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Juan Tomás Avila Laurel
Juan Tomás Avila Laurel 000000011566246X Equatoguinean author, Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, focuses on social, political and economic inequality in Africa. A distinguished lecturer at Hofstra University,...
Lorraine Avila
Lorraine Avila NONE Lorraine Avila (she/they) is a storyteller. Lorraine was born and raised in the Bronx, NY and is a first-generation Dominican-American. Avila spent a decade as an educator in the...
By Night the Mountain Burns
By Night the Mountain Burns Juan Tomás Avila Laurel 9781908276407 Fiction And Other Stories Publishing And Other Stories Publishing This novel tells of childhood on a remote island off the west Africa...
The Making of Yolanda La Bruja
The Making of Yolanda La Bruja Lorraine Avila 9781646142439 Fiction Levine Querido Levine Querido Common Sense Media Selection for Teens Booklist Best of the Year NYPL Top 10 of the Year HipLatina ...
Uncle Tom: A Oral History of the American Black Conservative
Uncle Tom: A Oral History of the American Black Conservative Troy Johnson https://aalbc.com/reviews/images/Uncle-tom-movie-poster.jpg Film Review Rating: NR Genre: Documentary Directed By: Just...
Tom Wood
Tom Wood 0000000071567072 “If you are excellent at almost anything you can succeed.” Tom Wood, a trailblazer in the banking industry, was the first Black member of a major U.S. bank's boar...
Beneath a Meth Moon
Beneath a Meth Moon Jacqueline Woodson 9780399252501 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s LiteratureLaurel Daneau...
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave (Laurel-leaf books)
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave (Laurel-leaf books) Virginia Hamilton 9780679839972 Fiction Laurel Leaf Laurel Leaf Now in Laurel-Leaf, Virginia Hamilton’s powerful true acco...
Jericho Brown and Laurel Corona
Jericho Brown and Laurel Corona MULTIPLE Jericho Brown and Laurel Corona are renowned authors, notable for their exceptional literary contributions. Brown's profound poetry intertwines with Corona's ...
Laurel J. Richie - The WNBA Interview
Laurel J. Richie - The WNBA Interview Kam Williams Interview WNBA President on Her Life, the League and the Olympics Laurel J. Richie has more than three decades of experience in consumer mar...
The Disappearance (Laurel Leaf Books)
The Disappearance (Laurel Leaf Books) Rosa Guy 9780440920649 Fiction Laurel Leaf Laurel Leaf Imamu Jones has two defenses against the world—his intelligence and the toothpick between his lips—and he n...
The Hope Family Calendar
The Hope Family Calendar Mike Gayle 9781473608955 Fiction Hodder & Stoughton General Division Hodder & Stoughton Publishing A compelling and emotional novel, for fans of Jojo Moyes and Jenny Colgan. ...
A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story Is Founded
A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story Is Founded Harriet Beecher Stowe 9780486794822 Nonfiction Dover Publications Dover Publications In 1852 Ha...
Uncle Tom’s Story of His Life: An Autobiography of the Reverend Josiah Henson
Uncle Tom’s Story of His Life: An Autobiography of the Reverend Josiah Henson Josiah Henson 9780807869611 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press This 1876 ver...
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe 9780486440286 Nonfiction Dover Publications Dover Publications Selling more than 300,000 copies the first year it was published, Stowe’s powerful abolitionist n...
Tom Dent and Edited by Kalamu ya Salaam
Tom Dent and Edited by Kalamu ya Salaam MULTIPLE Tom Dent and Kalamu ya Salaam are influential authors known for their significant contributions to literature and culture, particularly within the Afr...
Tom Feelings
Tom Feelings 0000000063291627 Tom Feelings was a Brooklyn-born author, illustrator, and activist who portrayed the African-American experience through his work. He had a distinguished career, winning...
The Ballad of Black Tom
The Ballad of Black Tom Victor Lavalle 9781250817556 Fiction Tordotcom Macmillan Publishers The Ballad of Black Tom—the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, and Bram Stoker Award finalist and Shirley J...
