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Hanna Garth and Ashanté M. Reese
Hanna Garth and Ashanté M. Reese MULTIPLE Hanna Garth and Ashanté M. Reese
The Short Game
The Short Game J. L. Campbell 9781544745022 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Garth Chu is on his way to having the most sought-after video production outfit in Kingston, Jamaica. Everythin...
Her Teen Dream
Her Teen Dream Devon Vaughn Archer 9781475199543 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Karin Blanch is a sixteen-year-old sophomore at Elmwood High in Crescent Heights, California. She experien...
Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice
Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice Hanna Garth and Ashanté M. Reese 9781517908140 Nonfiction University of Minnesota Press University of Minnesota Press An in-depth look at...
Taken By You: Black Love Series (Book 3, Ryan Family Series)
Taken By You: Black Love Series (Book 3, Ryan Family Series) Dorothy Elizabeth Love 9781965437056 Fiction LED Literature and Publication LED Literature and Publication Black Romance Series with: Soulf...
Ashanté M. Reese
Ashanté M. Reese 0000000493895041 Dr. Ashanté M. Reese is a writer, anthropologist, and associate professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. She earned a...
Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C.
Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. Ashanté M. Reese 9781469651507 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press Dr. Ash...
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...
Gather: Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness
Gather: Black Food, Nourishment, and the Art of Togetherness Ashanté M. Reese 9781324076469 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A vibrant new vision of food justice that cel...
Inseparable (Harlequin Kimani ArabesqueMadaris Family Saga)
Inseparable (Harlequin Kimani ArabesqueMadaris Family Saga) Brenda Jackson 9780373534432 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Harlequin Enterprises Limited Living under Reese Madaris’s roof makes LaKenna James th...
Ashley June Reese
Ashley June Reese NONE Ashley June Reese is Creative Director of Black Interior Designers, Inc. (BID). Her Houston-based design firm, House of June Interiors, works with a roster of clients from Bos...
The Teachers March!: How Selma’s Teachers Changed History
The Teachers March!: How Selma’s Teachers Changed History Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace 9781629794525 Nonfiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press Demonstrating the power of protest and standing ...
Dead on Arrival
Dead on Arrival Kiki Swinson 9781496712783 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Kiki Swinson delivers startling twists, unforgettable characters—and a stark, portrait of life in the South. Now s...
Society of Lies: Reese’s Book Club
Society of Lies: Reese’s Book Club Lauren Ling Brown 9780593723357 Fiction Bantam Penguin Random House Reese's Book Club Pick Maya has returned to Princeton for her college reunion—it's been ...
Intimate Betrayal
Intimate Betrayal Donna Hill 9781583140604 Fiction Kimani Press Kimani Press Reese Delaware is an investigative reporter with a burning drive to seek out the truth. But one story eludes her — her own....
Honey and Spice: A Reese’s Book Club Pick
Honey and Spice: A Reese’s Book Club Pick Bolu Babalola 9780063141483 Fiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins “Sexy, messy and wry, Honey and Spice more than delivers.” — New York Times Book Re...
Gold Diggers: A Novel
Gold Diggers: A Novel Tracie Howard 9780385517980 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House ENTER THE WORLD OF “GUCCI, GLITZ, AND GLAMOUR”* IN THIS DELICIOUSLY DECADENT LOOK INTO THE LIVES OF THE YOUNG, THE ...
Hood Rat: A Novel
Hood Rat: A Novel K’wan 9781250750099 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Hood Rat (n.): A woman of questionable repute, one who has been known to "get around" in the ’hood.Yoshi is youn...
Stages: (Part 1 Of The Stages Trilogy)
Stages: (Part 1 Of The Stages Trilogy) Malikah Reese Maccabee 9780615234946 Nonfiction Wind & Water Literary Entertainment Book Wind & Water Literary Entertainment Book A Collective of women have jour...
Lockdown
Lockdown Walter Dean Myers 9780061214806 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins When I first got to Progress, it freaked me out to be locked in a room and unable to get out. But after a while, when you got to ...
If I’m Looking for a Prince, Why Am I Still Kissing Frogs?
