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Book Lovers Con Royal Sonesta Huston Galleria Houston Texas Meet-n-greet with authors and celebrate books.
Long White Con: The Biggest Score of His Life
Long White Con: The Biggest Score of His Life Iceberg Slim 9781936399055 Fiction Cash Money Content Simon & Schuster, Inc. Iceberg Slim, best-selling author of Pimp and Trick Baby, brings us yet anoth...
50 Best Places to Meet Other Book Lovers Online
50 Best Places to Meet Other Book Lovers Online Anna Miller Article Editor’s Note: This article was updated in April 2017 to show sites that are no longer active or have completely shut d...
The Story of Lovers Rock
The Story of Lovers Rock Kam Williams loversrock1.jpg Film Review Nostalgic Documentary Celebrates Influential Black Brit Music Genre The Story of Lovers Rock [2011] Unrated Running t...
Friends 2 Lovers V.2: Closed Doors Open
Friends 2 Lovers V.2: Closed Doors Open Jonathan Anthony Burkett 9780985297046 Nonfiction Jonathan Anthony Burkett Publications Jonathan Anthony Burkett Publications In the heartwarming follow-up to F...
El Crossover (Spanish Edition)
El Crossover (Spanish Edition) Kwame Alexander 9780358064725 Fiction Clarion Books HarperCollins Ganador de la Medalla Newbery · Ganador del Premio Coretta Scott King · New York Times Be...
Steamy Lit Con
Steamy Lit Con Anaheim Marriott Anaheim California Their goal is to celebrate the romance genre and to amplify the identities in it which have been historically underrepresented. The Steamy Lit Con ai...
New York Comic Con
New York Comic Con Javitz Center New York New York “…if you’re a speculative fiction author (horror, fantasy, paranormal, urban fantasy, sci-fi, etc.) you should definitely go&rdquo...
Trick Baby
Trick Baby Iceberg Slim 9781936399017 Fiction Cash Money Content Simon & Schuster, Inc. The author that brought black literature to the streets is back. Weaving stories of deceit, sex, humor and race ...
Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx / La juez que crecio en el Bronx (Spanish and English Edition)
Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx / La juez que crecio en el Bronx (Spanish and English Edition) Jonah Winter 9781442403031 Nonfiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc....
Cafe con Libros
Cafe con Libros Brooklyn NY Cafe con Libros (coffee with books) is an intersectional Feminist community bookstore and coffee shop. Through our choice of books, programming and great coffee, we endeav...
Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable (Volume 1)
Friends 2 Lovers: The Unthinkable (Volume 1) Jonathan Anthony Burkett 9780985297008 Nonfiction Jonathan Anthony Burkett Publications Jonathan Anthony Burkett Publications Strong relationships come fro...
Friends 2 Lovers
Friends 2 Lovers Jonathan Anthony Burkett 9781436394055 Fiction Xlibris Author Solutions Strong relationships come from well-bonded friendships. The best foundation for relationships to grow, flourish...
Color My Fro: A Natural Hair Coloring Book for Big Hair Lovers of All Ages
Color My Fro: A Natural Hair Coloring Book for Big Hair Lovers of All Ages Crystal Swain-Bates 9781939509079 Fiction Goldest Karat Publishing Goldest Karat Publishing In "Color My Fro", 31 big-haired ...
Marvel’s Black Panther
Marvel’s Black Panther Brenda M. Greene Book Review The 2016 San Diego Comic-Con was a memorable moment for independent researcher and writer Todd Steven Burroughs. Burroughs begins Marvel’s Bl...
Reparations: Pro & Con
Reparations: Pro & Con Alfred L. Brophy 9780195304077 Nonfiction Oxford University Press, USA Oxford University Press “A book about reparations and its contentious qualities that is a must-read for al...
Friends 2 Lovers
Friends 2 Lovers Emanuel Carpenter Book Review Who doesn’t remember their first love? And what about the girl next door? Or how about the boy you cared for in school only to end up in the fri...
Shoff Promotions Comic Con
Shoff Promotions Comic Con Annadale VA Firehouse Expo Hall Derwood Maryland Comic book and non-sports card shows, baseball and sportcard shows, and collectible shows.
Standalone: A Dickie Cornish Mystery
Standalone: A Dickie Cornish Mystery Christopher Chambers 9781953103239 Fiction Three Rooms Press Three Rooms Press “Chambers makes the smell and harrowing vibe of the mean streets of the nation’s cap...
Right Where I Left You
Right Where I Left You Julian Winters 9780593206478 Fiction Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House “Some books are downright fun, and Right Where I Left You is one … Winters sends a quiet...
My Amputations
My Amputations Clarence Major 9781573661430 Fiction Fiction Collective Two (FC2) University of Alabama Press This novel is about a man pursued by his shadow. Its protagonist is either a desperate ex-c...
Where a Nickel Costs a Dime: Poems
Where a Nickel Costs a Dime: Poems Willie Perdomo 9780393313833 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A first book of poems by one of the best new voices to emerge from the Nuyori...
The Business of Lovers
The Business of Lovers Eric Jerome Dickey 9781524745202 Fiction Dutton Books Penguin Random House All is fair in love and lust in New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey’s tale of two bro...
Soul Searching for Chocolate Lovers: Poems by D.
Soul Searching for Chocolate Lovers: Poems by D. Shandon D. Allen 9781438950020 Poetry AuthorHouse Author Solutions Soul searching is a journey most of us undertake, whether or not we ever give it a n...
Pleasure
Pleasure Eric Jerome Dickey 9780525950455 Fiction Dutton Adult Penguin Random House How realistic is it to believe that one lover can satisfy a woman’s every fantasy?Nia Simone Bijou is a woman who ha...
Sisters & Lovers: A Novel
Sisters & Lovers: A Novel Connie Briscoe 9780804113342 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House Beverly, Charmaine, and Evelyn — three sisters living in the same Maryland town outside Washing...
Comic-Con
Comic-Con Anaheim Convention center Anaheim California Exhibit hall with comics, original art, toys and merchandice for many popular artist, pubushers and retailers.
A Beach House Beginning (Reissue)
A Beach House Beginning (Reissue) Raeanne Thayne and Michelle Lindo-Rice 9781335007452 Fiction Harlequin Harlequin Enterprises Limited Opposites attract for two single parents in this heartfelt romanc...
Comic-Con International
Comic-Con International San Diego Convention Center San Diego California Comic arts conference, anime, and fim screening .
Brooklyn Comic Con
Brooklyn Comic Con The Breeze New York New York Exhibit of cosplay, video games, music, and other entertainment.
Limpin’
Limpin’ Bernadette Y. Connor 9780971583894 Fiction Bee-Con Books Bee-Con Books If you ain’t got love you’re … LIMPIN’. Ida Evers shares all of the trials and victories of their lives together, with he...
A Max le gustan las munecas
A Max le gustan las munecas Zetta Elliott 9781519748348 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press Max desea visitar una hermosa boutique donde venden vestidos y muñecas, pero le preocupa que otros niños se ...
Pearl and Angela
Pearl and Angela Bernadette Y. Connor 9780971583863 Fiction Bee-Con Books Bee-Con Books "Pearl and Angela" is a suspense-filled story that profoundly chronicles the emotional damages of hatred and cru...
He’s Mine!
He’s Mine! Bernadette Y. Connor 9780971583887 Fiction Bee-Con Books Bee-Con Books What s a girl to do when she moves to a new town and falls in love with the most desired man in town? What s a girl to...
Resurrecting Midnight
Resurrecting Midnight Eric Jerome Dickey 9780525950578 Fiction Dutton Books Penguin Random House After nearly losing his life in Antigua during a mission that went terribly wrong, Gideon trusts no one...
Damaged!
Damaged! Bernadette Y. Connor 9780971583832 Fiction Bee-Con Books Bee-Con Books Adrena Reynolds is the teenage survivor of years of child abuse that leaves her filled with murderous rage. State- assi...
Inherited
Inherited Bernadette Y. Connor 9780971583849 Fiction Bee-Con Books Bee-Con Books Derrick Dawes is a cafe au lait Adonis who lives comfortably and enjoys bachelorhood. When Derrick receives a call info...
La Resaca
La Resaca Enrique A. Laguerre 9781563283413 Fiction Editorial Plaza Mayor Editorial Plaza Mayor La resaca presenta la atmósfera social, económica y política de la vida isleña durante las últimas tres ...
The Parcel Express Murders
The Parcel Express Murders Bernadette Y. Connor 9780971583818 Fiction Bee-Con Books Bee-Con Books Detectives Hall Hawkins and Edward Clark of the 30th Precinct Homicide Division are assigned the daunt...
