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I Got Your Back: A Father and Son Keep It Real About Love, Fatherhood, Family, and Friendship
I Got Your Back: A Father and Son Keep It Real About Love, Fatherhood, Family, and Friendship Eddie Levert, Gerald Levert, and Lyah Beth LeFlore 9780767927444 Nonfiction Crown Archetype Penguin Random...
The Brother You Choose: Paul Coates and Eddie Conway Talk about Life, Politics, and the Revolution
The Brother You Choose: Paul Coates and Eddie Conway Talk about Life, Politics, and the Revolution Susie Day, W. Paul Coates and Eddie Conway 9781642591545 Nonfiction Haymarket Books Haymarket Books ...
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...
Beating the Odds: Eddie Brown’s Investing and Life Strategies
Beating the Odds: Eddie Brown’s Investing and Life Strategies Eddie C. Brown and Blair S. Walker 9780470936627 Nonfiction Wiley Wiley Eddie Brown was born with an exceptional mind, into a loving and s...
Eddie’s Ordeal (Neate)
Eddie’s Ordeal (Neate) Kelly Starling Lyons 9780940975163 Fiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. Thirteen year old Eddie Delaney loves his dad. But sometimes he wishes that he’d lighten up. His fa...
America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries
America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries Eddie S. Glaude Jr. 9780593239803 Nonfiction Crown Penguin Random House New York Times Bestseller • The New York Times bestselling author o...
Murder at the Wham Bam Club
Murder at the Wham Bam Club Carolyn Marie Wilkins 9781496754714 Fiction Kensington Publishing Corporation Kensington Publishing Corp. As Prohibition era speakeasies and Jazz Age excitement reign supre...
The Real Mrs. Price
The Real Mrs. Price J.D. Mason 9781250052254 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Lucy Price is living the American dream. She has been married to her successful husband and businessman, ...
The Garden of Unfortunate Souls
The Garden of Unfortunate Souls Eddie Mark 9781620157930 Fiction Booktrope Editions Booktrope Editions “With compassion and superb craftsmanship, Eddie Mark invokes a world of fascinating and unfor...
A Long Day in November
A Long Day in November Ernest J. Gaines 9781939601025 Fiction Lizzie Skurnick Books Ig Publishing One morning, six-year old Sonny is awoken by his crying mother, who tells him that, come tomorrow morn...
We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking for
We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking for Eddie S. Glaude Jr. 9780674303515 Nonfiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press From the author of the New York Times bestseller Begin Again,...
Be White With Me
Be White With Me R. E. Hayes 9798822958883 Fiction Palmetto Publishing Palmetto Publishing With apologies to the great Tolstoy, all happy Black families are not alike and every unhappy Black family is...
We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking for
We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking for Eddie S. Glaude Jr. 9780674737600 Nonfiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press From the author of the New York Times bestseller Begin Again,...
Running in Flip-Flops from the End of the World
Running in Flip-Flops from the End of the World justin a. reynolds 9781338815160 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. A hilarious middle-grade from Justin A. Reynolds that asks: What happens when ...
The Trickster in the Vase
The Trickster in the Vase Sophia Ezomoghene 9781478879114 Fiction Reycraft Books Reycraft Books Embark on an adventurous journey with The Trickster in the Vase, crafted by the imaginative Sophia Ezomo...
It’s the End of the World and I’m in My Bathing Suit
It’s the End of the World and I’m in My Bathing Suit justin a. reynolds 9781338740233 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. A hilarious new middle-grade from justin a. reynolds that asks: What happ...
Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own Eddie S. Glaude Jr. 9780525575320 Nonfiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the...
An Uncommon Faith: A Pragmatic Approach to the Study of African American Religion
An Uncommon Faith: A Pragmatic Approach to the Study of African American Religion Eddie S. Glaude Jr. 9780820354170 Nonfiction University of Georgia Press University of Georgia Press With An Uncommon ...
Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul Eddie S. Glaude Jr. 9780804137430 Fiction Crown Penguin Random House A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the ide...
African American Religion
African American Religion Eddie S. Glaude Jr. 9780195182897 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Since the first African American denomination was established in Philadelphia in ...
