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Memoirs for the black girl
Zenzele A Letter for My Daughter
J. Nozipo Maraire • 1997
The Mourning Bird
Mubanga Kalimamukwento • 2019
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi • 2017
A General Theory of Oblivion
José Eduardo Agualusa • 2016
The First Woman
Makumbi Jennifer Na • 2021
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: a memoir of family, war and peace
Wayétu Moore • 2021
491 Days Prisoner Number 1323/69
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela • 2014
Part of My Soul Went with Him
Winnie Mandela • 1985
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
Alice Walker • 1983
The Cry Of Winnie Mandela
Njabulo S. Ndebele • 2013
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide
Ntozake Shange • 1982
Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
Ntozake SHANGE • 1983
Sing a Black Girl's Song The Unpublished Works
Ntozake Shange • 2025
Some Sing, Some Cry
Ntozake Shange • 2011
Liliane
Ntozake Shange • 1998
Sweet Medicine
Panashe Chigumadzi • 2016
A Family Affair
Sue Nyathi • 2020
Nervous Conditions
Tsitsi Dangarembga • 2004
The Joys of Motherhood
Buchi Emechta • 2008
This Book Betrays My Brother
Kagiso Lesego Molope • 2012
The Shadow King: A Novel
Maaza Mengiste • 2020
Purple Hibiscus: A Novel
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • 2012
On Rotation: A Novel
Shirlene Obuobi • 2023
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou • 1995
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Austin Channing Brown • 2018
In Every Mirror She's Black: A Novel
Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström • 2021
Sula
Toni Morrison • 2004
Love: A Novel
Toni Morrison • 2005
Paradise (Vintage International)
Toni Morrison • 2014
Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
Bernardine Evaristo • 2019
Transcendent Kingdom: A novel
Yaa Gyasi • 2020
MOUTH FULL OF BLOOD
MORRISON TONI • 2020
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
Toni Morrison • 2019
Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs
Pearl Cleage • 2014
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • 2008
Jagua Nana
Cyprian Ekwensi • 2018
So Long a Letter
Mariama Bâ • 2012
Black liberation( fiction)
Season of Migration to the North
al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ • 1970
Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography--The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
Mark Mathabane • 1998
In a Different Time: The inside story of the Delmas four
Peter Harris • 2008
Lives on the line
David Africa • 2025
Ellington Was Not a Street
Ntozake Shange • 2004
The quiet violence of dreams
K. Sello Duiker • 2014
Native Son
Richard Wright • 1900
Baghdad Blues, A Novel
Sam Greenlee • 1976
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe • 1994
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (African American Life Series)
Sam Greenlee • 1989
Mission to Kala
Mongo Beti • 1982
feminism
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Mikki Kendall • 2021
<b>A <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER<br><br> “<b>The fights against hunger, homelessness, poverty, health disparities, poor schools, homophobia, transphobia, and domestic violence are feminist fights. Kendall offers a feminism rooted in the livelihood of everyday women.”</b> <b>—Ibram X. Kendi, #1 <i>New York Times-</i>bestselling author of <i>How to Be an Antiracist</i>, in <i>The Atlantic</i></b><br><br>“One of the most important books of the current moment.”—<i>Time</i></b><br> <br> <b>“A rousing call to action... It should be required reading for everyone.”—Gabrielle Union, author of</b> <i><b>We’re Going to Need More Wine</b></i><br> <br> <b><br> <b>A potent and electrifying critique of today’s feminist movement announcing a fresh new voice in black feminism</b></b><br><br>Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care are all feminist issues. All too often, however, the focus is not on basic survival for the many, but on increasing privilege for the few. That feminists refuse to prioritize these issues has only exacerbated the age-old problem of both internecine discord and women who rebuff at carrying the title. Moreover, prominent white feminists broadly suffer from their own myopia with regard to how things like race, class, sexual orientation, and ability intersect with gender. How can we stand in solidarity as a movement, Kendall asks, when there is the distinct likelihood that some women are oppressing others? <br><br>In her searing collection of essays, Mikki Kendall takes aim at the legitimacy of the modern feminist movement, arguing that it has chronically failed to address the needs of all but a few women. Drawing on her own experiences with hunger, violence, and hypersexualization, along with incisive commentary on reproductive rights, politics, pop culture, the stigma of mental health, and more, <i>Hood Feminism</i> delivers an irrefutable indictment of a movement in flux. An unforgettable debut, Kendall has written a ferocious clarion call to all would-be feminists to live out the true mandate of the movement in thought and in deed.
