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Non-Fiction
A Soldier's Wife: My Mother, the Marvelous Mrs. Marilyn A. Underwood
In this moving biography and memoir, Blair Underwood, acclaimed star of film, stage, and television, pays homage to his mother, sharing her well-lived life, and key lessons learned as a fashion designer, mother, and soldier’s wife. Born in Buffalo, New...
$28.00
Sncc: The New Abolitionists (Expanded Edition)
Howard Zinn’s classic account of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), one of the most significant and creative organizations to shape the course of the civil rights movement in the United States SNCC: The New Abolitionists has influenced generations of readers...
$23.00
Sit with Me: A No-Bs Journey to Mindfulness and Meditation
“I spent over a decade volunteering and working at Rikers Correctional Facility as their first-ever Mindfulness Coach. It was the most powerful and challenging work I would ever do. This is what I learned…” Oneika Mays will help you heal,...
$20.00
Signals Across Vast Distances: Essays and Tales
A call to courage and connection from prize-winning poet and champion of the arts and humanities Elizabeth Alexander. In this deeply personal book, Elizabeth Alexander gives us profound and galvanizing lessons from culture and life to move through challenging times....
$27.00
Shut Up and Read: A Memoir from Harriett's Bookshop
The author of It’s Me They Follow chronicles the improbable true story of how she left an abusive past to build a bookshop that survived the Covid pandemic and become an international sensation. Jeannine Cook always thought she’d open a bookshop in...
$29.00
Shift Your Life: Let Go of Survival Mode, Seize Your Moment, and Build the Future You Were Created for
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An inspiring and practical catalyst to break out of survival mode and walk in the fullness of God’s plan for your life—from the New York Times bestselling author of When God Speaks.“This book will stir your faith and push...
$26.00
She Outgrew the Wound
For over 10 years, poet r.h. Sin has provided a generation of young lovers with the words to heal from heartbreak, grow from pain, and find the courage to love again after disappointment. With She Outgrew the Wound, he continues this...
$19.00
Selected Poems American Classics Edition
“When Miss Brooks. . . writes out of her heart, out of her rich and living background, out of her very real talent, then she induces almost unbearable excitement.” — New York Times In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the...
$20.00
Segregation Games: Boston, Busing, and the Making of Red Sox Nation
A cultural history of race, resistance, and representation in a city divided by politics and playWhen outfielder Bernie Carbo joined the Red Sox in 1974, he brought with him a toy gorilla named Mighty Joe Young that became the team’s...
$44.00
Seeking Sexual Freedom: African Rites, Rituals, and Sankofa in the Bedroom
A delightful romp exploring African traditions around sexual pleasure, with the personal goal of self-discovery and liberation, by one of Africa’s preeminent feminists.While working on her first book, The Sex Lives of African Women, acclaimed feminist and activist Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah...
$29.00
The Secret War Against Hate: American Resistance to Antisemitism and White Supremacy
A USA Today BestsellerFrom the author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Hitler in Los Angeles, the definitive story of the intrepid activists and spies who fought against a resurgent movement of hate in America-a book that "should be read by every American who wants...
$33.00
A Second Sight: How the Wonder and Vision of Black Mediamakers Push America Toward Freedom
"I have been waiting for a book like this, and I’m so glad it's here." — Clint Smith, author of How the Word is Passed Since the nation’s founding, Black Americans have had a unique perspective on the U.S. experience—a “second...
$32.00
Searching for Jane Crow: Black Women and Mass Incarceration in America from the Auction Block to the Cell Block
A Ms. Magazine "Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2026" PickGives voice to the Black women whose lives were devastated by the carceral system and sheds powerful light on its slavery-based roots to transform how we think about mass incarcerationHistorian Talitha L. LeFlouria...
$32.00
Scale Boy: An African Childhood
An extraordinary chronicle of youth that evokes the paradoxes of modern Africa―complex, contradictory, and full of conflict, tragedy, and joy.Patrice Nganang, the acclaimed author of Dog Days, Mount Pleasant, and, most recently, A Trail of Crab Tracks, which was a 2022 New Yorker Book of...
$35.00
Save a Seat for Me: Notes on American Fatherhood
From the preeminent scholar on Black masculinity in America, Save a Seat for Me is Mark Anthony Neal’s attempt to bring his scholarship on fatherhood to a broader audience.Save a Seat for Me embraces the nuances of how contemporary frameworks of masculinity informed by...
