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Dakota Grand: A Novel
Dakota Grand: A Novel Kenji Jasper 9780767910149 Fiction Harlem Moon Penguin Random House From the author of the acclaimed debut novel Dark, a searing and authentic new novel about the mano a mano feu...
Inside Grand Central Terminal - A Photo Essay
Inside Grand Central Terminal - A Photo Essay Kurt Boone 9780978994600 Nonfiction Tasora Books Tasora Books Inside Grand Central Terminal is a short memoir and photo essay about a messenger who rides ...
Dakota Grand: A Novel
Dakota Grand: A Novel Brian Egeston Book Review There are codes within creeds and creeds within cliques. Perhaps this is the most subliminal, if not unintentional, message in Kenji Jasper’s lat...
Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith (Sporting)
Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith (Sporting) Tommie Smith, Delois Smith, and David Steele 9781592136407 Nonfiction Temple University Press Temple University Press At the 1968 Olympics,...
RE: F (Gesture)
RE: F (Gesture) Percival Everett 9781597090575 Poetry Red Hen Press Red Hen Press Praise for Percival Everett: "… Artful and literate, Everett explores the philosophical, the me...
Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop
Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop Saul Williams Excerpt A CONFESSION There is no music more powerful than hip-hop. No other music so purely demands an instant affirmative on such ...
Grand Concourse Press
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Grand Concourse Press
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Grand Slammin 1999
Grand Slammin 1999 Grand Slammin 1999 From the People who brought you 360? A Revolution of Black Poets We’re taking the poetry from the page to the Stage. On June 12th, BlackWords presents ...
Grand Union: Stories
Grand Union: Stories Zadie Smith 9780525558996 Fiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House A dazzling collection of short fiction. Zadie Smith has established herself as one of the most iconic, crit...
Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street
Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street Lee Stringer 9781583229187 Fiction Seven Stories Press Seven Stories Press Whether Lee Stringer is describing "God’s corner" as he calls 42nd Street, or h...
Penguin Random House
Penguin Random House Bertelsmann 4 Color Books Ace Books Addison-Wesley Alfred A. Knopf Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers Anchor Anchor Books Anchor Press Anne Schwartz Books Avery Ballantine Bo...
When Harlem Nearly Killed King: The 1958 Stabbing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
When Harlem Nearly Killed King: The 1958 Stabbing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Hugh Pearson 9781583222744 Nonfiction Seven Stories Press Seven Stories Press When Harlem Nearly Killed King spins the t...
Hachette Book Group
Hachette Book Group Lagardère Group Aspect Back Bay Books Balance Black Dog & Leventhal Bold Type Books Center Street Christy Ottaviano Books Christy Ottaviano Books-Little Brown and Hachette Civitas ...
Sylvia L. Walker
Sylvia L. Walker NONE Sylvia L. Walker, a Pasadena-born artist, is renowned for her children's fashion illustrations and book illustrations. She has worked with major clients like Simplicity, McCalls...
United States v. George W. Bush et al.
United States v. George W. Bush et al. Elizabeth De La Vega 9781583227565 Nonfiction Seven Stories Press Seven Stories Press What if there were a fraud worse than Enron and no one did anything about i...
African Americans in the Furniture City: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Grand Rapids
African Americans in the Furniture City: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Grand Rapids Randal Maurice Jelks 9780252073472 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press African A...
Grand Canyon, Inc.
Grand Canyon, Inc. Percival Everett 9780970481702 Fiction Versus Press Versus Press Tanner, call him Rhino Tanner, his friends do because they’re afraid of him. He’s a self-made man who makes his livi...
Grand Mothers: Poems, Reminiscences, and Short Stories About The Keepers Of Our Traditions
Grand Mothers: Poems, Reminiscences, and Short Stories About The Keepers Of Our Traditions Nikki Giovanni 9780805049039 Poetry Henry Holt & Company (BYR) Macmillan Publishers Nikki Giovanni created th...
Going Home In Chains: Stories
Going Home In Chains: Stories Robert Fleming Book Review Glenville Lovell, one of the foremost Caribbean writers, has written several novels, including the acclaimed Fire in the Canes, Too Beautifu...
