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Black Lotus

Finding the Black Lotus murderer is Detective Wolf’s chance to avoid an Internal Affairs investigation. That’s when things get personal.

*While supplies last, books ordered through the website will include a bookplate SIGNED by K’wan!

Tales of the Out & the Gone

Controversial literary legend Amiri Baraka’s new short story collection—an Essence Magazine best-seller—will shock and awe.

New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Sita)

This eleven-piece, limited-edition box set—an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project—features the work of ten new African poets.

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Upcoming Events

VIRTUAL EVENT: Alejandro Pérez-Cortés – Third Place Books Lake Forest (Lake Forest Park, WA)

12/10/21, 9:00pm

Please note: all our virtual events are listed in Eastern time (ET). Alejandro Pérez-Cortes launches his new poetry collection Ima and Coli Are the Tree That Was Never a Seed / Ima y coli son el arbol que nunca fue semilla with special guests Claudia Castro Luna and Gerald Bigelow. This virtual event will be […]

Joshua Coombes – Hot and Cool Café (Los Angeles, CA)

12/16/21, 6:30pm

Join Joshua Coombes for an in-person event celebrating his book Do Something for Nothing at the Hot and Cool Café. This event will begin at 6:30 pm Pacific time.

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