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Some People, Some Other Place
Some People, Some Other Place J. California Cooper 9780385496827 Fiction Doubleday Penguin Random House J. California Cooper returns with a sweeping novel about love and heartbreak, perseverance and l...
Life Is Short But Wide
Life Is Short But Wide J. California Cooper 9780385511346 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House Beloved writer J. California Cooper has won a legion of loyal fans and much critical acclaim for her powerf...
Wild Stars Seeking Midnight Suns: Stories
Wild Stars Seeking Midnight Suns: Stories J. California Cooper 9781400075683 Fiction Doubleday Penguin Random House In stories that are simple yet elegant, hard-hitting yet poignant, J. California Coo...
Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime: Stories
Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime: Stories J. California Cooper 9780385467889 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House Whether through her stories or her legendary readings, J. California Cooper has an uncann...
In Search of Satisfaction
In Search of Satisfaction J. California Cooper 9780385467865 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House The folk flavor of her storytelling has earned her constant comparison to Langston Hughes and Zora Ne...
Homemade Love
Homemade Love J. California Cooper 9780312194659 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers J. California Cooper is the author of novels, six collections of stories, and seventeen plays. Her book...
Some Soul to Keep
Some Soul to Keep J. California Cooper 9780312193379 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers The five long stories in this volume radiate the same energy that readers of Cooper&rsqup;s A ...
Life Is Short but Wide
Life Is Short but Wide J. California Cooper 9781400075690 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House Like the small towns J. California Cooper has so vividly portrayed in her previous novels, Wideland, Oklaho...
Some People, Some Other Place
Some People, Some Other Place J. California Cooper 9780385496834 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House For generations Eula Too’s family has been making a journey North, year after year, step by painful...
The Wake of the Wind: A Novel
The Wake of the Wind: A Novel J. California Cooper 9780385487054 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House A dramatic and thought-provoking novel of one family’s triumph in the face of the hardships and cha...
The Future Has a Past
The Future Has a Past J. California Cooper 9780385496810 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House Vinnie is an overworked and self-sacrificing single mother who gets a second chance at love and independenc...
The Matter Is Life
The Matter Is Life J. California Cooper 9780385411745 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House A fourth collection of stories by the award-winning author.
Family
Family J. California Cooper 9780385411721 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House In this wise, beguiling, beautiful novel set in the era of the Civil War, an award-winning playwright and author paints a ...
A Piece of Mine: Stories
A Piece of Mine: Stories J. California Cooper 9780385420877 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House Back in print after more than five years, this is the extraordinary first short story collection by the ...
City Son: Andrew W. Cooper’s Impact On Modern-Day Brooklyn
City Son: Andrew W. Cooper’s Impact On Modern-Day Brooklyn Wayne Dawkins 9781617032585 Nonfiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi In 1966, a year after the Voting Right...
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower Brittney Cooper 9781250112576 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers With searing honesty, intimacy and humor too, America’s leadin...
Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number: Black Women Explore Midlife
Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number: Black Women Explore Midlife Carleen Brice 9780807028230 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press Maya Angelou, J. California Cooper, Pearl Cleage, Nikki Giovanni, ...
Up in Smoke
Up in Smoke Nick Brooks 9781250359933 Fiction Henry Holt & Company (BYR) Macmillan Publishers A girl determined to clear her brother’s name. A boy determined to keep his out of the line of fire. A sec...
Radiant
Radiant Vaunda Micheaux Nelson 9780593855782 Fiction Dutton Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A historical middle-grade novel in verse from multiple Coretta Scott King winner Vaunda Micheau...
Blessed Are the Dead: An Emmanuel Cooper Mystery
Blessed Are the Dead: An Emmanuel Cooper Mystery Malla Nunn 9781451616927 Fiction Emily Bestler Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Detective Emmanuel Cooper returns to solve a darkly romantic mystery in thi...
The Word: Black Writers Talk About The Transformative Power Of Reading And Writing
The Word: Black Writers Talk About The Transformative Power Of Reading And Writing Marita Golden 9780767929912 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House Critically acclaimed Black writers reveal how books...
Paths Of Sanctuary
Paths Of Sanctuary Ihsan Bracy 9781887276498 Fiction Cool Grove Press Cool Grove Press Paths of Sanctuary is Ihsan Bracy s second work of fiction. Traversing pathways discovered by writers such as Jea...
Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry
Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry Charlotte Watson Sherman 9780060553517 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins A powerful collection of original and recent stories and poems by some of...
Breaking Ice: An Anthology Of Contemporary African-American Fiction
Breaking Ice: An Anthology Of Contemporary African-American Fiction Terry McMillan 9780140116977 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House A striking collection of works from authors both establis...
A Voice from the South
A Voice from the South Anna J. Cooper 9798684587252 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published First published in 1892, A Voice from the South is a collection of essays focusing on...
Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women
Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women Brittney Cooper 9780252040993 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press Beyond Respectability charts the develo...
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood Helene Cooper 9780743266253 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Journalist Helene Cooper examines the violent past of her...
All About Him: A Novel
All About Him: A Novel Pat Tucker 9781593096847 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A scorned woman is determined to expose her ex-lover for the cruel man he is but she has her work cut out f...
Know the Mother
Know the Mother Desiree Cooper 9780814341490 Fiction Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press While a mother can be defined as a creator, a nurturer, a protector-at the center of each...
Present Darkness
Present Darkness Malla Nunn 9781451616965 Fiction Emily Bestler Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Set in the corrupt, unforgiving world of apartheid South Africa, this novel in the Detective Emmanuel Coope...
One Season (In Pinstripes): A Memoir
One Season (In Pinstripes): A Memoir William Fredrick Cooper 9781593093549 Nonfiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A true story about sports, faith, and redemption, compliments of one season w...
A Beautiful Place to Die: An Emmanuel Cooper Mystery
A Beautiful Place to Die: An Emmanuel Cooper Mystery Malla Nunn 9781416586210 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. Award-winning screenwriter Malla Nunn delivers a stunning and darkl...
Sistergirls.Com
Sistergirls.Com Earl Sewell, William Fredrick Cooper, Michael Pressley, Rique Johnson, Destin Soul, V. Anthony Rivers, William Cooper, and V. Rivers 9781593090043 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuste...
Mama Says I’m Fine
Mama Says I’m Fine Brittney Cooper 9781338763867 Fiction Orchard Books Orchard Books From New York Times bestselling author Brittney Cooper comes a heartwarming story of love and resilience that explo...
Worse than a Lie: A Beau Lee Cooper Novel
Worse than a Lie: A Beau Lee Cooper Novel Ben Crump 9780593875704 Fiction Bantam Penguin Random House In this gripping thriller, truth and justice are called into question when a Black man is gunned d...
I Can Make a Movie!
I Can Make a Movie! Morgan Stevenson Cooper 9780593858301 Fiction Kokila Penguin Random House From Self-Taught, Award-Winning Director Morgan Stevenson Cooper Comes a Heartfelt Picture Book About a Gi...
Let Me Be Real with You: Inspiring Lessons on Living a Life of Service
Let Me Be Real with You: Inspiring Lessons on Living a Life of Service Arshay Cooper 9780063426566 Nonfiction HarperOne HarperCollins From the celebrated athlete and award-winning author, an inspirati...
Stand Up!: 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change
Stand Up!: 10 Mighty Women Who Made a Change Brittney Cooper 9781338763850 Nonfiction Orchard Books Orchard Books From the New York Times, bestselling author of Eloquent Rage comes a powerful, groundb...
Ella Pruitt
Ella Pruitt Doug Cooper Spencer 9780692612491 Fiction Doug Cooper Spencer Doug Cooper Spencer €˜The smallest act can haunt you forever Pregnant at thirteen by a young man who comes to her hometow...
James and Esther Cooper Jackson: Love and Courage in the Black Freedom Movement
James and Esther Cooper Jackson: Love and Courage in the Black Freedom Movement Sara Rzeszutek 9780813166254 Nonfiction University Press of Kentucky University Press of Kentucky James Jackson and Esth...
Dark Justice (Dark Justice Series)
Dark Justice (Dark Justice Series) Diane Cooper 9780996814003 Nonfiction Wild Ivy Publishing Wild Ivy Publishing Dark Justice, by Pamela O’Hara writing as Dianne Cooper, is a dark, gritty, and heartbr...
Changers Book Two: Oryon
Changers Book Two: Oryon T Cooper and Allison Glock-Cooper 9781617753077 Fiction Black Sheep Akashic Books "Fantastic."—John Green"This is an excellent sequel….This installment raises the stakes, maki...
