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Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less
Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less Tiffany Dufu 9781250071736 Nonfiction Flatiron Books Macmillan Publishers A bold and inspiring memoir and manifesto from a renowned voice in the women’s lea...
Tiffany Dufu Explains How to Achieve More by Doing Less
Tiffany Dufu Explains How to Achieve More by Doing Less Publishing & Craft Tiffany Dufu reads from her book DROP THE BALL: ACHIEVING MORE BY DOING LESS. Learn more: https://aalbc.com/books/bookinfo.p...
(1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race
(1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race Kam Williams Book Review “What exactly is Blackness and what does it mean to be Black? Is Blackness a matter of biology or consciousness? Who determines...
Don’t Drop the MIC
Don’t Drop the MIC Denolyn Carroll Book Review In Don’t Drop the Mic, renowned pastor, orator, and #1 New York Times bestselling author Bishop T. D. Jakes puts a new spin on the notion of the b...
Ball Don’t Lie
Ball Don’t Lie Matt De La Peña 9780385734257 Fiction Ember Ember Newbery Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Matt de la Peña’s Ball Don’t Lie "is a must-read." [The Bulletin]Sticky is ...
Alverne Ball and Stacey Robinson
Alverne Ball and Stacey Robinson MULTIPLE Alverne Ball, a renowned author from Joliet, Illinois, holds an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia College Chicago. He received the Glyph Rising Star Award...
Roy Weaver, David Sullivan, and Shawn Sriver
Roy Weaver, David Sullivan, and Shawn Sriver MULTIPLE Roy Weaver, former interim dean of Ball State University's Teachers College and distinguished alumnus, is renowned for his contributions to acade...
(1)Ne Drop: Shifting The Lens On Race
(1)Ne Drop: Shifting The Lens On Race Yaba Blay 9780989664509 Nonfiction BLACKprint Press BLACKprint Press What exactly is Blackness?What does it mean to be Black?Is Blackness a matter of biology or c...
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The Afrominimalist’s Guide to Living with Less
The Afrominimalist’s Guide to Living with Less Christine Platt 9781982168056 Nonfiction Simon Element Simon & Schuster, Inc. Forget the aesthetics of mainstream minimalism and discover a life of authe...
Don’t Drop the Mic
Don’t Drop the Mic Idris Goodwin 9780358692126 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Breakbeat poet Idris Goodwin and award-winning illustrator Kaylani Juanita collaborate on a whimsical, upbeat picture...
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...
Tiffany Dufu
Tiffany Dufu NONE Tiffany Dufu, author of Drop the Ball, is a prominent figure in women's leadership. She was part of the Lean In launch team and currently serves as Chief Leadership Officer at Levo....
Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre
Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre Alverne Ball and Stacey Robinson 9781419755170 Nonfiction Abrams ComicArts Abrams One hundred years after the T...
Move Without the Ball: Put Your Skills and Your Magic to Work for You
Move Without the Ball: Put Your Skills and Your Magic to Work for You Stedman Graham 9780743234405 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Athletics is a metaphor for life; that’s why Move ...
Tarriona Ball
Tarriona Ball NONE Tarriona “Tank” Ball is a New Orleans-based slam poet and Grammy-winning recording artist with her band, Tank and the Bangas.
The Little Book of Quiet: Finding a Mindful Balance (Little Books)
The Little Book of Quiet: Finding a Mindful Balance (Little Books) Tiddy Rowan 9781849495165 Nonfiction Quadrille Publishing Quadrille Publishing Some of the most influential people in history have...
The Black-Print: Black America’s Blueprint For Achieving Wealth, Prosperity And Respect
The Black-Print: Black America’s Blueprint For Achieving Wealth, Prosperity And Respect Malik Green 9781432743864 Nonfiction Outskirts Press Outskirts Press Damn the Talk; This Book is a Plan of Actio...
The Principles and Power of Vision: Keys to Achieving Personal and Corporate Destiny
The Principles and Power of Vision: Keys to Achieving Personal and Corporate Destiny Myles Munroe 9781629113715 Nonfiction Whitaker House Whitaker House Whether you are a businessperson, a departmenta...
Achieving Career Success on Your Terms: The Nia Guide for Black Women
Achieving Career Success on Your Terms: The Nia Guide for Black Women Sheryl Huggins Salomon 9781932841015 Fiction Agate Bolden Agate Publishing, Inc The first in three-volume series of empowerment gu...
