When Artie Howell moves with his wife back to her sleepy hometown, he must protect their son Nicky from the skeletons coming out of the closets from both of their pasts.
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Percival Everett enriches the ranks of Chris Abani’s acclaimed Black Goat poetry series.
The long-awaited reissue of the book that introduced mystery fans to bodyguard-turned-investigator D Hunter.
Accra joins Lagos, Nairobi, Marrakech, and Addis Ababa in representing the African continent in the Noir Series arena.
Addis Ababa is a sprawling melting pot of cultures where rich and poor live side by side in relative harmony—until they don’t.
A beautiful children’s picture book featuring the lyrics of Peter Tosh’s global classic celebrating children of African descent.
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What William S. Burroughs’ Junky was to heroin addiction, All or Nothing is to gambling, only more prophetic.
Concerns with human rights, political oppression, sexuality, race, and Jamaican culture thematically connect these essays.
After being shot ten times by her fiancé and left for dead, Katrina Brownlee miraculously survived and became a decorated NYPD detective, a mentor, and founder of a nonprofit support group for at-risk women.
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A Jamaican father and his adult son travel across the island together in a touching and humorous novel that explores family reconciliation.
Trade paperback reissue of Elizabeth Nunez’s new novel, a New York Times Editors’ Choice.
Race, class, and hormones combine and combust when a Harvard freshman and his two friends attempt to join the staff of the Harpoon, the school’s iconic humor magazine.
An inspirational rags-to-riches memoir by the founder of the most successful Caribbean business ever established in the US.
What was life like for the gangs of New York and others thrown into the nineteenth-century slammer?
A breathtaking novella from the award-winning author of Song for Night and GraceLand.
A deeply engaging debut novel about a morality clash in an insular Chicago neighborhood.
In honor of her 2012 New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year selection—and in anticipation of the just-released paperback edition of Nowhere Is a Place, our Bernice L. McFadden Digit features excerpts from all four of her Akashic titles: Gathering of Waters, The Warmest December, Glorious, and Nowhere Is a Place.
In the early 1970s, César Alvarez enlists in the navy to escape a life of crime; while the decision saves him from the streets, it also lands him amid volatile racial tensions at a crucial moment in US history.
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The death of a Jamaican man’s father raises questions about the father’s political endeavors, and about the plight of 1980s Jamaica.
In celebration of the release of Black History Month, our Black History Digit includes excerpts from our two February Releases—Nowhere Is a Place by Bernice L. McFadden and The Gospel According to Cane by Courttia Newland—along with Chris Abani’s Becoming Abigail and Kola Boof’s The Sexy Part of the Bible.
Finding the Black Lotus murderer is Detective Wolf’s chance to avoid an Internal Affairs investigation. That’s when things get personal.
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After the death of a police officer, assassin Kahllah (aka the Black Lotus) is forced out of retirement in an attempt to clear her name while outrunning a mysterious enemy.
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A powerful tale of a young woman’s quest to unearth her identity, lost between cultures and families.
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.
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.
An exciting history of the improv group you’ve never heard of that changed comedy in America—this is the story of Boom Chicago in Amsterdam as told by its founders and most famous alumni! Featuring a foreword by Seth Meyers and a backword by Jordan Peele.
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A powerful immigrant story of family, love, assimilation, and a provocative look inside the contemporary book business.
The second issue of the groundbreaking new literary journal.
A literary journal’s debut featuring writing from: Donnell Alexander, Federico Anderson, Dana Crum, Michael A. Gonzales, KRS-One, Michael C. Ladd, Ferentz Lafargue, Reginald Lewis, Adam Mansbach, Caille Millner, muMs, and Greg Tate.
The highly anticipated second title from Akashic’s groundbreaking street-lit imprint, The Armory, curated by author Kenji Jasper.
Moa, a fourteen-year-old slave, gets caught up in the most significant slave rebellion in Jamaican history, paying homage to freedom fighters all over the world.
The free Caribbean Debuts Digit features excerpts from four great debut works of fiction in our catalog: Drifting by Katia D. Ulysse, The Night of the Rambler by Montague Kobbé, The Roving Tree by Elsie Augustave (Haiti), and John Crow’s Devil by Marlon James.
Author of the mega–best seller B-More Careful (350,000 sales) is back with an irresistible hard-boiled crime story.
In Book Two of the Changers Series, our protagonist undergoes a second transformation—returning to a male body.
