African American & Black
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A Life for a Life: Poor Choices and Unresolved Trauma Is Killing America
$19.99 Add to cartOne man has committed murder while another man tries to heal his trauma.
A gripping true story exploring violence, mental health, and trauma, A Life for a Life follows Kevin Shird and Damion Neal who- Author: Shird, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888458440
- Language: English
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Cry Revenge
$17.95 Add to cartWhen a young Black man sees his brother’s dreams shattered, he takes to the streets to start a war. Even if that’s exactly what “the system” expects in this bold action-packed urban thriller from Dona… [more below]
- Author: Goines, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1496750020
- Language: English
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Friends and Lovers
$25.67 Read moreHailed as one of “the most successful Black authors of the last quarter-century” (The New York Times), Eric Jerome Dickey captures the humor and heartache of modern love in this sexy, soulful tale.
A- Author: Dickey, Eric Jerome
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 08 2000
- ISBN10: 0451201027
- Language: English
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A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre
$32.00 Add to cartThe first biography of the revolutionary political prisoner who laid the foundation for contemporary abolitionist struggles and Black anarchism.
A Continuous Struggle is a political biography of one of
- Author: Felber, Garrett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1849355908
- Language: English
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Born to Die
$18.95 Add to cartA group of friends navigates the trenches of Detroit, doing anything it takes to get ahead.
It’s anything but “business as usual” when growing up on the unforgiving streets of Highland Park. In a smal- Author: Sykes, Dorian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1645567230
- Language: English
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Stackin’ Paper Part 8: No Way Out
$17.99 Add to cartGenesis finds himself trapped in a treacherous game of revenge as his enemy, Maverick McClay, targets him and his loved ones. After Amir, Aaliyah and Angel are kidnapped, it seems Maverick has the upp… [more below]
- Author: King, Joy Deja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: December 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0975581120
- Language: English
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Camino Ghosts
$18.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Escape to Camino Island, where bookseller Bruce Cable and novelist Mercer Mann always manage to find trouble in paradise.
Don’t miss John Grisham’s upcoming Framed, his … [more below]- Series: Camino
- Author: Grisham, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 059315780X
- Language: English
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Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night: Poems
$16.95 Read moreOther People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night–the book that launched the career of one of our most important young American poets–is back in print.
The debut collection from award-winning poet Morgan
- Author: Parker, Morgan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 195114256X
- Language: English
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Collected Poems
$19.95 Add to cartWinner Gish Prize for Lifetime Achievement
A representative collection of the life work of the much-honored poet and a founder of the Black Arts movement, spanning the 4 decades of her literary career- Author: Sanchez, Sonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0807007358
- Language: English
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Dirty Money: 20th Anniversary Edition
$17.95 Add to cartTwenty years after Ashley and JaQuavis made their fiction debut with Dirty Money, Urban Books is proud to introduce this classic from the New York Times bestselling duo to a new generation of urban fi… [more below]
- Author: Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1645565440
- Language: English
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The Cartel Deluxe Edition, Part 2: Books 4 and 5
$17.95 Add to cartThe Cartel series by street lit superstars Ashley & JaQuavis has been a consistent New York Times bestseller, full of their trademark fast-paced drama, deceit, and plot twists that leave readers shock… [more below]
- Author: Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1601620896
- Language: English
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Who Better Than You?: The Art of Healthy Arrogance & Dreaming Big
$28.00 Add to cartTrailblazing filmmaker and powerhouse CEO Will Packer presents powerful and illuminating stories from the front lines of Hollywood to offer a clear vision on how to manifest your own success–by belie… [more below]
- Author: Packer, Will
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 593582160
- Language: English
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Hood Defined Love
$8.99 Read moreRaevyn Renee’s debut novel explores the idea that love can blossom even among the most difficult of circumstances in the hood.
Riley has been doing her best to raise her cousin Mikayla, even allowing- Author: Renee, Raevyn
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1645566412
- Language: English
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The Souls of Black Folk
$5.95 Add to cart“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.” Thus speaks W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls Of Black Folk, one of the most prophetic and influental works in American literature. I… [more below]
- Series: Bantam Classics #0000
- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0553213369
- Language: English
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Thief in the Interior
$15.95 Add to cartRecipient of a 2017 Whiting Award for Poetry
2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Winner
Nominated for the 2017 NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry
2016 INDIES Book of the Year Award… [more below]- Author: Williams, Phillip B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: January 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1938584171
- Language: English
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Coke Like The 80’s
$17.99 Add to cartMalik Toole rose to the top of the drug game in the 80’s selling cocaine when the crack cocaine epidemic hit. He took everything he learned from being born and raised in the streets to become a millio… [more below]
- Author: King, Joy Deja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1958834327
- Language: English
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Wild Hundreds
$20.00 Add to cartWinner, 2017 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award (poetry category)
Winner, 2016 BCALA Literary Award (poetry category)
Winner of the 2014 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
Finalist, 2… [more below]- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Marshall, Nate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 09 2015
- ISBN10: 0822963833
- Language: English
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Letters to the Sons of Society: A Father’s Invitation to Love, Honesty, and Freedom
$18.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of Writing My Wrongs invites men everywhere on a journey of honesty and healing through this book of moving letters to his sons–one whom he is raising and the ot… [more below]
- Author: Senghor, Shaka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0593238036
- Language: English
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Black Holocaust: The Paris Horror and a Legacy of Texas Terror
$19.95 Add to cartFrom 1891 to 1922, Texans burned an average of one person of color at the stake a year for three decades. These burnings typically featured carnival atmospheres with thousands in attendance, including… [more below]
- Author: Bills, E. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: August 24 2015
- ISBN10: 1681790173
- Language: English
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Said I Wasn’t Gonna Tell Nobody: The Making of a Black Theologian
$26.00 Add to cartJames Cone is widely regarded as the “father of Black Theology”–his own synthesis of Gospel message embodied by Martin Luther King, Jr., and the black pride of Malcolm X. Next year marks the 50th ann
- Author: Cone, James H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1626983771
- Language: English
