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Audrey Niffenegger, Meg Wolitzer and James McBride
Audrey Niffenegger, Meg Wolitzer and James McBride Author Interviews
James McBride
James McBride 0000000121485295 James McBride is a celebrated author and musician, known for his memoir 'The Color of Water' and his novel 'Miracle at St. Anna'. He has written for notable publication...
You Don’t Know Me But I Know You
You Don’t Know Me But I Know You Rebecca Barrow 9780062494191 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Rebecca Barrow’s bright, honest debut novel about chance, choice, and unconditional love is a heartfel...
Ben McBride
Ben McBride NONE Rev. Ben McBride is an acclaimed faith leader and activist known globally as a speaker. Founder of Empower Initiative and Bring the HEAT campaign, and former director of PICO Califor...
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store James McBride 9780593422946 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House “McBride’s pages burst with life… This endlessly rich saga highlights the different ways in wh...
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother, 10th Anniversary Edition
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother, 10th Anniversary Edition James McBride 9781594481925 Nonfiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-d...
Kill ’Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul
Kill ’Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul James McBride 9780812983739 Nonfiction Spiegel & Grau Penguin Random House National Book Award winner James McBride goes in search o...
Troubling the Water: The Urgent Work of Radical Belonging
Troubling the Water: The Urgent Work of Radical Belonging Ben McBride 9781506489858 Nonfiction Beaming Books 1517 Media Can you imagine a future that includes your enemies? If not, what happens next? ...
Deacon King Kong
Deacon King Kong James McBride 9780735216723 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel...
Five-Carat Soul
Five-Carat Soul James McBride 9780735216693 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House Humorous, “feel good” new fiction from James McBride, the first since The Good Lord Bird, one of the bestselling, most cr...
Amber McBride
Amber McBride NONE Amber McBride, an English literature professor at Northern Virginia Community College, holds degrees in English and Creative Writing. She's published work in various outlets and au...
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...
Audrey Vernick
Audrey Vernick NONE Our students thoroughly enjoyed meeting Audrey Vernick; her presentation kept the kids engaged and energized! She helped them make real-life connections, and she reinforced writi...
Dangerous Dilemmas
Dangerous Dilemmas Evelyn Palfrey 9780671042226 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. "I’ll fix it for you. You don’t have to cry," said the tall man with the deep, Barry White kind of voice. Bu...
Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich and Audrey Vernick
Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich and Audrey Vernick MULTIPLE Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich and Audrey Vernick are notable authors, photographed by Darlene Beck-Jacobson. Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich (r...
Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays On Race and Sexuality (Sexual Cultures)
Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays On Race and Sexuality (Sexual Cultures) Dwight McBride 9780814756850 Fiction New York University Press New York University Press Why hate Abercrombie? In a world...
Thick with Trouble
Thick with Trouble Amber McBride 9780143137474 Poetry Penguin Books Penguin Random House From National Book Award finalist Amber McBride, a mystical, transcendent poetry collection about Black womanho...
Miracle at St. Anna
Miracle at St. Anna James McBride 9781573229715 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award fo...
Saint Monkey: A Novel
Saint Monkey: A Novel Jacinda Townsend 9780393350821 Fiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. "[A] compelling debut…Townsend’s writing [is] full of fresh turns of phrase and keen in...
The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist
The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist Cynthia Levinson 9781481400701 Nonfiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. Meet the young...
The Leaving Room
The Leaving Room Amber McBride 9781250908087 Fiction Feiwel & Friends Macmillan Publishers For fans of You’ve Reached Sam and If I Stay, a hauntingly beautiful, ultimately hopeful novel-in-verse about...
Gone Wolf
Gone Wolf Amber McBride 9781250850478 Fiction Square Fish Macmillan Publishers Award-winning author Amber McBride lays bare the fears of being young and Black in America, in this middle-grade novel th...
