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50 Best Places to Meet Other Book Lovers Online
Editor’s Note: This article was updated in April 2017 to show sites that are no longer active or have completely shut down (they are striked out) due, in part...
Friends 2 Lovers V.2: Closed Doors Open
Friends 2 Lovers V.2: Closed Doors Open Jonathan Anthony Burkett In the heartwarming follow-up to Friends 2 Lovers, readers can look forward to childhood friends Claude a...
Torn Between Two Lovers
Torn Between Two Lovers Carl Weber From the New York Times bestselling author of Big Girls Do Cry comes a deliciously provocative new page-turner starring plus-sized diva...
Dear G-Spot: Straight Talk About Sex and Love
Chapter One: Sexual Addiction Sexual addiction is a topic very near and dear to my heart. When I first decided to write my novel Addicted, nearly nine years ago, ...
100 Bestselling Authors, New Books, and More: October 2016 eNewsletter
Our Top 100, All-time, Bestselling Authors We are excited to present our regularly updated list of our top 100, all-time, bestselling authors. This list of bestselling a...
LitVersation: The Book Conversation Game
LitVersation: The Book Conversation Game Debra Owsley To buy this game, please visit the creator’s website “Hello My name is Debra Owsley and I am the owner and cr...
AALBC.com May 2013 eNewsletter Book Highlights
AALBC.com Best-selling Books - March to April 2013 This version of AALBC.com's eNewsletter, which focuses on book related content is designed for Amazon Kind...
Valjeanne Jeffers Interview
Valjeanne Jeffers is a graduate of Spelman College and North Carolina Central University, and a member of the Carolina African American Writer’s Collecti...
Best Selling DVD's for 2011
10 Best Selling DVDs on AALBC.com for 2011 This is the Start of Part 2 (Go to Part 1) #6 • The Black Power Mixtape Click to Buy Via Amazon Actors: Angela Davis,...
Complete List of 1,453 Titles Sold in 2006
Complete List of 1,453 Titles Sold in 2006 In 2006 AALBC.com sold 1,453 different titles via the Amazon.com affiliate program. Th...
April 2014 eNewsletter - Good Books, Films, Events, Articles & More
You may receive this eNewsletter directly in your email-box by subscribing. It may also be read on your Kindle ebook reader. Enjoy our previous eNewsletters. Sponso...
St. Martin's Press - Backlist
St. Martin's New Releases | Writer's Home | AALBC.com Home St. Martin's Press � 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010 � 212-674-5151 I Know ...
The Book of Heaven: A Novel
The Book of Heaven: A Novel Patricia Storace From the author of the classic travel memoir Dinner with Persephone, an accomplished poet, and frequent contributor to The Ne...
Texas Book Festival
Texas Book Festival State Capitol and surrounding grounds Austin Texas The Texas Book Festival (#TXBOOKFEST) celebrates authors and their contributions to the culture of ...
Former Editor-in-Chief of Essence Magazine Opens Akwaaba D.C. Inn for Black Writers
Washington, D.C.: Hundreds of book lovers (in addition to a host of best-selling authors, literary activists, and media personnel) joined Monique Greenwood, aut...
Book Review: Diary of a Lost Girl: The Autobiography of Kola Boof by Kola Boof
ADD TO CART 8 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!Publication Date: Feb 01, 2006List Price: $25.00 Format: Hardcover, 441 pagesClassification: NonfictionISBN...
National Book Club Conference
National Book Club Conference Atlanta Westin Buckhead Atlanta Georgia National Book Club Conference Foundation, Inc., is a literary organization founded by author Curtis ...
Mississippi Book Festival
Mississippi Book Festival Mississippi State Capitol Jackson Mississippi The Mississippi Book Festival, a nonprofit founded by literacy advocates, launched in August 2015 ...
Why Every Black Woman Should Marry A Jewish Man: A Book For All Women Looking For The Perfect "Alpha" Male
Why Every Black Woman Should Marry A Jewish Man: A Book For All Women Looking For The Perfect "Alpha" Male Nazaree Hines-Starr Refreshing, easy read containing loads of d...
With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together
With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee This is the captivating, inspiring autobiography of a star couple who’ve celebrated 50 years of marr...
The Confessions of a Video Vixen Interview
Karrine Steffans The Confessions of a Video Vixen Interview by Kam Williams When I first interviewed her a couple of years ago, Karrine Steffans was ...
A Report From The Field
360� A Revolution of Black Poets -- A Report From The Field "360� was a two day gathering of poets in Baltimore, Maryland on September 11 & 12, 1998. Event...
AALBC in the Media
AALBC.com is Frequently Cited in Major Media (Clips Pre-2003) Lists AALBC.com, in 2002, as ...
