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  • "After Mecca": Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement

    Professor Cheryl Clarke

    $40.95

    The politics and music of the sixties and early seventies have been the subject of scholarship for many years, but it is only very recently that attention has turned to the cultural production of African American poets. 

    In "After Mecca," Cheryl Clarke explores the relationship between the Black Arts Movement and black women writers of the period. Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks, Ntozake Shange, Audre Lorde, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Jayne Cortez, Alice Walker, and others chart the emergence of a new and distinct black poetry and its relationship to the black community's struggle for rights and liberation. Clarke also traces the contributions of these poets to the development of feminism and lesbian-feminism, and the legacy they left for others to build on. 

    She argues that whether black women poets of the time were writing from within the movement or writing against it, virtually all were responding to it. Using the trope of "Mecca," she explores the ways in which these writers were turning away from white, western society to create a new literacy of blackness.
     

    Provocatively written, this book is an important contribution to the fields of African American literary studies and feminist theory.

  • "Don't Talk To Me I'm Reading" Enamel Pin - Bookish Fairycore Cottagecore Pinstory Original Enamel Pins
    $15.00
    "Don't Talk To Me I'm Reading" Enamel Pin Enamel Pin Size: 1.75 Inches Dive into a world where whimsy meets wonder with Pinstory's exclusive collection of originally designed enamel pins. Drawing inspiration from the enchanting realms of fairycore, cottagecore, and the mystique of elven lore, each pin is a gateway to a story yet untold. Crafted for dreamers, book lovers, and seekers of the magical, our pins are more than mere adornments; they are symbols of the untamed imagination, of quiet moments in sun-dappled forests, and of tales whispered beneath the ancient boughs of mythical woods. Our Fairycore series captures the whimsical essence of fairy tales with designs that feature delicate wings, sparkling enchantments, and creatures that dance in the moonlight.
  • "Hey Little Man" Coloring/Activity Book
    $11.00
    Character Themed coloring/ activity book. This book is a one-stop item that is perfect to grab & go on that long road trip, flight, or just some fun in the sun. What's Included: -softcover 7x9 inch book -20 pages of fun-filled affirmation-themed pages -4 assorted crayons (colors may vary from the pic.) -1 pencil with an erase
  • "Hot Girls Read" Magnetic Bookmark
    $3.75
    Because Hot Girls like to read too! Whether you're getting your degree like Thee Hot Girl Coach herself or you just like to read on your own time this bookmark couldn't be more perfect for you. There are some that may even argue that you can't truly be a hot girl if you don't read. Hold your place with this double sided, laminated magnetic bookmark. Bookmarks measure around 2-2.5 inches when folded. Choose between a standard glossy finish or spice things up a bit with a sparkly holographic finish.
  • "I Don't Need Sleep I Need Answers" Sticker - Bookish Fairycore Cottagecore Pinstory Original Stickers
    $5.00
    "I Don’t Need Sleep I Need Answers" Bookish Sticker Sticker Size: 2 Inches Dive into a world where whimsy meets wonder with Pinstory's exclusive collection of originally designed enamel pins and stickers. Drawing inspiration from the enchanting realms of fairycore, cottagecore, and the mystique of elven lore, each pin is a gateway to a story yet untold. Crafted for dreamers, book lovers, and seekers of the magical, our pins and stickers are more than mere adornments; they are symbols of the untamed imagination, of quiet moments in sun-dappled forests, and of tales whispered beneath the ancient boughs of mythical woods. Our Fairycore series captures the whimsical essence of fairy tales with designs that feature delicate wings, sparkling enchantments, and creatures that dance in the moonlight.
  • "It's Not Hoarding If It's Books" Bookish Sticker - Bookish Fairycore Cottagecore Pinstory Original Sticker
    $5.00
    "It's Not Hoarding If It's Books" Bookish Sticker! Sticker Size: 2 Inches Dive into a world where whimsy meets wonder with Pinstory's exclusive collection of originally designed enamel pins and stickers. Drawing inspiration from the enchanting realms of fairycore, cottagecore, and the mystique of elven lore, each pin is a gateway to a story yet untold. Crafted for dreamers, book lovers, and seekers of the magical, our pins and stickers are more than mere adornments; they are symbols of the untamed imagination, of quiet moments in sun-dappled forests, and of tales whispered beneath the ancient boughs of mythical woods. Our Fairycore series captures the whimsical essence of fairy tales with designs that feature delicate wings, sparkling enchantments, and creatures that dance in the moonlight.
