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American Nightmare
American Nightmare Kelly McWilliams 9798217087204 Fiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House In this haunting historical novel, a light-skinned Black man goes undercover to investigate lynchi...
All This Want (and I Can’t Get None): Stories
All This Want (and I Can’t Get None): Stories T Clark 9798217154074 Fiction One World Penguin Random House A piercing short story collection that explores the feverish hunger and dizzying pleasure of ...
Start To Finish: An Author’s How-to Boxset
Start To Finish: An Author’s How-to Boxset Wahida Clark 9781954161955 Nonfiction Wahida Clark Presents Publishing Green and Company LLC 4X New York Times Bestseller Wahida Clark has offered her know-h...
A Master of Djinn
A Master of Djinn P. Djèlí Clark 9781250267689 Fiction Tordotcom Macmillan Publishers Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner Clark goes full-length for the first time in his dazzling debut novel Cairo, ...
How To Turn Your Message or Expertise Into A Profitable Best-Selling Book 2.0
How To Turn Your Message or Expertise Into A Profitable Best-Selling Book 2.0 Wahida Clark 9781954161245 Nonfiction Wahida Clark Presents Publishing Green and Company LLC It has once been said that th...
Faces of Praise!: Photos and Gospel Inspirations to Encourage and Uplift
Faces of Praise!: Photos and Gospel Inspirations to Encourage and Uplift Carol Mackey 9781478917526 Nonfiction FaithWords Hachette Book Group Photography by B. Jeffrey Grant-Clark This full-color p...
Honor Thy Thug
Honor Thy Thug Wahida Clark 9781936399499 Fiction Cash Money Content Simon & Schuster, Inc. From New York Times bestselling author Wahida Clark, comes the highly anticipated next installment in the Qu...
Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement
Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement Septima Clark and Cynthia Stokes Brown 9780865431744 Nonfiction Africa World Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press 30th Anniversar...
Ring Shout
Ring Shout P. Djèlí Clark 9781250393814 Fiction Tor Nightfire Macmillan Publishers ebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns with Ring Shout, a dark fantasy historical novella ...
We Tried to Tell Y’All: Black Twitter and the Rise of Digital Counternarratives
We Tried to Tell Y’All: Black Twitter and the Rise of Digital Counternarratives Meredith D. Clark 9780190068141 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Through interviews, news anal...
Yvonne Clark and Her Engineering Spark
Yvonne Clark and Her Engineering Spark Allen R. Wells 9780374391355 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers Macmillan Publishers Up to become one of the first Black female engin...
The Golden Hustla 2
The Golden Hustla 2 Wahida Clark 9781954161986 Fiction Wahida Clark Presents Publishing Green and Company LLC It is said that the love of money is the root of all evil, and with fifty million dollars ...
Every Thug Needs A Lady
Every Thug Needs A Lady Wahida Clark 9781496724250 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. "Every Thug Needs A Lady" is the spellbinding sequel to Wahida Clark’s "Thugs And The Women Who Love Them"...
Thugs 7: Raw and Uncut
Thugs 7: Raw and Uncut Wahida Clark 9781947732445 Fiction Wahida Clark Presents Publishing Green and Company LLC Romance and Thug Lovin’ is at its pinnacle in part 7 of the Thug Series. Trae and Tasha...
Street Tales: A Street Lit Anthology
Street Tales: A Street Lit Anthology Shannon Holmes, Wahida Clark, Victor L. Martin, Sa'id Salaam, Reds Johnson, Hood Chronicles, Joe Awsum, and Vance Phillips 9781947732551 Fiction Wahida Clark Prese...
Sleeping With The Enemy
Sleeping With The Enemy Wahida Clark and Kiki Swinson 9780758212580 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Wahida Clark and Kiki Swinson are two mistresses who have the street lit genre on lock. ...
Every Thug Needs A Lady
Every Thug Needs A Lady Wahida Clark 9780758212894 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. "Every Thug Needs A Lady" is the spellbinding sequel to Wahida Clark’s "Thugs And The Women Who Love T...
What’s Really Hood!: A Collection Of Tales From The Streets
What’s Really Hood!: A Collection Of Tales From The Streets Wahida Clark 9780446539166 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Life in the streets take on a whole new meaning in this urba...
Every Thug Needs a Lady
Every Thug Needs a Lady Wahida Clark 9780974805115 Fiction Kensington Books Kensington Publishing Corp. "Every Thug Needs A Lady" is the spellbinding sequel to Wahida Clark’s "Thugs And The Women Who ...
