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Browse Books: Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black

The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker (Hardcover) By Jelani Cobb, David Remnick $35.00 Usually Ships in 3-7 Days	I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Hardcover) By Austin Channing Brown $25.00 Usually Ships in 3-7 Days	Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person (Paperback) By Shonda Rhimes $17.99 Usually Ships in 3-7 Days
I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America (Hardcover) By Tyler Merritt, Jimmy Kimmel (Foreword by) $26.00 Usually Ships in 3-7 Days	Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads (Paperback) By Al Sharpton $17.99 Usually Ships in 3-7 Days	This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown (Hardcover) By Taylor Harris $26.00 Usually Ships in 3-7 Days
Black Boy [Seventy-fifth Anniversary Edition] (Paperback) By Richard Wright, John Edgar Wideman (Foreword by), Malcolm Wright (Afterword by) $17.99 Usually Ships in 3-7 Days	Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir (Paperback) By Natasha Trethewey $16.99 Usually Ships in 3-7 Days	More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say) (Hardcover) By Elaine Welteroth $26.00 Email or call for price.
Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover) By Charles J. Shields $29.99 Usually Ships in 3-7 Days	How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir (Paperback) By Saeed Jones $17.00 Usually Ships in 3-7 Days	Never the Same Again: Life, Service, and Friendship in Liberia (Paperback) By Susan E. Greisen (Editor) $20.95 Usually Ships in 3-7 Days

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07/15/2022 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
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Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black

Staff Picks

The Stranger in the Lifeboat: A Novel By Mitch Albom Cover Image

The Family By Naomi Krupitsky Cover Image

The Lincoln Highway: A Novel By Amor Towles Cover Image

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story By Nikole Hannah-Jones (Created by), The New York Times Magazine (Created by), Caitlin Roper (Editor), Ilena Silverman (Editor), Jake Silverstein (Editor) Cover Image

Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved By Kate Bowler Cover Image

Crazy Stupid Bromance (Bromance Book Club #3) By Lyssa Kay Adams Cover Image

New Outer Banks Titles

Smile Beach Murder (Outer Banks Bookshop Mystery #1) By Alicia Bessette Cover Image

Andy Griffith's Manteo: His Real Mayberry By John Railey Cover Image

Black Cloud Rising By David Wright Falade Cover Image

Between Tides By Angel Khoury Cover Image

Death By Beach Read (A Lighthouse Library Mystery #9) By Eva Gates Cover Image

Remarkable Women of the Outer Banks (American Heritage) By Hannah Bunn West Cover Image