Second Line Home: New Orleans Poems
June 2005, almost a decade ago, was the time I last visited New Orleans. It was still almost the Big Easy I knew in the mid-1980s. Several months later the nation obs...
The ESSENCE Brand—Where Black Women Come First—NOT!
A few weeks ago, I visited Essence Magazine’s website to learn which Black owned bookstore they were going to use as the bookseller for their popular ESSENCE Festival....
Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention
Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention New Orleans Louisiana The World Mystery Convention is a nonprofit, all-volunteer organization which holds an annual convention i...
Debra Owsley
Debra Owsley Since December 2006, Debra Owsley has taken her love of reading along with her hobby and created the reading accessory and consulting business, Simply Said R...
Colin Channer On His Novel, Satisfy My Soul
What is SATISFY MY SOUL saying about the American experience? That the destruction of African gods has shaped the destiny of this country because African-Americ...
AALBC.com eNewsletter – October 11th 2012 – Issue #195
Subscribe to this eNewsletter Read our eNewsletter Archives Read Our eNewsletter on Your Kindle By Troy Johnson Authors You Should Know Countée Porter Cullen http...
Legends: The Best Players, Games, and Teams in Baseball: World Series Heroics! Greatest Homerun Hitters! Classic Rivalries! And Much, Much More!
Legends: The Best Players, Games, and Teams in Baseball: World Series Heroics! Greatest Homerun Hitters! Classic Rivalries! And Much, Much More! Howard Bryant “With the...
Rejoice and Shout (2011) - Production Notes
About Rejoice and ShoutThe Information below provided coutesy of Magnolia Pictures [2011] The Music, The Footage and The Message The Power of God The Roots of Gospe...
Discretion
Discretion Elizabeth Nunez From American Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Nunez, a powerful novel that explores an intricate lovers’ triangle, the human thirst for p...
The Real Taste of Jamaica, Rev. Ed.
The Real Taste of Jamaica, Rev. Ed. Enid Donaldson The Real Taste of Jamaica takes food lovers and cooks the world over into Jamaican homes, kitchen and restaurants to sa...
Mary Wells: The Tumultuous Life of Motown’s First Superstar
One of the most captivating personalities on the Motown roster during its glory days, singer Mary Wells was a force of nature: complex, independent, and resourceful. Wi...
Genesis Press Inc.
Genesis Press Inc. is the home of Indigo Romance, the nation's leading line of African-American romance novels. Genesis is a pioneer in publishing diverse lines...
Ishmael Reed – July 1-7, 1983, in Emeryville, California
REGINALD MARTIN: Camus wrote in "Neither Victims nor Executioners" that the only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the...
Highly Recommended, Recently Reviewed, and Discounted Books
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March 26th 2013 – eNewsletter Highlights
Read Our Complete eNewsletter AALBC.com mourns the passing of Nigerian novelist and poet Chinua Achebe (November 16, 1930 — March 22, 2013) Author of classic nov...
Death of the Black Owned, Independent, Bookstore
Editor's Note: We published an update of our bookstores in March of 2014. One of the very first things I put on AALBC.com's web site, back in 1999, was a list of indep...
The Kevin M. Weeks Story: Never Say Die; Be Optimistic
The Kevin M. Weeks Story: Never Say Die; Be Optimistic ’Never Say Die; Be Optimistic’ ’Sounds of Blackness &rs...
Excellent Books, Authors, Events and More
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December 2016 Newsletter - Great New Books, Best Film of the Year, and More
Cerece Rennie Murphy – Our eNewsletter Sponsor for December Experience The Love of A Lifetime ~ Two Souls, One Desire, To Find Each Other...Again The journey be...
eNewsletter Highlights – January 31st 2013 – Issue #198
Read Our Complete eNewsletter AALBC.com's Bestselling Books Lists We've just published three new bestselling books lists. Our bimonthly bestselling books for N...
Bibliophile: Diverse Spines
Bibliophile: Diverse Spines Jamise Harper and Jane Mount It’s time to diversify your reading list. This richly illustrated and vastly inclusive collection uplifts the ...
Free eBooks - Great Reads Available for Download Now
There are so many free, high quality, eBooks available for immediate download, it is really quite astonishing. One can download a free eBook and begin reading it whil...
Men We Cherish
African-American Women Praise The Men In Their Lives, Edited by Brooke Stephens is an anthology. A book filled with laughter, heartache, inspiration, comfort, heart-mendi...
My Mother’s Mother by Maryse Conde
One of my favorite authors in the whole wide world is back with a new novel that I loved, loved, loved! Maryse Condé's latest novel is Victoire: My Mother&...
Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance
Definitions of Miss Anne: A coded term for any white woman. A derisive name for a white woman. An emancipated blue blood. Miss Anne in Harlem, by Carla Kaplan is...
