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Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism
Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley 9781477318393 Nonfiction University of Texas Press University of Texas Press Making headlines when it was launched in 2015, Omis...
Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley
Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley 0000000110024215 Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley is an associate professor at the University of Texas, specializing in African Diaspora Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies. She...
Ezili’s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders
Ezili’s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley 9780822370307 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books From the dagger mistress Ezili Je Wouj and the...
Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe)
Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism between Women in Caribbean Literature (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe) Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley 9780822347774 Nonfiction Duke Univers...
Justin Tinsley
Justin Tinsley NONE Justin Tinsley, a senior sports and culture reporter at ESPN's The Undefeated, is known for his commentary on sports, race, and culture. Regularly appearing on ESPN's Around the H...
Natasha Tripplett
Natasha Tripplett NONE Natasha Tripplett, a Jewish-Jamaican American author based in Northern California, writes from a unique treehouse. Adopted by a Dutch Christian family, she grew up in Canada bu...
The Black Queen
The Black Queen Jumata Emill 9780593568545 Fiction Delacorte Press Penguin Random House Nova Albright was going to be the first Black homecoming queen at Lovett High—but now she’s dead. Murdered on co...
Natasha S. Alford
Natasha S. Alford NONE Natasha S. Alford is a celebrated journalist and digital host known for her impactful reporting on politics, culture, and social issues. She's a Harvard graduate and an Emmy aw...
Michael A. Tinsley
Michael A. Tinsley NONE Michael A. Tinsley is an author and graduate of North Carolina A&T State University. He lives in Bowie, Maryland, with his wife and daughter. May A Divine Awaken, the ...
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...
Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
Natasha Anastasia Tarpley NONE Natasha Anastasia Tarpley, a Chicago native, nurtured her love for writing from a young age. She began publishing poetry in high school and honed her craft at Harvard U...
Natasha Diaz
Natasha Diaz NONE Natasha DÃaz is a freelance writer and producer with accolades in screenwriting. She's a published essayist and author of the debut YA novel, “Color Me In.” Originally from NYC, sh...
Natasha Bowen
Natasha Bowen NONE Natasha Bowen, a New York Times bestselling author, teacher, and mother, is of Nigerian and Welsh descent. She studied English and creative writing at Bath Spa University and has a...
The Kindness of Enemies: A Novel
The Kindness of Enemies: A Novel Leila Aboulela 9780802124487 Fiction Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. A versatile prose stylist… [Aboulela’s] lyrical style and incisive portrayal of Muslims living i...
Natasha Munson
Natasha Munson NONE Natasha Munson was a passionate entrepreneur and motivational speaker dedicated to homeless advocacy. She believed in empowering communities and worked in prison ministry. Passed ...
Natasha Moulton-Levy and Julian English
Natasha Moulton-Levy and Julian English MULTIPLE Authors Natasha Moulton-Levy and Julian English offer unique perspectives in their works, combining their diverse backgrounds and experiences. Natas...
Natasha Owens
Natasha Owens NONE Southern girl Natasha Owens is a devoted mother and Christian with a love for soul music and comfort food. Despite struggles with weight and eyesight, she pursued higher education....
It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him
It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him Justin Tinsley 9781419750311 Nonfiction Abrams Press Abrams From a talented young journalist on the rise, a deeply reported, timely new biography...
Truth or Consequences (Reunited Series) (Volume 3)
Truth or Consequences (Reunited Series) (Volume 3) Sharon C. Cooper 9780990350514 Fiction Amaris Publishing Amaris Publishing Bestselling author Sharon C. Cooper brings you another exciting romantic s...
Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey 0000000084159051 Trethewey was U.S. Poet Laureate, 2012-2014 Natasha Trethewey, an American poet and winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for her collection “Native Guard,” was inspired...
Natasha Moulton-Levy
Natasha Moulton-Levy NONE Natasha Moulton-Levy, a mother and problem-solver, instills a global perspective in her children, helping them become successful global citizens. An alumna of the College of...
Natasha Gordon-Chipembere
Natasha Gordon-Chipembere 0000000118605620 Natasha Gordon-Chipembere, a renowned writer and academic, holds a PhD in English from the University of South Africa. Born in New York to Central American ...
