African Love Story, Paperback

Daphne Sheldrick is a leading African conservationist, and the last of the Joy Adamson/Diane Fossey generation. This memoir describes her extraordi...

A debut YA novel which blends a thriller and a love story, following a girl caught in a battle of two ancient magics. The South African author won ...

Reducere. 'If Steve Biko were alive today, we would have a country that gladly embraces African culture as the dominant driving force for how society is orga...

Gripping True Story of War and Romance, Hope and Miracles When the odds are impossible, love goes to work. In this thrilling true-life story, reade...

Reducere. Sister Souljah, the hip-hop generation's number one author and most compelling storyteller, delivers a powerful story about love and loyalty, stren...

Reducere. Description Not Only War: A Story of Two Great Conflicts is the only World War I novel written by an African American veteran. In the book, Montgom...

The Future God of Love is a romance fantasy, set in an African world where stories are essential for the survival of humanity. Jamaaro, a strugglin...

Reducere. Poetry. African & African American Studies. Edited by Randall Horton. Nominated for an NAACP Image Award. What I may love most about REDBONE is the...

Reducere. A finalist for the 1994 Booker Prize, England s highest honor for works of fiction, "Paradise" is at once the story of an African boy s coming of a...

Reducere. Okapi loves his striped legs until a naughty chimpanzee teases him for stealing "zebra pants". Suddenly his special stripes don't feel special. The...

Reducere. I Am Me is a delightful, fun-loving rhyming story that teaches children to love themselves no matter what. Even though the main character is a youn...

Reducere. Soaring, My Improbable Life is the inspiring story of a poor, African American boy growing up in the Great Depression, who dreams of traveling the ...

Reducere. This exquisite book-length poem is set in colonial Brazil, following the destruction of Palmares, the last of seven fugitive slave enclaves beset b...

Descriptiontell them we are rising ""The inspiring story of how one woman gave back.""--Ed Bradley ""This is a heartwarming story about struggle, s...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Janet C. StickmonCrushing Soft Rubies is the place where spirit, culture, and survival meet. It is the story of a Filipino-...

Reducere. For most of the first half of the twentieth century, African-Americans were excluded from Organized Baseball. But their love of the game, and their...

Reducere. Set in the Deep South, this Newbery Medal-winning novel tells the story of the great coon dog, Sounder, and the poor sharecroppers who own him. Cel...

Reducere. East Africa affects our imagination like few other places: The sight of a charging rhino goes directly to the heart; the limitless landscape of bon...

Reducere. In this thrilling narrative, the reader is introduced to Arnold Josiah Ford - giant of black music; legendary black Jewish Rabbi; stalwart of the M...

Reducere. The Novels of Frances Harper (2021) collects four works of fiction by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, a pioneering figure in African American literat...

Reducere. DescriptionNearly lost after its anonymous publication in 1926 and only recently rediscovered, When Washington Was in Vogue is an acclaimed love st...

Shuffled between two different homes since birth, a young and innocent African American boy eventually loses not only a sense of acceptance and bel...

The true account of an English gentleman, Major Gore-Brown, who chose to build a Utopian house of childhood fantasies by the Lake of Crocodiles in ...

Reducere. Ayuda's Messy Rescue is a tale of the ups and downs of a young sea turtle. Children will love the playful side of Ayuda and this exciting adventure...

Reducere. " A]n absolutely compelling story of family and racial tragedy. Revoyr s novel is honest in detailing southern California s brutal history, and hon...

The compelling story of three black women who meet at a New England college in the late sixties and form a friendship that will guide them through ...

Reducere. Dr. Des Coveries and the wild bunch is a story about a fictional famous explorer and his animal friends. This story will introduce you to the explo...

Reducere. "Gripping and moving. . . . A marvelous return to the John le Carre of old, with all the captivating characters, finely rendered landscapes, and me...

Reducere. In Praise of Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English""Spoken Soul brilliantly fills a huge gap. . . . a delightfully readable introduction to the e...

DescriptionNaseer was nine years old when he escaped Taliban and fled Afghanistan. His story, "There are some people who are coming to take me away...

Reducere. OLD NEWS is the fictional story set in the 1960s and 1990s of how a young African-American man "killed" himself in a small town's General Store. Th...

This story has been written in the setting of the Coronavirus pandemic in 2020, forcing many children to ensure an unsettling change in lifestyle, ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John Edgar WidemanA philosopher, psychiatrist, and political activist, Frantz Fanon was a fierce, acute critic of racism an...

Reducere. DescriptionPoetry. African & African American Studies. Latinx Studies. Women's Studies. Diannely Antigua's debut collection, UGLY MUSIC, is a cacop...

Reducere. Sweet Bitter Blues: Washington, DC's Homemade Blues depicts the life and times of harmonica player Phil Wiggins and the unique, vibrant music scene...