New Orleans Griot The Tom Dent Reader
New Orleans Griot The Tom Dent Reader Kalamu ya Salaam 9781608011490 Fiction University of New Orleans Press University of New Orleans Press A mid-twentieth century African American writer and cultura...
Tom Burrell
Tom Burrell 0000000078076508 Thomas J. Burrell, a pioneer in marketing communications, revolutionized the portrayal of African Americans in TV advertising. He acknowledged their purchasing power, cha...
Josiah Henson
Josiah Henson 0000000082230213 Josiah Henson (1789-1883) was an author, abolitionist, and minister who escaped from slavery and founded a settlement in Upper Canada for fugitive slaves. His autobiogr...
Tom Knight
Tom Knight 0000000356443698 After an enjoyable stint as a graphic designer, Tom Knight is now proud to be using his imagination as a full-time career. Drawing on a long and abiding love of imagery f...
Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America’s Most Important Newspaper
Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America’s Most Important Newspaper Laurel Leff 9780521812870 Nonfiction Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press An in-depth look at how The New Yor...
The Ballad of Black Tom (paperback)
The Ballad of Black Tom (paperback) Victor Lavalle 9780765387868 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn’t there. Charles Tho...
Song Of The Shank: A Novel
Song Of The Shank: A Novel Jeffery Renard Allen 9781555976804 Fiction Graywolf Press Graywolf Press A contemporary American masterpiece about music, race, an unforgettable man, and an unreal America d...
Muriel Feelings
Muriel Feelings 0000000042175168 Muriel Feelings, born in Pennsylvania, was an educator and author. She taught in East Africa and Brooklyn and collaborated with her illustrator husband, Tom Feelings,...
Tom Cruise - The "Mission: Impossible III" Interview
Tom Cruise - The "Mission: Impossible III" Interview Kam Williams Interview Ten Quick Questions for Tom Tom Cruise (TC): The Mission: Impossible III Interview with Kam Williams (KW) ...
A Year in Ink, Volume 4
A Year in Ink, Volume 4 Jericho Brown and Laurel Corona 9780979920448 Poetry San Diego Writers, Ink San Diego Writers, Ink Forty-two writers are represented in this fourth anthology from San Diego Wri...
Flags of Our Fathers: A Young People’s Edition
Flags of Our Fathers: A Young People’s Edition James Bradley, Ron Powers, and Michael French 9780440229209 Nonfiction Laurel Leaf Laurel Leaf In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous...
Eden
Eden Olympia Vernon 9780802117281 Fiction Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. Eden is a fearless and wildly original debut, a powerhouse of a novel that explodes on the first page and sustains a tightrop...
The Watsons Go To Birmingham--1963
The Watsons Go To Birmingham--1963 Christopher Paul Curtis 9780440228004 Fiction Laurel Leaf Laurel Leaf A wonderful middle-grade novel narrated by Kenny, 9, about his middle-class black family, the W...
Gone from Home: Short Takes
Gone from Home: Short Takes Angela Johnson 9780375801921 Nonfiction Laurel Leaf Laurel Leaf "In these 12 well-honed stories told in first-person narrative, Johnson zeroes in on the idealism and resili...
Another Way to Dance
Another Way to Dance Martha Southgate 9780440219682 Fiction Laurel Leaf Laurel Leaf Fourteen-year-old Vicki Harris’s dream has come true. She has been accepted into the summer program at New York City...
The Friends
The Friends Rosa Guy 9780440226673 Fiction Laurel Leaf Laurel Leaf Phyllisia eventually recognizes that her own selfish pride rather than her mother’s death and her father’s tyrannical behavior create...
Motown and Didi (Polk Street Special)
Motown and Didi (Polk Street Special) Walter Dean Myers 9780440957621 Fiction Laurel Leaf Laurel Leaf Motown lives in a burned-out building one floor above the rats, searching out jobs every day, work...
