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Ivy Valentine Pate
Ivy Valentine Pate NONE Ivy Valentine Pate, CEO of Wild Ivy Publishing and author of the “These Kids of Mine” series, resides in Lawrenceville, GA. She's also a mother of three. Ivy Valentine Pate is...
J. Ivy
J. Ivy NONE J. Ivy, a Chicago-born hip-hop poet, musician, and actor, has won a Peabody and Grammy award for his performances and collaborations with artists like Jay-Z, Kanye West, and Bob Dylan. He...
Ivy Claire Pochoda and Created by Kobe Bryant
Ivy Claire Pochoda and Created by Kobe Bryant MULTIPLE Ivy Claire Pochoda is a renowned author known for her collaborative work with the late basketball legend Kobe Bryant, blending their unique pers...
Wild Ivy Publishing
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The Perfect Ruin: A Riveting New Psychological Thriller
The Perfect Ruin: A Riveting New Psychological Thriller Shanora Williams 9781496731104 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. A thrilling new novel of lies, deception, and revenge from the bestsel...
Dear Father: Breaking The Cycle Of Pain
Dear Father: Breaking The Cycle Of Pain J. Ivy 9781582705088 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Hip-hop’s favorite poet and Grammy Award–winning artist J. Ivy bares his soul in this inspira...
Orange Crushed: An Ivy League Mystery (Ivy League Mysteries)
Orange Crushed: An Ivy League Mystery (Ivy League Mysteries) Pamela Thomas-Graham 9780684845289 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Murder stalks the campus in this exciting, witty, fast-...
Blue Blood (Ivy League Mysteries)
Blue Blood (Ivy League Mysteries) Pamela Thomas-Graham 9780684845272 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Murder returns to the Ivy League in this second book in Pamela Thomas-Graham’s cri...
Ivy Claire Pochoda
Ivy Claire Pochoda 0000000058923861 Ivy Claire, a former world-ranked squash champion turned full-time writer, holds a degree in classics. A literary novelist in a parallel life, she resides in Los A...
Billy Buys a Backpack (These Kids of Mine)
Billy Buys a Backpack (These Kids of Mine) Ivy Valentine Pate 9780996814041 Nonfiction Wild Ivy Publishing Wild Ivy Publishing Caring, compassionate Billy wants to help a friend get a backpack to stay...
CJ’s New Basketball (These Kids of Mine)
CJ’s New Basketball (These Kids of Mine) Ivy Valentine Pate 9780996814027 Nonfiction Wild Ivy Publishing Wild Ivy Publishing CJ gets his very first basketball from Dad on Sunday, but can’t go to a rea...
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities Craig Steven Wilder 9781608194025 Nonfiction Bloomsbury Press Bloomsbury Publishing A 2006 report commissioned by Brown...
Ebony & Ivy: Race
Ebony & Ivy: Race Kam Williams Book Review “Ebony & Ivy… delivers a groundbreaking and incendiary exploration of the intertwined histories of slavery, race, and higher education&he...
Single Black Female
Single Black Female Tracy Brown 9781250043016 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Tracy Brown’s Single Black Female is a taut, edgy, deftly spun novel about four friends grappling with t...
These Women
These Women Ivy Claire Pochoda 9780062656384 Fiction Ecco Press HarperCollins A Recommended Book FromThe New York Times Book Review * The Washington Post * Vogue * Entertainment Weekly * People * Mari...
Tears of a Hustler PT 6
Tears of a Hustler PT 6 Silk White 9780996060936 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing The Wolf is back!… Months after the gruesome death of his daughter, Wolf is back and vows to make anybody...
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League Jeff Hobbs 9781476731902 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. A heartfelt, and ri...
Here I Am: Then & Now
Here I Am: Then & Now J. Ivy 9780615543062 Nonfiction Ivyous Entertainment Ivyous Entertainment Time has shown that history repeats itself and poetry is the written and spoken beginning of Hip Hop… A ...
Art of Disappearing
Art of Disappearing Ivy Claire Pochoda 9780312650995 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Ivy Pochoda’s spellbinding and cinematic storytelling seamlessly fuses timeless magic to modern-da...
A Game Of Character: A Family Journey From Chicago’s Southside To The Ivy League And Beyond
A Game Of Character: A Family Journey From Chicago’s Southside To The Ivy League And Beyond Craig Malcolm Robinson 9781592405480 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House The eagerly anticipated inspirati...
