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Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries
Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries Davida Siwisa James 9781531506148 Nonfiction Fordham University Press Fordham University Press Explo...
Liberation Literature: Collected Writings of Virginia Hamilton
Liberation Literature: Collected Writings of Virginia Hamilton Virginia Hamilton 9781646144501 Nonfiction Relit Relit A monumental collection by one of America’s greatest authors of children’s literat...
The Story of Alexander Hamilton: A Biography Book for New Readers
The Story of Alexander Hamilton: A Biography Book for New Readers Christine Platt 9781646114252 Nonfiction Rockridge Press Callisto Publishing Help kids ages 6 to 9 discover the life of Alexander Hami...
Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street’s First Black Millionaire
Prince of Darkness: The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street’s First Black Millionaire Shane White 9781250070562 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers In the middle decades of t...
Virginia Hamilton
Virginia Hamilton 0000000114915488 Growing up on a small farm near Yellow Springs, Ohio, in the 1940s, Virginia Hamilton was lovingly embraced by the sights, sounds and smells of rural...
Virginia Hamilton: Speeches
Virginia Hamilton: Speeches Kam Williams Book Review ’In the 35 years between the publication of her first book and her death in 2002, Virginia Hamilton earned a place of honor in the p...
In Spite of the Consequences: Prison Letters on Exoneration, Abolition, and Freedom
In Spite of the Consequences: Prison Letters on Exoneration, Abolition, and Freedom Lacino Hamilton 9781506488165 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media "If I do not write, who will? What I am liv...
Virginia Hamilton: Five Novels
Virginia Hamilton: Five Novels Virginia Hamilton 9781598537017 Fiction Library of America Library of America Rediscover America’s most honored writer of children’s literature in this deluxe collector’...
Ahdaf Soueif and Omar Robert Hamilton
Ahdaf Soueif and Omar Robert Hamilton MULTIPLE Ahdaf Soueif and Omar Robert Hamilton are renowned authors, known for their impactful contributions to literature. Soueif's work often explores themes o...
Violet and the Frost King: A Modern Adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s The Frost King
Violet and the Frost King: A Modern Adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s The Frost King Virginia Hamilton 9780316532389 Fiction Christy Ottaviano Books Hachette Book Group Fairy Violet sets off on a ques...
Extraordinary Magic: The Storytelling Life of Virginia Hamilton
Extraordinary Magic: The Storytelling Life of Virginia Hamilton Nina Crews 9780316383592 Fiction Christy Ottaviano Books Hachette Book Group This lyrical picture book biography tells the story of one ...
It’s about Damn Time: How to Turn Being Underestimated Into Your Greatest Advantage
It’s about Damn Time: How to Turn Being Underestimated Into Your Greatest Advantage Arlan Hamilton 9780593442708 Nonfiction Currency Penguin Random House “A hero’s tale of what’s possible when we unlo...
Vindicated
Vindicated Sharon C. Cooper 9781946172075 Fiction Amaris Publishing Amaris Publishing She’s a distraction he can’t resist…A spark ignites the moment security specialist, Hamilton Crosby, meets stuntwo...
Virginia Hamilton: Speeches, Essays, And Conversations
Virginia Hamilton: Speeches, Essays, And Conversations Arnold Adoff and Kacy Cook 9780439271936 Nonfiction The Blue Sky Press Scholastic Inc. A must-have for schools, libraries, and anyone interested ...
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales Virginia Hamilton 9780375824050 Fiction Knopf Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Originally Published in 1985, The People Could Fly retells 24 ...
Arlan Hamilton
Arlan Hamilton NONE Arlan Hamilton, once homeless, built a venture capital fund, Backstage Capital. The fund aims to reduce tech disparities by investing in BIPOC and LGBTQ founders. Since 2015, it h...
Lacino Hamilton
Lacino Hamilton NONE Lacino Hamilton is an activist and writer whose work focuses on prison abolition. Exonerated in 2020 after 26 years of wrongful imprisonment, his thought-provoking essays have fe...
The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda
The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda Ishmael Reed 9781576879245 Nonfiction Archway Editions powerHouse Books "That’s a lot of horse hockey, Hamilton." Described by the New York Times as "classic activis...
This Is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature
This Is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature Ahdaf Soueif and Omar Robert Hamilton 9781632868848 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing Writers from Ali...
