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Here Comes the Sun: A Novel
Here Comes the Sun: A Novel Nicole Dennis-Benn 9781631491764 Fiction Liveright W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. In this radiant, highly anticipated debut, a cast of unforgettable women battle for independ...
Nicole Dennis-Benn
Nicole Dennis-Benn 000000050158667X Nicole Dennis-Benn, an acclaimed author and Lambda Literary Award winner, is renowned for her debut novel 'Here Comes the Sun' which has received multiple accolade...
Stella Keeps the Sun Up
Stella Keeps the Sun Up Clothilde Ewing 9781534487857 Fiction Denene Millner Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this incandescently fun, hijinks-filled picture book, a young girl schemes to keep the sun ...
Anika Noni Rose - Half of a Yellow Sun - Interview
Anika Noni Rose - Half of a Yellow Sun - Interview Kam Williams Interview Anika Noni Rose The “Half of a Yellow Sun” Interview Tony Award winner Anika Noni Rose currently stars alongside Denz...
Nah’Sun
Nah’Sun NONE Born in Lilbourn, Missouri, Nah’Sun would later move around the Midwest before temporarily settling in Chicago. An aspiring cartoonist, Nah’Sun never gave writing a thought until him an...
Nicole Dennis-Benn reads from, Here Comes The Sun
Nicole Dennis-Benn reads from, Here Comes The Sun Author Interviews Nicole Dennis-Benn (https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=Nicole+Dennis-Benn) reads from her novel, Here Comes The Sun. ...
The Girl Who Swallowed the Sun
The Girl Who Swallowed the Sun Zetta Elliott 9781499606089 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press On the outside, Zoe looks like an ordinary little girl, but her father knows just how special she is insi...
Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun Kam Williams Half-of-a-Yellow-Sun.jpg Film Review Colonial Nigeria Provides Backdrop for Sweeping Romance Saga Half of a Yellow Sun In Theaters: May 16, 2014 Limited Rated...
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A Day in the Sun
A Day in the Sun Diana Ejaita 9780593659854 Fiction Rise X Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House A stunning celebration of our Sun and the universal ways in which it connects each of us, all around th...
Father & Sun
Father & Sun Ross Victory 9781637523018 Nonfiction VFTC Universe VFTC Universe Some say family is everything. Some say family are just people we’re assigned to at birth.Trey Amana, a forty-som...
The Sun Is So Quiet
The Sun Is So Quiet Nikki Giovanni 9781250046697 Nonfiction Square Fish Macmillan Publishers Quiet …like a quilt on a feather bed …and frost on the window …we write our names knowing …the sun will mel...
Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Susan M. Shaw
Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Susan M. Shaw MULTIPLE Rev. Dr. Grace Ji-Sun Kim, a theology professor at Earlham School of Religion and author, is an ordained Presbyterian minister and hosts the Madang podcast...
Why Did The City Sun [1984–1996] Matter?
Why Did The City Sun [1984–1996] Matter? Wayne Dawkins Article Editors’s Note: Check out Dawkins’ book about The City Sun’s publisher Andrew W. Cooper A decade ago ...
Sean "Diddy" Combs The "A Raisin in the Sun" Interview
Sean "Diddy" Combs The "A Raisin in the Sun" Interview Kam Williams Interview Born in New York on November 4, 1969, rap mogul Sean ’Diddy’ Combs is the CEO and founder of Bad Boy Worldwide ...
Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9781400095209 Fiction Alfred A. Knopf Penguin Random House A masterly, haunting new novel from a writer heralded by The Washington Post Book World as “the...
Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South
Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South Jaha Nailah Avery 9781646142446 Nonfiction Levine Querido Levine Querido NYPL Best of the Year Best of the Best, Black C...
We Wait For The Sun
We Wait For The Sun Katie McCabe 9781250229021 Nonfiction Roaring Brook Press Macmillan Publishers A beautiful and uplifting non-fiction picture book from Katie McCabe and trailblazing civil rights la...
