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Harmattan Rain
Harmattan Rain Ayesha Harruna Attah 9782911928123 Fiction Per Ankh Publishers Per Ankh Publishers Harmattan Rain follows three generations of women as they cope with family, love and life. A few ye...
Harmattan Rain
Harmattan Rain Ayesha Harruna Attah Excerpt Ernest sat in the driver’s seat of the Pontiac tapping his fingers on the steering wheel. Lizzie packed Akua Afriyie, Naa Tsoo, Kwame and Ernest ...
Ayesha Harruna Attah
Ayesha Harruna Attah 0000000389081478 Ayesha Harruna Attah, born in Accra, Ghana, is an acclaimed author known for her novel 'Harmattan Rain', shortlisted for the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. He...
Harmattan Season
Harmattan Season Tochi Onyebuchi 9781250782977 Fiction Tor Books Macmillan Publishers Award-winning author Tochi Onyebuchi’s new standalone novel is hard-boiled fantasy noir: Raymond Chandler meets P....
Rain Falls
Rain Falls Mélina Mangal 9798885548496 Fiction Free Spirit Publishing Teacher Created Materials Join cousins Kamali and Josiah in exploring the sensations of walking in the rain. In Rain Falls, two...
Rain Remembers
Rain Remembers Courtne Comrie 9780063159778 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins In the companion novel to the critically acclaimed Rain Rising, Rain must once again find the strength to rise above. ...
Rain Rising
Rain Rising Courtne Comrie 9780063159730 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins “A searing exploration of the intricacies of racism, privilege, and self-worth within the confines of the Black community. ...
RAIN in the Promised Land (Rain Series) (Volume 8)
RAIN in the Promised Land (Rain Series) (Volume 8) Vanessa Miller 9781516914814 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC With times like these it’s no wonder that fear has gripped Nina Walker’s ...
Zonia’s Rain Forest
Zonia’s Rain Forest Juana Martinez-Neal 9781536208450 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press A heartfelt, visually stunning picture book from Caldecott Honor and Robert F. Sibert Medal winner Jua...
Jokes My Father Never Taught Me: Life, Love, and Loss with Richard Pryor
Jokes My Father Never Taught Me: Life, Love, and Loss with Richard Pryor Rain Pryor 9780061195426 Nonfiction HarperEntertainment HarperCollins The loving yet brutally honest memoir of the daughter of ...
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought Briona Simone Jones 9781620975763 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press A groundbreaking collection tracing the history of intellectual thought b...
After the Rain (Rain Series) (Volume 7)
After the Rain (Rain Series) (Volume 7) Vanessa Miller 9781507718117 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Isaac Walker is back with a vengeance. As old enemies from his past resurface Isaac ...
Come On, Rain!
Come On, Rain! Karen Hesse 9780590331258 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. "Come on, Rain!" Tess pleads to the sky as listless vines and parched plants droop in the endless heat. Then the cloud...
Rain Pryor
Rain Pryor 000000004618407X Rain Pryor (born July 16, 1968) was a regular on the hit ABC series Head of the Class, starred in the Showtime series Rude Awakening, and created the award-winning one-wo...
When Stars Rain Down
When Stars Rain Down Angela Jackson-Brown 9780785240440 Fiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing Opal is an eighteen-year-old Black woman working as a housekeeper in a small Southern t...
Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose
Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose Nikki Giovanni 9780062995285 Poetry William Morrow HarperCollins One of America’s most celebrated poets challenges us with this powerful and deeply personal collection of v...
After the Rain - A Poetry Collective
After the Rain - A Poetry Collective Tumika Patrice Cain 9780991507719 Fiction Inkscriptions Inkscriptions After the rain is the poignant account of life through the eyes of one woman written in poeti...
Rain!
Rain! Linda Ashman 9780547733951 Fiction Clarion Books HarperCollins One rainy day in the city, an eager little boy exclaims, “Rain!” Across town, a grumpy man grumbles, “Rain.” In this endearing pict...
Thumper’s Picks
Thumper’s Picks Thumper Article It’s been a while but I’m back with a whole new set of books that I have fallen in love with, passed around, and will sing the praises of at the drop of ...
After the Rain: A heartbreaking and gripping emotional page-turner
After the Rain: A heartbreaking and gripping emotional page-turner Laila Ibrahim 9781805084877 Fiction Storm Publishing Storm Publishing It began like any other Sunday morning… Jenn Henderson arrived...
