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Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward 0000000049339751 Two-Time National Book Award Winning Author Jesmyn Ward, a Mississippi-born author and University of South Alabama professor, has penned novels like “Where the Line Bleeds...
Navigate Your Stars
Navigate Your Stars Jesmyn Ward 9781982131326 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. A revelatory, uplifting, and gorgeously illustrated meditation on dedication, hard work, and the p...
On Witness and Respair: Essays
On Witness and Respair: Essays Jesmyn Ward 9781668064269 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. The collected creative nonfiction of a singular American writer, Jesmyn Ward, inclu...
Men We Reaped
Men We Reaped Jesmyn Ward 9781608195213 Nonfiction Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing “We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then w...
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward 9781501126062 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. “Sing, Unburied, Sing is a road novel turned on its head, and a family story with its feet to the f...
The Best American Short Stories 2021
The Best American Short Stories 2021 Jesmyn Ward 9781328485380 Fiction Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A collection of the year’s best stories selected by celebrated two-time Natio...
Where the Line Bleeds (2018)
Where the Line Bleeds (2018) Jesmyn Ward 9781501164330 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. The first novel from National Book Award winner and author of Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Wa...
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race Jesmyn Ward 9781501126352 Poetry Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin’s 1963 e...
Let Us Descend
Let Us Descend Jesmyn Ward 9781982104498 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize...
Where the Line Bleeds
Where the Line Bleeds Jesmyn Ward 9781932841381 Fiction Agate Bolden Agate Publishing, Inc Joshua and Christophe are twins, raised by a blind grandmother and a large extended family in a rural town on...
Let Us Descend (paperback)
Let Us Descend (paperback) Jesmyn Ward 9781982104504 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. Oprah’s Book Club Pick - Instant New York Times Bestseller - Named one of the best books of 20...
Salvage the Bones
Salvage the Bones Jesmyn Ward 9781608196265 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and...
Jesmyn Ward’s Speech, Accepting the Historical Marker Created in Her Honor,
Jesmyn Ward’s Speech, Accepting the Historical Marker Created in Her Honor, Author Interviews Jesmyn Ward’s speech, accepting the Historical Marker created in her honor. He speech was delivered during...
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sing, Unburied, Sing Tony Lindsay Book Review What Jesmyn Ward offers the reader in Sing, Unburied, Sing is an example of family. Ward creates a family that sees ghosts, a family that talks to animal...
Pomegranate
Pomegranate Helen Elaine Lee 9781982171896 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. The acclaimed author of The Serpent’s Gift returns with this gripping and powerful novel of healing, redemption, a...
Don’t Cry for Me (paperback)
Don’t Cry for Me (paperback) Daniel Black 9781335449351 Fiction Hanover Square Press Hanover Square Press NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK IN ESSENCE MAGAZINE, THE MILLIONS AND BOOKISH “Don’t Cry for...
A Black Woman Did That
A Black Woman Did That Malaika Adero 9781941367513 Nonfiction Downtown Bookworks Downtown Bookworks Download: A Black Woman Did That: A Playlist and Reader’s Guide A Black Woman Did That! spotlight...
Praise Song for the Butterflies
Praise Song for the Butterflies Bernice L. McFadden 9781617755750 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Praise Song for the Butterflies addresses “Trokosi,” the practice of sending girls to shrines as s...
Let Us Descend
Let Us Descend Donna Hill Book Review Acclaimed writer Jesmyn Ward, two-time National Book Award winner for Sing, Unburied, Sing and Salvage the Bones, returns with her latest, Let Us Descend, a haun...
Peggy Rowe Ward and Larry Ward
Peggy Rowe Ward and Larry Ward MULTIPLE Drs Peggy Rowe Ward and Larry Ward are the guiding teachers and founders of the Lotus Institute. They are senior Dharma teachers trained under Zen Master Thic...
