billie Holiday's bold, influential career is featured in this graphic novel from Fantoons. Throughout the book’s 144 pages of dazzling color illustrations, readers will revisit Bill... + Read More
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Series: Justice and Peacebuilding The Little Book of Police Youth Dialogue A Restorative Path Toward Justice Paperback Dr. Micah E. Johnson 9781680997088 $7.99 LAW Mar 02, 2021

Discover the police-youth dialogue (PYD) as a method to build trustworthiness, mend relationships, and heal historical harms between black youth and law enforcement. This timely book from the Justice and Peacebuilding series offers an explanation of the need for meaningful dialogue between law enforcement and black youth, a blueprint for implementing police-youth dialogues, best practices and examples, anecdotes and narratives from participants, different models and formats, potholes and limitations, and tangible tools and action steps for star... + Read More
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Series: Infinite Country A Novel Hardcover Patricia Engel 9781982159467 $34.00 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK AND INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2021 NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARD, LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL, A 2022 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE FINALIST, AND A NATIONAL ENDOWMENT OF THE ARTS “BIG READS” SELECTION “A knockout of a novel…we predict [Infinite Country] will be viewed as one of 2021’s best.” —O, The Oprah Magazine Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 from Esquire, O, The Oprah Magazine, Elle, GMA, New York Post, Ms. Magazine, The Millions, Electric Literature, LitHub, AARP, Refinery29,... + Read More
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Series: Life After Death A Novel Hardcover Sister Souljah 9781982139131 $32.99 FICTION Mar 02, 2021

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER The long-anticipated sequel to Sister Souljah’s million copy New York Times bestseller The Coldest Winter Ever.Winter Santiaga hit time served. Still stunning, still pretty, still bold, still loves her father more than any man in the world, still got her hustle and high fashion flow. She’s eager to pay back her enemies, rebuild her father’s empire, reset his crown, and ultimately to snatch Midnight back into her life no matter which bitch had him while she was locked up. But Wint... + Read More
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Series: We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders A Memoir of Love and Resistance Paperback Linda Sarsour 9781982105174 $23.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mar 02, 2021

Linda Sarsour, co-organizer of the Women’s March, shares an “unforgettable memoir” (Booklist) about how growing up Palestinian Muslim American, feminist, and empowered moved her to become a globally recognized activist on behalf of marginalized communities across the country.On a chilly spring morning in Brooklyn, nineteen-year-old Linda Sarsour stared at her reflection, dressed in a hijab for the first time. She saw in the mirror the woman she was growing to be—a young Muslim American woman unapologetic in her faith and her activism, who would... + Read More
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Series: Binding Us Together A Civil Rights Activist Reflects on a Lifetime of Community and Public Service Hardcover Alvin Brooks 9781524867768 $39.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 23, 2021

A heartfelt, inspiring narrative that is inextricably linked to the nation’s past and present, civil rights activist and public servant Alvin Brooks shares engaging, funny, and tragic stories of his life and career of advocacy.Few have faced adversity like Alvin Brooks has. He was born into an impoverished family, he nearly lost his adoptive father to the justice system of the South, and he barely survived a health crisis in infancy. However, his greatest challenges would be learning how to navigate a racist society as a young boy and then late... + Read More
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Series: KG: A to Z An Uncensored Encyclopedia of Life, Basketball, and Everything in Between Hardcover Kevin Garnett 9781982170325 $37.00 SPORTS & RECREATION Feb 23, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A unique, unfiltered memoir from the NBA champion and fifteen-time all-star ahead of his induction into the Hall of Fame.Kevin Garnett was one of the most dominant players the game of basketball has ever seen. He was also one of its most outspoken. Over the course of his illustrious twenty-one-year NBA career, he elevated trash talk to an art form and never shied away from sharing his thoughts on controversial subjects. In KG A to Z, published ahead of Garnett’s induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame, he looks back on h... + Read More
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Series: Loving You, Thinking of You, Don't Forget to Pray Letters to My Son in Prison Paperback Jacqueline L. Jackson 9781951627478 $24.99 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 16, 2021

From Jacqueline Jackson, wife of Jesse Jackson, role model, and civil rights veteran, comes an inspiring gift of love to a child in his darkest hour—and a lesson to everyone who has been touched by the scourge of mass incarceration.Jacqueline Jackson promised her son, Congressman Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., that she would write him every day during his incarceration in prison while he served his thirty-month sentence. This book is an inspiring and moving selection of the letters she wrote him.Together, they comprise a powerful act of love—nurturing ... + Read More
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Series: White Like Her My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing Paperback Gail Lukasik 9781510763234 $22.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 16, 2021

