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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Illinois

Based on the author's own search of her family's past, "Cane River" is an epic novel based on the lives of four generations of African-American women. Beginning with Tademy's great-great-great-great-grandmother, Elisabeth, this is a saga that sweeps from the early days of slavery through the Civil War and into a pre-Civil Rights South--a unique and moving slice of America's past that will resonate with readers for years to come. Photos throughout.

Cane River

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

Manifest Your Destiny

Most people associate Hill Harper with Hollywood, as he's appeared in dozens of films and television shows. But he is just as comfortable in a school auditorium, rousing groups of students with his unique style of real-life wisdom. Having addressed thousands of high-school and middle- school students over the years, Hill is ready to take his message to an even wider audience. Letters to a Young Brother is drawn from the humbling life lessons he learned on the road to his Ivy League education and beyond. Inspired by the countless letters and e-mails he has received from teens, Hill Harper set out to write a series of letters to young people that would catch the attention of even the most reluctant readers.

The result is a motivational but approachable book full of encouragement on a wide array of hot topics, particularly among young African-American and Hispanic men. From the challenges of getting a good education and making it through college to the media's destructive emphasis on material wealth, Letters to a Young Brother delivers eye-opening answers. Reminiscent of Marian Wright Edelman's New York Times bestseller, The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours, Hill Harper's words will resonate for years to come.


Letters to a Young Brother

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Hardcover (under 2 lbs)

New York

“A compelling story of first love and battling racism with a magical twist.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Well-told, fast-paced.” —School Library Journal (starred review) From the award-winning author of The Truth of Right Now comes a stunning, grounded fantasy in the vein of Dread Nation that follows a black teen as she finds her place among a family of women gifted with magical abilities. In the Jim Crow South, white supremacy reigns and tensions are high. But Evalene Deschamps has other things to worry about. She has two little sisters to look after, an overworked single mother, and a longtime crush who is finally making a move. On top of all that, Evvie’s magic abilities are growing stronger by the day. Her family calls it jubilation—a gift passed down from generations of black women since the time of slavery. And as Evvie’s talents waken, something dark comes loose and threatens to resurface… And when the demons of Evvie’s past finally shake free, she must embrace her mighty lineage, and summon the power that lies within her.

Daughters of Jubilation

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Massachusetts

B&N Exclusive Edition

Ace of Spades 

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD LAINEY DREAMS of becoming a world famous chef one day and maybe even having her own cooking show. (Do you know how many African American female chefs there aren't? And how many vegetarian chefs have their own shows? The field is wide open for stardom!) But when her best friend--and secret crush--suddenly leaves town, Lainey finds herself alone in the kitchen. With a little help from Saint Julia (Child, of course), Lainey finds solace in her cooking as she comes to terms with the past and begins a new recipe for the future.
Peppered with recipes from Lainey's notebooks, this delicious debut novel finishes the same way one feels finishing a good meal--satiated, content, and hopeful.

A la Carte

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#hardcover #SebastianBailey #Bailey #OctaviusBlack #Black #nonfiction #selfhelp #motivation

Florida

Achieve More by Thinking Differently

The international bestseller that will help you transform your personal and professional life by changing the way you think.

Today, the pressure to achieve is intense. To be at our best, we need our minds working at peak potential. But unless you train it, your mind stays on autopilot, stuck in unhealthy thought patterns that lead to self-sabotaging habits and behaviors. As with your body, you have to exercise your mind to get the most out of it.

Sebastian Bailey and Octavius Black, founders of Mind Gym, help you change your mental default settings through a series of “workouts” that have been tested and experienced by more than one million people from around the world and from companies such as Google, NBCUniversal, Shell, Pfizer, and PepsiCo. This hands-on guide presents a fitness program for the mind that tackles the most common challenges at work and home:

 * How to adopt a positive mindset
 * How to repair broken relationships
 * How to resolve conflict successfully
 * How to influence others
 * How to minimize stress and gain energy
 * How to be more creative

Insightful, proven, and practical, Mind Gym is the essential mental workout that will wake up your mind and help you be your best in life.

Mind Gym

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Perfect for fans of The Sun Is Also a Star and Blackout, this YA novel from Debbie Rigaud is a celebration of Haitian and Caribbean culture, and a story of first love, vodou, and finding yourself, all set against the backdrop of the West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn.

Cicely Destin lives for the West Indian Day Parade, the joyous celebration of Caribbean culture that takes over the streets of her neighborhood. She loves waving the Haitian flag, sampling delicious foods, and cheering for the floats. And this year? She'll get to hang with her stylish aunt, an influencer known for dabbling in Haitian Vodou.

And maybe spot her dreamy crush, Kwame, in the crowd.

But fate has other ideas. Before the parade, a rogue, mischievous spirit seems to take possession of Cicely's aunt during a spiritual reading. Cicely hardly knows anything about Vodou, or how to get someone un-possessed. But it's up to her to set things right--and the clock is ticking. She'll have to enlist the help of her quick-thinking best friend, Renee, and, as luck would have it...Kwame.