In The Thick of Things: Thick 3 (Thick series)
In The Thick of Things: Thick 3 (Thick series) Nah’Sun B00NN50QLM Fiction Creative Souls Multimedia Creative Souls Multimedia New characters, new drama, and new comedy are packed in Part 3 of the Thic...
The Sun (New True Books: Space (Paperback))
The Sun (New True Books: Space (Paperback)) Christine Taylor Butler 9780531253632 Nonfiction Children’s Press and Franklin Watts Scholastic Inc. No other body in the solar system is as important as th...
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun Jacqueline Woodson 9780142416419 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House Three-time Newbery Honor author Jacqualine Woodson explores race and sexuality through the ...
Don’t Play in the Sun: One Woman’s Journey Through the Color Complex
Don’t Play in the Sun: One Woman’s Journey Through the Color Complex Marita Golden 9781400077366 Nonfiction Anchor Penguin Random House “Don’t play in the sun. You’re going to have to get a light-ski...
Lorraine Hansberry
Lorraine Hansberry 0000000109136877 Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) was a renowned American playwright and painter, best known for her Broadway production “A Raisin in the Sun.” Born in Chicago, to in...
Review of A Raisin in the Sun DVD (2008)
Review of A Raisin in the Sun DVD (2008) Kam Williams a_rais29.jpg Film Review Diddy Stars in Adaptation of Classic Play Available on DVD A Raisin in the Sun Click to order vi...
In Another Place, Not Here
In Another Place, Not Here Akilah Monifa Book Review Lest we forget that all African-American woman do not live in the United States of America, along comes Dionne Brand, a Trinidadian born now Can...
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...
In the Face of the Sun: A Fascinating Novel of Historical Fiction Perfect for Book Clubs
In the Face of the Sun: A Fascinating Novel of Historical Fiction Perfect for Book Clubs Denny S. Bryce 9781496730107 Fiction Kensington Publishing Corporation Kensington Publishing Corp. “Bryce excel...
Jump at the Sun: A Novel
Jump at the Sun: A Novel Kim McLarin 9780060528508 Fiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins After a series of stressful personal transitions, Grace Jefferson finds herself in a new house in a new city a...
The Sun Knows Her Name
The Sun Knows Her Name Shanida Carter Book Review “May we all remember what we were born from, and what still moves through us.” Spoiler alert: Courtney Thornton’s debut novel, The Sun Knows Her N...
That You Are Here Is No Small Thing
That You Are Here Is No Small Thing Vashti Harrison 9780593353028 Fiction Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House That You Are Here Is No Small Thing is a stunning and unforgettable explor...
Come by Here
Come by Here Thumper Book Review I found a pearl when I happened upon the remarkable author Clarence Major. I discovered Clarence Major by way of an anthology, titled After Hours edited by Robert ...
Here Are the Seeds
Here Are the Seeds JaNay Brown-Wood 9781525308307 Fiction Kids Can Press Corus Entertainment Inc This delightfully rhythmic story follows two children as they grow a garden from seeds. Author and p...
Summer Is Here
Summer Is Here Renée Watson 9781547605866 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing New York Times bestselling creators Renée Watson and Bea Jackson offer a picture book ode to a ...
Just Visiting This Planet: Merlin Answers More Questions About Everything Under The Sun, Moon, And Stars
Just Visiting This Planet: Merlin Answers More Questions About Everything Under The Sun, Moon, And Stars Neil deGrasse Tyson 9780385488372 Nonfiction Main Street Books Main Street Books In a companion...
Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping
Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping Shane McCrae 9781668021750 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. An unforgettable, “lyrical and poignant” (The Washington Pos...
Hello There, Sunshine
Hello There, Sunshine Tabitha Brown 9780063342262 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins From America’s Mom—actress, New York Times bestselling author, NAACP Award-winning personality, and Emmy-winning h...
Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping
Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping Shane McCrae 9781668021743 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. Vulture’s #1 Memoir of 2023 An unforgettable, “lyrical an...
Jump at the Sun
Jump at the Sun Alicia D. Williams 9781534419131 Nonfiction Atheneum Simon & Schuster, Inc. The first picture book biography written about Zora Neale Hurston From the Newbery Honor–winning author...
