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Death in the City
Death in the City Keith Kareem Williams 9781541139596 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC A mother loses her son and completely loses her faith in the God that she had served faithfully for h...
Death in the City
Death in the City Keith Kareem Williams Excerpt “Where I’m from, if you get shot you don’t tell. If you survive the bullets, you find the shooter yourself and get your revenge. ...
Love in the City
Love in the City Keith Kareem Williams 9781981234257 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC What happens when a busy, single businesswoman who has had no time for love has a chance encounter wit...
Read Two Chapters of Keith Kareem Williams Work and You Will be Hooked!
Read Two Chapters of Keith Kareem Williams Work and You Will be Hooked! Author Interviews Read two chapters of Death in the City by Keith Kareem Williams here: https://aalbc.com/books/excerpt.php?isbn...
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia Abu-Jamal 0000000117671001 Mumia Abu Jamal, an award-winning journalist and best-selling author, was convicted for allegedly killing a cop in 1981. His trial was denounced by Amnesty Internatio...
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...
The Road to Abolition?: The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States
The Road to Abolition?: The Future of Capital Punishment in the United States Austin Sarat and Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. 9780814762189 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press At ...
From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America
From Lynch Mobs to the Killing State: Race and the Death Penalty in America Austin Sarat and Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. 9780814740224 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press Since...
Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience
Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience Mumia Abu-Jamal 9780896086999 Nonfiction South End Press South End Press In Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience Mumia Ab...
A Death In Texas
A Death In Texas Thumper Book Review Upon hearing of the dragging death of James Byrd, Jr. in his hometown of Jasper, Texas, it occurred to me that "A new way of performing the act of lynching h...
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...
Never Can Say Goodbye: The Life of a Death Doula and the Art of a Peaceful End
Never Can Say Goodbye: The Life of a Death Doula and the Art of a Peaceful End Darnell Lamont Walker 9780063421837 Nonfiction HarperOne HarperCollins “Never Can Say Goodbye is deliciously woven from t...
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row Anthony Ray Hinton, with Lara Love Hardin 9781250205797 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Oprah’s Book Club Summer 2018 S...
The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story
The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story Edwidge Danticat 9781555977771 Nonfiction Graywolf Press Graywolf Press A moving reflection on a subject that touches us all, by the bestselling author of Cla...
Welcome To Death Row: The Uncensored Oral History of Death Row Records in the Words of Those Who Were There
Welcome To Death Row: The Uncensored Oral History of Death Row Records in the Words of Those Who Were There S. Leigh Savidge 9781597884068 Nonfiction Xenon Press Xenon Press “In the wake of Marion ‘Su...
Tavis Smiley The “Death of a King” Interview
Tavis Smiley The “Death of a King” Interview Kam Williams Interview Tavis on Repositioning Dr. King as a Revolutionary Photo credit WideVision Photography Tavis Smiley is the host and mana...
Death by Association
Death by Association Ernest Morris 9781947340572 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing DEATH BY ASSOCIATIONOn the east side of Allentown, Pennsylvania, sits the most drug-infested projects. Ou...
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., ...
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...
Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City
Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City Natalie Hopkinson 9780822352112 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books Go-go is the conga drum–inflected black po...
Death Card
Death Card Jasmine Smith 9780593858295 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House National bestseller • A dark contemporary fantasy set against the richly wrought backdrop...
Death, With Occasional Smiling
Death, With Occasional Smiling Tony Medina 9781945023262 Poetry Indolent Books Indolent Books Read a Review of Death, With Occasional Smiling at Mosaic Magazine. The electrifying body of poems in ...
Remote Control
Remote Control Nnedi Okorafor 9781250772800 Fiction Tordotcom Macmillan Publishers An alien artifact turns a young girl into Death’s adopted daughter in Remote Control, a thrilling sci-fi tale of comm...
Who Fears Death
Who Fears Death Nnedi Okorafor 9780756406691 Fiction Daw Books Astra Publishing House Tessa Thompson’s new production company will adapt Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor and The Secret Lives of Churc...
That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row
That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row Jarvis Jay Masters 9780061730481 Nonfiction HarperOne HarperCollins OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK 2022 "When I think about th...