Hamilton: The Revolution
Hamilton: The Revolution Lin-Manuel Miranda 9781455539741 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Eleven Tony Awards, including Best Musica...
Virginia Hamilton
Virginia Hamilton Mélina Mangal 9781584151708 Nonfiction Mitchell Lane Mitchell Lane Publishers A biography of Virginia Hamilton, the African American writer whose children’s literature received the h...
Bruh Rabbit And The Tar Baby Girl
Bruh Rabbit And The Tar Baby Girl Virginia Hamilton 9780590473767 Fiction Blue Sky Press Blue Sky Press Esteemed author Virginia Hamilton retells the classic trickster tale of Bruh Rabbit and the Tar ...
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave (Laurel-leaf books)
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave (Laurel-leaf books) Virginia Hamilton 9780679839972 Fiction Laurel Leaf Laurel Leaf Now in Laurel-Leaf, Virginia Hamilton’s powerful true acco...
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes, and Jeremy McCarter
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes, and Jeremy McCarter MULTIPLE Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes, and Jeremy McCarter are renowned figures in the arts. Miranda, a multi-award-winning ...
Your First Million: Why You Don’t Have to Be Born Into a Legacy of Wealth to Leave One Behind
Your First Million: Why You Don’t Have to Be Born Into a Legacy of Wealth to Leave One Behind Arlan Hamilton 9780316507967 Nonfiction Little, Brown Spark Hachette Book Group How to build a legacy of w...
In the Heights: Finding Home
In the Heights: Finding Home Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes, and Jeremy McCarter 9780593229590 Fiction Random House Penguin Random House The eagerly awaited follow-up to the #1 New York Time...
Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation
Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation Rawn James Jr. 9781596916067 Fiction Bloomsbury Press Bloomsbury Publishing The riveting story of the...
Bluish
Bluish Virginia Hamilton 9780439367868 Fiction Blue Sky Press Blue Sky Press In this powerful novel researched in NYC schools, Newbery Medalist Virginia Hamilton documents the struggle young people fa...
The Bells of Christmas
The Bells of Christmas Virginia Hamilton 9780152015503 Fiction Sandpiper Sandpiper Twelve-year-old Jason Bell waits impatiently for Christmas 1890. Set against the carefully researched background life...
Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom (A Borzoi book)
Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom (A Borzoi book) Virginia Hamilton 9780394828732 Nonfiction Alfred A. Knopf Penguin Random House Illus. in black-and-white. In this compani...
The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl
The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl Virginia Hamilton 9780064401784 Fiction HarperTrophy HarperCollins One long time ago, Pretty Pearl god child lived high on a mountaintop in Africa with all other...
A. Hamilton
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Nikki Grimes
Nikki Grimes 0000000029034029 Recipient of the 2022 Virginia Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award Nikki Grimes is a renowned author, poet, and journalist from Harlem, New York. Known for her children a...
Monique Greenwood, Lynda Johnson, and Tracy Mitchell-Brown
Monique Greenwood, Lynda Johnson, and Tracy Mitchell-Brown MULTIPLE "Evalyn Hamilton, Lynda Johnson, and Monique Greenwood are key members of Go On Girl! Book Club. Hamilton is the Newsletter Editor,...
In Spite of the Consequences: Prison Letters on Exoneration, Abolition, and Freedom
In Spite of the Consequences: Prison Letters on Exoneration, Abolition, and Freedom Robert Fleming Book Review If you were politically conscious decades ago, you would have read the prison chronicles...
Hamish Hamilton
Hamish Hamilton Penguin Random House UK Bertelsmann
Digital Money Demystified: Go from Cash to Crypto(r) Safely, Legally, and Confidently
Digital Money Demystified: Go from Cash to Crypto(r) Safely, Legally, and Confidently Tonya M. Evans 9798985191387 Nonfiction Broad Book Press Broad Book Group Foreword by Arlan Hamilton and Lynnette ...
Over the Fence
Over the Fence Mary Monroe 9781496716156 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In this page-turning novel set in the Depression-era South, New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe transports...
M.C. Higgins, The Great
M.C. Higgins, The Great Virginia Hamilton 9781416914075 Fiction Aladdin Simon & Schuster, Inc. Mayo Cornelius Higgins sits on his gleaming, forty-foot steel pole, towering over his home on Sarah’s Mou...
