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Latina McIntyre
Latina McIntyre NONE Latina Sharmain McIntyre, born in North Carolina and raised in New York, is a dedicated wife, mother, Air Force Veteran, and educator. She founded the non-profit “Super Smart Gir...
Damn Near White: An African American Family’s Rise From Slavery To Bittersweet Success
Damn Near White: An African American Family’s Rise From Slavery To Bittersweet Success Carolyn Marie Wilkins 9780826218995 Nonfiction University of Missouri Press University of Missouri Carolyn Wilkin...
Carolyn Marie Wilkins
Carolyn Marie Wilkins NONE Carolyn Marie Wilkinsis a Spirit Whisperer, a certified Reiki Master, a Psychic Medium and an initiated Priestess of Yemaya, the African goddess of compassion, motherhood ...
Carolyn Marie Rodgers
Carolyn Marie Rodgers 0000000066509791 Carolyn Marie Rodgers (1940-2010), a key figure in the Black Arts Movement and co-founder of Third World Press, was born and raised in Chicago. Known for her po...
Carolyn Holland
Carolyn Holland NONE Carolyn Holland, a bibliophile and historical romance enthusiast, is dedicated to diversifying the genre by writing books for and about people of color. Inspired by LA Banks and ...
Carolyn Joyner
Carolyn Joyner NONE Carolyn Joyner is a dedicated poet with a divine mission to inspire through themes of politics, love, and spirituality. Her performances span from Washington, DC to Chicago and En...
They Raised Me Up: A Black Single Mother and the Women Who Inspired Her Volume 1
They Raised Me Up: A Black Single Mother and the Women Who Inspired Her Volume 1 Carolyn Marie Wilkins 9780826220110 Fiction University of Missouri Press University of Missouri At the height of the co...
Donna Hill and Carolyn Hector
Donna Hill and Carolyn Hector MULTIPLE Donna Hill and Carolyn Hector are renowned authors known for their romance novels. Their captivating storytelling and relatable characters have won them numerou...
Elisa Camahort Page, Carolyn Gerin, and Jamia Wilson
Elisa Camahort Page, Carolyn Gerin, and Jamia Wilson MULTIPLE Elisa Camahort Page, Carolyn Gerin, and Jamia Wilson are renowned authors with diverse backgrounds in tech, writing, and activism. Their ...
Carolyn Ferrell
Carolyn Ferrell 0000000067622171 Carolyn Ferrell, the acclaimed author of “Don't Erase Me”, is a recipient of numerous awards including the Art Seidenbaum Award and John C. Zacharis Award. Her works ...
The Price of Inheritance
The Price of Inheritance Karin Tanabe 9781476758602 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this enthralling new novel from the author of The List (a “smartly paced and dishy debut,”...
Carolyn A. Brown and Paul E. Lovejoy
Carolyn A. Brown and Paul E. Lovejoy MULTIPLE Carolyn A. Brown, Associate Professor of History, Senior Editor of International Labor and Working Class History, and former Director of African Studies...
Defending the Spirit: A Black Life in America
Defending the Spirit: A Black Life in America Randall Robinson 9780525944027 Nonfiction Dutton Adult Penguin Random House In 1977, Randall Robinson founded TransAfrica, the first organization to lobby...
Shayla Sweet and Her Magical Pen
Shayla Sweet and Her Magical Pen Latina McIntyre 9781643073569 Fiction Mascot Books Mascot Books Join Shayla Sweet in discovering the world around her with her handy-dandy magic pen. What secrets can ...
Royal’s Halloween Party
Royal’s Halloween Party Latina McIntyre 9781684016556 Fiction Mascot Books Mascot Books Join the party with Royal and her family in this scary and fun Halloween tale Full of love and laughter, Royal a...
The Super Smart Girl Book
The Super Smart Girl Book Latina McIntyre 9781684015610 Fiction Mascot Books Mascot Books Join Royal, a fierce and respectful young girl, as she shows everyone her passion and love for life through th...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2010): The Power of Voice
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2010): The Power of Voice Clarence V. Reynolds 21551758v2 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Fall& /& Winter 2010 “The Power of ...
