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We Are LIT!

We Are LIT is an independent, multicultural bookshop offering new, diverse books across all genres. Our collections are hand selected to connect readers of all ages to their interests through thoughtfully curated books.

Around the World in Books: Owner Picks! VIEW LIST (70 BOOKS)
The Birdcatcher
The Scent of Burnt Flowers
An Olive Grove in Ends
We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
Honor
The Wonders
Book of Wings
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East
Interesting Women
Black Cake
Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?
Bibliolepsy
When We Were Birds
The Fortune Men

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Books and the Beats!: Barack Obama’s Summer Lists - 2022 VIEW LIST (17 BOOKS)
Mouth to Mouth
Sea of Tranquility
The Family Chao
The Candy House
To Paradise
Silverview
A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance
Black Cake
Razorblade Tears
Velvet Was the Night
The School for Good Mothers
The Ballad of Perilous Graves
Last Summer on State Street
What the Fireflies Knew
Why We're Polarized

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Rooted in the Earth VIEW LIST (27 BOOKS)
Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science
We Are Each Other's Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy
Talking on the Water: Conversations about Nature and Creativity
Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land
A Litany of Wild Graces: Meditations on Sacred Ecology
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage
The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors
Cane
A Beautiful Work in Progress
Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks
In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena
The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race

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Help Yourself VIEW LIST (58 BOOKS)
The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves
The Enneagram for Black Liberation: Return to Who You Are Beneath the Armor You Carry
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
Seeking Wisdom: A Spiritual Path to Creative Connection (a Six-Week Artist's Way Program)
Find Your Unicorn Space: Reclaim Your Creative Life in a Too-Busy World
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
How to Break Up with Your Friends: Finding Meaning, Connection, and Boundaries in Modern Friendships
Journal of Radical Permission: A Daily Guide for Following Your Soul's Calling
The How: Notes on the Great Work of Meeting Yourself
Fierce Love: A Bold Path to Ferocious Courage and Rule-Breaking Kindness That Can Heal the World
Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing, and Self-Trust
Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays
Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health

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Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist's Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole Patriarchy Blues: Reflections on Manhood

Black Critical Thought

Elevating Diverse Voices - Adult Fiction VIEW LIST (137 BOOKS)
Harry Sylvester Bird
Horse
Probably Ruby
Memphis
When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East
American Fever
Woman of Light
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
Black Cloud Rising
The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
Win Me Something
Dava Shastri's Last Day
On Rotation
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Oprah's Book Club Novel
The Last One

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Epic Life Stories VIEW LIST (56 BOOKS)
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
Be My Baby: A Memoir
The Measure of a Man
Bird Brother: A Falconer's Journey and the Healing Power of Wildlife
A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump
Angela Davis: An Autobiography
Jump: My Secret Journey from the Streets to the Boardroom
Letters to the Sons of Society: A Father's Invitation to Love, Honesty, and Freedom
I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin's Life in Letters
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
Making Revolution: My Life in the Black Panther Party
Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo
Will
Letters to a Young Athlete
Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope

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Stories From the Border VIEW LIST (130 BOOKS)
My Boy Will Die of Sorrow: A Memoir of Immigration from the Front Lines
Beautiful Country: A Memoir
Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
A Song Everlasting
Things We Lost to the Water
House of Sticks: A Memoir
What Strange Paradise
Breath, Eyes, Memory
A Woman Is No Man
Homeland Elegies
Nights When Nothing Happened
Aphasia
Unnatural Resources
Divorcing
A Lover's Discourse

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Unaccustomed Earth Milk Blood Heat Five Tuesdays in Winter

Short and Sweet

OURstory VIEW LIST (38 BOOKS)
Who's Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
Unseen: Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives
The Black History Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
The Essential Kerner Commission Report
Black Artists in America: From the Great Depression to Civil Rights
Black Lives 1900: W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
The Golden Thirteen: How Black Men Won the Right to Wear Navy Gold
On Juneteenth
Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin
The Victory of Greenwood
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue

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