Walk Through Darkness
Walk Through Darkness Thumper Book Review Walk Through Darkness is magnificent! The writing prowess of David Anthony Durham is a promise fulfilled. Now, if, dear reader, your time is of the essence ...
Thick When the Chances are Slim: The Original Thick (Thick series Book 1)
Thick When the Chances are Slim: The Original Thick (Thick series Book 1) Nah’Sun B00NIDWOS2 Fiction Creative Souls Multimedia Creative Souls Multimedia She’ll do anything for thickness…even kil...
Jump at the Sun
Jump at the Sun Idrissa Uqdah Book Review It’s Always The Mama Baggage Kim McLarin is known for writing novels about touchy issues within the Black community. Her stories step on toes an...
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 ...
Happy to Be Nappy
Happy to Be Nappy bell hooks 9781484788417 Fiction Jump At The Sun Jump At The Sun This joyous ode to hair may well restart conversations that began last year with the controversy over Carolivia Her...
Surviving God: A New Vision of God Through the Eyes of Sexual Abuse Survivors
Surviving God: A New Vision of God Through the Eyes of Sexual Abuse Survivors Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Susan M. Shaw 9781506495781 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media Who is God when we see God through ...
Blue Sun (A C. J. Cavanaugh Mystery)
Blue Sun (A C. J. Cavanaugh Mystery) Michael R. Lane 9780971645370 Fiction Bare Bones Press Bare Bones Press Alice and Don Harriman are the owners of Blue Sun, the largest residential real estate and ...
My Hair Is Like the Sun
My Hair Is Like the Sun St. Clair Detrick-Jules 9781797221793 Fiction Chronicle Books Chronicle Books AS SEEN ON THE TODAY SHOW! A 2023 Good Housekeeping Kids Book Award Winner A 2023 Chicago Public...
Out of the Sun: On Race and Storytelling
Out of the Sun: On Race and Storytelling Esi Edugyan 9781487009861 Nonfiction House of Anansi Press House of Anansi Press Now available in paperback, an insightful exploration and moving meditation on...
The Sun Does Shine (Young Readers Edition): An Innocent Man, A Wrongful Conviction, and the Long Path to Justice
The Sun Does Shine (Young Readers Edition): An Innocent Man, A Wrongful Conviction, and the Long Path to Justice Anthony Ray Hinton, with Lara Love Hardin and Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich 97812508173...
Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun
Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun Tolá Okogwu 9781665912617 Fiction Margaret K. McElderry Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Black Panther meets X-Men in this "fast-paced, action-packed, and empowering...
The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars
The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars Rachel Montez Minor 9780593309377 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Celebrate the connections between parents, children, and the universe in t...
Facing the Rising Sun: African Americans, Japan, and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity
Facing the Rising Sun: African Americans, Japan, and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity Gerald Horne 9781479848591 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press The surprising alliance...
One Turn Around the Sun
One Turn Around the Sun Tim Seibles 9780990322184 Poetry Etruscan Press Etruscan Press One Turn Around the Sun is a panorama of poems that attempts to define the first appearances of life’s twilight. ...
When the Sun Goes Down
When the Sun Goes Down Gwynne Forster 9780758247001 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. “When the sun goes down on my life, you’ll all come apart like ripped balloons.”When stingy self-made mil...
Q Saves the Sun
Q Saves the Sun Isaac Perry 9780990589525 Fiction Tiger Stripe Publishing Tiger Stripe Publishing Inspired by his father’s bedtime stories, nine-year-old Qadeer Taylor transforms into the daring and p...
Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun
Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun Sarah Ladipo Manyika 9781911115045 Fiction Cassava Republic Press Cassava Republic Press “If aging be a lamp, then Morayo, the protagonist in Like a Mule Brin...
Thick in the Nick of Time: Thick 2 (Thick series)
Thick in the Nick of Time: Thick 2 (Thick series) Nah’Sun B00NUPAIKE Fiction Creative Souls Multimedia Creative Souls Multimedia Size still matters in the mind of Chance who was once slender, but late...
