New Arrivals
How to Be an Antiracist
One World, August 2019. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a "groundbreaking" (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society--and in ourselves. "The most courageous book to date on the problem of race..... More
Playing in the Dark : Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Random House Inc, August 1993. Trade Paperback. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Her goal, she states at the outset, is to "put forth an argument for extending the study..... More
Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
Vintage, December 2019. Paper Back. WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD PRIZE FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PROSE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND KIRKUS REVIEWS ONE OF MAUREEN CORRIGAN'S 10 UNPUTDOWNABLE READS OF THE YEAR In these twelve deeply personal, connected essays, Bernard details the experience of growing up..... More
Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Anchor, January 2009. Trade Paperback. A Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the "Age of Neoslavery," the American period following the Emancipation Proclamation in which convicts, mostly black men, were "leased" through forced labor camps operated by state and federal governments. In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light..... More
Gentleman in Moscow
Penguin Books, April 2019. Paper Back. From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility, a novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel--a beautifully transporting novel. The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers, soon to be..... More
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Random House Trade Paperbacks, April 2009. Trade Paperback. Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS's American Masters. Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable..... More
Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Quirk Books, April 2020. Hardcover. The New York Times Best Seller #1 April LibraryReads Pick April Indie Next Pick Goodreads Big Book of Spring Steel Magnolias meets Dracula in this '90s-set horror novel about a women's book club that must do battle with a mysterious newcomer to their small Southern..... More
True Grit
The Overlook Press, April 2018. Paper Back. The landmark anniversary edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling classic novel, "an epic and a legend" (The Washington Post) Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America's most enduring and incomparable literary voices, and his novels have left an..... More
Masters of Atlantis
Overlook TP, March 2000. Trade Paperback. Masters of Atlantis is a cock-eyed journey into an America of misfits and con-men, oddballs, and innocents by one of America's most respected novelists. Lamar Jimmerson is the leader of the Gnomon Society, the international fraternal order dedicated to preserving the arcane wisdom of..... More
So You Want to Talk About Race
Seal Press, September 2019. Paper Back. In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy--from police brutality to the mass incarceration of Black Americans--has put a media spotlight on racism in our society. Still..... More
Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States
Back Bay Books, June 2020. Paper Back. LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST A transgender reporter's "powerful, profoundly moving" narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in red states (New York Times Book Review), offering a vision of a stronger, more humane America. Ten years ago, Samantha Allen was..... More
Prophet: Deluxe Illustrated Edition
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, April 2020. Hardcover. A special and deluxe illustrated hardcover edition of the inspirational, million-copy bestselling classic. The perfect gift for anyone journeying and questioning on the road of life. Few books can be described as universal. And yet, The Prophet, by Lebanese-American author Kahlil Gibran..... More
The Mountains Sing
Algonquin Books, March 2020. Hardcover. A New York Times Editors' Choice Selection A Best Book of the Month/Season: The New York Times * The Washington Post * O, The Oprah Magazine * USA Today * Real Simple * Amazon * PopSugar * Book Riot * Paperback Paris * She Reads..... More
Gunter Blum Unpublished
6x6.com, May 2004. Hardcover. Gunter Blum's critically acclaimed works are placed on the same level as contemporary works by Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and Lucien Clergue. Popular among collectors, on the international art market, and in museums, Blum's photographs exhibit a decisive use of composition, gestures, and light elevating his..... More
How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
Beacon Press, August 2019. Paper Back. A unique and irreverent take on everything that's wrong with our "national conversation about race"--and what to do about it How to Be Less Stupid About Race is your essential guide to breaking through the half-truths and ridiculous misconceptions that have thoroughly corrupted the..... More
Working
Vintage, January 2020. Paper Back. "One of the great reporters of our time and probably the greatest biographer." --The Sunday Times (London) From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply moving recollections about his experiences..... More
The Remains of the Day (Vintage International)
Vintage, October 1993. Trade Paperback. From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is the universally acclaimed novel--winner of the Booker Prize and the basis for an award-winning film. This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, and of his fading, insular world in..... More
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Penguin Press, June 2019. Hardcover. An instant New York Times Bestseller! Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction, the Carnegie Medal in Fiction, the 2019 Aspen Words Literacy Prize, and the PEN/Hemingway Debut Novel Award Shortlisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the..... More
Locking Up Our Own
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 2018. Paper Back. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTON ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWS' 10 BEST BOOKS LONG-LISTED FOR THE THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST, CURRENT INTEREST CATEGORY, LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZES Locking Up Our Own is an engaging..... More
Locking Up Our Own
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 2018. Paper Back. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTON ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWS' 10 BEST BOOKS LONG-LISTED FOR THE THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST, CURRENT INTEREST CATEGORY, LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZES Locking Up Our Own is an engaging..... More
Hiking Atlanta's Hidden Forests: Intown and Out
Milestone Press, April 2014. Trade Paperback. Outdoor leader and educator Jonah McDonald shows the way to discovering hiking in Atlanta's canopy-covered green spaces in this guide that recommends 60 hikes within 30 miles of Georgia's Capitol dome. Ranging from less than a mile to more than 12 miles, routes are..... More
What Truth Sounds Like
St. Martin's Press, June 2018. Hardcover. Named a 2018 Notable Work of Nonfiction by The Washington Post NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Winner, The 2018 Southern Book Prize NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY: Chicago Tribune - Time - Publisher's Weekly A stunning follow up to..... More
Nudes (Bilingual)
powerHouse Books, April 2004. Hardcover. Blum's photographs gracefully reflect the earthly settings of Miami, L.A., Berlin, and Marjorca, drawing from the cool architecture of Beverty Hills or the sober grace of a Mediterranean factory building. Blum's photographs gracefully reflect the earthly settings of Miami, L.A., Berlin, and Marjorca, drawing from..... More
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir
Graywolf Press, June 2020. Hardcover. An engrossing memoir of escaping the First Liberian Civil War and building a life in the United States When Wayétu Moore turns five years old, her father and grandmother throw her a big birthday party at their home in Monrovia, Liberia, but all she can..... More