Come Joy!
From reading only the first four poems in this collection; I knew I was on to something wonderful. Come Joy, Songs From The Soft of Night by Bridgette Alyce Greathouse ...
The History of Sketch Comedy: A Journey Through the Art and Craft of Humor
The History of Sketch Comedy: A Journey Through the Art and Craft of Humor Keegan-Michael Key and Elle Key Authors Keegan-Michael Key and Elle Key build on the popularity...
3 Must Read Books for Social Media Advocates, Addicts & Sharecroppers
These are three books I recommend we should all read. The strength of the Internet and promise it held to empower individuals has been hobbled considerably. In fa...
The Brothers
Musical Gumbo Features Some of Life’s Ups and Lotsa Life’s Downs The Neville Brothers new autobiography, The Brothers, co written with celebrity biographerDa...
Motion Sickness
Terry O’Neal shares her collection of poetry in her first book entitled Motion Sickness. It is a compilation of poems that range in topics including relations...
Screenwriting Into Film
Screenwriting Into Film Andre Seewood SCREENWRITING INTO FILM is a dynamic new book that gives the reader five necessary steps to follow in preparing to write a screenpla...
Caribbean Books You Should Know
By Joanne C. Hillhouse "I come from Antigua and Barbuda in the Caribbean. I write stories of and from the Caribbean. My first book was The Boy from Willow Bend ...
Kenji Jasper
Kenji Jasper “My name is Kenji Nathaniel Jasper and I am author. But I know that in this day and age ‘authors’ come a dime a dozen. It is no longer an event w...
The Bondwoman’s Narrative
In the 1850s a female slave owned by John Wheeler, a North Carolina plantation owner and minor government official, escaped and fled to freedom. She eventually resettle...
The Best Man
Read the 2025 novel based adapted from the film. THE BEST MAN Buy or Rent from Amazon In Theaters: Oct 22, 1999 Wide On DVD: Feb 29, 2000 MPAA rating...
Confessions of a Video Vixen
"Where young girls once aspired to be models and ballerinas, they now aspire to be hip-hop video girls. I sat down to write this book because I think my st...
Miles and Me
Quincy Troupe’s candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an intimate study of a unique re...
Confessions of a Video Vixen
This is a review of a version of Confessions of a Video Vixen published 20 years earlier. Where young girls once aspired to be models and ballerinas, they now a...
They Dream in Gold
They Dream in Gold Mai Sennaar Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize 2024 “Extraordinary … a powerful and poignant exploration of the African di...
A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay
A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay Octavia E. Butler The wise words of science fiction icon Octavia E. Butler live on in this beautiful and giftable little v...
Mr. Loverman
Mr. Loverman Bernardine Evaristo Winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction"Evaristo’s confident control of the language, her vibrant use of humor, rhythm and p...
Ancient Egypt The Light of the World: Vol. 1 and 2
Ancient Egypt The Light of the World: Vol. 1 and 2 Gerald Massey A WORK OF RECLAMATION AND RESTITUTION IN TWELVE BOOKS Vol. I and 2. It may have been a million years ago ...
The Man Who Cried I Am
FOREWORD by Graham Hodges The publication of John A. Williams’ fourth novel, The Man Who Cried I Am, in October, 1967, caused critics across the na...
Donna Drew Sawyer
Donna Drew Sawyer Before writing her novel, Provenance, Donna Drew Sawyer spent more than three decades advancing the creativity of others. First as a Madison Avenue adve...
Southland
In the beginning of my throes into books that I missed the first time around and cleaning out my library, one of my discoveries was the second novel by Nina R...
Stages
Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall STAGES, the debut novel by Malikah Reese Maccabee is a wonderfully written and very engaging story about women of color in crisis, b...
Forever Sentimental
Ohio Poet, Kenyatta is a man of many words. His book Forever Sentimental-AGAPE LOVE is Volume Three in the Forever Sentimental book series, collection...
Love Unlimited
The man is known by many names: The Maestro; The Icon of Love; The First, Last and Everything! In his new autobiography, recording legend Barry White lives up to his exal...
I Accidentally Summoned a Demon Boyfriend
I Accidentally Summoned a Demon Boyfriend Jessica Cage Open a book. Read a spell. Whoop, there he is… a demon. The last single friend in her group and tired of being...
Forbidden Distraction & Forbidden Attraction: A Bachelor of Shell Cove / Fiery Fairytales Crossover Novella
Forbidden Distraction & Forbidden Attraction: A Bachelor of Shell Cove / Fiery Fairytales Crossover Novella Siera London Forbidden Distraction, Book 1 Sex therapist, Dr. ...
Loving Day: A Novel
Loving Day: A Novel Mat Johnson Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle • NPR • Men’s Journal • The Denver Post ̶...
