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Daaimah S. Poole, Miasha, Joy Deja King, and T. Styles
Daaimah S. Poole, Miasha, Joy Deja King, and T. Styles MULTIPLE Daaimah S. Poole, Miasha, Joy Deja King, and T. Styles are renowned authors, each known for their unique storytelling style and contrib...
International Family Poetry Anthology: Uplifting Humanity With Inspirational Verses!
International Family Poetry Anthology: Uplifting Humanity With Inspirational Verses! Joseph S. Spence B09TSWDXDC Poetry Clever Fox Publishing Clever Fox Publishing This elegant poetry book is very ins...
A Black Girl and Her Braids
A Black Girl and Her Braids Jaylene Clark Owens 9780593889732 Nonfiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House Based on the viral poem, braids of all lengths, looks, parts, and styles are explored and...
Miles of Style: Eunice W. Johnson and the Ebony Fashion Fair
Miles of Style: Eunice W. Johnson and the Ebony Fashion Fair Lisa D. Brathwaite 9781620143124 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books A chic biography about Eunice W. Johnson who brought elegant an...
Dismissive Avoidant in Love: How Understanding the Four Main Styles of Attachment Can Impact Your Relationship
Dismissive Avoidant in Love: How Understanding the Four Main Styles of Attachment Can Impact Your Relationship Johanna Sparrow B07B4TZDMF Nonfiction Amazon Digital Services Amazon Digital Services, In...
Cold As Ice
Cold As Ice T. Styles 9781945240287 Fiction Cartel Publications Cartel Publications T. Styles’, Cold as Ice - Pepper Thomas is a straight A student living in a rough part of Southeast Washington DC, w...
Mad MaXXX: Children of The Catacombs
Mad MaXXX: Children of The Catacombs T. Styles 9780989084505 Fiction Cartel Publications Cartel Publications What do you get when you put a group of vagrants, alcoholics, drug addicts, murderers and t...
Soft
Soft T. Styles, J.M. Benjamin, Boston George, Danielle Santiago, and Caroline Mcgill 9781601624635 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. New York Times bestselling authors Ashley and JaQuavi...
A Hustler’s Son 2
A Hustler’s Son 2 T. Styles 9780979493157 Fiction Cartel Publications Cartel Publications With a goal to become one of the world s largest African American publishers, T.Styles, Essence Magazine s bes...
T. Styles, J.M. Benjamin, Boston George, Danielle Santiago, and Caroline Mcgill
T. Styles, J.M. Benjamin, Boston George, Danielle Santiago, and Caroline Mcgill MULTIPLE
T. Styles
T. Styles NONE Driven by her faith and inspired by trailblazers like Sister Souljah, this multi-talented author has a diverse background in massage therapy, modeling, and public speaking. Passionate ...
Afrocentric Style: A Celebration of Blackness & Identity in Pop Culture
Afrocentric Style: A Celebration of Blackness & Identity in Pop Culture Shirley Neal 9780063080836 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins AfroCentric Style: A Celebration of Blackness & Identity in Pop Cult...
Crowning Glory: A Celebration of Black Hair
Crowning Glory: A Celebration of Black Hair Carole Boston Weatherford 9780763697945 Nonfiction Candlewick Press (MA) Candlewick Press Celebrate the beauty of Black hair creations through the rhyming t...
The Gods of Everything Else 2: Too Close To The Sun (The Cartel Publications Presents)
The Gods of Everything Else 2: Too Close To The Sun (The Cartel Publications Presents) T. Styles 9781948373821 Fiction Cartel Publications Cartel Publications
The Gods of Everything Else: An Ace and Walid Saga (the Cartel Publications Presents)
The Gods of Everything Else: An Ace and Walid Saga (the Cartel Publications Presents) T. Styles 9781948373760 Fiction Cartel Publications Cartel Publications The sins of the fathers shall be visited o...
