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Cerece Rennie Murphy: In the Garden of Light and Shadow
Cerece Rennie Murphy: In the Garden of Light and Shadow Author Interviews National bestselling and award-winning author Cerece Rennie Murphy discusses her novel, In the Garden of Light and Shadow, dur...
Cerece Rennie Murphy
Cerece Rennie Murphy NONE Cerece Rennie Murphy, a science fiction enthusiast since age seven, has a rich background in social work and international relations. She transitioned into creative writing ...
Cerece Rennie Murphy and Alana Joli Abbott
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In the Garden of Light and Shadow: The Chronicles of Ada St. James
In the Garden of Light and Shadow: The Chronicles of Ada St. James Cerece Rennie Murphy 9798991385503 Fiction LionSky Publishing LionSky Publishing 4000 years ago, a rebellion in the Ever brought ange...
In the Garden of Light and Shadow: War of the Fallen
In the Garden of Light and Shadow: War of the Fallen Cerece Rennie Murphy 9798991385534 Fiction LionSky Publishing LionSky Publishing I never meant to start a war Yet war was inevitable It was i...
Where the Veil Is Thin
Where the Veil Is Thin Cerece Rennie Murphy and Alana Joli Abbott 9781947659810 Fiction Outland Entertainment Outland Entertainment These are not your daughter’s faerie stories... Around the world, th...
Ric Murphy
Ric Murphy NONE Ric Murphy, an award-winning author and historian from Boston, specializes in genealogical research and African American history. With a family lineage dating back to early colonial A...
Making of a Stand-Up Guy
Making of a Stand-Up Guy Charlie Murphy 9781439149577 Nonfiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. As one of the most popular performers on Comedy Central’s mega-hit The Chappelle Show, Charlie Mur...
Ellis and The Magic Mirror
Ellis and The Magic Mirror Cerece Rennie Murphy 9780985621056 Fiction LionSky Publishing LionSky Publishing As a mother of a 7 year old boy and a 4 year girl, I know that there are a lot of great book...
Ellis and The Cloud Kingdom
Ellis and The Cloud Kingdom Cerece Rennie Murphy 9780998274959 Fiction LionSky Publishing LionSky Publishing A bold reinterpretation of the causes and legacy of Nat Turner’s rebellion—and the new defi...
To Find You
To Find You Cerece Rennie Murphy Excerpt Part I: In The Beginning I wait for him here, at the place where the night sky and the earth become lovers. In the tall grass of our homeland, between two k...
Between Two Seas: A Collection of Short Stories
Between Two Seas: A Collection of Short Stories Cerece Rennie Murphy 9780998274966 Fiction LionSky Publishing LionSky Publishing The best-selling author of the Order of the Seers trilogy, To Find You,...
Order of the Seers The Red Order
Order of the Seers The Red Order Cerece Rennie Murphy 9780985621025 Fiction LionSky Publishing LionSky Publishing The Quest to Control the Power of the Seers Continues… After successfully destroying t...
Ellis and The Hidden Cave
Ellis and The Hidden Cave Cerece Rennie Murphy 9780985621094 Fiction LionSky Publishing LionSky Publishing Book II in the Ellis Series Early Reader Chapter Book Adventure Series. Coming Soon! An Anci...
Order of the Seers The Last Seer
Order of the Seers The Last Seer Cerece Rennie Murphy 9780985621049 Fiction LionSky Publishing LionSky Publishing The Seers face their greatest challenge in the final chapter of the Order of the Seers...
The Wolf Queen Book I: The Hope of Aferi
The Wolf Queen Book I: The Hope of Aferi Cerece Rennie Murphy 9780998274911 Fiction LionSky Publishing LionSky Publishing To fight for her future, she must first discover the magic of her past… O...
The Wolf Queen Book II: The Promise of Aferi
The Wolf Queen Book II: The Promise of Aferi Cerece Rennie Murphy 9780998274935 Fiction LionSky Publishing LionSky Publishing To claim their future, she must avenge her past. War has come to the La...
To Find You
To Find You Cerece Rennie Murphy 9780985621070 Fiction LionSky Publishing LionSky Publishing Join our star-crossed lovers on a journey through time that you will never forget. Two Souls One Desire ...
Order of the Seers
Order of the Seers Cerece Rennie Murphy 9780985621001 Fiction LionSky Publishing LionSky Publishing What would you do if you held infinite power in the palm of your hand? Part One of the thrilling O...
