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Too Much Of A Good Thing Ain’t Bad
Too Much Of A Good Thing Ain’t Bad Clarence Nero 9780767929721 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House In this sequel to THREE SIDES TO EVERY STORY, daring and acclaimed writer Clarence Nero takes us back ...
Akashic Books
Akashic Books Akashic Books Akashic Books AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series Black Goat Black Sheep Edge of Sports Enemy Books Infamous Books Open Lens Peekash Press The Armory Uglytown Productio...
Three Sides to Every Story: A Novel
Three Sides to Every Story: A Novel Clarence Nero 9780767921367 Fiction Broadway Books Penguin Random House Growing up in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Johnny and Tonya meet in high school and fall f...
Hot Johnny (And the Women Who Loved Him)
Hot Johnny (And the Women Who Loved Him) Thumper Book Review “That’s mighty pretty, precious“ The question, "Damn Thumper is using a term of endearment in the heading of a r...
Enemy Books
Enemy Books Akashic Books Akashic Books Enemy Books, launched in June 2023, is curated by Chuck D, and hosted by Brooklyn’s Akashic Books. Enemy Books will have a strong focus on visual art....
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...
Johnny Ray Moore
Johnny Ray Moore NONE Johnny Ray Moore is a renowned poet and children's author known for works like 'Meet Martin Luther King, Jr.' and 'But Still, We Dream'. A graduate of the Institute of Children'...
The Talented Ribkins
The Talented Ribkins Ladee Hubbard 9781612197289 Fiction Melville House Melville House “For sheer reading pleasure Ladee Hubbard’s original and wildly inventive novel is in a class by itself.” —Toni M...
Hot Johnny (And The Women Who Loved Him)
Hot Johnny (And The Women Who Loved Him) Sandra Jackson-Opoku 9780345435088 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House Like a ray of sun that can warm your skin for a moment but can’t be captur...
Zodiac Saga 1 the Search for the Temple: Friends Foes and Zodians
Zodiac Saga 1 the Search for the Temple: Friends Foes and Zodians Kaitlyn McKnight 9780989489423 Fiction Jammie McKnight Jammie McKnight In the year 32 B.C.E, Aries, The Zodian god of Death, had a vis...
African Goddess Initiation: Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy
African Goddess Initiation: Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy Abiola Abrams 9781401962944 Nonfiction Hay House Penguin Random House A sacred feminine initiation of self-love and soul c...
The Temple of Man
The Temple of Man R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz 9780892815708 Nonfiction Inner Traditions Inner Traditions The monumental Temple of Man represents the most important breakthrough in our understanding of A...
Rite of Passage
Rite of Passage Richard Wright 9780064471114 Fiction HarperTeen HarperCollins ”Johnny, you’re leaving us tonight …“ Fifteen-year-old Johnny Gibbs does, well in school, respects his teachers, and lov...
Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith
Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith MULTIPLE Randy Roberts is distinguished professor of history at Purdue University. An award-winning author, he focuses on the intersection of popular and political cul...
Beetlecreek
Beetlecreek William Demby 9798217007318 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House From William Demby, a rediscovered classic of Black American literature first published in 1950, about an unlikely friendsh...
Johnny Compton
Johnny Compton NONE Johnny Compton is an HWA member renowned for his short stories published in various markets and his podcast, Healthy Fears. He is also the author of The Spite House. Johnny Compto...
Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith, Adapted by Margeaux Weston
Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith, Adapted by Margeaux Weston MULTIPLE Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith, adapted by Margeaux Weston
Akashic Books
Akashic Books Akashic Books Akashic Books http://www.akashicbooks.com/ Akashic Books is a Brooklyn-based independent company dedicated to publishing urban literary fiction and political nonfiction...
Killing Johnny Fry: A Sexistential Novel
Killing Johnny Fry: A Sexistential Novel Walter Mosley 9781596912267 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing This bold new novel from Walter Mosley startles in both its rawness and its honest p...
Johnny Buffalo
Johnny Buffalo Daniel Smith 9781563152030 Fiction Sterling Books Sterling Publishing Co., Inc After being shot and left for dead, Johnny Buffalo, a soldier in the United States Army, watches in horror...
Staten Island Noir (Akashic Noir)
Staten Island Noir (Akashic Noir) Patricia Smith 9781617751295 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books When They Are Done with Us” by Patricia Smith was selected for inclusion in The Best American Myster...
