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Carlos Moreno
Carlos Moreno 0000000502819973 Carlos Moreno is a graphic designer at Oklahoma's largest anti-poverty organization, CAP Tulsa, and a volunteer at Code for Tulsa. Recognized by NextCity, he also holds...
The Victory of Greenwood
The Victory of Greenwood Carlos Moreno 9780975538906 Nonfiction Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press Jenkin Lloyd Jones Press The Victory of Greenwood invites readers to learn more about the full history of the G...
A Kids Book About The Tulsa Race Massacre
A Kids Book About The Tulsa Race Massacre Carlos Moreno 9781953955029 Nonfiction A Kids Book About A Kids Book About Download the free e-Book (EPub) Version The Tulsa Race Massacre happened bet...
Introduction and Chapter 9 – B. C. Franklin
Introduction and Chapter 9 – B. C. Franklin Carlos Moreno Excerpt Introduction and Chapter 9 – B. C. Franklin “Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as yo...
Marta Moreno-Vega
Marta Moreno-Vega 0000000032859822 Dr. Marta Moreno-Vega, born in 1952, is a renowned scholar and advocate for cultural equity. She holds degrees from New York University and Temple University. She f...
Sonia Manjon and Marta Moreno Vega
Sonia Manjon and Marta Moreno Vega MULTIPLE Sonia Manjon and Marta Moreno Vega are renowned authors with rich backgrounds in social activism and cultural anthropology. Their works explore social just...
The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World
The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World Dave Zirin and John Wesley Carlos 9781608461271 Nonfiction Haymarket Books Haymarket Books Nominated for an NAACP Image Award, Outstandi...
Carlos Santana: Sound of the Heart, Song of the World
Carlos Santana: Sound of the Heart, Song of the World Gary Golio 9781627795128 Nonfiction Henry Holt & Company (BYR) Macmillan Publishers Discover the childhood story of Carlos Santana in Gary Golio’s...
Carlos Whittaker
Carlos Whittaker NONE Carlos Whittaker is bringing hope to humans all over the world. And he’s pretty good at it: he’s an author, podcaster, and global speaker backed by the power of a massive Insta...
Reconnected: How 7 Screen-Free Weeks with Monks and Amish Farmers Helped Me Recover the Lost Art of Being Human
Reconnected: How 7 Screen-Free Weeks with Monks and Amish Farmers Helped Me Recover the Lost Art of Being Human Carlos Whittaker 9781400246465 Nonfiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishi...
Kill the Spider: Getting Rid of What’s Really Holding You Back
Kill the Spider: Getting Rid of What’s Really Holding You Back Carlos Whittaker 9780310338000 Nonfiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing Carlos Whittaker equips you with the practical...
Don’t Feed the Geckos!: The Carver Chronicles, Book 3
Don’t Feed the Geckos!: The Carver Chronicles, Book 3 Karen English 9780544810839 Fiction HMH Books for Young Readers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Carlos isn’t sure how he feels about the news that his c...
The Victory of Greenwood: Black Wall Street, Tulsa Oklahoma
The Victory of Greenwood: Black Wall Street, Tulsa Oklahoma Author Interviews Tulsa Historian Carlos Moreno Discusses the subject of his book, The Victory of Greenwood with AALBC. The history of Green...
When the Spirits Dance Mambo: Growing Up Nuyorican in El Barrio
When the Spirits Dance Mambo: Growing Up Nuyorican in El Barrio Marta Moreno-Vega 9781574781564 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press When rock and roll was transforming American culture ...
Leticia Moreno
Leticia Moreno 0000000131756052 Letícia Moreno (Born, April 1993) is an illustrator and comic artist from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She graduated in Art History in the School of Fine Arts of th...
Moment Maker Softcover
Moment Maker Softcover Carlos Whittaker 9780310337973 Nonfiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing Life is made of moments. What are you doing to make the most of them? In Moment Maker,...
A Boy Named Beckoning: The True Story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American Hero
A Boy Named Beckoning: The True Story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American Hero Gina Capaldi 9780822576440 Nonfiction Carolrhoda Books Lerner Publishing Group At the end of his career, Dr. Carlos ...
Michelle Carlos
Michelle Carlos NONE Michelle Carlos is a Filipina illustrator in Germany, whose art is shaped by her dreams, childhood, and international experiences. She cherishes her cultural traditions, making l...
Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Maurice Carlos Ruffin NONE Maurice Carlos Ruffin is an award-winning author from New Orleans, noted for his work in various literary reviews and his involvement in the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance. H...
Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora
Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora Marta Moreno-Vega 9781558857469 Nonfiction Arte Público Press Arte Público Press "My housewife mother turned into a raging warrior woman when t...
The Altar of My Soul: The Living Traditions of Santeria
The Altar of My Soul: The Living Traditions of Santeria Marta Moreno-Vega 9780345421371 Nonfiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House Long cloaked in protective secrecy, demonized by Western so...
Anna Christian
Anna Christian NONE Anna Christian is an accomplished author of seven books, including 'Then Sings My Soul' and 'Daniel’s Wife'. She has made contributions to the African American National Biography ...
Burn the Blueprint: Reject the Lies, Embrace the In-Between, and Begin Again
Burn the Blueprint: Reject the Lies, Embrace the In-Between, and Begin Again Carlos Whittaker 9781400246472 Nonfiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing Speaker, content creator, and be...
Mosaic Literary Magazine Issue #44: James Baldwin at 100
Mosaic Literary Magazine Issue #44: James Baldwin at 100 Roberto Carlos Garcia mosaic44 Nonfiction Mosaic Literary Magazine Mosaic Literary Magazine I first came to James Baldwin’s work by reading his...
God Carlos
God Carlos Anthony C. Winkler 9781617751394 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books A Finalist for the 2014 Townsend Prize for Fiction!God Carlos has been long-listed for the OMC Bocas Prize for Caribbean...
Nasty
Nasty Dr. XyZ 9781593092627 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. When a rich divorcée, an ambitious music mogul, and an extremely horny high school virgin cross paths, their insatiable ...
Diary Of A Mistress: A Novel
Diary Of A Mistress: A Novel Miasha 9781416547204 Fiction Pocket Star Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. WHAT SHOULD A WIFE BELIEVE? THE WORDS OF HER HUSBAND OR THE DIARY OF HIS MISTRESS? Monica counts he...
The Bitten (Vampire Huntress Legends)
The Bitten (Vampire Huntress Legends) Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780312324087 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers The vampire civil war has been averted, deadly were-demons have been beaten b...
Carlos Barragán
Carlos Barragán NONE Carlos Barragán is a reporter and researcher for The New York Times based in Madrid. He was formerly a reporter at El Confidencial before receiving his MFA in nonfiction writing...
Roberto Carlos Garcia
Roberto Carlos Garcia NONE Roberto Carlos Garcia is associate professor of English at Union College of Union County NJ. He writes poetry and prose about the Afro-Latinx and Afro-Diasporic experience...
The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria’s Romance Scammers
The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria’s Romance Scammers Carlos Barragán 9780374609306 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers A New York Times Most Anticipa...
Traveling Freely: Essays
Traveling Freely: Essays Roberto Carlos Garcia 9780810147881 Nonfiction Curbstone Press Northwestern University Press A poet’s debut essay collection exploring American faults through the eyes of a Do...
Get Your Hopes Up: 90 Devotions and True Stories for Young World Changers
Get Your Hopes Up: 90 Devotions and True Stories for Young World Changers Carlos Whittaker 9781400247141 Nonfiction Tommy Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing Tweens and teens will encounter much...
How to Human: Three Ways to Share Life Beyond What Distracts, Divides, and Disconnects Us
How to Human: Three Ways to Share Life Beyond What Distracts, Divides, and Disconnects Us Carlos Whittaker 9780525654025 Nonfiction WaterBrook Press Penguin Random House A much-needed reminder about w...
The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You: Stories
The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You: Stories Maurice Carlos Ruffin 9780593133408 Fiction One World Penguin Random House A collection of raucous stories that offer a panoramic view of New Orleans from...
We Cast a Shadow: A Novel
We Cast a Shadow: A Novel Maurice Carlos Ruffin 9780525509066 Fiction One World Penguin Random House “An incisive and necessary” (Roxane Gay) debut for fans of Get Out and Paul Beatty’s The Sellout, a...
black / Maybe: An Afro Lyric
black / Maybe: An Afro Lyric Roberto Carlos Garcia 9780999223291 Poetry Willow Publishing Willow Publishing Poetry collection by Roberto Carlos Garcia. Explores themes of Blackness and Dominican cultu...
Melancolia: Poems
Melancolia: Poems Roberto Carlos Garcia 9780998102719 Poetry Červená Barva Press Červená Barva Press Poetry. MELANCOLÍA explores the emotional and psychological landscape of today’s mad world. The poe...
The Phoenix on Barkley Street
The Phoenix on Barkley Street Zetta Elliott 9781500589400 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press Best friends Carlos and Tariq love their block, but Barkley Street has started to change. The playground h...
To All Gentleness: William Carlos Williams, The Doctor Poet
To All Gentleness: William Carlos Williams, The Doctor Poet Neil Baldwin 9781580730389 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press Published to coincide with the 125th anniversary of William Ca...
Prospero’s Daughter: A Novel
Prospero’s Daughter: A Novel Elizabeth Nunez 9780345455369 Fiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House A spellbinding new novel from acclaimed author Elizabeth Nunez, Prospero’s Daughter is a brilli...
Neil Baldwin
Neil Baldwin 0000000108910963 Dr. Neil Baldwin, born in New York City, is a renowned author and scholar with a Ph.D. in Modern American Poetry. He has authored various poetry, textbooks, and biograph...
Furqan’s First Flat Top – El Primer Corte de Mesita de Furqan
Furqan’s First Flat Top – El Primer Corte de Mesita de Furqan Robert Liu-Trujillo 9780996717809 Fiction Come Bien Books Come Bien Books Furqan Moreno wakes up and decides that today he wants his hair ...
A Snap Shot-Landmarking Community Cultural Arts Organizations Nationally: The Impact of Public Policy on Community Arts Funding
A Snap Shot-Landmarking Community Cultural Arts Organizations Nationally: The Impact of Public Policy on Community Arts Funding Sonia Manjon and Marta Moreno Vega 9781494474225 Nonfiction CreateSpace ...
Voices from the Battlefront: Achieving Cultural Equity
Voices from the Battlefront: Achieving Cultural Equity Marta Moreno-Vega 9780865433946 Nonfiction Africa World Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press The essays in this book represent the ideas ...
Harlem World
Harlem World Troy Johnson Article 2nd Issue, Spring 2003 Featuring Rita Moreno NO. 15 Winter/Spring 2007 Wedding Special About Harlem World You find articles ...
The American Daughters (paperback)
The American Daughters (paperback) Maurice Carlos Ruffin 9780593729410 Fiction Random House Publishing Group Penguin Random House “An enthralling tale of a secret resistance movement run by Black wome...
Devil Is Fine
Devil Is Fine John Vercher 9781250894489 Fiction Celadon Books Macmillan Publishers “FULL OF MYSTERY, MAGIC, DARK COMEDY, AND HEART.” —Deesha Philyaw “AN INTIMATE NOVEL, BY TURNS BRACING AND HILARI...
The American Daughters
The American Daughters Maurice Carlos Ruffin 9780593729397 Fiction One World Penguin Random House A gripping historical novel about a spirited girl who joins a sisterhood working to undermine the Conf...
What’s Next? Short Fiction in Time of Change
What’s Next? Short Fiction in Time of Change Sharyn Skeeter 9781950584864 Fiction Green Writers Press Green Writers Press Transition and change are 21st-century lived experiences. We want to know “wha...
What Can I Tell You?
What Can I Tell You? Roberto Carlos Garcia 9781953447647 Poetry FlowerSong Press FlowerSong Press Charting the personal and the political, the lyrical and the prosaic, with an intense interrogation of...
Nothing Interesting Ever Happens to Ethan Fairmont
Nothing Interesting Ever Happens to Ethan Fairmont Nick Brooks 9781454945574 Fiction Union Square Kids Union Square & Co., LLC. Something cool happening in Ferrous City? Not a chance. Until one day...
Runnin’ Away with the Rhythm, 2: Runnin’ Away with the Rhythm
Runnin’ Away with the Rhythm, 2: Runnin’ Away with the Rhythm Craig Rex Perry 9781941958711 Fiction Cedar Grove Publishing Cedar Grove Publishing After narrowly escaping with their lives with the magi...
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[Elegies]
[Elegies] Roberto Carlos Garcia 9781953447920 Poetry FlowerSong Press FlowerSong Press Poetry. African & African American Studies. Latinx Studies. Garcia’s third poetry collection, [ELEGIES], centers ...
Freedom Knows My Name
Freedom Knows My Name Kelly Harris-DeBerry 9781883275297 Poetry Xavier Review Press Xavier Review Press Introduction by Kalamu ya Salaam “Freedom Knows My Name is electric. Kelly mixes brilliant ...
The Proposal
The Proposal Jasmine Guillory 9780399587689 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House The New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Date serves up a novel about what happens when a public prop...
Thirsty
Thirsty Mike Sanders 9780981854540 Fiction Wahida Clark Presents Publishing Green and Company LLC Meet Justice, a half-black, half-Filipino goddess whose appetite for a quick dollar is insatiable. Hav...
