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United States of Grace: A Memoir of Homelessness, Addiction, Incarceration, and Hope
HardcoverOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /"This lyrical testament to life as 'a blind date with mercy' will challenge and inspire."—Publishers Weekly [Starred Review] In 1991, when he wa...
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African Literature in the Digital Age: Class and Sexual Politics in New Writing from Nigeria and Kenya
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /The first book-length study on the relationship between African literature and new media. The digital space provides a new avenue to move literatur...
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Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /"Marcus shows the ways in which Black activists and writers, in particular, have continued to express their political desires. In doing so, she dra...
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Negative Money
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Finalist for the New England Book Award From a National Book Award nominated poet, this collection is about a life lived in the red, on the edges o...
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When They Tell You to Be Good
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /After immigrating from Jamaica to the United States, Prince Shakur's family is rocked by the murder of Prince's biological father in 1995. Behind t...
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Signed, the President: Reports on Black Masculinities in New Orleans
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Kenni Khalil Phillips knew that growing up gay in the St. Bernard Public Housing Development of New Orleans wasn't going to be easy. But family sil...
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Lavender is a Boring Color
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Lavender is a Boring Color follows a collection of poetry woven together through the vivid experiences of the author, as he depicts his early adult...
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People Not Things: Love Poems and Paintings for Humanity
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In People Not Things: Love Poems for Humanity, Genesis Be offers a strikingly honest yet hopeful snapshot of her journey as a queer Black woman in ...
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Lucifer's Replacement
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Homosexuality Chose Me, But I Choose To Sacrifice.As I journeyed through restoration, there were so many thoughts of uncertainty in my life. I was ...
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Alabama Grandson: A Black, Gay Minister's Passage Out of Hiding
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A Tell-All Memoir Exposes a Hidden Life and Hard-learned LessonsSouthern. Black. Gay. Fatherless. Air Force Veteran. Ordained Methodist Minister. M...
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Unheard Voices
PaperbackOriginal price $55.64 - Original price $55.64Original price $55.64$69.99$69.99 - $69.99Current price $69.99| /The lives of African American gay men have greatly gone unnoticed in the American consciousness. Despite the fact that Black gay men have made grea...
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Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History
PaperbackOriginal price $42.50 - Original price $42.50Original price $42.50$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the American Sout...
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Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Richard Bruce Nugent (1906-1987) was a writer, painter, illustrator, and popular bohemian personality who lived at the center of the Harlem Renaiss...
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Progressive Islam: The Rich Liberal Ideas of the Muslim Faith
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /'Progressive Islam' is a celebration of faith. The book focuses on the Muslim faith's rich liberal ideas, including freedom, opportunity, responsib...
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United States of Grace: A Memoir of Homelessness, Addiction, Incarceration, and Hope
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"This lyrical testament to life as 'a blind date with mercy' will challenge and inspire." --Publishers Weekly [Starred Review] In 1991, when he wa...
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When They Tell You to Be Good: A Memoir
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /After immigrating from Jamaica to the United States, Prince Shakur's family is rocked by the murder of Prince's biological father in 1995. Behind t...
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No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /From a leading journalist and activist comes a brave, beautifully wrought memoir. When Darnell Moore was fourteen, three boys from his neighborho...
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Black Boy Out of Time: A Memoir
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /An eloquent, restless, and enlightening memoir by one of the most thought-provoking journalists today about growing up Black and queer in America...
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Punch Me Up To The Gods: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE • WINNER OF A LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' PICK • A STONEWALL HON...
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How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives—winner of the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book Award—is a “moving, bracingly h...
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Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Winner of the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyWinner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ NonfictionWinner of the Shilts-Gra...
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Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /FEATURED ON THE COVER OF TIME MAGAZINE AS A 2021 NEXT GENERATION LEADER“A once-in-a-generation voice.” – Vulture “One of our greatest living wri...
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Queer Arrangements: Billy Strayhorn and Midcentury Jazz Collaboration
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Queer Arrangements is a new study of Billy Strayhorn that examines his music and career at the intersection of jazz and Black queer historyThe lega...
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My Rainbow
HardcoverOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A dedicated mom puts love into action as she creates the perfect rainbow-colored wig for her transgender daughter, based on the real-life experie...
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