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William “Damani” Keene and Carole “Ife” Keene
William “Damani” Keene and Carole “Ife” Keene MULTIPLE William “Damani” Keene and Carole “Ife” Keene, a couple with a long history together, have turned to historical fiction to tell the captivating ...
John Keene
John Keene 0000000032165978 Winner 2022 National Book Award for Poetry John Keene, acclaimed author known for Annotations, has been published in various anthologies and journals, earning several award...
Punks: New & Selected Poems
Punks: New & Selected Poems John Keene 9781737277521 Poetry The Song Cave The Song Cave A landmark collection of poetry by acclaimed fiction writer, translator, and MacArthur Fellow John Keene, PUNKS:...
John Keene and Christopher Stackhouse
John Keene and Christopher Stackhouse MULTIPLE John Keene and Christopher Stackhouse are renowned authors known for their contributions to literature and art. Their collaborative and individual works...
Clandestine: The Times and Secret Life of Mariah Otey Reddick
Clandestine: The Times and Secret Life of Mariah Otey Reddick William “Damani” Keene and Carole “Ife” Keene 9798650138310 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Have Black lives ever ...
Carole Boston Weatherford
Carole Boston Weatherford 0000000042539806 Carole Boston Weatherford, a New York Times best-selling author, has written over 50 books, earning multiple awards including three Caldecott Honors and two...
Paradise Interrupted (Carole Ann Gibson Mysteries)
Paradise Interrupted (Carole Ann Gibson Mysteries) Thumper Book Review I want to state my bias up front. I look forward to this time of the year when a new “Carole Ann Gibson” installment...
Carole Hopson
Carole Hopson NONE Carole Hopson, a United Airlines Boeing 737 captain and former journalist and executive, founded the Jet Black Foundation to sponsor 100 Black women in flight school by 2035, inspi...
Carole V. Bell
Carole V. Bell NONE Dr. Carole V. Bell is a Jamaican-born writer and political communication scholar, with a focus on public opinion, entertainment politics, and social change. She holds a Ph.D. from...
Paradise Interrupted (Carole Ann Gibson Mysteries)
Paradise Interrupted (Carole Ann Gibson Mysteries) Penny Mickelbury 9780684859910 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Before Carole Ann Gibson even has a chance to enjoy the white sand bea...
Kin: Rooted in Hope
Kin: Rooted in Hope Carole Boston Weatherford 9781665913621 Fiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. A powerful portrait of a Black family tree shaped by enslavement and freedom...
Mavis Staples and Carole Boston Weatherford
Mavis Staples and Carole Boston Weatherford MULTIPLE Mavis Staples is a renowned R&B singer and civil rights activist. Carole Boston Weatherford is an award-winning children's book author and poet. B...
Carole Boyce-Davies and N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba
Carole Boyce-Davies and N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba MULTIPLE Carole Boyce-Davies and N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba are renowned scholars noted for their contributions to African studies, women's rig...
Carole Byard
Carole Byard 000000002482243X Carole Byard is a renowned author and illustrator, known for her contributions to children's literature. Her acclaimed works include Angel City, Black Snowman, Working C...
Carole Boston Weatherford and Rob Sanders
Carole Boston Weatherford and Rob Sanders MULTIPLE Acclaimed writer and teacher, Rob Sanders, is known for works like Cowboy Christmas, Outer Space Bedtime Race, and Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk a...
Carole Boyce-Davies
Carole Boyce-Davies 0000000110589582 Carole Boyce-Davies is a Cornell University professor specializing in Africana studies and English. She's renowned for works such as “Left of Karl Marx” and the “...
Carole Boyce Davies and Elaine Savory
Carole Boyce Davies and Elaine Savory MULTIPLE Carole Boyce Davies and Elaine Savory
Seismosis
Seismosis John Keene and Christopher Stackhouse 9780977935109 Nonfiction 1913 Press 1913 Press Poetry. Art. African American Studies. Featuring line-drawings by Stackhouse and poems-as-essays by Keene...
