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Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan
Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan MULTIPLE Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan are renowned authors known for their contribution to literature. Watson, a Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award-winning author...
Watch Us Rise
Watch Us Rise Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan 9781547600083 Fiction Bloomsbury YA Bloomsbury Publishing "This stunning book is the story I’ve been waiting for my whole life; where girls rise up to claim ...
Ruth P. Watson
Ruth P. Watson NONE Ruth P. Watson is a Virginia-born author and educator, now living in Atlanta. Known for bestsellers like Blackberry Days of Summer, she also writes children's books and is a docum...
William Craft and Ellen Craft
William Craft and Ellen Craft MULTIPLE William and Ellen Craft, escaped slaves from Georgia, became famous fugitives in the 1840s. Disguised as a white man and his servant, they reached the North and...
Ellen’s Broom
Ellen’s Broom Kelly Starling Lyons 9780399250033 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A young girl learns a new meaning for freedom during the time of Reconstruction...
Lisa Watson
Lisa Watson NONE Lisa Watson is a national bestselling author based in Washington D.C., known for her work in diverse romance genres. Her debut novel was nominated for Best Contemporary Fiction, and ...
Jamal Eric Watson
Jamal Eric Watson NONE Dr. Jamal Watson is an award-winning author and lecturer, known for his biography on Al Sharpton. He's a senior writer for Diverse Issues in Higher Education, with work feature...
Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson
Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson MULTIPLE Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson are award-winning authors known for their impactful works. Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer-winning journalist, is renowned ...
C.J. Watson
C.J. Watson NONE Former NBA star, C.J. Watson, penned a children's book in 2020, “C.J.'s Big Dream”, inspiring kids to work hard for their dreams. The book, potentially a series, follows a young boy ...
Ellen DeGeneres - Interview
Ellen DeGeneres - Interview Kam Williams Interview DeGeneres (L) with NY State Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton Born in Metairie, Louisiana on January 26, 1958, Ellen Lee DeGene...
Trespass: Portraits of Unhoused Life, Love, and Understanding
Trespass: Portraits of Unhoused Life, Love, and Understanding Kim Watson 9781506491134 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media As seen through the eyes of photographer Kim Watson, who has spent three ye...
Renée Watson
Renée Watson 0000000060818307 Renée Watson, acclaimed author of young adult and children's literature, uses art to help youth deal with trauma and discuss social issues. Known for her book “This Side...
Kim Watson
Kim Watson NONE Kim Watson is a versatile artist who has worked with top entertainment platforms like Disney and Warner Brothers, earning MTV, Soul Train and NAACP accolades for his impactful work in...
Kelly Hollman and Charlotte Watson Sherman
Kelly Hollman and Charlotte Watson Sherman MULTIPLE Kelly Hollman and Charlotte Watson Sherman are esteemed authors known for their captivating works. Their unique storytelling style and profound th...
Naleighna Kai, Pat G’Orge Walker, Lisa Watson, Martha Kennerson, Michelle D. Rayford, Janice Pernell, J. L. Campbell, Kisha Green, and Terri Ann Johnson
Naleighna Kai, Pat G’Orge Walker, Lisa Watson, Martha Kennerson, Michelle D. Rayford, Janice Pernell, J. L. Campbell, Kisha Green, and Terri Ann Johnson MULTIPLE "Naleighna Kai, Pat G’Orge Walker, Li...
Ibi Zoboi, Tracey Baptiste, Coe Booth, Dhonielle Clayton, Brandy Colbert, Jay Coles, Lamar Giles, Leah Henderson, Justina Ireland, Varian Johnson, Kekla Magoon, Jason Reynolds, Nic Stone, Renée Watson, Rita Williams-Garcia, and others
Ibi Zoboi, Tracey Baptiste, Coe Booth, Dhonielle Clayton, Brandy Colbert, Jay Coles, Lamar Giles, Leah Henderson, Justina Ireland, Varian Johnson, Kekla Magoon, Jason Reynolds, Nic Stone, Renée Watso...