  • "It's Not Hoarding If It's Books" Enamel Pin - Bookish Fairycore Cottagecore Pinstory Original Enamel Pins
    $15.00
    "It's Not Hoarding If It's Books" Enamel Pin Enamel Pin Size: 1.75 Inches Dive into a world where whimsy meets wonder with Pinstory's exclusive collection of originally designed enamel pins. Drawing inspiration from the enchanting realms of fairycore, cottagecore, and the mystique of elven lore, each pin is a gateway to a story yet untold. Crafted for dreamers, book lovers, and seekers of the magical, our pins are more than mere adornments; they are symbols of the untamed imagination, of quiet moments in sun-dappled forests, and of tales whispered beneath the ancient boughs of mythical woods. Our Fairycore series captures the whimsical essence of fairy tales with designs that feature delicate wings, sparkling enchantments, and creatures that dance in the moonlight.
  • "Of Course I Read the Books I Buy!" Bookish Sticker - Bookish Fairycore Cottagecore Pinstory Original Sticker
    $5.00
    "Of Course I Read the Books I Buy!" Bookish Sticker Sticker Size: 2 Inches Dive into a world where whimsy meets wonder with Pinstory's exclusive collection of originally designed enamel pins and stickers. Drawing inspiration from the enchanting realms of fairycore, cottagecore, and the mystique of elven lore, each pin is a gateway to a story yet untold. Crafted for dreamers, book lovers, and seekers of the magical, our pins and stickers are more than mere adornments; they are symbols of the untamed imagination, of quiet moments in sun-dappled forests, and of tales whispered beneath the ancient boughs of mythical woods. Our Fairycore series captures the whimsical essence of fairy tales with designs that feature delicate wings, sparkling enchantments, and creatures that dance in the moonlight.
  • "Sisters" by Ija Charles
    $24.99
    * In a field of sunflowers, these “Sisters” demonstrate the true joy of a kinship by nature, nurture and choice. As a companion piece to Black Boy Joy, artist Ija Charles once again captures the beauty of childhood and a connection to others on which we grow to depend. * Reminiscent Fun and Connection. A perfect jigsaw puzzle for all ages, a girls night, family reunion and for reminiscing. This puzzle is sure to ignite family fun, entertainment and memorable family time and conversations * Puzzles of Color introduces you to artistic work that captures the mind and delights the soul. It introduces artwork and genius of artists of colors – African, Indigenous American, Indian, Latin, and Asian heritage.
  • "Smut and Sauvignon Blanc" Enamel Pin - Bookish Fairycore Cottagecore Pinstory Original Enamel Pins
    $15.00
    "Smut and Sauvignon Blanc" Enamel Pin Enamel Pin Size: 1.75 Inches Dive into a world where whimsy meets wonder with Pinstory's exclusive collection of originally designed enamel pins. Drawing inspiration from the enchanting realms of fairycore, cottagecore, and the mystique of elven lore, each pin is a gateway to a story yet untold. Crafted for dreamers, book lovers, and seekers of the magical, our pins are more than mere adornments; they are symbols of the untamed imagination, of quiet moments in sun-dappled forests, and of tales whispered beneath the ancient boughs of mythical woods. Our Fairycore series captures the whimsical essence of fairy tales with designs that feature delicate wings, sparkling enchantments, and creatures that dance in the moonlight.
  • "Wonderland" by Shai
    $27.99

    Wonderland captures the magic and nostalgia of a universal cultural experience—the Beauty Supply Store. This 500-piece puzzle celebrates a space curated for us, where shelves of vibrant products and familiar faces evoke the joy and creativity of a kid in a candy shop.

    Art by Shai | Follow on Instagram

    Pieces: 500

    Puzzle Size: 16x20 in

    Box Size: 10x8x2 in

    Made with recyclable materials.

  • 'Til the Well Runs Dry

    by Lauren Francis-Sharma

    $20.00

    *ships in 7 -10 business days*

    "As universally touching as it is original."—The New York Times's "Sunday Book Review"

    In a seaside village in the north of Trinidad, young Marcia Garcia, a gifted and smart-mouthed sixteen-year-old seamstress, lives alone, raising two small boys and guarding a family secret. When she meets Farouk Karam, an ambitious young policeman (so taken with Marcia that he elicits help from a tea-brewing obeah woman to guarantee her ardor), the rewards and risks in Marcia's life amplify forever.

