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Ben Okri
Ben Okri 0000000121401864 Ben Okri, an award-winning poet and novelist, was born to an Igbo mother and Urhobo father in Nigeria. He had his early education in London, furthered his studies in England...
A Fire in My Head: Poems for the Dawn
A Fire in My Head: Poems for the Dawn Ben Okri 9781635423082 Poetry Other Press (NY) Other Press From the renowned Booker Prize-winning author, a powerful collection of poems covering topics of the da...
Ben Carson, Ben Crump, and Armstrong Williams
Ben Carson, Ben Crump, and Armstrong Williams MULTIPLE Ben Carson, Ben Crump, and Armstrong Williams are influential figures in their fields. Carson is a renowned neurosurgeon and author, Crump is a ...
Prayer for the Living
Prayer for the Living Ben Okri 9781617758638 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Topical and timely, Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri’s new collection of short stories blurs parallel realities and...
Mental Fight: An Epic Poem
Mental Fight: An Epic Poem Ben Okri 9781635422900 Poetry Other Press (NY) Other Press An epic poem touching on issues of racism, intolerance, and environmental destruction, from the Booker Prize-winni...
African Stories
African Stories Ben Okri 9781101908334 Fiction Everyman’s Library Everyman’s Library A Pocket Classics hardcover collection of a century of 36 terrific stories by major writers from across Africa, sel...
Wild: Poems
Wild: Poems Ben Okri 9781635422924 Poetry Other Press (NY) Other Press A rich, joyful collection of poems on living and loving from the Booker Prize-winning author. Freedom is the most precious com...
Stars Of The New Curfew
Stars Of The New Curfew Ben Okri 9780099283881 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House To enter the world of Ben Okri’s stories is to surrender to a new reality. Set in the chaotic streets of Lagos and the...
The Freedom Artist
The Freedom Artist Ben Okri 9781617757914 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Okri’s somber, fablelike novel is a call to rally against oppressive institutions and for broader social consciousness. I...
Astonishing the Gods
Astonishing the Gods Ben Okri 9781635422658 Fiction Other Press (NY) Other Press One of the BBC’s “100 Novels That Shaped Our World,” a much-needed fable that could change how we see ourselves and our...
An African Elegy Paperback
An African Elegy Paperback Ben Okri 9780099736011 Poetry Vintage Books USA Penguin Random House Dreams are the currency of Okri’s writing, particularly in this first book of poems, An African Elegy, b...
An African Elegy: Poems
An African Elegy: Poems Ben Okri 9781635423105 Poetry Other Press (NY) Other Press This moving poetry collection from the Booker Prize-winning author finds strength and hope while reflecting on the co...
Wild
Wild Ben Okri 9781846043307 Poetry Rider Books Penguin Random House Ben Okri is a prolific Booker-Prize winning novelist and essayist, but has published only two collections of poetry. The first was "...
The Landscapes Within
The Landscapes Within Ben Okri 9780582785397 Fiction Prentice Hall Press Prentice Hall Press In 1981, Nigerian author Ben Okri published The Landscapes Within, a novel about a young painter’s life and...
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story Ben Carson 9780310332909 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Read our Interview with Dr Carson about this book and film adaptation starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. ...
Yosef Ben-Jochannan
Yosef Ben-Jochannan 0000000084792068 Born in Gondar, Ethiopia, Dr. Yosef Alfredo Antonio ben-Jochannan (December 31, 1918 - March 19, 2015), or “Dr. Ben”, as he is affectionately known devoted th...
Changing Destiny (paperback)
Changing Destiny (paperback) Ben Okri 9781635422269 Fiction Other Press (NY) Other Press A bold new adaptation of the 4,000-year-old Egyptian poem about Warrior King Sinuhe that captures the essence o...
Changing Destiny
Changing Destiny Ben Okri 9781350260122 Fiction Methuen Drama Bloomsbury Press Two actors, a thousand characters, and the story of how a kingdom is changed… An epic new adaptation of the 4,000-year...
