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Jennifer’s Journal: The Life Of A Suburban Girl
Jennifer’s Journal: The Life Of A Suburban Girl Jennifer Cruté 9780990319160 Fiction Rosarium Publishing Rosarium Publishing By turns funny, poignant, melancholic, and life-affirming, Jennifer’s Jo...
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...
The Black Girl Next Door: A Memoir (Touchstone Books (Paperback))
The Black Girl Next Door: A Memoir (Touchstone Books (Paperback)) Jennifer Baszile 9781416543282 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. A powerful, beautifully written memoir about coming of age a...
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country Amanda Gorman 9780593465271 Poetry Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A special edition of the poem The Hill We Climb, read at the...
Poem Your Heart Out : Prompts, Poems & Room to Add Your Own : Volume 1: Prompts, Poems & Room to Add Your Own
Poem Your Heart Out : Prompts, Poems & Room to Add Your Own : Volume 1: Prompts, Poems & Room to Add Your Own Robert Lee Brewer 9780692317464 Poetry Words Dance Publishing Words Dance Publishing This ...
Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in North America
Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in North America Jennifer Brier, Jim Downs, and Jennifer L. Morgan 9780252081873 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press Connexions i...
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair 9781615192533 Nonfiction The Experiment The Experiment The internationally bestsell...
Dreamland Burning
Dreamland Burning Jennifer Latham 9780316384902 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group A compelling dual-narrated tale from Jennifer Latham that questions how far we’ve come...
Destroyer of Light
Destroyer of Light Jennifer Marie Brissett 9781250268631 Fiction Tor Books Macmillan Publishers The Matrix meets an Afro-futuristic retelling of Persephone set in a science fiction underworld of alien...
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...
In The Words Of Nelson Mandela
In The Words Of Nelson Mandela Jennifer Crwys-Williams 9780802779304 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press "I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I ha...
Approaching Sabbaths: Poems
Approaching Sabbaths: Poems Jennifer Rahim 9781845230708 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Drawing on a powerful sense of Trinidadian history and moving seamlessly between matters of family a...
The Camping Trip
The Camping Trip Jennifer K. Mann 9781536207361 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press Ernestine has never been camping before, but she’s sure it will be lots of fun … won’t it? An endearing story ...
Extraordinary Pr, Ordinary Budget: A Strategy Guide
Extraordinary Pr, Ordinary Budget: A Strategy Guide Jennifer R. Farmer 9781626569935 Nonfiction Berrett-Koehler Publishers Berrett-Koehler Publishers Low Cost, High Impact! Public relations is a ma...
Forgive Me Not
Forgive Me Not Jennifer Baker 9780593406847 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House In this near-future searing indictment of the juvenile justice system, one incarcerated teen weighs what sh...
Hope And Desire
Hope And Desire Theresa Grant 9781413758603 Fiction PublishAmerica PublishAmerica Jennifer Greene, a young impressionable girl, dreams of going to New York to become a fashion designer. Her father die...
True Love
True Love Jennifer Lopez 9780451468680 Nonfiction Celebra Penguin Random House In Jennifer Lopez’s first ever book, True Love, she explores one of her life’s most defining periods—the transformative t...
My Pisces Heart: A Black Immigrant’s Search for Home Across Four Continents
My Pisces Heart: A Black Immigrant’s Search for Home Across Four Continents Jennifer Neal 9781646223015 Nonfiction Catapult Catapult With Heart, Humor, and Razor-Sharp Observation, This Intimate and I...
My Breath of Fresh Air
My Breath of Fresh Air Lanell 9781460216040 Fiction FriesenPress FriesenPress Jennifer is a busy African American patent lawyer in a firm with few females and even fewer African Americans and her boss...
Redemption Rain
Redemption Rain Jennifer Rahim 9781894770705 Poetry Mawenzi House Mawenzi House “Jennifer Rahim is a poet whose work allows us to feel the vastness and reach of the Caribbean … Her authority is rooted...
Near The Hope
Near The Hope Jennifer Davis Carey 9780989545099 Fiction Blue Mongoose Publishing Blue Mongoose Publishing It is the sharp turn of the twentieth century, and Barbados is an island emptying out, as ...