As seen on The Today Show and in the Washington Post's most inspiring stories of the year! “Important in helping us understand America’s complex racial history.”—Kenyatta D. Berry, Host of PBS’s Genealogy RoadshowIncludes a new afterword by bestselling author and Philadelphia Inquirer journalist Solomon Jones In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, author Gail Lukasik explores her African-American mother’s decision to pass, how she hid her secret even from her own husband, and the price she paid for choosing whiteness. Haunted by her m... + Read More
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Series: Overcoming Lessons in Triumphing over Adversity and the Power of Our Common Humanity Hardcover Dr. Augustus White III 9781642935486 $37.00 SELF-HELP Feb 09, 2021

Twenty inspiring profiles of men and women who’ve defied the odds to overcome adversityThe coronavirus COVID-19 has changed our lives forever, confronting us with an adversity like none we have known in our lifetimes. How do we cope? Where can we find the resilience to overcome the changes forced upon us? What might our future look like? The answers lie in Overcoming and the lessons we can learn from everyday heroes who found the strength to persevere through life crises that threatened to overwhelm them, just as we feel overwhelmed today. Grou... + Read More
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Series: The Rope A True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP Hardcover Alex Tresniowski 9781982114022 $37.00 HISTORY Feb 09, 2021

From New York Times bestselling author Alex Tresniowski comes a page-turning, remarkable true-crime thriller recounting the 1910 murder of ten-year-old Marie Smith, the dawn of modern criminal detection, and the launch of the NAACP.In the tranquil seaside town of Asbury Park, New Jersey, ten-year-old schoolgirl Marie Smith is brutally murdered. Small town officials, unable to find the culprit, call upon the young manager of a New York detective agency for help. It is the detective’s first murder case, and now, the specifics of the investigation... + Read More
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Series: Winning in Reverse Defying the Odds and Achieving Dreams—The Bill Lester Story Hardcover Bill Lester 9781643136400 $36.95 SPORTS & RECREATION Feb 02, 2021

The amazing and dramatic story of Bill Lester, one of the most well-known NASCAR drivers in history—and a pioneer whose determination and spirit has paved the way for a new generation of racers.Winning in Reverse tells the story of Bill Lester whose love for racing eventually compelled him to quit his job as an engineer to pursue racing full time. Blessed with natural talent, Bill still had a trifecta of odds against him: he was black, he was middle aged, and he wasn’t a southerner. Bill Lester rose above it all, as did his rankings, and he ma... + Read More
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Series: Black and White How the Left is Destroying the Dream of Martin Luther King, Jr. and our Founding Fathers Paperback Pat Brown 9781642936810 $22.99 POLITICAL SCIENCE Feb 02, 2021

The Left is out to destroy the dream of Martin Luther King, Jr. and it is up to the conservatives of our country—conservatives of all races—to not only understand what is happening, but also stand strong in order to Make America Great Again.Criminal profiler Pat Brown and her business owner son, Dave Brown, are horrified at what is happening to the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. After being refused permission to join Meetup groups in her area because she was not a person of color, Pat, a white woman with a biracial son, created a fake Meetup... + Read More
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Series: Let Love Have the Last Word A Memoir Paperback Common 9781501133169 $22.99 SELF-HELP Feb 02, 2021

“An insightful memoir that uncovers unique stories about matters of the heart.” —Essence The inspiring New York Times bestseller from Common—the Grammy Award, Academy Award, and Golden Globe–winning musician, actor, and activist—explores how love and mindfulness can build communities and allow you to take better control of your life through actions and words. Common believes that the phrase “let love have the last word” is not just a declaration; it is a statement of purpose, a daily promise. Love is the most powerful force on the planet, and u... + Read More
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Series: Do Better Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy Hardcover Rachel Ricketts 9781982151270 $36.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 02, 2021

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER San Francisco Chronicle’s 10 Books to Pick * HelloGiggles’ 10 Books to Pick Up for a Better 2021 * PopSugar’s 23 Exciting New Books * Book Riot’s 12 Essential Books About Black Identity and History * Harper’s Bazaar’s 60+ Books You Need to Read in 2021 “A clear, powerful, direct, wise, and extremely helpful treatise on how to combat and heal from the ubiquitous violence of white supremacy” (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author) from thought leader, racial justice educator, and acclaimed spiritual activis... + Read More
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Series: Surviving the White Gaze A Memoir Hardcover Rebecca Carroll 9781982116255 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 02, 2021

