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Baby-3 and Pre-School Collection

Baby - 3
Baby Says Board Book

$ 7.99

John Steptoe (A) List Price: $7.99 ( Board Book - Playful Sibling Story - 2018) The legendary Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Award-win...
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Welcome To The Party

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Gabriele Union (A) and Ashley Evans (ILT) List Price: $18.99 ( Hardcover - New Baby Celebration -2020) Inspired by the eagerly awaited birth of he...
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Happy In Our Skin

$ 7.99

Fran Manushkin (A) and Lauren Tobias (ILT) List Price: $7.99 (Paperback - Skin / Self Esteem / Family - 2015) Is there anything more splendid than...
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I Love My Hair!

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Natasha Anastasia Tarpley (A) and E.B. Lewis (ILT) List Price: $7.99 (Board Book ) or $8.99 ( Paperback - African American Girls / Hair Care / Prid...
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I Love My Haircut!

$ 7.99

Natasha Anastasia Tarpley (A) and E. B. Lewis (ILT) List Price: $7.99 ( Board Book - First Visit To The Barbershop - 2020) Now with a refreshed...
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Ages 4-8 and Grades K-3 Collection

Ages 4-8
I Need You to Know...: The ABC's of a Young King's Greatness

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Lora McClain-Muhammad (A) and Asia Lewis Ross (ILT) List Price: $9.99 (Paperback - Activity Book for Black Boys - 2019) Description: The much an...
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I Need You to Know: The ABC's of Black Girl Magic

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Lora McClain-Muhammad (A) and Asia Lewis Ross (ILT) List Price: $9.99 (Paperback - Activity Book for Black Girls- 2019) Description: A children'...
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Ready to Read: Jesse Owens (You Should Meet) (Level 3)

$ 4.99

Laurie Calkhoven (A) and Elizabet Vukovic (ILT) List Price: $4.99 (Paperback - Biography / Sports / Track and Field - 2017) Sprint around the trac...
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Skin Like Mine

$ 8.95

LaTashia M. Perry (A) and Brittany Jackson (ILT) List Price: $8.95 (Paperback - Identity and Diversity . - 2016) Description: From the Creators of...
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A Night Out With Mama

$ 17.99

Quvenzhane Wallis (A) and Vanessa Brantley-Newton (ILT) List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover - Mother and Daughter Adventure - 2017) From Academy Awar...
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African American History Collection

African American History
Ida B. Wells: Let the Truth Be Told

$ 16.99

Walter Dean Myers (A) and Bonnie Christensen (ILT) List Price: $16.99 (Hardcover - Biography / Activist - Journalist/ Exposed Lynching - 2008) Des...
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Young, Gifted and Black: Meet 52 Black Heroes From the Past and Present

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Jamia Wilson (A) and Andrea Pippins (ILT) List Price: $22.99 (Hardcover - Biographies / Black Movers and Shakers - 2019) “...to be revisited ag...
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Brave. Black. First.: 50+ African American Women Who Changed the World

$ 18.99

Cheryl Hudson (A) and Erin K.Robinson List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover - African American Women Leaders - 2020) Published in collaboration with the S...
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Enough! 20 Protesters Who Changed America

$ 16.99

Emily Easton (A) and Ziyue Chen (ILT) List Price: $16.99 (Hardcover - Protesters/ Activists - 2018) With a foreword from a Parkland shooting surv...
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What Were The Negro Leagues (What Was?)

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Varian Johnson (A) Who HQ (A) and Steven Marchesi (ILT) List Price: $5.99 (Paperback - Sports / Baseball Pioneers - 2020) This baseball league th...
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African History Collection

African History
Who Was King Tut?

$ 5.99

Robert Edwards (A) and True Kelley (ILT) List Price: $5.99 (Paperback - Biography / Egyptian / Pharaoh - 2006) Description: Ever since Howard Carte...
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Things Fall Apart

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Chinua Achebe (A) List Price: $13.00 (Paperback - African History / Post Colonization - 1994) Things Fall Apart tells two intertwining stories, bo...
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A Coloring Book of Ancient Africa (Book 2: Ife)

$ 3.50

Bellerophon Books List Price: $3.50 (Paperback - Coloring Book - 1992) Description: This coloring book features Terracotta figures of the kingdom o...
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Mama Africa!: How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song

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Kathryn Erksine (A) and Charly Parker (ILT) List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover - South Africa / Singer / Activist - 2017) Miriam Makeba, a Grammy Award...
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Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions

$ 21.99

Margaret Musgrove (A) Leo Dillon (ILT) and Diane Dillon (ILT) List Price $21.99 (Hardcover - 26 African Tribes / Traditions - 1992) Description: Fr...
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Dance, Music, Poetry and Performing Arts Collection

Dance, Music, Poetry and Performing Arts
Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat (A Poetry Speaks Experience)

$ 19.99

Nikki Giovanni (A), Alicia Vergel de Dios (ILT), Damian Ward (ILT), Kristen Balouch (ILT), Jeremy Tugeau (ILT), Michele Noiset (ILT) List Price: $1...
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Trombone Shorty

$ 17.99

Troy Andrews (A) and Bryan Collier (ILT) List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover - Musician Bio - 2015) "Winner of both a Caldecott Honor and a Coretta Scot...
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Who Is Aretha Franklin? (Who Was?)

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Nico Medina (A) Who HQ and Gregory Copeland (ILT) List Price: $5.99 (Paperback - Biography / Legendary Singer - 2018) There is only one QUEEN OF SO...
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Jake Makes a World: Jacob Lawrence, A Young Artist in Harlem

$ 18.95

Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts (A) and Christopher Myers (ILT) List Price: $18.95 (Hardcover - Bio / Artist / Harlem Renaissance - 2015) Description: Jake M...
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Feel the Beat: Dance Poems that Zing from Salsa to Swing

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Marilyn Singer (A) and Kristi Valiant (ILT) List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover - Social Dance and Poetry - 2017) An irresistible book of poems about ...
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Science and Math Collection

Science and Math
A Weed Is a Flower : The Life of George Washington Carver

$ 7.99

Aliki (A and ILT) List Price: $7.99 (Paperback - Biography / Scientist - 1988) Description: From humble beginnings, George Washington Carver became...
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What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors

$ 6.99

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (A) and Ray Obstfeld (A) and A.G. Ford (ILT) List Price: $6.99 (Paperback - African American History / Scientists - 2013) Karee...
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Sasha Savvy Loves to Code

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Sasha Ariel Alston (A) and Vanessa Newton Brantley List Price: $15.99 (Hardcover - STEM/ Tween / Learns to Code- 2017) Selected for the 2018 Girls...
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Starstruck: The Cosmic Journey of Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Kathleen Krull (A), Paul Brewer (A) and Frank Morrison (ILT) List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover Biography / Astro Physicist - 2018) ★ An Amazon Best...
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Black Pioneers of Science and Invention

$ 8.99

Louis Haber (A) List Price: $8.99 (Paperback - Black Inventors / Inventions / Persistence - 2007) Description: A readable, perceptive account of t...
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Sports Collection

Sports
Satchel Paige

$ 8.99

Lesa Cline-Ransome (A) and James E. Ransome (ILT) List Price: $8.99 (Paperback - Biography / Sport / Baseball - 2005) Description: This book examin...
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Who Are Venus and Serena Williams? (Who Was?)

$ 5.99

James Buckley Jr. (A), Who HQ (A) and Andrew Thomson (ILT) Price: $5.99 (Paperback - Biography / Champion Tennis Players / Sisters - 2018) The dy...
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Ali An American Champion: The Greatest

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Barry Dennenberg (A) List Price: $12.99 (Paperback - Biography / Sports / Boxing Champion - 2014) Description: The impressive life story of Muhamma...
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Barber Game Time Books: Kickoff!

$ 7.99

Tiki & Ronde Barber with Paul Mantell (A) List Price: $7.99 (Paperback - Sports / Jr. High Football / Siblings / Teamwork and Perseverance - 2...
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Salt In His Shoes

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Deloris Jordan (A) and Kadir Nelson (ILT) List Price: $7.99 (Paperback- Biography / Sports / Basketball - 2000) Description: Young Michael Jordan, ...
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Ages 9-12 and Grades 4-6 Collection

Ages 9-12
100 Great African Kings and Queens: I am the Nile (Real African Writers Series) (Volume 1)

$ 22.99

Pusch Commey (A) and Innocent Dembetembe (ILT) List Price: $22.99 (Paperback - African Kings and Queens - 2014) Volume one of 100 GREAT AFRICAN K...
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Black Women In Science

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Kimberly Brown Pellum PhD (A) List Price: $9.99 (Paperback - Black Women In Science -2019) Bold, black women in science―where will their inspirat...
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Black Panther: The Junior Novel by Marvel

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Mim McCann (A) List Price: $6.99 (Paperback - Black Super Hero Novel - 2018) T'Challa, as the Black Panther and warrior King of Wakanda, must team...
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Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky (Tristan Strong (1))

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Kwame Mbalia (A) List Price:$17.99 (Hardcover - Fantasy, Action and Mythology - 2019) Coretta Scott Award Winner - Handpicked by Amazon kids’ b...
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Ghost (1) Track

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Jason Reynolds (A) List Price: $7.99 (Paperback - Track & Field, Friendships and Winning - 2017) A National Book Award Finalist for Young Pe...
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Ages 13-18 and Grades 7-12 Collection

Teen Young Adult
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The Revolution of Birdie Randolph

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Brandy Colbert (A) List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover - Coming of Age / Self Awareness - 2019) From Stonewall Award winner Brandy Colbert comes a nove...
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101 Things I Wish My Father Had Taught Me

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Jasiri Basel (A) List Price: $19.99 (Paperback - Self Help and Motivational for Young Black Men - 2016) Learning 101 Things before you need them h...
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I'm Not Dying With You Tonight

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Kimberly Jones (A) and Gilly Segal (A) List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover - Two Strangers / Chaos - 2019) "An absolute page turner, I'm Not Dying with ...
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This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work

$ 14.99

Tiffany Jewell (A) LIST PRICE: $14.99 (Paperback - Examines Racism / Exercises - 2020) Who are you? What is racism? Where does it come from? Why...
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Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks

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Jason Reynolds (A) List Price: $17.99 (Hardcover - 10 Stories - 2019) A National Book Award Finalist!Coretta Scott King Author Honor BookAn NPR...
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Adult Collection

Adult Collection
The Autobiography of Malcolm: X As Told to Alex Haley

$ 7.99

Alex Hayley (A) List Price: 7.99 (Paperback - Autobiography / Malcom X - 1992) ONE OF TIME’S TEN MOST IMPORTANT NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE TWENTIET...
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the Stamped from the Beginning

$ 18.99

Jason Alexander (A) and Ibrahm X. Kendi (A) List Price: $18.99 (Hardcover - Racism and Anti-Racism - 2019) The #1 New York Times bestseller an...
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African Holistic Health

$ 19.95

Dr. Llaila O. Afrika (A) List Price: $19.95 (Paperback - Health Advice and Remedies - 2012) "A great amount of research in a highly organized ma...
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A History of African Civilizations

$ 24.95

Prof. Manu Ampim (A) List Price: $24.99 (Paperback - African History - 2019) Description: The History of African Civilizations is a textbook and ...
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Becoming

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Michelle Obama (A) List Price: $32.50 (Hardcover - First Lady Autobiography - 2018) An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former Firs...
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Ashay By The Bay Mission

Online since 2002, Ashay By The Bay is Owned and Operated by Deborah Day. Know that We Are Focused and Committed to Educate and Empower Our Children Through Literacy. In Doing so We Will Provide the Best Selection of Books that Include "Positive Images" and that Represent our "Culture". Thanks for Your Support and Advocating in Your Schools.

May 20, 2020 Deborah Day

May Madness and Social Distancing
Doing business as usual is no longer acceptable. Ashay By The Bay has made the necessary adjustments and as you may have guessed, the focus is online. Generally the month of May signals the start of summer outdoor festivals and...
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April 6, 2020 Deborah Day

Support BOOKS FOR KIDS And FAMILIES IN NEED FUNDRAISER
A few days ago I launched the BOOKS FOR KIDS AND FAMILIES IN NEED fundraiser on Go Fund Me. After hearing, due to the pandemic children were going to be out for the remainder of the school year I decided to do...
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April 2, 2020 Deborah Day

HAPPY SPRING and HAPPY 20th ANNIVERSARY
Ashay By The Bay is informally celebrating our 20th Year Anniversary with a new store! Yes, as you can see I have a brand new store, complete with new navigation, doors and windows and we've added some new books. Yes,...
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