A Game of Character: A Family Journey from Chicago's Southside to the Ivy League and Beyond
A Game of Character: A Family Journey from Chicago's Southside to the Ivy League and Beyond Kam Williams Book Review "A fundamental teaching my parents always emphasized [was] that life happens to...
Christmas In Rose Bend (Rose Bend Book 2)
Christmas In Rose Bend (Rose Bend Book 2) Naima Simone 9781335620996 Fiction HQN Harlequin Enterprises Limited “Simone balances crackling, electric love scenes with exquisitely rendered characters.” —...
Epoca: The Tree of Ecrof
Epoca: The Tree of Ecrof Ivy Claire Pochoda 9781949520071 Fiction Granity Studios Granity Studios Created by Kobe Bryant From the mind of basketball legend, Academy Award–winning, and New York Time...
Wonder Valley
Wonder Valley Ivy Claire Pochoda 9780062656360 Fiction Ecco Press HarperCollins When a teen runs away from his father’s mysterious commune, he sets in motion a domino effect that will connect six char...
From Ivy League to Stripper Life
From Ivy League to Stripper Life Elona Washington 9781533626820 Nonfiction Memoir Maven Memoir Maven Publishing A motivational speaker since 2011, Elona has traveled the country sharing her story of r...
Dark Justice (Dark Justice Series)
Dark Justice (Dark Justice Series) Diane Cooper 9780996814003 Nonfiction Wild Ivy Publishing Wild Ivy Publishing Dark Justice, by Pamela O’Hara writing as Dianne Cooper, is a dark, gritty, and heartbr...
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace (paperback): A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace (paperback): A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League Jeff Hobbs 9781476731919 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. Now a m...
In My Rearview Mirror: A Novel
In My Rearview Mirror: A Novel Suzetta Perkins 9781593094768 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Baby drama and political scandal don’t mix in this sequel to Suzetta Perkins’s Behind the Veil...
Visitation Street
Visitation Street Ivy Claire Pochoda 9780062249906 Fiction Ecco Press HarperCollins Summer in Red Hook, Brooklyn, an isolated blue-collar neighborhood where hipster gourmet supermarkets push against t...
Maze- The Ballerina Series Book 2 (Volume 2)
Maze- The Ballerina Series Book 2 (Volume 2) Ursula Sinclair 9780985964658 Fiction Isisindc Publishing Isisindc Publishing A new adult contemporary romance. The conclusion of the story of Ivy & Rose M...
Pimpology: The 48 Laws of the Game
Pimpology: The 48 Laws of the Game Pimpin’ Ken and Karen Hunter 9781416961048 Fiction Karen Hunter Publishing Simon & Schuster, Inc. Star of the HBO documentaries Pimps Up, Ho’s Down and American Pimp...
Trip Wire: A Cook County Mystery
Trip Wire: A Cook County Mystery Charlotte Carter 9780345447692 Fiction One World Penguin Random House Of Jackson Park, the first Cook County mystery featuring an unconventional trio of sleuths, Margo...
Jackson Park
Jackson Park Charlotte Carter 9780345447821 Fiction One World Penguin Random House From the acclaimed author of the Nanette Hayes mystery novels comes a thrilling new series featuring an unforgettable...
A Darker Shade of Crimson (Ivy League Mysteries)
A Darker Shade of Crimson (Ivy League Mysteries) Pamela Thomas-Graham 9780684845265 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Being young, gifted, and black at Harvard has always been difficult....
Falling Leaves of Ivy
Falling Leaves of Ivy Yolanda Joe 9780681413962 Fiction Longmeadow Press Longmeadow Press The interracial friendship among four Yale University students is marred by their involvement in a heinous cri...
An Arcane Inheritance
An Arcane Inheritance Kamilah Cole 9781464251030 Fiction Poisoned Pen Press Poisoned Pen Press Elle Magazine Best Fantasy and Science-Fiction Book of 2025 Indie Next List Pick for January 2026 A m...
Hill Harper
Hill Harper 000000011447159X Hill Harper, an accomplished actor and author, is an alumnus of Brown University and Harvard Law School. Despite his multiple Ivy League degrees, he chose an acting caree...
Elona Washington
Elona Washington NONE Elona Washington, a DC native and best-selling author, is a sexual assault survivor turned advocate who has worked with RAINN since 2011. A successful publisher, TV host, and bl...
Blue Blood (Ivy League Mysteries)
Blue Blood (Ivy League Mysteries) Pamela Thomas-Graham Excerpt Chapter One: We’re Not in Cambridge Anymore Georgian. Gothic. Houses. Colleges. The Yard. Old Campus. Widener. Sterli...