    'Til the Well Runs Dry sees Marcia and Farouk from their sassy and passionate courtship through personal and historical events that threaten Marcia's secret, entangle the couple and their children in a tumultuous scandal, and put the future in doubt for all of them.

    With this deeply human novel, Lauren Francis-Sharma gives us an unforgettable story about a woman's love for a man, a mother's love for her children, and a people's love for an island rich with calypso and Carnival, cricket and salty air, sweet fruits and spicy stews—a story of grit, imperfection, steadfast love and of Trinidad that has never been told before.

  • (S)Kin

    Ibi Zoboi

    $19.99

    From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ibi Zoboi comes her groundbreaking contemporary fantasy debut—a novel in verse based on Caribbean folklore—about the power of inherited magic and the price we must pay to live the life we yearn for.

    “Our new home with its

    thick walls and locked doors

    wants me to stay trapped in my skin—

    but I am fury and flame.”

    Fifteen-year-old Marisol is the daughter of a soucouyant. Every new moon, she sheds her skin like the many women before her, shifting into a fireball witch who must fly into the night and slowly sip from the lives of others to sustain her own. But Brooklyn is no place for fireball witches with all its bright lights, shut windows, and bolt-locked doors.… While Marisol hoped they would leave their old traditions behind when they emigrated from the islands, she knows this will never happen while she remains ensnared by the one person who keeps her chained to her magical past—her mother.

    Seventeen-year-old Genevieve is the daughter of a college professor and a newly minted older half sister of twins. Her worsening skin condition and the babies’ constant wailing keep her up at night, when she stares at the dark sky with a deep longing to inhale it all. She hopes to quench the hunger that gnaws at her, one that seems to reach for some memory of her estranged mother. When a new nanny arrives to help with the twins, a family secret connecting her to Marisol is revealed, and Gen begins to find answers to questions she hasn’t even thought to ask.

    But the girls soon discover that the very skin keeping their flames locked beneath the surface may be more explosive to the relationships around them than any ancient magic.

  • 100 Boyfriends

    Brontez Purnell

    $17.00

    Winner of the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Longlisted for the 2022 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award and the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. One of Buzzfeed's Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2021, NBC's 10 Most Notable LGBTQ Books of 2021, and Pink News' Best LGBTQ Books of 2021.

    "This hurricane of delirious, lonely, lewd tales is a taxonomy and grand unified theory of the boyfriend, in every tense." --Parul Sehgal, The New York Times

    "I loved this book--raunchy, irreverent, deliberate, sexy, angry, and tender, in its own way." --Roxane Gay

    An irrerverent, sensitive, and inimitable look at gay dysfunction through the eyes of a cult hero

    Transgressive, foulmouthed, and brutally funny, Brontez Purnell's 100 Boyfriends is a revelatory spiral into the imperfect lives of queer men desperately fighting the urge to self-sabotage. As they tiptoe through minefields of romantic, substance-fueled misadventure--from dirty warehouses and gentrified bars in Oakland to desolate farm towns in Alabama--Purnell's characters strive for belonging in a world that dismisses them for being Black, broke, and queer. In spite of it--or perhaps because of it--they shine.

    Armed with a deadpan wit, Purnell finds humor in even the darkest of nadirs with the peerless zeal, insight, and horniness of a gay punk messiah. Together, the slice-of-life tales that writhe within 100 Boyfriends are an inimitable tour of an unexposed queer underbelly. Holding them together is the vision of an iconoclastic storyteller, as fearless as he is human.

  • 100 Days: A Story of Sisterhood

    Kimberly Lee

    $18.99

    A picture book about the Chinese cultural tradition of commemorating a baby’s "100th Day" and celebrating sibling love.

    Anya loves having special days with her mom and dad―rainy days, yellow days, stay-in-the-park for hours days. Then her younger sister is born and Anya finds herself feeling overlooked and forgotten. Why does Hana have to get all the attention? Her family is busy preparing for her younger sister’s 100 Day celebration, a Chinese tradition that commemorates an infant’s 100th day with good luck rituals and customs like the delectable ang ku kueh cakes, red envelopes, and baby’s first haircut.