Abuela, Grandma & Me
Abuela, Grandma & Me Natasha S. Alford 9780063303850 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins Written by TV commentator and SVP and Chief Content Officer at TheGrio Natasha S. Alford, this Spanish-infle...
Keyana Loves Her Friend (#2)
Keyana Loves Her Friend (#2) Natasha Anastasia Tarpley 9780316056885 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Catch up with Keyana in the amazing follow-up to Keyana Loves Her...
Keyana Loves Her Family (#1)
Keyana Loves Her Family (#1) Natasha Anastasia Tarpley 9780316461696 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Natasha Anastasia Tarpley returns with a breakout new picture boo...
Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir
Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir Natasha Trethewey 9780062248572 Nonfiction Ecco Press HarperCollins A chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal mur...
Thrall: Poems
Thrall: Poems Natasha Trethewey 9780547571607 Poetry Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Houghton Mifflin Harcourt The stunning follow-up volume to her 2007 Pulitzer Prize–winning Native Guard, by America’s new...
Natasha Howard
Natasha Howard 000000003993061X Natasha Howard (born September 2, 1991) is an international basketball star and a thirteen-year veteran of the WNBA. She has won three WNBA championships—two in Seatt...
May a Divine Awaken
May a Divine Awaken Michael A. Tinsley 9798217087648 Fiction Storehouse Voices Penguin Random House In the first book of a heart-pounding new YA fantasy series, an orphaned teen is thrust into a divin...
Keyana Loves Halloween (#4)
Keyana Loves Halloween (#4) Natasha Anastasia Tarpley 9780316099653 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group It’s time to trick-or-treat! Join Keyana and the people she loves ...
Keyana Loves School (#3)
Keyana Loves School (#3) Natasha Anastasia Tarpley 9780316068307 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group In this exciting picture book by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley, bestselli...
American Negra: A Memoir
American Negra: A Memoir Natasha S. Alford 9780063237100 Nonfiction Harper HarperCollins Award-winning journalist Natasha S. Alford grew up between two worlds as the daughter of an African American fa...
The Blue Pickup
The Blue Pickup Natasha Tripplett 9780063159877 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins A charming story about a young girl who loves fixing automobiles with her grandfather on the warm grounds of Jamaica...
A Perfect Pairing
A Perfect Pairing Sheryl Lister 9781538724194 Fiction Forever Grand Central Publishing This heartwarming novel set in the idyllic small town of Firefly Lake explores the sisterly friendship between a ...
Finding La Negrita
Finding La Negrita Natasha Gordon-Chipembere 9781938841897 Fiction Jaded Ibis Press Jaded Ibis Press Finding La Negrita is a captivating retelling of the Black Madonna narrative, a story deeply intert...
Pilar Ramirez and the Escape from Zafa
Pilar Ramirez and the Escape from Zafa Julian Randall 9781250774101 Fiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers Pilar Ramirez and the Escape from Zafa is a blockbuster contemporary middle-grade ...
The Me I Choose to Be
The Me I Choose to Be Natasha Anastasia Tarpley 9780316461542 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group The bestselling author of I Love My Hair! joins forces with a dynamic ph...
Monument: Poems New and Selected
Monument: Poems New and Selected Natasha Trethewey 9780358118237 Poetry William Morrow & Company HarperCollins Urgent new poems on race and gender inequality, and selected poems drawn from Domestic Wo...
The Harlem Charade
The Harlem Charade Natasha Anastasia Tarpley 9780545783880 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. Fans of Chasing Vermeer will love this clever mystery about art, artifice, and the power of community....
Perfection
Perfection J. L. Campbell 9781546908890 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC After six months of serial breakups with her two-timing boyfriend, Natasha is ready to give relationships a break. ...
The Harlem Charade
The Harlem Charade Natasha Anastasia Tarpley 9780545783873 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. WATCHER. SHADOW. FUGITIVE.Harlem is home to all kinds of kids. Jin sees life passing her by from the...
Beyond Katrina: A Meditation On The Mississippi Gulf Coast (Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication)
Beyond Katrina: A Meditation On The Mississippi Gulf Coast (Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication) Natasha Trethewey 9780820333816 Nonfiction University of Georgia Press University of Georgia Press Beyon...
