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Karmetria Burton
Karmetria Burton NONE Karmetria Dunham Burton PhD is senior director of Global Supplier Diversity and Inclusion for McDonald’s. Dr. Karmetria Burton is a corporate executive, speaker, author, and fou...
Orisanmi Burton
Orisanmi Burton NONE Dr. Orisanmi Burton's work is essential for understanding the ongoing struggle for Black liberation, the politics of incarceration, and the strategies the state uses to suppress ...
Take My Word for It: A Memoir
Take My Word for It: A Memoir LeVar Burton with Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts 9798217198276 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House In Take My Word for It, legendary actor LeVar Burton shares th...
Valorie Burton
Valorie Burton 0000000038525583 Valorie Burton, a motivational speaker, author, and life coach, is the founder of the Coaching and Positive Psychology Institute. Valorie Burton is a life coach, autho...
Art T. Burton
Art T. Burton NONE Art T. Burton, a retired history professor from South Suburban College, Illinois, authored notable books on African American Scouts and Soldiers, and Black and Indian Gunfighters o...
Never Wear Red Lipstick: 8 Lies That Stop Black Women from Succeeding in Life and Business
Never Wear Red Lipstick: 8 Lies That Stop Black Women from Succeeding in Life and Business Karmetria Burton 9798889833000 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media A guide for Black women to unlock th...
Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt
Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt Orisanmi Burton 9780520396326 Nonfiction University of California Press University of California Press A radical reint...
LeVar Burton with Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts
LeVar Burton with Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts MULTIPLE LeVar Burton with Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts
LeVar Burton and Susan Schaefer Bernardo
LeVar Burton and Susan Schaefer Bernardo MULTIPLE LeVar Burton with Susan Schaefer Bernardo
Steps to the Promised Land
Steps to the Promised Land Gregg Riley 9781511704809 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Recognizing trouble in the land, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood against the darkness. “Only when it’...
Rules of Resilience: 10 Ways Successful People Get Better, Wiser, and Stronger
Rules of Resilience: 10 Ways Successful People Get Better, Wiser, and Stronger Valorie Burton 9798400510724 Nonfiction Tyndale Refresh Tyndale House What if you could learn the secret to thriving no m...
My Friend Levar
My Friend Levar Ezra Edmond 9781623543174 Nonfiction Charlesbridge Charlesbridge Celebrate the joy of reading and imagination with Ezra; he loves discovering new picture books with his friend LeVar Bu...
Gabi Burton
Gabi Burton NONE Gabi Burton grew up reading and writing in St. Louis, Missouri. She graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine in 2021. Now, she works as a paralegal and author on the East ...
Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves
Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves Art T. Burton 9781496233424 Nonfiction Bison Books University of Nebraska Press In The Story of Oklahoma, Deputy U.S. Marsha...
LeVar Burton
LeVar Burton 0000000078241331 Levardis Robert Martyn “LeVar” Burton Jr. (born February 16, 1957) played Kunta Kinte in the acclaimed miniseries Roots, and starred as Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge in...
Black, Red and Deadly: Black and Indian Gunfighters of the Indian Territory, 1870-1907
Black, Red and Deadly: Black and Indian Gunfighters of the Indian Territory, 1870-1907 Art T. Burton 9780890159941 Nonfiction Eakins Press Foundation Eakins Press Foundation Cherokee Bill, one of the ...
Happy Habits for Successful Women: 13 Ways to Trigger Your Happiness Every Day
Happy Habits for Successful Women: 13 Ways to Trigger Your Happiness Every Day Valorie Burton 9780736990363 Nonfiction Harvest House Publishers Harvest House Publishers Stop Underestimating Yourself. ...
Let Go of the Guilt: Stop Beating Yourself Up and Take Back Your Joy
Let Go of the Guilt: Stop Beating Yourself Up and Take Back Your Joy Valorie Burton 9780785220213 Nonfiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing Break Your Guilt Habit! In Let Go of the G...
Life Coaching for Successful Women: Powerful Questions, Practical Answers
Life Coaching for Successful Women: Powerful Questions, Practical Answers Valorie Burton 9780736980272 Nonfiction Harvest House Publishers Harvest House Publishers If You Could Not Fail, What Would Yo...
Successful Women Speak Differently: 9 Habits That Build Confidence, Courage, and Influence
Successful Women Speak Differently: 9 Habits That Build Confidence, Courage, and Influence Valorie Burton 9780736956802 Nonfiction Harvest House Publishers Harvest House Publishers Stop Underestimatin...
