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Glorious
Glorious Bernice L. McFadden 9781617758454 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "The seeming inevitability of cruel fate juxtaposes the triumph of the spirit in this remarkably rich and powerful novel,...
Glorious
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Glorious
Glorious Idrissa Uqdah Book Review Bernice McFadden’s long awaited release, is pure poetry. This novel sings to you through the eyes of Easter Bartlett who runs away as a young girl when ...
Glorious Sunset
Glorious Sunset Ava Bleu 9781601626707 Fiction Urban Christian Kensington Publishing Corp. African King Taka Olufemi has traveled over four hundred years to find the woman who holds the soul of his...
Going Places: Victor Hugo Green and His Glorious Book
Going Places: Victor Hugo Green and His Glorious Book Tonya Bolden 9780062967404 Nonfiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins In the vein of Hidden Figures comes a nonfiction picture book about the Green...
Bernice L. McFadden
Bernice L. McFadden Author Interviews For more information visit https://aalbc.it/mcfaddenbernice Bernice L. McFadden, the author of Glorious (Akashic Books, 2010). Describes how Glorious was disc...
Seaside Stories
Seaside Stories Robert Fleming Book Review There should be more African-American fiction like this, recapturing a time when our communities were more-or-less intact and families were solid. S. R...
Life of the Party
Life of the Party Harmony Holiday 9781635902013 Nonfiction Semiotext(e) Semiotext(e) An archive and annotation of Black music-performance culture, produced alongside Harmony Holiday’s first solo museu...
Sweet, Sweet Memory
Sweet, Sweet Memory Jacqueline Woodson 9780593530849 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House Jacqueline Woodson’s evocative story about the power of sharing memories, with glorious illustr...
Andre Andre Leon Talley—A Fabulously Fashionable Fairy Tale
Andre Andre Leon Talley—A Fabulously Fashionable Fairy Tale Carole Boston Weatherford and Rob Sanders 9781250887283 Nonfiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers ★ "Fashion king Talley is broug...
The Hair Dare 2
The Hair Dare 2 Faith Knight 9798990177697 Fiction Perry Harris Publishing Perry Harris Publishing Are You Hip to Hairism? In book one of this comedic duology, Camille and Mavis Marconi are identical...
All the Men I’ve Loved Again
All the Men I’ve Loved Again Christine Pride 9781668049532 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From Christine Pride, the beloved coauthor of the Good Morning America Book Club Pick We Are Not L...
Iron Tongue of Midnight
Iron Tongue of Midnight Brittany N. Williams 9781419758683 Fiction Amulet Books Abrams The Forge & Fracture Saga, Book 3The electrifying conclusion to the “glorious” (The New York Times) award-nominat...
The Unexpected Diva
The Unexpected Diva Tiffany L. Warren 9780063322134 Fiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins Before the Civil War, Black opera singer Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield reigned supreme on Northern stag...
Black Godfather: The Black Death
Black Godfather: The Black Death K’wan 9781645565581 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. “Sometimes you gotta show muthafuckas that you’re a muthafucka, too.” Since he was old enough to...
Magic Enuff: Poems
Magic Enuff: Poems Tara M. Stringfellow 9780593447437 Poetry The Dial Press Penguin Random House Radiant poems that celebrate Black Southern womanhood and the many ways magic lives in the bonds betwee...
Bird Rehearsal: A Picture Book
Bird Rehearsal: A Picture Book Jonah Winter 9781949480320 Fiction Cameron Kids Abrams Peek behind the curtain of the glorious musicality of birds in Bird Rehearsal, a picture book about a raucous ro...
Silver: Poems
Silver: Poems Rowan Ricardo Phillips 9780374611316 Poetry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers Rowan Ricardo Phillips’s fourth collection is a book as lustrous as the metal of its title. ...
The Vibration of Grace: Sound Healing Rituals for Liberation
The Vibration of Grace: Sound Healing Rituals for Liberation gina Breedlove 9781649631596 Nonfiction Sounds True Sounds True A sacred healing journey to awaken the boundless power of your words, thoug...
Voodoonauts Presents
Voodoonauts Presents Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, Shingai Njeri Kagunda, and L. P. Kindred 9781958121115 Fiction Android Press Android Press From the Voodoonauts Afrofuturist collective for Black science ficti...
