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Long Fall
I started Walter Mosley’s The Long Fall with a bit of left over anger and some anticipation. I’m not going to lie, I did not ever think that I would feel ...
The Fall of Rome
The Fall of Rome is the first adult novel by Coretta Scott King winner Martha Southgate. Southgate through the narrative of three people told a story that stripped the ...
Running to Fall: A Novel
Running to Fall: A Novel Kalisha Buckhanon Also Available in Hardcover “Riveting.” —Amazon Book Review A 2022 Essence, Bustle and The Root Book Pick From t...
Running to Fall: A Novel
Running to Fall: A Novel Kalisha Buckhanon Also Available in Paperback “Riveting.” —Amazon Book Review A 2022 Essence, Bustle and The Root Book Pick From the...
Why Men Fall Out of Love: What Every Woman Needs to Understand
Why Men Fall Out of Love: What Every Woman Needs to Understand Michael R. French The groundbreaking book that breaks the silence of the male code.Why do men fall out of l...
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow Richard Wormser Between 1880 and 1954, African Americans dedicated their energies, and sometimes their lives, to defeating segregation. Duri...
Fall of Saints
Fall of Saints Wanjiku Wa Ngugi In this “taut, smart international thriller” (Tananarive Due, American Book Award winner), a Kenyan expat finds her American dream mar...
The Fall of Heaven
The Fall of Heaven Walter Mosley Dramatic comedy Cahracters: 3 male, 2 female A hip and inventive new play by Walter Mosley, best-selling author of more than 25 books an...
Running to Fall — Chapters 1 & 2
ONE MARCH 2021 Right around time things started reopening, the late March thaw brought a lifeless girl up to the tail end of the Grayson River, in sight of a younge...
Running to Fall — Chapters 1 & 2
ONE MARCH 2021 Right around time things started reopening, the late March thaw brought a lifeless girl up to the tail end of the Grayson River, in sight of a younge...
Going Natural: How to Fall in Love with Nappy Hair
"Five years ago… I knew nothing about my natural hair. It was that mess that grew out of my head… which was only relieved by using scalp-burning che...
Black Books Galore! AALBC.com's November 2016 eNewsletter
Picador USA – Our eNewsletter Sponsor for November Read one of the year’s most highly lauded – and highly provocative – books, now the first American winner of...
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...
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...
AALBC’s Newsletter: Bestsellers, Novelist Stacey Abrams, Texas Book Festival Videos & More
Subscribe Forward Dear Troy, I recently introduced a new feature t...
Susan Taylor Baker King’s Memoir
An Excerpt from Susan Taylor Baker King’s Memoir:Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33rd US Colored Troops, Late 1st S.C. Volunteers Reminiscences ...
Known to Evil
Walter Mosley is back with the second installment of his new, magnificent Lenoid McGill Mystery series, Known to Evil. Believe it or not, I got my hands on Known to E...
Faith in the Valley: Lessons for Women on the Journey to Peace
Chapter 1 The Valley of Light Teaches us the lesson of stillness, through the imposition of a state of solitude and silence which forces us to take a look at ours...
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...
What Was The Last Book You Read? The Celebrity Edition
Over the years we've published hundreds of interviews with celebrities. Each one is usually asked, what is now know as the The bookworm Troy Johnson question, "What was...
AALBC.com eNewsletter - August 1st 2012 - #193
Subscribe to this eNewsletter Read our eNewsletter Archives Read Our eNewsletter on Your Kindle Help AALBC.com support our literary legacy. If you find somethi...
Wonderful Ethiopians Of The Ancient Cushite Empire, Book 1
The minds of men today are stirred with eager questionings about the origin of civilization and about the part the different races of mankind played in its developm...
Children’s Book Author Tonya Bolden
AALBC Founder Troy Johnson with Tonya Bolden at the 2020 African American Children’s Book Fair Tonya Bolden has written numerous bestselling books for children a...
List of Contributors to Step into a World
The Following is the List of Contributors to This Amazing Volume Toyin Adewale is a native of Emure-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria. Born in 1969, she has absolutel...
12 Axioms for Understanding the Book Business
Based upon my experience; selling books (on-line and off); publishing book reviews; witnessing the careers of many authors for a decade. I’ve come up with the following...
Why Did The City Sun [1984–1996] Matter?
Editors’s Note: Check out Dawkins’ book about The City Sun’s publisher Andrew W. Cooper A decade ago in fall 1996, The City Sun set, ye...
Kola Boof: Words with the Author of the Best Black Book of 2006
Egyptian/Sudanese-American writer Kola Boof is the author of seven books published in eight countries. Her autobiography, Diary of a Lost Girl (Door of Kush, ...