The Planet Of Junior Brown (2006)
The Planet Of Junior Brown (2006) Virginia Hamilton 9781416914105 Fiction Aladdin Simon & Schuster, Inc. This is a reprint of the original 1971 edition. Junior Brown, an overprotected three-hundred...
Zeely (Reprint)
Zeely (Reprint) Virginia Hamilton 9781416914136 Fiction Aladdin Paperbacks Simon & Schuster, Inc. "We’ll spend the whole summer on the farm with Uncle Ross. I ought to make up something special just b...
The River Niger
The River Niger A. Hamilton 9781574780307 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush Virginia Hamilton 9780380651931 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Why had he come to her, with his dark secrets from a long-ago past? What was the purpose of their strange, ha...
Second Cousins
Second Cousins Virginia Hamilton 9780590473699 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. Cammy Coleman’s second cousins are in town for the big Coleman reunion, and their sophisticated New York City ways...
Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, And True Tales
Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, And True Tales Virginia Hamilton 9780590473705 Fiction Blue Sky Press Blue Sky Press
In The Beginning: Creation Stories From Around The World
In The Beginning: Creation Stories From Around The World Virginia Hamilton 9780152387426 Nonfiction HMH Books for Young Readers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A thought-provoking collection of twenty-five ...
A Little Love
A Little Love Virginia Hamilton 9780425084243 Fiction Berkley Pub Group (Mm) Penguin Random House Part of a series of fiction aimed specifically at libraries and secondary school English courses for f...
Junius over far
Junius over far Virginia Hamilton 9780060221942 Fiction Harper & Row HarperCollins After his grandfather leaves his family and returns to a dangerous situation on his home island in the Caribbean, fou...
Justice and Her Brothers
Justice and Her Brothers Virginia Hamilton 9780380561193 Fiction Avon Books (Mm) HarperCollins An eleven-year-old and her older twin brothers struggle to understand their supersensory powers.
The Planet of Junior Brown
The Planet of Junior Brown Virginia Hamilton 9780027425109 Fiction Macmillan Macmillan Publishers A Reprint is Available The Planet of Junior Brown, a young adult novel, about two boys, Junior Brown ...
Faith Knight
Faith Knight NONE Faith Knight also writes under the pen names FM Knight and Tanzy Kohl. She writes contemporary and historical fiction for adults and teens. Faith Knight is an author, wife, and moth...
Henrietta Mays Smith
Henrietta Mays Smith 0000000066593663 Dr. Henrietta M. Smith, Ph.D, is a distinguished scholar and editor with a background in English, History, and Library Science. She's known for her editorial wor...
Walter Dean Myers
Walter Dean Myers 0000000108718912 Walter Dean Myers, born August 12, 1937, was an award-winning author from Harlem, known for his dedication to children and young adult literature. He received numer...
Ashley Bryan
Ashley Bryan 0000000063847832 Ashley Bryan (1923-2022) was a celebrated illustrator, recognized for his contributions to children's literature. His accolades include the Coretta Scott King—Virginia...
Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. MULTIPLE Charles J. Ogletree Jr. is a renowned American attorney, legal scholar, and civil rights advocate. Renowned for his work in criminal law and civil rights law, he's h...
The People Could Fly
The People Could Fly Kam Williams Book Review "The People Could Fly is one of the most extraordinary, moving tales in black folklore… [It] is a detailed fantasy of suffering, of magi...
Just Wanna Testify
Just Wanna Testify Idrissa Uqdah Book Review Vamping The Vamps… Just Wanna Testify by the mega-talented author, Pearl Cleage was met with mixed reviews when it was first released. Many of...
1971 (★★★★) Film Review
1971 (★★★★) Film Review Kam Williams https://aalbc.com/reviews/1971.jpg Film Review Whistleblower Documentary Recounts Break-In Uncovering Illegal FBI Surveillance Program 1971 In Theaters: Fe...
Between the River and the Railroad Tracks: A Memoir
Between the River and the Railroad Tracks: A Memoir Nicole R. Fleetwood 9780316564304 Nonfiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group Meticulously crafted and unflinchingly vulnerable, Nicole...
Penguin Random House UK
Penguin Random House UK Bertelsmann #Merky Books Hamish Hamilton Jonathan Cape Virgin Books Yellow Jersey
The Cure for Everything: The Epic Struggle for Public Health and a Radical Vision for Human Thriving
The Cure for Everything: The Epic Struggle for Public Health and a Radical Vision for Human Thriving Michelle A. Williams with Linda Marsa 9780593595541 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House The i...
