African American & Black

The Concubine, Elechi Amadi's most celebrated work of fiction, paints a picture of pre-colonial life in rural Eastern Nigeria and explores the boundary between myth and reality. Ihuoma is a woman of great beauty and dignity, beloved in a village that...

The incredible untold story of how Ann Lowe, a Black woman and granddaughter of slaves, rose above personal struggles and racial prejudice to design and create one of America's most famous wedding dresses of all time for Jackie Kennedy.1953, New York...

The mother of the revolutionary firebrand Malcolm X was a Grenadian woman born at the turn of the 20th century in a small rural community in a deeply colonial society where access to education had only just begun for the children of working people. She...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912868612Format PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dedalus LtdPublisher Dedalus Ltd

Jubilee tells the true story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress. Vyry bears witness to the South's antebellum opulence and to its brutality, its wartime ruin, and the promises of Reconstruction. Weaving her own family's...

"In the Shark Week of second-chance romances, Chandra Blumberg will have readers hungrily scavenging for every morsel of bait as she tempts with sultry tension and magnetic longing." -Taj McCoy, award-winning author of Zora Books Her Happy Ever AfterWhen...

Clock Striker, now in graphic novel format, follows Shonen manga's first Black female lead hero, Cast, in her quest to become a member of the SMITHS, the legendary warrior engineers. Cast dreams of being a SMITH, and though she's rather handy with her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743451758Author MosleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945855320Author Ms. BamFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Urban BooksPublisher Kensington Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420952667Author Joseph ConradFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780765393111Author Nnedi OkoraforFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Tor BooksPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 176gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 119mm *...

New from New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson. When Kaegan Chambray returned to Catalina Cove he knew there'd be no avoiding Bryce Witherspoon. The woman he thought he'd one day marry was, instead, the biggest heartbreak of his...

'A wild horse-and-carriage ride through early 19th century New York... Meticulously researched, the novel brings the city to life in lurid sensory detail.' Noel O'Reilly, author of WreckerNew York, 1803. The expanding city is rife with tension, and...

The NHS is more than a good idea. It is beautiful. And it is you. The importance of the NHS - and the public's affection for it - cannot be overstated, as seen through the COVID-19 pandemic. The author and his family of medics have lived and breathed the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316489768Author Evan WinterFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint OrbitPublisher OrbitWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 155mm * 46mm

THE ICONIC CLASSIC, WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEONE OF THE BBC '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD''A lush celebration of all that it means to be a black female. I love that The Color Purple doesn't try to soften its blows but is also courageous enough to...

Finalist of the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction'Told in a rich array of voices, this gorgeously written debut explores the myriad syncopations of love and desire' Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere'Beautifully and cleverly written...The...

Handsome, young, Muslim, and married to two women living in one house along with his mother, Umma, and sister, Naja: can Midnight manage all that he has on his plate? He is surrounded by Americans who don't share or understand his faith or culture,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781964560014Author Grey HuffingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Grey HuffingtonPublisher Grey HuffingtonWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

From the author of the Oprah Book Club Selection An American Marriage, here is an emotionally powerful novel that "succeeds mightily...truly a wonderful story" (Boston Globe). Aria is no stranger to tragedy -- as a young girl, she and her older sister...

'Wright's unrelentingly bleak landscape was not merely that of the Deep South, or of Chicago, but that of the world, the human heart' James Baldwin Natural disasters, cold-blooded murders, political agitation - all haunt these dark, dramatic novellas set...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780785255611Author Kim Cash TateFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Thomas Nelson PublishersPublisher Thomas Nelson PublishersWeight(grams) 139g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901969078Author Paul CrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint BlackAmber BooksPublisher BlackAmber BooksWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 128mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Street Literature Book Award Medal (Slbam) (General) 2011.Book InformationISBN 9780312536978Author K'wanFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Saint Martin's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616208684Author Tayari JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Algonquin BooksPublisher Algonquin BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm...

Published in 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel was a powerful indictment of slavery in America. Describing the many trials and eventual escape to freedom of the long-suffering, good-hearted slave Uncle Tom, it aimed to show how Christian love can...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781601625007Author JaQuavis ColemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Urban BooksPublisher Kensington PublishingWeight(grams) 214g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061695148Author Zora Neale HurstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm)...

Short-listed for the Orange Award for New Writers & long-listed for the Orange Prize It is 1917 in the South Dakota Badlands, and summer has been hard. Fourteen years have passed since Rachel and Isaac DuPree left Chicago to stake a claim in this...

'It's the masters as has wrought this woe; it's the masters as should pay for it.' Set in Manchester in the 1840s - a period of industrial unrest and extreme deprivation - Mary Barton depicts the effects of economic and physical hardship upon the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for PEN/Faulkner Award 2015.Book InformationISBN 9781555976804Author Jeffery Renard AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf...

Sarah Braintree is the best Chief of Police that Jersey has ever had but the day after her success is celebrated by the government, someone starts killing people. Cryptic notes left on the victims' pique Sarah's interest in the case, and she breaks all...

'Alice Walker in this, the most beautiful, the most compassionate, the most sensuous of novels, has created a masterpiece. It is one of the most life-enhancing novels you could hope to read. Flawless' Mary Louden, THE TIMES'All your life you have the...

A ladybird is looking for a safe place to lay her eggs. But nature is full of surprises, and every time she sets down, thinking she's found the perfect spot, she finds herself being shooed away by animals camouflaged in the vegetation around her. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947340121Author John L RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Good2go PublishingPublisher Good2go PublishingWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593315422Author Brendan SlocumbFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

'Moving, complex, romantic, and beautifully written, Karen Campbell's saga ... is a triumph' Allan Massie, Scotsman Divided by loyalties, brought together by war September, 1943. Tuscany, Italy. In the hilltop town of Barga, everyone holds...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358043891Author Joseph a AltshelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Pharos Books Private LimitedPublisher Pharos Books Private Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645563730Author AdrianneFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Urban BooksPublisher Kensington Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250804037Author Zin E. RocklynFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 96gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...