No Sweet Without Brine: Poems
By: Cynthia Manick
4.33
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
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1. Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
By: Warsan Shire
4.25
Format: 37 pages, Paperback
What elevates 'teaching my mother how to give birth', what gives the poems their disturbing brillia… read more
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- audiobook
"Her body is one long sigh."-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
"[…] but she cannot make him eat, like you."-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
"My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, […]"-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
"No one leaves home unless homes is the mouth of a shark."-Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
2. Lucy
By: Jamaica Kincaid
4.02
Format: None pages,
The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid's most admired creations--newly available in pape… read more
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- fiction
3. Black Movie
By: Danez Smith
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Poetry. African American Studies. These harrowing poems make montage, make mirrors, make elegiac bi… read more
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4. Life on Mars
By: Tracy K. Smith
4.45
Format: 122 pages,
You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself To lift you past the rungs of your crib.… read more
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5. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more
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6. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale
By: Jon Klassen
4.26
Format: 105 pages, None
Jon Klassen's retelling of a traditional Tyrolean folktale.In a big abandoned house, on a barren hi… read more
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- fiction
7. Nigeria Jones
By: Ibi Zoboi
3.96
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Warrior Princess. That’s what Nigeria’s father calls her. He’s raised her as part of the Movemen… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
8. If They Come for Us
By: Fatimah Asghar
4.24
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series "Brown Girls" captures the experience of being… read more
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- audiobook
"Do all survivors carry villian inside them?"-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"I didn't know I need to worry about them until they were gone."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"Every year I manage to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
"Every year I managed to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us
9. Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems
By: Melania Luisa Marte
4.36
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A rousing, beautifully observed, and tender-hearted debut poetry collection about identity, culture… read more
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- poetry
- audiobook
"Unclench your fist and roll out the beauty in your fragile palm. In your genes are a paper trail. You will find a map back to yourself. // We may all have the same God but we don't have the same moth…"-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems
"mashing plátanos: coddle them with praying hands remember they were born //hanging// not like fruit but like bodies dragged into boats & shipped like cargo propped crates, bonded limbs groups of 5 or…"-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems
10. The Hurting Kind: Poems
By: Ada Limon
4.34
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ou… read more
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- poetry
- audiobook
"There is a solitude in this world I cannot pierce. I would die for it."-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
"Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested…"-Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems
11. Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
By: Warsan Shire
4.21
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyoncé's… read more
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- audiobook
"You only leave home when home won't let you stay."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"Under your feet, the trapdoor to heaven opens its mouth, its teeth grazing your toes."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
"Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women. Sometimes, the men--they come with keys, and sometimes, the men--they come with hammers."-Warsan Shire, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
12. Alive At The End Of The World
By: Saeed Jones
4.35
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author… read more
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- audiobook
"The end of the world was mistaken for just another midday massacre in America."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I wish I knew a woman who was both the light and every shadow the light pierces."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"I'm most dangerous when I'm hungry. I'm most hungry when I'm hurting. Seems like I'm always hurting."-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
"A few months and many deaths ago, I asked someone "how are you doing" and felt, in the way her eye fell, how I had failed her before I had even reached the end of my question. I've hurt many people b…"-Saeed Jones, Alive At The End Of The World
13. Above Ground
By: Clint Smith
4.56
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more
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- audiobook
14. And Yet: Poems
By: Kate Baer
3.97
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The second full length poetry collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind… read more
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- poetry
- audiobook
"Let your life rest on what is already good."-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems
"It's just another day in the good-bad, bad-good earth machine."-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems
"We expect so much of children, hovering above them like giant, invincible gods. What a racket to discover as an adult, how little we have to pass down."-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems
15. Who's Afraid of Gender?
By: Judith Butler
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more
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- audiobook
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?
16. Mall Goth
By: Kate Leth
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me gets a Y2K twist in this coming-of-age young adult graphic nov… read more
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- fiction
"Oh mall... at least you're always here for me"-Kate Leth, Mall Goth
17. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
By: Ada Limon
4.11
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Published association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more
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18. Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
By: Akwaeke Emezi
4.30
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A full-throated and provocative memoir in letters from the New York Times-bestselling author, "a da… read more
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- audiobook
"Remembering is the death of mercy."-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
"It wasn't my first mutilation, but it was one of my best."-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
"...if just this terrified you - the tip of a feather - how am I supposed to open up entire wings?"-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
"What is love if not a shield thrown up around you when you are too injured to throw it up yourself?"-Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
19. Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil
By: Ananda Lima
3.52
Format: 181 pages, Hardcover
At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughou… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
20. Rangikura
By: Tayi Tibble
4.44
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
They saw things in me I wanted to see in myself that’s why I let them see me that’s why I let th… read more
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- audiobook
21. Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose
By: Nikki Giovanni
4.20
Format: 124 pages, Hardcover
One of America’s most celebrated poets challenges us with this powerful and deeply personal collect… read more
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- poetry
- audiobook
22. I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times
By: Taylor Byas
4.37
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times takes its inspiration and concept from the cult classic film Th… read more
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23. Abeni's Song (Abeni's Song #1)
By: P. Djèlí Clark
3.93
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
IN DARKNESS, A SONG CAN LEAD THE WAY. BEWARE WHICH ONE YOU LISTEN TO. Abeni's Song by award-winning… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
24. The Wet Hex
By: Sun Yung Shin
4.01
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Sun Yung Shin leads her readers into the underworld, a witchy Garden of Eden where death blooms in … read more
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- poetry
25. Scattered Snows, to the North: Poems
By: Carl Phillips
4.15
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
An arresting study of memory, perception, and the human condition, from the Pulitzer Prize winner C… read more
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26. We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
By: Kellie Carter Jackson
4.49
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A radical reframing of the past and present of Black resistance—both nonviolent and violent—to whit… read more
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- audiobook
27. Bluff: Poems
By: Danez Smith
4.53
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID… read more
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- audiobook
28. Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems, 1961-2023
By: Margaret Atwood
4.29
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary career-spanning collection from one of the most revered poets and storytellers of … read more
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29. Here in the (Middle) of Nowhere
By: Anastacia-Reneé
4.04
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
In this bold hybrid collection of poetry, flash fiction, and Afrofuturism sci-fi, the award-winning… read more
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- poetry
30. No Sweet Without Brine: Poems
By: Cynthia Manick
4.33
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Cynthia Manick’s poetry collection personifies love of self and culture through fresh observations… read more
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- literature
- poetry
- fiction
- audiobook
31. We're Alone: Essays
By: Edwidge Danticat
4.26
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat's childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in… read more
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