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Actor Bill Duke Praises Author Relentless Aaron
Actor Bill Duke Praises Author Relentless Aaron Troy Johnson Article Troy Johnson of AALBC.com joined renowned actor and director, Bill Duke and best selling author Relentless Aaron for a celebrator...
Actor Bill Duke Praises Author Relentless Aaron
Actor Bill Duke Praises Author Relentless Aaron Author Interviews
Bill Duke: My 40-Year Career on Screen and Behind the Camera
Bill Duke: My 40-Year Career on Screen and Behind the Camera Bill Duke 9781538105559 Nonfiction Rowman & Littlefield Rowman & Littlefield While many film fans may not be familiar with Bill Duke’s name...
Relentless Aaron
Relentless Aaron NONE In 2006 Relentless Aaron, Signed a 14-Book Deal with St. Martin’s Press! Black literati had best take note right here and right now. There’s a new writer on the block ...
Relentless Aaron and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson
Relentless Aaron and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson MULTIPLE Relentless Aaron and 50 Cent are renowned authors known for their compelling narratives. Their works often explore urban life, providing reade...
Bill Duke
Bill Duke 0000000063023892 Actor, Director, and Producer Bill Duke has over 40 years of Hollywood experience, known for his roles in “Predator,” “X-Men 3,” and currently in HBO Max's “No Sudden Move....
Bill Duke and Shelia P. Moses
Bill Duke and Shelia P. Moses MULTIPLE Bill Duke and Shelia P. Moses are acclaimed authors known for their profound storytelling. Duke, a distinguished actor and director, pairs with Moses, a renowne...
Aaron Foley
Aaron Foley NONE Aaron Foley is a seasoned journalist and author with a passion for amplifying Black voices in media. Currently serving as senior digital editor for PBS NewsHour, he is also the found...
Aaron G. Jahi
Aaron G. Jahi NONE Aaron G. Jahi, a Philadelphia-born author, uses his cultural heritage to craft diverse narratives about Black communities. His work spans history, literature, poetry, and fiction, ...
Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington
Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington Terry Teachout 9781592407491 Nonfiction Avery Penguin Random House A major new biography of Duke Ellington from the acclaimed author of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong ...
The Treasure Hunt: A Little Bill Book for Beginning Readers, Level 3
The Treasure Hunt: A Little Bill Book for Beginning Readers, Level 3 Bill Cosby 9780590956185 Fiction Cartwheel Books Scholastic Inc. In this easy-to-read chapter book by comedian and storyteller Bill...
This Kid Can Fly: It’s about Ability (Not Disability)
This Kid Can Fly: It’s about Ability (Not Disability) Aaron Philip with Tonya Bolden 9780062403544 Nonfiction Balzer + Bray HarperCollins Hi there! I’m Aaron, and I have a disability called cerebral ...
Aaron Slater, Illustrator
Aaron Slater, Illustrator Andrea Beaty 9781419753961 Fiction Harry N. Abrams Harry N. Abrams An uplifting story about the power of art, finding your voice, and telling your story even when you’re out ...
I Did It! You Can Too!!
I Did It! You Can Too!! Relentless Aaron 9780967054254 Fiction Relentless Content Relentless Content A Concise how-to, A to Z guide on the pros & cons of self publishing. Learn how Relentless wrote an...
Surfer of the Century: The Life of Duke Kahanamoku
Surfer of the Century: The Life of Duke Kahanamoku Ellie Crowe 9781584302766 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Growing up in Honolulu with the Pacific Ocean as his backyard, Duke Kahanamoku l...
The Meanest Thing to Say
The Meanest Thing to Say Bill Cosby 9780590956161 Fiction Cartwheel Books Scholastic Inc. “The Little Bill series by Bill Cosby; endless hours of reading and supportive material for raising well adjus...
It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw
It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw Don Tate 9781600602603 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Growing up as an enslaved boy on an Alabama cotton farm, Bill Traylor worked all...
Bill Clinton and Black America
Bill Clinton and Black America Walter Benefield Book Review Bill Clinton came to the presidency of the United States inheriting a less than admirable race relations history from his predecessors. Wha...
Aaron Bagley
Aaron Bagley NONE Aaron Bagley is a renowned author known for his compelling narrative style. His works encompass a wide range of genres, demonstrating his versatility and depth as a writer. Aaron Ba...
Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and Aaron Philip Clark
Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and Aaron Philip Clark MULTIPLE 50 Cent and Aaron Philip Clark are influential figures in entertainment and literature respectively. Famed rapper 50 Cent also excels in busin...
Stand On Ganymede
Stand On Ganymede Marc W. Polite 9780984995745 Fiction Upstart Publishing Upstart Publishing Stand On Ganymede tells the story of Aaron, a boy visiting his grandfather on a Saturday afternoon. With hi...
Aaron Philip
Aaron Philip 000000002322004X "Aaron Philip, a 12-year-old from the Bronx, caught the attention of Tumblr's CEO with his earnest blog, Aaronverse. Despite living with cerebral palsy, Aaron's unique v...
The Cold Hard Cases of Duke Denim:High Notes, Low Blows
The Cold Hard Cases of Duke Denim:High Notes, Low Blows Guy Sims 9780989281928 Fiction BCE Pressworks Big City Entertainment The music business is a killer and nobody knows it better than Big City’s n...
The Cold Hard Cases of Duke Denim: Silver Roses
The Cold Hard Cases of Duke Denim: Silver Roses Guy Sims 9780989281911 Fiction BCE Pressworks Big City Entertainment Flowers, bees, thorns…and poison: All natural—All deadly! Duke Denim enters t...
The Cold Hard Cases of Duke Denim: Hold’em Close
The Cold Hard Cases of Duke Denim: Hold’em Close Guy Sims 9780989281904 Fiction BCE Pressworks Big City Entertainment Anyone who would walk down the streets of Big City should step wisely. Private det...
Mandela, Mobutu, and Me: A Newswoman’s African Journey
Mandela, Mobutu, and Me: A Newswoman’s African Journey Lynne Duke 9780385503983 Nonfiction Doubleday Penguin Random House In this stunning memoir, veteran Washington Post correspondent Lynne Duke take...
Extra Marital Affairs
Extra Marital Affairs Relentless Aaron 9780312359355 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers When Mason and Adena Fickle find their new sex partner, Loween, dead in their bed just hours afte...
Triple Threat
Triple Threat Relentless Aaron 9780967054223 Fiction Relentless Content Relentless Content APRIL DAVIS is a woman who you’ve gotta love. She has such big, beautiful brown eyes that immediately tell y...
Platinum Dolls
Platinum Dolls Relentless Aaron 9780967054247 Fiction Relentless Content Relentless Content Stew Gregory is 28 years old, his hunger for sex and money is insatiable, and his drive to achieve is unstop...
Push
Push Relentless Aaron 9780967054216 Fiction Relentless Content Relentless Content He’s been called a thug by some, a killer by other, and a few even see him as ruthless. However, Push has paid his due...
Rappers ’R in Danger
Rappers ’R in Danger Relentless Aaron 9780967054261 Fiction Relentless Content Relentless Content Hit records, loads of cash, gorgeous groupies—Ringo has it all. But he wasn’t born a rap superstar. He...
Sailing Commitment Around the World with Captain Bill Pinkney
Sailing Commitment Around the World with Captain Bill Pinkney Bill Pinkney 9781513693361 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published A new children’s book written by Captain Bill Pinkne...
The Best Way to Play: A Little Bill Book for Beginning Readers, Level 3
The Best Way to Play: A Little Bill Book for Beginning Readers, Level 3 Bill Cosby 9780590956178 Fiction Cartwheel Books Scholastic Inc. This easy-to-read story about friendship by comedian and storyt...
Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby 0000000107880184 “Far From Finished” Born on July 12, 1937, Bill Cosby is an influential comedian, actor, and philanthropist. He and his wife, Camille, have four daughters, all ...
Mark Anthony Neal
Mark Anthony Neal 0000000114756800 Mark Anthony Neal, a distinguished professor at Duke University, is the founding director of the Center for Arts, Digital Culture, and Entrepreneurship. He co-direc...
Aaron Reynolds
Aaron Reynolds 0000000037836478 Aaron Reynolds is a celebrated author, known for his Caldecott Honor Medal-winning book “Creepy Carrots”, a NY Times bestseller. His other notable works include “Chick...
Aaron Becker
Aaron Becker 0000000416852187 Caldecott Honor winner Aaron Becker is the New York Times bestselling author of the Journey trilogy and other award-winning books for children young and old, including W...
