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Diane Cooper
Diane Cooper 0000000080411715 Pamela O'Hara, writing as Dianne Cooper, is a former inmate turned advocate for incarcerated fathers and motivational speaker. She empowers others to overcome adversity ...
Dark Justice (Dark Justice Series)
Dark Justice (Dark Justice Series) Diane Cooper 9780996814003 Nonfiction Wild Ivy Publishing Wild Ivy Publishing Dark Justice, by Pamela O’Hara writing as Dianne Cooper, is a dark, gritty, and heartbr...
Diane Cooper Sentenced to 40 Years for Crime She Didn't Commit
Diane Cooper Sentenced to 40 Years for Crime She Didn't Commit Author Interviews Learn more about this tragic, but ultimately redemptive and uplifting story at: https://aalbc.it/dianecooper
Shine On: The Writings of Diane Oliver
Shine On: The Writings of Diane Oliver Michael A. Gonzales Article In 2021 my friend Paul Price was cleaning out a storage unit when he stumbled on collection of Black literature called Right On! A...
City Son: Andrew W. Cooper’s Impact On Modern-Day Brooklyn
City Son: Andrew W. Cooper’s Impact On Modern-Day Brooklyn Wayne Dawkins 9781617032585 Nonfiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi In 1966, a year after the Voting Right...
Elva Diane Green
Elva Diane Green NONE Elva Diane Green, a Los Angeles native, is the author of a book about her father, Eddie Green, a legendary Black American comedian from the early 1900s. Her work serves as a tes...
Diane Oliver
Diane Oliver 000000012330550X Diane Oliver (1943-1966) was a notable author and Managing Editor of The Carolinian. She published seven short stories, won an O. Henry Award, and attended the Universit...
Georgia A. Hill and Diane Proctor Reeder
Georgia A. Hill and Diane Proctor Reeder MULTIPLE Rev. Dr. Georgia A. Hill, writer for Our Daily Bread Publishing and pastor of LifeChurch Riverside, is deeply involved in women's ministry and Christ...
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower Brittney Cooper 9781250112576 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers With searing honesty, intimacy and humor too, America’s leadin...
J. California Cooper
J. California Cooper 000000011687953X J. California Cooper was a renowned author and playwright, named Black Playwright of the Year in 1978. Encouraged by Alice Walker, she transitioned to fiction, w...
Up in Smoke
Up in Smoke Nick Brooks 9781250359933 Fiction Henry Holt & Company (BYR) Macmillan Publishers A girl determined to clear her brother’s name. A boy determined to keep his out of the line of fire. A sec...
William Fredrick Cooper
William Fredrick Cooper NONE William Fredrick Cooper, a legal assistant in New York, is known as “Mr. Romance” for his sensitive and caring nature. His writing, full of honesty and complexity, explor...
Floyd Cooper
Floyd Cooper 0000000063165049 Floyd Cooper (1956-2021) was a celebrated illustrator, recipient of 4 Coretta Scott King Honors, and 10 ALA Notables. From Oklahoma, he pursued his career in NYC post hi...
Helene Cooper
Helene Cooper 0000000045708150 Helene Cooper, born in Liberia, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The New York Times. She has served as a Pentagon Correspondent, diplomatic correspondent, and...
Anna Cooper & Nannie Burroughs
Anna Cooper & Nannie Burroughs Kam Williams Interview THE GLOBAL AFRICAN COMMUNITY HISTORY NOTES: A BRIEF NOTE ON THE LIVES OF ANNA JULIA COOPER & NANNIE HELEN BURROUGHS: PROFILES OF AFRI...
A Conversation with Diane Richards about Her Debut Novel <em>Ella</em>
A Conversation with Diane Richards about Her Debut Novel Ella AALBC Staff Writer Interview What inspired you to write a novel about Ella Fitzgerald? What drew you to her life and music as a subje...
Diane Proctor Reeder
Diane Proctor Reeder NONE Diane Proctor Reeder is a spiritual author, editor, playwright and business owner. She has served as an editor for various publishing houses and owns Written Images. Diane P...
Diane Patrick
Diane Patrick NONE Diane Patrick is a seasoned writer and editor with over 20 years of experience in various industries. Known for her work in publishers like Publishers Weekly and Billboard, she's a...
Leo and Diane Dillon
Leo and Diane Dillon MULTIPLE “In terms of our art, it is virtually impossible to consider us separately,” During more than four decades of illustrating children’s books, two-time Caldeco...
