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Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes, and Jeremy McCarter
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes, and Jeremy McCarter MULTIPLE Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes, and Jeremy McCarter are renowned figures in the arts. Miranda, a multi-award-winning ...
In the Heights: Finding Home
In the Heights: Finding Home Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes, and Jeremy McCarter 9780593229590 Fiction Random House Penguin Random House The eagerly awaited follow-up to the #1 New York Time...
Hamilton: The Revolution
Hamilton: The Revolution Lin-Manuel Miranda 9781455539741 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Eleven Tony Awards, including Best Musica...
Eda Blessed III
Eda Blessed III Milton J. Davis 9798990512160 Fiction MVmedia MVmedia For ten years Omari Ket has roamed Ki Khanga, stumbling from mayhem to misadventure under the watchful eye of Eda. A task for the ...
Miranda Parker
Miranda Parker NONE Davidae Yolanda Stewart, known as Miranda Parker, was an author of comic romance suspense novels. She studied at Agnes Scott College and had diverse roles including journalist, IT...
Walking Through Mirrors
Walking Through Mirrors Brian Keith Jackson 9780671568948 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. In his breathtaking debut, The View From Here, Brian Keith Jackson took us inside the h...
Eda Blessed II
Eda Blessed II Milton J. Davis 9781737227717 Fiction MVmedia MVmedia Omari Ket’s world ranging adventures continue in Eda Blessed II. A collection of nine new stories span Omari’s indentured service w...
Miranda Paul
Miranda Paul NONE Miranda Paul is an award-winning author of children's books like One Plastic Bag and Water is Water, recognized by Junior Library Guild and Amazon. She regularly appears at educatio...
Jeremy O. Harris
Jeremy O. Harris 0000000496144470 Jeremy O. Harris, “one of the most promising playwrights of his generation,” (Vogue) is a playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and actor. His plays include Slave Pla...
The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda
The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda Ishmael Reed 9781576879245 Nonfiction Archway Editions powerHouse Books "That’s a lot of horse hockey, Hamilton." Described by the New York Times as "classic activis...
Miranda Paul and Baptiste Paul
Miranda Paul and Baptiste Paul MULTIPLE Miranda and Baptiste Paul are renowned authors known for their captivating storytelling. They bring diverse cultures and experiences to life through their comp...
Caught ’Em Slippin’
Caught ’Em Slippin’ Al-Saadiq Banks 9780974061030 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications Miranda Benderas, born to an infamous Cuban Kingpin and his trophy wife, an African American...
Education and Equality
Education and Equality Danielle Allen 9780226373102 Nonfiction University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press American education as we know it today—guaranteed by the state to serve every chi...
Jay Manuel
Jay Manuel NONE TV personality Jay Manuel is celebrated for his roles as a Fashion Correspondent, Host, Judge, Creative Director, and Executive Producer on popular television shows over 20 years. He'...
Model Citizen: The Autobiography of Jeremy Meeks
Model Citizen: The Autobiography of Jeremy Meeks Jeremy Meeks 9781954220669 Nonfiction Kingston Imperial Kingston Imperial Jeremy Meeks First Catapulted to Fame When His Mugshot Went Viral, Earning Hi...
Angela J. Davis, Bryan Stevenson, Marc Mauer, Bruce Western, and Jeremy Travis
Angela J. Davis, Bryan Stevenson, Marc Mauer, Bruce Western, and Jeremy Travis MULTIPLE Angela J. Davis, Bryan Stevenson, Marc Mauer, Bruce Western, and Jeremy Travis are influential authors and scho...
Jeremy Meeks
Jeremy Meeks NONE Jeremy Meeks is an American model and memoirist whose viral 2014 mugshot led to a fashion‑model career. His memoir Model Citizen: The Autobiography of Jeremy Meeks (2024) chronicle...
Unraveling
Unraveling Karen Lord 9780593598467 Fiction Del Rey Del Rey The search for a notorious serial killer takes a therapist on a nightmarish quest to an alternate world to find the sinister secret behind h...
A Good Excuse To Be Bad
A Good Excuse To Be Bad Miranda Parker 9780758259509 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Smart, gorgeous, and too tough for her own good, bail recovery agent and single mom Evangeline Crawford ...
White Is For Witching: A Novel
White Is For Witching: A Novel Helen Oyeyemi 9780385526050 Fiction Nan A. Talese Nan A. Talese “Miranda is at home—homesick, home sick …”As a child, Miranda Silver developed pica, a rare eating disord...