I Get Energy from the Sun
I Get Energy from the Sun Kajara Nia Yaa Nebthet 9781494740955 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Beautiful children’s book which talks about energy. It is a great book to introduce your...
The Shadowed Sun (Dreamblood)
The Shadowed Sun (Dreamblood) N. K. Jemisin 9780316187299 Fiction FireFly Publishing FireFly Publishing Gujaareh, the city of dreams, suffers under the imperial rule of the Kisuati Protectorate. A cit...
Sun Dog
Sun Dog Monique Roffey 9781849833035 Fiction Simon & Schuster Ltd Simon & Schuster, Inc. August Chalmin feels the weather like no one else. A large awkward recluse, with bright orange hair and sun-shy...
Copper Sun
Copper Sun Sharon M. Draper 9781416953487 Fiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. Copper Sun is the epic story of a young girl torn from her African village, sold into slavery,...
A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry 9780679755333 Fiction Vintage Books Penguin Random House “…pivotal play in the history of the American Black theatre.”—Newsweek “…a milestone in the American...
The Sun, the Sea, a Touch of Wind
The Sun, the Sea, a Touch of Wind Rosa Guy 9780452275515 Fiction Plume Penguin Random House Vivid, intriguing, and lyrical, The Sun, the Sea, a Touch of the Wind evokes the beauty and culture of the C...
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.
Harrison Mooney
Harrison Mooney NONE Harrison Mooney, a renowned writer and journalist from Vancouver, has a decade of experience with The Vancouver Sun and has received numerous awards. Known for captivating storyt...
Here Comes Lolo
Here Comes Lolo Niki Daly 9781946395368 Fiction Catalyst Press Catalyst Press A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection Part of Niki Daly’s Lolo series For Lolo, every day’s a new adventure. ...
Always One More Time
Always One More Time Nicola Yoon 9781524719005 Fiction Delacorte Press Penguin Random House What if one wrong number dialed you into the right person’s heart? From the bestselling author of Everything...
Coal
Coal Audre Lorde 9780393314861 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Of Coal, the poet and critic Hayden Carruth said, “For us these words indeed are jewels in the open light.’ Co...
In the Eye of the Sun
In the Eye of the Sun Ahdaf Soueif 9780385720373 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House Set amidst the turmoil of contemporary Middle Eastern politics, this vivid and highly-acclaimed novel by an Egyptia...
Alicia D. Williams
Alicia D. Williams 0000000493459573 Alicia D. Williams is a beloved teacher, oral storyteller, and award-nominated author. Known for her lively spirit, she blends drama and storytelling in her teachi...
A Cool Moonlight
A Cool Moonlight Angela Johnson 9780142402849 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House From the two-time Coretta Scott King Award-winner comes an exquisite new novel about a nine-year-old girl named ...
Happiness, Like Water
Happiness, Like Water Chinelo Okparanta 9780544003453 Fiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt "Astonishing. Okparanta’s narrators render their stories with such strength and intimacy, such luc...
We’ve Been Here Before: How Rebellion and Activism Have Always Sustained America
We’ve Been Here Before: How Rebellion and Activism Have Always Sustained America Eryka Parker Book Review We’ve Been Here Before: How Rebellion and Activism Have Always Sustained America by Michael I...
The Last King
The Last King Thumper Book Review Now is a time of rejoicing. Nichelle Tramble has finally released her much anticipated second novel, The Last King: A Maceo Redfield novel. I have been...
Novel Writing Workshops
Novel Writing Workshops Troy Johnson Article Novel Writing Workshop AALBC.com's Novel Writing Workshop (8 Sessions Online) Enjoy a writing workshop from the convenience of your own home! Get ...
Float Like a Butterfly
Float Like a Butterfly Ntozake Shange 9781368008273 Nonfiction Jump At The Sun Jump At The Sun Muhammad Ali is considered by many to have been the finest athlete of the twentieth century. Here is a co...
Freedom’s School
Freedom’s School Lesa Cline-Ransome 9781423161035 Fiction Jump At The Sun Jump At The Sun When Lizzie’s parents are granted their freedom from slavery, Mama says its time for Lizzie and her brother Pa...