Upstate: A Novel
Upstate: A Novel Kalisha Buckhanon 9780312332693 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers "Baby, the first thing I need to know from you is do you believe I killed my father?"So begins Upstat...
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...
Life Lessons For My Sisters: How to Make Wise Choices and Live a Life You Love!
Life Lessons For My Sisters: How to Make Wise Choices and Live a Life You Love! Natasha Munson 9781401308056 Nonfiction Hachette Hachette Book Group Warm encouragement and straightforward guidance to ...
Bellocq’s Ophelia: Poems
Bellocq’s Ophelia: Poems Natasha Trethewey 9781555973599 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press Selected as a "2003 Notable Book" by the American Library AssociationIn the early 1900s, E.J. Bellocq phot...
Domestic Work: Poems
Domestic Work: Poems Natasha Trethewey 9781555973094 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press In this debut collection, Natasha Trethewey draws moving domestic portraits of families, past and present, cau...
Julian English
Julian English NONE Born prematurely with brain damage, Julian English defied odds by learning differently. His mother, Natasha Moulton-Levy, used travel to educate him, enabling Julian to understand...
Voonderbar! Books
Voonderbar! Books Voonderbar! Books Voonderbar! Books http://natashatarpleywrites.com/about/voonderbar-media/ Founded by best-selling children’s book author, Natasha Tarpley, and her mother, for...
Voonderbar! Books
Voonderbar! Books Voonderbar! Books Voonderbar! Books http://natashatarpleywrites.com/about/voonderbar-media/ Founded by best-selling children’s book author, Natasha Tarpley, and her mother, for...
Call of the Dragon
Call of the Dragon Natasha Bowen 9780593898154 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House In the first book of a new series inspired by African mythology, dragon gods rule the e...
Downtown Doors
Downtown Doors Natasha Tripplett 9780593581001 Fiction WaterBrook Press Penguin Random House Join a Mother and Son on a Journey Through Their City’s Downtown in This Picture Book That Celebrates Stron...
Juneteenth Is
Juneteenth Is Natasha Tripplett 9781797216805 Fiction Chronicle Books Chronicle Books An intimate look at Juneteenth, this story is a warm look at a family and a community. Juneteenth is the smell of...
How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill
How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill Jericho Brown 9780063278189 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins More than 30 acclaimed writers—including diverse voices such as Nikki Giovanni, D...
Pilar Ramirez and the Curse of San Zenon
Pilar Ramirez and the Curse of San Zenon Julian Randall 9781250774125 Fiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers Pilar Ramirez and the Curse of San Zenon is the action-packed finale to Julian R...
Soul of the Deep
Soul of the Deep Natasha Bowen 9780593120989 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House The highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestseller Skin of the Sea, in which ...
Skin of the Sea
Skin of the Sea Natasha Bowen 9780593120941 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A way to survive. A way to serve. A way to save. Simi prayed to the gods, once. Now ...
I Love My Haircut!
I Love My Haircut! Natasha Anastasia Tarpley 9780316459945 Fiction LB Kids Hachette Book Group Now with a refreshed cover, this heartfelt companion to the top-selling I Love My Hair! is a must-have ad...
Color Me in
Color Me in Natasha Diaz 9780525578239 Fiction Delacorte Press Penguin Random House A powerful coming-of-age novel pulled from personal experience about the meaning of friendship, the joyful beginning...
Monument: Poems New and Selected
Monument: Poems New and Selected Natasha Trethewey 9781328507846 Poetry Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award for Poetry “[Trethewey’s poems] ...
No Limits: No Boundaries! My Journey Through the ABC’s
No Limits: No Boundaries! My Journey Through the ABC’s Natasha Moulton-Levy and Julian English 9781946274069 Fiction Smashwords Smashwords Our son, Julian, was born 15 weeks early, at 1 pound 15 ounce...
The Sun Is Also a Star
The Sun Is Also a Star Nicola Yoon 9780553496680 Fiction Delacorte Press Penguin Random House Natasha: I’m a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never co...