A professional playbook offering guidance to women in the contemporary workplace.
Eight talented Caribbean poets are featured in this second publication from Peekash Press.
Chris Abani’s acclaimed Black Goat series presents the debut collection from one of America’s most promising young poets.
Nearly forty years after breaking his way into public consciousness, the indefatigable godfather of indie features and African American cinema presents a graphic novel that serves as the inspiration for his latest film.
A dark and incisive collection of speculative short stories set in an alternate future of interstellar space travel, robots, mythical creatures, and the uncanny.
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With echoes of Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Yejidé’s novel explores a forgotten quadrant of Washington, DC, and the ghosts that haunt it.
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Kimani reimagines the rise and fall of colonialism in Africa by telling the story of the birth of Kenya’s railroad.
Trap music, human trafficking, malt liquor, and the tyranny of President Trump collide in the fifth installment of Nelson George’s D Hunter mystery series.
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The latest “naphic grovel” by rap legend Chuck D of Public Enemy explores how the year 2024 became the new, Orwellian 1984 in a large format, limited edition hardcover.
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Elizabeth Nunez’s reissued fourth novel is a haunting, mesmerizing exploration into the often destructive price of passion.
The highly anticipated new novel and debut US publication from the legendary Jamaican author of The Lunatic and The Duppy.
Oddball sexuality, acts of perversion, and out-of-order behavior from the acclaimed Jamaican author of The Lunatic and Dog War.
How funny is this social satire? Akashic Books’s pledge to our readers: Laugh out loud at least once or your money back. Seriously.
A truly exciting American debut from a Nigerian writer on Chris Abani’s new poetry imprint, Black Goat, with an introduction by Kwame Dawes.
This nine-piece box set, an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project, features the work of eight African poets.
A modern-day King Lear, a novel of greed, resentment, jealousy, betrayal, and romance set in Trinidad, Jamaica, and Barbados.
Echoing Jonathan Swift, Preston L. Allen breaks new ground with a novel that is part allegory, part fantasy.
When the patriarch Chancellor King gets dethroned, the “Monarchy” of New York City’s Five Points falls into disarray, giving way to a bloody battle for the crown.
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An illuminating and unflinching novel exploring England’s 19th-century colonization of Jamaica.
This collection includes Glen E. Friedman’s most iconic images of Bad Brains, as well as many never-before-seen photographs and endsheet art by Shepard Fairey.
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A fascinating collection of Frederick Douglass’s always-controversial speeches in Brooklyn, New York.
An impassioned plea for freedom and justice, set in a world uncomfortably like our own, by the Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri.
The posthumous novel from legendary Queens rapper Mazaradi Fox, who was once a member of 50 Cent’s G-Unit crew.
Launching Akashic’s new Black Sheep YA imprint, an adventure novel in a video game turned reality, with giant spiders, malevolent hummingbirds, a not-quite-yellow-brick road, and preteen children learning how to be heroes!
Following her best-selling, award-winning novel Glorious, McFadden produces a fantastical historical novel featuring the spirit of Emmett Till.
Half-sisters Kara and Alex—one the biracial product of foster care, the other of dysfunctional privilege—struggle for redemption and forgiveness.
A dazzling coming-of-age novella, now an Essence Magazine best seller, by Jamaica’s top-selling writer.
A provocative and persuasive historical novel exploring the Spanish brutality against native Indians in early 16th-century Jamaica.
Award-winning poet Kwame Dawes explores the insidious nature of power and the limits of protest for Chris Abani’s Black Goat poetry series.
After her infant son is kidnapped, Beverley Cottrell’s marriage fails. Years later, could a mysterious, lurking young man be her long-lost son?
Legendary Haitian author Depestre combines magic, fantasy, eroticism, and delirious humor to explore universal questions of race and sexuality.
Akashic recruits Danticat, one of the truly great contemporary writers, to edit this timely volume featuring stories set both before and after the devastating 2010 earthquake.
The best anthology of classic Haitian fiction ever assembled, unparalleled in scope.
A passionate memoir and fearless behind-the-scenes look at the personal lives of the biggest reggae stars in the world.
This reissue of Pulitzer Prize–winning author Percival Everett and Kincaid’s classic political satire lampoons conservative hysteria for a new generation
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Prodigy, from the legendary hip-hop group Mobb Deep, launches Akashic’s new Infamous Books imprint with a story of loyalty, vengeance, and greed.
