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The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir
The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir André Leon Talley 9780593129258 Nonfiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House “Discover what truly happens behind the scenes in the world of high fashion in this deta...
André Leon Talley
André Leon Talley 0000000385486160 André Leon Talley (1948-2022) was a renowned creative director at Vogue, contributing to multiple fashion publications over five decades. An author of several illu...
Andre Leon Talley: Grand Gestures
Andre Leon Talley: Grand Gestures Paula Wallace 9780847874415 Nonfiction Rizzoli Electa Rizzoli International Publications A visual celebration of André Leon Talley’s life that centers his pers...
Roderick D. Talley
Roderick D. Talley NONE Roderick D. Talley created this company as a hub for positive-oriented books and artwork, while fostering a welcoming environment for all people. A firm believer in “practici...
Andre Andre Leon Talley—A Fabulously Fashionable Fairy Tale
Andre Andre Leon Talley—A Fabulously Fashionable Fairy Tale Carole Boston Weatherford and Rob Sanders 9781250887283 Nonfiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers ★ "Fashion king Talley is broug...
Little Black Dress
Little Black Dress André Leon Talley 9780847840571 Nonfiction Skira Rizzoli A selectively curated overview of the little black dress in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, organized by Vogue con...
Leon the Extraordinary: A Graphic Novel (Leon #1)
Leon the Extraordinary: A Graphic Novel (Leon #1) Jamar Nicholas 9781338744163 Fiction Graphix Scholastic Inc. Leon is an ordinary kid who becomes extraordinary when he fights a supervillain to save h...
Valentino: At the Emperor’s Table
Valentino: At the Emperor’s Table André Leon Talley 9781614282938 Nonfiction Assouline Publishing Assouline Publishing As fashion editor and friend André Leon Talley writes in the introduction,...
Leon: Worst Friends Forever: A Graphic Novel (Leon #2)
Leon: Worst Friends Forever: A Graphic Novel (Leon #2) Jamar Nicholas 9781338744217 Fiction Graphix Scholastic Inc. Leon struggles with a super ego — and a super secret! — in the second graphic novel ...
The “Politics: Another Perspective” Interview
The “Politics: Another Perspective” Interview Kam Williams Interview Wilmer J. Leon, III is a political scientist whose primary areas of expertise are Black Politics American Government, and P...
Conversations with Leon Forrest (Literary Conversations)
Conversations with Leon Forrest (Literary Conversations) Leon Forrest 9781578069903 Fiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi Leon Forrest (1937-1997) was among the most ...
Wilmer J. Leon
Wilmer J. Leon NONE Wilmer J. Leon III, Ph.D., is a political scientist specializing in Black Politics, American Government, and Public Policy. He is a nationally syndicated columnist, SiriusXM radio...
Leon Carroll Jr.
Leon Carroll Jr. NONE Leon Carroll Jr., a Chicago native, is the technical advisor for the hit drama NCIS. He has a BS in business economics and served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Marine Co...
R.D. Talley Books Publishing
R.D. Talley Books Publishing R.D. Talley Books Publishing R.D. Talley Books Publishing, LLC
R.D. Talley Books Publishing
R.D. Talley Books Publishing R.D. Talley Books Publishing, LLC R.D. Talley Books Publishing
Theresa A. Rajack-Talley
Theresa A. Rajack-Talley NONE Theresa A. Rajack-Talley, Ph.D., is the Associate Dean for International Diversity at the University of Louisville. With over 25 years of research experience, she specia...
Oscar de la Renta: His Legendary World of Style
Oscar de la Renta: His Legendary World of Style André Leon Talley 9780847847174 Nonfiction Rizzoli Electa Rizzoli International Publications A sumptuous monograph tracing the life and legacy of fashio...
Leon’s Story
Leon’s Story Leon Walter Tillage 9781439518588 Fiction Square Fish Macmillan Publishers ”Leon’s Story is a powerful, wonderful thing!” — Nikki GiovanniI remember that as a young boy I used to look in ...
Breath of Fresh Air
Breath of Fresh Air Roderick D. Talley 9781957294148 Fiction R.D. Talley Books Publishing R.D. Talley Books Publishing It gets tiring waking up every day to chaos & the weight of our responsibilit...
