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Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat 000000011051509X Edwidge Danticat, a Haitian-born author, is renowned for her books like “Breath, Eyes, Memory”, an Oprah Book Club pick, and “The Farming of Bones”, an American Book...
Beginnings, Endings, and Salt: Essays
Beginnings, Endings, and Salt: Essays Edwidge Danticat 9781642503623 Nonfiction Books & Books Books & Books Edwidge Danticat’s Writing JourneyToday, Edwidge Danticat is an award-winning writer. But ho...
Edwidge Danticat The “Create Dangerously” Interview with AALBC.com
Edwidge Danticat The “Create Dangerously” Interview with AALBC.com Troy Johnson Article [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="596" caption="Edwidge Danticat - 2010 Nancy Crampton"][/caption] E...
Edwidge Danticat The “Create Dangerously” Interview
Edwidge Danticat The “Create Dangerously” Interview Kam Williams Interview Edwidge Danticat was born in Haiti in 1969 and moved to the United States when she was twelve. She is the...
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...
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist At Work
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist At Work Edwidge Danticat 9780691140186 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press The Toni Morrison Lecture Series "Create dangerously...
The Last Mapou
The Last Mapou Edwidge Danticat 9780615740058 Fiction One Moore Book One Moore Book The Last Mapou Written by: Edwidge Danticat Illustrated by: Edouard Duval-Carrié Grade Level: 3rd-5th grade I...
We’re Alone: Essays
We’re Alone: Essays Edwidge Danticat 9781644453025 Nonfiction Graywolf Press Graywolf Press A collection of exceptional new essays by one of the most significant contemporary writers on the world stag...
Untwine
Untwine Edwidge Danticat 9780545423038 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. A haunting and mesmerizing story about sisterhood, family, love, and loss by literary luminary Edwidge Danticat. Gisell...
Brother, I’m Dying
Brother, I’m Dying Edwidge Danticat 9781400034307 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House From the best-selling author of The Dew Breaker, a major work of nonfiction: a powerfully moving family story that ...
My Mommy Medicine
My Mommy Medicine Edwidge Danticat 9781250140913 Fiction Roaring Brook Press Macmillan Publishers My Mommy Medicine is a picture book about the comfort and love a mama offers when her child isn’t feel...
Krik? Krak!
Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat 9781616957001 Fiction Vintage Books Penguin Random House With a new story by the author When Haitians tell a story, they say “Krik?” and the eager listeners answer “Krak!...
Haiti Noir 2: The Classics
Haiti Noir 2: The Classics Edwidge Danticat 9781617751936 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Edwidge Danticat’s short story from Haiti Noir 2: The Classics, "The Port-au-Prince Marriage Special," was...
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Breath, Eyes, Memory Edwidge Danticat 9781616955021 Nonfiction Soho Press Soho Press The 20th anniversary edition of Edwidge Danticat’s groundbreaking debut, now an established classic—revised and wit...
Haiti Noir
Haiti Noir Edwidge Danticat 9781936070657 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "A wide-ranging collection from the beloved but besieged Caribbean island…The 36th entry in Akashic’s Noir series (which r...
The Butterfly’s Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States
The Butterfly’s Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States Edwidge Danticat 9781569472187 Fiction Soho Press Soho Press In five sections—Childhood, Migration, Half/First Generation, Re...
Claire Of The Sea Light
Claire Of The Sea Light Edwidge Danticat 9780307472274 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House From the best-selling author of Brother, I’m Dying and The Dew Breaker: a stunning new work of fiction that ...
La Magie de Maman
La Magie de Maman Edwidge Danticat 9781443187602 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. Préparez-vous à découvrir 300 merveilles loufoques, faits divers et statistiques sur les sc...
The Dew Breaker
The Dew Breaker Edwidge Danticat 9781400034291 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House In this award-winning, bestselling work of fiction that moves between Haiti in the 1960s and New York in the present...
An Impulse to Keep: Greenwood Art Project
An Impulse to Keep: Greenwood Art Project Greenwood Art Project 9780997494075 Nonfiction [NAME] [NAME] Publications An Impulse to Keep is published on the occasion of the Greenwood Art Project, an ini...