Gary Phillips, Derrick Ferguson, Bobby Nash, Juliet Blackwell, and Aaron Philip Clark
Gary Phillips, Derrick Ferguson, Bobby Nash, Juliet Blackwell, and Aaron Philip Clark MULTIPLE Gary Phillips, Derrick Ferguson, Bobby Nash, Juliet Blackwell, and Aaron Philip Clark are renowned autho...
Aaron Philip Clark
Aaron Philip Clark NONE Aaron Philip Clark is a LA-based novelist, screenwriter, and educator, known for his International Thriller Writers Award-nominated Detective Trevor Finnegan series. He also c...
Aaron Slater and the Sneaky Snake (the Questioneers Book #6)
Aaron Slater and the Sneaky Snake (the Questioneers Book #6) Andrea Beaty 9781419753985 Fiction Harry N. Abrams Harry N. Abrams In the sixth book in Andrea Beaty and David Roberts’s New York Times bes...
The Choir Director 2: Runaway Bride
The Choir Director 2: Runaway Bride Carl Weber 9781455505210 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group It’s been three years since Aaron Mackie succeeded in helping his friend and mentor, B...
Boondocks: Because I Know You Don’t Read The Newspaper
Boondocks: Because I Know You Don’t Read The Newspaper Aaron McGruder 9780740706097 Fiction Andrews McMeel Publishing Andrews McMeel Publishing The Boondocks took the syndication world by storm. The n...
Molefi Kete Asante and Aaron X. Smith
Molefi Kete Asante and Aaron X. Smith MULTIPLE Molefi Kete Asante and Aaron X. Smith
Aaron McGruder
Aaron McGruder 0000000037086910 Aaron McGruder, born in Chicago in 1974, is best known for creating the comic strip The Boondocks. Inspired by hip hop and politics, he debuted his work online in 1996...
Aaron Robertson
Aaron Robertson 0000000114426895 Aaron Robertson is a renowned writer, editor, and translator. His works include the acclaimed translation of Igiaba Scego's Beyond Babylon and writings featured in Th...
Top Billin’:Stories of Laughter, Lessons, and Triumph
Top Billin’:Stories of Laughter, Lessons, and Triumph Bill Bellamy 9780063237629 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins From the MTV trailblazer, stand-up comedian, and actor, a hilariously candid memoir th...
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Bill Campbell and Damian Duffy
Bill Campbell and Damian Duffy MULTIPLE Bill Campbell and Damian Duffy are renowned authors, best known for their contributions to the literary world. Campbell's work often explores cultural and soci...
Lovely Day (Picture Book Based on the Song by Bill Withers)
Lovely Day (Picture Book Based on the Song by Bill Withers) Bill Withers 9781338815382 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. Bill Withers’s celebrated hit song Lovely Day comes to life in this beauti...
Bill Clinton and Black America
Bill Clinton and Black America Dewayne Wickham 9780345450326 Nonfiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House While white Americans were evenly divided about Bill Clinton’s impeachment ninety perc...
Bill Murray
Bill Murray 0000000117750359 Bill Murray, a renowned comic artist and illustrator, started at Johnson Publishing Company before founding BAM Productions in 1985. He works with Real Times Media and ha...
Bill Bellamy
Bill Bellamy 0000000039637261 Bill Bellamy, renowned for hosting and producing TV One's “Who’s Got Jokes?”, is a former MTV VJ and host. He's starred in films and TV shows like Fled, Love Jones, and ...
A Duke by Default: Reluctant Royals
A Duke by Default: Reluctant Royals Alyssa Cole 9780062685568 Fiction Avon Books HarperCollins Award-winning author Alyssa Cole’s Reluctant Royals series continues with a woman on a quest to be the he...
William A. Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen, and Lucas Hubbard
William A. Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen, and Lucas Hubbard MULTIPLE William A. Darity Jr. is a professor and director at Duke University, specializing in Public Policy, African and African American ...
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Chasing Hearts
Chasing Hearts Yahrah St. John 9781648392467 Fiction Oliver-Heber Books Oliver-Heber Books Renowned petroleum geologist Bree Hart’s blood, sweat, and tears have put her sexist father Duke Hart’s Dalla...
Aaron X. Smith
Aaron X. Smith NONE Dr. Aaron X. Smith currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Africology and African American Studies at Temple University. He is the author of The Murder of...
Aaron X. Smith1
Aaron X. Smith1 NONE Dr. Aaron X. Smith currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Africology and African American Studies at Temple University. He is the author of The Murder o...
