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  • In the Presence of Absence (PB) (2011)
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    In the Presence of Absence (PB) (2011)

    9781935744016
    $16.00
    One of the most transcendent poets of his generation, Darwish composed this remarkable elegy at the apex of his creativity, but with the full knowledge that his death was imminent. Thinking it might be his final work, he summoned all his poetic genius to...
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  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (PB) (2009)
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    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (PB) (2009)

    9780812980028
    Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., The Xi Alpha Lambda Liberation Library Book Drive
    $18.00
    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...
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  • Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
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    Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature

    9780393651904
    The Black & Published Reading List
    $26.95
    Farah Jasmine Griffin has taken to her heart the phrase read until you understand, a line her father, who died when she was nine, wrote in a note to her. She has made it central to this book about love of the majestic power of words and love of the...
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  • God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
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    God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse

    9780143105411
    $15.00
    Introduced by Maya Angelou, the inspiring sermon-poems of James Weldon Johnson James Weldon Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and one of the most revered African Americans of all time, whose life demonstrated the full spectrum of...
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  • Salvage: Readings from the Wreck (HC) (2024)
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    Salvage: Readings from the Wreck (HC) (2024)

    9780374614843
    $27.00
    One of Literary Hub's most anticipated books of 2024 "Award-winning novelist Brand, Toronto's former poet laureate, melds autobiography and literary criticism to offer a shrewd, intimate reading of the 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century novels that shaped...
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  • The Harlem Ghetto: Essays (HC) (2024)
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    The Harlem Ghetto: Essays (HC) (2024)

    9780807018651
    Black Books Matter: James Baldwin Edition
    $20.00
    This collectible edition celebrates James Baldwin's 100th-year anniversary, revealing and critiquing the realities of Black life in mid-century US   Originally published in Notes of a Native Son, the essays "The Harlem Ghetto," "Journey to...
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  • The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture (HC) (2023)
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    The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture (HC) (2023)

    9780231204729
    $28.95
    One Sunday afternoon in February 1977, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and several other Black women writers met at June Jordan's Brooklyn apartment to eat gumbo, drink champagne, and talk about their work. Calling themselves "The...
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  • Notes of a Native Son (PB) (2012)
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    Notes of a Native Son (PB) (2012)

    9780807006238
    Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., The Xi Alpha Lambda Liberation Library Book Drive
    $15.00
    #26 on The Guardian's list of 100 best nonfiction books of all time, the essays explore what it means to be Black in America   In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African...
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  • The Prosaic Soul of Nikki Giovanni The Prosaic Soul of Nikki Giovanni
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    The Prosaic Soul of Nikki Giovanni

    9780060541347
    $14.95
    This omnibus edition collects celebrated poet and activist Nikki Giovanni's adult prose: Racism 101, Sacred Cows and Other Edibles and seven (7) selections from Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-Five Years of Being a Black...
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  • White Butterfly: Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story "Lavender" White Butterfly: Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story "Lavender"
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    White Butterfly: Featuring an Original Easy Rawlins Short Story "Lavender"

    9780743451772
    $16.99
    From the acclaimed bestselling author of the Easy Rawlins series, deemed "one of America's best mystery writers" (The New York Times Book Review), comes a tale about a murdered man who does not want to go to heaven or hell--he'd rather have his old life...
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  • Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement (PB) (2019)
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    Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement (PB) (2019)

    9780814255568
    $39.95
    Growing out of the music scene, afrofuturism has emerged as an important aesthetic through films such as Black Panther and Get Out. While the significance of these sonic and visual avenues for afrofuturism cannot be underestimated, literature remains...
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  • Black Women Writers at Work (HC) (2023)
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    Black Women Writers at Work (HC) (2023)

    9781642598742
    Women's History Selection
    $55.00
    "Black women writers and critics are acting on the old adage that one must speak for oneself if one wishes to be heard." --Claudia Tate, from the introduction   Long out-of-print, Black Women Writers at Work is a vital contribution to Black...
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  • Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature (PB) (2022)
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    Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature (PB) (2022)

    9781324022046
    The Black & Published Reading List
    $16.95
    Farah Jasmine Griffin has taken to her heart the phrase read until you understand, a line her father, who died when she was nine, wrote in a note to her. She has made it central to this book about love of the majestic power of words and love of the...
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  • Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays (HC) (2021)
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    Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays (HC) (2021)

    9781631496486
    $27.95
    Ranging from Ta-Nehisi Coates's case for reparations to Toni Morrison's revolutionary humanism to D'Angelo's simmering blend of R&B and racial justice, Jesse McCarthy's bracing essays investigate with virtuosic intensity the art, music, literature, and...
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  • Shadow and ACT (PB) (1995)
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    Shadow and ACT (PB) (1995)

    9780679760009
    $17.00
    With the same intellectual incisiveness and supple, stylish prose he brought to his classic novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison examines his antecedents and in so doing illuminates the literature, music, and culture of both black and white America. His...
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