Free Enterprise: A Novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant
Free Enterprise: A Novel of Mary Ellen Pleasant Michelle Cliff 9780872864375 Fiction City Lights Publishers City Lights Publishers In 1858, two black women meet at a restaurant and begin to plot a rev...
Ellen Levine
Ellen Levine 0000000115622847 Author Ellen Levine is captivated by tales of justice and extraordinary feats by ordinary people, like Henry “Box” Brown's escape as depicted in The Underground Railroad...
Ellen Mitchell
Ellen Mitchell 000000004491565X Ellen Mitchell is a seasoned journalist from Long Island, with a career spanning “man on the street” interviews to anchoring news. She was the exclusive Long Island re...
Ellen Labrecque
Ellen Labrecque NONE Ellen Labrecque is a renowned author and ex-Senior Editor for Sports Illustrated for Kids, credited with over 20 nonfiction books for children, including popular biographies of J...
Teri Ellen Cross Davis
Teri Ellen Cross Davis NONE Teri Ellen Cross Davis, award-winning author of 'Haint: poems', is a Cave Canem Fellow and Poetry Coordinator at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. Teri Ell...
Charlotte Watson Sherman
Charlotte Watson Sherman 0000000067613072 Charlotte Watson Sherman, a Seattle-born author, is known for her novels, children's books, and short fiction collection. Formerly a librarian, her works inc...
Trespass: Portraits of Unhoused Life, Love, and Understanding
Trespass: Portraits of Unhoused Life, Love, and Understanding Clarence V. Reynolds Book Review Have you ever come upon or passed a homeless/unhoused person and experienced an emotion that tugged at y...
Black Girl You Are Atlas
Black Girl You Are Atlas Renée Watson 9780593461709 Fiction Kokila Penguin Random House A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson. In t...
Isa Watson
Isa Watson NONE Isa Watson, a chemist and data scientist turned entrepreneur, is the founder and CEO of Squad, a social app that enhances communication amongst friends. Aiming to make a global impact...
Watson and Holmes: A Scandal in Harlem
Watson and Holmes: A Scandal in Harlem Brandon Easton, Karl Bollers, Greg Anderson Elysée, Lindsay Faye, and Steven Grant 9781960171030 Fiction Fairsquare Comics Fairsquare Comics Harlem, Now. The mos...
Jesse Joshua Watson
Jesse Joshua Watson NONE Jesse Joshua Watson is an acclaimed illustrator known for his work on the New York Times best-selling Hank Zipzer series and G. Neri's Ghetto Cowboy and Chess Rumble. He resi...
Dudley Thompson and Barrington Watson
Dudley Thompson and Barrington Watson MULTIPLE Barrington Watson is a renowned Jamaican artist and author of 'Shades of Grey', a collection of autobiographical stories complemented by his own illustr...
Watch Us Rise
Watch Us Rise Vanessa Vanzie Book Review Oh, to go back in time when life was simpler and filled with of fun, friends and family. Reminiscing on all the highs of your first crush and lows of your fir...
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom Ilyon Woo 9781501191053 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who ...
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom William Craft and Ellen Craft 9780820321042 Nonfiction University of Georgia Press University of Georgia Press An Important Contribution to the Birth of African Am...
Ellen Oh
Ellen Oh 0000000376222075 Ellen Oh is a Korean American children’s and young adult author whose work spans middle grade, fantasy, and speculative fiction. A former lawyer and college instructor, she...
Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Helene Cooper 9781451697353 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. The harrowing, but triumphant story of Ellen Johnson...
On the Block: Stories of Home
On the Block: Stories of Home Ellen Oh 9780593648445 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House From We Need Diverse Books comes an inspiring middle-grade anthology following the inter...