Chester Keene Cracks the Code
Chester Keene Cracks the Code Kekla Magoon 9781524715991 Fiction Wendy Lamb Books Wendy Lamb Books Cracking the code isn’t all it’s cracked up to be in this scavenger hunt adventure from a Coretta Sco...
Annotations
Annotations John Keene 9780811213042 Fiction New Directions Publishing New Directions Publishing Praised by Ishmael Reed An experimental first novel of poem-like compression, Annotations has a grea...
Beyond the Kumbla: Sylvia Wynter and New Conversations
Beyond the Kumbla: Sylvia Wynter and New Conversations Carole Boyce Davies and Elaine Savory 9781569028957 Nonfiction Africa World Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press Beyond the Kumbla: Sylvi...
Crowning Glory: A Celebration of Black Hair
Crowning Glory: A Celebration of Black Hair Carole Boston Weatherford 9780763697945 Nonfiction Candlewick Press (MA) Candlewick Press Celebrate the beauty of Black hair creations through the rhyming t...
Standing in the Need of Prayer (paperback): A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual
Standing in the Need of Prayer (paperback): A Modern Retelling of the Classic Spiritual Carole Boston Weatherford 9780593306345 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House From an award...
Where to Choose: A Novel
Where to Choose: A Novel Penny Mickelbury 9780684837420 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. As a lawyer, Carole Ann Gibson defended every kind of criminal — from the white collar crooks w...
By and By: Charles Tindley, the Father of Gospel Music
By and By: Charles Tindley, the Father of Gospel Music Carole Boston Weatherford 9781534426368 Nonfiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. A stirring picture book biography from...
All Rise: The Story of Ketanji Brown Jackson
All Rise: The Story of Ketanji Brown Jackson Carole Boston Weatherford 9780593650165 Nonfiction Crown Penguin Random House Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, i...
Strength in Numbers: The 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott
Strength in Numbers: The 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott Carole Boston Weatherford 9780063205291 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins From the 2025 Children’s Literature Legacy Award winner, New York Ti...
Troubled Waters: A River’s Journey Toward Justice
Troubled Waters: A River’s Journey Toward Justice Carole Boston Weatherford 9781681198187 Nonfiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing From Young People’s Poet Laureate Carole Boston Wea...
A Hug Like Michelle’s, a Voice Like Beyonce’s: A Picture Book
A Hug Like Michelle’s, a Voice Like Beyonce’s: A Picture Book Carole Boston Weatherford 9781419771507 Fiction Abrams Appleseed Abrams From Misty Copeland to Rosa Parks to Nina Simone, this picture boo...
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre Carole Boston Weatherford 9781541581203 Nonfiction Carolrhoda Books Lerner Publishing Group “Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Coop...
Beauty Mark: A Verse Novel of Marilyn Monroe
Beauty Mark: A Verse Novel of Marilyn Monroe Carole Boston Weatherford 9781536206296 Poetry Candlewick Press Candlewick Press In a powerful novel in verse, an award-winning author offers an eye-openin...
You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen
You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen Carole Boston Weatherford 9781481449380 Nonfiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. Award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford’s innovative ...
Counternarratives
Counternarratives John Keene 9780811224345 Fiction New Directions Publishing New Directions Publishing Conjuring slavery and witchcraft, and with bewitching powers all its own, Counternarratives conti...
Coded Justice: A Thriller
Coded Justice: A Thriller Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery 9780385548342 Fiction Doubleday Books Penguin Random House A twisty and prescient new thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling Avery ...
Love Is a Dangerous Word: The Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill
Love Is a Dangerous Word: The Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill Essex Hemphill 9780811232340 Fiction New Directions Publishing New Directions Publishing For three decades, the legacy of writer, editor,...
Nigel I. Malcolm
Nigel I. Malcolm NONE Nigel I. Malcolm is an associate professor of communication at Keene State College and the author of “One More River to Cross: The Therapeutic Rhetoric of Race in the Post-Civil...
Moses And The Monster And Miss Anne
Moses And The Monster And Miss Anne Carole C. Marks 9780252033940 Fiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press This engaging history presents the extraordinary lives of Patty Cann...
