February 2021 New Releases

by Temika Cage
(late January release)

Wings of Ebony
J. Elle
Hardcover
List Price: 19.99*

In this riveting, keenly emotional debut fantasy, a Black teen from Houston has her world upended when she learns about her godly ancestry and must save both the human and god worlds. Perfect for fans of Angie Thomas, Tomi Adeyemi, and The Hunger Games!

Surviving the White Gaze
A Memoir
Rebecca Carroll
Hardcover
List Price: 26.00*

A stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting her painful struggle to overcome a completely white childhood in order to forge her identity as a black woman in America.

Why Wakanda Matters
What Black Panther Reveals about Psychology, Identity, and Communication
Sheena C. Howard (Editor)
Paperback
List Price: 14.95*

In 2018, the Marvel Cinematic Universe finally delivered on something fans had long been waiting for: a feature film with a solo Black superhero.

Muted

Tami Charles

Hardcover

List Price: 18.99*

A ripped-from-the-headlines novel of ambition, music, and innocence lost, perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo and Jason Reynolds!

Love Is a Revolution

Renée Watson

Hardcover
List Price: 18.99*

From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Renée Watson comes a love story about not only a romantic relationship but how a girl finds herself and falls in love with who she really is.

Blood Grove (Easy Rawlins #15)

Walter Mosley

Hardcover

List Price: 27.00*

"Master of craft and narrative" Walter Mosley returns with this crowning achievement in the Easy Rawlins saga, in which the iconic detective's loyalties are tested on the sun-soaked streets of Southern California (National Book Foundation)

Milk Blood Heat

Dantiel W. Moniz
Hardcover
List Price: 25.00*

Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, each story delves into the ordinary worlds of young girls, women, and men who find themselves confronted by extraordinary moments of violent personal reckoning.

The Three Mothers
How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
Anna Malaika Tubbs
Hardcover
List Price: 28.99*

Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women who raised them.

Halfway Home
Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
Reuben Jonathan Miller
Hardcover
List Price: 29.00*

Reuben Miller, a chaplain at the Cook County Jail in Chicago and is now a sociologist studying mass incarceration, spent years alongside prisoners, ex-prisoners, their friends, and their families to understand the lifelong burden that even a single arrest can entail.

Floating in a Most Peculiar Way
A Memoir
Louis Chude-Sokei
Hardcover
List Price: 27.00*

The astonishing journey of a bright, utterly displaced boy, from the short-lived African nation of Biafra, to Jamaica, to the harshest streets of Los Angeles—a searing memoir that adds fascinating depth to the coming-to-America story.

Yesterday Is History
Kosoko Jackson
Hardcover
List Price: 17.99*

A romantic, heart-felt, and whimsical novel about letting go of the past, figuring out what you want in your future, and staying in the moment before it passes you by.

Raceless
In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong
Georgina Lawton
Paperback
List Price: 17.99*

From The Guardian’s Georgina Lawton, a moving examination of how racial identity is constructed—through the author’s own journey grappling with secrets and stereotypes, having been raised by white parents with no explanation as to why she looked black.

Like Home
Louisa Onome
Hardcover
List Price: 17.99*

Fans of Netflix's On My Block and readers of Elizabeth Acevedo and Angie Thomas will love this debut novel about a girl whose life is turned upside down after one local act of vandalism throws both her relationships and neighborhood into turmoil.

Escaping Exodus
Symbiosis: A Novel
Nicky Drayden
Paperback
List Price: 16.99*

The Compton Crook Award-winning author weaves her trademark blend of science fiction and dark humor in this dazzling story that continues the imaginative saga begun in Escaping Exodus, in which a society lives in the belly of a beast—and an entire civilization's survival depends on a pair of uneasy allies who must come together for one epic battle.

The Kindest Lie
A Novel
Nancy Johnson
Hardcover
List Price: 27.99*

A masterful, eye-opening novel about the profound racial injustices and class inequalities roiling American society, for fans of Tayari Jones and Jacqueline Woodson.

Black Magic
What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph
Chad Sanders
Hardcover
List Price: 27.00*

A powerful exploration of Black achievement in a white world based on honest, provocative, and moving interviews with Black leaders, scientists, artists, activists, and champions.

The Officer's Daughter
A Memoir of Family and Forgiveness
Elle Johnson
Hardcover
List Price: 27.99*

The author reflects on a terrible tragedy that forever altered the fabric of her family in this remarkable memoir, a heart-wrenching story of love, violence, coming of age, secrets, justice, and forgiveness.

This Close to Okay
A Novel
Leesa Cross-Smith
Hardcover
List Price: 27.00*

A powerful, vibrant novel about the life-changing weekend shared between two strangers, from the award-winning writer Roxane Gay calls "a consummate storyteller."

Loud Black Girls
20 Black Women Writers Ask: What's Next?
Yomi Adegoke, Elizabeth Uviebinené
Hardcover
List Price: 26.99*

An important and timely anthology of black British writing, edited and curated by the authors of the highly acclaimed, ground-breaking Slay In Your Lane. Slay in Your Lane Presents: Loud Black Girls features essays from the diverse voices of twenty established and emerging black British writers.

Four Hundred Souls
A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Ibram X. Kendi (Editor), Keisha N. Blain (Editor)
Hardcover
List Price: 32.00*

A chorus of extraordinary voices comes together to tell one of history’s great epics: the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present—edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire.

Reaper of Souls (Kingdom of Souls #2)
Rena Barron
Hardcover
List Price: 18.99*

A prince repelled by magic. A king bent on revenge. A witchdoctor who does not walk alone. Brimming with dark magic, high stakes, and serpentine twists, the second book in Rena Barron’s thrilling YA fantasy saga is perfect for fans of Laini Taylor, Sabaa Tahir, and Tomi Adeyemi.

Honey Girl
Morgan Rogers
Paperback
List Price: 16.99*

With her newly completed PhD in astronomy in hand, twenty-eight-year-old Grace Porter goes on a girls' trip to Vegas to celebrate. She's a straight A, work-through-the-summer certified high achiever. She is not the kind of person who goes to Vegas and gets drunkenly married to a woman whose name she doesn't know...until she does exactly that.

The Gilded Ones
Namina Forna
Hardcover
List Price: 18.99*

The most anticipated fantasy of 2021. In this world, girls are outcasts by blood and warriors by choice. Get ready for battle. The start of a bold and immersive fantasy series for fans of Children of Blood and Bone and Black Panther.

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