Prodigy, from the legendary hip-hop group Mobb Deep, launches Akashic’s new Infamous Books imprint with a story of loyalty, vengeance, and greed.
When Naomi, a fourteen-year-old white girl, is placed with a black foster care family, her life takes some dramatic twists and turns.
A seminal Jones/Baraka literary land mine that launches AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series.
Akashic launches an African American–focused reprint series with this classic story collection.
An inspiring children’s picture book about the indomitable spirit of Jamaican eight-time Olympic medal winner Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce.
A serial killer’s desire to protect children fuels a parallel drive to murder other sadistic men in this immersive and literary psychological thriller
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Bob Marley’s first and most famous son, Ziggy, extends his devotion to youth with his debut children’s book.
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This limited edition package includes a copy of Interficial ARTelligence and a Giclee print—both signed by Chuck D
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Legendary hip-hop artist Chuck D (Public Enemy, Prophets of Rage) details and illustrates his encounters with some of society’s most influential musicians, entertainers, politicians, athletes, and public figures.
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Jamaica’s literary lion Colin Channer presents new fiction from the freshest young Jamaican authors and the Calabash International Literary Festival’s Extended Family.
The long-awaited paperback reissue of the acclaimed Jamaican author’s debut novel.
In 1668, a young Jamaican girl, Kemosha, secures her freedom from enslavement and finds her true self while sailing to Panama with the legendary Captain Morgan.
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A hopeful and insightful collection by one of the great voices of our time
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Following in the Caribbean footsteps of Haiti Noir and Trinidad Noir, now come dark stories from Jamaica’s capital city.
A fierce, intelligent, and often hilarious novel about a young African American attorney who struggles to keep his cool in the personally and politically turbulent ’90s.
This 11 piece, limited-edition box set—an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project—features the work of ten new African poets.
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This 10-piece, limited-edition box set—an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project—features the work of nine new African poets.
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West Africa enters the Noir Series arena, meticulously edited by one of Nigeria’s best-known authors.
An African American man confronts a heart of darkness when his family moves from Los Angeles to a small town in Norway.
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.
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In Revoyr’s most thrilling novel to date, four backpackers embark on a trip in the Sierra Nevada that quickly becomes a disaster.
D Hunter, bodyguard-turned-PI, is back, investigating a murder that lures him into the heart of rhythm-and-blues history.
A long-awaited reissue of this deeply thoughtful novel about hope, forgiveness, and the cost of loving Donovan, a complex man with a shattered history.
The first-ever US publication of the Caribbean comic classic that is also a major motion picture.
The debut title from Akashic’s Open Lens imprint: a universal tale of family, heritage, and the ties that bind, from the nationally best-selling author Randall Robinson.
Excerpts from our three May releases: Every Boy Should Have a Man by Preston L. Allen, The Family Mansion by Anthony C. Winkler, and the second installment in the Open Lens imprint, The Roving Tree by Elsie Augustave.
American-born artist Chris is forced to reconsider his conception of family during a visit to his mother’s Caribbean homeland.
The long-awaited reissue of Alice Coltrane’s original spiritual teachings and reflections, which provide powerful insight into her transcendent music, cherished by millions across the globe.
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Innovative illustrator Kirk Parrish brings the iconic song “Move the Crowd” to life for the first time as a children’s picture book.
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A groundbreaking, hilarious novel about two elder gay Caribbean men coming to terms with being closeted in a changing world.
A picture book based on Ziggy Marley’s popular song celebrating music’s many forms, from the sounds of ocean waves to laughter in the family kitchen.
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Ziggy Marley’s ode to his four-legged friend Romeo becomes a picture book that is sure to touch the hearts of dog lovers everywhere.
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A young Jamaican man struggles to overcome toxic masculinity—his culture’s and his own—in this Caribbean coming-of-age novel.
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o anchors this truly fascinating first East African installment in the Akashic Noir Series.
This exclusive preorder package includes a copy of Natasha Howard’s forthcoming memoir The Vision Through My Lens—autographed by Natasha—and a custom Gildan 5000 T-shirt.
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Akashic Books reissues Nina Revoyr’s inspired and groundbreaking 1997 debut novel about women’s basketball, class, racial identity, and friendship.
For a limited time, purchase both The Lost Treasures of R&B and The Plot Against Hip Hop together for only $15!
Discover some of the best in speculative short fiction from the Caribbean’s up-and-coming voices.
