Women
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
Dear Miss Metropolitan
Introducing an extraordinary and original writer whose first novel explores the intersections of grief and rage, personal strength and healing--and what we owe one another.Fern seeks refuge from her mother’s pill-popping and boyfriends via Soul Train; Gwin finds salvation in...
$27.99
Dead Dead Girls
“In this terrific series opener, Afia evokes the women’s lives in all their wayward and beautiful glory, especially the abruptness with which their dreams, hopes and fears cease to exist.”--The New York TimesThe start of an exciting new historical mystery series...
$16.00
Creatures of Passage
With echoes of Toni Morrison's Beloved, Yejidé's novel explores a forgotten quadrant of Washington, DC, and the ghosts that haunt it. "Yejidé’s writing captures both real news and spiritual truths with the deftness and capacious imagination of her writing foremothers: Zora...
$25.00
Caul Baby
New York Times best-selling author Morgan Jerkins makes her fiction debut with this electrifying novel, for fans of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Jacqueline Woodson, that brings to life one powerful and enigmatic family in a tale rife with secrets, betrayal, intrigue, and...
$27.99
Broken Fevers
From humor to horror, the speculative fiction in Broken Fevers has a gleaming edge. This new collection by award winner Tenea D. Johnson features 14 tales. Though many are dark, they pull one through the light, if only for a moment, to...
$15.95
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
Assembly
A woman confronts the most important question of her life in this blistering, fearless, and unforgettable literary debut from "a stunning new writer." (Bernardine Evaristo)"A modern Mrs. Dalloway."—The Guardian"The literary debut of the summer."—Vogue“The kind of book that doesn’t just...
$23.00
A Game of Cones
In this charming mystery series set in an ice cream shop, no case is too cold to crack!Bronwyn Crewse is delighted that Crewse Creamery, the ice cream shop her family has owned for decades, is restored to its former glory...
$16.00
Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body
A powerful and provocative collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between society’s most charged, politicized, and intractably polar spaces—between black and white, rich and poor, thin and fat.Savala Nolan knows what it means to live in the...
$26.00
Born in a Second Language
Born in a Second Language investigates how Born in a Second Language investigates how translation shapes and alters both language and identity as speakers travel through space and time.In this book, languages are a means of conjuring an existence, of...
$16.00
African Europeans: An Untold History
A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe. But in African Europeans, renowned historian Olivette Otele debunks this and uncovers a...
$30.00
A Hustler's Queen: Reloaded
In this explosive new novel from rising urban lit star Saundra, a good girl turned L.A. drug kingpin’s lady discovers lethal skills, mega success—and deadly secrets—she never banked on . . . Forced to trade her college plans for dealing on the...
$12.95
Eartha & Kitt: A Daughter's Love Story in Black and White
Publisher: Pegasus Books In this unique combination of African American music and cultural history, we come to know one of the greatest stars the world has ever seen - Eartha Kitt - as revealed by the person who knew her...
$26.95
Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World's Most Notorious Jewel Thief
Publisher: Amistad Press In the ebullient spirit of Ocean’s 8, The Heist, and Thelma & Louise, a sensational and entertaining memoir of the world’s most notorious jewel thief - a woman who defied society’s prejudices and norms to carve her own path,...
$25.99
Daylight: Poems
Publisher: MCD X Fsg Originals This program is read by the author. dayliGht is a dazzling collection of poems from a necessary new voice, at once a clarion call for stories of Black women and a rebuke of broken notions of...
$15.00
Collected Poems
Publisher: Beacon Press A representative collection of the life work of the much-honored poet and a founder of the Black Arts movement, spanning the 4 decades of her literary career. Gathering highlights from all of Sonia Sanchez’s poetry, this compilation...
$29.95
Burning Sugar
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press In this incendiary debut collection, activist and poet Cicely Belle Blain intimately revisits familiar spaces in geography, in the arts, and in personal history to expose the legacy of colonization and its impact on Black bodies....
$15.95
Black Girl, Call Home
Publisher: Berkley Books A Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Oprah Magazine • Time • Vogue • Vulture • Essence • Elle • Cosmopolitan • Real Simple • Marie Claire • Refinery 29 • Shondaland • Pop Sugar • Bustle • Reader's Digest “Nothing short of sublime, and the territory [Mans'] explores...couldn’t be more necessary.”—VogueFrom spoken word poet Jasmine Mans comes an unforgettable poetry collection about...
$15.00
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Publisher: Random House A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft an extraordinary testament to people who are left out of the archives.“A history told with brilliance and...
$28.00