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Vinson Cunningham

Great Expectations

"I'd seen the Senator speak a few times before my life got caught up, however distantly, with his, but the first time I can remember paying real attention was when he delivered the speech announcing his r…

Warona Jay

The Grand Scheme of Things

Two unlikely friends hatch an extraordinary scheme to expose the theater world in this wildly entertaining and sharply observed debut novel exploring perception, redemption, and how success shapes us all.…

Chester Himes

The End of a Primitive

Two lives spiral into a chaotic, fatal pas de deux during a weekend of sex, alcohol and violence—from the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series Years ago, Jesse Robinson and Kriss Cummings had…

Kashana Cauley

The Survivalists

"In the wake of her parents' death, Aretha, a habitually single Black lawyer, has had only one obsession in life-success-until she falls for Aaron, a coffee entrepreneur. Moving into his Brooklyn brownsto…

Ruth P Watson

A Right Worthy Woman

"In the vein of The Engineer's Wife and Carolina Built, an inspiring novel based on the remarkable true story of Virginia's Black Wall Street and the indomitable Maggie Lena Walker, the daughter of a form…

Denny S Bryce

The Trial of Mrs. Rhinelander

Inspired by a real-life scandal that was shocking even for the tumultuous Roaring Twenties, this captivating novel tells the story of a pioneering Black journalist, a secret interracial marriage among the…

Mary Monroe

Double Lives

The latest twist-filled novel in award-winning New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe's Depression-era Alabama saga tells the riveting tale of identical twin sisters with a talent for switching liv…

Aaliyah Bilal

Temple Folk

Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction A “splendid and grand collection” (Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer Prize­–winning author of The Known World) portraying the lived experiences of Black Musl…

Tananarive Due

The Reformatory

"A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he's sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and inj…

Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction

"Critical and cultural interrogations of African fiction, showcasing how each author's work engages with Afro-centered futurism. Through ethnographic reflections and intense scrutinies of African writing,…

Glenn L Starks

A Seat at the Table

"Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was both the first African American woman elected to the US Congress and the first African American woman of a major political party to make a serious run for president of…

North Americans

Going Steady (Limited Edition)

Amy Sodaro

Lifting the Shadow

Lifting the Shadow examines how the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Montgomery’s Legacy Museum and Tulsa’s Greenwood Rising are challenging the national narrative on slavery and r…

Prithi Kanakamedala

Brooklynites

"Brooklyn has a distinct story in the history of social justice. Explore the rich history of New York City's second largest borough, and the thriving nineteenth-century free Black community that once call…

Dionne Brand

Salvage

"Dionne Brand explores English and American literature, and the colonial aesthetic that shaped her sense of self and the world, of what was possible and what was not"--

Renee Gladman

To After That (Toaf)

"Originally published in 2008 in the groundbreaking Atelos series, To After That (TOAF) introduced a new kind of writing - somewhere between criticism and memoir and philosophy - that Renee Gladman has co…

Quito Swan

Pasifika Black

ASALH 2023 Book Prize Winner A lively living history of anti-colonialist movements across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans Oceania is a vast sea of islands, large scale political struggles and i…

Gayl Jones

Song for Almeyda and Song for Anninho

'Gayl Jones's work represents a watershed in American literature . . . her truth-telling, filled with beauty, tragedy, humour and incisiveness, is unmatched' Imani Perry Two epic poems brimming with inti…

Ralph Ellison

The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison

"The ... letters of the ... author of Invisible Man [offer] insights into the riddle of American identity, the writer's craft, and his own life and work"--