AALBC Search
Season: A Novel (Marie Laveau Mysteries)
Season: A Novel (Marie Laveau Mysteries) Jewell Parker Rhodes 9781451617061 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. In Season (formerly titled Voodoo Season), Jewell Parker Rhodes revis...
Marie Brown
Marie Brown 0000000376893266 Marie Brown is the first inductee into the Publishing Hall of Fame Marie Dutton Brown, President of Marie Brown Associates, is a highly experienced literary agent with ove...
Jess Marie
Jess Marie NONE Jessica Marie Smith, known as Poet Jess Marie, is an inspirational writer from Detroit, MI, best known for her book “Anthology for Hope in the Hood.” A graduate of Michigan State Univ...
Hurricane: A Novel
Hurricane: A Novel Jewell Parker Rhodes 9781416537120 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. In the stunning conclusion to award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes’s mystery trilogy b...
The Quarter Queen
The Quarter Queen Kayla Hardy 9780593976760 Fiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House A Voodoo witch must navigate a magically and racially divided nineteenth-century New Orleans to save her mothe...
Blue Flare: Three Contemporary Haitian Poets: Evelyne Trouillot, Marie-Celie Agnant, Maggy de Coster
Blue Flare: Three Contemporary Haitian Poets: Evelyne Trouillot, Marie-Celie Agnant, Maggy de Coster Évelyne Trouillot, Marie-Célie Agnant, and Maggy de Coster 9781938890314 Poetry Zephyr Press Zephyr...
The Engagement Game: Why I Said “I Don’t” to Marriage and “I Do” to Me
The Engagement Game: Why I Said “I Don’t” to Marriage and “I Do” to Me Joi-Marie McKenzie 9781455594481 Nonfiction Center Street Hachette Book Group Joi-Marie almost has it all; a thriving career, a s...
Moon
Moon Jewell Parker Rhodes 9781451617108 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. The orginal title for this novel was Yellow Moon. In the second part of the New Orleans trilogy that beg...
The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie: An African American’s Spiritual Journey to Uncover a Sunken Slave Ship’s Past
The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie: An African American’s Spiritual Journey to Uncover a Sunken Slave Ship’s Past Michael H. Cottman 9780517703281 Nonfiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House ...
Carolyn Marie Rodgers
Carolyn Marie Rodgers 0000000066509791 Carolyn Marie Rodgers (1940-2010), a key figure in the Black Arts Movement and co-founder of Third World Press, was born and raised in Chicago. Known for her po...
Marie Arnold
Marie Arnold NONE Marie Arnold, originally from Haiti, is a Brooklyn-raised author who enjoys creating adventurous and wonder-filled stories centered on girls of color. She debuted with the middle-gr...
The Good House
The Good House Thumper Book Review Tananarive Due has returned with The Good House, her best book to date. The Good House is a magnificent, irresistible family drama of one family fighting an evil ...
F.Y.O.S.
F.Y.O.S. Loading Founders independent publishing company, FYOS Entertainment, LLC Tonya Marie is a Dean's List graduate of Northwestern University (NU) and former student-athlete who attended N...
Second Chance: The Martha Marie Preston Story
Second Chance: The Martha Marie Preston Story Martha Marie Preston 9780615504292 Fiction Quintrell Public Relations Quintrell Public Relations Indicted on 23 counts and convicted of four, multimillion...
Jennifer Marie Brissett
Jennifer Marie Brissett NONE Jennifer Marie Brissett is an award-winning British-Jamaican author known for her speculative fiction works. Her novels often explore themes of identity, reality, and the...
Marlon McCaulsky, Lamont Gant, and V Marie
Marlon McCaulsky, Lamont Gant, and V Marie MULTIPLE "Marlon McCaulsky, Lamont Gant, and V Marie are renowned authors known for their exceptional writing skills, captivating audiences with their diver...
Dana Marie Miroballi
Dana Marie Miroballi NONE Dana Marie Miroballi, a biracial ex-teacher now speech-language pathologist, authors books for young readers. With experiences from Germany, Uzbekistan, and now Chicago, she...
Jean Marie Wiesen and Rita Daniels
Jean Marie Wiesen and Rita Daniels MULTIPLE Jean Marie Wiesen, is a noted investigative author and mystery crime writer. Rita Daniels, the great-great-great grandniece of Harriet Tubman.
Philana Marie Boles
Philana Marie Boles NONE Philana Marie Boles is a passionate “word artist” with a BFA in Creative Writing and Theater. She is also a freelance journalist, playwright, screenwriter, and poet based in ...
Janae Marie
Janae Marie NONE Krystle Hudson, also known as Janae Marie, is an award-winning author and filmmaker from Detroit. Known for her creativity and passion, she started writing poetry at 13 and novels at...