In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America
In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America Eddie S. Glaude Jr. 9780226298269 Fiction University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press In this provocative book, Eddie S. Gl...
Panther Baby
Panther Baby Jamal Joseph 9781616201296 Nonfiction Algonquin Books Workman Publishing Co., Inc. In the 1960s he exhorted students at Columbia University to burn their college to the ground. Today he’s...
Marshall Law: The Life & Times of a Baltimore Black Panther
Marshall Law: The Life & Times of a Baltimore Black Panther Eddie Conway 9781849350228 Nonfiction AK Press AK Press Marshall “Eddie” Conway is a former member of the Baltimore chapter of the Black Pan...
Tempted By Trouble
Tempted By Trouble Eric Jerome Dickey 9780525950585 Fiction Dutton Books Penguin Random House New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey returns with a flaming-hot stand-alone set in the wor...
Low Road: The Life and Legacy of Donald Goines
Low Road: The Life and Legacy of Donald Goines Eddie B. Allen 9780312383510 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Donald Goines was a pimp, truck driver, heroin addict, factory worker, an...
Fever In The Blood
Fever In The Blood Robert Fleming 9780758212399 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. …and he’s burning mad at the world. He’s mad at the family he lost—his parents and sisters viciously kill...
Low Road: The Life and Legacy of Donald Goines
Low Road: The Life and Legacy of Donald Goines Eddie B. Allen 9780312291242 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Donald Goines was a pimp, a truck driver, a heroin addict, a factory work...
African American Religious Thought: An Anthology
African American Religious Thought: An Anthology Cornel West and Eddie S. Glaude Jr. 9780664224592 Nonfiction Westminster John Knox Press Presbyterian Publishing Corporation Believing that African Am...
Is It Nation Time?: Contemporary Essays on Black Power and Black Nationalism
Is It Nation Time?: Contemporary Essays on Black Power and Black Nationalism Eddie S. Glaude Jr. 9780226298221 Nonfiction University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press During the late 1960s ...
What A Man Wants, What A Woman Needs The Secret To Successful, Fulfilling Relationships
What A Man Wants, What A Woman Needs The Secret To Successful, Fulfilling Relationships Eddie L. Long 9780785265726 Nonfiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing One of the most common c...
Exodus!: Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America
Exodus!: Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America Eddie S. Glaude Jr. 9780226298191 Fiction University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press No other story in the Bi...
Making of a Stand-Up Guy
Making of a Stand-Up Guy Charlie Murphy 9781439149577 Nonfiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. As one of the most popular performers on Comedy Central’s mega-hit The Chappelle Show, Charlie Mur...
The Changing Same": Black Women’s Literature, Criticism, and Theory
The Changing Same": Black Women’s Literature, Criticism, and Theory Deborah E. McDowell 9780253209269 Nonfiction Indiana University Press Indiana University Press The Changing Same examines defining m...
The Writing & Reception of Race First: Marcus Garvey and the Battle for Black History
The Writing & Reception of Race First: Marcus Garvey and the Battle for Black History Tony Martin 9780912469492 Nonfiction The Majority Press Black Classic Press This is Tony Martin’s account of the ...
With Faith in God and Heart and Mind: A History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity
With Faith in God and Heart and Mind: A History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Maurice J. Hobson, Eddie R. Cole, Jim C. Harper II, and Derrick P. Alridge 9781469673196 Nonfiction University of North Caro...
The Fire Next Time; Nobody Knows My Name; No Name in the Street; The Devil Findswork: Introduction by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
The Fire Next Time; Nobody Knows My Name; No Name in the Street; The Devil Findswork: Introduction by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. James Baldwin 9781101908471 Nonfiction Everyman’s Library Everyman’s Library
To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul
To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul Tracy K. Smith 9780593534762 Nonfiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House A stunning personal manifesto on memory, family, and history that...
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, the Graphic Novel
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, the Graphic Novel Kwame Mbalia 9781368072809 Fiction Rick Riordan Presents Rick Riordan Presents The best-selling and awarding-winning novel about a Black boy...
