African American & Black

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954767195Author Robbi ReneeFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Love Notes by Robbi ReneePublisher Love Notes by Robbi ReneeWeight(grams)...

In this final installment in the acclaimed Black Girls Must Die Exhausted trilogy, Tabitha is juggling work, relationships, and a newborn baby-but will she find the happy ending she's always wanted?After a whirlwind year, Tabitha Walker's carefully...

Winner of the RBA Prize for Crime Writing Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's finest investigators until, dispatched to arrest a well-heeled car thief, he is framed for assault, a charge that lands him in the notorious Rikers Island prison.A decade...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984823755Author Terry McMillanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc

Over a long career in the courts Justice Horace Ireton has a garnered a reputation for merciless rulings and his dedication to meting out strict, impartial justice. Taking a break from his duty after a session of assizes, Ireton retreats to his seaside...

Midnight Atlanta is the stunning new novel in the award-nominated, critically acclaimed Darktown series, and sees a newspaper editor murdered against the backdrop of Rosa Parks' protest and Martin Luther King Jnr's emergence.Atlanta, 1956.When Arthur...

Discover Michael Ondaatje's debut novel, 'a beautifully detailed story, perhaps the finest jazz novel ever written' Sunday TimesBased on the life of cornet player Buddy Bolden, one of the legendary jazz pioneers of turn-of-the-twentieth-century New...

'A liberating and lacerating critique of American racial madness, capitalism and white superiority ... Schuyler's wild, misanthropic, take-no-prisoners satire of American life seems more relevant than ever ... Afrofuturist before such a term existed' New...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679748212Author Gloria NaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

A TOP TEN NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'Astonishing... A great work infused with love and honesty' Alice Walker, author of The Color...

When Sally Jones and The Chief discover a curious rose-shaped necklace hidden onboard their beloved Hudson Queen, it's the start of another perilous adventure for the seafaring gorilla and her faithful friend. Determined to get to the bottom of the...

The searing debut novel by Chester Himes, 'written with youthful panache and a bellyful of anger' (Observer)Robert 'Bob' Jones - crew leader, shipyard worker, educated, employed - is finding life impossible. Though he's recently been promoted to...

Jen Shaw has climbed all her life: daring ascents of sheer rock faces, crumbling buildings, cranes - the riskier the better. Both her work and personal life revolved around climbing, and the adrenaline high it gave her. Until she went too far and hurt...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780778311027Author Morgan RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Mira BooksPublisher Mira Books

Fast-paced and hard-boiled, this Harlem Detectives novel follows a pile of stolen money - or it would if anyone could find it... Alberta Wright drops dead on the street during a sermon by the charismatic con man Sweet Prophet. Her partner rushes home to...

A classic thriller from the Harlem Detective series, where love, jealousy and many-peopled mayhem aboundBig Joe Pullen is dead and his wake is getting boozy. When the opium-addicted Reverend Short falls out of a window trying to see a thief fleeing the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616208776Author Tayari JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Algonquin BooksPublisher Algonquin BooksWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781525899782Author Shaunna J EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Graydon HousePublisher Graydon HouseWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451233424Author Terry McMillanFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 369gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 131mm *...

WINNER OF THE SAGA PRIZE 1997: a literary award for trailblazing new Black British novelists'A quietly outstanding work of fiction . . . an exemplary novel' Bernardine Evaristo A shattering portrayal of family, guilt and unshakable bonds as a family's...

_________________A landmark new novel from Harper Lee, set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece To Kill a Mockingbird.Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch - 'Scout' - returns home from New York City to visit...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645940074Author Harriet Beecher StoweFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Suzeteo EnterprisesPublisher Suzeteo EnterprisesWeight(grams)...

Ezekiel "Easy" Porterhouse Rawlins is an unlicensed private investigator turned hard-boiled detective always willing to do what it takes to get things done in the racially charged, dark underbelly of Los Angeles.But when Easy is approached by a...

Uncle Tom's Cabin brought the evils of slavery to the hearts and minds of the American people by its moving portrayal of slave experience.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled...

FROM A BESTSELLING AUTHOR With a new introduction by TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage'The prose is clear, the plot is page-turning, the characters are utterly believable' CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE'The first book by a black woman to sell more...

Aaliyah is determined to celebrate her thirtieth birthday with a boyfriend. And after a failed blind date, the local bartender, Ahmad, suggests she joins a dating app. Filled with lies, catfish, and fetishising, the wild world of online dating makes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645565079Author K'wanFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Urban BooksPublisher Kensington Publishing

The American psyche is channelled into the gripping story of one man. This is the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth at his very best. It is 1998, the year America is plunged into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president. In a small...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNING AUTHOR A TIME MAGAZINE TOP 10 NOVEL OF 2016 | SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2016 FROM THE WINNER OF THE ASTRID LINDGREN MEMORIAL AWARD 2018 They used to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062913166Author George CainFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that saw an explosion of Black art, music and writing, yet few female creatives are remembered alongside their male counterparts.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound,...

One of Buzzfeed's Most Anticipated Books of 2021."This trailblazing work of fiction is notable for its depiction of Harlem's African American society and culture in the 1930s" -Bookpage When the body of N'Gana Frimbo,...

*A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*'This visionary and deeply evocative debut carves a radiant love story out of the bleakest of landscapes.' Waterstones - Best Books to Look Out For in 2021'An Outstanding novel' Guardian'A lyrical, poetic novel'...

Jean Toomer's Cane is one of the most significant works to come out of the Harlem Renaissance and is considered to be a masterpiece in American modernist literature due to its distinct structure and style. First published in 1923 and told through a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957913131Author Pamela R HaynesFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Hear Our Voice LLCPublisher Hear Our Voice LLCWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Four-year-old TJ spends his days on his lively Harlem block playing with his best friends WT and Blinky and running errands for neighbors. As he comes of age as a "Little Man" with big dreams, TJ faces a world of grown-up adventures and realities...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 2017 and Arthur C. Clarke Award 2017 and Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize 2017 and National Book Award 2016 and...

Histories you can trust. World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandably left a long and dark shadow across the decades. Yet it is three generations...

A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'This feels like a vision for the 21st-century novel... It made me happy' Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly GorgeousBenson and Mike are two young guys who have been together for a few years - good years - but...

New York Times bestseller Walter Mosley's sizzling new novel pits Easy Rawlins against his greatest ever challenge. It is the Summer of Love as CINNAMON KISS opens, and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armoured car. It's further outside the law...