A Thug’s Independence: The Silent Partner
A Thug’s Independence: The Silent Partner Wahida Clark 9781970854220 Fiction Wahida Clark Presents Publishing Green and Company LLC Book Ten of the Thug Universe™ The Story For Faheem &ldq...
The Confession: A Thug’s Valentine
The Confession: A Thug’s Valentine Wahida Clark 9781970854107 Fiction Wahida Clark Presents Publishing Green and Company LLC He came back for love. He stayed for war. Faheem Mujahid thought he had ...
A Black Girl and Her Braids
A Black Girl and Her Braids Jaylene Clark Owens 9780593889732 Nonfiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House Based on the viral poem, braids of all lengths, looks, parts, and styles are explored and...
A Thug’s Christmas: The Billion Dollar Blackmail
A Thug’s Christmas: The Billion Dollar Blackmail Wahida Clark 9781970854039 Fiction Wahida Clark Presents Publishing Green and Company LLC A Thug’s Christmas is a Thug Universe™ Christmas...
Doll Test: Choosing Equality
Doll Test: Choosing Equality Carole Boston Weatherford 9781728477930 Nonfiction Carolrhoda Books Lerner Publishing Group Four Dolls. Two Psychologists. One Landmark Court Case. During the f...
The Accomplice
The Accomplice Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and Aaron Philip Clark 9780063312906 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins The New York Times bestselling multitalented artist delivers an electrifying novel—The Accomp...
Payback Is a Mutha
Payback Is a Mutha Wahida Clark 9781496732910 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. This hot, gritty first installment in Wahida Clark’s iconic New York Times and USA Today bestselling Payback se...
The Virus Brought Me My First Love
The Virus Brought Me My First Love Wahida Clark 9781947732735 Fiction Wahida Clark Presents Publishing Green and Company LLC After a tumultuous relationship with the father of her children, love is th...
Thug Matrimiony (2021)
Thug Matrimiony (2021) Wahida Clark 9781496732903 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. New York Times bestselling author Wahida Clark has always had her finger on the pounding pulse of the stree...
Standing on Her Shoulders
Standing on Her Shoulders Monica Clark-Robinson 9781338358001 Fiction Orchard Books Orchard Books A stunning love letter to the important women who shape us — from our own mothers and grandmothers to ...
Emperors and Assassins
Emperors and Assassins Wahida Clark 9781954161092 Fiction Wahida Clark Presents Publishing Green and Company LLC Viridius Vispanius is one of the most hated men in Wolfryia for his failure to protect...
Covid, Mayhem and Murder: A Headhunters Christmas
Covid, Mayhem and Murder: A Headhunters Christmas Wahida Clark 9781954161146 Fiction Wahida Clark Presents Publishing Green and Company LLC MARCO IS A HUSTLER’S HUSTLER. Loyalty proves more than a wor...
The Haunting of Tram Car 015
The Haunting of Tram Car 015 P. Djèlí Clark 9781250294807 Fiction Tordotcom Macmillan Publishers Clark returns to the historical fantasy universe of A Dead Djinn in Cairo, with the otherworldly advent...
I Can’t Talk about the Trees Without the Blood
I Can’t Talk about the Trees Without the Blood Tiana Clark 9780822965589 Poetry University of Pittsburgh Press University of Pittsburgh Press For poet Tiana Clark, trees will never be just trees. They...
The Black God’s Drums
The Black God’s Drums P. Djèlí Clark 9781250294715 Fiction Tordotcom Macmillan Publishers Rising science fiction and fantasy star P. Djl Clark brings an alternate New Orleans of orisha, airships, and ...
Let the Children March
Let the Children March Monica Clark-Robinson 9780544704527 Fiction HMH Books for Young Readers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt I couldn’t play on the same playground as the white kids. I couldn’t go to...
Thugs: Seven
Thugs: Seven Wahida Clark 9781944992712 Fiction Wahida Clark Presents Publishing Green and Company LLC Thugs Series (Book 7) Romance and Thug Lovin’ is at its pinnacle in part 7 of the Thug Series. T...
The Pink Panther Clique
The Pink Panther Clique Aisha Hall, Sunshine Smith-Williams, Jamila T. Davis, and Wahida Clark 9781936649556 Fiction Wahida Clark Presents Publishing Green and Company LLC Everybody knows that if you ...
From Head Shops to Whole Foods: The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs
From Head Shops to Whole Foods: The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs Joshua Clark Davis 9780231543088 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press In the 1960s and ’70s, a div...
Butterfly Bitch!