Sili Recio
Sili Recio NONE Sili Recio, an Afro-Dominican writer and social media influencer with a psychology degree, uses her platform to disrupt norms. She lives in Florida, adores café con leche, and blogs ...
Tower Heist
Tower Heist Kam Williams towerheist.jpg Film Review Victims Turn Tables on Con Man in Murphy-Stiller Buddy Comedy Tower Heist Rated PG-13 for profanity and sexuality. Running time: 104 Minute...
Debra Owsley
Debra Owsley NONE Debra Owsley, avid reader and hairstylist, transformed her passion into a business, Simply Said Reading Accessories and LitVersation. She collaborates with bestselling authors, book...
Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention
Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention Calgary Canada The World Mystery Convention is a nonprofit, all-volunteer organization which holds an annual convention in honor of Anthony Boucher, the disti...
Baby Brother’s Blues: A Novel
Baby Brother’s Blues: A Novel Pearl Cleage 9780345481115 Fiction One World Penguin Random House When Regina Burns married Blue Hamilton, she knew he was no ordinary man. A charismatic R&B singer who g...
LitVersation: The Book Conversation Game
LitVersation: The Book Conversation Game Debra Owsley litversations Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published To buy this game, please visit the creator’s website “Hello My name is...
Romance Slam Jam Convention
Romance Slam Jam Convention Virtual Now Romance Slam Jam is a VIRTUAL ROMANCE BOOK CONVENTION Originally held in a different city each year, the Romance Slam Jam convention is an annual book love...
The ESSENCE Brand—Where Black Women Come First—NOT!
The ESSENCE Brand—Where Black Women Come First—NOT! Troy Johnson Article A few weeks ago, I visited Essence Magazine’s website to learn which Black owned bookstore they were going to use as the books...
Sexcapades
Sexcapades Honeyb 9780446582292 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Nick and Natalie are two lovers whose sexual lives are more than above average. But their secret relationship is pu...
Sexcapades
Sexcapades Honeyb 9780446582285 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Nick and Natalie are two lovers whose sexual lives are more than above average, but they are both competing for the...
Discretion
Discretion Elizabeth Nunez 9780345447326 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House From American Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Nunez, a powerful novel that explores an intricate lovers’ ...
The Lovers, the Liars, and Me
The Lovers, the Liars, and Me DeAndra Davis 9781665952682 Fiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. A teen travels to Jamaica hoping to answer questions about her absent mother, ...
Hearts on the Fly
Hearts on the Fly Toni Shiloh 9780764245206 Fiction Bethany House Baker Publishing Group When the game changes, love finds a way to score. Jabari Hall has spent his entire life chasing vi...
Friends and Lovers Omnibus
Friends and Lovers Omnibus Nicole Falls 9798283832999 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published f*ck and fall in love: for Jane and Nigel, timing is everything. f*ck around and find o...
Between Friends & Lovers
Between Friends & Lovers Shirlene Obuobi 9780063307315 Fiction Avon Books HarperCollins Kennedy Ryan meets Carley Fortune in this swoon-worthy story of love and friendship in the age of social media—w...
Outdrawn: A Rivals to Lovers Romance
Outdrawn: A Rivals to Lovers Romance Deanna Grey 9798987895542 Fiction Deanna Grey Deanna Grey It isn’t always lonely at the top. Noah Blue’s finally got her foot in the door. After clawing her way t...
Noughts & Crosses
Noughts & Crosses Malorie Blackman 9781534497429 Fiction Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. Two star-crossed lovers fight for a more just world in this searing novel with ...
The Crunk Feminist Collection
The Crunk Feminist Collection Brittney Cooper, Susana M. Morris, and Robin M. Boylorn 9781558619432 Nonfiction The Feminist Press The Feminist Press For the Crunk Feminist Collective, their academic d...
To Find You
To Find You Cerece Rennie Murphy 9780985621070 Fiction LionSky Publishing LionSky Publishing Join our star-crossed lovers on a journey through time that you will never forget. Two Souls One Desire ...
A Lovers Vow (The Granger)
A Lovers Vow (The Granger) Brenda Jackson 9781410481047 Fiction Thorndike Press Thorndike Press www.BrendaJackson.netShe’s all he’s ever wanted. He’s everything she’ll ever need. Business mogul Dalton...
