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Promise Kept
Promise Kept K’wan 9781799961437 Fiction Blackstone Publishing Blackstone Publishing In this stunning sequel to Promise Broken, K’wan spins a pulse-pounding story about surviving, thriving, and the co...
Road Dawgz
Road Dawgz K’wan 9781601626073 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. It’s the penthouse or the morgue. This is the philosophy adopted by Keshawn Wilson, a.k.a. K-Dawg, self-proclaimed lo...
Crossroads
Crossroads LaVerne Thompson, Angela Kay Austin, Naleighna Kai, Ursula Sinclair, and 16 more B07N1T887K Fiction Flavorfullove Unlimited Publishing Flavorfullove Unlimited Publishing Join 21 bestselling...
No Shade
No Shade K’wan 9781622867325 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. [Read by Kim Johnson] From #1 Essence bestselling author K’wan comes the sixth installment in his bestselling Hood Rat seri...
Passion for the Heist
Passion for the Heist K’wan 9781250834898 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers National bestselling author K’wan returns with Passion for the Heist, a gritty, unforgettable novel about love and crime on...
Promise Broken
Promise Broken K’wan 9798200911561 Fiction Blackstone Publishing Blackstone Publishing Beware of the company you keep. K’wan’s urban fiction coming-of-age novel, Promise Broken, is set in the gritt...
The Reluctant King
The Reluctant King K’wan 9781636140148 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books “K’wan is exceptionally gifted at ratcheting up suspense … There’s no denying the writer’s talent for dark, gritty fiction. I...
Animal 2: The Omen
Animal 2: The Omen K’wan 9781936399666 Fiction Cash Money Content Simon & Schuster, Inc. After the incredible success of Animal, K’wan is back with the second, bloody installment in the new Animal sag...
Black Lotus
Black Lotus K’wan 9781617752667 Fiction Infamous Books Akashic Books Crooked cops, professional assassins, and high-level conspiracies with millions of dollars at stake drive this heart-thumping thril...
The Massacre
The Massacre K’wan, J.M. Benjamin, Terry L. Wroten, Randy Thompson, and J-Rod Nider 9780982492031 Fiction A New Quality Publishing A New Quality Publishing Gang Related by Terry L. Wroten Vice Vers...
Hoodlum: A Novel
Hoodlum: A Novel K’wan 9780312333089 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers He set out to be the good son, but the streets had a different plan.Born to one of the city’s most notorious crim...
The Cestus Deception: A Clone Wars Novel (Star Wars: A Clone Wars Novel)
The Cestus Deception: A Clone Wars Novel (Star Wars: A Clone Wars Novel) Steven Barnes 9780099472629 Fiction Arrow Books Random House Children's Books The Confederacy is trying to get its hands on som...
Animal: The Beginning
Animal: The Beginning K’wan 9781622869978 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Based on his bestselling Animal series comes Kwan’s highly anticipated prequel, Animal: The Beginning. Wh...
Wild Hearts
Wild Hearts K’wan 9781250411020 Fiction Wildthorn Macmillan Publishers The story that captivated readers—now complete for the first time. Passion for the Heist introduced readers to the unforgettab...
House of the Rising Sun
House of the Rising Sun K’wan 9781636142906 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books When Artie Howell moves with his wife back to her sleepy hometown, he must protect their son, Nicky, from the skeletons ...
Black Godfather: The Black Death
Black Godfather: The Black Death K’wan 9781645565581 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. “Sometimes you gotta show muthafuckas that you’re a muthafucka, too.” Since he was old enough to...
False Idols: A Reluctant King Novel
False Idols: A Reluctant King Novel K’wan 9781636141770 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books In this gripping follow-up to The Reluctant King, the "Monarchy" of New York City’s Five Points is in total ...
Hood Rat: A Novel
Hood Rat: A Novel K’wan 9781250750099 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Hood Rat (n.): A woman of questionable repute, one who has been known to "get around" in the ’hood.Yoshi is youn...