    As the day approaches, Anya learns to appreciate her baby sister, learning that sometimes love comes slowly, in days and moments that creep up on you, and hold onto you tightly―as tightly as a little sister can.

  • 100 Years of Lynchings

     by Ralph Ginzburg

    Sold out

    Paperback. Ginzburg compiles vivid newspaper accounts from 1886 to 1960 to provide insight and understanding of the history of racial violence.

  • 2024 Buzzed Adult Spelling Bee: Black History Month Edition - February 24 @ 7PM
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    WE'RE BACK BABY!!!!!!!!!!!

    Join us for the 3rd Buzzed Adult Spelling Bee presented by Babe Events and Kindred Stories!

    EVENT DEETS

    When: Saturday, February 24 @ 7 PM (Doors open at 6 PM)

    Where: Kindred Stories (2304 Stuart Street, HTX, 77004)

    How: There are two different ticket options. If you would like to attend, purchase your ticket as an attendee. If you would like to contest for the cash prize, grab your ticket as a contestant. Both tickets come with two drinks. THIS EVENT IS FOR ADULTS (21+) ONLY! 

    Tickets are final sale. You will be allowed to transfer tickets to guests.

    ABOUT THE SPELLING BEE 

    Contestants will be asked to spell words that speak to the theme of Black History Month including slang and AAVE over the course of four rounds. If you misspell the word, you are out!  As the words get harder, you might be able to Phone a Friend or Battle to earn your place back into the competition. Fun and music-filled, this event is for folks looking for something BLACKITY BLACK to do on a Saturday night! 

    Be mindful that you don't have to participate in the Bee. We definitely need an audience! 

    Contact lanise.harris@gmail.com or chanecka@kindredstorieshtx.com for more details.

  • 2025 Buzzed Adult Spelling Bee: Black History Month Edition - February 16 @ 6PM
    Sold out

    WE'RE BACK BABY!!!!!!!!!!!

    Join us for the 4th Buzzed Adult Spelling Bee presented by Babe Events and Kindred Stories, sponsorship by the Third Ward Cultural District and Brugal 1888!

    EVENT DEETS

    When: Sunday, February 16 @ 6 PM (Doors open at 5 PM)

    Where: Eldorado Ballroom (2310 Elgin Street, HTX, 77004)

    How: There are two different ticket options. If you would like to attend and enjoy the show, purchase your ticket as an attendee. If you would like to contest as the spelling bee champ, grab your ticket as a contestant. Both tickets come with three drinks. THIS EVENT IS FOR ADULTS (21+) ONLY! 

    Tickets are final sale and non refundable. You will not be allowed to transfer tickets. 

    ABOUT THE SPELLING BEE 

    Contestants will be asked to spell words that speak to the theme of Black History Month including slang and AAVE over the course of four rounds. If you misspell the word, you are out!  As the words get harder, you might be able to Phone a Friend or Battle to earn your place back into the competition. Fun and music-filled, this event is for folks looking for something BLACKITY BLACK to do on a Sunday night! 

    Be mindful that you don't have to participate in the Bee. We definitely need an audience! 

    Contact lanise.harris@gmail.com or chanecka@kindredstorieshtx.com for more details.

  • 2025 Set Boundaries, Find Peace Boxed Calendar: 365 Ways to Set Healthy Limits and Reclaim Yourself

    Nedra Glover Tawwab, LCSW

    $15.99

    Speak up for what you need, set healthy limits, and truly be yourself with this self-care box calendar!

    Based on the New York Times bestselling book by licensed therapist and relationship expert Nedra Glover Tawwab, this 2025 boxed calendar helps buyers set healthy boundaries, form strong relationships and connections, and speak up for what they need. Embrace your authentic self and experience the freedom of truly being you all year with relatable, inclusive, and inspiring content that gives you the tools to establish boundaries in every aspect of your life, identify your needs, and learn to experience and express your feelings freely.

  • 2025 Verso Radical Diary and Weekly Planner
    $19.95

    The best-selling week-to-view radical diary and weekly planner is back for the new year!

    The 2025 Verso Radical Diary and Weekly Planner is a beautifully designed week-to-view planner where you can keep track of your coming year.

    Alongside illustrations, it features significant dates in radical history, drawn from events such as the English Civil War and Black Panther movement, through to the protests of 1968 and feminist emancipation, touching on the lives of revolutionaries such as Angela Davis, Rosa Luxemburg and Martin Luther King Jr., and includes movements such as Black Lives Matter and the Suffragettes.

