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AALBC’s Newsletter: Bestsellers, Novelist Stacey Abrams, Texas Book Festival Videos & More

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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 ...

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North Texas Teen Book Festival

North Texas Teen Book Festival Irving Convention Center Irving Texas The North Texas Teen Book Festival is the largest library-run book festival for young people in the c...

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San Antonio Book Festival

San Antonio Book Festival Central Library and the Majestic Theatre San Antonio Texas The Festival is a day-long event that unites readers and writers alike. Author presen...

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National Black Book Festival

National Black Book Festival Fallbrook Church / Gymnasium Houston Texas The National Black Book Festival (NBBF) is an annual event, sponsored by Cushcity.com, the world&r...

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Greater Austin Book Festival

Greater Austin Book Festival Austin Public Library Austn Texas GAB Fest is the only tri-county book festival in Austin that focuses specifically on local small-press and ...

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Austin African American Book Festival

Austin African American Book Festival George Washington Carver Library and George Washington Carver Museum, Culture & Genealogy Center Austin Texas In its eighteenth year...

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Trinity River Book Festival

Trinity River Book Festival Trinity Park Pavilion No. 1 Fort Worth Texas Celebrating National Literacy Month...

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San Antonio African American Book Festival

San Antonio African American Book Festival Second Baptist Community Center San Antonio Texas ...

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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...

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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...

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Rose Brock

Rose Brock Rose Brock is a professor and educator at Sam Houston State University who has dedicated her career to turning young people into book lovers. Building relation...

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Migrated Interviews

Migrated Interviews Aisha Tyler - The "Balls of Fury and Death Sentence" Interview Alisa Hyman - Book Reviewer, Educator Alrick Brown - The "Kinyarwanda" Interview -...

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Sarah Bird

Sarah Bird Sarah Bird novel, Above the East China Sea, was long-listed for the Dublin International Literary Award. Sarah has been selected for the Meryl Streep Screenwri...

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Highly Recommended, Recently Reviewed, and Discounted Books

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AALBC Online Book Club’s Summer Reading List

AALBC’s Online Book Club’s Summer Reading List Participating in AALBC’s Online Book Club is easy. Discussions are held on the book’s description page, whe...

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Tulisoma South Dallas Book Fair

Tulisoma South Dallas Book Fair Dallas Texas Tulisoma, Swahili for “we read,” is a community-based literary festival promoting literacy and the arts in the S...

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March 1, 2017 Newsletter — Book Award Announcements, New Books, and More

New Books Coming Out March 2017 Helene Cooper tells the amazing of story Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader of the Liberian women’s movement and the first democratically el...

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Joanne C. Hillhouse

Joanne C. Hillhouse Joanne C. Hillhouse’s writing has been described as “honest”, “real”, “poetic”, and “lyrical”. Her Antiguan culture is at the heart ...

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Kim Taylor

African American History Matters A master quilter looks back to the past and weaves ancestral history into textile art designs. The ancient West African tradi...

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378 Excellent Books, 77 Important Events

Top 100+ Recommended Children’s Books Children book authors, industry professionals, and avid readers contributed their favorite children’s books to this list. W...

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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...

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Brian W. Smith

Brian W. Smith Brian W. Smith is an award-winning, best selling author of fifteen novels. After spending nine years in the U.S. Army, Brian earned two Bachelor’s de...

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Gwen Richardson

Gwen Richardson Gwen Richardson with husband and business partner Willie Richardson Gwen Richardson is co-founder of Cushcity.com, the world’s largest Afri...

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William Byrd

William Byrd Dr. William “Super” Byrd is a native of Newark, N.J. where he graduated from Weequahic High School. He is the author of the Principles & Theo...

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Russell Simmons - The "Success through Stillness" Interview - March 2014

Rap Mogul Reaps Benefits from Meditation Regimen Photo Credit David Shankbone Master entrepreneur and visionary Russell Simmons has influenced virtually all...

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AALBC.com Workshops for Writers

  Self-Publishing Workshop Saturday, December 6th 2008 - Harlem, New York Postponed until March 2009 Co-sponsored with The Writing ...

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Clinton as Vice President Would be a Disaster for Obama

As Senator Barack Obama wrapped up the Democratic nomination on Tuesday, Senator Hillary Clinton and her surrogates signaled that she would like to...

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Forest Whitaker “The Butler” Interview (August 2013) with Kam Williams

This Forest’s on Fire in Lee Daniel's Film The Butler Forest Whitaker is a distinguished artist and humanist. He is the founder of PeaceEarth Foundation, co-fou...

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Nate Parker Interview on his role in, Beyond the Lights

Parker recently launched a campaign aimed at addressing the crisis affecting black males across America. Actor and humanitarian Nate Parker first received critical...

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Nicola Yoon

Nicola Yoon Nicola Yoon’s gorgeous debut novel, Everything, Everything, one of the best young adult books of 2015. Yoon will be appearing at the Southlake, Texas, Barne...

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L. Michelle Smith

L. Michelle Smith L. Michelle Smith is an award-winning author, Fortune 100 C-Suite advisor, certified global executive and personal coach, and the CEO/founder of no silo...

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