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So We Can Glow: Stories
Leesa Cross-Smith - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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A lush, glittering short story collection exploring female obsession and desire by an award-winning writer Roxane Gay calls "a consummate storyteller." From Kentucky to the California desert, these forty-two short stories expose the glossy and matte hearts of girls and women in moments... |
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Red at the Bone: A Novel
Jacqueline Woodson - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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An extraordinary new novel about the influence of history on a contemporary family, from the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl Dreaming.Two families from different social classes are joined together... |
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Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
A'Lelia Bundles - Scribner
Format: Paperback
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Soon to be a Netflix series starring Octavia Spencer, Self Made is the first full-scale biography of "one of the great success stories of American history" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) , Madam C.J. Walker - the legendary African American entrepreneur and philanthropist - by her great-great-granddaughter,... |
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Jason Reynolds - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in AmericaThis is NOT a history book.This is a book about the here and now. A book to help us better understand why we are where we are.A book about race. The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep... |
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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Mikki Kendall - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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A potent and electrifying critique of today's feminist movement announcing a fresh new voice in black feminismToday's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki... |
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A Princess in Theory: Reluctant Royals
Alyssa Cole - Avon
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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From acclaimed author Alyssa Cole comes the tale of a city Cinderella and her Prince Charming in disguise . . .Between grad school and multiple jobs, Naledi Smith doesn't have time for fairy tales ... or patience for the constant e-mails claiming she's betrothed to an African prince. Sure.... |
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Becoming
Michelle Obama - Crown Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling... |
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Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
Samantha Irby - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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A Vintage Paperback Original.A new rip-roaring essay collection from the smart, edgy, hilarious, unabashedly raunchy, and bestselling Samantha Irby.Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. She has left... |
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Fledgling: A Novel
Octavia E. Butler - Seven Stories Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Fledgling, Octavia Butler's last novel, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former... |
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Ibram X. Kendi
Format: Hardcover
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The story begins in 1619 - a year before the Mayflower - when the White Lion disgorges "some 20-and-odd Negroes" onto the shores of Virginia, inaugurating the African presence in what would become the United States. It takes us to the present, when African Americans, descendants... |
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Harlem Shuffle: A Novel
Colson Whitehead - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover
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"Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked . . ."To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their... |
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The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett - Riverhead Books
Format: Book
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.
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The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
bell hooks - Washington Square Press
Format: Paperback
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Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving. In The Will to Change, bell hooks gets to the heart of the matter and shows... |
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The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
Amanda Gorman - Viking Books
Format: Hardcover
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On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet, at age twenty-two, to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Her inaugural poem, "The Hill We Climb," is now available to cherish in this special edition. |
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