The Faith of Elijah Cummings: The North Star of Equal Justice
The Faith of Elijah Cummings: The North Star of Equal Justice Carole Boston Weatherford 9780593306505 Nonfiction Random House Studio Penguin Random House Congressman and civil rights advocate Elijah C...
Me and My Mama: Celebrate Black Joy and Family Love
Me and My Mama: Celebrate Black Joy and Family Love Carole Boston Weatherford 9781728242460 Fiction Sourcebooks Jabberwocky Sourcebooks A beautiful love letter to everyday moments that celebrates the ...
A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington
A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington Carole Boston Weatherford and Rob Sanders 9781250779502 Nonfiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers A singula...
Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones
Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones Carole Boyce-Davies 9780822341161 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books In Left of Karl Marx, Carole...
Family Feast!
Family Feast! Carole Boston Weatherford 9780593898291 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House From the award-winning author and illustrator of Standing in the Need of Prayer comes a...
Bros
Bros Carole Boston Weatherford 9781536258929 Fiction Candlewick Press (MA) Candlewick Press “Weatherford and Brown are giving us Black Boy Joy at its best.” — Varian Johnson, author of The Parker Inhe...
How Do You Spell Unfair?: Macnolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee
How Do You Spell Unfair?: Macnolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee Carole Boston Weatherford 9781536215540 Nonfiction Candlewick Press (MA) Candlewick Press From a multi-award-winning pair comes a d...
The Roots of Rap: 16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip-Hop
The Roots of Rap: 16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip-Hop Carole Boston Weatherford 9781499804119 Nonfiction Little Bee Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Explore the roots of rap in this stunning, rhyming, tri...
Bridges Instead of Walls: The Story of Mavis Staples
Bridges Instead of Walls: The Story of Mavis Staples Mavis Staples and Carole Boston Weatherford 9780593624692 Nonfiction Rocky Pond Books Penguin Random House Legendary singer and Civil Rights activi...
Leontyne Price: Voice of a Century
Leontyne Price: Voice of a Century Carole Boston Weatherford 9780375856068 Nonfiction Knopf Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A stunning picture-book biography of iconic African American op...
The Herndons: An Atlanta Family
The Herndons: An Atlanta Family Carole Merritt 9780820323091 Fiction University of Georgia Press University of Georgia Press Born a slave and reared a sharecropper, Alonzo Herndon (1858-1927) was dest...
Grind: An Ode to Skateboarding
Grind: An Ode to Skateboarding Carole Boston Weatherford 9781478891864 Fiction Reycraft Books Reycraft Books Try an ollie; take to the air! Jump and land; show off your flair! Award-winning author ...
You Are My Pride: A Love Letter from Your Motherland
You Are My Pride: A Love Letter from Your Motherland Carole Boston Weatherford 9781635923872 Fiction Astra Young Readers Astra Publishing House In this powerfully written and beautifully illustrated p...
Fourteen Ways of Looking at Jellyfish
Fourteen Ways of Looking at Jellyfish Carole Boston Weatherford 9781536235074 Nonfiction Candlewick Press (MA) Candlewick Press With dozens of major awards between them, a revered poet and a versatile...
Hair Like Obama’s, Hands Like Lebron’s: A Picture Book
Hair Like Obama’s, Hands Like Lebron’s: A Picture Book Carole Boston Weatherford 9781419771484 Fiction Abrams Appleseed Abrams From Colin Kaepernick to Martin Luther King, Jr. to Benjamin Crump, Hair ...
Be a King: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream and You
Be a King: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream and You Carole Boston Weatherford 9781547608973 Nonfiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing With poetic text and dynamic art, award-winning...
How Sweet the Sound: The Story of Amazing Grace
How Sweet the Sound: The Story of Amazing Grace Carole Boston Weatherford 9781481472067 Nonfiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. An incredibly moving picture book biography o...
Be a King: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream and You
Be a King: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream and You Carole Boston Weatherford 9780802723680 Nonfiction Bloomsbury USA Children's Books Bloomsbury Publishing You can be a King. Stamp out hatred. Put ...
