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Adonis: Selected Poems
$20.00 Read moreThe first major career-spanning collection of the poems of Adonis, widely acknowledged as the most important poet working in Arabic today
“Poetry for [Adonis] is not merely a genre or an art form but- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Adonis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0300181256
- Language: English
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Breakup: A Marriage in Wartime
$26.00 Read moreAward-winning journalist Anjan Sundaram, hailed as “the Indian successor to Kapuscinski” (Basharat Peer) and praised for “remarkable” (Jon Stewart), “excellent” (Fareed Zakaria), and “courageous and h… [more below]
- Author: Sundaram, Anjan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 164622115X
- Language: English
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Akata Woman
$18.99 Add to cartAkata Woman is the New York Times bestselling third book in the series that started with Akata Witch, named one of Time magazine’s “100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time” and “100 Best YA Books of All Ti… [more below]
- Series: The Nsibidi Scripts
- Author: Okorafor, Nnedi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0451480589
- Language: English
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Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History
$46.67 Add to cartWinner, James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference, History, and Scholarship
A stunning work of popular history–the story of how a crop transformed the history of sla
Winner, Harriet Tubman Prize- Author: Lewis, Jori
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1620971569
- Language: English
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The Language of Languages
$19.00 Read moreWith clear, conversational prose, this is the first book dedicated entirely to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s writings on translation.
Through his many critically acclaimed novels, stories, essays, pl- Series: Africa List
- Author: Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: February 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1803090715
- Language: English
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Maya and the Lord of Shadows
$16.99 Read moreIn the thrilling third and final book in the acclaimed Maya and the Rising Dark trilogy that Kirkus calls “truly #BlackGirlMagic,” Maya must face off with the Lord of Shadows to save the human world f
- Series: Maya and the Rising Dark #3
- Author: Barron, Rena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0358106338
- Language: English
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The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion
$17.00 Read moreA stunning new collection of essays from the award-winning author of Happiness, The Window Seat explores border crossings both literal and philosophical, our relationship with the natural world, and t
- Author: Forna, Aminatta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0802159869
- Language: English
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Sweet Salone: Recipes from the Heart of Sierra Leone
$42.00 Read moreAs a small country on the west coast of Africa, throughout its history Sierra Leone has always embraced diversity – and this willingness to discover and grow has shaped Sierra Leone’s rich food cultur… [more below]
- Author: Bradford, Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1787137961
- Language: English
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Anansi and the Golden Pot
$16.99 Read moreA West African story about the much-loved trickster, Anansi, retold and reimagined for a new generation by award-winning author Taiye Selasi
“Allow me to introduce myself.”
But he needed no introductio- Author: Selasi, Taiye
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0744049903
- Language: English
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The Train Driver and Other Plays
$19.95 Add to cart“For me [The Train Driver] is the biggest of them all. Everything I have written before has been a journey to this.”–Athol Fugard
“A dramatic, moving theater experience written for South Africa. . . .
- Author: Fugard, Athol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 09 2012
- ISBN10: 155936386X
- Language: English
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Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020
$35.00 Read moreWINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY
I’m a song, changing. I’m a ligh
A new collection of poems from one of America’s most essential, celebrated, and enduring poets, Carl Phillips’s Then the War- Author: Phillips, Carl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0374603766
- Language: English
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Exiles of Eden
$16.95 Add to cartExiles of Eden looks at the origin story of Adam, Eve, and their exile from the Garden of Eden, exploring displacement and alienation from its mythological origins to the present. In this formally exp… [more below]
- Author: Osman, Ladan Ali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1566895448
- Language: English
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In the Presence of Absence
$19.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2012 National Translation Award
“What Sinan [Antoon] has done with In the Presence of Absence is a kind of miraculous work of dedication and love. Reading this volume is sheer enjoymen… [more below]- Author: Darwish, Mahmoud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 29 2011
- ISBN10: 1935744011
- Language: English
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2000 Blacks: Poems
$18.00 Add to cart2000 Blacks probes the complexity of economic and politically motivated migration from Africa, which has been referred to as “African Brain Drain.” In the first sequence of poems, Ajibola Tolase explo… [more below]
- Series: Pitt Poetry
- Author: Tolase, Ajibola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0822967308
- Language: English
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The Butterfly’s Burden
$23.00 Add to cart“Mahmoud Darwish is the Essential Breath of the Palestinian people, the eloquent witness of exile and belonging, exquisitely tuned singer of images that invoke, link, and shine a brilliant light into
- Author: Darwish, Mahmoud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1556592418
- Language: English
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Rick Riordan Presents Tristan Strong Destroys the World (a Tristan Strong Novel, Book 2)
$17.99 Add to cartBestselling author Rick Riordan presents the second book in the New York Times best-selling and award-winning Tristan Strong trilogy by Kwame Mbalia.
“Mbalia’s universe continues to excite through she- Series: Tristan Strong #2
- Author: Mbalia, Kwame
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1368042384
- Language: English
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The Contemporary African Kitchen: Home Cooking Recipes from the Leading Chefs of Africa
$49.95 Add to cartExperience Africa’s vibrant food culture with 120 recipes from the continent’s most exciting culinary voices
Meet the culinarians who are setting the new African table. James Beard Award-winning auth
- Author: Smalls, Alexander
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1838668454
- Language: English
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Almond Blossoms and Beyond
$20.00 Add to cartThe first English translation of recent poetry by the late Mahmoud Darwish, the most important Palestinian contemporary poet.
Almond Blossoms and Beyond is one of the last collections of poetry that- Author: Darwish, Mahmoud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 95
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1623716764
- Language: English
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The Hyena and the Fox: A Somali Graphic Folktale
$7.99 Add to cartWhen a fox keeps eating a farmer’s animals, he and his wife come up with a plan to get rid of him. But the clever fox has other ideas. With engaging text and easy-to-follow panels, Discover Graphics: … [more below]
- Series: Discover Graphics: Global Folktales
- Author: Mohamed, Mariam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1484672615
- Language: English
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Anansi and the Magic Stick
$8.99 Add to cartWhen the other animals laugh at his messy house, Anansi the Spider is embarrassed. He wants to fix the problem . . . as long as he doesn’t have to work too hard.
Stomping off in a huff, Anansi stumb- Series: Anansi the Trickster #4
- Author: Kimmel, Eric A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0823417638
- Language: English