Love Enough
Love Enough Dionne Brand 9780345808899 Fiction Wilfrid Laurier University Press Wilfrid Laurier University Press From our acclaimed poet and novelist: a gem of a novel that sizzles about love—between ...
Insignificant Others 2: Erotic Novellas
Insignificant Others 2: Erotic Novellas Pynk and Carol Taylor B00IT2MS38 Fiction Insatiable Press Insatiable Press Two novellas in one hot volume. EROTIC CITY: LAS VEGAS from Pynk continues the story ...
Torn Between Two Lovers
Torn Between Two Lovers Carl Weber 9780758252708 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. From the New York Times bestselling author of Big Girls Do Cry comes a deliciously provocative new page-turn...
Chaser: A Novel
Chaser: A Novel Miasha 9781416589860 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the bestselling author of Never Enough, a novel about two young lovers who will stop at nothing to succeed. Chaser i...
Eternally Yours (Madaris Family Saga)
Eternally Yours (Madaris Family Saga) Brenda Jackson 9780373830558 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Harlequin Enterprises Limited Friends…Attorney Syneda Walters and fellow attorney Clayton Madaris are just f...
If There Be Pain
If There Be Pain Gloria Mallette 9780758211590 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. From acclaimed author Gloria Mallette comes a story of a man living his wildest dreams and confronting his wo...
The Magic Keys
The Magic Keys Albert Murray 9781400095537 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House If Gabriel García Márquez had chosen to write about Pakistani immigrants in England, he might have produce...
Afterburn: A Novel
Afterburn: A Novel Zane 9780743470971 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In the latest romantic romp from New York Times bestselling author Zane, two hapless lovers get lost in a dating game g...
A Love No Less: Two Centuries Of African American Love Letters
A Love No Less: Two Centuries Of African American Love Letters Pamela Newkirk 9780385503792 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House A Delightful paean to African American love, this treasury of fifty le...
The Real Taste of Jamaica, Rev. Ed.
The Real Taste of Jamaica, Rev. Ed. Enid Donaldson 9781894020862 Nonfiction Ian Randle Publishers Ian Randle Publishers The Real Taste of Jamaica takes food lovers and cooks the world over into Jamaic...
Friends and Lovers
Friends and Lovers Eric Jerome Dickey 9780451188038 Fiction Signet Penguin Random House In this sexy, soulful tale of love, betrayal, and friendship set in modern-day Los Angeles, the lives of four yo...
Friends, Families, Lovers
Friends, Families, Lovers Kathleen Eagle, Sandra Kitt, and Ruth Jean Dale 9780373832606 Fiction Harlequin Harlequin Enterprises Limited A collection of three stories of romance features the tale of a ...
J.D. Mason
J.D. Mason NONE J.D. Mason is a distinguished author with over a decade of professional writing. She self-published her debut novel twice before signing with a NYC publisher. Her work, featuring a po...
I Celebrate My Skin Celebro mi piel
I Celebrate My Skin Celebro mi piel Nonku Kunene Adumetey 9781735738222 Nonfiction Luntridge Group Luntridge Group I Celebrate My Skin is an inclusive children’s book about self-discovery and self-lov...
The Chitlin’ Circuit: And The Road To Rock &rsquoN&rsquo Roll
The Chitlin’ Circuit: And The Road To Rock &rsquoN&rsquo Roll Preston Lauterbach 9780393076523 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Chosen by The Wall Street Journal as one o...
The Right Mistake
The Right Mistake Thumper Book Review I don't need to ask, what did I do to deserve such good fortune? I stay good. It’s my natural state of being. *LOL* Although I did not ask i...
Unzipped
Unzipped Thumper Book Review One of my favorite urban authors, Noire, is back with a new novel, Unzipped. In case you don’t know, I love LOVE Noire’s books! Noire has reached the ulti...
Color Him Father
Color Him Father Kam Williams Book Review Book Reviewed by Kam Williams ’My dad has a gentle spirit and quiet determination. He worked 30 years for the U.S. Postal Service, beginning as the ...
Unchon-ni: South Korea, I Remember 1962-63
Unchon-ni: South Korea, I Remember 1962-63 Robert Fleming Book Review Codis Hampton III’s stirring account of his time in the military in South Korea was the first book produced by this veteran...