Douglas Manuel
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The Dream of Perpetual Motion
The Dream of Perpetual Motion Dexter Palmer 9780312680534 Fiction Picador Macmillan Publishers A debut so magical… so extraordinary… it has to be read to be believed…. Imprisoned ...
Baptiste Paul
Baptiste Paul 0000000497262487 Baptiste Paul, a St. Lucia native, holds an Environmental Science degree and is a renowned author. He's known for his books “The Field”, which earned multiple starred r...
Testify
Testify Douglas Manuel 9781597090452 Poetry Red Hen Press Red Hen Press A brave, brilliant debut about the African-American experience in the American Midwest. A contemplation of race, masculinity, re...
The Wig, The Bitch & The Meltdown
The Wig, The Bitch & The Meltdown Jay Manuel 9781946274434 Fiction Wordeee Wordeee The Wig, The Bitch & The Meltdown is a satirical look behind the scenes of Model Muse, a fictional reality model comp...
Jayylen’s Christmas Wish
Jayylen’s Christmas Wish Lavaille Lavette 9780593568088 Fiction Golden Books Penguin Random House This inspiring Little Golden Book tells the story of one young boy’s wish to have his whole family tog...
Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment
Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment Angela J. Davis, Bryan Stevenson, Marc Mauer, Bruce Western, and Jeremy Travis 9780525436614 Nonfiction Vintage Penguin Random House A com...
Boyfriend Shopping: An Anthology
Boyfriend Shopping: An Anthology Earl Sewell, Caridad Ferrer, and Deidre Berry 9780373091355 Fiction Kimani Press Kimani Press Holidays mean family, friends, presents—and extra doses of drama! But fo...
Slave Play
Slave Play Jeremy O. Harris 9781559369787 Fiction Theatre Communications Group Theatre Communications Group “The single most daring thing I’ve seen in a theater in a long time.” — Wesley Morris, New Y...
When Dad Killed Mom
When Dad Killed Mom Julius Lester 9780152046989 Fiction HMH Books for Young Readers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Jenna and Jeremy knew their parents’ marriage was in trouble. But no one could have predic...
Linsanity
Linsanity Kam Williams linsanity.jpg Film Review Linsanity In Theaters: Oct 4, 2013 Limited Rated: PG Running time: 1 hr. 28 min. In English and Mandarin with subtitles Distributor: Ketchup ...
Mississippi Bridge
Mississippi Bridge Mildred D. Taylor 9780141308173 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House Jeremy Simms watches from the porch of the general store as the passengers board the weekly bus from Jackso...
Pure Innocent Fun: Essays
Pure Innocent Fun: Essays Ira Madison III 9780593446188 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House National Bestseller • In this nostalgic and raucous collection of sixteen original essays, I...
The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life’s Direction and Purpose
The Path Made Clear: Discovering Your Life’s Direction and Purpose Oprah Winfrey 9781250307507 Nonfiction Flatiron Books Macmillan Publishers Everyone has a purpose. And, according to Oprah Winfrey, “...
The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are
The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are Tariq Trotter 9780593446928 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House New York Times Bestseller - “One of hip-hop’s greatest MCs, unpackin...
Through Mom’s Eyes: Simple Wisdom from Mothers Who Raised Extraordinary Humans
Through Mom’s Eyes: Simple Wisdom from Mothers Who Raised Extraordinary Humans Sheinelle Jones 9780593719336 Nonfiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Penguin Random House From the beloved Today show host Sheinel...
Life Among the Aryans
Life Among the Aryans Ishmael Reed 9781576879900 Fiction Archway Editions powerHouse Books America’s greatest living writer returns with a hilarious, scathing satire of the MAGA mindset. The controver...
The Slave Who Loved Caviar
The Slave Who Loved Caviar Ishmael Reed 9781648230165 Fiction Archway Editions powerHouse Books The greatest and most fearless living writer turns his unerring eye to the art world and the fraught rel...
I Am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in Cameroon
I Am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in Cameroon Miranda Paul and Baptiste Paul 9781512449143 Nonfiction Millbrook Press Lerner Publishing Group "Even as a young child Tantoh Nforba loves th...
Adventures to School: Real-Life Journeys of Students from Around the World
Adventures to School: Real-Life Journeys of Students from Around the World Miranda Paul and Baptiste Paul 9781499806656 Nonfiction Little Bee Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Kids around the world get to ...
One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia
One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia Miranda Paul 9781467716086 Nonfiction Millbrook Press Lerner Publishing Group "In the 1980s in the cities of Gambia, a switch from ...