Devils Kill Devils
Devils Kill Devils Johnny Compton 9781250841681 Fiction Tor Nightfire Macmillan Publishers Devils Kill Devils is perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Certain Dark Things and Southern gothic horr...
The Talented Ripkins by Ladee Hubbard
The Talented Ripkins by Ladee Hubbard Brenda M. Greene Book Review Drawing from W.E.B. DuBois’s concept of the Talented Tenth, Hubbard’s debut award-winning The Talented Ribkins follows t...
African Intellectual Heritage (African American Studies)
African Intellectual Heritage (African American Studies) Molefi Kete Asante 9781566394031 Nonfiction Temple University Press Temple University Press Organized by major themes such as creation stories,...
Ra Sekhi Arts Temple
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Temple University Press
Temple University Press Temple University Press Temple University
Ra Sekhi Arts Temple
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Temple University Press
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Temple Day Smith
Temple Day Smith NONE Temple Day Smith holds both a Ph.D. in Sociology from Michigan State University and an MBA from the Fox School of Business at Temple University. Dr. Smith currently serves as t...
Johnny Temple at the 2013 Brooklyn Book Festival
Johnny Temple at the 2013 Brooklyn Book Festival Literary Events
Peekash Press
Peekash Press Akashic Books Akashic Books http://www.akashicbooks.com/ Akashic Books is a Brooklyn-based independent company dedicated to publishing urban literary fiction and political nonfiction...
Tampa Bay Noir
Tampa Bay Noir Colette Bancroft 9781617758102 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books “For too long readers have connected Florida Noir with the admittedly fascinating locales of Miami-Dade County, thanks...
South Central Noir
South Central Noir Gary Phillips 9781636140551 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books The Akashic Noir Series’ forensic study of Southern California sharpens its focus on one of Los Angeles’s most recogn...
Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith 9780465079704 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books In 1962, boxing writers and fans considered Ca...
E. B. Lewis
E. B. Lewis 0000000367331472 E.B. Lewis, an award-winning illustrator, has worked on over 70 children's books. Inspired by his uncles, he developed his artistic skills from a young age and later spec...
Mazywood
Mazywood Tananarive Due 9781668075142 Fiction Saga Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. S. A. Cosby’s All the Sinners Bleed meets Percival Everett’s Erasure in this literary thriller following the...
The Spite House
The Spite House Johnny Compton 9781250841414 Fiction Tor Nightfire Macmillan Publishers A Best Horror Book of the Year (Esquire)! - A Bram Stoker Award Nominee! A terrifying Gothic thriller about gri...
Deadly Satisfaction (A Dangerous Love Novel)
Deadly Satisfaction (A Dangerous Love Novel) Trice Hickman 9781617737473 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. "I can’t wait to see what Trice Hickman does next!" —Mary Monroe, New York Times bes...
Secret Indiscretions
Secret Indiscretions Trice Hickman 9781617737435 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Two couples, two unhappy spouses—one shocking solution… Five years into her happy marriage, Ge...
Inner City Hoodlum
Inner City Hoodlum Donald Goines 9780870679995 Fiction Holloway House Kensington Publishing Corp. Johnny Washington, a black teenager in Los Angeles, knows the freight yard like the back of his hand. ...
The Temple of My Familiar
The Temple of My Familiar Alice Walker 9780547480008 Nonfiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt First published in 1990, The Temple of My Familiar, Alice Walker’s follow-up novel to her iconic...
The Afrocentric Idea, Revised and Expanded Edition
The Afrocentric Idea, Revised and Expanded Edition Molefi Kete Asante 9781566395953 Nonfiction Temple University Press Temple University Press This new edition of "The Afrocentric Idea" boldly confron...
Miriam Ma’sat Ka ReMonges
Miriam Ma’sat Ka ReMonges NONE Miriam Ma’sat Ka ReMonges (1950-2006) was a prominent professor of Social Work and African American Studies at California State University. She held a Ph.D. from Temple...
Temple Folk
Temple Folk Aaliyah Bilal 9781982191818 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. A groundbreaking debut collection portraying the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with faith, family...
The Adventures of Obi and Titi: The Hidden Temple of Ogiso (Book 1)
The Adventures of Obi and Titi: The Hidden Temple of Ogiso (Book 1) O.T. Begho 9780955496615 Fiction Evolution Media Lab Ltd Evolution Media Lab Ltd The Adventures of Obi and Titi is an epic African a...
