Rakuten Kobo

Skip side bar filters

All That She Carried

The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

by Tiya Miles ...

**NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a “deeply layered and insightful” (The Washington Post) testament to people who are left out of the archives.WINNER: Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Harriet Tubman Prize, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, Anisfield-Wolf Book ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Also available as: Audiobook

**NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a “deeply layered and insightful” (The Washington Post) testament to people who are left out of the archives.WINNER: Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Harriet Tubman Prize, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, Anisfield-Wolf Book
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
The Dawn of Detroit

A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits

by Tiya Miles ...

**Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book PrizeWinner of the American Book AwardWinner of the Merle Curti Social History AwardWinner of the James A. Rawley PrizeWinner of the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award (Nonfiction)Finalist for the John Hope Franklin PrizeFinalist for the Harriet Tubman PrizeFinalist for the Cundill History Prize**A New York Times Editor’s Choice selection**“If ... Read more

$13.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

**Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book PrizeWinner of the American Book AwardWinner of the Merle Curti Social History AwardWinner of the James A. Rawley PrizeWinner of the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award (Nonfiction)Finalist for the John Hope Franklin PrizeFinalist for the Harriet Tubman PrizeFinalist for the Cundill History Prize**A New York Times Editor’s Choice selection**“If
... Read more
Night Flyer

Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

by Tiya Miles, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...

Series series Significations
**Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography • A Washington Post Notable Book • Finalist for the PEN America Literary Award •One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best History Books of the Year • One of AAIHS's Best Black History Books of 2024“Though broad strokes of Tubman’s story are widely known, Miles probes deeper, examining her inner life, faith and relationships with other ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Also available as: Audiobook

**Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography • A Washington Post Notable Book • Finalist for the PEN America Literary Award •One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best History Books of the Year • One of AAIHS's Best Black History Books of 2024“Though broad strokes of Tubman’s story are widely known, Miles probes deeper, examining her inner life, faith and relationships with other
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
The Dawn of Detroit

A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits

by Tiya Miles ...

Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book PrizeWinner of the American Book AwardWinner of the Merle Curti Social History AwardWinner of the James A. Rawley PrizeWinner of the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award (Nonfiction)Finalist for the John Hope Franklin PrizeFinalist for the Harriet Tubman PrizeFinalist for the Cundill History PrizeA New York Times Editor's Choice selection<p... ... Read more

$12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book PrizeWinner of the American Book AwardWinner of the Merle Curti Social History AwardWinner of the James A. Rawley PrizeWinner of the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award (Nonfiction)Finalist for the John Hope Franklin PrizeFinalist for the Harriet Tubman PrizeFinalist for the Cundill History PrizeA New York Times Editor's Choice selection<p...
... Read more
Tales from the Haunted South

Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era

by Tiya Miles ...

Series series The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of “ghost tours,” frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the South. As a staple of the tours, guides entertain paying customers by routinely relying on stories of enslaved black specters. But who are these ghosts? Examining popular sites and stories from these tours, ... Read more

$15.19 USD

Also available as: Audiobook

In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of “ghost tours,” frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the South. As a staple of the tours, guides entertain paying customers by routinely relying on stories of enslaved black specters. But who are these ghosts? Examining popular sites and stories from these tours,
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
Wild Girls

How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation

by Tiya Miles ...

**A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA Publishers Weekly and New York Public Library Best Book of the YearNamed a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by The Millions and Literary Hub“Thoroughly absorbing.… A beautiful synthesis of diverse women’s experiences, combining history with memoir and a call to action.” —Jill Watts, New York Times Book ReviewAn award-winning historian shows how ... Read more

$9.99 USD

Also available as: Audiobook

**A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceA Publishers Weekly and New York Public Library Best Book of the YearNamed a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by The Millions and Literary Hub“Thoroughly absorbing.… A beautiful synthesis of diverse women’s experiences, combining history with memoir and a call to action.” —Jill Watts, New York Times Book ReviewAn award-winning historian shows how
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
The House on Diamond Hill

A Cherokee Plantation Story

by Tiya Miles ...