The World We Make
The World We Make N. K. Jemisin 9780316509893 Fiction Orbit Books Hachette Book Group Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious tale of identity...
We Are the United States: Meet the People Who Live, Work, and Play Across the USA
We Are the United States: Meet the People Who Live, Work, and Play Across the USA Margeaux Weston and Sarosh Arif 9780711269064 Nonfiction Wide Eyed Editions The Quarto Group This vibrantly illustrate...
Tristan Strong Keeps Punching
Tristan Strong Keeps Punching Kwame Mbalia 9781368055055 Fiction Rick Riordan Presents Rick Riordan Presents A Tristan Strong Novel, Book 3 Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents the finale of K...
Wanda the Brave
Wanda the Brave Sihle-isipho Nontshokweni 9781623718114 Fiction Crocodile Books Interlink Pub Group Inc Meet Wanda, with her glorious head of hair. Written and illustrated by the South African team wh...
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 Fugitivities
The Fugitivities Jesse McCarthy 9781612199771 Fiction Melville House Melville House “Virtuosic … glorious in its exploration.” —The New York Times A singular and powerful debut novel about a young ...
Captivated Hearts
Captivated Hearts Yahrah St. John 9781648392474 Fiction Oliver-Heber Books Oliver-Heber Books Jada Hart dreamed of making it big as a TV anchor at San Francisco’s WLB-TV. She’d pulled up stakes from h...
Out of the Dark: My Journey Through the Shadows to Find God’s Joy
Out of the Dark: My Journey Through the Shadows to Find God’s Joy Mandisa Hundley 9781954201002 Nonfiction K-LOVE K-LOVE Grammy award-winning music artist Mandisa tells an inspiring story of peaks and...
Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration
Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts 9781982176556 Nonfiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A timely collection of deeply personal, uplif...
I’m Growing Great
I’m Growing Great Mechal Renee Roe 9780593428900 Fiction Doubleday Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Confident, empowered girls are celebrated in this follow-up to Happy Hair, a flower-fill...
Ashes Of Gold
Ashes Of Gold J. Elle 9781534470705 Fiction Denene Millner Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In the “thrilling…masterful” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) conclusion to the Wings of Ebony duology, wh...
Seasons in Hippoland
Seasons in Hippoland Wanjiku Wa Ngugi 9780857428943 Fiction Seagull Books Seagull Books An enchanting novel of magical realism. Victoriana is a country ruled by an Emperor-for-Life who is dying fro...
Sonny Rollins Plays the Bridge
Sonny Rollins Plays the Bridge Gary Golio 9781984813664 Nonfiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House James Ransome’s glorious art celebrates jazz icon Sonny Rollins and how he found an inspired...
Black: A Celebration of a Culture
Black: A Celebration of a Culture Deborah Willis 9781510760158 Nonfiction Skyhorse Publishing Skyhorse Publishing Over 500 glorious black-and-white photographs celebrating Black culture throughout Am...
Glory: Magical Visions of Black Beauty
Glory: Magical Visions of Black Beauty Kahran and Regis Bethencourt 9781250204561 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. From Kahran and Regis Bet...
Bob Marley: Portrait of the Legend
Bob Marley: Portrait of the Legend Ziggy Marley 9780847868780 Nonfiction Rizzoli International Publications Rizzoli International Publications In honor of Bob Marley’s seventy-fifth birthday, this glo...
Southwest Sunrise
Southwest Sunrise Nikki Grimes 9781547600823 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Publishing From Children’s Literature Legacy Award winner Nikki Grimes and highly-acclaimed illustrator Wendell Mi...
I Love All of Me: Wonderful Me
I Love All of Me: Wonderful Me Lorie Ann Grover 9781338286236 Fiction Cartwheel Books Scholastic Inc. What do you love about you? Find out in this sweet padded storybook full of wonder and love! I ...
Dog Meat Samosa
Dog Meat Samosa Stanley Gazemba 9781947548558 Fiction Regal House Publishing Regal House Publishing Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, is a rambling, traffic-choked metropolis, bursting at the seams with peopl...
Fairview
Fairview Jackie Sibblies Drury 9781559369527 Fiction Theatre Communications Group Theatre Communications Group An astounding new play about race and power in America, explored through the lens of a f...
