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The Pursuit of Happyness
The Pursuit of Happyness Chris Gardner and Quincy Troupe 9780060744878 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Read an AALBC.com Movie Review The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless fa...
The Accordion Years: A Memoir
The Accordion Years: A Memoir Quincy Troupe 9781644215876 Nonfiction Seven Stories Press Seven Stories Press The poet and journalist Quincy Troupe has told the stories of many people before, often to ...
ErranaçIties
ErranaçIties Quincy Troupe 9781566892834 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press "Troupe is an innovator of form and tone who shifts quickly from a lofty, elegiac mode into burlesque or smok...
Choruses: Poems
Choruses: Poems Quincy Troupe 9781566890908 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Quincy Troupe launches a pyrotechnic display of jazz rhythms, political commentary, sports tributes, travelogue...
Miles and Me
Miles and Me Quincy Troupe 9780520216242 Nonfiction University of California Press University of California Press Quincy Troupe’s candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portr...
Seduction: New Poems, 2013-2018
Seduction: New Poems, 2013-2018 Quincy Troupe 9780810139046 Poetry TriQuarterly Books Northwestern University Press The world is made of seductions. In Quincy Troupe’s Seduction, the "I" becomes the "...
Start Where You Are: Life Lessons In Getting From Where You Are To Where You Want To Be
Start Where You Are: Life Lessons In Getting From Where You Are To Where You Want To Be Chris Gardner and Mim E. Rivas 9780061537110 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins “Gardner is encouraging us all to ...
Transcircularities: New & Selected Poems
Transcircularities: New & Selected Poems Quincy Troupe 9781566891356 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Much like the vibrant, riveting reading performances for which he is so well-known, Qu...
Duende: Poems, 1966—Now
Duende: Poems, 1966—Now Quincy Troupe 9781644210451 Poetry Seven Stories Press Seven Stories Press The selected poems from over fifty years by the great poet and biographer and friend of Miles Davis.Q...
Ghost Voices: A Poem in Prayer
Ghost Voices: A Poem in Prayer Quincy Troupe 9780810138995 Poetry TriQuarterly Books Northwestern University Press If we were all brave enough to resurrect the voices lost from our humanity, what woul...
Permission to Dream
Permission to Dream Chris Gardner 9780063031562 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In the spirit of The Last Lecture, The Secret, and The Alchemist, this small book presents BIG ideas for turning your...
Quincy Rules
Quincy Rules DuEwa M. Frazier 9781533279835 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Imagine receiving mysterious letters and cards with no return address, only colorful stamps from all around the...
Finding Home: A Windrush Story
Finding Home: A Windrush Story Howard Gardner and Alford Dalrymple Gardner 9781914344220 Nonfiction Jacaranda Jacaranda Alford Dalrymple Gardner is one of the few living passengers to have travelled o...
The Architecture of Language
The Architecture of Language Quincy Troupe 9781566891905 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press “Troupe’s poems resemble Romare Bearden’s collages: muscular and colorful.”—North American Review ...
Earl The Pearl: My Story
Earl The Pearl: My Story Earl Monroe and Quincy Troupe 9781609615611 Nonfiction Rodale Books Rodale Books Earl “The Pearl” Monroe is a basketball legend whose impact on the game transcends statistics,...
Little Stevie Wonder
Little Stevie Wonder Quincy Troupe 9780618340606 Nonfiction HMH Books for Young Readers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Eleven-year-old Stevland Judkins Morris Hardaway hit the big time when he signed a Mot...
Snake Back Solos
Snake Back Solos Quincy Troupe 9780918408112 Poetry Reed Cannon & Johnson Pub Reed Cannon & Johnson Pub Selected poems written 1969 - 1977 by African-American poet Quincy Troupe.
Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones
Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones Quincy Jones 9780385488969 Nonfiction Doubleday Penguin Random House Musician, composer, producer, arranger, and pioneering entrepreneur Quincy Jones has lived lar...
The Words Of Gardner Taylor Preaching Library
The Words Of Gardner Taylor Preaching Library Gardner C. Taylor 9780817015091 Fiction Judson Press Judson Press
Miles: The Autobiography
Miles: The Autobiography Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe 9780671725822 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. For more than forty years Miles Davis has been in the front rank of American mus...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2015): The Next Wave
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2015): The Next Wave Clarence V. Reynolds 21551758v6 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Spring& /& Summer 2015 “The Next Wave” ...