Starbook
Starbook Ben Okri 9781846040917 Fiction Random House Uk Ltd Random House Uk Ltd At one level, Starbook tells the delicate story of a prince and a maiden who are both tested by trials in a mythical lan...
The Age of Magic
The Age of Magic Ben Okri 9781635422689 Fiction Other Press (NY) Other Press In this enchanting novel from the Booker Prize-winning author, a group of world-weary travelers discover the meaning of lif...
The Last Gift of the Master Artists
The Last Gift of the Master Artists Ben Okri 9781635422795 Fiction Other Press (NY) Other Press The Booker Prize-winning author, a child of the Nigerian Civil War, reinvents through the story of the A...
Every Leaf a Hallelujah
Every Leaf a Hallelujah Ben Okri 9781635422702 Fiction Other Press (NY) Other Press An environmental fairytale that speaks eloquently to the most pressing issues of our times, from the Booker Prize–wi...
Time for New Dreams
Time for New Dreams Ben Okri 9781846042683 Poetry Rider Books Penguin Random House Booker Prize-winning novelist and one of Britain’s foremost poets, Ben Okri is a passionate advocate of the written w...
Infinite Riches (The Famished Road)
Infinite Riches (The Famished Road) Ben Okri 9780753806807 Fiction Phoenix Orion Publishing Group Azaro is a spirit child. He made a pact with his spirit companions that when he was born he would die...
A Way Of Being Free
A Way Of Being Free Ben Okri 9780753801413 Fiction Phoenix Orion Publishing Group In this inspirational volume, the Booker Prize-winning author of THE FAMISHED ROAD makes essays into an art form. The ...
The Famished Road
The Famished Road Ben Okri 9780385425131 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House In the decade since it won the Booker Prize, Ben Okri’s Famished Road has become a classic. Like Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’...
Dangerous Love
Dangerous Love Ben Okri 9781635422665 Fiction Other Press (NY) Other Press With the simplicity and innocence of Narayan or Seth, he tells the story of a young man, Omovo, an office-worker and artist w...
Astonishing The Gods
Astonishing The Gods Ben Okri 9780753808641 Fiction Phoenix Orion Publishing Group This is a story for all ages, set in a time and place best known to lovers of fairytales and myths. It is a modern f...
Ben Crump
Ben Crump NONE Renowned civil rights attorney Ben Crump is nationally recognized for representing high-profile cases such as Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown. Named 2014 NNPA Newsmaker of the Year, a...
Incidents At The Shrine
Incidents At The Shrine Ben Okri 9780099983002 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House Incidents at the Shrine is the first collection of stories by the author of 1991 Booker Prize-winning novel, The Fam...
Songs Of Enchantment
Songs Of Enchantment Ben Okri 9780385471572 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House In this remarkable sequel to his Booker Prize-winning novel The Famished Road, Okri continues the story of the spirit-ch...
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story Ben Carson 9780310214694 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Ben Carson, M.D., works medical miracles. Today, he’s one of the most celebrated neurosurgeons in the world...
Ben-Jochannan, Clarke & Van Sertima's Reading Lists
Ben-Jochannan, Clarke & Van Sertima's Reading Lists Troy Johnson Article Dr. Ivan Van Sertima (Jan 26, 1935 – May 25, 2009), Dr. Yosef “Dr. Ben” Ben-Jochannan (Dec 31, 1918 - March 19, 2015), and Dr...
Attorney for the Brown Family Responds to Shooting of Police in Ferguson, MO
Attorney for the Brown Family Responds to Shooting of Police in Ferguson, MO Kam Williams Interview Ben Crump is the attorney of record in many high-profile, civil rights cases, most notably rep...
Mental Fight
Mental Fight Ben Okri 9780753810675 Fiction Phoenix Orion Publishing Group This epic poem is intended as a celebration of humanity’s achievements at the end of this millennium, and a rallying cry for ...
10 Books African-Americans Should Read & Have in the Home
10 Books African-Americans Should Read & Have in the Home Troy Johnson Article Today, at 5PM EST, I'll be participating in a live interview with Paul Billings host of the "The Beat" on WUVS-LP 103.7F...
