Most interesting books from African or African American authors.
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James: A Novel by Percival Everett
Book25
Regular price $25.20Item Type: Print Book
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Model Number: Book25
Material: Paper
Flip the script on an American classic as Huck Finn steps to the side and Jim takes center stage in a powerful, and often very funny, story of family, home and freedom.
Vendor Name: Barnes & Noble
My Mother's Rules: A Practical Guide to Becoming an Emotional Genius by Lynn Toler
1932841229
Regular price $14.66Item Type: Print Book
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Model Number: 1932841229
Material: Paper
In this unique, profoundly inspirational memoir, Divorce Court star Judge Lynn Toler shares her mother's wisdom for learning to conquer anger and become immune to insult. Toler credits her mother's "rules" for life - a life that saw her grow up the daughter of a poor teen mother and endure a husband who suffered mental illness and alcoholism - with providing the grounding for her own success and happiness.
Vendor Name: Thriftbooks
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
0553279378
Regular price $4.19Item Type: Print Book
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Model Number: 0553279378
Material: Paper
Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS's American Masters. Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right.
Vendor Name: Thriftbooks
The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama
9780593237489
Regular price $19.99Item Type: Print Book
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Model Number: 9780593237489
Material: Paper
In an inspiring follow-up to her acclaimed memoir Becoming, former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today's highly uncertain world.
Vendor Name: Mahogany Books
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Book24
Regular price $14.99Item Type: Print Book
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Model Number: Book24
Material: Paper
A murder mystery locked inside a Great American Novel . . . Charming, smart, heart-blistering, and heart-healing.
Vendor Name: Amazon
Guidebook to Relative Strangers By Camille T. Dungy
book23
Regular price $10.90Item Type: Print Book
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Model Number: Book23
Material: Paper
As a working mother and poet-lecturer, Camille Dungy’s livelihood depended on travel. She crisscrossed America and beyond with her daughter in tow, history shadowing their steps, always intensely aware of how they were perceived, not just as mother and child but as black women. From the San Francisco of settlers’ dreams to the slave-trading ports of Ghana, from snow-white Maine to a festive yet threatening bonfire in the Virginia pinewoods, Dungy finds fear and trauma but also mercy, kindness, and community. Penetrating and generous, this is an essential guide for a troubled land.
Vendor Name: Amazon
Five-Carat Soul By James McBride
9780735216709
Regular price $18.00Item Type: Print Book
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Gender: Unisex
Model Number: 9780735216709
Material: Paper
A pinball machine zinging with sharp dialogue, breathtaking plot twists and naughty humor… McBride at his brave and joyous best.
Vendor Name: Penguin Random House
Air Traffic
9780525432210
Regular price $16.95Item Type: Print Book
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Gender: Unisex
Model Number: 9780525432210
Material: Paper
From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: an extraordinary memoir and blistering meditation on fatherhood, race, addiction, and ambition.
Vendor Name: Penguin Random House
A Lucky Man By Jamel Brinkley
Book22
Regular price $11.42Item Type: Print Book
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Gender: Unisex
Model Number: Book22
Material: Paper
'Full of subtle poignancy ... each story is a trenchant exploration of race and class, vividly conveying the tension between social codes of masculinity and the vulnerable, volatile self' New Yorker
Vendor Name: Waterstones
The Light of the World By Elizabeth Alexander
Book21
Regular price $34.00Item Type: Print Book
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Gender: Unisex
Model Number: Book21
Material: Paper
A deeply resonant memoir for anyone who has loved and lost, from acclaimed poet and Pulitzer Prize finalist Elizabeth Alexander.
Vendor Name: Grand Central Publishing
The Spook Who Sat By The Door by Sam Greenlee
Book20
Regular price $58.00Item Type: Print Book
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Gender: Unisex
Model Number: Book20
Material: Paper
Bantam Paperback 1970 - 13th Printing 1976
RARE Front Cover
Condition: good vintage condition - Typical shelf wear, age / color yellowing on outer pages, slight creases on a few pages, but no major issues -no writing or markings.
Vendor Name: Oldanwise
To Be A Slave, Julius Lester
Book18
Regular price $7.12Item Type: Print Book
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Model Number: Book17
Material: Paper
A must read, this book will break your heart and open your eyes. Organized into thematic chapters (The Auction Block, The Plantation, Resistance to Slavery, etc) it contains dozens upon dozens of narratives by former slaves of their first hand lived experiences within the horrible institution of slavery in America.
Vendor Name: Once Upon A Bookshop
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks 1963
Book17
Regular price $15.76Item Type: Print Book
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Gender: Unisex
Model Number: Book17
Material: Paper
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks 1963 Paperback Fawcett Crest Book Classic African American Author Fiction
Vendor Name: Jaymee
One is Enough (1981) by Flora Nwapa
Book16
Regular price $20.00Item Type: Print Book
Special Use: Book
Gender: Unisex
Model Number: Book16
Material: Paper
Binding: Mass market paperback
Publisher: Tana Press
Date of Publication: 1981, and this is the 1984 second printing
Number of Pages: 154
Size: 4 3/8" x 7"
Vendor Name: Angela and Jon
The Gorilla Hunters - a Tale of the Wilds of Africa, by R M Ballantyne.