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them Francine Prose 9780060777050 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins Long before there were creative-wri...
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them Francine Prose 9789780060770 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins Long before there were creative-...
Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910
Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910 Daphne A. Brooks 9780822337225 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books In Bodies in Dissent Daphne...
Whispers in the Dark: A Marti MacAlister Mystery
Whispers in the Dark: A Marti MacAlister Mystery Eleanor Taylor Bland 9780312307332 Fiction Minotaur Books Minotaur Books A fine rain was falling as Detective Marti MacAlister made her way through the...
Fifth Born
Fifth Born Thumper Book Review My copy of Fifth Born, the debut novel by Zelda Lockhart, came by way of this year’s Book Expo America convention (BEA). I met Ms. Lockhart and her son at The B...
Something, Someday
Something, Someday Amanda Gorman 9780593203255 Fiction Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House The stunning new picture book by presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman and Caldecott Hono...
Always with You, Always with Me
Always with You, Always with Me Kelly Rowland and Jessica McKay 9780593465516 Fiction Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House An instant New York Times bestseller! A loving ode to modern ...
Flora’s Saga: Book Three of the Vanessa Trilogy
Flora’s Saga: Book Three of the Vanessa Trilogy Sandra L. Manigault 9780965854160 Fiction Godosan Publications Godosan Publications In this third book of the Vanessa Trilogy, Flora’s Saga, we see Flor...
Hush: How to Radiate Power and Confidence Without Saying a Word
Hush: How to Radiate Power and Confidence Without Saying a Word Linda Clemons 9781538767887 Nonfiction Legacy Lit Hachette Book Group National Bestseller LA Times Bestseller ...
The Book of Hov: A Tribute to Jay-Z
The Book of Hov: A Tribute to Jay-Z Jay-Z 9781649804259 Nonfiction Assouline Publishing Assouline Publishing The Classic Edition of The Book of HOV, weighing nearly 5 punds, is presented in JAY-Z blue...
Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism
Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism Jenn M. Jackson 9780593243336 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House A reclamation of essential history and a hopeful gesture toward ...
Once in a Lifetime
Once in a Lifetime Mary Monroe 9781496730633 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Beloved award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe delivers a hopeful and heartwarming stor...
Triple Threat
Triple Threat Camryn King 9781496702203 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. A tenacious reporter. A billionaire philanthropist. And all-access secrets that won’t leave anyone safe fuel Camryn...
Mess and Mess and
Mess and Mess and Douglas Kearney 9781934819517 Poetry Noemi Press Noemi Press Poetry. African & African American Studies. Douglas Kearney writes, "If my writing makes a mess of things, it’s not to fl...
Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black bell hooks 9781138821736 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge In childhood, bell hooks was taught that "talking back" meant speaking as an equal to an authori...
Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity
Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity Monica L. Miller 9780822346036 Nonfiction Copper Canyon Press Copper Canyon Press Slaves to Fashion is a pioneering cult...
Francie
Francie Karen English 9780312373832 Fiction Square Fish Macmillan Publishers Francie lives with her mother and younger brother, Prez, in rural Alabama, where all three work and wait. Francie’s father ...
Chicken Soup For The African American Woman’s Soul (Chicken Soup For The Soul)
Chicken Soup For The African American Woman’s Soul (Chicken Soup For The Soul) Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Lisa Nichols 9780757305207 Fiction HCI HCI Chicken Soup for the African American W...
Symptomatic
Symptomatic Danzy Senna 9781594480676 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House A young woman moves to New York City for what promises to be a dream job. Displaced, she feels unsure of her fit in the world. ...
Nobody’s Son: Notes from an American Life
Nobody’s Son: Notes from an American Life Luís Alberto Urrea 9780816522705 Fiction University of Arizona Press University of Arizona Press Here’s a story about a family that comes from Tijuana and set...
The Temples of Karnak
The Temples of Karnak R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz 9780892817122 Nonfiction Inner Traditions Inner Traditions More than 700 photographs and line illustrations documenting the ancient Egyptian temples of ...
