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S.F. Powell
S.F. Powell NONE S.F. Powell, a Washington DC native, is an award-winning author who writes fiction, focusing on life and relationships with elements of various genres. Alongside writing, she enjoys ...
The Kevin Powell Reader: Essential Writings and Conversations
The Kevin Powell Reader: Essential Writings and Conversations Kevin Powell 9781636141015 Nonfiction Akashic Books Akashic Books A hopeful and insightful collection by one of the great voices of our ti...
Kevin Powell
Kevin Powell NONE Kevin Powell is widely considered one of America’s most important voices in these early years of the 21st century. Legendary feminist Gloria Steinem asserts that "as a cha...
The Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy’s Journey into Manhood
The Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy’s Journey into Manhood Kevin Powell 9781439163689 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In the spirit of Piri Thomas’s Down These Mean Streets and Maya Ang...
Colin Powell
Colin Powell 0000000108588433 Colin Powell (1937-2021) was a US statesman, diplomat, and retired four-star general. He served four presidential administrations, including as Secretary of State under ...
Adam Clayton Powell
Adam Clayton Powell 0000000121314963 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was a Baptist minister and the first African-American elected to Congress from New York. He represented Harlem from 1945-71. A national De...
Grocery Shopping with My Mother
Grocery Shopping with My Mother Kevin Powell 9781593767433 Poetry Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press “Kevin Powell returns with a poetic time capsule written with love in honor of his mother’s evolutio...
Adam by Adam: The Autobiography of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
Adam by Adam: The Autobiography of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Thumper Book Review ’Never let anyone keep you contained and never let anyone keep your voice silent.’ -Adam Clayton Powell, ...
A Poem for Evangeline, And Other Songs
A Poem for Evangeline, And Other Songs Kevin Powell 9798218824440 Poetry Get Fresh Books Publishing Get Fresh Books Publishing “Kevin Powell is one of this country’s most poignant literary voices. Pow...
My Mother. Barack Obama. Donald Trump. And the Last Stand of the Angry White Man.: An Autobiography of America
My Mother. Barack Obama. Donald Trump. And the Last Stand of the Angry White Man.: An Autobiography of America Kevin Powell 9781982105259 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Written in the s...
Ernie Paniccioli and Kevin Powell
Ernie Paniccioli and Kevin Powell MULTIPLE Ernie Paniccioli and Kevin Powell are distinguished authors known for their cultural insights. Paniccioli's work focuses on hip-hop photography, while Powel...
Stephanie Powell Watts
Stephanie Powell Watts 0000000123378514 Stephanie Powell Watts, a former Jehovah’s Witness minister and factory worker, is a celebrated writer and teacher of fiction and creative nonfiction. With a B...
Church Ladies: Untold Stories of Harlem Women
Church Ladies: Untold Stories of Harlem Women Martia G. Goodson 9781504958868 Nonfiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions In the new book Church Ladies: Untold Stories of Harlem Women in the Powell Era by...
Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, And The Ghost Of Dr. King: Blogs And Essays
Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, And The Ghost Of Dr. King: Blogs And Essays Kevin Powell 9781105414091 Nonfiction lulu.com lulu.com Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, and The Ghost of Dr. King, Kevin Powell’s ...
Someday We’ll All Be Free
Someday We’ll All Be Free Kevin Powell 9781933368573 Nonfiction Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press Someday We’ll All Be Free is the indispensable and passionate follow-up to Kevin Powell’s best-selling...
Nate Powell
Nate Powell 0000000078269174 Nate Powell, born in 1978, is a New York Times best-selling graphic novelist known for “March,” the autobiography of John Lewis. A self-publisher from age 14, Powell's aw...
LaVonne HONEYXBUN Powell
LaVonne HONEYXBUN Powell NONE LaVonne “HONEYXBUN” Powell, born in Miami in 1998, is a talented artist and writer from a large African-American & Jamaican family. Starting her journey with poetry in 7...
Adam by Adam
Adam by Adam Thumper Book Review ’Never let anyone keep you contained and never let anyone keep your voice silent.’ -Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. to a young Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. If I were...
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Dead Girl Cameo: A Love Song in Poems
Dead Girl Cameo: A Love Song in Poems m. mick powell 9780593733998 Poetry Random House Publishing Group Penguin Random House A dazzling docupoetic debut collection interweaving personal loss with the ...
When We Free The World
When We Free The World Kevin Powell 9781735199726 Nonfiction Bowker Bowker In When We Free the World, acclaimed writer and activist Kevin Powell presents a stunning and brutally honest survey of Ameri...