New York Comic Con
New York Comic Con Javitz Center New York New York “…if you’re a speculative fiction author (horror, fantasy, paranormal, urban fantasy, sci-fi, etc.) you should definitely go&rdquo...
December 2016 Newsletter - Great New Books, Best Film of the Year, and More
December 2016 Newsletter - Great New Books, Best Film of the Year, and More Troy Johnson Article Cerece Rennie Murphy – Our eNewsletter Sponsor for December Experience The Love of A Lifetime ~ T...
Elizabeth Murphy Oliver
Elizabeth Murphy Oliver NONE Elizabeth Murphy Oliver Abney, former city editor and columnist for the Baltimore Afro-American and granddaughter of its founder, has died at 85. A respected journalist a...
Eddie Murphy - The "Dreamgirls" Interview
Eddie Murphy - The "Dreamgirls" Interview Kam Williams Interview Murphy Muses on Dream Role Dreamgirls (2006) - Eddie Murphy Eddie Murphy The Dreamgirls Interview with Kam Williams Born ...
Lola Plants a Garden
Lola Plants a Garden Anna McQuinn 9781580896948 Fiction Charlesbridge Charlesbridge How does your garden grow? Book-loving Lola is inspired by a collection of garden poems that she reads with her momm...
The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry
The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry Clarence Major 9780060951214 Poetry Harper Perennial HarperCollins The Garden Thrives: 20th Century African-American Poetry, edited by Cla...
Charlie Murphy
Charlie Murphy 0000000114942873 Born on July 12, 1959, Charles Quinton Murphy, Jr. grew up in Roosevelt, Long Island. He served in the U.S. Navy before following his brother Eddie into show business....
Criminal Element (A Larry Cole Mystery)
Criminal Element (A Larry Cole Mystery) Hugh Holton 9780312877873 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers Chicago police sergeant Joe Donegan came to the department with a plan. To him the police badge was...
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden Camille T. Dungy 9781982195304 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the env...
Here Are the Seeds
Here Are the Seeds JaNay Brown-Wood 9781525308307 Fiction Kids Can Press Corus Entertainment Inc This delightfully rhythmic story follows two children as they grow a garden from seeds. Author and p...
Indigo Blume And The Garden City
Indigo Blume And The Garden City Kwame Alexander 9781888018981 Fiction Word of Mouth Books/Capital BookFest Word of Mouth Books/Capital BookFest Indigo Blume and the Garden City received a 2013 NAACP ...
The Shadow Prince
The Shadow Prince David Anthony Durham 9781643794280 Fiction Tu Books Lee & Low Books FIVE DEADLY TESTS, ONLY ONE SHADOW PRINCE In this middle grade solarpunk novel set in an alternate Egyptian uni...
Double Shadow: Poems (Los Angeles Times Book Award: Poetry)
Double Shadow: Poems (Los Angeles Times Book Award: Poetry) Carl Phillips 9780374141578 Poetry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers A stunning new collection of poems from the author of Spea...
Shadow Of Light
Shadow Of Light James E. Cherry 9781852424923 Fiction Serpent’s Tail Serpent’s Tail “Like the work of Richard Wright, Shadow of Light is in the tradition of black novels that become unforgettable.”—Je...
Jayden’s Impossible Garden
Jayden’s Impossible Garden Mélina Mangal 9781631985904 Fiction Free Spirit Publishing Teacher Created Materials Jayden and a new friend bring nature to the city in this timeless story about a communit...
The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver (paperback)
The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver (paperback) Gene Barretta 9780062430182 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins The inspirational story of George Washington Carver and his childhood secre...
The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver
The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver Gene Barretta 9780062430151 Nonfiction Katherine Tegen Books HarperCollins The inspirational story of George Washington Carver and his childhood secret ga...
Mysteries of the Spring Garden
Mysteries of the Spring Garden Brea Baker 9798322392927 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Mysteries of the Spring Garden is a delightful and engaging preschool book that takes yo...
The Colored Garden
The Colored Garden O.H. Bennett 9780965970198 Fiction Laughing Owl Pub Inc Laughing Owl Pub Inc The Colored Garden is a story about storytellers: a boy called Sarge and his grandmother, Ruth, whose fa...
Garden Avenue Press
Garden Avenue Press Garden Avenue Press Garden Avenue Press
Garden Avenue Press
Garden Avenue Press Garden Avenue Press Garden Avenue Press
Give God The Glory! Let Your Light So Shine
Give God The Glory! Let Your Light So Shine Kevin Wayne Johnson 9780988303805 Fiction Writing for the Lord Writing for the Lord Light (phos) means to give light. It is that which enables us to see (ab...
