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Ashay by the Bay
Ashay by the Bay Ashay by the Bay Ashay by the Bay Ashay by the Bay is located in Vallejo, California near San Francisco. Deborah Day, the Founder and CEO, started the company in 1997 and began selli...
Ashay by the Bay
Ashay by the Bay Ashay by the Bay Ashay by the Bay Ashay by the Bay is located in Vallejo, California near San Francisco. Deborah Day, the Founder and CEO, started the company in 1997 and began selli...
Ashay by the Bay
Ashay by the Bay Vallejo CA The core of their mission is to uplift literacy and provide culturally relevant books for families, educators and schools.
Ashay by the Bay Sacramento Black Book Festival
Ashay by the Bay Sacramento Black Book Festival Literary Events Deborah Day, owner of Ashay by the Bay Bookstore, speaks to AALBC.com at the Sacramento Black Book Festival on June 3, 2017: Learn more ...
Deborah Day
Deborah Day 0000000066839686 Deborah Day, Founder and CEO of Ashay by the Bay, a publishing company specializing in African American and Multi-Cultural children's and adult books. Established in 1997...
Mindful Messages
Mindful Messages Deborah Day 9780970404824 Nonfiction Ashay by the Bay Ashay by the Bay Mindful Messages skillfully scans complex social and issues through a poetic healing conscious and mindfully int...
Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival: Author Village
Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival: Author Village Meet many of the authors you participated in the 2017 Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival, which was held at Curtis Hixon Park. These images and photos...
Rushcutters Bay Books
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Tampa Bay Noir
Tampa Bay Noir Colette Bancroft 9781617758102 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books “For too long readers have connected Florida Noir with the admittedly fascinating locales of Miami-Dade County, thanks...
Who You Wit’?: A Del Rio Bay Clique Novel (del Rio Bay Clique Novels)
Who You Wit’?: A Del Rio Bay Clique Novel (del Rio Bay Clique Novels) Paula Chase 9780758225849 Fiction KTeen Kensington Publishing Corp. Mina Mooney has a new worst enemy—her best friend… Summer is ...
So Not The Drama: A Del Rio Bay Clique Novel
So Not The Drama: A Del Rio Bay Clique Novel Paula Chase 9780758218599 Fiction KTeen Kensington Publishing Corp. In exactly one hour, eighteen minutes, and thirty-five seconds, Mina Mooney will be dip...
Mia E. Bay, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Martha S. Jones, and Barbara D. Savage
Mia E. Bay, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Martha S. Jones, and Barbara D. Savage MULTIPLE Mia E. Bay, Farah J. Griffin, Martha S. Jones, and Barbara D. Savage are renowned authors with significant contribut...
Tampa Bay Black Authors Expo
Tampa Bay Black Authors Expo The Portico Tampa Florida The TBBAE grew from a desire to showcase the diverse literary talent that is alive and well in the greater Tampa Bay area. By creating the only e...
Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival
Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival Curtis Hixon Park Tampa Florida The Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival is an annual, cultural arts & music festival that takes place over the course of 10 days in Tamp...
Murder in Montego Bay: A Gripping Crime Mystery Packed with Twists
Murder in Montego Bay: A Gripping Crime Mystery Packed with Twists Paula Lennon 9781804051856 Fiction Joffe Books Joffe Books Palm trees, white sandy beaches and a perfect turquoise sea. Jamaica’s Mon...
(sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay: A Children’s Picture Book
(sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay: A Children’s Picture Book Otis Redding 9781617758508 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Otis Redding and Steve Cropper’s timeless ode to never-ending days is given f...
Murder in Montego Bay
Murder in Montego Bay Paula Lennon 9781909762411 Fiction Jacaranda Jacaranda Introducing crime-fighting duo Jamaican Detective Raythan Preddy and Scottish lawman Detective Sean Harris set in the pictu...
Memory at Bay
Memory at Bay Évelyne Trouillot 9780813938097 Fiction University of Virginia Press University of Virginia Press Winner of the prestigious Prix Carbet—an award won by such distinguished authors as Mary...