Cicely, her friends, and the reckless spirit who is now their charge set off on a thrilling scavenger hunt to gather the ceremonial items they need. And along the way, will Cicely discover surprising powers of her on?

Bestselling author Debbie Rigaud infuses this novel with sparkling wit, romance, and nuance that will keep readers riveted and enchanted.

A Girl's Guide to Love and Magic

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#paperback #biographies #sports #baseball #africanamerican #black #carver

Maryland

Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, 2 Hank Aaron, one George Washington Carver

Group of 5 Houghton Mifflin Biographies

#paperback #cultural #race #black #harlem

New Hampshire

A Journey to the Mecca of Black America

A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Harlem Is Nowhere brilliantly captures the essence of Harlem at a crucial moment in the neighborhood's history. 



For a century Harlem has been celebrated as the capital of black America, a thriving center of cultural achievement and political action. As gentrification encroaches, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts untangles the myth and meaning of Harlem's legacy. Examining the epic Harlem of official history and the personal Harlem that begins at her front door, Rhodes-Pitts introduces us to a wide variety of characters, past and present. At the heart of their stories, and her own, is the hope carried over many generations, hope that Harlem would be the ground from which blacks fully entered America's democracy.



Rhodes-Pitts is a brilliant new voice who, like other significant chroniclers of places -- Joan Didion on California, or Jamaica Kincaid on Antigua -- captures the very essence of her subject.



"No geographic or racial qualification guarantees a writer her subject . . . Only interest, knowledge, and love will do that -- all of which this book displays in abundance." -- Zadie Smith, Harper's

Harlem Is Nowhere

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California

In Stillwater, Missippi, in 1955, thirteen-year-old African American Rose Lee Carter looks to her family and friends to understand her place in the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement.

A Sky Full of Stars

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Sticker mark on top right cover. Otherwise in like new condition. Read once by me. #paperback #fiction #endoftheworld #ya #scifi #yafiction #highschool #teenagers #black #shootingstar 

The lives of four high school seniors intersect weeks before a meteor is set to pass through Earth's orbit, with a 66.6% chance of striking and destroying all life on the planet.

We All Looked Up

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#paperback #black #slave #americanrevolution #adrican #bunkerhill

This carefully researched history details the military, political, economic, and cultural experience of black people during the era of the American Revolution. Beginning with Crispus Attucks, the first man killed in the Revolutionary action, the authors recount a series of fascinating personal histories. The text is highlighted by excerpts form letters, journals, newspaper articles, and other documents, as well as by poems, broadsides, and passages from magazines of the day.

The book is a revised and expanded edition of the authors' classic catalog that accompanied a pioneering exhibition mounted in 1973 by the National Portrait Gallery.

The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution

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Scorched #6

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Missouri

A Black Spirit Memoir

FEATURED ON THE COVER OF TIME MAGAZINE AS A 2021 NEXT GENERATION LEADER “A once-in-a-generation voice.” – Vulture “One of our greatest living writers.” – Shondaland A full-throated and provocative memoir in letters from the New York Times-bestselling author, “a dazzling literary talent whose works cut to the quick of the spiritual self.” —Esquire In three critically acclaimed novels, Akwaeke Emezi has introduced readers to a landscape marked by familial tensions, Igbo belief systems, and a boundless search for what it means to be free. Now, in this extraordinary memoir, the bestselling author of The Death of Vivek Oji reveals the harrowing yet resolute truths of their own life. Through candid, intimate correspondence with friends, lovers, and family, Emezi traces the unfolding of a self and the unforgettable journey of a creative spirit stepping into power in the human world. Their story weaves through transformative decisions about their gender and body, their precipitous path to success as a writer, and the turmoil of relationships on an emotional, romantic, and spiritual plane, culminating in a book that is as tender as it is brutal. Electrifying and inspiring, animated by the same voracious intelligence that distinguishes their fiction, Dear Senthuran is a revelatory account of storytelling, self, and survival.

Dear Senthuran

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The White Rose

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Black Theology in the Slave Narrative

Drawing on slave narratives found in forty-one volumes of interviews and one hundred autobiographies by former slaves, these contributors explore how enslaved African Americans received the often oppressive faith of their masters but transformed it into a gospel of liberation. This classic work demonstrates how an authentic black theology of liberation today must listen to the divine spirit that once fed and continues to feed the black religious experience. This second edition includes three additional provocative essays.