If I’m Looking for a Prince, Why Am I Still Kissing Frogs? Ilinda M. J. Reese 9781450769884 Nonfiction 220 Communications 220 Communications
A Reader in African-Jamaican Music Dance and Religion
A Reader in African-Jamaican Music Dance and Religion Markus Coester and Wolfgang Bender 9789766372538 Nonfiction Ian Randle Publishers Ian Randle Publishers Jamaica’s rich culture is known the world...
The Black Dancing Body: A Geography from Coon to Cool by Brenda Dixon Gottschild (2003-10-06)
The Black Dancing Body: A Geography from Coon to Cool by Brenda Dixon Gottschild (2003-10-06) Brenda Dixon Gottschild 9780312240479 Nonfiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers Watching contempo...
The Black Dancing Body
The Black Dancing Body Rondall Brasher Book Review This book actually came to my attention last month on the home page of African American Literature Book Club. Troy had it in the revolving new titl...
The Black Dancing Body: A Geography From Coon to Cool
The Black Dancing Body: A Geography From Coon to Cool Brenda Dixon Gottschild 9781403971210 Nonfiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers What is the essence of black dance in America? To answer ...
Rhythms of Resistance and Resilience: How Black Washingtonians Used Music and Sports in the Fight for Equality
Rhythms of Resistance and Resilience: How Black Washingtonians Used Music and Sports in the Fight for Equality Maurice Jackson 9781647125219 Nonfiction Georgetown University Press Georgetown Universit...
Tembi Locke
Tembi Locke 0000000500051382 Tembi Locke is a writer, entrepreneur, and thought leader in creativity and resilience. She is a New York Times bestselling author, television producer, actor, and scree...
Such a Fun Age
Such a Fun Age Kiley Reid 9780525541905 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Penguin Random House A REESE’S BOOK CLUB x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK PICK A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new vo...
Our Black Sons Matter: Mothers Talk about Fears, Sorrows, and Hopes
Our Black Sons Matter: Mothers Talk about Fears, Sorrows, and Hopes George Yancy 9781442269118 Nonfiction Rowman & Littlefield Rowman & Littlefield Our Black Sons Matter is a powerful collection of or...
Nightbloom
Nightbloom Peace Adzo Medie 9781643752846 Fiction Algonquin Books Workman Publishing Co., Inc. Author of Reese’s Book Club Pick His Only Wife, Peace Adzo Medie returns with a moving novel about the un...
From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home Tembi Locke 9781501187667 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Now a limited Netflix series starring Zoë Saldaña! This Reese With...
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie Patricia Haley 9781583146248 Fiction Kimani Press Kimani Press Bestselling author Patricia Haley is back with an evocative and powerful novel that features a family hiding dorman...
The Vision Through My Lens: My Life in Basketball and Beyond
The Vision Through My Lens: My Life in Basketball and Beyond Natasha Howard 9781636143507 Nonfiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Amid the current firestorm of interest in women’s basketball, Natasha H...
Sweet Heat
Sweet Heat Bolu Babalola 9780063306967 Fiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins Bolu Babalola is… “A queen of romantic comedy.” – Oprah Daily “Incisively funny.” – Entertainment Weekly...
Sweet Heat
Sweet Heat Bolu Babalola 9780063306981 Fiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins Bolu Babalola is… “A queen of romantic comedy.” – Oprah Daily “Incisively funny.” – Entertainment Weekly...
Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad: Stories
Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad: Stories Damilare Kuku 9780063316362 Fiction HarperVia HarperCollins The anti-rom-com debut collection that took Nigeria by storm, featuring twelve “bewitching and ...
The Air Between Us: A Novel
The Air Between Us: A Novel Deborah Johnson 9780061255588 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Revere, Mississippi, with its population of "20,000 and sinking," is not unlike most Southern towns in the 1960s...
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 9780807049396 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press 2020 American Indian Youth Literature Young Adult Honor Boo...
Friends & Fauxs: A Novel
Friends & Fauxs: A Novel Tracie Howard 9780767929936 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House Tracie Howard is back with all of the Gucci, glitz, and glamour in this steamy follow-up to her smash hit Gold D...
Always True to You in My Fashion
Always True to You in My Fashion Valerie Wilson Wesley 9780061015526 Fiction Avon Books HarperCollins Three smart, independent single women are being driven to distraction by the same maddening man du...