Love Like Gumbo
Love Like Gumbo Nancy Rawles 9780940242753 Fiction Fjord Press Fjord Press Amazon.com Review: Love Like Gumbo is a rich stew of family ties, budding lesbian sexuality, and Creole culture set in 1978 ...
The Artist
The Artist Kam Williams theartist_movieposter.jpg Film Review Fading Star Falls for Emerging Ingenue in B&W Homage to Silent Era The Artist Rated PG-13 for a crude gesture and a disturb...
Daughters of Men
Daughters of Men Kam Williams Book Review ’Good black fathers are far more plentiful than either the media or warped social science would have us believe’ The moral beau...
Promises to Keep
Promises to Keep Thumper Book Review Your beloved son is murdered and your family slowly begins falling apart. How do you hold it all together, your family, yourself and find the murderer of your s...
On Reading the Sad News: Ama Ata Aidoo
On Reading the Sad News: Ama Ata Aidoo Rashidah Ismaili Article Ama Ata Aidoo (March 23, 1942 – May 31, 2023) Just after reading the New York Times Art section where I see the continued resi...
The Left-Over Daughters
The Left-Over Daughters S. L. Sheppard 9780999491966 Fiction Duho Books Duho Books In 1964, the stunningly beautiful Petra arrives in the tiny settlement of West End, Grand Bahama. Almost immediately,...
Juana Martinez-Neal
Juana Martinez-Neal 0000000115462636 Juana Martinez-Neal, award-winning author-illustrator, received the 2019 Caldecott Honor and 2020 Robert F. Sibert Medal. She was also awarded the 2018 Pura Belpr...
Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Simon & Schuster, Inc. KKR & Co. Inc. Aladdin Aladdin Paperbacks Atheneum Atheneum Books for Young Readers Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books Atria / 37 Ink Atria / Black Privilege Publishing Atria / One S...
The Summer Before the Whole Sixth Grade
The Summer Before the Whole Sixth Grade Sherri Winston 9780316605236 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Brianna Justice won the fifth-grade presidency, but can she win h...
Grand Opening 2: A Family Business Novel
Grand Opening 2: A Family Business Novel Carl Weber and La Jill Hunt 9781645562153 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. From the minds of New York Times bestselling author Carl Weber and Es...
Grand Opening 2: A Family Business Novel
Grand Opening 2: A Family Business Novel Carl Weber 9781601629449 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. From the minds of New York Times bestselling author Carl Weber and Essence bestseller ...
Grand Opening: A Family Business Novel
Grand Opening: A Family Business Novel Carl Weber and Eric Pete 9781622869114 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Before there was the family, there was just the business. From the minds o...
Meet Me at the Theresa: The Story of Harlem’s Most Famous Hotel
Meet Me at the Theresa: The Story of Harlem’s Most Famous Hotel Sondra Kathryn Wilson 9781451646160 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A “brassy yet deeply respectful book” (Publishers Week...
Paul Beatty
Paul Beatty 0000000084014450 Paul Beatty, born 1962, the first American to win the Man Booker Prize in 2016 for his novel “The Sellout.” An LA native and graduate of Brooklyn College and Boston Unive...
Arthur Ashe
Arthur Ashe 0000000087759773 Arthur Ashe, born in 1943, was the first and only African-American male tennis player to win the U.S. Open, Wimbledon, and the Australian Open, with three Grand Slam titl...
Earl Lovelace
Earl Lovelace 0000000109246689 Earl Lovelace, a Trinidadian author, is known for his award-winning works such as While Gods Are Falling, The Dragon Can't Dance, Salt, and Is Just a Movie. He was awar...
aja monet
aja monet 0000000370068724 aja monet is a surrealist blues poet, storyteller, and organizer born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She won the legendary Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam poetry award title i...
Grand Central Publishing
Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Lagardère Group
Grand Central Life & Style
Grand Central Life & Style Hachette Book Group Lagardère Group
Grand Harbor Press
Grand Harbor Press Amazon Publishing Amazon.com, Inc.