Onyx & Beyond
Onyx & Beyond Amber McBride 9781250908780 Fiction Feiwel & Friends Macmillan Publishers Award-winning author Amber McBride lays bare the fears of being young and Black in America, in this middle-grade...
Me (Moth)
Me (Moth) Amber McBride 9781250780362 Fiction Feiwel & Friends Macmillan Publishers A debut YA novel-in-verse by Amber McBride, Me (Moth) is about a teen girl who is grieving the deaths of her family,...
Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (paperback)
Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (paperback) James McBride 9780593422953 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House The Runaway New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book • A New Yo...
The Good Lord Bird
The Good Lord Bird James McBride 9781594632785 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House A 2013 National Book Award Winner! Fleeing his violent master at the side of abolitionist John Brown at ...
Song Yet Sung
Song Yet Sung James McBride 9781594483509 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fict...
Poemhood: Our Black Revival: History, Folklore & the Black Experience: A Young Adult Poetry Anthology
Poemhood: Our Black Revival: History, Folklore & the Black Experience: A Young Adult Poetry Anthology Amber McBride 9780063225299 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Starring thirty-seven poets, with ...
Unlike Other Monsters
Unlike Other Monsters Audrey Vernick 9781423199595 Fiction Disney-Hyperion Disney Publishing Worldwide Zander is a monster. Monsters don’t have friends. They prefer to scare children and eat their rai...
Bogart and Vinnie: A Completely Made-up Story of True Friendship
Bogart and Vinnie: A Completely Made-up Story of True Friendship Audrey Vernick 9780802728227 Fiction Walker Childrens Walker and Co When Vinnie, a crazy-happy dog, gets lost while visiting a nature p...
Brothers at Bat: The True Story of an Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team
Brothers at Bat: The True Story of an Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team Audrey Vernick 9780547385570 Nonfiction Clarion Books HarperCollins The Acerra family had sixteen children, including twelve bal...
I Won a What?
I Won a What? Audrey Vernick 9780553509939 Fiction Knopf Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House The hilarious and heartwarming story of a boy who tries to win a goldfish and winds up with FAR mo...
The Kid from Diamond Street: The Extraordinary Story of Baseball Legend Edith Houghton
The Kid from Diamond Street: The Extraordinary Story of Baseball Legend Edith Houghton Audrey Vernick 9780544611634 Nonfiction Clarion Books HarperCollins Audrey Vernick and Steven Salerno have again ...
She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story
She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story Audrey Vernick 9780061349201 Nonfiction Balzer + Bray HarperCollins Effa always loved baseball. As a young woman, she would go to Yankee Stadium just to see B...
Is Your Buffalo Ready for Kindergarten?
Is Your Buffalo Ready for Kindergarten? Audrey Vernick 9780061762758 Fiction Balzer + Bray HarperCollins Your buffalo is growing up. He plays with friends. He shares his toys. He’s smart! But is he re...
We Are All So Good at Smiling
We Are All So Good at Smiling Amber McBride 9781250780386 Fiction Feiwel & Friends Macmillan Publishers They Both Die at the End meets The Bell Jar in this haunting, beautiful young adult novel-in-ver...
Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony
Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony Dwight McBride 9780814756058 Fiction New York University Press New York University Press Even the most cursory review of black literary p...
Kimberly Gee
Kimberly Gee NONE Kimberly Gee is an author-illustrator inspired by her experiences raising twins. She writes about the joy and challenges of parenting, creating books like “Mad, Mad Bear!” and “Toda...
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store James McBride 9780593743775 Fiction Random House Large Print Penguin Random House
A Journal for Jordan (Movie Tie-In): A Story of Love and Honor
A Journal for Jordan (Movie Tie-In): A Story of Love and Honor Dana Canedy 9780593442937 Nonfiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A hauntingly beautiful...