From Presence to Power: How to Take On the Fights That Matter—and Win
From Presence to Power: How to Take On the Fights That Matter—and Win Rashad Robinson Excerpt 1 Presence Is Not Enough Definition: Presence is about visibility, the ability to make something—a ...
Don’t Drop the MIC: The Power of Your Words Can Change the World
Don’t Drop the MIC: The Power of Your Words Can Change the World T. D. Jakes 9781455595358 Nonfiction FaithWords Hachette Book Group Communicate boldly and effectively like never before with the help ...
Damon Young on his 1st Novel, Snow Drop
Damon Young on his 1st Novel, Snow Drop Book Spotlights Learn more about Damon Young, and follow him to learn when Snow Drop is published: https://aalbc.com/authors/Damon-Young
Making Bold Moves: Creating Multimillion Dollar Success In 500 Days Or Less!
Making Bold Moves: Creating Multimillion Dollar Success In 500 Days Or Less! William S. Parrish Jr. 9780983906803 Nonfiction MBM Publishing, LLC MBM Publishing, LLC Making Bold Moves: Creating Multimi...
Monster’s Ball
Monster’s Ball Yemi Toure images/monstersballdvd.jpg Film Review lMonsters (2001) Click to Order via Amazon MPAA: Rated R for strong sexual content, language and violence. Runtime: 111&n...
Snow Drop
Snow Drop Damon Young 9780593snwfll Fiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House “My next book will be my first fiction. It’s an absurdist satire of race, pop culture, the publishing industry, sex, the...
Is Marriage For White People?: How The African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone
Is Marriage For White People?: How The African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone Ralph Richard Banks 9780525952015 Nonfiction Dutton Books Penguin Random House During the past half century, A...
The Gravedigger’s Ball: A Coletti Novel (Mike Coletti)
The Gravedigger’s Ball: A Coletti Novel (Mike Coletti) Solomon Jones 9780312580810 Fiction Minotaur Books Minotaur Books The next thrilling novel in the all new Colletti series from acclaimed author S...
Basket Ball: The Story of the All-American Game
Basket Ball: The Story of the All-American Game Kadir Nelson 9780316209403 Nonfiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Kadir Nelson, award-winning creator, delivers the perfec...
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...
The Thing about Falling: Poems
The Thing about Falling: Poems Tarriona Ball 9798881600211 Poetry Andrews McMeel Publishing Andrews McMeel Publishing From Grammy award-winning spoken word artist and poet Tarriona ‘Tank’ Ball comes a...
Vulnerable AF
Vulnerable AF Tarriona Ball 9781524865757 Poetry Andrews McMeel Publishing Andrews McMeel Publishing Available as an Audie Award-nominated audiobook! The debut poetry collection from Grammy-nominated...
I Am Lucille Ball
I Am Lucille Ball Brad Meltzer 9780525428558 Nonfiction Dial Books Penguin Random House We can all be heroes is the message of this picture-book biography series from #1 New York Times Bestselling aut...
A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X
A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X Jared Ball and Todd Steven Burroughs 9781574780499 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press A Lie of Reinvention is a response to...
Mid-Air
Mid-Air Alicia D. Williams 9781481465830 Fiction Atheneum Simon & Schuster, Inc. A tender-souled boy reeling from the death of his best friend struggles to fit into a world that wants him to grow up t...
Campus CEO: The Student Entrepreneur’s Guide to Launching a Multi-Million-Dollar Business
Campus CEO: The Student Entrepreneur’s Guide to Launching a Multi-Million-Dollar Business Randal Pinkett 9781419593710 Nonfiction Kaplan Publishing Kaplan Publishing Every year, hundreds of thousands ...
A Love No Less: Two Centuries Of African American Love Letters
A Love No Less: Two Centuries Of African American Love Letters Pamela Newkirk 9780385503792 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House A Delightful paean to African American love, this treasury of fifty le...
Crystal
Crystal Walter Dean Myers 9780812479768 Fiction Perfection Learning Perfection Learning Sixteen-year-old Crystal knows she’s blessed. She is drop-dead gorgeous and in the beginning stages of a glamoro...
Diva Decisions: How to Get From Smart to Intelligent by Claiming Your Power of Choice
Diva Decisions: How to Get From Smart to Intelligent by Claiming Your Power of Choice V. Brooks Dunbar 9780998796604 Nonfiction Center for Confidence Center for Confidence Are you smart and accomplish...
How is African American Literature Really Doing?
How is African American Literature Really Doing? Troy Johnson Article For those in the business of Black books in America, this is a common question; “How is African American Literature Doing?” Some...
