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My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis (Pre-order, Nov 2)
Vanessa Nakate A manifesto and memoir about climate justice and how we can—and must—build a livable future for all, inclusive to all, by a rising star of... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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A Handful of Earth, a Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia Butler
Lynell George A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler offers a blueprint for a creative life from the perspective of award-winning... AntiracismAutobiography & Memoir
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Ablaze with Color
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All That She Carried
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Tiya Miles A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft an extraordinary testament to people... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna
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Beautiful Country
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Qian Julie Wang In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country.” Yet when seven-year-old Qian arrives in New York City in 1994 full... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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Black Nerd Problems
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William Evans, Omar Holmon The creators of the popular website Black Nerd Problems bring their witty and unflinching insight to this engaging collection of pop culture essays on everything from Mario Kart and The... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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Bound for the Promised Land
Kate Clifford Larson Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero The essential, “richly researched”* biography of Harriet Tubman, revealing a complex woman who “led a remarkable life, one that her... AntiracismAutobiography & Memoir
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An Oral History of Tupac Shakur
Sheldon Pearce A New Yorker writer's intimate, revealing account of Tupac Shakur's life and legacy, timed to the fiftieth anniversary of his birth and twenty-fifth anniversary of... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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Chronicling Stankonia
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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
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David Driskell
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Don't Let It Get You Down:
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Dwyane
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Entertaining Race
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From the Streets of Shaolin
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Gathering Blossoms Under Fire
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Giannis
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Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest
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I Can't Date Jesus
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Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells
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In Search for the Color Purple
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James Baldwin
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Jump at the Sun:
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Let's Talk about Hard Things
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Letters to a Young Athlete
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Looking for Lorraine
The Radiant & Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
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Memorial Drive
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More Than Enough
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My Love Story
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Tina Turner Tina Turner—the long-reigning queen of rock & roll and living legend—sets the record straight about her illustrious career and complicated personal life in this eye-opening... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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Nina
A Story of Nina Simone
Traci N. Todd This illuminating and defining picture book biography illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Christian Robinson, tells the story of little Eunice who grew up to become the... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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No Name in the Street
James Baldwin An extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies that displays James Baldwin's fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works,... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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Bad Fat Black Girl: Sesali Bowen w/ Amber J. Phillips
Reparations Club WHO & WHAT: A VIRTUAL EVENT w/ author Sesali Bowen and storyteller, filmaker, and art director, Amber J. Phillips, in conversation about her ode to trap... Autobiography & MemoirEvents
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Harriet E. Wilson LONELY MAG SMITH! See her as she walks with downcast eyes and heavy heart. It was not always thus. She HAD a loving, trusting heart.... AntiracismAutobiography & Memoir
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Persepolis 2
The Story of a Return (Pantheon Graphic Library)
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Pigskins to Paintbrushes
The Story of Football-Playing Artist Ernie Barnes
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Pop Song
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Larissa Pham "A warm and expansive portrait of a woman’s mind that feels at once singular and universal," this collection of essays interweaves commentary on modern life,... ArtAutobiography & Memoir
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Radical Vision
A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry
Soyica Diggs Colbert In this acclaimed biography of Lorraine Hansberry, Soyica Diggs Colbert narrates a life at the intersection of art and politics, arguing that for Hansberry the... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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Ralph Lemon
Modern Dance
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Seeing Ghosts
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Soledad Brother
The Prison Letters of George Jackson
George Jackson A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, Soledad Brother is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful appraisal of the prison system... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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Star Child
A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler (Pre-Order, Jan 25)
Ibi Zoboi From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler. Acclaimed novelist Ibi... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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Sweat the Technique
Rakim Revelations On Creativity From The Lyrical Genius On the heels of Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Prize, as the world begins to recognize the creative side of... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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The Autobiography of Gucci Mane
Gucci Mane & Neil Martinez-Belkin For the first time Gucci Mane tells his extraordinary story in his own words. It is “as wild, unpredictable, and fascinating as the man himself”... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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The Black Panther Party
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David F. Walker, Marcus Kwame Anderson A bold and fascinating graphic novel history of the revolutionary Black Panther Party.Founded in Oakland, California, in 1966, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was... AntiracismArt
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The Butterfly Effect
How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America
Marcus J. Moore This first cultural biography of rap superstar and "master of storytelling" (The New Yorker) Kendrick Lamar explores his meteoric rise to fame and his profound... Autobiography & MemoirBooks
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The Complete Persepolis
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The Dead Are Arising
The Life of Malcolm X
Les Payne & Tamara Payne An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author’s interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative. Les Payne,... AntiracismAutobiography & Memoir
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The Marathon Don't Stop
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The Spook Who Sat by the Door
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The Tao of Wu
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The Three Mothers
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Anna Malaika Tubbs Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been... AntiracismAutobiography & Memoir
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Why Solange Matters
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Wild Thing
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