Diane Richards
Diane Richards 0000000119336995 Diane Richards, Executive Director of Harlem Writers Guild, is a multi-talented writer, playwright, and music producer. She launched her career as a singer, once perfo...
Radiant
Radiant Vaunda Micheaux Nelson 9780593855782 Fiction Dutton Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A historical middle-grade novel in verse from multiple Coretta Scott King winner Vaunda Micheau...
Blessed Are the Dead: An Emmanuel Cooper Mystery
Blessed Are the Dead: An Emmanuel Cooper Mystery Malla Nunn 9781451616927 Fiction Emily Bestler Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Detective Emmanuel Cooper returns to solve a darkly romantic mystery in thi...
Some People, Some Other Place
Some People, Some Other Place J. California Cooper 9780385496827 Fiction Doubleday Penguin Random House J. California Cooper returns with a sweeping novel about love and heartbreak, perseverance and l...
The Future Has a Past
The Future Has a Past Thumper Book Review The Future Has A Past is the latest short story collection by author J. California Cooper. In case you don’t know, I adore J. California Cooper! I&rs...
Eric M. Cooper and Miles Simon
Eric M. Cooper and Miles Simon MULTIPLE Eric Mann Cooper and Miles Simon are acclaimed authors known for their unique storytelling. Cooper's expertise lies in historical fiction, while Simon excels i...
Brittney Cooper
Brittney Cooper 0000000495530628 Brittney Cooper, born in 1980, is a renowned author and Rutgers University professor specializing in Women's and Gender Studies, and Africana Studies. Known for her m...
City Son: Andrew W. Cooper’s Impact on Modern-Day Brooklyn
City Son: Andrew W. Cooper’s Impact on Modern-Day Brooklyn Robert Fleming Book Review So many African-American newspapers and publications have vanished from view, but their impact remains on the...
Neighbors and Other Stories
Neighbors and Other Stories Diane Oliver 9780802161314 Fiction Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. Read “Shine On: The Writings of Diane Oliver” by Michael A. GonzalesA bold and haunting debut story coll...
The Wide Circumference of Love: A Novel
The Wide Circumference of Love: A Novel Marita Golden 9781628727357 Fiction Arcade Skyhorse Publishing Your browser does not support HTML5 video. From acclaimed author Marita Golden comes...
In This House
In This House Loretta Diane Walker 9781421837451 Poetry Blue Light Press Blue Light Press Loretta Diane Walker teaches music at Reagan Elementary in Odessa, Texas. She graduated from Ector High Sch...
Diane McKinney-Whetstone
Diane McKinney-Whetstone 000000006771958X Diane McKinney-Whetstone, acclaimed author of eight novels, tells stories of Philadelphia communities. Her latest novel, Lazaretto, was released in 2016. She...
Diane Givens Moffett
Diane Givens Moffett NONE Diane L. Givens Moffett, a native of Oakland, is a well-educated pastor with degrees from UC Berkeley and San Francisco Theological Seminary. Author of notable sermons publi...
Diane Marie Brown
Diane Marie Brown NONE Diane Marie Brown is a professor at Orange Coast College, public health professional, and author. Holding degrees from UCLA and USC, her debut novel is “Black Candle Women.” Sh...
Diane D. Turner
Diane D. Turner NONE Diane D. Turner is the curator for Temple University's Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection. Her expertise lies in Black history, film, and music. She authored the childr...
A Voice from the South
A Voice from the South Anna J. Cooper 9798684587252 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published First published in 1892, A Voice from the South is a collection of essays focusing on...
Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women
Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women Brittney Cooper 9780252040993 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press Beyond Respectability charts the develo...
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood Helene Cooper 9780743266253 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Journalist Helene Cooper examines the violent past of her...
Earl Sewell, William Fredrick Cooper, Michael Pressley, Rique Johnson, Destin Soul, V. Anthony Rivers, William Cooper, and V. Rivers
Earl Sewell, William Fredrick Cooper, Michael Pressley, Rique Johnson, Destin Soul, V. Anthony Rivers, William Cooper, and V. Rivers MULTIPLE
Brittney Cooper, Susana M. Morris, and Robin M. Boylorn
Brittney Cooper, Susana M. Morris, and Robin M. Boylorn MULTIPLE "Brittney Cooper, Susana M. Morris, and Robin M. Boylorn are renowned authors known for their significant contributions to literature ...