Young, Gifted and Doing It: 52 Power Moves for Teens
Young, Gifted and Doing It: 52 Power Moves for Teens Cassandra Mack 9780595467891 Nonfiction Authors Choice Press Authors Choice Press Motivating a new generation of teens with tips, steps and strateg...
Your Journey to Financial Freedom: A Step-By-Step Guide to Achieving Wealth and Happiness
Your Journey to Financial Freedom: A Step-By-Step Guide to Achieving Wealth and Happiness Jamila Souffrant 9781335007797 Nonfiction Hanover Square Press Hanover Square Press A Next Big Idea Club Decem...
Your Money or Your Life
Your Money or Your Life Alvin Hall 9781416596622 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Bestselling author and UK television star Alvin Hall demystifies the principles of personal money managem...
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Jonathan Anthony Burkett NONE Jonathan Anthony Burkett, born in 1987, is an inspirational writer who persevered through life's trials and a life-changing surgery in 2005. Despite lack of formal educa...
Doing Business With Beauty: Black Women, Hair Salons, and the Racial Enclave Economy
Doing Business With Beauty: Black Women, Hair Salons, and the Racial Enclave Economy Adia Harvey Wingfield 9780742561175 Nonfiction Rowman & Littlefield Rowman & Littlefield Black women comprise one o...
Doing What’s Right: How to Fight for What You Believe—And Make a Difference
Doing What’s Right: How to Fight for What You Believe—And Make a Difference Tavis Smiley 9780385499316 Nonfiction Anchor Penguin Random House In Doing What’s Right, Tavis Smiley shows how each one of ...
Chapters 1 and 2
Chapters 1 and 2 Harlow Giles Unger Excerpt Chapters 1 and 2 Chapter 1College Is Not for Everyone So your kid says he or she wants to go to college. “All my friends are going!&rdq...
Success for Life: 7 Streetwise Strategies Guaranteed to Transform You from Wannable to Winner!
Success for Life: 7 Streetwise Strategies Guaranteed to Transform You from Wannable to Winner! Burrel Lee Wilks III 9780976873617 Nonfiction Burrel Streetwise Burrel Streetwise Refusing to accept boun...
Voices from the Battlefront: Achieving Cultural Equity
Voices from the Battlefront: Achieving Cultural Equity Marta Moreno-Vega 9780865433946 Nonfiction Africa World Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press The essays in this book represent the ideas ...
Streetball Crew Book One Sasquatch In The Paint
Streetball Crew Book One Sasquatch In The Paint Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld 9781423178705 Fiction Disney-Hyperion Disney Publishing Worldwide Read how Reading Is Fundamental and Abdul-...
More Poetry!/Less Jam!
More Poetry!/Less Jam! Tara Betts Article More Poetry!/Less Jam! by Tara Betts Bruce George’s outgoing voicemail message at Phat Farm states "Don’t leave a message unless it&rsq...
On-line Chat Featuring author Mat Johnson
On-line Chat Featuring author Mat Johnson Thumper Interview The Coffee Will Make You Black On-line Reading Group’s Chat Transcript The Coffee Will Make You Black Reading Group&...
The Billion Dollar College Admissions Scam: How to Keep Your Kids from Losing Your Shirt
The Billion Dollar College Admissions Scam: How to Keep Your Kids from Losing Your Shirt Harlow Giles Unger 9798711471110 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published Two million student...
Just for You!: Stop, Drop, and Chll
Just for You!: Stop, Drop, and Chll Derrick Barnes 9780439568708 Fiction Teaching Resources Teaching Resources Rhyming words help a grade-schooler deal with his angry feelings in a more constructive w...
Raise Your Hand If You Have Issues: If You Didn’t Raise You Hand You’re Lying And That’s An Issue
Raise Your Hand If You Have Issues: If You Didn’t Raise You Hand You’re Lying And That’s An Issue Michael Baisden 9780984776580 Nonfiction Baisden Publishing Baisden Publishing LLC Achieving success, ...
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History Vashti Harrison 9780316475112 Nonfiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group This beautifully illustrated book introduces reader of al...
Black Star
Black Star Kwame Alexander 9780316442596 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group In this second epic novel of bestselling The Door of No Return trilogy, we meet Charlie, Kofi...
Cinderella Is Dead
Cinderella Is Dead Kalynn Bayron 9781547603879 Fiction Bloomsbury YA Bloomsbury Publishing “Wholly original and captivating.” —Brigid Kemmerer, New York Times bestselling author of A Curse So Dark and...
