Literature
Literature
Murdergram
Knock, Knock. Four broke girlfriends go into a Long Island church looking for a job. Four trained assassins come out. The Cristál Clique is born when these young killers are immersed in the intense underworld of murder-for-hire.But with youth comes...
$14.99
Yesterday Will Make You Cry
“There could not be a fitter time or place for the publication of this great prison novel than today’s United States.” ―H. Bruce Franklin, The Nation A classic restored-the complete and unexpurgated text of a great African-American writer's brutal and lyrical...
$16.95
Mama Black Widow (Original)
Mama Black Widow tells the tragic story of Otis Tilson, a stunning black drag queen trapped in a cruel queer ghetto underworld. In hopes of escaping the racial bigotry andeconomic injustice of the South, Otis' family journeys north from their plantation...
$16.99
Goon (The Cartel Publications Presents)
When five-year-old Roman's mother is murdered before his eyes in Fayette, Mississippi he is left alone with his loyal dog, a blue nose pit-bull named Ice. Things appear to look up for Roman when Billy Bob Adams, a career criminal,...
$15.00
First Comes Love, Then Comes Murder (the Cartel Publications Presents)
Juliette (Jewels) Madison is on trial for the brutal murder of her husband Marcel Madison. Whether or not she killed him is not the question, because she was found soaked in his blood. What her high profile defense team must...
$15.00
Daddy Cool
A multifaceted, realistic fictional picture of the lives, choices, and frustrations of underworld ghetto blacks.Larry Jackson, better known as Daddy Cool, is a ruthlessly efficient black hit man, equally effective with a gun or a knife in nailing his prey....
$15.95
Crime Partners
Donald Goines, one of the most prolific writers of the 20th century, has influenced many of today's urban writers with his gritty, realistic look at the streets. For the first time in years, his classic Crime Partners is now repackaged and reissued...
$15.95
Midnight, 1: A Gangster Love Story
New York Times bestselling author Life After Death, the hip-hop generation's beloved and most compelling storyteller, delivers a powerful story about love and loyalty, strength and family.In her bestselling novel, The Coldest Winter Ever, Sister Souljah introduced the world to Midnight, a brave...
$17.00
Popisho
"Bold, iridescent... Dazzling and shocking... Ross’s lyrical, rhythmic writing is something to be savored... [Her] voice sings out loud and pure."―Eowyn Ivey, The New York Times Book ReviewAn uproarious, sensual novel, Leone Ross's Popisho conjures a world where magic is everywhere, food is...
$28.00
Mrs. Wiggins
Reminiscent of her captivating, scandalous Mama Ruby series, New York Times best-selling author Mary Monroe crafts a story set in the Deep South during the Depression, in this tale of a woman determined to have a respectable life - no matter what...
$26.00
Harlem Shuffle
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a gloriously entertaining novel of heists, shakedowns, and rip-offs set in Harlem in the 1960s."Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his customers...
$28.95
Dear Miss Metropolitan
Introducing an extraordinary and original writer whose first novel explores the intersections of grief and rage, personal strength and healing--and what we owe one another.Fern seeks refuge from her mother’s pill-popping and boyfriends via Soul Train; Gwin finds salvation in...
$27.99
Creatures of Passage
With echoes of Toni Morrison's Beloved, Yejidé's novel explores a forgotten quadrant of Washington, DC, and the ghosts that haunt it. "Yejidé’s writing captures both real news and spiritual truths with the deftness and capacious imagination of her writing foremothers: Zora...
$25.00
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
From the first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and one of our fiercest political activists, a fictional meditation on power and greed—at once a literary hoot, a whodunit, and a scathing indictment of political and social corruption.In...
$28.00
Brotherhood
WINNER of the French Voices Grand Prize, Prix Ahmadou Kourouma, and Grand Prix du Roman Métis Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s searing and thought-provoking debut novel, Brotherhood takes place in the imaginary town of Kalep, where a fundamentalist Islamist government has spread its brutal...
$17.00
Assembly
A woman confronts the most important question of her life in this blistering, fearless, and unforgettable literary debut from "a stunning new writer." (Bernardine Evaristo)“A quiet, measured call to revolution…This is the kind of book that doesn’t just mark the...
$23.00
An Ordinary Wonder
An extraordinary literary debut about a Nigerian boy's secret intersex identity and his desire to live as a girl.Oto leaves for boarding school with one plan: excel and escape his cruel home. Falling in love with his roommate was certainly...
$25.95
A River Called Time
A monumental speculative fiction story of love, loyalty, politics, and conscience, set in parallel Londons. "Newland...imagines a world where colonialism never happened at all...It's speculative fiction that genuinely made me speculate."--Wired "A dystopian multiverse imagined at thrilling scale...Extraordinary...The excitement lies...
$28.95
The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion
Aminatta Forna is one of our most important literary voices, and her novels have won the Windham Campbell Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book. In this elegantly rendered and wide-ranging collection of new and previously published essays,...
$26.00
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker
A collection of The New Yorker‘s groundbreaking writing on race in America—including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more—with a foreword by Jelani Cobb This anthology from the pages of the New Yorker provides a bold and...
$35.00
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
A brilliant scholar imparts the lessons bequeathed by the Black community and its remarkable artists and thinkers. Farah Jasmine Griffin has taken to her heart the phrase "read until you understand," a line her father, who died when she was...
$26.95
Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays
"This is a very smart and soulful book. Jesse McCarthy is a terrific essayist." ―Zadie SmithNew York Times Book Review • Editors' Choice A supremely talented young critic’s essays on race and culture, from Toni Morrison to trap, herald the arrival...
$27.95
Far Away from Close to Home: Essays
New & Noteworthy: The New York Times “Vivid and relatable. The writing is like Vanessa herself; funny, charming and brave.” ―Mindy Kaling Through a series of extraordinary, incisive, often-humorous essays, Emmy Award-winning actor Vanessa Baden Kelly examines what the idea of “home” means...
$17.00
TRUTH BE TOLD
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Publisher : Gallery Books; Original ed. edition (July 6, 2004)
Language : English
Paperback : 464 pages
ISBN-10 : 0743255674
ISBN-13 : 9780743255677
$14.00
GROWN FOLKS BUSINESS
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Publisher : Gallery Books; Original ed. edition (June 7, 2005)
Language : English
Paperback : 431 pages
ISBN-10 : 0743270975
ISBN-13 : 9780743270977
$14.00
THE NARROWS
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Publisher : Northwestern University Press; Reissue edition (July 15, 2017)
Language : English
Paperback : 472 pages
ISBN-10 : 0810135515
ISBN-13 : 9780810135512
$15.00
SUBSTITUTE ME
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Publisher : Atria Books; 0 edition (August 24, 2010)
Language : English
Paperback : 368 pages
ISBN-10 : 1439171106
ISBN-13 : 9781439171103
$15.00
THE MEMORY OF LOVE
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Publisher : Bloomsbury (January 1, 2010)
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 1408808137
ISBN-13 : 9781408808139
$24.95
SONG OF THE SHANK
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Publisher : Graywolf Press (June 17, 2014)
Language : English
Paperback : 608 pages
ISBN-10 : 1555976808
ISBN-13 : 9781555976804
$18.00
HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT
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Publisher : Riverhead Books; Reprint edition (September 22, 2015)
Language : English
Paperback : 352 pages
ISBN-10 : 1594634106
ISBN-13 : 9781594634109
$18.00