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The Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues: A Novel
The Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues: A Novel Edward Kelsey Moore 9781250107947 Fiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers From the author of the bestselling The Supremes at Earl’s All-Y...
Edward Kelsey Moore
Edward Kelsey Moore 0000000376833028 Edward Kelsey Moore is a renowned author and cellist based in Chicago. His debut novel was a NY Times bestseller and his short fiction has gained recognition, par...
The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat
The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat Edward Kelsey Moore 9780307959928 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House Meet Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean in the New York Times best-selling novel … Earl’s...
I Gotta Sing!
I Gotta Sing! Alice Faye Duncan 9780593578261 Fiction WaterBrook Press Penguin Random House Sing along with Big Baby Jenkins, Pop Charlie, Great Nana, and a crew of farm animals as they shout for joy ...
Kelsey Norris
Kelsey Norris NONE Kelsey Norris is a writer and editor from Alabama. Her debut story collection, House Gone Quiet, is a finalist for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Kelsey Norris is a ...
Joy Thomas Moore
Joy Thomas Moore NONE Joy Thomas Moore is a Peabody Award-winning media consultant and CEO of JWS Media Consulting. She has an extensive background in media, philanthropy, and education, including a ...
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Wes Moore
Wes Moore 0000000071753983 Wes Moore is an author, TV producer, and political analyst born in 1978. He's the CEO of BridgeEdU and Robin Hood Foundation, focusing on education and poverty relief. A mi...
Too Much Boogie: Erotic Remixes Of The Dirty Blues
Too Much Boogie: Erotic Remixes Of The Dirty Blues Kevin James Breaux and Zander Vyne 9781905091898 Nonfiction LL-Publications LL-Publications Selected stories inspired from the recorded gems of the D...
Richard B. Moore
Richard B. Moore 0000000082432341 Moore was an early advocate for the use of “African American” as opposed to “Negro” or “Black.” Richard Benjamin Moore was an infl...
Moore Black Press
Moore Black Press Moore Black Press Moore Black Press Moore Black Press is one of the all-time bestselling Independent publishers on AALBC.com. ...
Moore Black Press
Moore Black Press Moore Black Press Moore Black Press Moore Black Press is one of the all-time bestselling Independent publishers on AALBC.com. ...
Wayétu Moore
Wayétu Moore 0000000474741880 Wayétu Moore is the founder of One Moore Book, a non-profit publishing culturally relevant books to promote literacy in countries with low rates. She opened her first b...
Jelly Roll: A Blues
Jelly Roll: A Blues Rondall Brasher Book Review I preface this review by saying that I am an avid fan of the Blues. So, when someone comes along and captures the unmistakable feeling that comes w...
Blues Poems
Blues Poems Kevin Young 9780375414589 Poetry Everyman’s Library Everyman’s Library Born in African American work songs, field hollers, and the powerful legacy of the spirituals, the blues traveled the...
Discovering Wes Moore
Discovering Wes Moore Wes Moore 9780385741682 Nonfiction Ember Ember The Young Adult Adaptation)For fans of The Wire and Unbroken comes a story of two fatherless boys from Baltimore, both named Wes Mo...
M.W. Moore
M.W. Moore NONE M.W. Moore, former NCAA track champion and recovering addict, is a renowned speaker on addiction and its consequences. Known for his courage and transparency, Moore openly shares his ...
Sing a Song: How Lift Every Voice and Sing Inspired Generations
Sing a Song: How Lift Every Voice and Sing Inspired Generations Kelly Starling Lyons 9780525516095 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House Just in time for the 120th anniversary of the song "...
God Is Not An American
God Is Not An American jessica Care moore 9780965830867 Fiction Moore Black Press Moore Black Press In the labyrinth of Moore’s prose and poetry, the blues force is synonymous with the Derridean trace...
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward 9781501126062 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. “Sing, Unburied, Sing is a road novel turned on its head, and a family story with its feet to the f...