The Rhythm of the August Rain: A Novel
The Rhythm of the August Rain: A Novel Gillian Royes 9781476762401 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Shad Myers, the lovable bartender and town sleuth of Largo Bay, hunts down clues to a woma...
The Goat Woman of Largo Bay: A Novel (A Shadrack Myers Mystery)
The Goat Woman of Largo Bay: A Novel (A Shadrack Myers Mystery) Gillian Royes 9781451627411 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. The Goat Woman of Largo Bay begins the detective series featuring...
Flipping the Script (Del Rio Bay Novels)
Flipping the Script (Del Rio Bay Novels) Paula Chase 9780758225863 Fiction KTeen Kensington Publishing Corp. It’s junior year at Del Rio Bay High, and from near and far, the guys are taking center sta...
Tampa Bay Black Authors Expo
Tampa Bay Black Authors Expo Tampa Florida The TBBAE grew from a desire to showcase the diverse literary talent that is alive and well in the greater Tampa Bay area. By creating the only expo dedicat...
Colette Bancroft
Colette Bancroft NONE Colette Bancroft is the book editor for the Tampa Bay Times since 2007, directs the annual Festival of Reading, and served on the National Book Critics Circle board. She holds E...
Bay Area Book Festival
Bay Area Book Festival In Downtown Berkeley Berkeley California The Bay Area Book Festival is the primary project of the Foundation for the Future of Literature and Literacy, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit org...
The Cottage on Pelican Bay
The Cottage on Pelican Bay Brenda Jackson 9781335458124 Fiction Canary Street Press HarperCollins Sometimes one hot night simply isn’t enough. Two years ago, Zara Miller found herself heartbroken a...
Little John Crow
Little John Crow Ziggy Marley and Orly Marley 9781617759802 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books After being abandoned by his animal friends, Little John Crow must come to terms with what it means to b...
Jeff Carroll at the Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival
Jeff Carroll at the Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival Literary Events Jeff Carroll speaks with AALBC.com during the 2017 Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival (#TBBHF17). Learn more about this multi-genr...
Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival - The Authors
Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival - The Authors Literary Events These authors appeared at the 2017 Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival on January 21, 2017. Learn more about their work: Pamala McCoy: h...
Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women
Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women Mia E. Bay, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Martha S. Jones, and Barbara D. Savage 9781469620916 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North ...
The Secrets of Paradise Bay
The Secrets of Paradise Bay Devon Vaughn Archer 9781601627018 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance Former international model Ivana Kendall-Lancaster gives it all up to marry the love of her li...
The Sea Grape Tree: A Novel (A Shadrack Myers Mystery)
The Sea Grape Tree: A Novel (A Shadrack Myers Mystery) Gillian Royes 9781476762388 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Set in a sun-kissed Caribbean paradise, this third book in the Shad detect...
That’s What’s Up!: A Del Rio Bay Clique Novel
That’s What’s Up!: A Del Rio Bay Clique Novel Paula Chase 9780758225825 Fiction KTeen Kensington Publishing Corp. Mina Mooney is about to discover that when you’re at the top, the only place to go is ...
Don’t Get It Twisted: A Del Rio Bay Clique Novel
Don’t Get It Twisted: A Del Rio Bay Clique Novel Paula Chase 9780758218612 Fiction KTeen Kensington Publishing Corp. Mina Mooney’s parents are killing her social life. It’s time to fight back… Mina’s...
Back Bay Books
Back Bay Books Hachette Book Group Lagardère Group
My Own Dear People
My Own Dear People Dwight Thompson 9781636141916 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books In Montego Bay, Jamaica, teenager Nyjah Messado witnesses a brutal assault by some of the boys in his circle of fri...
Murder on Federal Street: Tyrone Everett, the Black Mafia, Fixed Fights, and the Last Golden Age of Philadelphia Boxing
Murder on Federal Street: Tyrone Everett, the Black Mafia, Fixed Fights, and the Last Golden Age of Philadelphia Boxing Sean Nam 9798218137298 Nonfiction Rushcutters Bay Books Rushcutters Bay Books “N...
