Women
With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism
Publisher: Beacon Press The first biography of Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a trailblazing Black feminist activist whose work made children, race, and welfare rights central to the women’s movement.Dorothy Pitman Hughes was a transformative community organizer in New York City in...
$25.95
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Winner of the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismWinner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for NonfictionWinner of the 2020 Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian NonfictionFinalist for the Lambda Literary Award for...
$17.95
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
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
Publisher: Basic Books The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power -- and how it transformed America.In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth...
$30.00
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
Supplier: Simon & Schuster Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall’s efforts to uncover the truth about these women warriors who, until now, have been left...
$29.99
What Should Darla Do?
Publisher: Elon Books 8 Stories in 1! EMPOWERING, INTERACTIVE & FUN!Join Darla on an exciting adventure your kids will love!Darla is a young and spunky astronaut-in-training. She wants to go to Mars one day, just like her favorite doll, Astronautica....
$21.99
We Want Our Bodies Back: Poems
Publisher: Amistad Press “WE WANT OUR BODIES BACK URGES BLACK WOMEN TO DEMAND BETTER FROM MEN.” -ESSENCE “MASTER POET JESSICA CARE MOORE GIFTS US THIS LATEST COLLECTION OF SHARP, SMART AND DEFIANT PIECES.” -MS. MAGAZINE BOOKS BY BLACK WOMEN WE...
$19.99
Torn Between Two Lovers
New York Times best-selling author Carl Weber is a master at portraying unforgettable characters and complex, passionate relationships. Voluptuous Loraine Farrow is as successful as she is curvy, but life is never easy when you want to have your cake and...
$7.99
The Score
GOING ONCE . . .Identity theft mastermind Lauren Kelly has always had a taste for the finer things. With her lover and accomplice, Matt Connors, by her side, there’s nothing she can’t buy or steal. But she’s not the only...
$15.00
The Real Hoodwives of Detroit 2: Motor City Mayhem
What up, doe! Welcome back to the mean streets of Detroit. With all the drama going down in Motown, I knew your nosy self couldn't stay away. Don't worry, you haven't missed a thing. We pick up the story right...
$15.95
The Preacher's Son
Carl Weber is an Essence best-selling author and recipient of the African-American Bookseller of the Year Award. His stories are intoxicating dramas with smart, sexy characters. The Preacher's Son captivates with all the intensity expected of a Weber novel. Bishop T.K. Wilson is...
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The Glamorous Life
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Nikki Turner's Heartbreak of a Hustler's Wife.The #1 bestselling author of Natural Born Hustler and Relapse, Nikki Turner gives up the game that could never be sold, only told. The lure of Richmond, Virginia’s streets is too strong...
$16.00
The Fix 3
In the third and final installment of The Fix Trilogy, two worlds that have been running parallel finally collide.Persia Chandler has managed to get her life back on track. Things are calm at home, she’s preparing to leave for college,...
$14.95
The Fix 2
Two lives . . . two paths . . . one tragic outcome. The Fix 2 is in and the game is afoot!The past few months have been a living hell for Persia. Seemingly overnight, she has fallen from grace...
$14.95
The Real Hoodwives of Detroit
Welcome to Detroit, Michigan, home of the grittiest, illest, most hardcore, crime-infested, poverty-stricken neighborhoods in the country. It's sometimes referred to as the Murder Capital because of the huge murder rate that never ceases to surprise us, the Murder Mitten,...
$15.95
The Game Never Ends
From hard times to getting it all, one woman must fight to keep her fortune, her family, and her life in this intense, unpredictable follow-up to Games Women Play. By leveraging savvy and basic instincts, Tuesday Knight rose up from running...
$15.95
The Excitement I Bring 2
It wasn’t part of the play, but Jaelen Jones finds himself falling hard for one of his targets, Laila. However, he is still following through with the plan to her and the other gym patrons’ money with the help of...
$15.99
The Excitement I Bring
Jaelen Jones had it all. At twenty-four years old the tall, dark, and handsome gym owner was doing what he loved, was at his peak physically and mentally, and had all the women he wanted practically throwing themselves at him...
$15.99
The Coldest Winter Ever
A New York Times BestsellerA USA TODAY BestsellerNominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read“50 Most Impactful Black Books Of The Last 50 Years” —EssenceRenowned hip-hop artist, political activist, and bestselling author of Life After Death brings the streets of New York...
$17.00
The Betrayal Within
Chelsey was the new girl in the Medical Department at the prison, and going off first impressions, she was confident and sexy, and she was going to be trouble. But that was nothing new in the Medical Department, where competition...
$15.99