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A Better Life Bookstore, Daytona Beach, FL
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F.R.E.S.H. Book Festival
F.R.E.S.H. Book Festival Julia T. and Charles W. Cherry, Sr. Cultural and Educational Center Daytona Beach Florida F.R.E.S.H. Book Film Festival (Fiction, Romance, Erotica, Spiritual, Health and More)...
Donna M. Gray-Banks
Donna M. Gray-Banks NONE Donna M. Gray-Banks, founder of F.R.E.S.H. Book Festival, is a successful author known for her suspense erotic trilogy and a guest columnist for various outlets. She hosts tw...
Beach Hair
Beach Hair Ashley Woodfolk 9781665920988 Fiction Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. From two bestselling creators comes a lyrical and heartfelt picture book about a multir...
Saving American Beach: The Biography of African American Environmentalist Mavynee Betsch
Saving American Beach: The Biography of African American Environmentalist Mavynee Betsch Heidi Tyline King 9781101996294 Nonfiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House This...
Summer on Highland Beach
Summer on Highland Beach Sunny Hostin 9780062994257 Fiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins The View cohost and three-time Emmy Award winner Sunny Hostin transports readers to Highland Beach in...
Chicken Bone Beach: A Pictorial History of Atlantic City’s Missouri Avenue Beach
Chicken Bone Beach: A Pictorial History of Atlantic City’s Missouri Avenue Beach Cheryl Woodruff-Brooks 9781620067833 Nonfiction Sunbury Press Sunbury Press Cheryl Woodruff-Brooks has compiled this hi...
Derek Triplett
Derek Triplett NONE Bishop Derek T. Triplett, founding pastor of Hope Fellowship Church in Daytona Beach, is a seasoned minister with over 25 years experience in preaching and pastoral ministry. A Br...
Evelyn Bethune
Evelyn Bethune NONE Evelyn Bethune is Mary McLeod Bethune’s Granddaughter Dr. of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune and commitment to uplifting others, emphasizing the power of heritage, and ensuring the l...
A Better Life Bookstore
A Better Life Bookstore Daytona Beach FL Your Full Service Christian Bookstore
The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, and Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore
The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, and Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore Vaunda Micheaux Nelson 9780761339434 Fiction Carolrhoda Books Lerner Publishing Group In the 1930s, Lewis’s dad, Lewis Michaux Sr., had a...
Ty’s Travels: Beach Day!
Ty’s Travels: Beach Day! Kelly Starling Lyons 9780062951144 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins A Geisel Honor-winning series! Author Kelly Starling Lyons selected as the 2021 Piedmont Laureate! Join ...
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...
Cheryl Woodruff-Brooks
Cheryl Woodruff-Brooks NONE Cheryl Woodruff-Brooks, a legislative assistant at the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, is a passionate writer and author of the 2017 book “Chicken Bone Beach.” She ...
Dear Verdel
Dear Verdel Ina Yalof Article Dear Verdel, It has been decades since you kept house for my family, but I still think of you every so often. Perhaps now more so than ever, as the Black Lives Ma...
Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore
Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore Char Adams 9780593474235 Nonfiction Tiny Reparations Books Penguin Random House Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore is...
A Beach Tail
A Beach Tail Karen Lynn Williams 9781635925531 Fiction Boyds Mills Press Boyds Mills Press A charming tale of creativity and discovery. —School Library Journal, starred review A creative and intellig...
Tar Beach
Tar Beach Faith Ringgold 9780517885444 Fiction Dragonfly Books Dragonfly Books Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold broke new ground because the book was adapted from the textile/quilt. She incorporated Africa...
Tar Beach (Hardcover)
Tar Beach (Hardcover) Faith Ringgold 9780517580301 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold broke new ground because the book was adapted from the textile...
Murder at Sugar Rush Beach: A Gripping Crime Mystery Packed with Twists
Murder at Sugar Rush Beach: A Gripping Crime Mystery Packed with Twists Paula Lennon 9781804052150 Fiction Joffe Books Joffe Books Palm trees, white sandy beaches and a perfect turquoise sea. Jamaica’...
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House Cherie Jones 9780316536981 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK "Searing … In affluent Baxter’s Beach, ...
Don’t Throw Away Your Stick Till You Cross the River: The Journey of an Ordinary Man
Don’t Throw Away Your Stick Till You Cross the River: The Journey of an Ordinary Man Vincent Collin Beach and Anni Beach 9781589850767 Fiction Five Star Publications, Inc Five Star Publications, Inc V...
Into Africa: A Personal Journey
Into Africa: A Personal Journey Yvonne Blackwood Excerpt “On Sunday afternoon Adamson and I returned to Labadi Beach. I did a double take when we entered the gate. The empty stretch of beach I&...