Butterfly Bitch! Wahida Clark and Michael A. Robinson 9781944992439 Fiction Wahida Clark Presents Publishing Green and Company LLC Rejected by a bitter, homophobic father with high political ambitions...
Sincerely, the Boss!
Sincerely, the Boss! Wahida Clark 9781944992200 Fiction Wahida Clark Presents Publishing Green and Company LLC Torn between steamy, passionate nights between the sheets and the truths she doesn’t want...
Behold the Dreamers: A Novel
Behold the Dreamers: A Novel Imbolo Mbue 9780812998481 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House Imbolo Mbue’s The Longings of Jende Jonga one of two books to earn $1 Million+ advances at the Frankfurt Book ...
Gary Phillips’ Hollis P.I.
Gary Phillips’ Hollis P.I. Gary Phillips, Derrick Ferguson, Bobby Nash, Juliet Blackwell, and Aaron Philip Clark 9781505216837 Poetry CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Gary Phillips’ Nate Hollis le...
The Golden Hustla
The Golden Hustla Wahida Clark 9781455556809 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Only New York Times bestselling author Wahida Clark could take street lit to the next level in this in...
Blood Sweat & Payback
Blood Sweat & Payback Wahida Clark 9781936399505 Fiction Cash Money Content Simon & Schuster, Inc. From New York Times bestselling author Wahida Clark, comes the highly anticipated final installment i...
The Black Chicago Renaissance (New Black Studies Series)
The Black Chicago Renaissance (New Black Studies Series) Darlene Clark Hine and John McCluskey Jr. 9780252078583 Fiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press Beginning in the 193...
The Golden Hustla
The Golden Hustla Wahida Clark 9780446178105 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Only New York Times bestselling author Wahida Clark could take street lit to the next level in this in...
Feelin’ the Vibe
Feelin’ the Vibe Candice Dow 9780446179522 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group A decade ago, Clark Winston nearly had a nervous breakdown after the man of her dreams, Devin Patterson,...
Payback Is A Mutha
Payback Is A Mutha Wahida Clark 9780758212542 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In this gritty urban drama, New York Times bestselling author Wahida Clark tells the story of a woman who think...
Reflections of a Black Cowboy: Pioneers
Reflections of a Black Cowboy: Pioneers Robert H. Miller 9781933491028 Fiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. The exciting adventures of Black cowboys, pioneers, soldiers, and other frontiersmen ...
Payback Is A Mutha
Payback Is A Mutha Wahida Clark 9780758212535 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. In her hot, gritty new urban drama, Essence ® bestselling author Wahida Clark tells the story of a woman wh...
Caught In The Mix
Caught In The Mix Candice Dow 9780758210531 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. Caught Up In Dreams For Clark Anderson, senior year at Hampton University promises to be her finest yet. The ...
All the Smoke
All the Smoke Aaron Philip Clark 9780063451605 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins The Talented Mr. Ripley meets Wu-Tang Clan: An American Saga in this gripping psychological thriller about ambition, betray...
Scorched Earth: Poems
Scorched Earth: Poems Tiana Clark 9781668052075 Poetry Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. The striking sophomore poetry collection from the award-winning author of the “beautiful, vulnerab...
Blue Like Me
Blue Like Me Aaron Philip Clark 9781542039697 Fiction Thomas & Mercer Amazon Publishing A brutal homicide sets an ex-cop and his former partner on the hunt for an enigmatic killer in a gripping thrill...
Superman Red & Blue
Superman Red & Blue John Ridley 9781779512802 Fiction DC Comics DC Comics The Man of Steel Stars in DC’s New Superman: Red & Blue anthology mini-series! In the spirit of DC’s iconic Eisner Award-...
Under Color of Law
Under Color of Law Aaron Philip Clark 9781542030182 Fiction Thomas & Mercer Amazon Publishing The murder of a police recruit pins a Black LAPD detective in a deadly web where race, corruption, violenc...
Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood
Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood Kwame Mbalia 9780593379936 Fiction Delacorte Press Penguin Random House Celebrate the joys of Black boyhood with stories from seventeen bestselling,...
Geese Are Never Swans
Geese Are Never Swans Eva Clark and Created by Kobe Bryant 9781949520057 Fiction Granity Studios Granity Studios Gus’s life is about one thing—swimming. He is determined to make it to the Olympics and...
Thugs and the Women Who Love Them
Thugs and the Women Who Love Them Wahida Clark 9781496724243 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In a ’hood loaded with sex, brutality, and crime, three friends are at a turning point. They can...