Ask The Streets For Mercy (The Cartel Publications Presents)
Ask The Streets For Mercy (The Cartel Publications Presents) T. Styles 9781948373289 Fiction Cartel Publications Cartel Publications When Rasha was left to strangers as an infant, she didn’t know ther...
The Fold
The Fold T. Styles 9781945240010 Fiction Cartel Publications Cartel Publications Infatuated with the legend of Farah Cotton, told through handwritten books by the late Mooney, Cutie Tudy is determined...
Whore the Wind Blew My Way
Whore the Wind Blew My Way T. Styles 9781945240164 Fiction Cartel Publications Cartel Publications After committing a violent crime, Louise Smart, a career whore, desires one thing above all, to escap...
Black and Ugly
Black and Ugly T. Styles 9780996209953 Fiction Cartel Publications Cartel Publications Parade Knight hates her complexion. As a result, she considers herself to be unattractive and condones the misuse...
Lipstick Dom
Lipstick Dom T. Styles 9780984303021 Fiction Cartel Publications Cartel Publications
Pretty Kings 2: Scarlett’s Fever
Pretty Kings 2: Scarlett’s Fever T. Styles 9780989084529 Fiction Cartel Publications Cartel Publications The Pretty Kings you love are back but they are not alone. The Kennedy Kings have resurfaced on...
Better Than Good Hair: The Curly Girl Guide to Healthy, Gorgeous Natural Hair!
Better Than Good Hair: The Curly Girl Guide to Healthy, Gorgeous Natural Hair! Nikki Walton with Ernessa T. Carter 9780062123763 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins The fresh new handbook on how to achie...
Pretty Kings
Pretty Kings T. Styles 9780984993048 Fiction Cartel Publications Cartel Publications BET called ’Pretty Kings’ a must read! The Pretty Kings became the most notorious drug lords in the United States. ...
Black & Ugly As Ever
Black & Ugly As Ever T. Styles 9780979493164 Fiction Cartel Publications Cartel Publications The gang you fell in love with returns from the street classic Black & Ugly! Parade Knight finally gets wha...
Raunchy 3: Jayden’s Passion
Raunchy 3: Jayden’s Passion T. Styles 9780984303076 Nonfiction Cartel Publications Cartel Publications When Jayden Phillips is violated by her sister, she rethinks her life and relationship with her f...
Redbone
Redbone T. Styles 9781601624932 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Where, oh where, have Farah’s roommates all gone?When Farah Cotton places a classified ad stating, "Cute redbone female ...
Raunchy 2: Mad’s Love
Raunchy 2: Mad’s Love T. Styles 9780984303069 Nonfiction Cartel Publications Cartel Publications After escaping death at her own child’s hands, you’d think Harmony Phillips would change. Instead she f...
Shyt List 4: Children of the Wronged
Shyt List 4: Children of the Wronged T. Styles 9780984303038 Fiction Cartel Publications Cartel Publications What happens when the devil s daughter visits Sin City? Drama occurs of biblical proportion...
Raunchy
Raunchy T. Styles 9780982391372 Fiction Cartel Publications Cartel Publications Neighbors considered five year old Harmony Phillips, her father Cornell Phillips and her mother Estelle Pointer, to be u...
Understanding Black Male Learning Styles
Understanding Black Male Learning Styles Jawanza Kunjufu 9781934155387 Nonfiction African American Images African American Images Offering information for use inside and outside of the classroom, this...
Miss Wayne & The Queens Of DC
Miss Wayne & The Queens Of DC T. Styles 9780982391341 Fiction Cartel Publications Cartel Publications Miss Wayne from the Essence Best Selling novel Black and Ugly and Black & Ugly as Ever returns in ...
The Face That Launched A Thousand Bullets
The Face That Launched A Thousand Bullets T. Styles 9780982391327 Fiction Cartel Publications Cartel Publications The Face That Launched A Thousand Bullets: Two men. Two feuding cities. One woman. One...