An award-winning Iraqi writer creates a new world for himself in Seattle in search of lost love.As the US occupation of Iraq rages, novelist Mortad...

Reducere. An important new voice for African-American theatre, Katori Hall explores the lives of black and often invisible Americans with vivid language, dyn...

Ava Dellaira's In Search of Us is a sweeping multi-generational love story.To seventeen-year-old Angie, who is mixed-race, Marilyn is her hardworki...

They say revenge is a dish best served cold. But a bitch like me, Latoya Collins, prefers to throw it in your face like hot grits If these scandalo...

Reducere. When author Edward Lee Smith set out to write about his life as an African American soldier and teacher in America during the tumultuous twentieth ...

DescriptionPart historical fiction, part memoir, this novel takes place over a 10-week period in the summer of 1956 in a small town in the mid-west...

Reducere. Captured in Ethiopia and sold into slavery as a child, Malik Ambar travels throughout the Middle East until he arrives in India. Despite a lifetime...

DescriptionA vivid coming-of-age tale set in a big Nigerian city about a young man trying to make his way as a journalist and band leader in the bi...

Reducere. This fun, beautifully illustrated story of a Turtle who loves her Afro is for all who know that curly Afros are beautiful The Turtle with an Afro i...

Heads you win. Tails you die ... Can one man's revenge become his redemption?Young Luke Tyler has everything going for him: brains, looks and a lar...

What if five- and four-star black basketball players attended Historically Black Colleges and Universities instead of powerhouse institutions such ...

Reducere. Ama Ata Aidoo is one of the best-known African writers today. Spanning three decades of work, the poems in this collection address themes of coloni...

Reducere. Here is a touching story of the love and admiration shared by two young African-American sisters who spend a day together in which each sister take...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Lola ShoneyinAfrican-born poet Lola Shoneyin sheds a fascinating light on the little-known world of polygamy in modern-day ...

Reducere. Part 1 of a book series based on Manny Black where crime, murder, love and erotic sex scenes are intertwined. Written by African American authors f...

DescriptionWinner of the 2017 Rainbow Award for BEST GAY HISTORICALLambda Literary Award Finalist for 2017 BEST GAY ROMANCEIn 1845, as America is d...

Reducere. "An important book." -- The New York Times Set in Philadelphia and New York a century ago, this novel by a luminary of the Harlem Renaissance trace...

Reducere. Trevor D. is a literacy advocate and American writer of books for children and youth in grades K-3. She created the "I Am Me Series, " which includ...

Reducere. An "astonishing debut collection, by a writer reminiscent of such greats as Alice Munro, Elizabeth Strout, and even Chekhov" (Sara Gruen, author of...

Reducere. This literary adventure takes place in nineteenth-century Texas and follows the story of a Tejana lesbian cowgirl after the fall of the Alamo. Mica...

DescriptionServing Time Too: A Memoir of My Son's Prison Years is the universally accessible story of a mother and son: what she knew about him; wh...

Reducere. Who needs rules? Not this adventurous pangolin. He's tired of staying safe inside Pangopup is convinced he is old enough to leave his burrow and se...

Reducere. "If you are looking for a true, gritty story about life in its rawest form, then Black Child to Black Woman...will fit the bill." - Readers Favorit...

A story of revolution and oppression, privilege and poverty, love and betrayal from the critically acclaimed author of Pao Fay Wong is caught betwe...

Reducere. "Returning to Henry Adams, Kansas, is akin to attending a family reunion. The characters are rich, and the kids all have a story to be told."--Roma...

Easily the leading and most engaging voice of her era and generation, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has bridged gaps and introduced new motifs and narra...

Reducere. On A Roll, A Baker's Recipe to Revitalize Baltimore's Historic Pennsylvania Ave. This is my memoir, my attempt to give my family and loved ones a s...

Reducere. On Dee Branch's first date with Johnnie Oliver, a fourth-generation funeral director, she knew she was in for a unique relationship when he had to ...

Reducere. With never before seen photos and interviews that bring you deep into the heart and soul of this modern day Queen of Hip-Hop, author Lynette Hollow...

"Aya is an irresistible comedy, a couple of love stories and a tale for becoming African. It's essential reading." -Joann Sfar, cartoonist of The R...

Reducere. -From the first page you know you're in the hands of an exceptional writer... I adored this book.- --Zadie Smith-Sexy and radical and intimate.- --...

Lisbon has been an extraordinary city for well over a thousand years, rendering it a place of great historical and contemporary interest. The combi...

Reducere. Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara reveals an artist and activist whose work deftly negotiates boundaries of feminism, nationalism, and film. The...

Reducere. "A lushly romantic adventure story set in the North African desert in 1914, told by the impeccable Lady Treal as she reminisces in her London town ...

Reducere. A story of love, violence, and race set at the outbreak of the Haitian Revolution in 1791, African American writer Arna Bontemps's Drums at Dusk im...