General Fiction
The Angela Y. Davis Reader
For three decades, Angela Y. Davis has written on liberation theory and democratic praxis. Challenging the foundations of mainstream discourse, her analyses of culture, gender, capital, and race have profoundly influenced democratic theory, antiracist feminism, critical studies and political struggles....
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Women, Culture & Politics
A collection of speeches and writings by political activist Angela Davis which address the political and social changes of the past decade as they are concerned with the struggle for racial, sexual, and economic equality. Product details Publisher : Vintage; Reprint...
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bone
From the celebrated poet Yrsa Daley-Ward, a poignant collection of poems about the heart, life, and the inner self.Foreword by Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An American MemoirBone. Visceral. Close to. Stark. The poems in Yrsa Daley-Ward’s collection bone are exactly that: reflections on...
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Is It Nation Time?: Contemporary Essays on Black Power and Black Nationalism
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Black Power movement provided the dominant ideological framework through which many young, poor, and middle-class blacks made sense of their lives and articulated a political vision for their futures. The legacy of...
$34.00
The Warmest December
"McFadden's reissued second novel takes an unflinching look at the corrosive nature of alcoholism . . . This is not a story of easy redemption . . . McFadden writes candidly about the treacherous hold of addiction."--Publishers Weekly"Riveting. . ....
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The System of Dante's Hell (AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series)
"Much of the novel is an expression of the intellectual and moral lost motion of the age...the special agony of the American Negro."--New York Times Book Review"A fevered and impressionistic riff on the struggles of blacks in the urban North...
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The Roving Tree
One of the South Florida Times's Best Bets For Your Weekend!Essence Magazine: Summer Reading Pick!"Augustave, a first-time novelist, pens a well-balanced story about a young woman, caught between two worlds, who struggles to connect with her heritage...a polished narrative that addresses...
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The Lunatic
In this outrageously out-of-order, hilarious novel, the reader discovers that lunacy is by no means restricted to the village madman, and that goodness and forgiveness may be rarer qualities, found in unexpected places.Aloysius is tolerated by neighbors but forced to...
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The Lost Treasures of R&B: The D Hunter Mysteries, Book 3 (HB)
Nominated for the Brooklyn Public Library's Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize for Fiction"This is a fine mystery and [protagonist] D Hunter is as world weary, yet steadfast, as Philip Marloew, Spenser, Dave Robicheaux, or Easy Rawlins. A definite yes to purchase...
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The Gospel According to Cane
Nominated for the 2014 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Fiction!Publishers Weekly has named The Gospel According to Cane a 2012-13 "Notable African-American Title""A mother's love is unbreakable, as Frank O'Connor Award–nominee Newland demonstrates in his latest novel...The storytelling is as captivating as the story...
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The Game Don’t Change
"Having grown up on the streets of South Jamaica, Queens, Fox wrote this first novel in 2013 while incarcerated at the Orleans Correctional Facility. After moving to rap music as a pal of artist 50 Cent, in 2014 the author...
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The Freedom Artist
An impassioned plea for freedom and justice, set in a world uncomfortably like our own, by the Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri. An NPR Best Book of 2020! "With the stark power of myth, this political allegory evolves into an...
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The Family Mansion: A Novel
"The brutalities of Jamaica's past and the myriad social and cultural contradictions that contributed to it are conveyed with a genuine fondness for this complicated and conflicted place. A surprising, and surprisingly sophisticated, approach to historical fiction."--Publishers Weekly“Jamaica-born Winkler opens...
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The Duppy
"Every country (if she’s lucky) gets the Mark Twain she deserves, and Winkler is ours, bristling with savage Jamaican wit, heart-stopping compassion, and jaw-dropping humor all at once."—Marlon James, author of John Crow’s DevilWith his characteristic outrageousness, Anthony C. Winkler defies...
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The Darkest Hearts (A D Hunter Mystery)
Trap music, human trafficking, malt liquor, and the tyranny of President Trump collide in the fifth installment of Nelson George's D Hunter mystery series. "Once again, my brother Nelson George comes through in the clutch like he's batting clean-up. I've...
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The Book of Harlan
Bernice L. McFadden has been named the Go On Girl! Book Club's 2018 Author of the Year WINNER of the 2017 American Book Award WINNER of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Fiction) 2017 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominee (Fiction)! A Washington Post Notable Book of 2016...
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Tango for a Torturer
Aldo Bianchi, a former Argentine revolutionary now living in Italy, travels to Havana, where he meets the beautiful Bini, a sultry student with great charm and panache working the hotels. Bianchi soon discovers via his liaison with Bini that his...
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Tales of the Out & the Gone: Short Stories
Comprising short fiction from the early 1970s to the twenty-first century—most of which has never been published—Tales of the Out & the Gone reflects the astounding evolution of America’s most provocative literary anti-hero.The first section of the book, “War Stories,” offers...
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Song for Night
"Not since Jerzy Kosinski’s The Painted Bird or Agota Kristof’s Notebook Trilogy has there been such a harrowing novel about what it’s like to be a young person in a war. That Chris Abani is able to find humanity, mercy, and even,...
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She's Gone
A prominent Jamaican reggae singer falls in love with an African American woman while on tour in South Carolina. The two struggle to forge a relationship across a cultural and psychological divide in a story that spans from Jamaica to...
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