Jill Marie Snyder
Jill Marie Snyder NONE Jill Marie Snyder, a Connecticut native with degrees from University of Connecticut and Fairfield University, discovered her parents' love letters from 1937-1941 and published ...
Marie NDiaye
Marie NDiaye 0000000121280783 Marie NDiaye, a French author of Senegalese descent, began writing at a young age and published her first work at 18. She studied linguistics at the Sorbonne and has won...
Joi-Marie McKenzie
Joi-Marie McKenzie NONE Joi-Marie McKenzie is an ABC News lifestyle writer, author of “The Engagement Game,” and creator of the award-winning website, The Fab Empire. Also a sought-after panelist, Mc...
Stacey Marie Robinson
Stacey Marie Robinson NONE Stacey Marie Robinson is the founder of Kya Publishing, where she directs operations including creating and promoting her Urban Toronto Tales novels. She holds degrees in C...
Alice Marie Johnson
Alice Marie Johnson 0000000500397471 Alice Marie Johnson, a former nonviolent drug trafficker, served 21 years before her sentence was commuted by President Trump, with help from Kim Kardashian West....
Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray MULTIPLE Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray are renowned authors known for their compelling narratives. Benedict's works delve into historic...
Moshood Ademola Fayemiwo and Margie Marie Neal
Moshood Ademola Fayemiwo and Margie Marie Neal MULTIPLE Moshood Ademola Fayemiwo, a former Nigerian newspaper publisher/editor and author of five books, and Margie Marie Neal, a former university pro...
Candice Marie Benbow
Candice Marie Benbow NONE Candice Marie Benbow is a respected theologian, essayist, and educator, known for her work amplifying Black women's experiences. She's a notable contributor to various publi...
Diane Marie Brown
Diane Marie Brown NONE Diane Marie Brown is a professor at Orange Coast College, public health professional, and author. Holding degrees from UCLA and USC, her debut novel is “Black Candle Women.” Sh...
Brenda Marie Osbey
Brenda Marie Osbey 000000002513556X Brenda Marie Osbey, born in 1957, is a distinguished poet from New Orleans who served as Louisiana's Poet Laureate from 2005-2007. She specializes in Afro-Francoph...
R. Marie Griffith and Barbara D. Savage
R. Marie Griffith and Barbara D. Savage MULTIPLE R. Marie Griffith R. Marie Griffith is the John C. Danforth Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis, w...
Moon
Moon Thumper Book Review Allow me to state up front that I am a huge fan of Jewell Parker Rhodes; have been since I read one of her earlier novels, Magic City. I got extremely excited when I ...
Anna Murray Douglass: Biography of a Revolutionary
Anna Murray Douglass: Biography of a Revolutionary Celeste-Marie Bernier 9781478034209 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books Working with family descendants and based on t...
Mourning
Mourning Karen Williams 9781957810478 Fiction Iskanchi Press Iskanchi Press Literary historical fiction set in post-war Freetown, where a widow fleeing violence must navigate grief, memory, and the fr...
Red Lip Theology: For Church Girls Who’ve Considered Tithing to the Beauty Supply Store When Sunday Morning Isn’t Enough
Red Lip Theology: For Church Girls Who’ve Considered Tithing to the Beauty Supply Store When Sunday Morning Isn’t Enough Candice Marie Benbow 9780593238462 Nonfiction Convergent Books Penguin Random H...
Two Naomis
Two Naomis Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich and Audrey Vernick 9780062414250 Fiction Balzer + Bray HarperCollins A realistic contemporary story of two girls, both named Naomi, whose divorced parents begi...
Marie Brown on Becoming a Literary Agent
Marie Brown on Becoming a Literary Agent Author Interviews Learn more about Marie Brown at: https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=Marie+Brown Video: Copyright © 2010 Darryl B. Daisey and WP...
Three Strong Women: A novel
Three Strong Women: A novel Marie NDiaye 9780307741332 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House A New York Times Notable BookA San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2012A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012Lo...
Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Triptych (Modern Library Classics)
Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Triptych (Modern Library Classics) Marie Vieux-Chauvet 9780812976922 Nonfiction Modern Library Penguin Random House Available in English for the first time, Marie Vieux...
Marie in Fourth Position
Marie in Fourth Position Amy Littlesugar 9780399227943 Fiction Philomel Books Penguin Random House Marie’s dream is to dance beneath the spotlight in the Paris Opera, but she finds herself only a "rat...
Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau
Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau Jewell Parker Rhodes 9780312119317 Fiction Picador Macmillan Publishers Rhodes’ Critically Acclaimed Debut Novel The story of Marie Laveau, the character featu...
Jean Marie Wiesen
Jean Marie Wiesen NONE Jean Marie Wiesen, a noted investigative author and mystery crime writer, is author of Case of the Missing Look Alikes and Case of the Mouse Trap Legend. She attended Art Cent...
