Non-Fiction
Non-Fiction
Experienced: On the Road with Jimi Hendrix and Beyond
Jimi Hendrix’s road manager and confidant Eric Barrett breaks fifty-five years of silenceAs Jimi Hendrix’s road manager, Eric Barrett was there when the amps blew in Milan, when Hendrix set Woodstock ablaze, when paranoia crackled through the Toronto airport, when...
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Expecting Inequity: How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black Americans
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Expecting Inequity: How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black Americans
An unsettling exploration of the persistence of racism in reproductive healthcare in the US—and why even affluent Black women are imperiled by substandard care.From a leading expert on race, class, maternal health, and reproductive rights.Racism in maternal healthcare is not...
$33.00
Everybody's Fly: A Life of Art, Music, and Changing the Culture
Named a Must-Read Book by W Magazine, Time, and more“Everybody’s Fly could comfortably sit alongside books by Richard Price, Lucy Sante, Tom Wolfe, or Ed McBain, chronicling New York from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s with both vivid, journalistic descriptions and the...
$32.00
Every Inch a Lady: My Amazing Journey from Dear Harlem to Haute Couture and Beyond
Reminiscent of style icon Iris Apfel's New York Times bestseller Accidental Icon and echoes of Andre Leon Talley’s The Chiffon Trenches comes the entertaining and thoughtful long-awaited memoir from the irrepressible groundbreaking fashion powerhouse Audrey Smaltz. There has never been, nor will there ever be anyone...
$28.00
The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution
"Gregory E. O’Malley’s The Escapes of David George is a gripping, novelistic study of the remarkable man whose life forces all of us to reexamine the realities of colonial slavery and the conflicted legacies of the American Revolution." --Henry Louis Gates, Jr."remarkable...
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Equinox
A brilliant new collection by the great Caribbean writers and scholar: “an engaging, deep-hearted, strong-spirited, and richly musical poet” (The Multicultural Review) Equinox is an unforgettable and never-before-published masterwork completed by Kamau Brathwaite before his death in 2020. Written in his...
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Enslaved on the Trail of Tears: Race, Removal and the Transformation of Indian Territory
A Harrowing Heritage of Resilience
During the era of Indian Removal, scores of men, women and children of African descent were forced west alongside the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), and Seminole Nations.
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Echo-Mirror: Dubpoems of Klyde Broox
The long-awaited collection by much-loved dubpoet Klyde Broox, Echo-Mirror is a tour of his writings over his lifetime. Rich with voice and song, the poems and essays within this collection are meant to be heard as much as read but still resound...
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Echoes of Cabrini-Green: Letters to My Mother
A powerful memoir of love, survival, and resilience, told through intimate letters In Echoes of Cabrini-Green, Rudolph Elliot Willis tells the story of his journey from Chicago’s most notorious public housing project to the halls of academia and medicine. Framed as...
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Eat with Afia: A Celebration of Plant-Based Ghanaian Cooking
"A dazzling journey into the delicious world of Ghanaian cooking" (Nisha Vora)—from the beloved creator of Eat with AfiaAfia Amoako grew up in a kitchen that was never quiet, never empty, and never boring. Food, she understood from a young...
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The Double Dutch Fuss: A Memoir
In this raw and lyrical memoir as rich and insightful as How to Say Babylon and as vulnerable and provocative as Heavy, an Emmy Award-winning director chronicles his struggle to break free from—and live outside of—the prescribed paradigms of Blackness and masculinity that shaped...
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Designed to Succeed: A Faith-Driven Blueprint to Building the Life You Were Created to Live
Success May Not Be What You Think It Is Grammy Award winner Kevin Olusola of the multiplatinum a cappella group Pentatonix and international life coach Donovan Dee Donnell have seen it all. They've had the applause, money, and everything people...
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Decoding the Devil: Black Women Codebreakers and the Secret War Against Stalin's Bomb
As groundbreaking as Code Girls and Hidden Figures, this is the shocking true story of two segregated codebreaking units racing to unlock Stalin’s atomic secrets in the face of a rapidly expanding Soviet nuclear threat at the dawn of the Cold War. Facing...
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Dear Mothership: Poems
From the author of Maybe the Saddest Thing and Silencer comes a playful yet profound poetry collection that orbits the intersections of public loss, private grief, (dis)connection, capitalism, and identity. In Dear Mothership, Marcus Wicker channels the lyrical dexterity of Outkast and the speculative vision...
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Daylight Come: Harry Belafonte and the World He Made
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by The New York Times“Daylight Come takes us to places no biography in recent memory has . . . This book fills the heart and mind, and is essential reading for our times.” —Hilton AlsA...
