African American & Black - Historical
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Across the Way
$15.95 Add to cartNeighborhood tensions reach a breaking point in the finale of New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe’s captivating series. Across the Way sweeps readers back to 1930s Alabama and into the lives
- Series: Neighbors #3
- Author: Monroe, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1496716183
- Language: English
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Lost Souls Recovered
$24.99 Add to cartOne man’s journey toward a better life.
When the wife of a plantation owner dies on a fateful night in 1887, John Billingsly makes the gut-wrenching decision to leave his mother and everything he knows
- Author: Walker, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 438
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1611534747
- Language: English
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Remembrance
$16.99 Add to cartRemembrance by Rita Woods is a breakout historical debut with modern resonance, perfect for the many fans of The Underground Railroad and Orphan Train.
Remembrance…It’s a rumor, a whisper passed in t- Author: Woods, Rita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1250298466
- Language: English
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Muscadine Wine
$18.95 Add to cartLightning bugs on a summer evening. A lazy river filled from a spring rain. The taste of honeysuckles. The aroma of wild grapes ripe on the vine. A collection of fantasy and contemporary fiction stori
- Author: Davis, Milton J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: August 25 2022
- ISBN10: 9798985733631
- Language: English
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Summer of No Rain
$18.95 Add to cartAs a timid biracial girl growing up in Sweetwater, Alabama during the 1960s, Margaret Ann
Odom’s childhood was all but pleasant. Constantly targeted by her peers due to her different
texture of hair, an
- Author: Hunter, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: February 07 2022
- ISBN10: 194971182X
- Language: English
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Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
$19.99 Add to cartNtozake Shange’s beloved Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo is the story of three sisters and their mother from Charleston, South Carolina.
“A jubilant celebration of womanhood–as moving as the moon . . .- Author: Shange, Ntozake
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0312541244
- Language: English
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The Last Thing You Surrender: A Novel of World War II
$21.00 Read moreCould you find the courage to do what’s right in a world on fire?
Pulitzer-winning journalist and bestselling novelist (Freeman) Leonard Pitts, Jr.’s new historical page-turner is a great American ta- Author: Pitts Jr, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1572842458
- Language: English
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Empty Vows: A Riveting Depression Era Historical Novel
$16.95 Add to cartIn this gripping follow-up to the Depression-era saga Mrs. Wiggins, the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author transports readers to the Deep South, as a proper church-going woman determi… [more below]
- Series: A Lexington, Alabama Novel
- Author: Monroe, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1496732626
- Language: English
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When Stars Rain Down
$17.99 Add to cartOpal is an eighteen-year-old Black woman working as a housekeeper in a small Southern town in the 1930s–and then the Klan descends. A moving story that confronts America’s tragic past, When Stars Rai
- Author: Jackson-Brown, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 0785240446
- Language: English
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Virgin Soul
$14.95 Add to cartWritten in first-person point of view, Virgin Soul is the semi-autobiographical tale of a young woman’s struggle for identity and purpose during one of the most politically and racially charged eras o
- Author: Juanita, Judy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: July 06 2017
- ISBN10: 0971635242
- Language: English
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The Wedding
$16.00 Read moreIn her final novel, “a beautiful and devastating examination of family, society and race” (The New York Times), Dorothy West offers an intimate glimpse into the Oval, a proud, insular community made u
- Author: West, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0385471440
- Language: English
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Cape Fear Rising
$26.95 Add to cartIn August 1898, Wilmington, North Carolina, was a mecca for middle-class black citizens. Many of the city’s lawyers, businessmen, and other professionals were black, as were all the tradesmen and stev… [more below]
- Author: Gerard, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1949467023
- Language: English
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The Stone Face
$16.95 Read moreA roman ? clef about racism, identity, and bohemian living amidst the tensions and violence of Algerian War-era France, and one of the earliest published accounts of the Paris massacre of 1961.
As a t- Author: Smith, William Gardner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1681375168
- Language: English
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Night Wherever We Go
$18.99 Read moreA RECOMMENDED READ FROM: The Washington Post – Atlanta Journal-Constitution – CrimeReads – Library Journal
A gripping, radically intimate debut novel about a group of enslaved women staging a covert re
- Author: Peyton, Tracey Rose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 006324988X
- Language: English
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The Water Dancer
$28.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK – From the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss,… [more below]
- Author: Coates, Ta-Nehisi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0399590595
- Language: English
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The Attic Child
$27.99 Read moreA hauntingly powerful and emotionally charged novel about family secrets, love and loss, identity and belonging.
Two children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a shared secret
- Author: Jaye, Lola
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 0063260379
- Language: English
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A Woman of Endurance
$18.99 Add to cart- Author: Llanos-Figueroa, Dahlma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0063062232
- Language: English
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Don’t Cry for Me
$26.99 Read more*A Book of the Month Club Pick*
NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK IN ESSENCE MAGAZINE, THE MILLIONS AND BOOKISH
“Don’t Cry for Me is a perfect song.”–Jesmyn Ward
A Black father makes amends with his gay son… [more below]
- Author: Black, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 133542573X
- Language: English
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Key City on the River
$10.00 Add to cartOn a cold November afternoon in 1833, two wagons are about to cross the dark Mississippi River into Iowa Territory on a tiny boat. Penny Cooper, Nate Tilden, Aunt Sunday, and Jonathan and Ella Butterm
- Series: Gemma Open Door
- Author: Gorsuch, Greta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: March 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1936846799
- Language: English
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Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition)
$19.99 Add to cartThe best-selling classic about a mixed-race child in the Civil War-era South that “chronicles the triumph of a free spirit over many kinds of bondage” (New York Times Book Review).
Jubilee tells the tr… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0544812123
- Language: English
