Amistad Press
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Chasing Space: An Astronaut’s Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances
$16.99 Add to cartIn this revelatory and moving memoir, a former NASA astronaut and NFL wide receiver shares his personal journey from the gridiron to the stars, examining the intersecting roles of community, persevera
- Author: Melvin, Leland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 22 2018
- ISBN10: 0062496735
- Language: English
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Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen: The Emotional Lives of Black Women
$17.99 Add to cartBlack women are beautiful, intelligent and capable –but mostly they embrace strong. Esteemed clinical psychologist, Dr. Inger Burnett-Zeigler, praises the strength of women, while exploring how traum
- Author: Burnett-Zeigler, Inger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0062959832
- Language: English
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Sweat the Technique: Revelations on Creativity from the Lyrical Genius
$16.99 Add to cartOn the heels of Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Prize, as the world begins to recognize the creative side of Hip-Hop, comes a writing guide from a musician and “The greatest MC of all time,” Rakim.
The music
- Author: Rakim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0062850245
- Language: English
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After the Dance: My Life with Marvin Gaye
$15.99 Read moreA riveting cautionary tale about the ecstasy and dangers of loving Marvin Gaye, a performer passionately pursued by all–and a searing memoir of drugs, sex, and old school R&B from the wife of legenda
- Author: Gaye, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 006213552X
- Language: English
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Of Blood and Sweat: Black Lives and the Making of White Power and Wealth
$18.99 Add to cart“Ford’s overlap of past and present, narrative and commentary is masterful, and makes this volume all the more valuable to those readers wise enough to allow the past to inform the future. Of Blood an
- Author: Ford, Clyde W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0063038528
- Language: English
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Own the Arena: Getting Ahead, Making a Difference, and Succeeding as the Only One
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the former President and CEO of the United States Tennis Association–the first black woman and youngest person ever to hold the position–comes a behind-the-scenes look at the leadership skills
- Author: Adams, Katrina M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0062936840
- Language: English
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The Known World
$26.99 Add to cartFrom National Book Award-nominated author Edward P. Jones comes a debut novel of stunning emotional depth and unequaled literary power
Henry Townsend, a farmer, boot maker, and former slave, through t
- Author: Jones, Edward P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 14 2003
- ISBN10: 0060557540
- Language: English
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The Essential Dick Gregory
$27.99 Read moreA soulful, generation-defining collection of thought-provoking, agitating, and liberating works from Dick Gregory, the activist and author of sixteen books, including the classic bestseller Nigger: An
- Author: Gregory, Dick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0062879200
- Language: English
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The Third Life of Grange Copeland
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times best-selling author of The Color Purple: a “moving, tender” novel of a Deep South tenant farmer’s quest for a new life (Publishers Weekly).
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Walker, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0156028360
- Language: English
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Jonah’s Gourd Vine
$15.99 Add to cartA story of love and community, written by the hand of Zora Neale Hurston, one of the 20th century’s greatest authors, and a woman who truly understands her characters’ motivations. This modern classic
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 08 2008
- ISBN10: 0061350192
- Language: English
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Things Past Telling
$17.99 Add to cart“This is a truly character-driven novel that explores how people define themselves, the creation of family and home, and the importance of memory and language. . . . Fans of historical epics won’t be
- Author: Williams, Sheila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0063097087
- Language: English
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Our Gen
$26.99 Read more“Our Gen is warm and smart, accessible yet meaningful, a beach read with strong writing and emotional heft.”–BookPage
Residents of an active-living retirement community revert to lives of youthful ind
- Author: McKinney-Whetstone, Diane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 05, 2022
- ISBN10: 006314011X
- Language: English
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Someone Birthed Them Broken: Stories
$26.99 Read more“Delightfully assertive, subversive and vibrant… an original voice.” –Imbolo Mbue, author of the New York Times bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction winner Behold the Dreamers – “A compel
- Author: Diaka, Ama Asantewa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 02, 2024
- ISBN10: 0063259559
- Language: English
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Wade in the Water
$17.99 Add to cart“An impressive debut. Emotionally honest with lyricism and charm to spare, Nyani Nkrumah’s Wade in the Water depicts in riveting detail a racially charged Mississippi town, the secrets it holds, and t
- Author: Nkrumah, Nyani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0063226626
- Language: English
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Lakewood
$17.99 Add to cartNPR Book of the Year 2020
Electric Literature: One of 55 Books by Women and Nonbinary Writers of Color to Read in 2020 Lit Hub & The Millions: Most Anticipated Books of 2020 Ms. Magazine: Anticipated
- Author: Giddings, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 62913204
- Language: English
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The Cutting Season
$17.99 Add to cartFrom Attica Locke, a writer and producer of FOX s Empire:
The Cutting Seasonis a rare murder mystery with heft, a historical novel that thrills, a page-turner that makes you think. Attica Locke is a
- Author: Locke, Attica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 17 2013
- ISBN10: 0061802069
- Language: English
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The Last Suspicious Holdout: Stories
$17.99 Add to cart“Fiercely intelligent, warm in their own way, and absolutely absorbing. . . . Excellent excellent excellent.”–Roxane Gay
“Ladee Hubbard is a true original, and this book is a unique beauty.”–Mary Gai
- Author: Hubbard, Ladee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0062979108
- Language: English
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Wench
$18.99 Add to cartWench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez is startling and original fiction that raises provocative questions of power and freedom, love and dependence. An enchanting and unforgettable novel based on little-known
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Perkins-Valdez, Dolen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0061706566
- Language: English
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The Temple of My Familiar
$19.99 Add to cartIn this “brilliant” (Essence) sequel to The Color Purple, Alice Walker weaves an intricate, rich tapestry of interrelated lives.
This edition includes a new Letter to the Reader by Alice Walker.
Celie
- Author: Walker, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0547480008
- Language: English
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In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women
$18.99 Add to cartShort fiction about the female experience from the New York Times best-selling author of The Color Purple, “one of the best American writers of today” (Washington Post).
Here are stories of women trave… [more below]- Author: Walker, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0156028638
- Language: English
