Collection: Staff Picks

"Over a decade after its publication, one book on dating has people firmly in its grip."--The New York Times   We already rely on science...

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James--from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in...

  The creator of Here Wee Read, Charnaie Gordon, and the New York Times bestselling publisher and author of Mae Among the Stars, Roda Ahmed, debut their first-ever...

A story for all ages from the author of the #1 bestselling Born a Crime "But sooner or later your mother will find us," Walter said,...

From Plant Doctor Maryah Greene, as seen on Good Morning America, Vogue and The Cut, comes a beautiful and necessary picture book about a little boy who loses his...

In the vein of Luster and Queenie, an unflinching portrayal of high-paid sex work in the age of the internet-an intoxicating, bold debut from a dazzling new voice....

Body rites as a holistic healing journey, anchored in the practice of decolonizing healing and reclaiming body sovereignty, reaches back into indigenous roots and land-based...

SKEW Magazine is Level Ground’s experimental art + dialogue magazine; an annual Black art and dialogue print publication with an accompanying digital hub that is cooperatively...

It's murder in paradise as a woman uncovers a host of secrets off the rocky California coast in a gripping novel of suspense by New York...

A brilliant, multi-media work about artist, filmmaker, and community organizer Ben Caldwell. KAOS Theory: The Afrokosmic Ark of Ben Caldwell tells the story of filmmaker, educator...

An accessible and popular introduction to African photography and film from the mid-twentieth century to the present day Drawing from archival imagery and documents, interviews...

  Loam Candles is a small batch, handmade candle company based in Los Angeles, California. We craft scents that celebrate and honor the magic of...

  The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world...

The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, curates this groundbreaking anthology of all-new stories of Black horror, exploring not only...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights and Inciting Joy shares this new chronicle of small, daily wonders--and it is exactly the book we need in these...

Poemhood: Our Black Revival — History, Folklore & the Black Experience: A Young Adult Poetry Anthology This powerful, breathtaking Black YA poetry anthology edited by Amber McBride,...

With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s struggle to break free of her rigid Rastafarian upbringing, ruled by...

  "I write about people who do extraordinary things. It just turned out that it was called science fiction." - Octavia E. Butler   Octavia...

Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn...

What does it mean to be a body behind a screen, lost in the hustle of an online world? In our age of digital hyper-connection,...

Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise meets Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity in a Black woman’s coming-of-age story, chronicling a life-changing friendship, the interplay between music fandom and identity, and the slipperiness...

Tender is the first monograph by artist Carla Williams. Made in private between 1984 and 1999 and kept mostly to herself for more than thirty years,...