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Fort Mose: And the Story of the Man Who Built the First Free Black Settlement in Colonial America
Fort Mose: And the Story of the Man Who Built the First Free Black Settlement in Colonial America Glennette Tilley Turner 9780810940567 Nonfiction Abrams Books for Young Readers Abrams Discover the st...
Welcome to Fort Goode
Welcome to Fort Goode Winsome Bingham 9781478875857 Fiction Reycraft Books Reycraft Books Lang Ford is moving, again. He’s leaving his school, friends, and community for his dad’s new post at Fort Goo...
Matt Forté
Matt Forté NONE Matthew Garrett Forté, born in 1985, is a retired NFL player best known as a running back for the Chicago Bears. He was recognized for his versatility, amassing over 9,000 rushing an...
Fort Worth BookFest
Fort Worth BookFest Tarrant County College, Trinity River Campus Fort Worth Texas Organized in April 2016, a cross-cultural, community-driven Action Group is spearheading the Fort Worth BookFest effor...
Cookie: A Fort Worth Story (Delphine Publications Presents)
Cookie: A Fort Worth Story (Delphine Publications Presents) Tamika Newhouse 9780982145531 Nonfiction Delphine Publications Delphine Publications Born Latoya James, when starting high school, Cookie be...
Fort Red Border
Fort Red Border Kiki Petrosino 9781932511741 Poetry Sarabande Books Sarabande Books “Fort Red Border—the title itself an anagram for the name of this remarkable collection’s imaginary beloved—shows ho...
Native Guard: Poems
Native Guard: Poems Natasha Trethewey 9780618604630 Poetry Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Growing up in the Deep South, Natasha Trethewey was never told that in her hometown of Gu...
Southwest Florida Reading Festival
Southwest Florida Reading Festival Fort Myers Regional Library Fort Myers Florida There really is something for all ages to experience at the Southwest Florida Reading Festival. Everyone enjoys the mu...
The Southern Literary Festival
The Southern Literary Festival The University of Arkansas - Fort Smith Fort Smith Arkansas The Southern Literary Festival is an organization of southern colleges and schools founded in 1937 to promote...
The Flag Never Touched the Ground: America’s Brave Black Regiment in Battle
The Flag Never Touched the Ground: America’s Brave Black Regiment in Battle Kekla Magoon 9781782693055 Nonfiction Pushkin Children’s Books Pushkin Press The story of an all-black regiment’s assault on...
Hold the Flag High: The True Story of the First Black Medal of Honor Winner
Hold the Flag High: The True Story of the First Black Medal of Honor Winner Catherine Clinton 9780060504304 Nonfiction Katherine Tegen Books HarperCollins The true story of the first Black Medal of Fr...
The Highest Tribute: Thurgood Marshall’s Life, Leadership, and Legacy
The Highest Tribute: Thurgood Marshall’s Life, Leadership, and Legacy Kekla Magoon 9780062912510 Nonfiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins The story of an all-black regiment’s assault on the impregnab...
Courses of the Cursed: A Curtis Jefferson novel
Courses of the Cursed: A Curtis Jefferson novel Vince Bailey 9781732843653 Fiction IngramElliott IngramElliott African American youth Curtis Jefferson is still serving his one-year term at Fort Grant,...
Courses of the Cursed (Paperback): A Curtis Jefferson novel
Courses of the Cursed (Paperback): A Curtis Jefferson novel Vince Bailey 9781732843660 Fiction IngramElliott IngramElliott African American youth Curtis Jefferson is still serving his one-year term at...
Anthony: Unshackled (Black Series #4)
Anthony: Unshackled (Black Series #4) Joan Vassar 9780578682402 Fiction Dream House Press Dream House Press Joan Vassar’s captivating Black series picks up on the gritty streets of New York City durin...
Under the Freedom Tree
Under the Freedom Tree Susan VanHecke 9781580895514 Poetry Charlesbridge Charlesbridge Taut free verse tells the little-known story of the first contraband camp of the Civil War—seen by some historian...
Path of the Half Moon
Path of the Half Moon Vince Bailey 9780999057377 Fiction IngramElliott IngramElliott When fifteen-year-old Curtis Jefferson, a mischievous but good-natured African-American youth, is caught crossing t...
Path of the Half Moon (Paperback)
Path of the Half Moon (Paperback) Vince Bailey 9780999057384 Fiction IngramElliott IngramElliott When fifteen-year-old Curtis Jefferson, a mischievous but good-natured African-American youth, is caugh...