Floyd Cooper and Daria Peoples
Floyd Cooper and Daria Peoples MULTIPLE Floyd Cooper and Daria Peoples Children's book Illustrators Floyd Cooper and Daria Peoples
Brittney Cooper, Chanel Craft Tanner, and Susana M. Morris
Brittney Cooper, Chanel Craft Tanner, and Susana M. Morris MULTIPLE Brittney Cooper, Chanel Craft Tanner, and Susana M. Morris, are renowned authors known for their significant contributions to liter...
Deborrah Cooper
Deborrah Cooper NONE Deborrah Cooper, pen name “Ms. HeartBeat”, is an established authority on dating and relationships since 1993. She founded AskHeartBeat!, a pioneer website focused on Black and i...
Tracy Price-Thompson and TaRessa Stovall, with Elizabeth Atkins and Desiree Cooper
Tracy Price-Thompson and TaRessa Stovall, with Elizabeth Atkins and Desiree Cooper MULTIPLE Discover authors Tracey Price Thompson, TaRessa Stovall, Elizabeth Atkins, and Desiree Cooper, renowned for...
Desiree Cooper
Desiree Cooper NONE Desiree Cooper is a 2015 Kresge Artist Fellow, ex-attorney, Pulitzer-nominated journalist, and Detroit activist. She has contributed fiction and poetry to numerous publications an...
Eric M. Cooper
Eric M. Cooper NONE Eric Mann Cooper is a New Jersey-based Sci-Fi/Superhero author known for his Knight Seeker series set in the modern Tri-State area. He recently started a new series, Star Enforcer...
Clarence Cooper, Jr.
Clarence Cooper, Jr. MULTIPLE “…One of the most under-rated writers in America…” —John A. Williams Clarence L. Cooper Jr., born in 1934, was an author whose works, like...
Anna J. Cooper
Anna J. Cooper 0000000116155726 Cooper was one of the last known survivors of legalized American slavery. Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (1858–1964) was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, and spent her ...
My Mama’s Drama
My Mama’s Drama La Jill Hunt 9781945855450 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. The love/hate relationship between Diane and Kendra Williams takes mother-daughter drama to entirely differen...
Lazaretto: A Novel
Lazaretto: A Novel Diane McKinney-Whetstone 9780062126962 Fiction Harper HarperCollins Diane McKinney-Whetstone’s nationally bestselling novel, Tumbling, immersed us into Philadelphia’s black communit...
If Kids Ran the World
If Kids Ran the World Leo and Diane Dillon 9780545441964 Fiction The Blue Sky Press Scholastic Inc. Two-time Caldecott Medalists Leo and Diane Dillon show children playfully creating a more generous, ...
Alibi Ii: Nard’s Revenge
Alibi Ii: Nard’s Revenge Teri Woods 9781455572410 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group ALIBI II picks up where ALIBI left off. The year is 2006 and Diane Praeliou is happily married...
Jazz On A Saturday Night (Coretta Scott King Honor Book)
Jazz On A Saturday Night (Coretta Scott King Honor Book) Leo and Diane Dillon 9780590478939 Nonfiction The Blue Sky Press Scholastic Inc. Celebrated illustrators Leo and Diane Dillon have won the Cald...
Doug Cooper Spencer
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All About Him: A Novel
All About Him: A Novel Pat Tucker 9781593096847 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A scorned woman is determined to expose her ex-lover for the cruel man he is but she has her work cut out f...
Know the Mother
Know the Mother Desiree Cooper 9780814341490 Fiction Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press While a mother can be defined as a creator, a nurturer, a protector-at the center of each...
Present Darkness
Present Darkness Malla Nunn 9781451616965 Fiction Emily Bestler Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Set in the corrupt, unforgiving world of apartheid South Africa, this novel in the Detective Emmanuel Coope...
One Season (In Pinstripes): A Memoir
One Season (In Pinstripes): A Memoir William Fredrick Cooper 9781593093549 Nonfiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A true story about sports, faith, and redemption, compliments of one season w...
A Beautiful Place to Die: An Emmanuel Cooper Mystery
A Beautiful Place to Die: An Emmanuel Cooper Mystery Malla Nunn 9781416586210 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. Award-winning screenwriter Malla Nunn delivers a stunning and darkl...
J. California Cooper reads from a work in progress
J. California Cooper reads from a work in progress Author Interviews Here, J. California Cooper: https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=J.+California+Cooper reads from a work in progress: Go...
Life Is Short But Wide
Life Is Short But Wide J. California Cooper 9780385511346 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House Beloved writer J. California Cooper has won a legion of loyal fans and much critical acclaim for her powerf...