Toni Morrison: Conversations (Literary Conversations Series)
Toni Morrison: Conversations (Literary Conversations Series) Carolyn C. Denard 9781604730180 Nonfiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi As a chronicler of the African A...
The Heart As Ever Green: Poems
The Heart As Ever Green: Poems Carolyn Marie Rodgers 9780385127950 Poetry Anchor Penguin Random House “The Heart as Ever Green: Poems, originally published in 1978, added further nuance to Rodgers’s p...
how i got ovah
how i got ovah Carolyn Marie Rodgers 9780385046701 Poetry Anchor Penguin Random House The idea of crossing over to a new way of life provides the substance that Rodgers explicitly longed for in sev...
Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America
Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America Martha S. Jones 9781316604724 Nonfiction Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press Birthright Citizens tells how Afr...
Let My People Vote: My Battle to Restore the Civil Rights of Returning Citizens
Let My People Vote: My Battle to Restore the Civil Rights of Returning Citizens Desmond Meade 9780807062326 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press The inspiring and eye-opening true story of one man’s u...
Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America Laila Lalami 9781524747169 Nonfiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned b...
Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the USA
Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the USA Mumia Abu-Jamal 9780872864696 Nonfiction City Lights Publishers City Lights Publishers “Expert and well-reasoned commentary on the justice s...
New Self-Publishing Literary Award to Promote Diverse Books in Libraries
New Self-Publishing Literary Award to Promote Diverse Books in Libraries Troy Johnson Article BCALA; SELF-e partner for new self-publishing literary award to promote diverse books in libraries The B...
National Conference of African American Librarians
National Conference of African American Librarians Troy Johnson Article Authors and Publishers: Exhibit at the National Conference of African American Librarians The Black Caucus of the American...
Bookmarks: Reading in Black and White A Memoir
Bookmarks: Reading in Black and White A Memoir Karla FC Holloway 9780813539072 Fiction Rutgers University Press Rutgers University Press What are you reading? What books have been important to you? Wh...
Libraries, Coalitions, and the Public Good
Libraries, Coalitions, and the Public Good E.J. Josey 9781555700171 Nonfiction Neal-Schuman Publishers American Library Association The traditional idea of libraries as a public good is often challeng...
Carolina Mountains Literary Festival
Carolina Mountains Literary Festival Burnsville North Carolina The festival idea was born when a small group of local citizens and businesspersons spontaneously came together ten years ago around the...
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...
Murder at the Wham Bam Club
Murder at the Wham Bam Club Carolyn Marie Wilkins 9781496754714 Fiction Kensington Publishing Corporation Kensington Publishing Corp. As Prohibition era speakeasies and Jazz Age excitement reign supre...
Dear Miss Metropolitan: A Novel
Dear Miss Metropolitan: A Novel Carolyn Ferrell 9781250839015 Fiction Holt Paperbacks Macmillan Publishers A finalist for the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction A finalist for the 2022 PEN/Hemingway...
The Bliss of the Grave
The Bliss of the Grave Carolyn Holland 9781732469310 Fiction Behind the Dark Veil Behind the Dark Veil The Bliss of the Grave MEHWISH Zanzibari Heiress Mehwish Shumaila bin Said al-Murgebi inte...
Behind the Dark Veil
Behind the Dark Veil Carolyn Holland 9781732469327 Fiction Behind the Dark Veil Behind the Dark Veil Arun and Aye-Heaven and Earth #1 Just about anything can happen to a Nephilim who is foolish eno...
Love At Last
Love At Last Sharon C. Cooper 9781946172204 Fiction Amaris Publishing Amaris Publishing Carolyn Jenkins has never had a problem getting a man, but keeping one is another story. After two failed marria...
Death at a Seance: A Carry McFarland Psychic Mystery
Death at a Seance: A Carry McFarland Psychic Mystery Carolyn Marie Wilkins 9781683132134 Fiction Pen-L Publishing Pen-L Publishing Carrie McFarland’s psychic gifts land her in trouble wherever s...
Forever Mine & Falling for the Beauty Queen
Forever Mine & Falling for the Beauty Queen Donna Hill and Carolyn Hector 9781335458421 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Romance Harlequin Enterprises Limited A PASSIONATE PROMISECelebrity chef Alonzo Grant i...
