Ethnic Orientation/African American
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Princess and the Peas
$8.99 Read moreA reimagining of the classic “The Princess and the Pea” set in an African American community in the South in the 1950s. Now in paperback!
In this adaptation of “The Princess and the Pea,” there are no- Author: Himes, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1623543789
- Language: English
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This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story
$17.99 Read moreLambda Literary Award finalist for the best LGBT YA novel of 2018
A fresh, charming rom-com perfect for fans of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and Boy Meets Boy about Nathan Bird, who has sworn of
- Author: Callender, Kacen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0062820222
- Language: English
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Statesman of the Piano: Jazz, Race, and History in the Life of Lou Hooper Volume 266
$47.43 Read moreOntario-born jazz pianist Lou Hooper (1894-1977) began his professional career in Detroit, accompanying blues singers such as Ma Rainey at the legendary Koppin Theatre. In 1921 he moved to Harlem, per… [more below]
- Series: Carleton Library
- Author: Mills, Sean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0228018803
- Language: English
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The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence
$34.50 Read moreTorture is an open secret in Chicago. Nobody in power wants to acknowledge this grim reality, but everyone knows it happens–and that the torturers are the police. Three to five new claims are submitt… [more below]
- Author: Ralph, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 09 2020
- ISBN10: 022665009X
- Language: English
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Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
$18.00 Add to cartFrom an acclaimed playwright comes “an American masterpiece” (Newsweek) about the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
Twilight is a stunning work of “documentary theater” that explores the devastating human impac… [more below]- Author: Smith, Anna Deavere
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 15 1994
- ISBN10: 0385473761
- Language: English
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Night at the Fair
$19.99 Read moreIt’s time The gates are open, the rides are spinning-come to the fair Nighttime at the fair is magic with Caldecott Honor-winning author-artist Donald Crews. The sky goes dark and the colored lights… [more below]
- Author: Crews, Donald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 14 1998
- ISBN10: 0688114830
- Language: English
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The Orchestra of Wind Chimes
$23.32 Read moreThought-provoking poems that challenge preconceptions of form and style while focusing on themes of everyday experience, class, politics, literature, and more.
- Author: Jacques, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0814350380
- Language: English
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Everett Anderson’s Goodbye
$10.99 Add to cartEverett Anderson’s Goodbye is a touching portrait of a little boy who is trying to come to grips with his father’s death. Lucille Clifton captures Everett’s conflicting emotions as he confronts this p
- Series: Everett Anderson #4
- Author: Clifton, Lucille
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: July 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0805008004
- Language: English
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An Apple for Harriet Tubman
$9.99 Add to cartBest Children’s Books of the Year, Bank Street College
One day I am going to be free–and I’m going to have all the apples I want.
Like other enslaved African American children, young Harriet Tubman had
- Author: Turner, Glennette Tilley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0807503967
- Language: English
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Fort Mose: And the Story of the Man Who Built the First Free Black Settlement in Colonial America
$18.95 Read moreGlennette Tilley Turner presents thestory of Fort Mose in the only picture book for children about the first free Black community in America.
In 1724, Francisco Menendez escaped from a plantation in- Author: Turner, Glennette Tilley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0810940566
- Language: English
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Overground Railroad
$18.99 Read moreA window into a child’s experience of the Great Migration from the award-winning creators of Before She Was Harriet and Finding Langston.
Climbing aboard the New York bound Silver Meteor train, Ruth E- Author: Cline-Ransome, Lesa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0823438732
- Language: English
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Black America: Historic Moments, Key Figures & Cultural Milestones from the African-American Story
$19.99 Read moreFrom slavery through the election of Vice President Kamala Harris, here is the history of Black America told through striking photographs and compelling narrative that captures many of the key joys, s
- Series: Visual History
- Author: Andrews, Kehinde
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1497103975
- Language: English
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Moving to Neptune: New & Selected
$22.00 Read moreBraggs confronts us with a combination of hard realism and musical lyricism, painting unforgettable images in unforgettable language. This is American poetry at its finest: as spacious as Walt Whitman
- Author: Braggs, Earl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: August 10 2023
- ISBN10: 193469567X
- Language: English
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The Crossover
$20.00 Add to cartSeries streaming now on Disney+, with executive producers including NBA great LeBron James!
Kwame Alexander’s New York Times bestseller and Newbery Medal-winning The Crossover is vividly brought to lif
- Series: Crossover
- Author: Alexander, Kwame
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 10 2024
- ISBN10: 9798885794329
- Language: English
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Ed Clark: The Big Sweep: Chronicles of a Life, 1926-2019
$60.00 Read moreA visual biography of the influential American abstractionist and pioneer of the shaped canvas, with interviews, ephemera and historical documents
From his pioneering use of painting tools such as push
- Author: Clark, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 3906915778
- Language: English
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My Name Is Henry Bibb: A Story of Slavery and Freedom
$9.99 Read moreOften shocking, always compelling, Afua Cooper’s novel is based on the life of Henry Bibb, an American slave who after repeated attempts escaped in 1841 to become an anti-slavery speaker, author and
- Author: Cooper, Afua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1525310852
- Language: English
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Peeny Butter Fudge
$19.99 Add to cartSnuggle, snuggle.
There is no one like Nana in the whole wide world. She is the best. Nana knows how to take an ordinary afternoon and make it extra special
Time to rest.
Nana joins us in her nest.- Author: Morrison, Toni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 15 2009
- ISBN10: 1416983325
- Language: English
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Buzz Beaker and the Cave Creatures
$7.99 Read moreBuzz and his dad head to a cave to test a new invention. As they explore the cave, they see crystals, snakes, and bats. Then Buzz spots something really special Maybe Buzz’s latest invention has led … [more below]
- Series: Stone Arch Readers – Level 3 (Quality))
- Author: Meister, Cari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: July 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1434227979
- Language: English
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Buzz Beaker and the Race to School
$7.99 Read moreBuzz Beaker keeps oversleeping. He misses the school bus. He wears his pajamas to school. He knows he can’t be late again, so he finds a way to win the race to school
- Series: Stone Arch Readers – Level 3 (Quality))
- Author: Meister, Cari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1434230570
- Language: English
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Sail Away
$19.99 Read moreA celebration of mermaids, wildernesses of waves, and the creatures of the deep through poems by Langston Hughes and cut-paper collage illustrations by multiple Coretta Scott King Award winner Ashley … [more below]
- Author: Hughes, Langston
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1481430858
- Language: English