Forever
Forever Grand Central Publishing Lagardère Group
Grand Central Publishing
Grand Central Publishing Lagardère Group Forever
Ghalen: A Romance in Black
Ghalen: A Romance in Black Walter Mosley 9780063451551 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins A stellar addition to the Amistad list: a beautiful coming-of-age novel from MWA Grand Master and PEN and Edgar Awa...
Andre Leon Talley: Grand Gestures
Andre Leon Talley: Grand Gestures Paula Wallace 9780847874415 Nonfiction Rizzoli Electa Rizzoli International Publications A visual celebration of André Leon Talley’s life that centers his pers...
A Method for Magic and Misfortune
A Method for Magic and Misfortune Craig Kofi Farmer 9781250900289 Fiction Roaring Brook Press Macmillan Publishers A boy discovers magic—along with a hidden darkness—in his town in this propulsive and...
Blacks and Jews in America: An Invitation to Dialogue
Blacks and Jews in America: An Invitation to Dialogue Terrence L. Johnson and Jacques Berlinerblau 9781647124465 Nonfiction Georgetown University Press Georgetown University Press A Black-Jewish dialo...
When Langston Dances
When Langston Dances Kaija Langley 9781534485198 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC A young Black boy dreams of dancing in this exuberant, buoyant picture book celebrating the beauty of danc...
Brotherhood
Brotherhood Mohamed Mbougar Sarr 9781609456726 Fiction Europa Editions Europa Editions Winner of the French Voices Grand Prize, Prix Ahmadou Kourouma, and Grand Prix du Roman Métis Mohamed M...
Grand: A Grandparent’s Wisdom for a Happy Life
Grand: A Grandparent’s Wisdom for a Happy Life Charles Johnson 9781335015860 Nonfiction Hanover Square Press Hanover Square Press "Demanding, bighearted, and generous—we should all be so lucky to have...
Dr. Maggie’s Grand Tour of the Solar System
Dr. Maggie’s Grand Tour of the Solar System Maggie Aderin-Pocock 9781684640348 Nonfiction Kane/Miller Book Publishers EDC Publishing Space scientist Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock takes readers on the trip ...
Parable of the Sower
Parable of the Sower Octavia E. Butler 9781538732182 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group From the "grand dame" of science fiction, a dystopian classic of terror and hope about an Afri...
Threesome
Threesome Brian W. Smith and Keith Thomas Walker 9780996750578 Fiction KeithWalkerBooks KeithWalkerBooks Corey Grand, CEO of Grand Security Services, has the type of lifestyle men would kill for. Ren...
Dear Continuum: Letters to a Poet Crafting Liberation
Dear Continuum: Letters to a Poet Crafting Liberation Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie 9780692430903 Poetry Grand Concourse Press Grand Concourse Press It’s a surprise to me that I’ve written this book. I’ve...
Persona Non Grata
Persona Non Grata Christopher Michael 9780983350866 Poetry 310 Brown Street 310 Brown Street Persona Non Grata is the first full length collection of poetry and spoken word performance pieces from nat...
Man Eater
Man Eater Gar Anthony Haywood 9781941298459 Fiction Cutting Edge Publishing Cutting Edge Publishing Shamus & Anthony Award winning author Gar Anthony Haywood’s brutally funny Hollywood thriller Man Ea...
The Last Days Of Ptolemy Grey
The Last Days Of Ptolemy Grey Walter Mosley 9781594485503 Fiction Riverhead Hardcover Penguin Random House A masterful, moving novel about age, memory, and family from one of the true literary icons ...
Erotic City
Erotic City Marissa Monteilh 9780446179577 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Erotic City is sex-fest central-a hip, upscale swingers club for grown-folks only, located in the heart ...
James Berry
James Berry 0000000081429589 James Berry was a renowned Jamaican poet based in the UK. He won the Coretta Scott King Book Award and the Smarties Grand Prix, and received an OBE for his contributions ...
