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Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City

by Wes Moore

Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City Wes Moore 9780525512363 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House "An illuminating portrait of Baltimore in the aftermath of the April 2015 death of ...

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Mosaic Literary Magazine Issue #43: Queer/Black/Lit

by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Mosaic Literary Magazine Issue #43: Queer/Black/Lit Mecca Jamilah Sullivan mosaic43 Fiction Mosaic Literary Magazine Mosaic Literary Magazine Bringing together an intergenerational, diasporic, multige...

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Marshall Law: The Life & Times of a Baltimore Black Panther

by Eddie Conway

Marshall Law: The Life & Times of a Baltimore Black Panther Eddie Conway 9781849350228 Nonfiction AK Press AK Press Marshall “Eddie” Conway is a former member of the Baltimore chapter of the Black Pan...

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Borrow Trouble

by Victor McGlothin and Mary Monroe

Borrow Trouble Victor McGlothin and Mary Monroe 9781617734359 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. A woman lets herself go and finally does something wrong. Down on his luck, a man tries to do...

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Lessons Of Redemption

by Kevin Shird

Lessons Of Redemption Kevin Shird 9780989501293 Nonfiction Perfect Publishing Perfect Publishing Lessons of Redemption tells the story of his life from his time on the tough streets of Baltimore City,...

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Ms. Etta’s Fast House

by Victor McGlothin

Ms. Etta’s Fast House Victor McGlothin 9780758213815 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Essence bestselling author Victor McGlothin delivers a stirring novel about a player who’s down on his l...

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So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival

by Kwame Dawes

So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival Kwame Dawes 9781936070077 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books Contributors include: Robert Pins...

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Survive the Dome

by Kosoko Jackson

Survive the Dome Kosoko Jackson 9781728239088 Fiction Sourcebooks Fire Sourcebooks The Hate U Give meets Internment in this pulse-pounding thriller about an impenetrable dome around Baltimore that is ...

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A Beautiful Ghetto

by Devin Allen

A Beautiful Ghetto Devin Allen 9781608467594 Nonfiction Haymarket Books Haymarket Books On April 18, 2015, the city of Baltimore erupted in mass protests in response to the brutal murder of Freddie Gr...

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Round And Round Together: Taking A Merry-Go-Round Ride Into The Civil Rights Movement (The Nautilus Series)

by Amy Nathan

Round And Round Together: Taking A Merry-Go-Round Ride Into The Civil Rights Movement (The Nautilus Series) Amy Nathan 9781589880719 Nonfiction Paul Dry Books Paul Dry Books "A snapshot of the civil-r...

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Cash Rules

by Thomas Long

Cash Rules Thomas Long 9781601620156 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Cash Rules is a tale about three best friends from Baltimore City who have big plans to make it in the rap world....

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City of S The History of New York City during the Civil War

by John Strausbaugh

City of S The History of New York City during the Civil War John Strausbaugh 9781455584185 Nonfiction Twelve Hachette Book Group WINNER OF THE FLETCHER PRATT AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION BOOK OF 2016In...

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Festival of Colors

by Surishtha Sehgal and Kabir Sehgal

Festival of Colors Surishtha Sehgal and Kabir Sehgal 9781481420495 Fiction Beach Lane Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Learn all about Holi, the Indian Festival of Colors, in this lush picture book from b...

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Got (Seven Weapon Arsenal)

by D

Got (Seven Weapon Arsenal) D 9781933354163 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "There’s a new player stepping into the street-lit spotlight, and he’s one to watch…Urban libraries have to get Got."—Lib...

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We’re Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy

by Elijah E. Cummings

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...

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Trouble in Rio: A Family Business Novel

by M. T. Pope and Carl Weber

Trouble in Rio: A Family Business Novel M. T. Pope and Carl Weber 9781622865864 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Rio Duncan is one of the youngest children of the Duncan clan. With no s...

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The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America

by D. Watkins

The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America D. Watkins 9781510703353 Nonfiction Hot Books Skyhorse Publishing Searing Dispatches from the Urban Zones Where African American Men Have Be...

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Hidden in Plain View: Darryl Billups Mystery #2

by Blair S. Walker

Hidden in Plain View: Darryl Billups Mystery #2 Blair S. Walker 9781935597612 Nonfiction Amazon Publishing Amazon Publishing In the second installment of Blair S. Walker’s Darryl Billups series, the i...