Have Gun will Travel: The Spectacular Rise and Violent Fall of Death Row Records
Have Gun will Travel: The Spectacular Rise and Violent Fall of Death Row Records Ronin Ro 9780385491358 Nonfiction Main Street Books Main Street Books Death Row Records is one of the most successful m...
A Phat Death
A Phat Death Thumper Book Review A Phat Death (or, the Last Days of Noir Soul) is the latest Nina Halligan novel by Norman Kelley. I have been a fan of Nina Halligan and her creator since I read t...
Close To Death: Poems
Close To Death: Poems Patricia Smith 9780944072356 Poetry Steerforth Steerforth Homicide, drug abuse, and AIDS-related deaths have forced black male life expectancy into a steady decline. In New York ...
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...
Dazed By Death: Black Camelot’s #4
Dazed By Death: Black Camelot’s #4 Darius Myers 9781088009291 Fiction Fero Scitus Fero Scitus Dazed by Death is book four in the Black Camelot series. The city is in mourning after the chaos of Black ...
Dazed By Death (paperback): Black Camelot’s #4
Dazed By Death (paperback): Black Camelot’s #4 Darius Myers 9798843404178 Fiction Fero Scitus Fero Scitus Dazed by Death is book four in the Black Camelot series. The city is in mourning after the cha...
Dawn & The Return Of Madame Hot Temper: Black Camelot’s #2
Dawn & The Return Of Madame Hot Temper: Black Camelot’s #2 Darius Myers 9781087906645 Fiction Fero Scitus Fero Scitus Black Camelot’s Dawn is the sequel to The Publisher’s Dilemma and the second novel...
Dawn & The Return Of Madame Hot Temper (paperback): Black Camelot’s #2
Dawn & The Return Of Madame Hot Temper (paperback): Black Camelot’s #2 Darius Myers 9781638483960 Fiction Fero Scitus Fero Scitus Black Camelot’s Dawn is the sequel to The Publisher’s Dilemma and the ...
Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City
Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City Wes Moore 9780525512363 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House "An illuminating portrait of Baltimore in the aftermath of the April 2015 death of ...
The Green Funeral: Honoring the Environment While Beautifying Funeral Practices
The Green Funeral: Honoring the Environment While Beautifying Funeral Practices Sequola Dawson 9798889834977 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media The care of creation is the responsibility of all Chr...
Hold Texas, Hold the Nation: Victory or Death
Hold Texas, Hold the Nation: Victory or Death Allen Bernard West 9781612542980 Nonfiction Brown Books Publishing Group Brown Books Publishing Group Texas is booming. In recent years, the Lone Star Sta...
Death Dance of a Butterfly
Death Dance of a Butterfly Melba Joyce Boyd 9780615312903 Poetry Past Tents Press Past Tents Press Poetry. African American Studies. Melba Joyce Boyd’s latest poetry offering is an insightful examinat...
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...
A Deal with Death
A Deal with Death Endy 9781934157121 Fiction Melodrama Publishing Melodrama Publishing Nina Boyd is the mother of two teenage boys and a functioning drug addict. Her two sons, Malik and Marquis, unde...
April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Death And How It Changed America
April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Death And How It Changed America Michael Eric Dyson 9780465002122 Nonfiction Basic Civitas Books Perseus Books On April 4, 1968, at 6:01 PM, while he was standi...
The Maker of Saints
The Maker of Saints Thulani Davis 9780140267358 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House ? A QPB and BOMC selection ? The author?s previous novel, 1959, was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book ...
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...
Remembering Margo: A Triumphant Life, A Tragic Death, And Life’s Greatest Deception
Remembering Margo: A Triumphant Life, A Tragic Death, And Life’s Greatest Deception Donzella Michele Malone Excerpt PREFACE It was a cool and ra...
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise And Times Of Charlie Parker
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise And Times Of Charlie Parker Stanley Crouch 9780062005595 Nonfiction Harper HarperCollins Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker is the first instal...
Anasa Maat
Anasa Maat NONE Dr. Anasa Maat, a retired educator from Newark, NJ, holds degrees from Montclair and Rutgers Universities. She is a prolific author of four novels. Known for her civic engagement, she...
Rasheeda the Zombie Killer
Rasheeda the Zombie Killer Jeff Carroll 9780982008768 Fiction Hip Hop Comix N Flix Hip Hop Comix N Flix When a deranged rap artist produces a song, which he calls the Death Jam, it turns all who hear ...
Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the USA
Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the USA Mumia Abu-Jamal 9780872864696 Nonfiction City Lights Publishers City Lights Publishers “Expert and well-reasoned commentary on the justice s...
Hip-Hop City - Where Every Beat Tells A Story
Hip-Hop City - Where Every Beat Tells A Story Kim Goodlook Seabrook 9798986566382 Fiction Goodlook in Books Goodlook in Books Take a vibrant trip through the boroughs of rhythm with Hip Hop City, a ch...
Memory of the Ogisi
Memory of the Ogisi Moses Ose Utomi 9781250849045 Fiction Tordotcom Macmillan Publishers The epic conclusion to Moses Ose Utomi’s critically-acclaimed Forever Desert series, The Memory of the Ogisi sh...
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City Andrea Elliott 9780812986945 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House “Destined to become one of the classics of the genre” (Newsweek)...
Sin City Seduction: A Passionate Bad Boy Meets Good Girl Romance
Sin City Seduction: A Passionate Bad Boy Meets Good Girl Romance Zuri Day 9781335209283 Fiction Harlequin Desire Harlequin Enterprises Limited Enjoy this sexy good girl meets bad boy story in this sen...
New Orleans Sports: Playing Hard in the Big Easy
New Orleans Sports: Playing Hard in the Big Easy Thomas Aiello 9781682261002 Nonfiction University of Arkansas Press University of Arkansas Press New Orleans has long been a city fixated on its own hi...
Food and the City
Food and the City Ina Yalof 9780425279052 Nonfiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Penguin Random House "[A] compelling volume by a writer whose beat is not food. What she offers are first-person accounts from m...
Still, in the City: Creating Peace of Mind in the Midst of Urban Chaos
Still, in the City: Creating Peace of Mind in the Midst of Urban Chaos Angela Dews 9781510732339 Nonfiction Skyhorse Publishing Skyhorse Publishing Still, in the City is a collection of stories about ...
The Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook
The Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook Aaron Foley 9780998904139 Nonfiction Belt Publishing Belt Publishing Part of Belt’s Neighborhood Guidebook Series, The Detroit Neighborhood Guidebook is an explorati...
Subway Beats: Celebrating New York City Buskers
Subway Beats: Celebrating New York City Buskers Kurt Boone 9780764351822 Nonfiction Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Immerse yourself in the raw energy and enthusiasm of New York Ci...
Living Just A Little
Living Just A Little Guy Sims 9780615695419 Fiction Solitude Press Solitude Press In 1985, Elliston “Ellis” Parker watched two city blocks burn to the ground from his living room window. From that fat...
Lemon City: A Novel
Lemon City: A Novel Elaine Meryl Brown 9780345510693 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House In this wry fiction debut, Elaine Meryl Brown plunges lucky readers into a gripping narrative of ...
City of God: A Novel
City of God: A Novel Paulo Lins 9780802170101 Fiction Black Cat Grove Atlantic, Inc. The searing novel on which the internationally acclaimed hit film was based, City of God is a gritty, gorgeous tour...
Across the River: Life, Death, and Football in an American City
Across the River: Life, Death, and Football in an American City Kent Babb 9780062950598 Nonfiction HarperOne HarperCollins A heartbreaking and inspiring true story—Friday Night Lights meets Ghettoside...
Henry Dumas
Henry Dumas 0000000110288296 Henry Dumas (1934-1968) was a celebrated writer and poet who greatly influenced American literature despite his premature death. Born in Arkansas, Dumas later moved to Ne...
Death of the Soccer God
Death of the Soccer God Dimitry Elias Leger 9780374619886 Fiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins A global soccer star’s epic ride to the 1950 World Cup places him in shooting distance of his d...
Death by Data
Death by Data K.D. Richards 9781335690340 Fiction Harlequin Intrigue Harlequin Enterprises Limited Will a murder investigation Be their second chance? Police Detective Isaiah Reeves had almost f...
I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction
I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction Kidada E. Williams 9781635576634 Nonfiction Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Publishing For readers of Carol Ande...
