Black & African American

"In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry, freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker an...

A Magnetic Novel About Two Families, Strangers To Each Other, Who Are Forced Together On A Long Weekend Gone Terribly Wrong Amanda And Clay Head Out To A Re...

When Major Gryffth Hockaday is called to the front lines of the Civil War, his new bride is left to care for her husband’s three-hundred-acre farm and inf...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Will an ancient curse darken the skies over Camino Island? Bruce Cable and Mercer Mann are about to find out.Look for John ...

Maya Angelou, One Of The Best-loved Authors Of Our Time, Shares The Wisdom Of A Remarkable Life In This Best-selling Spiritual Classic. This Is Maya Angelou...

When A White Couple Gives Birth To A Baby With Distinctly Black Features, A Family Is Thrown Into Turmoil. Barbara Delinsky.Categories: Literature & Fic...

Austin Clarke.Categories: Literature & Fiction United States Black & African AmericanHistorical

“wholly Engrossing, Exquisitely Researched, And So Timely. Sadeqa Johnson Brings A Fresh Telling To A Story We Think We Already Know, Making It Beautifull...

Named One Of The Most-anticipated Books Of 2021 By: O, The Oprah Magazine, The Millions, Refinery29, Garden & Gun, Publishers Lunch, Buzzfeed, The Rumpu...

Death Comes for the Archbishop is Willa Cather's best known novel. This epic, is a dream like, mythic story of a life lived simply in the southwestern deser...

In This Moving Debut Novel, Two Estranged Siblings Must Set Aside Their Differences To Deal With Their Mother's Death And Her Hidden Past--a Journey Of Disc...

In The Heart of a Woman Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to go to New York. There she enters the society and world of black artists and wr...

James Weldon Johnson ; With An Introduction By Carl Van Vechten ; With An Introduction To The Vintage Edition By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Originally Published...

Oberlin, Ohio, 1868. Lisbeth Johnson Was Born Into Privilege In The Antebellum South. Jordan Freedman Was Born A Slave To Mattie, Lisbeth's Beloved Nurse. T...

Young Hiram Walker Was Born Into Bondage--and Lost His Mother And All Memory Of Her When He Was A Child--but He Is Also Gifted With A Mysterious Power. Hira...

The Story Of Two Different Families, Headed By A Former Slave And By A Quaker, Who Settle In Texas During The Civil War. Paulette Jiles. Map On Endpapers. I...

"Homegoing is an inspiration." —Ta-Nehisi Coates An unforgettable New York Times bestseller of exceptional scope and sweeping vision that traces the desc...

A provocative debut novel about a marriage in crisis that asks the question: Can you ever be rooted in a home that’s on the brink of collapse?\“Beautifu...

In The Tradition Of Greg Iles And Dennis Lehane Comes A Powerful New Voice In American Fiction. Locke's Debut Thriller Involves Murder, Greed, And Redemptio...

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when...

Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of a...

In 1972, When Workers In Pottstown, Pennsylvania, Were Digging The Foundations For A New Development, The Last Thing They Expected To Find Was A Skeleton At...

At eighteen, Ben is in the world, but not of it. He is too large, too awkward, too inhumanly made. Now estranged from his family, he must find his own path...

A Powerful And Taut Novel About Racial Tensions In La, Following Two Families—one Korean-american, One African-american—grappling With The Effects Of A ...

Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when...

An Oprah Book Club Selection! Lalita Tademy's epic novel is based on the lives of four generations of African American women and is the result of years of ...

A New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club Pick-the unique and deeply moving saga of four generations of African-American women whose journey from s...

A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man's life in the highly anticipated debut novel from one of The New Yorker's risin...

There Is Only One Known Queen Who Ruled A Kingdom On American Soil. This Is Her Story-- Provided By Publisher.Categories: Literature & Fiction Women's F...

Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963 “Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say, ‘Wait.’ But ...

In 1972, When Workers In Pottstown, Pennsylvania, Were Digging The Foundations For A New Development, The Last Thing They Expected To Find Was A Skeleton At...

Inspired by her Sundance Festival award-winning film "Daughters of the Dust," Julie Dash has put her cinematic vision on the page, penning a rich, magical n...

*Winner of the PEN Open Book Award* *Winner of the Whiting Award**Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award and Aspen Words Literary Prize* *Nominated fo...

The Compelling, Hidden Story Of Cathy Williams, A Former Slave And The First Woman To Ever Serve In The Us Army Here's The First Thing You Need To Know Abou...

“Paul Theroux has exploited this biographical lacuna with great shrewdness and gusto… his fictional account of Blair’s life there [Burma] is a valid a...

A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award (Fiction)One of Barack Obama's Summer ReadsA Best Book of the Year Fro...

From New York Times-bestselling author James Lee Burke comes a novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of charac...

James McBride's memoir, The Color of Water, was a literary achievement that topped bestseller lists for more than two years. Now McBride turns his extraor...

Nella Larsen’s fascinating exploration of race and identity—the inspiration for the Netflix film directed by Rebecca Hall, starring Tessa Thompson and R...

Marian Forrester is the symbolic flower of the Old American West. She draws her strength from that solid foundation, bringing delight and beauty to her eld...

From the beloved author of the national bestseller The Book of Negroes comes “a book for our times” (Maclean’s) about family, identity and the streng...

In This Explosive Addition To The New York Times Bestselling Series, Ashley Antoinette Brings You Pain, Pleasure, Love, Hate, As Yaya Struggles To Hold It A...

A Novel About Black Americans In Florida That Centers On The Life Of Janie And Her Three Marriages. Foreword / Edwidge Danticat -- Their Eyes Were Watching ...

From the prizewinning international literary star: the searing and powerful story of one man's search for redemption. Dinaw Mengestu's first novel, The Be...

A Self-portrait Of A Black Teenage Girl, Big, Fat, Unloved, With A Father Who Rapes Her And A Jealous Mother Who Screams Abuse. For Precious, As She Is Call...

Chosen by John Updike as a Today Show Book Club Pick. Already an award-winning writer, ZZ Packer now shares with us her debut, Drinking Coffee Elsewhere. ...

A Self-portrait Of A Black Teenage Girl, Big, Fat, Unloved, With A Father Who Rapes Her And A Jealous Mother Who Screams Abuse. For Precious, As She Is Call...

Discover the bone-chilling adventures that made Goosebumps one of the bestselling children's book series of all time. Now with all-new bonus materials! Sa...