Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of...

The New Jim Crow

Instant New York Times Best Seller An Oprah Book Club Selection Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction • a Finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction • Shortlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize • Longlisted for the Aspen Wor...

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

We live across the thousand dunes with grit in our teeth and sand in our homes. No one will come for us. No one will save us. This is our life, diving for remnants of the old world so that we may build what the wind destroys. No one is looking down on us. Those constellations in the night sky? Those are the backs of gods we see.

Sand: Omnibus Edition

Between grad school and multiple jobs, Naledi Smith doesn't have time for fairy tales . . . or the patience for constant emails claiming she's betrothed to an African prince. Sure. Right. Delete!  As a former foster kid, she's learned that the only t...

A Princess in Theory

New York City socialite and perpetual hot mess Portia Hobbs is tired of disappointing her family, friends, and - most importantly - herself. An apprenticeship with a struggling swordmaker in Scotland is a chance to use her expertise and discover what...

A Duke by Default

Updated to include the Black Lives Matter movement, the presidency of Barack Obama, the rise of hate speech on the Internet, and more.  Since the publication of the first edition of Critical Race Theory in 2001, the United States has lived through tw...

Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, Third Edition

Best Book of the Year: NPR • The Washington Post • Boston Globe • TIME • USA Today • Entertainment Weekly • Real Simple • Parade • Buzzfeed • Electric Literature • LitHub • BookRiot • PopSugar • Goop • Library Journal • BookBub • KCRW  Finalist for t...

The Prophets

A poignant mother-daughter story about the complex inner lives of women by the critically acclaimed author of Training School for Negro Girls. In this evocative short piece, Candace worries that her mother, Annie, has reached an emotional breaking po...

Starchild

LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST   NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE  A “powerful and devastating” (The Washington Post) call to free those buried alive by America’s legal system, and an inspiring true story about unwavering belief in humanity - from a ...

A Knock at Midnight

From the critically acclaimed author of The Book of M, a highly imaginative thriller about a young woman who discovers that a strange map in her deceased father’s belongings holds an incredible, deadly secret—one that will lead her on an extraordinar...

The Cartographers

The essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth’s integral importance to American history, as told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Texas native. Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annet...

On Juneteenth

The Reluctant Royals series returns with a good girl searching for the life that’s not too big, and not too small, and the bad boy prince who might be just right for her.... Nya Jerami fled Thesolo for the glitz and glamour of NYC but discovered that...

A Prince on Paper

As the Civil War rages between the states, a courageous pair of spies plunge fearlessly into a maelstrom of ignorance, deceit, and danger, combining their unique skills to alter the course of history and break the chains of the past.  Elle Burns is a...

An Extraordinary Union

A groundbreaking tour of the human mind that illuminates the biological nature of our inner worlds and emotions, through gripping, moving - and, at times, harrowing - clinical stories “[A] scintillating and moving analysis of the human brain and emot...

Projections

2022 L.A. Times Book Prize 2021 Amazon.com Best Books of the Year 2021 Time Magazine Best Books of the Year 2021 Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year 2021 NYPL Best Books of the Year 2021 NPR Best Book of the Year 2021 Hudson Booksellers Best of ...

Sorrowland

Best-selling author Stephen L. Carter delves into his past and retrieves the inspiring story of his grandmother’s extraordinary life.  She was Black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlin...

Invisible

Bloomsbury presents The Second by Carol Anderson, PhD From the New York Times best-selling author of White Rage, an unflinching, critical new look at the Second Amendment - and how it has been engineered to deny the rights of African Americans since ...

The Second

2017 RITA Finalist A rebellious cabaret owner and her stubborn chef pursue, life, liberty, and happiness in 1917 Harlem...and find love where they least expect it. After spending half her life pretending to be something she’s not, performance is seco...

Let Us Dream

Sofronia Wallis knows that proper Black women don’t court trouble by upending the status quo, but it’s 1961 and the Civil Rights movement is in full swing. Sofie’s spent half her life being prim, proper, and reserved - as if that could bring her moth...

Let It Shine

Alyssa Cole delivers another fun, sexy romance novella in the Reluctant Royals series!  Regina Hobbs is nerdy by nature, businesswoman by nurture. She's finally taking her pop-culture-centered media enterprise, Girls with Glasses, to the next level, ...

Can't Escape Love

From New York Times best-selling author Elizabeth Dowling Taylor comes this riveting chronicle of a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and calculated fall of the Black elite, from Emancipation through Reconstructi...

The Original Black Elite

From newcomer Jordan Crouch and Blake Crouch, author of the runaway best seller Run, comes Eerie, a chilling, gothic thriller in the classic tradition of The Shining and The Sixth Sense.   Trapped inside a house   On a crisp autumn evening in 1980, s...

