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Books by the Banks Duke Energy Convention Center Cincinnati Ohio More than 5,000 people and more than 150 authors made the 2015 Books by the Banks book festival our biggest year yet. Our planning team...
Leslie Esdaile Banks
Leslie Esdaile Banks 000000011916277X Essence Magazine named Ms. Banks “Storyteller of the Year” Leslie Ann Peterson Esdaile Banks (December 11, 1959 - August 2, 2011) Ms Banks has w...
Al-Saadiq Banks
Al-Saadiq Banks NONE Al-Saadiq Banks is a best-selling author of nine urban fiction and crime drama books. He entered the literary scene in 2002, co-founding True 2 Life Publications with his brother...
A Great Moral and Social Force: A History of Black Banks
A Great Moral and Social Force: A History of Black Banks Tim Todd 9780974480961 Nonfiction Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Both and printed and digital versions...
Donna M. Gray-Banks
Donna M. Gray-Banks NONE Donna M. Gray-Banks, founder of F.R.E.S.H. Book Festival, is a successful author known for her suspense erotic trilogy and a guest columnist for various outlets. She hosts tw...
How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy
How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy Mehrsa Baradaran 9780674983960 Nonfiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press The United States has two sep...
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap Mehrsa Baradaran 9780674970953 Nonfiction Belknap Press Harvard University Press "Read this book. It explains so much about the moment…Beautif...
Brandon Massey, Tananarive Due, and Leslie Esdaile Banks
Brandon Massey, Tananarive Due, and Leslie Esdaile Banks MULTIPLE Brandon Massey, Tananarive Due, and L.A. Banks are renowned authors, each recognized for their unique contributions to literature. ...
Brandon Massey, Eric Jerome Dickey, and Tananarive Due, L. A. Banks
Brandon Massey, Eric Jerome Dickey, and Tananarive Due, L. A. Banks MULTIPLE "Brandon Massey, Eric Jerome Dickey, Tananarive Due, and L.A. Banks are renowned authors known for their captivating works...
Zariah L. Banks
Zariah L. Banks NONE Zariah L. Banks, a multi-award-winning author, is renowned for her contemporary romance novels. She gained fame with her debut novel, “Beauty Beheld,” and Amazon bestselling nove...
The Historical Roots of the Vampire Huntress Series according to L.A. Banks
The Historical Roots of the Vampire Huntress Series according to L.A. Banks Leslie Esdaile Banks Article Related Information Vampire Huntress Legend Series About the Author, L. A. Banks &nb...
Constance Banks
Constance Banks NONE Constance Banks is a motivational author with over 20 years of experience in youth ministry. Her latest book, “A Conversation with My Mother about Sex, Boys, and How She Married ...
The Banks Sisters Complete
The Banks Sisters Complete Nikki Turner 9781622866434 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Death, deception, and the surprise introduction of a long-lost family member keep the drama on ful...
Banks Sisters 2
Banks Sisters 2 Nikki Turner 9781622869572 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. New York Times bestselling author Nikki Turner returns with the next edition in the highly successful Ban...
The Gods of Everything Else: An Ace and Walid Saga (the Cartel Publications Presents)
The Gods of Everything Else: An Ace and Walid Saga (the Cartel Publications Presents) T. Styles 9781948373760 Fiction Cartel Publications Cartel Publications The sins of the fathers shall be visited o...
La Banks Vampire Huntress: Dawn And Darkness Sc
La Banks Vampire Huntress: Dawn And Darkness Sc Leslie Esdaile Banks 9781606901793 Nonfiction Dynamite Entertainment Dynamite Entertainment Follow the famed Neterus and the Neteru Guardian Team from t...
The Ancestors
The Ancestors Brandon Massey, Tananarive Due, and Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780758223821 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Dead. Some evils are so great that they transcend death. In Brandon ...
