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In the Garden of Light and Shadow: War of the Fallen
In the Garden of Light and Shadow: War of the Fallen Cerece Rennie Murphy 9798991385534 Fiction LionSky Publishing LionSky Publishing I never meant to start a war Yet war was inevitable It was i...
Olympus Has Fallen
Olympus Has Fallen Kam Williams olympus-has-fallen-angela-bassett-Morgan-Freeman.jpg Film Review Olympus Has Fallen (2013) Click to order DVD from Amazon In Theaters: Mar 22, 2013 Wide ...
Cerece Rennie Murphy: In the Garden of Light and Shadow
Cerece Rennie Murphy: In the Garden of Light and Shadow Author Interviews National bestselling and award-winning author Cerece Rennie Murphy discusses her novel, In the Garden of Light and Shadow, dur...
Lola Plants a Garden
Lola Plants a Garden Anna McQuinn 9781580896948 Fiction Charlesbridge Charlesbridge How does your garden grow? Book-loving Lola is inspired by a collection of garden poems that she reads with her momm...
The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry
The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry Clarence Major 9780060951214 Poetry Harper Perennial HarperCollins The Garden Thrives: 20th Century African-American Poetry, edited by Cla...
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden Camille T. Dungy 9781982195304 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the env...
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...
Indigo Blume And The Garden City
Indigo Blume And The Garden City Kwame Alexander 9781888018981 Fiction Word of Mouth Books/Capital BookFest Word of Mouth Books/Capital BookFest Indigo Blume and the Garden City received a 2013 NAACP ...
The Shadow Prince
The Shadow Prince David Anthony Durham 9781643794280 Fiction Tu Books Lee & Low Books FIVE DEADLY TESTS, ONLY ONE SHADOW PRINCE In this middle grade solarpunk novel set in an alternate Egyptian uni...
Double Shadow: Poems (Los Angeles Times Book Award: Poetry)
Double Shadow: Poems (Los Angeles Times Book Award: Poetry) Carl Phillips 9780374141578 Poetry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers A stunning new collection of poems from the author of Spea...
Shadow Of Light
Shadow Of Light James E. Cherry 9781852424923 Fiction Serpent’s Tail Serpent’s Tail “Like the work of Richard Wright, Shadow of Light is in the tradition of black novels that become unforgettable.”—Je...
In the Garden of Light and Shadow: The Chronicles of Ada St. James
In the Garden of Light and Shadow: The Chronicles of Ada St. James Cerece Rennie Murphy 9798991385503 Fiction LionSky Publishing LionSky Publishing 4000 years ago, a rebellion in the Ever brought ange...
Jayden’s Impossible Garden
Jayden’s Impossible Garden Mélina Mangal 9781631985904 Fiction Free Spirit Publishing Teacher Created Materials Jayden and a new friend bring nature to the city in this timeless story about a communit...
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...
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...
Mysteries of the Spring Garden
Mysteries of the Spring Garden Brea Baker 9798322392927 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Mysteries of the Spring Garden is a delightful and engaging preschool book that takes yo...
The Colored Garden
The Colored Garden O.H. Bennett 9780965970198 Fiction Laughing Owl Pub Inc Laughing Owl Pub Inc The Colored Garden is a story about storytellers: a boy called Sarge and his grandmother, Ruth, whose fa...
Garden Avenue Press
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Garden Avenue Press Garden Avenue Press Garden Avenue Press
Give God The Glory! Let Your Light So Shine
Give God The Glory! Let Your Light So Shine Kevin Wayne Johnson 9780988303805 Fiction Writing for the Lord Writing for the Lord Light (phos) means to give light. It is that which enables us to see (ab...
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 ...
Blind Light
Blind Light Glenda R. Taylor 9780982554005 Poetry Amh Publishers Amh Publishers This extraordinary volume of poetry interprets and transcribes metaphysical reality. What happens when one loses her vis...