Dancing in the Baron’s Shadow
Dancing in the Baron’s Shadow Fabienne Josaphat 9781939419576 Fiction Unnamed Press Unnamed Press Haiti, 1965. Nicolas, a bourgeois socialist is sent to the notorious Fort Dimanche prison by dictator ...
The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall, and Resurgence of an American Gang
The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall, and Resurgence of an American Gang Natalie Y. Moore and Lance Williams 9781613744918 Nonfiction Chicago Review Press Chicago Review Press This expos&...
The Fort (Black Series #5)
The Fort (Black Series #5) Joan Vassar thefort Fiction Dream House Press Dream House Press The 5th and final installment of the Black Series – Coming Summer 2021!Book cover image is not final.
Tim Madigan
Tim Madigan 0000000114620276 Tim Madigan, award-winning writer for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, was twice named Texas Reporter of the Year. He's the author of 'See No Evil: Blind Devotion and Bloods...
Marcus Major
Marcus Major 0000000038042522 Marcus Major, born in Fort Bragg, followed a transient childhood due to his father's military career. He studied Literature and African-American Studies at Richard Stock...
Monica Anderson
Monica Anderson 000000006312663X Monica “Dr. Moe” Anderson, DDS, is an accomplished author, motivational speaker, and dental surgeon. She penned the Essence bestseller 'When A Sistah’s Fed Up' and is...
Sapphire
Sapphire NONE Sapphire, born Ramona Lofton (1950), is a New York-based author and poet, known for her prose collection “American Dreams.” Her work features in several anthologies and she is a recipie...
Paul C. Thornton
Paul C. Thornton NONE Paul C. Thornton, a Brooklyn native, served in the US Army as a mental health specialist. His diverse career includes roles as a financial executive, retail entrepreneur, city g...
Larry Eugene Rivers
Larry Eugene Rivers NONE Dr. Larry E. Rivers is a distinguished educator with degrees from Fort Valley State College, Villanova University, Carnegie-Mellon University, and the University of London. H...
Opal Lee
Opal Lee NONE The “Grandmother of Juneteenth” Opal Lee is a living legend whose tireless activism and infectious determination helped turn the long-held dream of a national Juneteenth holiday into re...
Unchon-ni: South Korea, I Remember 1962-63
Unchon-ni: South Korea, I Remember 1962-63 Robert Fleming Book Review Codis Hampton III’s stirring account of his time in the military in South Korea was the first book produced by this veteran...
My Hair Can
My Hair Can Shaundale Rénā Book Review Profoundly inspiring, My Hair Can is a picture book full of wit and charm. Each page is vibrant and affirms joy and positivity for little Black boys and girls a...
William Carney Carries the Flag: The Heroic Journey of a Black Civil War Soldier
William Carney Carries the Flag: The Heroic Journey of a Black Civil War Soldier Gary Golio 9781635926033 Nonfiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press The true story of a brave Civil War soldier from th...
Trinity River Book Festival
Trinity River Book Festival Trinity Park Pavilion No. 1 Fort Worth Texas Celebrating National Literacy Month
Unity Unlimited
Unity Unlimited Unity Unlimited Unity Unlimited, Inc. Dione Sims is the President and Founder of Unity Unlimited, Inc. She has produced the Annual Juneteenth Fort Worth Celebration with her grandmoth...
Unity Unlimited
Unity Unlimited Unity Unlimited, Inc. Unity Unlimited Dione Sims is the President and Founder of Unity Unlimited, Inc. She has produced the Annual Juneteenth Fort Worth Celebration with her grandmoth...
Sunbelt Book & Art Expo
Sunbelt Book & Art Expo Fort Worth Texas Where Stories, Art, and the Spirit of FIFA 2026 Unite!
A Committee of One: How Faith + Action = A Purposefull Life
A Committee of One: How Faith + Action = A Purposefull Life Opal Lee 9780063459014 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins A Committee of One: How Faith + Action = A PurposeFULL Life is an inspirational memo...
Pajammin’
Pajammin’ Ziggy Marley 9780063287198 Fiction Clarion Books HarperCollins Inspired by Bob Marley’s iconic song “Jamming,” this joyful picture book by eight-time Grammy winner Ziggy Marley about a fun-f...
Aimé Césaire: No to Humiliation
Aimé Césaire: No to Humiliation NIMROD 9781644212578 Nonfiction Triangle Square Seven Stories Press The only young adult book to tell the story of Aimé Césaire, the rise of Negritude, an...
Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation
Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation Tiya Miles 9781324020875 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Wild Girls is a captivating historical wor...
South Florida Book Festival
South Florida Book Festival African-American Research Library and Cultural Center Fort Lauderdale Florida
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden Camille T. Dungy 9781982195304 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the env...
