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Book Cover for: Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship, Dana A. Williams

Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship

Dana A. Williams
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“Toni at Random” is a beautiful, powerful tribute to Toni Morrison’s legacy. It’s not just one to read, but to study. I’ve been reading with such intention 🥹 Y’all, please sit with her words. Let them challenge and inspire you! This is required reading, especially for aspiring EDITORS!

Hardcover, 2025

$29.99Member price:$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi

How to Be an Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi
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RT @nytimes: This year’s 25 winners of the MacArthur Fellowship include Ibram X. Kendi, who wrote "How to Be an Antiracist," the poet Hanif…

Paperback, 2023

$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson
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RT @Isabelwilkerson: So thrilled that Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents has been chosen by the incomparable Oprah as her next Book Club…

Paperback, 2023

$21.00Member price:$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison
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RT @toni_project: Did you know that bell hooks wrote her dissertation on Toni Morrison's first two novels, The Bluest Eye and Sula? Rest i…

Paperback, 2007

$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Libertie, Kaitlyn Greenidge

Libertie

Kaitlyn Greenidge
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June may be over but we're still not over our book club selection of last month, @surlybassey's enthralling LIBERTIE!💫🦋 Join us for a Zoom conversation on July 18th at 3PM EST with author Kaitlyn Greenidge to discuss the novel!🤩 RSVP here: https://t.co/D95x0qNdny https://t.co/L5gpQ7FUKA

Paperback, 2022

$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa, Alexis Okeowo

A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa

Alexis Okeowo
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A MOONLESS, STARLESS SKY by @alexis_ok POLICING THE BLACK MAN by Angela J. Davis AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE by @tayari https://t.co/drO6wLtCnv

Paperback, 2018

$15.99Member price:$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler

Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler
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"All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God Is Change." -Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower💫 @SealeyChallenge https://t.co/pMfbfrwLtK

Paperback, 2019

$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: One of Our Kind, Nicola Yoon

One of Our Kind

Nicola Yoon
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Pre-orders for your summer tote bag 📚

Hardcover, 2024

$28.00Member price:$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler, Ibi Zoboi

Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler

Ibi Zoboi
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Beautiful, lyrical odes to loving the fullest of Black girlhood. 🌟STAR CHILD by @ibizoboi and BREATH BETTER SPENT by @damarishill https://mailchi.mp/wellreadblackgirl/star-child-and-breath-better-spent https://t.co/BtWMfI35Oi

Paperback, 2023

$9.99Member price:$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay, Octavia E. Butler

A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

Octavia E. Butler
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What’s your 1st read of 2025? #NewYear #NewBooks 📚 #wellreadblackgirl

Hardcover, 2024

$14.95Member price:$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book