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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37 Image Award Winning and Nominated Books for 2019

Winner - Biography/Autobiography

Nominee - Biography/Autobiography

Nominee - Biography/Autobiography

Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist
by Franchesca Ramsey

List Price: $27.00
Grand Central Publishing (May 22, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 256 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography

Nominee - Biography/Autobiography

The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
by Nelson Mandela

List Price: $35.00
Liveright Publishing Corporation (Jul 10, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 640 pages
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Winner - Children

Nominee - Children

Nominee - Children

Nominee - Children

Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, a Monumental American Man
by Tonya Bolden

List Price: $19.99
Abrams Books for Young Readers (Jan 09, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 208 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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Nominee - Children

Winner - Debut Author

Us Against the World: Our Secrets to Love, Marriage, and Family
by David Mann and Shaun Sanders

List Price: $24.99
Thomas Nelson (Nov 13, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 272 pages
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Nominee - Debut Author

Nominee - Debut Author

Lucile H. Bluford and the Kansas City Call: Activist Voice for Social Justice
by Sheila Brooks and Clint C. Wilson II

List Price: $80.00
Lexington Books (Apr 13, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 112 pages
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Nominee - Debut Author

Nominee - Debut Author

Winner - Fiction

Nominee - Fiction

Nominee - Fiction

Better Late Than Never (Final Book in Reverend Curtis Black Series #15)
by Kimberla Lawson Roby

List Price: $26.00
Grand Central Publishing (Jul 31, 2018)
Fiction, Hardcover, 352 pages
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Nominee - Fiction

Who Is the Black Panther?: A Novel of the Marvel Universe
by Jesse J. Holland

List Price: $9.99
Titan Books (May 08, 2018)
Fiction, Mass Market Paperback, 384 pages
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Nominee - Fiction

Winner - Instructional

Rise and Grind: Outperform, Outwork, and Outhustle Your Way to a More Successful and Rewarding Life
by Daymond John

List Price: $27.00
Currency (Jan 23, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
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Nominee - Instructional

Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
by Glory Edim

List Price: $20.00
Ballantine Books (Oct 30, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 240 pages
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Nominee - Instructional

Carla Hall’s Soul Food: Everyday and Celebration
by Carla Hall

List Price: $29.99
Harper Wave (Oct 23, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
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Nominee - Instructional

Poised for Excellence: Fundamental Principles of Effective Leadership in the Boardroom and Beyond
by Karima Mariama-Arthur

List Price: $29.99
Palgrave Macmillan (Jan 29, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 283 pages
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Nominee - Nonfiction

Nominee - Nonfiction

Nominee - Nonfiction

Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth.
by Beverly Bond

List Price: $30.00
Atria Books (Feb 27, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 256 pages
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Winner - Poetry

Nominee - Poetry

Confessions of a Barefaced Woman
by Allison Joseph

List Price: $17.95
HarperTorch (Jun 12, 2018)
Poetry, Paperback, 120 pages
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Nominee - Poetry

Nominee - Poetry

The Gospel According to Wild Indigo
by Cyrus Cassells

List Price: $15.95
Southern Illinois University Press (Feb 22, 2018)
Poetry, Paperback, 112 pages
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Nominee - Poetry

Winner - Youth/Teens

Nominee - Youth/Teens

Chasing King’s Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Assassin: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Assassin
by James L. Swanson

List Price: $19.99
Scholastic Press (Jan 02, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 384 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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Nominee - Youth/Teens

The Journey of Little Charlie
by Christopher Paul Curtis

List Price: $16.99
Scholastic Press (Jan 30, 2018)
Fiction, Hardcover, 256 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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Nominee - Youth/Teens

The 5 O’Clock Band
by Troy Andrews, Illustrated by Bryan Collier

List Price: $17.99
Abrams Books for Young Readers (Jun 19, 2018)
Fiction, Hardcover, 40 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Nominee - Youth/Teens

We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide
by Carol Anderson and Tonya Bolden

List Price: $19.99
Bloomsbury YA (Sep 11, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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