The Sun Does Shine (Young Readers Edition): An Innocent Man, A Wrongful Conviction, and the Long Path to Justice
The Sun Does Shine (Young Readers Edition): An Innocent Man, A Wrongful Conviction, and the Long Path to Justice Anthony Ray Hinton, with Lara Love Hardin and Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich 97812508173...
The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America
The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America Ellis Cose 9780062999719 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins An urgent examination of free speech in America—addressing “cancel culture,” “accep...
Life Without Parole: America’s New Death Penalty?
Life Without Parole: America’s New Death Penalty? Austin Sarat and Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. 9780814762486 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press Is life without parole the perf...
Intimate Soul: Embracing the Passion
Intimate Soul: Embracing the Passion Surreal 9780974595405 Nonfiction Writersandpoets.com Writersandpoets.com Intimate Soul is a life changing read. Intimate Soul delivers to its reader what all have...
Welcome To Death Row: The Uncensored Oral History of Death Row Records in the Words of Those Who Were There
Welcome To Death Row: The Uncensored Oral History of Death Row Records in the Words of Those Who Were There Kam Williams Book Review “In the wake of Marion ‘Suge’ Knight’s mov...
Memphis 68: The Tragedy of Southern Soul
Memphis 68: The Tragedy of Southern Soul Stuart Cosgrove 9781846974137 Nonfiction Polygon Birlinn Book 2 in The Soul TrilogyWinner of the Penderyn Music Book Prize 2018 In the 1950s and 1960s, Memp...
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? (City Lights Open Media)
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? (City Lights Open Media) Mumia Abu-Jamal 9780872867383 Nonfiction City Lights Publishers City Lights Publishers "A must-read for anyone interested in social justice and...
Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal (City Lights Open Media)
Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal (City Lights Open Media) Mumia Abu-Jamal 9780872866751 Nonfiction City Lights Publishers City Lights Publishers "Revolutionary love, re...
Twelve Gates To The City
Twelve Gates To The City Daniel Black 9780312582685 Fiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers A novel of self-discovery, family bonds and the healing of one small southern townTwelve Gates to th...
Pitbulls In A Skirt 2 (The Cartel Publications Presents)
Pitbulls In A Skirt 2 (The Cartel Publications Presents) Mikal Malone 9780979493195 Fiction Cartel Publications Cartel Publications The four gangstresses you love return to Emerald City more glamorous...
Dennis A. Williams
Dennis A. Williams NONE Dennis A. Williams is a Syracuse-born author and educator. Raised in a multicultural neighborhood, his experiences shaped his writing, including his 1973 novella “Them That’s ...
Carl Weber’s Kingpins: Queens 3
Carl Weber’s Kingpins: Queens 3 Erick S. Gray 9781645566564 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. It’s War of the Worlds in the New York hoods. Nasir returns home two years later after the ...
Beasts of Ruin
Beasts of Ruin Ayana Gray 9780593405710 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House In this much anticipated follow up to New York Times bestselling Beasts of Prey, Koffi’s...
A Death in Harlem: A Novel
A Death in Harlem: A Novel Karla FC Holloway 9780810140813 Fiction TriQuarterly Books Northwestern University Press ”Holloway’s debut novel will take you on a journey that reveals a fresh, richly laye...
Death at the Voyager Hotel
Death at the Voyager Hotel Kwei Quartey 9789964705220 Fiction Afram Publications Afram Publications In the city of Accra, the Voyager Hotel is widely known as a well-run lodging perfectly suited to ca...
Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr’s Final Hours
Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr’s Final Hours Ann Bausum 9781426309397 Nonfiction National Geographic Children’s Books N...
BkMk Press at the University of Missouri-Kansas City
BkMk Press at the University of Missouri-Kansas City BkMk Press at the University of Missouri-Kansas City BkMk Press at the University of Missouri-Kansas City
City Lights Publishers
City Lights Publishers City Lights Publishers City Lights Publishers
Mill City Press, Inc.
Mill City Press, Inc. Mill City Press, Inc. Mill City Press, Inc.
Angel City Press
Angel City Press Angel City Press Angel City Press
Bluff City Publishing
Bluff City Publishing Bluff City Publishing Bluff City Publishing LLC
Hub City Press
Hub City Press Hub City Press Hub City Writers Project
Bull City Press
Bull City Press Bull City Press Bull City Press
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City https://www.kansascityfed.org/about-us/a-great-moral-and-social-force/