Alfie Hazard and the Spy Cats: A Spy in the Embassy
Alfie Hazard and the Spy Cats: A Spy in the Embassy Kekla Magoon 9781536240894 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press Bringing her talents to a younger audience, the award-winning Kekla Magoon kick...
Mighty Macy
Mighty Macy Kwame Alexander 9780316442169 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group A young girl finds her voice—and discovers the power of speaking up for herself and her comm...
Black Capitalists: A Blueprint for What Is Possible
Black Capitalists: A Blueprint for What Is Possible Rachel Laryea 9780593735046 Nonfiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House A groundbreaking look at how Black visionaries—from Wall Street t...
Opal Watson: Private Eye
Opal Watson: Private Eye Brittany J. Thurman 9780063326491 Fiction Storytide HarperCollins Opal Watson, Private Eye introduces an exciting new middle grade mystery series based on the popular original...
Chicago Winter Break (School for Unusual Magic #2)
Chicago Winter Break (School for Unusual Magic #2) Liz Montague 9781338792546 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. Three friends discover magic and mayhem around every corner of their school in th...
Up Home: One Girl’s Journey
Up Home: One Girl’s Journey Ruth J. Simmons 9780593446003 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House A Best Book Of The Year: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Bloomberg, BET I was ...
All You Have to Do
All You Have to Do Autumn Allen 9780593619049 Fiction Kokila Penguin Random House Powerful, thought-provoking, and heartfelt, this debut YA novel by author Autumn Allen is a gripping look at what it t...
Never Forget Our People Were Always Free
Never Forget Our People Were Always Free Ben Jealous 9780062961747 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins “One of the nation’s most prominent civil rights leaders” (Washington Post), a New...
The Other Mother
The Other Mother Rachel M. Harper 9781640095045 Fiction Counterpoint Counterpoint A page-turning generational saga about a young man’s search for a parent he never knew, and a moving portrait of mothe...
Nature Lover #6
Nature Lover #6 Kelly Starling Lyons 9780593226490 Fiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House Jada Jones is back for the sixth book of this popular, celebrated series perfect for STEM fans! Readers...
Required Reading for the Disenfranchised Freshman
Required Reading for the Disenfranchised Freshman Kristen R. Lee 9780593309155 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A striking debut novel about racism on elite college campuses....
Sky Watcher #5
Sky Watcher #5 Kelly Starling Lyons 9780593226469 Fiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House Jada Jones is back for the fifth book of this popular, celebrated series perfect for STEM fans! Readers ...
All Her Little Secrets
All Her Little Secrets Wanda M. Morris 9780063204331 Fiction William Morrow HarperCollins "All Her Little Secrets is a brilliantly nuanced but powerhouse exploration of race, the legal system, and the...
The Kindest Lie: A Novel
The Kindest Lie: A Novel Nancy Johnson 9780063005631 Fiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins “A fantastic story…well-written, timely, and oh-so-memorable.”—Good Morning America “The Kindest ...
Sophie Washington My BFF
Sophie Washington My BFF Tonya Duncan Ellis 9781733776387 Fiction Page Turner Publishing Page Turner Publishing READERS’ FAVORITE GOLD MEDAL BOOK AWARD WINNERAn Amazon Bestselling Book!!Fans of Junie ...
The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities
The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities Lawrence C. Ross Jr. 9781496728876 Nonfiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. This comprehensive history of African Amer...
Dancing Queen #4
Dancing Queen #4 Kelly Starling Lyons 9781524790592 Fiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House Jada Jones is back for the fourth book of this popular, celebrated series perfect for STEM fans!"Reade...
Around Harvard Square
Around Harvard Square Christopher John Farley 9781617757143 Fiction Black Sheep Akashic Books "Wry, sly, and ferociously funny, Around Harvard Square is not just the satire Ivy League college life des...
Sleepover Scientist #3
Sleepover Scientist #3 Kelly Starling Lyons 9781524790554 Fiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House Jada Jones is back for the third book of this popular, celebrated series perfect for STEM fans!J...
Dear Martin
Dear Martin Nic Stone 9781101939499 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House "Raw and gripping." —Jason Reynolds, New York Times bestselling coauthor of All American Boys A must-read...
Rock Star #1
Rock Star #1 Kelly Starling Lyons 9780448487519 Fiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House Fans of Princess Posey and Ivy and Bean will enjoy engaging with science-loving Jada Jones in this easy-to...