The Hunted (Vampire Huntress Legends)
The Hunted (Vampire Huntress Legends) Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780312320300 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers A Neteru—-a hunter or a huntress—-is born every thousand years in favor of th...
Gordon C. James
Gordon C. James 0000000483093360 Charly “Carlos” Palmer, born in 1960, is a fine artist known for his work in children's books. He currently resides in Atlanta, GA. Charly “Carlos” Palmer was born in...
Charly Palmer
Charly Palmer 0000000036783693 Charly “Carlos” Palmer is a renowned artist, illustrator, and educator. Born in Alabama and trained in Chicago, he's famous for running a successful design studio and t...
Cyrus Cassells
Cyrus Cassells 0000000067291069 Cyrus Cassells is a celebrated author and poet, known for award-winning works such as The Mud Actor and Beautiful Signor. He is a Pulitzer Prize nominee, recipient of ...
No Good Deed
No Good Deed Nekesa Afia 9780593548820 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House Caught between her family back in Harlem and her glamorous new life, Louise Lloyd finds that her knack for solving cri...
Devils Kill Devils
Devils Kill Devils Johnny Compton 9781250841681 Fiction Tor Nightfire Macmillan Publishers Devils Kill Devils is perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Certain Dark Things and Southern gothic horr...
Countdown to Christmas: A Brown Baby Parade Book
Countdown to Christmas: A Brown Baby Parade Book Nikki Shannon Smith 9780593566039 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House It’s almost Christmas! Count down the days with festive ac...
Countdown to Christmas: A Brown Baby Parade Book
Countdown to Christmas: A Brown Baby Parade Book Nikki Shannon Smith 9780593566046 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House It’s almost Christmas! Count down the days with festive ac...
Harlem Sunset
Harlem Sunset Nekesa Afia 9780593199121 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House Named a 2022 People Magazine best book of the summer! A riveting Harlem Renaissance Mystery featuring Louise Lloyd...
An Impulse to Keep: Greenwood Art Project
An Impulse to Keep: Greenwood Art Project Greenwood Art Project 9780997494075 Nonfiction [NAME] [NAME] Publications An Impulse to Keep is published on the occasion of the Greenwood Art Project, an ini...
Dead Dead Girls
Dead Dead Girls Nekesa Afia 9780593199107 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House “In this terrific series opener, Afia evokes the women’s lives in all their wayward and beautiful glory, especially...
New Suns
New Suns Nisi Shawl 9781781085783 Fiction Solaris Simon & Schuster, Inc. Winner of the 2020 Locus, World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Ignyte, and Brave New Words Awards.“There’s nothing new under the sun...
Orjanette Bryant, Beatrice Charles and Others
Orjanette Bryant, Beatrice Charles and Others MULTIPLE Orjanette Bryant, Beatrice Charles and Others Orjanette Bryant, Beatrice Charles, Blanca Solorzano, Dr. Anu Binny, Dr. Margarita David, Dr. Mera...
Harlem World
Harlem World Loading 2nd Issue, Spring 2003 Featuring Rita Moreno NO. 15 Winter/Spring 2007 Wedding Special About Harlem World You find articles on culture, style, cuisine, music, literature, a...
Coltrane: The Definitive Visual Celebration of the Legend
Coltrane: The Definitive Visual Celebration of the Legend Ravi Coltrane 9781984858399 Nonfiction Ten Speed Press Penguin Random House The definitive photographic celebration of John Coltrane’s life an...
Terminus 3
Terminus 3 Milton J. Davis 9798990512122 Fiction MVmedia MVmedia The ATLiens are back! Twenty-one speculative fiction stories from some of Metro Atlanta’s best Black Speculative Fiction authors. You’l...
Leon: Worst Friends Forever: A Graphic Novel (Leon #2)
Leon: Worst Friends Forever: A Graphic Novel (Leon #2) Jamar Nicholas 9781338744217 Fiction Graphix Scholastic Inc. Leon struggles with a super ego — and a super secret! — in the second graphic novel ...
Lullaby for the King
Lullaby for the King Nikki Grimes 9781506485621 Fiction Beaming Books 1517 Media An awe-inspiring Christmas tale from multi-award-winning poet Nikki Grimes. The caravan traveled through wilderness,...
Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice
Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, and Dawud Anyabwile 9781324003908 Fiction Norton Young Readers W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A groundbreaking and timely graph...
Thugs 7: Raw and Uncut
Thugs 7: Raw and Uncut Wahida Clark 9781947732445 Fiction Wahida Clark Presents Publishing Green and Company LLC Romance and Thug Lovin’ is at its pinnacle in part 7 of the Thug Series. Trae and Tasha...