Diamond Playgirls
Diamond Playgirls Daaimah S. Poole, Miasha, Joy Deja King, and T. Styles 9780758223562 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Four beautiful, professional women, living on separate floors ...
Black & Ugly
Black & Ugly T. Styles 9780977880416 Fiction Triple Crown Publications Triple Crown Publications Parade Knight hates her complexion. As a result, she considers herself to be unattractive and condones ...
A Hustler’s Son
A Hustler’s Son T. Styles 9780976789499 Fiction Triple Crown Publications Triple Crown Publications Based out of Bladensburg, Maryland, 31-year-old Janet Stayley spent her life looking for a hustler. ...
The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry
The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry Arnold Rampersad and Hilary Herbold 9780195125634 Poetry Oxford University Press Oxford University Press For over two centuries, black poets have create...
Spiritual Maturity: Preserving Congregational Health and Balance (Prisms)
Spiritual Maturity: Preserving Congregational Health and Balance (Prisms) Frank A. Thomas 9780800630867 Nonfiction Augsburg Fortress 1517 Media Like all human bodies, the body of Christ that we call &...
Black Photographers Annual, Volume 3
Black Photographers Annual, Volume 3 Joe Crawford 9780913564042 Nonfiction Black Photographers Annual, Inc. Black Photographers Annual, Inc. “…a study of means, and styles, of confrontation — past, pr...
Keith Kareem Williams
Keith Kareem Williams NONE Keith Kareem Williams, a Brooklyn-based author, has penned over 21 books and 5 screenplays. He balances a full-time writing career with single fatherhood. Williams writes '...
The Cartel Publications, CEO, T. Styles
The Cartel Publications, CEO, T. Styles Troy Johnson Article There comes a time in every industry when a company enters into it, propelling the enterprise forward. This usually ins...
MuseWrite Press
MuseWrite Press MuseWrite Press MuseWrite Press https://musewrite.com/ MuseWrite started in 2009 with Michelle Duster, Trina Sotira, and two other professional writers to conduct seminars on writing a...
MuseWrite Press
MuseWrite Press MuseWrite Press MuseWrite Press https://musewrite.com/ MuseWrite started in 2009 with Michelle Duster, Trina Sotira, and two other professional writers to conduct seminars on writing a...
Coltrane: The Definitive Visual Celebration of the Legend
Coltrane: The Definitive Visual Celebration of the Legend Ravi Coltrane 9781984858399 Nonfiction Ten Speed Press Penguin Random House The definitive photographic celebration of John Coltrane’s life an...
Salehe Bembury: I Make Shoes
Salehe Bembury: I Make Shoes Salehe Bembury 9780847844968 Nonfiction Rizzoli International Publications Rizzoli International Publications Hotly anticipated and destined to be an essential for the sne...
Jordan’s Perfect Haircut
Jordan’s Perfect Haircut Sharee Miller 9780316592284 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Celebrate a Black boy’s first haircut in this joyful book from the creator of the...
Salon Saturday
Salon Saturday Janelle Harper 9780593526330 Fiction Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A picture book that celebrates the community built at the hair salon and the dynamic variety of ...
Black Hair Can: The Roots of Our Roots
Black Hair Can: The Roots of Our Roots Sylvia Rodriguez 9781623545901 Fiction Charlesbridge Charlesbridge From the kings and queens of Africa to the contemporary United States, a celebration of Africa...
Our Vodou My Coloring Book
Our Vodou My Coloring Book Malou Beauvoir 9798999376428 Fiction Modern Manbo Modern Manbo Author’s Note Color your way into the magical world of Our Vodou, where mermaids shimmer under the ocean wa...
Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women
Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women Sandra Guzmán 9780063052598 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins “Full of heart and wisdom, Daughters of Latin America she...
Veracity and Verse: A Preacher’s Reflections and Poems on Faith and Truth
Veracity and Verse: A Preacher’s Reflections and Poems on Faith and Truth James A. Forbes 9798889832416 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media Explore the remarkable life and heartfelt verse of the Rev...