After the Rain
After the Rain Nnedi Okorafor 9781419743566 Fiction Abrams ComicArts Abrams Nnedi Okorafor’s story of Chioma, a young Nigerian-American woman whose destiny is revealed during a furious rainstorm—now i...
Long Rain
Long Rain Lenard D. Moore 9781732436992 Poetry Wet Cement Press Wet Cement Press Lenard D. Moore’s Long Rain is a book of exquisite tanka poems, similar to haiku, and short prose haibun, organized aro...
Let It Rain
Let It Rain Patricia A. Saunders 9781496948083 Poetry AuthorHouse Author Solutions The third book of poetry will have fans laughing, crying and shaking their heads in agreement. The storms might bring...
Afro Clouds & Nappy Rain: The Curtis Brown Poems
Afro Clouds & Nappy Rain: The Curtis Brown Poems James B. Golden 9781462055135 Poetry iUniverse Author Solutions In his second book, Afro Clouds & Nappy Rain, James B. Golden introduces the world to C...
Redemption Rain
Redemption Rain Jennifer Rahim 9781894770705 Poetry Mawenzi House Mawenzi House “Jennifer Rahim is a poet whose work allows us to feel the vastness and reach of the Caribbean … Her authority is rooted...
Commit To Violence
Commit To Violence Roy Glenn 9780615317519 Fiction Escapism Entertainment Escapism Entertainment When long time associate, Kenny Lucas is assassinated, Mike Black orders Nick Simmons, who now runs his...
The Rain Stomper
The Rain Stomper Addie Boswell 9780761453932 Fiction Two Lions Amazon Publishing A baton twirler fights the rain to save her neighborhood parade
Day of Tears
Day of Tears Julius Lester 9781423104094 Fiction Disney-Hyperion Disney Publishing Worldwide On March 2 and 3, 1859, the largest auction of slaves in American history took place in Savannah, Georgia. ...
Rain Feet
Rain Feet Angela Johnson 9780531068496 Fiction Orchard Books Orchard Books A very young boy in a yellow slicker enjoys playing in the rain.
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain Verna Aardema 9780140546163 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House A cumulative rhyme relating how Ki-pat brought rain to the drought-stricken Kapiti Plain. Verna ...
Vanessa Miller
Vanessa Miller NONE Best-selling author and motivational speaker Vanessa Miller, known for her stage productions and Rain Series novels, writes redemption stories to glorify God. She's won Best Chris...
Brittney Morris
Brittney Morris NONE Brittney Morris, author of 'Slay', is the founder of Boston University Creative Writing Club with a BA in Economics. She enjoys video games and the Seattle rain, living with her ...
A Thirst For Rain
A Thirst For Rain Tiffany M. Davis Book Review A Thirst For Rain is a multigenerational novel set in Trinidad. It is a tale about demons both real and perceived, and how deceptively simple it is to o...
Forbidden Fruit
Forbidden Fruit Stanley Gazemba Excerpt The air over the village that evening was pregnant with tension. A thick dark cloud loomed heavy above the grey colored thatch huts that dotted the steep green...
Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose
Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose Nikki Giovanni 9780062995292 Poetry William Morrow & Company HarperCollins
Fifty Words for Rain
Fifty Words for Rain Asha Lemmie 9781524746384 Fiction Dutton Books Penguin Random House A Good Morning America Book Club Pick and New York Times Bestseller! From debut author Asha Lemmie, “a lovel...
Wild Rain: Women Who Dare
Wild Rain: Women Who Dare Beverly Jenkins 9780063075153 Fiction Avon Books HarperCollins USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins continues her captivating Women Who Dare series with a female ranc...
Wild Rain (mass market paperback): Women Who Dare
Wild Rain (mass market paperback): Women Who Dare Beverly Jenkins 9780062861719 Fiction Avon Books (P) HarperCollins USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins continues her captivating Women Who D...
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest Hanif Abdurraqib 9781477316481 Nonfiction University of Texas Press University of Texas Press A New York Times Best Seller A February IndieNext Pick...
No Pain, No Gain (Latter Rain Series) (Volume 2)
No Pain, No Gain (Latter Rain Series) (Volume 2) Adrienne Thompson 9780997146141 Fiction Pink Cashmere Publishing Company Pink Cashmere Publishing Company Rochelle Warrior is tired of living the life ...
