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J. Ivy
J. Ivy NONE J. Ivy, a Chicago-born hip-hop poet, musician, and actor, has won a Peabody and Grammy award for his performances and collaborations with artists like Jay-Z, Kanye West, and Bob Dylan. He...
Ivy Valentine Pate
Ivy Valentine Pate NONE Ivy Valentine Pate, CEO of Wild Ivy Publishing and author of the “These Kids of Mine” series, resides in Lawrenceville, GA. She's also a mother of three. Ivy Valentine Pate is...
Dear Father: Breaking The Cycle Of Pain
Dear Father: Breaking The Cycle Of Pain J. Ivy 9781582705088 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Hip-hop’s favorite poet and Grammy Award–winning artist J. Ivy bares his soul in this inspira...
Ivy Claire Pochoda and Created by Kobe Bryant
Ivy Claire Pochoda and Created by Kobe Bryant MULTIPLE Ivy Claire Pochoda is a renowned author known for her collaborative work with the late basketball legend Kobe Bryant, blending their unique pers...
Ziggy Marley
Ziggy Marley 000000011476515X Ziggy Marley, five-time Grammy-winning musician, actor, and activist, was born in Jamaica to Bob and Rita Marley. He began his career in music at just 10 years old and l...
Wild Ivy Publishing
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The Perfect Ruin: A Riveting New Psychological Thriller
The Perfect Ruin: A Riveting New Psychological Thriller Shanora Williams 9781496731104 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. A thrilling new novel of lies, deception, and revenge from the bestsel...
Orange Crushed: An Ivy League Mystery (Ivy League Mysteries)
Orange Crushed: An Ivy League Mystery (Ivy League Mysteries) Pamela Thomas-Graham 9780684845289 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Murder stalks the campus in this exciting, witty, fast-...
Blue Blood (Ivy League Mysteries)
Blue Blood (Ivy League Mysteries) Pamela Thomas-Graham 9780684845272 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Murder returns to the Ivy League in this second book in Pamela Thomas-Graham’s cri...
Ivy Claire Pochoda
Ivy Claire Pochoda 0000000058923861 Ivy Claire, a former world-ranked squash champion turned full-time writer, holds a degree in classics. A literary novelist in a parallel life, she resides in Los A...
Roberta Flack
Roberta Flack 0000000115996355 AALBC Mourns the Passing of Roberta Flack, February 24, 2025 Roberta Flack, born in 1937, is a renowned singer known for chart-topping singles and duets with Donny Hatha...
Billy Buys a Backpack (These Kids of Mine)
Billy Buys a Backpack (These Kids of Mine) Ivy Valentine Pate 9780996814041 Nonfiction Wild Ivy Publishing Wild Ivy Publishing Caring, compassionate Billy wants to help a friend get a backpack to stay...
CJ’s New Basketball (These Kids of Mine)
CJ’s New Basketball (These Kids of Mine) Ivy Valentine Pate 9780996814027 Nonfiction Wild Ivy Publishing Wild Ivy Publishing CJ gets his very first basketball from Dad on Sunday, but can’t go to a rea...
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities Craig Steven Wilder 9781608194025 Nonfiction Bloomsbury Press Bloomsbury Publishing A 2006 report commissioned by Brown...
Ebony & Ivy: Race
Ebony & Ivy: Race Kam Williams Book Review “Ebony & Ivy… delivers a groundbreaking and incendiary exploration of the intertwined histories of slavery, race, and higher education&he...
Lil Nas X
Lil Nas X 0000000476080561 Lil Nas X, a Grammy-winning rapper from Georgia, gained fame with his viral hit Old Town Road. The first Black, openly gay rapper to win a Grammy, he's been honored with nu...
Common - The "Happy Feet Two" Interview [November 2011]
Common - The "Happy Feet Two" Interview [November 2011] Kam Williams Interview The Dreamer, The Believer Born Lonnie Rashid Lynn in Chicago on March 13, 1972, Common rose to prominence as one ...
Here I Am: Then & Now
Here I Am: Then & Now J. Ivy 9780615543062 Nonfiction Ivyous Entertainment Ivyous Entertainment Time has shown that history repeats itself and poetry is the written and spoken beginning of Hip Hop… A ...