An Interview with John A. Williams
John A. Williams (right) and Dennis A. Williams Originally published in FORKROADS, A Journal of Ethnic-American Literature, Winter 1995 For me, at first, he was...
Book of Letters
Mary J. Taylor’s Book Of Letters is just that, a book of letters from the Old School of storytelling. The series of sepia cultural flashbacks moves through a wide r...
Viral Xgressions (Whiskey House Trilogy, Book 2)
Viral Xgressions (Whiskey House Trilogy, Book 2) Marc Lacy Viral Xgressions: Tainted Souls, Hacked Spirits, Wretched Deals, and Flatlines (Whiskey House Trilogy Book 2) ...
Honey and Spice: A Reese’s Book Club Pick
Honey and Spice: A Reese’s Book Club Pick Bolu Babalola “Sexy, messy and wry, Honey and Spice more than delivers.” — New York Times Book Review “A vibrant debu...
Pieces from Life’s Crazy Quilt, Birth of a Book
Pieces from Life’s Crazy Quilt (American Lives) by Marvin V. Arnett Buy This Book AbeBooksAmazonBarnesandNobleBooks-A-MillionIndie...
And Then Came You: Black Love Series (Book 2, Ryan Family Series)
And Then Came You: Black Love Series (Book 2, Ryan Family Series) Dorothy Elizabeth Love Black Romance Series with: Soulful seduction, Sultry encounters, and Steamy Urban...
Maame: A Today Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick
Maame: A Today Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick Jessica George AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! - A Today Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick - A February 2023 Ind...
Surviving Chaos, How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar by Harold Phifer Book Reviewed
ADD TO CART Publication Date: Feb 18, 2021List Price: $17.95 Format: Paperback, 250 pagesClassification: NonfictionISBN13: 9780578743547Imprint: Rise & Read ...
Whispers of Shadow & Flame: Earthsinger Chronicles, Book Two
Whispers of Shadow & Flame: Earthsinger Chronicles, Book Two L. Penelope The Mantle that separates the kingdoms of Elsira and Lagrimar is about to fall. And life will dra...
Unlawful Seduction: An Erotic Suspense Novella (Lawyers in Lust, Book 2)
Unlawful Seduction: An Erotic Suspense Novella (Lawyers in Lust, Book 2) Sassy Sinclair The #MeToo movement takes center stage in this lustful legal thriller that turns t...
Last Class Citizen (The Downriver Trilogy Book 2)
Last Class Citizen (The Downriver Trilogy Book 2) Lex Ramsay They’ve gained their freedom from the South. But what if their new freedom is all a lie? Patrick Edgerton, ...
Djimon Hounsou - The "Push" Interview - plus, Djimon a Daddy?
Djimon a Daddy? During an interview with me last year, Djimon Hounsou prematurely broke the news that he planned to pop the question to his girlfr...
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 ...
AALBC.com eNewsletter – November 30th 2012 – Issue #196
AALBC.com would like to thank all of you for being loyal readers of our eNewsletter. We are proud to have continuously published this eNewsletter for over 15 years --...
Meji Book Two
Meji Book Two Milton J. Davis Ndoro and Obaseki, twin brothers of royal birth, now find themselves on different paths towards the same destiny. Ndoro, driven by revenge, ...
AALBC.com eNewsletter - September 20th 2012 - Issue #194
Subscribe to this eNewsletter Read our eNewsletter Archives Read Our eNewsletter on Your Kindle AALBC.com's 25 Best Selling Books For July 1st through August 31st 2012...
Thumper’s Picks
It’s been a while but I’m back with a whole new set of books that I have fallen in love with, passed around, and will sing the praises of at the drop of a h...
Clarence Thomas’ Ex Expounds on Steamy Memoir Vindicating Anita Hill
Retired Justice Lillian McEwen was born, raised and educated in Washington, D.C. Her stellar legal career there spanned several decades, including stints as a pros...
Cursebound: The Faebound Trilogy Book #2
Cursebound: The Faebound Trilogy Book #2 Saara El-Arifi The Faebound Trilogy: Book #2 They’re no longer prisoners to the fae court, but now two elven sisters are eac...
My Friend, My Hero: The Hero Book Series 1
My Friend, My Hero: The Hero Book Series 1 Jerald LeVon Hoover Bennett Wilson has the world at his fingertips. One of the top basketball players in New York State, he is ...
Book Review: Them That Are Called: An Epic
This truly epic science-fiction novel, Them That Are Called, took its author more than sixteen years to complete this hefty narrative. In this dystopia work of 526 pages,...
