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Jacopo Jacopo Football Star: A 10 Year Old Boy’s Football Journey
Jacopo Jacopo Football Star: A 10 Year Old Boy’s Football Journey Phina Oruche 9798639993077 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Liverpool is an amazing diversely populated city. T...
Jacopo Jacopo on Lockdown
Jacopo Jacopo on Lockdown Phina Oruche 9798666156995 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published With LFC bringing the Premiership cup home to liverpool after 30 years. Jacopo an 11 year o...
Phina Oruche
Phina Oruche NONE “Everything I am passionate about has storytelling in the center.” Phina Oruche, known for roles in BBC's Anthony and ITV's Footballers’ Wives, released a children's book...
Phina Oruche Reads from Her Book: Jacopo Jacopo Football Star
Phina Oruche Reads from Her Book: Jacopo Jacopo Football Star Book Spotlights Learn more at https://aalbc.com/books/bookinfo.php?isbn13=9798639993077
Jim Brown
Jim Brown 0000000072514239 James Nathaniel Brown, born February 17, 1936, is a former American football player and actor. Renowned for his time as a fullback with the Cleveland Browns (1957-1965), he...
Thursday Night Lights: The Story of Black High School Football in Texas
Thursday Night Lights: The Story of Black High School Football in Texas Michael Hurd 9781477310342 Nonfiction University of Texas Press University of Texas Press At a time when "Friday night lights" s...
Michael Strahan
Michael Strahan 0000000045587838 Michael Strahan is a retired American football player who spent his career with the New York Giants. Post-retirement, he became a media personality, co-hosting “Live!...
Be Boy Buzz
Be Boy Buzz bell hooks 9781484788400 Fiction Jump At The Sun Jump At The Sun I be boy. All bliss boy. All fine beat. All beau boy. Beautiful. Famed author bell hooks brings us a tight, exuberant story...
Legends: The Best Players, Games, and Teams in Football
Legends: The Best Players, Games, and Teams in Football Howard Bryant 9780147512567 Nonfiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House From Lombardi’s Packers through Brady and the Patriots, here is the ult...
Legends: The Best Players, Games, and Teams in Football: Classic Super Bowls! Amazing Playmakers! Historic Dynasties! And Much, Much More!
Legends: The Best Players, Games, and Teams in Football: Classic Super Bowls! Amazing Playmakers! Historic Dynasties! And Much, Much More! Howard Bryant 9780399169045 Nonfiction Philomel Books Penguin...
Baby Boy, You Are a Star!
Baby Boy, You Are a Star! Andrea Davis Pinkney 9781338672428 Fiction Cartel Publications Cartel Publications New York Times bestselling and award-winning duo Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney cre...
Pigskins to Paintbrushes: The Story of Football-Playing Artist Ernie Barnes
Pigskins to Paintbrushes: The Story of Football-Playing Artist Ernie Barnes Don Tate 9781419749438 Nonfiction Harry N. Abrams Harry N. Abrams From acclaimed author and illustrator Don Tate, the rousin...
Black Boy, Black Boy: Celebrate the Power of You
Black Boy, Black Boy: Celebrate the Power of You Ali Kamanda and Jorge Redmond 9781728250649 Nonfiction Sourcebooks Explore Sourcebooks Inspire Black boys to imagine all the great things they can do w...
Across the River: Life, Death, and Football in an American City
Across the River: Life, Death, and Football in an American City Kent Babb 9780062950598 Nonfiction HarperOne HarperCollins A heartbreaking and inspiring true story—Friday Night Lights meets Ghettoside...
The Boy and the Lion: A True Story of a Lost Maasai Boy Mysteriously Protected by a Wild Lioness
The Boy and the Lion: A True Story of a Lost Maasai Boy Mysteriously Protected by a Wild Lioness Mike Saito 9781957810423 Nonfiction Iskanchi Press Iskanchi Press A true survival memoir about a five-y...
Micah Hudson: Football Fumble
Micah Hudson: Football Fumble Tanisia Moore 9781478879138 Fiction Reycraft Books Reycraft Books Future football star Micah Hudson’s most prized possession is a football signed by THE Jackson Vick. But...