James McBride - National Book Award Finalist Reading 2013
James McBride - National Book Award Finalist Reading 2013 Poetry & Spoken Word
James McBride: Acceptance Speech 2013 National Book Awards
James McBride: Acceptance Speech 2013 National Book Awards Literary Events
James McBride Reads from "The Good Lord Bird"
James McBride Reads from "The Good Lord Bird" Author Interviews
A Journal for Jordan: A Story of Love and Honor
A Journal for Jordan: A Story of Love and Honor Dana Canedy 9780307396006 Nonfiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A hauntingly beautiful account of a f...
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother
The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother James McBride Excerpt CHAPTER ONE Dead I’m dead. You want to talk about my family and here I been dead to them for fifty y...
James W. Lewis
James W. Lewis NONE James W. Lewis, an award-winning novelist and freelance writer, is a managing partner at The Pantheon Collective publishing company. Known for his debut novel 'Sellout', he has re...
Lebron James
Lebron James 0000000033823012 LeBron James, an acclaimed basketball player with three NBA championships, two Olympic golds, and four MVP titles, is also recognized for his philanthropy. Raised in Akr...
James Hickman
James Hickman NONE James “Bullet” Hickman, a national best-selling author and CEO, transformed his life from a history of institutionalization to become a successful entrepreneur. Overcoming adversit...
A Spy Called James: The True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent
A Spy Called James: The True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent Anne Rockwell 9781467749336 Nonfiction Carolrhoda Books Lerner Publishing Group Told for the first time in picture...
James Forman
James Forman 0000000071399777 James Forman is the father of renowned legal scholar and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, James Forman Jr. James Forman James Forman is the father of legal scholar and ...
Take Your Octopus to School Day
Take Your Octopus to School Day Audrey Vernick 9780399557101 Fiction Knopf Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A hilarious classroom story about an octopus and his boy, from the author of Is ...
Naomis Too
Naomis Too Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich and Audrey Vernick 9780062685155 Fiction Balzer & Bray/Harperteen HarperCollins A heartfelt, sweet, social justice-themed ode to blended and unconventional fam...
The Funniest Man in Baseball: The True Story of Max Patkin
The Funniest Man in Baseball: The True Story of Max Patkin Audrey Vernick 9780544813779 Nonfiction Clarion Books HarperCollins A hilarious picture book biography about Max Patkin, a professional ballp...
Two Naomis
Two Naomis Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich and Audrey Vernick 9780062414250 Fiction Balzer + Bray HarperCollins A realistic contemporary story of two girls, both named Naomi, whose divorced parents begi...
Screaming at the Ump
Screaming at the Ump Audrey Vernick 9780544439375 Fiction HMH Books for Young Readers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Twelve-year-old Casey Snowden knows everything about being an umpire. His dad and grandf...
Water Balloon
Water Balloon Audrey Vernick 9780544275010 Fiction HMH Books for Young Readers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Marley’s life is as precarious as an overfull water balloon—one false move and everything will ...
Judge Not!
Judge Not! Audrey Carter 9780595856220 Fiction iUniverse Author Solutions Laura yanked open her purse and reached for what she had concealed in the black shawl. With the apathy of a raging tornado, s...
Girls Most Likely: A Novel
Girls Most Likely: A Novel Sheila Williams 9780345464767 Fiction One World Penguin Random House “We didn’t know then that the dramas we imagined weren’t even warm-ups for what real life held for us.”F...
The Payback
The Payback Kashana Cauley Excerpt Chapter One In the handful of minutes before our store opened, the sales day was pregnant with potential cash. Soon my boss Richard would open our front door, th...
Bob, Not Bob!: *to be read as though you have the worst cold ever
Bob, Not Bob!: *to be read as though you have the worst cold ever Audrey Vernick 9781484723029 Fiction Disney-Hyperion Disney Publishing Worldwide Little Louie is stuck in bed with a bad cold. His nos...
First Grade Dropout
First Grade Dropout Audrey Vernick 9780544129856 Fiction Clarion Books HarperCollins The first grade narrator of this book has been lots of things: Hungry. Four years old. Crazy bored. Soaking wet. Pr...