Rick Riordan Presents Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, the Graphic Novel
Rick Riordan Presents Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, the Graphic Novel Kwame Mbalia 9781368075008 Fiction Rick Riordan Presents Rick Riordan Presents The talented team of Robert Venditti an...
The Travelers
The Travelers Regina Porter 9780525576204 Fiction Random House Publishing Group Penguin Random House Named one of the best books of the year by Esquire - Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut...
Delicious Foods: A Novel
Delicious Foods: A Novel James Hannaham 9780316284943 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group WINNER OF THE 2016 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE HURSTON/WRIGHT LEGACY FICTIO...
The Greatest Threat: The Black Panther Party and COINTELPRO
The Greatest Threat: The Black Panther Party and COINTELPRO Eddie Conway thegreatesttr Nonfiction iAMWE Publications iAMWE Publications Limited edition published as a fundraiser for Conway’s legal def...
Riot on Greenwood: The Total Destruction of Black Wall Street
Riot on Greenwood: The Total Destruction of Black Wall Street Eddie Faye Gates 9781571688187 Nonfiction Eakins Press Foundation Eakins Press Foundation Here is an in-depth account of the worst riot in...
Donald Writes No More
Donald Writes No More Eddie Stone 9780870679490 Nonfiction Holloway House Kensington Publishing Corp. Donald Goines was all of these things. He started as a kid, the product of a middle-class family. ...
They Came Searching
They Came Searching Eddie Faye Gates 9781571681454 Nonfiction Eakins Press Foundation Eakins Press Foundation How Blacks sought the promised land in Tulsa, Oklahoma
When the Harvest Comes
When the Harvest Comes Denne Michele Norris 9780593729601 Fiction Random House Penguin Random House In this “achingly beautiful debut” (The Boston Globe), a young Black gay man, estranged from his fat...
Stranded
Stranded Nikki Shannon Smith 9781339011240 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. One storm. One winter. One girl’s fight for survival. A contemporary My Side of the Mountain, Stranded is the story...
When I Think of You
When I Think of You Myah Ariel 9780593640593 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House In this sweeping second chance romance from debut author Myah Ariel, the unexpected spark of two former flames m...
The Betting Vow
The Betting Vow K.M. Jackson 9781496705723 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Extravagant pay-your-own-way destination weddings. Money-dripping ice swans. And reception DJs who keep the "Chick...
Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic
Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic Connie H. Choi, Eugenie Tsai, Insoo Cho, Elizabeth Armstrong, and Richard Aste 9783791354309 Nonfiction Prestel Publishing Penguin Random House Filled with reproductions ...
F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature
F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover’s Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature William J. Maxwell 9780691130200 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press Few institutions ...
Story/Time: The Life Of An Idea (The Toni Morrison Lecture Series)
Story/Time: The Life Of An Idea (The Toni Morrison Lecture Series) Bill T. Jones 9780691162706 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press In this ceaselessly questioning book...
Hollington Homecoming, Volume One: RSVP with LoveTeach Me Tonight
Hollington Homecoming, Volume One: RSVP with LoveTeach Me Tonight Sandra Kitt and Jacquelin Thomas 9780373091317 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Arabesque Harlequin Enterprises Limited Ten years. Eight grads...
The Invention of the White Race (Second Edition, Two-Books)
The Invention of the White Race (Second Edition, Two-Books) Theodore W. Allen 9781844677719 Nonfiction Verso Books Verso Books The Invention of the White Race is a groundbreaking analysis of the birth...
At the End of the Day: A Novel (Zane Presents)
At the End of the Day: A Novel (Zane Presents) Suzetta Perkins 9781593094096 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. At the End of the Day is the exhilarating, heart-pounding, and action-packed f...
The Conjure Stories (Norton Critical Editions)
The Conjure Stories (Norton Critical Editions) Charles W. Chesnutt 9780393927801 Fiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Fourteen conjure tales by one of America’s most influential...
Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry
Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry Evie Shockley 9781609380588 Nonfiction University of Iowa Press University of Iowa Press Beginning with a deceptivel...
Possessing the Secret of Joy: A Novel
Possessing the Secret of Joy: A Novel Alice Walker 9781595583642 Fiction The New Press The New Press From the author the New York Times Book Review calls “a lavishly gifted writer,” this is the searin...