Selma Takes the Stage
Selma Takes the Stage Natasha Anastasia Tarpley 9780988618428 Fiction Voonderbar! Books Voonderbar! Books Sixth grader Selma Diagne is an accomplished violinist who wants to be a world-renowned musici...
Celebrating Me
Celebrating Me Colleen M. Wint 9781493512126 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Preteens Natasha, Gillian, CC, and Tina eagerly anticipate the end of year school barbeque, but on the night o...
Three Generations of Black Women in Motion
Three Generations of Black Women in Motion Natasha Anastasia Tarpley 9780988618411 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press Originally Published in 1998 (Beacon)A Creative nonfiction memoir about the live...
Airing Grandma’s Laundry And Other Hush Hush Family Secrets
Airing Grandma’s Laundry And Other Hush Hush Family Secrets Natasha Owens 9780979848902 Fiction Penfire Publishing Incorporated Penfire Publishing Incorporated Have you ever wanted to step back in tim...
The Princess and the Frog: Princess Tiana and the Royal Ball
The Princess and the Frog: Princess Tiana and the Royal Ball Natasha Anastasia Tarpley 9781423118596 Fiction Disney Press Disney Publishing Worldwide Featuring lilting text and gorgeous illustrations ...
Bippity Bop Barbershop (paperback)
Bippity Bop Barbershop (paperback) Natasha Anastasia Tarpley 9780316033824 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group In this companion book to the bestselling I Love My Hair, a...
Best New Poets 2007: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers
Best New Poets 2007: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers Natasha Trethewey 9780976629627 Poetry University of Virginia Press University of Virginia Press Praise for earlier editions:"Unlike novelists and b...
Brown Sugar 4
Brown Sugar 4 Carol Taylor 9780743466875 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. Continuing in the bestselling Brown Sugar tradition, this fourth installment brings together the finest ...
I Love My Hair!
I Love My Hair! Natasha Anastasia Tarpley 9780316525589 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group This whimsical, evocative story about a girl named Keyana encourages Afr...
Joe-Joe’s First Flight
Joe-Joe’s First Flight Natasha Anastasia Tarpley 9780375910531 Fiction Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Joe-Joe’s father works at the local airport, one of the first in the...
The Itch
The Itch Benilde Little 9780743482431 Fiction Pocket Books Pocket Books From the author of the smashing-debut bestseller Good Hair comes The Itch, the stirring story of a crisis-torn woman who discov...
Destiny’s Gift
Destiny’s Gift Natasha Anastasia Tarpley 9781600606441 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Destiny loves words, and her favorite place in the world is Mrs. Wade’s bookstore, where words abound. On...
Brown Sugar: A Collection Of Erotic Black Fiction
Brown Sugar: A Collection Of Erotic Black Fiction Carol Taylor 9780452282247 Nonfiction Plume Penguin Random House First in a Series Brown Sugar brings together some of the most acclaimed voices in t...
Testimony: Young African-Americans on Self-Discovery and Black Identity
Testimony: Young African-Americans on Self-Discovery and Black Identity Natasha Anastasia Tarpley 9780807009291 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press What exactly is goodness? Where is it found in the ...
Toi Derricotte
Toi Derricotte 0000000083980729 “My skin causes certain problems continuously, problems that open the issue of racism over and over like a wound.” Toi Derricotte is an award-winning poet a...
Konbit
Konbit Sony Ton-Aime 9780887487262 Poetry Carnegie-Mellon University Press Carnegie-Mellon University Press Poems that capture a transformative and visionary way of life in Haiti. Konbit is a Haiti...
The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir
The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir Martha S. Jones 9781541601000 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books An “intimate and searching” (Natasha Trethewey, New York Times–bestselling author of ...
I Am Nobody’s Slave: How Uncovering My Family’s History Set Me Free
I Am Nobody’s Slave: How Uncovering My Family’s History Set Me Free Lee Hawkins 9780062823168 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins A 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist and former Wall Street Journal writer exha...
Freedom Fire: Black Girl Power: 15 Stories Celebrating Black Girlhood
Freedom Fire: Black Girl Power: 15 Stories Celebrating Black Girlhood Leah Johnson 9781368098960 Fiction Freedom Fire Disney Publishing Worldwide A vibrant, heartwarming collection of 15 middle grade ...