Eerie

Brooklyn, 1776 - New, revised edition, with bonus epilogue! Elijah Sutton is no fool, despite his love of a country that enslaves people like him. When he's offered land, livestock, and - most importantly - his freedom if he fights in his Patriot own...

Be Not Afraid

An important, groundbreaking book - two decades in work - that tells the story of the unlikely but history-changing 28-year bond forged between Pauli Murray (granddaughter of a mulatto slave who, against all odds, as a lesbian Black woman, became a l...

The Firebrand and the First Lady

Mercy Alston knows the best thing to do with pesky feelings like "love" and "hope": avoid them at all costs. Serving as a maid to Eliza Hamilton, and an assistant in the woman's stubborn desire to preserve her late husband's legacy, has driven that p...

That Could Be Enough

Alyssa Cole returns with a fun, sexy romance novella in the Reluctant Royals series!  While her boss the prince was busy wooing his betrothed, Likotsi had her own love affair after swiping right on a dating app. But her romance had ended in heartbrea...

Once Ghosted, Twice Shy

Cheryl Robinson, a bright voice in African-American fiction, delivers a fresh tale of love in the modern world.  Porter is a handsome Detroit firefighter who just got burned by his cheating girlfriend. Winona is a single mom who is getting by despite an old secret that haunts her. When Porter and Winona meet, they must face their pasts to allow their present romance to grow.

If It Ain’t One Thing

An arranged marriage leads to unexpected desire, in the first book of Alyssa Cole’s Runaway Royals series.... When Shanti Mohapi weds the king of Njaza, her dream of becoming a queen finally comes true. But it’s nothing like she imagined. Shanti and ...

How to Catch a Queen

The Civil War has turned neighbor against neighbor - but for one scientist spy and her philosopher soldier, war could bind them together.  For three years of the War Between the States, Marlie Lynch has helped the cause in peace: with coded letters a...

A Hope Divided

For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. From community policing initiatives to increasing diversity, none of it has stopped the police from killing about three people a day. Millions of people continue...

Becoming Abolitionists

In this unique combination of African American music and cultural history, we come to know one of the greatest stars the world has ever seen - Eartha Kitt - as revealed by the person who knew her best, her daughter.  Eartha, who was a mix of Black, C...

Eartha & Kitt

The scene is teeming Zanzibar just before the American Civil War, when the Isle of Cloves was a center of African slave trade. To it comes Hero Athena Hollis, a Boston bluestocking filled with self-righteousness and bent on good deeds.  Then she meets Rory Frost, a cynical, wicked, shrewd and good-humored trader in slaves. What is Hero to make of him (and of her feelings for him)? 

Trade Wind

Don’t Tell a Soul is best-selling author Tiffany L. Warren’s sequel to her fan-favorite novel What a Sista Should Do. Here, a trio of faithful friends face trials in their personal lives. When Pam’s husband, Troy, blows their fortune, his partner sta...

Don't Tell a Soul

On a cold December evening, Autumn Spencer's twin sister Summer walks to the roof of their shared Harlem brownstone and is never seen again - the door to the roof is locked, and no footprints are found. Faced with authorities indifferent to another m...

Speaking of Summer

Winner of the 2020 Audie Award for Best Non-Fiction  "This audiobook achieves an exceptional performance of an important work on a difficult subject - mass murder and its aftermath." (AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner) A New York Times Notab...

Grace Will Lead Us Home

Catherine Coleman Flowers grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that’s been called “Bloody Lowndes” because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it’s Ground Zero for a new movement that is Flow...

Waste

A groundbreaking work of history that explicates Thomas Jefferson's vision of himself, the American Revolution, Christianity, slavery, and race.  Thomas Jefferson is still presented today as a hopelessly enigmatic figure despite being written about m...

"Most Blessed of the Patriarchs"

New York Times and USA Today best seller Alyssa Cole’s second Runaway Royals novel is a queer Anastasia retelling, featuring a long-lost princess who finds love with the female investigator tasked with tracking her down. Makeda Hicks has lost her job...

How to Find a Princess

This audiobook is an updated edition of a guide to the basic science of climate change, and a call to action. The vast majority of scientists agree that human activity has significantly increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere - most dramatically...

What We Know About Climate Change: Updated with a new foreword by Bob Inglis (The MIT Press)

Families always have secrets. And secrets have the power to heal - or hurt. Now beloved author Donna Hill's enthralling novel explores the wrongs we do for the right reasons and the ways we struggle to reconcile the truth.  Journalist Zoie Crawford h...