Évelyne Trouillot, Marie-Célie Agnant, and Maggy de Coster
Évelyne Trouillot, Marie-Célie Agnant, and Maggy de Coster MULTIPLE Évelyne Trouillot, Marie-Célie Agnant, and Maggy de Coster
Celeste-Marie Bernier
Celeste-Marie Bernier NONE Celeste-Marie Bernier holds a Personal Chair in United States and Atlantic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Among her works are over twenty single and coauthored bo...
Carolyn Marie Wilkins
Carolyn Marie Wilkins NONE Carolyn Marie Wilkinsis a Spirit Whisperer, a certified Reiki Master, a Psychic Medium and an initiated Priestess of Yemaya, the African goddess of compassion, motherhood ...
F.Y.O.S.
F.Y.O.S. Troy Johnson Article Founders independent publishing company, FYOS Entertainment, LLC Tonya Marie is a Dean's List graduate of Northwestern University (N...
Harriet Tubman: Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary: From Her Roots in Ghana to Her Legacy on the Eastern Shore
Harriet Tubman: Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary: From Her Roots in Ghana to Her Legacy on the Eastern Shore Jean Marie Wiesen and Rita Daniels 9781639368136 Nonfiction Pegasus Books Pegasus Boo...
Queen of Exiles
Queen of Exiles Vanessa Riley 9780063270992 Fiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins "You may not know Marie-Louise Christophe, but once you have met her, you won’t forget her. Vanessa Riley’s h...
Destroyer of Light
Destroyer of Light Jennifer Marie Brissett 9781250268631 Fiction Tor Books Macmillan Publishers The Matrix meets an Afro-futuristic retelling of Persephone set in a science fiction underworld of alien...
Sister Mother Warrior
Sister Mother Warrior Vanessa Riley 9780063073548 Fiction William Morrow HarperCollins Acclaimed author of Island Queen Vanessa Riley brings readers a vivid, sweeping novel of the Haitian Revolution b...
The Personal Librarian
The Personal Librarian Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray 9780593101537 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House A Good Morning America Book Club Pick The remarkable story of J. P. Mor...
American Spy: A Novel
American Spy: A Novel Lauren Wilkinson 9780812988284 Fiction Random House Penguin Random House “[This] unflinching, incendiary debut combines the espionage novels of John le Carré with the raci...
After Life: My Journey from Incarceration to Freedom
After Life: My Journey from Incarceration to Freedom Alice Marie Johnson 9780062936103 Nonfiction FaithWords Hachette Book Group The true-life story of the woman whose life sentence for non-violent dr...
Mothering While Black: Boundaries and Burdens of Middle-Class Parenthood
Mothering While Black: Boundaries and Burdens of Middle-Class Parenthood Dawn Marie Dow 9780520300323 Nonfiction University of California Press University of California Press Mothering While Black exa...
All Souls: Essential Poems
All Souls: Essential Poems Brenda Marie Osbey 9780807162002 Poetry LSU Press Louisiana State University Press All Souls: Essential Poems brings together work that reflects the interweaving of histor...
Glitz
Glitz Philana Marie Boles 9780670012046 Fiction Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Ann Michelle is tired of her boring, sheltered life. She longs for something real. Then she meets Ra...
An UPTOWN Continuing Literary Tradition (Harlem 1986 - 1996)
An UPTOWN Continuing Literary Tradition (Harlem 1986 - 1996) Marie Brown Article ’ An UPTOWN Continuing Literary Tradition (Harlem 1986 - 1996) by ’Marie Brown (presented a...
Souls of My Sisters: Black Women Break Their Silence, Tell Their Stories and Heal Their Spirits
Souls of My Sisters: Black Women Break Their Silence, Tell Their Stories and Heal Their Spirits Dawn Marie Daniels and Candace Sandy 9781575666532 Nonfiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. "If...
All Saints: New and Selected Poems
All Saints: New and Selected Poems Brenda Marie Osbey 9780807121986 Poetry LSU Press Louisiana State University Press Like the feast day recalled in its title, this collection of twenty narrative poem...
Charisse Carney-Nunes and Ann Marie Williams
Charisse Carney-Nunes and Ann Marie Williams MULTIPLE
Second Chance: The Martha Marie Preston Story
Second Chance: The Martha Marie Preston Story Kam Williams Book Review "I had finally run out of options… There I was. Locked in a tiny jail cell, staring into space and wondering how my lif...
Shadowsync
Shadowsync Marie Arnold 9798256500559 Fiction Kwame Alexander Books Sourcebooks In this middle-grade sci-fi thriller, a mysterious new app can fix any problem a kid may have—bullying, friendship drama...