Black Lotus 2: The Vow
Black Lotus 2: The Vow K’wan 9781617757785 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books After helping to solve a cold case involving a murdered child which exposed the high-ranking city officials who tried to ...
Wrath
Wrath K’wan 9781601621320 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. In the history of New York City’s underworld, there have been a host of criminal figures whose exploits have gone on to inspir...
Diamonds and Pearl
Diamonds and Pearl K’wan 9781250102614 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers They say that good girls like bad boys, and this was especially true for Pearl Stone. A child born of privilege...
The Fix 3
The Fix 3 K’wan 9781622869596 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp.
Animal IV: Last Rites (Volume 4)
Animal IV: Last Rites (Volume 4) K’wan 9780982492093 Fiction Write 2 Eat Concepts Write 2 Eat Concepts From the moment Animal’s former lover Red Sonja showed up on his doorstep, he knew trouble wouldn...
The Fix 2
The Fix 2 K’wan 9781601626431 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Two lives … two paths … one tragic outcome. The Fix 2 is in and the game is afoot!The past few months have been a living ...
Animal 3: Revelations
Animal 3: Revelations K’wan 9781936399932 Fiction Cash Money Content Simon & Schuster, Inc. After making a promise to leave the street life behind, a shocking revelation forces Animal back into the ga...
The Fix
The Fix K’wan 9781601625854 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Persia Chandler doesn’t know the meaning of the world struggle. After the arrest of her notorious father, she is whisked awa...
Gangsta
Gangsta K’wan 9781601625762 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Love always comes with a price. After the murder of a dirty Los Angeles detective, St. Louis ’Lou-Loc’ Alexander finds him...
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...
Animal
Animal K’wan 9781936399253 Fiction Cash Money Content Simon & Schuster, Inc. One bullet changed everything. Three years after narrowly escaping a one way trip to the gas chamber, the fugitive known on...
Eviction Notice: A Hood Rat Novel (Hood Rat Novels)
Eviction Notice: A Hood Rat Novel (Hood Rat Novels) K’wan 9780312536985 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers When three young friends, Porsha, Frankie and Sahara, decide to sublease an ap...
Welfare Wifeys: A Hood Rat Novel
Welfare Wifeys: A Hood Rat Novel K’wan 9780312536978 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers After the deaths and arrests of his entire crew and an informant-fueled investigation into his pa...
Flirt
Flirt Tracy Brown, K’wan and Angel Mitchell 9780312537012 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers From the biggest names in urban fiction comes a collection of unforgettably hot short storie...
Section 8: A Hood Rat Novel
Section 8: A Hood Rat Novel K’wan 9780312536961 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Since she was a little girl, Tionna’s on and off addicted mother taught her to get hers by any means n...
Gutter: A Novel
Gutter: A Novel K’wan 9780312360092 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers The explosive sequel to GANGSTA has finally arrived!Blood answers for blood on the streets of Harlem. It’s been mo...
Still Hood: A HoodRat Novel
Still Hood: A HoodRat Novel K’wan 9780312360108 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Only the strong survie on the streets of Brooklyn. And while Dena Jones definitely has what it takes n...
Blow
Blow K’wan and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson 9781416540601 Fiction Gallery Books/G-Unit Simon & Schuster, Inc. NO GOING BACK Prince, Killa-E, Daddy-O, and Danny grew up together in the projects, moving c...
Eve: A Novel
Eve: A Novel K’wan 9780312333102 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers The only family Eve Panelli has ever known is the infamous Twenty Gang. Orphaned as a small child, Eve quickly learne...
Street Dreams
Street Dreams K’wan 9780312333065 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Love, Betrayal and Loyalty on the Streets of HarlemDaruis, a.k.a. Rio, the only child of a singer turned alcoholic, ...
Minutes of Glory: And Other Stories
Minutes of Glory: And Other Stories Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 9781620974650 Fiction The New Press The New Press A dazzling short story collection from the person Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie calls one of the grea...