Pursuit
Pursuit Michael R. French 9780440966654 Fiction Laurel Leaf Laurel Leaf After a boy falls to his death on a hiking trip, his brother is pursued through the wilderness by the man he believes responsibl...
We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power
We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power Caleb Gayle 9780593329603 Nonfiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House "An important part of American history told wi...
Song in a Rainstorm: The Story of Musical Prodigy Thomas Blind Tom Wiggins
Song in a Rainstorm: The Story of Musical Prodigy Thomas Blind Tom Wiggins Glenda Armand 9780807509418 Nonfiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company Born blind into a life of slavery, T...
Anna’s Boy
Anna’s Boy Tom Wood 9781098320874 Nonfiction BookBaby BookBaby Anna’s Boy is the saga of the grandson of an American slave’s journey from Harlem;To become the first black member of a major U.S. bank b...
Brainwashed
Brainwashed Tom Burrell 9781401925925 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House "Black people are not dark-skinned white people," says advertising visionary Tom Burrell. In fact, they are ...
Uncle Tom’s Children (P.S.)
Uncle Tom’s Children (P.S.) Richard Wright 9780061450204 Fiction Harper Perennial Modern Classics HarperCollins Set in the American Deep South, each of the powerful novellas collected here concerns an...
I Saw Your Face
I Saw Your Face Kwame Dawes 9780803718944 Poetry Dial Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House “Wow! This is still one of the greatest honors of my life—to work with Tom Feelings”Kwame Dawes ...
Master of Mahogany: Tom Day, Free Black Cabinetmaker (African-American Artists and Artisans)
Master of Mahogany: Tom Day, Free Black Cabinetmaker (African-American Artists and Artisans) Mary E. Lyons 9780684196756 Nonfiction Atheneum Simon & Schuster, Inc. Examines the life and work of master...
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Told to the Children
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Told to the Children Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall utctttc Fiction E. P. Dutton & Co. Penguin Random House “Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti–slavery novel by Ame...
Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Lisa Nichols, and Tom Joyner
Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Lisa Nichols, and Tom Joyner MULTIPLE
Tom Dent
Tom Dent 0000000116010017 Sure, I can help with that. However, I didn't receive the author bio from you. Could you please provide it?
Tavis Smiley
Tavis Smiley 0000000110310916 Tavis Smiley, a prominent African-American voice, is a renowned host and political commentator. Known for his work on BET Tonight and The Tom Joyner Morning Show, he is ...
Deya Smith
Deya Smith NONE Deya “Direct” Smith, lead content producer for the Tom Joyner Morning Show, is the creator of “The Man Whisperer” series. Known for her provocative communication style, she's a freque...
The Lost Daughter: A Memoir
The Lost Daughter: A Memoir Mary Williams 9780399160868 Fiction Blue Rider Press Penguin Random House A daughter of the Black Panther movement tells her remarkable life story of being raised amid viol...
Ruby Finds a Worry
Ruby Finds a Worry Tom Percival 9781547602377 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Publishing A young girl’s sense of adventure and exploration vanishes when she discovers a Worry that grows and...
The Middle Passage: White Ships/ Black Cargo
The Middle Passage: White Ships/ Black Cargo Tom Feelings 9780525552444 Nonfiction Dial Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Alex Haley’s Roots awakened many Americans to the cruelty of slaver...
Citizens Creek: A Novel
Citizens Creek: A Novel Lalita Tademy 9781476753034 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Winner BCALA Literary Fiction Book Award “Lalita Tademy has done it again—Citizen’s Creek is a de...
Walter Dean Myers: More Than an Outstanding Writer
Walter Dean Myers: More Than an Outstanding Writer Troy Johnson Article by Wade Hudson I was stunned when I heard that Walter Dean Myers had made his transition. During the 25 plus years that my w...
Sister Betty Says I Do
Sister Betty Says I Do Pat G’Orge Walker 9780758289858 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. An inspiring, devilishly funny tale of hope, secrets—and hard-knock faith that can make the most impos...
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, And The Real Count Of Monte Cristo
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, And The Real Count Of Monte Cristo Tom Reiss 9780307382467 Nonfiction Crown Penguin Random House Here is the remarkable true story of the real Count of Mo...