An Esquire Best Book of 2021 A stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting her painful struggle to overcome a completely white childhood in order to forge her identity as a black woman in America.Rebecca Carroll grew up the only black person in her rural New Hampshire town. Adopted at birth by artistic parents who believed in peace, love, and zero population growth, her early childhood was loving and idyllic—and yet she couldn’t articulate the deep sense of isolation she increasingly felt as she grew older... + Read More
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Series: Black Magic What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph Hardcover Chad Sanders 9781982104221 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 02, 2021

A “daring, urgent, and transformative” (Brené Brown, New York Times bestselling author of Dare to Lead) exploration of Black achievement in a white world based on honest, provocative, and moving interviews with Black leaders, scientists, artists, activists, and champions.“I remember the day I realized I couldn’t play a white guy as well as a white guy. It felt like a death sentence for my career.” When Chad Sanders landed his first job in lily-white Silicon Valley, he quickly concluded that to be successful at work meant playing a certain socia... + Read More
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Series: Race Against Time A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era Paperback Jerry Mitchell 9781451645149 $23.00 HISTORY Feb 02, 2021

“For almost two decades, investigative journalist Jerry Mitchell doggedly pursued the Klansmen responsible for some of the most notorious murders of the civil rights movement. This book is his amazing story. Thanks to him, and to courageous prosecutors, witnesses, and FBI agents, justice finally prevailed.” —John Grisham, author of The GuardiansOn June 21, 1964, more than twenty Klansmen murdered three civil rights workers. The killings, in what would become known as the “Mississippi Burning” case, were among the most brazen acts of violence du... + Read More
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Series: Fight of the Century Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases Paperback Michael Chabon 9781501190414 $23.00 LITERARY COLLECTIONS Jan 19, 2021

The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation, the ACLU remains the nation’s premi... + Read More
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Series: Aftershocks A Memoir Hardcover Nadia Owusu 9781982111229 $35.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Jan 12, 2021

In the tradition of The Glass Castle, this “gorgeous” (The New York Times, Editors’ Choice) and deeply felt memoir from Whiting Award winner Nadia Owusu tells the “incredible story” (Malala Yousafzai) about the push and pull of belonging, the seismic emotional toll of family secrets, and the heart it takes to pull through. “In Aftershocks, Nadia Owusu tells the incredible story of her young life. How does a girl—abandoned by her mother at age two and orphaned at thirteen when her beloved father dies—find her place in the world? This memoir is t... + Read More
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Series: Yellow Wife A Novel Hardcover Sadeqa Johnson 9781982149109 $35.00 FICTION Jan 12, 2021

A Best Book of 2021 by NPR and Christian Science Monitor “A fully immersive, intricately crafted story inspired by the pages of history. In Pheby, Sadeqa Johnson has created a woman whose struggle to survive and to protect the ones she loves will have readers turning the pages as fast as their fingers can fly. Simply enthralling.” —Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours Called "wholly engrossing" by New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Grissom, this harrowing story follows an enslaved woman forced to ba... + Read More
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Series: The Eagles of Heart Mountain A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America Hardcover Bradford Pearson 9781982107031 $37.00 HISTORY Jan 05, 2021

“One of Ten Best History Books of 2021.” —Smithsonian Magazine For fans of The Boys in the Boat and The Storm on Our Shores, this impeccably researched, deeply moving, never-before-told “tale that ultimately stands as a testament to the resilience of the human spirit” (Garrett M. Graff, New York Times bestselling author) about a World War II incarceration camp in Wyoming and its extraordinary high school football team.In the spring of 1942, the United States government forced 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes in California, Oregon, Wa... + Read More
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Series: The First How to Think About Hate Speech, Campus Speech, Religious Speech, Fake News, Post-Truth, and Donald Trump Paperback Stanley Fish 9781982115258 $25.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Dec 08, 2020

From celebrated public intellectual, New York Times bestselling author, and “America’s most famous professor” (BookPage) comes an urgent and sharply observed look at freedom of speech and the First Amendment offering a “nonpartisan take on what it does and doesn’t protect and what kind of speech it should and shouldn’t regulate” (Publishers Weekly). How does the First Amendment really work? Is it a principle or a value? What is hate speech and should it always be banned? Are we free to declare our religious beliefs in the public square? What ro... + Read More
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Series: Standing Our Ground A Mother's Story Paperback Lucy McBath 9781501187797 $23.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 17, 2020