Open Letters To America: Essays By Kevin Powell
Open Letters To America: Essays By Kevin Powell Kevin Powell 9781593762148 Nonfiction Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press After eight years of George Bush’s America, we are at a critical juncture in our...
No Sleep Till Brooklyn: New And Selected Poems
No Sleep Till Brooklyn: New And Selected Poems Kevin Powell 9780979663697 Poetry Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press Written between 1989 and 2008, the poems in Kevin Powell’s powerful new collection en...
King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Wil Haygood 9780060842413 Nonfiction Harper Paperbacks HarperCollins Before Barack Obama, Colin Powell, and Martin Luther King, Jr., th...
My American Journey (Updated)
My American Journey (Updated) Colin Powell 9780345466419 Nonfiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant paren...
Adam by Adam: The Autobiography of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
Adam by Adam: The Autobiography of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Adam Clayton Powell 9780806515380 Nonfiction Citadel Press Kensington Publishing Corp. Book by Powell, Adam Clayton
Patricia Hruby Powell
Patricia Hruby Powell 0000000045698001 Patricia Hruby Powell, former dancer and now acclaimed children's author, is known for her books such as “Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker”, whic...
Step Into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature
Step Into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature Kevin Powell 9780471442561 Fiction Wiley Wiley Read more about the contributors to this fantastic volume of work “Kevin Powell is...
Obscure Boundaries
Obscure Boundaries S.F. Powell 9781483429052 Fiction S.F. Powell Books S.F. Powell Books Obscure Boundaries, another Dr. Naomi Alexander novel, is a story of sorrow and hope amidst familial jeopardy. ...
Like Sweet Buttermilk
Like Sweet Buttermilk S.F. Powell 9781483431802 Fiction S.F. Powell Books S.F. Powell Books Like Sweet Buttermilk is mainstream fiction centering on the sleuth-type skills of psychiatrist, Dr. Naomi A...
It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership
It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership Colin Powell 9780062135131 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins Colin Powell, one of America’s most admired public figures, reveals the principles that ha...
Marriage 101: Building A Life Together By Faith
Marriage 101: Building A Life Together By Faith Jewell R. Powell 9780800733322 Nonfiction Fleming H. Revell Company Baker Publishing Group Marriage is no fairy tale. Author Jewell R. Powell knows from...
Kevin Powell for Congress
Kevin Powell for Congress Kevin Powell Article Message Date: April 9th 2006 Good day to you, friend. I hope you and yours are well. As you may know by now, I am a candidate for th...
Plain Brown Wrapper: An Alex Powell Novel
Plain Brown Wrapper: An Alex Powell Novel Karen Grigsby Bates 9780380808915 Fiction HarperTorch HarperCollins African-American reporter Alex Powell has the kind of curiosity that tends to get a nosy g...
Who’s Gonna Take the Weight: Manhood, Race, and Power in America
Who’s Gonna Take the Weight: Manhood, Race, and Power in America Kevin Powell 9780609810446 Nonfiction Three Rivers Press Three Rivers Press “A mighty wind of fresh air. His pitiless self-examination...
Keepin’ It Real: Post-MTV Reflections on Race, Sex, and Politics
Keepin’ It Real: Post-MTV Reflections on Race, Sex, and Politics Kevin Powell 9780345424785 Nonfiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House In Keepin’ It Real, writer, poet, and cultural critic K...
Recognize: Poems
Recognize: Poems Kevin Powell 9780863163241 Poetry Writers and Readers Publishing Writers & Readers Publishing Driven by hip-hop music, popular culture, national and global events, and the specifics o...
Allycin Powell-Hicks
Allycin Powell-Hicks NONE Dr. Allycin Powell-Hicks is a beauty, mental health, and relationship expert, and the founder of the Doux Consulting Group. She hosted the acclaimed show Like Mother Like D...
m. mick powell
m. mick powell NONE m. mick powell is a queer Black Cape Verdean femme, a poet, an artist, an Aries, and author of the chapbooks threesome in the last Toyota Celica and chronicle the body. Their poe...
The Problem with Pretty: Beauty, Bias and the Surprising Science of Good Looks
The Problem with Pretty: Beauty, Bias and the Surprising Science of Good Looks Allycin Powell-Hicks 9781538772713 Nonfiction Legacy Lit Hachette Book Group A beauty and mental health expert exposes ho...