A Death in Texas: A Story of Race, Murder and a Small Town’s Struggle for Redemption
A Death in Texas: A Story of Race, Murder and a Small Town’s Struggle for Redemption Dina Temple-Raston 9780805066524 Nonfiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers An extraordinary account of h...
R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz
R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz 0000000369254781 René Adolphe Schwaller de Lubicz (1887-1961) was a French occultist and Egyptologist, renowned for his 12-year study on Temple of Luxor's art and architect...
A Death In Texas
A Death In Texas Thumper Book Review Upon hearing of the dragging death of James Byrd, Jr. in his hometown of Jasper, Texas, it occurred to me that "A new way of performing the act of lynching h...
Infamous Books
Infamous Books Akashic Books Akashic Books Albert “Prodigy” Johnson partnered with Akashic Books to create the Infamous Books Imprint. Their first release, in July of 2013, was the novell...
Home: Social Essays (Renegade Reprint Series)
Home: Social Essays (Renegade Reprint Series) Amiri Baraka 9781933354675 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Jones/Baraka usually speaks as a Negroand always as an American. He is eloquent, he is bo...
Memphis Noir
Memphis Noir Laureen Cantwell and Leonard Gill 9781617753114 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "A remarkable picture of contemporary Memphis emerges in this Akashic noir volume…Something for everyon...
Brooklyn Noir
Brooklyn Noir Tim McLoughlin 9781888451580 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Akashic Books announces Brooklyn novelist Tim McLoughlin as the editor of the anthology (in addition to his contributing ...
Tony Rose
Tony Rose 000000005879297X AALBC Mourns the Passing of Tony Rose Tony Rose (October 11, 1950 – May 27, 2025) was the Publisher and CEO of Amber Communications Group, Inc. the nation’s large...
Trinidad Noir: The Classics (Akashic Noir)
Trinidad Noir: The Classics (Akashic Noir) Earl Lovelace and Robert Antoni 9781617754357 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Classic stories by: C.L.R. James, Derek Walcott, Samuel Selvon, Eric Roach,...
Kingston Noir (Akashic Noir)
Kingston Noir (Akashic Noir) Colin Channer 9781617750748 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Thoroughly well-written stories…fans of noir will enjoy this batch of sordid tales set in the sweltering h...
The Sexy Part of the Bible (Akashic Urban Surreal Series)
The Sexy Part of the Bible (Akashic Urban Surreal Series) Kola Boof 9781936070961 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Number 7 on HEY, SMALL PRESS’s Best Of 2011 list (heysmallpress.org)!"From the mal...
Detroit Noir (Akashic Noir)
Detroit Noir (Akashic Noir) E. J. Olsen 9781933354392 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books From crime stories in the classic hard-boiled style to the vividly experimental, from the determination of tho...
Quantum Leap Publisher
Quantum Leap Publisher Troy Johnson Article http://qleappub.com/ Quantum Leap Publisher produces a range of diverse books including photographic books. Since its founding in 1990, the c...
San Juan Noir
San Juan Noir Mayra Santos-Febres 9781617752964 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Santos-Febres and 13 other contributors of Puerto Rican heritage take full advantage of San Juan’s wide range of di...
Marc Lamont Hill and Todd Brewster
Marc Lamont Hill and Todd Brewster MULTIPLE Marc Lamont Hill is a media personality, educator, and entrepreneur, hosting BET News and Black News Tonight, and holding a chair at Temple University. He ...
Kwame Dawes
Kwame Dawes 0000000073665848 Ghana-born Kwame Dawes, a poet significantly influenced by Jamaican rhythms and reggae music, is the author of numerous poetry collections, novels, and non-fiction works....
Rasheedah Phillips
Rasheedah Phillips NONE Rasheedah Phillips, Esq. is the Managing Attorney of the Landlord-Tenant Housing Unit at Community Legal Services of Philadelphia. A graduate of Temple University, she is also...
Akashic Books is a Great Indie Publisher
Akashic Books is a Great Indie Publisher Book Spotlights
The Temple in Man: Sacred Architecture and the Perfect Man
The Temple in Man: Sacred Architecture and the Perfect Man R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz 9780892810215 Nonfiction Inner Traditions Inner Traditions This book contains the first published results of Schwal...