Becoming Spectacular: The Rhythm of Resilience from the First African American Rockette
Becoming Spectacular: The Rhythm of Resilience from the First African American Rockette Jennifer Jones 9780063270374 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins The first African American Rockette charts her jou...
Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery
Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan 9780812218732 Nonfiction University of Pennsylvania Press University of Pennsylvania Press When black women were brought...
First and Only: What Black Women Say About Thriving at Work and in Life
First and Only: What Black Women Say About Thriving at Work and in Life Jennifer R. Farmer 9781506485164 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media “Essential reading.” —Marie Claire First and Only is a g...
Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic
Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic Jennifer L. Morgan 9781478014140 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books In Reckoning wit...
Let’s Tell This Story Properly
Let’s Tell This Story Properly Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi 9781945492228 Fiction Transit Books Transit Books How far does one have to travel to find home elsewhere? The stories in Jennifer Nansubuga Ma...
Transatlantic Dialogue: Contemporary Art in and Out of Africa
Transatlantic Dialogue: Contemporary Art in and Out of Africa Michael D. Harris 9780295979335 Nonfiction Oakland Museum of California Oakland Museum of California "Transatlantic Dialogue" opens an exc...
Adulting
Adulting Nikesha Elise Williams 9781733584821 Fiction NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications Can she have it all? Naomi Grace is determined to lay hold of the life she’s always wanted. In her v...
Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem
Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem Maya Angelou 9780593518618 Poetry Anne Schwartz Books Penguin Random House This dazzling Christmas poem by Maya Angelou is powerful and inspiring for people of all fait...
The Heart of a Woman, and Other Poems
The Heart of a Woman, and Other Poems Georgia Douglas Johnson 9781298493583 Poetry Andesite Press Andesite Press The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems (1918) The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems (19...
The Venus Hottentot: Poems
The Venus Hottentot: Poems Elizabeth Alexander 9781555973926 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press Elizabeth Alexander’s highly praised first collection is available once againI didn’t want to write a ...
Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C. P. Cavafy
Archive of Desire: A Poem in Four Parts for C. P. Cavafy Robin Coste Lewis 9781524732608 Poetry Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House The National Book Award, PEN/Voelcker Award, and NAACP Image...
A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems And Drawings
A Poem Traveled Down My Arm: Poems And Drawings Alice Walker 9781400061631 Poetry Knopf Penguin Random House In this illuminating book, Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist and acclaimed poet Alice Walker ...
Inheritance: A Visual Poem
Inheritance: A Visual Poem Elizabeth Acevedo 9780062931948 Nonfiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins They tell me to “fix” my hair. And by fix, they mean straighten, they mean whiten; but how do...
A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart
A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart Zetta Elliott 9780374307417 Poetry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers Macmillan Publishers Today Show Best Book for the Holidays NCTE ...
If I Survive You
If I Survive You Jonathan Escoffery 9780374605988 Fiction MCD Macmillan Publishers "If I Survive You is a collection of connected short stories that reads like a novel, that reads like real life, that...
Mental Fight: An Epic Poem
Mental Fight: An Epic Poem Ben Okri 9781635422900 Poetry Other Press (NY) Other Press An epic poem touching on issues of racism, intolerance, and environmental destruction, from the Booker Prize-winni...
Duende: Poems, 1966—Now
Duende: Poems, 1966—Now Quincy Troupe 9781644210451 Poetry Seven Stories Press Seven Stories Press The selected poems from over fifty years by the great poet and biographer and friend of Miles Davis.Q...
Be Holding: A Poem
Be Holding: A Poem Ross Gay 9780822966234 Poetry University of Pittsburgh Press University of Pittsburgh Press Winner, 2021 PEN/Jean Stein AwardWinner, 2022 Indiana Author Award in Poetry Be Holding i...
Storyteller: 100 Poem Letters
Storyteller: 100 Poem Letters Morgan Harper Nichols 9781979990523 Poetry CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC “For over a decade, many of the stories and poems I have written eventually turned into so...
Gone Away
Gone Away Mervyn Taylor 9781881523000 Poetry Junction Press Junction Press The latest [2006] collection from Mervyn Taylor offers up his familiar blend of the ancestral and the immediate, the natural ...