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...
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough - Book #5
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough - Book #5 Charles R. Smith Jr. 9780786807864 Fiction Jump At The Sun Jump At The Sun Here is one of four new additions to the irresistible Motown Baby Love board book ser...
You’re All I Need to Get By - Book #7
You’re All I Need to Get By - Book #7 Charles R. Smith Jr. 9780786807888 Fiction Jump At The Sun Jump At The Sun Here is one of four new additions to the irresistible Motown Baby Love board book serie...
Pride and Joy - Book #8
Pride and Joy - Book #8 Charles R. Smith Jr. 9780786807895 Fiction Jump At The Sun Jump At The Sun Here is one of four new additions to the irresistible Motown Baby Love borad book series. Paired with...
Sanaa Lathan - The "Family That Preys" Interview
Sanaa Lathan - The "Family That Preys" Interview Kam Williams Interview Born in New York City on September 19, 1971, Sanaa McCoy Lathan is a Tony-nominated actress (for A Raisin in...
Sixteen Candles (An It Chicks Novel) (It Chicks Novels)
Sixteen Candles (An It Chicks Novel) (It Chicks Novels) Tia Williams 9781423110323 Fiction Jump At The Sun Jump At The Sun First-day-of-school buzz? So over! It’s the end of September, and the spotl...
Sarah Ladipo Manyika
Sarah Ladipo Manyika 0000000062634157 Sarah Ladipo Manyika is a Nigerian-raised author and literature professor at San Francisco State University. Educated at the University of California, Berkeley, ...
Ahdaf Soueif
Ahdaf Soueif 0000000118857078 Ahdaf Soueif is an Egyptian author and commentator, known for her novels “In the Eye of the Sun” and “The Map of Love,” the latter shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. ...
Where to Choose: A Novel
Where to Choose: A Novel Penny Mickelbury Excerpt Chapter Four Late-morning sun shone directly down on the purple and lilac and pink and white bougainvillea; shone easily through the tops of to...
Lore of the Tides
Lore of the Tides Analeigh Sbrana 9780063380646 Fiction Harper Voyager HarperCollins From the author of Lore of the Wilds comes the exciting and passionate conclusion, as Lore navigates Fae magic amid...
Sun Keep Rising
Sun Keep Rising Kristen R. Lee 9780593309193 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House When rent increases put a teen mom at risk of losing her home, she resorts to a dangerous game t...
That Is My Dream!
That Is My Dream! Langston Hughes 9780399550171 Nonfiction Schwartz & Wade Random House Children's Books “Dream Variation,” one of Langston Hughes’s most celebrated poems, about the dream of a world f...
Light in the Darkness: A Story about How Slaves Learned in Secret
Light in the Darkness: A Story about How Slaves Learned in Secret Lesa Cline-Ransome 9781423134954 Fiction Jump At The Sun Jump At The Sun Rosa and her mama go to school together-in the dark of night,...
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...
Toeshoe Trouble (Sugar Plum Ballerinas, Book 2)
Toeshoe Trouble (Sugar Plum Ballerinas, Book 2) Whoopi Goldberg 9780786852611 Fiction Jump At The Sun Jump At The Sun A ballet slipper-ey slope Brenda Black prides herself on her logical and orderly m...
The Broken Bike Boy And The Queen Of 33Rd Street
The Broken Bike Boy And The Queen Of 33Rd Street Sharon G. Flake 9781423100355 Fiction Jump At The Sun Jump At The Sun “Queen is smart. Queen is pretty. But nobody likes her except her kitty.” Queen’s...
Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in Africa and Beyond
Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in Africa and Beyond Ekow Eshun 9780307275783 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House At the age of thirty-three, Ekow Eshun—born in London to African-born paren...
Begging For Change
Begging For Change Sharon G. Flake 9780786814053 Fiction Jump At The Sun Jump At The Sun Raspberry Hill, who once was homeless, vowed never to end up on the streets again. To her, money equals securi...