The Player’s Option: A Novella (Playmaker Book 2)
The Player’s Option: A Novella (Playmaker Book 2) K. L. Brady 9780996708340 Fiction LadyLit Press LadyLit Press From award-winning Author K.L. Brady, Book #2 in the sweet romance Playmaker Series… In...
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned Walter Mosley Excerpt CHAPTER ONE CRIMSON SHADOW {1.} "What you doin' there, boy?" It was six a.m. Socrates Fortlow had come out to the al...
Jesus Boy
Jesus Boy Thumper Book Review I have a question for you: have you ever heard of anything; a food dish, a recipe, a car or a book, that by the description alone, you knew, KNEW it was going ...
The Stone Thrower: A Daughter’s Lessons, a Father’s Life
The Stone Thrower: A Daughter’s Lessons, a Father’s Life Jael Richardson 9781771022057 Fiction Thomas Allen Publishers Thomas Allen Publishers A daughter discovers herself while uncovering her father’...
Bayou Classic: The Grambling-Southern Football Rivalry
Bayou Classic: The Grambling-Southern Football Rivalry Thomas Aiello 9780807136973 Nonfiction LSU Press Louisiana State University Press The annual clash in New Orleans between the Grambling State Uni...
Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming
Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming Antonio Michael Downing 9781571311993 Nonfiction Penguin Books Canada Penguin Random House Blending mythology and memory, Saga Boy follows a young Black imm...
Little Black Boy: Oh, the Things You Will Do!
Little Black Boy: Oh, the Things You Will Do! Kirby Howell-Baptiste and Larry C. Fields III 9780593406267 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House A little Black boy finds the courage to go af...
Touchdown in Brazil
Touchdown in Brazil Omar Tyree 9781496762894 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Amid the landmark NFL game in the electric city of São Paulo, Brazil, three very different family men cross path...
Where Secrets Lie
Where Secrets Lie Mahogany Star 9780978959906 Fiction Mahogany Star Publishing Mahogany Star Publishing As someone who has spent her childhood in the fast paced environment of the city, author Mahog...
Football Fumblina
Football Fumblina Melica Niccole 9780997687583 Fiction Hampton Publishing House Hampton Publishing House Football Fumblina could have been a ballerina. From ballet shoes to fumbles and tumbles, Fumbli...
From Gold Teeth to Gold Jacket: My Life in Football and Business
From Gold Teeth to Gold Jacket: My Life in Football and Business John Harris 9781683584322 Nonfiction Sports Publishing Skyhorse Publishing How a young man with a solid work ethic carried himself out ...
Football Widows
Football Widows Pat Tucker 9781593093150 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A glimpse into the secret and unique lives of the women behind NFL coaches—game day takes on a whole new meaning a...
A Hard Road To Glory: A History Of The African American Athlete: Football
A Hard Road To Glory: A History Of The African American Athlete: Football Arthur Ashe 9781567430387 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins African-American athletes changed the game of football. Who? How? ...
Dear Star Baby
Dear Star Baby Malcolm Newsome 9781506484808 Fiction Beaming Books 1517 Media I knew something was wrong when Mama called me close. She held my hand and told me you would not be coming home with us...
Baby Boy
Baby Boy Marvin X moviebabyboy.jpg Film Review Baby Boy Written, Directed, Produced by John Singleton Click to Order via Amazon Rating: R Studio: Columbia Tri-Star Theatrical Release Date: June ...
In The Night Of The Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel
In The Night Of The Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, and Steven Barnes 9781416569978 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Award-winning actor and author Blair Und...
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...
Black Boy
Black Boy Richard Wright 9780062964137 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins A special 75th anniversary edition of Richard Wright’s powerful and unforgettable memoir, with a new foreword by John E...
Bad Boy: The Influence of Sean "Puffy" Combs on the Music Industry
Bad Boy: The Influence of Sean "Puffy" Combs on the Music Industry Ronin Ro 9780743428231 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. This is a tale of friendship, greed, and betrayal in the music i...
