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Celeste Headlee
Celeste Headlee 0000000049531591 ` Celeste Headlee is an award-winning journalist, author, and expert in human communication. Known for her work on NPR and American Public Media, she advises on racial...
Celeste Saves the City
Celeste Saves the City Courtney Kelly 9780578315195 Fiction Courtney Kelly Books Courtney Kelly Books Celeste Saves the City pulls readers into the life of a young girl forced to leave her beloved hom...
What’s Done In The Dark
What’s Done In The Dark Gloria Mallette 9780758211576 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. From the moment Celeste Dawson was born, her big sister, Katrina, had it in for her. And as much as...
Sandra Kitt, Deirdre Savoy, and Celeste O. Norfleet
Sandra Kitt, Deirdre Savoy, and Celeste O. Norfleet MULTIPLE "Sandra Kitt, Deirdre Savoy, and Celeste O. Norfleet are renowned authors, widely recognized for their significant contributions to litera...
Celeste O. Norfleet, Janice Sims, and Felicia Mason
Celeste O. Norfleet, Janice Sims, and Felicia Mason MULTIPLE "Celeste O. Norfleet, Janice Sims, and Felicia Mason are renowned authors known for their compelling narratives and rich storytelling in t...
Celeste Mohammed
Celeste Mohammed NONE Award-winning author Celeste Mohammed is known for her short fiction, earning accolades such as the PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize and the Virginia Woolf Award. A Trinidad and Tobago n...
Celeste’s Harlem Renaissance
Celeste’s Harlem Renaissance Eleanora E. Tate 9780316113625 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group It’s 1921, and when Celeste Lassiter Massey goes to stay with her Aunt Valentina in Ha...
Dime Piece
Dime Piece Tracy Brown 9780974789576 Fiction Triple Crown Publications Triple Crown Publications Celeste Styles is a woman torn. On one hand, she has found happiness with the love of her life, Raheem ...
Surrender The Dark
Surrender The Dark Leslie Esdaile Banks 9781451607789 Fiction Pocket Books Pocket Books National bestselling author L.A. Banks’s electrifying new paranormal series is set in a sizzling world where Dar...
Celeste O. Norfleet
Celeste O. Norfleet 0000000044260796 Celeste O. Norfleet is a bestselling author of over 20 acclaimed novels, winner of six Romance Slam Jam awards, and recipient of the BRAB 2016 Frances Ray Lifetim...
Celeste Beatty
Celeste Beatty NONE Celeste Beatty is the first Black woman to own a brewery in the United States. Celeste Beatty (born 1964), entrepreneur and beer pioneer, founded the Harlem Brewing Company in 200...
Freshwater Road
Freshwater Road Denise Nicholas 9781572841956 Fiction Agate Agate Publishing From award-winning actress Denise Nicholas: a ten-year anniversary reissue of her powerful and dramatic coming of age story...
Vanessa Riley
Vanessa Riley 0000000505908728 Vanessa Riley is an acclaimed author of Regency and historical romances, known for her multicultural narratives and powerful characters of color. With over twenty title...
Celeste’s Harlem Renaissance
Celeste’s Harlem Renaissance Eleanora E. Tate 9780316523943 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group When Celeste Lassiter Massey is forced to live with her actress Aunt Valen...
Yvonne Clark and Her Engineering Spark
Yvonne Clark and Her Engineering Spark Allen R. Wells 9780374391355 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers Macmillan Publishers Up to become one of the first Black female engin...
Regina Brooks
Regina Brooks NONE Regina Brooks, founder and president of Serendipity Literary Agency LLC, combines expertise in engineering and literature with over a decade in senior publishing roles. A Howard Un...
Harlem Brew Soul: A Beer-Infused Soul Food Cookbook
Harlem Brew Soul: A Beer-Infused Soul Food Cookbook Celeste Beatty 9781631068515 Nonfiction Rock Point Books Carter-Krall Imprint Experience beer-infused soul food recipes from the founder of Harlem B...
Far from the Tree
Far from the Tree Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant 9781250846631 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers From the bestselling author duo Donna Grant and Virginia DeBerry comes Far from the T...
Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving
Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving Celeste Headlee 9780593138939 Nonfiction Harmony Penguin Random House Do Nothing How to Break Away From Overworking, Overdoin...