Ecofeminism
Vandana Shiva • 2014
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
Angela Y. Davis • 2022
A powerful work from four activist scholars on the need for our thinking on abolitionism and feminism to intersect. As a politics and as a practice, abolitionism has increasingly shaped our political moment. Abolitionism and feminism stand shoulder-to-shoulder in fighting a common cause- the end of the carceral state, with its key role in perpetuating violence, both public and private, in prisons, in police forces, and in people's homes. Abolitionist theories and practices are at their most compelling when they are feminist; and a feminism that is also abolitionist is the most inclusive and persuasive version of feminism for these times.
Sapphic romance
The Henna Wars /La Guerra de la Henna
Adiba Jaigirdar • 2020
Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating
Adiba Jaigirdar • 2021
All This Could Be Different: A Novel
Sarah Thankam Mathews • 2022
The Gilda Stories
Jewelle Gomez • 2016
Outdrawn
Deanna Grey • 2023
people just living life
A Bookshop in Algiers
Kaouther Adimi • 2022
Dust
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor • 2014
Links: A Novel (Past Imperfect Trilogy)
Nuruddin Farah • 2005
When Rain Clouds Gather And Maru
Bessie Head • 2010
Three Egg Dilemma
Morabo Morojele • unde
All Your Children, Scattered
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse • 2022
Believers and Hustlers
Sylva Nze Ifedigbo • 2020
The Happy Marriage
Tahar Ben Jelloun • 2016
Land of My Ancestors
Botlhale Tema • 2019
Wayfarers' hymns
Zakes Mda • 2021
Jazz
Toni Morrison • 2004
POC politics
Human Acts: A Novel
Han Kang • 2017
My Tender Matador
Pedro Lemebel • 2007
Massacre in Mexico (Volume 1)
Elena Poniatowska • 1991
Orientalism
Edward W. Said • 1979
Memoirs of the white girl
I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman • 2019
<p><b>SISTERHOOD. SECRETS. SURVIVAL.</b><br> <br> <b>Discover the haunting, heart-breaking post-apocalyptic TikTok sensation.</b><br> <br> Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus?<br> <br> Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. But, as the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the fortieth prisoner - sits alone an outcast in the corner.<br> <br> Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground. The woman who will never know men.<br> <br> <b>WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE MACKINTOSH, BOOKER PRIZE-LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF THE <i>WATER CURE</i><br> <br> **<i>Orlanda</i>, the next sensation from Jacquline Harpman, is available now**</b></p>
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank • 2010
<b>THE DEFINITIVE EDITION <b>•</b> Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, the remarkable diary that has become a world classic—a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit.<br></b><br><b>Updated for the 75th Anniversary of the <i>Diary</i>’s first publication with a new introduction by Nobel Prize–winner Nadia Murad<br><br>“The single most compelling personal account of the Holocaust ... remains astonishing and excruciating.”—<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br><br>In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another family lived cloistered in the “Secret Annex” of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and amusing, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys • 2000
Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)
Charlotte Brontë • 2012
A Good Happy Girl
Marissa Higgins • 2024
We Could Be Rats
Emily Austin • 2025
Interesting Facts about Space
Emily Austin • 2024
Hot Pants in Hollywood: Sex, Secrets & Sitcoms (1)
Susan Silver • 2017
Memoirs for the girls
Her Body and Other Parties Stories
Carmen Maria Machado • 2017
Unruly Women Race, Neocolonialism, and the Hijab
Falguni A. Sheth • 2022
Braiding Sweetgrass Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer • 2013
Hijab Butch Blues
Lamya H • 2024
Black politics
Young soul's discourse on politics: reflections of a young south African on progress and change
Judas Ladlokova
Have you ever wondered why that 13-digit number on the back of a book costs $125 in the United States but is completely free in Canada and India? This book, The Global ISBN Handbook, is your 2025 guide to the International Standard Book Number. It explains everything about this global "fingerprint" for books. The ISBN is the most important cornerstone of the publishing industry. It started as a simple warehouse tool in the 1960s. Now, it is a complex digital identifier used in over 200 countries. This handbook deconstructs the entire system. It uses 15 distinct national case studies to do this. You will learn how the old 10-digit system changed to the new 13-digit one. We break down the five parts of the ISBN, from the "Bookland" prefix to the final check digit. The book explores the global governance framework, starting with the International ISBN Agency. Then, it dives deep into how different countries run their systems. You'll see the privatized, high-cost model in the United States. You'll compare it to Canada's free, government-run system. We explore the industry-led models in Brazil and Germany. We look at government-run systems in Mexico and India. We even cover the unique case of China, where the ISBN is not a simple identifier but a state-controlled publication license. The book also examines the systems in the UK , France , Russia , Japan , Australia , South Africa , Nigeria , and Egypt. Many books and websites can tell you how