Stages
Stages Idrissa Uqdah Book Review Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall STAGES, the debut novel by Malikah Reese Maccabee is a wonderfully written and very engaging story about women of color in crisi...
Sarah Dass
Sarah Dass NONE Sarah Dass is a Trinidadian author of young adult and romantic fiction. Her debut novel Where the Rhythm Takes You (2021) reimagines Jane Austen’s Persuasion set against the lush bac...
No Shade
No Shade K’wan 9781622867325 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. [Read by Kim Johnson] From #1 Essence bestselling author K’wan comes the sixth installment in his bestselling Hood Rat seri...
Black Stars of the Harlem Renaissance
Black Stars of the Harlem Renaissance James Haskins, Eleanora E. Tate, Clinton Cox, and Brenda Wilkinson 9780471211525 Nonfiction Wiley Wiley AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY COMES TO LIFE Discover why y...
Arriel Vinson
Arriel Vinson NONE Arriel Vinson is a Reese’s Book Club LitUp Fellow and Midwesterner who writes about being young, Black, and in search of freedom. She earned her MFA in Fiction from Sarah Lawrence...
Jasmine Guillory
Jasmine Guillory 0000000510956804 Jasmine Guillory, a New York Times bestselling author known for novels like 'The Wedding Date' and 'The Proposal.' Her work has been featured in major publications a...
You Should See Me In A Crown
You Should See Me In A Crown Leah Johnson 9781338503296 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. TIME Magazine Best YA Book of All Time A Stonewall Honor Book A Reese’s Book Club YA Pick Liz Ligh...
The Wedding Party
The Wedding Party Jasmine Guillory 9781984802194 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House As seen on The Today Show! The new exhilarating New York Times bestselling romance from the author of The...
Journey To The Woman I’ve Come To Love: Affirmations From Women Who Have Fallen In Love--With Themselves (Volume 1)
Journey To The Woman I’ve Come To Love: Affirmations From Women Who Have Fallen In Love--With Themselves (Volume 1) Miki Turner 9781478259497 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Miki Turne...
Teammates
Teammates Peter Golenbock 9780152842864 Nonfiction HMH Books for Young Readers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt This is the moving story of how Jackie Robinson became the first black player on a Major League...
Lockdown
Lockdown Walter Dean Myers 9780061214820 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Walter Dean Myers enjoys speaking with kids in schools and juvenile detention facilities about writing and making positive decisi...
Deadly Sexy
Deadly Sexy Beverly Jenkins 9780061246395 Fiction Avon Books HarperCollins Though her Lexus may be broken down on the California freeway, Jessi Teresa Blake is no damsel in distress. Rich, smart, and ...
Tolani Akinola
Tolani Akinola NONE Tolani Akinola is a Reese’s Book Club LitUp Fellow. She holds a BA from the University of Chicago and an MPH from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. She lives outsid...
Marc Lamont Hill and Todd Brewster
Marc Lamont Hill and Todd Brewster MULTIPLE Marc Lamont Hill is a media personality, educator, and entrepreneur, hosting BET News and Black News Tonight, and holding a chair at Temple University. He ...
Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety
Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety Cara Page and Erica Woodland 9781623177140 Nonfiction North Atlantic Books North Atlantic Books A profou...
Ngũgĩ in the American Imperium
Ngũgĩ in the American Imperium Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Timothy J. Reiss 9781569027080 Nonfiction Africa World Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press This collection on Ngũgĩ’s ...
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans Kadir Nelson 9780061730795 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins From Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans, written an...
The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study
The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study Stefano Harney and Fred Moten 9781570272677 Nonfiction Autonomedia Autonomedia Literary Nonfiction. African American Studies. Politics. Philosophy & C...
Erik Campano, Isabel Esteviz, Sheila Taylor-Downer, and Robyn Williams
Erik Campano, Isabel Esteviz, Sheila Taylor-Downer, and Robyn Williams MULTIPLE Robyn Williams is a bestselling author, non-profit founder, and business development associate focused on literacy and ...
Clarence Lusane
Clarence Lusane 0000000109374330 Dr. Clarence Lusane, a respected scholar and activist, specializes in human rights, global race relations, U.S. politics, and international relations. Born in Detroit...