A Rage of Lions (the Shadow Prince #3)
A Rage of Lions (the Shadow Prince #3) David Anthony Durham 9781643797434 Fiction Tu Books Lee & Low Books In the third installment in The Shadow Prince saga, Ash and his friends race against time...
Fallen Angels
Fallen Angels Walter Dean Myers 9780756987978 Fiction Perfection Learning Perfection Learning Rich in characters and authentic in detail, Fallen Angels tells the story of a 17-year-old black teenager’...
Shadow Valley
Shadow Valley Steven Barnes 9780345459039 Fiction Del Rey Del Rey In Great Sky Woman, “daringly epic in scope,” (Publishers Weekly), Steven Barnes’s Great Sky Woman unveiled the world of a prehistoric...
Uncle John’s City Garden (Paperback)
Uncle John’s City Garden (Paperback) Bernette Ford 9780823456932 Fiction Holiday House Holiday House A Smithsonian Magazine Best Children’s Book of the Year A BCCB Blue Ribbon Book A Junior Library ...
Uncle John’s City Garden
Uncle John’s City Garden Bernette Ford 9780823447862 Fiction Holloway House Kensington Publishing Corp. How does this city garden grow? With help from L’il Sissy and her siblings—and love, love, love!...
Time’s Unfading Garden: Anne Spencer’s Life and Poetry
Time’s Unfading Garden: Anne Spencer’s Life and Poetry Anne Spencer 9780807102947 Poetry LSU Press Louisiana State University Press Time’s Unfading Garden: Anne Spencer’s Life and Poetry is a comprehe...
Mouths of Garden
Mouths of Garden Barbara Fant 9781951979263 Poetry Sundress Publications Sundress Publications In Mouths of Garden, there is a distinct sense of both suffocation and symphony, as Barbara Fant describe...
Garden’s Corner
Garden’s Corner Douglas S. Reed 9780947480929 Fiction The Hurricane Group The Hurricane Group Little Speedy is back! Twenty-five years after his debut, Little Speedy Copeland returns to share his e...
The Garden of Unfortunate Souls
The Garden of Unfortunate Souls Eddie Mark 9781620157930 Fiction Booktrope Editions Booktrope Editions “With compassion and superb craftsmanship, Eddie Mark invokes a world of fascinating and unfor...
My Baba’s Garden
My Baba’s Garden Jordan Scott 9780823450831 Fiction Neal Porter Books Holiday House The special relationship between a child and his grandmother is depicted in this sumptuous book by an award-winning ...
See Marcus Grow
See Marcus Grow Marcus Bridgewater 9780593406076 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House Marcus Bridgewater, also known as the social media sensation Garden Marcus, shows kids the lessons he ...
A Garden for Black Boys: Between the Stages of Soil and Stardust
A Garden for Black Boys: Between the Stages of Soil and Stardust W. J. Lofton 9781717285065 Poetry CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC A Garden for Black Boys invites the reader into a world where to...
Truth Be Told
Truth Be Told Patricia Raybon 9781496458476 Fiction Tyndale House Tyndale House Denver’s newest detective. A garden’s deadly secrets. On a lovely June night in 1924, amateur detective Annalee Spain...
Michelle’s Garden: How the First Lady Planted Seeds of Change
Michelle’s Garden: How the First Lady Planted Seeds of Change Sharee Miller 9780316458573 Nonfiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group From an acclaimed author and illustrator:...
The Reluctant King
The Reluctant King K’wan 9781636140148 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books “K’wan is exceptionally gifted at ratcheting up suspense … There’s no denying the writer’s talent for dark, gritty fiction. I...
Shadow Dancing
Shadow Dancing Louise Meriwether 9780345425959 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House Acclaimed author of Daddy Was a Numbers Runner and the historical novel Fragments of the Ark, Louise Me...
Sunrise Over Fallujah
Sunrise Over Fallujah Walter Dean Myers 9780439916240 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. A powerful new novel about the heroics and horror of war from Walter Dean Myers, whose bestselling book F...
In the Garden with Dr. Carver
In the Garden with Dr. Carver Susan Grigsby 9780807536308 Fiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company Sally is a young girl living in rural Alabama in the early 1900s, a time when people...