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story Shannon Simpson Book Review Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story by Ben Carson During Black History Month, one of my Facebook friends was posting pictures of influe...
Blue Beach
Blue Beach Karyn Parsons 9780316575751 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Perfect for fans of Promise Boys, this gripping historical mystery follows a teenager who finds...
Sure, I’ll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump
Sure, I’ll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump Ben Philippe 9780063065062 Nonfiction Harper HarperCollins In the biting, hilarious vein of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You ...
Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance
Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance Ben Passmore 9780593316122 Nonfiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House From the Ignatz and Eisner Award–winning cartoonist Ben Passmore come...
Crisis in the Classroom: Crisis in Education
Crisis in the Classroom: Crisis in Education Ben Carson, Ben Crump, and Armstrong Williams 9781510776883 Nonfiction Skyhorse Publishing Skyhorse Publishing Individuals from vastly different political ...
This Blinding Absence of Light. Tahar Ben Jelloun
This Blinding Absence of Light. Tahar Ben Jelloun Tahar Ben Jelloun 9780141022826 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House In this extraordinary non-fiction novel, based on a true story, Tahar Ben J...
Questlove and Ben Greenman
Questlove and Ben Greenman MULTIPLE Questlove and Ben Greenman are renowned authors known for their compelling works. Questlove is a Grammy-winning musician, while Greenman is a noted editor and nove...
Sly Stone and Ben Greenman
Sly Stone and Ben Greenman MULTIPLE Sly Stone and Ben Greenman are renowned authors, known for their impactful writing styles. Stone's expertise lies in music critique, while Greenman excels in ficti...
George Clinton with Ben Greenman
George Clinton with Ben Greenman MULTIPLE George Clinton and Ben Greenman are renowned authors, noted for their unique works. Clinton is a music legend, while Greenman is a celebrated novelist and jo...
Ben Philippe
Ben Philippe 0000000483249062 Ben Philippe is a New York-based writer, originally from Haiti. He has degrees from Columbia University and The Michener Center, and teaches screenwriting at Barnard. He...
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country Amanda Gorman 9780593465271 Poetry Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A special edition of the poem The Hill We Climb, read at the...
Step Into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature
Step Into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature Kevin Powell 9780471442561 Fiction Wiley Wiley Read more about the contributors to this fantastic volume of work “Kevin Powell is...
The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them
The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them Ekow Eshun 9780063450523 Nonfiction Harper HarperCollins “Moving, thoughtful, redemptive. The Strangers is an important book. ...
Mboka Festival of Arts, Culture and Sport
Mboka Festival of Arts, Culture and Sport Banjul The Gambia An African Diaspora, One World, Pan African experience Mboka means ‘One Family’ in Wolof and will offer festival attendees a...
Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted
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...
Tiger Work: Stories, Essays and Poems about Climate Change
Tiger Work: Stories, Essays and Poems about Climate Change Ben Okri 9781635423365 Fiction Other Press (NY) Other Press A Best Book of 2023 by The New Yorker In this poignant, timely collection, the...
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Art and Objecthood
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Art and Objecthood Ben Okri 9783775753319 Nonfiction Hatje Cantz Hatje Cantz Verlag The first book on Basquiat’s ingenious uses of found objects and unconventional materials. ...
Rise Like Lions: Poetry for the Many
Rise Like Lions: Poetry for the Many Ben Okri 9781473676145 Poetry Hodder & Stoughton General Division Hodder & Stoughton Publishing
The Magic Lamp: Dreams of Our Age
The Magic Lamp: Dreams of Our Age Ben Okri 9781786694508 Fiction Head of Zeus Head of Zeus A lamp found in the attic of a London house inspires a sequence of images and writings. Meditations or storie...
Ben Okri on Reading physcial books versus eBooks
Ben Okri on Reading physcial books versus eBooks Poetry & Spoken Word
In Arcadia
In Arcadia Ben Okri 9780753817070 Fiction Orion Orion Publishing Group A group of angry and ill-assorted people accept an invitation to make a journey. Inspired by a painting and financed by a myster...