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The Rib King

by Ladee Hubbard

The Rib King Ladee Hubbard 9780062979070 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Thrillist - 30 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2021Book Riot - Our Most Anticipated Releases of 2021Real Simple - The Best New Boo...

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Street Tales: A Street Lit Anthology

by Shannon Holmes, Wahida Clark, Victor L. Martin, Sa'id Salaam, Reds Johnson, Hood Chronicles, Joe Awsum, and Vance Phillips

Street Tales: A Street Lit Anthology Shannon Holmes, Wahida Clark, Victor L. Martin, Sa'id Salaam, Reds Johnson, Hood Chronicles, Joe Awsum, and Vance Phillips 9781947732551 Fiction Wahida Clark Prese...

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LitVersation: The Book Conversation Game

by Debra Owsley

LitVersation: The Book Conversation Game Debra Owsley litversations Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published To buy this game, please visit the creator’s website “Hello My name is...

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The Brother You Choose: Paul Coates and Eddie Conway Talk about Life, Politics, and the Revolution

by Susie Day, W. Paul Coates and Eddie Conway

The Brother You Choose: Paul Coates and Eddie Conway Talk about Life, Politics, and the Revolution Susie Day, W. Paul Coates and Eddie Conway 9781642591545 Nonfiction Haymarket Books Haymarket Books ...

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Baltimore Raw

by Aisha Hall

Baltimore Raw Aisha Hall 9781944992637 Fiction Wahida Clark Presents Publishing Green and Company LLC Nasty and Soulja, were ruthless kingpins on the streets of Baltimore. Now in prison, nothing has c...

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They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement

by Wesley Lowery

They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement Wesley Lowery 9780316312479 Nonfiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group "Electric…so well r...

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This Is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature

by Ahdaf Soueif and Omar Robert Hamilton

This Is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature Ahdaf Soueif and Omar Robert Hamilton 9781632868848 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing Writers from Ali...

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A People’s History of Chicago

by Kevin Coval

A People’s History of Chicago Kevin Coval 9781608466719 Poetry Haymarket Books Haymarket Books Known variously as “the Windy City,” “the City of Big Shoulders,” or “Chi-Raq,” Chicago is one of the mos...

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The Face That Launched A Thousand Bullets

by T. Styles

The Face That Launched A Thousand Bullets T. Styles 9780982391327 Fiction Cartel Publications Cartel Publications The Face That Launched A Thousand Bullets: Two men. Two feuding cities. One woman. One...

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Black Boy Smile: A Memoir in Moments

by D. Watkins

Black Boy Smile: A Memoir in Moments D. Watkins 9780306924002 Nonfiction Legacy Lit Hachette Book Group “This is, no doubt, an origin story for the ages.” —Jason Reynolds, New York Times bestselling a...

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Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II

by John Strausbaugh

Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II John Strausbaugh 9781455567485 Nonfiction Twelve Hachette Book Group From John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition and The V...

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The Unpublished City: Volume II

by Phoebe Wang, Canisia Lubrin, and Dionne Brand

The Unpublished City: Volume II Phoebe Wang, Canisia Lubrin, and Dionne Brand 9781771664639 Fiction Book*hug Press Book*hug Press Orient yourself in the city with these nineteen works of creative non-...

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Rayful Edmond: Washington D.C.’s Most Notorious Drug Lord

by Seth Ferranti

Rayful Edmond: Washington D.C.’s Most Notorious Drug Lord Seth Ferranti 9780980068771 Nonfiction Gorilla Convict Publications Gorilla Convict Publications To many in his hometown of Washington, D.C., ...

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The Burning City

by Alaya Dawn Johnson

The Burning City Alaya Dawn Johnson 9781932841459 Fiction Agate Bolden Agate Publishing, Inc In The Burning City, Alaya Dawn Johnson continues the trilogy begun with her debut, Racing the Dark, delvin...

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Kansas City

by Delia C. Gillis

Kansas City Delia C. Gillis 9780738534480 Nonfiction Arcadia Publishing Arcadia Publishing Since 1803, when York, a slave in the Lewis and Clark expedition, stood on the bluffs overlooking Kansas City...

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We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America

by D. Watkins

We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America D. Watkins 9781501187834 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the row houses of Baltimore to the stoops of Brooklyn, the New Y...

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Complex Puzzle: Why should growing up be so complexicated

by R.C. McDonald

Complex Puzzle: Why should growing up be so complexicated R.C. McDonald 9780692169209 Fiction Nicholson & Fisher Nicholson & Fisher Racial tensions have plagued the black community for decades. Black ...

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Money Can’t Buy Love

by Connie Briscoe

Money Can’t Buy Love Connie Briscoe 9780446534840 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Lenora Stone used to say if she didn’t have bad luck, she wouldn’t have any luck at all. At age t...

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Rise to the Sun

by Leah Johnson

Rise to the Sun Leah Johnson 9781338662238 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. From the author of You Should See Me in a Crown, Leah Johnson delivers a stunning novel about being brave enough to ...

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Reflections from Zora!: Celebrating 25 Years of the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities

by Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, N. Y. Nathiri, and others

Reflections from Zora!: Celebrating 25 Years of the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, N. Y. Nathiri, and others 9781886104686 Nonfiction Florida Histor...

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O Sinners!

by Nicole Cuffy

O Sinners! Nicole Cuffy 9780593597446 Fiction One World Penguin Random House In this “engrossing” (Los Angeles Times) novel that sweeps from present-day California to the Vietnam War and back, a griev...

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The Furrows

by Namwali Serpell

The Furrows Namwali Serpell 9780593448915 Fiction Hogarth Press Penguin Random House How do you grieve an absence? A brilliantly inventive novel about loss and belonging, from the award-winning author...

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Alice’s Musical Debut

by DuEwa M. Frazier

Alice’s Musical Debut DuEwa M. Frazier 9781539945550 Fiction Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing Alice’s Musical Debut reimagines one day in the childhood of notable jazz pianist, harpist, and o...

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Deanne In The Middle

by DuEwa M. Frazier

Deanne In The Middle DuEwa M. Frazier 9780971905290 Fiction Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing What would you do if you were caught in the middle? 14 year-old Deanne T. Summers knows that start...

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Goddess Under The Bridge Poems

by DuEwa M. Frazier

Goddess Under The Bridge Poems DuEwa M. Frazier 9780971905283 Poetry Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing From the award nominated poet and author of Shedding Light From My Journeys, Stardust Tra...

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Shedding Light From My Journeys

by DuEwa M. Frazier

Shedding Light From My Journeys DuEwa M. Frazier 9780971905269 Poetry Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing Shedding Light from My Journeys is a volume of poetry which reveals the passionate and i...

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Street Chronicles: A Woman’s Work

by Nikki Turner

Street Chronicles: A Woman’s Work Nikki Turner 9780345504302 Nonfiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House The heralded Queen of Hip-Hop Lit presents an addictive collection of celebrated urban...

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Ten Marbles And A Bag To Put Them In: Poems For Children

by DuEwa M. Frazier

Ten Marbles And A Bag To Put Them In: Poems For Children DuEwa M. Frazier 9780971905245 Nonfiction Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing Ten Marbles is a collection of poems for children. The poe...

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Total Chaos: The Art And Aesthetics Of Hip-Hop

by Jeff Chang

Total Chaos: The Art And Aesthetics Of Hip-Hop Jeff Chang 9780465009091 Nonfiction Basic Civitas Books Perseus Books It’s not just rap music. Hip-hop has transformed theater, dance, performance, poetr...

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Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees

by DuEwa M. Frazier

Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees DuEwa M. Frazier 9780971905238 Poetry Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing Nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding...

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Stardust Tracks on a Road

by DuEwa M. Frazier

Stardust Tracks on a Road DuEwa M. Frazier 9780971905221 Poetry Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing Stardust Tracks is a classic literary offering, from a young writer with an old, traveling sou...

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When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era

by Donovan X. Ramsey

When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era Donovan X. Ramsey 9780525511816 Nonfiction Random House Publishing Group Penguin Random House Finalist For The National Book Critics Circ...

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No Justice, No Peace: From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter

by Devin Allen

No Justice, No Peace: From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter Devin Allen 9780306925900 Nonfiction Legacy Lit Hachette Book Group Award-winning photographer Devin Allen has devoted the la...

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Caught Up

by Shannon Holmes

Caught Up Shannon Holmes 9781617753749 Fiction Infamous Books Akashic Books "Holmes…is a noted pioneering street lit author. His smooth-flowing narrative mixes crime, sex, and sassy street language, g...

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Lies of the Ajungo

by Moses Ose Utomi

Lies of the Ajungo Moses Ose Utomi 9781250849069 Fiction Tordotcom Macmillan Publishers Moses Ose Utomi’s debut novella, The Lies of the Ajungo, follows one boy’s epic quest to bring water back to his...

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The Wind in the Reeds: A Storm, A Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken

by Wendell Pierce and Rod Dreher

The Wind in the Reeds: A Storm, A Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken Wendell Pierce and Rod Dreher 9781594633232 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House 2016 Christopher Award Winner Fr...

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Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised (paperback): A Memoir of Survival and Hope

by Carmelo Anthony with D. Watkins

Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised (paperback): A Memoir of Survival and Hope Carmelo Anthony with D. Watkins 9781982160609 Nonfiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From iconic NBA All-Star Carmel...

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Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope

by Carmelo Anthony with D. Watkins

Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope Carmelo Anthony with D. Watkins 9781982160593 Nonfiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Read an excusive interview with Carmelo Ant...

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A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind

by Harriet A. Washington

A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind Harriet A. Washington 9780316509442 Nonfiction Little, Brown Spark Hachette Book Group A "powerful and indispensabl...

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Dread Nation

by Justina Ireland

Dread Nation Justina Ireland 9780062570604 Fiction Balzer + Bray HarperCollins At once provocative, terrifying, and darkly subversive, Dread Nation is Justina Ireland’s stunning vision of an America b...

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The Colored Waiting Room: Empowering the Original and the New Civil Rights Movement

by Kevin Shird

The Colored Waiting Room: Empowering the Original and the New Civil Rights Movement Kevin Shird 9781948062015 Nonfiction Apollo Publishers Apollo Publishers Extraordinary conversations between a confi...

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The Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir

by D. Watkins

The Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir D. Watkins 9781455588633 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Reminiscent of the classic Random Family and The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Pea...

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Discovering Wes Moore

by Wes Moore

Discovering Wes Moore Wes Moore 9780385741682 Nonfiction Ember Ember The Young Adult Adaptation)For fans of The Wire and Unbroken comes a story of two fatherless boys from Baltimore, both named Wes Mo...

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Reginald F. Lewis Before Tlc Beatrice: The Young Man Before The Billion-Dollar Empire

by Lin Hart

Reginald F. Lewis Before Tlc Beatrice: The Young Man Before The Billion-Dollar Empire Lin Hart 9780985347925 Nonfiction LHA Publishing Company LHA Publishing Company As the man behind the unprecedente...

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Up Jumped the Devil: Darryl Billups Mystery #1

by Blair S. Walker

Up Jumped the Devil: Darryl Billups Mystery #1 Blair S. Walker 9781935597605 Nonfiction Amazon Publishing Amazon Publishing A five-year veteran of the Baltimore Herald’s police beat, Darryl Billups is...

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Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes: Darryl Billups Mystery #3

by Blair S. Walker

Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes: Darryl Billups Mystery #3 Blair S. Walker 9781935597629 Nonfiction Amazon Publishing Amazon Publishing Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes is the third outing for intrepid Afr...

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Aya Life in Yop City

by Marguerite Abouet

Aya Life in Yop City Marguerite Abouet 9781770460829 Fiction Drawn and Quarterly Drawn and Quarterly "Aya is an irresistible comedy, a couple of love stories and a tale for becoming African. It’s esse...

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The City We Became

by N. K. Jemisin

The City We Became N. K. Jemisin 9780316509848 Fiction Orbit Books Hachette Book Group Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city from an ancient evil in the first book of a stu...

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Sin City Vows

by Zuri Day

Sin City Vows Zuri Day 9781335603531 Fiction Harlequin Desire Harlequin Enterprises Limited A runaway bride rushes right into the arms of her boss’s playboy son in this sizzling Sin City Secrets novel...