Eight Days: A Story Of Haiti
Eight Days: A Story Of Haiti Edwidge Danticat 9780545278492 Fiction Orchard Books Orchard Books From National Book Award nominee Edwidge Danticat comes a timely, brilliantly crafted story of hope and ...
Beauty Bragg
Beauty Bragg 0000000125620829 Beauty Bragg is a Professor of African American Literature at Georgia College with a BA from USC and a MA and Ph.D from UT Austin. She authored a book exploring black wo...
Brenda M. Greene
Brenda M. Greene 000000008095850X Dr. Brenda M. Greene is a respected professor, writer, and scholar, leading the Center for Black Literature and the National Black Writers Conference. She has contri...
Dey
Dey Edwidge Danticat 9780593803523 Fiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House From the bestselling author of Everything Inside comes a vivid and timely novel that moves from Haiti to Brooklyn...
Step Into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature
Step Into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black Literature Kevin Powell 9780471442561 Fiction Wiley Wiley Read more about the contributors to this fantastic volume of work “Kevin Powell is...
The Roving Tree
The Roving Tree Elsie Augustave 9781617751653 Fiction Open Lens Akashic Books “…gorgeous new novel about a Haitian adoptee finding her way in many different corners of the world.”—Edwidge Dantic...
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent Margaret Busby 9780062912985 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins The companion to the classic anthology Daughters o...
Hip Hop Speaks To Children: A Celebration Of Poetry With A Beat (A Poetry Speaks Experience)
Hip Hop Speaks To Children: A Celebration Of Poetry With A Beat (A Poetry Speaks Experience) Nikki Giovanni 9781402210488 Nonfiction Sourcebooks Jabberwocky Sourcebooks NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER...
Watch Out for Falling Iguanas
Watch Out for Falling Iguanas Edwidge Danticat 9781636142326 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Perfect for readers of all ages, this captivating picture book teaches children about iguanas’ unique b...
Mama’s Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation
Mama’s Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation Edwidge Danticat 9780525428091 Fiction Dial Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A touching tale of parent-child separation and immigr...
Everything Inside: Stories
Everything Inside: Stories Edwidge Danticat 9780525521273 Fiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House Named a Highly Anticipated Book of Summer 2019 by Lit Hub, Esquire, Los Angeles Times, New...
The Salt Roads
The Salt Roads Nalo Hopkinson 9780446533027 Fiction Warner Books Hachette Book Group - Hopkinson made her debut with "Brown Girl in the Ring (Aspect, 1998), receiving the John W. Campbell Award for Be...
The African Lookbook: A Visual History of 100 Years of African Women
The African Lookbook: A Visual History of 100 Years of African Women Catherine E. McKinley 9781620403532 Nonfiction Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Publishing This book focuses on promoting health eq...
The Farming of Bones
The Farming of Bones Edwidge Danticat 9781616953492 Fiction Soho Press Soho Press It is 1937 and Amabelle Désir, a young Haitian woman living in the Dominican Republic, has built herself a life...
Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing
Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing E. Lynn Harris and Marita Golden 9780767910415 Fiction Broadway Books Penguin Random House A literary rent party to benefit the Hurston/Wright Founda...
Alix Delinois
Alix Delinois NONE Alix Delinois, a Harlem-based fine artist and art teacher, was born in Haiti. He has illustrated four children's books penned by award-winning authors like Walter Dean Myers, Edwid...
Melanie S. Hatter
Melanie S. Hatter NONE Melanie S. Hatter, award-winning author of “Malawi’s Sisters” and “The Color of My Soul”, also penned the short fiction collection “Let No One Weep for Me.” She's actively enga...
A Celebration of Literature and Response: Children, Books, and Teachers in K-8 Classrooms (2nd Edition)
A Celebration of Literature and Response: Children, Books, and Teachers in K-8 Classrooms (2nd Edition) Marjorie R. Hancock 9780131109025 Nonfiction Prentice Hall Press Prentice Hall Press Reinforced...
Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women
Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women Meri Nana-Ama Danquah 9780393325805 Fiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. "Not since Breaking Ice has an a...
Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America
Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America Charisse Jones and Kumea Shorter-Gooden 9780060090555 Fiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins Based on the African American Women’s Voices Project, ...
The Word: Black Writers Talk About The Transformative Power Of Reading And Writing
The Word: Black Writers Talk About The Transformative Power Of Reading And Writing Marita Golden 9780767929912 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House Critically acclaimed Black writers reveal how books...
Anna In-Between
Anna In-Between Elizabeth Nunez 9781936070695 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "A psychologically and emotionally astute family portrait, with dark themes like racism, cancer and the bittersweet lo...
(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...
What Storm, What Thunder
What Storm, What Thunder Myriam J. A. Chancy 9781951142766 Fiction Tin House Books Tin House Books Raped and colonized, coerced and silenced—this has been the position of Haitian women within their ow...
Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women
Framing Silence: Revolutionary Novels by Haitian Women Myriam J. A. Chancy 9780813523408 Nonfiction Rutgers University Press Rutgers University Press Raped and colonized, coerced and silenced—this has...
Shifting Through Neutral
Shifting Through Neutral Bridgett M. Davis 9780060572495 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins For Rae Dodson, the early seventies are as hopeful and promising as the peace signs popping up everywhere. The si...
This Just Speaks to Me: Words to Live by Every Day
This Just Speaks to Me: Words to Live by Every Day Hoda Kotb 9780593191088 Nonfiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Penguin Random House An instant New York Times bestseller! In this all-new collection of bel...
Daddy Speaks Love
Daddy Speaks Love Leah Henderson 9780593354360 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House A moving tribute to the joy and grounding that fathers bring to their children’s lives. What does a d...
2016 National Black Writers Conference
2016 National Black Writers Conference Troy Johnson Article Update: March 25, 2016 The Conference's Complete and final Schedule of Events is Now Available. Greetings Colleagues, We are excited a...
Identity: Your Passport to Success
Identity: Your Passport to Success Kam Williams Book Review “The core idea of the book is this: Your happiness and success in life flow from becoming clear about who you are and establishing ...
The Things That Fly in the Night: Female Vampires in Literature of the Circum-Caribbean and African Diaspora
The Things That Fly in the Night: Female Vampires in Literature of the Circum-Caribbean and African Diaspora Giselle Liza Anatol 9780813565736 Nonfiction Rutgers University Press Rutgers University Pr...
Close Kin and Distant Relatives: The Paradox of Respectability in Black Women’s Literature
Close Kin and Distant Relatives: The Paradox of Respectability in Black Women’s Literature Susana M. Morris 9780813935492 Nonfiction University of Virginia Press University of Virginia Press The “blac...
As Flies to Whatless Boys
As Flies to Whatless Boys Robert Antoni 9781617751554 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books As Flies to Whatless Boys has been longlisted for the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award!Winner of...
Deans and Truants
Deans and Truants Gene Andrew Jarrett 9780812239737 Nonfiction University of Pennsylvania Press University of Pennsylvania Press For a work to be considered African American literature, does it need t...
Shifting Gears: My Global Bike Odyssey
Shifting Gears: My Global Bike Odyssey Al Young 9781412058162 Poetry Trafford Publishing Author Solutions Imagine a shy country girl, who had never traveled out of the United States, embarking on a y...
Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements Malcolm X 9780802160706 Nonfiction Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. “Policies change, and programs change, according to time. But objective never cha...
African Diasporic Women’s Narratives: Politics of Resistance, Survival, and Citizenship
African Diasporic Women’s Narratives: Politics of Resistance, Survival, and Citizenship Simone A. James Alexander 9780813062051 Nonfiction University Press of Florida University Press of Florida Winne...
Becoming American: Personal Essays By First Generation Immigrant Women
Becoming American: Personal Essays By First Generation Immigrant Women Meri Nana-Ama Danquah 9780786883431 Nonfiction Hyperion Hachette Book Group Now in paperback — "A compelling collection … providi...