The Sixth Man: A Memoir
The Sixth Man: A Memoir Andre Iguodala with Carvell Wallace 9780525533986 Nonfiction Blue Rider Press Penguin Random House The standout memoir from NBA powerhouse Andre Iguodala, the indomitable sixth...
Get a Jump Start on Black History Month with 100+ Terrific Books
Get a Jump Start on Black History Month with 100+ Terrific Books Troy Johnson Article 86 African-American History Books Every year I’m asked what are you gonna do for African American Hi...
From Crook to Cook: Platinum Recipes from Tha Boss Dogg’s Kitchen
From Crook to Cook: Platinum Recipes from Tha Boss Dogg’s Kitchen Snoop Dogg 9781452179612 Nonfiction Chronicle Books Chronicle Books From Crook to Cook sold 205,000 copies in 2020, nearly twice as ma...
Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over Nell Irvin Painter 9781640090613 Nonfiction Counterpoint Counterpoint A Library Journal Editors’ Spring Pick: 1 of 34 Titles to Wave a Flag About "Old in...
I Am Gandhi: A Graphic Biography of a Hero
I Am Gandhi: A Graphic Biography of a Hero Brad Meltzer 9780525552727 Nonfiction Dial Books Penguin Random House Twenty-five exceptional comic book creators join forces to share the heroic story of Ga...
Harlem Bible: In The Beginning
Harlem Bible: In The Beginning Grant Harper Reid 9781976572838 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Harlem Bible—-In the Beginning by Grant Harper Reid Multi-Book Award-winning author Grant...
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.: Essays
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.: Essays samantha irby 9781101912195 Nonfiction Vintage Penguin Random House A New York Times Critics Top Book of 2017 "The second book of essays from this frank and ...
Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book 3
Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book 3 Ta-Nehisi Coates 9781302901912 Fiction Marvel Marvel Comics The full truth of the People’s revolution - and the power players supporting it - has been rev...
Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets
Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets Kwame Alexander 9780763680947 Poetry Candlewick Press Candlewick Press A Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Honoree offer a glorious, lyrical ode to poets who have...
Nuclear Orange: Cupid Is The Devil
Nuclear Orange: Cupid Is The Devil Christopher Michael 9780998427003 Poetry 310 Brown Street 310 Brown Street Nuclear orange is a collection of poems that attempt to illustrate a romantic relationship...
The Louisiana Girls Trilogy from Jewell Parker Rhodes
The Louisiana Girls Trilogy from Jewell Parker Rhodes Troy Johnson Article The Louisiana Girls trilogy from award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes brings together three heroic girls from acros...
Look! A Moko Jumbie (Hardcase)
Look! A Moko Jumbie (Hardcase) Opal Palmer Adisa 9780997890013 Fiction CAS CAS Books Mystery and Magic When Bamidele spots two Moko Jumbies outside of his window one night he is determined to uncov...
The Storyteller
The Storyteller Evan Turk 9781481435185 Fiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. From Ezra Jack Keats 2015 New Illustrator Honor recipient Evan Turk comes his debut work as auth...
Bayou Magic (Paperback)
Bayou Magic (Paperback) Jewell Parker Rhodes 9780316224857 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Also Available in Hardcover A magical coming-of-age story from Coretta S...
Youngin’ Blues: The Story of Reed and RaKeem
Youngin’ Blues: The Story of Reed and RaKeem Mercy B. 9781530570492 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC “When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carri...
Sag Harbor
Sag Harbor Colson Whitehead 9780307455161 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House A warm, funny, and supremely original new novel from one of the most acclaimed writers in America. The year is 1985. Benj...
Bayou Magic
Bayou Magic Jewell Parker Rhodes 9780316224840 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Also Available in Paperback It’s Maddy’s turn to have a bayou summer. At first she...
Til The Well Runs Dry
Til The Well Runs Dry Lauren Francis-Sharma 9780805098037 Fiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers A glorious and moving multi-generational, multicultural saga that begins in the 1940s and swee...
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters Andrea Davis Pinkney 9780547906041 Nonfiction Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus ...
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela Kadir Nelson 9780061783746 Nonfiction Katherine Tegen Books HarperCollins One day when Nelson Mandela was nine years old, his father died and he was sent from his village to a school fa...
