#hardcover #africanamerican #familytradition #johnransome #blackhistorymonth

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Ohio

Sunday afternoons are special for Sarah and Susan because that's when they visit Aunt Flossie -- she has a memorable collection of hats, each with a special story.

Aunt Flossie's Hats (and Crab Cakes Later)

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#hardcover #africanamerican #blm #blackhistory #generationaltrauma

New York

The Louis Till File

Wideman "traces the life of the father of iconic civil rights martyr Emmett Till--a man who was executed by the Army ten years before Emmett's murder--presenting an ... exploration of individual and collective memory in America by one of the most formidable black intellectuals of our time"--Amazon.com.

Writing to Save a Life

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#hardcover #fiction #imnotdyingwithyoutonight #youngadultfiction #juvenilefiction #ya #youngadult #africanamerican #bipoc

"An absolute page turner, I'm Not Dying with You Tonight is a compelling and powerful novel that is sure to make an impact. "--Angie Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of The Hate U Give Over the course of one night, two girls with two very different backgrounds must rely on each other to get through the violent race riot that has enveloped their city. Lena has her killer style, her awesome boyfriend, and a plan. She knows she's going to make it big. Campbell, on the other hand, is just trying to keep her head down and get through the year at her new school. When both girls attend the Friday-night football game, what neither expects is for everything to descend into sudden mass chaos. Chaos born from violence and hate. Chaos that unexpectedly throws them together. They aren't friends. They hardly understand the other's point of view. But none of that matters when the city is up in flames, and they only have each other to rely on if they're going to survive the night. Additional Praise for I'm Not Dying with You Tonight: "A vital addition to the YA race relations canon."--Nic Stone, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin "An astounding achievement. This novel is an incendiary experience, one that does not shy away from difficult questions about privilege and violence. But Jones and Segal don't hold our hands to provide us easy answers; this is a book meant to be devoured in a single sitting and discussed for years to come."--Mark Oshiro, author of Anger is a Gift "I'm Not Dying With You Tonight is a powerful examination of privilege, and how friends are often found in surprising places. Jones and Segal have penned a page-turning debut, as timely as it is addictive."--David Arnold, New York Times bestselling author of Mosquitoland and Kids of Appetite

I'm Not Dying with You Tonight

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Original tales of living, loving and learning told by a perfectly ordinary, quite commonly sensible, and absolutely are inspiring colored woman. #africanamerican #shortstories #folktales #NorthCarolina #heritage #africanamericanheritage #

Maryland

Original Tales of Living, Loving, Longing and Learning, As Told by a Perfectly Ordinary, Quite Commonly Sensible and Absolutely Awe-Inspiring Colored Woman

Sometimes black history doesn't march, Sometimes black history doesn't shout, Sometimes black history just comes wearily down a dirt road, dragging a cotton sack and wearning a head rag....

Just Plain Folks

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A Game

Sophie lives with Mama and Daddy and Grandpa, who spends his days by the window. Every day after school, it's Grandpa whom Sophie runs to.

"Here I am, Grandpa!"
"Ah, Sophie, how was your day?"

As Sophie and her grandpa talk, he asks her to find items he's "lost" throughout the day, guiding Sophie on a tour through his daily life and connecting their generations in this sweet, playful picture book from Richard Jackson, illustrated by Caldecott Medalist and Laura Ingalls Wilder Award winner Jerry Pinkney.

In Plain Sight

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School library copy. Has school stamps inside on various pages. #hardcover #Christmas #africanamerican #santa #youngadult #ya 

A Novel of Christmas Present and Past

Long, long ago Santa Claus had an African partner named Pete, who helped with the holiday rounds. Together the friends brought the spirit of Christmas to America's first settlers and shaped future celebrations of the holiday. But through the years Pete's contribution was forgotten.

Now "Santa & Pete" restores the legacy in a delightful story of hope and racial harmony as a grandfather passes the tale on to his grandson during the course of a snowy bus ride.

Santa and Pete

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#hardcover #africanamerican #stories #brandnew #arc #anthology  #fiction 

North Carolina

In Send Her Back and other stories, Munashe Kaseke offers an awfully intimate, fresh telling of the immigrant experience of black women in the United States. Equally awash with the joys of exploring a new world as well as a myriad of challenges, her complicated, and often tangled, female Zimbabwean protagonists navigate issues of identity, microaggressions, and sexism in vibrant, indelible settings. Yet again, these are not only stories of navigating an at times tense US political climate, they are also marked by characters who rise to the top of their professional fields, seize the American dream, and travel the world in glee. Kaseke peels back on the inner wranglings of characters caught between two worlds, be it by stories of dating outside one's culture and race or failing to assimilate upon returning home after spending time abroad. Uncanny. Witty. Gripping. Send Her Back and other stories dazzles, leaving you newly awakened to the world we live in.