Road Map for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Activism, and Advocacy for All
Road Map for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Activism, and Advocacy for All Elisa Camahort Page, Carolyn Gerin, and Jamia Wilson 9780399581649 Nonfiction Ten Speed Press Penguin Random House A handbook f...
Mojo for Murder
Mojo for Murder Carolyn Marie Wilkins 9781683130352 Fiction Pen-L Publishing Pen-L Publishing Do you believe in magic? There’s a hex on Charley Howard’s Hot Links Emporium, and Charle...
Melody for Murder: A Bertie Bigelow Mystery
Melody for Murder: A Bertie Bigelow Mystery Carolyn Marie Wilkins 9781942428329 Fiction Pen-L Publishing Pen-L Publishing On the South Side of Chicago, one SOUR note can lead to MURDER. ...
Repercussions of the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Interior of the Bight of the Biafra and the African Diaspora
Repercussions of the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Interior of the Bight of the Biafra and the African Diaspora Carolyn A. Brown and Paul E. Lovejoy 9781592213580 Nonfiction Africa World Press Africa Worl...
The Jones Family Express
The Jones Family Express Javaka Steptoe 9781584302629 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Steven adores listening to stories about his Aunt Carolyn’s travels but has always been too young to go on...
Don’t Erase Me: Stories
Don’t Erase Me: Stories Carolyn Ferrell 9780395713273 Fiction Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Harcourt The first collection of short stories by a noted black writer portrays the lives of Black teena...
Jump Bad: A New Chicago Anthology
Jump Bad: A New Chicago Anthology Gwendolyn Brooks 9780685075487 Poetry Broadside Press Broadside Press Featuring an introduction from Gwendolyn Brooks and poetry and prose by Carolyn Rodgers, Don L. ...
Gene Barretta
Gene Barretta NONE Gene Barretta is an acclaimed children's book author and illustrator, known for titles like “Lincoln and Kennedy: A Pair to Compare.” He has won the Carolyn W. Field Award and Bank...
Dennis A. Williams
Dennis A. Williams NONE Dennis A. Williams is a Syracuse-born author and educator. Raised in a multicultural neighborhood, his experiences shaped his writing, including his 1973 novella “Them That’s ...
Biracial, Not Black, Damn It!
Biracial, Not Black, Damn It! Kam Williams images/imgD1.jpg Film Review Groundbreaking Documentary Explores Sensitive Subject of Biraciality Biracial, Not Black, Damn It! Click to order via Am...
The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks
The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks Randall Robinson 9780452282100 Nonfiction Plume Penguin Random House The national bestseller by the author of Defending the Spirit. In this powerful and controver...
Eric M. Cooper
Eric M. Cooper NONE Eric Mann Cooper is a New Jersey-based Sci-Fi/Superhero author known for his Knight Seeker series set in the modern Tri-State area. He recently started a new series, Star Enforcer...
Allison Matulli
Allison Matulli NONE Allison Matulli is a Fulbright Global Scholar, Fellow for the First Amendment at the Freedom Forum, Award-Winning Florida International University Faculty Excellence 2025, legal...
Preface
Preface Kekla Magoon Excerpt Preface: When people talk about the Black Panthers, sometimes they speak in hushed tones, as if history itself could overhear. As if the Panthers are a secret no one s...
Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance
Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance Ntozake Shange 9780807091876 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press In her first posthumous work, the revered poet crafts a personal history of Black dance and c...
Unlawful Seduction: An Erotic Suspense Novella (Lawyers in Lust, Book 2)
Unlawful Seduction: An Erotic Suspense Novella (Lawyers in Lust, Book 2) Sassy Sinclair 9780999733165 Fiction Goldman House Publishing Goldman House Publishing The #MeToo movement takes center stage i...
Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies
Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies Robert G. O’Meally 9780231123518 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press Jackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted; Romare Bea...
Michael A. Gonzales
Michael A. Gonzales NONE Harlem-born essayist and short story writer Michael A. Gonzales, co-authored the seminal hip-hop book Bring the Noise. Known as the “hip-hop Chester Himes,†his fiction a...