A House Divided

“This trilogy gets better with each book.” (Library Journal)  “Cole’s Off the Grid series succeeds because it captures the unsettling details of its dystopian setting beautifully, but also because its main characters are so very human and relatable.”...

3in1 Off the Grid Collection

A 2014 Locus Awards finalist, nonfiction category. Wonderfully narrated by Karen Chilton, Afrofuturism is an engaging, hip, and accessible primer to the music, literature, and art of Afrofuturism. Author Ytasha Womack introduces listeners to the burg...

Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture

An assassination plot that could end the Civil War and a hidden enemy that could destroy a secret league of unsung heroes.... Daniel Cumberland, born free in Massachusetts, studied law with dreams of helping his people - dreams that died the night he...

An Unconditional Freedom

With warmth and encouragement, along with her original 10-step process, Carolynn Hillman puts self-esteem and the accomplishment and real satisfaction it engenders within the reach of every woman. Her straightforward approach to conquering feelings o...

Recovery of Your Self Esteem

Tackling the myth of a post-racial society  Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields argue otherwise...

Racecraft

Be Not Afraid Brooklyn, 1776 Elijah Sutton is no fool, despite his love of a country that enslaves people like him. When he's offered land, livestock, and - most importantly - his freedom if he fights in his Patriot owner's stead, Elijah believes he'...

Four Novellas

With the US Supreme Court nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson, “it makes sense to revisit the life and work of another Black woman who profoundly shaped the law: Constance Baker Motley” (CNN). The first major biography of one of our most influential ...

Civil Rights Queen

“A compelling and important history that this nation desperately needs to hear.” (Bryan Stevenson, New York Times best-selling author of Just Mercy and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative) Winfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia...

Chasing Me to My Grave

Claim Your Victory Today is a must-listen for all who desire to live an effective life in the power of God. This audiobook presents insightful, God-given wisdom that invites listeners to finally understand what it means to access God's abundance. Cre...

Claim Your Victory Today

When Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia's studios in November 1933, it marked the beginning of what is arguably the most remarkable and influential career in 20th-century popular music. Her voice weathered countless shifts in public taste, and new ...

Billie Holiday

Charlie isn't looking forward to sixth grade. If he starts sixth grade, chances are he'll finish it. And when he does, he'll grow older than the brother he recently lost.  Armstrong isn't looking forward to sixth grade, either. When his parents sign ...

Armstrong and Charlie

Vanella Morris is extremely happy with her long-time boyfriend, Alton. But Vanella is also uneasy and apprehensive about making the big commitment. The time has come to make the decision of her life: walk away now from this good thing, or convince Alton that, by living together, the marital bliss he longs for can still be theirs.

Counting Raindrops Through a Stained Glass Window

“Cole’s first Off the Grid novel offers a startling, believable post-apocalyptic world that is rich in atmospheric details and rife with unexpected dangers. Her refreshingly diverse cast of characters possess strong, sympathetic and magnetic personal...

Radio Silence

Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Messenger offers the first humane, journalistic expose of an American tragedy: modern-day debtor's prisons and how they've destroyed the lives of poor Americans. "His Pulitzer Prize winning series on debtors' prisons in Mis...

Profit and Punishment

Under a Dark Summer Sky is set in Florida in 1935 in a small town struggling with the effects of the Depression and at the time of the great hurricane. The racially charged narrative swirls around Missy, with her courageous dedication to duty, who wo...

Under a Dark Summer Sky

A Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings’ family explores America’s racial reckoning through the prism of her ancestors — both the enslaver and the enslaved. Gayle Jessup White had long heard the stories passed down from her father’s ...

Reclamation

The acclaimed author of I Wish You Love, Karen Chilton explores the life of legendary jazz performer and civil rights activist Hazel Scott. A well-researched tribute to a woman of immense achievement, Hazel Scott abounds with fascinating detail of a ...

Hazel Scott

A brilliant analysis of the foundations of racist policing in America: the day-to-day brutalities, largely hidden from public view, endured by Black youth growing up under constant police surveillance and the persistent threat of physical and psychol...

The Rage of Innocence

Four people on a backpacking trip in the Sierra Nevada find more adventure than they ever imagined. They are drawn to the mountains for reasons as diverse as their own lives. Gwen Foster, a counselor for at-risk youths, is struggling with burnout fro...

Lost Canyon

Madam C. J. Walker was beloved within her community for her philanthropy and expanding the local black YMCA, but she couldn't have done that if she weren't the first female self-made millionaire and one of the most successful African American busines...