Book15
Regular price $29.19Item Type: Print Book
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Gender: Unisex
Model Number: Book15
Material: Paper
Beautiful illustrated decorative antique book. Blue book decor
Good antique condition, some marks and wear to the cover and edges, no publication date, but the style is early twentieth century.
Vendor Name: Lesley Swann
Colliding Into Place
Book14
Regular price $14.00Item Type: Poetry Book
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Gender: Unisex
Model Number: Book14
Material: Paper
Colliding Into Place
is a ballad of love,
loss and healing.
It performs fluid
stages of growth
while transforming
and evolving
through dark valleys,
love tunnels and
open fields of moonlight.
Vendor Name: Nomtondotravels
Raptors in the Ricelands - Paperback
Book12
Regular price $21.95Item Type: Print Book
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Gender: Unisex
Model Number: Book12
Material: Paper
In the twenty-first century fictional community of Georgetown, SC, a story unfolds, revealing family secrets and conflicts that challenge cultural beliefs. With bighearted intention, newlyweds Florence and Chadwick Wineglass attempt to promote economic legacy, but their unconscious motives often ensnare those they assist. The Wineglasses become raptor-like in their generosity at a moment when other community members’ intentions also prove to be menacing.
Vendor Name: Author Ron Daise
Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway vintage hardcover
Book11
Regular price $34.44Item Type: Print Book
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Gender: Unisex
Model Number: Book11
Material: Paper
The most intimate and elaborately enhanced addition to the Hemingway Library series: Hemingway’s memoir of his safari across the Serengeti—presented with archival material from the Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Library and with the never-before-published safari journal of Hemingway’s second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer.
Vendor Name: Bookstore Bunny
In The Castle Of My Skin " by George Lamming
Book10
Regular price $21.25Item Type: Print Book
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Gender: Unisex
Model Number: Book10
Material: Paper
5.5 x 8 inch hardcover, with dust jacket. " In The Castle Of My Skin " by George Lamming, with an Introduction by Richard Wright. The end papers and the portrait of the author are by the west Indian artist Denis Williams ( McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. , 1954 ).
Vendor Name: Melissa Powers
Things i will tell my daughter book by Joan Thatiah
53726781191
Regular price $7.36Item Type: Print Book
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Gender: Unisex
Model Number: 53726781191
Material: Paper
“Marry a man who makes you feel good about yourself, Don’t just, don’t stay for the children”
Vendor Name: Kibanga Books
Dance of the Monkeys book by Ciku Kimeria
Book09
Regular price $12.36Item Type: Print Book
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Gender: Unisex
Model Number: Book09
Material: Paper
A fancy Nairobi engagement party turns deadly. What is to be a special night for Mwende and her fianc?, Oti, takes an unexpected twist. Private investigator, Wanjiru Mdaku, is in a race against time to find the culprit out to get Mwende, the daughter of the infamous local businessman, Al Capone wa County.
Vendor Name: Kibanga Books
Rough Silk book by Deborah Ouko Tendo
Book08
Regular price $15.43Item Type: Print Book
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Model Number: Book08
Material: Paper
It is a compelling cornrow life of a single father and the struggle to fend for his children amidst joblessness, and they eventually turn the corner. Then tragedy comes knocking.
Vendor Name: Kibanga Books
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Book07
Regular price $18.00Item Type: Print Book
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Gender: Unisex
Model Number: Book07
Material: Paper
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi is brilliantly written, and deeply researched, but I love it so much because of everything it made me feel. Sorrow, pain, despair, yes, but also understanding, recognition, triumph, joy, and hope. If you haven’t read this book, I’m so excited for you to experience it for the first time.
Vendor Name: Penguin Random House
Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan
9780385546294
Regular price $29.00Item Type: Print Book
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Gender: Unisex
Model Number: 9780385546294
Material: Paper
A forbidden affair erupts volcanically amid a decadent tropical wedding in this outrageous comedy of manners.
Vendor Name: Penguin Random House
Have I Ever Told You Black Lives Matter by Shani King
Book06
Regular price $13.89Item Type: Print Book
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Gender: Unisex
Model Number: Book06
Material: Paper
Black lives matter. That message would be self-evident in a just world, but in this world, all children need to hear it again and again, and not just to hear it but to feel and know it. This book affirms the message repeatedly, tenderly, with cumulative power and shared pride.
Vendor Name: Afroribooks
Used by Women or in Homes in East Africa. You can always identify by the heavenly Amber aura that surrounds in presence. Uunsi is both an incense and perfume.
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