Tales of Freedom
Tales of Freedom Ben Okri 9781846041594 Fiction Rider Books Penguin Random House
Birds Of Heaven
Birds Of Heaven Ben Okri 9781857995930 Fiction Weidenfeld & Nicolson Orion Publishing Group This text contains two inspirational essays from the author of "The Famished Road", on the meaning of langua...
Flowers and Shadows (African Classics)
Flowers and Shadows (African Classics) Ben Okri 9780582035362 Fiction Longman Penguin Random House
The Miseducation of Obi Ifeanyi by Chinedu Achebe
The Miseducation of Obi Ifeanyi by Chinedu Achebe Robert Fleming Book Review Some of the world’s finest fiction has been written by Nigerians. Let’s look at the writers from that area in...
While We Were Dating
While We Were Dating Jasmine Guillory 9780593100844 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House An instant New York Times bestseller! One of TIME Magazine’s 100 Must-Reads of 2021! Two people rea...
Poem Your Heart Out : Prompts, Poems & Room to Add Your Own : Volume 1: Prompts, Poems & Room to Add Your Own
Poem Your Heart Out : Prompts, Poems & Room to Add Your Own : Volume 1: Prompts, Poems & Room to Add Your Own Robert Lee Brewer 9780692317464 Poetry Words Dance Publishing Words Dance Publishing This ...
Take The Risk: Learning To Identify, Choose, And Live With Acceptable Risk
Take The Risk: Learning To Identify, Choose, And Live With Acceptable Risk Ben Carson 9780310259732 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins No risk, pay the cost. Know risk, reap the rewards. In our risk-av...
This Blinding Absence of Light
This Blinding Absence of Light Tahar Ben Jelloun 9780143035725 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House An immediate and critically acclaimed bestseller in France, This Blinding Absence of Light is ...
This Blinding Absence of Light: A Novel
This Blinding Absence of Light: A Novel Tahar Ben Jelloun 9781565847231 Fiction The New Press The New Press An immediate and critically acclaimed bestseller in France and winner of the 2004 Internatio...
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...
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About My Mother: A Novel
About My Mother: A Novel Tahar Ben Jelloun 9781846592010 Fiction Telegram Books Telegram Books "Morocco’s greatest living author."—The Guardian UK"A writer of social and moral acuteness."—Los Angeles ...
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Tahar Ben Jelloun 0000000121355386 Tahar Ben Jelloun is a renowned Moroccan author known for his novels, essays, and poetry. He's frequently nominated for the Nobel Prize and contributes to internati...
Ben Brooks
Ben Brooks 0000000358343148 Ben Brooks, born in 1992, is a prolific author from Gloucestershire. Known for six novels including the AALBC bestseller 'Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different', Brook...
Marlon McCaulsky, K. Roland Williams, and Ben Blaze
Marlon McCaulsky, K. Roland Williams, and Ben Blaze MULTIPLE Marlon McCaulsky, K. Roland Williams, and Ben Blaze are renowned authors known for their compelling works. Their unique writing styles hav...
Maloyd Ben Wilson
Maloyd Ben Wilson NONE Maloyd “Ben” Wilson is the entrepreneurial force behind Black Chronicle book, holding multiple roles including Owner, CEO, Publisher, and Founder. Maloyd “Ben” Wilson is the Ow...
Ben Passmore
Ben Passmore NONE Ben Passmore is a renowned author, known for his compelling narratives and vivid illustrations. His works often explore social issues, providing unique and thought-provoking perspec...
Yosef Ben-Jochannan and George Simmonds
Yosef Ben-Jochannan and George Simmonds MULTIPLE Yosef Ben-Jochannan and George Simmonds
Ben Burgess Jr.
Ben Burgess Jr. NONE Ben Burgess Jr. is an award-winning author and spoken word poet known for inspiring youths. His works, including the novel 'Monster' and the poetry book 'Times Have Changed and L...
Ben Greenman
Ben Greenman 0000000043364577 Ben Greenman, a New Yorker contributor and New York Times bestselling author, writes both fiction and non-fiction. Notably, he collaborated with Questlove on a hip-hop m...