All About Madam C.J. Walker

Roadwalkers chronicles the lives and fortunes of two extraordinary Black women - Baby and her daughter, Nanda - as they struggle to make places for themselves in the South, from the Depression to the era of the civil rights movement. By the author of The Keepers of the House.

Roadwalkers

Can community-building begin in a classroom? The authors of this audiobook believe that by applying restorative justice at school, we can build a healthier and more just society.  Can an overworked teacher possibly turn an unruly incident with studen...

The Little Book of Restorative Discipline for Schools

An arresting and emotional memoir about a family’s indoctrination into a religious cult, a daughter coming to terms with a parent’s devastating choices, and the trials ahead in post-9/11 New York. In 1978, when Jamiyla was two years old, her mother, ...

The Community

For the first time, the four most popular restorative justice audiobooks in the Justice & Peacebuilding series - The Little Book of Restorative Justice: Revised and Updated, The Little Book of Victim Offender Conferencing, The Little Book of Family G...

The Big Book of Restorative Justice

A magical mystery tour of the extraordinary historical characters that have defined the unique spiritual landscape of New Orleans. New Orleans has long been America’s most magical city, inhabited by a fascinating visible and invisible world, full of ...

Witch Queens, Voodoo Spirits, and Hoodoo Saints

Here's an endearing story of life-altering events. Chantell has it all: a great career, beautiful clothes, lots of spending money, a cool car, and a picture-perfect fiancé. So why is she so unhappy? She promises God that she will become a better pers...

Sweet Bye-Bye

This is the definitive audio edition of Stolen Legacy, skillfully and soothingly narrated by Karen Chilton, the award-winning narrator of The New Jim Crow. Please compare the sample audio of this recording to any competing audio samples, and you will...

Stolen Legacy

Howard Zehr is the father of restorative justice and is known worldwide for his pioneering work in transforming understandings of justice. Here he proposes workable principles and practices for making restorative justice possible in this revised and ...

The Little Book of Restorative Justice: Revised and Updated

A “New & Noteworthy” selection of The New York Times  One of Book Riot's “29 Amazing New Books Coming in 2018”  A groundbreaking collection based on oral histories that brilliantly plumb the leadership of African American women in the 20th-century fi...

Lighting the Fires of Freedom

She was born the 20th child in a family that had lived in the Mississippi Delta for generations, first as enslaved people and then as sharecroppers. She left school at 12 to pick cotton, as those before her had done, in a world where white supremacy ...

Walk with Me

Acclaimed archeologist and historian Karolyn Smardz Frost painstakingly resurrects Thornton and Lucie Blackburn's perilous 1830s journey from Kentucky slavery to Canadian freedom.

I've Got A Home In Glory Land

In this extraordinary collection of holiday novellas, vampires turn to Angelina Ricci - vampire matchmaker extraordinaire - to help them find that special someone to curl up with under the mistletoe.... "All I Vant For Christmas": Connor loves trimmi...

The Bite Before Christmas

New York's punchiest borough asserts its criminal legacy with all new stories from a magnificent set of today’s best writers. Brooklyn Noir moves from Coney Island to Bedford-Stuyvesant to Bay Ridge to Red Hook to Bushwick to Sheepshead Bay to Park S...

Brooklyn Noir

As gentrification encroaches on historic Harlem, Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award recipient Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts untangles the myth and meaning of its storied legacy. Drawing on Harlem’s history and her own observations, Rhodes-Pitts introduces a variety of observers who shared a common hope that Harlem would become the ground from which Blacks fully entered America’s democracy.

Harlem Is Nowhere

Update: In response to listener feedback, Chapter Three of this audiobook has been replaced with the full-length recording. We apologize to listeners for our initial mistake. The complete original edition: An utterly revelatory work. Unprecedented in...

Lost Tribes and Promised Lands

At 7:30 a.m. on June 16, 1944, George Junius Stinney, Jr., was escorted by four guards to the death chamber. Wearing socks but no shoes, the 14-year-old Black boy walked with his Bible tucked under his arm. The guards strapped his slight, five-foot-o...

The Child in the Electric Chair

“Lots of people have dreams, but C. Vivian Stringer is the dream - a coalminer’s daughter who believed when her Poppa told her there was no obstacle she could not surmount. And she lives that dream, teaching others to rise up to meet challenges, turn...

Standing Tall

Our ancestors gathered around a fire in a circle, families gather around their kitchen tables in circles, and now we are gathering in circles as communities to solve problems. This peacemaking practice draws on the ancient Native American tradition o...

The Little Book of Circle Processes

Over the last 20 years, New York City has been convulsed by enormous challenges: terrorist attack, blackout, hurricane, recession, pandemic. New Yorkers is a grand portrait of the irrepressible city and a hymn to the vitality and resilience of its pe...

