Family & Friendship
How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton
Publisher: BOA Editions How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton celebrates both familiar and lesser-known works by one of America’s most beloved poets, including 10 newly discovered poems that have never been collected. These poems celebrating black womanhood and...
$28.00
Say I'm Dead: A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books Say I’m Dead is the true story of family secrets, separation, courage, and trans-formation through five generations of interracial relationships. Fearful of prison time—or lynching—for violating Indiana’s antimiscegenation laws in the 1940s, E. Dolores Johnson’s black father...
$28.99
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
Publisher: Flatiron Books "Tubbs' connection to these women is palpable on the page ― as both a mother and a scholar of the impact Black motherhood has had on America. Through Tubbs' writing, Berdis, Alberta, and Louise's stories sing. Theirs is...
$28.99
Waterbaby
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press In her astounding third collection, Nikki Wallschlaeger turns to water―the natural element of grief―to trace history’s interconnected movements through family, memory, and day-to-day survival. Waterbaby is a book about Blackness, language, and motherhood in America; about the ancestral...
$16.00
We Inherit What the Fires Left: Poems
Publisher: Simon & Schuster William Evans, the award-winning poet and cofounder of the popular culture website Black Nerd Problems, offers an emotionally vulnerable poetry collection exploring the themes of inheritances, dreams, and injuries that are passed down from one generation to...
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Grieving While Black: An Antiracist Take on Oppression and Sorrow
Typically, when we reference grief work in relation to anti-Blackness, people think about the grief experienced by those oppressed by white supremacy. But Breeshia Wade encourages those who are not Black to consider how their own unexplored grief amplifies the...
$14.95
Mama Bear: One Black Mother's Fight for Her Child's Life and Her Own
In this moving memoir, Shirley Smith, wife of NBA Champion and All-Star J. R. Smith, tells the story of giving birth to one of the youngest premature babies to survive—using her experience to heighten awareness of the crisis of Black...
$27.99
Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBuilding on the groundwork laid in the New York Times bestseller White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explores how a culture of niceness inadvertently promotes racism.
$24.95
Notes on Grief
From the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author of We Should All Be Feminists, a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father."Essential." —BooklistNotes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of...
$16.00
Oh Sis, You're Pregnant!: The Ultimate Guide to Black Pregnancy & Motherhood (Gift for New Moms)
What to Expect When Black, Pregnant, and Expecting “This book stands as the modern-day guide to birthing while Black.” ―Angelina Ruffin-Alexander, certified nurse midwife 2021 International Book Awards finalist in Health: Women’s Health #1 New Release in Pregnancy & Childbirth...
$18.95
Stones: Poems
A book of loss, looking back, and what binds us to life, by a towering poetic talent, called "one of the poetry stars of his generation" (Los Angeles Times)."We sleep long, / if not sound," Kevin Young writes early on...
$27.00
The Ugly Cry: A Memoir
“They say comedy equals tragedy plus time: This very funny account of an often miserable childhood is proof.” --People“What a strong, funny, heartbreaking memoir, with a voice that is completely its own (written by a woman who very much seems to...
$27.00
What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROur earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You? provides powerful scientific and emotional insights into the behavioral patterns so many of us struggle to understand.“Through this lens we can build a renewed sense...
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A Long Way from Douala
Bursting with local color, this hilarious, heartwarming coming-of-age tale follows two friends on a raucous journey across Cameroon as they grapple with grief, sexuality, and dreams of leaving. After their father’s sudden death, Jean’s older brother Roger decides he’s had enough...
$15.99
Blind Ambition
Gripping, explosive, and timely, Lutishia Lovely's latest novel tells the tale of one woman's shocking discovery - and how it turns her and her celebrity sister's different worlds upside down.... Since childhood, Chantel has idolized her older sister, Jett, a...
$15.95
Everyman
Eve Mann arrives in Ideal, Georgia, in 1972, looking for answers about the mother who died giving her life. A mother named Mercy. A mother who for all of Eve's twenty-two years has been a mystery and a quest. Eve's...
$24.99
Foolish Hearts (Original)
All they need is a second chance…It’s been three years since Ashiya Waters walked away from Russell—and made the biggest mistake of her life. She knows she shouldn’t dwell on the past. Love isn't meant to last…and nobody taught her...
$9.99
Little Brother: A Refugee's Odyssey
Based on the author's own life, this heartbreaking novel about an African migrant takes you inside the refugee crisis—for readers of The Lost Children's Archive and The Girl with the Louding Voice. Ibrahima is still a boy when his father dies, but as the...
$22.99
Red Island House
From National Book Award–nominated writer Andrea Lee comes Red Island House, a travel epic that opens a window on the mysterious African island of Madagascar, and on the dangers of life and love in paradise, as seen through the eyes of a...
$27.00
Skye Falling
A woman who’s used to going solo discovers that there’s one relationship she can’t run away from in this buoyant novel, a probing examination of the complexities of family, queerness, race, and community“Razor-sharp and outrageously funny, Skye Falling is an absolute winner.”—Taylor...
$27.00