Juneteenth, which is recognized on June 19th each year, celebrates the end of slavery in the United States. We are highlighting books from Black writers that provide insight into the rich complexity of the Black experience through history, memoir, literature, and poetry.
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A seminal volume of four classic slave narratives, including Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The History of Mary Price: A West Indian Slave, Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl, and The Life of Olaudah Equiano.
Winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction and Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction; Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction
and National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism • A bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history.
Juneteenth is a brilliantly crafted, moving, and wise novel. This edition includes a new introduction by National Book Award-winning author Charles R. Johnson.
Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history.
Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Nonfiction; Finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.
Finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • A “choral history” of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 90 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award–winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and award-winning historian Keisha N. Blain.
We are celebrating Disability Pride Month in July with books from disabled writers, artists, and activists who have fought to create a more inclusive world. Find our full collection of titles, which includes literature, memoir, and history here.
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In honor of the anniversary of D-Day, which took place on June 6th, 1944, we are sharing a collection of titles that recount the significance of this monumental day in history. D-Day recognizes the military operation that began the liberation of France, and the rest of Western Europe, and laid the foundations of the Allied victory
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