These Women
These Women Ivy Claire Pochoda 9780062656384 Fiction Ecco Press HarperCollins A Recommended Book FromThe New York Times Book Review * The Washington Post * Vogue * Entertainment Weekly * People * Mari...
Single Black Female
Single Black Female Tracy Brown 9781250043016 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Tracy Brown’s Single Black Female is a taut, edgy, deftly spun novel about four friends grappling with t...
Tears of a Hustler PT 6
Tears of a Hustler PT 6 Silk White 9780996060936 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing The Wolf is back!… Months after the gruesome death of his daughter, Wolf is back and vows to make anybody...
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League Jeff Hobbs 9781476731902 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. A heartfelt, and ri...
Art of Disappearing
Art of Disappearing Ivy Claire Pochoda 9780312650995 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Ivy Pochoda’s spellbinding and cinematic storytelling seamlessly fuses timeless magic to modern-da...
A Game Of Character: A Family Journey From Chicago’s Southside To The Ivy League And Beyond
A Game Of Character: A Family Journey From Chicago’s Southside To The Ivy League And Beyond Craig Malcolm Robinson 9781592405480 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House The eagerly anticipated inspirati...
A Game of Character: A Family Journey from Chicago's Southside to the Ivy League and Beyond
A Game of Character: A Family Journey from Chicago's Southside to the Ivy League and Beyond Kam Williams Book Review "A fundamental teaching my parents always emphasized [was] that life happens to...
Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys
Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys MULTIPLE Grammy-winning icons Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys are not only musical powerhouses but also philanthropists and art advocates. Founders of the Dean Collection, the...
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...
Mandisa Hundley
Mandisa Hundley 0000000046764760 Mandisa Lynn Hundley was a Grammy-award winning artist known for her Christian music. She began her career singing backup for renowned artists and later topped Christ...
Ernie Paniccioli
Ernie Paniccioli 0000000114932974 Ernest “Brother Ernie” Paniccioli is a renowned hip-hop photographer, known for his work in the 80s and 90s. He authored the bestseller 'Who Shot Ya?' and was featur...
Chaka! Through the Fire
Chaka! Through the Fire Chaka Khan and Tonya Bolden 9781579548261 Nonfiction Rodale Books Rodale Books Rolling Stone compared it to melted caramel, and Miles Davis compared it to his horn. Chaka Khan’...
Poet On Watch
Poet On Watch NONE Poet On Watch is a renowned performance poet and multimedia artist, who collaborates globally as an independent art director. She's authored two poetry collections and has contribu...
Thulani Davis
Thulani Davis 0000000001538348 Thulani Davis is an interdisciplinary scholar and writer, with focus on black political thought, slavery, and African American literature. She's a recipient of numerous...
Paul Simon
Paul Simon 0000000114799181 Paul Simon is a renowned artist recognized with twelve GRAMMY Awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003. He is an honoree in the Songwriters and Rock & Roll H...
Mavis Staples
Mavis Staples 0000000080055378 Mavis Staples, born in 1939, is a renowned musician from Chicago, acclaimed for her multiple Grammy Awards and inductions into the Blues, Gospel, and Rock & Roll Halls ...
Dionne Warwick
Dionne Warwick 0000000078273077 Marie Dionne Warwick (born December 12, 1940) ranks among the 40 biggest US hitmakers between 1955–1999, based on her chart history in Billboard’s Hot 100 pop singles...
Gladys Knight - The "I Can Do Bad All by Myself" Interview
Gladys Knight - The "I Can Do Bad All by Myself" Interview Kam Williams Interview The great ones endure, and Gladys Knight is a testament to that sage maxim. Over the last ha...
W.D. Foster-Graham
W.D. Foster-Graham NONE W.D. Foster-Graham, a Minneapolis native and multi-Grammy Award-winning ensemble member, is a distinguished author and poet. He's a psychology graduate, guest writer, and book...
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks 0000000081816650 Brooks was U.S. Consultant in Poetry, 1985-1986 (title was changed to U.S. Poet Laureate in 1986) Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (1917-2000) was an influential African-Am...
Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey 0000000084159051 Trethewey was U.S. Poet Laureate, 2012-2014 Natasha Trethewey, an American poet and winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for her collection “Native Guard,” was inspired...
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...