Dr. No
Dr. No Percival Everett 9781644452080 Fiction Graywolf Press Graywolf Press Everett won the prestigious PEN/Jean Stein Award, for Dr. No A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really,...
Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves
Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves Art T. Burton 9781496233424 Nonfiction Bison Books University of Nebraska Press In The Story of Oklahoma, Deputy U.S. Marsha...
Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta James Hannaham 9780316285278 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A Lambda Literary ...
Opal Lee and What It Means to Be Free: The True Story of the Grandmother of Juneteenth
Opal Lee and What It Means to Be Free: The True Story of the Grandmother of Juneteenth Alice Faye Duncan 9781400231256 Nonfiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing The true story of Bla...
White Supremacy Confronted: U.S. Imperialism and Anti-Communisim vs. the Liberation of Southern Africa, from Rhodes to Mandela
White Supremacy Confronted: U.S. Imperialism and Anti-Communisim vs. the Liberation of Southern Africa, from Rhodes to Mandela Gerald Horne 9780717807635 Nonfiction International Publishers Internatio...
Emancipating James (Black Series #3)
Emancipating James (Black Series #3) Joan Vassar 9780692067864 Fiction Dream House Press Dream House Press In this compelling third saga of the Black series, Joan Vassar returns to Upper Canada–1862. ...
Shopping Cart Annie
Shopping Cart Annie Cordy Fitzgerald 9780692932070 Fiction Shopping Cart Annie Shopping Cart Annie In Cordy Fitzgerald’s new mystery, former schoolteacher and amateur sleuth Dr. Inez Buchanan is surpr...
Tabona
Tabona LaJuana A. Beadles 9781540832337 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Savannah, Georgia is known for many things from great food, history and hospitality but rarely is Savannah known fo...
Gordon Parks I Am You: Selected Works 1934-1978
Gordon Parks I Am You: Selected Works 1934-1978 Gordon Parks 9783958291829 Nonfiction Steidl Steidl Injustice, violence, the Civil Rights Movement, fashion and the arts—Gordon Parks captured half a ...
Bass Reeves Frontier Marshal Volume 1
Bass Reeves Frontier Marshal Volume 1 Gary Phillips, Mel Odom, Andrew Salmon, and Derrick Ferguson 9780692611791 Fiction Airship 27 Airship 27 TALES OF A WESTERN LEGEND He began his life as a slave....
Sunfail
Sunfail Steven Savile 9781617754067 Fiction Infamous Books Akashic Books Dogs howl in the streets, running wild. Birds fall dead from the sky. Even the sun itself is failing. As darkness descends all ...
African Americans of Tampa (Images of America)
African Americans of Tampa (Images of America) Ersula Knox Odom 9781467112741 Nonfiction Arcadia Publishing Arcadia Publishing Tampa has a fascinating past that has been wonderfully documented with on...
The Ultimate No-No 4
The Ultimate No-No 4 Tamika Newhouse 9780989090643 Fiction Delphine Publications Delphine Publications Nitrah Hill was finally happy, that was until she got the call that a former friend was found mur...
Hymn for the Black Terrific
Hymn for the Black Terrific Kiki Petrosino 9781936747597 Poetry Sarabande Books Sarabande Books The poems in this, Kiki Petrosino’s second collection, fulfill the promise of her debut effort, Fort Red...
Cookie Too Lyric’s Song (Delphine Publications Presents) (Cookie Series) (Volume 2)
Cookie Too Lyric’s Song (Delphine Publications Presents) (Cookie Series) (Volume 2) Tamika Newhouse and Dee Shana 9780988709331 Fiction Delphine Publications Delphine Publications This coming-of-age t...
Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America’s First Black Paratroopers (Ala Notable Children’s Books. Older Readers)
Courage Has No Color, The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America’s First Black Paratroopers (Ala Notable Children’s Books. Older Readers) Tanya Lee Stone 9780763651176 Nonfiction Candlewick Press C...
Kisses Don’t Lie (Delphine Publications Presents)
Kisses Don’t Lie (Delphine Publications Presents) Tamika Newhouse 9780984692330 Fiction Delphine Publications Delphine Publications Theres Dean her first love and then theres Keith Mr. Right Now. Kyla...
Touré: Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? What It Means to Be Black Now
Touré: Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? What It Means to Be Black Now Kam Williams Interview Touré - The “Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness?” Interview Born in Boston on ...
Substitute Me
Substitute Me Lori Tharps 9781439171103 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Zora Anderson is a 30-year-old African American middle class, college educated woman, trained as a chef, looking for ...
