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Elsie Augustave Reads From THE ROVING TREE
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Elsie Augustave
Elsie Augustave NONE Elsie Augustave, born in Haiti, is a Fulbright Scholar and accomplished educator, teaching French and Spanish at Stuyvesant High School. With degrees in foreign language and lite...
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...
Rosewater
Rosewater LIV Little 9781638930228 Fiction Get Lifted Books Penguin Random House A TODAY and LGBTQ Reads Most Anticipated Book of 2023 - A Goodreads Buzziest Debut Novel of the New Year - An Electric ...
Isaac and the Bah Family Tree
Isaac and the Bah Family Tree Kam Williams Book Review ’There was a tree that stood alone in the Bah family backyard. Thick, brown bark covered the trunk, while the gently swa...
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...
The Cross and the Lynching Tree
The Cross and the Lynching Tree James H. Cone 9781626980051 Nonfiction Orbis Books Orbis Books The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the Africa...
Isaac And The Bah Family Tree
Isaac And The Bah Family Tree Adrienne C. Wilson 9781606047927 Fiction Tate Publishing Tate Publishing & Enterprises, LLC Are you my family tree? In Isaac and the Bah Family Tree, new author Adrienne ...
Sister Girls
Sister Girls Angel M. Hunter 9781893196247 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Jealousy, Envy, And Pure Hateration. Maybe you’ve been there? Maybe you haven’t? Maybe you know someone that’...
Caribbean Reads Publishing
Caribbean Reads Publishing Caribbean Reads Publishing Caribbean Reads Publishing
NEW Reads Publications
NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications
Caribbean Reads Publishing
Caribbean Reads Publishing Caribbean Reads Publishing Caribbean Reads Publishing
NEW Reads Publications
NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications
Peepal Tree Press
Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Ltd. Peepal Tree aims to bring you the very best of international writing from the Caribbean, its diasporas and the UK. Our goal is always to pub...
Flame Tree Publishing
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Peepal Tree Press
Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Ltd. Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree aims to bring you the very best of international writing from the Caribbean, its diasporas and the UK. Our goal is always to pub...
The Crooked Christmas Tree: The Beautiful Meaning of Jesus’ Birth
The Crooked Christmas Tree: The Beautiful Meaning of Jesus’ Birth Damian Chandler 9781478918370 Nonfiction FaithWords Hachette Book Group In this real-life Christmas fable, when a Dad decides to let h...
A Family Tree
A Family Tree Thumper Book Review A Family Tree, Taking Root by Doc Robertson is an enjoyable, refreshing novel that should have read like a dream. While many of our authors insist on writing the p...
Loneliness of Angels
Loneliness of Angels Myriam J. A. Chancy 9781845231224 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Offering a richly nuanced portrayal placing Haiti in a global context as a place of ethnic and cultura...
Avidly Reads Passages
Avidly Reads Passages Michelle D. Commander 9781479806171 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press “What is the value of Black life in America?” In Avidly Reads Pa...
Beech Tree Books
Beech Tree Books Beech Tree Books Beech Tree Books
Oak Tree Press
Oak Tree Press Oak Tree Press Oak Tree Press
Flame Tree Press
Flame Tree Press Flame Tree Publishing Flame Tree Publishing
Flame Tree Collections
Flame Tree Collections Flame Tree Publishing Flame Tree Publishing
Flame Tree Calendars
Flame Tree Calendars Flame Tree Studio Flame Tree Studio
Beech Tree Books
Beech Tree Books Beech Tree Books Beech Tree Books
Flame Tree Studio
Flame Tree Studio Flame Tree Studio Flame Tree Calendars
Oak Tree Press
Oak Tree Press Oak Tree Press Oak Tree Press
Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
Peepal Tree Press Ltd. Peepal Tree Press Ltd. INSCRIBE Peepal Tree aims to bring you the very best of international writing from the Caribbean, its diasporas and the UK. Our goal is always to publish...
Tamara Natalie Madden Wall Calendar 2027
Tamara Natalie Madden Wall Calendar 2027 Flame Tree Studio 9781806940677 Nonfiction Flame Tree Calendars Flame Tree Studio Tamara Natalie Madden Art Calendar celebrates the regal, glistening portraits...
Nell Plants a Tree
Nell Plants a Tree Anne Wynter 9780062865779 Fiction Balzer & Bray/Harperteen HarperCollins This gorgeous picture book shows how one little girl’s careful tending of a pecan tree creates the living ce...
Branches of the Tree of Life: The Collected Poems of Abiodun Oyewole 1969-2013
Branches of the Tree of Life: The Collected Poems of Abiodun Oyewole 1969-2013 Abiodun Oyewole 9781940939032 Poetry 2Leaf Press 2Leaf Press Branches of the Tree of Life is the first comprehensive volu...
