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Nile Valley Civilizations
Nile Valley Civilizations Ivan Van Sertima 9780887386220 Nonfiction Journal of African Civilizations Ltd. Journal of African Civilizations Ltd. Nile Valley Civilizations brings together the latest r...
Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization
Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization Anthony Browder 9780924944031 Nonfiction The Institute of Karmic Guidance The Institute of Karmic Guidance Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization is a rema...
Raisins in Milk
Raisins in Milk David Covin 9780984435074 Fiction Blue Nile Press Blue Nile Press Listen to an Interview of David Covin Interviewed by Capital Public Radio, August 2, 2018 Your browser does...
For the Sake of Soul
For the Sake of Soul Frederick K. Foote, Jr. 9780984435067 Fiction Blue Nile Press Blue Nile Press Frederick Foote’s stories chart the geography of the African-American experience of his generation, t...
The Summer of my Fifteenth Year
The Summer of my Fifteenth Year Geri Spencer Hunter 9780984435050 Fiction Blue Nile Press Blue Nile Press Geri Spencer Hunter is a formidable storyteller who has crafted a genuine masterpiece with The...
Prodigal
Prodigal David Covin 9780984435043 Fiction Blue Nile Press Blue Nile Press Prodigal is set in the mean street’s of Chicago’s Soouthside and the gritty streets of an urban Brazilian favela. It is a mov...
Sacred Nile
Sacred Nile Chester Higgins, Jr. 9780578851181 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published Autographed copies are sold out. Chester Higgins celebrates the sacred agency of people of ...
God Dies by the Nile and Other Novels: God Dies by the Nile, Searching, the Circling Song
God Dies by the Nile and Other Novels: God Dies by the Nile, Searching, the Circling Song Nawal El Saadawi 9781783605965 Fiction Zed Books Zed Books God Dies by the Nile is Saadawi’s attempt to square...
Nile River Woman: The Very First Poems
Nile River Woman: The Very First Poems Kola Boof 9780971201965 Poetry Door of Kush Door of Kush Released for the first time in the United States, "Nile River Woman" (a 2004 Black History Month Selecti...
Black Man Of The Nile
Black Man Of The Nile Yosef Ben-Jochannan 9780933121263 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press In a masterful and unique manner, Dr. Ben uses Black Man of the Nile to challenge and expose ...
Black in Blues (paperback): How a Color Tells the Story of My People
Black in Blues (paperback): How a Color Tells the Story of My People Imani Perry 9780062977410 Nonfiction Ecco Press HarperCollins A “vast, multifaceted and enchanting” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) medi...
Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People
Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People Imani Perry 9780062977397 Nonfiction Ecco Press HarperCollins A surprising and beautiful meditation on the color blue—and its fascinating role ...
Hello, Mister Blue
Hello, Mister Blue Daria Peoples 9780063206755 Fiction Greenwillow Books HarperCollins A day in the park sparks an unlikely connection between a young girl and a street musician without a home. From a...
Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky
Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond 9781984894366 Nonfiction Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Discover a world of ...
Blue-Tail Fly
Blue-Tail Fly Vievee Francis 9780814333235 Poetry Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press The title of Blue-Tail Fly comes from an antebellum song commonly known as "Jimmy Crack Corn...
Nile Valley Civilization a 10,000–Year History
Nile Valley Civilization a 10,000–Year History Charles S. Finch III 9780962944444 Nonfiction Khenti Publications Khenti Publications “Certain European scholars have tied themselves into knots trying t...
Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization Study Guide
Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization Study Guide Anthony Browder 9780924944055 Nonfiction The Institute of Karmic Guidance The Institute of Karmic Guidance This study guide was designed as a vehi...
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...
Superman Red & Blue
Superman Red & Blue John Ridley 9781779512802 Fiction DC Comics DC Comics The Man of Steel Stars in DC’s New Superman: Red & Blue anthology mini-series! In the spirit of DC’s iconic Eisner Award-...
Just Wanna Testify: A Novel
Just Wanna Testify: A Novel Pearl Cleage 9780345506368 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House Familiar faces and places meet fresh twists and turns in this enthralling novel from acclaimed ...
Blue Opening: Poems
Blue Opening: Poems Chet’la Sebree 9781963108460 Poetry Tin House Books Tin House Books Blue Opening, Chet’la Sebree’s brilliant, illuminating poetry collection, grapples with origins—of illness, of l...
The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War
The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War Jesse McCarthy 9780226832173 Nonfiction University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press Addresses the political and aesthetic evolution of ...
The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos
The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos Dionne Brand 9781478000068 Poetry Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books On a lonely wharf a clerk in an ink-blue coat inspects bales and bale...
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...
Red, Yellow, Blue (and a Dash of White, Too!)
Red, Yellow, Blue (and a Dash of White, Too!) C. G. Esperanza 9781629146249 Fiction Sky Pony Skyhorse Publishing Splish! Splash! Sploosh! A little girl is about to discover the wonders of mixing color...
The Raven Boys (Raven Cycle)
The Raven Boys (Raven Cycle) Maggie Stiefvater 9780545424929 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. B...
Devil In a Blue Dress (1st in the Easy Rawlins Mysteries)
Devil In a Blue Dress (1st in the Easy Rawlins Mysteries) Walter Mosley 9780743451796 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. Devil in a Blue Dress, a defining novel in Walter Mosley’s ...
Moses: A Story Of The Nile
Moses: A Story Of The Nile Frances E. W. Harper 9781376267600 Fiction Andesite Press Andesite Press This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge ...
Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile
Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile Marjorie M. Fisher, Peter Lacovara, and Salima Ikram 9789774164781 Nonfiction The American University in Cairo Press The American University in Cairo Press ...
The Blue Pickup
The Blue Pickup Natasha Tripplett 9780063159877 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins A charming story about a young girl who loves fixing automobiles with her grandfather on the warm grounds of Jamaica...
Blue: The Many Ways I Feel
Blue: The Many Ways I Feel Nancy Johnson James 9781951836887 Fiction Abrams Books for Young Readers Abrams In an emotional ode to the color blue—and the blues—from writer Nancy Johnson James and illus...
Blue Butterfly
Blue Butterfly Marian L. Thomas 9780984896752 Fiction L.B Publishing L.B Publishing There have been five black ballerinas that have made a noticeable mark in the world of ballet. Five that have fought...
Raging Blue
Raging Blue Renee Daniel Flagler 9781937334246 Fiction Sitting Bull Publishing Sitting Bull Publishing Blue Holiday has decided to call foul and leave her destructive marriage. But her cheating hus...
Meet ClaraBelle Blue
Meet ClaraBelle Blue Adiba Nelson 9780989191906 Fiction RocketChair Productions RocketChair Productions 2016 ROYAL DRAGONFLY WINNER - HONORABLE MENTION: CHILDREN’S BOOK/SPECIAL NEEDS Meet ClaraBell...
Keyshia And Clyde: A Novel
Keyshia And Clyde: A Novel Treasure Blue 9780345493293 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House Treasure E. Blue–acclaimed author of Harlem Girl Lost and A Street Girl Named Desire–is back wi...
Baby Brother’s Blues: A Novel
Baby Brother’s Blues: A Novel Pearl Cleage 9780345481115 Fiction One World Penguin Random House When Regina Burns married Blue Hamilton, she knew he was no ordinary man. A charismatic R&B singer who g...
Quinnie Blue
Quinnie Blue Dinah Johnson 9780805043785 Fiction Henry Holt & Company (BYR) Macmillan Publishers A tender and lyrical portrayal of the special relationship between a young African-American girl and he...
Blue Light
Blue Light Walter Mosley 9780316570985 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group The human race has just begun. In the Bay Area in the mid-1960s, several people are struck by a cosmic blue ...
Our Lady of the Nile
Our Lady of the Nile Scholastique Mukasonga 9780914671039 Fiction Archipelago Archipelago A Publishers Weekly Book of the Year for 2014Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award "In part,...
Gamal Abdel Nasser: Son of the Nile
Gamal Abdel Nasser: Son of the Nile Shirley Graham Du Bois 9780893880484 Nonfiction Okpaku Communications Corporation Okpaku Communications Corporation
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
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...
So Much Blue
So Much Blue Percival Everett 9781555977825 Fiction Graywolf Press Graywolf Press A new high point for a master novelist, an emotionally charged reckoning with art, marriage, and the past Kevin Pac...
Blue Hallelujahs
Blue Hallelujahs Cynthia Manick 9781625579454 Poetry Black Lawrence Press Black Lawrence Press Praise from Tyehimba Jess Cynthia Manick’s BLUE HALLELUJAHS bring us to a broil like Koko Taylor...
The Blue Grass Cook Book
The Blue Grass Cook Book Minnie Fox 9780813123813 Nonfiction University Press of Kentucky University Press of Kentucky African American cooks were not strangers in the kitchens of the Old South, but w...
Black and Navy Blue
Black and Navy Blue Phillip Martin JR. 9781835439487 Fiction Olympia Publishers Olympia Publishers Black and Navy Blue is a tense and unflinching coming-of-age novel set on the gritty streets of 1970s...
Once in a Blue Moon
Once in a Blue Moon Sharon G. Flake 9780593480984 Fiction Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House From the three-time Coretta Scott King Honor winner of The Skin I’m In comes the ...
Divine Blue Light: for John Coltrane
Divine Blue Light: for John Coltrane Will Alexander 9780872868700 Poetry City Lights Publishers City Lights Publishers Pocket Poets Series No. 63 From Will Alexander, a finalist for the 2022 Pulitz...
Blue in Green
Blue in Green Wesley Brown 9781953691118 Fiction Blank Forms Editions Blank Forms The latest work from the veteran novelist called “one hell of a writer” by James Baldwin and “wonderfully wry” by Dona...
Fantasia for the Man in Blue
Fantasia for the Man in Blue Tommye Blount 9781945588495 Poetry Four Way Books Four Way Books In his debut collection Fantasia for the Man in Blue, Tommye Blount orchestrates a chorus of distinct, unf...
We Are All Blue
We Are All Blue Donald Molosi 9780996577045 Fiction The Mantle The Mantle Drama. African & African American Studies. History & Politics. WE ARE ALL BLUE is a collection of two plays—MOTSWANA: AFRICA, ...
Blue, Black and White
Blue, Black and White Donald Molosi 9780996577069 Fiction The Mantle The Mantle Drama. African & African American Studies. History & Politics. BLUE, BLACK AND WHITE, the longest running one-man show i...
Blue Fasa
Blue Fasa Nathaniel Mackey 9780811224451 Poetry New Directions Publishing New Directions Publishing A stellar new collection of poems by “the Balanchine of the architecture dance” (The New York Times)...
My Blue Suede Shoes: Four Novellas
My Blue Suede Shoes: Four Novellas Tracy Price-Thompson and TaRessa Stovall, with Elizabeth Atkins and Desiree Cooper 9781416542087 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A powerful collection of ...
Harlem Girl Lost: A Novel
Harlem Girl Lost: A Novel Treasure Blue 9780345492647 Fiction One World Penguin Random House “A true urban novel filled with vivid images of the street.”–Black Issues Book ReviewTreasure E. Blue, stre...
Maizon at Blue Hill
Maizon at Blue Hill Jacqueline Woodson 9780698119574 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House Maizon takes the biggest step in her life when she accepts a scholarship to boarding school and says good...
Blue Blood (Ivy League Mysteries)
Blue Blood (Ivy League Mysteries) Pamela Thomas-Graham 9780684845272 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Murder returns to the Ivy League in this second book in Pamela Thomas-Graham’s cri...
Violet Of A Deeper Blue
Violet Of A Deeper Blue Rick Malone 9780966392609 Fiction Azure Publishing Azure Publishing Part autobiographical, Violet Of A Deeper Blue is the gripping coming of age story of a young black man fres...
Between the Devil & The Deep Blue Sea
Between the Devil & The Deep Blue Sea Darline Dorce-Coupet 9780977412600 Fiction FireFly Publishing FireFly Publishing They had a connection that people only dream of… A bold new installment from th...
In This House
In This House Loretta Diane Walker 9781421837451 Poetry Blue Light Press Blue Light Press Loretta Diane Walker teaches music at Reagan Elementary in Odessa, Texas. She graduated from Ector High Sch...
Blue Sun (A C. J. Cavanaugh Mystery)
Blue Sun (A C. J. Cavanaugh Mystery) Michael R. Lane 9780971645370 Fiction Bare Bones Press Bare Bones Press Alice and Don Harriman are the owners of Blue Sun, the largest residential real estate and ...
One Dark Body
One Dark Body Charlotte Watson Sherman 9780984709533 Fiction Sweet Inspiration Press Sweet Inspiration Press Set in Pearl, Washington, One Dark Body is the story of Raisin, a twelve-year-old girl aban...
The Language Hoax
The Language Hoax John McWhorter 9780190468897 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Japanese has a term that covers both green and blue. Russian has separate terms for dark an...
In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America
In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America Eddie S. Glaude Jr. 9780226298269 Fiction University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press In this provocative book, Eddie S. Gl...
Celestial Blue Skies
Celestial Blue Skies Maggie Collins 9780692023471 Fiction Battered Suitcase Press Battered Suitcase Press In Belle Place, Louisiana, where the sugarcane grows a mile high to the bright blue sky, Celes...
Blue White Red: A Novel (Global African Voices)
Blue White Red: A Novel (Global African Voices) Alain Mabanckou 9780253007919 Fiction Indiana University Press Indiana University Press This tale of wild adventure reveals the dashed hopes of Africans...
Smith Blue
Smith Blue Camille T. Dungy 9780809330317 Poetry Southern Illinois University Press Southern Illinois University Press In Smith Blue, Camille T. Dungy offers a survival guide for the modern heart as ...
I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t And Other Plays
I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t And Other Plays Sonia Sanchez 9780822347781 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books "Sonia Sanchez remains one of the ...
Black, Buckskin, and Blue: African American Scouts and Soldiers on the Western Frontier
Black, Buckskin, and Blue: African American Scouts and Soldiers on the Western Frontier Art T. Burton 9781571687869 Nonfiction Eakins Press Foundation Eakins Press Foundation Black, Buckskin, and Blue...
Stories From Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers At Home And Abroad
Stories From Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers At Home And Abroad Elizabeth Nunez and Jennifer Sparrow 9781580051392 Nonfiction Seal Press Seal Press Stories from Blue Latitudes gathers the majo...
Red, White, Black And Blue: A (th)ink anthology
Red, White, Black And Blue: A (th)ink anthology Keith Knight 9780916397883 Fiction Manic D Press Manic D Press A cross between Gary Larson’s The Far Side and Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks, (th)ink is...
Bluish
Bluish Virginia Hamilton 9780439367868 Fiction Blue Sky Press Blue Sky Press In this powerful novel researched in NYC schools, Newbery Medalist Virginia Hamilton documents the struggle young people fa...
Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews, And Commentaries
Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews, And Commentaries Yusef Komunyakaa 9780472066513 Poetry University of Michigan Press University of Michigan Press Blue Notes offers an assortment of poet Yusef Komunyak...
The Deepest Blue
The Deepest Blue Shauntay Grant 9780063251380 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins From acclaimed author Shauntay Grant and Caldecott Honor-winning artist Daniel Minter comes a stunning picture book...
Blue Smoke Rises
Blue Smoke Rises Damone Bester 9781611884272 Fiction Story Plant Gold Story Plant Gold Blue Smoke Rises is the thrilling sequel to the coming-of-age story Mendel, set in the mid-1980s on Chicago’s Sou...
Gone Wolf
Gone Wolf Amber McBride 9781250850478 Fiction Square Fish Macmillan Publishers Award-winning author Amber McBride lays bare the fears of being young and Black in America, in this middle-grade novel th...
Onyx & Beyond
Onyx & Beyond Amber McBride 9781250908780 Fiction Feiwel & Friends Macmillan Publishers Award-winning author Amber McBride lays bare the fears of being young and Black in America, in this middle-grade...
All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto
All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto George M. Johnson 9780374312718 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers Macmillan Publishers In a series of personal essays, prominent j...
The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family
The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family Ibtihaj Muhammad 9780316519007 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group The instant New York Times bestseller! A powerful, vibra...
Midnight and Little Girl Blue
Midnight and Little Girl Blue Tiffany Golden 9781533602305 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC With her father and brother gone, fearful Little Nalla Blue puts on a brave front while caring f...
Midnight and Little Girl Blue - Special Edition
Midnight and Little Girl Blue - Special Edition Tiffany Golden 9781539560593 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC With her father and brother gone, fearful Little Nalla Blue puts on a brave fr...
My Blue Yonder
My Blue Yonder Carl Gamble 9781634918688 Nonfiction Booklocker Booklocker.com, Inc. Carl Gamble, a premier airline pilot, has penned a remarkable memoir, a powerful story about his journey from the co...
Rachel’s Blue (The Africa List)
Rachel’s Blue (The Africa List) Zakes Mda 9780857423320 Fiction Seagull Books Seagull Books Novelist Zakes Mda has made a name for himself as a key chronicler of the new, post-apartheid South Africa, ...
Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015
Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015 Kevin Young 9780385351508 Poetry Knopf Penguin Random House A rich and lively gathering of highlights from the first twenty years of an extraordina...
Driving Heat (The Blue-Collar Lover Series)
Driving Heat (The Blue-Collar Lover Series) Zuri Day 9781617734250 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. "Day delivers a lively romance." —RT Book ReviewsThe Blue-Collar Lover SeriesMeet the Car...
Blue Talk and Love
Blue Talk and Love Mecca Jamilah Sullivan 9781626011625 Fiction Riverdale Avenue Books Riverdale Avenue Books Blue Talk and Love tells the stories of girls and women of color navigating the moods and ...
Blue Butterfly Days: Dreams and Regrets
Blue Butterfly Days: Dreams and Regrets Corinda Pitts Marsh 9781496132963 Fiction Creation Publishing Group Creation Publishing Group How many lives can we live? Is there a part of us that remains aft...
Love for All Seasons
Love for All Seasons A. C. Arthur, Barbara Keaton, Sapphire Blue, and Maureen Smith 9781600430138 Fiction Parker Publishing Parker Publishing Love For All Seasons will keep you aroused with four sensu...
A Street Girl Named Desire: A Novel
A Street Girl Named Desire: A Novel Treasure Blue 9780345493286 Fiction One World Penguin Random House Bestselling author Treasure E. Blue returns with a gritty against-all-odds urban fairy tale set i...
Miami Reign
Miami Reign Tammy Merkison 9780977843602 Fiction I Believe Entertainment I Believe Entertainment For anyone wanting to make fast money in the mid-eighties, Miami was definitely the place to be. The ba...
Dred Scott: Person or Property? (Supreme Court Milestones)
Dred Scott: Person or Property? (Supreme Court Milestones) Rose Blue and Corinne Naden 9780761418412 Nonfiction Cavendish Square Publishing Cavendish Square Publishing Book by Naden, Corinne J., Blu...
My Man Blue
My Man Blue Nikki Grimes 9780142301975 Nonfiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House A collection of poems describes a young boy’s life with his working mother as he establishes his own identity and de...
Blue Collar Blues
Blue Collar Blues Rosalyn McMillan 9780446522434 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group A brutal struggle for power in the manipulative automobile industry pits white collar against blue...
When We Ruled: The Ancient And Mediaeval History Of Black Civilisations
When We Ruled: The Ancient And Mediaeval History Of Black Civilisations Robin Walker 9781580730457 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press This is an essential book for everyone.—Centerpris...
New Dimensions in African History
New Dimensions in African History John Henrik Clarke 9780865432277 Nonfiction Africa World Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press From the Nile valley to the new world, science invention and tec...
Somewhere Else
Somewhere Else Matthew Shenoda 9781566891738 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press From the river Nile to the teeming streets of Cairo, from the indigenous, pre-Islamic Egyptian Coptic civiliza...
We, The Black Jews: Witness To The ‘White Jewish Race’ Myth, Volumes I & II
We, The Black Jews: Witness To The ‘White Jewish Race’ Myth, Volumes I & II Yosef Ben-Jochannan 9780933121409 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press Dr. Ben destroys the myth of a "white J...
Who Betrayed the African World Revolution?: And Other Speeches
Who Betrayed the African World Revolution?: And Other Speeches John Henrik Clarke 9780883781364 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press This collection of speeches covers an array of topics fro...
The Ruins, Or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires: And the Law of Nature
The Ruins, Or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires: And the Law of Nature C. F. Volney 9780933121522 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press From first-hand observations and study, Vol...
Season: A Novel (Marie Laveau Mysteries)
Season: A Novel (Marie Laveau Mysteries) Jewell Parker Rhodes 9781451617061 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. In Season (formerly titled Voodoo Season), Jewell Parker Rhodes revis...
Let the Murderer Say Amen
Let the Murderer Say Amen Carolyn Marie Wilkins 9781496754745 Fiction Kensington Publishing Corporation Kensington Publishing Corp. As prosperity and great cultural changes sweep across 1920s Jazz Age...