The Furious Way
The Furious Way Aaron Philip Clark 9781643960036 Fiction Shotgun Honey Shotgun Honey Lucy Ramos is out for blood—she needs to kill a man, but she has no clue how. Lucy calls on the help of aged hit-ma...
I Am Sacagawea
I Am Sacagawea Brad Meltzer 9780525428534 Nonfiction Dial Books Penguin Random House Sacagawea, the only Native American included in Lewis and Clark’s historic expedition, joins the inspiring list of ...
Equilibrium
Equilibrium Tiana Clark 9781495157646 Poetry Bull City Press Bull City Press Frost Place Competition judge Afaa Michael Weaver had the following praise for Equilibrium: Equilibrium searches for that...
Animal 2: The Omen
Animal 2: The Omen K’wan 9781936399291 Fiction Cash Money Content Simon & Schuster, Inc. Secrets are revealed, sides are chosen and bodies are dropped…it’s on! After being thought dead, Animal r...
The Butler: A Witness to History
The Butler: A Witness to History Wil Haygood 9781476752990 Nonfiction Atria / 37 Ink Simon & Schuster, Inc. Read a review of Lee Daniel’s film made from this book. “The book is brief, but the two...
Deadly Games (Kinncaid Brothers, Vol. 4)
Deadly Games (Kinncaid Brothers, Vol. 4) Jaycee Clark 9781937349745 Fiction Beyond the Page Publishing Beyond the Page Publishing “Deadly Games is a spine-tingling, thrilling ride that readers will de...
Justify My Thug
Justify My Thug Wahida Clark 9781451617092 Fiction Cash Money Content Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the author of Payback With Ya Life and Every Thug Needs A Lady comes Justify My Thug. The drama contin...
Payback Ain’t Enough
Payback Ain’t Enough Wahida Clark 9781936399116 Fiction Cash Money Content Simon & Schuster, Inc. Picking up where the suspenseful ending of Payback With Ya Life left off, we’re plunged back into the ...
Thug Lovin’
Thug Lovin’ Wahida Clark 9780446178099 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Tasha and Trae, the hood’s favorite couple, are still together following the events of Thug Matrimony. Even ...
Payback with Ya Life
Payback with Ya Life Wahida Clark 9780446178082 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group In the sequel to one of Wahida’s most successful titles [Payback is a Mutha], old scores are settle...
Life As A Single Mom: It Isn’t Easy, Or Is It?
Life As A Single Mom: It Isn’t Easy, Or Is It? Stephanie M. Clark 9781604024470 Nonfiction MDK Media, Inc. MDK Media, Inc. As a single mom you may sometimes feel that you are all alone on your journey...
Thug Matrimony
Thug Matrimony Wahida Clark 9780758212559 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Angel, Jaz, Tasha, and Kyra are living proof that hope is more than a word. The four girlfriends are pulling themse...
An All Night Man
An All Night Man Brenda Jackson, Joylynn M. Jossel, Kayla Perrin, and Tamara Sneed 9780312328771 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Brenda Jackson: "The Hunter" Mallory Sta...
The Parcel Express Murders
The Parcel Express Murders Bernadette Y. Connor 9780971583818 Fiction Bee-Con Books Bee-Con Books Detectives Hall Hawkins and Edward Clark of the 30th Precinct Homicide Division are assigned the daunt...
A Shining Thread of Hope
A Shining Thread of Hope Darlene Clark Hine and Kathleen Thompson 9780767901116 Nonfiction Broadway Books Penguin Random House At the greatest moments and in the cruelest times, black women have been ...
Mazywood
Mazywood Tananarive Due 9781668075142 Fiction Saga Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. S. A. Cosby’s All the Sinners Bleed meets Percival Everett’s Erasure in this literary thriller following 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...
Blue Beach
Blue Beach Karyn Parsons 9780316575751 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Perfect for fans of Promise Boys, this gripping historical mystery follows a teenager who finds...
Revelation: A Journey Into Abstraction
Revelation: A Journey Into Abstraction Michelle D. Commander 9780847876204 Nonfiction Rizzoli Electa Rizzoli International Publications Revelation celebrates the expansive creativity of Black artists ...
Keeper of Lost Children
Keeper of Lost Children Sadeqa Johnson 9781668069912 Fiction Atria / 37 Ink Simon & Schuster, Inc. Join Our Book Discussion on Zoom ● August 30, 2026 ● 2 p.m. EDT In this new novel from the N...
The People’s Project: Poems, Essays, and Art for Looking Forward
The People’s Project: Poems, Essays, and Art for Looking Forward Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith 9781668207024 Nonfiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. A liberatory anthology of twenty-s...