Catch The Fire!!: A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry
Catch The Fire!!: A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry D-Knowledge 9781573226547 Poetry Riverhead Books Penguin Random House African-American poetry is an ever-growin...
Weather Reports: New and Selected Poems
Weather Reports: New and Selected Poems Quincy Troupe 9780863161087 Poetry Writers and Readers Publishing Writers & Readers Publishing
James Baldwin: The Legacy
James Baldwin: The Legacy Quincy Troupe 9780671676513 Nonfiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. Baldwin, mentor to a generation of black artists and writers, is eulogized through essays and intervi...
Avalanche
Avalanche Quincy Troupe 9781566890441 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press A collection of poetry about men, women, jazz, and American life.
Embryo
Embryo Quincy Troupe 9780879290207 Poetry Barlenmir House Barlenmir House Signed by Author First book of poetry by this African-American writer, who was the first official poet laureate of the state o...
Take It to the Hoop, Magic Johnson
Take It to the Hoop, Magic Johnson Quincy Troupe 9780786805105 Nonfiction Jump At The Sun Jump At The Sun Take It to the Hoop, Magic Johnson
Giant talk: An anthology of Third World writings
Giant talk: An anthology of Third World writings Quincy Troupe 9780394714431 Fiction Vintage Books Penguin Random House
Only for the Holidays
Only for the Holidays Abiola Bello 9781641297547 Fiction Soho Teen Soho Press The Love Hypothesis meets The Holiday in this fake dating YA romance about a city girl and country boy’s lives colliding a...
Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry: Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Series
Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry: Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Series Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781636142555 Nonfiction Akashic Books Akashic Bo...
Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, on and Off the Court
Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, on and Off the Court Chris Paul and Michael Wilbon 9781250276711 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers By the NBA superstar: A powerful and unexpected m...
The Wound Is Where the Light Enters: A Memoir of Resilience
The Wound Is Where the Light Enters: A Memoir of Resilience Chris Young 9780316565288 Nonfiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group The inspiring memoir of a brilliant young man who, senten...
Everybody Hates First Girlfriends (Everybody Hates Chris)
Everybody Hates First Girlfriends (Everybody Hates Chris) Felicia Pride 9781416937982 Fiction Simon Pulse Simon & Schuster, Inc. Chris has a girlfriend! "You’re my Prince Charming," she says. And norm...
Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire
Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire Carol Jenkins and Elizabeth Gardner Hines 9780345453488 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House The grandson of slaves, born i...
Faith In The Fire: Wisdom For Life
Faith In The Fire: Wisdom For Life Gardner C. Taylor 9781401929626 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House “Waiting on God is difficult. We have not been promised a smooth voyage, but God does pro...
Drop
Drop Mat Johnson 9781582341040 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing A new voice in American fiction recalling the work of Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin, Drop is an irreverent and unforgettab...
A Boy and His Mirror
A Boy and His Mirror Marchánt Davis 9780593110553 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House Debut author and actor Marchánt Davis joins forces with the bestselling illustrator Keturah A....
The Cold Hard Cases of Duke Denim: The Troublesome Troupe
The Cold Hard Cases of Duke Denim: The Troublesome Troupe Guy Sims 9780989281935 Fiction BCE Pressworks Big City Entertainment It’s Amazing! It’s Stupendous! It’s Deadly! Pennypincher’s Travelling ...
Streetball Crew Book Two Stealing The Game
Streetball Crew Book Two Stealing The Game Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld 9781423178712 Fiction Disney-Hyperion Disney Publishing Worldwide Chris Richards has always looked up to Jax, his ol...
Somebody’s Child
Somebody’s Child Dennis A. Williams 9780684827131 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Somebody’s Child is the searing and achingly poignant story of African American brothers and fathers, ...
Sanctificum
Sanctificum Chris Abani 9781556593161 Poetry Copper Canyon Press Copper Canyon Press “Abani … explores place and humor, exile and freedom with poems of experience and imagination … [he] enters the wou...
The Face: Cartography of the Void
The Face: Cartography of the Void Chris Abani 9781632060433 Fiction Restless Books Restless Books A profound and gorgeously wrought short memoir by acclaimed Nigerian-born author and poet Chris Abani ...
Becoming Abigail
Becoming Abigail Chris Abani 9781888451948 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Compelling and gorgeously written, this is a coming-of-age novella like no other. Chris Abani explores the depths of los...
America: The Farewell Tour
America: The Farewell Tour Chris Hedges 9781501152672 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Chris Hedges’s profound and provocative examination of America in crisis is "an exceedingly…pro...
By God’s Grace
By God’s Grace Chris Webber 9781645432777 Nonfiction Webber Publishing Group Webber Publishing Group From basketball legend Chris Webber comes By God’s Grace, the highly anticipated memoir by the pola...
What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?
What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? Chris Barton 9781481465618 Nonfiction Beach Lane Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. “When Barbara Jordan talked, we listened.” —Former President of the United States, ...
Song for Night: A Novella
Song for Night: A Novella Chris Abani 9781933354316 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Not since Jerzy Kosinski’s The Painted Bird or Agota Kristof’s Notebook Trilogy has there been such a harrowing...
Unspeakable
Unspeakable Chris Hedges 9781510712737 Nonfiction Hot Books Skyhorse Publishing Chris Hedges on the most taboo topics in America, with David Talbot.Chris Hedges has been telling truth to (and against)...
The Virgin Of Flames
The Virgin Of Flames Chris Abani 9780143038771 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House From the author of the award-winning GraceLand comes a searing, dazzlingly written novel of a tarnished City o...
New-Generation African Poets (TATU): A Chapbook Box Set
New-Generation African Poets (TATU): A Chapbook Box Set Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781617754517 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books The box set is an annual project started in 2014 to ensure the cont...
The Secret History of Las Vegas: A Novel
The Secret History of Las Vegas: A Novel Chris Abani 9780143124955 Fiction Penguin Group USA Penguin Random House A gritty, riveting, and wholly original murder mystery from PEN/Hemingway Award-winnin...
Hands Washing Water
Hands Washing Water Chris Abani 9781556592478 Poetry Copper Canyon Press Copper Canyon Press “Chris Abani’s poetry resonates with a devastating beauty which cuts through to the heart of human strength...
In Search Of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
In Search Of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 9780307382405 Nonfiction Crown Penguin Random House Unlike most white Americans who, if they ...
The Stone Face
The Stone Face William Gardner Smith 9781681375168 Fiction New York Review Books The New York Review of Books A roman à clef about racism, identity, and bohemian living amidst the tensions and ...
Love, Dad: Inspiring Notes from Fathers to Kids
Love, Dad: Inspiring Notes from Fathers to Kids Joel Warsh and Andrew Gardner 9780593572160 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House This illustrated collection of heartfelt l...
Demon Hunter, Book 1
Demon Hunter, Book 1 Tl Gardner 9780976954309 Fiction Q-Boro Books Q-Boro Books Demon Hunter is a hard hitting, fast paced, romantic thrill ride. The story follows a young African American man, named ...
Alabaster Shadows
Alabaster Shadows Matt Gardner 9781620102640 Fiction Oni Press Oni Press Carter Normandy knows there’s something weird about the neighborhood he and his family move into. Maybe it’s the physics-defyin...
Trailblazer: The Story of Ballerina Raven Wilkinson
Trailblazer: The Story of Ballerina Raven Wilkinson Leda Schubert 9781499805925 Nonfiction Little Bee Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. This beautiful picture book tells the little-known story of Raven Wil...
Visible Man: The Life Of Henry Dumas
Visible Man: The Life Of Henry Dumas Jeffrey B. Leak 9780820328706 Nonfiction University of Georgia Press University of Georgia Press Henry Dumas (1934–1968) was a writer who did not live to see most ...
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas Henry Dumas 9781566895125 Fiction Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Praise for Henry Dumas:"[Henry Dumas] had completed work, the quality and ...
James Baldwin The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
James Baldwin The Last Interview: and Other Conversations James Baldwin 9781612194004 Nonfiction Melville House Melville House Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwi...