Tamara Shiloh
Tamara Shiloh NONE Tamara Shiloh, a Northern California native, owns the Multicultural Bookstore and Gifts in Richmond. She is a mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother residing in Point Richmond,...
Marcus Dewan Williams
Marcus Dewan Williams NONE Marcus Dewan Williams, more than just the owner of Nubian Books bookstore, is an active advocate for African and African-American culture and education. As a publisher and ...
Shades of Afrika Bookstore (Long Beach)
Shades of Afrika Bookstore (Long Beach) Long Beach CA Our Mission is to enhance the understanding and appreciation of the Afrikan Diaspora.
Nubian Bookstore
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Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Occupation Book For Boys
Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Occupation Book For Boys Marcus Dewan Williams 9798218185251 Nonfiction Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Occupation Book For Boys...
Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Sport Book For Girls
Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Sport Book For Girls Marcus Dewan Williams 9780578863894 Fiction Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Sport Book for Girls is packed ...
Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Sport Book For Boys
Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Sport Book For Boys Marcus Dewan Williams 9780578785509 Fiction Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore The Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Sport Book for Boys. Written...
Nubian Bookstore Presents The ABC Book
Nubian Bookstore Presents The ABC Book Marcus Dewan Williams 9780578689487 Nonfiction Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore Presents the ABC Book is a children’s picture book that teaches...
Help Keep the Country's Oldest Black-owned Bookstore Open
Help Keep the Country's Oldest Black-owned Bookstore Open Troy Johnson Article Editor's Note (posted May 8th 2014): Marcus Books of San Francisco Evicted Sign the petition to help save the sto...
The Key Bookstore
The Key Bookstore Hartford CT The Key Bookstore is a fully interactive bookstore experience. The Key engages readers through curation, activities, subscriptions, events, events, and community engageme...
Liberation Station Bookstore
Liberation Station Bookstore Raleigh NC Liberation Station Bookstore is reopening August 24th, 2025 by Liberation Station Bookstore, Organizer We’re 52% Funded—And the Work Continues...
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood Helene Cooper 9780743266253 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Journalist Helene Cooper examines the violent past of her...
Faith Ringgold
Faith Ringgold 0000000078615604 Faith Ringgold was a multi-disciplinary artist and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. Known for her work in painting, writing, and sculptur...
Surviving Chaos, How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar by Harold Phifer Book Reviewed
Surviving Chaos, How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar by Harold Phifer Book Reviewed Denolyn Carroll Article ADD TO CART Publication Date: Feb 18, 2021List Price: $17.95 Format: Paperback, 2...
Leviathan Beach
Leviathan Beach Joseph Earl Thomas 9781538741016 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group A wild and wildly original debut story collection that explores the present and future, violence a...
Lies Uncovered The Truth About the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys: The Long Journey Home
Lies Uncovered The Truth About the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys: The Long Journey Home Duane C. Fernandez B08BJGJ41C Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published Colson Whitehead’s P...
Ink & Origin Books
Ink & Origin Books Daytona Beach FL Grand opening coming by year-end 2026
Michelle Donice
Michelle Donice NONE Michelle Donice, an Indianapolis native, is an accomplished academic and author dividing her time between inspiring youth and writing fiction in central Florida. She credits her ...
Rocket Says Clean Up!
Rocket Says Clean Up! Nathan Bryon 9780593118993 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Plucky science-lover Rocket returns in another inspiring picture book about getting a...
Nubian Bookstore Presents When I Grow Up I Want To Own …: Volume 2
Nubian Bookstore Presents When I Grow Up I Want To Own …: Volume 2 Marcus Dewan Williams 9780578856490 Nonfiction Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore When I Grow Up I Want To Own … Volume 2 was created ...
Nubian Bookstore Presents When I Grow Up I Want To Own …
Nubian Bookstore Presents When I Grow Up I Want To Own … Marcus Dewan Williams 9780578825359 Fiction Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore When I Grow Up I Want To Own was created to help children envisio...
Only 54 Black Owned Bookstores Remain in America
Only 54 Black Owned Bookstores Remain in America Troy Johnson Article This is a follow up to an article, “Death of the Black Owned, Independent, Book...
La Casa Azul Bookstore "An Independent Bookstore Bucking the Trend"
La Casa Azul Bookstore "An Independent Bookstore Bucking the Trend" Book Spotlights
Hakim’s Bookstore and Gift Shop
Hakim’s Bookstore and Gift Shop Philadelphia PA Hakim’s Bookstore & Gift Shop is the oldest African American Bookstore in Philadelphia.
The Underground Bookstore
The Underground Bookstore Chicago IL How one Black-owned bookstore has navigated business since 2020 (WBEZ, Feb 19, 2025)
That Bookstore In Blytheville
That Bookstore In Blytheville Blytheville AR Mission: “The Literary Hub of the Community” Slogan: “We Are Your Source For Signed, First Edition John Grisham Books.” I'm sorr...