Karen E. Quinones Miller
Karen E. Quinones Miller 0000000050390888 Karen E. Quinones Miller, born in Harlem, experienced street life as a teen, joined the Navy at 22, and later became a journalist. She worked for The Philade...
Accra Noir
Accra Noir Meri Nana-Ama Danquah 9781617758898 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. E...
Boundaries
Boundaries Elizabeth Nunez 9781617750335 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books [If] Boundaries, Elizabeth Nunez’s latest novel… seems familiar, that’s because it reflects the current state of affa...
TURNAROUND PUBLISHER
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John F. Blair, Publisher
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John F. Blair, Publisher
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Seasonal Adventures
Seasonal Adventures Johnny Ray Moore 9781478872399 Nonfiction Reycraft Books Reycraft Books As the reader experiences the sights, sounds, and activities of each season through the authors poetic words...
Windy City Dying: A Marti MacAlister Mystery
Windy City Dying: A Marti MacAlister Mystery Eleanor Taylor Bland 9780312320485 Fiction Minotaur Books Minotaur Books Marti MacAlister, Eleanor Taylor Bland’s popular African-American heroine, is forc...
AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series
AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series Akashic Books Akashic Books
Edge of Sports
Edge of Sports Akashic Books Akashic Books
Uglytown Productions
Uglytown Productions Akashic Books Akashic Books
Kumi Na Moja: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set
Kumi Na Moja: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781636142418 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books This 11-piece, limited-edition box set—an African Poetry Boo...
Tisa: New-Generation African Poets, a Chapbook Box Set
Tisa: New-Generation African Poets, a Chapbook Box Set Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781636140766 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books The beautifully packaged, limited Edition Box Set was a an African P...
Nane: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set: Hardcover Anthology Edition
Nane: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set: Hardcover Anthology Edition Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781636140599 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books The limited-edition box set is a projec...
New-Generation African Poets (SABA): A Chapbook Box Set
New-Generation African Poets (SABA): A Chapbook Box Set Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781617758164 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books Praise for the chapbook series: "Dawes and Abani have taken on the ...
Addis Ababa Noir
Addis Ababa Noir Maaza Mengiste 9781617759529 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Ea...
New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Sita)
New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Sita) Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781617757174 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books The limited-edition box set is an annual project started in 2014 to...
Lagos Noir
Lagos Noir Chris Abani 9781617755231 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book c...
Atlanta Noir
Atlanta Noir Tayari Jones 9781617755378 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Georgia Center for the Book has chosen Atlanta Noir as one of 2018’s Books All Georgians Should Read!Kenji Jasper’s "A Momen...
New-Generation African Poets (NNE): A Chapbook Box Set
New-Generation African Poets (NNE): A Chapbook Box Set Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781617755408 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books “Dawes and Abani have taken on the vital project of publishing short...
Eight New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set
Eight New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set Kwame Dawes 9781617753558 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books "The chapbooks gathered here are almost overflowing with voice….Each of these chapbo...
Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth
Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But the Truth Tim McLoughlin 9781933354149 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 ...
Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X: The Fatal Friendship (a Young Readers Adaptation of Blood Brothers)
Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X: The Fatal Friendship (a Young Readers Adaptation of Blood Brothers) Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith, Adapted by Margeaux Weston 9780316478854 Nonfiction Christy Ottaviano Bo...
Long White Con: The Biggest Score of His Life
Long White Con: The Biggest Score of His Life Iceberg Slim 9781936399055 Fiction Cash Money Content Simon & Schuster, Inc. Iceberg Slim, best-selling author of Pimp and Trick Baby, brings us yet anoth...
Nairobi Noir
Nairobi Noir Peter Kimani 9781617757549 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o anchors this truly fascinating first East African installment in the Akashic Noir Series.
On the Way Back
On the Way Back Montague Kobbé 9781617754418 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Colorful detours into native lore, such as a rich Dutchman’s fabled courtship of a local beauty, strike grace notes th...
Haiti Noir
Haiti Noir Edwidge Danticat 9781936070657 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "A wide-ranging collection from the beloved but besieged Caribbean island…The 36th entry in Akashic’s Noir series (which r...
Trinidad Noir
Trinidad Noir Lisa Allen-Agostini and Jeanne Mason 9781933354552 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books The Caribbean provides no shelter from the delicious terror of the Akashic Noir Series. Trinidad...