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Moon U.S. Civil Rights Trail: A Traveler's Guide to the People, Places, and Events That Made the Movement (Revised)
The U.S. Civil Rights Trail offers a vivid glimpse into the story of Black America's fight for freedom and equality. From eye-opening landmarks to celebrations of triumph over adversity, experience a tangible piece of history with Moon U.S. Civil Rights Trail....
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Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment
NATIONAL BESTSELLER"This book, I suspect, will detonate over certain corners in America.... Darkology is a major and thrilling work of American history." ―Dwight Garner, New York Times Book Review, cover storyAs Heard on NPR's Fresh Air: "Quite enlightening." ―Terry Gross"Tremendous.... Barnes has corralled the...
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A Moment in the Sun: Black Manhattan Before the Civil War
A Moment in the Sun dispels the pernicious narrative that in New York City, slavery was followed by a hundred years of poverty and destitution. Dispelling the persistent narrative that abject poverty followed the end of slavery in New York City,...
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The Cure for Everything: The Epic Struggle for Public Health and a Radical Vision for Human Thriving
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The Cure for Everything: The Epic Struggle for Public Health and a Radical Vision for Human Thriving
The inspiring story of how we overcame a history of infectious disease, poisonous environments, and early death and unlocked an explosion in human potential—and a vision for the work ahead to optimize human flourishing in the twenty-first century“Michelle Williams understands...
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The Cruelty of Nice Folks: Why Minneapolis Is the Story of America
“In writing a book about Minneapolis, Justin Ellis has really written a book about America's favorite lie—that good intentions lead to justice. Ellis is a rigorous historian and a visceral storyteller, and he has produced something essential: a reckoning with...
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The Mixed Marriage Project: A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family
From Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body and a writer who “has brilliantly illuminated the Black experience in America for decades” (Bryan Stevenson), comes a spirited and riveting memoir of growing up in an interracial family in 1960s Chicago and a...
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The Crown's Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas
For readers of Annette Gordon-Reed and Nikole Hannah-Jones, the shocking untold story of the British royal family’s centuries-long investment in slavery and continued profiting off its legacy—from Elizabeth I to the present—and the monarchy’s culpability in the racial injustice that gave birth to...
$33.00
Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship: African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants
Since the late nineteenth century, the US federal government has enjoyed exclusive authority to decide whether someone has the ability to enter and stay in US territory. But freedom of movement was not guaranteed in the British colonies or early...
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Crossroads: A Memoir in Baseball and Life
Legendary baseball player and manager Dusty Baker reflects on his extraordinary career—filled with invaluable lessons on perseverance, leadership, and living life meaningfully on the field and off—in this “deeply meditative journey into baseball and cultural history” (The Athletic).“The story of...
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Marked by Time: How Social Change Has Transformed Crime and the Life Trajectories of Young Americans
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Marked by Time: How Social Change Has Transformed Crime and the Life Trajectories of Young Americans
A leading sociologist’s groundbreaking three-decade study challenges outdated views of crime and character, revealing that traditional risk factors alone poorly predict children’s futures.Between 1970 and 2020, the United States experienced a dramatic rise in crime and incarceration, followed by an...
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Crime Fictions: How Racist Lies Built a System of Mass Wrongful Conviction
From award-winning sociologist Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve comes the first account of mass wrongful conviction in America, indicting a system purposefully designed to ensnare Black youth in order to close cases“A must-read reckoning with past and present alike.”—Heather Ann Thompson,...
$32.00
Cosmic Music: The Life, Art, and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane
The first full-length biography of Alice Coltrane, the jazz musician and spiritual leader whose forward-thinking music was overshadowed by her more famous husband, even as she brilliantly laid the groundwork for the new age, ambient, and electronic music that would...
$33.00
Man in the Mirror: Hope, Struggle, and Belonging in an American City
From acclaimed journalist Anand Giridharadas, a groundbreaking feat of reporting on a tragic encounter in a New York subway car that held up a mirror to a troubled and divided nation“A tour de force of sharp-eyed reporting, powerful narrative, and...
$35.00
Cooking from Scratch: A Careful Selection of Useful Recipes
From the charismatic author of Cooking for the Culture, a collection of heritage recipes inspired by the oldest-known published cookbook written by a Black woman. Cooking from Scratch is chef and storyteller Toya Boudy’s most personal―and most irresistible―cookbook yet. Written during a...
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Malcolm in the Desert: Wisdom from the Spiritual Transformation of Malcolm X
Essence's “15 Books By Black Authors We're Looking Forward To” Powerful self-transformation practices inspired by Malcolm X’s final years, written by his daughter Ilyasah Shabazz. "A classic in the making." ―Spike Lee When Malcolm X left the Nation of Islam and set out...
$27.00