Poverty is a Person: Human Agency, Women and Caribbean Households
Poverty is a Person: Human Agency, Women and Caribbean Households Theresa A. Rajack-Talley 9789766378950 Nonfiction Ian Randle Publishers Ian Randle Publishers In the Caribbean, poverty is the other s...
Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll Jr.
Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll Jr. MULTIPLE Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll Jr. are renowned authors known for their compelling narratives and insightful writing. Their work spans various genres, resonati...
Schiaparelli and the Artists
Schiaparelli and the Artists André Leon Talley 9780847860456 Nonfiction Rizzoli International Publications Rizzoli International Publications "The new book Schiaparelli and the Artists, out October 3 ...
A. Leon Higginbotham
A. Leon Higginbotham 0000000083213597 Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham, Jr. (February 25, 1928 – December 14, 1998), was born in Ewing Township, NJ. He grew up during the Great Depress...
Leon Forrest
Leon Forrest 0000000078313585 Leon Richard Forrest, born in Chicago, was a novelist, journalist, and former Public Information Officer for the US Army. He taught at Northwestern University for over 2...
Leon E. Pettiway
Leon E. Pettiway 0000000033688893 Leon E. Pettiway, Ph.D., is a Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, known for his research in crime patterns, race, and ghettoization. He has published numerous ...
The Bloodworth Orphans (Phoenix Fiction)
The Bloodworth Orphans (Phoenix Fiction) Leon Forrest 9780226257228 Fiction University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press Leon Forrest, acclaimed author of Divine Days, uses a remarkable ver...
There Is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden (Phoenix Fiction)
There Is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden (Phoenix Fiction) Leon Forrest 9780226257211 Fiction University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press Leon Forrest, acclaimed author of Divine Days, uses ...
R.D. Talley Books
R.D. Talley Books Las Vegas NV Now Open at Fashion Show Mall Las Vegas, 2nd Floor, near Dillard’s, next to Brad’s Toys & Windsor
Only for the Brave at Heart: Essays Rethinking Race, Crime, and Justice
Only for the Brave at Heart: Essays Rethinking Race, Crime, and Justice Leon E. Pettiway 9798989182008 Nonfiction Meishin Press Meishin Press Only when we transform our minds can we break the chains o...
A Spy in the Struggle: A Riveting Must-Read Novel of Suspense
A Spy in the Struggle: A Riveting Must-Read Novel of Suspense Aya de León 9781496728593 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Praise for A Spy in the Struggle The author of the four Justice Hustl...
Politics: Another Perspective
Politics: Another Perspective Wilmer J. Leon 9781504972413 Nonfiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions Over the past 8 years there have been significant shifts in the American political landscape. The ele...
Torn Between Two Lovers
Torn Between Two Lovers Carl Weber 9780758252708 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. From the New York Times bestselling author of Big Girls Do Cry comes a deliciously provocative new page-turn...
The Baptism
The Baptism Shelia P. Moses 9781416906711 Fiction Margaret K. McElderry Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. When you turn twelve in Occoneechee Neck in Jackson, North Carolina, everything changes. You get to...
Meteor in the Madhouse
Meteor in the Madhouse Leon Forrest 9780810151147 Fiction TriQuarterly Books Northwestern University Press In the wake of his watershed novel Divine Days, Leon Forest began an even more ambitious proj...
What is This Thing Called Preaching: An Authentic Collection of Sermons by Rev. Leon Johnson Vol 1
What is This Thing Called Preaching: An Authentic Collection of Sermons by Rev. Leon Johnson Vol 1 Leonidas A. Johnson 9781889561080 Nonfiction Crystal Fountain Publications Crystal Fountain Publicati...
What is This Thing Called Preaching: An Authentic Collection of Sermons by Rev. Leon Johnson Vol 2
What is This Thing Called Preaching: An Authentic Collection of Sermons by Rev. Leon Johnson Vol 2 Leonidas A. Johnson 9781889561097 Nonfiction Crystal Fountain Publications Crystal Fountain Publicati...
Shades Of Freedom: Racial Politics And Presumptions Of The American Legal Process
Shades Of Freedom: Racial Politics And Presumptions Of The American Legal Process A. Leon Higginbotham 9780195038224 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Few individuals have had...
