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A Spy in the Struggle
Aya de Leon
Format: Paperback
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Success used to be this savvy lawyer's only rule. But now she's putting everything on the line to bring a killer corporation to justice.Since childhood, Yolanda Vance has forged her desire to escape poverty into a laser-like focus that took her through prep school and Harvard Law.... |
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All God's Children
Aaron Gwyn
Format: Paperback
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A novel about the remarkable people living on the edge of freedom and slavery, All God's Children brings to life the paradoxes of the American frontier - a place of liberty and bondage, wild equality, and cruel injustice. In 1827, Duncan Lammons, a disgraced young man from Kentucky,... |
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Friend or Foe
Mimi
Format: Paperback
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JADE, CARMEN, SASHA and AMEKIA think they have an unbreakable friendship that's held together by their weekly girls' night, but their lives aren't what they portray them to be. Jade, a respected social worker, falls head over heels for a man who may put a major strain on her friendships... |
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The Cupid Effect
Dorothy Koomson
Format: Paperback
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Meet Ceri. She's giving up her life and job in London to follow her heart in Leeds.But Ceri has a bad habit of unintentionally inspiring other people to follow their hearts too - then desperately trying to solve the resulting problems. When she arrives in her new city it's not long... |
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Aftershocks: A Memoir
Nadia Owusu · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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This poetic, genre-bending work - blending memoir with cultural history - from Whiting Award winner Nadia Owusu grapples with the fault lines of identity, the meaning of home, black womanhood, and the ripple effects, both personal and generational, of emotional trauma. Nadia Owusu grew... |
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Sleep Well, My Lady
Kwei Quartey · Soho Crime
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Hard-hitting talk show host Augustus Seeza has become a household name in Ghana, though plagued by rumors of lavish overspending, alcoholism, and womanizing. He's dating the imposing, beautiful Lady Araba, who leads a self-made fashion empire. Araba's religious family believes Augustus... |
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You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism
Amber Ruffin
Format: Hardcover
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Now a writer and performer on Late Night with Seth Meyers and host of The Amber Ruffin Show, Amber Ruffin lives in New York, where she is no one's First Black Friend and everyone is, as she puts it, "stark raving normal." But Amber's sister Lacey? She's still living... |
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Black Girl In Love
Trey Anthony
Format: Paperback
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After a lifetime of never truly relating to the personal development experts because of the color of her skin, Trey Anthony has written the book she needed to read as a black woman trying to navigate a world filled with unique challenges that often acts like she doesn't exist.On the outside... |
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Black Firsts: 500 years of Trailblazing Achievements and Ground-Breaking Events
Jessie Carney Smith Ph.D. · Visible Ink Press
Pages: 800
Format: Paperback
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The first African American president, U.S. senator, and the first black lawyer in the Department of Education. The first black chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and the first African American commissioned officer in the Marine Corps. The first black professors in a variety of fields.... |
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Tumult!: The Incredible Life and Music of Tina Turner
Donald Brackett
Format: Paperback
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The narrative of Tumult! The Incredible Life and Music of Tina Turner is an extended exploration of the magical transformation of shy country girl Anna Mae Bullock into the boisterous force of nature we know today as Tina Turner. This is creative alchemy in action: turning into Turner is actually... |
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The Living is Easy
Dorothy West
Format: Paperback
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An insightful, witty novel set in early twentieth-century black Boston by the Harlem Renaissance's youngest member. "A powerful work." - Essence The first novel by Dorothy West - author of The Wedding - was one of only a handful to be published by black women during the 1940s.... |
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Why the Black Hole Sings the Blues
Ishmael Reed · Dalkey Archive Press
Format: Paperback
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A new collection of poems from the American author, poet, and playwright Ishmael Reed.
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Howard Thurman and the Disinherited: A Religious Biography
Paul Harvey
Format: Hardcover
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Teacher. Minister. Theologian. Writer. Mystic. Activist. No single label can capture the multiplicity of Howard Thurman's life, but his influence is written all over the most significant aspects of the Civil Rights movement. In 1936, he visited Mahatma Gandhi in India and subsequently... |
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Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance
Ntozake Shange
Format: Hardcover
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Many learned of Ntozake Shange's ability to blend movement with words when her acclaimed choreopoem for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf made its way to Broadway in 1976, eventually winning an Obie Award the following year. But before she found fame... |
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Why Didn't We Riot?: A Black Man in Trumpland
Issac J. Bailey · Other Press
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
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South Carolina-based journalist Issac J. Bailey reflects on a wide range of complex, divisive topics - from police brutality and Confederate symbols to respectability politics and white discomfort - which have taken on a fresh urgency with the protest movement sparked by George Floyd's... |
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Learning to Be: Finding Your Center After the Bottom Falls Out
Juanita Campbell Rasmus · IVP
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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It felt as though every nerve in my body was popping. Imagine large strong hands slowly applying pressure while breaking a family-size package of uncooked, dry spaghetti. I was the spaghetti. Breaking down one piece at a time. This is how Juanita Rasmus begins the wise, frank, and witty... |
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An Unlikely Proposal
Toni Shiloh
Format: Paperback(Mass Market Paperback - Original)
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Their friendship can survive almost anything ... For two best friends,marriage could be their greatest test yet ... Trinity Davis must not have heard firefighter Omar Young correctly. Did her handsome widowed best friend just suggest they get married? Omar needs a mom for his adorable... |
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The Rib King: A Novel
Ladee Hubbard · Amistad
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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"Ladee Hubbard's voice is a welcome original." - Mary GaitskillUpstairs, Downstairs meets Parasite: The acclaimed author of The Talented Ribkins deconstructs painful African American stereotypes and offers a fresh and searing critique on race, class, privilege, ambition,... |
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A Taste of Her Own Medicine
Tasha L. Harrison · Dirtyscribbler Press
Pages: 297
Format: Paperback
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"He looks like he could plow my north field without a horse."Sonja Watts needs to re-enter the workforce after divorcing her husband of thirteen years. Taking the advice of her sister Birdie and her best friend Estelle, she signs up for a six-week course for entrepreneurs; hoping... |
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A Greater Story: My Rescue, Your Purpose, and Our Place in God's Plan
Sam Collier · Baker Books
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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Each of us is living a story--the story of our life. For Sam Collier, his story started with rejection, because when he and his twin sister were born, their biological mother gave them up for adoption. Through the many obstacles and challenges throughout Sam's life, God would prove... |
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