Alexander Smalls with Veronica Chambers
Alexander Smalls with Veronica Chambers MULTIPLE Alexander Smalls is a renowned American chef, former owner of NYC restaurants including the award-winning Cecil, and a Grammy and Tony-winning opera s...
Ice–T
Ice–T NONE Tracy “Ice-T” Marrow, born on February 16, 1958, is an iconic rapper, actor, songwriter, and producer, known for his influential rap albums in the '80s, Grammy-winning band Body Count, and...
Blair Underwood
Blair Underwood 0000000114403642 Blair Underwood is a two-time Golden Globe and Tony nominee and an Emmy, Grammy, and eight-time NAACP Image Award-winning actor, director, and producer. Strong>Blair...
Christmas In Rose Bend (Rose Bend Book 2)
Christmas In Rose Bend (Rose Bend Book 2) Naima Simone 9781335620996 Fiction HQN Harlequin Enterprises Limited “Simone balances crackling, electric love scenes with exquisitely rendered characters.” —...
Wonder Valley
Wonder Valley Ivy Claire Pochoda 9780062656360 Fiction Ecco Press HarperCollins When a teen runs away from his father’s mysterious commune, he sets in motion a domino effect that will connect six char...
From Ivy League to Stripper Life
From Ivy League to Stripper Life Elona Washington 9781533626820 Nonfiction Memoir Maven Memoir Maven Publishing A motivational speaker since 2011, Elona has traveled the country sharing her story of r...
Dark Justice (Dark Justice Series)
Dark Justice (Dark Justice Series) Diane Cooper 9780996814003 Nonfiction Wild Ivy Publishing Wild Ivy Publishing Dark Justice, by Pamela O’Hara writing as Dianne Cooper, is a dark, gritty, and heartbr...
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace (paperback): A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace (paperback): A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League Jeff Hobbs 9781476731919 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. Now a m...
In My Rearview Mirror: A Novel
In My Rearview Mirror: A Novel Suzetta Perkins 9781593094768 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Baby drama and political scandal don’t mix in this sequel to Suzetta Perkins’s Behind the Veil...
Visitation Street
Visitation Street Ivy Claire Pochoda 9780062249906 Fiction Ecco Press HarperCollins Summer in Red Hook, Brooklyn, an isolated blue-collar neighborhood where hipster gourmet supermarkets push against t...
Maze- The Ballerina Series Book 2 (Volume 2)
Maze- The Ballerina Series Book 2 (Volume 2) Ursula Sinclair 9780985964658 Fiction Isisindc Publishing Isisindc Publishing A new adult contemporary romance. The conclusion of the story of Ivy & Rose M...
Pimpology: The 48 Laws of the Game
Pimpology: The 48 Laws of the Game Pimpin’ Ken and Karen Hunter 9781416961048 Fiction Karen Hunter Publishing Simon & Schuster, Inc. Star of the HBO documentaries Pimps Up, Ho’s Down and American Pimp...
Trip Wire: A Cook County Mystery
Trip Wire: A Cook County Mystery Charlotte Carter 9780345447692 Fiction One World Penguin Random House Of Jackson Park, the first Cook County mystery featuring an unconventional trio of sleuths, Margo...
Jackson Park
Jackson Park Charlotte Carter 9780345447821 Fiction One World Penguin Random House From the acclaimed author of the Nanette Hayes mystery novels comes a thrilling new series featuring an unforgettable...
A Darker Shade of Crimson (Ivy League Mysteries)
A Darker Shade of Crimson (Ivy League Mysteries) Pamela Thomas-Graham 9780684845265 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Being young, gifted, and black at Harvard has always been difficult....
Falling Leaves of Ivy
Falling Leaves of Ivy Yolanda Joe 9780681413962 Fiction Longmeadow Press Longmeadow Press The interracial friendship among four Yale University students is marred by their involvement in a heinous cri...
An Arcane Inheritance
An Arcane Inheritance Kamilah Cole 9781464251030 Fiction Poisoned Pen Press Poisoned Pen Press Elle Magazine Best Fantasy and Science-Fiction Book of 2025 Indie Next List Pick for January 2026 A m...
Hill Harper
Hill Harper 000000011447159X Hill Harper, an accomplished actor and author, is an alumnus of Brown University and Harvard Law School. Despite his multiple Ivy League degrees, he chose an acting caree...