African Voices Hip Hop At 50
African Voices Hip Hop At 50 Kevin Powell av-hiphopat50 Fiction African Voices African Voices Magazine A special digital issue of African Voices celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop guest edite...
2020: The Year That Changed America
2020: The Year That Changed America Kevin Powell 9781735199740 Nonfiction Bowker Bowker 2020 is a year we shall never forget-not America, not the world. The tragic death of Kobe Bryant and his dau...
Lift as You Climb: The Story of Ella Baker
Lift as You Climb: The Story of Ella Baker Patricia Hruby Powell 9781534406230 Nonfiction Margaret K. McElderry Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Learn about the civil rights activist Ella Baker in this in...
Obscure Boundaries
Obscure Boundaries S.F. Powell 9781732722439 Fiction NIB Karatasi Press NIB Karatasi Press With Obscure Boundaries, S.F. Powell explores the isolation of grief and its impact on a family trying to hea...
We Are Taking Only What We Need
We Are Taking Only What We Need Stephanie Powell Watts 9780062749901 Fiction Ecco Press HarperCollins In these powerfully rendered, prizewinning stories, working-class African Americans across the Sou...
Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case
Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case Patricia Hruby Powell 9781452125909 Fiction Chronicle Books Chronicle Books From acclaimed author Patricia Hruby Powell comes...
Josephine: The Dazzling Life Of Josephine Baker
Josephine: The Dazzling Life Of Josephine Baker Patricia Hruby Powell 9781452103143 Nonfiction Chronicle Books Chronicle Books Coretta Scott King Book Award, Illustrator, Honor In exuberant verse a...
Open Letter to Chris Brown
Open Letter to Chris Brown Kevin Powell Article Open Letter to Chris Brown by Kevin Powell March 23rd, 2011 Dear Chris: I really did not want to write this open letter, and would have prefe...
Black Male Handbook: A Blueprint for Life
Black Male Handbook: A Blueprint for Life Kevin Powell 9781416592242 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Author and activist Kevin Powell and contributors Lasana Omar Hotep, Jeff Johnson, By...
Frog Brings Rain
Frog Brings Rain Patricia Hruby Powell 9781893354081 Fiction Salina Bookshelf Salina Bookshelf As fire creeps toward the village of the First People, First Man and First Woman must find a way to quenc...
List of Contributors to Step into a World
List of Contributors to Step into a World Kevin Powell Article The Following is the List of Contributors to This Amazing Volume Toyin Adewale is a native of Emure-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeri...
Colin Powell (Contemporary African Americans)
Colin Powell (Contemporary African Americans) Diane Patrick 9780811497978 Nonfiction Heinemann Library Heinemann Library Traces the life of Colin Powell, from his childhood to his success as the first...
In the Tradition: An Anthology of Young Black Writers
In the Tradition: An Anthology of Young Black Writers Kevin Powell 9780863163166 Fiction Writers and Readers Publishing Writers & Readers Publishing Book by Powell, Kevin
John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
John Lewis and Andrew Aydin MULTIPLE Nate Powell, John Lewis, and Andrew Aydin are an acclaimed trio of authors, known for their significant contributions to literature. (l to r) Nate Powell, John Le...
Jewell R. Powell
Jewell R. Powell NONE Sure, I'd be happy to help you with this. However, it seems you've forgotten to provide the author bio you'd like me to summarize. Could you please provide the information?
Steven Harris, Dennis Calero, and Eli Powell
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Fights: One Boy’s Triumph Over Violence
Fights: One Boy’s Triumph Over Violence Joel Christian Gill 9781549303357 Nonfiction Oni Press Oni Press A New York Times Best Graphic Novel of 2020 YALSA 2021 Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2021 Ca...
Broken Benevolence
Broken Benevolence S.F. Powell 9781732722460 Fiction NIB Karatasi Press NIB Karatasi Press Winter has come in a most terrifying way for Cecily Brooks, making the cold the least of her worries. Broken ...
Like Sweet Buttermilk
Like Sweet Buttermilk S.F. Powell 9781732722408 Fiction NIB Karatasi Press NIB Karatasi Press First-place winner of the Black Expressions Fiction contest, Like Sweet Buttermilk is an erotically-charge...
No One Is Coming to Save Us: A Novel
No One Is Coming to Save Us: A Novel Stephanie Powell Watts 9780062472991 Fiction Ecco Press HarperCollins *WINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR DEBUT NOVEL**THE INAUGURAL SARAH JESSICA PARKER PICK FOR...
The Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution
The Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution Bryan Shih and Yohuru Williams 9781568585550 Nonfiction Bold Type Books Hachette Book Group Brilliant, painful, enlightening, tearful, trag...
Sweet Buttermilk (book trailer) by S.F. Powell
Sweet Buttermilk (book trailer) by S.F. Powell Book Spotlights
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2013): Impact Beyond Boundaries
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2013): Impact Beyond Boundaries Clarence V. Reynolds 21551758v4 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Fall& /& Winter 2013 “Impact ...
In Defense of Ashley Judd
In Defense of Ashley Judd Kevin Powell Article Ashley Judd is a very courageous woman. I am not referring to her work as a global ambassador for YouthAids, or her efforts to end poverty and sexual...
Zinnia: How the Corn Was Saved
Zinnia: How the Corn Was Saved Patricia Hruby Powell 9781893354388 Nonfiction Salina Bookshelf Salina Bookshelf A story of adventure! When the Navajo people are on the brink of a devastating famine, t...
Who Shot Ya?: Three Decades of HipHop Photography
Who Shot Ya?: Three Decades of HipHop Photography Ernie Paniccioli and Kevin Powell 9780066211688 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Nearly thirty years ago, Ernie Paniccioli began photographing the gra...
Blossom Tales: Flower Stories of Many Folk
Blossom Tales: Flower Stories of Many Folk Patricia Hruby Powell 9780967792989 Nonfiction Moon Mountain Publishing Moon Mountain Publishing A collection of 14 folk tales about flowers from around the...
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 9780679776666 Nonfiction Vintage Penguin Random House “This is a book of stories,” writes Henry Louis Gates, “and all might be described ...
Barry Fletcher
Barry Fletcher 000000004196937X Barry Fletcher, a renowned celebrity hairstylist, offers his expertise to A-list clientele including Halle Berry and Tina Turner, and influential figures like Condolee...
Farai Chideya
Farai Chideya 0000000042490213 Farai Chideya is an award-winning author and journalist with a 20-year career blending media, technology, and diversity. Creator of the Pop and Politics brand, she prod...
Like Sweet Buttermilk
Like Sweet Buttermilk S.F. Powell Excerpt …Viv entered their sitting room, where she lay down to think, pulling the afghan strewn across the loveseat around her. More thinking, however, didn...
Obscure Boundaries
Obscure Boundaries S.F. Powell Excerpt …“You know he’ll be out by the time she gets home.” Todd dropped his head for a minute then looked up. “Wanna watch Medea&rsquo...
Epic Harlem: A Narrative History
Epic Harlem: A Narrative History Herb Boyd 9781531514433 Nonfiction Fordham University Press Fordham University Press A sweeping, deeply rooted history of Harlem at the center of Black cultural, polit...
The People’s House: The Power and Presence of African Americans in the White House
The People’s House: The Power and Presence of African Americans in the White House Michelle D. Commander and Kathleen M. Kendrick 9780143139072 Nonfiction Penguin Classics Penguin Random House A new a...
The Lovers, the Liars, and Me
The Lovers, the Liars, and Me DeAndra Davis 9781665952682 Fiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. A teen travels to Jamaica hoping to answer questions about her absent mother, ...
Jukes and Tonks
Jukes and Tonks Gary Phillips and Michael Bracken 9781972046036 Fiction Audecyn Books Audecyn Books Whether their cover bands play Willie Dixon or Willie Nelson, juke joints and honky-tonks appeal to ...
With Love from Harlem: A Novel of Hazel Scott
With Love from Harlem: A Novel of Hazel Scott ReShonda Tate Billingsley 9780063421189 Fiction William Morrow Paperbacks HarperCollins From The Queen of Sugar Hill author ReShonda Tate—a new novel insp...
My Father’s House: An Ode to America’s Longest-Serving Black Congressman
My Father’s House: An Ode to America’s Longest-Serving Black Congressman John Conyers III 9780063336810 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In this moving work, part clear-eyed assessment, part memoir, t...
Hair Like Obama’s, Hands Like Lebron’s: A Picture Book
Hair Like Obama’s, Hands Like Lebron’s: A Picture Book Carole Boston Weatherford 9781419771484 Fiction Abrams Appleseed Abrams From Colin Kaepernick to Martin Luther King, Jr. to Benjamin Crump, Hair ...