Honey, Honey, Miss Thang: Being Black, Gay, and on the Streets
Honey, Honey, Miss Thang: Being Black, Gay, and on the Streets Leon E. Pettiway 9781566394987 Nonfiction Temple University Press Temple University Press Many straight Americans would never embrace hom...
In The Matter Of Color: Race And The American Legal Process: The Colonial Period
In The Matter Of Color: Race And The American Legal Process: The Colonial Period A. Leon Higginbotham 9780195027457 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Focusing on the actions a...
Aya de León
Aya de León NONE Aya de León is an award-winning author, activist, and educator at UC Berkeley. She's known for her Justice Hustlers series and has written for numerous publications. A Harvard alumn...
Superfine: Tailoring Black Style
Superfine: Tailoring Black Style Monica L. Miller 9781588397997 Nonfiction Metropolitan Museum of Art Metropolitan Museum of Art This exploration of Black dandy fashion and its representation in art...
Interview with Producer Lee Daniels
Interview with Producer Lee Daniels Kam Williams Interview Lee Daniels enjoying himself at the Sugar Bar with fashionisto Andre' Leon Talley, Precious star Mo'Nique a...
Ghosts of Sicily
Ghosts of Sicily Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll Jr. 9781400252985 Nonfiction Harper Select HarperCollins “Absorbing history of an unlikely alliance.” —Kirkus Reviews From the New York Times bestselli...
New Harmony: A Mother’s Story of Love and Loss
New Harmony: A Mother’s Story of Love and Loss Leon E. Pettiway 9798989182053 Fiction Meishin Press Meishin Press New Harmony finds its soulfulness in the struggles and victories woven into Southern l...
Ghosts of Panama (paperback)
Ghosts of Panama (paperback) Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll Jr. 9781400254477 Nonfiction Harper Select HarperCollins Panama, 1989. The once warm relationship between United States and Gen. Manuel Norieg...
Ghosts of Panama: A Strongman Out of Control, a Murdered Marine, and the Special Agents Caught in the Middle of an Invasion
Ghosts of Panama: A Strongman Out of Control, a Murdered Marine, and the Special Agents Caught in the Middle of an Invasion Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll Jr. 9781400248605 Nonfiction Harper Select Harp...
Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll Jr. 9781400337019 Nonfiction Harper Select HarperCollins “A fast-p...
That Dangerous Energy
That Dangerous Energy Aya de León 9781496740328 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Two-time International Latino Book Award-winning author Aya de León brings her unique blend of commerc...
Undercover Latina
Undercover Latina Aya de León 9781536223743 Fiction Candlewick Press (MA) Candlewick Press A Latina teen spy goes undercover as a white girl to stop a white supremacist terrorist plot in a fast-paced ...
Queen of Urban Prophecy
Queen of Urban Prophecy Aya de León 9781496728623 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Stardom crashed like an avalanche onto this female rap artist. Now getting justice, real power, and true re...
Miles Morales: Shock Waves (Original Spider-Man Graphic Novel)
Miles Morales: Shock Waves (Original Spider-Man Graphic Novel) justin a. reynolds 9781338648034 Fiction Graphix Scholastic Inc. An original middle grade graphic novel from Graphix starring Brooklyn’s ...
Miles Morales Shock Waves: (Original Spider-Man Graphic Novel)
Miles Morales Shock Waves: (Original Spider-Man Graphic Novel) justin a. reynolds 9781338648041 Fiction Graphix Scholastic Inc. An original middle-grade graphic novel from Graphix starring Brooklyn’s ...
Equality Girls and the Purple Reflecto-Ray
Equality Girls and the Purple Reflecto-Ray Aya de León 9781734910605 Fiction Aya De León Aya De León Fourth grader Daniela and her friends get mad when they see girls being excluded or p...
Side Chick Nation
Side Chick Nation Aya de León 9781496715791 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Winner of the Internation Latino Book Award A Justice Hustlers Novel She’s beautiful, unpredictable—and on the r...
The Accidental Mistress
The Accidental Mistress Aya de León 9781496715760 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. A Justice Hustlers Novel Two gorgeous sisters. One plays by the rules. The other lives her wild-card dreams...
The Boss
The Boss Aya de León 9781496704740 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. A Justice Hustlers Heist Novel She won’t back down. She’ll never stop. And in this seductive, suspenseful novel, one gor...
