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What They Said About Luisa
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CA$26.99
ISBN: 9781459752771
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Dundurn Press
An enchanting tale of the complex and fascinating life of Luisa Abrego of Seville, an emancipated woman who forges a new future for herself in colonial Mexico and gets caught in the Spanish Inquisition.Luisa...
Popa Singer
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CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780813951430
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Virginia Press
The latest novel by one of Haiti's most brilliant writers The most recent book by the renowned Haitian novelist, essayist, and poet René Depestre, Popa Singer is a semiautobiographical chronicle of...
Fanny
A Translation of Les enfances de Fanny
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CA$14.95
ISBN: 9780776635996
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Ottawa Press
Set in Boston, Fanny is a fictionalized autobiography recounting a relationship between a white defrocked Canadian priest and an Afro-American woman.
The Forsaken and the Dead
The Bass Reeves Trilogy, Book Three
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CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781496220325
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Set in the 1890s, The Forsaken and the Dead follows Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves as he moves through the valleys and shadows of Indian and Oklahoma Territories as the modern world implodes around him.
Chasing the Black Eagle
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CA$23.99
ISBN: 9781459750593
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: Dundurn Press
After detainment by the Bureau of Investigation, Arthur Tormes is forced to spy on Hubert Julian. For thirteen years he follows Julian — a parachutist, pilot, and possible seditious threat to the United States. To win his freedom, Arthur must stay close to Julian, from New York City to Ethiopia, often at great personal sacrifice.
This Other Eden
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CA$25.00
ISBN: 9781773103129
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: Goose Lane Editions
Finalist, Booker Prize and National Book Award for Fiction Longlisted, Dublin Literary AwardOne of Barack Obama’s 15 favorite books of 2023 • A New Yorker Best Books of 2023 • An NPR 2023 “Book...
Cora's Kitchen
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CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771338516
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Winner, 2022 Sarton Award for Historical Fiction; Winner (Bronze), 2022 Foreword INDIE Award for Multicultural Fiction
Cora James, a 35-year-old Black librarian in Harlem, dreams of being a writer. Torn between her secret passion and the duties of a working wife and mother in 1928, Cora strikes up correspondence with renowned poet Langston Hughes, who encourages her to pursue her dream. Duty frustrates Cora again, this time when she?s called upon to fill in for her cousin Agnes while she recovers from a brutal beating by her husband Bud.
Working as a cook for a white woman, Cora discovers both time to write and an unlikely ally in Mrs. Eleanor Fitzgerald, who becomes friend, confidante, and patron, encouraging Cora to rise above what?s commonly thought of as ?a woman?s lot.? Yet, through a series of startling developments in her dealings with the white family, Cora?s journey to becoming a writer takes her...
A Knife in the Sky
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CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771339186
Pub Date: June 2022
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
In A Knife in the Sky, a journalist's decision to talk and a student?s desire to know puts them in the crosshairs of a murderous dictatorship. As the novel opens, Mika is dangerously engaged in the pursuit of truth during Haiti?s first Duvalier regime. Nearly thirty years later, her granddaughter Junon witnesses the repressive dynasty?s unravelling. Brutal, terrifying, and hopeful, A Knife in the Sky is an homage to those who have survived tyranny.
Originally published by les éditions du remue-ménage in 2015 as Femmes au temps des carnassiers, this book, like most of the author?s oeuvre, is preoccupied with colonial imposition. Marie-Célie Agnant writes on the ruthlessness of a dictatorship, on humanity, and locates the strength and power of resistance in women.
The Shade Tree
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CA$25.00
ISBN: 9781771836296
Pub Date: December 2021
Imprint: Guernica Editions
Winner of the 2020 Guernica Prize for Literary Fiction and The 2022 Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction When the lies of thirteen-year-old Ellie Turner cause a black man’s lynching in 1930s Florida,...
No Crystal Stair
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CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781773900919
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: Linda Leith Publishing
A Black community in 1940s Montreal, a woman who must pass as white in order to get a job, a family struggling to maintain dignity and joy. No Crystal Stair is a seminal novel of an era and a racism that continues to reverberate.
Jude and Diana
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CA$22.00
ISBN: 9781773634418
Pub Date: June 2021
A story of two enslaved sisters. A story of brutality. A story of joy. Sharon Robart-Johnson blends archival research with fiction to compel us: Black lives matter enough to remember.
The Talking Drum
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CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771337410
Pub Date: May 2020
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Winner, 2020 National Association of Black Journalists Outstanding Literary Award; Overall Winner, 2020 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Award; Winner, 2021 IPPY Gold Medal for Urban Fiction; Finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards
Featured on Ms. Magazine's June 2020 Reads for the Rest of Us and Bustle's 23 Debut Books That Are Too Good To Ignore.
It is 1971. The fictional city of Bellport, Massachusetts, is in decline with an urban redevelopment project on the horizon expected to transform this dying factory town into a thriving economic center. This planned transformation has a profound effect on the residents who live in Bellport as their own personal transformations take place. Sydney Stallworth steps away from her fellowship and law studies at an elite university to support husband Malachi's dream of opening a business in the heart of the black community of his hometown, Bellport.
For Omar Bassari, an immigrant...
A Wolf by the Ears
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CA$28.95
ISBN: 9781625345035
Pub Date: March 2020
Imprint: University of Massachusetts Press
We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go.?Thomas JeffersonDuring the War of 1812, thousands of enslaved people from plantations across the Tidewater rallied to...
Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves
The Bass Reeves Trilogy, Book One
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CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781496218759
Pub Date: March 2020
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Sidney Thompson tells the story of the early career of Bass Reeves, one of the greatest lawmen in American history, and his enslavement before he became a deputy U.S. marshal.
Appointed
An American Novel
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CA$36.95
ISBN: 9781949199000
Pub Date: July 2019
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
Appointed is a recently recovered novel written by William Anderson and Walter Stowers, two of the editors of the Detroit Plaindealer, a long-running and well-regarded African American newspaper of...
Nashville Burning
Price:
CA$30.95
ISBN: 9780875657103
Pub Date: October 2018
Nashville Burning is set in three Aprils, those of 1967, '68, and '69, in Music City. In the first, after an event at Vanderbilt University featuring Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael, Allen Ginsberg,...
What They Said About Luisa
CA$26.99
ISBN: 9781459752771
Pub Date: May 2024
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Popa Singer
CA$33.95
ISBN: 9780813951430
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Virginia Press
Fanny
A Translation of Les enfances de Fanny
CA$14.95
ISBN: 9780776635996
Pub Date: April 2024
Imprint: University of Ottawa Press
The Forsaken and the Dead
The Bass Reeves Trilogy, Book Three
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781496220325
Pub Date: October 2023
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Chasing the Black Eagle
CA$23.99
ISBN: 9781459750593
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: Dundurn Press
This Other Eden
CA$25.00
ISBN: 9781773103129
Pub Date: March 2023
Imprint: Goose Lane Editions
Cora's Kitchen
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771338516
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Winner, 2022 Sarton Award for Historical Fiction; Winner (Bronze), 2022 Foreword INDIE Award for Multicultural Fiction
Cora James, a 35-year-old Black librarian in Harlem, dreams of being a writer. Torn between her secret passion and the duties of a working wife and mother in 1928, Cora strikes up correspondence with renowned poet Langston Hughes, who encourages her to pursue her dream. Duty frustrates Cora again, this time when she?s called upon to fill in for her cousin Agnes while she recovers from a brutal beating by her husband Bud.
Working as a cook for a white woman, Cora discovers both time to write and an unlikely ally in Mrs. Eleanor Fitzgerald, who becomes friend, confidante, and patron, encouraging Cora to rise above what?s commonly thought of as ?a woman?s lot.? Yet, through a series of startling developments in her dealings with the white family, Cora?s journey to becoming a writer takes her...
A Knife in the Sky
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771339186
Pub Date: June 2022
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
In A Knife in the Sky, a journalist's decision to talk and a student?s desire to know puts them in the crosshairs of a murderous dictatorship. As the novel opens, Mika is dangerously engaged in the pursuit of truth during Haiti?s first Duvalier regime. Nearly thirty years later, her granddaughter Junon witnesses the repressive dynasty?s unravelling. Brutal, terrifying, and hopeful, A Knife in the Sky is an homage to those who have survived tyranny.
Originally published by les éditions du remue-ménage in 2015 as Femmes au temps des carnassiers, this book, like most of the author?s oeuvre, is preoccupied with colonial imposition. Marie-Célie Agnant writes on the ruthlessness of a dictatorship, on humanity, and locates the strength and power of resistance in women.
The Shade Tree
CA$25.00
ISBN: 9781771836296
Pub Date: December 2021
Imprint: Guernica Editions
No Crystal Stair
CA$21.95
ISBN: 9781773900919
Pub Date: October 2021
Imprint: Linda Leith Publishing
A Black community in 1940s Montreal, a woman who must pass as white in order to get a job, a family struggling to maintain dignity and joy. No Crystal Stair is a seminal novel of an era and a racism that continues to reverberate.
Jude and Diana
CA$22.00
ISBN: 9781773634418
Pub Date: June 2021
A story of two enslaved sisters. A story of brutality. A story of joy. Sharon Robart-Johnson blends archival research with fiction to compel us: Black lives matter enough to remember.
The Talking Drum
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771337410
Pub Date: May 2020
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Winner, 2020 National Association of Black Journalists Outstanding Literary Award; Overall Winner, 2020 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Award; Winner, 2021 IPPY Gold Medal for Urban Fiction; Finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards
Featured on Ms. Magazine's June 2020 Reads for the Rest of Us and Bustle's 23 Debut Books That Are Too Good To Ignore.
It is 1971. The fictional city of Bellport, Massachusetts, is in decline with an urban redevelopment project on the horizon expected to transform this dying factory town into a thriving economic center. This planned transformation has a profound effect on the residents who live in Bellport as their own personal transformations take place. Sydney Stallworth steps away from her fellowship and law studies at an elite university to support husband Malachi's dream of opening a business in the heart of the black community of his hometown, Bellport.
For Omar Bassari, an immigrant...
A Wolf by the Ears
CA$28.95
ISBN: 9781625345035
Pub Date: March 2020
Imprint: University of Massachusetts Press
Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves
The Bass Reeves Trilogy, Book One
CA$26.95
ISBN: 9781496218759
Pub Date: March 2020
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Appointed
An American Novel
CA$36.95
ISBN: 9781949199000
Pub Date: July 2019
Imprint: West Virginia University Press
Nashville Burning
CA$30.95
ISBN: 9780875657103
Pub Date: October 2018