Ghost of Ace Honeycutt (Whiskey House Trilogy, Book 3)
Ghost of Ace Honeycutt (Whiskey House Trilogy, Book 3) Marc Lacy First there was Curse of the Whiskey House, then there was Viral Xgressions, and FINALLY, Ghost of Ace Ho...
Hammered: Preston Brothers Book Two
Hammered: Preston Brothers Book Two Nicole Falls Kalise Worthington has a lot on her plate. From moving back home to corral the family business and dealing with her fathe...
Help! I’m a Superhero!: Book One
Help! I’m a Superhero!: Book One Kipjo K. Ewers In the year 2050, Superia, a superhero MMO online virtual player, decides it is time to quit and leave the game forever....
Cry of Metal & Bone: Earthsinger Chronicles, Book 3
Cry of Metal & Bone: Earthsinger Chronicles, Book 3 L. Penelope L. Penelope’s stunning epic fantasy Earthsinger Chronicles continues with Cry of Metal & Bone. The Ma...
Beasts Made of Night
Beasts Made of Night Tochi Onyebuchi "…The beginning of a great saga…" —NPR.org "This compelling Nigerian-influenced fantasy has a wonderfully unique premise and lu...
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...
Steve Harvey The “Think Like a Man” Interview [April 2012]
Steve Harvey The “Think Like a Man” Interview Born in Welch, West Virginia on January 17, 1956, Steve Harvey is a media conglomerate personified whose caree...
The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era Elizabeth Dowling Taylor In this outstanding cultural biography, the author of the New York Tim...
Online Chat with Author John Gibson
Coffee Will Make You Black Reading Group — August 1999 Selection September 1st 1999 Dummy by John Gibson Buy This Book AbeBooksAmazo...
Terrific Books Coming in May, Beyond Adichie, and More!
Terrific New Books Coming in May Former U.S. Poet Laureate, Rita Dove will publish a collection of her poetry from the 30 year period, 1974 to 2004. There are also new n...
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...
Highlighting Books Needed for Survival
Our August 23rd Newsletter is Sponsored by Knopf Expanding Awards Section Our lists of award winning books have greatly increased in the last couple of weeks. We...
Black Prisoner of War
I can't honestly tell you when I started watching war movies and reading books written about the American wars. In my younger years, I considered the subject of war t...
Melissa Harris-Perry - The "Sister Citizen" Interview
Sister Melissa Born in Seattle, Washington on October 2, 1973, but raised in Charlottesville and Chester, Virginia, Melissa V. Harris-Perry is a professor ...
Palmares
No less than the esteemed late novelist Toni Morrison, the chief editorial gatekeeper of Random House, was stunned by the narrative power of Gayl Jones’ first novel...
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...
Andre Seward
Andre Seward All poems by Andre Seward - Poetryman7 All rights reserved 1998 Five poems: COME TO THE CROSS FAMILY FROM GOD TO YOU THE HOUSE WITHIN GOT-CHA ...
Bestselling Books, The Top 25 Black-Owned Sites, New Books, and More
Bestselling Books July – August 2017 Fiction titles outsold all other genres this period, led by the strength of Sadeqa Johnson’s 2016 novel Second House from the ...
Milligan Books
Dr. Milligan with Author Monica Regina Payton Dr. Rosie Milligan, CEO Milligan Books Discusses Milligan Books June 2005 ...
Highly Recommended, Recently Reviewed, and Discounted Books
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Bestsellers Lists, Authors, New Books & More - June 2015
Read Our eNewsletter Archives Subscribe to Receive Highlights of Our eNewsletter and More on Your Kindle Multi-Title Authors Find Success on Spring ...
4 Guys and Trouble
I invite you to sip this premise and swish it around your mind for a minute to see how it tastes. Take five young men that meet and pledge to the same fraternity at the...
What Happened to the Best African American Literary Magazines?
I'm a collector. My family calls it hoarding. While I'm a big proponent of electronic books, I still love to surround myself with books and magazines. Recently I h...
Table of Contents
Resources for African American Writers, Authors and ReadersPlaces to Submit WorkPublishersDialogueFYAH.comCopyright InformationPublishing GlossaryOn-line Writers Worksh...
Promises to Keep
Your beloved son is murdered and your family slowly begins falling apart. How do you hold it all together, your family, yourself and find the murderer of your son? This...
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...
Osasu and the Great Wall of the Benin Empire
Osasu and the Great Wall of the Benin Empire Tamkara Adun The Great Benin Empire was an empire kingdom in West Africa known for its great wealth, intricately planned citi...
