Nonfiction - Black Reads
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Dirty Laundry: The Story of an African King's Obsession with Having Heirs to His Throne
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Afraid he won't live long enough to see his grandchildren or an heir to his throne and with his only son, Jean, refusing to start a family right af...
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I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In this powerful memoir, the creator of the viral videos "Before You Call the Cops" and "Walking While Black", Tyler Merritt, shares his experien...
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To Have Nothing: God Bless the Child Who's Got His Own
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /When life is defined and debated through sound bites and social media, who would want to read a story about a boy who traversed multiple cultures, ...
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Bearing My Seoul: Tales of a Black American Girl in a Big Asian City
PaperbackOriginal price $11.99 - Original price $11.99Original price $11.99$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /The truth is always better than fiction!Bearing My Seoul, is a collection of sometimes-funny, always-interesting essays written about a Black Ameri...
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Nuff Said
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Just Tyrus returns in his inimitable style with deeper reminiscences on the life t...
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Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /NAMED A BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF 2022 BY ESQUIRE "[C]harming and surprising. . . The work of Admissions is laying down, with wit and care, the burd...
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Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /NAMED A BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF 2022 BY ESQUIRE "[C]harming and surprising. . . The work of Admissions is laying down, with wit and care, the burd...
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Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /If you can count on one thing from "Madea" Mabel Simmons, star of the smash hits Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Madea's Family Reunion, and Madea's Wi...
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Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"Aisha Harris is one of our smartest, most entertaining modern cultural critics. The nine pieces offer insight on Stevie Wonder, the Spice Girls, P...
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Artistic Activism of Elombe Brath
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In 1963, at the height of the southern civil rights movement, Cecil Brathwaite (1936-2014), under the pseudonym Cecil Elombe Brath, published a sat...
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I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /In the wake of his deeply powerful viral videos ("Before You Call the Cops" and "Walking While Black"), Tyler Merritt shares his experiences as a...
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Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /It is a truth universally acknowledged that a good white person of liberal leanings must be in want of a Black friend. In the biting, hilarious v...
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Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /It is a truth universally acknowledged that a good white person of liberal leanings must be in want of a Black friend. In the biting, hilarious v...
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Survival of the Thickest: Essays
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /*Soon to be a comedy series on Netflix!* From the stand-up comedian, actress, and host beloved for her cheeky swagger, unique voice, and unapolog...
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Not Everyone Is Going to Like You: Thoughts from a Former People Pleaser
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A debut illustrated manifesto by Rinny Perkins (@RinnyRiot) about what she's learned as a queer Black woman through the art of self-validation. In ...
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Meaty: Essays
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Smart, edgy, hilarious, and unabashedly raunchy New York Times bestselling author Samantha Irby explodes onto the printed page in her uproarious ...
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I Don't Want to Die Poor: Essays
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /One of NPR’s Best Books of 2020 One of Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 From the New York Times bestselling author of I Can’t Date Jesus, which...
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Humor and Power in Algeria, 1920 to 2021
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In times of peace as well as conflict, humor has served Algerians as a tool of both unification and division. Humor has also assisted Algerians of ...
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Humor and Power in Algeria, 1920 to 2021
HardcoverOriginal price $85.00 - Original price $85.00Original price $85.00$106.99$106.99 - $106.99Current price $106.99| /In times of peace as well as conflict, humor has served Algerians as a tool of both unification and division. Humor has also assisted Algerians of ...
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Help Is on the Way: Stay Up and Live Your Truth
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Comedic superstar and internet entrepreneur Kountry Wayne’s unflinchingly honest, often outrageous, but always hopeful and hard-won lessons on ha...
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Congratulations, the Best Is Over!: Essays
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The beloved bestselling author of Here for It returns with an all-new collection of heartening, deeply relatable, and laugh-out-loud essays about w...
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Animal Anatomy: Sniff Tips, Running Sticks, and Other Accurately Named Animal Parts
HardcoverOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Laugh-out-loud fun for animal lovers of all agesSniff Tips, Running Sticks, and Other "Accurately" Named Animal Parts.Charmingly illustrated, wit...
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