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J. California Cooper
J. California Cooper 000000011687953X J. California Cooper was a renowned author and playwright, named Black Playwright of the Year in 1978. Encouraged by Alice Walker, she transitioned to fiction, w...
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...
The Future Has a Past
The Future Has a Past Thumper Book Review The Future Has A Past is the latest short story collection by author J. California Cooper. In case you don’t know, I adore J. California Cooper! I&rs...
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...
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...
Helene Cooper
Helene Cooper 0000000045708150 Helene Cooper, born in Liberia, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The New York Times. She has served as a Pentagon Correspondent, diplomatic correspondent, and...
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...
William Fredrick Cooper
William Fredrick Cooper NONE William Fredrick Cooper, a legal assistant in New York, is known as “Mr. Romance” for his sensitive and caring nature. His writing, full of honesty and complexity, explor...
Floyd Cooper
Floyd Cooper 0000000063165049 Floyd Cooper (1956-2021) was a celebrated illustrator, recipient of 4 Coretta Scott King Honors, and 10 ALA Notables. From Oklahoma, he pursued his career in NYC post hi...
Anna Cooper & Nannie Burroughs
Anna Cooper & Nannie Burroughs Kam Williams Interview THE GLOBAL AFRICAN COMMUNITY HISTORY NOTES: A BRIEF NOTE ON THE LIVES OF ANNA JULIA COOPER & NANNIE HELEN BURROUGHS: PROFILES OF AFRI...
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...
The Wedding Date
The Wedding Date Jasmine Guillory 9780399587665 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House One of… • Entertainment Weekly’s “12 Romances for V-Day” • Cosmopolitan’s “2018 Anticipated Read...
Brittney Cooper
Brittney Cooper 0000000495530628 Brittney Cooper, born in 1980, is a renowned author and Rutgers University professor specializing in Women's and Gender Studies, and Africana Studies. Known for her m...
City Son: Andrew W. Cooper’s Impact on Modern-Day Brooklyn
City Son: Andrew W. Cooper’s Impact on Modern-Day Brooklyn Robert Fleming Book Review So many African-American newspapers and publications have vanished from view, but their impact remains on the...
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...
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...
Eric M. Cooper and Miles Simon
Eric M. Cooper and Miles Simon MULTIPLE Eric Mann Cooper and Miles Simon are acclaimed authors known for their unique storytelling. Cooper's expertise lies in historical fiction, while Simon excels i...
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...
Anna J. Cooper
Anna J. Cooper 0000000116155726 Cooper was one of the last known survivors of legalized American slavery. Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (1858–1964) was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, and spent her ...
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...
Earl Sewell, William Fredrick Cooper, Michael Pressley, Rique Johnson, Destin Soul, V. Anthony Rivers, William Cooper, and V. Rivers
Earl Sewell, William Fredrick Cooper, Michael Pressley, Rique Johnson, Destin Soul, V. Anthony Rivers, William Cooper, and V. Rivers MULTIPLE
Brittney Cooper, Susana M. Morris, and Robin M. Boylorn
Brittney Cooper, Susana M. Morris, and Robin M. Boylorn MULTIPLE "Brittney Cooper, Susana M. Morris, and Robin M. Boylorn are renowned authors known for their significant contributions to literature ...
Floyd Cooper and Daria Peoples
Floyd Cooper and Daria Peoples MULTIPLE Floyd Cooper and Daria Peoples Children's book Illustrators Floyd Cooper and Daria Peoples
Brittney Cooper, Chanel Craft Tanner, and Susana M. Morris
Brittney Cooper, Chanel Craft Tanner, and Susana M. Morris MULTIPLE Brittney Cooper, Chanel Craft Tanner, and Susana M. Morris, are renowned authors known for their significant contributions to liter...
Deborrah Cooper
Deborrah Cooper NONE Deborrah Cooper, pen name “Ms. HeartBeat”, is an established authority on dating and relationships since 1993. She founded AskHeartBeat!, a pioneer website focused on Black and i...
Tracy Price-Thompson and TaRessa Stovall, with Elizabeth Atkins and Desiree Cooper
Tracy Price-Thompson and TaRessa Stovall, with Elizabeth Atkins and Desiree Cooper MULTIPLE Discover authors Tracey Price Thompson, TaRessa Stovall, Elizabeth Atkins, and Desiree Cooper, renowned for...
Desiree Cooper
Desiree Cooper NONE Desiree Cooper is a 2015 Kresge Artist Fellow, ex-attorney, Pulitzer-nominated journalist, and Detroit activist. She has contributed fiction and poetry to numerous publications an...
Eric M. Cooper
Eric M. Cooper NONE Eric Mann Cooper is a New Jersey-based Sci-Fi/Superhero author known for his Knight Seeker series set in the modern Tri-State area. He recently started a new series, Star Enforcer...
Clarence Cooper, Jr.
Clarence Cooper, Jr. MULTIPLE “…One of the most under-rated writers in America…” —John A. Williams Clarence L. Cooper Jr., born in 1934, was an author whose works, like...