Keegan-Michael Key and Elle Key
Keegan-Michael Key and Elle Key MULTIPLE Emmy and Peabody Award-winning actor, writer, and producer Keegan-Michael Key is renowned for his diverse talent in comedy and drama, with credits in Key & Pe...
Fast & Hard: From Addictions to Redemption
Fast & Hard: From Addictions to Redemption Anita L. Helm and Matthew Tyner, Sr. 9798350986259 Poetry BookBaby BookBaby In Fast and Hard, you’ll follow Matt Tyner on a roller-coaster ride from his earl...
J.J. Smith
J.J. Smith NONE JJ Smith is a certified nutritionist and weight-management specialist, renowned author, and inspirational speaker. Featured on multiple television shows and in high-profile publicatio...
Jamillah Lamb and David Lamb
Jamillah Lamb and David Lamb MULTIPLE David and Jamillah Lamb are the dynamic duo behind Between The Lines Productions, Inc. The couple co-authored the book Perfect Combination: Seven Key Ingredients...
Racial Reconciliation and the Healing of a Nation: Beyond Law and Rights
Racial Reconciliation and the Healing of a Nation: Beyond Law and Rights Austin Sarat and Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. 9781479843534 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press The work...
Visions and Cyphers: Explorations of Literacy, Discourse, and Black Writing Experiences
Visions and Cyphers: Explorations of Literacy, Discourse, and Black Writing Experiences David Green 9781580730570 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press VISIONS AND CYPHERS is a rhetorical...
Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues
Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues Albert Murray 9780816699551 Nonfiction University of Minnesota Press University of Minnesota Press The year 2016 will mark the centennial of the bir...
The Underachieving Society: Development Strategy and Policy in Trinidad and Tobago, 1958-2008
The Underachieving Society: Development Strategy and Policy in Trinidad and Tobago, 1958-2008 Terrence W. Farrell 9789766403195 Nonfiction University of the West Indies Press University of the West In...
The African Presence and Influence on the Cultures of the Americas
The African Presence and Influence on the Cultures of the Americas Brenda M. Greene 9781443822169 Nonfiction Cambridge Scholars Publishing Cambridge Scholars Publishing ’The African Presence and Influ...
Race Contacts and Interracial Relations: Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Race (Moorland-Spingarn Series)
Race Contacts and Interracial Relations: Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Race (Moorland-Spingarn Series) Alain Leroy Locke and Jeffrey C. Stewart 9780882581583 Nonfiction Howard University Pres...
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...
Rashida Aisha Ali
Rashida Aisha Ali NONE Rashida Aisha Ali, an author, artist, and educator, specializes in female-centric topics including health, wellness, and spirituality. With degrees in Divinity and Metaphysics,...
Vanessa Riley
Vanessa Riley 0000000505908728 Vanessa Riley is an acclaimed author of Regency and historical romances, known for her multicultural narratives and powerful characters of color. With over twenty title...
Shonda Buchanan
Shonda Buchanan 0000000500800611 Shonda Buchanan is an award-winning author and professor with over 15 years of teaching experience in various literary fields. She's an Education Specialist for the U...
Halima Taha
Halima Taha NONE Halima Taha is a renowned advocate for African and African-American art, known for her educational initiatives and influential writings. Her contributions have spearheaded recognitio...
Tamara Morgan
Tamara Morgan NONE Tamara Morgan, a Berkeley native and Stanford Law School alumna, is an accomplished Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leader and employment law attorney. Known for her resilience, s...
No Human Involved: The Serial Murder of Black Women and Girls and the Deadly Cost of Police Indifference
No Human Involved: The Serial Murder of Black Women and Girls and the Deadly Cost of Police Indifference Cheryl L. Neely 9780807021484 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press An urgent examination of the...
Salvage: Readings from the Wreck
Salvage: Readings from the Wreck Dionne Brand 9780374614843 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers Dionne Brand explores English and American literature, and the colonial aesthetic ...
After Life: A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America
After Life: A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America Rhae Lynn Barnes, Keri Leigh Merritt, and Yohuru Williams 9781642598292 Nonfiction Haymarket Books Haymarket Books After Lif...
Bright Brown Baby
Bright Brown Baby Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney 9780545872294 Fiction Orchard Books Orchard Books A rhythmic, whimsically illustrated celebration of Black and brown babies and the joy, tende...