  • 44 Poems on Being with Each Other : A Poetry Unbound Collection

    Pádraig Ó. Tuama

    $27.99
    This celebratory anthology explores human connection through forty-four poems curated by Pádraig Ó Tuama, the host of On Being’s Poetry Unbound podcast.

    44 Poems on Being with Each Other is a new volume that offers immersive reflections on the human connection. With an observant eye, Pádraig Ó Tuama shares an enlightening meditation on each poem, revealing the ways we relate to each other, the world around us, and ourselves. Among the selections, Ó Tuama examines friendship and its loss through Langston Hughes’s “I Loved My Friend,” changing familial bonds in Rita Dove’s “Eurydice, Turning,” the relationship with the past in Mary Oliver’s “The Uses of Sorrow,” the power of declaration in Lucille Clifton’s “Won’t You Celebrate with Me,” and the necessity of connection to land in Joy Harjo’s “Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings.”

    Blending humor with insight, tension with tenderness, complexity with care, 44 Poems on Being with Each Other articulates the power of poetry itself. Through careful and incisive readings, it illuminates aspects of the human condition, particularly the ways we are inextricably linked to each other, and provides inspiration for grounded self-reflection. It is an anthology that will delight readers, just as Pádraig’s podcast has done for millions around the world.

  • 99 Bottles: A Black Sheep's Guide to Life-Changing Wines

    by André Mack

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    *ships in 7-10 business days* 
    A vibrantly illustrated, highly opinionated account of every bottle of wine you need to know, from winemaker and sommelier André Mack
    A highly opinionated, vibrantly illustrated wine guide from one of the country’s most celebrated—and unorthodox—sommeliers and winemakers

    In this entertaining, informative, and thoroughly unconventional wine guide, award-winning sommelier, winemaker, and wine educator André Mack presents readers with the 99 bottles that have most impacted his life. Instead of just pairing wines with foods, Mack pairs practical information with personal stories, offering up recommendations alongside reflections on being one of the only African-Americans to ever work at the top level of the American wine industry. The 99 bottles range from highly accessible commercial wines to the most rarefied Bordeaux on the wine list at The French Laundry, and each bottle offers readers something to learn about wine. This window into Mack’s life combines a maverick’s perspective on the wine industry with an insider’s advice on navigating wine lists, purchasing wine, and drinking more diverse and interesting selections at home. 99 Bottles is a one-of-a-kind exploration of wine culture today from a true trailblazer.
  • A Beginner's Guide to the Roots of Yoga: How to create a more authentic practice

    Nikita Desai

    $24.00

    A practical and accessible guide to incorporating traditional yoga into a modern practice, by an Indian yoga teacher and educator.

    Yoga in its traditional form is a practice focused on inclusivity, inner work and peace. But the yoga that is practised today in the West has got a little lost along the way. In this accessible beginner's guide, Indian yoga teacher Nikita Desai brings us back to the authentic roots of this ancient practice.

    In A Beginner's Guide to the Roots of Yoga, Desai unpicks the complexities of the modern yoga space. Moving away from the focus on physical poses, expensive outfits and Instagram-perfect bodies, she delves into traditional resources to show how yoga can help your mental and spiritual wellbeing.

    With a range of enlightening essays, she explores why change in the industry is vital, before centring key yogic texts, philosophy and history in a digestible manner to give us a basic understanding of the origins of yoga. Desai then guides us through integrating these foundations into our current practice both on and off the mat, so you can enjoy the benefits of the tradition while helping to make yoga today a more inclusive and diverse space.

    A Beginner's Guide to the Roots of Yoga is the perfect jumping off point for anyone wanting to make their practice more authentic.

  • A Bend in the River: Introduction by Patrick Marnham (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)

    V. S. Naipaul

    $24.00

    A beautiful hardcover edition of the Nobel Prize–winning author’s haunting masterpiece of postcolonial literature • "Brilliant." —The New York Times

    Widely hailed as V. S. Naipaul’s greatest work, this novel takes us into the life of a young Indian man who moves to an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation.

    Salim is doubly an outsider in his new home—an unnamed country that resembles the Congo—by virtue of his origins in a community of Indian merchants on the coast of East Africa. Uncertain of his future, he has come to take possession of a local trading post he has naively purchased sight unseen. But what Salim discovers on his arrival is a ghost town, reduced to ruins in the wake of the recently departed European colonizers and in the process of being reclaimed by the surrounding forest. Salim struggles to build his business against a backdrop of growing chaos, conflict, ignorance, and poverty.