New Yorkers

Brand-new stories by: Thomas Adcock, Kevin Baker, Thomas Bentil, Lawrence Block, Jerome Charyn, Suzanne Chazin, Terrence Cheng, Ed Dee, Joanne Dobson, Robert Hughes, Marlon James, Sandra Kitt, Rita Laken, Miles Marshall Lewis, Pat Picciarelli, Abraha...

Bronx Noir

“The only way this war is going to end is if the American people truly understand what we have done in their name.” (Kelly Dougherty, executive director of Iraq Veterans Against the War) In spring 2008, inspired by the Vietnam-era Winter Soldier hear...

Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan

Award-winning author Ruth-Miriam Garnett pens an exceptional tale of the wealthy and prominent Cates family. Lealia is the inspiring story of three sisters who, despite their good upbringing, marry worthless husbands.  Rebecca marries Jake, a womaniz...

Laelia

When Abby Schneiderman's brother was killed in a head-on collision by an impaired driver, her family was thrust into a position many families experience: they were shocked, heartbroken, and unsure what to do next. While her brother had made some fina...

In Case You Get Hit by a Bus

At the turn of the eighteenth century, John Morehead Tripoli is marooned on the unspoiled Caribbean island of St. Renard. There, he lives for an idyllic year in a community of Carawak Indians. Three hundred years later, the Carawak are gone, St. Rena...

The Ghost Apple

For African American women, the fight for the right to vote was only one battle. An eye-opening book that tells the important, overlooked story of black women as a force in the suffrage movement - when fellow suffragists did not accept them as equal ...

Lifting as We Climb

From an award-winning writer at the New York Times Magazine and a contributor to the 1619 Project comes a landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities in America, revealing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health o...

Under the Skin

Based on original reporting by a Pulitzer Prize finalist and an industry veteran, the first book for young adults about the Flint water crisis  In 2014, Flint, Michigan, was a cash-strapped city that had been built up, then abandoned by General Motor...

Poisoned Water

Sherlock Holmes is one of the most iconic and lasting figures in literature. His feats of detection are legendary, and he continues to capture audiences today in stories, movies, and on TV. In this new edition of Baker Street Irregulars, authors pres...

The Game Is Afoot

“This trilogy gets better with each book.” (Library Journal) When technology stopped working, the world as they knew it ended. In a secluded cabin, John and his loved ones have survived. He should feel grateful. But his family is in his face 24/7, he...

Signal Boost

James Meredith's 1966 march in Mississippi began as one man's peaceful protest for voter registration and became one of the South's most important demonstrations of the civil rights movement. It brought together leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. an...

The March Against Fear

Deeply influential cultural icon Oprah Winfrey is the 25th hero in this New York Times best-selling picture-book biography series, adapted for audio. This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great - the traits th...

I Am Oprah Winfrey

A 10-audiobook collection dedicated to some of the most famous rock-and-roll artists of all time, from the creators of the number one New York Times best-selling Who Was? series. Learn about the early lives and exciting careers of the Beatles, The Ro...

The Rock Box!: A Who HQ Collection

One of the best-known poets of the Revolutionary War era, Phillis Wheatley made history with this collection, which was the first such work to be published from an African American woman. Celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic, Wheatley found admir...

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (AmazonClassics Edition)

“This trilogy gets better with each book.” (Library Journal) “Cole’s Off the Grid series succeeds because it captures the unsettling details of its dystopian setting beautifully, but also because its main characters are so very human and relatable.” ...

Mixed Signals

(Her)oics: Women’s Lived Experiences During the Coronavirus Pandemic draws together the stories of 52 women across the US during the Covid-19 pandemic. The collection encompasses the perspectives of women who are: frontline responders and recovering ...

(Her)oics

Terror Blackout Hurricane  Recession Pandemic A symphony of contemporary New York told through the magnificent words of its people - from the best-selling author of Londoners. In the first 20 years of the 21st century, New York City has been convulse...

There is only one Queen of Soul! Discover why Aretha Franklin garners so much R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Aretha Franklin was a musical and cultural icon whose legacy spanned six decades! Born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1942, Aretha got her start singing in front ...

Who Was Aretha Franklin?

"We shall overcome" is one of the most recognizable anthems of the civil rights movement, widely performed at protests and rallies to promote nonviolent civil rights activism. Now, these inspirational, empowering, legendary lyrics are brought to life...

We Shall Overcome

2021, The Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize A symphony of contemporary New York through the magnificent words of its people - from the best-selling author of Londoners. In the first 20 years of the 21st century, New York City has been convulsed ...

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