For Just Five Minutes: Heaven:Yes, Hell:No
For Just Five Minutes: Heaven:Yes, Hell:No Deborah Johnson 9781682707586 Fiction Tate Publishing Tate Publishing & Enterprises, LLC This a story of perseverance and victory over multiple trials and he...
The 16th Minute of Fame: An Insider’s Guide for Maintaining Success Beyond 15 Minutes of Fame
The 16th Minute of Fame: An Insider’s Guide for Maintaining Success Beyond 15 Minutes of Fame Darrell Miller 9781939447753 Nonfiction Dunham Books Dunham Group Inc In the future, everyone will be worl...
Moments, the Minutes, the Hours: The Poetry of Jill Scott
Moments, the Minutes, the Hours: The Poetry of Jill Scott Jill Scott 9780312329624 Poetry St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Jill Scott’s first-ever poetry collection delivers the same earthy, ...
Eleven Minutes: A Novel
Eleven Minutes: A Novel Paulo Coelho 9780060589288 Fiction HarperOne HarperCollins Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love l...
10 Minutes Past Too Late
10 Minutes Past Too Late Anika Malone 9780759612525 Fiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions Lisa Munroe is a successful, single young black attorney, branded from childhood with the nickname, ’Bad Girl.’...
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 ...
Pleasantville (Jay Porter Series)
Pleasantville (Jay Porter Series) Attica Locke 9780062259400 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House From Attica Locke, a writer and producer of FOX’s Empire, this sophisticated thriller sees lawyer Jay Po...
From the Streets to the Sheets: Urban Erotic Quickies
From the Streets to the Sheets: Urban Erotic Quickies Noire 9780345508485 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House In this bold collection of hard-hitting urban erotic quickies, Noire, the un...
Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood
Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood Donald Bogle 9780345454195 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House In Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams, Donald Bogle tells–for the first ti...
Every Story Is a Love Story
Every Story Is a Love Story Imbolo Mbue 9798217154777 Fiction Random House Penguin Random House From the New York Times bestselling author of Behold the Dreamers, a captivating novel about love lost—a...
The Fraud
The Fraud Zadie Smith 9780525558965 Fiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal tri...
Steppin’ Out with Attitude: Sister, Sell Your Dream!
Steppin’ Out with Attitude: Sister, Sell Your Dream! Anita Bunkley 9780060952884 Fiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins Bestselling novelist and motivational speaker Anita Bunkley shows women, especia...
The Fame Game: An Insider’s Playbook for Earning Your 15 Minutes
The Fame Game: An Insider’s Playbook for Earning Your 15 Minutes Ramon Hervey II 9780063048034 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Legendary Hollywood entertainment manager and publicist Ramon Hervey II ...
Eight Minutes Of Heaven
Eight Minutes Of Heaven Travis English 9780975990315 Fiction Blue Tiger Publishing Blue Tiger Publishing Derek Treadwell just left the bright lights of Los Angeles and put down roots in a little town ...
Aren Anime: The New Realm: A Graphic Novel
Aren Anime: The New Realm: A Graphic Novel Jerry Craft 9780063339385 Fiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins In the first installment of a hilarious, heartfelt new trilogy from Newbery Medal-wi...
Blue in Green
Blue in Green Wesley Brown 9781953691118 Fiction Blank Forms Editions Blank Forms The latest work from the veteran novelist called “one hell of a writer” by James Baldwin and “wonderfully wry” by Dona...
Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening
Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 9781620976302 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press From one of the world’s greatest writers, the story of how the author found his voi...
The Origin of Others
The Origin of Others Toni Morrison 9780674976450 Nonfiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press America’s foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingl...
Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening
Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 9781620972403 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press One of Oprah.com’s "17 Must-Read Books for the New Year" and O Magazine’s "10 Titl...
Nine Faces of Love
Nine Faces of Love Timmothy B. McCann 9781495913426 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Nine Faces of Love is a collection of love story from a National Best Selling Novelist described by Pub...
Boundaries
Boundaries Elizabeth Nunez 9781617750335 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books [If] Boundaries, Elizabeth Nunez’s latest novel… seems familiar, that’s because it reflects the current state of affa...