The Ultimate Moment No Regrets (Delphine Publications Presents)
The Ultimate Moment No Regrets (Delphine Publications Presents) Tamika Newhouse 9780982145524 Fiction Delphine Publications Delphine Publications The famed characters from The Ultimate NO NO are back ...
Little Black Girl Lost 3 (V. 3)
Little Black Girl Lost 3 (V. 3) Keith Lee Johnson 9781601621382 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance After his blockbuster success of Little Black Girl Lost, and Little Black Girl Lost II Kei...
The New Fantastic Four
The New Fantastic Four Dwayne McDuffie 9780785128472 Fiction Marvel Comics Marvel Comics In the aftermath of Civil War comes Reconstruction, the beginning of a stunning new era of fantastic adventure....
A House Is Not a Home: A B-Boy Blues Novel
A House Is Not a Home: A B-Boy Blues Novel James Earl Hardy 9780060936600 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins In this final chapter in James Earl Hardy’s groundbreaking B-Boy Blues series, Mitchell "Little ...
Descending From The Clouds: A Memoir of Combat in the 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division
Descending From The Clouds: A Memoir of Combat in the 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division Spencer Wurst and Gayle Wurst 9781932033311 Fiction Casemate Publishers and Book Distributo...
Slavery and the Making of America
Slavery and the Making of America James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton 9780195179033 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press The history of slavery is central to understanding the...
Dime Piece
Dime Piece Tracy Brown 9780974789576 Fiction Triple Crown Publications Triple Crown Publications Celeste Styles is a woman torn. On one hand, she has found happiness with the love of her life, Raheem ...
Encyclopedia Of Jamaican Heritage
Encyclopedia Of Jamaican Heritage Olive Senior 9789768007148 Nonfiction Twin Guinep Publishers Twin Guinep Publishers This unique sourcebook runs the gamut from ABENG to ZOMBI with nearly 1000 entries...
When I Get Free: A Novel
When I Get Free: A Novel Cheryl Robinson 9780972086714 Fiction Sterling Books Sterling Publishing Co., Inc "You don’t have to be in prison to serve a life sentence." -Anonymous Theodore "Tower" Evans ...
Memories of Yesterday
Memories of Yesterday Cheryl Robinson 9780972086707 Fiction Sterling Books Sterling Publishing Co., Inc Porter Washington is a handsome Detroit Firefighter trying to live on twenty-seven thousand doll...
Love Don’t Live Here Anymore
Love Don’t Live Here Anymore Paige Turner Book Review Randy, the main character in Denene Millner and Nick Chiles "Love Don’t Live Here Anymore" reflects on his marriage: "What ...
Mom, Are We There Yet?
Mom, Are We There Yet? Monica Anderson 9780966270327 Fiction Monica F Anderson Monica F Anderson "Mom, Are We There Yet?" is a heartwarming collection of family humor vignettes from Fort Worth Star-Te...
Land of Many Colors and Nanna-ya
Land of Many Colors and Nanna-ya Maryse Conde 9780803214880 Fiction University of Nebraska Press University of Nebraska Press Land of Many Colors is set in the fictional city of Fort Pilote in the Fre...
Freedom Days: 365 Inspired Moments in Civil Rights History (Revised)
Freedom Days: 365 Inspired Moments in Civil Rights History (Revised) Janus Adams 9780471291046 Nonfiction Wiley Wiley Day by day. Dream by dream. Victory by victory. "A book to be handed down—just lik...
Black, Red and Deadly: Black and Indian Gunfighters of the Indian Territory, 1870-1907
Black, Red and Deadly: Black and Indian Gunfighters of the Indian Territory, 1870-1907 Art T. Burton 9780890159941 Nonfiction Eakins Press Foundation Eakins Press Foundation Cherokee Bill, one of the ...
A Soldier’s Play (Dramabook)
A Soldier’s Play (Dramabook) Charles Fuller 9780374521486 Fiction Hill and Wang Macmillan Publishers A black sergeant cries out in the night, "They still hate you," then is shot twice and falls dead. ...
A Southern Odyssey: Travelers in the Antebellum North (Revised)
A Southern Odyssey: Travelers in the Antebellum North (Revised) John Hope Franklin 9780807103517 Nonfiction LSU Press Louisiana State University Press Frederick Law Olmsted, the northerner who wrote c...
The Dock Bookshop
The Dock Bookshop Fort Worth TX The Dock Bookshop is the largest independent, full service, African-American owned bookstore in Texas and the Southwest
Ave Maria Cross
Ave Maria Cross NONE As poet, playwright and teaching artist, Ave Maria Cross has practiced her passion and exercised her God-given talents for over 20 years, through researching and writing i...