Edgar’s Second Word
Edgar’s Second Word Audrey Vernick 9780547684628 Fiction Clarion Books HarperCollins Hazel can’t wait for her baby brother to be born so she can talk and read with him! But when, at last, he arrives, ...
So You Want to Be a Rock Star
So You Want to Be a Rock Star Audrey Vernick 9780802723253 Fiction Walker Childrens Walker and Co Want to learn to play air guitar? Wear the coolest rock-star clothes? Sign your autograph for tons of ...
Teach Your Buffalo to Play Drums
Teach Your Buffalo to Play Drums Audrey Vernick 9780061762536 Fiction Balzer + Bray HarperCollins Does your buffalo pound on pots and pans?Tap out rhythms at the dinner table?It’s not as unusual as yo...
In The Midst Of It All
In The Midst Of It All Tiffany L. Warren 9780446195164 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group All her life, Zenovia has struggled with the burden of caring for her schizophrenic mother, ...
Bark & Tim: A True Story of Friendship (Based on the Paintings of Tim Brown)
Bark & Tim: A True Story of Friendship (Based on the Paintings of Tim Brown) Audrey Vernick 9781570722714 Fiction Overmountain Press Overmountain Press
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...
Let Us March On!: James Weldon Johnson and the Silent Protest Parade
Let Us March On!: James Weldon Johnson and the Silent Protest Parade Yohuru Williams 9781665902786 Nonfiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. A moving and inspiring nonfiction ...
James Forman Jr.
James Forman Jr. 0000000046875532 James Forman Jr., Yale Law School professor and former Supreme Court clerk, is a prolific writer featured in The New York Times and The Atlantic. His notable achieve...
This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance
This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance James Baldwin 9781636811321 Nonfiction Delmonico Books Delmonico Books Portrayals of James Baldwin and others in h...
The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson (Modern Library Classics)
The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson (Modern Library Classics) James Weldon Johnson 9780812975321 Fiction Modern Library Penguin Random House “A canonical collection, splendidly and sensitiv...
I Promise
I Promise Lebron James 9780062971067 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! A perfect BACK-TO-SCHOOL tool for students and teachers who need an encouraging boost...
Six Points of Light: Hook’s Origin
Six Points of Light: Hook’s Origin Kalynn Bayron 9781513706450 Fiction Booktrope Editions Booktrope Editions St. Catherine’s is a place for misfits, for the forgotten; it is also the only place fiftee...
American Civilization
American Civilization C.L.R. James 9780631189091 Nonfiction Blackstone Publishing Blackstone Publishing Written in 1950 but not published until 1993, American Civilization is C. L. R. James’s profound...
Black Writers Redefine the Struggle: A Tribute to James Baldwin
Black Writers Redefine the Struggle: A Tribute to James Baldwin James Baldwin 9780870236778 Nonfiction University of Massachusetts Press University of Massachusetts Press This book is a transcription ...
James Ransome
James Ransome 0000000030399412 James E. Ransome is an award-winning illustrator known for his children's books. His accolades include the Coretta Scott King Award, IBBY Honor Award, and NAACP Image A...
Kelvin Christopher James
Kelvin Christopher James NONE Trinidadian author Kelvin Christopher James, a former high school science teacher and lab technician, holds a Ph.D. in science education. He started writing in 1980, pro...
Winston James
Winston James 0000000042945281 Winston James, a renowned professor at the University of California, Irvine, specializes in Caribbean and African American history. His significant works include in-dep...
Murder in St. James’s Park
Murder in St. James’s Park Vanessa Riley 9781448317646 Fiction Severn House Publishers Severn House Publishers Perfect for readers who love Bridgerton with a dark twist—a vibrant historical mystery se...
The James Baldwin Collection
The James Baldwin Collection James Baldwin 9781598537932 Nonfiction Library of America Library of America For the first time in a collector’s boxed set, the definitive three-volume Library of America ...
