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Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir
9780358439103The Black & Published Reading List$26.00WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' PICK - A TODAY SUMMER READING LIST PICK - AN ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY BEST DEBUT OF SUMMER PICK - A PEOPLE...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$26.00Subtotal: -
Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir (CD) (2021)
9780358449782The Black & Published Reading List$29.99WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' PICK - A TODAY SUMMER READING LIST PICK - AN ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY BEST DEBUT OF SUMMER PICK - A PEOPLE... -
Queen of Exiles (2023)
9798212692281The Black & Published Reading List$57.99"You may not know Marie-Louise Christophe but once you have met her, you won't forget her. Vanessa Riley's historical novel feels timely and relevant, commemorating a time when Black women were... -
Queen of Exiles (HC) (2023)
9780063270992The Black & Published Reading List$32.00"You may not know Marie-Louise Christophe but once you have met her, you won't forget her. Vanessa Riley's historical novel feels timely and relevant, commemorating a time when Black women were...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$32.00Subtotal: -
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
9780393651904The Black & Published Reading List$26.95Farah 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...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$26.95Subtotal: -
Seven Days in June (CD) (2021)
9781549138577The Black & Published Reading List$40.00Seven days to fall in love, fifteen years to forget, and seven days to get it all back againEva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$40.00Subtotal: -
Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland, Baltimore (PB) (2022)
9781644450833The Black & Published Reading List$17.00Qty in Cart: 0Price:$17.00Subtotal: -
Shoutin' in the Fire: An American Epistle
9780593239629The Black & Published Reading List$25.00A stirring meditation of being Black and learning to love in a loveless, anti-Black world "Only once in a lifetime do we come across a writer like Danté Stewart, so young and yet so...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$25.00Subtotal: -
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Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up (PB) (2023)
9780807012727The Black & Published Reading List$19.95"A powerful celebration of poets...Lit lovers will be dazzled." --Publishers Weekly Examines firsthand the lives of legendary Black writers who made a way out of no way to illuminate a road...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$19.95Subtotal: -
Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm (PB) (2023)
9780593466537The Black & Published Reading List$17.00GMA BUZZ PICK - Passion and risk, fathers and daughters, wives and single women, jazz and soul: a "gorgeously written debut" (Celeste Ng, best-selling author of Little Fires Everywhere) about the...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$17.00Subtotal: -
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev (CD) (2021)
9781797118529The Black & Published Reading List$49.99*** A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK! *** An electrifying novel about the meteoric rise of an iconic interracial rock duo in the 1970s, their sensational breakup, and the dark secrets unearthed when...