$28.00
Salt, Sweat & Steam: The Fiery Education of an Accidental Chef
High pressure. Hot kitchens. A memoir of ambition, belonging, and coming-of-age in America's premiere culinary school."Her fast-moving coming-of-age memoir will appeal to anyone who’s been curious about culinary school."--Eater"What truly makes Salt, Sweat & Steam exceptional is that it is told from...
$30.00
Sails and Shadows: How the Portuguese Opened the Atlantic and Launched the Slave Trade
Kirkus Best Book of 2025How the early Portuguese Empire facilitated the modern slave trade.The Portuguese conquered the challenges of sailing the unforgiving Atlantic Ocean, extending their colonial empire along Africa's western shores. With their dedication to developing new sailing techniques...
$44.00
Run-DMC and Raising Hell: 40 Years
Take a deep dive into legendary hip-hop group Run-DMC’s groundbreaking album, Raising Hell, on its 40th anniversary with this handsome slipcased celebration.In 1985, Queens, New York–based rap group Run-DMC teamed with heavy metal producer Rick Rubin to record their breakthrough album...
$50.00
Royal Treatment: Jackie Robinson, Montreal, and the Breaking of Baseball's Color Barrier
The story of Jackie Robinson’s prodigious talent, his courageous journey, and his influence on both the game of baseball and American society writ large has been told well and often. What hasn’t been told is the full story of his...
$67.00
The Rough Side of the Mountain: A Memoir
A poignant and inspiring memoir from the current Georgia gubernatorial candidate about her modest, hardscrabble upbringing, and fully appreciating the selfless, loving, fierce, and altogether Southern-twinged lessons her family taught her. Long before Keisha Lance Bottoms rose to prominence in...
$30.00
Kylian Mbappe: The Definitive Biography
“This is Kylian Mbappe’s World Cup; we are just watching it.”—The New York TimesThe dynamic, authoritative life story of the world's greatest soccer player that paints a vivid portrait of Mbappé's meteoric rise to global stardom."Only the second teenager to...
$30.00
Konbit
Konbit is a Haitian Creole word, a way of living, for which there is no direct translation in the English language. It captures the communal life in Haiti and is used for every event where neighbors are called upon to help...
$20.00
Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America
“I loved this book.... I looked forward to [it] more than any other in a long time, and Howard Bryant exceeded my great expectations. Kings and Pawns is brilliantly conceived and powerfully written.” — David Maraniss, author of Path Lit by Lightning A...
$32.00
Keepers of a Movement: Black Collectors Who Preserve Art, Stories, and Legacies That Define Black Life
Features 39 Black art collectors who collect works in a variety of art mediums created by Black artists that span more than five decades.For centuries, Black artists across the African diaspora have been architects of cultural innovation, resilience, and transformation....
$50.00
Keep It Beautiful: Inside the Funkyverse of Shock G and Digital Underground
Visionary rapper of the groundbreaking "The Humpty Dance," producer of Tupac Shakur's iconic "I Get Around," and driving force of legendary hip-hop group Digital Underground, Shock G shares his story in Keep It Beautiful.This fully illustrated memoir by Gregory "Shock G"...
$35.00
Jefferson's Wolf: A Founding Father's Troubling Answer to the Problem of Slavery
A decisive reassessment of Thomas Jefferson’s long-debated views on slavery, showing that his chief antislavery strategy was racial exclusion: the removal of emancipated Black people from the United States.Toward the end of his life, Thomas Jefferson made his most famous...
$30.00
It's No Wonder: The Life and Times of Motown's Legendary Songwriter Sylvia Moy
"More than a biography, It's No Wonder is a long-overdue act of recognition."--Booklist (starred review) The biography of Sylvia Moy, Motown’s first certified female in-house producer and songwriter, and one of the authors behind classic hits like “My Cherie Amour,” “Uptight (Everything’s Alright),”...
$30.00
It's Never Too Late: A Memoir
The star of classic television series, including The Jeffersons and 227, reveals her difficult journey from a tempestuous childhood to becoming a confident Hollywood powerbroker and groundbreaker who paved the way for today’s superstar talents. Marla Gibbs has been a Hollywood icon for...
$29.00
It Starts with Anger: A Punk Beginning. an Afropunk Ending.
From the award-winning filmmaker and graphic novelist comes the untold origin story of the multimillion-dollar AFROPUNK Festival—beginning not with big stages or brand sponsorship, but with one Black kid’s search for belonging in the nineties New York City punk scene“A...
$32.00
Integration at Second Base: Jackie Robinson and the Quest for Black Citizenship
A new biography revealing the remarkable story of Jackie Robinson as a civil rights crusader Jackie Robinson is one of the most enduring icons of the great American pastime―the man who broke baseball’s color line in the twentieth century, opening...
$30.00