Tampa Bay Times Festival of Reading
Tampa Bay Times Festival of Reading University of South Florida, St. Petersburg St. Petersburg Florida Book. Music. Authors. Food.
Rhythm Bay Love
Rhythm Bay Love Patricia A. Bridewell 9781732130920 Fiction Tymm Publishing LLC Tymm Publishing LLC Antoine Bailey AKA DJ Ant is a wealthy heir to his father’s prominent real estate business. Ready to...
The Resolution (A Pulled from the Headlines Read)
The Resolution (A Pulled from the Headlines Read) Michelle Lindo-Rice 9781543179378 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC A good girl needs a stand-in. Will the bad boy get the chance? When Ge...
Mountain Chef: How One Man Lost His Groceries, Changed His Plans, and Helped Cook Up the National Park Service
Mountain Chef: How One Man Lost His Groceries, Changed His Plans, and Helped Cook Up the National Park Service Annette Bay Pimentel 9781580897112 Nonfiction Charlesbridge Charlesbridge The true story ...
The Man Who Turned Both Cheeks: A Novel (A Shadrack Myers Mystery)
The Man Who Turned Both Cheeks: A Novel (A Shadrack Myers Mystery) Gillian Royes 9781451627435 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Jamaica is the picturesque background for this explosive novel...
Kai Harris
Kai Harris NONE Kai Harris is a Detroit-born writer and educator based in the Bay Area. She uses her talent in realistic fiction to uplift the Black community. In addition to being an author, she is ...
Goldie the Poet
Goldie the Poet NONE Goldie the Poet, a Bay-Area native and prominent alumnus of Leimert Park’s World Stage Poets, is a gifted actor and artist. With performances across the U.S. and Europe, his uniq...
d. E. Rogers
d. E. Rogers NONE D.E. Rogers is an accomplished author of 13 heartfelt, relatable novels and a screenwriter. He's directed short films, has project management certification from Stanford University,...
Nathan Hare
Nathan Hare 0000000116200187 Dr. Nathan Hare, known as “the Father of Black Studies,” was the first coordinator of a black studies program in the US. Despite being fired for his role in a student-led...
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...
Al Young
Al Young 0000000063058737 Al Young, born in 1939, is a respected author and poet from Mississippi. He attended the University of Michigan before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area and graduating fr...
Paula Lennon
Paula Lennon NONE Paula Lennon, an English-born commercial lawyer turned writer, is known for her novel “Murder in Montego Bay.” Raised in a Jamaican family, she spent her teens in Jamaica before pur...
EA Luetkemeyer
EA Luetkemeyer NONE EA Luetkemeyer, an author informed by his prison experiences, explores America's class and racial divides. He is a Lesley University MFA graduate and author of novels including 'P...
Kathy Strahs
Kathy Strahs NONE Kathy Strahs, creator of the top-rated blog Panini Happy, left her corporate career to follow her passion for cooking. Her innovative recipes and stunning food photography have been...
Kaylani Juanita
Kaylani Juanita NONE Kaylani Juanita McCard is an award-winning artist focused on representing the underrepresented. Known for her work featured on Society of Illustrators and BBC, she's also the ill...
Jo Ann Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy
Jo Ann Allen Boyce and Debbie Levy MULTIPLE Debbie Levy is a NY Times bestselling author known for books like 'I Dissent' and 'Imperfect Spiral', and resides in Chesapeake Bay. Jo Ann Allen Boyce, a ...
Tasha Keeble
Tasha Keeble NONE Tasha Keeble, a San Francisco Bay Area writer, activist, and English professor has been recognized in various publications and won several awards. An expert on culturally responsive...
Kirsti Jewel
Kirsti Jewel NONE Kirsti Jewel, a former Bay Area school leader, is the current Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at a Manhattan school. A 2020 Kweli Fellow, she writes nonfiction centered...
Darshana Khiani
Darshana Khiani NONE Darshana Khiani is a Kenya-born author and engineer, now based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Known for her advocacy for South Asian children's literature, she delights in educat...
