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A Walk in the Woods
A Walk in the Woods Nikki Grimes 9780823449651 Fiction Neal Porter Books Holiday House A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection In this moving account of loss, a boy takes a walk in the woods...
True To The Game: A Teri Woods Fable
True To The Game: A Teri Woods Fable Teri Woods 9780967224909 Fiction Teri Woods Publishing Teri Woods Publishing This book represents the drug game during the late 80’s from the inner city streets of...
Angel
Angel Teri Woods 9780977323425 Fiction Teri Woods Publishing Teri Woods Publishing Book by Woods, Teri
Dutch II: Angel’s Revenge
Dutch II: Angel’s Revenge Teri Woods 9780967224961 Fiction Teri Woods Publishing Teri Woods Publishing HE IS THE MASTER OF THE GAME. HE’S BUILT THE ULTIMATE EMPIRE. BUT HIS STORY IS ONLY BEGINNING. NO...
Deadly Reigns II (Deadly Reigns)
Deadly Reigns II (Deadly Reigns) Teri Woods 9780977323418 Fiction Teri Woods Publishing Teri Woods Publishing The story of a mob family that controls the streets and their fight to stay on top as the ...
Deadly Reigns: The First of a Trilogy
Deadly Reigns: The First of a Trilogy Teri Woods 9780967224978 Fiction Teri Woods Publishing Teri Woods Publishing The story of drugs and power in the inner city
Dutch: The First Of A Trilogy (Dutch Trilogy)
Dutch: The First Of A Trilogy (Dutch Trilogy) Teri Woods 9780967224947 Fiction Teri Woods Publishing Teri Woods Publishing James Bernard Jr., a.k.a. Dutch, has become the most dangerous criminal in Ne...
The Library in the Woods
The Library in the Woods Calvin Alexander Ramsey 9781541599123 Fiction Carolrhoda Books Lerner Publishing Group After a storm devastates the farm his parents have been renting, Junior moves with h...
The Edge of Yesterday
The Edge of Yesterday Rita Woods 9781250805645 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers The Edge of Yesterday is a haunting contemporary speculative novel about time travel and finding yourself from award-w...
Jackal
Jackal Erin E. Adams 9780593499306 Fiction Bantam Penguin Random House It’s watching. Liz Rocher is coming home … reluctantly. As a Black woman, Liz doesn’t exactly have fond memories of Johnstown, P...
The Last Dreamwalker
The Last Dreamwalker Rita Woods 9781250805614 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers From Hurston/Wright Legacy Award-winning author Rita Woods, The Last Dreamwalker tells the story of two women, separate...
When Winter Robeson Came
When Winter Robeson Came Brenda Woods 9781524741587 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House The whole world seems to transform during the summer of 1965, when Eden’s cousin from Mississippi c...
Remembrance
Remembrance Rita Woods 9781250298454 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers Remembrance by Rita Woods is a breakout historical debut with modern resonance, perfect for the many fans of The Underground Rai...
The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic
The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic Jamila Woods, Mahogany L. Browne, and Idrissa Simmonds 9781608468577 Poetry Haymarket Books Haymarket Books "[The BreakBeat Poets is] one of the most diver...
The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond
The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond Brenda Woods 9780147514301 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House Coretta Scott King Honor winner Brenda Woods’ moving, uplifting story of a girl finally m...
The Madman of Piney Woods
The Madman of Piney Woods Christopher Paul Curtis 9780545156646 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. Bestselling Newbery Medalist Christopher Paul Curtis delivers a powerful companion to his mu...
Woman Of The Woods (Meji Novel)
Woman Of The Woods (Meji Novel) Milton J. Davis 9780980084269 Fiction MVmedia MVmedia Sadatina, an Adamu girl on the brink of becoming a woman has lived a peaceful life with her family in Adamusola, ...
Dutch Ii: Angel’s Revenge (Dutch Trilogy)
Dutch Ii: Angel’s Revenge (Dutch Trilogy) Teri Woods 9780446551557 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group HE IS THE MASTER OF THE GAME. HE’S BUILT THE ULTIMATE EMPIRE. BUT HIS STORY I...
True to the Game IV
True to the Game IV Teri Woods 9780063470774 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins
Where We Go at Night
Where We Go at Night Ikwo Ntekim 9781335453853 Fiction HarperCollins US HarperCollins To name a thing is to see it, and no one can see the folk if they don’t want to be seen. As far as seventeen-ye...