Class ACT #2
Class ACT #2 Kelly Starling Lyons 9780451534279 Fiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House Fans of Princess Posey and Ivy and Bean will enjoy rooting for Jada Jones as she runs for student council ...
The Magnificent Mya Tibbs The Wall of Fame Game
The Magnificent Mya Tibbs The Wall of Fame Game Crystal Allen 9780062342362 Fiction Balzer + Bray HarperCollins The most fabulous nine-year-old cowgirl in Texas is back in this heartwarming and hilar...
Invisible Men: A Contemporary Slave Narrative in the Era of Mass Incarceration
Invisible Men: A Contemporary Slave Narrative in the Era of Mass Incarceration Flores Forbes 9781510711709 Nonfiction Skyhorse Publishing Skyhorse Publishing Flores Forbes, a former leader in the Blac...
Sister Surrogate
Sister Surrogate LaChelle Weaver 9781944359195 Fiction Brown Girls Books Brown Girls Books Three sisters and a baby equal family drama— Bridgette, Ivy and Savannah have always been close— but their si...
Black Gods of the Asphalt: Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball
Black Gods of the Asphalt: Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball Onaje X. O. Woodbine 9780231177283 Fiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press J-Rod moves like a small battle tank ...
The Magnificent Mya Tibbs Spirit Week Showdown
The Magnificent Mya Tibbs Spirit Week Showdown Crystal Allen 9780062342331 Fiction Balzer + Bray HarperCollins A hilarious and spunky new heroine in the vein of the heroines of such beloved books as R...
Where Everybody Looks Like Me: At the Crossroads of America’s Black Colleges and Culture
Where Everybody Looks Like Me: At the Crossroads of America’s Black Colleges and Culture Ron Stodghill 9780062323231 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins A richly reported account of the forces threatenin...
The High Price I Had To Pay: Sentenced To 12 1/2 Years For Victimizing Lehman Brothers Bank
The High Price I Had To Pay: Sentenced To 12 1/2 Years For Victimizing Lehman Brothers Bank Jamila T. Davis 9780985580797 Fiction Voices International Publications Voices International Publications Th...
Stitching Love
Stitching Love Tiss Devane 9780996084444 Fiction Delphine Publications Delphine Publications In Part one of this debut series from Tiss Devane, Skyla Richards is a planner. But, all the forethought an...
Power List of Best-Selling African-American Books - Fall 2014
Power List of Best-Selling African-American Books - Fall 2014 Troy Johnson Article Strong Sales Shown Among Hardcover Non-Fiction Titles in Fall Edition of the Power List of Best-Selling African-...
A Reader in African-Jamaican Music Dance and Religion
A Reader in African-Jamaican Music Dance and Religion Markus Coester and Wolfgang Bender 9789766372538 Nonfiction Ian Randle Publishers Ian Randle Publishers Jamaica’s rich culture is known the world...
Love Is the Drug
Love Is the Drug Alaya Dawn Johnson 9780545417815 Fiction Arthur A. Levine Books Scholastic Inc. Emily Bird was raised not to ask questions. She has perfect hair, the perfect boyfriend, and a perfect ...
Secret Silver Nights (Harlequin Kimani RomanceThe Drakes of California)
Secret Silver Nights (Harlequin Kimani RomanceThe Drakes of California) Zuri Day 9780373863709 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Harlequin Enterprises Limited Will winning the race mean losing her love? The th...
Unforgettable
Unforgettable Delaney Diamond 9781940636078 Fiction Delaney Diamond Delaney Diamond She offered everything he never knew he needed… Ivy Johnson is stunned when Lucas Baylor makes an appearance at her ...
The Ballerina & The Fighter (Book 1)
The Ballerina & The Fighter (Book 1) Ursula Sinclair 9780985964603 Fiction Isisindc Publishing Isisindc Publishing I travel through life dancing. All I ever wanted to do was dance, as did my best frie...
The Young and the Ruthless: Back in the Bubbles
The Young and the Ruthless: Back in the Bubbles Victoria Rowell 9781451643831 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. New York Times bestselling author and beloved actress Victoria Rowell delive...
Empire Of Illusion: The End Of Literacy And The Triumph Of Spectacle
Empire Of Illusion: The End Of Literacy And The Triumph Of Spectacle Chris Hedges 9781568584379 Nonfiction Bold Type Books Hachette Book Group We now live in two Americas. Onenow the minorityfunctio...