Cut Loose Your Stammering Tongue

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New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey revisits the scene of his sexy holiday romp Naughty or Nice, as the McBroom sisters’ romantic adventures make for a white (hot) Christmas. The lives of Frankie, Tommie, and Livvy McBroom haven't turned out quite as planned. Frankie has a pair of stalkers, and she calls upon Driver, an ex-con, to bail her out of a potentially life-threatening situation... Tommie and her long-time love Blue are now engaged, but due to something her more-mature fiancé has done, the wedding is indefinitely on hold, and Tommie has found herself captivated by to a younger man... Livvy is unable to overcome the psychological barrier caused by her husband Tony’s affair. Their rare relations are by her rules and under certain conditions—it has to be a ménage à trois... Though as close as any sisters could be, none wants the other two to know the dark secrets she is hiding. And during this season, all of the McBroom sisters are Naughtier than Nice.

Naughtier Than Nice

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A kung fu epic set in the back alleys andsubway tunnels of Harlem, New York. Kyrie, an aspiring street artist who isstruggling to make ends meet, learns that he is the last living descendant of asecret sect of ancient Shaolin Elders. Confused and unsure of where to turn, hefinds a father figure in the mysterious Master Fong. Fong trains Kyrie inmartial arts in anticipation of an attack from Red Fist, a relentless killer whohas already murdered the rest of Kyrie's bloodline.

Introduction by Aisha Tyler.Film rights recently sold to Sony / Columbia Pictures with Dwayne "TheRock" Johnson attached to produce.



Son of Shaolin

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#hardcover #africanamericans #history #medicine #black

The History of the African American in Medicine

International Library of Afro-American Life and History

In 1897, Anita Hemmings was the first African American woman to attend Vassar - and no one knew. #africanamericanwomen #paperback #africanamericans #fiction #black #karintanabe

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The Gilded Years

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FINALIST FOR THE 2022 LA TIMES ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION.



"The electrifying fiction debut that has been called 'a modern Mrs. Dalloway.'"--THE ATLANTIC



"Mind-bending and utterly original."--Brandon Taylor



"Slim in the hand, but its impact is massive."--Ali Smith



One woman. One day. One decision. A blistering, fearless, and unforgettable literary debut from "a stunning new writer." (Bernardine Evaristo)

Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Go to college, get an education, start a career. Do all the right things. Buy an apartment. Buy art. Buy a sort of happiness. But above all, keep your head down. Keep quiet. And keep going.



The narrator of Assembly is a black British woman. She is preparing to attend a lavish garden party at her boyfriend's family estate, set deep in the English countryside. At the same time, she is considering the carefully assembled pieces of herself. As the minutes tick down and the future beckons, she can't escape the question: is it time to take it all apart?



Assembly is a story about the stories we live within - those of race and class, safety and freedom, winners and losers.And it is about one woman daring to take control of her own story, even at the cost of her life. With a steely, unfaltering gaze, Natasha Brown dismantles the mythology of whiteness, lining up the debris in a neat row and walking away.

Assembly

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The Sea is slavery", begins Fred D'Aguiar's deeply moving novel that starts aboard the Zong, a slave ship returning from Africa. Faced with a disease that threatens to infect the entire ship, Captain Cunningham orders his crew to seize the sick men, women, and children and throw them overboard. One hundred and thirty-two slaves are tossed into the sea, their bodies registered as strokes in the Captain's log, their names never set down.

But one slave, Mintah, survives drowning. Mintah, who was thrown overboard not for sickness but for being strong-willed and stubborn, climbs back onto the ship and hides in the food store. From there she attempts to rouse the remaining slaves to rebel, becoming a secret force on the ship and stirring up unease among the crew with a voice and a conscience they seem unable to silence.

Inspired by an actual incident, this powerful novel is about history and distortions of the truth, about the importance of memory and testimony in the struggle against oblivion. Richly atmospheric, full of suspense, and profoundly moving, this is undoubtedly Fred D'Aguiar's finest book to date.

Feeding the Ghosts

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

From 1746 to the Present

An Introduction to Black Literature in America

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Lalita Tademy

Cane River

Hill Harper

Letters to a Young Brother

Kara Lee Corthron

Daughters of Jubilation

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Ace of Spades

Tanita S. Davis

A la Carte

Sebastian Bailey; Octavius Black

Mind Gym

Debbie Rigaud

A Girl's Guide to Love and Magic

Various

Group of 5 Houghton Mifflin Biographies

Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

Harlem Is Nowhere

Linda Williams Jackson

A Sky Full of Stars

Tommy Wallach

We All Looked Up

Sidney Kaplan; Emma Nogrady Kaplan

The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution

Sean Lewis

Scorched #6

Akwaeke Emezi

Dear Senthuran

Glen Cook

The White Rose

Dwight N. Hopkins (Editor); George Cummings (Editor)

Cut Loose Your Stammering Tongue

Eric Jerome Dickey

Naughtier Than Nice

Jay Longino; Caanan White (Artist)

Son of Shaolin

Morias

International Library of Afro-American Life and History

Karin Tanabe

The Gilded Years

Natasha Brown

Assembly

Fred D'Aguiar

Feeding the Ghosts

Lindsay Patterson (Introduction by)

An Introduction to Black Literature in America

Patterson

International Library of Afro-American Life and History