Sing, Aretha, Sing!: Aretha Franklin, Respect, and the Civil Rights Movement
Sing, Aretha, Sing!: Aretha Franklin, Respect, and the Civil Rights Movement Hanif Abdurraqib 9780374313456 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers Macmillan Publishers A young ...
Blues From Down Deep
Blues From Down Deep Thumper Book Review Reviewed by Thumper Blues From Down Deep is the second novel I have read by Gwynne Forster, the first being Once In A Lifetime which I enjoyed. I was not pl...
Edward Roy
Edward Roy 0000000108894174 Edward Roy, born in 1945, grew up in Harlem, NY, mentored by influential figures including Malcolm X. He served in the US Army’s Medical Corps during the Cold War and Viet...
House Gone Quiet: Stories
House Gone Quiet: Stories Kelsey Norris 9781668016312 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence Named a Best Book of 2023 by Library Journa...
Mountain Chef: How One Man Lost His Groceries, Changed His Plans, and Helped Cook Up the National Park Service
Mountain Chef: How One Man Lost His Groceries, Changed His Plans, and Helped Cook Up the National Park Service Annette Bay Pimentel 9781580897112 Nonfiction Charlesbridge Charlesbridge The true story ...
Kimberly D. Moore
Kimberly D. Moore NONE Dr. Kimberly D. Moore, a native of Abbeville, SC, is a graduate of Lander University and Gardner-Webb School of Divinity. She made history as the first female Senior Pastor in ...
One Moore Book
One Moore Book One Moore Book One Moore Book https://www.onemoorebook.com/ One Moore Book, founded by Wayétu Moore publishes culturally sensitive and educational stories for children of count...
One Moore Book
One Moore Book One Moore Book One Moore Book https://www.onemoorebook.com/ One Moore Book, founded by Wayétu Moore publishes culturally sensitive and educational stories for children of count...
Edward E. Baptist
Edward E. Baptist 0000000039584833 Edward E. Baptist, born 1970, is a Professor of History at Cornell University. His expertise lies in the history of 19th-century USA, particularly the South and the...
Edward P. Jones
Edward P. Jones 0000000109223233 Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, was born and raised in Washington, D.C. and educated at Holy Cross College and the University of Virginia. Known for h...
Edward E. Baptist and Stephanie Camp
Edward E. Baptist and Stephanie Camp MULTIPLE Edward E. Baptist and Stephanie Camp are esteemed authors known for their significant contributions to literature. Both have a rich background in academi...
Jelly Roll: A Blues
Jelly Roll: A Blues Rondall Brasher Book Review Please allow me to set off the mood of this review by quoting one of my favorite Blues songs: I’ve been downhearted baby Ever since th...
The Wedding Date
The Wedding Date Jasmine Guillory 9780399587665 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House One of… • Entertainment Weekly’s “12 Romances for V-Day” • Cosmopolitan’s “2018 Anticipated Read...
David Barclay Moore
David Barclay Moore NONE Missouri-born David Barclay Moore is a Brooklyn-based writer, filmmaker, and photographer. Known for his debut young adult novel 'The Stars Beneath Our Feet' and his award-wi...
All the Songs We Sing: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective
All the Songs We Sing: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Carolina African American Writers’ Collective Lenard D. Moore 9781949467338 Poetry Carolina Wren Press Carolina Wren Press "An expansive ...
Lenard D. Moore
Lenard D. Moore 0000000079037447 Lenard D. Moore is a celebrated poet, anthologist, and U.S. Army Veteran, known globally for his works published in 15+ countries and translated into multiple languag...
Darnell L. Moore
Darnell L. Moore 0000000430743868 Darnell L. Moore, born 1976, is an influential writer and editor with contributions at CASSIUS, LogoTV.com, and Mic, and a regular writer for Ebony, Advocate, Vice, ...
Teaching Black History To White People
Teaching Black History To White People Leonard N. Moore 9781477324851 Nonfiction University of Texas Press University of Texas Press Leonard Moore has been teaching Black history for twenty-five years...
Bebe Moore Campbell
Bebe Moore Campbell 0000000121422163 Elizabeth Bebe Moore Campbell Gordon was an accomplished author with three New York Times bestsellers and a NAACP Image Award for literature. She was a commentato...
Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore
Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore Ashley D. Farmer 9780593701546 Nonfiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House From an award-winning historian of Blac...
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates Wes Moore 9780385528207 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House Two kids named Wes Moore were born blocks apart within a year of each other. Both grew up fatherl...
jessica Care moore
jessica Care moore 0000000043767122 jessica Care moore is an internationally renowned poet/ publisher/ activist/ rock star/ playwright and actor. She is a five-time Showtime at the Apollo winn...
Sharon Bennett and Beatrice Moore
Sharon Bennett and Beatrice Moore MULTIPLE Sharon Bennett and Beatrice Moore are accomplished authors with backgrounds in healthcare and education respectively. Bennett, a health care professional fr...
Yvette Moore
Yvette Moore NONE Yvette Moore is a Brooklyn-based author and publisher known for “Freedom Songs” and “Just Sketching.” She runs Jubilee Year Communications and serves as the communication director f...
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sing, Unburied, Sing Tony Lindsay Book Review What Jesmyn Ward offers the reader in Sing, Unburied, Sing is an example of family. Ward creates a family that sees ghosts, a family that talks to animal...
The Power of Presence
The Power of Presence Joy Thomas Moore 9781538743805 Nonfiction Grand Central Life & Style Hachette Book Group A Black Women’s Health Imperative Inaugural Book Club Selection! For single parents, w...
Edward Wilmot Blyden
Edward Wilmot Blyden 0000000081343910 Edward Wilmot Blyden, born in 1832, was a multilingual writer and considered the “father of Pan-Africanism.” His major work, Christianity, Islam and the Negro Ra...
Material Witness: The Drew Smith Series
Material Witness: The Drew Smith Series Robert Fleming Book Review In this third installment of Norwood Holland’s acclaimed Drew Smith Series, Material Witness, there are a few wrinkles in both...
Edward Roy Unlimited LLC
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Mourid Barghouti, Edward W. Said, and Ahdaf Soueif
Mourid Barghouti, Edward W. Said, and Ahdaf Soueif MULTIPLE Mourid Barghouti, Edward W. Said, and Ahdaf Soueif are prominent literary figures. Barghouti is a famous Palestinian poet, Said is known fo...
Graham Russell Gao Hodges and Alan Edward Brown
Graham Russell Gao Hodges and Alan Edward Brown MULTIPLE "Graham Russell Gao Hodges is a History, Africana and Latin American Studies Professor at Colgate University. Alan Edward Brown is a Minneapol...
The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother’s Milk
The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother’s Milk Edward St. Aubyn 9780312429966 Fiction Picador Macmillan Publishers For more than twenty years, acclaimed author Edward S...
The Work: My Search For A Life That Matters
The Work: My Search For A Life That Matters Wes Moore 9780812993578 Nonfiction Spiegel & Grau Penguin Random House The acclaimed author of The Other Wes Moore continues his inspirational quest for a m...
Blues In The Wind
Blues In The Wind Thumper Book Review Whitney LeBlanc makes his literary debut with an impressive, multidimensional, highly entertaining family drama, written in the glory of the blues. I threw ope...
Mo’ Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
Mo’ Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove Questlove and Ben Greenman 9781455501359 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Mo’ Meta Blues is a punch-drunk memoir in which Everyo...
My Hands Sing the Blues: Romare Bearden’s Childhood Journey
My Hands Sing the Blues: Romare Bearden’s Childhood Journey Jeanne Walker Harvey 9780761458104 Fiction Two Lions Amazon Publishing As a young boy growing up in North Carolina, Romare Bearden listened ...
One Window’s Light
One Window’s Light Lenard D. Moore 9780877750062 Poetry Unicorn Press Unicorn Press Poetry. African & African American Studies. Edited by Lenard D. Moore. "A literal and metaphorical groundbreaker, th...
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates Wes Moore 9780385528191 Nonfiction Spiegel & Grau Penguin Random House Two kids with the same name lived in the same decaying city. One went on to be a Rhodes ...