At the turn of the nineteenth century, James Vann, a Cherokee chief and entrepreneur, established Diamond Hill in Georgia, the most famous plantation in the southeastern Cherokee Nation. In this first full-length study to reconstruct the history of the plantation, Tiya Miles tells the story of Diamond Hill’s founding, its flourishing, its takeover by white land-lottery winners on the eve of the ... Read more

$23.79 USD

At the turn of the nineteenth century, James Vann, a Cherokee chief and entrepreneur, established Diamond Hill in Georgia, the most famous plantation in the southeastern Cherokee Nation. In this first full-length study to reconstruct the history of the plantation, Tiya Miles tells the story of Diamond Hill’s founding, its flourishing, its takeover by white land-lottery winners on the eve of the
... Read more
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

by Harriet Jacobs ...

Series series Modern Library Torchbearers
The unflinching nineteenth-century autobiography that broke the silence on the psychosexual exploitation of Black women—with an introduction by Tiya Miles, author of All That She Carried and National Book Award finalist“[A] crowning achievement . . . [Jacobs] remodeled the forms of the black slave narrative and the white female sentimental novel to create a new literary form—a narrative at once ... Read more

$11.99 USD

Also available as: Audiobook

The unflinching nineteenth-century autobiography that broke the silence on the psychosexual exploitation of Black women—with an introduction by Tiya Miles, author of All That She Carried and National Book Award finalist“[A] crowning achievement . . . [Jacobs] remodeled the forms of the black slave narrative and the white female sentimental novel to create a new literary form—a narrative at once
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
The Cherokee Rose

A Novel of Gardens and Ghosts

by Tiya Miles ...

**Three women uncover the secrets of a Georgia plantation that embodies the intertwined histories of Indigenous and enslaved Black communities—the fascinating debut novel, inspired by a true story, of the National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of All That She Carried, now featuring a new introduction and discussion guide.“The Cherokee Rose is a mic drop—an instant ... Read more

$10.99 USD

Also available as: Audiobook

**Three women uncover the secrets of a Georgia plantation that embodies the intertwined histories of Indigenous and enslaved Black communities—the fascinating debut novel, inspired by a true story, of the National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of All That She Carried, now featuring a new introduction and discussion guide.“The Cherokee Rose is a mic drop—an instant
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobook
Ties That Bind

The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom

by Tiya Miles ...

Series series American Crossroads
This beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. In the late 1790s, Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, acquired an African slave named Doll. Over the next thirty years, Shoe Boots and Doll lived together as master and slave and also as lifelong partners who, with their children and grandchildren, ... Read more

$13.29 USD

This beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. In the late 1790s, Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, acquired an African slave named Doll. Over the next thirty years, Shoe Boots and Doll lived together as master and slave and also as lifelong partners who, with their children and grandchildren,
... Read more
Audiobook

All That She Carried

The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

by Tiya Miles ...

Narrated by Janina Edwards ...

Unabridged

9 hours 29 min

**NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a “deeply layered and insightful” (The Washington Post) testament to people who are left out of the archives.WINNER: Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Harriet Tubman Prize, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, Anisfield-Wolf Book ... Read more

$20.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

**NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a “deeply layered and insightful” (The Washington Post) testament to people who are left out of the archives.WINNER: Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Harriet Tubman Prize, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, Anisfield-Wolf Book
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

Night Flyer

Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

by Tiya Miles, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...

Narrated by Janina Edwards ...

Series series Significations
Unabridged

6 hours 5 min

From the National Book Award–winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelatory reckoning with the myth and the truth behind an American everyone knows and few really understandHarriet Tubman is among the most famous Americans ever born and soon to be the face of the twenty-dollar bill. Yet often she’s a figure more out of myth than history, almost a comic-book superhero. Despite ... Read more

$17.50 USD

Also available as: eBook

From the National Book Award–winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelatory reckoning with the myth and the truth behind an American everyone knows and few really understandHarriet Tubman is among the most famous Americans ever born and soon to be the face of the twenty-dollar bill. Yet often she’s a figure more out of myth than history, almost a comic-book superhero. Despite
... Read more

Also available as: eBook

Rakuten Kobo

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

What is Kobo Super Points?

Reward Yourself

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

Top Series in United States

Significations

The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era

Significations

Modern Library Torchbearers

American Crossroads

All That She Carried

The Dawn of Detroit

Night Flyer

The Dawn of Detroit

Tales from the Haunted South

Wild Girls

The House on Diamond Hill

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

The Cherokee Rose

Ties That Bind

All That She Carried

Night Flyer

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

Top Series in United States

Significations

The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era

Significations

Modern Library Torchbearers

American Crossroads

Show: