NAACP Image Awards Winners and Nominees

NAACP Image Award LogoThe NAACP Image Awards nominates five books in nine categories for Outstanding Literature: Biography/Autobiography, Children, Debut Author, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Instructional, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Youth/Teens

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38 Image Award Winning and Nominated Books for 2014

Winner - Biography/Autobiography

Nominee - Biography/Autobiography

Kansas City Lightning: The Rise And Times Of Charlie Parker
by Stanley Crouch

List Price: $27.99
Harper (Sep 24, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 384 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography

Nominee - Biography/Autobiography

Nominee - Biography/Autobiography

Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington
by Terry Teachout

List Price: $30.00
Avery (Oct 17, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 496 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Winner - Children

Nominee - Children

Nominee - Children

Nominee - Children

Nominee - Children

You Never Heard of Willie Mays?!
by Jonah Winter

List Price: $17.99
Schwartz & Wade (Jan 08, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 40 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Winner - Debut Author

Nominee - Debut Author

Better Than Good Hair: The Curly Girl Guide to Healthy, Gorgeous Natural Hair!
by Nikki Walton with Ernessa T. Carter

Amistad (Jan 29, 2013)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 224 pages
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Nominee - Debut Author

On the Come Up: A Novel, Based on a True Story
by Hannah Weyer

List Price: $25.00
Nan A. Talese (Jul 23, 2013)
Fiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
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Nominee - Debut Author

Nominee - Debut Author

Winner - Fiction

Nominee - Fiction

Nominee - Fiction

Nominee - Fiction

Winner - Instructional

The Vegucation of Robin: How Real Food Saved My Life
by Robin Quivers

List Price: $35.00
Avery (Oct 01, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 272 pages
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Nominee - Instructional

Plan D: How to Lose Weight and Beat Diabetes (Even If You Don’t Have It)
by Sherri Shepherd and Billie Fitzpatrick

List Price: $25.99
It Books (Apr 30, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
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Nominee - Instructional

The Entrepreneur Mind: 100 Essential Beliefs, Characteristics, and Habits of Elite Entrepreneurs
by Kevin D. Johnson

List Price: $16.95
Johnson Media Inc (Jan 22, 2013)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 268 pages
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Nominee - Instructional

Do I Look Like an ATM?: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Financially Responsible African American Children
by Sabrina Lamb

List Price: $14.95
Chicago Review Press (Mar 01, 2013)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 224 pages
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Nominee - Instructional

Recruiting and Retaining Culturally Different Students in Gifted Education
by Donna Ford

List Price: $29.95
Prufrock Press (Jun 15, 2013)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 125 pages
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Winner - Nonfiction

Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery
by Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer

List Price: $35.00
Temple University Press (Dec 05, 2012)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 240 pages
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Nominee - Nonfiction

Nominee - Nonfiction

Nominee - Nonfiction

Letters to an Incarcerated Brother: Encouragement, Hope, and Healing for Inmates and Their Loved Ones
by Hill Harper

List Price: $27.50
Knopf (Nov 05, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 400 pages
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Winner - Poetry

Nominee - Poetry

Nominee - Poetry

Nominee - Poetry

Nominee - Poetry

Hum (Ala Notable Books for Adults)
by Jamaal May

List Price: $15.95
Alice James Books (Nov 19, 2013)
Poetry, Paperback, 80 pages
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Winner - Youth/Teens

Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America’s First Black Paratroopers (Ala Notable Children’s Books. Older Readers)
by Tanya Lee Stone

List Price: $24.99
Candlewick Press (Jan 22, 2013)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 160 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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Nominee - Youth/Teens

Nominee - Youth/Teens

Serafina’s Promise
by Ann E. Burg

List Price: $16.99
Scholastic Press (Sep 24, 2013)
Fiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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Nominee - Youth/Teens

Nominee - Youth/Teens