Jamesy Boy
Jamesy Boy Kam Williams jamesy-boy.jpg Film Review Jamesy Boy In Theaters: Jan 17, 2014 Limited On DVD: Feb 24, 2014 Click to order via Amazon Unrated, 1 hr. 49 min. Drama, Kids & Family,...
Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined
Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined David F. Walker 9780593836118 Fiction Ten Speed Graphic Penguin Random House A thrilling graphic novel reimagining of The Adventures of Huckle...
Luther Campbell
Luther Campbell 0000000083849480 Luther Campbell, founder of Luke Records and member of 2 Live Crew, is a pioneer in southern rap. Now a respected football coach in Miami's public school system, Camp...
Boy of Mine
Boy of Mine Jabari Asim 9780316735773 Fiction LB Kids Hachette Book Group In this imaginative bedtime companion to Girl of Mine, an adorable little boy plays among the stars before his mommy tucks him...
The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze
The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze Derrick Barnes 9781984836755 Fiction Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House “Derrick Barnes takes all forms of storytelling available to him­—allego...
I Told You I Can Play!
I Told You I Can Play! Brian Jordan 9781933491066 Fiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. Six-year-old Brian loves to play football. But everyone thinks he’s too small. When he finally gets a chance...
Listen, I Create Me
Listen, I Create Me Cebo Campbell 9781413731934 Poetry PublishAmerica PublishAmerica “My father’s impression on my life flashed through my mind rioting images; the five senses went sour. Cut grass on ...
The Stone Thrower
The Stone Thrower Jael Richardson 9781554987528 Fiction Groundwood Books Anansi Press African-American football player Chuck Ealey grew up in a segregated neighborhood of Portsmouth, Ohio. Against all...
Julian Mims
Julian Mims NONE Julian Merrell Mims was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1979, the eldest son of Anthony Ronald Mims, a college football coach, and Virginia Mims, an elementary school teacher. ...
Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel
Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel Helen Oyeyemi 9781594631399 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House As seen on the cover of the New York Times Book Review, where it was described as “gloriously unsettling… evokin...
I Beat The Odds: From Homelessness, To The Blind Side, And Beyond
I Beat The Odds: From Homelessness, To The Blind Side, And Beyond Michael Oher 9781592406128 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House The football star made famous in the hit film The Blind Side reflects...
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Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama
Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama David J. Garrow 9780062641830 Nonfiction William Morrow HarperCollins NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERRising Star is the definitive account of Barack Obama’s formative...
The Porn Star Guide To Great Sex
The Porn Star Guide To Great Sex Mr. Marcus 9780312382391 Fiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers A provocative bedside guide to some of the most captivating sexual advice from pro-lover porn ...
Mahogany Star
Mahogany Star NONE Mahogany Star, a Brooklyn-born author, has written four books including the acclaimed 'Where Secrets Lie'. With a degree in Organizational Management, she worked in Healthcare Admi...
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Kam Williams startrek-2013-blueray.jpg Film Review Read the comments now. Read our review after you see the film (there some spoilers). Kirk Matches Wits with Rogue Co...
Dear Star Baby
Dear Star Baby Judy Allen Dodson Book Review Dear Star Baby by Malcolm Newsome is a heartwarming, sensitive, and beautifully written picture book that addresses the delicate subject of grief and loss...
The Old Boat
The Old Boat Jerome Pumphrey and Jarrett Pumphrey 9781324005179 Fiction Norton Young Readers W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. The creators of The Old Truck set sail with an old boat and an evocative, intr...
Jaden Toussaint, the Greatest Episode 5: Mission Star-Power
Jaden Toussaint, the Greatest Episode 5: Mission Star-Power Marti Dumas 9781943169283 Fiction Yes, Mam Creations Plum Street Press Giant Afro. Even Bigger Brain. Jaden Toussaint is a five-year-old who...
Heart-Shaped Lies
Heart-Shaped Lies Elizabeth Agyemang 9780593484494 Fiction Delacorte Press Penguin Random House John Tucker Must Die meets A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder in this tongue-in-cheek mystery about three feu...