My Blue Suede Shoes: Four Novellas
My Blue Suede Shoes: Four Novellas Tracy Price-Thompson and TaRessa Stovall, with Elizabeth Atkins and Desiree Cooper 9781416542087 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A powerful collection of ...
There’s Always A Reason (Zane Presents)
There’s Always A Reason (Zane Presents) William Fredrick Cooper 9781593093297 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. The eagerly anticipated sequel to William Fredrick Cooper’s wildly acclaimed ...
Let the Dead Lie: An Emmanuel Cooper Mystery
Let the Dead Lie: An Emmanuel Cooper Mystery Malla Nunn 9781416586227 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. The second in a crime series set in 1950’s South Africa when apartheid laws...
Other People’s Skin: Four Novellas
Other People’s Skin: Four Novellas Tracy Price-Thompson and TaRessa Stovall, with Elizabeth Atkins and Desiree Cooper 9781416542070 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In Other People’s Skin, T...
William Cooper Nell: Selected Writings 1832-1874
William Cooper Nell: Selected Writings 1832-1874 Dorothy Porter and Constance Porter Uzelac 9781574780192 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press William Cooper Nell: Nineteenth-Century Afr...
Black!
Black! Clarence Cooper, Jr. 9780393315417 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Black! brings together three short novels by Clarence Cooper, Jr., a rediscovered genius of Afr...
Remembering Manzanar: Life in a Japanese Relocation Camp
Remembering Manzanar: Life in a Japanese Relocation Camp Michael L. Cooper 9780618067787 Nonfiction Clarion Books HarperCollins In this close look at the first relocation camp built for Japanese evacu...
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation Duncan Tonatiuh 9781419710544 Nonfiction Abrams Books Abrams A 2015 Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor Book and a 2015 Rober...
Who Is Angelina? (California Fiction)
Who Is Angelina? (California Fiction) Al Young 9780520207127 Poetry University of California Press University of California Press Young, Black, University of California educated, and dangerously back ...
The Bees (the Bees #1)
The Bees (the Bees #1) Brittney Cooper 9781338763881 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. The BSC meets Black girlhood in a series about friendship, growing up, and learning to be true to yourself f...
In It to Win It
In It to Win It Sharon C. Cooper 9780593335277 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House Two entrepreneurs compete for a property but secure the biggest win of all—each other—in this second chance ro...
Business Not As Usual
Business Not As Usual Sharon C. Cooper 9780593335253 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House A woman learns the hard way about mixing business with pleasure in this hilarious new romantic comedy by...
Feminist AF: A Guide to Crushing Girlhood
Feminist AF: A Guide to Crushing Girlhood Brittney Cooper, Chanel Craft Tanner, and Susana M. Morris 9781324005056 Nonfiction Norton Young Readers W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A Kirkus Reviews Best Ch...
A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America’s First All-Black High School Rowing Team
A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America’s First All-Black High School Rowing Team Arshay Cooper 9781250754769 Nonfiction Flatiron Books Macmillan Publishers Now a documentary narrated by Com...
Sisters and Champions: The True Story of Venus and Serena Williams
Sisters and Champions: The True Story of Venus and Serena Williams Howard Bryant 9780399169069 Nonfiction Philomel Books Penguin Random House From Sisters and Champions: The True Story of Venus ...
The Ring Bearer
The Ring Bearer Floyd Cooper 9780399167409 Fiction Philomel Books Penguin Random House Mama’s getting married, and Jackson has an important job to do! A story about love, weddings, and the special joy...
Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Helene Cooper 9781451697353 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. The harrowing, but triumphant story of Ellen Johnson...
The Crunk Feminist Collection
The Crunk Feminist Collection Brittney Cooper, Susana M. Morris, and Robin M. Boylorn 9781558619432 Nonfiction The Feminist Press The Feminist Press For the Crunk Feminist Collective, their academic d...
Juneteenth for Mazie
Juneteenth for Mazie Floyd Cooper 9781623701703 Fiction Capstone Press Capstone Press Mazie is ready to celebrate liberty. She is ready to celebrate freedom. She is ready to celebrate a great day in A...
Truth or Consequences (Reunited Series) (Volume 3)
Truth or Consequences (Reunited Series) (Volume 3) Sharon C. Cooper 9780990350514 Fiction Amaris Publishing Amaris Publishing Bestselling author Sharon C. Cooper brings you another exciting romantic s...
