Black & African American

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...

Death Comes for the Archbishop: A Rediscovered BookCategories: Religion & Spirituality Literature & FictionWestern

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...

"Sisters in Arms is heartwarming but fierce, a novel brimming with camaraderie and fire, starring women you'd love to make your friends. Prickly, musical ...

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...

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

*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...

Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart...

Ptolemy Grey Is A 91-year-old Man, Suffering From Dementia And Living As A Recluse In His Los Angeles Apartment. Then Robyn Small, A 17-year-old Family Fri...

The new novel from Nobel laureate Toni Morrison.Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child is a searing tale about the way childhood trauma shapes and misshap...

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...

This Highly Acclaimed Post-apocalyptic Novel Of Hope And Terror From Award-winning Author Octavia E. Butler Pairs Well With 1984 Or The Handmaid's Tale (joh...

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...

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...

Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart...

#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham takes you back to Camino Island where bookseller Bruce Cable and novelist Mercer Mann always manage to fin...

In the third and final installment of The Fix Trilogy, two worlds that have been running parallel finally collide. Persia Chandler has managed to get her l...

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...

From the bestselling author of The Color of Water and Song Yet Sung comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown’s antislavery crusad...

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...

Before Leaving, City Is Given A Strange Book Without An Author Called Long Division. He Learns That One Of The Book's Main Characters Is Also Named City Col...

Narrative of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, by Frederick Douglass, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions...