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The Book Look is the online video segment tackling the latest in books and book news relevant to our community.

Book Look Host Monda Webb Interviews Mahogany Books’ Ramunda Young about the latest and greatest news in Black Books and Events in 2014. From the Harlem Book Fair to the National Black Book Conference Monda and Ramunda make your that you know what’s going on.

The Book Look - Season 2, Episode 9 - Winter 2013
Bestselling authors Stephen L. Carter and Victoria Rowell

The Book Look - Season 2, Episode 8 - September 2013
Romance queen Brenda Jackson, Trice Hickman’s upcoming release and more!

The Book Look - Season 2, Episode 7 - August 2013
In Cali with Sisters with Books Book club and Paul Coates for the 35th Anniversary of Black Classic Press

The Book Look - Season 2 July 2013 XTRA
Check out exclusive footage from the Delta Sigma Theta 100 Authors’ Pavilion

The Book Look - Season 2, Episode 6 - July 2013
Features a segment on Black Comix, and highlights from the annual Go On Girl! Book Club Awards

The Book Look - Season 2, Episode 5 - June 2013
Daniel Black and Twelve Gates to the City, and covers the anthology and new movement, Steamfunk!.

The Book Look - Season 2, Episode 4 - May 2013
Features Panther Baby by Jamal Joseph and talks with Sadeqa Johnson about her book Love in a Carry-On Bag.

The Book Look - Season 2, Episode 3 - April 2013
Features Keli Goff about her book The GQ Candidate; Cornel West and Ledisi pop in and Jessica Ann Mitchell of Black Bloggers Connect covers James McBride?s Song Yet Sung.

The Book Look - Season 2, Episode 2 - March 2013
Features Michael Baisden, the Malcolm X book, A Lie of Reinvention, Booker T. Mattison?s Snitch and more

The Book Look - Season 2, Episode 1 - February 2013
Nicole Sconiers’ Escape from Beckyville and Walter Mosley’s The Gift of Fire while hearing from Rev. Bernice King on the new book about her mother, Desert Rose: The Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King.

Book Look Xtra - Finding Karakhamun
This episode covers ongoing excavation in Luxor, Egypt with Anthony Browder

The Book Look - Season 2, Episode 1 - February 2013
The Book Look is back for Season 2 with new authors, celebrities and contributors!

The Book Look Xtra - Half My Size: How Caroline Jhingory Lost 150 lbs.!
Caroline Jhingory’s book launch is covered by The Book Look

The Book Look Xtra - Ledisi
Recording artist & new author LEDISI speaks with The Book Look’s Charisse Carney-Nunes

The Book Look Xtra - Judy Smith
Scandal, Judy Smith’s New Book: "Good Self, Bad Self"

The Book Look Episode 7 - The Black History Month Edition
Featurung Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable, plus Roland Martin

The Book Look Episode 6
Featurung The Wealth Cure by Hill Harper

The Book Look Episode 5
Featurung Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Erness T. Carter and Alexis Herman

The Book Look Episode 4
Featurung Prodigy from Mobb Deep

The Book Look Episode 3 - The Halloween Edition
Featuring Tananarive Due

The Book Look Xtra
On this Book Look Extra, rapper Common talks about his relationship with Erykah Badu and dimming his light

The Book Look Xtra
Featuring Octavia Spencer of The Help


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Charisse Carney-NunesCharisse Carney-Nunes is the award-winning author of several children’??s books including, I Am Barack Obama, I Dream For You A World, and Nappy. She is also a literary advocate, and the Executive Producer of The Book Look a webseries airing here on AALBC.com

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