Max and the Tag-Along Moon
Max and the Tag-Along Moon Floyd Cooper 9780399233425 Fiction Philomel Books Penguin Random House Has the moon ever followed you home at night?Max loves his grandpa. When they must say good-bye after ...
Sistergirls.com
Sistergirls.com Earl Sewell, William Fredrick Cooper, Michael Pressley, Rique Johnson, and Destin Soul 9781593091910 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In the spirit of Blackgentelmen.com co...
Sucka Free Love - How to Avoid Dating The Dumb, The Deceitful, The Dastardly, The Dysfunctional and The Deranged!
Sucka Free Love - How to Avoid Dating The Dumb, The Deceitful, The Dastardly, The Dysfunctional and The Deranged! Deborrah Cooper 9781419653858 Nonfiction BookSurge Publishing On-Demand Publishing LL...
Jump!: From the Life of Michael Jordan
Jump!: From the Life of Michael Jordan Floyd Cooper 9780399242304 Nonfiction Philomel Books Penguin Random House Michael Jordan was once just an ordinary little boy growing up in a North Carolina subu...
Cumbayah
Cumbayah Floyd Cooper 9780688135430 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins "Cumbayah" is an enduring campfire song for children and a source of inspiration for adults. Though its roots are in the African-Ameri...
Merge: The Trials and Tribulations of Becoming a Superhero
Merge: The Trials and Tribulations of Becoming a Superhero Eric M. Cooper 9780983420347 Fiction Bowker Bowker Welcome to the newest venture in the Knight Seeker story realm which takes place in the ro...
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey Kamala Harris 9780525560739 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House A New York Times bestseller From one of America’s most inspiring political leaders, a ...
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey Kamala Harris 9780525560715 Nonfiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House From one of America’s most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths t...
Loving the Lawman: A Roses of Ridgeway Novella (The Roses of Ridgeway) (Volume 3)
Loving the Lawman: A Roses of Ridgeway Novella (The Roses of Ridgeway) (Volume 3) Kianna Alexander 9781479381432 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Loving the Lawman: A Roses of Ridgeway Nov...
The Preachers’ Paramour: A Roses Of Ridgeway Novella
The Preachers’ Paramour: A Roses Of Ridgeway Novella Kianna Alexander 9781475034875 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC The Preacher’s Paramour: A Roses of Ridgeway Novella ©2012, by Kianna A...
Kissing The Captain
Kissing The Captain Kianna Alexander 9781466208377 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Kissing the Captain: A Roses of Ridgeway Novella ©2012, by Kianna Alexander Historical Romance- Interra...
Grave Matters: Excavating California’s Buried Past
Grave Matters: Excavating California’s Buried Past Tony Platt 9781597141628 Nonfiction Heyday Heyday What do we find when we dig up the past? Whether by curious Boy Scouts and ’’backyard archaeologist...
Sleeping with the Dictionary (New California Poetry)
Sleeping with the Dictionary (New California Poetry) Harryette Mullen 9780520231436 Poetry University of California Press University of California Press Harryette Mullen’s fifth poetry collection, Sle...
Understand This (California Fiction)
Understand This (California Fiction) Jervey Tervalon 9780520223554 Fiction University of California Press University of California Press Jervey Tervalon’s novel about young people in South Central Los...
In the Land of Milk and Honey
In the Land of Milk and Honey Joyce Carol Thomas 9780060253837 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins I ease myself back in the window seat and breathe in as the train breathes out We’re on our way! On o...
Black. Single. Mother.: Real Life Tales of Longing and Belonging
Black. Single. Mother.: Real Life Tales of Longing and Belonging Jamilah Lemieux 9780593447543 Nonfiction Roc Lit 101 Penguin Random House A personal meditation on, examination of, and tribute to Blac...
The Transformative Power of a Name: Incredible Accounts of Eleven Women Determined to Discover and Unleash Their Unique Identities
The Transformative Power of a Name: Incredible Accounts of Eleven Women Determined to Discover and Unleash Their Unique Identities Cecily Cooper 9798989457700 Nonfiction iBounceback Greater iBouncebac...
Transformed by Divine Design: The Process of Becoming Uniquely YOU!
Transformed by Divine Design: The Process of Becoming Uniquely YOU! Cecily Cooper 9798371489708 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published Oh, how I wish I could go back and realize ho...
His to Defend
His to Defend Sharon C. Cooper 9781335759566 Fiction Harlequin Romantic Suspense Harlequin Enterprises Limited A romantic reunion …threatened by their past. Amina Kelly broke Sergeant Maxwell Layton...