Not for Everyday Use: A Memoir
Not for Everyday Use: A Memoir Elizabeth Nunez Selected by Oprah’s Book Club as a memoir “too powerful to put down.” Tracing the four days fro...
Keyshia And Clyde: A Novel
Keyshia And Clyde: A Novel Treasure Blue Treasure E. Blue–acclaimed author of Harlem Girl Lost and A Street Girl Named Desire–is back with a heartbreaking urban love ...
Hot Johnny (And the Women Who Loved Him)
“That’s mighty pretty, precious“ The question, "Damn Thumper is using a term of endearment in the heading of a review. What’s up with THAT?...
Crazy Rich: Power
“Heirs to a Band-Aid and Baby Powder fortune, the Johnsons have enjoyed unimaginable wealth since Johnson & Johnson was founded in 1886—but their pers...
Thieves’ Paradise
Every summer I look forward to a new Eric Jerome Dickey novel. This year Dickey delivers one that I absolutely love! Thieves’ Paradise is a tight, smart, quick-pace...
Jesus Boy
I have a question for you: have you ever heard of anything; a food dish, a recipe, a car or a book, that by the description alone, you knew, KNEW it was going t...
Choosing Deceit
In this fantasy novel about the tenuous relationship man has with faith and spirituality, readers follow a young immortal named Lae on his quest to obliterat...
Morristown Festival of Books
Morristown Festival of Books Morristown New Jersey The Morristown Festival of Books celebrates the power of the written word to challenge, transport and transform us, wh...
The Color of Compromise Study Guide Plus Streaming Video: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
The Color of Compromise Study Guide Plus Streaming Video: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism Jemar Tisby A New York Times, USA Today, and Wall S...
Vagabonds!
Vagabonds! Eloghosa Osunde Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Aw...
African Goddess Initiation: Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy
African Goddess Initiation: Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy Abiola Abrams A sacred feminine initiation of self-love and soul care rituals, tools, and ex...
Don’t Drop the MIC: The Power of Your Words Can Change the World
Don’t Drop the MIC: The Power of Your Words Can Change the World T. D. Jakes Communicate boldly and effectively like never before with the help and guidance of a #1 New...
The Girl at the Back of the Bus
The Girl at the Back of the Bus Suzette D. Harrison An absolutely heart-wrenching historical novel I watched in awe as Miz Rosa stopped those men on the bus with her c...
C Is for Country
C Is for Country Lil Nas X New York Times Bestseller — It’s time to saddle up! Lil Nas X, the chart-topping music icon and internet sensation behind the hit single &q...
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism Jemar Tisby A New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller! An a...
Author: The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan
Author: The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan Beowulf Sheehan A beautiful and moving collection of photographs by Beowulf Sheehan, whose work captures the essence of 200 of ou...
Atlanta Noir
Atlanta Noir Tayari Jones Georgia Center for the Book has chosen Atlanta Noir as one of 2018’s Books All Georgians Should Read!Kenji Jasper’s "A Moment of Clarity at ...
Unspoken Feelings of a Gentleman II
Unspoken Feelings of a Gentleman II Pierre Alex Jeanty What is left unsaid can often be more detrimental to any relationship than most believe. Unspoken words seem to alt...
It’s Our Music Too: The Black Experience in Classical Music
It’s Our Music Too: The Black Experience in Classical Music Earl Ofari Hutchinson Groundbreaking Book Explores the Black Impact on Classical Music Earl Ofari Hutchinson...
Every Woman’s Dream (Lonely Heart, Deadly Heart)
Every Woman’s Dream (Lonely Heart, Deadly Heart) Mary Monroe From New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe comes a seductive, shocking tale of two unhappy women fu...
Swing
Swing Miasha "Wise librarians will stock up and ’swing’ this one over to erotica fans."—Library Journal"This newest offering from Miasha packs quite a punch…This ...
Essence Presents Ledisi Better Than Alright: Finding Peace, Love & Power
Essence Presents Ledisi Better Than Alright: Finding Peace, Love & Power Ledisi Over the past four decades ESSENCE introduced our readers to inspirational voices such as ...
Gathering of Waters
Gathering of Waters Bernice L. McFadden Selected as a Go On Girl! Book Pick100 Notable Books of 2012” New York Times50 Best Books of 2012” Washington Post"McF...
Best New Poets 2007: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers
Best New Poets 2007: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers Natasha Trethewey Praise for earlier editions:"Unlike novelists and bad-boy memoirists, emerging poets are unlikely to...
Chess For Success: Using An Old Game To Build New Strengths In Children And Teens
Chess For Success: Using An Old Game To Build New Strengths In Children And Teens Maurice Ashley Maurice Ashley immigrated to New York from Jamaica at the age of twelve, ...