Books to Celebrate Black History Month

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Aftershocks: A Memoir Cover Image

Aftershocks: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Nadia Owusu
$26.00
ISBN: 9781982111229
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Published: Simon & Schuster - January 12th, 2021
Black Buck Cover Image

Black Buck (Hardcover)

By Mateo Askaripour
$26.00
ISBN: 9780358380887
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Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - January 5th, 2021
The Good Lord Bird: A Novel Cover Image

The Good Lord Bird: A Novel (Paperback)

By James McBride
$16.00
ISBN: 9781594632785
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Published: Riverhead Books - August 5th, 2014
The Prophets Cover Image

The Prophets (Hardcover)

By Robert Jones, Jr.
$27.00
ISBN: 9780593085684
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Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - January 5th, 2021
Take a Hint, Dani Brown: A Novel (The Brown Sisters #2) Cover Image

Take a Hint, Dani Brown: A Novel (The Brown Sisters #2) (Paperback)

By Talia Hibbert
$15.99
ISBN: 9780062941237
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Published: Avon - June 23rd, 2020
Confessions in B-Flat Cover Image

Confessions in B-Flat (Paperback)

By Donna Hill
$15.99
ISBN: 9781640638990
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Published: Sideways Books - November 24th, 2020
American Spy: A Novel Cover Image

American Spy: A Novel (Paperback)

By Lauren Wilkinson
$17.00
ISBN: 9780812988284
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - March 17th, 2020
The Intuitionist: A Novel Cover Image

The Intuitionist: A Novel (Paperback)

By Colson Whitehead
$16.00
ISBN: 9780385493000
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Published: Anchor - January 4th, 2000
King of the Rising (Islands of Blood and Storm #2) Cover Image

King of the Rising (Islands of Blood and Storm #2) (Paperback)

By Kacen Callender
$16.99
ISBN: 9780316454940
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Published: Orbit - December 1st, 2020
Fledgling Cover Image

Fledgling (Paperback)

By Octavia E. Butler
$16.99
ISBN: 9780446696166
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Published: Grand Central Publishing - January 2nd, 2007
Master of Poisons Cover Image

Master of Poisons (Hardcover)

By Andrea Hairston
$27.99
ISBN: 9781250260543
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Published: Tordotcom - September 8th, 2020
Heaven, My Home (A Highway 59 Novel #2) Cover Image

Heaven, My Home (A Highway 59 Novel #2) (Paperback)

By Attica Locke
$16.99
ISBN: 9780316363396
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Published: Mulholland Books - August 25th, 2020
An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel Cover Image

An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel (Paperback)

By Tayari Jones
$16.95
ISBN: 9781616208684
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Published: Algonquin Books - February 5th, 2019
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir Cover Image

The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Wayétu Moore
$26.00
ISBN: 9781644450314
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Published: Graywolf Press - June 2nd, 2020
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Party of Two (Paperback)

By Jasmine Guillory
$16.00
ISBN: 9780593100820
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Published: Berkley - June 23rd, 2020
My Vanishing Country: A Memoir Cover Image

My Vanishing Country: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Bakari Sellers
$26.99
ISBN: 9780062917454
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Published: Amistad - May 19th, 2020
Willie: The Game-Changing Story of the NHL's First Black Player Cover Image

Willie: The Game-Changing Story of the NHL's First Black Player (Hardcover)

By Willie O'Ree, Michael McKinley, Jarome Iginla (Foreword by)
$26.00
ISBN: 9780735239746
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Published: Viking - October 20th, 2020
I Came As a Shadow: An Autobiography Cover Image

I Came As a Shadow: An Autobiography (Hardcover)

By John Thompson
$29.99
ISBN: 9781250619358
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Published: Henry Holt and Co. - December 15th, 2020
The Big Three: Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, and the Rebirth of the Boston Celtics Cover Image

The Big Three: Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, and the Rebirth of the Boston Celtics (Hardcover)

By Michael Holley
$28.00
ISBN: 9780316489942
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Published: Hachette Books - December 1st, 2020
The Gucci Mane Guide to Greatness Cover Image

The Gucci Mane Guide to Greatness (Hardcover)

By Gucci Mane, Soren Baker (With)
$384.00
ISBN: 9781982146788
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Published: Simon & Schuster - October 13th, 2020
This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman Cover Image

This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman (Hardcover)

By Ilhan Omar
$27.99
ISBN: 9780062954213
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Published: Dey Street Books - May 26th, 2020
Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights Cover Image

Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights (Hardcover)

By Gretchen Sorin
$28.95
ISBN: 9781631495694
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Published: Liveright - February 11th, 2020
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest (American Music) Cover Image

Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest (American Music) (Paperback)

By Hanif Abdurraqib
$16.95
ISBN: 9781477316481
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Published: University of Texas Press - February 1st, 2019
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Just as I Am: A Memoir Cover Image

Just as I Am: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Cicely Tyson
$28.99
ISBN: 9780062931061
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Published: HarperCollins Publishers - January 26th, 2021
More Myself: A Journey Cover Image

More Myself: A Journey (Hardcover)

By Alicia Keys
$29.99
ISBN: 9781250153296
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Published: Flatiron Books - March 31st, 2020
Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For Cover Image

Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For (Paperback)

By Susan Rice
$20.00
ISBN: 9781501189982
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Published: Simon & Schuster - August 4th, 2020
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals Cover Image

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals (Paperback)

By Saidiya Hartman
$17.95
ISBN: 9780393357622
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - January 14th, 2020
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South Cover Image

The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South (Paperback)

By Michael W. Twitty
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062379276
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Published: Amistad - July 31st, 2018
Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America Cover Image

Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America (Hardcover)

By Stacey Abrams
$27.99
ISBN: 9781250257703
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Published: Henry Holt and Co. - June 9th, 2020
Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights Cover Image

Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights (Paperback)

By Mikki Kendall, A. D'Amico (Illustrator)
$19.99
ISBN: 9780399581793
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Published: Ten Speed Press - November 5th, 2019
Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle Cover Image

Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle (Hardcover)

By Elizabeth Hutton Turner (Editor), Austen Barron Bailly (Editor)
$45.00
ISBN: 9780295747040
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Published: University of Washington Press - November 15th, 2019
Horace Pippin, American Modern Cover Image

Horace Pippin, American Modern (Hardcover)

By Anne Monahan
$50.00
ISBN: 9780300243307
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Published: Yale University Press - February 25th, 2020
GLORY: Magical Visions of Black Beauty Cover Image

GLORY: Magical Visions of Black Beauty (Hardcover)

By Kahran Bethencourt, Regis Bethencourt, Amanda Seales (Contributions by)
$30.00
ISBN: 9781250204561
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Published: St. Martin's Press - October 20th, 2020
The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food: A Cookbook Cover Image

The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food: A Cookbook (Hardcover)

By Marcus Samuelsson, Osayi Endolyn (With), Yewande Komolafe (With)
$38.00
ISBN: 9780316480680
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Published: Voracious - October 27th, 2020
Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking: A Cookbook Cover Image

Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking: A Cookbook (Hardcover)

By Toni Tipton-Martin
$35.00
ISBN: 9781524761738
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Published: Clarkson Potter - November 5th, 2019
Vegetable Kingdom: The Abundant World of Vegan Recipes Cover Image

Vegetable Kingdom: The Abundant World of Vegan Recipes (Hardcover)

By Bryant Terry
$30.00
ISBN: 9780399581045
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Published: Ten Speed Press - February 11th, 2020