Elona Washington
Elona Washington NONE Elona Washington, a DC native and best-selling author, is a sexual assault survivor turned advocate who has worked with RAINN since 2011. A successful publisher, TV host, and bl...
Blue Blood (Ivy League Mysteries)
Blue Blood (Ivy League Mysteries) Pamela Thomas-Graham Excerpt Chapter One: We’re Not in Cambridge Anymore Georgian. Gothic. Houses. Colleges. The Yard. Old Campus. Widener. Sterli...
The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music
The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music Victor L. Wooten 9780425220931 Nonfiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House From Grammy-winning musical icon and legendary bassist Victor...
LL Cool J
LL Cool J 0000000368571427 LL Cool J is a multi-talented figure: a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Grammy-winning Hip-Hop artist, honored actor, best-selling author, philanthropist and CEO of Rock...
Patrick Denard Douthit
Patrick Denard Douthit 0000000047281613 Patrick Denard Douthit, known as “9th Wonder”, is a Grammy-winning producer, DJ, lecturer, and social activist from Winston-Salem, NC. Born in 1975, he has bee...
Questlove
Questlove 0000000054154268 Ahmir Khalib Thompson, known as “Questlove”, is a multi-talented musician, DJ, producer, author, and culinary entrepreneur from Philadelphia. Co-founder of the Roots and mu...
Method Man and Sanford Greene
Method Man and Sanford Greene MULTIPLE Method Man, a Grammy-winning rapper and actor, is part of the Wu-Tang Clan and resides in New York. Sanford Greene, a renowned comics artist for DC Comics, Imag...
Alexander Smalls
Alexander Smalls 0000000458935095 Alexander Smalls, an iconic American chef and owner of award-winning NYC restaurants, is also a co-author of a James Beard award-winning cookbook and a globally reco...
Marvis Johnson
Marvis Johnson NONE Marvis Johnson is a multi-talented entrepreneur, artist manager, director, and author with formal training in Film and Television Arts. Known for his work in the New York City fil...
Kelly Rowland
Kelly Rowland 0000000055189251 Kelly Rowland is a Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, actress, and producer, known as a founding member of Destiny's Child. She's also coauthored a guide for new moms, ...
Darius Rucker
Darius Rucker 0000000045244800 Darius Rucker is a three-time GRAMMY-winning singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known as the lead of Hootie & the Blowfish and for his successful solo country career. H...
Behold the 9th Wonder of the World!
Behold the 9th Wonder of the World! Kam Williams Interview Behold the 9th Wonder of the World! Born Patrick Denard Douthit in Winston-Salem, NC on January 15, 1975, 9th Wonder is a G...
Malik Canty
Malik Canty NONE Malik Canty, also known as the Word Bird, is a spiritual poet, teacher, and writer known for giving voice to the voiceless. He has performed at renowned venues including The Apollo T...
Mervyn Morris
Mervyn Morris 0000000122796976 Born in 1937, Mervyn E. Morris is a renowned Jamaican poet and scholar. A Rhodes Scholar and Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing & West Indian Literature, he was the...
“The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain”
“The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” Langston Hughes Article One of the most promising of the young Negro poets said to me once, “I want to be a poet—not a Negro poet,” meanin...
Who Is Cynthia Erivo?
Who Is Cynthia Erivo? Crystal Hubbard 9780593889046 Nonfiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House How did a young girl born in South London grow up to be a Tony and Grammy Award–winning star? Find ...
Victor L. Wooten
Victor L. Wooten NONE Victor Lemonte Wooten, a five-time Grammy-winning bass player, composer, and producer, is known as an original member of the Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. He's also the author...
Mary J. Blige
Mary J. Blige 000000006310393X Mary J. Blige, born in 1971, is a globally recognized singer, songwriter, actress, and entrepreneur. She has won nine Grammy Awards, an Emmy, and multiple honors, inclu...
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes, and Jeremy McCarter
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes, and Jeremy McCarter MULTIPLE Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes, and Jeremy McCarter are renowned figures in the arts. Miranda, a multi-award-winning ...
Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka 0000000446460520 Amiri Baraka, also known as LeRoi Jones, was a prolific 20th-century African American writer, poet, and Obie-winning playwright. Known for works such as “Blues People” a...