If God Invented Baseball: Poems
If God Invented Baseball: Poems E. Ethelbert Miller 9781947951006 Poetry City Point Press City Point Press Here are poems that celebrate and interpret the game by one of America’s finest poets. They a...
Pelé: The King of Soccer
Pelé: The King of Soccer Eddy Simon 9781626729797 Nonfiction First Second Macmillan Publishers Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known to his schoolmates as Pelé, grew up in poverty in the Sao Paulo...
A Thug’s Life Revisited (Volume 1)
A Thug’s Life Revisited (Volume 1) Yani 9780996966641 Fiction Anitbeet Productions Anitbeet Productions What happens when the system you’ve been sworn to protect marks you for death? Jamal, D-Ball an...
Wrong on Race
Wrong on Race Kam Williams Book Review ’It must be acknowledged that in the progress of nations Negroes have shown less capacity for government than any other race of people. No independen...
Super Rich: A Guide To Having It All
Super Rich: A Guide To Having It All Russell Simmons and Chris Morrow 9781592405879 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House The visionary entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller Do You!...
A Drop of Color
A Drop of Color Elizabeth Ese 9781546158172 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. Seventeen-year-old Gabrielle has always lived between worlds: at school, she is expected to be the “Token Black Gir...
The Littlest Drop
The Littlest Drop Sascha Alper 9780593309124 Fiction Anne Schwartz Books Penguin Random House This simple, poignant fable—featuring Caldecott Medalist Jerry Pinkney’s final illustrations and completed...
America’s Racial Karma: An Invitation to Heal
America’s Racial Karma: An Invitation to Heal Larry Ward 9781946764744 Nonfiction Parallax Press Parallax Press Immediate, illuminating, and hopeful: this is the key set of talks given by leading Zen ...
One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life--A Story Of Race And Family Secrets
One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life--A Story Of Race And Family Secrets Bliss Broyard 9780316008068 Nonfiction Back Bay Books Hachette Book Group Ever since renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard’s ow...
Rock ’Til You Drop: The Decline from Rebellion to Nostalgia
Rock ’Til You Drop: The Decline from Rebellion to Nostalgia John Strausbaugh 9781859846292 Nonfiction Verso Books Verso Books In the 1960s and early 70s rock and rebellion went arm in arm. This was th...
’60 to Tranzinfinity - Drop’n Jewlz for the Nu-Blahck Struggle!
’60 to Tranzinfinity - Drop’n Jewlz for the Nu-Blahck Struggle! Adisa Omar 9780939366262 Nonfiction AKU Press International AKU Press International From ’ole school to nu-skool’ the face of popular mu...
A Drop of Patience: A Novel (Dark Tower Series)
A Drop of Patience: A Novel (Dark Tower Series) William Melvin Kelley 9780880014601 Fiction Ecco Press HarperCollins Book by Kelley, William Melvin
The heart of Alkebulan (Africa): Sweet drop of honey : a collection of writings
The heart of Alkebulan (Africa): Sweet drop of honey : a collection of writings Daniel Henderson 9780965323000 Fiction D.B. Henderson D.B. Henderson
Hunting In Harlem
Hunting In Harlem Thumper Book Review I am always excited when new authors enter the scene because they expand the dimensions of our existence through literature that is vibrant, challenging and im...
Climb: Taking Every Step with Conviction, Courage, and Calculated Risk to Achieve a Thriving Career and a Successful Life
Climb: Taking Every Step with Conviction, Courage, and Calculated Risk to Achieve a Thriving Career and a Successful Life Michelle Gadsden-Williams 9781617756245 Nonfiction Open Lens Akashic Books “Mi...
7:33 AM
7:33 AM Monda Raquel Webb 9780979782718 Fiction Monda Media, Inc. Monda Media, Inc. In a city where power struggles take place daily on Capitol Hill, another power struggle is taking place beyond the ...
The Miseducation of Obi Ifeanyi by Chinedu Achebe
The Miseducation of Obi Ifeanyi by Chinedu Achebe Robert Fleming Book Review Some of the world’s finest fiction has been written by Nigerians. Let’s look at the writers from that area in...
The Payback
The Payback Kashana Cauley Excerpt Chapter One In the handful of minutes before our store opened, the sales day was pregnant with potential cash. Soon my boss Richard would open our front door, th...
The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze
The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze Derrick Barnes 9781984836755 Fiction Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House “Derrick Barnes takes all forms of storytelling available to him­—allego...