Peony’s Daughters
Peony’s Daughters Leceila Turnage 9781599830735 Fiction Urban Soul Mass Paper Kensington Publishing Corp. Peony Shaw’s sister, Caroline, has just died. Looking for comfort during this difficult time, ...
Justice League of America Vol. 3: The Injustice League
Justice League of America Vol. 3: The Injustice League Dwayne McDuffie 9781401218027 Fiction DC Comics DC Comics As Green Arrow and Black Canary finally prepare to wed after a tempestuous on and off r...
Hotlanta, No. 1
Hotlanta, No. 1 Denene Millner and Mitzi Miller 9780545003087 Fiction Point Point Designer clothes. Gorgeous boys. Family secrets. Major drama. Welcome to Atlanta and the lives of the Duke twins, ...
The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse
The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse Richard Thompson Ford 9780374245757 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers What do Katrina victims waiting for fede...
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 Accidental Hunter: A D Hunter Mystery
The Accidental Hunter: A D Hunter Mystery Nelson George 9780743235525 Nonfiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. The first assignment is unusual. The second will set D Hunter in urgent pursuit of a ...
Floating: A Novel
Floating: A Novel Nicole Bailey-Williams 9780767915649 Fiction Broadway Books Penguin Random House From the gifted author of A Little Piece of Sky: The poignant tale of a young woman who must come to ...
The Emperor of Ocean Park
The Emperor of Ocean Park Stephen L. Carter 9780375712920 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House In his triumphant fictional debut, Stephen Carter combines a large-scale, riveting novel of suspense with...
Breaking Away
Breaking Away Kristin Hunter 9780345442499 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House Bethesda Barnes has reached a point in life where she at last feels comfortable. She loves her family, desp...
A Personal Odyssey
A Personal Odyssey Thomas Sowell 9780684864655 Nonfiction Free Press Free Press This is the gritty story of one man’s lifelong education in the school of hard knocks, as his journey took him from Harl...
Keeping Secrets, Telling Lies
Keeping Secrets, Telling Lies Flo Anthony 9780970432513 Fiction Florence Anthony Florence Anthony Enterprises A page-turner from beginning to end, Keeping Secrets, Telling Lies takes you into the inn...
Fast Talk On A Slow Track
Fast Talk On A Slow Track Rita Williams-Garcia 9780141302317 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House Denzel Watson is a fast talker with a system, and it’s made him valedictorian. But when he goes t...
Only Twice I’ve Wished for Heaven
Only Twice I’ve Wished for Heaven Dawn Turner Trice 9780385491235 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House n 1975, Tempestt Saville and her family are chosen by lottery to "move on up" to Lakelan...
Crossover
Crossover Dennis A. Williams 9780671726409 Fiction Summit Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Caught between two races and two cultures, preoccupied with finding the father he never knew, Richard Isaac is un...
John Edgar Wideman
John Edgar Wideman 0000000110326512 John Edgar Wideman, born in 1941, is a renowned author and professor hailing from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He completed his B.A. in English from the University of...
Dexter Palmer
Dexter Palmer 0000000040043719 Dexter Clarence Palmer, a Princeton-based author, is known for his acclaimed debut novel, 'The Dream of Perpetual Motion'. His second novel, 'Version Control', was publ...
Brenda Jones and Krishan Trotman
Brenda Jones and Krishan Trotman MULTIPLE Brenda Jones, renowned for her 15-year role as communications director for Rep. John Lewis and co-author of an NAACP award-winning book, has vast experience ...
Kemi Ashing-Giwa
Kemi Ashing-Giwa NONE Kemi Ashing-Giwa is an author and scientist-in-training based in Palo Alto. Her work includes the USA Today bestselling, Compton Crook Award-winning novel The Splinter in the S...
Dear White People
Dear White People Kam Williams dear-wite-people-movie-poster.jpg Film Review Dear White People In Theaters: Oct 17, 2014 Limited On DVD: Feb 3, 2015 Rated R for profanity, ethnic and sexual prefe...
Bitch Is the New Black: A Memoir
Bitch Is the New Black: A Memoir Kam Williams Book Review "I’m such a badass. I am literally the baddest bitch on the planet. If there was a bitch contest between me and every other he...
The Rise: Creativity
The Rise: Creativity Kam Williams Book Review “This book is about the advantages that come from the improbable ground of creative endeavor. Brilliant inventions and human feats that have co...
Peony’s Daughters
Peony’s Daughters Idrissa Uqdah Book Review A Mother With Crosses To Bear Although not categorized as Christian Fiction, Peony’s Daughters by Leceila Turnage is a very spiritual read w...