This Holiday Magic: An Anthology
This Holiday Magic: An Anthology Celeste O. Norfleet 9780373091621 Fiction Kimani Press Kimani Press “A Gift from the Heart” by Celeste O. Norfleet The ex who broke Janelle Truman’s heart is back...
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...
Far From The Tree
Far From The Tree Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant 9780312202910 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Celeste English and Ronnie Frazier are sisters, but they couldn’t be more different. C...
Courtney Kelly
Courtney Kelly NONE Courtney Kelly, originally from New Orleans, is a civil engineer and project manager with a career in infrastructure projects. She holds degrees from Southern Methodist University...
Speaking of Race: Why Everybody Needs to Talk about Racism—And How to Do It
Speaking of Race: Why Everybody Needs to Talk about Racism—And How to Do It Celeste Headlee 9780063098152 Nonfiction Harper HarperCollins Why Everybody Needs to Talk About Racism—and How to Do It In t...
Conrad Saves Pinger Park
Conrad Saves Pinger Park Carvin Winans 9781603490245 Fiction Marimba Books Just Us Books, Inc. Eight-year-old Conrad loves Pinger Park. He knows it’s a special place. It’s where he and his friends pla...
Ever Since We Small
Ever Since We Small Celeste Mohammed 9781914344947 Fiction Jacaranda Jacaranda An intricately woven tapestry of stories where survival, resilience, and self-discovery are passed down through generatio...
A Different Energy: Women in Caribbean Oil & Gas
A Different Energy: Women in Caribbean Oil & Gas Celeste Mohammed 9789768291943 Nonfiction Words Matter Communications Words Matter Communications A Different Energy stands as a testament to the endur...
Far From The Tree
Far From The Tree Paige Turner Book Review A prominent novelist once declared, "You can’t go home again", but co authors Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant have reevaluated this truism...
Randal Pinkett
Randal Pinkett NONE Dr. Randal Pinkett is an entrepreneur, author, and scholar. He is the CEO of BCT Partners, a consulting firm working in various sectors. Pinkett co-founded Inner City Consulting G...
We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter
We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter Celeste Headlee 9780062669018 Nonfiction Harper HarperCollins How to Have Conversations That Matter They are, perhaps, the most dreaded four w...
Pleasantview
Pleasantview Celeste Mohammed 9781632462022 Fiction Ig Publishing Ig Publishing Winner of the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award for Fiction Winner of the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean LiteratureCoc...
A Christmas Kiss
A Christmas Kiss Celeste O. Norfleet 9781496700506 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Warm up with these sweet and sexy holiday tales of love and romance…Sealed With A Kiss Celeste O. Norfleet...
Siafu Saves the World!: Black Power: The Superhero Gamebook (Volume 1)
Siafu Saves the World!: Black Power: The Superhero Gamebook (Volume 1) Balogun Ojetade 9781546947264 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC You are the Peoples’ Champion, Defender of the Defense...
City of S The History of New York City during the Civil War
City of S The History of New York City during the Civil War John Strausbaugh 9781455584185 Nonfiction Twelve Hachette Book Group WINNER OF THE FLETCHER PRATT AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION BOOK OF 2016In...
Cherlyn Michaels
Cherlyn Michaels NONE Cherlyn Michaels is a self-published author and chemical engineer who began writing in grade school. She pursued her passion for writing after graduating from university, bravel...
Dieudonne Mayi
Dieudonne Mayi NONE DieudonnÑ Mayi, originally from Cameroon, is a Computer Engineering graduate who later earned a Master's in Political Sciences. He founded SARNA, a community-based organization f...
Leland Melvin
Leland Melvin NONE Leland Devon Melvin, born in 1964, is a former NFL athlete turned astronaut, scientist, and educator. He flew with the Space Shuttle Atlantis, crafted optical fiber sensors at NASA...
Goony Goo-Goo and Ga-Ga Too!
Goony Goo-Goo and Ga-Ga Too! Kelly Starling Lyons Book Review Drawing inspiration from her own children, author Kia Morgan Smith has written a fun picture book about the trials and triumphs of ...
One Night in Georgia
One Night in Georgia Celeste O. Norfleet 9780062329899 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Set in the summer of 1968, a provocative and devastating novel of individual lives caught in the grips of violent h...
The Ex Factor
The Ex Factor Tu-Shonda L. Whitaker 9780758283719 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Celeste is content with her quiet family life in the suburbs, until she suspects that her sexy husband, S...
Pat Cummings
Pat Cummings 0000000067231736 Pat Cummings is an award-winning author and illustrator, known for creating over 30 children's books. She's worked on TV shows like Gullah Gullah Island and Cover to Cov...
What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump
What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump Martin Espada 9780810140776 Poetry Curbstone Press Northwestern University Press This is an anthology of poems in the Age of Trump—and m...
Q Saves the Sun
Q Saves the Sun Isaac Perry 9780990589525 Fiction Tiger Stripe Publishing Tiger Stripe Publishing Inspired by his father’s bedtime stories, nine-year-old Qadeer Taylor transforms into the daring and p...
The Only One: An Urban Tale of Romance
The Only One: An Urban Tale of Romance Connie Bradley 9781483419206 Fiction Lulu Lulu “The Only One is a novel about an interracial love triangle that will put the advice of self-appointed relat...
D’Andre Walker
D’Andre Walker NONE D'Andre Walker is a Detroit-born civil engineer and author, who found inspiration in Cormac McCarthy's work. Balancing his daytime engineering job with a passion for writing and b...
The Bookshop Sisterhood
The Bookshop Sisterhood Michelle Lindo-Rice 9780778310389 Fiction Mira Books Harlequin Enterprises Limited When life rewrites the story, only friendship will see them through. After years of hard ...
Black Chess
Black Chess Denolyn Carroll Book Review “Life’s a chess game…There are infinite possibilities and multiple universes, depending on the choices you make,” asserts Celeste, the ...
To Begin Again
To Begin Again Christine Pauls 9781461124153 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Ruby Stanton, a strict and religious woman, has raised her niece Celeste since birth. Life lessons will be lea...
Getting Played
Getting Played Celeste O. Norfleet, Janice Sims, and Felicia Mason 9780373534326 Fiction Kimani Press Kimani Press Felicia Mason is a motivational speaker and award-winning author. She has received aw...
What Mother Never Told Me
What Mother Never Told Me Donna Hill 9780373831432 Fiction Kimani Press Kimani Press Raised in the Delta by her grandmother, Parris McKay has the voice of an angel and the promise of a bright, loving ...
Back In Your Arms
Back In Your Arms Sandra Kitt, Deirdre Savoy, and Celeste O. Norfleet 9781583146897 Fiction Kimani Press Kimani Press Celebrating the magic of Valentine’s day, this special collection follows three co...
Ellie Engle Saves Herself
Ellie Engle Saves Herself Leah Johnson 9781368085557 Fiction Disney-Hyperion Disney Publishing Worldwide Ellie Engle doesn’t stand out. Not at home, where she’s alone with her pet fish since her dad m...
Mama Saves A Victim (Nora Deloach Mama Detective)
Mama Saves A Victim (Nora Deloach Mama Detective) Nora Deloach 9780870678745 Fiction Holloway House Kensington Publishing Corp. The third book in the highly acclaimed "Mama" detective series, this vol...
Isaiah Dunn Saves the Day
Isaiah Dunn Saves the Day Kelly J. Baptist 9780593429211 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Starting middle school is no joke! Isaiah Dunn has more to say in the sequel to the ...
Tyler Merritt
Tyler Merritt NONE Tyler Merritt is a multi-talented actor, musician, comedian, and activist known for The Tyler Merritt Project. With a career spanning 20 years, he has worked in TV shows like ABC's...
Shawn D. Rochester
Shawn D. Rochester NONE Shawn D. Rochester, CEO of Good Steward LLC, is a financial expert with a strong background in corporate development and global strategy. He has a proven track record in optim...
Dwayne Alexander Smith
Dwayne Alexander Smith NONE Born in Harlem, Dwayne Alexander Smith is a professional screenwriter who shifted from electrical engineering to film-making. Inspired by Star Wars, he began with an award...
E. B. Lewis
E. B. Lewis 0000000367331472 E.B. Lewis, an award-winning illustrator, has worked on over 70 children's books. Inspired by his uncles, he developed his artistic skills from a young age and later spec...
One April Morning: Children Remember the Oklahoma City Bombing
One April Morning: Children Remember the Oklahoma City Bombing Nancy Lamb and Children Of Oklahoma City 9780688146665 Fiction HarperCollins Publishers HarperCollins The April 1995 bombing of the Alfre...
Autumn Allen
Autumn Allen NONE Autumn Allen is a literature educator, senior editor at Barefoot Books, and author known for her contributions to children's literature. She teaches at Harvard Graduate School of Ed...
Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering Malcolm Gladwell 9780316575805 Nonfiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group Twenty-five years ...
Maya Wiley
Maya Wiley NONE Maya D. Wiley, a life-long civil rights advocate and attorney, is the current president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. An influential figure in activi...
Nega Mezlekia
Nega Mezlekia 000000010946810X Nega Mezlekia, born in Ethiopia, initially supported the revolution but later criticized the regime. He abandoned his family to join rebel groups and left Ethiopia in 1...
The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship
The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship Deborah Willis 9781479809004 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press A stunning collection of stoic por...
Civil Rights For Beginners
Civil Rights For Beginners Paul Von Blum 9781934389898 Nonfiction For Beginners For Beginners A large swath of literature on the civil rights movement exists in the United States. Much of that literat...
Assessing the State of the Black Digital Press
Assessing the State of the Black Digital Press Kam Williams Interview Troy Johnson is the President of AALBC.com, LLC, whose main property is the website AALBC.com, for which Troy is the foun...
Neale Sourna
Neale Sourna NONE Neale Sourna is an award-winning author, screenwriter, and game story narrative writer based in Cleveland, Ohio. She has a diverse background, including business banking, wealth man...
Vip: Lewis Latimer: Engineering Wizard
Vip: Lewis Latimer: Engineering Wizard Denise Lewis Patrick 9780062978073 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Get ready to light up the world with Lewis Latimer in this exciting middle grade nonfic...
Huguens Noel
Huguens Noel NONE Huguens Noel, an author, entrepreneur, and inventor with an engineering background, aims to inspire fresh perspectives and challenge conventional thought. Based in Upper Montclair, ...
Allen R. Wells
Allen R. Wells NONE Allen R. Wells is an author and engineer. He was born in Jackson, Mississippi. He studied Architectural Engineering at Tennessee State University in Nashville. He is the author o...
Angela Benson
Angela Benson NONE Dr. Angela Benson is a prolific author with 14 novels and various other works published by top-tier publishers. She holds a doctorate in instructional technology from the Universit...
Mukuka Chipanta
Mukuka Chipanta NONE Mukuka Chipanta, an Aerospace Engineer and Program Manager from Zambia, has contributed to the design of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Based in Washington DC, his academic backgroun...
James T. Hollin, Jr.
James T. Hollin, Jr. MULTIPLE James T. Hollin, Jr. is a University of Arizona graduate, former USAF pilot, and retired Delta Air Lines captain. He pivoted his career to law, earning a Juris Doctor de...
Micah L. McCreary
Micah L. McCreary NONE Rev. Dr. Micah L. McCreary, from Detroit, Michigan, is the 12th president of New Brunswick Theological Seminary since 2017. He has degrees in Engineering, Divinity, and Counsel...
When the Children Marched: The Birmingham Civil Rights Movement (Prime)
When the Children Marched: The Birmingham Civil Rights Movement (Prime) Robert H. Mayer 9780766029309 Nonfiction Enslow Publishing Enslow Publishing LLC Referred to as the “most segregated city in Ame...
Renée Watson
Renée Watson 0000000060818307 Renée Watson, acclaimed author of young adult and children's literature, uses art to help youth deal with trauma and discuss social issues. Known for her book “This Side...
What the Hell Do You Have to Lose?: Trump’s War on Civil Rights
What the Hell Do You Have to Lose?: Trump’s War on Civil Rights Juan Williams 9781541788268 Nonfiction PublicAffairs Hachette Book Group The bestselling author, political analyst, and civil rights exp...
Kinder Spirits: Children Helping Children in the Fight Against Hunger
Kinder Spirits: Children Helping Children in the Fight Against Hunger Vicki L. Hubbard 9780595135424 Nonfiction iUniverse Author Solutions Kinder Spirits is a childrens book catered for children of al...
The Story of Civil Rights Hero John Lewis the Story of Civil Rights Hero John Lewis
The Story of Civil Rights Hero John Lewis the Story of Civil Rights Hero John Lewis Kathleen Benson 9781620148549 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books This new entry in the innovative “Story” li...
Freedom’s Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970
Freedom’s Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970 Lynne Olson 9780684850139 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. The first comprehensive histor...
Animal Village
Animal Village Nelda LaTeef 9789988647469 Fiction Sub-Saharan Publishers Sub-Saharan Publishers Animal Village, a children’s picture book, is an authentic folk tale from the Zarma culture of West Afri...
A Celebration of Literature and Response: Children, Books, and Teachers in K-8 Classrooms (2nd Edition)
A Celebration of Literature and Response: Children, Books, and Teachers in K-8 Classrooms (2nd Edition) Marjorie R. Hancock 9780131109025 Nonfiction Prentice Hall Press Prentice Hall Press Reinforced...
A People’s History of Chicago
A People’s History of Chicago Kevin Coval 9781608466719 Poetry Haymarket Books Haymarket Books Known variously as “the Windy City,” “the City of Big Shoulders,” or “Chi-Raq,” Chicago is one of the mos...
The Other Civil War: Slavery and Struggle in Civil War America
The Other Civil War: Slavery and Struggle in Civil War America Howard Zinn 9780062079008 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins Drawn from his New York Times bestseller A People’s History of the Un...
Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. MULTIPLE Charles J. Ogletree Jr. is a renowned American attorney, legal scholar, and civil rights advocate. Renowned for his work in criminal law and civil rights law, he's h...
The Rise 1968: (Exploring Civil Rights)
The Rise 1968: (Exploring Civil Rights) Jay Leslie 9781338837575 Nonfiction Franklin Watts Hachette Book Group Learn about the key events of the civil rights movement in the latest installment of this...
Neil Thompson
Neil Thompson 0000000109892699 Neil Thompson is an engineer, podcaster, and entrepreneur who focuses on science. His company, Teach the Geek, aids engineers and scientists in improving presentation s...
Emanuel Celler: Immigration and Civil Rights Champion
Emanuel Celler: Immigration and Civil Rights Champion Wayne Dawkins 9781496805355 Nonfiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi Congressman Emanuel Celler (1888-1981) was ...
The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family
The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family Gail Lumet Buckley 9780802124548 Nonfiction Atlantic Monthly Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. In The Black Calhouns, Gail ...
Naomi V. Dunsen-White
Naomi V. Dunsen-White NONE Naomi V. Dunsen-White is a children’s book author and editor focused on promoting diversity and representation in children's literature. She utilizes her background as a fo...
The Oxford Handbook of Children’s Rights Law
The Oxford Handbook of Children’s Rights Law Jonathan Todres and Shani M. King 9780190097608 Nonfiction Oxford University Press, USA Oxford University Press Children’s rights law is a relatively young...
New List! Best-Selling Children’s Books
New List! Best-Selling Children’s Books Troy Johnson Article We've Just Added an Additional Category to Our Popular Best Sellers List—Children’s Books! Over the years, there has always been a gre...
Emily Raboteau
Emily Raboteau 0000000036573661 Emily Raboteau, author of 'The Professor’s Daughter' and 'Searching for Zion,' is an award-winning writer renowned for her fiction and essays. She has received numerou...
The Burning City
The Burning City Alaya Dawn Johnson 9781932841459 Fiction Agate Bolden Agate Publishing, Inc In The Burning City, Alaya Dawn Johnson continues the trilogy begun with her debut, Racing the Dark, delvin...
Black STEM USA: America’s Next Civil Rights Movement
Black STEM USA: America’s Next Civil Rights Movement Sharon Ewell Foster 9780996870702 Nonfiction C. M. Williams & Associates Press C. M. Williams & Associates Press America is losing ground in the gl...
Round And Round Together: Taking A Merry-Go-Round Ride Into The Civil Rights Movement (The Nautilus Series)
Round And Round Together: Taking A Merry-Go-Round Ride Into The Civil Rights Movement (The Nautilus Series) Amy Nathan 9781589880719 Nonfiction Paul Dry Books Paul Dry Books "A snapshot of the civil-r...
Angela Dews
Angela Dews NONE Angela M. Dews, a former journalist and public servant, now writes and teaches in New York City. She has authored a series of murder mysteries set in Harlem and a 2018 book on urban ...
Black Leaders in the Civil Rights Movement: A Black History Book for Kids
Black Leaders in the Civil Rights Movement: A Black History Book for Kids Glenda Armand 9781648764455 Nonfiction Rockridge Press Callisto Publishing Incredible stories of Black civil rights leaders fo...
Civil Rights, Yesterday & Today
Civil Rights, Yesterday & Today Herb Boyd and Todd Steven Burroughs 9781450810302 Fiction West Side Publishing West Side Publishing Civil Rights, Yesterday & Today explores the story of the Afri...