How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories
How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories Venita Blackburn 9780374602796 Fiction MCD x FSG Books Farrar, Straus and Giroux A Paris Review Staff Pick and an Amazon Editors’ Pick. Finalist for the Ernest J. Gaines...
Toward A New Afrikan Revolution, Volume I: Reflections on the Struggle for Black Freedom and Self-Determination
Toward A New Afrikan Revolution, Volume I: Reflections on the Struggle for Black Freedom and Self-Determination Khalid Raheem 9781090985491 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published W...
Between Harlem and Heaven: Afro-Asian-American Cooking for Big Nights, Weeknights, and Every Day
Between Harlem and Heaven: Afro-Asian-American Cooking for Big Nights, Weeknights, and Every Day Alexander Smalls and JJ Johnson, with Veronica Chambers 9781250108715 Nonfiction Flatiron Books Macmill...
Stop Wasting Your Time Blaming Others for Your Life: 15 Life Lessons to help you take back control of your Life, Relationships and Career
Stop Wasting Your Time Blaming Others for Your Life: 15 Life Lessons to help you take back control of your Life, Relationships and Career Tamara Hartley 9780983637325 Nonfiction Hartley Unlimited Hart...
Globalization, Sovereignty and Citizenship in the Caribbean
Globalization, Sovereignty and Citizenship in the Caribbean Hilbourne A. Watson 9789766405502 Nonfiction University of the West Indies Press University of the West Indies Press The contributors to Glo...
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants Malcolm Gladwell 9780316204378 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Three thousand years ago on a battlefield i...
Afro-Vegan: Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean, and Southern Flavors Remix
Afro-Vegan: Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean, and Southern Flavors Remix Bryant Terry 9781607745310 Nonfiction Ten Speed Press Penguin Random House African, Caribbean, and southern food are all known and...
In Laws and Play Cousins: Growing Pains, Promiscuity, Success and Murder
In Laws and Play Cousins: Growing Pains, Promiscuity, Success and Murder Robyn Gant 9781463587031 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC In Laws and Play Cousins is a coming of age story that fo...
I Am Your Sister: Collected And Unpublished Writings Of Audre Lorde (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies In Black Politics And Black Communities)
I Am Your Sister: Collected And Unpublished Writings Of Audre Lorde (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies In Black Politics And Black Communities) Audre Lorde 9780195341485 Nonfiction Oxford University P...
New Studies in the History of American Slavery
New Studies in the History of American Slavery Edward E. Baptist and Stephanie Camp 9780820326948 Nonfiction University of Georgia Press University of Georgia Press These essays, by some of the most p...
Crime and Social Justice
Crime and Social Justice Tony Platt and Paul Takagi 9780333282618 Nonfiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers This book presents a collection of some of the best articles from the first ten iss...
Artika R. Tyner
Artika R. Tyner NONE Dr. Artika R. Tyner is an influential leader, author, and speaker focused on fostering inclusive leadership and social justice. With a background in law, education, and nonprofit...
Laetitia Ky
Laetitia Ky 0000000524196957 Laetitia Ky is an Ivory Coast-based multi-talented artist known for using her hair as a sculptural medium to address social justice issues. Her debut book, Love and Justi...
Gena Cox
Gena Cox NONE Dr. Gena Cox is an organizational psychologist, executive coach, and author known for her nuanced insights and invaluable recommendations. She guides leaders in adapting to societal cha...
The Seer: Toni Morrison Among the Ruins
The Seer: Toni Morrison Among the Ruins Farah Jasmine Griffin 9780593491102 Nonfiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House From an acclaimed scholar and longtime friend of Toni Morrison, an intimate an...
People the Planet Needs Now: Voices for Justice, Science, and a Future of Promise
People the Planet Needs Now: Voices for Justice, Science, and a Future of Promise Dudley Edmondson 9781647552770 Nonfiction Adventure Publications AdventureKEEN Find inspiration to affect global chang...
When Detroit Played the Numbers: Gambling’s History and Cultural Impact on the Motor City
When Detroit Played the Numbers: Gambling’s History and Cultural Impact on the Motor City Felicia B. George 9780814350775 Nonfiction Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press Winner: A...