African American & Black - General
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What the Fireflies Knew
$17.00 Add to cartAn NAACP Image Award Nominee
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by *Marie Claire* *Teen Vogue* *Buzzfeed* *Esse
Longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize
A Marie Claire Book Club pick- Author: Harris, Kai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593185366
- Language: English
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Shyt List 4 (The Cartel Publications Presents)
$26.67 Add to cartWhat happens when the devil s daughter visits Sin City? Drama occurs of biblical proportions. Yao has given Yvonna specific orders for Urban Greggs, the heavyweight champion of the world. And because
- Series: Shyt List #4
- Author: Reign, (T Styles)
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: April 12, 2011
- ISBN10: 0984303030
- Language: English
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Sing the Truth: The Kweli Journal Short Story Collection
$18.00 Add to cartA powerful must-read collection of bold BIPOC voices. All proceeds support The Kweli Journal’s mission to nurture emerging writers of color and foster a vibrant literary community.
“It gave me great p- Author: Pegram, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893310252
- Language: English
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Dixon, Descending
$19.00 Add to cart“Compelling.”–The Boston Globe
“Poignant…heartbreaking.”–The Christian Science Monitor
“This one hits hard.”–Publishers Weekly
When Nate suggests that they attempt to be the first Black American… [more below]- Author: Outen, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593473477
- Language: English
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Ethic 5
$26.90 Add to cartLife has never been easy for Ethic. Since he was a young boy he has battled loss after loss while struggling to navigate through a treacherous world. When he met Alani Lenika Hill he knew that he had
- Author: Antoinette, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1732831351
- Language: English
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The Dark Maestro
$31.00 Read moreFrom the author of The Violin Conspiracy and Symphony of Secrets comes a mesmerizing page-turner about a young Black musical virtuoso at the peak of his career who’s forced into hiding when his family… [more below]
- Author: Slocumb, Brendan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79822E+12
- Language: English
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Days Running
$17.95 Add to cartA dynamic portrait of one queer, Black boy’s experience in 1970s Cincinnati.
Sixteen-year-old Cliffy Douglas’s life is leveling up. An academic superstar on an accelerated path, he’s about to put high- Author: Ruff, Shawn Stewart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1635902231
- Language: English
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The Fantasies of Future Things
$27.99 Add to cartIn this powerful debut reminiscent of Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight, two men in Atlanta reconcile their human dignity against the price of their professional ambitions working for a real estate developmen… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Doug
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1668016281
- Language: English
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The Dark Maestro
$29.00 Read moreFrom the author of The Violin Conspiracy and Symphony of Secrets comes a mesmerizing page-turner about a musical virtuoso who’s forced into hiding when his family runs afoul of a ruthless criminal org… [more below]
- Author: Slocumb, Brendan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0593687612
- Language: English
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The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2022)
$26.99 Add to cartThis is the follow up to the highly acclaimed 2021 anthology described as containing “some of the most exciting voices, old and new, from Africa and the diaspora, published in the 2020 year.”
The first
- Author: Ekpeki, Oghenechovwe Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1647100763
- Language: English
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The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2022)
$26.99 Add to cartThis is the follow up to the highly acclaimed 2021 anthology described as containing “some of the most exciting voices, old and new, from Africa and the diaspora, published in the 2020 year.”
The first
- Author: Ekpeki, Oghenechovwe Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1647100763
- Language: English
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After the Lights Go Out
$16.00 Read moreA harrowing and spellbinding story about family, the complications of mixed-race relationships, misplaced loyalties, and the price athletes pay to entertain–from the critically acclaimed author of Th… [more below]
- Author: Vercher, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1641294620
- Language: English
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This Great Hemisphere
$31.00 Add to cart“This Great Hemisphere is an inventive and immersive epic that follows its brave invisible protagonist as she navigates a futuristic new world that often mirrors our own. A thrilling page-turner.” –B… [more below]
- Author: Askaripour, Mateo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0593915402
- Language: English
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The Unsettled
$18.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK – A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – From the best-selling author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, a searing multi-generational novel–set in the 1980s in racially and politically … [more below]
- Author: Mathis, Ayana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0525435611
- Language: English
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Zachary’s Tooth Lesson
$15.95 Add to cartUnlike the average child, Zachary gets toys under his pillow after losing a tooth. Because of his greediness and selfishness, he decides to become a “tooth collector,” only to learn a shocking “toothl
- Author: Davis, Eldona S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 20 2024
- ISBN10: 9798890437471
- Language: English
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The New Naturals
$18.99 Add to cartCritically acclaimed, for readers of Paul Beatty’s The Sellout and Jennifer Egan’s The Candy House, a moving and darkly funny novel about an attempt to found an underground Utopia.
An abandoned resta- Author: Bump, Gabriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1643755331
- Language: English
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Time’s Undoing
$18.00 Add to cartA searing and tender novel about a young Black journalist’s search for answers in the unsolved murder of her great-grandfather in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, decades ago–inspired by the author’s … [more below]
- Author: Head, Cheryl A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0593471849
- Language: English
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Temple Folk
$17.99 Add to cartFinalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction
A “splendid and grand collection” (Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Known World) portraying the lived experiences of Black M- Author: Bilal, Aaliyah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1982191821
- Language: English
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Hadriana in All My Dreams
$18.95 Add to cart“One-of-a-kind . . . [A] ribald, free-wheeling magical-realist novel, first published in 1988 and newly, engagingly translated by Glover . . . An icon of Haitian literature serves up a hotblooded, rib
- Author: Depestre, René
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1617755338
- Language: English
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The System of Dante’s Hell
$17.95 Read more“Much of the novel is an expression of the intellectual and moral lost motion of the age . . . the special agony of the American Negro.” —New York Times Book Review
“A fevered and impressionistic rif
- Series: Akashiclassics: Renegade Reprint
- Author: Baraka, Amiri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 16 2016
- ISBN10: 1617753963
- Language: English