LibraryPress@UF
LibraryPress@UF UF Press and George A. Smathers Libraries University of Florida
UF Press and George A. Smathers Libraries
UF Press and George A. Smathers Libraries University of Florida LibraryPress@UF
Dreams Of Life
Dreams Of Life T. Thomas Fortune 9781024859812 Poetry Hutson Street Press Hutson Street Press Dreams Of Life: Miscellaneous Poems is a collection of poems by Timothy Thomas Fortune, a prominent Africa...
A Library
A Library Nikki Giovanni 9780358387657 Fiction Versify Houghton Mifflin Harcourt In this lyrical picture book, world-renowned poet, New York Times bestselling author, and Coretta Scott King Honor winn...
Feel Free: Essays
Feel Free: Essays Zadie Smith 9781594206252 Nonfiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House From Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved authors of her generation, a new collection of essays Since she burs...
Bronx Masquerade (Bound for Schools & Libraries)
Bronx Masquerade (Bound for Schools & Libraries) Nikki Grimes 9780606404907 Fiction Turtleback Turtleback The beloved and award-winning novel now available in a new format with a great new cover! When...
The 21st-Century Black Librarian in America: Issues and Challenges
The 21st-Century Black Librarian in America: Issues and Challenges Andrew P. Jackson, Jefferson C. Julius, Jr., and Akilah S. Nosakhere 9780810882454 Nonfiction Scarecrow Press Rowman & Littlefield Th...
A Sweet Smell of Roses (Bound for Schools & Libraries)
A Sweet Smell of Roses (Bound for Schools & Libraries) Angela Johnson 9780606151764 Fiction Turtleback Turtleback Two Coretta Scott King Award winners celebrate the participation of children during th...
Handbook of Black Librarianship Second Edition
Handbook of Black Librarianship Second Edition E.J. Josey 9780810837201 Nonfiction Scarecrow Press Rowman & Littlefield E. J. Josey and Marva DeLoach have compiled a treasure trove of information abou...
Black Book Publishers in the United States: A Historical Dictionary of the Presses, 1817-1990
Black Book Publishers in the United States: A Historical Dictionary of the Presses, 1817-1990 Donald Franklin Joyce 9780313267833 Nonfiction Greenwood Publishing Group Greenwood Publishing Group Since...
Ethnic Collections in Libraries
Ethnic Collections in Libraries E.J. Josey 9780918212634 Nonfiction Neal-Schuman Publishers American Library Association This book is primarily concerned with the 4 principle ethnic groups in the US: ...
Libraries in the Political Process (Neal-Schuman Professional Book)
Libraries in the Political Process (Neal-Schuman Professional Book) E.J. Josey 9780912700250 Nonfiction Oryx Press Greenwood Publishing Group
Kwame Alexander
Kwame Alexander 0000000042691031 “He truly is a renaissance man.”—Nikki Giovanni Kwame Alexander is a bestselling author, poet, and educator, known for his award-winning book “The Cr...
Zuksiwa Wanner
Zuksiwa Wanner NONE Zukiswa Wanner, born to South African and Zimbabwean parents in Zambia, is a celebrated author known for award-nominated novels like “Men of the South.” As an essayist, she focuse...
David H. Rothman
David H. Rothman 0000000373908303 David H. Rothman, author of 'Drone Child', is known for his advocacy of both traditional and digital libraries and efforts to close the digital divide. Rothman, who ...
Jonathan Todd
Jonathan Todd 0000000028238169 Jonathan Todd, co-founder of Boston Kids Comics Fest and former teacher, is a distinguished comics author and illustrator. A Jacqueline Woodson Fellow, he studied writi...
Literature Libraries
Literature Libraries Troy Johnson Article On this page you will find links to literary reference materials. Sources include Project Gutenburg (where the AALBC obtained our copy of Aesops Fabl...
A Plan for the People: Nelson Mandela’s Hope for His Nation
A Plan for the People: Nelson Mandela’s Hope for His Nation Lindsey McDivitt 9780802855022 Nonfiction Eerdmans Books for Young Readers Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Kirkus Starred Review: "Beauti...
The Measure of a Man
The Measure of a Man Martin Luther King, Jr. 9781639231133 Nonfiction Lushena Books Lushena Books First published in 1959, this pair of meditations by the revered civil-rights leader Martin Luther Kin...