Mrs. Big
Mrs. Big Maryann Reid 9780312341992 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Loletta Hightower likes to live big: exotic vacations, designer clothing, trips to the spa. But it gets harder an...
Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910
Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910 Daphne A. Brooks 9780822337225 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books In Bodies in Dissent Daphne...
The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s
The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s James Smethurst 9780807855980 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press Emerging from a matr...
Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday (Revised)
Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday (Revised) Robert G. O’Meally 9780306809590 Nonfiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group Billie Holiday deserves a biography in which her musicianship isn’t o...
Toni Morrison’s Beloved: A Casebook
Toni Morrison’s Beloved: A Casebook Nellie Y. McKay 9780195107975 Nonfiction Oxford University Press, USA Oxford University Press With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural work...
Paschal Beverly Randolph: A Nineteenth-Century Black American Spiritualist, Rosicrucian, and Sex Magician
Paschal Beverly Randolph: A Nineteenth-Century Black American Spiritualist, Rosicrucian, and Sex Magician John Patrick Deveney 9780791431207 Nonfiction State University of New York Press State Univers...
Arsenio: A Memoir
Arsenio: A Memoir Arsenio Hall 9781982191368 Nonfiction Atria / Black Privilege Publishing Simon & Schuster, Inc. Join Our Book Discussion on Zoom ● September 27, 2026 ● 2 p.m. EDT Arsenio H...
Black Out Loud: The Revolutionary History of Black Comedy from Vaudeville to ’90s Sitcoms
Black Out Loud: The Revolutionary History of Black Comedy from Vaudeville to ’90s Sitcoms Geoff Bennett 9780063418172 Nonfiction Harper HarperCollins Black comedians have long played a pivotal role in...
Black in Blues (paperback): How a Color Tells the Story of My People
Black in Blues (paperback): How a Color Tells the Story of My People Imani Perry 9780062977410 Nonfiction Ecco Press HarperCollins A “vast, multifaceted and enchanting” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) medi...
Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church
Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church Kevin Sack 9781524761301 Nonfiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House A sweeping history of one of...
Truth Be Told
Truth Be Told Patricia Raybon 9781496458476 Fiction Tyndale House Tyndale House Denver’s newest detective. A garden’s deadly secrets. On a lovely June night in 1924, amateur detective Annalee Spain...
Art of Ruth E. Carter: Costuming Black History and the Afrofuture, from Do the Right Thing to Black Panther
Art of Ruth E. Carter: Costuming Black History and the Afrofuture, from Do the Right Thing to Black Panther Ruth E. Carter 9781797203065 Nonfiction Chronicle Books Chronicle Books The definitive, delu...
All That Is Secret: An Annalee Spain Mystery (Book 1)
All That Is Secret: An Annalee Spain Mystery (Book 1) Patricia Raybon 9781496458384 Fiction Tyndale House Tyndale House From award-winning author Patricia Raybon comes a compelling new historical mys...
The Politics of Black Joy: Zora Neale Hurston and Neo-Abolitionism
The Politics of Black Joy: Zora Neale Hurston and Neo-Abolitionism Lindsey Stewart 9780810144132 Nonfiction Northwestern University Press Northwestern University Press During the antebellum period, sl...
Nothing Personal
Nothing Personal James Baldwin 9780807006429 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press James Baldwin’s critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts ...
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 9781984880338 Nonfiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House The instant New York Times bestseller and companion book to the...
Tigerland: The Miracle on East Broad Street
Tigerland: The Miracle on East Broad Street Wil Haygood 9781524731861 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House From the author of the best-selling The Butler—an emotional, inspiring story of two teams fr...
The Face That Changed It All: A Memoir
The Face That Changed It All: A Memoir Beverly Johnson 9781476774411 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A revelatory and redemptive memoir from Beverly Johnson, the first black supermodel t...
Trust No Nigga
Trust No Nigga Tamika Newhouse 9780991022830 Fiction SBR Publications SBR Publications Jade, Monique, and Sheena all have one thing in common; a knack for loving the wrong man. Jade is convinced that ...
