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Bill Liggins, Science Fiction Writer and Award Winning Novels
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The Treasure Hunt: A Little Bill Book for Beginning Readers, Level 3
The Treasure Hunt: A Little Bill Book for Beginning Readers, Level 3 Bill Cosby 9780590956185 Fiction Cartwheel Books Scholastic Inc. In this easy-to-read chapter book by comedian and storyteller Bill...
The Meanest Thing to Say
The Meanest Thing to Say Bill Cosby 9780590956161 Fiction Cartwheel Books Scholastic Inc. “The Little Bill series by Bill Cosby; endless hours of reading and supportive material for raising well adjus...
Bill Clinton and Black America
Bill Clinton and Black America Walter Benefield Book Review Bill Clinton came to the presidency of the United States inheriting a less than admirable race relations history from his predecessors. Wha...
It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw
It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw Don Tate 9781600602603 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Growing up as an enslaved boy on an Alabama cotton farm, Bill Traylor worked all...
I Need; I Want
I Need; I Want Bill Liggins 9781532049101 Fiction iUniverse Author Solutions Although the glamour of Hollywood lures bold and confident actors from around the world, it can also crush the unprepared, ...
Undying Love
Undying Love Bill Liggins 9781532046025 Fiction iUniverse Author Solutions "Everlasting life. Many want it. Others don’t, believing it’s a curse. Either way, Malchides is the only one who has it. He d...
Nova Chasers
Nova Chasers Bill Liggins 9781532013775 Fiction iUniverse Author Solutions In another time and place, an enormous society of worlds and species with common interests in profitable financial exchange h...
Warning: a novel
Warning: a novel Bill Liggins 9780595236480 Fiction iUniverse Author Solutions TEG-Comm is here, but hidden. TEG-Comm seems new, but millions have heard rumors about its operations for decades. TEG-Co...
The Best Way to Play: A Little Bill Book for Beginning Readers, Level 3
The Best Way to Play: A Little Bill Book for Beginning Readers, Level 3 Bill Cosby 9780590956178 Fiction Cartwheel Books Scholastic Inc. This easy-to-read story about friendship by comedian and storyt...
Sailing Commitment Around the World with Captain Bill Pinkney
Sailing Commitment Around the World with Captain Bill Pinkney Bill Pinkney 9781513693361 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published A new children’s book written by Captain Bill Pinkne...
Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction’s Newest New-Wave Trajectory
Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction’s Newest New-Wave Trajectory Marleen S Barr 9780814210789 Fiction Ohio University Press Ohio University Press Afro-Future Females: Black Writer...
Bill Duke: My 40-Year Career on Screen and Behind the Camera
Bill Duke: My 40-Year Career on Screen and Behind the Camera Bill Duke 9781538105559 Nonfiction Rowman & Littlefield Rowman & Littlefield While many film fans may not be familiar with Bill Duke’s name...
Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby 0000000107880184 “Far From Finished” Born on July 12, 1937, Bill Cosby is an influential comedian, actor, and philanthropist. He and his wife, Camille, have four daughters, all ...
Bill Campbell and Damian Duffy
Bill Campbell and Damian Duffy MULTIPLE Bill Campbell and Damian Duffy are renowned authors, best known for their contributions to the literary world. Campbell's work often explores cultural and soci...
Marlon McCaulsky
Marlon McCaulsky NONE Award-winning American author and screenplay writer, Marlon McCaulsky, is celebrated for his Fiction, Romance, and Science Fiction works that often highlight contemporary Africa...
Lovely Day (Picture Book Based on the Song by Bill Withers)
Lovely Day (Picture Book Based on the Song by Bill Withers) Bill Withers 9781338815382 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. Bill Withers’s celebrated hit song Lovely Day comes to life in this beauti...
Bill Bellamy
Bill Bellamy 0000000039637261 Bill Bellamy, renowned for hosting and producing TV One's “Who’s Got Jokes?”, is a former MTV VJ and host. He's starred in films and TV shows like Fled, Love Jones, and ...
Top Billin’:Stories of Laughter, Lessons, and Triumph
Top Billin’:Stories of Laughter, Lessons, and Triumph Bill Bellamy 9780063237629 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins From the MTV trailblazer, stand-up comedian, and actor, a hilariously candid memoir th...
Bill Clinton and Black America
Bill Clinton and Black America Dewayne Wickham 9780345450326 Nonfiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House While white Americans were evenly divided about Bill Clinton’s impeachment ninety perc...
Bill Duke and Shelia P. Moses
Bill Duke and Shelia P. Moses MULTIPLE Bill Duke and Shelia P. Moses are acclaimed authors known for their profound storytelling. Duke, a distinguished actor and director, pairs with Moses, a renowne...
Bill Murray
Bill Murray 0000000117750359 Bill Murray, a renowned comic artist and illustrator, started at Johnson Publishing Company before founding BAM Productions in 1985. He works with Real Times Media and ha...
The Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar 9780821418598 Fiction Ohio University Press Ohio University Press At long last, critics, scholars, and lovers of fiction can experienc...
The Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Collected Novels of Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar 9780821420072 Fiction Ohio University Press Ohio University Press At long last, critics, scholars, and lovers of fiction can experienc...
The Dialogues: Conversations about the Nature of the Universe
The Dialogues: Conversations about the Nature of the Universe Clifford V. Johnson 9780262536080 Fiction MIT Press The MIT Press A series of conversations about science in graphic form, on subjects tha...
Ivor W. Hartmann
Ivor W. Hartmann NONE Ivor W. Hartmann is a Zimbabwean writer, editor, and publisher, known for editing the groundbreaking anthology AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers. His work has promoted ...
William L. Ingram
William L. Ingram NONE William “Bill” L. Ingram, a retired entrepreneur, and successful small business owner, is now a writer focused on spiritual and personal growth. A resident of Tampa Bay, Florid...
Bill Duke
Bill Duke 0000000063023892 Actor, Director, and Producer Bill Duke has over 40 years of Hollywood experience, known for his roles in “Predator,” “X-Men 3,” and currently in HBO Max's “No Sudden Move....
Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Maggie Aderin-Pocock 0000000453783176 Dame Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock, PhD, is a space scientist whose passion is presenting science to a general audience and demonstrating that you “don’t need a ...
Samuel R. Delany
Samuel R. Delany 0000000109208949 Samuel R. Delany, a renowned author of science fiction and nonfiction, is known for works like Dhalgren and The Mad Man. A former English and Creative Writing profes...
The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act Clay Risen 9781608198245 Nonfiction Bloomsbury Press Bloomsbury Publishing The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important ...
David Garrow, Clayborne Carson, Bill Kovach, and Carol Polsgrove
David Garrow, Clayborne Carson, Bill Kovach, and Carol Polsgrove MULTIPLE David Garrow, Clayborne Carson, Bill Kovach, and Carol Polsgrove are renowned authors and scholars, each contributing signifi...
Bill Campbell
Bill Campbell 0000000079841312 Bill Campbell, a Pittsburgh native and Northwestern University alumnus, has led a diverse career from bookkeeping in Atlanta to teaching English in the Czech Republic. ...
Bill Pinkney
Bill Pinkney 0000000033679583 Captain Bill Pinkney, born in Chicago's Bronzeville, was a US Navy Vet and Coast Guard licensed Master of Steam, Power, and Sail vessels. He held diverse roles such as a...
Bone to Pick: Of Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Reparation, and Revenge
Bone to Pick: Of Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Reparation, and Revenge Ellis Cose Excerpt To forgive the truly horrible is to kiss the robe of God, to emulate no less a figure than the dying Jesus Chr...
The Straw Man Fallacy: Exposing the Faulty Rhetoric Of, Is Bill Cosby Right?
The Straw Man Fallacy: Exposing the Faulty Rhetoric Of, Is Bill Cosby Right? Stanley G. Robertson 9781436324649 Nonfiction Xlibris Author Solutions Nearly four years after Bill Cosby’s infamous Board ...
Bathroom Science: 70 Fun and Wacky Science Experiments
Bathroom Science: 70 Fun and Wacky Science Experiments Christine Taylor Butler 9781626865877 Nonfiction Portable Press Portable Press Create exploding toilet volcanoes, oozing sink slime, and bubbling...
Common Core State Standards and Social Science
Common Core State Standards and Social Science Clyde Winters 9781492196426 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC In this book we present ideas that teachers can use to increase the rigor of ...
Sunspot Jungle, Vol. 2
Sunspot Jungle, Vol. 2 Bill Campbell 9781732638808 Fiction Rosarium Publishing Rosarium Publishing In celebration of Rosarium’s fifth anniversary, publisher Bill Campbell has compiled a two-volume col...
Mack Reynolds
Mack Reynolds 0000000116863546 Mack Reynolds a science fiction writer known for his pioneering work in socio-political science fiction. His emphasis on social issues, inequality, and human rights reso...
Marcus Anthony Hunter
Marcus Anthony Hunter 0000000379386059 Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter, a sociology & African American studies professor at UCLA, coined #BlackLivesMatter, and led UCLA's African American Studies Departmen...
Cosbyology: Essays and Observations From the Doctor of Comedy
Cosbyology: Essays and Observations From the Doctor of Comedy Bill Cosby 9780786868100 Fiction Hyperion Hachette Book Group Description: Returning to his early days of comedy, the comic genius and #1...
Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany
Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany Bill Campbell 9780990319177 Fiction Rosarium Publishing Rosarium Publishing Stories for Chip brings together outstanding authors inspired by a brilliant...
Kekla Magoon
Kekla Magoon 0000000040185776 Kekla Magoon, an award-winning author of eight YA novels, including The Rock and the River and X: A Novel, also pens non-fiction on historical topics. She's won an NAACP...
Chance Arradondo
Chance Arradondo NONE Chance Arradondo is a versatile writer, born in 1989 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He writes novels, poetry, short stories, and lyrics, inspired by his life experiences and love fo...
Blacks And Science Volume Two: West And East African Contributions To Science And Technology And Intellectual Life And Legacy Of Timbuktu
Blacks And Science Volume Two: West And East African Contributions To Science And Technology And Intellectual Life And Legacy Of Timbuktu Robin Walker 9781492996231 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Pu...
Blacks And Science Volume One: Ancient Egyptian Contributions To Science And Technology And The Mysterious Sciences Of The Great Pyramid (Volume 1)
Blacks And Science Volume One: Ancient Egyptian Contributions To Science And Technology And The Mysterious Sciences Of The Great Pyramid (Volume 1) Robin Oliver Walker 9781489578273 Nonfiction CreateS...
Marleen S Barr
Marleen S Barr NONE Marleen S. Barr is a trailblazer in feminist science fiction criticism, known for her book “Alien to Femininity.” She's a recipient of the Science Fiction Research Association Pil...
Alice Wootson
Alice Wootson NONE Alice Greenhowe Wootson is a retired teacher and acclaimed author of thirteen novels, including romance and romantic suspense. A prize-winning poet, member of various writers' asso...
The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch&mdash“Angouleme”
The American Shore: Meditations on a Tale of Science Fiction by Thomas M. Disch&mdash“Angouleme” Samuel R. Delany 9780819567185 Fiction Wesleyan University Press Wesleyan University Press The Americ...
StarTalk Young Readers Edition (Science & Nature)
StarTalk Young Readers Edition (Science & Nature) Neil deGrasse Tyson 9781426330872 Nonfiction National Geographic Children’s Books National Geographic Books Now abridged for YA audiences, this beauti...
Beetlecreek
Beetlecreek William Demby 9798217007318 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House From William Demby, a rediscovered classic of Black American literature first published in 1950, about an unlikely friendsh...
Time Flies
Time Flies Bill Cosby 9780553277241 Fiction Bantam Penguin Random House WE’RE ALL GETTING OLDER,AND BILL COSBY KEEPS GETTING BETTERAmerica’s best-loved humorist, media personality and bestselling auth...
Fatherhood
Fatherhood Bill Cosby 9780425097724 Fiction Berkley Publishing Group Penguin Random House From one of America’s most beloved funnymen comes a hilarious look at the lighter side of fatherhood. So, what...
Gwynne Forster
Gwynne Forster NONE Gwynne Forster (1922-2015) was a renowned and award-winning author, known for her romance and general fiction novels. Her work, featured in Black Expressions Magazine, earned her ...
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool James Kaplan 9780525561002 Nonfiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House From the author of the definitive biograp...
Bill Withers
Bill Withers 000000006309931X Bill Withers was a singer-songwriter and musician. He received numerous awards in his lifetime and won three GRAMMY Awards. William Harrison Withers Jr. (July 4, 1938 &...
Book Review: Is Bill Cosby Right?
Book Review: Is Bill Cosby Right? Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Article Critic Foiled by “Corkscrew” Logic Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? by Michael Eric ...
Emmanuel M. Arriaga
Emmanuel M. Arriaga NONE Emmanuel M. Arriaga, an award-winning author, grew up in Philadelphia, developed a passion for science and fantasy, and escaped a low-income life. Graduating with a Master's ...
David Covin
David Covin 0000000084071877 David Covin was a Professor Emeritus of Government and Ethnic Studies at CSU Sacramento and Past President of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. He wa...
Allison Hobbs
Allison Hobbs NONE Allison Hobbs is a prolific author known for her erotic and paranormal novels. Debuting in 2003 with “Pandora’s Box”, she has since written 20 books including the “Eternal Dead” se...
Black Women in Science: A Black History Book for Kids
Black Women in Science: A Black History Book for Kids Kimberly Brown Pellum 9781641527071 Nonfiction Rockridge Press Callisto Publishing Celebrate Black History Month with amazing Black women in STEM!...
A2: A Scholarly Poetical Science Discourse
A2: A Scholarly Poetical Science Discourse Ayo Sekai 9780974226934 Nonfiction Universal Write Publications Universal Write Publications A2: A Scholarly Poetical Science Discourse is a qualitative inqu...
Sunspot Jungle, Vol. 1
Sunspot Jungle, Vol. 1 Bill Campbell 9780998705972 Fiction Rosarium Publishing Rosarium Publishing In celebration of Rosarium’s fifth anniversary, publisher Bill Campbell has collected a two-volume co...
Octavia E. Butler: Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories (Loa #338)
Octavia E. Butler: Kindred, Fledgling, Collected Stories (Loa #338) Octavia E. Butler, Gerry Canavan, and Nisi Shawl 9781598536751 Fiction Library of America Library of America The definitive edition ...
Brenda M. Hampton
Brenda M. Hampton NONE Brenda M. Hampton, a native St. Louisan, is a passionate writer known for her addictive series, The Naughty Series. With over 20 novels, novellas, and anthologies to her credit...
Amina Gautier
Amina Gautier 0000000118109950 Dr. Amina Gautier, an award-winning author of three short story collections, is a scholar and professor specializing in African American literature. She teaches in the ...
Brian W. Smith
Brian W. Smith NONE Brian W. Smith, an award-winning author of 15 novels and former U.S. Army member, turned full-time author after being laid off. His personal trauma inspired his first novel, leadi...
Amy Watkins
Amy Watkins NONE Amy Watkins, an award-winning author and physician, is known for her fictional works addressing social issues. A former Navy physician, she now practices family medicine in Virginia....
J. Everett Prewitt
J. Everett Prewitt NONE J. Everett Prewitt, a distinguished alumnus and Vietnam veteran, has received numerous awards for his novels, including “Snake Walkers” and “A Long Way Back.” His works have b...
Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?
Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? Michael Eric Dyson 9780465017201 Nonfiction Basic Civitas Books Perseus Books Michael Eric Dyson took America by storm with this prov...
Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?
Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? Michael Eric Dyson 9780465017195 Nonfiction Basic Civitas Books Perseus Books Nothing exposed the class and generational divide in bl...
Elizabeth Nunez
Elizabeth Nunez 0000000080832288 Elizabeth Nunez, a Trinidad-born, award-winning author, wrote ten novels and a memoir, with several recognized by the New York Times and Oprah's book club. Her works,...
Alaya Dawn Johnson
Alaya Dawn Johnson 0000000084426631 Alaya Dawn Johnson, an award-winning author recognized for her YA novels and short fiction. She won the 2015 Nebula Award for “A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i.” H...
Tina Andrews
Tina Andrews 0000000003084191 Tina Andrews, an award-winning writer, producer and director, is known for her book “Sally Hemings An American Scandal”, which won the NAACP Image Award and the Memphis ...
Pat Tucker
Pat Tucker NONE Pat Tucker Wilson is a radio news director, award-winning journalist, and prolific writer with over 15 years of media experience. Known for her engaging storytelling, Wilson has worke...
Gloria Naylor
Gloria Naylor 0000000117658077 Gloria Naylor, a prize-winning author, known for her novels like 'The Women of Brewster Place', 'Linden Hills', and 'Mama Day', also wrote essays, screenplays, and stag...
ReShonda Tate Billingsley
ReShonda Tate Billingsley 0000000116441757 ReShonda Tate Billingsley is a former reporter and national bestselling author of 21 titles including both adult and teen novels. She's also an executive pr...
Glenville Lovell
Glenville Lovell 0000000078667420 Glenville Obrian Lovell, an acclaimed author of novels, short stories, and award-winning plays. Known for his novels “Fire in the Canes,” “Song of Night,” and myster...
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 N. K. Jemisin 9781328834560 Fiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Today’s readers of science fiction and fantasy have an appetite for stori...
EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
Conversations With Octavia Butler
Conversations With Octavia Butler Conseula Francis 9781604732757 Fiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi Octavia Butler (1947-2006) spent the majority of her prolific c...
Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward 0000000049339751 Two-Time National Book Award Winning Author Jesmyn Ward, a Mississippi-born author and University of South Alabama professor, has penned novels like “Where the Line Bleeds...
Sierra Kay
Sierra Kay 0000000461326725 Sierra Kay is an award-winning author with a love for the written word. Encouraged by her mother to read widely, she has a fondness for everything from classical literatur...
Infectious Madness: The Surprising Science of How We "Catch" Mental Illness
Infectious Madness: The Surprising Science of How We "Catch" Mental Illness Harriet A. Washington 9780316277815 Nonfiction Back Bay Books Hachette Book Group "Fascinating…A superb book."—Robert Sapols...
Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?
Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? Kam Williams Book Review “A book you can’t put down, but for all the wrong reasons.” “On May 17, 2004, ...
Virginia Hamilton: Five Novels
Virginia Hamilton: Five Novels Virginia Hamilton 9781598537017 Fiction Library of America Library of America Rediscover America’s most honored writer of children’s literature in this deluxe collector’...
Nicole Givens Kurtz
Nicole Givens Kurtz NONE Nicole Givens Kurtz, author of the Cybil Lewis series, has been a finalist in various science fiction awards. Her short stories have earned honorable mentions and appeared in...
Keegan-Michael Key and Elle Key
Keegan-Michael Key and Elle Key MULTIPLE Emmy and Peabody Award-winning actor, writer, and producer Keegan-Michael Key is renowned for his diverse talent in comedy and drama, with credits in Key & Pe...
The Book of Menopause: Real Talk, Real Science, Real Strategies for the Next Chapter
The Book of Menopause: Real Talk, Real Science, Real Strategies for the Next Chapter Oprah Winfrey 9781958395479 Nonfiction Harper Voyager HarperCollins The essential menopause guide every woman deser...
People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier
People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier Ruha Benjamin 9780804782968 Nonfiction Stanford University Press Stanford University Press Stem cell research has sparked controversy and ...
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, And Big Business Re-Create Race In The Twenty-First Century
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, And Big Business Re-Create Race In The Twenty-First Century Dorothy Roberts 9781595588340 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press A decade after the Human Genome...
Ronald Kuykendall
Ronald Kuykendall NONE Ronald Kuykendall, a magna cum laude graduate in political science from Southern University, is a teacher at Greenville Technical College, South Carolina. He shifted from his i...
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, And Big Business Re-Create Race In The Twenty-First Century
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, And Big Business Re-Create Race In The Twenty-First Century Kam Williams Book Review "Race is an invented political system, not a natural biological divi...
Sacred Science: The King of Pharaonic Theocracy
Sacred Science: The King of Pharaonic Theocracy R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz 9780892812226 Nonfiction Inner Traditions Inner Traditions R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz (1887-1961), one of the most important Eg...
Afrosf: Science Fiction by African Writers
Afrosf: Science Fiction by African Writers Ivor W. Hartmann 9780987008961 Fiction StoryTime StoryTime AfroSF is the first ever anthology of Science Fiction by African writers only that was open to sub...
Zin E. Rocklyn
Zin E. Rocklyn NONE Zin E. Rocklyn is a celebrated author, contributing to award-winning anthologies and zines. They've received notable recognition for their horror story, “Summer Skin”, and contrib...
September Newsletter: Recommended Reads, the MS Book Festival, and More
September Newsletter: Recommended Reads, the MS Book Festival, and More Troy Johnson Article Recommended Reads N. K. Jemisin the Only Writer to Win the Best Novel Hugo Award in three Consecutive Yea...