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Happy Black History Month!

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Featured Titles

The Life of Herod the Great

A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson.

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(S)Kin by Ibi Zoboi

The instant #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller, now available in paperback with bonus content!

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Teach Truth

"I was just enraptured by the lineage and the story of this modern African-American family. I've never read anything quite like it." — Oprah Winfrey

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Black Apocalypse

From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner,—comes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War.

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Black in Blues

The award-winning author of Magical Negro traces the difficulty and beauty of existing as a Black woman through American history, from the foundational trauma of the slave trade all the way up to Serena Williams and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

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Black History Reading Lists

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