Collection: Staff Picks

A fast-paced, completely delightful new mystery about what happens when parents get a little too involved in their kids' schools, from NAACP Image Award nominee...

A diverse group of New Yorkers are brought together by the search for a missing woman in this kaleidoscopic novel of betrayal, race and human...

Cassie, who flew above New York in "Tar Beach,"soars into the sky once more. This time, she and her brother Be Be meet a train...

Parks' impactful images from the forefront of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements Originally published in 1971, Gordon Parks' Born Black was the first book to...

Few campers at Camp Apple Hill Farm have found the mysterious cabin rumored to be hidden deep in the woods--but those who have whisper of...

  From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our...

Brown Skin, Curly Girl Becomes a Marine Biologist is a captivating tale that follows a young Nigerian-American girl who discovers her love for the ocean and...

A semiautobiographical middle-grade graphic novel about frenemies, fitting in, and finding your voice. Cecil Hall and his family have just moved from Florida to Massachusetts,...

A joyful, body-positive picture book about a young Indian American girl's journey to accept her body hair and celebrate her heritage after being teased about...

African-American fashion designer Willi Smith, pioneer of streetwear and visionary collaborator, finally gets his due in an exuberant celebration of his life and work. Before...

  This delightfully rhythmic story follows two children as they grow a garden from seeds. Author and poet JaNay Brown-Wood's cumulative tale, similar to "The...

A bold, innovative biography that offers a new understanding of the life, work, and enduring impact of Audre Lorde.We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic...

Welcome to Rivers Solomon's dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel. The three Maxwell siblings keep their distance from the lily-white gated...

A dazzling hybrid of personal memoir and criticism, considering the work of Black visual artists as a means to explore loss, legacy, and the reclamation...

The critically acclaimed novel about four women who learn how to carry on while leaning on each other from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How...

Forward by Angela Davis. A vital path home. Employing African epistemologies and an embodied African beingness, this book embraces the revelation and miracle of Blackness....

In this horror graphic novel from award-winning writer Jazmine Joyner and illustrator Anthony Pugh, American Gods meets Get Out in a dark retelling of the West African legend of...

Timeless photos offer a rare portrait of the jubilant, vibrant, vital, nearly hidden, and now all-but-vanished world of small-town Black rodeos. Long before Americans began...

  A vibrant memoir from Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Nenah Cherry who shares an inside look at her fascinating career and globe-traversing journeys in a life of...

A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • From the iconic internationally bestselling author of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy: A forbidden affair erupts volcanically amid a decadent tropical wedding in this...

Celebrate thrifted treasures and the power of community and family. When Pawpaw moves in, he shows Dominique a whole new meaning of hand-me-down clothes. When...

A debut graphic novel from Ignatz Award-winning and nationally syndicated cartoonist, Bianca Xunise. "Stole my heart from the first page to the last. Endlessly funny...

  Dawoud Bey focuses on the landscape to create a portrait of the early African American presence in the United States. Renowned for his Harlem...