This fourteen-piece, limited-edition box set—an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project—features the work of thirteen new African poets.
This eleven-piece, limited-edition box set—an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project—features the work of ten new African poets.
This twelve-piece, limited-edition box set—an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project—features the work of eleven new African poets.
This eleven-piece, limited-edition box set—an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project—features the work of ten new African poets.
This twelve-piece, limited-edition box set—an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project—features the work of eleven new African poets.
This limited-edition nine-piece box set, an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project, features the work of new African poets.
A riveting memoir in which Nunez comes to grips with her mother’s passing and her parents’ ambition for their children.
The long-awaited reissue of McFadden’s classic novel about a young woman on a journey of self-discovery.
Kobbé’s hilarious social novel centers on a comically failed business venture on the island of Anguilla, brilliantly echoing A Confederacy of Dunces and Herman Wouk’s Don’t Stop the Carnival.
A beautifully illustrated story of three girls caught up in the most curious of mysteries.
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A pan-Caribbean anthology of original short stories culled from the very best entries to the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.
A fascinating first-person origin story of Rastafari beliefs, culture, and philosophy, capturing a crucial and little-known chapter in Jamaican history
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A bad-ass noir novel set in hip hop culture, by best-selling and critically-acclaimed author Nelson George.
An NBA veteran offers engaging interviews and reflections that explore police brutality, white supremacy, and the struggle for racial justice in America.
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A young woman must learn to love and trust again after experiencing the brutality of ritual servitude in West Africa.
Topical and timely, Booker Prize–winning author Ben Okri’s new collection of short stories blurs parallel realities and walks the line between darkness and magic.
The powerful memoir of a female African American advertising executive’s unprecedented and unlikely success, which began in the Mad Men era.
The reissue of Elizabeth Nunez’s captivating novel Prospero’s Daughter, a brilliantly conceived retelling of Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
Best-selling writer Colin Channer’s debut poetry collection tackles the unlikely literary figure of the Jamaican policeman.
Hip-hop icon Chuck D presents a gorgeously illustrated Pilates exercise program for people of all ages
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The King family is on the political rise in New York City, but must weather the violent storm wrought by their darkest secrets.
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An American Rasta’s retelling of episodes in American history with an anti-colonial thrust and a view toward charting a brighter future.
For a limited time, purchase the “My First Five Books” Ricardo Cortés bundle—Go the Fuck to Sleep, It’s Just a Plant, Party: A Mystery, Sea Creatures from the Sky, and A Secret History of Coffee, Coca & Cola—for 30% off list price.
A monumental speculative fiction story of love, loyalty, politics, and conscience, set in parallel Londons.
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A powerful debut novel illuminating how adoptees struggle to recapture their personal histories and cultural legacy, part of Akashic’s Open Lens imprint.
An authentic and riveting hip-hop memoir in the Joan Didion tradition from Bronx native Lewis.
Romance and political intrigue cloud the many lives of a diabolical African supermodel harboring a shocking secret.
A provocative debut that masterfully fuses issues of culture, race, sexuality, and family.
Brand-new fiction, essays, and poems from seventeen island countries around the world.
Robert Pinsky and Derek Walcott anchor this groundbreaking, soulful poetry collection.
Chris Abani’s new novella furthers his reputation as the most acclaimed young African writer today.
The Akashic Noir Series’ forensic study of Southern California sharpens its focus on one of Los Angeles’s most recognized neighborhoods.
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Excerpts from By the Balls: The Complete Collection by Jim Pascoe and Tom Fassbender, Heart of the Old Country by Tim McLoughlin, Southland by Nina Revoyr, and The Plot Against Hip Hop by Nelson George.
Chuck D (Public Enemy, Prophets of Rage, etc.) brings his personal insights and social critiques to the page in fierce, passionate, and evocative visual art and prose
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From NFL spotlight to inner stillness—Kenny Stills shares a powerful story of healing through service, self-reflection, and mental health
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In this breathtaking memoir, acclaimed author Alex Wheatle details how reggae music became his salvation through a childhood marred by abuse, imprisonment, and police brutality
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The tragedy of gun violence is depicted in annotated illustrations that illuminate a society gone hamn; from legendary hip-hop artist Chuck D (Public Enemy, Prophets of Rage, etc.)
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An erotic drama about four sexy couples and one swingers’ club where their fantasies and nightmares collide.
A reissue of a 1965 novel, a remarkable narrative of childhood and youth, spiraling out of Dante’s Inferno.