Triangular Road: A Memoir
Triangular Road: A Memoir Paule Marshall 9780465019229 Nonfiction Basic Civitas Books Perseus Books In Triangular Road, famed novelist Paule Marshall tells the story of her years as a fledgling young ...
My Amputations
My Amputations Clarence Major 9781573661430 Fiction Fiction Collective Two (FC2) University of Alabama Press This novel is about a man pursued by his shadow. Its protagonist is either a desperate ex-c...
Twenty-Four Seconds from Now …: A Love Story
Twenty-Four Seconds from Now …: A Love Story Jason Reynolds 9781665961271 Fiction Atheneum Simon & Schuster, Inc. “Jason Reynolds has done it again!…Fresh from start to finish…This is what it could be...
Panic
Panic Sharon M. Draper 9781442408975 Fiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. This gripping, chillingly realistic novel from New York Times bestselling author Sharon Draper, “by...
Welcome To My Breakdown: A Memoir
Welcome To My Breakdown: A Memoir Benilde Little 9781476751955 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. The nationally bestselling author of Good Hair and The Itch pens her first book of nonficti...
Zane’s Infinite Words: A Comprehensive Guide To Writing And Publishing
Zane’s Infinite Words: A Comprehensive Guide To Writing And Publishing Zane 9781476766966 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. New York Times bestselling author Zane shares the lessons she’s ...
Stay This Way Forever
Stay This Way Forever Linsey Davis 9780310770084 Fiction Zonderkidz HarperCollins Christian Publishing Celebrate the joy, wonder, and innocence of being a child with this love letter to the loved ones...
Clean Getaway
Clean Getaway Nic Stone 9781984892973 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Praise for Dear Martin: "Powerful, wrenching." -John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tur...
Strong Girls Gift Set
Strong Girls Gift Set Brad Meltzer 9780525553045 Nonfiction Dial Books Penguin Random House Brad Meltzer is the author of the New York Times bestselling Ordinary People Change the World series for chi...
To Paris with Love
To Paris with Love Carl Weber and Eric Pete 9781601625717 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. A New York Times Bestselling Author; An Essence® Bestselling Author; An Essence® Bests...
Second Time Sweeter: A Blessings Novel
Second Time Sweeter: A Blessings Novel Beverly Jenkins 9780062846174 Fiction William Morrow HarperCollins NAACP nominee and USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins continues her beloved Blessings...
The Essential Paulo Coelho
The Essential Paulo Coelho Paulo Coelho 9780062845061 Fiction HarperOne HarperCollins Paulo Coelho, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1947, is one of the bestselling and most influential authors in the world....
On The Seventh Day
On The Seventh Day T. D. Jakes 9781439170502 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Based on the film Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day, executive-produced by T.D. Jakes, this novel follows...
Tempted By Trouble
Tempted By Trouble Eric Jerome Dickey 9780525950585 Fiction Dutton Books Penguin Random House New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey returns with a flaming-hot stand-alone set in the wor...
Life: Selected Quotations
Life: Selected Quotations Paulo Coelho 9780061374814 Nonfiction Harper HarperCollins This collection of selected quotes from Paulo Coelho’s impressive body of work is a must–have item for fans of this...
30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary
30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary Wilfred Funk and Norman Lewis 9780671743499 Nonfiction Pocket Books Pocket Books • Do you misuse and mispronounce some words? • Do you sometimes find ...
Writer in Residence: A Heartwarming Book about Books Set in the Low-Country
Writer in Residence: A Heartwarming Book about Books Set in the Low-Country Rhonda McKnight 9781400354399 Fiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing From beloved author Rhonda McKnight c...
Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age
Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age Ibram X. Kendi 9780593978023 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House The National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning cha...
The Flower Bearers
The Flower Bearers Rachel Eliza Griffiths 9780593730201 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House “This singular memoir stunned me. With a poet’s precision, Rachel Eliza Griffiths renders two inter...