Circles of Hope
Circles of Hope Karen Lynn Williams 9780802853967 Fiction Eerdmans Books for Young Readers Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Everyone brought a gift for baby Lucia. Facile sat high up in his mango tr...
Flame Tree Studio
Flame Tree Studio NONE Flame Tree Studio is designed and developed at Flame Tree Publishing, an independent publisher and creator of fine, illustrated books, journals, notebooks, jigsaw puzzles, and...
Olive Senior Reads from THE PAIN TREE
Olive Senior Reads from THE PAIN TREE Author Interviews
INSCRIBE
INSCRIBE Peepal Tree Press Ltd. Peepal Tree Press Ltd. Peepal Tree aims to bring you the very best of international writing from the Caribbean, its diasporas and the UK. Our goal is always to publish...
Afrofuturism Short Stories (Part of Gothic Fantasy)
Afrofuturism Short Stories (Part of Gothic Fantasy) Isis Asare 9781835622643 Fiction Flame Tree Collections Flame Tree Publishing Exploring new Black literature, following the success of Black Sci-Fi ...
Far from the Tree
Far from the Tree Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant 9781250846631 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers From the bestselling author duo Donna Grant and Virginia DeBerry comes Far from the T...
Epoca: The Tree of Ecrof
Epoca: The Tree of Ecrof Ivy Claire Pochoda 9781949520071 Fiction Granity Studios Granity Studios Created by Kobe Bryant From the mind of basketball legend, Academy Award–winning, and New York Time...
Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents
Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents Lise Funderburg 9781496212092 Nonfiction University of Nebraska Press University of Nebraska Press It happens to us all: we think we’ve settled into an identity, ...
The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim
The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim Marcia Douglas 9781845233327 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press A much-awaited novel from an award-winning writer a reggae track...
Sleeping Under the Tree of Life
Sleeping Under the Tree of Life Sheree Renée Thomas 9781619761117 Fiction Aqueduct Press Aqueduct Press Sleeping under the Tree of Life evokes the realm of ancestral knowledge with a deep respect for ...
The Pain Tree
The Pain Tree Olive Senior 9781770864344 Fiction Cormorant Books Cormorant Books From the author of Dancing Lessons, Finalist for the 2012 Amazon.ca First Novel Award and Finalist for the 2012 Commonw...
Behind the Tupelo Tree: Secrets of the South Vols. I and II
Behind the Tupelo Tree: Secrets of the South Vols. I and II Corinda Pitts Marsh 9781500924850 Fiction Creation Publishing Group Creation Publishing Group Two strong Southern women, one a slave and the...
Bivouac (Peepal Tree Press)
Bivouac (Peepal Tree Press) Kwame Dawes 9781845231057 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press A sharply focused portrayal of Jamaica at a tipping point in its recent past, this story of one man’s ...
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...
Homer, the H-Shaped Tree
Homer, the H-Shaped Tree Barbara Brandon 9781412016391 Fiction Trafford Publishing Author Solutions Homer, The H-Shaped Tree is a delightful story for all children. Small children who have...
Prophets (Peepal Tree Caribbean Poetry)
Prophets (Peepal Tree Caribbean Poetry) Kwame Dawes 9780948833854 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press As 24-hour television, belching out the swaggering voices of American hellfire preachers, c...
Daniel Bernstrom
Daniel Bernstrom NONE Daniel Bernstrom is a visually impaired author who enjoys creating rhythmic stories. His work often draws inspiration from his surroundings, such as his story about a eucalyptus...
Far From The Tree
Far From The Tree Paige Turner Book Review A prominent novelist once declared, "You can’t go home again", but co authors Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant have reevaluated this truism...
The Cross & the Lynching Tree
The Cross & the Lynching Tree Kam Williams Book Review “The cross and the lynching tree are separated by nearly 2,000 years. One is the universal symbol of Christian faith; the other is the q...
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...
St. Pete Reads! Literacy Festival
St. Pete Reads! Literacy Festival Woodson African American Museum of Florida St. Petersburg Florida The St. Pete Reads! Literacy Festival is dedicated to entertaining, engaging, and educating children...
If I Survive You
If I Survive You Jonathan Escoffery 9780374605988 Fiction MCD Macmillan Publishers "If I Survive You is a collection of connected short stories that reads like a novel, that reads like real life, that...
September Newsletter: Recommended Reads, the MS Book Festival, and More
September Newsletter: Recommended Reads, the MS Book Festival, and More Troy Johnson Article Recommended Reads N. K. Jemisin the Only Writer to Win the Best Novel Hugo Award in three Consecutive Yea...