Jimmy’s Rhythm & Blues: The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin
Jimmy’s Rhythm & Blues: The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin Michelle Meadows 9780063273474 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Celebrate James Baldwin’s one-hundredth birthday anniversary with ...
Rush on the Radio: A Tribute from His Friend and Sidekick James Golden, Aka Bo Snerdley
Rush on the Radio: A Tribute from His Friend and Sidekick James Golden, Aka Bo Snerdley James Golden 9781737478546 Nonfiction All Seasons Press All Seasons Press What was it like to be a part of the s...
Take a Picture of Me, James Van Der Zee!
Take a Picture of Me, James Van Der Zee! Andrea J. Loney 9781620142608 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books James Van Der Zee was just a young boy when he saved enough money to buy his first cam...
Lebron James and Andrea Williams
Lebron James and Andrea Williams MULTIPLE LeBron James and Andrea Williams are prominent authors, with James balancing a successful basketball career alongside writing, and Williams being a renowned ...
Marlon James
Marlon James 0000000072615785 Jamaican-born author Marlon James, featured on Mosaic Literary Magazine's cover, is a University of the West Indies literature graduate. His debut novel, John Crow’s Dev...
George G. M. James
George G. M. James NONE Dr. George G. M. James, born November 9, 1893 in Guyana, was a significant historian and author who asserted that Greek philosophy originated from North Africa. He argued that...
Synthia SAINT JAMES
Synthia SAINT JAMES 0000000035735390 Synthia SAINT JAMES, a LA and NY-raised artist, sold her first painting at 20. She held her first solo exhibition in LA in 1977 and participated in her first inte...
The Top 7 American Writers of the 20th Century
The Top 7 American Writers of the 20th Century Troy Johnson Article [caption id="attachment_948" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="AALBC.com Founder, Troy Johnson on James Baldwin"][/caption] ...
The Talk (paperback): Conversations about Race, Love & Truth
The Talk (paperback): Conversations about Race, Love & Truth Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson 9780593121641 Nonfiction Yearling Penguin Random House Thirty diverse, award-winning authors and illus...
The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth
The Talk: Conversations about Race, Love & Truth Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson 9780593121610 Nonfiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Perfect for readers of Flying Lessons ...
Revolutions Are Made of Love: The Story of James Boggs and Grace Lee Boggs
Revolutions Are Made of Love: The Story of James Boggs and Grace Lee Boggs Mélina Mangal 9798765611524 Nonfiction Carolrhoda Books Lerner Publishing Group Revolutions are made out of love for people a...
A Million Little Pieces
A Million Little Pieces James Frey 9780385507752 Fiction Nan A. Talese Nan A. Talese Intense, unpredictable, and instantly engaging, A Million Little Pieces is a story of drug and alcohol abuse and re...
Sondra Kathryn Wilson
Sondra Kathryn Wilson NONE Dr. Sondra Kathryn Wilson was a senior associate at Harvard's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, founder of the James Weldon Johnson Foundation, and executor of Johnson’s literary e...
James Webb’s Ancient Cosmos: A Journey to the Beginning of Time
James Webb’s Ancient Cosmos: A Journey to the Beginning of Time Maggie Aderin-Pocock 9781789299298 Nonfiction Michael O'Mara Books US Michael O'Mara Books An essential companion for anyone wanting to ...
Kerry James Marshall: Rythm Mastr. This Is How It Begins
Kerry James Marshall: Rythm Mastr. This Is How It Begins Kerry James Marshall 9780847835614 Nonfiction Rizzoli Electa Rizzoli International Publications The Iconic Comic Created by Contemporary Africa...
James Baldwin 3-Book Box Set: Giovanni’s Room, If Beale Street Could Talk, and Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin 3-Book Box Set: Giovanni’s Room, If Beale Street Could Talk, and Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin 9780593689714 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House Celebrating the Centenary of ...