Better Together, Cinderella
Better Together, Cinderella Ashley Franklin 9780063029545 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins In this magical follow-up picture book to Ashley Franklin’s and Ebony Glenn’s celebrated fairy tale twist,...
A Rosa Le Encanta Jugar a la Pelota/Rosa Plays Ball
A Rosa Le Encanta Jugar a la Pelota/Rosa Plays Ball Jessica Spanyol 9781786284945 Fiction Child’s Play Child’s Play Let’s find out which toys Rosa and her friends are playing with today An important...
Swish!: The Slam-Dunking, Alley-Ooping, High-Flying Harlem Globetrotters
Swish!: The Slam-Dunking, Alley-Ooping, High-Flying Harlem Globetrotters Suzanne Slade 9780316481670 Nonfiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group The true story of the high-fly...
Who Dropped the Ball on Our Kids?: The Continuing "Miseducation" of Black Youth and its Negative Effect on Their Identity Formation and Economic Power
Who Dropped the Ball on Our Kids?: The Continuing "Miseducation" of Black Youth and its Negative Effect on Their Identity Formation and Economic Power Sondai Kibwe Lester 9780578449449 Nonfiction PSE ...
The Negro Motorist Green-Book: 1940 Facsimile Edition
The Negro Motorist Green-Book: 1940 Facsimile Edition Victor H. Green 9781684116546 Nonfiction Snow Ball Publishing Snow Ball Publishing In the segregated US of the mid-twentieth century, African-Amer...
Rosa Plays Ball
Rosa Plays Ball Jessica Spanyol 9781786281265 Fiction Child’s Play Child’s Play Let’s find out which toys Rosa and her friends are playing with today An important series that celebrates inclusivity,...
Passion’s Pride: Return to the Dawning
Passion’s Pride: Return to the Dawning Cathie Wright-Lewis 9780986240003 Fiction Hard Ball Press Hard Ball Press High School teacher Mecca Freeman has lost her faith. In people. In the future. In the ...
The Princess and the Frog: Princess Tiana and the Royal Ball
The Princess and the Frog: Princess Tiana and the Royal Ball Natasha Anastasia Tarpley 9781423118596 Fiction Disney Press Disney Publishing Worldwide Featuring lilting text and gorgeous illustrations ...
Bounce
Bounce Preston L. Allen 9780595298716 Fiction iUniverse Author Solutions Welcome to the bright red bouncing-ball world of Cindique Sanders-Lassiter in this slick, sleek, sexy tale from the undisputed ...
Just Give Me the Damn Ball!: The Fast Times and Hard Knocks of an NFL Rookie
Just Give Me the Damn Ball!: The Fast Times and Hard Knocks of an NFL Rookie Keyshawn Johnson 9780446521451 Nonfiction Time Warner Trade Publishing Hachette Book Group “Well, son, I guess we have to g...
Chris Raschka
Chris Raschka 000000008396928X Chris Raschka, born in 1959, is a renowned author, illustrator, and violist from Pennsylvania. Notable for his books “Hello, Goodbye Window,” and “A Ball for Daisy,” bo...
Sinfree Makoni and Arthur K. Spears
Sinfree Makoni and Arthur K. Spears MULTIPLE Sinfree Makoni, Geneva Smitherman, Arthur K. Spears, Arnetha Ball, and NgÅ©gÄ© wa Thiong’o are respected professors and scholars in linguistics, English, ...
Angela Jackson-Brown
Angela Jackson-Brown NONE Angela Jackson-Brown, an award-winning writer, poet, and playwright, teaches Creative Writing and English at Ball State University. She authored the novel “Drinking From A B...
Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life
Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life Ashley Bryan 9781481456906 Fiction Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Using original slave auction and plantati...
Ada’s Rules: A Sexy Skinny Novel
Ada’s Rules: A Sexy Skinny Novel Alice Randall 9781608199495 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing Ada Howard is the wife of the preacher at Nashville’s Full Love Baptist Tabernacle. Witha whol...
Setting a Up a Website for Less Than $28 a Year
Setting a Up a Website for Less Than $28 a Year Publishing & Craft This video demonstrate the process of setting up and website including selecting a web host, registering a domain name and creating ...
The Spider Weaver: A Legend of Kente Cloth
The Spider Weaver: A Legend of Kente Cloth Margaret Musgrove 9781627200608 Fiction Apprentice House Apprentice House The story in this book is widely known among the weavers in Ghana and dates back to...