African American & Black
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Remembering Lucile: A Virginia Family’s Rise from Slavery and a Legacy Forged a Mile High
$21.95 Add to cartIn 1918 Lucile Berkeley Buchanan Jones received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado, becoming its first female African American graduate (though she was not allowed to “walk” at grad… [more below]
- Author: McLean, Polly E. Bugros
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: August 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1646421957
- Language: English
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Becoming Richard Pryor
$21.99 Add to cart“Becoming Richard Pryor is a book that breaks new ground. . . . Saul details the amazing way that Richard found his way out of the life for which he seemed destined and into the world of the performin
- Author: Saul, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: December 21 2018
- ISBN10: 0062123327
- Language: English
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That You Are Here Is No Small Thing
$18.99 Read moreA stunning exploration of the history of Black Americans by award-winning picture book team Traci N. Todd and Vashti Harrison.
The world is forever changed because you are here. At once honest and emp- Author: Todd, Traci N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 01 2026
- ISBN10: 0593353021
- Language: English
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Room Swept Home
$17.95 Read moreIntimate and sweeping poetry that examines race and lineage
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2025)
Honor Book for Best Poetry (2025), BCALA Literary Awards / Black Caucus of the American Libr
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Bingham-Risher, Remica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0819502138
- Language: English
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Riding Into History: The Surprising Story of Sarah Keys Evans and the Fight to Desegregate Bus Travel
$29.95 Add to cartAs a member of the integrated Women’s Army Corps, Private First Class Sarah Keys served her country as a receptionist at Fort Dix, New Jersey. When she boarded a bus home to North Carolina in 1952, sh… [more below]
- Author: Nathan, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1478033169
- Language: English
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My Color
$26.99 Add to cartNavigating the complexities of identity, a young girl confronts the challenges of race and belonging, ultimately discovering self-love and acceptance in a world that often demands conformity, revealin
- Author: Eugenia, Pamela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: May 16 2026
- ISBN10: 9798318824647
- Language: English
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The Catch
$18.99 Add to cartTwin sisters Clara and Dempsey have always struggled to relate, their familial bond severed after their mother vanished into the Thames. As infants they were adopted into different families, Clara sen… [more below]
- Author: Daley-Ward, Yrsa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1324098481
- Language: English
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The Resistance
$18.95 Read moreSet in Atlanta, The Resistance is a fast-paced thriller. Not everything is as it seems in the city’s upper crust…
Natalie Harris is the perfect politician’s wife, mother, socialite, and First Lady o- Author: Hill, Terry E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 25 2026
- ISBN10: 1645568180
- Language: English
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The Sunken, the Adored
$19.99 Read moreA chilling Lovecraftian horror story from the author of Midnight Rooms, in which a recently freed slave from America making a new life for herself in 1800 Venice finds the mysterious plague that kille
- Author: Coles, Donyae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 25 2026
- ISBN10: 0063458624
- Language: English
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My After-Hours Secret
$7.99 Read moreA one-night, forced proximity, workplace romance by Maya Blake.
Working beneath… her billionaire enemy! Tessa: Theo’s touch made me forget my pride, my sense, even my own name. Four years later, the- Series: Billionaires in the Spotlight #2
- Author: Blake, Maya
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 25 2026
- ISBN10: 1335614141
- Language: English
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Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
$18.99 Read moreA magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest writers, situating her alongside the key historical and social moments that shaped her work.
As the first Black woman to c
- Author: Morris, Susana M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0063211831
- Language: English
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Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir
$29.99 Add to cartAn Instant New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book
One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2020
Named One of the Best Books of the Year by: The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, Es
- Author: Trethewey, Natasha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 006224857X
- Language: English
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Star Power: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartA celebration and testament to the tenacity of life on the margins, brilliantly illuminating Black and queer experience.
In this collection, a jubilant testimony to the joys and hardships of the Black- Author: Goodly, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1668080761
- Language: English
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The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic
$21.99 Read moreKirkus Reviews Best Books of 2025 BookRiot‘s Best Books of 2025 NPR’s New Books to Read Ms. Magazine‘s Most Anticipated Feminist Book
A crucial telling of U.S. history centering the Black women whose- Author: Stewart, Lindsey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 28 2026
- ISBN10: 1538769514
- Language: English
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Freedom to Read: The Story of Teacher Mary Peake and One Mighty Oak Tree
$19.99 Read more- Author: Cline-Ransome, Lesa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 25 2026
- ISBN10: 153446350X
- Language: English
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Keep It Beautiful: Inside the Funkyverse of Shock G and Digital Underground
$35.00 Read moreVisionary rapper of the groundbreaking “The Humpty Dance,” producer of Tupac Shakur’s iconic “I Get Around,” and driving force of legendary hip-hop group Digital Underground, Shock G shares his story … [more below]
- Author: Mbassa, Alexis Wolfe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 25 2026
- ISBN10: 0593796322
- Language: English
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Black Narratives of Slavery: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
This Very Short Introduction brings together a wide range of narratives of slavery across a broad historical period to understand how Black people- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Patterson, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0197678378
- Language: English
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Their Unexpected Plan
$7.99 Read moreA surprise addition to their business plan…
Ascension Publishing’s newly minted publisher Morgan Chambers has to make the organization profitable or risk everything he’s ever worked for if it fails- Series: Lowcountry Promise Novel #1
- Author: Hill, Donna
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 25 2026
- ISBN10: 1335472746
- Language: English
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Roi and Me and the Double V: A WWII Story
$17.99 Read moreBest friends Marvel and Roi help out on the WWII homefront, but when racial injustice threatens their community, they must turn to activism for a victory of their own in this empowering middle grade n… [more below]
- Author: Headen, Sandra W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 25 2026
- ISBN10: 0823453790
- Language: English
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A Moment in the Sun: Black Manhattan Before the Civil War
$35.00 Read moreDispelling the persistent narrative that abject poverty followed the end of slavery in New York City, acclaimed historian Shane White finally sets the historical record straight. A Moment in the Sun,
- Author: White, Shane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 25 2026
- ISBN10: 1324095083
- Language: English