Larry Ward
Larry Ward NONE AALBC Mourns the passing of Larry Ward August 19, 2025 Dr. Larry Ward was the co-founder of The Lotus Institute and a beloved senior Dharma teacher in Zen Master Thích Nhất Hạnh’s Plu...
Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Men We Reaped: A Memoir Robert Fleming Book Review National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, author of two previous acclaimed novels, Where The Line Bleeds and Salvage The Bones, closely examines...
Jerry W. Ward
Jerry W. Ward 0000000108699053 Dr. Jerry W. Ward, Jr. is a renowned professor of English and African American World Studies at Dillard University. He spent 20 years at Tougaloo College, is a leading ...
Jervette R. Ward
Jervette R. Ward NONE Dr. Jervette R. Ward is an English Associate Professor at Mississippi State University, editor, former journalist, and public relations professional. She specializes in American...
Burn Down Master’s House
Burn Down Master’s House Clay Cane 9781496759146 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Inspired by long-buried true stories of enslaved people who dared to fight back, this powerful novel offers ...
Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy
Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy Bridgett M. Davis 9780063322080 Nonfiction Harper HarperCollins A searing tribute of sisterhood and family, love and profound loss fr...
Written in the Waters: A Memoir of History, Home, and Belonging
Written in the Waters: A Memoir of History, Home, and Belonging Tara Roberts 9781426223754 Nonfiction National Geographic Society National Geographic Books This searing memoir by a National Geographic...
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose Alice Walker 9780063346840 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In this groundbreaking classic essay collection, Alice Walker speaks out as a Black woman,...
We Are a Haunting
We Are a Haunting Tyriek White 9781662601712 Fiction Astra House Astra Publishing House “An absolute triumph.” —Michael Schaub, NPR “Astonishing.” —Kiese Laymon, MacArthur Fellow and author of ...
What the Fireflies Knew
What the Fireflies Knew Kai Harris 9780593185346 Fiction Tiny Reparations Books Penguin Random House In the vein of Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones and Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees, a comin...
Don’t Cry For Me
Don’t Cry For Me Daniel Black 9781335425737 Fiction Hanover Square Press Hanover Square Press “Don’t Cry for Me is a perfect song.”—Jesmyn Ward A Black father makes amends with his gay son through ...
My Mother’s House
My Mother’s House Francesca Momplaisir 9780525657156 Fiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House “A shockingly original exploration of class, race, and systemic violence … This house, tainted ...
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man Joshua Bennett 9780674980303 Nonfiction Belknap Press Harvard University Press A prize-winning poet argues that blackness acts as the caesura b...
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves Glory Edim 9780525619772 Nonfiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House An inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, cur...
Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song
Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song Tara T. Green 9780814254714 Fiction The Ohio State University Press The Ohio State University Press In Reimagining ...
Taking Over Wall Street with Books by Charisse Carney-Nunes
Taking Over Wall Street with Books by Charisse Carney-Nunes Charisse Carney-Nunes Article The Lit Bit Wall Street is in for another invasion… no, not just more protestors armed with ...
A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff and Jerry W. Ward
A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff and Jerry W. Ward MULTIPLE "A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff and Jerry W. Ward are notable authors specializing in literature, with Ruoff focusing on Native American studies and Ward on ...
James Ward
James Ward 0000000003087499 James Theodore Ward was a pivotal figure in the Black Chicago Renaissance, known as the “dean of black dramatists.” He co-founded the Negro Playwrights Company and wrote o...
America’s Racial Karma: An Invitation to Heal
America’s Racial Karma: An Invitation to Heal Larry Ward 9781946764744 Nonfiction Parallax Press Parallax Press Immediate, illuminating, and hopeful: this is the key set of talks given by leading Zen ...
Bone
Bone Yrsa Daley-Ward 9780143132615 Poetry Penguin Books Penguin Random House “yrsa daley-ward’s bone is a symphony of breaking and mending… . she lays her hands on the pulse of the thing… . an expert ...
