Black & African American

A Masterful Story Collection--thirteen Years In The Making--from National Book Award Winner Charles Johnson, Showcasing The Incredible Range And Resonant Vo...

Ancient, Ancient is a collection of short fiction by Kiini Ibura Salaam. Acclaimed author and critic Nalo Hopkinson writes, "Salaam treats words like the s...

be Prepared To Meet Three Unforgettable Women: twenty-two-year-old Skeeter Has Just Returned Home After Graduating From Ole Miss. She May Have A Degree, B...

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...

Shortlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller PrizeShortlisted for the 2022 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize\Winner of the Graywolf Press African Fiction P...

From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. A young man who returns to 1940...

With the chaos and devastation from their past relationships finally behind them, MACAL and THUY look to share a love filled with hot passion and romance. B...

This book chronicles the life of a young girl from age four to sixteen, living on the island of Jamaica. The stories examine important relationships in her ...

One of a series offering classic and contemporary fiction and other literary work for schools, to suit a range of ages and tastes. Maya Angelou's autobiogra...

A city full of lies, deceit, and cold-blooded murder, Detroit plays widow to drug cartel after drug cartel, and The Last Kings are the latest to take over t...

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...

From Jesmyn Ward--the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow--comes a haunt...

When It Was First Produced In 1959, A Raisin In The Sun Was Awarded The New York Drama Critics Circle Award For That Season And Hailed As A Watershed In Ame...

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...

ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society—and must...

“Amazing…I was completely surprised by the ending of this beautifully told and written book.” —Reese Witherspoon\“A triumph of historical fictionâ...

The Carter Boys are a rap group on the rise, and their name rings loud in Atlanta. With their pretty-boy looks and take-no-prisoners demeanor, all the men w...

Now in paperback, this deeply provocative novel reimagines the past as an eerie place that has startling resonance for readers today. Young Octavian is be...

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...

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...

Cyril Rowntree, a mixed-race Jamaican, migrates to Canada after his mother and surrogate grandfather die. Cyril arrives in Toronto and sets about earning a ...

As The Civil War Rages Between The States, A Courageous Pair Of Spies Plunge Fearlessly Into A Maelstrom Of Ignorance, Deceit, And Danger, Combining Their U...

One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, The Known World is a daring and ambitious work by Pulitzer Prize winner Edward P. Jones. The Known Wor...

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...

From award-winning author Sophfronia Scott comes the story of one young woman's bold journey to reclaim her birthright and carve out her own place in a wo...

In this "relentlessly gripping, brilliant" epic fantasy (James Islington), an ousted queen must join forces with a young warrior in order to reclaim her...

Ripped from the pages of the New York Times bestselling series The Family Business, Carl Weber and Eric Pete bring you To Paris with Love, a solo story abou...

In This Bravura Follow-up To The Pulitzer Prize, And National Book Award-winning #1 New York Times Bestseller The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead Bri...

Love, Betrayal and Loyalty on the Streets of Harlem Daruis, a.k.a. Rio, the only child of a singer turned alcoholic, feels he has nothing to hold on to ex...

One Of Barack Obama's Favorite Books Of The Year Oprah's Book Club Pick Named One Of The Top Ten Books Of The Year By The New York Times, Entertainment Week...

In the world of speculative fiction…some of your favorite authors…selected these stories for you to read.24 Award-winning Authors and IllustratorsBonus ...

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...

Shortlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller PrizeShortlisted for the 2022 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize\Winner of the Graywolf Press African Fiction P...

From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. A young man who returns to 1940...

The author recounts his spiritual encounter with the Holy Spirit and offers his understanding of God, the power of prayer, and the presence of the Holy Spir...

A gripping and exquisitely rendered story of forbidden love, betrayal, and murder, set against the brutality of the Jim Crow South. When Henry McAllan mov...

A Modern-day Fantasy Novel About Demons, Dreams, And A Young Woman Teaching English In Japan. Cybelle, An Expat, Lives In A Small City In The Kansai Region ...

NPR Book of the Year 2020 Electric Literature: One of 55 Books by Women and Nonbinary Writers of Color to Read in 2020 Lit Hub & The Millions: Most A...

A Literary Thriller That Addresses The Fate Of Undocumented Refugees Who Struggle To Survive In Nations That Do Not Want Them. Keita Ali Is On The Run. He I...

The Norton Critical Edition of this influential Harlem Renaissance novel includes related materials available in no other edition. Known only as the “Ex-...

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

With the chaos and devastation from their past relationships finally behind them, MACAL and THUY look to share a love filled with hot passion and romance. B...

EBONY and IVY are two college educated, baaad females who are cut from the same cloth. Raised as "sisters", due to their fathers being best friends and devo...

WINNER OF THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE\WINNER OF THE CITY OF CALGARY W.O. MITCHELL BOOK PRIZE\WINNER OF THE 2023 GEORGES BUGNET AWARD FOR FICTION\FINALI...

Way Past Cool was the first -- perhaps the only -- novel of urban American black life in the early 1990's: the era of collapsed structures, lost dreams, das...

Bestselling Author Robert Morgan Brings To Full And Vivid Life The Story Of A Runaway Slave Who, In 1850, Flees The South Carolina Plantation On Which He Wa...