To Be Sung Underwater
To Be Sung Underwater Tom McNeal 9780316127387 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group Judith Whitman always believed in the kind of love that "picks you up in Akron and sets you do...
Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood From Slavery To Civil Rights (America And The Long 19Th Century)
Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood From Slavery To Civil Rights (America And The Long 19Th Century) Robin Bernstein 9780814787083 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University ...
Chicken Soup For The African American Soul: Celebrating And Sharing Our Culture, One Story At A Time (Chicken Soup For The Soul)
Chicken Soup For The African American Soul: Celebrating And Sharing Our Culture, One Story At A Time (Chicken Soup For The Soul) Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Lisa Nichols, and Tom Joyner 9780757...
Uncle Tom’s Children
Uncle Tom’s Children Richard Wright 9780060587147 Fiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins Set in the American Deep South, each of the powerful novellas collected here concerns an aspect of the lives ...
Mandy Oxendine
Mandy Oxendine Victor Séjour 9780252063473 Fiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press In a novel rejected by a major publisher in the late nineteenth century as too shocking for...
Mark Twain
Mark Twain 0000000368641704 Mark Twain (1835-1910) was an influential American author known for his satirical humor and social criticism. He's best remembered for classic novels such as The Adventure...
Nikki Woods
Nikki Woods NONE Nikki Woods is a multi-media personality, personal branding coach, and CEO of Nikki Woods Media. As senior producer of the Tom Joyner Morning Show, she reaches over 8 million listen...
E. D. Arrington
E. D. Arrington NONE E.D. Arrington, also known as Lois, was raised by her grandparents in Greene County, North Carolina. After a successful career at the National Education Association, she turned t...
Roland S. Martin
Roland S. Martin 0000000043822953 Roland Martin is a journalist, author, and TV host for TV One's News One Now. Previously a CNN contributor and senior analyst for the Tom Joyner Morning Show, Martin...
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe 0000000120176335 Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) was an influential American author and abolitionist. Her novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, highlighted the harsh realities of slavery ...
Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas Kam Williams cloud-atlas-movie-poster.jpg Film Review Halle & Hanks Co-Star in Adaptation of Sci-Fi Best-Seller Cloud Atlas (2012) In Theaters: Oct 26, 2012 Wide Rated R for viole...
We Cast a Shadow
We Cast a Shadow Tony Lindsay Book Review In Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s first novel, We Cast a Shadow, the reader meets a complex and unnamed protagonist. The main character of this futuristic nov...
Ving Rhames - The "Mission Impossible III " Interview
Ving Rhames - The "Mission Impossible III " Interview Kam Williams Interview Ving Rhames: The Mission: Impossible III Interview with Kam Williams (KW) Hailing from Harlem, Ving Rhames att...
Contest Winner
Contest Winner Troy Johnson Article The AALBC in conjunction with BlackWords sponsored a contest for the "360� Degree A Revolution of Black Poets" event. The question posed was "What is the imp...
’Til I Want No More
’Til I Want No More Robin W. Pearson 9781496450579 Fiction Tyndale House Tyndale House When the man she loved years ago returns to town, one young woman’s complicated past rises again, threatening to ...
We Love You, Charlie Freeman: A Novel
We Love You, Charlie Freeman: A Novel Kaitlyn Greenidge 9781616206444 Fiction Algonquin Books Workman Publishing Co., Inc. A FINALIST FOR THE 2016 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE AND THE 2017 YOU...
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...
Dancing in the Dark
Dancing in the Dark Caryl Phillips 9781400079834 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House In this searing novel, Caryl Phillips reimagines the life of the first black entertainer in the U.S. to reach the ...
Dancing in the Dark
Dancing in the Dark Caryl Phillips 9781400043965 Fiction Alfred A. Knopf Penguin Random House A searing new novel that reimagines the remarkable, tragic, little-known life of Bert Williams (1874—1922)...