Uptown Thief
Uptown Thief Aya de León 9781496704702 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In this sexy, heart-stopping tale, one smart, sizzling mami robs the rich and protects the exploited—until one heist t...
Puffy: People Whose Hair Defies Gravity
Puffy: People Whose Hair Defies Gravity Aya de León 9781494436773 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Puffy: people whose hair defies gravity is a children’s book of text and photographs f...
Hughson’s Tavern
Hughson’s Tavern Fred Moten 9780976582045 Poetry Leon Works Leon Works Poetry. African American Studies. "HUGHSON’S TAVERN is a sly, rowdy, big-eared book, lining out and sounding out, filled with des...
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The Harvard Guide to African-American History [With CD-ROM]
The Harvard Guide to African-American History [With CD-ROM] Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 9780674002760 Nonfiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press This landmark guide covers research in...
Workin’ It: Women Living Through Drugs and Crime
Workin’ It: Women Living Through Drugs and Crime Leon E. Pettiway 9781566395809 Nonfiction Temple University Press Temple University Press Margaret, Charlie, Virginia, Tracy, and Laquita are all drug ...
Divine Days
Divine Days Leon Forrest 9780393312218 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A unanimous chorus of critical acclaim greeted this powerful novel last year―one of the most signi...
Relocations of the Spirit
Relocations of the Spirit Leon Forrest 9781559210683 Nonfiction Moyer Bell Beaufort Books
Two Wings to Veil My Face
Two Wings to Veil My Face Leon Forrest 9780394529653 Fiction Random House Penguin Random House A ninety-one-year-old Black woman tells her story of passage from slavery to freedom to her twenty-one-ye...
James Allen
James Allen 0000000114623944 James Allen, John Lewis, Leon F. Litwack, and Hilton Als are renowned authors, each known for their significant contributions in their respective fields. They have author...
ACT Like You Got Some Sense: And Other Things My Daughters Taught Me
ACT Like You Got Some Sense: And Other Things My Daughters Taught Me Jamie Foxx 9781538703281 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group In this hilarious and heartfelt memoir, award-winn...
Bad Decisions
Bad Decisions Mary Monroe 9781496761958 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In this drama-filled Roaring ʼ20s and World War II novel from award-winning New York Times bestselling author Mary Mo...
Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship
Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship Dana A. Williams 9780063011977 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins An insightful exploration that unveils the lesser-known dimensions of this lege...
Miles Morales Stranger Tides: (Original Spider-Man Graphic Novel)
Miles Morales Stranger Tides: (Original Spider-Man Graphic Novel) justin a. reynolds 9781338826395 Fiction Graphix Scholastic Inc. An original middle-grade graphic novel from Graphix starring Miles Mo...
Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World
Better Than We Found It: Conversations to Help Save the World Frederick Joseph and Porsche Joseph 9781536224528 Nonfiction Candlewick Press (MA) Candlewick Press From the New York Times best-selling a...
Aftermath
Aftermath LeVar Burton 9781538723739 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group In this ambitious work of speculative fiction, acclaimed actor and storyteller LeVar Burton imagines a near-fu...
Blam! Black Lives Always Mattered!: Hidden African American Philadelphia of the Twentieth Century
Blam! Black Lives Always Mattered!: Hidden African American Philadelphia of the Twentieth Century Charles L. Blockson 9781737292807 Nonfiction Blockson Collection Blockson Collection African American ...
An Impulse to Keep: Greenwood Art Project
An Impulse to Keep: Greenwood Art Project Greenwood Art Project 9780997494075 Nonfiction [NAME] [NAME] Publications An Impulse to Keep is published on the occasion of the Greenwood Art Project, an ini...
Frantz Fanon’s Plays: The Plays
Frantz Fanon’s Plays: The Plays Frantz Fanon 9781350126572 Fiction Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Publishing Prior to becoming a psychiatrist, Frantz Fanon wanted to be a playwright and his interest i...
Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir
Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir Halifu Osumare 9780813064321 Nonfiction University Press of Florida University Press of Florida Also Available as an Audiobook Dancing in Blackness is a professional ...