The Glory of Living
The Glory of Living Myles Munroe 9781458761231 Nonfiction ReadHowYouWant ReadHowYouWant Glory is one of the buried treasures of lost humanity, an imprisoned splendor. For many people the word ’’glory’...
Puss in Boots
Puss in Boots Jerry Pinkney 9780803716421 Fiction Dial Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A beautifully illustrated retelling of the beloved fairy tale from Caldecott Medal-winning author Je...
Yolanda Adams: The “How Sweet the Sound” Interview
Yolanda Adams: The “How Sweet the Sound” Interview Kam Williams Interview Ever since her late-Eighties debut, “Just as I Am,” Yolanda Adams has triumphantly carried the torch for c...
Bachelor Undone (Kimani Romance)
Bachelor Undone (Kimani Romance) Brenda Jackson 9780373862368 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Harlequin Enterprises Limited Every woman wants him. But he only wants her.When Darcy Owens leaves snowy New York...
Ziggy Marley’s Marijuanaman
Ziggy Marley’s Marijuanaman Ziggy Marley 9781607063704 Fiction Image Comics Image Comics In honor of Bob Marley’s seventy-fifth birthday, this glorious oversize book collects more than 150 photographs...
African Rhytms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston - Read This Book
African Rhytms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston - Read This Book Troy Johnson Article [caption id="attachment_316" align="alignnone" width="572" caption="Randy Weston performs at the Brooklyn Museu...
Please Donate to the Literary Freedom Project
Please Donate to the Literary Freedom Project Troy Johnson Article The Literary Freedom Project (LFP) and Mosaic magazine are fighting to keep immersive reading, literary arts, expository writing...
Dark Town Redemption: Inspired By True Events
Dark Town Redemption: Inspired By True Events Gary Hardwick 9780972480413 Fiction HardBooks Publishing HardBooks Publishing Anger… Fire… and Murder. A boy is killed in 1967 Detroit after the worse ri...
Go Like Hell
Go Like Hell A. J. Baime 9780547336053 Nonfiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt As told in the film Ford v. Ferrari, Go Like Hell transports readers to a risk-filled, glorious time in this ...
Sins of the Father
Sins of the Father Angela Benson 9780061468520 Fiction William Morrow Paperbacks HarperCollins Her blistering family saga, Sins of the Father, is another glorious demonstration of her superior storyte...
The Tiger in the House: A Cultural History of the Cat (New York Review Books Classics)
The Tiger in the House: A Cultural History of the Cat (New York Review Books Classics) Carl Van Vechten 9781590172230 Fiction NYRB Classics New York Review Books “A god, a companion to sorceresses at ...
The Baptism
The Baptism Shelia P. Moses 9781416906711 Fiction Margaret K. McElderry Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. When you turn twelve in Occoneechee Neck in Jackson, North Carolina, everything changes. You get to...
Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America—and What We Can Do About It
Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America—and What We Can Do About It Juan Williams 9780307338235 Nonfiction Crown Penguin Random House H...
We Speak Your Names: A Celebration
We Speak Your Names: A Celebration Pearl Cleage 9780345490278 Poetry Random House Penguin Random House For centuries, African American women have been remaking the world, giving testament to the power...
A Woman Called Job
A Woman Called Job Ladena Renwick-Tilley with Jacquelin Thomas 9780595381968 Nonfiction iUniverse Author Solutions As human beings, we have what is called a “pain threshold.” When we pass beyond this ...
Creating Black Americans: African American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present
Creating Black Americans: African American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present Nell Irvin Painter 9780195137552 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Here is a magnifice...
Queens: Portraits of Black Women and their Fabulous Hair
Queens: Portraits of Black Women and their Fabulous Hair Michael Cunningham and George Alexander 9780385514620 Nonfiction Doubleday Penguin Random House Crowns photographer Michael Cunningham and au...
Exposures
Exposures Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant 9780595357185 Fiction Backinprint.com Backinprint.com As a glamorous, successful fashion photographer, adored by New York and Paris trend makers, Brett Larse...