Dive: A Novel
Dive: A Novel Lisa Teasley 9781582343983 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing Lisa Teasley’s seductive debut novel is at once a thriller, a love story, and a meditation on what makes each one ...
Leontyne Price
Leontyne Price 0000000114499517 Mary Violet Leontyne Price, born in 1927, is a globally acclaimed soprano. Rising to fame in the 1950s and 1960s, she's among the first African Americans to lead at th...
Magnolia Tree Books
Magnolia Tree Books Laurel MS Unable to determine if store is still operational as of March 21, 2014.
SmileyBooks
SmileyBooks Penguin Random House Bertelsmann Tavis Smiley, founder and publisher of SmileyBooks, hosted a reception October 2, 2007, in New York City to introduce his new company presiden...
Cold Hard Cash Vol. 1: A Martha Chainey Escapade
Cold Hard Cash Vol. 1: A Martha Chainey Escapade Gary Phillips 9781684974498 Fiction ABLAZE ABLAZE Former Las Vegas showgirl Martha Chainey is a statuesque woman of color with a penchant for martial a...
Everybody’s Fly: A Life of Art, Music, and Changing the Culture
Everybody’s Fly: A Life of Art, Music, and Changing the Culture Fab 5 Freddy 9780593834909 Nonfiction Viking Penguin Random House Named a Must-Read Book by W Magazine, Time, and more “Everybody’s F...
Everybody’s Protest Novel: Essays
Everybody’s Protest Novel: Essays James Baldwin 9780807016947 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press “I am completely indebted to Jimmy Baldwin’s prose. It liberated me as a writer.”—Toni Morrison Th...
Juke Joints, Jazz Clubs, and Juice: A Cocktail Recipe Book: Cocktails from Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks
Juke Joints, Jazz Clubs, and Juice: A Cocktail Recipe Book: Cocktails from Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks Toni Tipton-Martin 9780593233825 Nonfiction Clarkson Potter Penguin Random House ...
The Quality of Mercy
The Quality of Mercy Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu 9781946395863 Fiction Catalyst Press Catalyst Press Winner, Outstanding Fiction Book Prize, National Arts Merit Awards (Zimbabwe) Longlist, 2023 Sunday Time...
Hope Wins: A Collection of Inspiring Stories for Young Readers
Hope Wins: A Collection of Inspiring Stories for Young Readers Rose Brock 9780593463956 Nonfiction Philomel Books Penguin Random House From Matt de la Peña and Veera Hiranandani to Max Brallier and R....
What’s Next? Short Fiction in Time of Change
What’s Next? Short Fiction in Time of Change Sharyn Skeeter 9781950584864 Fiction Green Writers Press Green Writers Press Transition and change are 21st-century lived experiences. We want to know “wha...
Eve
Eve Victor Lavalle 9781684158089 Fiction BOOM! Studios BOOM! Studios A young girl, Eve, raised in a virtual reality embarks on a deadly cross-country quest to save her father… and our dying plan...
It’s Life as I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940 - 1980
It’s Life as I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940 - 1980 Dan Nadel 9781681375618 Fiction New York Review Comics New York Review Books Originally published by Chicago’s Black press, long neglec...
The Travelers
The Travelers Regina Porter 9780525576204 Fiction Random House Publishing Group Penguin Random House Named one of the best books of the year by Esquire - Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut...
The Last Last-Day-of-Summer
The Last Last-Day-of-Summer Lamar Giles 9781328460837 Fiction Versify Houghton Mifflin Harcourt "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer reminds me that all children deserve to exist in magical spaces where their...
Richard Wright: The Library of America Unexpurgated (Boxed Set)
Richard Wright: The Library of America Unexpurgated (Boxed Set) Richard Wright 9781598536225 Fiction Library of America Library of America For the first time in a deluxe boxed set, the definitive edi...
All Eyes on Gunz 3
All Eyes on Gunz 3 Warren Holloway 9781947340299 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing Knowing the Feds are closing in on him in Atlanta, Tom "Tommy Guns" Anderson makes his way a little furth...