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction Of Henry Dumas (Black Arts Movement Series)
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction Of Henry Dumas (Black Arts Movement Series) Henry Dumas 9781566891493 Nonfiction Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Henry Dumas’s fiction is a masterful synth...
Make A Joyful Sound: Poems for Children by African-American Poets
Make A Joyful Sound: Poems for Children by African-American Poets Deborah Shink 9780590674324 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. “I’ve always recommended Make a Joyful Sound. This book brought end...
Resisting Arrest poems to stretch the sky
Resisting Arrest poems to stretch the sky Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Joy Harjo, Marilyn Nelson, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Yusef Komunyakaa, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Rita Dove 9780936481098 Poetry Ja...
Tempted to Touch
Tempted to Touch Nigeria Lockley 9780996468701 Fiction Inheritance Books Inheritance Books Kira Seagram is frustrated by her husband Mason’s zeal for the Lord, so she pours all of her attention into...
Give My Love to the Savages: Stories
Give My Love to the Savages: Stories Chris Stuck 9780063029972 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins A provocative and raw debut collection of short fiction reminiscent of Junot Diaz’s Drown. A Black man’s l...
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America Chris Hedges 9780743284462 Fiction Free Press Free Press Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists firs...
Hiv/Aids - The Facts And The Fiction
Hiv/Aids - The Facts And The Fiction Chris Jennings 9780936571119 Fiction Health Alert Communications Health Alert Communications "The theory that AIDS originated in African monkeys arose from an inci...
When Atheism Becomes Religion: America’s New Fundamentalists
When Atheism Becomes Religion: America’s New Fundamentalists Chris Hedges 9781416570783 Nonfiction Free Press Free Press From the New York Times bestselling author of American Fascists and the NBCC fi...
I Don’t Believe in Atheists
I Don’t Believe in Atheists Chris Hedges 9781416567950 Nonfiction Free Press Free Press From the New York Times bestselling author of American Fascists and the NBCC finalist for War Is a Force That Gi...
Blackout: The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Spring Training
Blackout: The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Spring Training Chris Lamb 9780803229563 Nonfiction University of Nebraska Press University of Nebraska Press In the spring of 1946, following the...
That Beautiful Mind
That Beautiful Mind Tami Charles with Chris Charles 9781546116387 Fiction Orchard Books Orchard Books From New York Times bestselling author Tami Charles and her son, Chris Charles, comes a soaring an...
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt Chris Hedges 9781568586434 Nonfiction Bold Type Books Hachette Book Group Two years ago, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges and award-winning cartoonist and journal...
Best African American Fiction 2010
Best African American Fiction 2010 Dorothy Sterling and Chris Abani 9780553385359 Fiction One World Penguin Random House Bursting with energy and innovation, the second volume in the annual anthology ...
This Life
This Life Quntos Kunquest 9781572842823 Fiction Agate Bolden Agate Publishing, Inc This Life is the debut novel by Quntos KunQuest, a longtime inmate at Angola, the infamous Louisiana State Penitentia...
Wages of Rebellion
Wages of Rebellion Chris Hedges 9781568589664 Nonfiction Bold Type Books Hachette Book Group Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848...
Empire Of Illusion: The End Of Literacy And The Triumph Of Spectacle
Empire Of Illusion: The End Of Literacy And The Triumph Of Spectacle Chris Hedges 9781568584379 Nonfiction Bold Type Books Hachette Book Group We now live in two Americas. Onenow the minorityfunctio...
Bessie: Revised and Expanded Edition
Bessie: Revised and Expanded Edition Chris Albertson 9780300107562 Nonfiction Yale University Press Yale University Press The basis for the HBO film airing in May 2015, this revised and expanded editi...
What Every Person Should Know About War
What Every Person Should Know About War Chris Hedges 9780743255127 Nonfiction Free Press Free Press Acclaimed New York Times journalist and author Chris Hedges offers a critical — and fascinating — le...
When the Revolution Comes: A Fight for the Future of the Working Class
When the Revolution Comes: A Fight for the Future of the Working Class Chris Smalls 9780593700631 Nonfiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House From one of the most influential figures to emerge from...