In Daddy’s Arms I am Tall
In Daddy’s Arms I am Tall Folami Abiade, Dinah Johnson, Carole Boston Weatherford, Dakari Hru, Michael Burgess, E. Ethelbert Miller, Lenard D. Moore, David Anderson, Angela Johnson, Sonia Sanchez, and...
Sidewalk Chalk: Poems of the City
Sidewalk Chalk: Poems of the City Carole Boston Weatherford 9781590784150 Poetry Wordsong Boyds Mills Press At every corner, down every block, a city percolates with people at work and play: girls jum...
amA–Zing: Black Joy from A–Z
amA–Zing: Black Joy from A–Z Carole Boston Weatherford 9781665971652 Fiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Carole Bos...
My Daddy Is Everything
My Daddy Is Everything Carole Boston Weatherford 9781464233609 Fiction Sourcebooks Jabberwocky Sourcebooks A celebration of the love between father and child from Coretta Scott King Award–winning auth...
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...
Jesse Owens: Fastest Man Alive
Jesse Owens: Fastest Man Alive Carole Boston Weatherford 9780802795502 Nonfiction Walker and Company Bloomsbury Publishing Jesse Owens grew up during the time of Jim Crow laws, but segregation never s...
The Legendary Miss Lena Horne
The Legendary Miss Lena Horne Carole Boston Weatherford 9781481468244 Nonfiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. Celebrate the life of Lena Horne, the pioneering African Americ...
Black Hands: Builders of Our Nation
Black Hands: Builders of Our Nation Carole Boston Weatherford 9798217031856 Nonfiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Commemorate the innumerable ways the African American communit...
When I Move
When I Move Carole Boston Weatherford 9781454945550 Fiction Union Square Kids Union Square & Co., LLC. An ode to being active and dramatic play. For fans of I Can Fly by Ruth Krauss and The Most Magni...
I, Matthew Henson: Polar Explorer
I, Matthew Henson: Polar Explorer Carole Boston Weatherford 9781547608966 Nonfiction Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Publishing The inspiring story of the Black explorer who made the first successful...
Racing against the Odds: The Story of Wendell Scott, Stock Car Racing’s African-American Champion
Racing against the Odds: The Story of Wendell Scott, Stock Car Racing’s African-American Champion Carole Boston Weatherford 9781477810934 Nonfiction Two Lions Amazon Publishing Wendell O. Scott made h...
Becoming Billie Holiday
Becoming Billie Holiday Carole Boston Weatherford 9781590785072 Nonfiction Wordsong Boyds Mills Press Before the legend of Billie Holiday, there was a girl named Eleanora. In 1915, Sadie Fagan gave bi...
The Sound That Jazz Makes
The Sound That Jazz Makes Carole Boston Weatherford 9780802787200 Nonfiction Walker Childrens Walker and Co A symphony of sound and color, The Sound That Jazz Makes is an eloquently rendered celebrati...
Folami Abiade, Dinah Johnson, Carole Boston Weatherford, Dakari Hru, Michael Burgess, E. Ethelbert Miller, Lenard D. Moore, David Anderson, Angela Johnson, Sonia Sanchez, and Davida Adedjouma
Folami Abiade, Dinah Johnson, Carole Boston Weatherford, Dakari Hru, Michael Burgess, E. Ethelbert Miller, Lenard D. Moore, David Anderson, Angela Johnson, Sonia Sanchez, and Davida Adedjouma MULTIPLE...
Obama: Only in America
Obama: Only in America Carole Boston Weatherford 9781477847633 Nonfiction Two Lions Amazon Publishing From his childhood in Indonesia to his teenage years in Hawaii, from his father’s homeland of Keny...
The Beatitudes: From Slavery to Civil Rights
The Beatitudes: From Slavery to Civil Rights Carole Boston Weatherford 9780802853523 Nonfiction Eerdmans Books for Young Readers Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Since the earliest days of slavery, ...
Before John Was A Jazz Giant: A Song Of John Coltrane
Before John Was A Jazz Giant: A Song Of John Coltrane Carole Boston Weatherford 9780805079944 Nonfiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers Young John Coltrane was all ears. And there was a lot...