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...
David Elmo Cooper
David Elmo Cooper NONE David Elmo Cooper is a multi-media artist and muralist. His work has appeared on book covers and ad campaigns, and in editorial publications. David Elmo Cooper is a multi-media...
Sharon C. Cooper
Sharon C. Cooper NONE Sharon C. Cooper is an award-winning, bestselling author of contemporary and romantic suspense novels. She's known for her love of romance, rainy days, and peanut butter and jel...
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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 ...
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...
Cecily Cooper
Cecily Cooper NONE Cecily Cooper is a certified transformational life coach, speaker, leader, and author who is passionate about empowering individuals, particularly women and youth, to unlock their ...
Doug Cooper Spencer
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Doug Cooper Spencer
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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...
Holly Mosley Cooper
Holly Mosley Cooper NONE Holly Mosley Cooper is an accomplished author known for “Confessions of a Reformed Cougar” and “Life is a Precious Gift.” She holds leadership roles at MEM Group and Hi-Tech ...
Arshay Cooper
Arshay Cooper NONE Arshay Cooper is a rower, author, and motivational speaker dedicated to community outreach. He collaborates with nonprofits to make rowing accessible to all and is a 2017 US Rowing...
Orjanette Bryant and Dana A. Cooper
Orjanette Bryant and Dana A. Cooper MULTIPLE Orjanette Bryant and Dana A. Cooper Orjanette Bryant and Dana A. Cooper
Morgan Stevenson Cooper
Morgan Stevenson Cooper NONE Morgan Stevenson Cooper is a filmmaker, writer, and director celebrated for blending visual art with socially conscious storytelling. Best known for creating the viral s...
Diane Cooper
Diane Cooper 0000000080411715 Pamela O'Hara, writing as Dianne Cooper, is a former inmate turned advocate for incarcerated fathers and motivational speaker. She empowers others to overcome adversity ...
Esther Cooper Jackson
Esther Cooper Jackson 0000000037560491 Esther Cooper Jackson (1917-2022) was a co-founder and managing editor of Freedomways magazine from 1961-1985, a significant publication featuring writers like ...
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 ...
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...
Eugene Stovall
Eugene Stovall NONE Oakland-born Eugene Stovall is a magna cum laude graduate and PhD holder from the University of California. He worked in academia and the corporate world, notably at Pacific Bell ...
Ben McBride
Ben McBride NONE Rev. Ben McBride is an acclaimed faith leader and activist known globally as a speaker. Founder of Empower Initiative and Bring the HEAT campaign, and former director of PICO Califor...
Lockdown
Lockdown Walter Dean Myers 9780061214806 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins When I first got to Progress, it freaked me out to be locked in a room and unable to get out. But after a while, when you got to ...
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...
Avidly Reads Passages
Avidly Reads Passages Michelle D. Commander 9781479806171 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press “What is the value of Black life in America?” In Avidly Reads Pa...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Sherley Anne Williams
Sherley Anne Williams 0000000114970321 Sherley Anne Williams was an influential poet, novelist, and professor known for her works portraying her experiences within the African-American community. Bor...
Reynold Ruffins
Reynold Ruffins 0000000024800273 Reynold Ruffins, a renowned illustrator and professor, has received prestigious awards from The Cooper Union and had a successful career teaching at various instituti...
Margo Sorenson
Margo Sorenson NONE Margo Sorenson, born in Washington DC, spent her early years in Europe before graduating from UCLA. After teaching and raising two daughters, she became a full-time author of over...
The Rise and Progress of the Kingdoms of Light and Darkness, or the Reign of Kings Alpha and Abadon
The Rise and Progress of the Kingdoms of Light and Darkness, or the Reign of Kings Alpha and Abadon Lorenzo Thomas 9780259493624 Fiction Forgotten Books Forgotten Books Excerpt from The Rise and Progr...
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, ...
Leadership Under Fire: Advancing Progress, Communicating, Teaching and Setting Communities at Liberty
Leadership Under Fire: Advancing Progress, Communicating, Teaching and Setting Communities at Liberty Roland C. Barksdale-Hall 9781937269562 Nonfiction Amber Communications Group Amber Communications ...
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 ...
The Future Has a Past
The Future Has a Past J. California Cooper Excerpt A Shooting Star Now, you don’t know me. And, I know that you know that nobody knows everything. But a person does have to go by whatever ...
Civilisations: First Contact / The Cult of Progress
Civilisations: First Contact / The Cult of Progress David Olusoga 9781781259979 Nonfiction Profile Books Profile Books There is nothing simple about the idea of civilization. It is a concept with mult...
A Small Nation of People: W. E. B. Du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress
A Small Nation of People: W. E. B. Du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress David Levering Lewis 9780060523428 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins As the world prepared for the Exposition Unive...
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...
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 ...
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...
St. Pete Reads! Literacy Festival
St. Pete Reads! Literacy Festival Woodson African American Museum of Florida St. Petersburg Florida The St. Pete Reads! Literacy Festival is dedicated to entertaining, engaging, and educating children...