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Historical

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St. Martin's Press

Weyward: A Novel

$27.99

"A brave and original debut, Weyward is a spellbinding story about what may transpire when the natural world collides with a legacy of witchcraft." ––Sarah Penner, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost ApothecaryI am a Weyward, and wild inside. 2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees Lo...

Clarion Books

The Mesmerist (Paperback)

$7.99

Thirteen-year-old Jessamine Grace and her mother make a living as sham spiritualists—until they discover that Jess is a mesmerist and that she really can talk to the dead. Soon she is plunged into the dark world of Victorian London’s supernatural underbelly and learns that the city is under attac...

Harper

Lovecraft Country: A Novel ...

$26.99

Now an HBO® Series from J.J. Abrams (Executive Producer of Westworld), Misha Green (Creator of Underground) and Jordan Peele (Director of Get Out) The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects in this brilliant and wondrou...

Grand Central Publishing

Atomic Anna (Paperback)

$18.99

“Atomic Anna is a dazzling work of ingenuity and imagination.”―Téa Obreht,National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of InlandFrom the author of A Bend in the Stars, an epic adventure as three generations of women work together and travel through time to prevent the Cherno...

OTHER PUBLISHERS

Hoops Graphic Novel

$12.99

A work of fiction inspired by a true story, Matt Tavares's debut graphic novel dramatizes the historic struggle for gender equality in high school sports. It is 1975 in Indiana, and the Wilkins Regional High School girls' basketball team is in their rookie season. Despite being undefeated, they p...

Fantagraphics Books

Ms Davis Hardcover

$24.99

In this follow-up to their NYT bestselling graphic biography of Muhammad Ali, the acclaimed French writer and artist duo tell the story of Black activist, professor, and prison abolitionist Angela Davis. In Ms Davis, the acclaimed French cartooning duo tell the story of this seminal, revolutiona...

Rebellion / 2000 AD

A Very British Affair: The ...

$55.00

Rebellion is proud to present the finest romance comics in British history in one spectacular volume! Curated by Eisner-nominated historian and artist David Roach, A Very British Affair charts the stratospheric rise of romance comics in postwar Britain with a selection of the greatest romance com...

Doubleday Books for Young Readers

Little Rosetta and the Talk...

$18.99

A picture-book biography of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the woman who invented rock and roll—a warm, inspiring tale of a childhood filled with music, community, and a drive to succeed."Music is the heart of our story," says Momma to young Rosetta, surprising her with her first guitar. Rosetta's strums...

Atria Books

Seen and Unseen: Technology...

$18.99

A riveting exploration of how visual media has shifted the narrative on race and reignited the push towards justice by the author of the “worthy and necessary” (The New York Times) Nobody Marc Lamont Hill and the bestselling author and acclaimed journalist Todd Brewster.With his signature “clear ...

Row House Publishing

The Humanity Archive: Recov...

$28.99

This sweeping survey of Black history shows how Black humanity has been erased and how its recovery can save the humanity of us all."An innovative reading of Black history, gracefully joining it to the larger history of all humankind." — Kirkus Starred ReviewNamed by Essence Magazine as one of "3...

Adams Media

Women of Myth: From Deer Wo...

$17.99

Uncover the fascinating and complex women from mythology and folklore with this collection of stories profiling powerful goddesses, mighty queens, and legendary creatures.Get inspired with 50 fascinating stories of powerful female figures from mythologies around the world. From heroines and deiti...

SIMON & SCHUSTER

Saying It Loud: 1966―The Ye...

$29.99

Journalist and author Mark Whitaker explores the momentous year that redefined the civil rights movement as a new sense of Black identity expressed in the slogan “Black Power” challenged the nonviolent philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lewis.In gripping, novelistic detail, Saying It ...

OTHER PUBLISHERS

Biographix Softcover Howard...

$20.00

Howard Cruse tells the life story of one of the most important figures in LGBTQ+ comics. A preacher's kid from Alabama who became "the godfather of queer comics," Cruse (1944-2019) was a groundbreaking underground cartoonist, a wicked satirist, an LGBTQ+ activist, and a mentor to a vast network o...

HUMANOIDS INC

Young Katherine Johnson Har...

$14.99

A close and playful glimpse at the childhood of one of the world's greatest geniuses and cultural icons, Katherine Johnson! Katherine Johnson grew up to be the first Black woman to work at NASA, figuring out the path for spacecrafts to go around the Earth and land on the Moon! But before she set ...

OTHER PUBLISHERS

Kent State Four Dead In Ohi...

$24.99

On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard gunned down unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University. In a deadly barrage of 67 shots, 4 students were killed and 9 shot and wounded. It was the day America turned guns on its own children-a shocking event burned into our...