The Psych of Life Oliver Gardens
The Psych of Life Oliver Gardens Scubie Albie 9798374113518 Poetry Independently Published Independently Published This collection of poems is my life stretch in plain sight, I feel it so well Oliver ...
Blind Light
Blind Light Glenda R. Taylor 9780982554005 Poetry Amh Publishers Amh Publishers This extraordinary volume of poetry interprets and transcribes metaphysical reality. What happens when one loses her vis...
Freedom Road: An American Family Saga from Jamestown to World War
Freedom Road: An American Family Saga from Jamestown to World War Ric Murphy 9781496920515 Nonfiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions Ric Murphy’s award-winning book, Freedom Road: An American Family Sag...
Eddie’s Big Brother on Belatedly Making It on His Own
Eddie’s Big Brother on Belatedly Making It on His Own Kam Williams Interview Charles Quinton Murphy, Jr. was born in Bushwick, Brooklyn on July 12, 1959, but raised in Roosevelt on Long...
Dolemite Is My Name
Dolemite Is My Name C. Liegh McInnis https://aalbc.com/reviews/images/Dolemite_is_My_Name.jpg Film Review Rating: R (for some sexuality, full nudity and brief language) Genre: Drama Directed By: C...
Uncle John’s City Garden (Paperback)
Uncle John’s City Garden (Paperback) Bernette Ford 9780823456932 Fiction Holiday House Holiday House A Smithsonian Magazine Best Children’s Book of the Year A BCCB Blue Ribbon Book A Junior Library ...
Uncle John’s City Garden
Uncle John’s City Garden Bernette Ford 9780823447862 Fiction Holloway House Kensington Publishing Corp. How does this city garden grow? With help from L’il Sissy and her siblings—and love, love, love!...
Time’s Unfading Garden: Anne Spencer’s Life and Poetry
Time’s Unfading Garden: Anne Spencer’s Life and Poetry Anne Spencer 9780807102947 Poetry LSU Press Louisiana State University Press Time’s Unfading Garden: Anne Spencer’s Life and Poetry is a comprehe...
Mouths of Garden
Mouths of Garden Barbara Fant 9781951979263 Poetry Sundress Publications Sundress Publications In Mouths of Garden, there is a distinct sense of both suffocation and symphony, as Barbara Fant describe...
Garden’s Corner
Garden’s Corner Douglas S. Reed 9780947480929 Fiction The Hurricane Group The Hurricane Group Little Speedy is back! Twenty-five years after his debut, Little Speedy Copeland returns to share his e...
The Garden of Unfortunate Souls
The Garden of Unfortunate Souls Eddie Mark 9781620157930 Fiction Booktrope Editions Booktrope Editions “With compassion and superb craftsmanship, Eddie Mark invokes a world of fascinating and unfor...
My Baba’s Garden
My Baba’s Garden Jordan Scott 9780823450831 Fiction Neal Porter Books Holiday House The special relationship between a child and his grandmother is depicted in this sumptuous book by an award-winning ...
See Marcus Grow
See Marcus Grow Marcus Bridgewater 9780593406076 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House Marcus Bridgewater, also known as the social media sensation Garden Marcus, shows kids the lessons he ...
A Garden for Black Boys: Between the Stages of Soil and Stardust
A Garden for Black Boys: Between the Stages of Soil and Stardust W. J. Lofton 9781717285065 Poetry CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC A Garden for Black Boys invites the reader into a world where to...
Truth Be Told
Truth Be Told Patricia Raybon 9781496458476 Fiction Tyndale House Tyndale House Denver’s newest detective. A garden’s deadly secrets. On a lovely June night in 1924, amateur detective Annalee Spain...
Michelle’s Garden: How the First Lady Planted Seeds of Change
Michelle’s Garden: How the First Lady Planted Seeds of Change Sharee Miller 9780316458573 Nonfiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group From an acclaimed author and illustrator:...
Shadow Valley
Shadow Valley Steven Barnes 9780345459039 Fiction Del Rey Del Rey In Great Sky Woman, “daringly epic in scope,” (Publishers Weekly), Steven Barnes’s Great Sky Woman unveiled the world of a prehistoric...
A Rage of Lions (the Shadow Prince #3)
A Rage of Lions (the Shadow Prince #3) David Anthony Durham 9781643797434 Fiction Tu Books Lee & Low Books In the third installment in The Shadow Prince saga, Ash and his friends race against time...