    His is a journey into the heart of Africa, into the same territory explored by Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness nearly eighty years earlier—but witnessed this time from the other side of the tragedy of colonization. Salim discovers that the nation’s violent legacy persists, through the rise of a dictator who calls himself the people’s savior but whose regime is built on fear and lies. In A Bend in the River, short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1979, in Naipaul gives us a convincing and disturbing vision of a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past.

    Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.

  • A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None 

    by Kathryn Yusoff

    $10.00

    *Ships in 7-10 Business Days*

    This book was selected by the artists participating in Project Row Houses' Round 52: Gulf Coast Anthropocene, which is on view from July 31 to December 5.  To learn more about Project Row Houses and this exhibit, please visit https://projectrowhouses.org/.

    No geology is neutral, writes Kathryn Yusoff. Tracing the color line of the Anthropocene, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None examines how the grammar of geology is foundational to establishing the extractive economies of subjective life and the earth under colonialism and slavery.

    Yusoff initiates a transdisciplinary conversation between feminist black theory, geography, and the earth sciences, addressing the politics of the Anthropocene within the context of race, materiality, deep time, and the afterlives of geology.

  • A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe

    Mahogany L. Browne

    $19.99

    In this poignant mixed voice, mixed form collection of interconnected prose, poems and stories, teen characters, their families, and their communities grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic. Amidst fear and loss, these New York City teens prevail with love, resilience and hope. From the award-winning author of Chlorine Sky and Vinyl Moon.

    "[A] gorgeous, tender testament to the generation of young people who shouldered the pandemic.”
    --Brendan Kiely, award-winning and New York Times bestselling author

    Grief, pain, hope, and love collide in this short story collection.

    In New York City, teens, their families, and their communities feel the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic. Amidst the fear and loss, these teens and the adults around them persevere with love and hope while living in difficult circumstances:

    * Malachi writes an Armageddon short story inspired by his pandemic reality.
    * Tariq helps their ailing grandmother survive during quarantine.
    * Zamira struggles with depression and loneliness after losing her parents.
    * Mohamed tries to help keep his community spirit alive.
    * A social worker reflects on the ways the foster system fails their children.

    From award-winning author Mahogany L. Browne comes a poignant collection of interconnected prose, poems, and lists about the humanity and resilience of New Yorkers during the Covid-19 pandemic.

  • A Black Gaze

    by Tina M. Campt

    from $24.95

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    In A Black Gaze, Tina Campt examines Black contemporary artists who are shifting the very nature of our interactions with the visual through their creation and curation of a distinctively Black gaze. Their work—from Deana Lawson’s disarmingly intimate portraits to Arthur Jafa’s videos of the everyday beauty and grit of the Black experience, from Khalil Joseph’s films and Dawoud Bey’s photographs to the embodied and multimedia artistic practice of Okwui Okpakwasili, Simone Leigh, and Luke Willis Thompson—requires viewers to do more than simply look; it solicits visceral responses to the visualization of Black precarity.

  • A Black Women's History of the United States

    by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross

    $28.95

    A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American women to show how they are—and have always been—instrumental in shaping our country.

    A Black Women’s History of the United States reaches far beyond a single narrative to showcase Black women’s lives in all their fraught complexities. Berry and Gross prioritize many voices: enslaved women, freedwomen, religious leaders, artists, queer women, activists, and women who lived outside the law. The result is a starting point for exploring Black women’s history and a testament to the beauty, richness, rhythm, tragedy, heartbreak, rage, and enduring love that abounds in the spirit of Black women in communities throughout the nation.

  • A Brief History of Seven Killings

    by Marlon James

    $18.00
    In A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James combines masterful storytelling with his unrivaled skill at characterization and his meticulous eye for detail to forge a novel of dazzling ambition and scope.