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 ...
Young Pele: Soccer’s First Star
Young Pele: Soccer’s First Star Lesa Cline-Ransome 9780375871566 Fiction Dragonfly Books Dragonfly Books How did a poor boy named Edson—who kicked rocks down roads and dribbled balls made from rags—go...
Jesus Boy
Jesus Boy Preston L. Allen 9781936070046 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Allen has created a consummate tragicomedy of African Americanfamily secrets and sorrows, and of faith under duress and wi...
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Black Leopard, Red Wolf Marlon James 9780735220171 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House "A fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made." —Neil Gaiman The epic novel, an African Gam...
The Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy’s Journey into Manhood
The Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy’s Journey into Manhood Kevin Powell 9781439163689 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In the spirit of Piri Thomas’s Down These Mean Streets and Maya Ang...
Men of the House: A B-Boy Blues Novel
Men of the House: A B-Boy Blues Novel James Earl Hardy 9781719937900 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Things are definitely "jood" (better than good) for 15-year-old Raheim Erro...
Billy
Billy Albert French 9780140179088 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House Albert French lights up the monstrous face of American racism in this harrowing tale of ten-year-old Billy Lee Turner, who ...
Calvin
Calvin JR Ford and Vanessa Ford 9780593108673 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House In this joyful and impactful picture book, a transgender boy prepares for the firs...
The Herd Boy
The Herd Boy Niki Daly 9780802855503 Fiction Eerdmans Books for Young Readers Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Malusi is a herd boy, which means that he must look after his grandfather’s sheep and g...
Soldier Boy
Soldier Boy Keely Hutton 9780374305635 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers Macmillan Publishers An unforgettable novel based on the life of Ricky Richard Anywar, who at age fou...
The Boy in the Bubble
The Boy in the Bubble Zetta Elliott 9781497444782 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press A mysterious boy from another planet chooses an unusual girl as his guide on Earth. Both children lead solitary li...
A Boy Should Know How to Tie a Tie: And Other Lessons for Succeeding in Life
A Boy Should Know How to Tie a Tie: And Other Lessons for Succeeding in Life Antwone Fisher 9781416566625 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. LIFE LESSONS AND HARD-EARNED ADVICE THAT EVERY BOY...
Washington Black
Washington Black Esi Edugyan 9780525521426 Fiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, TIME, Entertainment Weekly, Slate- ONE OF THE ...
Khalil’s Way
Khalil’s Way David Miller 9780615597065 Fiction Urban Leadership Institute Urban Leadership Institute An exciting illustrated children’s novel by author David Miller highlights the journey of Khalil J...
Blue Blood (Ivy League Mysteries)
Blue Blood (Ivy League Mysteries) Pamela Thomas-Graham 9780684845272 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Murder returns to the Ivy League in this second book in Pamela Thomas-Graham’s cri...
The Old Man In The Club (Zane Presents)
The Old Man In The Club (Zane Presents) Curtis Bunn 9781593095727 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. He’s the “old guy in the club” who everyone judges and scorns, but there’s so much more t...
Millionaire Wives Club: A Novel
Millionaire Wives Club: A Novel Tu-Shonda L. Whitaker 9780345486677 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House In Tu-Shonda L. Whitaker’s steamiest novel yet, we meet the four deliciously dra...
From Ike to Mao and Beyond: My Journey from Mainstream America to Revolutionary Communist
From Ike to Mao and Beyond: My Journey from Mainstream America to Revolutionary Communist Herb Boyd Book Review Like many red-blooded American boys, Bob Avakian’s early years were consumed wi...
The Making of Yolanda La Bruja
The Making of Yolanda La Bruja Lorraine Avila 9781646142439 Fiction Levine Querido Levine Querido Common Sense Media Selection for Teens Booklist Best of the Year NYPL Top 10 of the Year HipLatina ...
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy Emmanuel Acho 9781250801067 Nonfiction Roaring Brook Press Macmillan Publishers Adapted from Emmanuel Acho’s New York Times bestseller Uncomfortable Conver...