From the national spokesperson for Everytown for Gun Safety and a mother who “turned her sorrow into a strategy and her mourning into a movement” (Hillary Clinton) comes the riveting memoir of a mother’s loss and call to action for common-sense gun laws.Lucia Kay McBath knew deep down that a bullet could one day take her son. After all, she had watched the news of countless unarmed black men unjustly gunned down. Standing Our Ground is McBath’s moving memoir of raising, loving, and losing her son to gun violence, and the story of how she trans... + Read More
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Series: How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America Essays Paperback Kiese Laymon 9781982170820 $22.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 10, 2020

A New York Times Notable Book A revised collection with thirteen essays, including six new to this edition and seven from the original edition, by the “star in the American literary firmament, with a voice that is courageous, honest, loving, and singularly beautiful” (NPR).Brilliant and uncompromising, piercing and funny, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is essential reading. This new edition of award-winning author Kiese Laymon’s first work of nonfiction looks inward, drawing heavily on the author and his family’s experiences... + Read More
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Series: Skin Deep Dispelling the Science of Race Paperback Gavin Evans 9781786078117 $24.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 13, 2020

The dark heart of race science… and why it’s nonsense.Racial differences are rooted in biological reality, right? That’s certainly what a small group of anthropologists, psychologists and pundits would have you believe. Portraying themselves as brave defenders of the inconvenient truth, this group took the revival of ‘race science’ from alt-right online message boards into mainstream academic journals. They seek to justify raging social inequalities from poverty to incarceration rates with a simple message: some people are just born to be poor.... + Read More
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Series: The End of the Day Hardcover Bill Clegg 9781476798202 $37.00 FICTION Sep 29, 2020

“Reading [The End of the Day] is like studying a stained-glass window up close, each piece bright and sharply cut, but when you step back and see it as a whole you discover a large, beautiful, mysterious work of art.” —David Ebershoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Danish Girl and The 19th Wife Following his acclaimed New York Times bestseller, Did You Ever Have a Family, Bill Clegg returns with a deeply moving, emotionally resonant second novel about the complicated bonds and breaking points of friendship, the corrosive forces of s... + Read More
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Series: Wrecking America How Trump's Lawbreaking and Lies Betray All Paperback Mark Green 9781510763715 $22.99 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 22, 2020

"Read Fake President….This book can help us replace Trump with truth." —Gloria Steinem "Terrific new book. Fake President informs as it entertains." --Laurence Tribe An incisive & witty look at the cost of lies on American livesWrecking America is most up-to-date look at Trump's anything-goes "Fascism 2.0" presidency and campaign. It reveals how Trump's daily "twistifications" (a Jefferson coinage) are killing tens of thousands of Americans and millions of American jobs, polluting the air and public debate, selling out his country for perso... + Read More
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Series: The Antiracist How to Start the Conversation about Race and Take Action Hardcover Kondwani Fidel 9781510764200 $32.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Sep 22, 2020

What would happen if people started moving beyond the conversation and took action to combat racism? We are in an era where many Americans express the sentiment, “I thought we were past that,” when a public demonstration of racism comes across their radar. Long before violence committed by police was routinely displayed on jumbotrons publicizing viral executions, the Black community has continually tasted the blood from having police boots in their mouths, ribs, and necks. The widespread circulation of racial injustices is the barefaced truth... + Read More
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Series: Football's Fearless Activists How Colin Kaepernick, Eric Reid, Kenny Stills, and Fellow Athletes Stood Up to the NFL and President Trump Hardcover Mike Freeman 9781683583509 $33.99 SPORTS & RECREATION Sep 15, 2020

For the first time, here is the full story of the NFL player protests that rocked a nation and turned our country upside down. This is the players' side, one that has largely been ignored by the media.On September 1, 2016, Colin Kaepernick took a knee before a preseason game. Little did he, nor anyone else, know the ramifications from that decision. Since being exiled from the National Football League, Kaepernick has stood strong against all those who have attacked him. He and others who took a knee against racial inequality and police brutalit... + Read More
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Series: The Deepest South of All True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi Hardcover Richard Grant 9781501177828 $35.00 TRAVEL Sep 01, 2020

Bestselling travel writer Richard Grant offers an entertaining and profound look at a city like no other. Natchez, Mississippi, once had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in America, and its wealth was built on slavery and cotton. Today it has the greatest concentration of antebellum mansions in the South, and a culture full of unexpected contradictions. Prominent white families dress up in hoopskirts and Confederate uniforms for ritual celebrations of the Old South, yet Natchez is also progressive enough to elect a gay black man ... + Read More
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Series: Hoax Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth Hardcover Brian Stelter 9781982142445 $37.00 POLITICAL SCIENCE Aug 25, 2020