Ninth Ward
Ninth Ward Jewell Parker Rhodes 9780316043083 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Twelve-year-old Lanesha lives in a tight-knit community in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward. She ...
Ninth Ward (hardcover)
Ninth Ward (hardcover) Jewell Parker Rhodes 9780316043076 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Twelve-year-old Lanesha lives in a tight-knit community in New Orleans’ Nint...
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...
John Oliver Killens and Jerry W. Ward
John Oliver Killens and Jerry W. Ward MULTIPLE John O. Killens and Jerry W. Ward are renowned authors recognized for their significant contributions to literature. Their work has greatly influenced t...
Andre Ward with Nick Chiles
Andre Ward with Nick Chiles MULTIPLE Andre Ward and Nick Chiles are renowned authors, known for their profound works. Their unique writing style and insightful perspectives have significantly impacte...
Maryemma Graham and Jerry W. Ward
Maryemma Graham and Jerry W. Ward MULTIPLE Dr. Maryemma Graham is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas, while Dr. Jerry W. Ward, Jr. is a renowned professor of English and African Am...
Andre Ward
Andre Ward NONE Andre Michael Ward, born 1984, is a retired American boxer with an untarnished record. He was a multi-time world champion in two weight categories from 2004-2017. Recognized by The Ri...
Davina Ward
Davina Ward NONE Davina Ward, a Certified Christian Life Coach and author, empowers women to overcome challenges, shatter limiting beliefs, and embrace their true purpose. As the P.U.S.H. Coach, she ...
Davina L. Ward
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Davina L. Ward
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Theodore Ward
Theodore Ward 0000000052399608 Theodore Ward is an accomplished author known for his compelling narratives and unique storytelling style. His works largely explore human experiences, emotions, and co...
A Quiet Girls’ Freedom: A Guide To Developing Your Voice, Confidence, and Peace
A Quiet Girls’ Freedom: A Guide To Developing Your Voice, Confidence, and Peace Davina Ward 9798218387471 Nonfiction Davina L. Ward Davina L. Ward Have you decided that silence is better than your sta...
Killing the Image: A Champion’s Journey of Faith, Fighting, and Forgiveness
Killing the Image: A Champion’s Journey of Faith, Fighting, and Forgiveness Andre Ward with Nick Chiles 9780785298304 Nonfiction Harper Horizon HarperCollins In this inspiring memoir, undefeated five-...
Black Citymakers: How the Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America
Black Citymakers: How the Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America Marcus Anthony Hunter 9780190249670 Nonfiction Oxford University Press, USA Oxford University Press W.E.B. DuBois immortalized Philad...
Big White Fog
Big White Fog James Ward 9781854595959 Fiction Nick Hern Books Nick Hern Books Never seen outside America until 2007, Theodore Ward’s landmark family drama, Big White Fog, remains as poignant today as...
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson Geoffrey C. Ward 9780375415326 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House He was the first black heavyweight champion in history, the most celebrat...
Yrsa Daley-Ward
Yrsa Daley-Ward NONE Hailing from the northwest of England, Yrsa Daley-Ward is a poet, writer and speaker of mixed Jamaican and Nigerian heritage. She is the author of The Catch, The How, bone, and ...
Between the River and the Railroad Tracks: A Memoir
Between the River and the Railroad Tracks: A Memoir Nicole R. Fleetwood 9780316564304 Nonfiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group Meticulously crafted and unflinchingly vulnerable, Nicole...
Morning Night: Poems on Spirit, Race, and Nature
Morning Night: Poems on Spirit, Race, and Nature Larry Ward 9798999247537 Poetry Lotus Moss Press Lotus Moss Press Welcome to Morning Night, Dr. Larry Ward’s first poetry collection. This book emer...
The Cointelpro Papers: Documents from the Fbi’s Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States
The Cointelpro Papers: Documents from the Fbi’s Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States Ward Leroy Churchill and Jim Vander Wall 9781574782158 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Pre...