The Library Learning Experience
The Library Learning Experience Baltimore Maryland At LibLearnX, library professionals at all levels can take part in a conference experience that will provide ultimate learning benefits. Attendees w...
Sam Gilliam
Sam Gilliam Ishmael Reed 9781838663933 Nonfiction Phaidon Press Phaidon Press The definitive monograph of Sam Gilliam, one of the great innovators in post-war American painting An African American ...
Seeing Black: Black Photography in New Orleans 1840 and Beyond
Seeing Black: Black Photography in New Orleans 1840 and Beyond Kalamu ya Salaam 9781608013029 Nonfiction University of New Orleans Press University of New Orleans Press Situating historical inquiry al...
My Hair Is a Book
My Hair Is a Book Maisha Oso 9780063249103 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Celebrate the uniqueness and beauty of Black hair in this poetic picture book that journeys through time, from stunning d...
Silver: Poems
Silver: Poems Rowan Ricardo Phillips 9780374611316 Poetry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers Rowan Ricardo Phillips’s fourth collection is a book as lustrous as the metal of its title. ...
The Rise of Rage: Harnessing the Most Misunderstood Emotion
The Rise of Rage: Harnessing the Most Misunderstood Emotion Julie A. Christiansen 9781506492353 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media Of all the human emotions, anger is probably the most misunderstoo...
Spectral Evidence: Poems
Spectral Evidence: Poems Gregory Pardlo 9781524731786 Poetry Alfred A. Knopf Penguin Random House An unapologetically bold, stimulating, and inspired collection of photographs and profiles celebrating...
Psalms of My People: A Story of Black Liberation as Told through Hip-Hop
Psalms of My People: A Story of Black Liberation as Told through Hip-Hop Lenny Duncan 9781506479026 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media If you want to understand the Black experience in the US, you ...
A Different Energy: Women in Caribbean Oil & Gas
A Different Energy: Women in Caribbean Oil & Gas Celeste Mohammed 9789768291943 Nonfiction Words Matter Communications Words Matter Communications A Different Energy stands as a testament to the endur...
The Black Joy Project
The Black Joy Project Kleaver Cruz 9780358588757 Nonfiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary Work Featuring 117 full-color photos and eigh...
Stepping Out: The Unapologetic Style of African Americans Over Fifty
Stepping Out: The Unapologetic Style of African Americans Over Fifty Connie Briscoe 9780593236116 Nonfiction Clarkson Potter Penguin Random House An unapologetically bold, stimulating, and inspired co...
Iconic Home: Interiors, Advice, and Stories from 50 Amazing Black Designers
Iconic Home: Interiors, Advice, and Stories from 50 Amazing Black Designers Ashley June Reese 9781419763649 Nonfiction Harry N. Abrams Harry N. Abrams Black Interior Designers, Inc. (BID) presents the...
My Hair Is Like the Sun
My Hair Is Like the Sun St. Clair Detrick-Jules 9781797221793 Fiction Chronicle Books Chronicle Books AS SEEN ON THE TODAY SHOW! A 2023 Good Housekeeping Kids Book Award Winner A 2023 Chicago Public...
How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill
How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill Jericho Brown 9780063278189 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins More than 30 acclaimed writers—including diverse voices such as Nikki Giovanni, D...
Butter: Novellas, Stories, and Fragments
Butter: Novellas, Stories, and Fragments Gayl Jones 9780807030011 Fiction Beacon Press Beacon Press A wide-ranging collection, including two novellas and ten stories exploring complex identities, from...
A Boy and His Mirror
A Boy and His Mirror Marchánt Davis 9780593110553 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House Debut author and actor Marchánt Davis joins forces with the bestselling illustrator Keturah A....