Banks Communications
Banks Communications Troy Johnson Article Contact: Jacqueline Turner Banks Banks Communications 7515 Bruno Way Sacramento, CA 95828
Banks Communications
Banks Communications Loading Contact: Jacqueline Turner Banks Banks Communications 7515 Bruno Way Sacramento, CA 95828
Surrender The Dark
Surrender The Dark Leslie Esdaile Banks 9781451607789 Fiction Pocket Books Pocket Books National bestselling author L.A. Banks’s electrifying new paranormal series is set in a sizzling world where Dar...
Carolyn Holland
Carolyn Holland NONE Carolyn Holland, a bibliophile and historical romance enthusiast, is dedicated to diversifying the genre by writing books for and about people of color. Inspired by LA Banks and ...
The Banks Sisters 3
The Banks Sisters 3 Nikki Turner 9781622867677 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Just like any dysfunctional family reunion, loyalty, love, and good times soon turn to bitterness, ...
The Banks Sisters
The Banks Sisters Nikki Turner 9781601626479 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. New York Times bestselling author Nikki Turner returns with her most spellbinding story to date: Meet the B...
Outlaw Chick
Outlaw Chick Al-Saadiq Banks 9780692472828 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications Who wants that perfect love story anyway…..Despite growing up in the ghetto, the beautiful Shontay ...
A Dream Foreclosed: Black America And The Fight For A Place To Call Home (Occupied Media Pamphlet Series)
A Dream Foreclosed: Black America And The Fight For A Place To Call Home (Occupied Media Pamphlet Series) Laura Gottesdiener 9781884519215 Nonfiction Zuccotti Park Press Zuccotti Park Press Told throu...
Ila’s Diamonds II
Ila’s Diamonds II Donna M. Gray-Banks 9781449061012 Fiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions Ila's Diamonds II, is the second book of a trilogy by Donna M. Gray-Banks. It is a story about one woman&a...
No Trust
No Trust Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780758213327 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Financial genius Laura Caldwell seems to have it all-beauty, brains, wealth, and love with her courageous husband...
Al Saadiq Banks, Mark Anthony, and Crystal Lacey Winslow, Isadore Johnson, Jm Benjamin
Al Saadiq Banks, Mark Anthony, and Crystal Lacey Winslow, Isadore Johnson, Jm Benjamin MULTIPLE
Leslie Esdaile Banks, J. M. Jeffries, Seressia Glass, and Natalie Dunbar
Leslie Esdaile Banks, J. M. Jeffries, Seressia Glass, and Natalie Dunbar MULTIPLE Sure, but it seems like you've forgotten to provide the author's bio. Could you please provide it?
Eryka Parker
Eryka Parker NONE Eryka is the moderator of AALBC’s Black Don’t Crack… Book Spines book club. Eryka Parker is an award-winning book coach and developmental editor who assists diverse writers in storyt...
The Ancestors
The Ancestors Thumper Book Review The Ancestors is an anthology featuring stories by authors L.A. Banks, Tananarive Due and Brandon Massey. I am always happy to come across science fiction ...
Penguin Random House
Penguin Random House Bertelsmann 4 Color Books Ace Books Addison-Wesley Alfred A. Knopf Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers Anchor Anchor Books Anchor Press Anne Schwartz Books Avery Ballantine Bo...
For Better, For Worse (Soul Food Series)
For Better, For Worse (Soul Food Series) Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780743457392 Fiction Pocket Books Pocket Books First the hit movie. Then the groundbreaking television show. Now the smart and sassy boo...
Tim Todd
Tim Todd NONE Tim Todd is a prolific author and executive writer at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. He specializes in banking history, with eight books published, including a study on Americ...
Parker Publishing
Parker Publishing Troy Johnson Article Parker Publishing was established by seasoned industry professionals, and targets the ever-expansive market of books by and about African-Americans. ...
Parker Publishing
Parker Publishing Loading Parker Publishing was established by seasoned industry professionals, and targets the ever-expansive market of books by and about African-Americans. http://www.noirebo...
Is Marriage For White People?: How The African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone
Is Marriage For White People?: How The African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone Ralph Richard Banks 9780525952015 Nonfiction Dutton Books Penguin Random House During the past half century, A...