How: Notes on the Great Work of Meeting Yourself
How: Notes on the Great Work of Meeting Yourself Yrsa Daley-Ward 9780143135609 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House From the acclaimed poet behind bone, an exploration of how we can meet our ...
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America W. Caleb McDaniel 9780190846992 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press The unforgettable saga of one ensl...
The Man I Need
The Man I Need Shanora Williams 9781070195445 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published There are things that women want, and things that women need. I know deep down, with every fiber i...
The Man I Can’t Have
The Man I Can’t Have Shanora Williams 9781093605846 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published It started as a simple search for a landscape designer… I wanted a beautiful backyard for my...
Terrible: A Storyteller’s Memoir
Terrible: A Storyteller’s Memoir Yrsa Daley-Ward 9780143132622 Poetry Penguin Publishing Group Penguin Random House Winner of the PEN Ackerley Prize • Longlisted for the 2019 PEN Open Book Award ...
The Fall Of The Prodigal
The Fall Of The Prodigal Michelle Lindo-Rice 9781601626981 Fiction Urban Christian Kensington Publishing Corp. A condemned man, his two brides, and one untimely death.The third installment of the "On ...
Jane Addams Book Award Winner Jewell Parker Rhodes
Jane Addams Book Award Winner Jewell Parker Rhodes Troy Johnson Article ABOUT JEWELL PARKER RHODES Jewell Parker Rhodes is the Piper Endowed Chair and founding artistic director of the Virginia G. P...
My Steps Are Ordered
My Steps Are Ordered Michelle Lindo-Rice 9781601626677 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. What happens when your husband finds out you’re in love with his brother? Team Keith? Team Michae...
The Katrina Papers: A Journal of Trauma and Recovery
The Katrina Papers: A Journal of Trauma and Recovery Jerry W. Ward 9780972814331 Nonfiction University of New Orleans Press University of New Orleans Press The Katrina Papers is not your average memoi...
Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers, Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America
Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers, Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America Andrew Ward 9780374187712 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers ...
Ward Leroy Churchill and Jim Vander Wall
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I Am New Orleans
I Am New Orleans Robert Fleming Book Review American poet, author, filmmaker, and teacher Kalamu ya Salaam, a leading citizen of New Orleans’s 9th Ward, has always been a booster for the Cresce...
Catch: A Novel
Catch: A Novel Yrsa Daley-Ward 9781324092513 Fiction Liveright Publishing Corporation W. W. Norton & Company Named one of the best books of the year (so far) by The New York Times A New York Times Boo...
Agents of Repression: The FBI’s Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement
Agents of Repression: The FBI’s Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement Ward Leroy Churchill and Jim Vander Wall 9781574782172 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black...
The Cambridge History of African American Literature
The Cambridge History of African American Literature Maryemma Graham and Jerry W. Ward 9781107571815 Nonfiction Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press The first major twenty-first centu...
Real Sister: Stereotypes, Respectability, and Black Women in Reality TV
Real Sister: Stereotypes, Respectability, and Black Women in Reality TV Jervette R. Ward 9780813575063 Nonfiction Rutgers University Press Rutgers University Press From The Real Housewives of Atlanta ...
The Devil In Silver: A Novel
The Devil In Silver: A Novel Victor Lavalle 9781400069866 Fiction Spiegel & Grau Penguin Random House New Hyde Hospital’s psychiatric ward has a new resident. It also has a very, very old one. Peppe...
The Richard Wright Encyclopedia (American Mosaic)
The Richard Wright Encyclopedia (American Mosaic) Jerry W. Ward 9780313312397 Nonfiction Greenwood Publishing Group Greenwood Publishing Group Richard Wright is one of the most important African Ameri...
Trouble the Water: 250 Years of African American Poetry
Trouble the Water: 250 Years of African American Poetry Jerry W. Ward 9780451628640 Poetry Signet Penguin Random House An anthology of African-American poetry represents 250 years of the black experi...