A Girl Is a Body of Water
A Girl Is a Body of Water Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi 9781951142049 Fiction Tin House Books Tin House Books In her twelfth year, Kirabo, a young Ugandan girl, confronts a piercing question that has hau...
We Speak Your Names: A Celebration
We Speak Your Names: A Celebration Pearl Cleage 9780345490278 Poetry Random House Penguin Random House For centuries, African American women have been remaking the world, giving testament to the power...
Kintu
Kintu Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi 9781945492013 Fiction Transit Books Transit Books Longlisted for the 2014 Etisalat Prize for Debut African FictionWinner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize"Kintu is...
Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem
Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem Maya Angelou 9781400065585 Poetry Random House Penguin Random House In this beautiful, deeply moving poem, Maya Angelou inspires us to embrace the peace and promise of ...
Love Never Fails
Love Never Fails Nikesha Elise Williams 9781733584807 Fiction NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications “If I were honest, I’d be divorced right now.” When it comes to marriage, nothing is guar...
Josie’s Lost Tooth
Josie’s Lost Tooth Jennifer K. Mann 9780763696948 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press What if you’re first and best at everything — except losing your first tooth? A sweet, relatable story about...
Black Girl You Are Atlas
Black Girl You Are Atlas Renée Watson 9780593461709 Fiction Kokila Penguin Random House A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson. In t...
Two Speckled Eggs
Two Speckled Eggs Jennifer K. Mann 9780763661687 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press A birthday party sets the scene in this sweet and relatable story for anyone who’s ever been the odd girl out...
Finding Peace Isn’t Peaceful: Overcoming the Struggle Within to Heal My Soul
Finding Peace Isn’t Peaceful: Overcoming the Struggle Within to Heal My Soul Ma’Ronda X 9781943409563 Nonfiction Pure Thoughts Publishing Pure Thoughts Publishing, LLC Finding Peace Isn’t Peaceful is ...
Ghost Voices: A Poem in Prayer
Ghost Voices: A Poem in Prayer Quincy Troupe 9780810138995 Poetry TriQuarterly Books Northwestern University Press If we were all brave enough to resurrect the voices lost from our humanity, what woul...
The Negro Speaks Of Rivers
The Negro Speaks Of Rivers Langston Hughes 9780786818679 Fiction Hyperion Books Hachette Book Group Langston Hughes has long been acknowledged as the voice, and his poem, The Negro Speaks of Rivers, t...
Mercenary In Love 2
Mercenary In Love 2 John L. Rose 9781947340411 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing Mercenary Sean Carter has quickly gained the trust of his new boss, the infamous Luther Simmons, and become...
As If Nothing Happened
As If Nothing Happened Monica Carter 9780971843608 Fiction Rootsky Publishing Rootsky Publishing Joya, Yvonne and Jennifer realized a long time ago that family is about more than blood. And so these f...
We Didn’t Know Any Gangsters
We Didn’t Know Any Gangsters Brian Gilmore 9780692273272 Poetry Cherry Castle Publishing Cherry Castle Publishing “Brian Gilmore’s We Didn’t Know Any Gangsters weds the wily clarity of Lucille Clifton...
Reproductive Racial Capitalism
Reproductive Racial Capitalism Jennifer L. Morgan 9781478027928 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books
Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice
Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice Jennifer Mullan 9781324019169 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. An essential work that ...
Everyday People: The Color of Life — A Short Story Anthology
Everyday People: The Color of Life — A Short Story Anthology Jennifer Baker 9781501134944 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In the tradition of Best American Short Stories comes Everyday Peop...
Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood
Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood James Baldwin 9781478000044 Fiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books “a child’s story for adults” Illustrated by Yoran Cazac. Edi...
Curfew Chronicles: A Fiction
Curfew Chronicles: A Fiction Jennifer Rahim 9781845233624 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press In 2011, the Trinidad government declared a state of emergency and an overnight curfew. The SoE, b...
Sam and Jump
Sam and Jump Jennifer K. Mann 9780763679477 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press A charmingly simple tale about friends, old and new, that will resonate with anyone who’s ever loved — and lost — ...
Elysium
Elysium Jennifer Marie Brissett 9781619760530 Fiction Aqueduct Press Aqueduct Press A computer program etched into the atmosphere has a story to tell, the story of two people, of a city lost to chaos,...