Joy and Pain (Latter Rain) (Volume 3)
Joy and Pain (Latter Rain) (Volume 3) Adrienne Thompson 9780997146158 Fiction Pink Cashmere Publishing Company Pink Cashmere Publishing Company Hyacinth Manor matriarch, Rosa Stark, is known for her w...
After the Pain (Latter Rain Series) (Volume 1)
After the Pain (Latter Rain Series) (Volume 1) Adrienne Thompson 9780997146134 Fiction Pink Cashmere Publishing Company Pink Cashmere Publishing Company Barely grasping on to her sanity due to past tr...
The Rhythm of the August Rain: A Novel
The Rhythm of the August Rain: A Novel Gillian Royes 9781476762401 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Shad Myers, the lovable bartender and town sleuth of Largo Bay, hunts down clues to a woma...
When Rain Falls (Victory Gospel Series #1)
When Rain Falls (Victory Gospel Series #1) Tyora Moody 9781601628220 Fiction Urban Christian Kensington Publishing Corp. "Why does God keep taking away the people I love?" This is th...
Latter Rain
Latter Rain Vanessa Miller 9781601628190 Fiction Urban Christian Kensington Publishing Corp. Hustling wasn’t easy, but Isaac did his best. He ruled the underworld like a predator – a self made CEO...
Abundant Rain
Abundant Rain Vanessa Miller 9781601627971 Fiction Urban Christian Kensington Publishing Corp. Elizabeth Underwood. Bold. Vivacious. Confident. Her life was about to be turned upside down. As far as...
Allie’s World: Block Party
Allie’s World: Block Party Karen Valentin 9781603490177 Fiction Marimba Books Just Us Books, Inc. Allie has waited and waited. Finally the day of the big neighborhood block party has come. At a block ...
Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story
Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story Mat Johnson 9781401221607 Fiction Vertigo Vertigo In the days after Hurricane Katrina, two men who fell through society’s cracks travel to evacuate New Orleans to pull o...
Former Rain
Former Rain Vanessa Miller 9781601628565 Fiction Urban Christian Kensington Publishing Corp. Elizabeth Underwood and Nina Lewis thought the unfaithful men in their lives caused their storms. But as ...
Rain Storm
Rain Storm Vanessa Miller 9781601629937 Fiction Urban Christian Kensington Publishing Corp. Beautiful and lethal. Cynda Stephens’ hatred for life and men grow as her addictions force her into prosti...
Black Rain (Sepia)
Black Rain (Sepia) Vincent Alexandria 9780373830435 Fiction Kimani Press Kimani Press Kansas City detective Joe Johnson is a passionate family man, and a loving husband and father. But on the streets,...
Frog Brings Rain
Frog Brings Rain Patricia Hruby Powell 9781893354081 Fiction Salina Bookshelf Salina Bookshelf As fire creeps toward the village of the First People, First Man and First Woman must find a way to quenc...
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...
Southside Rain
Southside Rain Quraysh Ali Lansana 9780883782194 Poetry Third World Press Third World Press Lansana uses his words to talk about the everyday life of a Black Chicagoan.
A Thirst For Rain
A Thirst For Rain Roslyn Carrington 9781575664460 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Set in the author’s native Trinidad and unfolding over the cou...
Roslyn Carrington
Roslyn Carrington NONE Roslyn Carringtongton is a Trinidadian PR professional and writer known for her literary novel, “A Thirst for Rain.” She also writes multicultural romances as Simona Taylor. A ...
Tyora Moody
Tyora Moody NONE Tyora Moody is a distinguished author and entrepreneur, known for her romantic suspense and cozy mystery novels. Her debut novel, 'When Rain Falls', was released in 2012. She is a me...
Vincent Alexandria
Vincent Alexandria NONE Vincent Alexandria is a nationally published author, he is also an actor, producer, director, composer, lyricist, screenwriter, vocalist, and musician. He holds a Bachelor’s ...
Addie Boswell
Addie Boswell NONE Addie Boswell, a Portland-based author and muralist, is known for her award-winning book, The Rain Stomper. Her works include Go, Bikes, Go!, Go, Planes, Go!, The Snow Dancer, and ...
Every Bitter Thing Sweet
Every Bitter Thing Sweet Tiffany M. Davis Book Review Every Bitter Thing Sweet picks up where A Thirst For Rain ends. While this is the story of Odile and Rory, Ms. Carrington continues her portrayal...
Carry the Quiet
Carry the Quiet Jacqueline Woodson 9780593696224 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House A child finds a way to access inner peace—when the world around her feels anything but peaceful—in thi...
My Brown Boy
My Brown Boy Leslé Honoré 9780316314145 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group An affirming picture book that celebrates the brilliance and power of brown and Black boys to ...
Prince: A Little Golden Book Biography
Prince: A Little Golden Book Biography Nikki Shannon Smith 9798217025459 Nonfiction Golden Books Penguin Random House Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to introduce young readers to the life ...
The Wildest Sun: A Novel
The Wildest Sun: A Novel Asha Lemmie 9780593185735 Fiction Penguin Publishing Group Penguin Random House Following her New York Times bestselling debut Fifty Words for Rain, Asha Lemmie’s next sweepin...
Kingdom of Dust
Kingdom of Dust Lisa Stringfellow 9780063043480 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins Author of A Comb of Wishes Lisa Stringfellow returns with a West African-inspired fantasy about a girl who is det...
Like Thunder: The Desert Magician’s Duology: Book Two
Like Thunder: The Desert Magician’s Duology: Book Two Nnedi Okorafor 9780756418793 Fiction Daw Books Astra Publishing House This brand-new sequel to Nnedi Okorafor’s Shadow Speaker contains the powerf...
Twin Cities Book Festival
Twin Cities Book Festival MINNESOTA STATE FAIRGROUNDS Minneapolis Minnesota The Twin Cities Book Festival—brought to you by Rain Taxi—is not only the largest and most important literary ga...
Prince in Comics!
Prince in Comics! Nicolas Finet and Tony Lourenco 9781681123219 Fiction Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing Prince Rogers Nelson aka Prince was a complete artis...
The Library of Broken Worlds
The Library of Broken Worlds Alaya Dawn Johnson 9781338290622 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. A girl matches wits with a war god in this kaleidoscopic, thought-provoking tale of oppression an...
Ty’s Travels: Camp-Out
Ty’s Travels: Camp-Out Kelly Starling Lyons 9780063083660 Fiction HarperAlley HarperCollins Ty makes his I Can Read Comic debut! Featuring a bold comic styling by New York Times bestselling illustrato...
The Gray Day: An Acorn Book (Rainbow Days #1)
The Gray Day: An Acorn Book (Rainbow Days #1) Valerie Bolling 9781338805949 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. In this sparkly, full-color early reader series, Zoya and her puppy, Coco, love...
Vanessa Nakate
Vanessa Nakate Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara 9780711285453 Nonfiction Frances Lincoln Children’s Books The Quarto Group In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little ...
Little Rosetta and the Talking Guitar: The Musical Story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Woman Who Invented Rock and Roll
Little Rosetta and the Talking Guitar: The Musical Story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Woman Who Invented Rock and Roll Charnelle Pinkney Barlow 9780593571064 Nonfiction Doubleday Books for Young Read...
The Psych of Life Oliver Gardens
The Psych of Life Oliver Gardens Scubie Albie 9798374113518 Poetry Independently Published Independently Published This collection of poems is my life stretch in plain sight, I feel it so well Oliver ...
Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020
Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 Carl Phillips 9780374607678 Poetry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers A new collection of poems from one of America’s most essential, celebrated...
The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver (paperback)
The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver (paperback) Gene Barretta 9780062430182 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins The inspirational story of George Washington Carver and his childhood secre...
Lovely Day (Picture Book Based on the Song by Bill Withers)
Lovely Day (Picture Book Based on the Song by Bill Withers) Bill Withers 9781338815382 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. Bill Withers’s celebrated hit song Lovely Day comes to life in this beauti...
Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction
Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight 9781250833006 Fiction Tordotcom Macmillan Publishers A 2023 NAACP Image Award Nominee! ...
My Name is Ona Judge
My Name is Ona Judge Suzette D. Harrison 9781803140773 Fiction Bookouture Bookouture New Hampshire, 1796. “My name is Ona Judge, and I escaped from the household of the President of the United States....
Muscadine Wine
Muscadine Wine Milton J. Davis 9798985733631 Fiction MVmedia MVmedia Lightning bugs on a summer evening. A lazy river swollen from a spring rain. The taste of honeysuckles. The aroma of wild grapes ri...