A Sense of Wonder: Samuel R. Delany, Race, Identity, and Difference
A Sense of Wonder: Samuel R. Delany, Race, Identity, and Difference Jeffrey Allen Tucker 9780819566898 Nonfiction Wesleyan University Press Wesleyan University Press Samuel R. Delany is one of today’s...
By Love Possessed: Stories
By Love Possessed: Stories Lorna Goodison 9780062127358 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins “A beautifully written and evocative book.”—Danielle Evans, author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, ...
Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women
Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women Sandra Guzmán 9780063052598 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins “Full of heart and wisdom, Daughters of Latin America she...
Village Weavers
Village Weavers Myriam J. A. Chancy 9781959030379 Fiction Tin House Books Tin House Books A TIME Best Book of April Winner of the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature “Chancy is one of ou...
One World Two: A Second Global Anthology of Short Stories
One World Two: A Second Global Anthology of Short Stories Ovo Adagha and Chris Brazier 9781780263304 Fiction New Internationalist New Internationalist One World Two is the eagerly awaited follow-up to...
Stories From Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers At Home And Abroad
Stories From Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers At Home And Abroad Elizabeth Nunez and Jennifer Sparrow 9781580051392 Nonfiction Seal Press Seal Press Stories from Blue Latitudes gathers the majo...
These Hands I Know: African-American Writers on Family
These Hands I Know: African-American Writers on Family Afaa Michael Weaver 9781889330723 Poetry Sarabande Books Sarabande Books These Hands I Know offers readers the first-ever intimate view of the in...
The Dandelion Speaks of Survival
The Dandelion Speaks of Survival Quintin Collins 9780578871974 Poetry Cherry Castle Publishing Cherry Castle Publishing Poems in The Dandelion Speaks of Survival originate from a boundless imagination...
Dear Haiti, Love Alaine
Dear Haiti, Love Alaine Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite 9781335777096 Fiction Inkyard Press Inkyard Press "I couldn’t put Dear Haiti, Love Alaine down!" —New York Times bestselling author Jasmine G...
Nadine Pinede
Nadine Pinede NONE Nadine Pinede is a poet, author, editor, translator, and education consultant. She has an MFA in fiction and poetry and holds a PhD from Indiana University. Nadine Pinede, PhD, is ...
Under the Udala Trees
Under the Udala Trees Chinelo Okparanta 9780544003446 Fiction Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Inspired by Nigeria’s folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees s a deeply searchin...
There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis
There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis Tracy K. Smith and John Freeman 9780593314692 Nonfiction Vintage Penguin Random House This kaleidoscopic portrait of an unprecedented time ...
My Mother’s House
My Mother’s House Francesca Momplaisir 9780525657156 Fiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House “A shockingly original exploration of class, race, and systemic violence … This house, tainted ...
From Sugar to Revolution: Women’s Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic
From Sugar to Revolution: Women’s Visions of Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic Myriam J. A. Chancy 9781554586127 Nonfiction Wilfrid Laurier University Press Wilfrid Laurier University Press Sove...
How To Escape From A Leper Colony: A Novella And Stories
How To Escape From A Leper Colony: A Novella And Stories Tiphanie Yanique 9781555975500 Fiction Graywolf Press Graywolf Press An enthralling debut collection from a singular Caribbean voiceFor a leper...
The African American Guide to Writing & Publishing Non Fiction
The African American Guide to Writing & Publishing Non Fiction Jewell Parker Rhodes 9780767905787 Nonfiction Broadway Books Penguin Random House In college and graduate school, Jewell Parker Rhodes ne...
At the Full and Change of the Moon
At the Full and Change of the Moon Dionne Brand 9780802137234 Fiction Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. Written with lyrical fire in a chorus of vividly rendered voices, Dionne Brand’s second novel is ...
Shannon Wright
Shannon Wright 0000000049194273 Shannon Wright, based in Richmond, Virginia, is an illustrator and cartoonist known for her work on books like “My Mommy Medicine” and “Twins.” She also designs cover ...
Itah Sadu
Itah Sadu NONE Itah Sadu, an award-winning author and bookstore owner, is known for sharing diverse oral traditions and creating youth programs. She's a founder of several initiatives like the Emanci...