Lawrence Deron Thomas
Lawrence Deron Thomas NONE Lawrence Deron Thomas, a Bay Area native, was inspired by his parents to pursue strength, courage, and success. After a brief stint as a rapper, he found his passion for wr...
Jetta Grace Martin
Jetta Grace Martin NONE Jetta Grace Martin is a author from the San Francisco Bay Area. Jetta is also a dancer, performer, and choreographer who has performed nationally and internationally. Jetta Gr...
Oil and Water and Other Things That don’t Mix
Oil and Water and Other Things That don’t Mix Robert Fleming Book Review If you take a trip to the once-scenic Gulf Coast, you will see there is more to be done in the restoration and rejuvenation...
Standing Tall
Standing Tall Jake Sloan Excerpt 1 The Culture: Southern Influence at a West Coast Installation, 1930—1961 The year 1961 was the one that a future president of the United States, Barack Husse...
Come Here and Cook: Stories and Recipes from a Life at the Table
Come Here and Cook: Stories and Recipes from a Life at the Table Jordan Howlett 9798217129812 Nonfiction DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) Penguin Random House For the first time, social media sensat...
Friends and Family
Friends and Family Natalie Baszile 9780593492161 Fiction Pamela Dorman Books Penguin Random House From the author of Queen Sugar, a piercing examination of friendship and loyalty as two best friends f...
Hachette Book Group
Hachette Book Group Lagardère Group Aspect Back Bay Books Balance Black Dog & Leventhal Bold Type Books Center Street Christy Ottaviano Books Christy Ottaviano Books-Little Brown and Hachette Civitas ...
One Love: Essays on Pan-African Struggles Here, and There, Presented to Horace G. Campbell
One Love: Essays on Pan-African Struggles Here, and There, Presented to Horace G. Campbell David Johnson and Michael O. West 9781569029688 Nonfiction Africa World Press Africa World Press & The Red Se...
Touchdown in Brazil
Touchdown in Brazil Omar Tyree 9781496762894 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Amid the landmark NFL game in the electric city of São Paulo, Brazil, three very different family men cross path...
Goldenborn
Goldenborn Ama Ofosua Lieb 9781546147466 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. A girl with a mission. A god with a deal. A story that could change everything. When 17-year-old Akoma Addo stumble...
Call of the Dragon
Call of the Dragon Natasha Bowen 9780593898154 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House In the first book of a new series inspired by African mythology, dragon gods rule the e...
Humboldt Cut
Humboldt Cut Allison Mick 9781645662211 Fiction Erewhon Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Jordan Peele and Jeff VanderMeer meet The Overstory in comedy writer Allison Mick’s darkly humorous debut eco-...
Recipes from the American South
Recipes from the American South Michael W. Twitty 9781837290871 Nonfiction Phaidon Press Phaidon Press ‘A sweeping love letter to the region that shaped America’s palate.’ –Eric Adjepong A home coo...
Be White With Me
Be White With Me R. E. Hayes 9798822958883 Fiction Palmetto Publishing Palmetto Publishing With apologies to the great Tolstoy, all happy Black families are not alike and every unhappy Black family is...
And Then Came You: Black Love Series (Book 2, Ryan Family Series)
And Then Came You: Black Love Series (Book 2, Ryan Family Series) Dorothy Elizabeth Love 9781965437049 Fiction LED Literature and Publication LED Literature and Publication Black Romance Series with: ...
Christmas Catch
Christmas Catch Toni Shiloh 9780764244728 Fiction Bethany House Baker Publishing Group Previously published in 2017 under the title A Sidelined Christmas. When two high school sweethearts...
Gamerville
Gamerville Johnnie Christmas 9780063056824 Fiction HarperAlley HarperCollins An Indigo Staff Pick A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2024 A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2024 A 2024 Good...
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...
Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World
Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World Rae Wynn-Grant 9781638930402 Nonfiction Get Lifted Books Penguin Random House “As sensitive and touching as it is urgent … [Wild Life] is a poignant e...
Icarus
Icarus K. Ancrum 9780063285781 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins A Lambda Literary Award Finalist Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, th...
The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade
The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade Hannah Durkin 9780063072992 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot’s The ...