Yara Mekawi, Natalie Watson-Singleton, and Danyelle Dawson
Yara Mekawi, Natalie Watson-Singleton, and Danyelle Dawson MULTIPLE Yara Mekawi, PhD (pictured center), is a licensed psychologist, co-founder of the DEAR Project, and assistant professor at the Uni...
Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn And Made America A Democracy
Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn And Made America A Democracy Bruce Watson 9780143119432 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House A majestic history of the summer of ’64, whic...
The Student Debt Crisis: America’s Moral Urgency
The Student Debt Crisis: America’s Moral Urgency Jamal Eric Watson 9781506495163 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media The student debt crisis is a civil rights issue, and it’s time we start treating ...
Cicely Tyson
Cicely Tyson Renée Watson 9780063219991 Nonfiction Amistad Books for Young Readers HarperCollins From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Renée Watson and quilt artist Sherry Sh...
Summer Is Here
Summer Is Here Renée Watson 9781547605866 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing New York Times bestselling creators Renée Watson and Bea Jackson offer a picture book ode to a ...
Ways to Make Sunshine
Ways to Make Sunshine Renée Watson 9781547600564 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Publishing From Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award winner Ren�e Watson comes the first book i...
What Momma Left Me
What Momma Left Me Renée Watson 9781547601738 Fiction Bloomsbury YA Bloomsbury Publishing Rediscover New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor- and Coretta Scott King Author Award-winning author Ren&e...
Opal Watson: A Case Most Fowl
Opal Watson: A Case Most Fowl Brittany J. Thurman 9780063326545 Fiction Storytide HarperCollins In this second book in the middle-grade mystery series based on the popular Pinna podcast, super sleuth ...
Opal Watson: Private Eye
Opal Watson: Private Eye Brittany J. Thurman 9780063326491 Fiction Storytide HarperCollins Opal Watson, Private Eye introduces an exciting new middle grade mystery series based on the popular original...
Interview with Danger
Interview with Danger Lisa Watson 9780999891704 Fiction Lisa Y Watson Lisa Y Watson When Sasha Lambert’s debut novel, The Passport Diaries, hits the bookstores it quickly becomes a bestseller. Her ex-...
Beyond Tears: Living After Losing a Child (Revised Edition with a Chapter Written by Siblings) (Revised)
Beyond Tears: Living After Losing a Child (Revised Edition with a Chapter Written by Siblings) (Revised) Ellen Mitchell 9780312545192 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Meant to comf...
A More Perfect Union
A More Perfect Union Teri Ellen Cross Davis 9780814257784 Poetry Mad Creek Books Ohio University Press In the tender, sensual, and bracing poems of a more perfect Union, Teri Ellen Cross Davis reclaim...
Who Was Kobe Bryant?
Who Was Kobe Bryant? Ellen Labrecque 9780593225707 Nonfiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House Told in a new Who HQ Now format for trending topics, this Who Was? biography details NBA superstar K...
The Daring Escape of Ellen Craft (On My Own History)
The Daring Escape of Ellen Craft (On My Own History) Cathy Moore 9780876144626 Fiction Carolrhoda Books Lerner Publishing Group FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Recounts how Ellen Craft and her ...
Ellen Feldman
Ellen Feldman 0000000107859959 Author Bio: James Patterson is a globally renowned American author, best known for his suspenseful thriller novels such as the Alex Cross series. His works have earned ...
Everything New Again Deluxe Limited Edition
Everything New Again Deluxe Limited Edition Renée Watson 9781547605835 Fiction Bloomsbury YA Bloomsbury Publishing Deluxe limited edition will include stenciled edges and a designed case cover! #1 ...
All the Blues in the Sky
All the Blues in the Sky Renée Watson 9781547605897 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing #1 New York Times bestselling and Newbery Honor author Renée Watson explores friendsh...
Skin & Bones
Skin & Bones Renée Watson 9780316570886 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group From the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a soulful and lyrical novel exploring sister...
Ways to Build Dreams
Ways to Build Dreams Renée Watson 9781547610181 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award winner Renée Watson continues her bestselling ...
