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Hunter Hayes
Hunter Hayes 0000000356472077 Author Hunter Hayes returns to the literary scene after a hiatus. Known for his critically-acclaimed novels, Shoes On the Otha' Foot and A Pair Like No Otha', Hayes is n...
R. E. Hayes
R. E. Hayes NONE R. E. Hayes is an accomplished author, lawyer, and former U.S. Marine, holding both a BA and JD from Indiana University. His debut novel, Be White With Me, was long-listed for the S...
How to Be Drawn
How to Be Drawn Terrance Hayes 9780143126881 Poetry William Morrow HarperCollins A dazzling new collection of poetry by Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award–winning author of LightheadIn How to Be ...
Wanda Coleman and Edited by Terrance Hayes
Wanda Coleman and Edited by Terrance Hayes MULTIPLE Wanda Coleman, a renowned author, collaborates with editor Terrance Hayes, providing readers with exceptional literary works. Their combined expert...
Peter Kahn, Ravi Shankar, Patricia Smith, and Terrance Hayes
Peter Kahn, Ravi Shankar, Patricia Smith, and Terrance Hayes MULTIPLE "Peter Kahn, Ravi Shankar, Patricia Smith, and Terrance Hayes are acclaimed authors noted for their significant contributions in ...
Terrance Hayes
Terrance Hayes 0000000052553847 Terrance Hayes is a renowned poet, author of four collections and winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry. A MacArthur fellow, Hayes has received numerous ac...
Demetria Hayes
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So to Speak
So to Speak Terrance Hayes 9780143137726 Poetry Penguin Books Penguin Random House A powerful, timely, dazzling new collection of poems from the National Book Award–winning author of Lighthead Sinc...
Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry
Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry Terrance Hayes 9780143137733 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House From the National Book Award–winning aut...
Coq Au Vin: Nanette Hayes Mystery Series Book 2
Coq Au Vin: Nanette Hayes Mystery Series Book 2 Charlotte Carter 9780593314128 Fiction Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Penguin Random House Read a review of Coq Au Vin: A Nanette Hayes Mystery in Mosaic Li...
Wind in a Box (Penguin Poets)
Wind in a Box (Penguin Poets) Terrance Hayes 9780143036869 Poetry Penguin Books Penguin Random House The third collection of poetry from the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award...
Hip Logic (National Poetry Series)
Hip Logic (National Poetry Series) Terrance Hayes 9780142001394 Poetry Penguin Books Penguin Random House The second collection of poetry from the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book...
Brent Hayes Edwards
Brent Hayes Edwards NONE Brent Hayes Edwards is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and winner of the John Hope Franklin Prize of the American Stu...
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Kimberly Benston, Brent Hayes Edwards, Frances Smith Foster, Deborah E. McDowell, Robert G. O’Meally, Hortense J. Spillers, and Cheryl A. Wall
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Kimberly Benston, Brent Hayes Edwards, Frances Smith Foster, Deborah E. McDowell, Robert G. O’Meally, Hortense J. Spillers, and Cheryl A. Wal...
Drumsticks: Nanette Hayes Mystery Series Book 3
Drumsticks: Nanette Hayes Mystery Series Book 3 Charlotte Carter 9780593314142 Fiction Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Penguin Random House In the third book in the Nanette Hayes Mystery series, Nan finds ...
Rhode Island Red: Nanette Hayes Mystery Series Book 1
Rhode Island Red: Nanette Hayes Mystery Series Book 1 Charlotte Carter 9780593314104 Fiction Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Penguin Random House The first book in the Nanette Hayes Mystery series introduc...
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin Terrance Hayes 9780143133186 Poetry Penguin Books Penguin Random House A powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from one of America’s most ac...
Daffodil: A Mother’s Journey
Daffodil: A Mother’s Journey DeMetria Hayes 9781941721001 Fiction Demetria Hayes Demetria Hayes Daffodil is an emotional documentation of a mother’s journey via a collection of journal entries, let...
Stripper Pole To Heaven
Stripper Pole To Heaven Hunter Hayes 9780615231129 Fiction Deuce Publishing Deuce Publishing After taking an extended hiatus, Ms. Hunter Hayes is back on the literary scene again, feeling ready to sha...
Lighthead (Poets, Penguin)
Lighthead (Poets, Penguin) Terrance Hayes 9780143116967 Poetry Penguin Books Penguin Random House Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for PoetryIn his fourth collection, Terrance Hayes investigate...
