Fiction
BESSIE STRINGFIELD: TALES OF THE TALENTED TENTH, NO. 2
Imagine a five-foot-two-inch-tall woman riding a Harley eight times across the continental United States. Now imagine she is black and is journeying across the country in the pre-Civil Rights era of the 1930s and ’40s. That is the amazing true...
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NAT TURNER
The story of Nat Turner and his slave rebellion—which began on August 21, 1831, in Southampton County, Virginia—is known among school children and adults. To some he is a hero, a symbol of Black resistance and a precursor to the...
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LONG WAY DOWN: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL
Will’s older brother, Shawn, has been shot.Dead.Will feels a sadness so great, he can’t explain it. But in his neighborhood, there are THE RULES:No. 1: Crying.Don’t.No matter what.No. 2: SnitchingDon’t.No matter what.No. 3: RevengeDo.No matter what.But bullets miss. You can...
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CLASS ACT (PB)
Eighth grader Drew Ellis is no stranger to the saying “You have to work twice as hard to be just as good.” His grandmother has reminded him his entire life. But what if he works ten times as hard and still isn’t...
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BLACK PANTHER: A NATION UNDER OUR FEET, BOOK 2 ( BLACK PANTHER )
Wakanda! As Zenzi and the People poison Wakanda's populace against their king, a cabal of nation-breakers is assembled. With few allies of his own to call on, T'Challa must rely on his elite secret police, the Hatut Zeraze -and fellow...
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KINDRED: A GRAPHIC NOVEL ADAPTATION
More than 35 years after its release, Kindred continues to draw in new readers with its deep exploration of the violence and loss of humanity caused by slavery in the United States, and its complex and lasting impact on the present day....
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BLACK PANTHER: WORLD OF WAKANDA
The world building of Wakanda continues in a love story where tenderness is matched only by brutality! You know them now as the Midnight Angels, but in this story they are just Ayo and Aneka, young women recruited to become...
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BLACK PANTHER, BOOK 1: A NATION UNDER OUR FEET
A new era begins for the Black Panther! MacArthur Genius and National Book Award-winning writer T-Nehisi Coates (BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME) takes the helm, confronting T'Challa with a dramatic upheaval in Wakanda that will make leading the African nation...
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MARCH: BOOK THREE
Welcome to the stunning conclusion of the award-winning and best-selling MARCH trilogy. Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one ofthe key figures of the civil rights movement, joins co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell to bring the lessons...
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MARCH: BOOK ONE
Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper's farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated...
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HEADS OF THE COLORED PEOPLE: STORIES (HB)
Nafissa Thompson-Spires grapples with race, identity politics, and the contemporary middle class in this “vivid, fast, funny, way-smart, and verbally inventive” (George Saunders, author of Lincoln in the Bardo) collection.Each captivating story plunges headfirst into the lives of utterly original characters....
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AT-RISK
In Amina Gautier’s Brooklyn, some kids make it and some kids don’t, but not in simple ways or for stereotypical reasons. Gautier’s stories explore the lives of young African Americans who might all be classified as “at-risk,” yet who encounter...
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NIGHT HAWKS: STORIES
Charles Johnson’s Night Hawks presents an eclectic, masterful collection of stories tied together by Buddhist themes and displaying all the grace, heart, and insight for which he has long been known. Spanning genres from science fiction to realism, “Johnson’s writing, filled with...
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FIVE-CARAT SOUL
The stories in Five-Carat Soul—none of them ever published before—spring from the place where identity, humanity, and history converge. They’re funny and poignant, insightful and unpredictable, imaginative and authentic—all told with McBride’s unrivaled storytelling skill and meticulous eye for character and...
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GO GATOR AND MUDDY THE WATER: WRITINGS BY ZORA NEALE HURSTON FROM THE FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT
Edited and with a Biographical Essay by Pamala Bordelon, Ph.D. A wonderful discovery of folklore writings-many previously unpublished-by Zora Neale Hurston, author of Their Eyes Were Watching God. When Pamala Bordelon was researching a work on the Florida Federal Writers...
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GOING HOME IN CHAINS
Themes of coerced displacement and sexual disillusionment run through these stories as they shift between the Caribbean and America, arriving doused in magic, musicality and humor. From the title story about a man trapped in the nightmarish glare of post...
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EIGHT MEN
Here, in these powerful stories, Richard Wright takes readers into this landscape once again. Each of the eight stories in Eight Men focuses on a black man at violent odds with a white world, reflecting Wright's views about racism in...
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HOW TO ESCAPE FROM A LEPER COLONY: A NOVELLA AND OTHER STORIES
The inhabitants of an island walk into the sea. A man passes a jail cell's window, shouldering a wooden cross. And in the international shop of coffins, a story repeats itself, pointing toward an inevitable tragedy. If the facts of...
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