This reissue of a 1967 story collection shows a mind in motion, featuring writing that is provocative, witty, bitter, and aggressive.
Controversial literary legend Amiri Baraka’s new short story collection—an Essence Magazine best-seller—will shock and awe.
A haunting, epic Caribbean love story, reminiscent of García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera.
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Tender Headed, selected by Camille Rankine as a winner of the 2022 National Poetry Series, is a musical and formally playful meditation on Black identity and masculinity
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In unflinchingly honest prose, Sugar Rodgers shares her inspiring story of overcoming tremendous odds to become an all-star in the WNBA.
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The latest release from Caribbean publisher Peekash Press celebrates some of the major new voices in Anglophone Caribbean literature
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A timely memoir about world record–breaking Tyus’s 1964 and 1968 Olympic victories, amid the turbulence of the 1960s, along with contemporary reflections.
This twelve-piece, limited-edition box set—an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project—features the work of eleven new African poets.
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Ex-bodyguard D Hunter is swept into the City of Angels on a dark mission to find his mysterious grandfather’s killer.
Celebrating ten years of New-Generation African Poets, Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry presents Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani’s unprecedented disquisition on the state of African poetry.
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The Caribbean provides no shelter from the delicious terror of the Akashic Noir Series.
A breathtaking science fiction debut from a worthy successor to Octavia Butler.
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The long-awaited reissue of McFadden’s best-selling second novel praised by Toni Morrison, USA Today, Washington Post, and others—published simultaneously with McFadden’s new novel Gathering of Waters.
Perfect for readers of all ages, this captivating picture book teaches children about iguanas’ unique behaviors while celebrating the bonds between generations and the wonders of the natural world.
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In interviews and essays, high-profile activist athletes explore the intersection of sports and politics.
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A beautifully illustrated children’s history of hip-hop, from a progressive/idealistic perspective.
Now in paperback, this blockbuster story collection further cements Tananarive Due’s status as a leading innovator in Black horror and Afrofuturism; featuring the 2023 World Fantasy Award–winning story, “Incident at Bear Creek Lodge,” and two new stories!
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At long last, a much-needed guidebook for well-intentioned people of pallor on what not to say to their African American “friends.”
Former NFL quarterback McPherson examines the roots of masculinity gone awry and how it promotes violence against women.
For sixteen-year-old Geth Montego, zero o’clock begins on March 11, 2020. By June, she wonders if it will ever end.
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Forthcoming: 10/7/25
The dramatic and captivating story of an unlikely coalition that formed in the wake of the Rodney King beating to challenge the destructive reign of Los Angeles police chief Daryl Gates.
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Forthcoming: 12/2/25
Selected by acclaimed poet/novelist Colin Channer for the National Poetry Series, 82nd Division is a lustrous love song to the author’s native Nigeria
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Forthcoming: 9/15/26
Amid the current firestorm of interest in women’s basketball, Natasha Howard reveals the tremendous obstacles she overcame to become a three-time WNBA champion who continues to excel on the hardwood.
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A man’s quest to resolve an inherited family trauma leads him to an enigmatic priory in a war-ravaged region, from which he’s not sure he will be able to flee
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Forthcoming: 10/6/26
A children’s picture book celebrating the fun of Christmas around the world, from the Caribbean to Kenya
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Forthcoming: 11/3/26
A beautifully written and often speculative story collection infused with Caribbean and African myths and cultures, exploring love, betrayal, motherhood, death, and home
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Forthcoming: 12/1/26
A vibrant exploration—through essays and photographs—of the intricate connections between the Cuban and Haitian communities.
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Forthcoming: 12/1/26
This National Poetry Series–winning debut collection asks how we can make meaning in our lives during a time of ecological crisis and rampant social injustice.
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Forthcoming: 1/5/27
A truly groundbreaking exploration of the lessons learned from the basketball GOAT, Michael Jordan, from those who competed with and against him
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Forthcoming: 1/5/27
Originally published in 2005, former NBA star Etan Thomas’s first poetry collection defies the stereotype of the apolitical athlete; featuring brand-new poems by Thomas and his son—and University of Dayton basketball star—Malcolm Thomas
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Forthcoming: 4/7/26
This 10-year anniversary edition of Bernice L. McFadden’s NAACP Image Award–winning classic explores the Holocaust from the perspective of two African American musicians imprisoned at the Buchenwald concentration camp
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