The Reluctant King
The Reluctant King K’wan 9781636140148 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books “K’wan is exceptionally gifted at ratcheting up suspense … There’s no denying the writer’s talent for dark, gritty fiction. I...
Shadow Dancing
Shadow Dancing Louise Meriwether 9780345425959 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House Acclaimed author of Daddy Was a Numbers Runner and the historical novel Fragments of the Ark, Louise Me...
In the Garden with Dr. Carver
In the Garden with Dr. Carver Susan Grigsby 9780807536308 Fiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company Sally is a young girl living in rural Alabama in the early 1900s, a time when people...
The Light She Feels Inside
The Light She Feels Inside Gwendolyn Wallace 9781728239798 Fiction Sourcebooks Jabberwocky Sourcebooks How will Maya create a brighter world? By learning to honor her glowing feelings, just like Black...
When God Made Light
When God Made Light Matthew Paul Turner 9781601429209 Fiction Convergent Books Penguin Random House From the author and illustrator of the best-selling When God Made You comes a new illuminating messa...
Love’s Garden: A Guide to Mindful Relationships
Love’s Garden: A Guide to Mindful Relationships Peggy Rowe Ward and Larry Ward 9781888375732 Nonfiction Parallax Press Parallax Press A collection of real-life Buddhist love stories, with commentary a...
Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery Vincent Brown 9780674057128 Nonfiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press Winner of the Merle Curti Award Winner of th...
Jayden’s Secret Ingredient
Jayden’s Secret Ingredient Mélina Mangal 9781631986024 Fiction Free Spirit Publishing Teacher Created Materials Jayden discovers the secret ingredient to trying something new. Jayden loves the outd...
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Rachel Eliza Griffiths 0000000527846142 Rachel Eliza Griffiths, a poet, photographer, and creative writing teacher, is renowned for her literary portraits, fine art photography, and lyric videos. She...
Madam Fate
Madam Fate Marcia Douglas 9781569471340 Fiction Soho Press Soho Press Women of Jamaica with magical bonds to the worlds of Nature and spirits and to each other. Using a series of voices, Marcia Doug...
Scary, Scary Sasha
Scary, Scary Sasha Starr T. Balmer 9781515081548 Fiction Bird’s Love Bird’s Love Creepy, crawly bugs give Sasha goose bumps. Her fear grows when her mother tells her to pick vegetables from the gard...
How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack: Defend Yourself When the Lawn Warriors Strike (and They Will)
How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack: Defend Yourself When the Lawn Warriors Strike (and They Will) Chuck Sambuchino 9781580084635 Fiction Ten Speed Press Penguin Random House Chuck Sambuchino of Writ...
Josias, Hold the Book
Josias, Hold the Book Jennifer Elvgren 9781590783184 Fiction Boyds Mills Press Boyds Mills Press This Americas Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature winner about aHaitian boy determined...
Corduroy’s Garden
Corduroy’s Garden Allan Eitzen 9780593432242 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Corduroy was first introduced to readers in 1968 and soon became a classic character. Eve...
My Hair Is a Garden
My Hair Is a Garden Cozbi A. Cabrera 9780807509234 Fiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company After a day of being taunted by classmates about her unruly hair, Mackenzie can’t take any ...
False Idols: A Reluctant King Novel
False Idols: A Reluctant King Novel K’wan 9781636141770 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books In this gripping follow-up to The Reluctant King, the "Monarchy" of New York City’s Five Points is in total ...
The Knight and His Shadow (African Humanities and the Arts)
The Knight and His Shadow (African Humanities and the Arts) Boubacar Boris Diop 9781611861532 Fiction Michigan State University Press Michigan State University Press A brilliant tour de force, The Kni...
In Her Mother’s Shadow
In Her Mother’s Shadow Faye Thompson 9781893196537 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Nurtured by an overly protective mother all of her life, the beautiful and naïve Bronze Sutton lands ...
I Accidentally Hired a Shadow Walker
I Accidentally Hired a Shadow Walker Jessica Cage 9781958295731 Fiction Caged Fantasies Publications Caged Fantasies Publications Security breaches? Check. Dimensional chaos? Naturally. Forbidden attr...
One Shadow on the Wall
One Shadow on the Wall Leah Henderson 9781481462952 Fiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. An orphaned boy in contemporary Senegal must decide between doing what is right and ...
Lighting the Shadow
Lighting the Shadow Rachel Eliza Griffiths 9781935536574 Poetry Four Way Books Four Way Books Lighting the Shadow is about a woman’s evolving journey through desire, grief, trauma, and the peculiar...