Double Bass Blues
Double Bass Blues Andrea J. Loney 9781524718527 Fiction Alfred A. Knopf Penguin Random House Andrea J. Loney grew up in New Jersey with a love for music—in her school band she played the xylophone. Af...
I Am Gandhi: A Graphic Biography of a Hero
I Am Gandhi: A Graphic Biography of a Hero Brad Meltzer 9780525552727 Nonfiction Dial Books Penguin Random House Twenty-five exceptional comic book creators join forces to share the heroic story of Ga...
The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism
The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism Howard Bryant 9780807026991 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press Following in the footsteps of Robeson, Ali, Robinson an...
Thugs: Seven
Thugs: Seven Wahida Clark 9781944992712 Fiction Wahida Clark Presents Publishing Green and Company LLC Thugs Series (Book 7) Romance and Thug Lovin’ is at its pinnacle in part 7 of the Thug Series. T...
We Didn’t Know Any Gangsters
We Didn’t Know Any Gangsters Brian Gilmore 9780692273272 Poetry Cherry Castle Publishing Cherry Castle Publishing “Brian Gilmore’s We Didn’t Know Any Gangsters weds the wily clarity of Lucille Clifton...
Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah
Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah Patricia Smith 9781566892995 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Winner of 2013 Wheatley Book Award in PoetryFinalist for 2013 William Carlos Williams AwardWinner o...
Globetrotter & Hitler’s Children (Black Goat)
Globetrotter & Hitler’s Children (Black Goat) Amatoritsero Ede 9781933354774 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books A startling new voice in Canadian letters.” Olive Senior, author of Shell"Ede has the ...
Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith (Sporting)
Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith (Sporting) Tommie Smith, Delois Smith, and David Steele 9781592136407 Nonfiction Temple University Press Temple University Press At the 1968 Olympics,...
What’s My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States
What’s My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States Dave Zirin 9781931859202 Nonfiction Haymarket Books Haymarket Books “Zirin is America’s best sportswriter.”—Lee Ballinger, Rock and Rap...
Passing Through
Passing Through Colin Channer 9780345453341 Fiction One World Penguin Random House From the national bestselling author of Waiting in Vain and Satisfy My Soul comes a sexy, witty collection of connect...
La Resaca
La Resaca Enrique A. Laguerre 9781563283413 Fiction Editorial Plaza Mayor Editorial Plaza Mayor La resaca presenta la atmósfera social, económica y política de la vida isleña durante las últimas tres ...
Visions of America: Personal Narratives from the Promised Land
Visions of America: Personal Narratives from the Promised Land Wesley Brown and Amy Ling 9780892551743 Nonfiction Persea Books Persea Books This anthology of personal essay and autobiography follows t...
Gary Golio
Gary Golio NONE Gary Golio is a multi-talented visual artist, musician, psychotherapist, and author, known for his New York Times-bestselling book about young Jimi Hendrix. His works focus on artists...
Patricia Smith
Patricia Smith 0000000110775334 Patricia Smith, celebrated poet and professor, is known for her direct and adventuresome style. She’s authored six books, including award finalists 'Blood Dazzler' and...
S. Pearl Sharp
S. Pearl Sharp 0000000036855052 S. Pearl Sharp is a writer, actress, filmmaker and broadcast journalist. An advocate of holistic healing, S. Pearl conducts workshops that merge art and healing, and c...
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg 0000000111353723 Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, born in Puerto Rico, was an Afro-Puerto Rican author, researcher, and activist who made significant contributions to the Harlem Ren...
Carolina Maria de Jesus
Carolina Maria de Jesus 0000000083875208 Carolina Maria de Jesus, born in 1914, was a Brazilian writer who highlighted life in favelas through her diaries. Despite facing extreme poverty and social o...
Marjorie M. Fisher, Peter Lacovara, and Salima Ikram
Marjorie M. Fisher, Peter Lacovara, and Salima Ikram MULTIPLE Marjorie M. Fisher, Peter Lacovara, Salima Ikram, and Sue D’Auria are all distinguished academics in the field of Egyptology. Chester Hig...
Neville Goddard
Neville Goddard 0000000033028836 Neville Goddard (1905-1972) was a renowned metaphysical writer and lecturer from Barbados who moved to NYC to study theater before shifting to metaphysics. Known for ...
Jumoke Verissimo
Jumoke Verissimo NONE Jumoke Verissimo is a multi-genre author with two acclaimed poetry collections and a debut novel, A Small Silence. Her works, translated into multiple languages, have won and be...