Richard B. Moore, Caribbean Militant in Harlem: Collected Writings, 1920-1972 (Blacks in the Diaspora)
Richard B. Moore, Caribbean Militant in Harlem: Collected Writings, 1920-1972 (Blacks in the Diaspora) Richard B. Moore 9780253207593 Nonfiction Indiana University Press Indiana University Press [This...
T. Owens Moore
T. Owens Moore NONE T. Owens Moore, Ph.D., is a renowned biomedical researcher, professor, and author. A graduate of Lincoln University and Howard University, he's currently a Full Professor in the A...
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir Wayétu Moore 9781644450314 Nonfiction Graywolf Press Graywolf Press An engrossing memoir of escaping the First Liberian Civil War and building a life in the...
We Want Our Bodies Back
We Want Our Bodies Back jessica Care moore 9780062955289 Poetry Amistad HarperCollins “We Want Our Bodies Back is a lyric encyclopedia, a psalm book, a conflagration of fire and fierce black joy. And ...
Sunlight Through Bullet Holes
Sunlight Through Bullet Holes jessica Care moore 9780615997247 Poetry Moore Black Press Moore Black Press Jessica Care Moore has the brains of W.E.B. DuBois and the beauty of Dorothy Dandridge. She is...
The Alphabet Verses The Ghetto
The Alphabet Verses The Ghetto jessica Care moore 9780965830874 Poetry Moore Black Press Moore Black Press The Alphabet Verses The Ghetto (AVG) is the highly anticipated release from author jessica C...
Lyn Miller-Lachmann and Tanisia Moore
Lyn Miller-Lachmann and Tanisia Moore MULTIPLE Lyn Miller-Lachmann and Tanisia Moore are acclaimed authors known for their engaging narratives and insightful storytelling. They've both contributed s...
Natalie Y. Moore
Natalie Y. Moore 0000000041217426 Natalie Y. Moore is an award-winning journalist and author, known for her work in Essence, Black Enterprise, and the Chicago Tribune. She co-authored books on Black ...
Susan Moore
Susan Moore 0000000081813898 Rev. Dr. Susan Moore is a seasoned pastor, teacher, and author with a 36-year career focused on urban America's challenges. Ordained in 1983, she has served as a communit...
Leonard N. Moore
Leonard N. Moore NONE Leonard N. Moore is a renowned American History professor at the University of Texas, Austin. A Jackson State graduate, Moore authored three books on Black politics, notably 'Th...
Nine Bar Blues
Nine Bar Blues Sheree Renée Thomas 9780997457896 Fiction Third Man Books Third Man Books Individually, these tales explore nearly every genre of music that has formed the heart of American culture, bu...
She Would Be King: A Novel
She Would Be King: A Novel Wayétu Moore 9781644450017 Fiction Graywolf Press Graywolf Press A novel of exhilarating range, magical realism, and history―a dazzling retelling of Liberia’s formationWay&e...
Blues: For All the Changes: New Poems
Blues: For All the Changes: New Poems Nikki Giovanni 9780688156985 Poetry William Morrow HarperCollins Intimate, edgy, and unapologetic, Blues: For All the Changes bears the mark of Nikki Giovanni’s u...
West of Rehoboth: A Novel
West of Rehoboth: A Novel Alexs D. Pate 9780380800421 Fiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins Set in the early 1960s, West of Rehoboth is the moving story of twelve-year-old Edward Massey. Each summer,...
Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine: A Novel
Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine: A Novel Bebe Moore Campbell 9780345401120 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House "ABSORBING…COMPELLING…HIGHLY SATISFYING."—San Francisco Chronicle"TRULY ENGAGING...
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...
Dirty Bird Blues
Dirty Bird Blues Clarence Major 9780143136590 Fiction Penguin Group USA Penguin Random House A quietly influential force in African American literature and art, Clarence Major makes his Penguin Classi...
Rockin around That Christmas Tree
Rockin around That Christmas Tree Thumper Book Review Denise Morrison has been married to her husband Edward Morrison for over 27 years. The couple has two children, Anthony and Christine.&nb...