Harmattan Season
Harmattan Season Tochi Onyebuchi 9781250782977 Fiction Tor Books Macmillan Publishers Award-winning author Tochi Onyebuchi’s new standalone novel is hard-boiled fantasy noir: Raymond Chandler meets P....
Bent But Not Broken
Bent But Not Broken Mary Monroe 9781496743183 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Brimming with unpredictable twists and scandals, the latest Depression-era Alabama novel from award-winning, Ne...
Isaac’s Song: A Novel
Isaac’s Song: A Novel Daniel Black 9781335090416 Fiction Hanover Square Press Hanover Square Press A Washington Post Best Book of January 2025 A Southern Review of Books Best Southern Book of J...
The Improvisers: A Murder and Magic Novel
The Improvisers: A Murder and Magic Novel Nicole Glover 9780063293595 Fiction Harper Voyager HarperCollins For fans of Nghi Vo, P. Djèlí Clark, and Alix E. Harrow: a new stand-alone set in the world o...
Bitter and Sweet
Bitter and Sweet Rhonda McKnight 9780840706577 Fiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing From the beloved author of The Thing About Home comes a dual timeline tale of family, grief, sec...
Er Doc’s Las Vegas Reunion
Er Doc’s Las Vegas Reunion Denise N. Wheatley 9781335595270 Fiction Harlequin Medical Romance Larger Print Harlequin Enterprises Limited Will She Roll the Dice on a Second Chance When She’s Reunited w...
I’m Not Superwoman
I’m Not Superwoman Marlon McCaulsky 9781645565482 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance Atlanta, Georgia, is the hub of the black college experience. Nia Scott, a gifted pre-med student at Clark...
Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror
Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror Jordan Peele 9780593243794 Fiction Random House Penguin Random House The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Mo...
Striving for Justice: A Black Sheriff in the Deep South
Striving for Justice: A Black Sheriff in the Deep South Nathaniel Glover 9781637631775 Nonfiction Frederick Douglass Books Forefront Books On the South Side of Chicago, one SOUR note can lea...
Behind Her Lives
Behind Her Lives Briana Cole 9781496738752 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. From bestselling author Briana Cole, an enthrallingly suspenseful new story of secrets, sibling rivalry, and a wom...
Growing in the Gray
Growing in the Gray Christian Cook 9781956906288 Fiction IDUN W. Brand Publishing Growing in the Gray centers around Krista Clark’s once upper-middle-class family as their economic downfall threatens ...
Stacey Abrams and the Fight to Vote
Stacey Abrams and the Fight to Vote Traci N. Todd 9780063139770 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Stacey Abrams, politician and Nobel peace prize nominee, is brought to life in this poetic pictur...
Last Call for a Deadly Diva
Last Call for a Deadly Diva Flo Anthony 9781954161665 Fiction Wahida Clark Presents Publishing Green and Company LLC Five years ago Valerie Rollins became a widow after her husband, electronics and ra...
This Close to Okay
This Close to Okay Leesa Cross-Smith 9781538715376 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group From the award-winning writer Roxane Gay calls “a consummate storyteller” comes a cathartic nove...
Textures: The History and Art of Black Hair
Textures: The History and Art of Black Hair Tameka Ellington and Joseph L. Underwood 9783777435541 Nonfiction Hirmer Verlag Hirmer Verlag Textures synthesizes research in history, fashion, art, and vi...
The Old Drift: A Novel
The Old Drift: A Novel Namwali Serpell 9781101907153 Fiction Hogarth Press Penguin Random House An electrifying debut from the winner of the 2015 Caine Prize for African writing, The Old Drift is the ...
Schemes
Schemes Kiki Swinson and Saundra 9781617733673 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. DEVIL IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING KIKI SWINSON Karlie Houston hasn’t seen a raise in forever, but the payday loan of...
Black Women in Science: A Black History Book for Kids
Black Women in Science: A Black History Book for Kids Kimberly Brown Pellum 9781641527071 Nonfiction Rockridge Press Callisto Publishing Celebrate Black History Month with amazing Black women in STEM!...
Baltimore Raw
Baltimore Raw Aisha Hall 9781944992637 Fiction Wahida Clark Presents Publishing Green and Company LLC Nasty and Soulja, were ruthless kingpins on the streets of Baltimore. Now in prison, nothing has c...
Rise!: From Caged Bird to Poet of the People, Maya Angelou
Rise!: From Caged Bird to Poet of the People, Maya Angelou Bethany Hegedus 9781620145876 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books NCSS Septima Clark Book Award Elementary Level Winner In celebrat...