Africa
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Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
$21.99 Add to cartTraditional 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 betw
- Author: French, Howard W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1324092408
- Language: English
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Egyptian Lullaby
$18.99 Add to cartA rich, beautifully layered ode to the great city of Cairo, Egypt, its people, and culture.
Every night, my Ametti Fatma sings the sounds of Egypt to me as I fall asleep. This is the Nile,
that flow- Author: Pliska, Zeena M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1250222494
- Language: English
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The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave
$19.99 Add to cartMostly probably a hoax, this letter to slave owners in the ante-bellum American South purports to advise on how to manage a slave population. The writer, himself a slaveowner from the Caribbean, advis
- Author: Lynch, Willie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: 7-Apr-09
- ISBN10: 1638230870
- Language: English
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The One and Only Family
$19.99 Add to cartFor more than a decade, readers have been enchanted by the modern classic The One and Only Ivan, a Newbery Award winner and a #1 New York Times bestseller, and by its bestselling sequels, The One and
- Series: One and Only
- Author: Applegate, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: 7-May-24
- ISBN10: 0063221128
- Language: English
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Safari: A Photicular Book
$27.00 Add to cartA magical journey. A safari in your hands.
Using unique Photicula
Animals in living motion, as real as if you were there. The cheetah bounds, the lion charges. The African elephant snaps its ears.- Series: Photicular
- Author: Kainen, Dan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0761163808
- Language: English
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We All Went on Safari: A Counting Journey Through Tanzania
$9.99 Add to cartJoin Arusha, Mosi, Tumpe and their Maasai friends as they set out on a counting journey through the grasslands of Tanzania. Along the way, the children encounter all sorts of animals including elephan
- Author: Krebs, Laurie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 01, 2004
- ISBN10: 184148119X
- Language: English
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A Long Walk to Water
$18.99 Add to cartCherished by millions of readers, this #1 New York Times bestselling novel is a powerful tale of perseverance and hope. Newbery Medalist Linda Sue Park interweaves the stories of two Sudanese children
- Author: Park, Linda Sue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0547251270
- Language: English
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Heart of Darkness: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$16.00 Add to cartJoseph Conrad’s enduring portrait of the ugliness of colonialism in a deluxe edition with a gripping cover by Hellboy artist Mike Mignola. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- Author: Conrad, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0143106589
- Language: English
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Warriors of Wakanda (Marvel: Black Panther)
$5.99 Add to cartMarvel’s Black Panther and his allies race into action in a new Little Golden Book
Meet Marvel’s Black Panther and his amazing allies Boys and girls ages 2 to 5 will love this action-packed Little G- Series: Little Golden Book
- Author: Berrios, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: 11-Sep-18
- ISBN10: 1984831720
- Language: English
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The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality
$16.95 Add to cartNow in its 30th printing, this classic presents historical, archaeological, and anthropological evidence to support the theory that ancient Egypt was a black civilization.
- Author: Diop, Cheikh Anta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 1989
- ISBN10: 1556520727
- Language: English
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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
$27.00 Read moreThe final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything.
Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing risk, lawlessness, and- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0374610193
- Language: English
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Sankofa: A Culinary Story of Resilience and Belonging
$19.99 Add to cart“Based on his own experiences as a first-generation Ghanaian American growing up in New York City, chef and author Adjepong’s debut picture book beautifully captures Kofi’s complicated feelings of in-
- Author: Adjepong, Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593385942
- Language: English
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Seeds of Change
$18.99 Read moreFrom award-winning, bestselling author Nina Laden comes a poetic picture book about having the courage and resilience to plant “seeds” that will improve ourselves and our community.
Sow seeds of stren- Author: Laden, Nina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1250810078
- Language: English
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Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
$18.99 Add to cartEmmanuel Ofosu Yeboah’s inspiring true story–which was turned into a film, Emmanuel’s Gift, narrated by Oprah Winfrey–is nothing short of remarkable.
Born in Ghana, West Africa, with one deformed l- Author: Thompson, Laurie Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 06, 2015
- ISBN10: 044981744X
- Language: English
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Heart of Darkness
$5.00 Add to cartAlthough Polish by birth, Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) is regarded as one of the greatest writers in English, and Heart of Darkness, first published in 1902, is considered by many his “most famous, fine
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Conrad, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: July 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0486264645
- Language: English
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Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
$18.99 Add to cartSo often, Africa has been depicted simplistically as a uniform land of famines and safaris, poverty and strife, stripped of all nuance. In this bold and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-nee
- Author: Faloyin, Dipo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1324065893
- Language: English
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I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives
$12.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling true story of an all-American girl, a boy from Zimbabwe, and the letter that changed both of their lives forever.
It started as an assignment. Caitlin had never even he- Author: Ganda, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 03, 2016
- ISBN10: 0316241334
- Language: English
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Like You, Like Me
$18.99 Read more★ “A wonderful celebration of global friendship.” —Bookpage, starred review
“This story encourages young people to focus on the similarities that connect us in one human family. Highly recommen- Author: Kostecki-Shaw, Jenny Sue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0316330086
- Language: English
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Home of the Brave
$9.99 Add to cartBestselling author Katherine Applegate presents Home of the Brave, a beautifully wrought middle grade novel about an immigrant’s journey from hardship to hope.
Kek comes from Africa. In America he see- Author: Applegate, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 23, 2008
- ISBN10: 0312535635
- Language: English
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Imhotep of Ancient Kemet
$19.99 Add to cartOver 4,000 years ago, in ancient Egypt, a young boy named Imhotep was born. From a young age, he excelled and quickly became known as a genius.
Imhotep had the ability to see through difficult problems
- Author: Aire, Ekiuwa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 44
- Publish Date: December 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1777117992
- Language: English