Clarkesworld Issue 94
Clarkesworld Issue 94 N. K. Jemisin, Yoon Ha Lee, Juliette Wade, Chris Roberson, and William Browning Spencer 9780692248263 Fiction Clarkesworld Magazine Wyrm Publishing Clarkesworld is a Hugo Award-w...
Collateral Damage: America’s War Against Iraqi Civilians
Collateral Damage: America’s War Against Iraqi Civilians Chris Hedges 9781568583730 Nonfiction Bold Type Books Hachette Book Group Best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedge...
War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning
War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning Chris Hedges 9781400034635 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment ...
Lagos Noir
Lagos Noir Chris Abani 9781617755231 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book c...
Black Card
Black Card Chris L. Terry 9781646220199 Fiction Catapult Catapult In this NPR Best Book of the Year, a mixed-race punk rock musician must face the real dangers of being Black in America in this “wise ...
A Vampyre Blues: The Passion Of Varnado
A Vampyre Blues: The Passion Of Varnado Chris Hayden 9780971201941 Fiction Door of Kush Door of Kush Our handsome hero…an African American vampire…falls in love with a married human woman, Sheba Fergu...
88 Instruments
88 Instruments Chris Barton 9780553538144 Fiction Knopf Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House "The rhythmic, onomatopoeic text dances across exuberant watercolors with lots of movement. This ce...
Tomlinson Hill: The Remarkable Story of Two Families Who Share the Tomlinson Name - One White, One Black
Tomlinson Hill: The Remarkable Story of Two Families Who Share the Tomlinson Name - One White, One Black Chris Tomlinson 9781250070449 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers A New York T...
Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America
Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America Chris Hedges 9780743255134 Nonfiction Free Press Free Press In Losing Moses on the Freeway, Chris Hedges, veteran war correspondent and auth...
War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning
War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning Chris Hedges 9781586480493 Nonfiction PublicAffairs Hachette Book Group General George S. Patton famously said, "Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor ...
Mighty Truck
Mighty Truck Chris Barton 9780062344786 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Meet Clarence, a rickety old truck who goes from average to awesome when an unexpected trip through a mysterious truck wash ...
Book or Bell?
Book or Bell? Chris Barton 9781681197296 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Children's Books Bloomsbury Publishing The first page has Henry hooked.The second page has him captivated.The third page …BBBBRRRRIIIIIN...
Mighty Truck: Muddymania!
Mighty Truck: Muddymania! Chris Barton 9780062344793 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Disney’s Cars meets Superman with Mighty Truck: Muddymania, the second picture book in this series about an ord...
Shark vs. Train
Shark vs. Train Chris Barton 9780316007627 Fiction LB Kids Hachette Book Group Shark VS. Train! WHO WILL WIN?!If you think Superman vs. Batman would be an exciting matchup, wait until you see Shark vs...
There Are No Names for Red
There Are No Names for Red Chris Abani and Percival Everett 9781597094573 Poetry Red Hen Press Red Hen Press There Are No Names for Red is a collaborative work featuring the poetry of Chris Abani and ...
Kisses Don’t Lie 2 (Delphine Publications Presents)
Kisses Don’t Lie 2 (Delphine Publications Presents) Tamika Newhouse 9780984692392 Fiction Delphine Publications Delphine Publications After moving on from her first love Dean, Kyla finds love with his...
Grace After Midnight: A Memoir
Grace After Midnight: A Memoir Felicia Pearson 9780446195188 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group While Felicia is a brilliant actor in a truly chilling role, what’s most remarkable...
One World Two: A Second Global Anthology of Short Stories
One World Two: A Second Global Anthology of Short Stories Ovo Adagha and Chris Brazier 9781780263304 Fiction New Internationalist New Internationalist One World Two is the eagerly awaited follow-up to...
Death of the Liberal Class
Death of the Liberal Class Chris Hedges 9781568586441 Nonfiction Bold Type Books Hachette Book Group The liberal class plays a vital role in a democracy. It gives moral legitimacy to the state. It mak...
Take Back Your Family: How To Raise Respectful And Loving Kids In A Dysfunctional World
Take Back Your Family: How To Raise Respectful And Loving Kids In A Dysfunctional World Rev. Run, Justine Simmons and Chris Morrow 9781592405015 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House Stars of MTV?s Ru...