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Chicago Flashback: The People and Events That Shaped a City’s History

by Chicago Tribune Staff

Chicago Flashback: The People and Events That Shaped a City’s History Chicago Tribune Staff 9781572842359 Nonfiction Agate Midway Agate Publishing The devoted journalists at the Chicago Tribune have b...

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The Phoenix Files Trilogy

by Kianna Alexander

The Phoenix Files Trilogy Kianna Alexander 9781502593863 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC The PHOENIX Files Trilogy Heat Level: Sensual/ Steamy (Love scenes are present but are NOT graphi...

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One April Morning: Children Remember the Oklahoma City Bombing

by Nancy Lamb and Children Of Oklahoma City

One April Morning: Children Remember the Oklahoma City Bombing Nancy Lamb and Children Of Oklahoma City 9780688146665 Fiction HarperCollins Publishers HarperCollins The April 1995 bombing of the Alfre...

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7:33 AM

by Monda Raquel Webb

7:33 AM Monda Raquel Webb 9780979782718 Fiction Monda Media, Inc. Monda Media, Inc. In a city where power struggles take place daily on Capitol Hill, another power struggle is taking place beyond the ...

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Africville

by Shauntay Grant

Africville Shauntay Grant 9781773060439 Fiction Groundwood Books Anansi Press When a young girl visits the site of Africville, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the stories she’s heard from her family come to ...

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Carnival: A Novel

by Robert Antoni

Carnival: A Novel Robert Antoni 9780802170057 Fiction Black Cat Grove Atlantic, Inc. Robert Antoni has established himself as one of the most innovative voices to emerge from the Caribbean and the Ame...

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Public Enemy #1

by Kiki Swinson

Public Enemy #1 Kiki Swinson 9781496729774 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. National bestselling author and urban lit superstar Kiki Swinson amps up the action and suspense with unpredictabl...

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Times Square Red, Times Square Blue

by Samuel R. Delany

Times Square Red, Times Square Blue Samuel R. Delany 9781479827770 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press Twentieth anniversary edition of a landmark book that cataloged a vibr...

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Whiskey & Ribbons: A Novel

by Leesa Cross-Smith

Whiskey & Ribbons: A Novel Leesa Cross-Smith 9781938235382 Fiction Hub City Press Hub City Press O, The Oprah Magazine’s Best Books of the SummerLonglisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize...

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Rhythms: A Novel

by Donna Hill

Rhythms: A Novel Donna Hill 9780312300692 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers It all began in 1927, in the small town of Rudell, Mississippi, after the sudden and tragic death of Cora Ha...

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Hip-Hop City - Where Every Beat Tells A Story

by Kim Goodlook Seabrook

Hip-Hop City - Where Every Beat Tells A Story Kim Goodlook Seabrook 9798986566382 Fiction Goodlook in Books Goodlook in Books Take a vibrant trip through the boroughs of rhythm with Hip Hop City, a ch...

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Memory of the Ogisi

by Moses Ose Utomi

Memory of the Ogisi Moses Ose Utomi 9781250849045 Fiction Tordotcom Macmillan Publishers The epic conclusion to Moses Ose Utomi’s critically-acclaimed Forever Desert series, The Memory of the Ogisi sh...

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Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City

by Andrea Elliott

Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City Andrea Elliott 9780812986945 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House “Destined to become one of the classics of the genre” (Newsweek)...

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Dawn & The Return Of Madame Hot Temper: Black Camelot’s #2

by Darius Myers

Dawn & The Return Of Madame Hot Temper: Black Camelot’s #2 Darius Myers 9781087906645 Fiction Fero Scitus Fero Scitus Black Camelot’s Dawn is the sequel to The Publisher’s Dilemma and the second novel...

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Dawn & The Return Of Madame Hot Temper (paperback): Black Camelot’s #2

by Darius Myers

Dawn & The Return Of Madame Hot Temper (paperback): Black Camelot’s #2 Darius Myers 9781638483960 Fiction Fero Scitus Fero Scitus Black Camelot’s Dawn is the sequel to The Publisher’s Dilemma and the ...

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Sin City Seduction: A Passionate Bad Boy Meets Good Girl Romance

by Zuri Day

Sin City Seduction: A Passionate Bad Boy Meets Good Girl Romance Zuri Day 9781335209283 Fiction Harlequin Desire Harlequin Enterprises Limited Enjoy this sexy good girl meets bad boy story in this sen...