Ground Level
Ground Level Jennifer Rahim 9781845232054 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press
Wisdom in Pieces: Motivational Moments for Real Life
Wisdom in Pieces: Motivational Moments for Real Life Jennifer Bridgeforth 9781628470659 Nonfiction 220 Communications 220 Communications
Created in the West Indies: Caribbean Perspectives on V.S. Naipaul
Created in the West Indies: Caribbean Perspectives on V.S. Naipaul Jennifer Rahim 9789766374129 Fiction Ian Randle Publishers Ian Randle Publishers Created in the West Indies: Caribbean Perspectives o...
Malia And Sasha Obama (Star Biographies)
Malia And Sasha Obama (Star Biographies) Jennifer M. Besel 9781429650007 Nonfiction Capstone Press Capstone Press Malia and Sasha Obama used to be normal girls who traveled to school on a bus. Today t...
12 Ways to Put Money in Your Pocket Every Month Without a Part-Time Job, the Skinny Book That Makes Your Wallet Fat
12 Ways to Put Money in Your Pocket Every Month Without a Part-Time Job, the Skinny Book That Makes Your Wallet Fat Jennifer S. Matthews 9780615338255 Nonfiction The Pickett-Fennell Group The Pickett-...
Beyond Borders: Cross-Culturalism and the Caribbean Canon
Beyond Borders: Cross-Culturalism and the Caribbean Canon Jennifer Rahim 9789766402167 Nonfiction University of the West Indies Press University of the West Indies Press
Songster and Other Stories
Songster and Other Stories Jennifer Rahim 9781845230487 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press
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...
Stories From Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers At Home And Abroad
Stories From Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers At Home And Abroad Elizabeth Nunez and Jennifer Sparrow 9781580051392 Nonfiction Seal Press Seal Press Stories from Blue Latitudes gathers the majo...
Ploughshares Spring 1997: Poems and Stories
Ploughshares Spring 1997: Poems and Stories Yusef Komunyakaa 9780933277199 Poetry Ploughshares Books Emerson College Contributors to this issue include: Tony Ardizzone, William Baer, James Bertolino, ...
Dream a Dress, Dream a Poem: Dressmaker and Poet, Myra Viola Wilds (a Picture Book)
Dream a Dress, Dream a Poem: Dressmaker and Poet, Myra Viola Wilds (a Picture Book) Nancy Johnson James 9781951836535 Nonfiction Abrams Books for Young Readers Abrams A poetic picture book biography a...
Collected Poems (paperback): 1974-2004
Collected Poems (paperback): 1974-2004 Rita Dove 9780393354935 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Three decades of powerful lyric poetry from a virtuoso of the English language...
Collected Poems: 1974–2004
Collected Poems: 1974–2004 Rita Dove 9780393285949 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Three decades of powerful lyric poetry from a virtuoso of the English language in one unab...
Four Women
Four Women Nikesha Elise Williams 9780692962916 Fiction NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications What happens to four strangers when the present meets the past and the whole world is watching? Th...
A Poem for Evangeline, And Other Songs
A Poem for Evangeline, And Other Songs Kevin Powell 9798218824440 Poetry Get Fresh Books Publishing Get Fresh Books Publishing “Kevin Powell is one of this country’s most poignant literary voices. Pow...
School of Instructions: A Poem
School of Instructions: A Poem Ishion Hutchinson 9780374613976 Poetry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers A stunning memorial work that excavates the forgotten experience of West Indian sol...
I Had a Brother Once: A Poem, a Memoir
I Had a Brother Once: A Poem, a Memoir Adam Mansbach 9780593134795 Poetry One World Penguin Random House A brilliant, genre-defying work—both memoir and epic poem—about the struggle for wisdom, grace,...
A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day
A Poem for Peter: The Story of Ezra Jack Keats and the Creation of The Snowy Day Andrea Davis Pinkney 9780425287682 Poetry Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A celebration of the ex...
Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem
Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem Mitchell L.H. Douglas 9781597091404 Poetry Red Hen Press Red Hen Press In the tradition of the Langton Hughes classic Montage of a Dream Deferred, Mitchell L. H. Dou...
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou 9780375507892 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know W...