Send Her Back and Other Stories ✨️ARC✨️

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#hardcover #fiction #detective #africanamerican #truestoryinspired #mississippi 

Georgia

The Secret of Magic

#hardcover #romance #love #drama #africanamerican#blackromance

Florida

In Another Man’s Bed 

#hardcover #politics #socialjustice #mitchalbom #judge #africanamerican

Federal Judge Damon J. Keith

The Honorable Damon J. Keith was appointed to the federal bench in 1967 and has served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit since 1977, where he has been an eloquent defender of civil and constitutional rights and a vigourous enforcer of civil rights law. In Crusader for Justice: Federal Judge Damon J. Keith, author Trevor W. Coleman presents the first ever biography of native Detroiter Judge Keith, surveying his education, important influences, major cases, and professional and personal commitments. Along the way, Coleman consults a host of Keith's notable friends and colleagues, including former White House Deputy Counsel John Dean, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and industrialist Edsel Ford II for this candid and comprehensive volume.

Coleman traces Keith's early life, from his public school days in Detroit to his time serving in the segregated U.S. army and his law school years at Howard University at the dawn of the Civil Rights era. He reveals how Keith's passion for racial and social justice informed his career, as he became co-chairman of Michigan's first Civil Rights Commission and negotiated the politics of his appointment to the federal judiciary. Coleman goes on to detail Keith's most famous cases, including the Pontiac Busing and Hamtramck Housing cases, the 1977 Detroit Police affirmative action case, the so-called Keith Case (United States v. U.S. District Court), and the Detroit Free Press v. Ashcroft case in 2002. He also traces Keith's personal commitment to mentoring young black lawyers, provides a candid look behind the scenes at the dynamics and politics of the Six Circuit Court of Appeals, and even reveals some of Keith's difficult relationships (with the Detroit NAACP and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas).

Judge Keith's forty-five years on the bench offer a unique viewpoint on a tumultuous era of American and legal history. Readers interested in Civil Rights-era law, politics and personalities will appreciate the portrait of Keith's fortitude and conviction in Crusader for Justice.

Crusader for Justice

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#hardcover  #love #romance #africanamerican #novel #drama

From the author whose first novel was crowned as an impressive debut' by none other than Eric Jerome Dickey, comes a sizzling sequel to his Blackboard best-seller A Man Most Worthy. Reunited in a lively and poignant new story, the much beloved Moore clan are back again - Myles and Marisa are celebrating their recent marriage, while Kenya and Amir have their hands full with a difficult seven-year-old. Jasmine, Myles and Amir's teenage cousin, is rocking the family boat. ..until a stunning and explosive secret comes to light from the older generation of the family...'

A Family Affair 

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Idaho

The new novel in Kimberla Lawson Roby's beloved New York Times bestselling Curtis Black series.

"Roby's latest sizzles with scandal. A deliciously decadent beach read of temptation and the wages of sin." -- Kirkus Reviews

Raven Black is bouncing back after her very public divorce from Dillon. He's done everything he can to discredit her, but she's learned from her mistakes and him. In fact, she's become her ex-husband in more ways than one and is slowly but surely leading those connected to her down a terrible path of destruction. Playing with the lives of innocent people has dire consequences, the kind that Raven won't see coming.

Sin of a Woman

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#hardcover #drama #romance #africanamerican #novel #tiktok

Thug Lovin

#fiction #africanamericanwomen #zinziclemmons #africanamerican #comingofage #loss #love #hardcover 

Pennsylvania

a novel

What we lose

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#hardcover #fiction #historicalfiction #africanamerican #youngadult 

Iowa

Four young Black sisters come of age during the American Civil War in So Many Beginnings, a warm and powerful YA remix of the classic novel Little Women, by national bestselling author Bethany C. Morrow. North Carolina, 1863. As the American Civil War rages on, the Freedpeople's Colony of Roanoke Island is blossoming, a haven for the recently emancipated. Black people have begun building a community of their own, a refuge from the shadow of the "old life." It is where the March family has finally been able to safely put down roots with four young daughters: Meg, a teacher who longs to find love and start a family of her own. Jo, a writer whose words are too powerful to be contained. Beth, a talented seamstress searching for a higher purpose. Amy, a dancer eager to explore life outside her family's home. As the four March sisters come into their own as independent young women, they will face first love, health struggles, heartbreak, and new horizons. But they will face it all together.

So Many Beginnings: a Little Women Remix

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#hardcover #nonfiction #baseball #williemays #halloffame #africanamerican #history #legend #athletes #sports

The Life, the Legend

In a biography authorized by the baseball great himself, the best-selling author of Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter offers a gripping account of Willie Mays's life, drawn from interviews with the icon, as well as friends, family members and teammates.

Willie Mays

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#Gullah #Beaufort #SouthCarolina #family #autobiography #history #Creole #AfricanAmerican #islanders #EvaSegar

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

More Songs to Sing, Stories to Tell: Growing Up Gullah 2

#hardcover #historicalfiction #love #friendship  #africanamerican 

Virginia

In her funny, moving, and ambitious debut, Elyse Singleton introduces us to two inseparable and hard-minded idealists. Young Lilian endures the tribulations of Nadir, Mississippi, on the purity of her faith in people and her growing belief in herself. Her best friend, Myraleen, gets by on her sharp tongue and her unwillingness to give in-and perhaps because Lilian is always with her. In this lifelong story, Lilian and Myraleen struggle through dramatically changing times: From the stark realities of life in rural Mississippi, through the different sort of racism they find in workaday Philadelphia and France during World War II. For these women, the road to maturity in the messy American century is long and ragged. Along the way, Myraleen falls for a Tuskeegee flier and Lilian for a German prisoner of war. And each time they reassert their oldest ideals, everything they believe in is tested again--most of all what love requires in such a world.