Wild Stars Seeking Midnight Suns: Stories
Wild Stars Seeking Midnight Suns: Stories J. California Cooper 9781400075683 Fiction Doubleday Penguin Random House In stories that are simple yet elegant, hard-hitting yet poignant, J. California Coo...
Sistergirls.Com
Sistergirls.Com Earl Sewell, William Fredrick Cooper, Michael Pressley, Rique Johnson, Destin Soul, V. Anthony Rivers, William Cooper, and V. Rivers 9781593090043 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuste...
Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime: Stories
Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime: Stories J. California Cooper 9780385467889 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House Whether through her stories or her legendary readings, J. California Cooper has an uncann...
In Search of Satisfaction
In Search of Satisfaction J. California Cooper 9780385467865 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House The folk flavor of her storytelling has earned her constant comparison to Langston Hughes and Zora Ne...
Holly Mosley Cooper
Holly Mosley Cooper NONE Holly Mosley Cooper is an accomplished author known for “Confessions of a Reformed Cougar” and “Life is a Precious Gift.” She holds leadership roles at MEM Group and Hi-Tech ...
Arshay Cooper
Arshay Cooper NONE Arshay Cooper is a rower, author, and motivational speaker dedicated to community outreach. He collaborates with nonprofits to make rowing accessible to all and is a 2017 US Rowing...
Orjanette Bryant and Dana A. Cooper
Orjanette Bryant and Dana A. Cooper MULTIPLE Orjanette Bryant and Dana A. Cooper Orjanette Bryant and Dana A. Cooper
David Elmo Cooper
David Elmo Cooper NONE David Elmo Cooper is a multi-media artist and muralist. His work has appeared on book covers and ad campaigns, and in editorial publications. David Elmo Cooper is a multi-media...
Morgan Stevenson Cooper
Morgan Stevenson Cooper NONE Morgan Stevenson Cooper is a filmmaker, writer, and director celebrated for blending visual art with socially conscious storytelling. Best known for creating the viral s...
Sharon C. Cooper
Sharon C. Cooper NONE Sharon C. Cooper is an award-winning, bestselling author of contemporary and romantic suspense novels. She's known for her love of romance, rainy days, and peanut butter and jel...
Esther Cooper Jackson
Esther Cooper Jackson 0000000037560491 Esther Cooper Jackson (1917-2022) was a co-founder and managing editor of Freedomways magazine from 1961-1985, a significant publication featuring writers like ...
Cecily Cooper
Cecily Cooper NONE Cecily Cooper is a certified transformational life coach, speaker, leader, and author who is passionate about empowering individuals, particularly women and youth, to unlock their ...
Why Did The City Sun [1984–1996] Matter?
Why Did The City Sun [1984–1996] Matter? Wayne Dawkins Article Editors’s Note: Check out Dawkins’ book about The City Sun’s publisher Andrew W. Cooper A decade ago ...
Mama Says I’m Fine
Mama Says I’m Fine Brittney Cooper 9781338763867 Fiction Orchard Books Orchard Books From New York Times bestselling author Brittney Cooper comes a heartwarming story of love and resilience that explo...
Worse than a Lie: A Beau Lee Cooper Novel
Worse than a Lie: A Beau Lee Cooper Novel Ben Crump 9780593875704 Fiction Bantam Penguin Random House In this gripping thriller, truth and justice are called into question when a Black man is gunned d...
I Can Make a Movie!
I Can Make a Movie! Morgan Stevenson Cooper 9780593858301 Fiction Kokila Penguin Random House From Self-Taught, Award-Winning Director Morgan Stevenson Cooper Comes a Heartfelt Picture Book About a Gi...
Let Me Be Real with You: Inspiring Lessons on Living a Life of Service
Let Me Be Real with You: Inspiring Lessons on Living a Life of Service Arshay Cooper 9780063426566 Nonfiction HarperOne HarperCollins From the celebrated athlete and award-winning author, an inspirati...
Stand Up!: 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change
Stand Up!: 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change Brittney Cooper 9781338763850 Nonfiction Orchard Books Orchard Books From the New York Times, bestselling author of Eloquent Rage comes a powerful, groundb...
Ella Pruitt
Ella Pruitt Doug Cooper Spencer 9780692612491 Fiction Doug Cooper Spencer Doug Cooper Spencer €˜The smallest act can haunt you forever Pregnant at thirteen by a young man who comes to her hometow...