Echo of the Spirit: A Photographer’ S Journey
Echo of the Spirit: A Photographer’ S Journey Chester Higgins, Jr. 9780385509787 Nonfiction Doubleday Books Penguin Random House In stunning photographs and an intimate, moving narrative, award-w...
American Smooth: Poems
American Smooth: Poems Rita Dove 9780393059878 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. This exciting new collection pays homage to America’s kaleidoscopic cultural heritage: from th...
A Personal Matter
A Personal Matter Karyn Langhorne Folan 9780060747732 Fiction Jonkro Books Jonkro Books Crossing the line …Alayna Jackson’s dream is to be a lawyer — and not even being the only African-American paral...
He-motions: Even Strong Men Struggle
He-motions: Even Strong Men Struggle T. D. Jakes 9780399151965 Nonfiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Penguin Random House T. D. Jakes has helped millions of women discover the glorious truth of who they are. ...
The Full Matilda: A Novel
The Full Matilda: A Novel David Haynes 9780767915694 Fiction Broadway Books Penguin Random House Matilda Housewright hails from a long line of venerable and well-respected African American retainers—h...
Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk about Sexuality and Intimacy
Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk about Sexuality and Intimacy Tricia Rose 9780312423728 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press-3PL Macmillan Publishers "A powerful and pioneering work. For the first time we h...
All Night, All Day: A Child’s First Book of African-American Spirituals
All Night, All Day: A Child’s First Book of African-American Spirituals Ashley Bryan 9780689867866 Nonfiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. Award-winning author and illustrat...
A Small Nation of People: W. E. B. Du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress
A Small Nation of People: W. E. B. Du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress David Levering Lewis 9780060523428 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins As the world prepared for the Exposition Unive...
The Dragon Can’t Dance: A Novel (Karen and Michael Braziller Books)
The Dragon Can’t Dance: A Novel (Karen and Michael Braziller Books) Earl Lovelace 9780892552726 Fiction Persea Books Persea Books Lovelace’s classic novel of Carnival. Carnival takes on social and pol...
Days Of Jubilee
Days Of Jubilee Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack 9780590107648 Nonfiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. The McKissacks introduce young readers to the pivotal events leading up to and in...
African American Audio Experience
African American Audio Experience Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, Nikki Giovanni, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Gwendolyn Brooks 9780060535278 Nonfiction Caedmon HarperCollins The leadi...
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...
A Little Piece of Sky
A Little Piece of Sky Nicole Bailey-Williams 9780767912167 Fiction Broadway Books Penguin Random House A poignant, powerful debut that combines the deep emotion of The House on Mango Street with uniqu...
Noah’s Ark
Noah’s Ark Jerry Pinkney 9781587172014 Nonfiction Chronicle Books Chronicle Books (Caldecott Honor Book) For 40 days and 40 nights rain poured from the heavens, enveloping the world. Only Noah had be...
Return to Glory: The Powerful Stirring of the Black Race
Return to Glory: The Powerful Stirring of the Black Race Joel A. Freeman and Don B. Griffin 9780768430103 Nonfiction Destiny Image Destiny Image Return to Glory will challenge everything you were ever...
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters Andrea Davis Pinkney 9780152010058 Nonfiction Gulliver Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus and sparked...
I Have Heard of a Land
I Have Heard of a Land Joyce Carol Thomas 9780064436175 Fiction HarperCollins Publishers HarperCollins I have heard of a landWhere the imagination has no fencesWhere what is dreamed one nightIs accom...
John Henry
John Henry Julius Lester 9780140566222 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney’s warm, humorous retelling of a popular African-American folk ballad. When John Henry w...
When the Beginning Began: Stories about God, the Creatures, and Us
When the Beginning Began: Stories about God, the Creatures, and Us Julius Lester 9780152012380 Fiction HMH Books for Young Readers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt This book is astonishing, daring, compellin...
Uncle Jed’s Barbershop
Uncle Jed’s Barbershop Margaree K. Mitchell 9780689819131 Fiction Aladdin Paperbacks Simon & Schuster, Inc. As the only black barber in a county of sharecroppers during the 1920s, Uncle Jed traveled f...
Japanese by Spring
Japanese by Spring Ishmael Reed 9780140255850 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House Benjamin "Chappie" Puttbutt, a black juior professor at the overwhelmingly white Jack London College, lusts aft...