The AutoThugOgraphy of Turk
The AutoThugOgraphy of Turk Tab “Hot Boy Turk” Virgil Jr. 9781947732216 Fiction Wahida Clark Presents Publishing Green and Company LLC Former Cash Money Records “Hot Boy Turk” offers with his autobiog...
Chasing Space Young Readers’ Edition
Chasing Space Young Readers’ Edition Leland Melvin 9780062665928 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Meet Leland Melvin—football star, NASA astronaut, and professional dream chaser.In this inspiring memo...
He Said, She Said
He Said, She Said Kwame Alexander 9780062118967 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Sparks will fly in this hip-hop-hot teen novel that mixes social protest and star-crossed romance, from Newbery Medal and ...
Out of Bounds: Coming Out of Sexual Abuse, Addiction, and My Life of Lies in the NFL Closet
Out of Bounds: Coming Out of Sexual Abuse, Addiction, and My Life of Lies in the NFL Closet Roy Simmons and Damon DiMarco 9780786716814 Fiction Carroll & Graf Perseus Books Group The second NFL player...
Yes, Chef
Yes, Chef Marcus Samuelsson and Veronica Chambers 9780385342605 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon, a boy who loves to cook walks to his gra...
The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze
The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze Derrick Barnes 9781984836779 Fiction Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Newbery Honoree Derrick Barnes delivers a powerful and timely novel about ra...
Johnny Was His Name: The Boy Who Grew Up To Become John H. Johnson
Johnny Was His Name: The Boy Who Grew Up To Become John H. Johnson Friends of John H. Johnson Museum 9798385011254 Nonfiction WestBow Press WestBow Press Johnny Was His Name offers a captivating journ...
Ghost Boys
Ghost Boys Jewell Parker Rhodes 9780316262286 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group A heartbreaking and powerful story about a black boy killed by a police officer, drawing...
Charlie’s Boy: A Memoir
Charlie’s Boy: A Memoir D.L. Hughley 9780063435438 Nonfiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins The long-awaited memoir from comedy legend and author of multiple New York Times bestsellers, Charl...
Better Than a Touchdown
Better Than a Touchdown Jalen Hurts 9798217040308 Fiction Flamingo Books Penguin Random House From Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts comes an empowering story about friendship, the power of ...
Terry Crews - “The Expendables” Interview
Terry Crews - “The Expendables” Interview Kam Williams Interview Hailing from Flint, Michigan, Terry Crews has not only one of the most recognizable faces around, but maybe one of the mo...
Sophie Washington Queen of the Bee
Sophie Washington Queen of the Bee Tonya Duncan Ellis 9781732706071 Fiction Page Turner Publishing Page Turner Publishing A READERS’ FAVORITE FIVE STAR RATED BOOK FOR KIDS! This entertaining, illustra...
Heaven, My Home
Heaven, My Home Attica Locke 9780316363402 Fiction Mulholland Books Hachette Book Group One of Entertainment Weekly’s Biggest Books of Fall 2019 Texas Ranger Darren Mathews is on the hunt for a missi...
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Picture Book Edition (paperback)
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Picture Book Edition (paperback) William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer 9798217111121 Nonfiction Rocky Pond Books Penguin Random House The picture book retelling of the ...
Love Don’t Come Easy
Love Don’t Come Easy Tiffany M. Davis Book Review Boy looks for girl. Boy finds girl. Boy loses girl. Boy looks for another girl. J.T. Smith puts a fresh spin on an old formula in his highly enterta...
Let the Church Say Amen
Let the Church Say Amen ReShonda Tate 9781416514497 Fiction Pocket Books Pocket Books Award-winning author ReShonda Tate Billingsley delivers a bold and heartwarming story of family and faith about...
Journey to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: Spark of the Resistance
Journey to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: Spark of the Resistance Justina Ireland 9781368050814 Fiction Disney Lucasfilm Press Disney Publishing Worldwide BB-8 are finishing up a simple assignment ...
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Imani Perry 9780062977403 Nonfiction Ecco Press HarperCollins “An elegant meditation on the complexities of the Ame...