The Sound that Jazz Makes
The Sound that Jazz Makes Carole Boston Weatherford 9780761457329 Fiction Two Lions Amazon Publishing Two acclaimed picture book talents combine in this award-winning journey through the history and l...
Carole C. Marks
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Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zone
Caribbean Spaces: Escapes from Twilight Zone Carole Boyce-Davies 9780252079535 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press Both a memoir and a scholarly study, this project ex...
Pan-African Connections
Pan-African Connections Carole Boyce-Davies and N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba 9781569026939 Nonfiction Africa World Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press Pan-African Connections brings to the rea...
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Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora [3 Volumes]: Origins, Experiences, and Culture
Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora [3 Volumes]: Origins, Experiences, and Culture Carole Boyce-Davies 9781851097005 Nonfiction ABC-CLIO ABC-CLIO The field of African Diaspora studies is rapidly grow...
Let It Shine!: A Celebration of You
Let It Shine!: A Celebration of You Carole Boston Weatherford 9780593805756 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House From the Newbery Honor–winning author of Box: Henry Brown Mails H...
Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel
Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel Bernardine Evaristo 9780802156983 Fiction Black Cat Grove Atlantic, Inc. NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE "A must-read about modern Britain and womanhood … An...
Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment
Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment Carole Boyce-Davies 9780956240163 Nonfiction Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ayebia Clarke Publishing Claudia Jones, intellectual genius and staunch activist against racist ...
Remember the Bridge: Poems of a People
Remember the Bridge: Poems of a People Carole Boston Weatherford 9780399237263 Nonfiction Philomel Books Penguin Random House Striking archival engravings and photographs accompany these twenty-nine o...
Andre Andre Leon Talley—A Fabulously Fashionable Fairy Tale
Andre Andre Leon Talley—A Fabulously Fashionable Fairy Tale Carole Boston Weatherford and Rob Sanders 9781250887283 Nonfiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers ★ "Fashion king Talley is broug...
Cornrows (2023)
Cornrows (2023) Camille Yarbrough 9780593625071 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A Coretta Scott King Award Winner for Illustration A Notable Children’s Trade B...
Freedom in Congo Square
Freedom in Congo Square Carole Boston Weatherford 9781499801033 Nonfiction Little Bee Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. This poetic, nonfiction story about a little-known piece of African American histor...
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America Carole Boston Weatherford 9780807530153 Nonfiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company The Society of Illustrators Ori...
Sugar Hill: Harlem’s Historic Neighborhood
Sugar Hill: Harlem’s Historic Neighborhood Carole Boston Weatherford 9780807576502 Fiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company Take a walk through Harlem’s Sugar Hill and meet all the am...
Whirligigs: The Wondrous Windmills of Vollis Simpson’s Imagination
Whirligigs: The Wondrous Windmills of Vollis Simpson’s Imagination Carole Boston Weatherford 9781662680410 Fiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press Take a journey through the creative process that led ...
A Pair of Wings
A Pair of Wings Carole Hopson 9781250347213 Fiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers A riveting, adventurous novel inspired by the life of pioneer aviatrix Bessie Coleman, a Black woman who l...
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library Carole Boston Weatherford 9780763680466 Nonfiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children’s literature’s to...
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement Carole Boston Weatherford 9780763665319 Nonfiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press Stirring poems and stunning collage ill...
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America Carole Boston Weatherford 9780807530177 Nonfiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company His white teacher tells her all...
I, Matthew Henson: Polar Explorer
I, Matthew Henson: Polar Explorer Carole Boston Weatherford 9780802796882 Nonfiction Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Publishing Matthew Henson was not meant to lead an ordinary life. His dreams had s...
Sugar Pie Lullaby: The Soul of Motown in a Song of Love
Sugar Pie Lullaby: The Soul of Motown in a Song of Love Carole Boston Weatherford 9781728242521 Nonfiction Sourcebooks Explore Sourcebooks Celebrate family love with this heartwarming and soulful bedt...
Spoonbread and Strawberry Wine: 25th Edition
Spoonbread and Strawberry Wine: 25th Edition Norma Jean and Carole Darden 9781540748973 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Spanning over a century of African-American life and culture, th...