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Featured: Black Interest

I Am a Promise

An inspiring children’s picture book about the indomitable spirit of Jamaican eight-time Olympic medal winner Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce.

The long-awaited reissue of the sequel to Amiri Baraka’s seminal work, BLUES PEOPLE, and latest selection in the AkashiClassics Renegade Reprint Series. This collection of essays by Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones includes a new introduction by the author and Q&A by Calvin Reid.

Black Sheep Digit

In conjunction with the publication of Pills and Starships by Lydia Millet—the latest release from our Black Sheep imprint for Young Adults and Young Readers—we’ve created the Black Sheep Digit, comprising excerpts from Pills and Starships and our first two Black Sheep releases, Changers Book One: Drew by T Cooper and Allison Glock-Cooper and Game World by C. J. Farley.

Upcoming Events

Kevin Holohan — Irish Arts Center (New York, NY)

5/2/24, 7:00pm

Kevin Holohan presents So You Wanna Run a Country? in conversation with Joseph O’Neill

I Disappeared Them

Nein, Nein, Nein! One Man’s Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust (Paperback Edition)

Stay Positive Limited Edition Preorder Package

Joyce Carol Oates: Letters to a Biographer

So You Wanna Run a Country?

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Little John Crow

After being abandoned by his animal friends, Little John Crow must come to terms with what it means to be part of a community when you are a vulture.

*While supplies last, books ordered through the Akashic Books website will include a bookplate SIGNED by Ziggy Marley!

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Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction From Jamaica’s Calabash Writer’s Workshop

Jamaica’s literary lion Colin Channer presents new fiction from the freshest young Jamaican authors and the Calabash International Literary Festival’s Extended Family.