Holiday Temptation
Holiday Temptation Donna Hill, Farrah Rochon and K.M. Jackson 9781496702463 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. ’Tis the season to satisfy your holiday desires with this festive trio of sexy st...
Uwem Akpan
Uwem Akpan 0000000051528850 Nigerian writer Uwem Akpan, author of award-winning collection 'Say You're One of Them', is known for his academic background in humanities, philosophy and theology, with ...
Robert O’Hara
Robert O’Hara 0000000055345883 Playwright and director Robert O'Hara is known for his award-winning works, including the Helen Hayes Award-winning play 'Antebellum'. He revamped 'The Wiz' for its rev...
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 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...
The Class of ’79: Three Students Who Risked Their Lives to Destroy Apartheid
The Class of ’79: Three Students Who Risked Their Lives to Destroy Apartheid Janice Warman 9781431410866 Fiction Jacana Media Jacana Media Out of the class of 1979 at Rhodes University one of the quie...
Lifting as They Climb: Black Women Buddhists and Collective Liberation
Lifting as They Climb: Black Women Buddhists and Collective Liberation Toni Pressley-Sanon 9781645470762 Nonfiction Shamal Books Shamal Books The lives and writings of six leading Black Buddhist women...
The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle’s Central District from 1870 Through the Civil Rights Era
The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle’s Central District from 1870 Through the Civil Rights Era Quintard Taylor 9780295750415 Nonfiction University of Washington Press University of Washington Pre...
Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry
Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry Joanne V. Gabbin and Lauren K. Alleyne 9780810141544 Poetry TriQuarterly Books Northwestern University Press Furious Flower: Seeding the ...
The Granta Book of the African Short Story
The Granta Book of the African Short Story Helon Habila 9781847083333 Poetry Granta Books Granta Books Presenting a diverse and dazzling collection from all over the continent, from Morocco to Zimbabw...
The Cocaine Chronicles
The Cocaine Chronicles Gary Phillips and Jervey Tervalon 9781617750298 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "The best stories in The Cocaine Chronicles … are equal to the best fiction being written to...
Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice 000000011071227X Dr. Condoleezza Rice is the Tad and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution and a Senior Fellow on Public Policy. She is the Denning Professor in Global Bu...
The Golden Girls of Rio
The Golden Girls of Rio Nikkolas Smith 9781510722477 Nonfiction Sky Pony Skyhorse Publishing The summer Olympic games in Rio were groundbreaking for so many American women athletes.The US gymnastics t...
Some Other Blues: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka
Some Other Blues: New Perspectives on Amiri Baraka Jean-Philippe Marcoux 9780814257845 Nonfiction The Ohio State University Press The Ohio State University Press This collection of original essays bri...
Unlocking The Prison Doors
Unlocking The Prison Doors Jamila T. Davis 9780985580704 Nonfiction Voices International Publications Voices International Publications Unlocking the Prison Doors is a nondenominational, faith-bases, ...
The Cost of Betrayal 2
The Cost of Betrayal 2 Warren Holloway 9781947340473 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing After Flaco’s betrayal leads to the murder of Young Pablo by the Cubans he owes money to, his sister,...
The Other Americans
The Other Americans Laila Lalami 9781524747145 Fiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Moor’s Account, here is a timely and powerful novel about ...
This Is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature
This Is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature Ahdaf Soueif and Omar Robert Hamilton 9781632868848 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing Writers from Ali...
Grace
Grace Natashia Deón 9781619029439 Fiction Counterpoint Counterpoint Named a New York Times 2016 Best Book of the Year by critic Jennifer Senior. For a runaway slave in the 1840s south, life on the ru...
On The Edge
On The Edge E. D. Arrington 9781420851489 Nonfiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions Secrets lurked amongst the small intimate group of family and friends - secrets they hoped and prayed would never be r...
Marque Richardson - The “Dear White People” Interview
Marque Richardson - The “Dear White People” Interview Kam Williams Interview The “Dear White People” Interview with Marque Richardson Photo Credit: Jeremy Ray Valdez Marque Richardson is a hig...
On the Frontline
On the Frontline Angela Kay Austin 9780615895918 Fiction Vanilla Heart Publishing Vanilla Heart Publishing For those who serve, and the ones who love them. Two Angela Kay Austin stories: Scarlet’s Tea...
Nane: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set: Hardcover Anthology Edition
Nane: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set: Hardcover Anthology Edition Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781636140599 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books The limited-edition box set is a projec...
Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie Kam Williams evocateur.jpg Film Review Biopic Revisits Rise and Fall of Talk Show Flash in the Pan Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. M...
Flirting with Temptations: Some lines aren’t meant to be crossed
Flirting with Temptations: Some lines aren’t meant to be crossed Janae Marie 9780615674261 Fiction JM Publications JM Publications Monica Clayton is a smart and successful Senior Marketing Executive a...
Joyful Noise
Joyful Noise Kam Williams joyfullnoisemoiveposter.jpg Film Review Joyful Noise [2012] In Theaters: Jan 13, 2012 Wide Warner Bros. Pictures PG-13, 1 hr. 58 min. Comedy Directed By...
Smokin’ Aces
Smokin’ Aces Kam Williams smokin13.jpg Film Review Hit Men Aplenty in Overplotted Mafia Comedy Smokin’ Aces (2007) Rated R for sexuality, female frontal nudity, pervasive p...
Texas Slamthology: Vol. 1
Texas Slamthology: Vol. 1 Christopher Michael 9780998427058 Poetry 310 Brown Street 310 Brown Street An Anthology of Texas Poetry, Slam Poets: Jomar Valentin . Mr Dave . Brian Francis . Christopher Mi...
Trinity Goodheart
Trinity Goodheart Kam Williams images/trinitygh_moiveposter.jpg Film Review Motherless Child Yearns for Reunion in Inspirational Family Flick Trinity Goodheart Click to buy Via Amazon Unrated ...
Difficult Women
Difficult Women Roxane Gay 9780802125392 Nonfiction HarperCollins Publishers HarperCollins Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with An Untamed State and the New ...
The Busy Woman’s Little Book of Motivation: 42 Morsels of Motivation To Help You Live Out Loud and Become The Phenomenal Woman You Were Born To Be
The Busy Woman’s Little Book of Motivation: 42 Morsels of Motivation To Help You Live Out Loud and Become The Phenomenal Woman You Were Born To Be Cassandra Mack 9780595497805 Fiction iUniverse Author...
Wahala
Wahala Nikki May 9780063084247 Fiction Custom House HarperCollins "Contemporary female friendship goes glam in this lively debut novel with remarkable depth." — Washington Post"Great fun and extremely...
7:33 AM
7:33 AM Monda Raquel Webb 9780979782718 Fiction Monda Media, Inc. Monda Media, Inc. In a city where power struggles take place daily on Capitol Hill, another power struggle is taking place beyond the ...
We’ll Never Tell
We’ll Never Tell Kayla Perrin 9781250069450 Fiction St. Martin’s Paperbacks Macmillan Publishers I was thinking of some kind of initiation. Tailored just for her. The kind that will teach her a lesson...
Olivia Aserr
Olivia Aserr NONE Olivia Aserr is a half-Egyptian, half-Irish American illustrator of A Mermaid Girl by Sana Rafi and Mama in Congress: Rashida Tlaib's Journey to Washington by Rashida Tlaib and Mir...
Soul of the Court: The Trailblazing Life of Judge William Benson Bryant Sr. (Hardback) (Hardback)
Soul of the Court: The Trailblazing Life of Judge William Benson Bryant Sr. (Hardback) (Hardback) Tonya Bolden 9781496832924 Nonfiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi ...
Growing Up In The Nation’s Capital: We Made It, But It Took An Entire Village
Growing Up In The Nation’s Capital: We Made It, But It Took An Entire Village Carrolyn Pichet 9781481728089 Nonfiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions Overview The stories I’m about to tell you are tru...
The Sapphires
The Sapphires Kam Williams the-sapphires-movie-poster.jpg Film Review The True Story of Four Aboriginal Girls Who Risked Their Lives Entertaining the U.S. Troops during the Vietnam War The Sapphi...
Plucking Poetry From The Air
Plucking Poetry From The Air CS Reid 9780956578624 Poetry Paraguas Books LLP Paraguas Books LLP Calliope doesn’t have an easy time waking up in the morning-which means she’s often late to school, a fa...
Altina (2014) - Film Review
Altina (2014) - Film Review Kam Williams Interview Altina In Theaters: Sep 12, 2014 Limited Unrated Running time: 80 minutes Documentary Directed By: Peter Sanders Victoria Sanders Produc...
Undressing in front of the window
Undressing in front of the window vangile gantsho 9780620645492 Poetry impepho press impepho press Former journalist Miranda Strydom describes the book as “a collection of bold, honest work: words tha...
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...