JaNay Brown-Wood
JaNay Brown-Wood NONE JaNay Brown-Wood is a celebrated children's author and educator, known for her award-winning book, “Imani's Moon.” She teaches as an ECE professor at American River College and ...
Something in the Water
Something in the Water Phyllis R. Dixon 9781496754196 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Buried secrets, environmental disaster, and a legacy of corruption hit too close to home when a Califor...
The Dow Twins’ Legacy: 50 Years of Disco Reflections
The Dow Twins’ Legacy: 50 Years of Disco Reflections Harold A. Dow 9798218357481 Nonfiction DT Media Group DT Media Group The legendary Dow Twins dominated the world of Black disco and entertainment f...
Particle and Wave: A Conversation
Particle and Wave: A Conversation Alexis Pauline Gumbs 9781737025504 Nonfiction 53rd State Press 53rd State Press In a roving, shimmering conversation that took place in May 2021, scholar, poet, and a...
The Hotel Westend: A Mystery
The Hotel Westend: A Mystery Ashley Lynch-Harris 9780996521017 Fiction Barrington House Publishing Barrington House Publishing Maitland Sisters Mystery (Volume 1) When the timid yet curious Elsie Mai...
There Was A Country: A Personal History Of Biafra
There Was A Country: A Personal History Of Biafra Chinua Achebe 9781594204821 Nonfiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart comes a longawaited memoir ab...
Lemon City: A Novel
Lemon City: A Novel Elaine Meryl Brown 9780345510693 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House In this wry fiction debut, Elaine Meryl Brown plunges lucky readers into a gripping narrative of ...
Gotham Diaries
Gotham Diaries Tonya Lewis Lee and Crystal Mccrary Anthony 9781401301194 Fiction Hachette Hachette Book Group A hilarious first novel that provides a peek into the world of the super-rich, super-conne...
The Chocolate Ship
The Chocolate Ship Marissa Monteilh 9780060011482 Fiction Avon A HarperCollins After three years together, Mia can’t help wondering if she’s got a real future with Miles — who’s all that and then some...
Don Fulton
Don Fulton NONE Don Fulton, a Washington D.C. native, is a screenwriter inspired by the lack of quality and diverse Christmas films in Hollywood. His screenplay, “Please Come Home for Christmas,” is ...
Holly
Holly Thumper Book Review French is brilliant. French’s follow up to the equally magnificent Billy. One of the few books that I have to disagree with it’s publishers’ summary of t...
Archangels of Funk
Archangels of Funk Andrea Hairston Excerpt CINNAMON HAIR ON FIRE “Who’s afraid of the future?” Cinnamon Jones sucked a deep breath and raced downhill in the dark on fast hy...
Black Friday: Short Stories from Africa
Black Friday: Short Stories from Africa Cheryl S. Ntumy 9781835623022 Fiction Flame Tree Collections Flame Tree Publishing A stunning collection in a stunning book, Cheryl S. Ntumy’s fantasy and near-...
Sauúti Terrors Short Stories
Sauúti Terrors Short Stories Eugen Bacon, Cheryl S. Ntumy, and Stephen Embleton 9781835626405 Fiction Flame Tree Collections Flame Tree Publishing A powerful dark science fiction collection in a stunn...
Bite of the Kaba Lagoon: A Branches Book (Kwame’s Magic Quest #3)
Bite of the Kaba Lagoon: A Branches Book (Kwame’s Magic Quest #3) Bernard Mensah 9781338843354 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. Kwame needs to help save the world’s source of magic, in the third...
Black Sci-Fi Short Stories
Black Sci-Fi Short Stories Tia Ross 9781839644801 Fiction Flame Tree Press Flame Tree Publishing Foreword by Temi Oh, Introduction by Dr. Sandra M. Grayson, Associate Editor Tia Ross, contributors to ...
The Talking Baobab Tree
The Talking Baobab Tree Nelda LaTeef 9789988860387 Fiction Sub-Saharan Publishers Sub-Saharan Publishers The Talking Baobab Tree is derived from a story the author heard while visiting a Wolof village...
Under the Freedom Tree
Under the Freedom Tree Susan VanHecke 9781580895514 Poetry Charlesbridge Charlesbridge Taut free verse tells the little-known story of the first contraband camp of the Civil War—seen by some historian...
Albert Murray: Collected Novels & Poems: Train Whistle Guitar / The Spyglass Tree / The Seven League Boots / The Magic Keys/ Poems (The Library of America)
Albert Murray: Collected Novels & Poems: Train Whistle Guitar / The Spyglass Tree / The Seven League Boots / The Magic Keys/ Poems (The Library of America) Albert Murray 9781598535617 Fiction Library ...