Olive Oakes and the Haunted Carousel
Olive Oakes and the Haunted Carousel Kalynn Bayron 9781547615926 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing This new spooky mystery series by New York Times bestselling author Kalynn Bayr...
True to the Game Omnibus
True to the Game Omnibus Teri Woods 9780063489615 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins For the first time ever, you can live through Gena and Quadir’s entire epic True to the Game journey with the whole tril...
Sorrowland
Sorrowland Rivers Solomon 9780374266776 Fiction MCD Macmillan Publishers A triumphant, genre-bending breakout novel from one of the boldest new voices in contemporary fiction Vern—seven months pregna...
We Wait For The Sun
We Wait For The Sun Katie McCabe 9781250229021 Nonfiction Roaring Brook Press Macmillan Publishers A beautiful and uplifting non-fiction picture book from Katie McCabe and trailblazing civil rights la...
B-More Careful
B-More Careful Shannon Holmes 9781733304153 Fiction Kingston Imperial Kingston Imperial 20th Anniversary Edition Previously published by Teri Woods Publishing, B-More Careful (pictured right) is ...
The Forgotten Girl
The Forgotten Girl India Hill Brown 9781338317244 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. "This ghost story gave me chill after chill. It will haunt you." — R.L. Stine, author of Goosebumps"Do you kn...
Odera: An Orphan’s Tale
Odera: An Orphan’s Tale Nkem DenChukwu 9781496941657 Fiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions My big brother, Eto, is 26. Me, I am 15 years old. He and I love to explore; and each day is a brand new adven...
Easier Said Than Done
Easier Said Than Done Nikki Woods 9780991532247 Fiction Brown Girls Books Brown Girls Books Easier Said Than Done is a touching new novel of love and risk, featuring a sassy and skillfully created ca...
Alibi Ii: Nard’s Revenge
Alibi Ii: Nard’s Revenge Teri Woods 9781455572410 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group ALIBI II picks up where ALIBI left off. The year is 2006 and Diane Praeliou is happily married...
Dutch III: International Gangster
Dutch III: International Gangster Teri Woods 9780446551540 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group It’s one month before Dutch’s trial for what the media has deemed "the Month of Mur...
True to the Game (True to the Game trilogy, Book 1)
True to the Game (True to the Game trilogy, Book 1) Teri Woods 9781441772343 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group True to the Game represents life on the streets, where it’s true that ...
Alibi
Alibi Teri Woods 9780446581707 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Two men think they’ve found the perfect opportunity—a chance to rob the stash house of Simon Shuller, one of Philade...
Dutch
Dutch Teri Woods 9780446551533 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group James Bernard Jr., a.k.a. Dutch, has become the most dangerous criminal in New Jersey. From his early skill as a car...
Alibi
Alibi Teri Woods 9780446581691 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Two men think they’ve found the perfect opportunity—a chance to rob the stash house of Simon Shuller, one of Philade...
True to the Game III
True to the Game III Teri Woods 9780446581684 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group The third and most explosive installment of the groundbreaking True to the Game trilogy will take you...
True to the Game II
True to the Game II Teri Woods 9780446581660 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group TRUE TO THE GAME II will pick up where True to the Game left off— with one difference, Gena is now see...
Paul Robeson, Negro
Paul Robeson, Negro Eslanda Goode Robeson 9781406743920 Nonfiction Woods Press Woods Press Eslanda Goode, the daughter of John Goode and Eslanda Cardozo, was born in Washington in 1896. In 1912, Goode...
True to the Game
True to the Game Teri Woods 9780446581608 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group It’s the late 1980s, and Gena, a young girl from the projects, meets Quadir, a millionaire drug dealer, a...
The Red Rose Box
The Red Rose Box Brenda Woods 9780142501511 Fiction Penguin Young Readers Group Penguin Random House On her tenth birthday, Leah receives a surprise gift from glamorous Aunt Olivia, Mama’s only sister...
In the Woods
In the Woods Juanita Havill 9780673613271 Fiction Scott Foresman Penguin Random House
Red Dirt Witch: A Graphic Novel
Red Dirt Witch: A Graphic Novel N. K. Jemisin 9781419753732 Fiction Abrams ComicArts Abrams A graphic novel adaptation of #1 New York Times bestselling author N. K. Jemisin’s acclaimed short story “Re...
Happy Snacking, Don’t Die!: Foraging and Vegan Recipes with Black Forager
Happy Snacking, Don’t Die!: Foraging and Vegan Recipes with Black Forager Alexis Nikole Nelson 9781668002544 Nonfiction Simon Element Simon & Schuster, Inc. Beloved social media sensation Black Forage...