What Does It Mean to Be White?; Developing White Racial Literacy
What Does It Mean to Be White?; Developing White Racial Literacy Robin DiAngelo 9781433111150 Nonfiction Peter Lang Publishing Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. “Rarely will one find an analysis of whitenes...
Catacombs
Catacombs Safiya Sinclair 9780981743592 Poetry Argos Books Argos Books Poetry. African & African American Studies. This perfect-bound chapbook showcases Safiya Sinclair’s immense talents across a wide...
Bayou Classic: The Grambling-Southern Football Rivalry
Bayou Classic: The Grambling-Southern Football Rivalry Thomas Aiello 9780807136973 Nonfiction LSU Press Louisiana State University Press The annual clash in New Orleans between the Grambling State Uni...
Black Is the New White
Black Is the New White Paul Mooney 9781416587965 Nonfiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. With his no-holds-barred delivery and unique worldview, Paul Mooney continues to stir anger, generate l...
A Glance Away
A Glance Away John Edgar Wideman 9780557314775 Fiction lulu.com lulu.com John Edgar Wideman’s first novel, A Glance Away, was published in 1967 when the author was just 26 years old. The New York Time...
Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas’s Illmatic
Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas’s Illmatic Michael Eric Dyson 9780465002115 Nonfiction Basic Civitas Books Perseus Books At the age of nineteen, Nasir Nas” Jones began recording tracks for his debut al...
The A to Z of African American Cinema
The A to Z of African American Cinema S. Torriano Berry and Venise Berry 9780810868717 Nonfiction Scarecrow Press Rowman & Littlefield On 4 July, 1910, in 100-degree heat at an outdoor boxing ring nea...
Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We’re Not Hurting
Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We’re Not Hurting Terrie Williams 9780743298834 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. Terrie Williams knows that Black people are hurting. She knows ...
Deliver Me From Evil
Deliver Me From Evil Mary Monroe 9780758212177 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. The New York Times bestselling author of God Don’t Like Ugly and God Still Don’t Like Ugly, Mary Monroe has be...
Rockin’ Around That Christmas Tree: A Holiday Novel
Rockin’ Around That Christmas Tree: A Holiday Novel Donna Hill and Francis Ray 9780312321956 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Tis the season to be merry and the Morrison family are abou...
A Plentiful Harvest: Creating Balance and Harmony Through the Seven Living Virtues
A Plentiful Harvest: Creating Balance and Harmony Through the Seven Living Virtues Terrie Williams 9780446691208 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Forewords by Iyanla Vanzant and...
Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity
Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity E. Patrick Johnson 9780822331544 Fiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books Performance artist and scholar E....
Life And Def: Sex, Drugs, Money, + God
Life And Def: Sex, Drugs, Money, + God Russell Simmons 9780609807156 Nonfiction Three Rivers Press Three Rivers Press Russell Simmons, the original and eternal hip-hop mogul, is one of the most innova...
Prime Time Blues: African Americans on Network Television
Prime Time Blues: African Americans on Network Television Donald Bogle 9780374237202 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers Primetime Blues is the first comprehensive history of Afr...
On the Real Side: A History of African American Comedy (Revised)
On the Real Side: A History of African American Comedy (Revised) Mel Watkins 9781556523519 Nonfiction Chicago Review Press Chicago Review Press This comprehensive history of black humor sets it in the...
If I Can Cook/You Know God Can (Bluestreak Series)
If I Can Cook/You Know God Can (Bluestreak Series) Ntozake Shange 9780807072417 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press Acclaimed artist Ntozake Shange offers this delightfully eclectic tribute to black ...
The Personal Touch: What You Really Need to Succeed in Today’s Fast Paced Business World
The Personal Touch: What You Really Need to Succeed in Today’s Fast Paced Business World Terrie Williams 9780446671583 Nonfiction The Mysterious Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. One of today’s leading publi...
NEATE to the Rescue!
NEATE to the Rescue! Debbi Chocolate 9780940975422 Fiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. Naimah, Elizabeth, Anthony, Tayesha and Eddie are NEATE. In this first book of the series NEATE helps Naima...