Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Simon & Brown $9.99
A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina, and her final escape and emancipation, Jacobs' narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published in 1861, is one of the most important books ever written documenting the traumas and horrors of slavery in the antebellum South.

The Souls of Black Folk by CreateSpace $8.99
The Souls of Black Folk is a pivotal collection not only within the oeuvre of W. E. B. Du Bois' work, but in the whole of the history of sociology and as a mantlepiece of African-American literary history. Drawn from many previously published essays, Du Bois' work reveals the way in which America was reconstructing and redefining itself as a country and culture in the wake of the Civil War forty...

Japanese Fairy Tales by Cosimo Classics $10.99
This is a collection of 22 charming Japanese fairy tales, originally published in 1905, selected and translated by Yei Theodora Ozaki. Included are legends and fairy tales about peasants and kings, god and bad forces, princesses, animals, the sea, and the sky.

The Book of Tea by ReadaClassic.com $9.95
"The Book of Tea" by Kakuzo Okakura is a deeply beautiful book does which, in addition to teaching the history of tea and its preparation, provides an eloquent introduction to Teaism and other aspects of Japanese culture. Okakura's words linger long after the reader has finished, and tea, once an ordinary beverage, acquires a soul. Okakura was born in a Japan that had seen Commodore Perry but had...

The Underground Railroad: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of ... & Others or Witnessed by the Author by Benediction Books $34.99
William Still’s encyclopaedic collection of slave narratives.

The Emancipation Proclamation (Little Books of Wisdom) by Applewood Books $9.95
A hardcover copy of the draft, preliminary, and final versions of Abraham Lincoln's January 1, 1863 Executive Order, the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared the freedom of 3.1 million of the nation's slaves.

The Mis-Education of the Negro by $0.99
The thesis of Dr. Woodson's book is that African-Americans of his day were being culturally indoctrinated, rather than taught, in American schools. This conditioning, he claims, causes African-Americans to become dependent and to seek out inferior places in the greater society of which they are a part. He challenges his readers to become autodidacts and to "do for themselves", regardless of what...

The Frederick Douglass Papers: Series Two: Autobiographical Writings, Volume 2: My Bondage and My Freedom by Professor John W. Blassingame $70.00
With the publication of My Bondage and My Freedom in August 1855, former Maryland slave Frederick Douglass became the first black person to join a very select company of Americans to publish a second and entirely new autobiography. In the decade that had elapsed since Douglass wrote Narrative, he had become an accomplished journalist, adopted philosophical and political principles that would have...

All About Marilyn by SJS DIRECT $14.00
Marilyn Marie is desperate to break away from Nikki Desmond, the rich spoiled rotten character she played on the hit 1990?s teen sitcom All About Nikki. Scraping by for years on work in two-bit made-for-video productions and handouts from friends, the 34-year-old actress anxiously waits for the big break that will jump start her stalled career. Tragically it comes on the set of the movie SELL OUT...

Dreams from My Father by Canongate Books Ltd
The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. Many years later, Obama receives a phone call from Nairobi: his father is dead. This sudden news inspires an emotional odyssey for Obama, determined to learn the truth of his father's life and reconcile his divided inheritance. Written at the age of thirty-three,...