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An NPR Best Book of the Year “A thorough and damning exploration of the incestuous relationship between Trump and his favorite channel.” —The New York Times “A Rosetta Stone for stuff about this presidency that doesn’t otherwise make sense to normal humans.” —Rachel Maddow, MSNBC “Stelter’s critique goes beyond salacious tidbits about extramarital affairs (though there are plenty of those) to expose a collusion that threatens the pillars of our democracy.” —The Washington Post The urgent and untold story o... + Read More
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Series: What Black and White America Must Do Now A Prescription to Move Beyond Race Hardcover Armstrong Williams 9781510764224 $32.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 18, 2020

A call to our highest virtues and idealsWhat Black and White People Must Do Now explores the complexity of race and culture in the United States. In his third book, renowned conservative entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist Armstrong Williams discusses his prescription for healing and atonement amidst today’s current social upheaval. Race and racism are America's original sin, and four hundred years later, they still plague the nation, pitting groups against each other. Despite how much time has elapsed, many Americans remain befuddled by ... + Read More
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Series: The Organ Thieves The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South Hardcover Chip Jones 9781982107529 $37.00 HISTORY Aug 18, 2020

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this “startling…powerful” (Kirkus Reviews) investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race. In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a black man, went into Virginia’s top research hospital with a head injury, only to have his heart taken out of his body and put into the chest of a white businessman. Now, in The Organ Thieves, Pulitzer Prize–nominated journalist Chip Jones exposes the horrifying inequality surrounding Tucker’s death and how he was used as a human guinea pig without ... + Read More
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Series: Show Them You're Good A Portrait of Boys in the City of Angels the Year Before College Hardcover Jeff Hobbs 9781982116330 $37.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE Aug 18, 2020

The bestselling, critically acclaimed, award-winning author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace presents a brilliant and transcendent work that closely follows four Los Angeles high school boys as they apply to college.Four teenage boys are high school seniors at two very different schools within the city of Los Angeles, the second largest school district in the nation with nearly 700,000 students. Author Jeff Hobbs, writing with heart, sensitivity, and insight, stunningly captures the challenges and triumphs of being a young person co... + Read More
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Series: The New American A Novel Hardcover Micheline Aharonian Marcom 9781982120726 $35.00 FICTION Aug 18, 2020

One of 2020’s most anticipated books by The Millions and Ms. Magazine The epic journey of a young Guatemalan American college student, a “dreamer,” who gets deported and decides to make his way back home to California.One day, Emilio learns a shocking secret: he is undocumented. His parents, who emigrated from Guatemala to California, had never told him. Emilio slowly adjusts to his new normal. All is going well, he’s in his second year at UC Berkeley...then he gets into a car accident, and—without a driver’s license or any ID—the policeman o... + Read More
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Series: My Time to Speak Reclaiming Ancestry and Confronting Race Hardcover Ilia Calderón 9781982103859 $36.00 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 04, 2020

An inspiring, timely, and conversation-starting memoir from the barrier-breaking and Emmy Award–winning journalist Ilia Calderón—the first Afro-Latina to anchor a high-profile newscast for a major Hispanic broadcast network in the United States—about following your dreams, overcoming prejudice, and embracing your identity.As a child, Ilia Calderón felt like a typical girl from Colombia. In Chocó, the Afro-Latino province where she grew up, your skin could be any shade and you’d still be considered blood. Race was a non-issue, and Ilia didn’t th... + Read More
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Series: Atria Espanol Es mi turno (My Time to Speak Spanish edition) Un viaje en busca de mi voz y mis raíces Paperback Ilia Calderón 9781982103873 $22.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 04, 2020

Las memorias inspiradoras, pertinentes y provocadoras de Ilia Calderón—la primera presentadora afrolatina en un noticiario hispano de preeminencia en los Estados Unidos—acerca de seguir sus sueños, superar prejuicios y acoger su identidad.De niña, Ilia Calderón se sentía como una típica niña colombiana. En el Chocó, la provincia afrolatina donde se crio, tu piel podría ser de cualquier tono y aún serías considerado familia. Pero cuando dejó su comunidad para asistir a la escuela secundaria y la universidad en Medellín, todo cambió. A partir de ... + Read More
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Series: The Deep Paperback Rivers Solomon 9781534439870 $21.99 FICTION Aug 04, 2020

Octavia E. Butler meets Marvel’s Black Panther in The Deep, a story rich with Afrofuturism, folklore, and the power of memory, inspired by the Hugo Award–nominated song “The Deep” from Daveed Diggs’s rap group Clipping. Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly is forgotten by everyone, save one—the historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu. Yetu remember... + Read More