A Child’s Introduction to Jazz: The Musicians, Culture, and Roots of the World’s Coolest Music
A Child’s Introduction to Jazz: The Musicians, Culture, and Roots of the World’s Coolest Music Jabari Asim 9780762479412 Nonfiction Black Dog & Leventhal Hachette Book Group Get ready to swing with A ...
My Fade Is Fresh
My Fade Is Fresh Shauntay Grant 9780593387085 Fiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House A little girl makes sure she walks out of the barbershop rocking the fabulous hair style she chooses. Lea...
We Find Our Way
We Find Our Way Reyna Biddy 9781524873868 Poetry Andrews McMeel Publishing Andrews McMeel Publishing “To describe this book, I wrote from the perspective of the black experience. My experience particu...
A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times: Stories
A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times: Stories Meron Hadero 9781632061188 Fiction Restless Books Restless Books NPR Best Books of 2022 The Christian Science Monitor 10 Best Books of June Most A...
Bottle Tops: The Art of El Anatsui
Bottle Tops: The Art of El Anatsui Alison Goldberg 9781620149669 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Editor’s Choice Books for Youth, Booklist Children’s Africana Book Awards, Howard Universit...
Mae Makes a Way: The True Story of Mae Reeves, Hat & History Maker
Mae Makes a Way: The True Story of Mae Reeves, Hat & History Maker Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich 9780525645856 Nonfiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Mae had a dream to make one...
A Young Person’s Guide to Classical Music
A Young Person’s Guide to Classical Music Earl Ofari Hutchinson 9781087950617 Nonfiction Middle Passage Press Middle Passage Press A Young Person’s Guide to Classical Music is a fast-paced, highly rea...
Naturals: The Paper People: Our Hair and Shapes
Naturals: The Paper People: Our Hair and Shapes Melica Niccole 9798447113049 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published Naturals: The Paper People are paper people who live inside book...
The Barber’s Cutting Edge
The Barber’s Cutting Edge Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert 9780892391967 Fiction Children’s Book Press Lee & Low Books The Barber’s Cutting Edge is a touching celebration of the close relationship between a yo...
Thanks a Million
Thanks a Million Nikki Grimes 9780063204034 Nonfiction Greenwillow Books HarperCollins Acclaimed poet Nikki Grimes and award-winning illustrator Cozbi A. Cabrera celebrate the joy of family, friends, ...
New Kid Sketchbook: A Place for Your Cartoons, Doodles, and Stories
New Kid Sketchbook: A Place for Your Cartoons, Doodles, and Stories Jerry Craft 9780593232262 Nonfiction Clarkson Potter Penguin Random House Turn your life into the stuff of cartoons with this drawin...
My Hair Is Professional TOO!
My Hair Is Professional TOO! April Maria Williams 9798688836400 Nonfiction JumpTime Publishing JumpTime Publishing My Hair is Professional TOO! explores the laws that make it legal for an employer to ...
African
African Peter Tosh 9781617757990 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books A beautiful children’s picture book featuring the lyrics of Peter Tosh’s global classic celebrating children of African descent.So d...
Princess Hair
Princess Hair Sharee Miller 9780316441193 Fiction LB Kids Hachette Book Group Princesses with curls wear pearls. Princesses with head wraps take long naps. And princesses with teeny-weeny Afros wear t...
Songs in the Shade of the Cashew and Coconut Trees: Lullabies and Nursery Rhymes from West Africa and the Caribbean
Songs in the Shade of the Cashew and Coconut Trees: Lullabies and Nursery Rhymes from West Africa and the Caribbean Nathalie Soussana 9782924774533 Nonfiction The Secret Mountain La Montagne secr&egra...
Leadership with a Servant’s Heart: Leading Through Personal Relationships
Leadership with a Servant’s Heart: Leading Through Personal Relationships Kevin Wayne Johnson 9780988303850 Nonfiction Writing for the Lord Writing for the Lord Leadership with a Servant’s Heart expos...
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...