The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron
The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron Howard Bryant 9780375424854 Nonfiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House In the thirty-four years since his retirement, Henry (Hank) Aaron’s reputation has only ...
Dark Girls (Preview)
Dark Girls (Preview) Kam Williams dark-girls-movie-poster.jpg Film Review Dark Girls: Real Women, Real Stories Click to order via Amazon This documentary exploresd the deep-seated biases ...
Bumrush
Bumrush Relentless Aaron 9780312949716 Fiction St. Martin’s Paperbacks Macmillan Publishers It wasn’t supposed to turn out this way for Miles. Once upon a time his future looked bright. He joined the ...
Burning Desire
Burning Desire Relentless Aaron 9780312359386 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Dante Garrett learned the handyman trade from watching his late grandfather and his father hard at work....
Topless
Topless Relentless Aaron 9780312949655 Fiction St. Martin’s Paperbacks Macmillan Publishers Welcome to Fool’s Paradise where the women are devious, the men are ruthless, and the raw, undeniable climat...
Seems Like You’re Ready
Seems Like You’re Ready Relentless Aaron 9780312949631 Fiction St. Martin’s Paperbacks Macmillan Publishers Sixteen-year-old Angel is a rising vocal star, blessed with a voice that can hold its own wi...
Sugar Daddy
Sugar Daddy Relentless Aaron 9780312949648 Fiction St. Martin’s Paperbacks Macmillan Publishers Toy grew into her name long before she grew upa plaything for men in a world dominated by fast money and...
Lady First
Lady First Relentless Aaron 9780312359362 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Spencer knows he doesn’t have but so many chances left. He’s trying to stay off the streets, but bagging gr...
To Live and Die in Harlem
To Live and Die in Harlem Relentless Aaron 9780312949624 Fiction St. Martin’s Paperbacks Macmillan Publishers Reginald "Push" Jackson has had a hard-knock life. His parents were murdered when he was y...
Derelict
Derelict Relentless Aaron and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson 9781416549499 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. His Freedom Came with a Price. Who’s gonna hire an ex-con? That’s just one quest...
The Last Kingpin
The Last Kingpin Relentless Aaron 9780312949679 Fiction St. Martin’s Paperbacks Macmillan Publishers Meet Brian "Freeze" Carter. He’s part pimp, part hustler. He drives a Bentley Continental T, which ...
Public Enemy #2: An All-New Boondocks Collection
Public Enemy #2: An All-New Boondocks Collection Aaron McGruder 9781400082582 Fiction Three Rivers Press Three Rivers Press Here’s the next big collection of Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks, the most s...
The Straw Man Fallacy: Exposing the Faulty Rhetoric Of, Is Bill Cosby Right?
The Straw Man Fallacy: Exposing the Faulty Rhetoric Of, Is Bill Cosby Right? Stanley G. Robertson 9781436324649 Nonfiction Xlibris Author Solutions Nearly four years after Bill Cosby’s infamous Board ...
David Garrow, Clayborne Carson, Bill Kovach, and Carol Polsgrove
David Garrow, Clayborne Carson, Bill Kovach, and Carol Polsgrove MULTIPLE David Garrow, Clayborne Carson, Bill Kovach, and Carol Polsgrove are renowned authors and scholars, each contributing signifi...
Cosbyology: Essays and Observations From the Doctor of Comedy
Cosbyology: Essays and Observations From the Doctor of Comedy Bill Cosby 9780786868100 Fiction Hyperion Hachette Book Group Description: Returning to his early days of comedy, the comic genius and #1...
The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act Clay Risen 9781608198245 Nonfiction Bloomsbury Press Bloomsbury Publishing The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important ...
Bill Campbell
Bill Campbell 0000000079841312 Bill Campbell, a Pittsburgh native and Northwestern University alumnus, has led a diverse career from bookkeeping in Atlanta to teaching English in the Czech Republic. ...
William L. Ingram
William L. Ingram NONE William “Bill” L. Ingram, a retired entrepreneur, and successful small business owner, is now a writer focused on spiritual and personal growth. A resident of Tampa Bay, Florid...
Bill Pinkney
Bill Pinkney 0000000033679583 Captain Bill Pinkney, born in Chicago's Bronzeville, was a US Navy Vet and Coast Guard licensed Master of Steam, Power, and Sail vessels. He held diverse roles such as a...
