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Life Doesn't Frighten Me
Maya Angelou's unforgettable poem is matched with the daring art of Jean-Michel Basquiat in this powerful ode to courage Shadows on the wallNoises down...
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Life of the Party
(Pre-Order, April 21 2026)
Life of the Party
(Pre-Order, April 21 2026)
An archive and annotation of Black music-performance culture, produced alongside Harmony Holiday’s first solo museum exhibition, Black Backstage.Life of the Party is an archive and annotation...
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Life, I Swear
Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing, and Self-Trust
Life, I Swear
Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing, and Self-Trust
In this stunningly illustrated essay collection inspired by the popular podcast Life, I Swear, prominent Black women reflect on self-love and healing, sharing stories of the trials...
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Lilith's Brood
The Xenogenesis Trilogy (LOA #393) (Pre-Order, Sep 16 2025)
Lilith's Brood
The Xenogenesis Trilogy (LOA #393) (Pre-Order, Sep 16 2025)
For the first time in a deluxe, hardcover collector's edition, the landmark post-apocalyptic trilogy from the Hugo, Locus, and Nebula Award-winning author of Kindred, the Parable novels, and...
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Little Man, Little Man
A Story of Childhood
Little Man, Little Man
A Story of Childhood
Four-year-old TJ spends his days on his lively Harlem block playing with his best friends WT and Blinky and running errands for neighbors. As he...
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Living the California Dream
African American Leisure Sites During the Jim Crow Era
Living the California Dream
African American Leisure Sites During the Jim Crow Era
As Southern California was reimagining leisure and positioning it at the center of the American Dream, African American Californians were working to make that leisure...
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Loam Candle
Loam Candles is a small batch, handmade candle company based in Los Angeles, California. We craft scents that celebrate and honor the magic of...
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$27.00Sale price From $12.00SaleLone Women
Blue skies, empty land--and enough room to hide away a horrifying secret. Or is there? Discover a haunting new vision of the American West from...
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Lonely Crowds
Luster meets The Vanishing Half in this riveting debut novel about a volatile friendship between two outsiders who escape their bleak childhoods and enter the glamorous early '90s art...
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Long Division
From Kiese Laymon, author of the critically acclaimed memoir Heavy, comes a “funny, astute, searching” (The Wall Street Journal) debut novel about Black teenagers that is...
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Looking for Lorraine
The Radiant & Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
Looking for Lorraine
The Radiant & Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, her...
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Lorna Simpson
Collages
"Black women's heads of hair are galaxies unto themselves, solar systems, moonscapes, volcanic interiors." — Elizabeth Alexander, from the IntroductionUsing advertising photographs of Black women (and...
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Lorna Simpson
Revised & Expanded Edition
Sold outLorna Simpson
Revised & Expanded Edition
The most comprehensive and up-to-date monograph available on the work of the celebrated artist, a trailblazer who continues to influence and inspire Lorna Simpson is...
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Lost Songs of Nina Simone
Shonda Buchanan weaves a prism of language, sound and light around and through the life of concert pianist, singer and Civil Rights activist, the incomprehensible...
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Love in a F*cked-Up World
How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell, Together
Love in a F*cked-Up World
How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell, Together
We all know it takes guts and creativity to fight for justice. But how often do we put those same qualities to work in our...
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Love Requires Chocolate
A new romance series that's Emily In Paris meets A Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants! In this first book, budding theatre nerd Whitney Curry studies abroad in Paris, France,...
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Loved One
“[Loved One] is special . . . full of wildly astute, delectably thorny questions about love and loss and possession.” —Maggie Shipstead, New York Times bestselling author...
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Luster
A Novel
No one wants what no one wants. And how do we even know what we want? How do we know we’re ready to take it?Edie...
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M Archive
After the End of the World
M Archive
After the End of the World
Following the innovative collection Spill, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's M Archive—the second book in a planned experimental triptych—is a series of poetic artifacts that speculatively documents the persistence...
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Madame Queen
The Life and Crimes of Harlem's Underground Racketeer, Stephanie St.
Madame Queen
The Life and Crimes of Harlem's Underground Racketeer, Stephanie St.
The astonishing little-known history of Harlem racketeer Madame Stephanie St. Clair, one of the only female crime bosses and a Black, self-made businesswoman in early...
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Madness
Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
Madness
Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation's last segregated asylums, that New York...
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Mae Among the Stars
A beautiful picture book for sharing and marking special occasions such as graduation, inspired by the life of the first African American woman to travel...
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Magical Negro
Poems
From the breakout author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé comes a profound and deceptively funny exploration of Black American womanhood. Magical Negro is an archive...
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Mahogany
A Little Red Riding Hood Tale
Mahogany
A Little Red Riding Hood Tale
A clever, Black contemporary twist on Little Red Riding Hood, Mahogany embraces the beauty--and magic--of her culture to thwart the Big Bad Wolf. Mahogany is...
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