The Legacy…: Keep the Family Close
The Legacy…: Keep the Family Close Joy Deja King 9781942217374 Fiction King Productions King Productions The Legacy introduces you to the very prominent yet deadly, Collins Family. Allen Collins is th...
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 N. K. Jemisin 9781328834560 Fiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Today’s readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stori...
Hip Hop at the End of the World: The Photography of Brother Ernie
Hip Hop at the End of the World: The Photography of Brother Ernie Ernie Paniccioli 9780789334411 Nonfiction Universe Publishing Rizzoli Filled with more than 250 images of artists including Ice Cube, ...
Everyday People: The Color of Life — A Short Story Anthology
Everyday People: The Color of Life — A Short Story Anthology Jennifer Baker 9781501134944 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In the tradition of Best American Short Stories comes Everyday Peop...
Daphne Definitely Doesn’t Do Dances
Daphne Definitely Doesn’t Do Dances Tami Charles 9781496563019 Fiction Stone Arch Books Capstone Press A few months into the school year, Annabelle Louis is starting to find her place at McManus Middl...
When Mama Braids My Hair
When Mama Braids My Hair Monique Duncan 9781513633527 Fiction Sweet Pea Books Sweet Pea Books When Mama Braids My Hair captures a young girl’s experience of having her hair braided and the bond it cre...
Vincent Comes Home
Vincent Comes Home Jessixa Bagley 9781626727809 Fiction Roaring Brook Press Macmillan Publishers Jessixa Bagley, author and illustrator of Laundry Day, Before I Leave, and Boats For Papa (winner of th...
Yoruba Mythology Coloring Book: The Gods and Goddesses of Yorubaland
Yoruba Mythology Coloring Book: The Gods and Goddesses of Yorubaland Nzinga-Christina Reid 9780692967027 Nonfiction Black Diaries Black Diaries Yoruba mythology is often studied and yet many questions...
The Best American Sports Writing 2017
The Best American Sports Writing 2017 Howard Bryant 9780544821552 Nonfiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt “Excellent… A no-brainer pickup for the sports collection.”—Booklist For over tw...
Colorism Essays and Poems
Colorism Essays and Poems Sarah L. Webb 9781976293276 Poetry CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC How does colorism impact people from different cultures? How can we have productive conversations abou...
One World Two: A Second Global Anthology of Short Stories
One World Two: A Second Global Anthology of Short Stories Ovo Adagha and Chris Brazier 9781780263304 Fiction New Internationalist New Internationalist One World Two is the eagerly awaited follow-up to...
The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers
The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers Fouad Laroui 9781941920268 Fiction Deep Vellum Publishing Deep Vellum Publishing "A striking metaphor for our times."—Le FigaroThis long-awaited English-langu...
Rich Girl Problems (Millionaire Wives Club)
Rich Girl Problems (Millionaire Wives Club) Tu-Shonda L. Whitaker 9780758283764 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. ""Tu-Shonda Whitaker just keeps getting better and better."" —T. Styles ...
The Muntu Poets - Anthology Volume 2: 47 Years Later
The Muntu Poets - Anthology Volume 2: 47 Years Later Russell Atkins 9781681210292 Poetry Uptown Media Joint Ventures Uptown Media Joint Ventures The Muntu Poets - a forgotten voice in the mid to late ...
The Muntu Poets Of Cleveland
The Muntu Poets Of Cleveland Russell Atkins 9781681210315 Poetry Uptown Media Joint Ventures Uptown Media Joint Ventures This is the very first anthology by the Muntu Poets - a forgotten voice in the ...
Poetic Lyric Verse 1
Poetic Lyric Verse 1 JonReneé 9781514680544 Poetry CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Poetic Lyric Verse 1 is a creative infusion of narrative poems and melodic songwriting lyrics that are inspired...
Closure: Contemporary Black British Short Stories (Inscribe)
Closure: Contemporary Black British Short Stories (Inscribe) Jacob Ross and Kadija Sesay 9781845232887 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press From well-known and award-winning authors—including B...