The Appeal of Ebony Jones
The Appeal of Ebony Jones Nikesha Elise Williams 9780692123942 Fiction NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications Guilty. Not Guilty. Those are the only options facing Ebony Jones. She is standing ...
Hey Black Child
Hey Black Child Useni Eugene Perkins 9780316360296 Nonfiction LB Kids Hachette Book Group Six-time Coretta Scott King Award winner and four-time Caldecott Honor recipient Bryan Collier brings this cla...
Hey Black Child
Hey Black Child Useni Eugene Perkins 9780316360302 Fiction Anointed Inspirations Publishing Anointed Inspirations Publishing Six-time Coretta Scott King Award winner and four-time Caldecott Honor reci...
flesh
flesh Latorial Faison 9781497305700 Poetry CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Struggling with your fresh? Know somebody who is? What exactly is flesh? Read Latorial Faison’s prolific and thought pro...
What I Know For Sure
What I Know For Sure Oprah Winfrey 9781250054050 Nonfiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers As a creative force, student of the human heart and soul, and champion of living the life you want, ...
Musical Youth
Musical Youth Joanne C. Hillhouse 9781733829960 Fiction Caribbean Reads Publishing Caribbean Reads Publishing 2nd place in the 2014 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature. #12 in Amazon Hot New Releases ...
The Missing Cupcake Mystery (Tony and Lauren Dungy Ready-to-Reads)
The Missing Cupcake Mystery (Tony and Lauren Dungy Ready-to-Reads) Tony Dungy 9781442454637 Fiction Simon Spotlight Simon & Schuster, Inc. The Dungy kids learn that honesty is the best policy—even whe...
Quick Reads Penguin Readers: Boys Don’t Cry
Quick Reads Penguin Readers: Boys Don’t Cry Malorie Blackman 9780241688106 Fiction Penguin Group USA Penguin Random House A gripping Quick Read about family and growing up from bestselling author, Mal...
The Rib King
The Rib King Ladee Hubbard 9780062979070 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Thrillist - 30 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2021Book Riot - Our Most Anticipated Releases of 2021Real Simple - The Best New Boo...
Beyond Bourbon Street
Beyond Bourbon Street Nikesha Elise Williams 9781733584869 Fiction NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications How does a couple survive when the one thing that brought them together threatens to te...
Lessons We Were Never Taught
Lessons We Were Never Taught Nikesha Elise Williams 9781733584852 Poetry NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications Lessons We Were Never Taught is author Nikesha Elise Williams’s first collection ...
Carter Reads the Newspaper
Carter Reads the Newspaper Deborah Hopkinson 9781561459346 Nonfiction Peachtree Publishers Peachtree Publishers Essential Black History Reading The first-ever picture book biography of Carter G. Wo...
Lost! A Caribbean Sea Adventure
Lost! A Caribbean Sea Adventure Joanne C. Hillhouse 9780999237212 Fiction Caribbean Reads Publishing Caribbean Reads Publishing Beautifully illustrated by Trinidadian artist Danielle Boodoo-Fortun&eac...
Letter to Jimmy
Letter to Jimmy Alain Mabanckou 9781593766016 Fiction Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press Written on the twentieth anniversary of James Baldwin’s death, Letter to Jimmy is African writer Alain Mabanckou...
Shahid Reads His Own Palm
Shahid Reads His Own Palm Reginald Dwayne Betts 9781882295814 Poetry Alice James Books Alice James Books Reginald Dwayne Betts sings mournfully, bearing witness within prisoners’ cells, pulling reader...
What Shall We Tell You?
What Shall We Tell You? Wade Hudson 9781662621109 Fiction Astra Young Readers Astra Publishing House A much-needed poem of hope and love for children facing adversity due to bigotry, bullying, violenc...
Why the Black Hole Sings the Blues
Why the Black Hole Sings the Blues Ishmael Reed 9781628973587 Poetry Dalkey Archive Press Dalkey Archive Press The poems in this collection were written between 2007 and 2020. When asked to describe t...
Madwoman
Madwoman Shara McCallum 9781938584282 Poetry Alice James Books Alice James Books These wonderful poems open a world of sensation and memory. But it is a world revealed by language, never just controll...