Looking for Happy
Looking for Happy Judy Allen Dodson Book Review “Some days, Happy is Hard to Find” as we set out on a quest in this heartfelt and hopeful picture book, Looking For Happy, which follows a ...
Whitney J. Leblanc
Whitney J. Leblanc NONE Whitney J. LeBlanc is a Louisiana-born author and Hollywood veteran with over 25 years of experience in theater and television. He's known for his trilogy about a Creole famil...
Birds Sing Their Words
Birds Sing Their Words Mélina Mangal 9798885544542 Fiction Free Spirit Publishing Teacher Created Materials Awaken young children to the sounds birds make, and to their own unique voices. In Birds ...
Lisa Moore Ramée
Lisa Moore Ramée NONE Lisa Moore Ramée, born and raised in Los Angeles, is a critically acclaimed author of two books, including “A Good Kind of Trouble.” A graduate in Speech Communications and Eng...
Escaping Mr. Rochester
Escaping Mr. Rochester L.L. McKinney 9780062986269 Fiction HarperTeen HarperCollins In this fresh reimagining of Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel by acclaimed author L. L. McKinney, Jane Eyre and Bert...
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The Land (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner)
The Land (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner) Mildred D. Taylor 9780803719507 Fiction Dial Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Winner of the Coretta Scott King Award! Millions of fans ha...
Buddy Guy: When I Left Home — My Story
Buddy Guy: When I Left Home — My Story Robert Fleming Book Review When I Left Home, the memoir of legendary blue guitarist Buddy Guy, with support from noted writer David Ritz, traces the musician ...
Shadows of the Blues
Shadows of the Blues Emanuel Carpenter Book Review In Whitney J. Leblanc’s sequel to "Blues in the Wind," readers are introduced to the lives of the Ferguson and Broussard familie...
Newcomer Can’t Swim
Newcomer Can’t Swim Renee Gladman 9780932716682 Poetry Kelsey Street Press Kelsey Street Press
Juice
Juice Renee Gladman 9780932716552 Poetry Kelsey Street Press Kelsey Street Press Gladman wields an idiosyncratic skill with description and characters that has drawn praise and attention from her cont...
Jacquie Bamberg Moore
Jacquie Bamberg Moore NONE Jacquie Bamberg Moore is a self-published author and active autism advocate. Known for her debut novel, “All I Need,” and contribution to “Twilight Moods,” she also reviews...
Bullets in the Fire: The Saga of New York Red
Bullets in the Fire: The Saga of New York Red Edward Roy 9781735765808 Nonfiction Edward Roy Unlimited LLC Edward Roy Unlimited LLC Bullets in The Fire - The Saga of New York Red, a sexually liberated...
Something Must Be Done about Prince Edward County: A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle
Something Must Be Done about Prince Edward County: A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle Kristen Green 9780062268686 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER C...
Edward Seaga and the Challenges of Modern Jamaica
Edward Seaga and the Challenges of Modern Jamaica Patrick E. Bryan 9789766402228 Nonfiction University of the West Indies Press University of the West Indies Press This is the first scholarly biograph...
Alan B. Govenar, Francis Edward Abernethy, Patrick B. Mullen
Alan B. Govenar, Francis Edward Abernethy, Patrick B. Mullen MULTIPLE Francis E. Abernethy was a notable English professor and editor at the Texas Folklore Society. Patrick B. Mullen is an English pr...
Brixton Stories and Happy Birthday, Mister Deka D: The Short and Happy Life of Ossic Jones
Brixton Stories and Happy Birthday, Mister Deka D: The Short and Happy Life of Ossic Jones Biyi Bandele 9780413771810 Fiction Berg 3Pl Berg Publishers Two plays by one of Britain’s most prolific young...
Johnny Ray Moore
Johnny Ray Moore NONE Johnny Ray Moore is a renowned poet and children's author known for works like 'Meet Martin Luther King, Jr.' and 'But Still, We Dream'. A graduate of the Institute of Children'...