Bone to Pick: Of Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Reparation, and Revenge
Bone to Pick: Of Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Reparation, and Revenge Ellis Cose Excerpt To forgive the truly horrible is to kiss the robe of God, to emulate no less a figure than the dying Jesus Chr...
The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America
The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America Larry Tye 9780358380436 Nonfiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt From the New York Times bestselling aut...
The Voting Booth
The Voting Booth Brandy Colbert 9781368053297 Fiction Disney-Hyperion Disney Publishing Worldwide From Stonewall Award-winning author Brandy Colbert comes an all-in-one-day love story perfect for fans...
The Cold Hard Cases of Duke Denim: Old College Try
The Cold Hard Cases of Duke Denim: Old College Try Guy Sims 9780989281973 Fiction BCE Pressworks Big City Entertainment Wave your green and gold pennants. Give a cheer. The Strivers College event of t...
The Cold Hard Cases of Duke Denim: Field of Headstones
The Cold Hard Cases of Duke Denim: Field of Headstones Guy Sims 9780989281959 Fiction BCE Pressworks Big City Entertainment The greatest sleep begins here. These words are etched on the archway leadin...
The Cold Hard Cases of Duke Denim: The Troublesome Troupe
The Cold Hard Cases of Duke Denim: The Troublesome Troupe Guy Sims 9780989281935 Fiction BCE Pressworks Big City Entertainment It’s Amazing! It’s Stupendous! It’s Deadly! Pennypincher’s Travelling ...
Mark Harmon
Mark Harmon 0000000081038238 Mark Harmon, renowned for his role as Leroy Jethro Gibbs on NCIS, is now entering the publishing world with “Ghosts of Honolulu.” The Emmy-nominated actor and producer ha...
Jessixa Bagley
Jessixa Bagley NONE Jessixa Bagley is a celebrated author and illustrator known for her award-winning children's books. Her works are lauded for their emotional depth and beautifully detailed waterco...
Miracle at St. Anna
Miracle at St. Anna Thumper Book Review I wish all of my review assignments were like this one. It came upon me unexpectedly. I don’t need advance warnings when good things come my way, thoug...
Dark Girls
Dark Girls Bill Duke and Shelia P. Moses 9780062331687 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In the tradition of the New York Times bestselling I Dream a World and Crowns comes this full-color companion vo...
Boys Come First
Boys Come First Aaron Foley 9781953368256 Fiction Belt Publishing Belt Publishing This hilarious, touching debut novel by Aaron Foley, author of How to Live in Detroit Without Being a Jackass, follows...
Good Man Gone Bad: An Aaron Gunner Mystery
Good Man Gone Bad: An Aaron Gunner Mystery Gar Anthony Haywood 9781945551666 Fiction Prospect Park Books Prospect Park Books Gar Anthony Haywood is the Shamus and Anthony award-winning author of twelv...
The Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook
The Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook Aaron Foley 9780998904139 Nonfiction Belt Publishing Belt Publishing Part of Belt’s Neighborhood Guidebook Series, The Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook is an explorati...
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...
Afrocentricity: Generations of Theory in Practice
Afrocentricity: Generations of Theory in Practice Aaron X. Smith 9781942774389 Nonfiction Universal Write Publications Universal Write Publications Foreword by: Christel N. Temple, Ph.D. Discover t...
Reading Du Bois: An Afrocentric Critique of the Color Line
Reading Du Bois: An Afrocentric Critique of the Color Line Molefi Kete Asante and Aaron X. Smith 9798855802436 Nonfiction State University of New York Press State University of New York Press Offering...
Streetlight People
Streetlight People Charlene Thomas 9780593618868 Fiction Dutton Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A little bit Twin Peaks, a little bit Black Mirror, Streetlight People is a story of growin...
The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America
The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America Aaron Robertson 9780374604981 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers One of Literary Hub’s most anticipat...
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...
Aqua Boy
Aqua Boy Ken Wilson-Max 9781536236644 Fiction Candlewick Press (MA) Candlewick Press A boy’s love for the sea and marine animals spurs him to quiet bravery—and a transformative first experience—in a s...
How to Live in Detroit Without Being a Jackass
How to Live in Detroit Without Being a Jackass Aaron Foley 9781948742313 Nonfiction Belt Publishing Belt Publishing In one of Curbed: Detroit’s Top 11 Books about Detroit, Aaron Foley, editor of The D...