The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are
The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are Tariq Trotter 9780593446928 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House New York Times Bestseller - “One of hip-hop’s greatest MCs, unpackin...
Garvey in the Dark
Garvey in the Dark Nikki Grimes 9781635925265 Fiction Wordsong Boyds Mills Press Winner, 2023 Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award Capturing the shock and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic through the ey...
An Impulse to Keep: Greenwood Art Project
An Impulse to Keep: Greenwood Art Project Greenwood Art Project 9780997494075 Nonfiction [NAME] [NAME] Publications An Impulse to Keep is published on the occasion of the Greenwood Art Project, an ini...
Across the Way
Across the Way Mary Monroe 9781496716170 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Neighborhood tensions reach a breaking point in the finale of New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe’s captiv...
Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico
Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico Ishmael Reed 9781771861854 Fiction Baraka Books Baraka Books The War of Rebellion still divides the United States. Some rebel generals, whom the famous pro-confede...
Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents
Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents Lise Funderburg 9781496212092 Nonfiction University of Nebraska Press University of Nebraska Press It happens to us all: we think we’ve settled into an identity, ...
What the Heart Wants & Sealed with a Kiss: An Anthology
What the Heart Wants & Sealed with a Kiss: An Anthology Donna Hill 9781335998828 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Romance Harlequin Enterprises Limited What The Heart WantsGenius surgeon Franklin Grant needs ...
Boss of Black Brooklyn: The Life and Times of Bertram L. Baker
Boss of Black Brooklyn: The Life and Times of Bertram L. Baker Ron Howell 9780823280995 Nonfiction Empire State Editions Fordham University Press Boss of Black Brooklyn presents a riveting and untold ...
One House Over: Two Homes. One Lie That Binds
One House Over: Two Homes. One Lie That Binds Mary Monroe 9781496716118 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe returns to the 1930s era of her acclaim...
The Annotated African American Folktales (The Annotated Books)
The Annotated African American Folktales (The Annotated Books) Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 9780871407535 Fiction Liveright W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. These nearly 150 African American folktales animate o...
The Keeper’s Vow
The Keeper’s Vow Francina Simone 9780997710304 Fiction ChunkyCATBooks ChunkyCATBooks All Katie Watts wants is to pass her junior-year, at Hamilton Private, with as little effort as possible—devoting t...
Sunfail
Sunfail Steven Savile 9781617754067 Fiction Infamous Books Akashic Books Dogs howl in the streets, running wild. Birds fall dead from the sky. Even the sun itself is failing. As darkness descends all ...
Angels Landing (A Cavanaugh Island Novel)
Angels Landing (A Cavanaugh Island Novel) Rochelle Alers 9781455534548 Fiction Forever Grand Central Publishing Sometimes love can take you by surprise. Kara Newell has a big-city life that needs a ma...
Blue Talk and Love
Blue Talk and Love Mecca Jamilah Sullivan 9781626011625 Fiction Riverdale Avenue Books Riverdale Avenue Books Blue Talk and Love tells the stories of girls and women of color navigating the moods and ...
Walter Dean Myers: More Than an Outstanding Writer
Walter Dean Myers: More Than an Outstanding Writer Troy Johnson Article by Wade Hudson I was stunned when I heard that Walter Dean Myers had made his transition. During the 25 plus years that my w...
Hog Butcher
Hog Butcher Ronald Fair 9780810129887 Fiction Northwestern University Press Northwestern University Press It’s summer on the South Side of Chicago, and ten-year-old boys Earl and Wilford are frequentl...
Martha and Hanwell
Martha and Hanwell Zadie Smith 9780141023120 Fiction Hamish Hamilton Penguin Random House UK Martha and Hanwell is a Penguin Pocket collection of two short stories by British author, Zadie Smith.“Mart...
The Embassy of Cambodia
The Embassy of Cambodia Zadie Smith 9780241146521 Fiction Hamish Hamilton Penguin Random House UK Revisiting the terrain of her acclaimed novel NW, The Embassy of Cambodia is another remarkable work o...
Rendezvous with Danger (Reunited Series) (Volume 2)
Rendezvous with Danger (Reunited Series) (Volume 2) Sharon C. Cooper 9780985525477 Fiction Amaris Publishing Amaris Publishing Alandra Pargas, ex-CIA counter-intelligence officer, plans to wreak venge...