Tomlin: The Soul of a Football Coach
Tomlin: The Soul of a Football Coach John Harris 9781683584759 Nonfiction Sports Publishing Skyhorse Publishing Foreword by Tony DungyIn 2007, at the age of thirty-four, Mike Tomlin was hired as the h...
Snoop Dogg Presents Goon with the Spoon
Snoop Dogg Presents Goon with the Spoon Snoop Dogg and Earl Stevens 9781797213712 Nonfiction Chronicle Books Chronicle Books The follow-up to From From Crook to Cook, this next-level cookbook is all a...
The Bronx Is My Home
The Bronx Is My Home Alyssa Reynoso-Morris 9780316397735 Fiction Christy Ottaviano Books Hachette Book Group Welcome to The Bronx, New York! A picture book celebration of hometown pride including the ...
The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal
The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal Brian H. Williams 9781506483122 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media A tour de force that diagnoses...
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America Clint Smith 9780316492928 Nonfiction Back Bay Books Hachette Book Group
Shotgun Seamstress: An Anthology
Shotgun Seamstress: An Anthology Osa Atoe 9781593767396 Fiction Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press A cut & paste celebration of Black punk and outsider identity, this is the only complete collection of...
Running Against the Grain: The Story of Philadelphia Eagle and Movie Star Timmy Brown
Running Against the Grain: The Story of Philadelphia Eagle and Movie Star Timmy Brown Roy Weaver, David Sullivan, and Shawn Sriver 9798986820118 Nonfiction Eagle 22 Eagle 22 Born in a rural Indiana or...
Witch Wife
Witch Wife Kiki Petrosino 9781956046106 Poetry Sarabande Books Sarabande Books The poems of Witch Wife are spells, obsessive incantations to exorcise or celebrate memory, to mourn the beloved dead, to...
The Sweetness of Water (Paperback)
The Sweetness of Water (Paperback) Nathan Harris 9780316461245 Fiction Back Bay Books Hachette Book Group An Instant New York Times bestseller / An Oprah’s Book Club Pick In the spirit of The Know...
This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism
This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism Don Lemon 9780316257671 Nonfiction Back Bay Books Hachette Book Group In this “vital book for these times” (Kirkus Reviews), Don Lemon brings hi...
Murder Under the Palms: A Gripping Crime Mystery Packed with Twists
Murder Under the Palms: A Gripping Crime Mystery Packed with Twists Paula Lennon 9781804051962 Fiction Joffe Books Joffe Books Palm trees, white sandy beaches and a perfect turquoise sea. Jamaica’s Mo...
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’...
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know Malcolm Gladwell 9780316299220 Nonfiction Back Bay Books Hachette Book Group
Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like Journey in the Title
Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like Journey in the Title Leslie Gray Streeter 9780316490733 Nonfiction Back Bay Books Hachette Book Group...
Why the Black Hole Sings the Blues
Why the Black Hole Sings the Blues Ishmael Reed 9781628973587 Poetry Dalkey Archive Press Dalkey Archive Press The poems in this collection were written between 2007 and 2020. When asked to describe t...
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song Kevin Young 9781598536669 Poetry Library of America Library of America A Library of America AnthologyA literary landmark: the biggest, most ambiti...
Surviving the Chase
Surviving the Chase Lisa Renee Johnson 9781496707970 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In this page-turning follow-up to Dangerous Consequences, a serial killer wants revenge—but two surpris...
The Sunday Soul Singles Club
The Sunday Soul Singles Club Michele Andrea Bowen 9780312643393 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Questions will be answered about the future of Charles and Veronica Washington, along ...
Little Family
Little Family Ishmael Beah 9780735211773 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of A Long Way Gone. A powerful novel about young people living at th...
Babymoon
Babymoon Hayley Barrett 9780763688523 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press In a perfect gift for new and expectant parents (and siblings), a gentle story pays tribute to the wonder and emotion of...
Richmond
Richmond Black Barbie 9781080010318 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Welcome to Richmond, where the trust is slim and the hate and envy is thick and constant. Richmond, Californ...