Voices from the Other Side
Voices from the Other Side Brandon Massey, Eric Jerome Dickey, and Tananarive Due, L. A. Banks 9780758212320 Fiction Kensington Books Kensington Publishing Corp. From the untamed wilderness of ancient...
Love in the Key of Summer: A Love Set in Summer novel
Love in the Key of Summer: A Love Set in Summer novel Zariah L. Banks 9798986969350 Fiction Eparke Press Eparke Press Love wasn’t on the agenda—until one summer night changed everything. ...
Mistletowed: A Holiday Novella
Mistletowed: A Holiday Novella Zariah L. Banks 9798986969343 Fiction Eparke Press Eparke Press “I couldn’t put it down—finished it in one day. Sorry Lennox, Preston is my new book bae. Can...
ILA’s Diamond’s IV: "The House That Jack Built"
ILA’s Diamond’s IV: "The House That Jack Built" Donna M. Gray-Banks 9798988627067 Fiction Lee’s Press and Publishing Co Lee’s Press and Publishing Co Ila's Diamonds IV is a continuation of the tr...
LL Cool J Presents the Streets Win: 50 Years of Hip-Hop Greatness
LL Cool J Presents the Streets Win: 50 Years of Hip-Hop Greatness LL Cool J 9780847873166 Nonfiction Rizzoli International Publications Rizzoli International Publications Co-authored by Hip-Hop legend...
Beauty Beheld: A Beauty Is Her Name Novel
Beauty Beheld: A Beauty Is Her Name Novel Zariah L. Banks 9798986969305 Fiction Eparke Press Eparke Press Life is practically perfect for Patience Hampton. She enjoys her challenging work as a voice a...
Street Dreams: The Duology Book 1
Street Dreams: The Duology Book 1 Al-Saadiq Banks 9780997187144 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications 18 year old, Darryl Lowe is determined to make it out of the hood. A talented ...
And Nightmares: The Duology Book 2
And Nightmares: The Duology Book 2 Al-Saadiq Banks 9780997187151 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications 18 year old, Darryl Lowe is determined to make it out of the hood. A talented...
New Kid Sketchbook: A Place for Your Cartoons, Doodles, and Stories
New Kid Sketchbook: A Place for Your Cartoons, Doodles, and Stories Jerry Craft 9780593232262 Nonfiction Clarkson Potter Penguin Random House Turn your life into the stuff of cartoons with this drawin...
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 9781469653662 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina ...
Block Party 666: Mark of the Beast Volume 1
Block Party 666: Mark of the Beast Volume 1 Al-Saadiq Banks 9780997187182 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications It’s a Block Party reunion and Attorney Tony Austin is the glue, as ...
Block Party 666: Mark of the Beast Volume 2
Block Party 666: Mark of the Beast Volume 2 Al-Saadiq Banks 9780997187199 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications It’s a Block Party reunion and Attorney Tony Austin is the glue, as ...
Ila’s Diamonds III
Ila’s Diamonds III Donna M. Gray-Banks 9781546278795 Fiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions Ila slowly closed the door to the safe house apartment and slumped to the hallway floor. She thought, How? Why...
Heartless
Heartless Al-Saadiq Banks 9780997187106 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications Angelica "Storm" Hill, a vicious young woman that loves the thrill of living on the edge. Sh...
Block Party 5k1 Book 1: Diplomatic Immunity
Block Party 5k1 Book 1: Diplomatic Immunity Al-Saadiq Banks 9780692533154 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications One of the most vicious gangsters to ever walk the streets of Newark...
Block Party 5k1 Book 2: Diplomatic Immunity
Block Party 5k1 Book 2: Diplomatic Immunity Al-Saadiq Banks 9780692533291 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications One of the most vicious gangsters to ever walk the streets of Newark...
Young Gunz
Young Gunz Al-Saadiq Banks 9780974061092 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications The teen years of a person’s life are the most impressionable years of their life. Most of the time ...
Narcolepsy
Narcolepsy Eric Fullilove 9781484162781 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC With Eurozone banks on the brink of disaster, the CEO of the World Bank tries desperately to negotiate a Chinese bu...
Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?
Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? Kam Williams heist.jpg Film Review Wall Street Exposé Chronicles Systematic Dismantling of Financial Protections Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? In...
The Forbidden (Vampire Huntress Legends)
The Forbidden (Vampire Huntress Legends) Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780575094680 Fiction Gollancz Victor Gollancz Ltd After the destruction of all the topside master vampires and the death and resurrection...
Back 2 Bizness: The Return Of The Mayor
Back 2 Bizness: The Return Of The Mayor Al-Saadiq Banks 9780974061078 Nonfiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications The Free the Mayor campaign was a success! But, how long can he remai...
Undead On Arrival (Crimson Moon, Book 3)
Undead On Arrival (Crimson Moon, Book 3) Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780312949136 Fiction St. Martin’s Paperbacks Macmillan Publishers Just one month ago, secret government operative Sasha Trudeau thought s...
Strapped
Strapped Al-Saadiq Banks 9780974061061 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications Amber Jones A.K.A Lil Bit was born with the odds totally against her. “A Hard Knock Life” is the best ...
Better Than (Dafina Contemporary Romance)
Better Than (Dafina Contemporary Romance) Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780758213303 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Book by Esdaile, Leslie
Ila’s Diamonds
Ila’s Diamonds Donna M. Gray-Banks 9781434352521 Fiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions Ila's Diamonds is a story about a young African American female working for a clandestine arm of the governme...
Block Party 3/Brick City Massacre
Block Party 3/Brick City Massacre Al-Saadiq Banks 9780974061054 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications Trilogy to the Best Selling Block Party Series.
Vegas Bites: A Werewolf Romance Anthology (Noire Allure)
Vegas Bites: A Werewolf Romance Anthology (Noire Allure) Leslie Esdaile Banks, J. M. Jeffries, Seressia Glass, and Natalie Dunbar 9781600430015 Nonfiction Parker Publishing Parker Publishing What howl...
Block Party 2: The Afterparty
Block Party 2: The Afterparty Al-Saadiq Banks 9780974061047 Nonfiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications Teenagers, Ahmir and Ahmad Pierson are the offspring of Newark’s infamous ghett...
Menace II Society
Menace II Society Al Saadiq Banks, Mark Anthony, and Crystal Lacey Winslow, Isadore Johnson, Jm Benjamin 9780971702172 Fiction Melodrama Publishing Melodrama Publishing Menace II Society is a gritty w...
Historical Dictionary of African-American Television (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts)
Historical Dictionary of African-American Television (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts) Kathleen Fearn-Banks 9780810853355 Nonfiction Scarecrow Press Rowman & Littlefield From Amos ’...
Blind Trust
Blind Trust Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780758207357 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. Sexual healing-there-s nothing like it. And Ecstasy Island is where it happens. Meet two heroes who know e...
Betrayal Of the Trust
Betrayal Of the Trust Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780758207340 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. Darien Price, Ill, privileged son of a wealthy family and executive director of Philadelphia’s p...
The Bitten (Vampire Huntress Legends)
The Bitten (Vampire Huntress Legends) Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780312324087 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers The vampire civil war has been averted, deadly were-demons have been beaten b...
Caught ’Em Slippin’
Caught ’Em Slippin’ Al-Saadiq Banks 9780974061030 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications Miranda Benderas, born to an infamous Cuban Kingpin and his trophy wife, an African American...
The Hunted (Vampire Huntress Legends)
The Hunted (Vampire Huntress Legends) Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780312320300 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers A Neteru—-a hunter or a huntress—-is born every thousand years in favor of th...
Sincerely Yours (True 2 Life Street)
Sincerely Yours (True 2 Life Street) Al-Saadiq Banks 9780974061023 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications Suave and Sincere have a solid relationship and all all that comes with a ...
The Awakening: A Vampire Huntress Legend
The Awakening: A Vampire Huntress Legend Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780312316839 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers There is a vampire war brewing in the underworld and at the center of it a...