Linda A. Duggins
Linda A. Duggins NONE Linda A. Duggins is the Director of Multicultural Publicity at Hachette Book Group and Co-founder of the Harlem Book Fair. She's a board member of several literacy organizations...
Michele Andrea Bowen
Michele Andrea Bowen NONE Michele Andrea Bowen, a St. Louis native and Durham, NC resident, is a prolific author with degrees in Psychology, Social Work, Counseling Education, US History, and Public ...
Serena Williams
Serena Williams 0000000114598590 Serena Williams, renowned for her tennis prowess and 23 Grand Slams, is also a successful businesswoman and philanthropist. She founded Serena Ventures, supporting co...
Jenin Mohammed
Jenin Mohammed NONE Jenin Mohammed, a talented illustrator from Florida, is renowned for her humorous and captivating art. Winner of the 2020 Summer Spectacular Illustration Grand Prize, her unique s...
Venus Williams
Venus Williams 0000000114587007 Venus Ebony Starr Williams (born June 17, 1980) became a professional tennis player at the remarkable age of fourteen, immediately making waves in the sport by defeat...
The Prophets
The Prophets Robert Jones, Jr. 9780593085684 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Penguin Random House #1 Indie Next Pick The New York Times Book Review’s Books to Watch for in January The Washington Post...
Akashic Books
Akashic Books Akashic Books Akashic Books AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series Black Goat Black Sheep Edge of Sports Enemy Books Infamous Books Open Lens Peekash Press The Armory Uglytown Productio...
Behind those Books (press release)
Behind those Books (press release) Troy Johnson images/behindthosebooks.jpg Film Review Behind Those Books: A Thought Provoking Documentary Tackling Societal Ills Through Literature Behind Th...
Kurt Boone
Kurt Boone NONE Kurt Boone is a prolific poet with over 350 works and 7 books to his name, including the acclaimed 'Looking For Myself'. Recognized by major media outlets, he has also worked as a mar...
Enemy Books
Enemy Books Akashic Books Akashic Books Enemy Books, launched in June 2023, is curated by Chuck D, and hosted by Brooklyn’s Akashic Books. Enemy Books will have a strong focus on visual art....
Just Us Books, Inc.
Just Us Books, Inc. Just Us Books, Inc. Just Us Books Marimba Books Sankofa Books http://www.justusbooks.com Wade and Cheryl Hudson were parents on a desperate search for children’s books th...
December eNewsletter Great New Children's Books and More
December eNewsletter Great New Children's Books and More Troy Johnson Article Great Children’s Books Coming Soon I’m always on lookout terrific for children’s books, even before they are a...
Black Books Galore! Guide to Great African American Children’s Books about Girls
Black Books Galore! Guide to Great African American Children’s Books about Girls Donna Rand and Toni Trent Parker 9780471375265 Nonfiction Wiley Wiley "Offers a wonderful overview of literature with b...
The Museum of Ordinary People
The Museum of Ordinary People Mike Gayle 9781538740842 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group In this “pure, unadulterated feel-good” and warmhearted novel, an old set of encyclopedias l...
Before I Let Go
Before I Let Go Kennedy Ryan 9781538706794 Fiction Forever Grand Central Publishing A Good Morning America Book Buzz Pick! Book of the Month Club selection NPR Best Books of 2022 Entertainment Week...
The President’s Shadow
The President’s Shadow Brad Meltzer 9780446553940 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Brad Meltzer is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Inner Circle, The Book of Fate, a...
The Light Of The World: A Memoir
The Light Of The World: A Memoir Elizabeth Alexander 9781455599875 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group New York Times BestsellerNew York Times Book Review Editor’s ChoiceAmazon’s B...
Ariadne: A Tale of the Minotaur (Heroines of Classical Greece Book 2)
Ariadne: A Tale of the Minotaur (Heroines of Classical Greece Book 2) S. D. Hines B00ED7N5KS Fiction Story Merchant Books Story Merchant Books Three thousand years before The Hunger Games, a conquered...
JMG Books
JMG Books Troy Johnson Article Contact: John McGregor JMG Books 199 Grand Avenue Freeport, NY, 11520