Happy Women Live Better
Happy Women Live Better Valorie Burton 9780736956758 Nonfiction Harvest House Publishers Harvest House Publishers Women have more education, more money, and more choices than ever before. Yet, researc...
Listen to Your Life: Following Your Unique Path to Extraordinary Success
Listen to Your Life: Following Your Unique Path to Extraordinary Success Valorie Burton 9781578568208 Nonfiction WaterBrook Press Penguin Random House A Better Life Is Calling. Are You Ready to Answer...
Aftermath
Aftermath LeVar Burton 9781538723739 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group In this ambitious work of speculative fiction, acclaimed actor and storyteller LeVar Burton imagines a near-fu...
What’s Really Holding You Back?: Closing the Gap Between Where You Are and Where You Want to Be
What’s Really Holding You Back?: Closing the Gap Between Where You Are and Where You Want to Be Valorie Burton 9781578568215 Nonfiction WaterBrook Press Penguin Random House Get Unstuck. Become Unstop...
And the Sun God Said: That’s Hip
And the Sun God Said: That’s Hip Ernest Gregg 9780060221157 Poetry Harper & Row HarperCollins Relates in verse the Sun God’s creation of his black people.
The Strength That Stays
The Strength That Stays Morgan Richard Olivier 9798985731149 Poetry Oak Agencies Oak Agencies Penned within The Strength That Stays, Morgan Richard Olivier vulnerably shares words of wisdom, strength,...
Nothing Stays the Same (Zane Presents)
Nothing Stays the Same (Zane Presents) Suzetta Perkins 9781593092863 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Combining suspense, high drama, and seduction, Nothing Stays the Same is about a man w...
A Kids Book About Imagination
A Kids Book About Imagination LeVar Burton 9780241634561 Nonfiction DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) Penguin Random House What is imagination? Most of us think of it as playing pretend or what happe...
Purple Panties: An Eroticanoir.com Anthology
Purple Panties: An Eroticanoir.com Anthology Zane 9781593091651 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. What happens when "The Finest Man" you have ever laid eyes on is a woman? What ha...
Black, Buckskin, and Blue: African American Scouts and Soldiers on the Western Frontier
Black, Buckskin, and Blue: African American Scouts and Soldiers on the Western Frontier Art T. Burton 9781571687869 Nonfiction Eakins Press Foundation Eakins Press Foundation Black, Buckskin, and Blue...
Girls, Unlimited: How to Invest in Our Daughters with More Than Money
Girls, Unlimited: How to Invest in Our Daughters with More Than Money Monique Couvson 9781620979471 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press Bestselling author and advocate Dr. Monique Couvson makes a c...
Remembering Roots: How an American Classic Transformed the World
Remembering Roots: How an American Classic Transformed the World Lucas L. Johnson II 9798889835127 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media “Remembering Roots highlights the indomitability of the human s...
The Great Negro Plot: A Tale Of Conspiracy And Murder In Eighteenth-Century New York
The Great Negro Plot: A Tale Of Conspiracy And Murder In Eighteenth-Century New York Mat Johnson 9781582340999 Nonfiction Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing In 1741, New York City was thrown into an...
Never Wear Red Lipstick: 8 Lies That Stop Black Women from Succeeding in Life and Business
Never Wear Red Lipstick: 8 Lies That Stop Black Women from Succeeding in Life and Business Shaundale Rénā Book Review I was surprised by Never Wear Red Lipstick: 8 Lies That Stop Black Women from Suc...
To Steal a Throne
To Steal a Throne Gabi Burton 9781547617272 Fiction Bloomsbury YA Bloomsbury Publishing In this YA fantasy novel perfect for fans of Heartless Hunter, a girl who has always served others decides to se...
Drown Me with Dreams
Drown Me with Dreams Gabi Burton 9781547610419 Fiction Bloomsbury YA Bloomsbury Publishing In book two of this dark and seductive YA fantasy duology, perfect for fans of Fourth Wing and These Violent ...
Sing Me to Sleep
Sing Me to Sleep Gabi Burton 9781547610372 Fiction Bloomsbury YA Bloomsbury Publishing Featured in the New York Times, Glamour, BuzzFeed, and more! In this dark and seductive YA fantasy debut, perf...