Classic Plays From The Negro Ensemble Company
Classic Plays From The Negro Ensemble Company Paul Carter Harrison and Cus Edwards 9780822955603 Fiction University of Pittsburgh Press University of Pittsburgh Press This anthology celebrates more th...
Black Southern Voices: An Anthology
Black Southern Voices: An Anthology John Oliver Killens and Jerry W. Ward 9780452010963 Nonfiction Plume Penguin Random House This sweeping anthology celebrates the richly textured black voices of the...
Redefining American Literary History
Redefining American Literary History A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff and Jerry W. Ward 9780873521888 Nonfiction The Modern Language Association of America The Modern Language Association of America "Essential ...
James Prince
James Prince 0000000029890626 James “J. Prince” Prince, CEO of Rap-A-Lot Records, boxing manager, and philanthropist, was born on October 31, 1964, in Houston's Fifth Ward, where he continues his com...
Clarence Nero
Clarence Nero NONE Clarence Nero, a native of New Orleans's Ninth Ward, is a Howard University graduate and former forensic chemist. Known for his debut novel, Cheekie: A Child Out of the Desire, bas...
Second Line Home: New Orleans Poems
Second Line Home: New Orleans Poems Rudolph Lewis Book Review June 2005, almost a decade ago, was the time I last visited New Orleans. It was still almost the Big Easy I knew in the mid-1980s. Seve...
Daughters of the Wind: A Mythic Fantasy
Daughters of the Wind: A Mythic Fantasy Sheila Williams 9780063307988 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Book club favorite and acclaimed author of No Better Time and The Secret Women makes her first foray...
The Hollow Sound of Lightweight Bodies
The Hollow Sound of Lightweight Bodies Unathi Slasha 9781957810485 Fiction Iskanchi Press Iskanchi Press A darkly comic and surreal literary novel set in a South African township, where a young cremat...
Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead: A Memoir
Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead: A Memoir Angela Nissel 9780063345119 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Television writer, producer, and bestselling author of the acclaimed The Broke Diaries an...
Victoria Rowell on the Love of Her Life and Her Memoir
Victoria Rowell on the Love of Her Life and Her Memoir Book Spotlights The Women Who Raised Me (Legacy Edition) by Victoria Rowell 🔗 https://aalbc.com/books/9781959811770 Born a ward of the state in ...
Behind the Waterline
Behind the Waterline Kionna Walker LeMalle 9781958888216 Fiction Blair Blair Winner of the Lee Smith Novel Prize Behind the Waterline takes readers into the home of a teenager and his grandmother i...
The Women Who Raised Me (Legacy Edition)
The Women Who Raised Me (Legacy Edition) Victoria Rowell 9781959811770 Nonfiction Wordeee Wordeee Born a ward of the state in the State of Maine, the child of a Yankee blueblood mother, Dorothy (Colli...
In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space
In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space Irvin Weathersby Jr. 9780593299159 Nonfiction Viking Penguin Random House “An awe-striking masterpiece of love.” —Jason Reynolds,...
Farewell, Amethystine
Farewell, Amethystine Walter Mosley 9780316491112 Fiction Mulholland Books Hachette Book Group Easy Rawlins’ latest client sends him down a warren of memory and nostalgia, blinding him to reason and r...
Better Than I Know Myself (2023)
Better Than I Know Myself (2023) Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant 9781250846648 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant, the #1 Essence bestselling authors o...
Up Home: One Girl’s Journey
Up Home: One Girl’s Journey Ruth J. Simmons 9780593446003 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House A Best Book Of The Year: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Bloomberg, BET I was ...
Striving for Justice: A Black Sheriff in the Deep South
Striving for Justice: A Black Sheriff in the Deep South Nathaniel Glover 9781637631775 Nonfiction Frederick Douglass Books Forefront Books On the South Side of Chicago, one SOUR note can lea...