The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos
The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos Dionne Brand 9781478000068 Poetry Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books On a lonely wharf a clerk in an ink-blue coat inspects bales and bale...
Countee Cullen
Countee Cullen 0000000081534450 Countée Porter Cullen (1903-1946) was a prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance, known for his poetry books “Color” and “Copper Sun.” He taught and mentored James ...
A Poem for Evangeline, And Other Songs
A Poem for Evangeline, And Other Songs Kevin Powell 9798218824440 Poetry Get Fresh Books Publishing Get Fresh Books Publishing “Kevin Powell is one of this country’s most poignant literary voices. Pow...
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...
Who Is Beyonce?
Who Is Beyonce? Kirsti Jewel 9798217049318 Nonfiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House Okay, readers, now let’s get in formation! Learn about the life of the perfectionist performer known as Quee...
The Silent Stones
The Silent Stones Judith Falloon-Reid 9789769767713 Fiction Independent Voyces Literary Works Independent Voyces Literary Works For twenty-five years, Daunte has lived with stories of Jamaica whispere...
Troy Andrews
Troy Andrews 0000000114882786 Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews, a Grammy-nominated artist from Tremé, New Orleans, became a band leader at six. Known for his prodigious trombone skills, he now headlin...
Bill Withers
Bill Withers 000000006309931X Bill Withers was a singer-songwriter and musician. He received numerous awards in his lifetime and won three GRAMMY Awards. William Harrison Withers Jr. (July 4, 1938 &...
Queen Latifah
Queen Latifah 0000000120268301 Queen Latifah, born Dana Elaine Owens, is a renowned rapper, singer, actor, TV and record producer. Known as the “First Lady of Hip-Hop,” she released her debut album i...
Vanessa L. Williams
Vanessa L. Williams 000000011462842X Vanessa Lynn Williams, born March 18, 1963, is a multi-talented actor, singer, fashion designer and author. She made history as the first African-American Miss Am...
Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg 0000000368562870 Whoopi Goldberg, born Caryn Elaine Johnson on November 13, 1955, is a celebrated comedian, actress, author, and TV host. Known for her role in 'The Color Purple,' she...
Charlie Wilson
Charlie Wilson 0000000055156329 Charlie Wilson, renowned R&B and soul musician, has earned multiple Grammy nominations and acclaim for his distinct voice and timeless hits. Despite struggles with hom...
Snoop Dogg
Snoop Dogg 0000000120269646 Calvin Broadus, known as Snoop Dogg, is a renowned rapper from Long Beach, California. After overcoming legal struggles, he launched his career with Dr. Dre, achieving qua...
Paul Mooney
Paul Mooney 0000000055077997 Comic legend Paul Mooney (1941-2021) wrote for iconic shows like Chappelle's Show, SNL, and In Living Color. He acted in The Buddy Holly Story and released a Grammy-nomin...
Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen
Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen MULTIPLE Bruce Springsteen, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and recipient of 20 Grammy Awards, is the acclaimed author of NYT bestseller “Born to Run.” Honored with an ...
Janelle Monáe
Janelle Monáe 0000000120233360 Janelle Monáe is a multifaceted American artist, known for her work as a singer/songwriter, actress, and producer. With eight Grammy nominations and successful roles i...
Omarion
Omarion 0000000101022998 Omarion Ishmael Grandberry, former B2K lead singer and successful solo artist, is now known as the “King of Unbothered.” A Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and actor, he's...
Chuck D
Chuck D 0000000368402543 Chuck D, born Carlton Douglas Ridenhour, is a renowned hip-hop artist, social activist, and multimedia producer. Best known as the leader of Public Enemy, he has significantl...
Trey Songz - The “Texas Chainsaw 3D” Interview
Trey Songz - The “Texas Chainsaw 3D” Interview Kam Williams Interview Trey Songz - The “Texas Chainsaw 3D” Interview Born in Petersburg, Virginia on November 28, 1984, Tremaine Aldon Neverson, A...
The Idea in You: A Picture Book
The Idea in You: A Picture Book Questlove 9781419738265 Fiction Abrams Books for Young Readers Abrams A joyous exploration of imagination and finding inspiration, The Idea in You is the debut picture ...