Block Party
Block Party Al-Saadiq Banks 9780974061016 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications Cashmere has just been released from Federal Prison. After serving seven years, he has finally paid ...
Minion: A Vampire Huntress Legend
Minion: A Vampire Huntress Legend Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780312316808 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers There is one woman who is all that stands between us and the eternal night.Here i...
No Exit (True 2 Life Street)
No Exit (True 2 Life Street) Al-Saadiq Banks 9780974061009 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications Three young men from the same ghetto with similar upbringings but they all have dif...
Three Times a Lady (Arabesque)
Three Times a Lady (Arabesque) Niobia Bryant 9781583141656 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Arabesque Harlequin Enterprises Limited Success is Sweet … A financial analyst who thrives on the pressure and excit...
Sink or Swim: African-American Lifesavers of the Outer Banks
Sink or Swim: African-American Lifesavers of the Outer Banks Carole Boston Weatherford 9781928556015 Nonfiction Coastal Carolina Press Coastal Carolina Press Tells the story of the U.S. Lifesaving Ser...
Mehrsa Baradaran
Mehrsa Baradaran 000000044625249X Mehrsa Baradaran is a distinguished Professor of Law at UCI Law, renowned for her expertise in banking law. She's the author of prizewinning 'The Color of Money' and...
Karyn Parsons
Karyn Parsons 0000000119324302 Karyn Parsons, famed for her role as Hilary Banks on NBC's Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, is the founder of Sweet Blackberry, a celebrated children's animation series showcas...
New Kid
New Kid Tony Lindsay Book Review Jerry Craft’s graphic novel New Kid is a humorous teaching experience for any reader. Be warned, laughing out loud will occur while reading the text. The young ...
Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Simon & Schuster, Inc. KKR & Co. Inc. Aladdin Aladdin Paperbacks Atheneum Atheneum Books for Young Readers Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books Atria / 37 Ink Atria / Black Privilege Publishing Atria / One S...
Creatures of Passage
Creatures of Passage Morowa Yejide 9781617758768 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books With echoes of Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Yejidé’s novel explores a forgotten quadrant of Washington, DC, and ...
Three Famous Authors Describe a Few of Their Favorite Bookstores
Three Famous Authors Describe a Few of Their Favorite Bookstores Book Spotlights During the 2017 Southwest Florida Reading Festival, three very popular authors describe a few of their favorite booksto...
Memphis Noir
Memphis Noir Laureen Cantwell and Leonard Gill 9781617753114 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "A remarkable picture of contemporary Memphis emerges in this Akashic noir volume…Something for everyon...
ReGeJe Press
ReGeJe Press Loading ReGeJe Press http://www.angelfire.com/mi/regejepress/ "In the past few years, more books by and about African Americans have been published by mainstream publishers th...
The Filling Station
The Filling Station Vanessa Miller 9781400350179 Fiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing “The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre is, shockingly, little more than a footnote in history … Mil...
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America Joshua D. Rothman 9781541616615 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing forgotten stor...
New Kid
New Kid Jerry Craft 9780062691200 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Class Act, the follow up to New Kid will be published in October. AALBC will be the first to reveal Class Act’s, cover on February...
Ezili’s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders
Ezili’s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley 9780822370307 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books From the dagger mistress Ezili Je Wouj and the...
Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader
Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader Greg Tate 9780822361800 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate h...
Providential
Providential Colin Channer 9781617754050 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books "Jamaican-born Channer draws on the rich cultural heritage of the Caribbean and his own unique experience for this energetic...
Pow-Wow: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience - Short Fiction from Then to Now
Pow-Wow: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience - Short Fiction from Then to Now Ishmael Reed 9781568583426 Fiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group Using the yardstick that a short stor...
Colin Channer
Colin Channer 0000000066632589 Colin Channer, born in Jamaica, is a celebrated author and editor known for his poetry collection 'Providential' and bestselling novel 'Waiting in Vain'. He's also the ...
Shaundale Rénā
Shaundale Rénā NONE Shaundale Rénā is an award-winning literary professional with over a decade of editing experience. She has six international awards and has worked in various genres. Known for enh...