It Was the Way She Said It: Short Stories, Essays, and Wisdom
It Was the Way She Said It: Short Stories, Essays, and Wisdom Terry McMillan 9780593357149 Fiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got...
Go Tell It: How James Baldwin Became a Writer
Go Tell It: How James Baldwin Became a Writer Quartez Harris 9780316483933 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Discover the story of young James Baldwin in this ode to th...
If Beale Street Could Talk (Deluxe Edition)
If Beale Street Could Talk (Deluxe Edition) James Baldwin 9780593688984 Fiction Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Penguin Random House A stunning edition of James Baldwin’s timeless novel, with a new i...
Spectral Evidence: Poems
Spectral Evidence: Poems Gregory Pardlo 9781524731786 Poetry Alfred A. Knopf Penguin Random House An unapologetically bold, stimulating, and inspired collection of photographs and profiles celebrating...
Stepping Out: The Unapologetic Style of African Americans Over Fifty
Stepping Out: The Unapologetic Style of African Americans Over Fifty Connie Briscoe 9780593236116 Nonfiction Clarkson Potter Penguin Random House An unapologetically bold, stimulating, and inspired co...
Queen of Exiles
Queen of Exiles Vanessa Riley 9780063270992 Fiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins "You may not know Marie-Louise Christophe, but once you have met her, you won’t forget her. Vanessa Riley’s h...
My Other Husband
My Other Husband Dorothy Koomson 9781472277428 Fiction Headline Headline Publishing Group Cleo Forsum is a bestselling novelist turned scriptwriter whose TV series, ’The Baking Detective’ is a huge su...
You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays (paperback)
You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays (paperback) Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., M. Genevieve West 9780063043862 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Introduction by New York Times bestsell...
I Always Knew: A Memoir
I Always Knew: A Memoir Barbara Chase-Riboud 9780691234274 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press The extraordinary life story of the celebrated artist and writer, as told th...
Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler
Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler Ibi Zoboi 9780399187384 Nonfiction Dutton Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House From the New York Times bestselling author and...
You Don’t Know Us Negroes And Other Essays
You Don’t Know Us Negroes And Other Essays Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., M. Genevieve West 9780063043855 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Introduction by New York Times bestselling autho...
Confessions in B-Flat
Confessions in B-Flat Donna Hill 9781640638297 Fiction Sideways Books Sideways Books Donna Hill Discusses Her Latest Novel, Confessions in B-Flat, February 11, 2021 AALBC and Essence magazine bests...
Justice League of America by Brad Meltzer: The Deluxe Edition
Justice League of America by Brad Meltzer: The Deluxe Edition Brad Meltzer 9781779502452 Fiction DC Comics DC Comics New York Times bestselling novelist Brad Meltzer’s whole run on Justice League of A...
Trouble Is What I Do
Trouble Is What I Do Walter Mosley 9780316491136 Fiction Mulholland Books Hachette Book Group From innovative bestselling novelist Walter Mosley comes the return of the beloved Leonid McGill detective...
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 ...
Gingerbread: A Novel
Gingerbread: A Novel Helen Oyeyemi 9781594634659 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House The prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours returns with a...
The Last Thing You Surrender: A Novel of World War II
The Last Thing You Surrender: A Novel of World War II Leonard Pitts Jr. 9781572842458 Fiction Agate Bolden Agate Publishing, Inc Could you find the courage to do what’s right in a world on fire? Pulit...
The Vain Conversation
The Vain Conversation Anthony Grooms 9781611178821 Nonfiction University of South Carolina Press University of South Carolina Press Inspired by true events, The Vain Conversation reflects on the 194...
Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems
Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems Ntozake Shange 9781501169939 Poetry Atria / 37 Ink Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the poet, novelist, and cultural icon behind the award-winning and celebrated Broadwa...
About My Mother: A Novel
About My Mother: A Novel Tahar Ben Jelloun 9781846592010 Fiction Telegram Books Telegram Books "Morocco’s greatest living author."—The Guardian UK"A writer of social and moral acuteness."—Los Angeles ...