Demographic Orientation/Urban
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Party Music: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers’ Band and How Black Power Transformed Soul Music
$19.95 Add to cartConnecting the black music tradition with the black activist tradition, Party Music brings both into greater focus than ever before and reveals just how strongly the black power movement was felt on t… [more below]
- Author: Vincent, Rickey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1613744927
- Language: English
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Before Morning
$19.99 Read moreThere are planes to fly and buses to catch, but a child uses the power of words, in the form of an invocation, to persuade fate to bring her family a snow day — a day slow and unhurried enough to spe… [more below]
- Author: Sidman, Joyce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0547979177
- Language: English
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Meet Cute
$16.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling author of Pucked and The Good Luck Charm delivers a Hollywood happily-ever-after where a famous heartthrob falls for his ultimate fangirl.
“As charming as its title, but… [more below]- Author: Hunting, Helena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1538760185
- Language: English
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Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance
$18.00 Add to cartFull of nature and wonder, love and adventure, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance is a beautifully written novel that “bristles with charm and curiosity” (Winston Groom, New York Times bestselling a
- Author: Lang, Ruth Emmie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1250306663
- Language: English
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Dartmouth Park
$18.99 Read moreIn this timely and explosive novel, an academic’s seemingly mundane midlife crisis takes an alarming turn after his visit to a Greek monastery.
It’s February 2019. Philip Notman, an acclaimed historia- Author: Thomson, Rupert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1635421675
- Language: English
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The City Is Up for Grabs: How Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Led and Lost a City in Crisis
$28.99 Add to cart“Gregory Pratt had a rare front-row seat to the passions, problems, peculiarities, hopes, disappointments, shenanigans, and pettiness in the drama and farce that was Lori Lightfoot’s uneasy tenure on
- Author: Pratt, Gregory Royal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1641605995
- Language: English
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The Art of Urban Sketching: Drawing on Location Around the World
$27.99 Add to cartThe Art of Urban Sketching is both a comprehensive guide and a showcase of location drawings by artists around the world who draw the cities where they live and travel.
Authored by the founder of the- Author: Campanario, Gabriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1592537251
- Language: English
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That Reminds Me
$16.95 Read moreThis is the story of K. If you
believe your life to be as fictitious as K’s, if you find yourself within the
pages of this book, then you are holding the pen and not me. Attachments
are broken at bi- Author: Owusu, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1913505553
- Language: English
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Black Girl Lost
$8.99 Read more“The voice of the ghetto itself.” —The Village Voice
Shocking, thrilling, and absolutely unforgettable–Donald Goines returns with another classic urban tale about one woman who is living life withou… [more below]- Author: Goines, Donald
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0870679856
- Language: English
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Tainted Too
$17.95 Add to cartTainted Too is the second installment in a three-part series full of juicy drama, lust, and revenge.
Monica Deitrich is back in this thrilling, pulse-pounding novel. As an FBI profiler, Monica never a- Author: Topp, Blacc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1645565653
- Language: English
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While We Were Dreaming
$20.00 Read moreRico, Mark, Paul and Daniel were 13 when the Berlin Wall fell in autumn 1989. Growing up in Leipzig at the time of reunification, they dream of a better life somewhere beyond the brewery quarter. Ever
- Author: Meyer, Clemens
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1804270288
- Language: English
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Deceitful Vows
$16.95 Add to cartA wife has had enough of her husband’s cheating ways, but he isn’t willing to let her go without a fight.
Paula Smith Harris has learned that the man she thought was her true love isn’t exactly who he- Author: Dekane, Trinity
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1645564223
- Language: English
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Bone in the Throat
$17.99 Read moreThe acclaimed first novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential and host of Parts Unknown on CNN. A wildly funny, irreverent tale of murder, mayhem, and the mob.
When up-and- Author: Bourdain, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 18 2000
- ISBN10: 1582341028
- Language: English
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A Raisin in the Sun
$20.00 Add to cart“Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people’s lives been seen on the stage,” observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Hansberry, Lorraine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 22 1995
- ISBN10: 679601724
- Language: English
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Peace in the Hood: Working with Gang Members to End the Violence
$23.99 Add to cartPeace In the Hood evokes the reality of gangland warfare but also acknowledges the possibility of peace. Written by Basheer, a pioneer of the interventionist movement, it documents the lessons he lear… [more below]
- Author: Basheer, Aquil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 15 2014
- ISBN10: 089793704X
- Language: English
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Who Needs Gay Bars?: Bar-Hopping Through America’s Endangered LGBTQ+ Places
$30.00 Read moreGay bars have been closing by the hundreds. The story goes that increasing mainstream acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, plus dating apps like Grindr and Tinder, have rendered these spaces obsolete. Beyond
- Author: Mattson, Greggor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1503629201
- Language: English
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Rascal Does Not Dream of Logical Witch (Light Novel): Volume 3
$16.00 Add to cartJust before summer break, Sakuta encounters Shouko Makinohara, a girl in junior high with the same name and face as his first love. Of course, that should be impossible, since she would be in college … [more below]
- Series: Rascal Does Not Dream (Light Novel #3
- Author: Kamoshida, Hajime
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1975312562
- Language: English
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Bodega Dreams
$17.00 Add to cartIn this “thriller with literary merit” (Time Out New York), a stunning narrative combines the gritty rhythms of Junot Diaz with the noir genius of Walter Mosley.
Bodega Dreams pulls us into Spanish H- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Quiñonez, Ernesto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 14 2000
- ISBN10: 375705899
- Language: English
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Soil and Spirit: Cultivation and Kinship in the Web of Life
$26.00 Read moreAs a farmer with decades spent working in fields, Scott Chaskey has been shaped by daily attention to the earth. A leader in the international Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement, he has co… [more below]
- Author: Chaskey, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1571311971
- Language: English
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A Gathering of Crones
$18.99 Add to cartShe’s running out of time. And so is the world.
After learning on her sixtieth birthday that she’s one of five Crones destined to save the world, Claire Emerson has been desperately trying to acquire t
- Series: The Crone Wars #2
- Author: Hawke, Lydia M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1989457096
- Language: English
