Books & Audiobooks

Celebrate Native American Heritage Month

Reclaiming the Narrative

Contemporary fiction by Indigenous authors.

Indigenous Perspectives

Must-read nonfiction that brings to life a variety of Indigenous experiences.

Teen Books by Indigenous and First Nations Authors

Borrow these young adult books written by Indigenous and First Nations authors.

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Novelist K-8 will help you find a new book or old favorite; read-alikes and award-winning titles. For kids in Kindergarten to 8th grade.

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Afrofuturism Now!

A list of sci-fi, nonfiction, and speculative works by Afrofuturist authors centering Blackness, technoculture, mythology, and futurity.

Coziest of the Cozy

I love me a great cozy series, they make me all warm and fuzzy inside, and trying to figure out whodunit is the best part.

Afrofuturism Now!

A list of sci-fi, nonfiction, and speculative works by Afrofuturist authors centering Blackness, technoculture, mythology, and futurity.

Black Medicine

This is a collection about Black healers who delivered care in the midst of racial health inequity.

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This is the most powerful and the most eloquent work I've read so far about Palestine, about what kind of a people we've become and our role in the world.…

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Absolutely breathtaking book! Michelle Obama takes us from her journey as a private citizen to the unique focus that analyzes everything a First Lady wears…

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gjmsn said:

A story about a young queer protagonist who develops a relationship with an older man dying of AIDS. The stream-of-consciousness prose was an adjustment…

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