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II Douglas A. Blackmon 9780385722704 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House In this groundbreaking historica...
The Light She Feels Inside
The Light She Feels Inside Gwendolyn Wallace 9781728239798 Fiction Sourcebooks Jabberwocky Sourcebooks How will Maya create a brighter world? By learning to honor her glowing feelings, just like Black...
Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II to Peace
Infinite Hope: A Black Artist’s Journey from World War II to Peace Ashley Bryan 9781534404908 Nonfiction Atheneum Simon & Schuster, Inc. From celebrated author and illustrator Ashley Bryan comes a dee...
When God Made Light
When God Made Light Matthew Paul Turner 9781601429209 Fiction Convergent Books Penguin Random House From the author and illustrator of the best-selling When God Made You comes a new illuminating messa...
False Idols: A Reluctant King Novel
False Idols: A Reluctant King Novel K’wan 9781636141770 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books In this gripping follow-up to The Reluctant King, the "Monarchy" of New York City’s Five Points is in total ...
Whispers of Shadow & Flame: Earthsinger Chronicles Book 2
Whispers of Shadow & Flame: Earthsinger Chronicles Book 2 L. Penelope 9780990922865 Fiction Heartspell Media, LLC Heartspell Media, LLC Born with a deadly magic she cannot control, Kyara is forced to ...
The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship
The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship Deborah Willis 9781479809004 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press A stunning collection of stoic por...
Grandpa Stops a War: A Paul Robeson Story
Grandpa Stops a War: A Paul Robeson Story Susan Robeson 9781609808822 Nonfiction Triangle Square Seven Stories Press “It takes a man of peace to stop a war.” The true story of Paul Robeson’s visit ...
Howard Zinn on War
Howard Zinn on War Howard Zinn 9781609801335 Nonfiction Seven Stories Press Seven Stories Press Howard Zinn began work on his first book for his friends at Seven Stories Press in 1996, a big volume co...
Until the Last Gun Is Silent: A Story of Patriotism, the Vietnam War, and the Fight to Save America’s Soul
Until the Last Gun Is Silent: A Story of Patriotism, the Vietnam War, and the Fight to Save America’s Soul Matthew F. Delmont 9780593655870 Nonfiction Rocky Pond Books Penguin Random House The unt...
Just War: By Howard Zinn
Just War: By Howard Zinn Howard Zinn 9788881585724 Nonfiction Charta Charta From the author of the classic college campus favorite and perennial seller A People’s History of the United States comes a ...
War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning
War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning Chris Hedges 9781586480493 Nonfiction PublicAffairs Hachette Book Group General George S. Patton famously said, "Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor ...
Love’s Garden: A Guide to Mindful Relationships
Love’s Garden: A Guide to Mindful Relationships Peggy Rowe Ward and Larry Ward 9781888375732 Nonfiction Parallax Press Parallax Press A collection of real-life Buddhist love stories, with commentary a...
Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery Vincent Brown 9780674057128 Nonfiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press Winner of the Merle Curti Award Winner of th...
Jayden’s Secret Ingredient
Jayden’s Secret Ingredient Mélina Mangal 9781631986024 Fiction Free Spirit Publishing Teacher Created Materials Jayden discovers the secret ingredient to trying something new. Jayden loves the outd...
Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Rachel Eliza Griffiths 0000000527846142 Rachel Eliza Griffiths, a poet, photographer, and creative writing teacher, is renowned for her literary portraits, fine art photography, and lyric videos. She...
Madam Fate
Madam Fate Marcia Douglas 9781569471340 Fiction Soho Press Soho Press Women of Jamaica with magical bonds to the worlds of Nature and spirits and to each other. Using a series of voices, Marcia Doug...
Scary, Scary Sasha
Scary, Scary Sasha Starr T. Balmer 9781515081548 Fiction Bird’s Love Bird’s Love Creepy, crawly bugs give Sasha goose bumps. Her fear grows when her mother tells her to pick vegetables from the gard...