Sisters of the Neversea
Sisters of the Neversea Floyd Cooper 9780062869975 Fiction Heartdrum HarperCollins In this beautifully reimagined story by NSK Neustadt Laureate and New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Leitich S...
A Day for Rememberin’: Inspired by the True Events of the First Memorial Day
A Day for Rememberin’: Inspired by the True Events of the First Memorial Day Leah Henderson 9781419736308 Fiction Abrams Books for Young Readers Abrams A moving tribute to the little-known history beh...
His to Protect
His to Protect Sharon C. Cooper 9781335628923 Fiction Harlequin Romantic Suspense Harlequin Enterprises Limited She looked a criminal in the eye… …and now she’s a target When Connie Shaw witnesses a b...
Juneteenth for Mazie
Juneteenth for Mazie Floyd Cooper 9781684463640 Fiction Capstone Editions Capstone Press Mazie is ready to celebrate liberty. She is ready to celebrate freedom. She is ready to celebrate a great day i...
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre Carole Boston Weatherford 9781541581203 Nonfiction Carolrhoda Books Lerner Publishing Group “Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Coop...
Hunted
Hunted Sharon C. Cooper 9781946172273 Fiction Amaris Publishing Amaris Publishing She’s everything he never knew he wanted…Former CIA spy Myles Carrington experienced enough danger in his clandestine ...
Show Me
Show Me Sharon C. Cooper 9781946172259 Fiction Amaris Publishing Amaris Publishing Just when he thought finding a wife was out of his reach… Colton "Cole" Eubanks is laser-focused on building wealth a...
Love At Last
Love At Last Sharon C. Cooper 9781946172204 Fiction Amaris Publishing Amaris Publishing Carolyn Jenkins has never had a problem getting a man, but keeping one is another story. After two failed marria...
When Love Calls
When Love Calls Sharon C. Cooper 9781946172211 Fiction Amaris Publishing Amaris Publishing Mona Lisa Gregory is ready to live her best life. She’s moving on after thirty-five years of dating one man. ...
More Than Love
More Than Love Sharon C. Cooper 9781946172235 Fiction Amaris Publishing Amaris Publishing Going from friends to lovers doesn’t come easy…Corporate attorney Benjamin Jenkins is one of Cincinnati’s most...
Betrayed
Betrayed Sharon C. Cooper 9781946172198 Fiction Amaris Publishing Amaris Publishing When secrets turn into lies…Former DEA agent Angelo Gonz lez’s final undercover operation exploded in a betrayal he’...
Soul’s Desire
Soul’s Desire Sharon C. Cooper 9781946172174 Fiction Amaris Publishing Amaris Publishing Some past loves can stand the test of time…Ballet dancer Soul Carrington has lived her dream of traveling the w...
Unplanned Love
Unplanned Love Sharon C. Cooper 9781946172150 Fiction Amaris Publishing Amaris Publishing Fate has a way of changing a perfect plan.Liam Jenkins hasn’t given up on the idea of marriage. However, he’s ...
A Lesson on Love
A Lesson on Love Sharon C. Cooper 9781946172136 Fiction Amaris Publishing Amaris Publishing Some lessons are harder to learn than others.Jerry Jenkins is a player. He loves women. Curvy women. Soft wo...
Accused
Accused Sharon C. Cooper 9781946172112 Fiction Amaris Publishing Amaris Publishing He wants to forget his past… She’s hiding from hers…Former FBI agent Kenton Bailey traded in his badge when an assign...
Indebted
Indebted Sharon C. Cooper 9781946172099 Fiction Amaris Publishing Amaris Publishing Even when he does good, he’s bad…Detective Lazarus Dimas doesn’t play by the rules. On the streets, he’s a force to ...
Vindicated
Vindicated Sharon C. Cooper 9781946172075 Fiction Amaris Publishing Amaris Publishing She’s a distraction he can’t resist…A spark ignites the moment security specialist, Hamilton Crosby, meets stuntwo...
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy Tony Medina 9780998799940 Fiction Penny Candy Books Penny Candy Books Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy by Tony Medina offers a fresh perspective of young...
Proposal for Love
Proposal for Love Sharon C. Cooper 9781946172013 Fiction Amaris Publishing Amaris Publishing Nathaniel Jenkins-Moore never allows romantic entanglements to get in the way of running Jenkins & Sons Con...