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story Kam Williams gifted2.jpg Film Review Bio-Pic about Brilliant Black Brain Surgeon Set to Air on TNT Cuba Gooding Jr. (L) and Dr. Ben Carson ...
Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems
Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems Wanda Coleman Excerpt “Wanda Why Aren’t You Dead“ from Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems “American Sonnet“ from Wicked Ench...
More Than Love
More Than Love Sharon C. Cooper 9781946172235 Fiction Amaris Publishing Amaris Publishing Going from friends to lovers doesn’t come easy…Corporate attorney Benjamin Jenkins is one of Cincinnati’s most...
Never Forget Our People Were Always Free
Never Forget Our People Were Always Free Ben Jealous 9780062961747 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins “One of the nation’s most prominent civil rights leaders” (Washington Post), a New...
Black Liberation / Red Scare: Ben Davis and the Communist Party
Black Liberation / Red Scare: Ben Davis and the Communist Party Gerald Horne 9780717808625 Nonfiction International Publishers International Publishers Black Liberation/Red Scare is a study of an Afri...
The Happy Marriage
The Happy Marriage Tahar Ben Jelloun 9781612194653 Fiction Melville House Melville House “Ben Jelloun is arguably Morocco’s greatest living author, whose impressive body of work combines intellect and...
In Strict Confidence
In Strict Confidence Dwayne S. Joseph 9781625173683 Fiction Brown Girls Books Brown Girls Books Psychiatrist Allen Kline is forced to make the agonizing choice of life over death when a killer approac...
Forgetful
Forgetful Nick Mann 9781625168573 Fiction Strategic Book Publishing Strategic Book Publishing A persuasive dean from a historically black university in Washington, D.C. talks Dr. Benjamin Parks into l...
African Origins Of Major "Western Religions"
African Origins Of Major "Western Religions" Yosef Ben-Jochannan 9780933121294 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press African Origins of the Major "Western Religions" first published in 19...
Times Have Changed And Life Is Strange: Collective Works Of Urban Poetry And Story-Telling
Times Have Changed And Life Is Strange: Collective Works Of Urban Poetry And Story-Telling Ben Burgess Jr. 9781434398536 Poetry AuthorHouse Author Solutions This book is a collection of my experiences...
Daddy’s Girl
Daddy’s Girl Ben Burgess Jr. 9780988374577 Fiction Ben Burgess Jr. Ben Burgess Jr. Nick Johnson has always been an underachieving, borderline alcoholic. He soon finds himself in over his head when his...
Wounded
Wounded Ben Burgess Jr. 9780988374522 Fiction Ben Burgess Jr. Ben Burgess Jr. Samantha Miller didn’t have an easy start. Molested as a child and subsequently forced into prostitution by her drug-addic...
The Last Friend
The Last Friend Tahar Ben Jelloun 9780143038481 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House Renowned for his compeling , humane portraits of everyday Arab lives, Tahar Ben Jelloun has affirmed his plac...
The Sand Child
The Sand Child Tahar Ben Jelloun 9780801864407 Fiction Johns Hopkins University Press Johns Hopkins University Press In this lyrical, hallucinatory novel set in Morocco, Tahar Ben Jelloun offers an im...
The Sacred Night
The Sacred Night Tahar Ben Jelloun 9780801864414 Fiction Johns Hopkins University Press Johns Hopkins University Press The Sacred Night continues the remarkable story Tahar Ben Jelloun began in The ...
Ben Carson
Ben Carson Ben Carson 9780310586418 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins The Today’s Heroes series introduces readers ages 8-12 to modern, well-known Christians who have shown courage and persistence in the ...
George Simmonds
George Simmonds NONE George Simmonds co-authored The Black Man's North and East Africa with Yosef Ben-Jochannan. his work explores the historical and cultural significance of African civilizations in...
Medinas: Morocco’s Hidden Cities
Medinas: Morocco’s Hidden Cities Tahar Ben Jelloun 9782843230516 Fiction Assouline Publishing Assouline Publishing Fascinated by the medinas, or Muslim districts, of Morocco’s cities, leading French p...