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Baltimore Read Aloud Mobile and Pop-Up Bookstore Book Spotlights Nicole A. Johnson founded Baltimore Read Aloud Mobile and Pop-Up Bookstore: Learn More at: https://aalbc.com/bookstore/Baltimore+Read+A...
Lillie Patterson
Lillie Patterson NONE Lillie Patterson, a retired Baltimore teacher, wrote 16 children's books, including biographies, history, and poetry. Known for her vivid characters and moral stories, her works...
Marshall Law: The Life & Times of a Baltimore Black Panther
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...
Devin Allen
Devin Allen NONE Devin Allen is a self-taught artist from Baltimore. He's known for his powerful photographs published on Time magazine covers, notably during the Baltimore Uprising and BlackTrans Li...
My Aunt Came Back (Harper Growing Tree)
My Aunt Came Back (Harper Growing Tree) Pat Cummings 9780694010592 Fiction HarperFestival HarperCollins My aunt came back.For toddlers just discovering the joy of mimicking words and sounds, this exub...
They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement
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...
Baltimore City Lit Festival
Baltimore City Lit Festival Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Baltimore Maryland Baltimore’s award-winning annual festival of all things literary takes place each spring, and remains one of CityLit...
Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City
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 ...
Borrow Trouble
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...
Lessons Of Redemption
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,...
Ms. Etta’s Fast House
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...
Afaa Michael Weaver
Afaa Michael Weaver 0000000028622865 Afaa Michael Weaver, born in 1951, is a former factory worker turned prolific poet, writer, and educator. He founded Seventh Son Press, wrote for numerous promine...
Christopher Chambers
Christopher Chambers NONE Born and raised in DC, Christopher Chambers is an honors graduate of Princeton University and the University of Baltimore School of Law. He served with the US Justice Depart...
Thomas Long
Thomas Long 0000000376122955 Thomas Long, a self-published poet from Baltimore, transitioned to urban fiction, reflecting his experiences growing up in the inner city. His debut novel, Dayvon’s Story...
Felicia Pearson
Felicia Pearson 0000000036169140 Felicia “Snoop“ Pearson, known for her chilling role in HBO's The Wire, has overcome significant life challenges. Born in difficult circumstances in East Baltimor...
D. Watkins
D. Watkins NONE D. Watkins is a Salon columnist and University of Baltimore professor, with work published in the New York Times, Rolling Stone and more. He holds a master’s in Education and an MFA i...
Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Miguel Algarin 9780805032574 Poetry Holt Paperbacks Macmillan Publishers Compiled by poets who have been at the center of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New Yo...
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Rebellious Read Alouds: Inviting Conversations about Diversity with Children′s Books [Grades K-5]
Rebellious Read Alouds: Inviting Conversations about Diversity with Children′s Books [Grades K-5] Vera Ahiyya 9781071844144 Nonfiction Corwin Corwin Spark meaningful conversations about race, identity...
Elizabeth Murphy Oliver
Elizabeth Murphy Oliver NONE Elizabeth Murphy Oliver Abney, former city editor and columnist for the Baltimore Afro-American and granddaughter of its founder, has died at 85. A respected journalist a...
How High Is Heaven?
How High Is Heaven? Linsey Davis 9780310770060 Fiction Zonderkidz HarperCollins Christian Publishing Children ask A LOT of questions when it comes to heaven, particularly when they’ve experienced the ...
Bright Brown Baby
Bright Brown Baby Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney 9780545872294 Fiction Orchard Books Orchard Books A rhythmic, whimsically illustrated celebration of Black and brown babies and the joy, tende...
Hip-Hop Lollipop
Hip-Hop Lollipop Susan Montanari 9781101934821 Fiction Schwartz & Wade Random House Children's Books In this lyrical read-aloud filled with rhythm and rhyme and illustrated by Caldecott Honor winner B...
Michelle Meadows
Michelle Meadows NONE Michelle Meadows is a celebrated children's author of 10 books, best known for her debut, 'The Way The Storm Stops'. Her heartwarming stories, often read aloud, help children na...
Susan Hood
Susan Hood 0000000116439796 Award-winning author Susan Hood has penned numerous books for young readers and has received notable accolades such as the E. B. White Read Aloud Picture Book Honor, the C...
Baltimore Book Festival
Baltimore Book Festival Waverly neighborhood (on 30th, 31st, and 32nd streets to the west of Greenmount Avenue) Baltimore Maryland The festival was founded in 1996, inspired in part by Mayor Schmoke’s...
Survive the Dome
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 ...
The Brother You Choose: Paul Coates and Eddie Conway Talk about Life, Politics, and the Revolution
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 ...
We’re Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy
We’re Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy Elijah E. Cummings 9780062992260 Nonfiction Harper HarperCollins Baltimore Congressman Elijah Cummings was known for saying “We’re bett...
Baltimore Raw
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...
Trouble in Rio: A Family Business Novel
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...
A Beautiful Ghetto
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...
The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America
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...
Round And Round Together: Taking A Merry-Go-Round Ride Into The Civil Rights Movement (The Nautilus Series)
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...
Hidden in Plain View: Darryl Billups Mystery #2
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...
Cash Rules
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....
Candice Dow
Candice Dow NONE Candice Dow, a Baltimore native and alumna of the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University, transitioned from a Senior Software Engineer to a full-time writer. After secur...
Lauren Francis-Sharma
Lauren Francis-Sharma NONE Lauren Francis Sharma, a New York-born author of Trinidadian descent, pursued law before becoming a writer. Raised in Baltimore, she graduated from the University of Pennsy...
Larry Neal Shorter
Larry Neal Shorter NONE Larry Neal Shorter, also known as “Big Larry”, is a Baltimore-born author who has made a name for himself in the urban literature scene. After moving to Los Angeles and studyi...
Alexandra Morton
Alexandra Morton 0000000078676423 Alexandra Morton, host of The Book Look and 2011 Miss Black America-Baltimore, offers a unique online book review show on NewsOne.com. Featuring the latest book news...
R.C. McDonald
R.C. McDonald NONE R.C. McDonald, a Baltimore native, is an accomplished author and entrepreneur. A graduate of Morgan State University, Bowie State University, and the University of Maryland, McDona...
Blair S. Walker
Blair S. Walker NONE Blair S. Walker, a Baltimore native and son of educators, is a former army linguist and journalist for outlets like USA Today, New York Newsday, and the Washington Post. He is th...
Leslie Gray Streeter
Leslie Gray Streeter NONE Leslie Gray Streeter is an award-winning journalist and columnist for the Baltimore Banner. She is also the cohost of the podcast Fine Beats and Cheeses, and a frequent spea...
The Sun’s Daughter
The Sun’s Daughter Pat Sherman 9780618324309 Fiction Clarion Books HarperCollins "A moving tale of selfishness and bravery…suitable for readalouds…a folkloric look at the seasons." BCCB Bulletin of th...
The Friendly Four
The Friendly Four Eloise Greenfield 9780060007614 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Celebrate friendship with Coretta Scott King Award winners Eloise Greenfield and Jan Spivey Gilchrist!Drum is worried th...
Addie Boswell
Addie Boswell NONE Addie Boswell, a Portland-based author and muralist, is known for her award-winning book, The Rain Stomper. Her works include Go, Bikes, Go!, Go, Planes, Go!, The Snow Dancer, and ...
Host a Listening Party for SHUT UP AND READ!
Host a Listening Party for SHUT UP AND READ! Jeannine A. Cook Article .image:hover { transform: translateY(-5px); box-shadow: 0 12px 24px rgba(255, 126, 3, 0.4); } Host a Listening Pa...
The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read
The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read Rita Lorraine Hubbard 9781524768287 Nonfiction Schwartz & Wade Random House Children's Books Imagine learning to read at the age of 116! Discover th...
Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope
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...
Matthew Tyner, Sr.
Matthew Tyner, Sr. MULTIPLE Matthew (Matt) Tyner, Sr. is the author of Fast and Hard: From Addictions to Redemption. He is a man who has reinvented himself and has invested his second chance at life...
Kysha N. Brown
Kysha N. Brown NONE A college classmate and friend of Kysha Brown Robinson’s once said of her first impression of Brown: "I remember seeing this little girl sitting at the front of the ro...
Read & Co. Books
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The Rib King
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...
Red Light Special
Red Light Special Thumper Book Review Yeah, yeah, surprised that I am reviewing, no less read, Red Light Special by Risqu’. Well, I am too. don't let the surprise be about the sub...
Never Been a Time
Never Been a Time Thumper Book Review I am continuing my own personal goal of reading more history and biography books. If my memory serves me correctly, I think it had something to d...
Monique Couvson: How Data Informs Her Practice
Monique Couvson: How Data Informs Her Practice Author Interviews Monique Couvson speaks during the Baltimore Book Festival in Baltimore Maryland (September 20, 2026)
Cerece Rennie Murphy: In the Garden of Light and Shadow
Cerece Rennie Murphy: In the Garden of Light and Shadow Author Interviews National bestselling and award-winning author Cerece Rennie Murphy discusses her novel, In the Garden of Light and Shadow, dur...
A Report From The Field
A Report From The Field A Report From The Field 360? A Revolution of Black Poets -- A Report From The Field "360? was a two day gathering of poets in Baltimore, Maryland on September 11 & 12...
The Third Annual African American Children’s Book Fair
The Third Annual African American Children’s Book Fair The Third Annual African American Children’s Book Fair The Third Annual African American Children’s Book Fair The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of ...
Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised (paperback): A Memoir of Survival and Hope
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...
A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind
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...
We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America
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...
Complex Puzzle: Why should growing up be so complexicated
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 ...
Dread Nation
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...
The Colored Waiting Room: Empowering the Original and the New Civil Rights Movement
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...
The Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir
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...
Discovering 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...
Black Classic Press Kicks off a Year-Long Celebration of 35 Years in Business
Black Classic Press Kicks off a Year-Long Celebration of 35 Years in Business Author Interviews More About Paul Coates: https://aalbc.com/reviews/wpaulcoates.htm On June 12th 2013, BLACK CLASSIC PRESS...
Reginald F. Lewis Before Tlc Beatrice: The Young Man Before The Billion-Dollar Empire
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...
Up Jumped the Devil: Darryl Billups Mystery #1
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...
Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes: Darryl Billups Mystery #3
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...
Money Can’t Buy Love
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...
The Face That Launched A Thousand Bullets
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...
Stevie Wonder Concert Clip
Stevie Wonder Concert Clip Troy Johnson Article Stevie Wonder Concert Clip I drove from NYC and paid almost 3 times face for a pair of tickets to see Stevie Wonder perform on a chilly evening on the ...
Kwasi Ramsey
Kwasi Ramsey NONE Baltimore-born author Kwasi Ramsey, winner of the CLA Margaret Walker and Red Sparrow Poetry Awards, is inspired by poets like Amiri Baraka and musicians such as Tupac Shakur. Kwasi...
Katie McCabe
Katie McCabe NONE Katie McCabe is an award-winning freelance writer featured in Washingtonian Magazine, Baltimore Magazine, and Reader’s Digest. Her piece on Vivien Thomas was adapted into a Peabody ...
Camilla Sucre
Camilla Sucre NONE Camilla Sucre, a first-generation Trinidadian American illustrator, was born in New York and raised in Baltimore. She holds a BFA in illustration from MICA. “Space for Everyone” is...
Anika Malone
Anika Malone NONE Anika Malone, author of the acclaimed “10 Minutes Past Too Late”, is celebrated as a fresh voice in contemporary fiction. She has participated in notable book events across the Unit...
Rudolph Lewis
Rudolph Lewis NONE Rudolph Lewis is an author and the Editor and Founder of ChickenBones: A Journal one of the webs most importsant and oldest websites Rudolph Lewis (born 1948 in Baltimore, Maryland...
Stephannie Solomon
Stephannie Solomon NONE Stephannie Solomon, a Baltimore native and devout Christian, is a minister, author, educator, and founder of Conversations With The King Ministries. Her work spans from local ...
David Miller
David Miller 0000000081542995 David C. Miller, a Baltimore author and Ph.D. candidate, is renowned for his work, “Dare to Be King,” a 52-week curriculum teaching young African American males survival...