James and Esther Cooper Jackson: Love and Courage in the Black Freedom Movement
James and Esther Cooper Jackson: Love and Courage in the Black Freedom Movement Sara Rzeszutek 9780813166254 Nonfiction University Press of Kentucky University Press of Kentucky James Jackson and Esth...
Changers Book Two: Oryon
Changers Book Two: Oryon T Cooper and Allison Glock-Cooper 9781617753077 Fiction Black Sheep Akashic Books "Fantastic."—John Green"This is an excellent sequel….This installment raises the stakes, maki...
Esther Cooper Jackson on Freedways Magazine
Esther Cooper Jackson on Freedways Magazine Author Interviews Esther Cooper Jackson (August 21, 1917 – August 23, 2022) was the founding managing editor of Freedomways: A Quarterly Review of the Free...
My Blue Suede Shoes: Four Novellas
My Blue Suede Shoes: Four Novellas Tracy Price-Thompson and TaRessa Stovall, with Elizabeth Atkins and Desiree Cooper 9781416542087 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A powerful collection of ...
There’s Always A Reason (Zane Presents)
There’s Always A Reason (Zane Presents) William Fredrick Cooper 9781593093297 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. The eagerly anticipated sequel to William Fredrick Cooper’s wildly acclaimed ...
Let the Dead Lie: An Emmanuel Cooper Mystery
Let the Dead Lie: An Emmanuel Cooper Mystery Malla Nunn 9781416586227 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. The second in a crime series set in 1950’s South Africa when apartheid laws...
Other People’s Skin: Four Novellas
Other People’s Skin: Four Novellas Tracy Price-Thompson and TaRessa Stovall, with Elizabeth Atkins and Desiree Cooper 9781416542070 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In Other People’s Skin, T...
William Cooper Nell: Selected Writings 1832-1874
William Cooper Nell: Selected Writings 1832-1874 Dorothy Porter and Constance Porter Uzelac 9781574780192 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press William Cooper Nell: Nineteenth-Century Afr...
Some Soul to Keep
Some Soul to Keep J. California Cooper 9780312193379 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers The five long stories in this volume radiate the same energy that readers of Cooper&rsqup;s A ...
Black!
Black! Clarence Cooper, Jr. 9780393315417 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Black! brings together three short novels by Clarence Cooper, Jr., a rediscovered genius of Afr...
Family Threads
Family Threads Diane McKinney-Whetstone 9780063395428 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Diane McKinney-Whetstone’s latest character-rich, page-turner blends her signature style with a little magic in her ...
Ella
Ella Diane Richards 9780063338524 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins In the vein of The Paris Wife and The Personal Librarian comes this debut novel, a magnificent work of "biographical fiction" that reima...
Ella: A Novel
Ella: A Novel Diane Richards 9780063338654 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In the vein of The Paris Wife and The Personal Librarian comes this debut novel, a magnificent work of “biographical fiction...
A Cloud of Women: The Powerful Connection Between Black Women and Women of the Bible
A Cloud of Women: The Powerful Connection Between Black Women and Women of the Bible Georgia A. Hill and Diane Proctor Reeder 9781640702578 Nonfiction Our Daily Bread Publishing Our Daily Bread Publis...
Our Gen
Our Gen Diane McKinney-Whetstone 9780063140110 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Beloved AALBC best-selling author, book club favorite, and longtime HarperCollins author Diane McKinney-Whetstone takes a d...
I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t
I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t Leo and Diane Dillon 9781338166903 Fiction The Blue Sky Press Scholastic Inc. Like most girls and boys, Zoe enthusiastically embraces the wonders of our world ...
Eddie Green - The Rise of an Early 1900s Black American Entertainment Pioneer
Eddie Green - The Rise of an Early 1900s Black American Entertainment Pioneer Elva Diane Green 9781593939670 Nonfiction BearManor Media BearManor Media “A Good man is hard to find,” as the famous 1919...
What The Word Be: Why Black English Is The King’s (James) English!
What The Word Be: Why Black English Is The King’s (James) English! Diane Proctor Reeder 9781495105050 Nonfiction Written Images Written Images Diane Proctor Reeder provides a biting social commentary ...
Fraternity: In 1968, a visionary priest recruited 20 black men to the College of the Holy Cross and changed their lives and the course of history.
Fraternity: In 1968, a visionary priest recruited 20 black men to the College of the Holy Cross and changed their lives and the course of history. Diane Brady 9780385524742 Nonfiction Spiegel & Grau P...