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Kimberly Benston, Brent Hayes Edwards, Frances Smith Foster, Deborah E. McDowell, Robert G. O'Meally, Hortense J. Spillers, and Cheryl A. Wall
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Kimberly Benston, Brent Hayes Edwards, Frances Smith Foster, Deborah E. McDowell, Robert G. O'Meally, Hortense J. Spillers, and Cheryl A. Wal...
Drown Me with Dreams
Drown Me with Dreams Gabi Burton 9781547610419 Fiction Bloomsbury YA Bloomsbury Publishing In book two of this dark and seductive YA fantasy duology, perfect for fans of Fourth Wing and These Violent ...
Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems
Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems Wanda Coleman and Edited by Terrance Hayes 9781574232370 Poetry Black Sparrow David R. Godine, Publisher A voice the world needs — the award-winning, groundbreaking,...
The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks
The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks Peter Kahn, Ravi Shankar, Patricia Smith, and Terrance Hayes 9781682260951 Poetry University of Arkansas Press University of Arkansas P...
To Float In The Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight
To Float In The Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight Terrance Hayes 9781940696614 Nonfiction Wave Books Wave Books In these works based on his Bagl...
A Pair Like No Otha’: A Novel
A Pair Like No Otha’: A Novel Hunter Hayes 9780380814855 Nonfiction William Morrow Paperbacks HarperCollins She had 1001 reasons to say no… They weren’t enough. Shemone Waters and Darnell Williams ...
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Frances Foster, Brent Hayes Edwards, Deborah E. McDowell, Hortense J. Spillers, Kimberly W. Benston, Farah Jasmine Griffin, and Jesse McCarthy
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Frances Foster, Brent Hayes Edwards, Deborah E. McDowell, Hortense J. Spillers, Kimberly W. Benston, Farah Jasmine Griffin, and Jesse McCarth...
The Legacy
The Legacy Dylan Allen 9781968707958 Fiction Blue Box Press Blue Box Press He holds the keys to a kingdom. But he covets the keys to her heart. Heir to a multibillion-dollar business empire, Hayes...
DUPED In AMERICA: A novel that dives from page one into our tattered beliefs and values
DUPED In AMERICA: A novel that dives from page one into our tattered beliefs and values R. E. Hayes 9798822988347 Fiction Palmetto Publishing Palmetto Publishing Young Indiana cop Holly Bagley battles...
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature 4th Ed.
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature 4th Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Frances Foster, Brent Hayes Edwards, Deborah E. McDowell, Hortense J. Spillers, K...
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (Volume 1): 4th Edition
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (Volume 1): 4th Edition Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Frances Foster, Brent Hayes Edwards, Deborah E. McDowell, Hortens...
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (Volume 2): 4th Edition
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (Volume 2): 4th Edition Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Frances Foster, Brent Hayes Edwards, Deborah E. McDowell, Hortens...
Be White With Me
Be White With Me R. E. Hayes 9798822958883 Fiction Palmetto Publishing Palmetto Publishing With apologies to the great Tolstoy, all happy Black families are not alike and every unhappy Black family is...
Sing Me to Sleep
Sing Me to Sleep Gabi Burton 9781547610372 Fiction Bloomsbury YA Bloomsbury Publishing Featured in the New York Times, Glamour, BuzzFeed, and more! In this dark and seductive YA fantasy debut, perf...
The Lost Etheridge: Uncollected Poems of Etheridge Knight
The Lost Etheridge: Uncollected Poems of Etheridge Knight Etheridge Knight 9781735017280 Poetry Kinchafoonee Creek Press Kinchafoonee Creek Pressv This volume, with a foreword by Yusef Komunyakaa, col...
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2 Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Kimberly Benston, Brent Hayes Edwards, Frances Smith Foster, Deborah E. McDowel...
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature 3rd Ed.
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature 3rd Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Kimberly Benston, Brent Hayes Edwards, Frances Smith Foster, Deborah E. McDowell,...
The Black Automaton
The Black Automaton Douglas Kearney 9781934200285 Poetry Fence Books Fence Books "Douglas Kearney’s innovative new collection makes me tremble like a ’mouth and mind full of fish hooks.’ … These poems...
The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism
The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism Brent Hayes Edwards 9780674011038 Nonfiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press A pathbreaking ...
Shoe’s on the Otha’ Foot
Shoe’s on the Otha’ Foot Hunter Hayes 9780061014666 Nonfiction HarperTorch HarperCollins Love in the city is a different kind of crazy Unattached and independent, a free spirit flying high uptown, L...