Under The Sycamine Tree
Under The Sycamine Tree Aminah Paden 9781545138281 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Envision a new life, and you shall attain all that you see. The peace of mind that you seek is waiting f...
The Sea Grape Tree: A Novel (A Shadrack Myers Mystery)
The Sea Grape Tree: A Novel (A Shadrack Myers Mystery) Gillian Royes 9781476762388 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Set in a sun-kissed Caribbean paradise, this third book in the Shad detect...
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...
Guardian
Guardian Julius Lester 9780061558900 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins There are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity on that tree and topple it ...
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...
Far From The Tree
Far From The Tree Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant 9780312202910 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Celeste English and Ronnie Frazier are sisters, but they couldn’t be more different. C...
Learning Tree
Learning Tree Gordon Parks 9780449215043 Fiction Fawcett Fawcett “A fine novel.” —THE BOSTON HERALD Photographer, writer, and composer, Gordon Parks has written a moving, true-to-life novel of grow...
The Listening Tree
The Listening Tree Decatur GA The Listening Tree is a children's booktique created to perpetuate literacy and a love of reading in our global community.
Dorothea Smartt
Dorothea Smartt 0000000035456594 Dorothea Smartt is a London-born poet with Barbadian roots, known for her significant contributions to British culture. As a former Live Artist at London's Institute ...
Jacob Ross
Jacob Ross 0000000056531848 Jacob Ross, born in Grenada in 1956, is a UK-based poet, playwright, journalist, novelist, and creative writing tutor. He is also the Associate Fiction Editor at Peepal Tr...
Nelda LaTeef
Nelda LaTeef 000000008348432X Nelda LaTeef is an award-winning author and illustrator, known for acclaimed children's books like Animal Village and The Talking Baobab Tree. Her work has received nume...
Anne Wynter
Anne Wynter NONE Anne Wynter is the Ezra Jack Keats Award-winning author of the picture books Everybody in the Red Brick Building and Nell Plants a Tree as well as the board books Hands On! and One B...
Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. KKR & Co. Inc.
St. Pete Reads! Literacy Festival
St. Pete Reads! Literacy Festival Literary Events
Quick Reads Penguin Readers: Boys Don’t Cry
Quick Reads Penguin Readers: Boys Don’t Cry Malorie Blackman 9780241688106 Fiction Penguin Group USA Penguin Random House A gripping Quick Read about family and growing up from bestselling author, Mal...
The Rib King
The Rib King Ladee Hubbard 9780062979070 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Thrillist - 30 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2021Book Riot - Our Most Anticipated Releases of 2021Real Simple - The Best New Boo...
Phina Oruche Reads from Her Book: Jacopo Jacopo Football Star
Phina Oruche Reads from Her Book: Jacopo Jacopo Football Star Book Spotlights
Beyond Bourbon Street
Beyond Bourbon Street Nikesha Elise Williams 9781733584869 Fiction NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications How does a couple survive when the one thing that brought them together threatens to te...
Lessons We Were Never Taught
Lessons We Were Never Taught Nikesha Elise Williams 9781733584852 Poetry NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications Lessons We Were Never Taught is author Nikesha Elise Williams’s first collection ...
Kwame Alexander Reads His Children’s Book THE UNDEFEATED
Kwame Alexander Reads His Children’s Book THE UNDEFEATED Book Spotlights
Musical Youth
Musical Youth Joanne C. Hillhouse 9781733829960 Fiction Caribbean Reads Publishing Caribbean Reads Publishing 2nd place in the 2014 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature. #12 in Amazon Hot New Releases ...
Adulting
Adulting Nikesha Elise Williams 9781733584821 Fiction NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications Can she have it all? Naomi Grace is determined to lay hold of the life she’s always wanted. In her v...
Love Never Fails
Love Never Fails Nikesha Elise Williams 9781733584807 Fiction NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications “If I were honest, I’d be divorced right now.” When it comes to marriage, nothing is guar...
Carter Reads the Newspaper
Carter Reads the Newspaper Deborah Hopkinson 9781561459346 Nonfiction Peachtree Publishers Peachtree Publishers Essential Black History Reading The first-ever picture book biography of Carter G. Wo...
August 2018 eNewsletter Recommended Reads, Videos, and More
August 2018 eNewsletter Recommended Reads, Videos, and More Troy Johnson Article Videos from the National Book Club Conference I attended the 2018 National Book Club Conference August 3rd and 4th....
Finding Peace Isn’t Peaceful: Overcoming the Struggle Within to Heal My Soul
Finding Peace Isn’t Peaceful: Overcoming the Struggle Within to Heal My Soul Ma’Ronda X 9781943409563 Nonfiction Pure Thoughts Publishing Pure Thoughts Publishing, LLC Finding Peace Isn’t Peaceful is ...