Kwame Crashes the Underworld
Kwame Crashes the Underworld Craig Kofi Farmer 9781250900265 Fiction Roaring Brook Press Macmillan Publishers A stunning middle grade fantasy about a boy hurled into the Ghanaian underworld to help hi...
Watson and Holmes: A Scandal in Harlem
Watson and Holmes: A Scandal in Harlem Brandon Easton, Karl Bollers, Greg Anderson Elysée, Lindsay Faye, and Steven Grant 9781960171030 Fiction Fairsquare Comics Fairsquare Comics Harlem, Now. The mos...
Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins
Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins Aidan Levy 9780306902802 Nonfiction Hachette Hachette Book Group The long-awaited first full biography of legendary jazz saxophonist and compose...
We Could Fly
We Could Fly Rhiannon Giddens 9781536222548 Fiction Candlewick Press (MA) Candlewick Press In a companion to Build a House, Rhiannon Giddens—winner of multiple Grammy Awards and a Pulitzer Prize and c...
Home Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition: A Black Feminist Anthology
Home Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition: A Black Feminist Anthology Barbara Smith 9781978838994 Nonfiction Rutgers University Press Rutgers University Press Home Girls, the pioneering anthology of Black ...
Mr. Right Now: Baes of Juneteenth
Mr. Right Now: Baes of Juneteenth Sheryl Lister 9781737330141 Fiction SL Books SL Books Dante Powell, known as Mr. Black Los Angeles, is a master of meticulous planning, especially for the Juneteenth ...
Running to Fall: A Novel
Running to Fall: A Novel Kalisha Buckhanon 9780979637407 Fiction AALBC Aspire African American Literature Book Club Also Available in Hardcover “Riveting.” —Amazon Book Review A 2022 Essence, Bu...
Running to Fall: A Novel
Running to Fall: A Novel Kalisha Buckhanon 9780979637421 Fiction AALBC Aspire African American Literature Book Club Also Available in Paperback “Riveting.” —Amazon Book Review A 2022 Essence, Bust...
The Dating Playbook
The Dating Playbook Farrah Rochon 9781538716670 Fiction Forever Grand Central Publishing When a personal trainer agrees to fake date her client, all rules are out the window in this "fun, heartfe...
Artistic Activism of Elombe Brath
Artistic Activism of Elombe Brath Elombe Brath and Thomas Aiello 9781496835376 Nonfiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi Collected for the first time, an exploration o...
Black Liberation / Red Scare: Ben Davis and the Communist Party
Black Liberation / Red Scare: Ben Davis and the Communist Party Gerald Horne 9780717808625 Nonfiction International Publishers International Publishers Black Liberation/Red Scare is a study of an Afri...
Sharks in the Time of Saviors
Sharks in the Time of Saviors Kawai Strong Washburn 9781250787316 Fiction Picador Macmillan Publishers WINNER OF THE 2020 PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT NOVEL. One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books o...
In the Hands of the People: Thomas Jefferson on Equality, Faith, Freedom, Compromise, and the Art of Citizenship
In the Hands of the People: Thomas Jefferson on Equality, Faith, Freedom, Compromise, and the Art of Citizenship Jon Meacham 9780593229316 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House Pulitzer Prize-w...
Party of Two
Party of Two Jasmine Guillory 9780593100820 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House A chance meeting with a handsome stranger turns into a whirlwind affair that gets everyone talking in this New Yo...
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...
Mary Monroe’s New Book, REMEMBRANCE, "A Cozy Holiday Read!"
Mary Monroe’s New Book, REMEMBRANCE, "A Cozy Holiday Read!" Troy Johnson Article It’s the most wonderful time of the year and Kensington’s got you covered when it comes to cozy holiday reads! In t...
Remembrance
Remembrance Mary Monroe 9781496715821 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In this moving, unforgettable novel from New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe, a successful, happily married m...
Book of Black Heroes: Political Leaders Past and Present
Book of Black Heroes: Political Leaders Past and Present Gil Robertson 9781933491219 Nonfiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. The highly anticipated fourth installment of the Book of Black Heroes ...
March (Trilogy Slipcase Set)
March (Trilogy Slipcase Set) John Lewis and Andrew Aydin 9781603093958 Fiction Top Shelf Productions Top Shelf Productions Winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.Discover the ...
March Book Three
March Book Three John Lewis and Andrew Aydin 9781603094023 Nonfiction Top Shelf Productions Top Shelf Productions Welcome to the stunning conclusion of the award-winning and best-selling March trilogy...