The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm
The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm LeVar Burton and Susan Schaefer Bernardo 9780990539506 Fiction Reading Rainbow Reading Rainbow Big or small, we are all vulnerable during traumatic times, but with lo...
In The Break: The Aesthetics Of The Black Radical Tradition
In The Break: The Aesthetics Of The Black Radical Tradition Fred Moten 9780816641000 Nonfiction University of Minnesota Press University of Minnesota Press In his controversial essay on white jazz mus...
Jackie and Me: A Very Special Friendship
Jackie and Me: A Very Special Friendship Tania Grossinger 9781620876831 Fiction Sky Pony Skyhorse Publishing Thirteen-year-old Tania Grossinger lives in the famous Grossinger hotel in New York’s...
True to the Game (True to the Game trilogy, Book 1)
True to the Game (True to the Game trilogy, Book 1) Teri Woods 9781441772343 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group True to the Game represents life on the streets, where it’s true that ...
Women of the Post
Women of the Post Joshunda Sanders 9780778334071 Fiction Park Row Books Harlequin Enterprises Limited "What a beautifully imagined and important narrative. Sanders’ clear-eyed and powerful writing mad...
Don’t Ever Tell
Don’t Ever Tell Brandon Massey 9780786019939 Fiction Pinnacle Kensington Publishing Corp. Dark Secrets. . . With a new identity, a new city to live in, and a wonderful new husband, Rachel Moore...
Hannah Crafts
Hannah Crafts 0000000057115061 Hannah Bond, known as Hannah Crafts, was an African-American writer and ex-slave who escaped to the North and wrote The Bondwoman’s Narrative. Settling in New Jersey, B...
Above the Noise: My Story of Chasing Calm
Above the Noise: My Story of Chasing Calm DeMar DeRozan and Dave Zarum 9780593581261 Nonfiction Harmony Penguin Random House From one of the most outspoken and respected NBA athletes comes a groundbre...
Your Book, Your Brand: The Step-By-Step Guide to Launching Your Book and Boosting Your Sales
Your Book, Your Brand: The Step-By-Step Guide to Launching Your Book and Boosting Your Sales Dana Kaye 9781682303801 Nonfiction Diversion Books Diversion Books Throughout her career, Dana Kaye has hel...
If It’s Ever Spring Again
If It’s Ever Spring Again Langston Hughes 9780893287436 Fiction Roger Dean Publishing Roger Dean Publishing Sheet Music: Commissioned by the Gregg Smith Singers for their 50th anniversary celebration....
Cruising
Cruising Desiree Day 9781416503514 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. FROM THE AUTHOR OF CRAZY LOVE COMES AN OH-NO-YOU-DIDN’T NEW NOVEL ABOUT FOUR FRIENDS ON THE ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME — A ...
Going Toe to Toe: A Romance
Going Toe to Toe: A Romance Yahrah St. John 9781335574800 Fiction Afterglow Books Harlequin Enterprises Limited After their no-strings fling in paradise, Lyric and Devon never thought they’d see each...
Mem
Mem Bethany C. Morrow 9781944700867 Fiction Arthur A. Levine Books Scholastic Inc. Buzzfeed’s #1 Book to Read this SpringA Best Book of the Month at The Washington Post, Bustle, and Chicago Review of ...
Full Figured 11: Carl Weber Presents
Full Figured 11: Carl Weber Presents Treasure Hernandez 9781622864676 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance Once again, Carl Weber brings together two literary divas to give readers what they’ve...
Beale Street Blues
Beale Street Blues Angela Kay Austin 9780986313721 Fiction Bluff City Publishing Bluff City Publishing Darling Crawford lost the man she loved to another woman. Returning to her parents was bad enough...
Homecoming Weekend: A Novel (Zane Presents)
Homecoming Weekend: A Novel (Zane Presents) Curtis Bunn 9781593094294 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. If you thought Las Vegas was where “what happens” stays, you have not been to homecom...
Convict’s Candy
Convict’s Candy Damon Meadows and Jason Poole 9780974298221 Fiction Ghettoheat Ghettoheat The two talented writers’s purpose for creating Convict’s Candy was to expose what’s really going on behind th...
Forbidden Pleasure
Forbidden Pleasure Ernest Morris 9781947340565 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing Four women, each going through different phases in their lives, seek comfort in each other and forms a wome...
S.T.U.F.F. Happens!!!: Situations That Unleash our Focus & Faith!
S.T.U.F.F. Happens!!!: Situations That Unleash our Focus & Faith! R. Sporty King 9781532895753 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Life doesn’t happen in order, but celebration doesn’t nee...
Violets & Violence
Violets & Violence Morgan Parker 9780991764891 Fiction QuoteStork Media QuoteStork Media Violet has magical talent. She can levitate, walk through glass, and be in two places at one time. What happens...
The Maker of Saints
The Maker of Saints Thulani Davis 9780140267358 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House ? A QPB and BOMC selection ? The author?s previous novel, 1959, was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book ...
James McBride
James McBride 0000000121485295 James McBride is a celebrated author and musician, known for his memoir 'The Color of Water' and his novel 'Miracle at St. Anna'. He has written for notable publication...
Searching for Jane Crow: Black Women and Mass Incarceration in America from the Auction Block to the Cell Block
Searching for Jane Crow: Black Women and Mass Incarceration in America from the Auction Block to the Cell Block Talitha L. LeFlouria 9780807003930 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press A Ms. Magazine “...
Hot Westmoreland Nights (Silhouette Desire)
Hot Westmoreland Nights (Silhouette Desire) Brenda Jackson 9780373730131 Fiction Silhouette Silhouette He knew better than to lust after the hired help. But Ramsey Westmoreland’s new cook was just so ...
Butterscotch Blues
Butterscotch Blues Margaret Johnson-Hodge 9780312264840 Fiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers Sandy Hutchinson has skin so dark and chocolately brown, her friends call her "the Black Diva." ...
Suzan-Lori Parks
Suzan-Lori Parks 0000000115844503 Suzan-Lori Parks, born 1963, is a Pulitzer-winning playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. Notable for her work on Spike Lee’s ‘Girl 6’ and Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo P...
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson 0000000513744479 Jocelyn Nicole Johnson is a prolific writer and public school art teacher based in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her work, including her renowned short story “Con...
Interview with Production Designer Wynn Thomas
Interview with Production Designer Wynn Thomas Booker T. Mattison Article Production designer Wynn Thomas started working in theatre as a teenager growing up in Philadelphia. Upon graduation...
Roots
Roots Kam Williams alex.h11.jpg Film Review 30th Anniversary Edition of Emmy-Winning Miniseries Arrives on DVD Roots (Four-Disc -30th Anniversary Edition) (1977) Click to order via AmazonDirec...
The Secret Life of Bees
The Secret Life of Bees Kam Williams the_se11.jpg Film Review Carolina Provides Scenic Rural Backdrop for Female Empowerment Flick Set during Civil Rights Era The Secret Life of Bees R...
Land of Shadows
Land of Shadows Rachel Howzell Hall 9780765336354 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers "A fresh voice in crime fiction. Fast, funny, heartbreaking and wise…Elouise Norton is the best new character you’l...
Margaree K. Mitchell
Margaree K. Mitchell NONE Margaree K. Mitchell is an award-winning author of children's, teen, and adult books. Known for titles like Uncle Jed’s Barbershop and Granddaddy’s Gift, she uses history to...
Nick Brooks
Nick Brooks NONE Nick Brooks, an award-winning filmmaker and author from Washington, DC, is known for his short film 'Hoop Dreamin''. A 2020 USC graduate, he won the George Lucas Scholar Award and wa...
Mighty Macy
Mighty Macy Kwame Alexander 9780316442169 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group A young girl finds her voice—and discovers the power of speaking up for herself and her comm...
The Wilderness
The Wilderness Angela Flournoy 9780063318779 Fiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Finalist for the 2025 Kirkus Prize for Fiction Named a most anticipated book by New York Times, Washingt...
I Can’t Even Think Straight
I Can’t Even Think Straight Dean Atta 9780063158030 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins In this emotional novel in verse by the Stonewall Award–winning author of The Black Flamingo, a queer biracia...
Shark Teeth
Shark Teeth Sherri Winston 9781547608508 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing From National Book Award longlisted author Sherri Winston comes an important middle grade novel about a...
Santa’s Gotta Go!
Santa’s Gotta Go! Derrick Barnes 9780593530436 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House The book opens with siblings Monte and Mabel penning their Christmas lists, with a peculiar top wish - a...