Roots Bookstore & Market
Roots Bookstore & Market Miami FL A Black-owned community bookstore in Miami’s Liberty City. They offer new and used books with a focus on banned, Black, and local authors. More than a bookstore, th...
AALBC.com’s Black Wall Street Bookstore
AALBC.com’s Black Wall Street Bookstore Tulsa OK Pop-up Bookstore Only Our mission is to share information and celebrate Black culture through books. We also run the Black Wall Street Bookstore.
Comma Bookstore & Social Hub
Comma Bookstore & Social Hub Flint MI “Not your average bookstore, we specialize in BIPOC books, art, and products. Established in 2020, during the height of the pandemic. Egypt, who is a Flint ...
Hugh Mulzac
Hugh Mulzac 0000000399996487 Hugh Nathaniel Mulzac (1886-1971), the first African American ship commander, served on British and American ships during WWI. A graduate of Swansea Nautical College, he ...
Better Mus' Come: In Theaters: March 15, 2013
Better Mus' Come: In Theaters: March 15, 2013 Kam Williams https://aalbc.com/reviews/better-mus-come.jpg Film Review Better Mus’ Come In Theaters: Mar 15, 2013 Limited Written and Directed by Stor...
Surviving Chaos, How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar
Surviving Chaos, How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar Carol Taylor Book Review Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace At A Beach Bar is Harold Phifer’s memoir of childhood abuse, family dysfunction, an...
Imani at the Beach
Imani at the Beach Cicely Lewis 9798765661857 Fiction Read Woke Books Lerner Publishing Group Shimmer, sparkle, twirl … I am an ambitious girl! After Imani sees the trash that litters her local bea...
Running in Flip-Flops from the End of the World
Running in Flip-Flops from the End of the World justin a. reynolds 9781338815160 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. A hilarious middle-grade from Justin A. Reynolds that asks: What happens when ...
Ty’s Travels: A 5-Book Reading Collection: Zip, Zoom!, All Aboard!, Beach Day!, Lab Magic, Winter Wonderland
Ty’s Travels: A 5-Book Reading Collection: Zip, Zoom!, All Aboard!, Beach Day!, Lab Magic, Winter Wonderland Kelly Starling Lyons 9780063306851 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins This joyful five-boo...
Palm Beach Book Festival
Palm Beach Book Festival Norton Museum of Art Palm Beach Florida Festival that celebrates the NY Times best-selling, award winning and celebrity authors and a written word for children and adults of S...
Palm Beach Book Festival
Palm Beach Book Festival Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton Florida We are a 501c-3 non-profit founded in 2015 bringing in NYT best-selling authors. We have more celebrity authors under one roof i...
Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar
Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar Harold Phifer 9780578743547 Nonfiction Rise & Read Free Press Rise & Read Free Press For more than fifty years, Harold Phifer’s childhood living condi...
Diane Marie Brown
Diane Marie Brown NONE Diane Marie Brown is a professor at Orange Coast College, public health professional, and author. Holding degrees from UCLA and USC, her debut novel is “Black Candle Women.” Sh...
Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy
Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy Rachel Ricketts 9781982151287 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. International Bestseller San Francisco Ch...
LEMS Cultural Center and Bookstore for Life Enrichment
LEMS Cultural Center and Bookstore for Life Enrichment Seattle WA L.E.M.S is more than just a bookstore. It’s a place for the community to connect.
James F. Daniels
James F. Daniels NONE James F. Daniels, author of 'Metamorphosis: From Cotton Picker to Community Leader', shares his journey from growing up as a sharecropper in the Jim Crow South to becoming a com...
We’re Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy
We’re Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy Elijah E. Cummings 9780062992260 Nonfiction Harper HarperCollins Baltimore Congressman Elijah Cummings was known for saying “We’re bett...
Petersburg Book Fest
Petersburg Book Fest Petersburg Virginia The Petersburg Book Fest traces its roots back to the inspiring launch of Resist Booksellers, an independent Black-owned bookstore that opened its doors in th...
Black Worldschoolers Mobile Bookstore
Black Worldschoolers Mobile Bookstore Indianapolis IN We exist to provide access and awareness to Black stories worldwide while creating excitement and engagement around reading. Our one-of-a-kind boo...
Kymone
Kymone NONE Kymone Freeman is an award-winning writer, activist, and entrepreneur known for his works in poetry, playwriting, and media. He co-founded We Act Radio, a progressive station in Washingto...
A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune
A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune Noliwe Rooks 9780593492420 Nonfiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House An intimate and searching account of the life and le...
KR Bankston
KR Bankston NONE KR Bankston is an accomplished Fiction Novelist, Publishing Consultant, and CEO of Kirabaco Media Group. Known for her commercial publishing debut, 'A Deadly Encounter' in 2008, she ...
Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores
Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores Katie Mitchell 9780593581346 Nonfiction Clarkson Potter Penguin Random House A stunning visual homage to Black bookstores around the country alon...
Nubian Bookstore Presents The ABC Book Volume II
Nubian Bookstore Presents The ABC Book Volume II Marcus Dewan Williams 9781734418767 Nonfiction Tgosketch Illustration Tgosketch Illustration Nubian Bookstore Presents The ABC Book Volume II is a chil...
“Would You Stop Buying Books from Amazon.com to Save the Black Book Industry?”
“Would You Stop Buying Books from Amazon.com to Save the Black Book Industry?” Troy Johnson Article Exploring The Feasibility Boycotting Amazon’s Bookstore In the following video, Ruth J. Morrison, ...
A Tribute to AALBC.com's 10th Anniversary
A Tribute to AALBC.com's 10th Anniversary Troy Johnson Article Presented ToTROY JOHNSONIn Appreciation For YourDedication, Professionalism,Guidance, And IntegrityIn the Publishing IndustryThanks You ...
Hue-Man Bookstore & Cafe
Hue-Man Bookstore & Cafe New York NY Largest African American Bookstore in Harlem
Smiley’s Bookstore
Smiley’s Bookstore Carson CA Known as the 'Literacy Hub of the South Bay', the bookstore is also the home of the famous Juice-C-Juice Bar
True South Bookstore
True South Bookstore Brooklyn NY http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/bed-stuy-indie-bookstore-closes-article-1.1471370
The Reader’s Choice
The Reader’s Choice Milwaukee WI Wisconsin's only black-owned bookstore closes, leaving memories — and a void http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2017/07/08/lone-black-owned-bookstore-closes-leavi...
TLJ Bookstore - The Centre at Forestville
TLJ Bookstore - The Centre at Forestville Forestville MD The Literary Joint Bookstore
TLJ Bookstore - Prince George’s Plaza
TLJ Bookstore - Prince George’s Plaza Hyattsville MD The Literary Joint Bookstore
TLJ Bookstore - Security Square Mall
TLJ Bookstore - Security Square Mall Windsor Mill MD The Literary Joint Bookstore
Not Just a Bookstore
Not Just a Bookstore St. Louis MO Multi cultural bookstore located in The Grove neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri
Urban Expressions Bookstore
Urban Expressions Bookstore Memphis TN We are the largest African American Owned Bookstore in the Mid-south
Knowledge Bookstore
Knowledge Bookstore Brampton ON Afrocentric Bookstore in Ontario featuring African-American, Canadian and Caribbean literature, dolls, figurines, shea butter, hair, beauty products.
Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore
Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore Sylmar CA Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural is a not-for-profit cultural arts center and bookstore
Brain Lair Bookstore
Brain Lair Bookstore South Bend IN “Read Globally. Connect Locally.”Children and Teens bookstore focused on providing inclusive books.
Loyalty Bookstore
Loyalty Bookstore Washington DC Loyalty is an Independent Bookstore serving Petworth, DC (inside Willow Clothing Store) and Silver Spring, MD with diverse literature for adults and children as well as...
CLASS Bookstore
CLASS Bookstore Houston TX David & Dara Landry, who both sought to bring together their love for reading and fashion, while filling a void in their community of a Black-owned bookstore.
Baldwin & Co. Coffee & Bookstore
Baldwin & Co. Coffee & Bookstore New Orleans LA Baldwin & Co. is an independent bookstore located in New Orleans, LA. Inside, books on mystery, business, history, art, travel, children’s literat...
Black Wall Street Bookstore
Black Wall Street Bookstore Tulsa OK Powered by AALBC.com, the Black Wall Street Bookstore will operate out of the Greenwood Welcome Center, in the heart of Black Wall Street (corner of Archer Ave.), ...
Strive Bookstore
Strive Bookstore Minneapolis MN In the center of downtown Minneapolis with a thriving literary scene, the Strive Bookstore is a community-informed space that celebrates and supports local Black author...
House Of Pages Bookstore
House Of Pages Bookstore Peachtree Corners GA Grand opening tentatively scheduled for the March of 2022. House Of Pages Bookstore is a general interest store who offers new and used books, book re...
Liberation Bookstore
Liberation Bookstore New York NY “If you don’t know, learn.” … “If you know, teach.” Una Mulzac (April 19, 1923 – January 21, 2012), was the owner of Harl...
Urban Reader Mobile Bookstore
Urban Reader Mobile Bookstore Concord NC What’s unique about Urban Reader Bookstore is its inventory—thousands of new and used books—and its personalized service: once we know what y...
Edokia Bookstore
Edokia Bookstore Bronx NY Edokia is a global publisher and bookseller. We operate an independent bookstore located in the Bronx, New York. It is our hope to bring to the Bronx and New York City, a va...