Tales from Cabin 23: The Sinking House
Tales from Cabin 23: The Sinking House Darcie Little Badger, Justina Ireland, and Hanna Alkaf 9780063298262 Fiction Clarion Books HarperCollins Few campers at Camp Apple Hill Farm have ever found the ...
Tales from Cabin 23: The Boo Hag Flex
Tales from Cabin 23: The Boo Hag Flex Justina Ireland 9780063512979 Fiction Clarion Books HarperCollins Few campers at Camp Apple Hill Farm have ever found the mysterious cabin hidden deep in the wood...
Humboldt Cut
Humboldt Cut Allison Mick 9781645662211 Fiction Erewhon Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Jordan Peele and Jeff VanderMeer meet The Overstory in comedy writer Allison Mick’s darkly humorous debut eco-...
On Sundays She Picked Flowers
On Sundays She Picked Flowers Yah Yah Scholfield 9781668091210 Fiction Saga Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. Lone Women meets Sorrowland in this surreal Southern Gothic debut in which a woman escapes into...
Swamp Man
Swamp Man Donald Goines 9781496750037 Fiction Holloway House Kensington Publishing Corp. By turns gritty and heartbreaking, this bold novel from legendary author Donald Goines, the OG Master of Urban ...
Backwoods
Backwoods Brandon Massey 9798999611208 Fiction Dark Corner Publishing Dark Corner Publishing When successful entrepreneur Nick Alexander visits his reclusive grandfather’s remote Georgia property, he ...
Girls Who Grew Big
Girls Who Grew Big Leila Mottley 9780593801123 Fiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House From the author of Oprah’s Book Club pick and New York Times bestseller Nightcrawling, here is an ast...
Happy Land
Happy Land Dolen Perkins-Valdez 9780593337721 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House A woman learns the astonishing truth of her family’s ties to a vanished American Kingdom in this riveting new n...
City Summer, Country Summer
City Summer, Country Summer Kiese Laymon 9780593405567 Fiction Kokila Penguin Random House A lyrical picture book from the award-winning author of Heavy, about three Black boys who form a deep connect...
Toypurina: Japchivit Leader, Medicine Woman, Tongva Rebel
Toypurina: Japchivit Leader, Medicine Woman, Tongva Rebel Cheyenne M. Stone and Glenda Armand 9781499814668 Nonfiction Little Bee Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Tired of being subjected to Spanish colon...
Nina and the Mysterious Mailbox (Secret Society of Rebel Girls)
Nina and the Mysterious Mailbox (Secret Society of Rebel Girls) Marti Dumas 9798889641018 Fiction DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) Penguin Random House “Girls running for office, secret leadership l...
Nina and the Mysterious Mailbox
Nina and the Mysterious Mailbox Marti Dumas 9798889641155 Fiction Rebel Girls Rebel Girls A school election. A mysterious mailbox. And a letter from … Cleopatra? Middle school is so weird. That’s t...
Infinity Alchemist
Infinity Alchemist Kacen Callender 9781250890252 Fiction Tor Teen Macmillan Publishers Infinity Alchemist is a spellbinding fantasy novel about a quest that leads three young alchemists toward dangero...
Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance Alvin Hall 9780063271968 Nonfiction HarperOne HarperCollins Join award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey th...
A Hope Divided
A Hope Divided Alyssa Cole 9781496739131 Fiction Kensington Publishing Corporation Kensington Publishing Corp. From the award-winning author of the instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller, Whe...
Moonrise Over New Jessup
Moonrise Over New Jessup Jamila Minnicks 9781643752464 Fiction Algonquin Books Workman Publishing Co., Inc. “With compelling characters and a heart-pounding plot, Jamila Minnicks pulled me into pages ...
Night Wherever We Go
Night Wherever We Go Tracey Rose Peyton 9780063249875 Fiction Ecco Press HarperCollins A RECOMMENDED READ FROM: The Washington Post • Atlanta Journal-Constitution • CrimeReads • Library...
Layla, the Last Black Unicorn
Layla, the Last Black Unicorn Tiffany Haddish and Jessica Gibson 9780063113879 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins From beloved comedian, actress, and New York Times bestselling author Tiffany Haddish...
The Sweetness of Water (Paperback)
The Sweetness of Water (Paperback) Nathan Harris 9780316461245 Fiction Back Bay Books Hachette Book Group An Instant New York Times bestseller / An Oprah’s Book Club Pick In the spirit of The Know...
