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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...
Celeste Saves the City, a Book that Teaches Children about Civil Engineering
Celeste Saves the City, a Book that Teaches Children about Civil Engineering Book Spotlights Written by civil engineer, Courtney Kelly, Celeste Saves the City and beautifully illustrated by Erin Niels...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II
Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II John Strausbaugh 9781455567485 Nonfiction Twelve Hachette Book Group From John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition and The V...
The Unpublished City: Volume II
The Unpublished City: Volume II Phoebe Wang, Canisia Lubrin, and Dionne Brand 9781771664639 Fiction Book*hug Press Book*hug Press Orient yourself in the city with these nineteen works of creative non-...
Rayful Edmond: Washington D.C.’s Most Notorious Drug Lord
Rayful Edmond: Washington D.C.’s Most Notorious Drug Lord Seth Ferranti 9780980068771 Nonfiction Gorilla Convict Publications Gorilla Convict Publications To many in his hometown of Washington, D.C., ...
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...
Kansas City
Kansas City Delia C. Gillis 9780738534480 Nonfiction Arcadia Publishing Arcadia Publishing Since 1803, when York, a slave in the Lewis and Clark expedition, stood on the bluffs overlooking Kansas City...
Beasts of Prey
Beasts of Prey Ayana Gray 9780593405680 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House An Instant New York Times and Indie Bestseller There’s no such thing as magic in the ...
Lies of the Ajungo
Lies of the Ajungo Moses Ose Utomi 9781250849069 Fiction Tordotcom Macmillan Publishers Moses Ose Utomi’s debut novella, The Lies of the Ajungo, follows one boy’s epic quest to bring water back to his...
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 Wind in the Reeds: A Storm, A Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken
The Wind in the Reeds: A Storm, A Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken Wendell Pierce and Rod Dreher 9781594633232 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House 2016 Christopher Award Winner Fr...
Two “Til Midnight
Two “Til Midnight Bernard L. Dillard 9780578453484 Fiction BerNerd Publishing BerNerd Publishing Witness this gripping novel that spins a web of murder, racism, adoption, sexuality, social media safet...
Stuntboy, in the Meantime
Stuntboy, in the Meantime Jason Reynolds 9781534418165 Fiction Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From Newbery Medal honoree, #1 New York Times, and AALBC bestselling author Jason Re...
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, And An Unlikely Road To Manhood
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, And An Unlikely Road To Manhood Ta-Nehisi Coates 9780385527460 Nonfiction Spiegel & Grau Penguin Random House An exceptional father-son story about the real...
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, And An Unlikely Road To Manhood
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, And An Unlikely Road To Manhood Ta-Nehisi Coates 9780385520362 Nonfiction Spiegel & Grau Penguin Random House An exceptional father-son story about the real...
The City We Became
The City We Became N. K. Jemisin 9780316509848 Fiction Orbit Books Hachette Book Group Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city from an ancient evil in the first book of a stu...
Sin City Vows
Sin City Vows Zuri Day 9781335603531 Fiction Harlequin Desire Harlequin Enterprises Limited A runaway bride rushes right into the arms of her boss’s playboy son in this sizzling Sin City Secrets novel...
Chicago Flashback: The People and Events That Shaped a City’s History
Chicago Flashback: The People and Events That Shaped a City’s History Chicago Tribune Staff 9781572842359 Nonfiction Agate Midway Agate Publishing The devoted journalists at the Chicago Tribune have b...
The Phoenix Files Trilogy
The Phoenix Files Trilogy Kianna Alexander 9781502593863 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC The PHOENIX Files Trilogy Heat Level: Sensual/ Steamy (Love scenes are present but are NOT graphi...
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...
Delores Lowe Friedman
Delores Lowe Friedman NONE Brooklyn-born Delores Lowe Friedman, a retired professor from the City University of New York, is an advocate for literacy and equity in education. She's authored education...
Sean Anderson
Sean Anderson 0000000078343215 Sean Anderson, son of Jamaican immigrants, is a New York-based writer, educator, and youth advocate. His works reflect his unique experiences growing up in 80s NYC and ...
Randall Woodfin
Randall Woodfin NONE Randall Woodfin worked at City Hall (in jobs for the mayor and the city council) and for the Jefferson County Committee on Economic Opportunity, attended Cumberland School of Law...
Mass Deception
Mass Deception Hallema Excerpt Chill bumps appear out of nowhere when I think about that particular period of my life. The memory still haunts me to this day. I’d just arrived bac...
Safety Net
Safety Net Deanna Grey 9798987895559 Fiction Deanna Grey Deanna Grey CELESTE Social anxiety has been the shaky foundation on which I’ve built my life. Never be too loud, too big, or too bold. I’ve ...
All Her Little Secrets
All Her Little Secrets Wanda M. Morris 9780063204331 Fiction William Morrow HarperCollins "All Her Little Secrets is a brilliantly nuanced but powerhouse exploration of race, the legal system, and the...
’Til I Want No More
’Til I Want No More Robin W. Pearson 9781496450579 Fiction Tyndale House Tyndale House When the man she loved years ago returns to town, one young woman’s complicated past rises again, threatening to ...
Black Chess
Black Chess Roberta Roberts 9781735140810 Fiction Uraeus Press Uraeus Press Life is a game of chess. Marginalized people play the game with the black chess pieces, moving second in response to the act...
Blissfield
Blissfield Heather Neff 9781726433174 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Blissfield, North Carolina is a dead end town in the heart of empty. Yet days after her 15th birthday, Bethany Celest...
Heart’s Kiss: Issue 10, August-September 2018: Featuring L. Penelope
Heart’s Kiss: Issue 10, August-September 2018: Featuring L. Penelope L. Penelope 9781612424187 Fiction Heart’s Nest Press Heart’s Nest Press A Magazine Celebrating Romance: Issue 10: August-September ...
Animal 3: Revelations
Animal 3: Revelations K’wan 9781936399932 Fiction Cash Money Content Simon & Schuster, Inc. After making a promise to leave the street life behind, a shocking revelation forces Animal back into the ga...
Goony Goo-Goo And Ga-Ga Too
Goony Goo-Goo And Ga-Ga Too Kia Morgan Smith 9781452008424 Fiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions Goony Goo-Goo and Ga-Ga Too! is a whimsical tale of two sisters, Selena and Celeste who are less than en...
Mysteries of the Past
Mysteries of the Past Alex Simmons 9780516254517 Nonfiction Children’s Press (CT) Scholastic Inc. Introduces four of history’s mysteries: the disappearance of the crew and passengers of the Mary Celes...
Claudia Alexander
Claudia Alexander NONE Claudia Alexander, Ph.D., was a respected NASA scientist, studying planets and flying spacecraft. She contributed to missions to Jupiter, Saturn, and comets. An author, she wro...
Olivia Gray Will Not Fade Away
Olivia Gray Will Not Fade Away Ciera Burch 9781665972628 Fiction Margaret K. McElderry Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A middle schooler navigates the challenges of feeling invisible—literally and figura...
Cursed Daughters
Cursed Daughters Oyinkan Braithwaite 9780385551472 Fiction Doubleday Books Penguin Random House A young woman must shake off a family curse and the widely held belief that she is the reincarnation of ...
Bree Boyd Is a Legend
Bree Boyd Is a Legend Leah Johnson 9781368090100 Fiction Disney-Hyperion Disney Publishing Worldwide From award-winning YA author Leah Johnson comes the sequel to her stunning middle grade debut, Elli...
Out of My Dreams
Out of My Dreams Sharon M. Draper 9781665949545 Fiction Anthem Press Anthem Press Melody flies to London to speak at a convention about differently abled kids in this stunning sequel to the acclaimed,...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Spring 2024): All That We Carry
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Spring 2024): All That We Carry Mudiwa Pettus a21551758v14 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College This issue of the Killens Review of Arts & Letters...
Stuntboy, In-Between Time
Stuntboy, In-Between Time Jason Reynolds 9781534418226 Fiction Atheneum Simon & Schuster, Inc. From Newbery Medal honoree and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes the sequel to th...
That Self-Same Metal (the Forge & Fracture Saga, Book 1)
That Self-Same Metal (the Forge & Fracture Saga, Book 1) Brittany N. Williams 9781419758645 Fiction Amulet Books Abrams This stunning YA fantasy debut "seamlessly weaves together history, fantasy...
Promise Boys
Promise Boys Nick Brooks 9781250866974 Fiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers Nick Brooks’s Promise Boys is a trailblazing, blockbuster YA mystery about three teen boys of color who must in...
Skin of the Sea
Skin of the Sea Natasha Bowen 9780593120941 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A way to survive. A way to serve. A way to save. Simi prayed to the gods, once. Now ...
The Quick Fix Kitchen: Easy Recipes and Time-Saving Tips for a Healthier, Stress-Free Life: A Cookbook
The Quick Fix Kitchen: Easy Recipes and Time-Saving Tips for a Healthier, Stress-Free Life: A Cookbook Tia Mowry 9780593232828 Nonfiction Rodale Books Rodale Books The beloved actress and star of the ...
Sugar Town Queens
Sugar Town Queens Malla Nunn 9780525515609 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House From Los Angeles Times Book Prize Award winner and Edgar Award nominee Malla Nunn com...
Dream Come True
Dream Come True Vanessa Miller 9798507056309 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Leah Davison has made some serious mistakes, but she refuses to give up as she tries to put her lif...
Project Go Green (Hope #4)
Project Go Green (Hope #4) Alyssa Milano and Debbie Rigaud 9781338329438 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. Hope Roberts saves the planet!In the fourth book in Alyssa Milano’s funny and relatable ...
Until the Last Breath
Until the Last Breath Shanora Williams 9798674230984 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Years ago, I fell in love with a man named Maximilian Grant—tall, smooth-talking, handsome ...
The Water Dancer
The Water Dancer Ta-Nehisi Coates 9780399590597 Fiction One World Penguin Random House In his boldly imagined first novel, Ta-Nehisi Coates, the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World...
The Genius of Egypt
The Genius of Egypt Marlon McKenney 9781732205154 Fiction Conscious Culture Publishing Conscious Culture Publishing The Genius of Egypt is the incredible story of the world’s first multi-faceted geniu...
Once Upon A Time In Black America-Part I-RAW
Once Upon A Time In Black America-Part I-RAW Tommie Thomas 9781986184977 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC The first part of the series will shatter your perception of youth and the wonders...
Siafu vs. The Horde (Black Power: The Superhero Gamebook, Volume 2)
Siafu vs. The Horde (Black Power: The Superhero Gamebook, Volume 2) Balogun Ojetade 9781974315178 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC You are the Peoples’ Champion, Defender of the Defenseles...
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...
It’s Only You (Kimani Romance)
It’s Only You (Kimani Romance) Sheryl Lister 9780373864195 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Harlequin Enterprises Limited From their first kiss… The gorgeous music mogul who saves ER nurse Simona Andrews from...
Radio Silence (Off the Grid, Book 1)
Radio Silence (Off the Grid, Book 1) Alyssa Cole 9781539664666 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC No one expects the apocalypse. One moment Arden Highmore was living the life of an average U...
Hold On
Hold On LaVerne Thompson 9781500122157 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC One phone call changed both their lives. A real life knight in shining armor—except he isn’t in armor, he’s in a sui...