How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack: Defend Yourself When the Lawn Warriors Strike (and They Will)
How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack: Defend Yourself When the Lawn Warriors Strike (and They Will) Chuck Sambuchino 9781580084635 Fiction Ten Speed Press Penguin Random House Chuck Sambuchino of Writ...
Josias, Hold the Book
Josias, Hold the Book Jennifer Elvgren 9781590783184 Fiction Boyds Mills Press Boyds Mills Press This Americas Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature winner about aHaitian boy determined...
Corduroy’s Garden
Corduroy’s Garden Allan Eitzen 9780593432242 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Corduroy was first introduced to readers in 1968 and soon became a classic character. Eve...
My Hair Is a Garden
My Hair Is a Garden Cozbi A. Cabrera 9780807509234 Fiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company After a day of being taunted by classmates about her unruly hair, Mackenzie can’t take any ...
Trepidation: Darkness and Light Can’t Coexist
Trepidation: Darkness and Light Can’t Coexist Travis Peagler 9781732563513 Fiction Travis Peagler Travis Peagler What separates Heaven and Hell? Is it the goodness that lies in the deepest parts of hu...
The Knight and His Shadow (African Humanities and the Arts)
The Knight and His Shadow (African Humanities and the Arts) Boubacar Boris Diop 9781611861532 Fiction Michigan State University Press Michigan State University Press A brilliant tour de force, The Kni...
In Her Mother’s Shadow
In Her Mother’s Shadow Faye Thompson 9781893196537 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Nurtured by an overly protective mother all of her life, the beautiful and naïve Bronze Sutton lands ...
I Accidentally Hired a Shadow Walker
I Accidentally Hired a Shadow Walker Jessica Cage 9781958295731 Fiction Caged Fantasies Publications Caged Fantasies Publications Security breaches? Check. Dimensional chaos? Naturally. Forbidden attr...
One Shadow on the Wall
One Shadow on the Wall Leah Henderson 9781481462952 Fiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. An orphaned boy in contemporary Senegal must decide between doing what is right and ...
Lighting the Shadow
Lighting the Shadow Rachel Eliza Griffiths 9781935536574 Poetry Four Way Books Four Way Books Lighting the Shadow is about a woman’s evolving journey through desire, grief, trauma, and the peculiar...
In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son’s Journey to Understand His Father’s Legacy
In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son’s Journey to Understand His Father’s Legacy Ken Wiwa 9781586420253 Fiction Steerforth Steerforth In late 1995, the little-known Ogoni region in Nigeria became a fable f...
Shadow and Substance (Moon Cried Blood) (Volume 5)
Shadow and Substance (Moon Cried Blood) (Volume 5) Sumiko Saulson 9781523450732 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC In Book Five of the serialized tale of "The Moon Cried Blood, "Shadow and S...
The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America
The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America Hugh Pearson 9780201483413 Nonfiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group The first complete and balanced history of the Bl...
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...
We Cast a Shadow
We Cast a Shadow Tony Lindsay Book Review In Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s first novel, We Cast a Shadow, the reader meets a complex and unnamed protagonist. The main character of this futuristic nov...
Amara: The Rise of the Shadow Blossoms
Amara: The Rise of the Shadow Blossoms The Fikes Brothers 9798985565188 Fiction Tinted Reality Books Tinted Reality Books In 16th-century feudal Japan, Yasuke, the first Black samurai, embarks on a ha...
Nellie Y. McKay
Nellie Y. McKay 0000000081108566 Nellie Y. McKay, an influential figure in American literature, co-edited the Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Her work highlighted the scholarly study...
A Cold Fire Burning
A Cold Fire Burning Nathan C. Heard 9781878923042 Fiction Amok Books Amok Books A Cold Fire Burning brilliantly depicts an interracial love story amidst the political changes of the early Seventies. S...
The Devil’s Shadow
The Devil’s Shadow Hugh Holton 9780312877842 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers In The Devils Shadow, Commander Larry Cole is confronted with the most beautiful and cunning criminal hes ever faced. Ju...