This Side of the Sky

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#hardcover #youngadult #africanamerican #botm #relationships 

Missouri

A Novel

"A searing and profound Southern odyssey through Mississippi's past and present"--

Sing, Unburied, Sing

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Texas

Learning that a company plans to dig up the area where her mother is buried, supposedly with a cache of jewels, Billy Beede, poor and pregnant, heads for Arizona to rescue her mother's body and search for the jewels that could bring her a new life.

Getting Mother's Body

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Louisiana

Joyce Mitchell was widowed far too young when her beloved husband, Mitch, died in a tragic accident five years ago. Since then she's kept her hands full and her mind and heart occupied by running The Sewing Circus, an all-girl group she founded to provide badly needed services like day care and job counseling to young women, many of whom are single mothers. More important, The Circus is a place for lively, wide-ranging, heart-to-heart discussions that will help members grow into what Joyce likes to call "twenty-first-century free women." All in all, Joyce has a full and rich life. She has her work, her family, her friends, and her town. But there are some nights when she crawls into bed alone and has to admit that something is missing. What she doesn't have is that red dress she keeps dreaming about or a social life that would accommodate it even if she braved the mail and bought one. To further complicate matters, she may not have The Sewing Circus much longer, as the state legislature has decided not to fund the group's vital but hard-todefine work with young women who are too often regarded as problems rather than possibilities. Feeling defeated and pessimistic, Joyce reluctantly agrees to keep a date for dinner at the home of her best friend, Sister -- a reverend like no other-and finds not only a perfect meal but a tall, dark stranger named Nate Anderson. Nate has just joined the administration at the high school and his unexpected presence in Idlewild touches a chord in Joyce that she thought her heart had forgotten how to play. Nate feels the same immediate connection, but both have enough experience with broken hearts to take it real slow. Besides, they've got too much work to do to concentrate on falling in love.... But life moves at its own pace, and as Sister says, "if you want to make God laugh, make plans." Particularly when it comes to matters of the heart. Joyce decides the trick is to stay focused and to remember that nothing is as sexy as the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, especially if you tell it while you're wearing a perfect red dress....

I Wish I Had a Red Dress

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First edition, first printing. Pages clean and sturdy with no writing. Bumped at top and bottom of spine, including dust jacket (see photo). Dust jacket shows typical rubbing. Book measures 7.75” x 5.25”. This book was published in 1994 when the sisters were ages 103 and 105. After the publication of their first book, readers had many questions; the sisters provide answers to these questions and many others in this book. The authors are sisters born in the late 1800s. The second and third of ten children, they grew up in Raleigh, NC. Their father, who was born into slavery, became America’s first elected black Episcopal bishop. His daughters were among the first African American women professionals in New York City - Sadie as a schoolteacher and Bessie as a dentist. #hardcover #africanamerican #lifeskills #firstedition #inspirational #nonfiction (Shelf 1B)

New Jersey

The authors offer counseling on sane living in today's world, advise on how to stay active, and stress the importance of faith, love, dignity, and self-reliance

The Delany Sisters' Book of Everyday Wisdom

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#hardcover #fiction #romance #africanamerican #womenslit  364 pages

Washington

The perfect wife and mother of three grown children, Marilyn Grimes copes with the problems of midlife as she struggles to recall some of her own postponed dreams and reinvent her marriage, friendships, family, and herself.

Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard; James E. Ransome (Illustrator)

Aunt Flossie's Hats (and Crab Cakes Later)

John Edgar Wideman

Writing to Save a Life

Gilly Segal; Kimberly Jones

I'm Not Dying with You Tonight

Lorraine Johnson-Coleman

Just Plain Folks

Richard Jackson; Jerry Pinkney (Illustrator)

In Plain Sight

Christopher Paul Moore; Pamela Johnson

Santa and Pete

Kaseke Munashe

Send Her Back and Other Stories ✨️ARC✨️

Deborah Johnson

The Secret of Magic

Francis Ray

In Another Man’s Bed

Trevor W. Coleman

Crusader for Justice

Marcus Major

A Family Affair

Kimberla Lawson Roby

Sin of a Woman

WAHIDA CLARK

Thug Lovin

Zinzi Clemmons

What we lose

Bethany C. Morrow

So Many Beginnings: a Little Women Remix

James S. Hirsch

Willie Mays

Eva Segar

More Songs to Sing, Stories to Tell: Growing Up Gullah 2

Elyse Singleton

This Side of the Sky

Jesmyn Ward

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Jesmyn Ward

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Suzan-Lori Parks

Getting Mother's Body

Pearl Cleage

I Wish I Had a Red Dress

Sarah L. Delany; A. Elizabeth Delany; Amy Hill Hearth

The Delany Sisters' Book of Everyday Wisdom

Terry McMillan

The Interruption of Everything