Life Beyond Likes: Logging Off Your Screen and Into Your Life
Life Beyond Likes: Logging Off Your Screen and Into Your Life Isa Watson 9781637740934 Nonfiction BenBella Books BenBella Books With so much of our lives lived online, we’ve never been more connected—...
Born on the Water: The 1619 Project
Born on the Water: The 1619 Project Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson 9780593307359 Nonfiction Kokila Penguin Random House The 1619 Project’s lyrical picture book in verse chronicles the consequenc...
Love Is a Revolution
Love Is a Revolution Renée Watson 9781547600601 Fiction Bloomsbury YA Bloomsbury Publishing From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Ren�e Watson comes a love story about not only a ...
This Side of Home
This Side of Home Renée Watson 9781619639300 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Children's Books Bloomsbury Publishing A captivating and poignant coming-of-age urban YA debut about sisters, friends, and what it m...
Piecing Me Together
Piecing Me Together Renée Watson 9781681191058 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Children's Books Bloomsbury Publishing “Watson, with rhythm and style, somehow gets at the toxicity of sympathy, the unquenchable ...
This Side of Home
This Side of Home Renée Watson 9781599906683 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Children's Books Bloomsbury Publishing Identical twins Nikki and Maya have been on the same page for ""everything""-friends, school,...
Spice
Spice Naleighna Kai, Pat G’Orge Walker, Lisa Watson, Martha Kennerson, Michelle D. Rayford, Janice Pernell, J. L. Campbell, Kisha Green, and Terri Ann Johnson 9781732622517 Fiction Macro Publishing Gr...
Skin & Bones (paperback)
Skin & Bones (paperback) Renée Watson 9780316570893 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group Best Book of May 2024 by New York Post. Finalist for the 2024 Westport Prize for Literature. ...
Strawberry Spring
Strawberry Spring Ruth P. Watson 9781593096809 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From beloved author Ruth P. Watson comes the latest historical novel following Carrie Parker and her family ...
Cranberry Winter
Cranberry Winter Ruth P. Watson 9781593099787 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Romance, suspense, and murder are at the center of this sequel to the popular Blackberry Days of Summer and A...
What Momma Left Me
What Momma Left Me Renée Watson 9781599907048 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Children's Books Bloomsbury Publishing Serenity knows she is good at keeping secrets, and she’s got a whole lifetime’s worth of the...
The Pan-Africanists
The Pan-Africanists Dudley Thompson and Barrington Watson 9780865438101 Nonfiction Ian Randle Publishers Ian Randle Publishers This book celebrates the lives of seventeen Black leaders who have made o...
Some Places More Than Others
Some Places More Than Others Renée Watson 9781681191089 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Publishing RENÉE WATSON is the Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award-winning author ...
Kelly Starling Lyons
Kelly Starling Lyons NONE Kelly Starling Lyons is a children's book author from Pittsburgh. Inspired by her mother's storytelling and her grandparents' creativity, she started writing at a young age....
Harold Green III
Harold Green III NONE Internationally-admired artist, Harold Green III, is the author of Black Rosesv and Black Oak. Known for his poetry, Green won the Carl Sandburg Literary Award for his debut col...
Scottsboro: A Novel
Scottsboro: A Novel Ellen Feldman 9780393064902 Fiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A powerful novel about race, class, sex, and a lie that refused to die. Alabama, 1931. A pos...
Natalie Y. Moore
Natalie Y. Moore 0000000041217426 Natalie Y. Moore is an award-winning journalist and author, known for her work in Essence, Black Enterprise, and the Chicago Tribune. She co-authored books on Black ...
Tabitha Brown
Tabitha Brown NONE Tabitha Brown, known as “America's Mom,” is an actress and vegan food influencer. She shares wisdom and vegan recipes via her show All Love on the Ellen Digital Network and Showtim...
