What we're reading this Black History Month

Master Slave Husband Wife, Frederick Douglass, Let Us Descend, and more [NEW RELEASES]( | [BESTSELLERS]( | [EBOOK DEALS]( | [COLLECTIONS]( [Simon & Schuster][Simon & Schuster]( [Browser]( [BLACK HISTORY MONTH] [BLACK HISTORY MONTH] BLACK HISTORY IS... HISTORY [Master Slave Husband Wife]( [LEARN MORE]( [Master Slave Husband Wife]( By [Ilyon Woo]( * One of The New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times Bestseller Named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, Time, NPR, Smithsonian Magazine, and Oprah Daily The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled White man and William posing as "his" slave. [LEARN MORE]( [Amazon]( [BN]( [BAM]( [Bookshop]( [iBooks]( [Google Play]( [Kobo]( [Audible]( [Audiobooks.com]( [Buy from Us]( [African Founders]( [LEARN MORE]( [African Founders]( By [David Hackett Fischer]( * In this sweeping, foundational work, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of freedom in varying ways in different regions of the early United States. [LEARN MORE]( [Amazon]( [BN]( [BAM]( [Bookshop]( [iBooks]( [Google Play]( [Kobo]( [Audible]( [Audiobooks.com]( [Buy from Us]( [The Last Slave Ship]( [LEARN MORE]( [The Last Slave Ship]( By [Ben Raines]( * The "enlightening" (The Guardian) true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors' founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this day—by the journalist who discovered the ship's remains. [LEARN MORE]( [Amazon]( [BN]( [BAM]( [Bookshop]( [iBooks]( [Google Play]( [Kobo]( [Audible]( [Audiobooks.com]( [Buy from Us]( [Frederick Douglass]( [LEARN MORE]( [Frederick Douglass]( By [David W. Blight]( * Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History "Extraordinary...a great American biography" (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. [LEARN MORE]( [Amazon]( [BN]( [BAM]( [Bookshop]( [iBooks]( [Google Play]( [Kobo]( [Audible]( [Audiobooks.com]( [Buy from Us]( [Never Caught]( [LEARN MORE]( [Never Caught]( By [Erica Armstrong Dunbar]( * A startling and eye-opening look into America's First Family, Never Caught is the powerful story about a daring woman of "extraordinary grit" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). [LEARN MORE]( [Amazon]( [BN]( [BAM]( [Bookshop]( [iBooks]( [Google Play]( [Kobo]( [Audible]( [Audiobooks.com]( [Buy from Us]( [SEE MORE]( TRIUMPH [Walk Through Fire]( [How to Say Babylon]( [Nothing Is Missing]( [SEE MORE]( STORYTELLING [Let Us Descend]( [LEARN MORE]( [Let Us Descend]( By [Jesmyn Ward]( * OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK • Instant New York Times Bestseller • Shortlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow—comes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War. 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[LEARN MORE]( [Amazon]( [BN]( [BAM]( [Bookshop]( [iBooks]( [Google Play]( [Kobo]( [Audible]( [Audiobooks.com]( [Buy from Us]( [Temple Folk]( [LEARN MORE]( [Temple Folk]( By [Aaliyah Bilal]( * Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction A groundbreaking debut collection portraying the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with faith, family, and freedom in America. [LEARN MORE]( [Amazon]( [BN]( [BAM]( [Bookshop]( [iBooks]( [Google Play]( [Kobo]( [Audible]( [Audiobooks.com]( [Buy from Us]( [The Reformatory]( [LEARN MORE]( [The Reformatory]( By [Tananarive Due]( * A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he's sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead. 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