When the Sun Goes Down
When the Sun Goes Down Gwynne Forster 9780758247001 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. “When the sun goes down on my life, you’ll all come apart like ripped balloons.”When stingy self-made mil...
Scierogenous: An Anthology of Erotic Science Fiction and Fantasy
Scierogenous: An Anthology of Erotic Science Fiction and Fantasy Quinton Veal, Valjeanne Jeffers, Laura Elena Cáceres, Jeff Carroll, Cranston Burney, and James Goodridge B01FY3LDG2 Fiction Quinton Vea...
To Love and To Lose
To Love and To Lose Mercy B. 9781530583478 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC “Ever has it been that love knows not even its own depth until the hour of separation.” Saydee Rhodes, once a ...
Static: Rebirth of the Cool v. 1
Static: Rebirth of the Cool v. 1 Dwayne McDuffie 9781848563230 Fiction Titan Books Titan Publishing Group When Virgil Ovid Hawkins finds himself caught up in the gang battle known as the ’Big Bang’ an...
Caramel Flava: The Eroticanoir.com Anthology
Caramel Flava: The Eroticanoir.com Anthology Zane 9780743297271 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Zane, the queen of erotic fiction and publisher of Strebor Books, an imprint of Atria Books/S...
The Interruption of Everything
The Interruption of Everything Terry McMillan 9780670031443 Fiction Viking Books Penguin Random House "Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple and even simultane...
Creating an Old South: Middle Florida’s Plantation Frontier before the Civil War
Creating an Old South: Middle Florida’s Plantation Frontier before the Civil War Edward E. Baptist 9780807853535 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press Set on...
Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy
Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy Timothy B. Tyson 9780807824511 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press At the close of the ...
Just Give Me the Damn Ball!: The Fast Times and Hard Knocks of an NFL Rookie
Just Give Me the Damn Ball!: The Fast Times and Hard Knocks of an NFL Rookie Keyshawn Johnson 9780446521451 Nonfiction Time Warner Trade Publishing Hachette Book Group “Well, son, I guess we have to g...
Long Way From Home
Long Way From Home Claude McKay 9780156531450 Fiction Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Harcourt McKay’s account of his long odyssey from Jamaica to Harlem and then on to France, Britain, North Africa...
Aidan Levy
Aidan Levy 0000000449590961 Aidan Levy is a acclaimed journalist and memoirist. Known for the award-winning biography Saxaphone Colossus. Aidan Levy is the author of Dirty Blvd.: The Life and Music ...
R.L. Byrd
R.L. Byrd NONE R.L. Byrd, born in Brunswick, Georgia, was raised by his grandparents and developed an “old soul” from their stories, shaping his writing style. Pursuing interests in Architecture and ...
Thulani Davis
Thulani Davis 0000000001538348 Thulani Davis is an interdisciplinary scholar and writer, with focus on black political thought, slavery, and African American literature. She's a recipient of numerous...
Sandra Pinkney
Sandra Pinkney NONE Sandra L. Pinkney, an award-winning author and early childhood development expert, collaborates with her husband Myles to create multicultural children's books. Known for titles l...
David Greenberg
David Greenberg 0000000071453622 David Greenberg is an author and professor of history and of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University and a frequent commentator on historical and political...
Dana A. Williams
Dana A. Williams 0000000038160369 Dana A. Williams is Professor of African American literature and Dean of the Graduate School at Howard University. She is also a former president of the College Lang...
Casey Gerald
Casey Gerald NONE Casey Gerald is the author of There Will Be No Miracles Here, a memoir that was named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR and The New York Times, a finalist for the LAMBDA Literary Award, a...
Two Wings to Veil My Face
Two Wings to Veil My Face Tony Lindsay Book Review There is genre fiction, and there is literary fiction. Within these two categories are groups; in part, genre fiction consists of mystery, romance, ...
New Harmony: A Mother’s Story of Love and Loss
New Harmony: A Mother’s Story of Love and Loss Robert Fleming Book Review A complete reading of this debut novel by Leon E. Pettiway, a professor emeritus at Indiana University and an ordained Buddhi...
Meagan Good - "The Unborn" Interview
Meagan Good - "The Unborn" Interview Kam Williams Interview Born in Panorama City, California to Tyra Doyle and Leon Good on August 18, 1981, Meagan Monique Good was raised ...