Short Works of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Short Works of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Frances E. W. Harper 9781374876163 Fiction Pinnacle Kensington Publishing Corp. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is...
Flying Lessons & Other Stories
Flying Lessons & Other Stories Ellen Oh 9781101934593 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Whether it is basketball dreams, family fiascos, first crushes, or new neighborhoods, t...
One Death, Nine Stories
One Death, Nine Stories Marc Aronson and Charles R. Smith Jr. 9780763652852 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press How could one teenage boy’s life elicit other kids’ first experiences — even after...
William W. Brown, Frances E. W. Harper, and Charles W. Chesnutt
William W. Brown, Frances E. W. Harper, and Charles W. Chesnutt MULTIPLE "William W. Brown, Frances Ellen Watkin Harper, and Charles Chesnutt are renowned authors, each making significant contributio...
Flying Lessons & Other Stories (paperback)
Flying Lessons & Other Stories (paperback) Ellen Oh 9781101934623 Fiction Yearling Penguin Random House Published in partnership with We Need Diverse Books, this middle-grade anthology brings together...
March 1, 2017 Newsletter — Book Award Announcements, New Books, and More
March 1, 2017 Newsletter — Book Award Announcements, New Books, and More Troy Johnson Article New Books Coming Out March 2017 Helene Cooper tells the amazing of story Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader o...
Trial and Triumph
Trial and Triumph Frances E. W. Harper 9781508847038 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Trial and Triumph is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by ...
Frances E. W. Harper
Frances E. W. Harper 0000000109120234 Read Politics and Poetics: The Legacy of Frances E. W. Harper Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) was a prominent African American abolitionist, suffragist, ...
The Rise: Where Neighbors Are Sometimes More
The Rise: Where Neighbors Are Sometimes More Chantal Ellen 9780978678609 Nonfiction Lion’s Den Publishing Lion’s Den Publishing Exploring issues of self-esteem, family discord, sisterhood, faith, and ...
Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad
Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad Ellen Levine 9780439777339 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom b...
Brooklyn Noir
Brooklyn Noir Tim McLoughlin 9781888451580 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Akashic Books announces Brooklyn novelist Tim McLoughlin as the editor of the anthology (in addition to his contributing ...
A Fence Away From Freedom
A Fence Away From Freedom Ellen S. Levine 9780399226380 Nonfiction Putnam Juvenile Penguin Random House A series of interviews with Japanese Americans, who were placed in internment camps during World...
Globalization, Sovereignty and Citizenship in the Caribbean
Globalization, Sovereignty and Citizenship in the Caribbean Hilbourne A. Watson 9789766405502 Nonfiction University of the West Indies Press University of the West Indies Press The contributors to Glo...
Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry
Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry Charlotte Watson Sherman 9780060553517 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins A powerful collection of original and recent stories and poems by some of...
This Opening Sky
This Opening Sky Kelly Hollman and Charlotte Watson Sherman 9781638192152 Fiction Milk + Cookies Bushel & Peck Books Historical fiction at its finest! A sweet and sensitive, accessible middle grade n...
Turning Point (Paperback)
Turning Point (Paperback) Paula Chase 9780062965677 Fiction Greenwillow Books HarperCollins When being yourself isn’t good enough, who should you be? Told in dual perspectives, this provocative and t...
Turning Point
Turning Point Paula Chase 9780062965660 Fiction Greenwillow Books HarperCollins When being yourself isn’t good enough, who should you be? Told in dual perspectives, this provocative and timely novel ...
A Right Worthy Woman
A Right Worthy Woman Ruth P. Watson 9781668003022 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In the vein of The Personal Librarian and The House of Eve, a "remarkable and stirring novel" (Patti Callah...
Black Girl You Are Atlas
Black Girl You Are Atlas Renée Watson Excerpt at•las | \ ’at-les \ from Merriam-Webster Dictionary 1 capitalized: a Titan who for his part in the Titans’ revolt against the gods ...