Wisdom: Blessings from Imperfections
Wisdom: Blessings from Imperfections J.L. Woodson and Naleighna Kai 9781952871443 Nonfiction Macro Publishing Group Macro Publishing Group Two Men. Two Callings. One Purpose. Build me an ark ...
On My Papa’s Shoulders
On My Papa’s Shoulders Niki Daly 9781946395689 Fiction Catalyst Press Catalyst Press A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection A 2023 Charlotte Zolotow Award Honor Book Winner of the 2022 South...
When Life Gives You Mangos
When Life Gives You Mangos Kereen Getten 9780593173992 Fiction Yearling Penguin Random House Named to Oprah Magazine’s Best Caribbean Books for Your 2021 reading list, imagination and adventure run wi...
Winter Roses After Fall
Winter Roses After Fall r.h. Sin and Robert M. Drake 9781524867898 Poetry Andrews McMeel Publishing Andrews McMeel Publishing From the authors of The New York Times bestsellers Empty Bottles Full of S...
Partly Cloudy
Partly Cloudy Tanita S. Davis 9780062937001 Fiction Katherine Tegen Books HarperCollins From award-winning author Tanita S. Davis comes a nuanced exploration of the microaggressions of middle school a...
When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories: Poems
When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories: Poems E. Ethelbert Miller 9781947951365 Poetry City Point Press City Point Press Much-honored Washington, D.C. poet activist E. Ethelb...
Razorblade Tears
Razorblade Tears S. A. Cosby 9781250252708 Fiction Flatiron Books Macmillan Publishers Join Our Book Discussion on Zoom ● May 31, 2026 ● 2 p.m. EDT A Black father. A white father. Two murdere...
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance Hanif Abdurraqib 9781984801197 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House A stirring meditation on Black performance in America from t...
This Close to Okay
This Close to Okay Leesa Cross-Smith 9781538715376 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group From the award-winning writer Roxane Gay calls “a consummate storyteller” comes a cathartic nove...
The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver
The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver Gene Barretta 9780062430151 Nonfiction Katherine Tegen Books HarperCollins The inspirational story of George Washington Carver and his childhood secret ga...
The Beautiful Ones
The Beautiful Ones Prince Rogers Nelson 9780399589652 Nonfiction Spiegel & Grau Penguin Random House The brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the greatest artists of all time,...
Life Is God’s Best Gift: Wisdom from the Ancestors on Finding Peace and Joy in Today’s World
Life Is God’s Best Gift: Wisdom from the Ancestors on Finding Peace and Joy in Today’s World Sam Chege 9780062906878 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Following the success of the megabestselling Black...
Family Business VI: Servant of God
Family Business VI: Servant of God Vanessa Miller 9781724039699 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published The sixth and final book in the Family Business series brings the Shepherd famil...
Sophie Washington Mission Costa Rica (paperback)
Sophie Washington Mission Costa Rica (paperback) Tonya Duncan Ellis 9781732706057 Fiction Page Turner Publishing Page Turner Publishing AN AMAZON BESTSELLING BOOK FOR KIDS! Sophie’s lost in the jungle...
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us Hanif Abdurraqib 9781937512651 Nonfiction Two Dollar Radio Two Dollar Radio Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His poe...
A Child’s Book of Prayers and Blessings: From Faiths and Cultures Around the World
A Child’s Book of Prayers and Blessings: From Faiths and Cultures Around the World Deloris Jordan 9781416995500 Fiction Paula Wiseman Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the coauthor of Salt in His Shoe...
This Beautiful Day
This Beautiful Day Richard Jackson 9781481441391 Fiction Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In the tradition of We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, acclaimed author Richard Jackson and award...
Texas Slamthology: Vol. 1
Texas Slamthology: Vol. 1 Christopher Michael 9780998427058 Poetry 310 Brown Street 310 Brown Street An Anthology of Texas Poetry, Slam Poets: Jomar Valentin . Mr Dave . Brian Francis . Christopher Mi...
Lizzie & McKenzie’s Fabulous Adventures: Mayhem in Madrid
Lizzie & McKenzie’s Fabulous Adventures: Mayhem in Madrid Troy Johnson Book Review Lizzie & McKenzie’s Fabulous Adventures: Mayhem in Madrid is the first book in a series of chapter books t...
The Last Kings 2
The Last Kings 2 C. N. Phillips 9781622867721 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Back from the dead, Sadie is hungrier and more ruthless than ever. With a heart black as night and an itch...