Virginia Festival of the Book
Virginia Festival of the Book Charlottesville Virginia Produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH), the largest of the 56 state (and territory) humanities councils, the Festival is a...
Best African American Fiction 2010
Best African American Fiction 2010 Dorothy Sterling and Chris Abani 9780553385359 Fiction One World Penguin Random House Bursting with energy and innovation, the second volume in the annual anthology ...
Imagining America: Stories from the Promised Land (Revised)
Imagining America: Stories from the Promised Land (Revised) Wesley Brown and Amy Ling 9780892552771 Fiction Persea Books Persea Books The acclaimed multicultural fiction anthology, updated to include ...
African American Writers: Portraits and Visions
African American Writers: Portraits and Visions Lynda Koolish 9781578062584 Nonfiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi Ai Will Alexander Robe...
Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors
Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors Jewell Parker Rhodes 9780385491754 Nonfiction Main Street Books Main Street Books A comprehensive and energizing guide, bursting with supportiv...
Soledad O'Brien - The "Return to Haiti" Interview
Soledad O'Brien - The "Return to Haiti" Interview Kam Williams Interview Soledad's Follow-Up Report about the Haitian Relief Effort Soledad O'Brien Since Haiti's no longer front-page n...
The Origin of Others
The Origin of Others Tony Lindsay Book Review Toni Morrison’s, The Origin of Others causes the reader to think about identity: what group does one belong to, who are those like self, and who ar...
Talking Dollars and Making Sense: A Wealth Building Guide for African-Americans
Talking Dollars and Making Sense: A Wealth Building Guide for African-Americans Brooke Stephens 9780070613898 Fiction McGraw-Hill Education McGraw-Hill Education African-americans control more than $4...
The Ethics of Identity
The Ethics of Identity Kwame Anthony Appiah 9780691120362 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past cou...
Black, White & Jewish: Autobiography Of A Shifting Self
Black, White & Jewish: Autobiography Of A Shifting Self Rebecca Walker 9781573229074 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House The Civil Rights movement brought author Alice Walker and lawyer Mel Leventha...
(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...
A Companion to African American Literature (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)
A Companion to African American Literature (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture) Gene Andrew Jarrett 9781118438787 Nonfiction Wiley-Blackwell Wiley Through a series of essays that explore t...
Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays
Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays Miriam Decosta-Willis 9781580730440 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press Blacks in Hispanic Literature is a collection of fourteen essays b...
Into the Interior
Into the Interior Michelle Cliff 9780816669790 Fiction University of Minnesota Press University of Minnesota Press In her previous novels, Michelle Cliff explored potent themes of colonialism, race, m...
Everett Hoagland
Everett Hoagland NONE Everett Hoagland, a Philadelphia-born poet, professor, and activist, is renowned for his contributions to African American literature. A significant literary figure, he has nume...
Seven Modes of Uncertainty
Seven Modes of Uncertainty Namwali Serpell 9780674729094 Fiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press Literature is rife with uncertainty. Literature is good for us. These two ideas about...
Dinah Johnson
Dinah Johnson NONE Dinah Johnson is a renowned author in children's literature, particularly in African American storytelling. Her books, which include titles like Hair Dance! and Sitting Pretty, cel...
Fenton Johnson
Fenton Johnson 0000000038623095 Fenton Johnson (1888-1958) was an African American poet, essayist, and editor who significantly contributed to the Harlem Renaissance. His work, including his well-kno...
Candice Carty-Williams
Candice Carty-Williams 0000000501732761 Candice Carty-Williams, born in 1989, is a successful senior marketing executive at Vintage and creator of the Guardian and 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize. ...
Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir
Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir Rebecca Carroll 9781982116255 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. A stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting...
Jeffrey Allen Tucker
Jeffrey Allen Tucker 0000000081840116 Jeffrey Allen Tucker, an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Rochester, is known for his works on race and identity, including ...
Grasshopper Speaks
Grasshopper Speaks Emanuel Carpenter Book Review In Katrina Register’s memoir, “Grasshopper Speaks,” the author takes readers on the whirlwind journey of her life. In this debut, s...