African American & Black
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Brave Like a Lion!: How a Puppeteer Found Her Voice
$18.99 Add to cartIn this empowering picture book by a groundbreaking Sesame Street Puppeteer, a shy girl finds her voice with the help of her favorite puppet.
At home, May loves to play pretend with her puppets, leadi- Author: Piphus, Megan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 0593857593
- Language: English
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At the Vanguard: Making and Saving History at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
$16.95 Add to cartThe first volume in a major new series offering a compelling glimpse into the transformative and revolutionary world of HBCUs, that reveals the complex stories that their collections tell us.
This book
- Series: At the Vanguard #1
- Author: Salahu-Din, Tulani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 191727307X
- Language: English
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Paces the Cage
$18.95 Add to cartInterspersed with ambient sound, lighting and stage directions, Henry-Smith’s poems read as an improvised performance fusing the literal and metaphorical
S*an D. Henry-Smith’s second full-length book o
- Author: Henry-Smith, Sean D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 9798991298865
- Language: English
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The Making of Yolanda La Bruja
$12.99 Add to cartYolanda’s year is on fire – but it’s not the good kind.
Just as things are clicking at school and with her friends, a bad feeling rolls into the Bronx. A new white student sets Yolanda on edge, and h- Author: Avila, Lorraine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1646144481
- Language: English
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Listen to the Girls
$17.99 Add to cartWhen Calla finds out her favorite teacher has been accused of inappropriate conduct, she decides to take action in this powerful story about growing up and speaking up, about listening to others and l… [more below]
- Author: Giles, Chrystal D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 0593651715
- Language: English
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House of the Rising Sun
$26.95 Add to cartWHEN THE HOWELL FAMILY MOVES INTO A HOUSE on Heckler Lane, it causes quite a stir around the small town of Sunny Cove, Pennsylvania. Elise Howell, a well-known cardio surgeon, has returned home after
- Author: K’Wan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1636142893
- Language: English
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The Dark Maestro
$19.00 Add to cartHis cello made him famous. His father made him a target.
Curtis Wilson is a cello prodigy, growing up in the Southeast D.C. projects with a drug dealer for a father. But through determination and tale- Author: Slocumb, Brendan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0593687639
- Language: English
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Reach Up: My Beautiful Journey with James DePreist
$18.95 Add to cartGinette Depreist’s life with James DePreist was a wonderful one. One filled with excitement, rewards and love with a partner she would have never dreamed of. His life, however, was so much more. His j
- Author: Depreist, Ginette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 9798886793161
- Language: English
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Black Legacy: A History of New York’s African Americans
$18.95 Add to cartDiscover the complete Black history of New York–from 1609 to the present–by the award-winning author of Breaking the Chains and Black Indians. For readers 12 and up.
Includes a new intro and last ch- Author: Katz, William Loren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1644214393
- Language: English
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The Big Once-A-Year Broussard-Bouchard Family Reunion
$18.99 Add to cartZydeco–pure and beautiful and stomping good–takes the stage in a joyous celebration of extended family, community, and Louisiana culture.
Every year on the last Saturday in July, Broussard-Bouchard- Author: English, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1536220388
- Language: English
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Charlotte Ray: Trailblazing Lawyer
$10.99 Add to cartIn 1872, Charlotte E. Ray made history as the first Black female lawyer in the United States.
At a time when women were often denied education, jobs, and the right to vote, Charlotte defied societal
- Series: Difference Makers
- Author: Loewen, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 195922364X
- Language: English
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People of Means
$18.99 Add to cartOne of NPR’s Books We Love This Year!
“A powerful, thought-provoking saga.” —Woman’s World
“An evocative story of love and sacrifice.”–People
From the acclaimed author of The Kindest Lie, a heartrendin
- Author: Johnson, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0063157535
- Language: English
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Boy 2.0
$8.99 Add to cartAn action-packed superhero story from New York Times bestselling author Tracey Baptiste.
Win “Coal” Keegan has just landed in his latest foster home, with a big, noisy, slightly nosy family named the
- Series: Boy 2.0 #1
- Author: Baptiste, Tracey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1523530626
- Language: English
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Cash on the Block: The Broken Promise of Reinvestment in Black Urban Neighborhoods
$35.00 Add to cartAn incisive history of government and corporate failures to infuse capital into Black urban neighborhoods–as well as the organizers and activists who stood up to predatory financial practices.
In the- Author: Satter, Beryl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 067427847X
- Language: English
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Jefferson’s Wolf: A Founding Father’s Troubling Answer to the Problem of Slavery
$29.95 Add to cartA decisive reassessment of Thomas Jefferson’s long-debated views on slavery, showing that his chief antislavery strategy was racial exclusion: the removal of emancipated Black people from the United S
- Author: Dierksheide, Christa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 0674278321
- Language: English
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Our Minds Were Always Free: A History of How Black Brilliance Was Exploited–And the Fight to Retake Control
$29.00 Add to cartAn exploration of how African American innovators and artists–whose impact and financial value in American music, movies, and TV is disproportionately greater than their numbers–have fought for and … [more below]
- Author: Davis, Lisa E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1982175990
- Language: English
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A Song for Juneteenth
$18.99 Add to cartThis emotional and lyrical picture book by acclaimed poet Zetta Elliott celebrates the importance of Juneteenth as well as the resilience of Black families and the power of community- featuring stunni… [more below]
- Author: Elliott, Zetta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 0316575135
- Language: English
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Honeybird Blue
$19.99 Add to cartA cheeky and colorful debut picture book about a father-daughter birding adventure–illustrated by Coretta Scott King Honoree Raissa Figueroa.
Can you spot two early birds EARbirding on a father-daug- Author: English, Taunya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 0063321955
- Language: English
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On Witness and Respair: Essays
$29.00 Add to cartThe collected creative nonfiction of a singular American writer, Jesmyn Ward, including widely shared classics, three never-before-published speeches, and an introductory essay.
Respair (noun, obsolet- Author: Ward, Jesmyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 166806426X
- Language: English
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Death of the Soccer God
$27.00 Add to cartA global soccer star’s epic ride to the 1950 World Cup places him in shooting distance of his dreams and his own death.
Gilbert Chevalier’s life is a mid-century miracle: wealthy, handsome, beloved by- Author: Léger, Dimitry Elias
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 0374619883
- Language: English