Joshua Clark Davis
Joshua Clark Davis NONE Joshua Clark Davis is a history professor at the University of Baltimore, specializing in 20th-century American history, capitalism, and social movements. He's also a public a...
Victoria Kennedy
Victoria Kennedy NONE Victoria Kennedy, author of 'Where Love Goes' and debut novel 'Sometimes Love', contributes to the Literary Café Magazine and is the founder of Zora’s Den, a group for Black wo...
A. C. Arthur
A. C. Arthur NONE Baltimore-based author C. Arthur, known for infusing romance with fresh dialogue, intriguing plots, and sensual scenes, captivates readers with her innovative style. Drawing from he...
Ron Howell
Ron Howell NONE Ron Howell is a seasoned journalist and Associate Professor of Journalism at Brooklyn College with a focus on the Caribbean, Latin America, and NYC. He has written for Newsday, Associ...
Gloria Oden
Gloria Oden 0000000382838642 Gloria Catherine Oden (1923-2011) was a renowned poet, editor, and English professor from New York. A Pulitzer Prize nominee for her poetry collection 'Resurrections', sh...
Elijah E. Cummings
Elijah E. Cummings NONE Elijah E. Cummings (1951-2019) was a dedicated public servant and congressman representing Maryland's 7th District. Born and raised in Baltimore, he studied at Howard Universi...
Raymond A. Winbush
Raymond A. Winbush NONE Raymond A. Winbush, Ph.D., Director of the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State University, is a psychology graduate from Oakwood College and University of Chicago. He...
Ron Lacks
Ron Lacks NONE "Ron Lacks, the oldest grandson of Henrietta Lacks, shares a deeply personal memoir in 'Henrietta Lacks The Untold Story', revealing the past 9 years of his family's history. The book ...
Clarence McNair
Clarence McNair NONE Baltimore native and ex-Motown artist, Clarence “KD†McNair, overcame hardships and mental health struggles after losing his record deal. Once part of the group, Prophet Jone...
Eddie C. Brown
Eddie C. Brown 0000000119429622 Eddie Carl Brown, born in 1940, is a renowned investment manager and founder of Brown Capital Management. Recognized as a pioneer of minority-owned investment firms, h...
Derrick Weston
Derrick Weston NONE Derrick Weston is a community organizer, theological educator, and documentary filmmaker. He works for Creation Justice Ministries and co-hosts The Food and Faith Podcast. He live...
Scott Shane
Scott Shane 0000000110670081 Scott Shane is a Pulitzer-winning former reporter for The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun. He's authored two books: 'Dismantling Utopia' about the Soviet Union's col...
John Blake
John Blake 0000000043266547 John Blake is an acclaimed CNN journalist and GLAAD Media Award winner. Recognized by numerous institutions for his work in journalism, he focuses on race, religion, and p...
Michelle V. Agins and Julia Chance
Michelle V. Agins and Julia Chance MULTIPLE Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Michelle V. Agins, renowned for her work with The New York Times and publications like Essence and Sports Illustrate...
The Boys of Baraka
The Boys of Baraka Kam Williams the_bo3.jpg Film Review Kenya as Alternative to Mean Streets of Baltimore The Boys of Baraka Directed by Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady Genre: Documentary Runtime: 8...
The Other Wes Moore: One Name
The Other Wes Moore: One Name Kam Williams Book Review "This is the story of two boys living in Baltimore with similar histories and an identical name: Wes Moore. One of us is free and has experi...
A Report From The Field
A Report From The Field Troy Johnson Article 360� A Revolution of Black Poets -- A Report From The Field "360� was a two day gathering of poets in Baltimore, Maryland on September 11 & 12, ...
A Report From The Field
A Report From The Field Loading 360� A Revolution of Black Poets -- A Report From The Field "360� was a two day gathering of poets in Baltimore, Maryland on September 11 &...
It’s Almost Time for … Halloween!
It’s Almost Time for … Halloween! Maisha Oso 9781665980128 Fiction Margaret K. McElderry Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. How to Catch a Monster meets the The Night Before series in this laugh-out-loud rh...