The Longest Night in Egypt
The Longest Night in Egypt David Anthony Durham 9781643796093 Fiction Tu Books Lee & Low Books The Shadow Prince saga continues as Ash and his heroic friends rush to save Ra from the belly of Apep and...
The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times Michelle Obama 9780593237465 Nonfiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House I’ve learned it’s okay to recognize that self-worth comes wrapped ...
Red Light Green Light
Red Light Green Light Margaret Johnson-Hodge 9780975402610 Fiction Sutton Place Publishers, Inc. Sutton Place Publishers, Inc. Craig Stevens is forty-five years old and a recovering crack addict. Fort...
A Light Bulb Publishing
A Light Bulb Publishing A Light Bulb Publishing A Light Bulb Publishing A Light Bulb Publishing is an independent publisher proudly publishing entertaining novels by Autumn J. Bright.
A Light Bulb Publishing
A Light Bulb Publishing A Light Bulb Publishing A Light Bulb Publishing A Light Bulb Publishing is an independent publisher proudly publishing entertaining novels by Autumn J. Bright.
Blue Light
Blue Light Walter Mosley 9780316570985 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group The human race has just begun. In the Bay Area in the mid-1960s, several people are struck by a cosmic blue ...
Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II
Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II John Strausbaugh 9781455567485 Nonfiction Twelve Hachette Book Group From John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition and The V...
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley 0000000046027939 Wesley Receives the 2023 Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Award Dr. Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, a Penn State Altoona professor of English, creative writing and Afri...
City of S The History of New York City during the Civil War
City of S The History of New York City during the Civil War John Strausbaugh 9781455584185 Nonfiction Twelve Hachette Book Group WINNER OF THE FLETCHER PRATT AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION BOOK OF 2016In...
Half American: The Heroic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
Half American: The Heroic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad Matthew F. Delmont 9781984880413 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House The definitive history ...
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War Malcolm Gladwell 9780316296618 Nonfiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group An exploration of how tec...
The 33 Strategies of War (Joost Elffers Books)
The 33 Strategies of War (Joost Elffers Books) Robert Greene 9780143112785 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House Brilliant distillations of the strategies of war—and the subtle social game of ...
War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning
War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning Chris Hedges 9781400034635 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment ...
The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves’ Civil War
The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves’ Civil War Kam Williams Book Review “This is the story of Abraham H. Galloway (1837-70), a fiery young slave rebel, radical abolitionist,...
War Witch
War Witch Kam Williams war-witch-photo.jpg Film Review 12 year-old Endures Host of Horrors in Haunting Coming-of-Age Drama War Witch (2013) In Theaters: Mar 1, 2013 Limited Drama Directed By: ...
The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim
The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim Marcia Douglas 9781845233327 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press A much-awaited novel from an award-winning writer a reggae track...
Fallen Angels
Fallen Angels Walter Dean Myers 9780545055765 Fiction Scholastic Paperbacks Scholastic Inc. An exciting, eye-catching repackage of acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers’ bestselling paperbacks, to coinci...
The Shadow King
The Shadow King Maaza Mengiste 9780393083569 Fiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. With the threat of Mussolini’s army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her ...
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...
We Return Fighting: World War I and the Shaping of Modern Black Identity
We Return Fighting: World War I and the Shaping of Modern Black Identity National Museum of African American History and Culture 9781588346728 Nonfiction Smithsonian Books Smithsonian Books A richly i...
Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I
Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I Adriane Lentz-Smith 9780674062054 Nonfiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press For many of the 200,000 black soldiers sent to Europ...
Race War!: White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire
Race War!: White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire Gerald Horne 9780814736418 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press Japan’s lightning march across Asia d...
Making a Killing: Capitalism, Cops, and the War on Black Life
Making a Killing: Capitalism, Cops, and the War on Black Life Robin D. G. Kelley 9781250803078 Nonfiction Metropolitan Books Metropolitan Books A sweeping history of the African American struggle agai...