Notable Black Memphians
Notable Black Memphians Miriam Decosta-Willis 9781604975055 Nonfiction Cambria Press Cambria Press This biographical and historical study by Miriam DeCosta-Willis (PhD, Johns Hopkins University and th...
OPENAI Oakland’s Seat at the Table
OPENAI Oakland’s Seat at the Table Carol Denise Mitchell B0H32C9HCB Nonfiction CDMBOOKS CDMBOOKS On May 18, 2026, a federal jury in Oakland delivered a unanimous verdict: Elon Musk’s lawsuit against O...
Summer of Hamn: Hollowpointlessness Aiding Mass Nihilism
Summer of Hamn: Hollowpointlessness Aiding Mass Nihilism Chuck D 9781636141527 Nonfiction Enemy Books Akashic Books In Summer of Hamn, legendary hip-hop artist Chuck D takes on gun violence with rhyth...
Evicted!: The Struggle for the Right to Vote
Evicted!: The Struggle for the Right to Vote Alice Faye Duncan 9781684379798 Nonfiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press Shortlist, Goddard Riverside/CBC Young People’s Book Prize for Social Justice ...
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People Kekla Magoon 9781536214185 Nonfiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press With passion and precision, Kekla Magoon relays an essen...
Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies
Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies Kinshasha Holman Conwill and Paul Gardullo 9780063160644 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins The companion volume to the Smithsonian’s N...
The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History
The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History Karlos K. Hill 9780806168562 Nonfiction University of Oklahoma Press University of Oklahoma Press On the evening of May 31, 1921, and in the early ...
Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field
Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field Howard Bryant 9780807019559 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press A bold and impassioned meditation on injustice in our country that punctures the il...
Yes We Did: Photos and Behind-The-Scenes Stories Celebrating Our First African American President
Yes We Did: Photos and Behind-The-Scenes Stories Celebrating Our First African American President Lawrence P. Jackson 9780525541011 Nonfiction TarcherPerigee Penguin Random House "Eight years in the W...
The Killing Breeze
The Killing Breeze Tony Lindsay 9781599970257 Fiction Penknife Press Penknife Press The Killing Breeze is a story of societal unrest told from the point view of two main characters, opposites in a sen...
Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond Marc Lamont Hill 9781501124945 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. “An impassioned analysis of head...
The Queue
The Queue Basma Abdel Aziz 9780993414909 Fiction Melville House Melville House Set against the backdrop of a failed political uprising, The Queue is a chilling debut that evokes Orwellian dystopia, Ka...
Seeds of Freedom: The Peaceful Integration of Huntsville, Alabama
Seeds of Freedom: The Peaceful Integration of Huntsville, Alabama Hester Bass 9780763669195 Nonfiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press Explore a little-known story of the civil rights movement, in w...
Citizens Creek: A Novel
Citizens Creek: A Novel Lalita Tademy 9781476753034 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Winner BCALA Literary Fiction Book Award “Lalita Tademy has done it again—Citizen’s Creek is a de...
Loving the Lawman: A Roses of Ridgeway Novella (The Roses of Ridgeway) (Volume 3)
Loving the Lawman: A Roses of Ridgeway Novella (The Roses of Ridgeway) (Volume 3) Kianna Alexander 9781479381432 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Loving the Lawman: A Roses of Ridgeway Nov...
The Preachers’ Paramour: A Roses Of Ridgeway Novella
The Preachers’ Paramour: A Roses Of Ridgeway Novella Kianna Alexander 9781475034875 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC The Preacher’s Paramour: A Roses of Ridgeway Novella ©2012, by Kianna A...
If Your Back’s Not Bent: The Role of the Citizenship Education Program in the Civil Rights Movement
If Your Back’s Not Bent: The Role of the Citizenship Education Program in the Civil Rights Movement Dorothy F. Cotton 9780743296830 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. The only female in Mar...
Kissing The Captain
Kissing The Captain Kianna Alexander 9781466208377 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Kissing the Captain: A Roses of Ridgeway Novella ©2012, by Kianna Alexander Historical Romance- Interra...
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, And Black Women In America
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, And Black Women In America Melissa V. Harris-Perry 9780300165418 Nonfiction Yale University Press Yale University Press Jezebel’s sexual lasciviousness, Mammy’s dev...