to get an ISBN. This handbook is the only resource that explains why the process is so different everywhere you look. It moves beyond a simple "how-to" and provides a true global analysis. It directly compares the privatized, for-profit models in the US and UK against the free, public-good systems in Canada and South Africa. You won't just learn the price; you will understand the cultural policies, market structures, and legal philosophies that shape that price. This book shows how the ISBN is a "global mirror". It reveals how a simple number can be a commercial product in one nation , a tool of cultural policy in another , and an instrument of state control in a third. This comparative insight is the missing piece for any author, publisher, or researcher trying to navigate the complex international publishing market. Disclaimer: This handbook is an independently produced resource for commentary and analysis. The author has no affiliation with the International ISBN Agency, R.R. Bowker, Library and Archives Canada, the National Press and Publication Administration, or any other national ISBN agency. This work is independently produced under the principle of nominative fair use.
Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution 198387
Thomas Sankara • 2008
Neo-Colonialism The Last Stage of Imperialism
Kwame Nkrumah • 2022
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Walter Rodney • 2018
Now You Know How Mapetla Died
Zikhona Valela • 2022
Askari: A Story of Collaboration and Betrayal in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
Jacob Dlamini • 2015
Land Matters
Tembeka Ngcukaitobi • 2021
The Great Pretenders: Race and Class under ANC Rule
Ebrahim Harvey • 2021
History Of South Africa: 1902 To The Present
Simpson, Thula • unde
The New Apartheid
Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh • 2021
The Plot to Save South Africa
Justice Malala • 2024
When Lions Roared: How Brave Young People Defied Apartheid
Manju Soni • 2016
African Village Boy: Poverty and Bantu Education Systems of Apartheid South Africa
Matshwene Moshia • 2006
The Soweto Uprising
Nieftagodien, Noor • 2015
The Soweto Uprisings
Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu • 2017
The Lie of 1652
Patric Tariq Mellet • 2020
The Black Atlantic’s triple burden: Slavery, colonialism, and reparations
Adekeye Adebajo • 2025
Global Africa
Adekeye Adebajo • 2024
The Eagle and the Springbok
Adekeye Adebajo • 2023
The Psychology of Oppression and Self-Hate: Essays on the Ideas of Frantz Fanon
Restoring the African Mind Research Collection • 2022
Restoring Africa's Spiritual Identity
Uzwi- Between Radebe
An African History of Africa
Zeinab Badawi • 2024
The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt
Jill Watts • 2020
Black Pioneers: The Untold Stories Of African Merchants
Ndzamela, Phakamisa • unde
Africa Reimagined
Hlumelo Biko • 2021
Conversations with My Sons and Daughters
Mamphela Ramphele • 2013
The Stellenbosch Mafia: Inside the Billionaire’s Club
Pieter du Toit • 2019
Milk the Beloved Country
Sihle Khumalo • 2023
African religions and philosophy
John S. Mbiti • 1970
Hani A Life Too Short
Janet Smith • 2023
Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers
Stephen Shames • 2016
Drum Decade-The 2nd Edition: Stories from the 1950's
University Of KwaZulu-Natal Press University Of KwaZulu-Natal Press • 2001
The Will to Die (AfricaSouth Paperbacks)
Can Themba • 1985
The Lost Cities of Africa
Basil Davidson • 1959
I Speak of Freedom
Kwame Nkrumah • 1973
The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon • 1968
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Alex Haley and Attallah Shabazz Malcolm X • 1987
We Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People
William L Patterson • 1970
Africa's Gift to America: The Afro-American in the Making and Saving of the United States
J. A. Rogers • 1962
The Negro in Our History
Carter Godwin Woodson • 2015
The Strange Career of Jim Crow
C. Vann Woodward • 1974
Black poetry
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Langston Hughes • 2009
General politics ( fiction)
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley • 2006
Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring masterwork must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit<br/>"A masterpiece. ... One of the most prophetic dystopian works." —Wall Street Journal<br/>Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine” (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New World likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites.<br/>"Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." —Chicago Tribune
The Giver (Giver Quartet, Book 1)
Lois Lowry • 1993
Animal Farm: 75th Anniversary Edition
George Orwell • 2004
1984: 75th Anniversary
George Orwell • 1961
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury • 2013
"Sixty years after the original publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel 'Fahrenheit 451' stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family." But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. This sixtieth-anniversary edition commemorates Ray Bradbury's masterpiece with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman ; personal essays on the genesis of the novel by the author ; a wealth of critical essays and reviews by Nelson Algren, Harold Bloom, Margaret Atwood, and others ; rare manuscript pages and sketches from Ray Bradbury's personal archive ; and much more. Here, at last, is the definitive edition of a classic of world literature."--taken from back cover.