Queens Book Fair 2006
Queens Book Fair 2006 Queens Book Fair 2006 Queens Book Fair 2006 Announces Announces Author sign-up for 2006 Queens Book Fair Queens Book Fair 2006 Announces Author sign-up for 2nd Annual...
Catch: A Novel
Catch: A Novel Yrsa Daley-Ward 9781324092513 Fiction Liveright Publishing Corporation W. W. Norton & Company Named one of the best books of the year (so far) by The New York Times A New York Times Boo...
The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story
The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story Joy-Ann Reid 9780062880116 Nonfiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER MSNBC’S Joy-Ann Re...
My Married Boyfriend (Love & Revenge)
My Married Boyfriend (Love & Revenge) Cydney Rax 9781496701381 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. A pregnant mistress desperate to be a wife. An unexpected temptation. And stakes so high no on...
That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row
That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row Jarvis Jay Masters 9780061730481 Nonfiction HarperOne HarperCollins OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK 2022 "When I think about th...
Caribbean American Month Book Festival
Caribbean American Month Book Festival Washington District of Columbia In June 2005, the House of Representatives unanimously adopted H. Con. Res. 71, sponsored by Congresswoman Barbara Lee, recogniz...
Abuela, Grandma & Me
Abuela, Grandma & Me Natasha S. Alford 9780063303850 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins Written by TV commentator and SVP and Chief Content Officer at TheGrio Natasha S. Alford, this Spanish-infle...
Treacherous: Grifters, Ruffians And Killers
Treacherous: Grifters, Ruffians And Killers Gary Phillips 9781685127183 Nonfiction Level Short Level Best Books In this collection, you’ll find double crossers getting crossed, two-bit hucksters out t...
rahiembrooks
rahiembrooks Author Interviews Rahiem Brooks author of the crime thriller Con Test: Double Life https://aalbc.it/con_test Recorded by AALBC.com April 28, 2012 at the Harlem Book Fair - Newark, NJ
Blonde Faith: An Easy Rawlins Novel
Blonde Faith: An Easy Rawlins Novel Walter Mosley 9780446617901 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Easy Rawlins comes home from work, and finds more trouble on his doorstep in a day ...
Most Wanted
Most Wanted Kiki Swinson and Nikki Turner 9780758280268 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. National bestselling authors Kiki Swinson and Nikki Turner turn up the heat with two twisty tales of ...
Beulah Hill
Beulah Hill William Heffernan 9781888451405 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "The whispered revelations that come spilling out of -Beulah Hill are like ghostly voices you sometimes hear in the atti...
Postcards of El Barrio
Postcards of El Barrio Willie Perdomo 9781881715900 Poetry Isla Negra Editores Isla Negra Editores La poesía de Willie Perdomo se instaura con voz propia y singular. Cada poema se cuela en el canon de...
Alfred L. Brophy
Alfred L. Brophy 000000005569053X Alfred L. Brophy, a law professor at the University of North Carolina, is known for his work on reparations and his contributions to the Tulsa Race Riot Commission. ...
Grace After Midnight: A Memoir
Grace After Midnight: A Memoir Troy Johnson Book Review This Review Appears in the Fall 2007 Issue of Harlem World Magazine Felicia “Snoop” Pearson, of...
Triple Take
Triple Take Thumper Book Review Triple Take, the debut novel by Y. Blak Moore, reminds me of an old timey Hollywood western. Despite the fact that Triple Take takes place in the 21st century mean s...
Allah Is Not Obliged
Allah Is Not Obliged Thumper Book Review ’The full, final and completely complete title of my bullshit story is: Allah is not obliged to be fair about all the things he does here on...
Drive Me Crazy
Drive Me Crazy Thumper Book Review When I began writing this review one of my favorite Nancy Wilson recordings, How Glad I Am, was playing in the background. The record perfectly captures my feelin...
Repentance
Repentance Kam Williams repentance.jpg Film Review Repentance In Theaters: Feb 28, 2014 Limited Rated R for profanity, violence and torture Running time: 90 minutes Mystery & Suspense, Ho...
Pros and Cons of Mainstream and Self-Publishing
Pros and Cons of Mainstream and Self-Publishing C. Liegh McInnis Article There are two basic routes to getting published, mainstream and self-publishing. Mainstream is when one submits one&rsqu...