The Sweetness of Water
The Sweetness of Water Nathan Harris 9780316362481 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER / AN OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK PRESIDENT OBAMA’S SUMMER 2021 ...
Sophie Washington Class Retreat
Sophie Washington Class Retreat Tonya Duncan Ellis 9781735338927 Fiction Page Turner Publishing Page Turner Publishing An entertaining story that celebrates friendship, diversity, environmental awaren...
midnight & indigo Issue 4: Twenty-two Speculative Stories by Black Women Writers
midnight & indigo Issue 4: Twenty-two Speculative Stories by Black Women Writers Ianna A. Small 9781732891777 Fiction Midnight & Indigo Midnight & Indigo Publishing midnight & indigo celebrates Black ...
The Elf and the LARP: Book One
The Elf and the LARP: Book One Kipjo K. Ewers 9798666942369 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published In the land of Ferrin, Faylinn, a half-elf/half-orc woman, lives with her mother and...
The Season of Styx Malone (paperback)
The Season of Styx Malone (paperback) Kekla Magoon 9781524715984 Fiction Random House Children’s Books Penguin Random House A Coretta Scott King Honor Book And The Winner Of The Boston Globe Horn Book...
The Season of Styx Malone
The Season of Styx Malone Kekla Magoon 9781524715953 Fiction Wendy Lamb Books Wendy Lamb Books This lively and diverse middle-grade story from the award-winning author of How It Went Down has the warm...
A Child’s Introduction to African American History: The Experiences, People, and Events That Shaped Our Country
A Child’s Introduction to African American History: The Experiences, People, and Events That Shaped Our Country Jabari Asim 9780316436427 Nonfiction Black Dog & Leventhal Hachette Book Group Jabari As...
A Hope Divided (The Loyal League)
A Hope Divided (The Loyal League) Alyssa Cole 9781496707468 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. “A masterful tale.” —Kirkus, Starred Review on An Extraordinary Union The Civil War has tur...
Passion Island: A Novel
Passion Island: A Novel Cairo 9781593096984 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From one of erotica’s hottest authors comes another page-melting novel where lies, infidelities, and unfettered...
Blackberries, Blackberries
Blackberries, Blackberries Crystal Wilkinson 9780813169583 Fiction University Press of Kentucky University Press of Kentucky Infused with humor, sadness and honesty, this provocative and haunting work...
Within the Shadows
Within the Shadows Brandon Massey 9780991339631 Fiction Dark Corner Publishing Dark Corner Publishing At just thirty-one, Andrew Wilson has it all: close friends, a great house in an Atlanta suburb, a...
Crossroads in the Dark 2: Urban Legends
Crossroads in the Dark 2: Urban Legends Kevin Wimer, Samantha Alexandra, and others 9780692820490 Fiction Burning Willow Press Burning Willow Press 32 tales…32 storytellers with a twisted mind to enti...
It Should’ve Been Me
It Should’ve Been Me ReShonda Tate Billingsley and Victoria Christopher Murray 9781944359508 Fiction Brown Girls Books Brown Girls Books Lights, camera, action… Tamara Collins is poised to become the ...
I Am George Washington
I Am George Washington Brad Meltzer 9780525428480 Nonfiction Dial Books Penguin Random House We can all be heroes. That’s the inspiring message of this New York Times Bestselling picture book biograph...
Forbidden Fairways: African Americans and the Game of Golf
Forbidden Fairways: African Americans and the Game of Golf Calvin H. Sinnette 9781574781229 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press The emergence of Tiger Woods on the international golf sc...
The Jumbies
The Jumbies Tracey Baptiste 9781616204143 Fiction Algonquin Books Workman Publishing Co., Inc. The jumbies are coming! Corinne La Mer isn’t afraid of anything. Not scorpions, not the boys who tease he...
Ruby
Ruby Cynthia Bond 9780804188241 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House The newest Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 selection The epic, unforgettable story of a man determined to protect the woman he loves from the ...
Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom
Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom Shane W. Evans 9781250056757 Nonfiction Square Fish Macmillan Publishers One of School Library Journal’s Best Nonfiction Books of the Year. A few well chos...
The Choir Director 2: Runaway Bride
The Choir Director 2: Runaway Bride Carl Weber 9781455505210 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group It’s been three years since Aaron Mackie succeeded in helping his friend and mentor, B...
The Motherhood Diaries 2: Humorous and Heartwarming Musings on Motherhood
The Motherhood Diaries 2: Humorous and Heartwarming Musings on Motherhood ReShonda Tate Billingsley 9781625174529 Nonfiction Brown Girls Books Brown Girls Books In The Motherhood Diaries, ReShonda Tat...