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New Orleans Sports: Playing Hard in the Big Easy

by Thomas Aiello

New Orleans Sports: Playing Hard in the Big Easy Thomas Aiello 9781682261002 Nonfiction University of Arkansas Press University of Arkansas Press New Orleans has long been a city fixated on its own hi...

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Food and the City

by Ina Yalof

Food and the City Ina Yalof 9780425279052 Nonfiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Penguin Random House "[A] compelling volume by a writer whose beat is not food. What she offers are first-person accounts from m...

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Still, in the City: Creating Peace of Mind in the Midst of Urban Chaos

by Angela Dews

Still, in the City: Creating Peace of Mind in the Midst of Urban Chaos Angela Dews 9781510732339 Nonfiction Skyhorse Publishing Skyhorse Publishing Still, in the City is a collection of stories about ...

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The Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook

by Aaron Foley

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...

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Subway Beats: Celebrating New York City Buskers

by Kurt Boone

Subway Beats: Celebrating New York City Buskers Kurt Boone 9780764351822 Nonfiction Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Immerse yourself in the raw energy and enthusiasm of New York Ci...

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Living Just A Little

by Guy Sims

Living Just A Little Guy Sims 9780615695419 Fiction Solitude Press Solitude Press In 1985, Elliston “Ellis” Parker watched two city blocks burn to the ground from his living room window. From that fat...

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Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City

by Natalie Hopkinson

Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City Natalie Hopkinson 9780822352112 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books Go-go is the conga drum–inflected black po...

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Lemon City: A Novel

by Elaine Meryl Brown

Lemon City: A Novel Elaine Meryl Brown 9780345510693 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House In this wry fiction debut, Elaine Meryl Brown plunges lucky readers into a gripping narrative of ...

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City of God: A Novel

by Paulo Lins

City of God: A Novel Paulo Lins 9780802170101 Fiction Black Cat Grove Atlantic, Inc. The searing novel on which the internationally acclaimed hit film was based, City of God is a gritty, gorgeous tour...

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Caught In The Mix

by Candice Dow

Caught In The Mix Candice Dow 9780758210531 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. Caught Up In Dreams For Clark Anderson, senior year at Hampton University promises to be her finest yet. The ...

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Firefighter

by Herman Williams

Firefighter Herman Williams 9781588250070 Nonfiction Mountain Movers Press Penguin Random House Herman Williams is the father of Montel Williams. As a boy, he and his family fled Harlem to escape the ...

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Guildworks: Writings by the West Side Writers Guild

by Mark Allen Boone

Guildworks: Writings by the West Side Writers Guild Mark Allen Boone 9780964955103 Nonfiction Blacksmith Books Blacksmith Books With its slick cover, solid editing, and often compelling work, Guildwor...

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Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted

by Ben Okri

Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted Ben Okri 9781635425284 Fiction Other Press (NY) Other Press In this modern fable with the impish magic of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a masked ba...

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Santa’s Holiday Mix-Up

by Renita Bryant

Santa’s Holiday Mix-Up Renita Bryant 9781957092928 Fiction Mynd Matters Publishing Mynd Matters Publishing Santa and his sleigh are loaded up with gifts and headed to spread holiday cheer with nothing...

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Esi the Brave (Who Was Not Afraid of Anything)

by Bernard Mensah

Esi the Brave (Who Was Not Afraid of Anything) Bernard Mensah 9780593406410 Fiction Dial Books Penguin Random House A bold and bright picture book about being brave when you’re scared in a new, overwh...

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Acoustic Rooster’s Barnyard Boogie Starring Indigo Blume

by Kwame Alexander

Acoustic Rooster’s Barnyard Boogie Starring Indigo Blume Kwame Alexander 9781534111141 Fiction Clarion Books HarperCollins On the eve of singing at a community festival, a bout of stage fright threa...

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Dance Quadrille and Play Quelbe

by Opal Palmer Adisa

Dance Quadrille and Play Quelbe Opal Palmer Adisa 9781733829946 Fiction CAS CAS Books The annual Quadrille and Quelbe Festival is finally here and Jasmine and Justin are excited to be dancing and play...

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