House Party
House Party justin a. reynolds 9780593488188 Fiction Joy Revolution Penguin Random House Ten bestselling, critically acclaimed authors deliver a fresh novel of interconnected stories that follow a gro...
Trailblazers, Black Women Who Helped Make America Great, 3: American Firsts/American Icons, Volume 3
Trailblazers, Black Women Who Helped Make America Great, 3: American Firsts/American Icons, Volume 3 Gabrielle David 9781734618150 Nonfiction 2Leaf Press 2Leaf Press The third volume in the Trailblaze...
My Hair
My Hair Danielle Murrell Cox 9780062897657 Fiction HarperFestival HarperCollins A fresh and fun celebration of natural hair for babies and toddlers! My Hair is the perfect introduction to an array ...
The Unpublished City: Volume II
The Unpublished City: Volume II Phoebe Wang, Canisia Lubrin, and Dionne Brand 9781771664639 Fiction Book*hug Press Book*hug Press Orient yourself in the city with these nineteen works of creative non-...
June 2017 eNewsletter: The Best New Books, Author Info, and More
June 2017 eNewsletter: The Best New Books, Author Info, and More Troy Johnson Article This Month’s Newsletter is Made Possible by Support From Amistad Authors You Should Know Tracy K. Smith...
These Truly Are the Brave: An Anthology of African American Writings on War and Citizenship
These Truly Are the Brave: An Anthology of African American Writings on War and Citizenship A Yemisi Jimoh and Francoise Hamlin 9780813060224 Nonfiction University Press of Florida University Press of...
Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women
Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women Mia E. Bay, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Martha S. Jones, and Barbara D. Savage 9781469620916 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North ...
Princess Tyler Meets The Big Storytelling Fairy
Princess Tyler Meets The Big Storytelling Fairy Candice Richardson and Tyler Richardson 9781512242836 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Princess Tyler is an adventurous little girl, with a ...
God Loves Haiti: A Novel
God Loves Haiti: A Novel Dimitry Elias Leger 9780062348135 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins A native of Haiti, Dimitry Elias Léger makes his remarkable debut with this story of romance, politics, ...
Hum (Ala Notable Books for Adults)
Hum (Ala Notable Books for Adults) Jamaal May 9781938584022 Poetry Alice James Books Alice James Books In May’s debut collection, poems buzz and purr like a well-oiled chassis. Grit, trial, and song t...
The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry
The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry Rita Dove 9780143121480 Poetry Penguin Books Penguin Random House In time for the holiday season, a beautiful paperback edition of Penguin’s ...
Winner's Announced! The Best Book Trailer of 2010
Winner's Announced! The Best Book Trailer of 2010 Troy Johnson Article Here are the winners of the Best Book Trailer's of 2010. Please join me in congratulation off of the winners. 1st Prize ...
The 100 Best African American Poems
The 100 Best African American Poems Nikki Giovanni 9781402221118 Poetry Sourcebooks MediaFusion Sourcebooks Hear voices contemporary and classic as selected by New York Times bestselling author Nik...
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry Camille T. Dungy 9780820332772 Poetry University of Georgia Press University of Georgia Press Black Nature is the first anthology to focu...
Patterson Heights (Kimani TRU)
Patterson Heights (Kimani TRU) Felicia Pride 9780373831487 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Harlequin Enterprises Limited Avery Washington has spent his entire life in Patterson Heights, a Baltimore neighborh...
Family Pictures: Poems And Photographs Celebrating Family
Family Pictures: Poems And Photographs Celebrating Family Kwame Alexander 9781888018424 Poetry Candlewick Press Candlewick Press Family Pictures, edited by Kwame Alexander, is a celebration of the par...
Damaris B. Hill
Damaris B. Hill 0000000454814480 DaMaris B. Hill, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Kentucky. Inspired by theories of “rememory” and inclusive history, Hill has ...
Anika Malone: A New Voice in Women’s Fiction
Anika Malone: A New Voice in Women’s Fiction Leah Mullen Interview Reprinted Courtesy of Writersandpoets.com, LLC Late last year I talked to two authors Carl Weber and Toni Lee who both ...