    On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions in Kingston, seven unnamed gunmen stormed the singer’s house, machine guns blazing. The attack wounded Marley, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Little was officially released about the gunmen, but rumors abounded regarding the assassins’ fates. A Brief History of Seven Killings is James’s fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time in Jamaica’s history and beyond. Deftly spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters—assassins, drug dealers, journalists, and even ghosts—James brings to life the people who walked the streets of 1970s Kingston, who dominated the crack houses of 1980s New York, and who reemerged into a radically altered Jamaica of the 1990s. Brilliantly inventive, A Brief History of Seven Killings is an “exhilarating” (The New York Times) epic that’s been called “a tour de force” (The Wall Street Journal).
  • A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker: 1925-2025

    Kevin Young

    $50.00

    Edited by the magazine’s poetry editor, Kevin Young, a celebratory selection from one hundred years of influential, entertaining, and taste-making verse in The New Yorker

    Seamus Heaney, Dorothy Parker, Louise Bogan, Louise Glück, Randall Jarrell, Langston Hughes, Derek Walcott, Sylvia Plath, W. S. Merwin, Czesław Miłosz, Tracy K. Smith, Mark Strand, E. E. Cummings, Sharon Olds, Franz Wright, John Ashbery, Sandra Cisneros, Amanda Gorman, Maggie Smith, Kaveh Akbar: these stellar names make up just a fraction of the wonderfulness that is present in this essential anthology.

    The book is organized into sections honoring times of day (“Morning Bell,” “Lunch Break,” “After-Work Drinks,” “Night Shift”), allowing poets from different eras to talk back to one another in the same space, intertwined with chronological groupings from the decades as they march by: the frothy 1920s and 1930s (“despite the depression,” Young notes), the more serious ’40s and ’50s (introducing us to the early greats of our contemporary poetry, like Elizabeth Bishop, W. S. Merwin, and Adrienne Rich), the political ’60s and ’70s, the lyrical ’80s and ’90s, and then the 2000s’ with their explosion of greater diversity in the magazine, greater depth and breadth. Inevitably, we see the high points when poems spoke directly into, about, or against the crises of their times—the war poetry of W. H. Auden and Karl Shapiro; the remarkable outpouring of verse after 9/11 (who can forget Adam Zagajewski’s “Try to Praise the Mutilated World”?); and more recently, stunning poems in response to the cataclysmic events of COVID and the murder of George Floyd.

    The magazine’s poetic influence resides not just in this historical and cultural relevance but in sheer human connection, exemplified by the passing verses that became what Young calls “refrigerator poems”: the ones you tear out and affix to the fridge to read again and again over months and years. Our love for that singular Billy Collins or Ada Limón poem—or lines by a new writer you’ve never heard of but will hear much more from in the future—is what has made The New Yorker a great organ for poetry, a mouthpiece for our changing culture and way of life, even a mirror of our collective soul.

  • A Chance at Love

    Beverly Jenkins

    $8.99

    Loreli Winters never imagined she'd end up a "mail-order bride" in middle-of-nowhere Kansas -- until the two adorable orphan nieces of a dusky dream named Jake Reed beg her to be their new "mama." And one look at the dark, devastatingly handsome man is enough to entice her to abandon her California plans and stay put for a while in this one-horse frontier town.

    Strong, sensible Jake was hoping for a wife to help him raise his girls, but Loreli may be more than he can handle. He can't stop wondering what it would be like to hold the fiery enchantress close and kiss her deeply. Surely he could never compete with the sophisticated gents she has known, yet he intends to try. But will his honest passion be enough to take a chance on a long-shot called love?

  • A Change Is Gonna Come

    Sam Cooke

    $19.99

    Sam Cooke's legendary and beloved civil rights anthem is brought to life for the first time with stunning illustrations by Nikkolas Smith.

    I was born by the river in a little tent.
    Oh, and just like the river, I've been a-runnin' ever since.
    It's been a long, a long time coming,
    but I know a change gonna come. Oh yes, it will.

    The immortal lyrics of Sam Cooke's inspiring civil rights anthem are among the most powerful in music history. Written as an ode to the struggles and joy of Black Americans living under the oppression of Jim Crow, "A Change Is Gonna Come" became a rallying cry for justice and equality when it was shared in 1964. Now, more than sixty years later, the fight for freedom continues, and these sweeping lyrics remain as important and soul stirring as ever.

    Alongside Sam Cooke's inspiring words, Nikkolas Smith's breathtaking art guides young readers through pivotal moments in American history. The award-winning illustrator of The 1619 Project: Born on the Water, powerfully references civil rights milestones and Black freedom fighters, empowering all of us to continue the mission of change.

    Includes a QR code link to Sam Cooke's iconic recording.

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