Jarid Manos
Jarid Manos NONE Jarid Manos is an accomplished author and the CEO of Great Plains Restoration Council. Known for his contributions to notable publications, he's a national speaker, health advocate, ...
Rashidah Ismaili
Rashidah Ismaili 0000000031556002 Dr. Rashidah Ismaili AbuBakr is a writer of short stories, plays, and poetry. Originally from West Africa, Dr. AbuBakr has taught French and English Speaking ...
Sharon Ewell Foster
Sharon Ewell Foster NONE Sharon Ewell Foster, a former Defense Department instructor, became a full-time author in 2000. Recognized for her significant contributions to Christian fiction, Foster has ...
Terry DeRon
Terry DeRon NONE Terry DeRon, a dynamic writer with a unique writing style, served in the US Army before obtaining a Television/Film production degree from Southern University. He used his military b...
Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston 0000000109083197 “One of the greatest writers of our time.”—Toni Morrison Zora Neale Hurston is considered one of the titans of twentieth-century African American ...
D.T. Pollard
D.T. Pollard NONE D.T. Pollard, an Essence Bestselling author from Texas, discovered his passion for writing at a young age but paused during college. After a 25-year career in technology sales, he r...
Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks 0000000122842071 Gordon Parks (1912-2006) was a self-taught photographer who rose from poverty to become a pioneering African American film director, writer, and composer. Notably, he di...
Suzan-Lori Parks
Suzan-Lori Parks 0000000115844503 Suzan-Lori Parks, born 1963, is a Pulitzer-winning playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. Notable for her work on Spike Lee’s ‘Girl 6’ and Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo P...
Aimé Césaire
Aimé Césaire 0000000121474035 One of the Founders of the Négritude Movement in Francophone Literature Aimé Césaire (1913-2008) was a Martinican poet, playwright, and politician who co-founded...
Barbara A. Seals Nevergold
Barbara A. Seals Nevergold NONE Dr. Barbara A. Seals Nevergold, a Louisiana native based in Buffalo, NY, is a retired educator and activist, co-founder of the Uncrowned Queens Institute, and co-autho...
Naima Coster
Naima Coster 0000000499107210 Naima Coster, a Brooklyn native, is an accomplished author and educator with degrees from Yale, Columbia, and Fordham. Her works have been featured in notable publicatio...
Camille T. Dungy
Camille T. Dungy 0000000036407735 Camille T. Dungy, renowned poet and essayist, is known for her work in 100 Best African American Poems and 30 other anthologies. She's a recipient of multiple awards...
Susie King Taylor
Susie King Taylor 0000000084839030 Susan Taylor Baker King, born into slavery in 1848, overcame adversity to become a teacher, nurse, and author. Despite education restrictions, she attended secret s...
Billy Carson
Billy Carson NONE Billy Carson, born in 1971, is the CEO of 4BiddenKnowledge Inc, and bestselling author of works like “The Compendium Of The Emerald Tablets.” He runs a conscious streaming TV networ...
Jay Jay Patton and Antoine Patton
Jay Jay Patton and Antoine Patton MULTIPLE Jay'Aina “Jay Jay” Patton is an 18-year-old coder, entrepreneur, and diversity advocate with a love for tech and various hobbies. Antoine Patton, her father...
Glennette Tilley Turner
Glennette Tilley Turner NONE Glennette Tilley Turner has also written collections of biographies of notable African Americans for adults and serves as an advisor to the National Park Service, where s...
CHAPTER 1: Stunt Work
CHAPTER 1: Stunt Work Pam Grier Excerpt CHAPTER 1: Stunt Work I was snuggled in my mother’s arms in the backseat of the old Buick. My dad’s Air Force buddy was at the wheel, driving us...
I Am Debra Lee: A Memoir
I Am Debra Lee: A Memoir Robert Fleming Book Review Blessed with a candor, boldness, and business savvy rarely seen in books of this type, former CEO of Black Entertainment Television network Debra L...
My Bully, My Aunt, and Her Final Gift
My Bully, My Aunt, and Her Final Gift Shaundale Rénā Book Review In My Bully, My Aunt, & Her Final Gift, writer Harold Phifer openly shares childhood experiences with both boldness and wit. The s...
The South Florida Book Festival & Literary Conference
The South Florida Book Festival & Literary Conference Fort Lauderdale Florida The South Florida Book Festival and Literary Conference is one of the nation’s fastest growing and premier book fes...