A Social Affair: A Novel (Zane Presents)
A Social Affair: A Novel (Zane Presents) Pat Tucker and Earl Sewell 9781593094492 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A cautionary tale about finding love online and the trouble that comes wi...
Just Wanna Testify: A Novel
Just Wanna Testify: A Novel Pearl Cleage 9780345506368 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House Familiar faces and places meet fresh twists and turns in this enthralling novel from acclaimed ...
Entangled In Freedom: A Civil War Story: The Street Life Series Youth Edition
Entangled In Freedom: A Civil War Story: The Street Life Series Youth Edition Ann Dewitt and Kevin M. Weeks 9781453555255 Nonfiction Xlibris Author Solutions """From the beginning of this [Civil War] ...
It’s a Curl Thing
It’s a Curl Thing Jacquelin Thomas 9781416598787 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From bestselling author Jacquelin Thomas comes the first novel in a spin-off of her inspirational teen fic...
Stones Along The Path
Stones Along The Path H. Victoria Hargro Atkerson 9781436346269 Fiction Xlibris Author Solutions Jessica Hamilton relates in Stones Along the Path a romantic bi-continental, cross-cultural family s...
One Special Moment (Madaris Family Saga)
One Special Moment (Madaris Family Saga) Brenda Jackson 9780373830565 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Harlequin Enterprises Limited An Outrageous OfferTo help her brother’s struggling cosmetics company, scho...
Getting Some of Her Own
Getting Some of Her Own Gwynne Forster 9780758213105 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. “Pure satisfaction.” –RT Book Reviews“You’ll eagerly keep reading to learn how the characters’ liv...
sex.lies.murder.fame.: A Novel
sex.lies.murder.fame.: A Novel Lolita Files 9780060786816 Fiction Harper Paperbacks HarperCollins Gifted with rock star looks and a genius IQ, Penn Hamilton has been inspiring awe since he was a baby....
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...
Have a Little Faith
Have a Little Faith ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Jacquelin Thomas, J.D. Mason, and Sandra Kitt 9781416516767 Fiction Pocket Books Pocket Books Faith, family, and forgiveness are at the heart of this pow...
Cold Blooded: A Hardcore Novel
Cold Blooded: A Hardcore Novel Omar Tyree 9780743261906 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Omar Tyree — writing as The Urban Griot — delivers a thrilling novel about a jaded college girl ...
Politically Considered: 50th Commemoration of the Supreme Court Decision of 1954
Politically Considered: 50th Commemoration of the Supreme Court Decision of 1954 Mahmoud El-Kati 9780967558127 Nonfiction Papyrus Publishing Inc. Papyrus Publishing Inc. Politically Considered explore...
By Design (Indigo: Sensuous Love Stories)
By Design (Indigo: Sensuous Love Stories) Barbara Keaton 9781585710881 Fiction Genesis Press Genesis Press Shari Thomas, the optimistic voice of reasoning and love in "All I Ask," is back. Yet, after...
In Praise Of Our Fathers And Our Mothers: A Black Family Treasury By Outstanding Authors And Artists
In Praise Of Our Fathers And Our Mothers: A Black Family Treasury By Outstanding Authors And Artists Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson 9780940975590 Nonfiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. For...
Scandalous
Scandalous Donna Hill 9780786001484 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Arabesque Harlequin Enterprises Limited Virginia state assemblywoman Vaughn Hamilton is close to fulfilling her dream of a coveted Congress...
Gone Quiet
Gone Quiet Eleanor Taylor Bland 9780451182678 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House Wishing she could kill her husband of thirty-five years, Gladys Hamilton is surprised when someone else beats ...
Garvey, His Work and Impact
Garvey, His Work and Impact Rupert Lewis 9780865432246 Nonfiction Africa World Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press Twenty-one articles deal with the historical background to Garvey and Garvey...
Remi Blackwood
Remi Blackwood NONE Remi Blackwood is the pen name of series creator Jasmine Richards, and a team of young and upcoming writers, including Chiemeka Nicely and Isaac Hamilton-Mckenzie. Jasmine and th...
Walter Mosley
Walter Mosley 0000000114370035 Walter Mosley, born in 1952, is a renowned author known for his detective series, including the Easy Rawlins series. Inspired by his parents and authors like Alice Walk...