Robert O’Hara
Robert O’Hara 0000000055345883 Playwright and director Robert O'Hara is known for his award-winning works, including the Helen Hayes Award-winning play 'Antebellum'. He revamped 'The Wiz' for its rev...
Shoe’s on the Otha’ Foot
Shoe’s on the Otha’ Foot Hunter Hayes Excerpt Chapter 1 "I REMINISCE" Precisely four forty-seven p.m., and the damn beat-beat of my heart is racing to catch up with the tick-...
Death of the First Idea: Poems
Death of the First Idea: Poems Rickey Laurentiis 9780593802700 Poetry Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House From Whiting Award–Winner Rickey Laurentiis, a Mythic, Lyric, Decade-in-the-Making New...
This Side of Beautiful
This Side of Beautiful Tiye 9798990781788 Fiction Honey Blossom Press Honey Blossom Press She walked away from everything. Now she’s walking back. Janae Camille Warner was MILA to the world. A plat...
The Secrets We Escape
The Secrets We Escape Sherelle Green 9798334419506 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Welcome to Black River Falls The desolate town full of unexplained events that society cho...
The Single Dad Project (Rose Bend Book 5)
The Single Dad Project (Rose Bend Book 5) Naima Simone 9781335448026 Fiction Canary Street Press HarperCollins “Passion, heat and deep emotion—Naima Simone is a gem!” —Maisey Yates, New York Times bes...
This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets
This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets Kwame Alexander 9780316417525 Poetry Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group A breathtaking poetry collection on hope, heart, and heri...
Shark Teeth
Shark Teeth Sherri Winston 9781547608508 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing From National Book Award longlisted author Sherri Winston comes an important middle grade novel about a...
A Perfect Pairing
A Perfect Pairing Sheryl Lister 9781538724194 Fiction Forever Grand Central Publishing This heartwarming novel set in the idyllic small town of Firefly Lake explores the sisterly friendship between a ...
Heart First Into This Ruin: The Complete American Sonnets
Heart First Into This Ruin: The Complete American Sonnets Wanda Coleman 9781574232530 Poetry Black Sparrow David R. Godine, Publisher Featuring an introdcution by Mahogany L. Browne“Fantastically ente...
Once in a Lifetime
Once in a Lifetime Mary Monroe 9781496730633 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Beloved award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe delivers a hopeful and heartwarming stor...
Wild Women and the Blues
Wild Women and the Blues Denny S. Bryce 9781496730084 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. In a stirring and impeccably researched novel of Jazz-age Chicago in all its vibrant life, two stor...
Ancestors
Ancestors Alexis Pauline Gumbs 9781946511553 Nonfiction Boston Review Boston Review Some of today’s most imaginative writers consider what it means to be made and fashioned by others. It is rare no...
Half a World Away
Half a World Away Mike Gayle 9781473687332 Fiction Quercus Publishing Plc Quercus Publishing Plc Strangers living worlds apart. Strangers with nothing in common. But it wasn’t always that way… Kerry...
The Malevolent Volume
The Malevolent Volume Justin Phillip Reed 9781566895767 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press The Malevolent Volume explores the myths and transformations of Black being, on a continuum between...
The Romare Bearden Reader
The Romare Bearden Reader Robert G. O’Meally 9781478000587 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books The Romare Bearden Reader brings together a collection of new essays and c...
Thick: And Other Essays
Thick: And Other Essays Tressie McMillan Cottom 9781620974360 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press As featured by The Daily Show, NPR, PBS, CBC, Time, VIBE, Entertainment Weekly, Well-Read Black Gir...
Memphis 68: The Tragedy of Southern Soul
Memphis 68: The Tragedy of Southern Soul Stuart Cosgrove 9781846974137 Nonfiction Polygon Birlinn Book 2 in The Soul TrilogyWinner of the Penderyn Music Book Prize 2018 In the 1950s and 1960s, Memp...
The Universal Machine (consent not to be a single being)
The Universal Machine (consent not to be a single being) Fred Moten 9780822370468 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books "Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single bei...
Love By Delivery
Love By Delivery Pat Simmons 9781542602556 Fiction Generations Quest Press OverDrive, Inc. Senior Accounts Manager Dominique Hayes has it all money, a car and a condo. Well, almost. She’s starting to ...
Barbecue / Bootycandy (TCG Edition)
Barbecue / Bootycandy (TCG Edition) Robert O’Hara 9781559364959 Fiction Theatre Communications Group Theatre Communications Group "Searing and sensationally funny… As raw in its language and raucous i...