In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son’s Journey to Understand His Father’s Legacy
In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son’s Journey to Understand His Father’s Legacy Ken Wiwa 9781586420253 Fiction Steerforth Steerforth In late 1995, the little-known Ogoni region in Nigeria became a fable f...
Shadow and Substance (Moon Cried Blood) (Volume 5)
Shadow and Substance (Moon Cried Blood) (Volume 5) Sumiko Saulson 9781523450732 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC In Book Five of the serialized tale of "The Moon Cried Blood, "Shadow and S...
The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America
The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America Hugh Pearson 9780201483413 Nonfiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group The first complete and balanced history of the Bl...
Like Thunder: The Desert Magician’s Duology: Book Two
Like Thunder: The Desert Magician’s Duology: Book Two Nnedi Okorafor 9780756418793 Fiction Daw Books Astra Publishing House This brand-new sequel to Nnedi Okorafor’s Shadow Speaker contains the powerf...
Whispers of Shadow & Flame: Earthsinger Chronicles Book 2
Whispers of Shadow & Flame: Earthsinger Chronicles Book 2 L. Penelope 9780990922865 Fiction Heartspell Media, LLC Heartspell Media, LLC Born with a deadly magic she cannot control, Kyara is forced to ...
We Cast a Shadow
We Cast a Shadow Tony Lindsay Book Review In Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s first novel, We Cast a Shadow, the reader meets a complex and unnamed protagonist. The main character of this futuristic nov...
Amara: The Rise of the Shadow Blossoms
Amara: The Rise of the Shadow Blossoms The Fikes Brothers 9798985565188 Fiction Tinted Reality Books Tinted Reality Books In 16th-century feudal Japan, Yasuke, the first Black samurai, embarks on a ha...
Nellie Y. McKay
Nellie Y. McKay 0000000081108566 Nellie Y. McKay, an influential figure in American literature, co-edited the Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Her work highlighted the scholarly study...
A Cold Fire Burning
A Cold Fire Burning Nathan C. Heard 9781878923042 Fiction Amok Books Amok Books A Cold Fire Burning brilliantly depicts an interracial love story amidst the political changes of the early Seventies. S...
The Devil’s Shadow
The Devil’s Shadow Hugh Holton 9780312877842 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers In The Devils Shadow, Commander Larry Cole is confronted with the most beautiful and cunning criminal hes ever faced. Ju...
The Longest Night in Egypt
The Longest Night in Egypt David Anthony Durham 9781643796093 Fiction Tu Books Lee & Low Books The Shadow Prince saga continues as Ash and his heroic friends rush to save Ra from the belly of Apep and...
Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction
Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction Nalo Hopkinson 9781894063265 Nonfiction EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing Tesseracts Nine also m...
Frederick Douglass: Voice for Justice, Voice for Freedom
Frederick Douglass: Voice for Justice, Voice for Freedom Frank Murphy 9781524772352 Nonfiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Learn about the abolitionist Frederick Douglass...
The 12 Daves of Christmas: A Novel
The 12 Daves of Christmas: A Novel K. L. Brady 9780983920274 Fiction LadyLit Press LadyLit Press Sometimes the life you never imagined is the one you’re destined to live.Gabby Garrett’s life never goe...
Love Don’t Live Here Anymore
Love Don’t Live Here Anymore Denene Millner and Nick Chiles 9780525946410 Fiction Dutton Books Penguin Random House Randy Murphy and Mikki Chance-Murphy are a contemporary couple whose marital bond is...
Norbit
Norbit Kam Williams norbit9.jpg Film Review Na’ve Nerdy Nice Guy Search for True Love in Eddie Murphy Vehicle Norbit Rated PG-13 for nudity, sexuality, profanity, and crude humor. Run...
Percival Everett By Virgil Russell: A Novel
Percival Everett By Virgil Russell: A Novel Percival Everett 9781555976347 Fiction Graywolf Press Graywolf Press "Anything we take for granted, Mr. Everett means to show us, may turn out to be a lie."...
A Thousand Words
A Thousand Words Kam Williams a_thousand_words_movie_poster.jpg Film Review Eddie Murphy Gives Audience the Silent Treatment in Ill-Conceived Sitcom A Thousand Words [2012] In Theaters: Mar...
Rear Admiral Larry Chambers, USN: First African American to Command an Aircraft Carrier
Rear Admiral Larry Chambers, USN: First African American to Command an Aircraft Carrier Ric Murphy 9781476667270 Nonfiction McFarland McFarland The first African-American aircraft carrier commander, R...