The Handmaids Tale
Margaret Atwood • 2017
Inside the Belly of the Beast: The Real Bosasa Story
Angelo Agrizzi • 2020
The Fall of the University of Cape Town: Africa’s leading university in decline
David Benatar • 2021
The Super-Afrikaners
Ivor Wilkins • 1980
Tender Is the Flesh
Agustina Bazterrica • 2020
<b>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER</b><br> <br><b>Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore.</b><br><br>His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing.<br> <br>Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.
I Am Legend
Richard Matheson • 2007
Disgrace
J. M. Coetzee • 2017
Coming of age
Houseboy
Ferdinand Oyono • 1966
Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty
Alain Mabanckou • 2013
The Lost Language Of The Soul
Mandla Langa• 2021
Adventure
Beyond the Door of No Return: A Novel
David Diop • 2023
The Palm-Wine Drinkard
Amos Tutuola • 1953
philosophical fiction
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka • 2019
Notes from Underground (Vintage Classics)
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1994
<b>Award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us a brilliantly faithful rendition of this classic novel, in all its tragedy and tormented comedy. In this second edition, they have updated their translation in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky’s birth.</b> <br><br>One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator of Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In full retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man’s essentially irrational nature.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Vintage Classics)
Leo Tolstoy • 2012
The Stranger
Albert Camus • 1989
Classics
Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition)
John Steinbeck • 2002
Biography
Born to Kwaito
Sihle Mthembu • 2019
Robert Sobukwe - How Can Man Die Better
Benjamin Pogrund • 2006
Boys kissing other boys
Loustack fanfiction
Have you ever wondered why that 13-digit number on the back of a book costs $125 in the United States but is completely free in Canada and India? This book, The Global ISBN Handbook, is your 2025 guide to the International Standard Book Number. It explains everything about this global "fingerprint" for books. The ISBN is the most important cornerstone of the publishing industry. It started as a simple warehouse tool in the 1960s. Now, it is a complex digital identifier used in over 200 countries. This handbook deconstructs the entire system. It uses 15 distinct national case studies to do this. You will learn how the old 10-digit system changed to the new 13-digit one. We break down the five parts of the ISBN, from the "Bookland" prefix to the final check digit. The book explores the global governance framework, starting with the International ISBN Agency. Then, it dives deep into how different countries run their systems. You'll see the privatized, high-cost model in the United States. You'll compare it to Canada's free, government-run system. We explore the industry-led models in Brazil and Germany. We look at government-run systems in Mexico and India. We even cover the unique case of China, where the ISBN is not a simple identifier but a state-controlled publication license. The book also examines the systems in the UK , France , Russia , Japan , Australia , South Africa , Nigeria , and Egypt. Many books and websites can tell you how to get an ISBN. This handbook is the only resource that explains why the process is so different everywhere you look. It moves beyond a simple "how-to" and provides a true global analysis. It directly compares the privatized, for-profit models in the US and UK against the free, public-good systems in Canada and South Africa. You won't just learn the price; you will understand the cultural policies, market structures, and legal philosophies that shape that price. This book shows how the ISBN is a "global mirror". It reveals how a simple number can be a commercial product in one nation , a tool of cultural policy in another , and an instrument of state control in a third. This comparative insight is the missing piece for any author, publisher, or researcher trying to navigate the complex international publishing market. Disclaimer: This handbook is an independently produced resource for commentary and analysis. The author has no affiliation with the International ISBN Agency, R.R. Bowker, Library and Archives Canada, the National Press and Publication Administration, or any other national ISBN agency. This work is independently produced under the principle of nominative fair use.