The Crown Ain’t Worth Much
The Crown Ain’t Worth Much Hanif Abdurraqib 9781943735044 Poetry Button Poetry Button Poetry The Crown Ain’t Worth Much, Hanif Abdurraqib’s first full-length collection, is a sharp and vulnerable port...
The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry
The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry Rita Dove 9780143121480 Poetry Penguin Books Penguin Random House In time for the holiday season, a beautiful paperback edition of Penguin’s ...
Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah
Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah Patricia Smith 9781566892995 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Winner of 2013 Wheatley Book Award in PoetryFinalist for 2013 William Carlos Williams AwardWinner o...
Heist
Heist Kiki Swinson and De’nesha Diamond 9781496707673 Fiction Kensington Publishing Corporation Kensington Publishing Corp. The Ultimate Heist Kiki SwinsonAccustomed to a life of luxury, Shannon Marsh...
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival Kwame Dawes 9781936070077 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books Contributors include: Robert Pins...
Family Affair: What It Means To Be African American Today
Family Affair: What It Means To Be African American Today Gil Robertson 9781932841350 Nonfiction Agate Bolden Agate Publishing, Inc “Family Affair is about who we are and how our past ...
Wild Cherry
Wild Cherry Jihad Shaheed Uhuru 9780970610232 Fiction Envisions Publishing, LLC Envisions Publishing, LLC Cherry is one bad chick. That’s no surprise since she s the granddaughter of one of the most t...
Notable Black Memphians
Notable Black Memphians Miriam Decosta-Willis 9781604975055 Nonfiction Cambria Press Cambria Press This biographical and historical study by Miriam DeCosta-Willis (PhD, Johns Hopkins University and th...
Business Unusual
Business Unusual Linda F. Beed 9780978589004 Fiction On Assignment On Assignment Business Unusual is a Contemporary Christian fiction novel that reaches beyond the superficial in order to deal with th...
Nan: The Trifling Times of Nathan Jones
Nan: The Trifling Times of Nathan Jones Moses Miller 9780978692902 Fiction Mind Candy, LLC. Mind Candy, LLC. NAN: The Trifling Times of Nathan Jones, is the riveting story of a troubled black male fro...
Dream of a Word: The Tia Chucha Press Poetry Anthology
Dream of a Word: The Tia Chucha Press Poetry Anthology Quraysh Ali Lansana and Toni Asante Lightfoot 9781882688302 Poetry Tia Chucha Tia Chucha Press Since 1989, Tia Chucha Press has been a leader in ...
Ghost Ranch: The Legend of Mad Jake (Kid Caramel: Private Investigator)
Ghost Ranch: The Legend of Mad Jake (Kid Caramel: Private Investigator) Dwayne Ferguson 9780940975170 Fiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. The West is indeed wild for kid detective Caramel Parks....
Plum Crazzzy
Plum Crazzzy Monique J. Anderson 9781929642076 Fiction Literally Speaking Publishing House Literally Speaking Publishing House I always wonder why am I the one who continually attracts the misfit man,...
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...
Esther Armah
Esther Armah NONE Esther Armah, an award-winning international journalist, best-selling author, and New York radio host, is known for her work in Europe, Africa, and America. She contributes to MSNBC...
Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage 0000000080050112 Congrats to Lynn Nottage: Winner 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Lynn Nottage, a distinguished playwright and lecturer, is celebrated for her outstanding plays and awarded ...
Ruth P. Watson
Ruth P. Watson NONE Ruth P. Watson is a Virginia-born author and educator, now living in Atlanta. Known for bestsellers like Blackberry Days of Summer, she also writes children's books and is a docum...
Charlotte Carter
Charlotte Carter 0000000081973701 Charlotte Carter, renowned for her mystery series featuring a jazz musician turned detective, and the Cook County series set in 1960s Chicago. Her work has featured ...
Shaft
Shaft Kam Williams images/shaft.1.jpg Film Review Shaft Release in: 2000 Director: John Singleton Genre: Action, Crime Toni Collette - Diane Palmieri Dan ...
Take Me to the River
Take Me to the River Kam Williams take-me-to-the-river-300.jpg Film Review Take Me to the River (2014) In Theaters: Sep 12, 2014 Limited Rated: PG Running Time: 95 Minutes Musical & Performi...
Ken Bevel - The "Courageous" Interview with AALBC.com
Ken Bevel - The "Courageous" Interview with AALBC.com Kam Williams Interview Marine Captain-Turned-Pastor "Courageous" A native of Jacksonville, Florida, Ken Bevel is a graduate of the Un...