The Taste Of Salt
The Taste Of Salt Martha Southgate 9781565129252 Fiction Algonquin Books Workman Publishing Co., Inc. Award-winning novelist Martha Southgate (who, in the words of Julia Glass, “can write fat and hot,...
Shadows of Caesar’s Creek, 3 (Reissue)
Shadows of Caesar’s Creek, 3 (Reissue) Sharon M. Draper 9781442427112 Fiction Aladdin Paperbacks Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this third book of the classic chapter book series by award-winning author Sh...
Underground: Finding The Light To Freedom
Underground: Finding The Light To Freedom Shane W. Evans 9781596435384 Fiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers A family silently crawls along the ground. They run barefoot through unlit woods,...
Barack Obama And The Jim Crow Media: The Return Of The Nigger Breakers
Barack Obama And The Jim Crow Media: The Return Of The Nigger Breakers Ishmael Reed 9780981240572 Nonfiction Baraka Books Baraka Books Angry and hilarious, this collection of satirical essays about Ba...
The Brand Within: The Power Of Branding From Birth To The Boardroom (Display Of Power Series)
The Brand Within: The Power Of Branding From Birth To The Boardroom (Display Of Power Series) Daymond John 9780982596210 Nonfiction Display of Power Publishing, Inc. Display of Power Publishing, Inc. ...
Scratching For Daylight
Scratching For Daylight Wilbert Gibson 9781449099763 Fiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions This is a compilation of short stories from the pen of an old man. He writes about Western Africa, during the ...
Big Machine: A Novel
Big Machine: A Novel Victor Lavalle 9780385527996 Fiction Spiegel & Grau Penguin Random House A fiendishly imaginative comic novel about doubt, faith, and the monsters we carry within us.Ricky Rice wa...
A Wish After Midnight
A Wish After Midnight Zetta Elliott 9780982555057 Fiction Skyscape Amazon Publishing “Although there is plenty of history embedded in the novel, A Wish After Midnight is written with a lyrical grace t...
Well Considered
Well Considered Richard Morris 9781450203883 Fiction iUniverse Author Solutions "Well Considered is a suspenseful but deeply moving novel that gripped me throughout. I recommend it." -William Byers Ro...
Electric Literature No.2
Electric Literature No.2 Colson Whitehead 9780982498019 Fiction Electric Literature Electric Literature In our Autumn 2009 anthology, Colson Whitehead charts the rise to fame of a truth-telling come...
Most Valuable Skills In Chess
Most Valuable Skills In Chess Maurice Ashley 9781904600879 Fiction Gambit Publications Gambit Publications This book makes his ideas and material available to all: teachers and students alike. He has ...
Until There Was You
Until There Was You Francis Ray 9781250082572 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers All he was looking for was some peace and quiet. Instead, what ex-FBI agent Luke Grayson finds in the secl...
Mystery Writers Of America Presents The Blue Religion: New Stories About Cops, Criminals, And The Chase
Mystery Writers Of America Presents The Blue Religion: New Stories About Cops, Criminals, And The Chase Mystery Writers Of America 9780316012515 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group...
Cooking the Gullah Way, Morning, Noon, and Night
Cooking the Gullah Way, Morning, Noon, and Night Sallie Ann Robinson 9780807858431 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press Sallie Ann Robinson was born and rea...
Bang!
Bang! Sharon G. Flake 9780786849550 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Bang! Guns really sound like that, you know. Bang! And people bleed from everywhere, and blood is ...
Swamp Man
Swamp Man Donald Goines 9780870679476 Fiction Holloway House Kensington Publishing Corp. George Jackson was a Swamp Man, born and bred in the dark watery woods of Mississippi. He was a gentle young ma...
A Killing in This Town: A Novel
A Killing in This Town: A Novel Olympia Vernon 9780802142962 Fiction Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. Award-winning author Olympia Vernon’s third novel, A Killing in This Town, is a taut, poetic maste...
The Legend of Quito Road
The Legend of Quito Road Dwight Fryer 9781583147061 Fiction Kimani Press Kimani Press THE FUTURE seems to hold limited possibilities for Son Erby. The African-American child of a farm laborer in 1930...
The Trophy Wife Network
The Trophy Wife Network D.T. Pollard 9781424135882 Fiction PublishAmerica PublishAmerica Golfer’s wife reports to prison for involvement in drug ring. Prosecutors have said the two-time major champion...