One World
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Matriarch: A Memoir
$35.00 Add to cartA revealing personal life story like no other–enlightening, entertaining, surprising, empowering–and a testament to the world-making power of Black motherhood
“You are Celestine,” she said. She squa- Author: Knowles, Tina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0593597400
- Language: English
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Dances
$18.00 Add to cartA ballerina at the height of her powers becomes consumed with finding her missing brother in this “striking debut” (Oprah Daily).
“A compelling novel about the spiritual and bodily costs of the dogged- Author: Cuffy, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0593498178
- Language: English
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The Message
$30.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell–and the ones we don’t–shape our realities.
Ta-Neh- Author: Coates, Ta-Nehisi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0593230388
- Language: English
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How to Write about Africa: Collected Works
$20.00 Read moreFrom one of Africa’s most influential and eloquent essayists, a posthumous collection that highlights his biting satire and subversive wisdom on topics from travel to cultural identity to sexuality
“A- Author: Wainaina, Binyavanga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 081298966X
- Language: English
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My Broken Language: A Memoir
$20.00 Read moreGOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK – The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and co-writer of In the Heights tells her lyrical story of coming of age against the backdrop of an ailing Philadelphia barrio, w… [more below]
- Author: Hudes, Quiara Alegría
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0399590064
- Language: English
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New Waves
$20.00 Add to cartA wry and poignant debut novel about a man’s search for true connection that is “both knowing and cutting, a satire of internet culture that is also a moving portrait of a lost human being” (Los Angel… [more below]
- Author: Nguyen, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1984855255
- Language: English
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Latitudes of Longing
$18.00 Read moreA sweeping, lyrical debut about the love and longing between humanity and the earth itself, by a major new literary talent from India
“A marvel of magical realism.”–O: The Oprah Magazine
A spellbindi- Author: Swarup, Shubhangi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0593132564
- Language: English
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Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire
$18.00 Add to cartThe grandson of slaves, born into poverty in 1892 in the Deep South, A. G. Gaston died more than a century later with a fortune worth well over $130 million and a business empire spanning communicatio… [more below]
- Author: Jenkins, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 25 2005
- ISBN10: 0345453484
- Language: English
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Pym
$17.00 Read more“THE SHARPEST AND MOST UNUSUAL STORY I READ LAST YEAR . . . Mat] Johnson’s satirical vision roves as freely as Kurt Vonnegut’s and is colored with the same sort of passionate humanitarianism.”–Maud … [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Mat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 0812981766
- Language: English
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Ghost Forest
$18.00 Read moreThis “powerful” (BuzzFeed) award-winning debut about love, grief, and family welcomes you into its pages and invites you to linger, staying with you long after you’ve closed its covers.
“Quietly movin- Author: Fung, Pik-Shuen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0593230981
- Language: English
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Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
$20.00 Read moreThe mother of Emmett Till recounts the story of her life, her son’s tragic death, and the dawn of the civil rights movement–with a foreword by the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
In August 1955, a fo- Author: Till-Mobley, Mamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 28 2004
- ISBN10: 0812970470
- Language: English
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Just Mercy (Movie Tie-In Edition): A Story of Justice and Redemption
$20.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX – A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our br… [more below]
- Author: Stevenson, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0593133935
- Language: English
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A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
$18.00 Add to cartA glittering landscape of twenty-five speculative stories that challenge oppression and envision new futures for America–from N. K. Jemisin, Charles Yu, Jamie Ford, G. Willow Wilson, Charlie Jane And… [more below]
- Author: Lavalle, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0525508805
- Language: English
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Finna: Poems
$17.00 Read moreSharp, lyrical poems celebrating the Black vernacular–its influence on pop culture, its necessity for familial survival, its rite in storytelling and in creating the safety found only within its inti… [more below]
- Author: Marshall, Nate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0593132459
- Language: English
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Dog Flowers: A Memoir, an Archive
$17.00 Read moreA daughter returns home to the Navajo reservation to retrace her mother’s life in a memoir that is both a narrative and an archive of one family’s troubled history.
“A candid and achingly fractured me- Author: Geller, Danielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1984820419
- Language: English
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We Cast a Shadow
$18.00 Add to cart“An incisive and necessary” (Roxane Gay) debut for fans of Get Out and Paul Beatty’s The Sellout, about a father’s obsessive quest to protect his son–even if it means turning him white
“Stunning and- Author: Ruffin, Maurice Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0525509070
- Language: English
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When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era
$22.00 Add to cartLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD – A “vivid and frank” (NPR) account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate the … [more below]
- Author: Ramsey, Donovan X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0525511814
- Language: English
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Into the Uncut Grass
$26.00 Add to cartA story for all ages from the author of the #1 bestselling Born a Crime
“What will we find in the uncut grass?”
“It depends on what we’re looking for.”
In the tradition of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox an- Author: Noah, Trevor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 059372996X
- Language: English
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A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
$22.00 Add to cart“A searing and emotionally gripping account of a young black girl growing up to become a strong black woman during the most difficult time of racial segregation.”–Professor Charles Ogletree, Harvard … [more below]
- Author: Lanier, Carlotta Walls
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0345511018
- Language: English
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Dream of the Divided Field: Poems
$16.00 Read moreFrom an award-winning poet comes a collection on heartbreak and transitions, written with a piercing lyric ferocity.
FINALIST FOR THE NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY – “Written with great tenderness… [more below]- Author: Yanyi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 059323099X
- Language: English