They Will Not Save Us
They Will Not Save Us Marie Arnold 9781546171089 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. The Forgotten Girl meets Hide and Seeker in this terrifying MG horror that returns the Zombie to its homel...
Let the Murderer Say Amen
Let the Murderer Say Amen Carolyn Marie Wilkins 9781496754745 Fiction Kensington Publishing Corporation Kensington Publishing Corp. As prosperity and great cultural changes sweep across 1920s Jazz Age...
A Pair of Aces
A Pair of Aces Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray 9780593637937 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House A gripping novel about two trailblazing women on opposite sides of the law—a pros...
I Was Told There Would Be Romance
I Was Told There Would Be Romance Marie Arnold 9780316568012 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group For fans of Never Have I Ever and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before c...
Split the Sky
Split the Sky Marie Arnold 9780316582872 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group In this haunting story about family, legacy, and sacrifice, a young Black girl living in ...
Murder at the Wham Bam Club
Murder at the Wham Bam Club Carolyn Marie Wilkins 9781496754714 Fiction Kensington Publishing Corporation Kensington Publishing Corp. As Prohibition era speakeasies and Jazz Age excitement reign supre...
I Was Told There Would Be Romance
I Was Told There Would Be Romance Marie Arnold 9780316568005 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group For fans of Never Have I Ever and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before c...
Black Candle Women (paperback)
Black Candle Women (paperback) Diane Marie Brown 9781525804281 Fiction Graydon House HarperCollins A Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Seen on the Today Show “If you like Practical Magic … you will...
A Place to Shine
A Place to Shine Marie Arnold 9780063251755 Fiction Versify Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Ten-year-old Sunny Williams is resilient—she knows this because it’s what her beloved grandma, Nanna, always t...
The First Ladies (paperback)
The First Ladies (paperback) Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray 9780593440292 Fiction Penguin Publishing Group Penguin Random House A novel about the extraordinary partnership between Firs...
If My Hair Had a Voice
If My Hair Had a Voice Dana Marie Miroballi 9781506493602 Fiction Beaming Books 1517 Media “If your hair had a voice, it would sing of diversity and identity. It would tell you stories of our history....
Digital Book World
Digital Book World Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel New York New York As part of the 2018 Digital Book World (DBW) — two industry veterans will be the first to be inducted into the new Publi...
Can’t Nobody Make a Sweet Potato Pie Like Our Mama!
Can’t Nobody Make a Sweet Potato Pie Like Our Mama! Rose McGee 9781681341996 Nonfiction Minnesota Historical Society Press Minnesota Historical Society Press From the creator of Sweet Potato Comfort P...
The First Ladies
The First Ladies Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray 9780593440285 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevel...
Black Candle Women
Black Candle Women Diane Marie Brown 9781525899911 Fiction Graydon House HarperCollins “Propulsive and poignant, Black Candle Women concocts an intoxicating potion of warmth, wisdom, and wonder.” —Ava...
Eternally Yours
Eternally Yours Patrice Caldwell 9780593206874 Fiction Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Give in to this irresistible paranormal romance anthology filled with tales of the mortal and...
I Rise
I Rise Marie Arnold 9780358449041 Fiction Versify Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A heartbreaking and powerful novel about racism and social justice as fourteen-year-old Ayo has to decide whether to take on...
The Personal Librarian: A GMA Book Club Pick
The Personal Librarian: A GMA Book Club Pick Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray 9780593101544 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House
RETURNED 2: Bridge To Sion
RETURNED 2: Bridge To Sion Marlon McCaulsky, Lamont Gant, and V Marie 9780578358710 Fiction Creative Genius Films Creative Genius Films RETURNED 2 is the second chapter of the hit film/book called RET...
Charlotte and the Nutcracker: The True Story of a Girl Who Made Ballet History
Charlotte and the Nutcracker: The True Story of a Girl Who Made Ballet History Charlotte Nebres 9780593374900 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A reimagined and modern ...
The Year I Flew Away
The Year I Flew Away Marie Arnold 9780358272755 Fiction Versify Houghton Mifflin Harcourt In this magical middle-grade novel, ten-year-old Gabrielle finds out that America isn’t the perfect place she ...
My Mother’s House
My Mother’s House Francesca Momplaisir 9780525657156 Fiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House “A shockingly original exploration of class, race, and systemic violence … This house, tainted ...
Death at a Seance: A Carry McFarland Psychic Mystery
Death at a Seance: A Carry McFarland Psychic Mystery Carolyn Marie Wilkins 9781683132134 Fiction Pen-L Publishing Pen-L Publishing Carrie McFarland’s psychic gifts land her in trouble wherever s...
Naomis Too
Naomis Too Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich and Audrey Vernick 9780062685155 Fiction Balzer & Bray/Harperteen HarperCollins A heartfelt, sweet, social justice-themed ode to blended and unconventional fam...