Monstrous
Monstrous Jessica Lewis 9780593434819 Fiction Random House Children’s Books Penguin Random House From the author of Bad Witch Burning comes a pulse-pounding supernatural thriller about a teen who unco...
The Last Gift of the Master Artists
The Last Gift of the Master Artists Ben Okri 9781635422795 Fiction Other Press (NY) Other Press The Booker Prize-winning author, a child of the Nigerian Civil War, reinvents through the story of the A...
My Fade Is Fresh
My Fade Is Fresh Shauntay Grant 9780593387085 Fiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House A little girl makes sure she walks out of the barbershop rocking the fabulous hair style she chooses. Lea...
One More Night
One More Night Brenda Jackson and Synithia Williams 9781335406392 Fiction Harlequin Harlequin Enterprises Limited One night is never enough… One Night with the Wealthy Rancher by New York Times bes...
Like Sisters on the Homefront
Like Sisters on the Homefront Rita Williams-Garcia 9780062823922 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins Rita Williams-Garcia’s masterful and bold Coretta Scott King Honor Book is fresh, funny, and pow...
Color Me in
Color Me in Natasha Diaz 9780525578239 Fiction Delacorte Press Penguin Random House A powerful coming-of-age novel pulled from personal experience about the meaning of friendship, the joyful beginning...
Book or Bell?
Book or Bell? Chris Barton 9781681197296 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Children's Books Bloomsbury Publishing The first page has Henry hooked.The second page has him captivated.The third page …BBBBRRRRIIIIIN...
Streets Have No King
Streets Have No King JaQuavis Coleman 9781250081278 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers A street thriller of kidnapping, murder, trickery, and love that will have you at the edge of your...
The Underground Railroad: A Novel
The Underground Railroad: A Novel Colson Whitehead 9780385542364 Fiction Doubleday Penguin Random House Every now and then a book comes along that reaches the marrow of your bones, settles in, and sta...
Crowning Glory
Crowning Glory Pat Simmons 9781499724417 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Cinderella had a prince; Karyn Wallace has a King.While Karyn served four years in prison for an unthinkable crime...
The Warlord Of Willow Ridge
The Warlord Of Willow Ridge Gary Phillips 9780758203854 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In A World Of Bikers, Meth, And Overdue Mortgages. . .All the miles. All the blood. All has led him...
Surrender The Dark
Surrender The Dark Leslie Esdaile Banks 9781451607789 Fiction Pocket Books Pocket Books National bestselling author L.A. Banks’s electrifying new paranormal series is set in a sizzling world where Dar...
Blood Dazzler
Blood Dazzler Patricia Smith 9781566892186 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press In minute-by-minute detail, Patricia Smith tracks Hurricane Katrina as it transforms into a full-blown mistress ...
Cydney Rax
Cydney Rax NONE Cydney Rax, an influential author known for her provocative love triangle novels, has been passionate about books since childhood. Her debut novel, My Daughter's Boyfriend, sparked co...
The Door of No Return
The Door of No Return Kwame Alexander 9780316441964 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group From the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award winning author Kwame Alexander...
Be Holding: A Poem
Be Holding: A Poem Ross Gay 9780822966234 Poetry University of Pittsburgh Press University of Pittsburgh Press Winner, 2021 PEN/Jean Stein AwardWinner, 2022 Indiana Author Award in Poetry Be Holding i...
House Repairs
House Repairs Angela Jackson-Brown 9780942544473 Poetry Negative Capability Press Negative Capability Press “I have often said that good poetry makes you think or feel deeply; great poetry makes you d...
The Hollow Sound of Lightweight Bodies
The Hollow Sound of Lightweight Bodies Unathi Slasha 9781957810485 Fiction Iskanchi Press Iskanchi Press A darkly comic and surreal literary novel set in a South African township, where a young cremat...
Iron Will: An Amputee’s Journey to Athletic Excellence
Iron Will: An Amputee’s Journey to Athletic Excellence Roderick Sewell 9781538741566 Nonfiction Legacy Lit Hachette Book Group The story of the first bilateral above-the-knee amputee to become an IRON...
Impossible Moon
Impossible Moon Breanna J. McDaniel 9781534478978 Fiction Denene Millner Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A young girl undertakes an impossible trip to the moon, makes friends with the stars, and brings b...
Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle
Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle Nina LaCour 9781536211511 Fiction Candlewick Press (MA) Candlewick Press A little girl stays home with Mama when Mommy goes off on a work trip in this tender, invit...