Behold the Dreamers: A Novel
Behold the Dreamers: A Novel Imbolo Mbue Imbolo Mbue’s The Longings of Jende Jonga one of two books to earn $1 Million+ advances at the Frankfurt Book Fair read more; ...
Unbossed: How Black Girls Are Leading the Way
Chapter 1 When she was just five years old, Ssanyu Lukoma fell in love with a book called Rosa, an inspiring children’s book about Rosa Parks written by poet, ac...
In West Mills
Part One In October of ’41, Azalea Centre’s man told her that he was sick and tired of West Mills and of the love affair she was having with moon-shine. Az...
Echoes of Cabrini-Green: Letters to my Mother
In Echoes of Cabrini-Green, Rudolph Elliot Willis writes letters to his late mother, narrating the events of his childhood leading up to the demolition of the Chicago Cab...
May 2017 Newsletter: Bestselling Books, New Books, Author Info, and Much More
Our May Newsletter is Generously Sponsored by Amistad Bestselling Books Bestselling Books: March/April 2017 Provenance a novel by Donna Drew Sawyer, which tops o...
Julie Dash discusses Daughters of the Dust on banresandnoble.com
Moderator: Welcome, Ms. Dash! We are so pleased you can join us this evening! Do you have any opening comments? Julie Dash: I’m glad to be here. I’m alwa...
A Tall History of Sugar
A Tall History of Sugar Curdella Forbes A haunting, epic Caribbean love story, reminiscent of Gabriel José García Márquez Love in the Time of Cholera...
Loving Donovan
Loving Donovan Bernice L. McFadden "Bernice L. McFadden is one of the best contemporary literary writers out there today…Her brilliance, her talent as a novelist, is th...
Marcus Books of San Francisco Evicted—Should We Care?
Back in the the summer of 2013, I joined the fight to help save Marcus Books. My motivation was not solely limited to saving a single bookstore. I've never been to Ma...
Dr. West’s Prognosis for the Country's Prospects
Dr. Cornel West is a prominent and provocative public intellectual dedicated to democracy. Currently the Class of 1943 University Professor at Princeton Unive...
Dreamgirls (2006)
Dreamgirls (2006) Rated PG-13 for sex, expletives, and drug use. Running time: 125 minutes Studio: Dreamworks Pictures Reviewed by Michael Dequina Film...
Ice Cube The “22 Jump Street” Interview (June 2014)
Ice Cube The “22 Jump Street” Interview As much as technology, business and society have changed since the Eighties, one thing has remained constant: Ice Cube...
Goony Goo-Goo and Ga-Ga Too!
Drawing inspiration from her own children, author Kia Morgan Smith has written a fun picture book about the trials and triumphs of siblings getting used to a new...
Journey to the Woman I've Come to Love: Affirmations from Women Who Have Fallen in Love with The
“About 10 years ago, I was hanging out with some old high school classmates… drinking wine… and wondering what fresh hell lay ahead for us as we appr...
The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings
It has not been said for a long time. I’m glad to be able to say, James Baldwin has a new book out! The new collection of essays is The Cross of Redemption: Unco...
Destroyer of Light
Destroyer of Light Jennifer Marie Brissett The Matrix meets an Afro-futuristic retelling of Persephone set in a science fiction underworld of aliens, refugees, and geneti...
Housegirl: A Novel
Housegirl: A Novel Michael Donkor Nominated for the Edinburgh First Book Award • One of The Observer’s "New Faces of Fiction" • One of The Millions’ "Most...
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, ...
Sometimes I Cry
I have never been more anxious in my entire life than I am right now. I’m sitting at my desk with an hour or more to kill and a list of things that must get done b...
Meagan Good - "The Unborn" Interview
Born in Panorama City, California to Tyra Doyle and Leon Good on August 18, 1981, Meagan Monique Good was raised along with her three sibling...
Michael B. Jordan The “Fruitvale Station” Interview with AALBC.com
Emerging Actor Discusses His Breakout Role as the Late Oscar Grant Born in Santa Ana on February 9, 1987, Michael B. Jordan is one of Hollywood's brightest young ...
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★ Read Our eNewsletter Archives ★ Subscribe to Receive Highlights of Our eNewsletter and More on Your Kindle Sponsored by Akashic Books and Infamous Books AALB...
Fast Talk On A Slow Track
Fast Talk On A Slow Track Rita Williams-Garcia Denzel Watson is a fast talker with a system, and it’s made him valedictorian. But when he goes to a summer program at Pr...
Provenance: A Novel
Prologue Park Place, Virginia - Fall 1909 “Hank, run!” was the last thing he heard Junior say. Deputies struggled to hold and handcuff his two brothers ...