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Black Girl Magic
Black Girl Magic Lauren Lord 9780998803500 Fiction Lauren Lord Lauren Lord For colored girls, By colored girls. The Lord Sisters, Lauren (22) and Lailah (10), have teamed up to create a book every you...
Lauren Lord Reads from Black Girl Magic Illustrated by Lailah Lord
Lauren Lord Reads from Black Girl Magic Illustrated by Lailah Lord Author Interviews Lauren Lord reads from her children's book, Black Girl Magic, which was illustrated by her then 9 year old sister L...
The Perfect Mistress
The Perfect Mistress ReShonda Tate 9781476714974 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. The daughter of an adulterous father deals with the long-rippling effects of his actions in her own love l...
Lauren Wesley Wilson
Lauren Wesley Wilson NONE Lauren Wesley Wilson is one of the nation’s leading thought leaders on media relations, diversity and inclusion, and crisis communications. At 25, she became the founder an...
The Husband We Share
The Husband We Share London St. Charles Excerpt Chapter One Lauren Carter screamed and bolted upright in her bed, snatched from the reoccurring nightmare that had plagued her for years. She touched ...
Lauren Francis-Sharma
Lauren Francis-Sharma NONE Lauren Francis Sharma, a New York-born author of Trinidadian descent, pursued law before becoming a writer. Raised in Baltimore, she graduated from the University of Pennsy...
Sheryl K. Carkhum-Lord
Sheryl K. Carkhum-Lord NONE Sheryl K. Carkhum-Lord's novel is inspired by the story of the model for Charles Cordier's 1851 sculpture, “The African Venus.” The book explores the history of slavery in...
Joanne V. Gabbin and Lauren K. Alleyne
Joanne V. Gabbin and Lauren K. Alleyne MULTIPLE Joanne V. Gabbin and Lauren K. Alleyne are esteemed authors with profound expertise in their respective fields, contributing immensely to the literary...
Lauren Gibaldi
Lauren Gibaldi NONE Lauren Gibaldi, a public librarian based in Orlando, Florida, is a renowned author known for works like 'The Night We Said Yes', 'Autofocus', 'This Tiny Perfect World', and coedit...
Lauren Lacey
Lauren Lacey NONE Lauren Lacey, an indie Romance author and digital strategist, has optimized global brands including PwC. She's the former marketing lead for Mastercard and AMEX gift cards, and a Fo...
Lauren London - The "This Christmas" Interview
Lauren London - The "This Christmas" Interview Kam Williams Interview Photo: This Christmas (2007) - Lauren London Born in Los Angeles on December 5, 1984, Lauren London developed a taste...
What Do You Need?: How Women of Color Can Take Ownership of Their Careers to Accelerate Their Path to Success
What Do You Need?: How Women of Color Can Take Ownership of Their Careers to Accelerate Their Path to Success Lauren Wesley Wilson 9781401979904 Nonfiction Hay House Business Penguin Random House Laur...
Lauren K. Alleyne
Lauren K. Alleyne 0000000434680630 Lauren K. Alleyne, from Trinidad and Tobago, is a renowned author. Her fiction, poetry, and non-fiction works have been published in numerous journals and anthologi...
Lauren DeStefano
Lauren DeStefano 0000000080644615 Lauren DeStefano is an author specializing in young adult and middle grade novels. She published her first picture book, The Unicorn Came To Dinner, in August 2020. ...
Lauren Semmer
Lauren Semmer NONE Lauren Semmer is an acclaimed artist and designer, known for her work in children's book illustration and apparel design. She's the illustrator of the New York Times bestselling ch...
Lauren Wilkinson
Lauren Wilkinson 0000000476960622 Lauren Wilkinson, an MFA graduate from Columbia University, is an accomplished writer and educator. She has received support from esteemed literary programs, taught ...
Lauren Michele Jackson
Lauren Michele Jackson 000000050056417X Dr. Lauren Michele Jackson is a Northwestern University professor specializing in English and African American Studies. Noted for her writing on race and cultu...
Khristi Lauren Adams
Khristi Lauren Adams NONE Khristi Lauren Adams is an ordained Baptist minister, speaker, advocate, and award-winning author renowned for empowering, educating, and inspiring teenage girls through The...
Lauren Simmons
Lauren Simmons NONE Lauren Simmons, the youngest female trader and second African American woman at the NYSE, is a genetics graduate, podcast host, and featured on major media outlets. Co-producing a...
Lauren Ling Brown
Lauren Ling Brown NONE Lauren Ling Brown is an author and editor based in Los Angeles, California. Brown identifies as multiracial, with African American and Asian heritage. She has spoken about how ...
Give God The Glory! Know God And Do The Will Of God Concerning Your Life (Revised Edition)
Give God The Glory! Know God And Do The Will Of God Concerning Your Life (Revised Edition) Kevin Wayne Johnson 9780970590268 Fiction Writing for the Lord Writing for the Lord Book #1 (REVISED EDITION)...
The Queen’s Bodyguard
The Queen’s Bodyguard Lauren Blackwood 9798217092406 Fiction Delacorte Press Penguin Random House In this sizzling modern fantasy romance, a magic-less queen intertwines her fate with a fierce Warrior...
The Forever She Deserves
The Forever She Deserves Lauren Lacey 9798218415426 Fiction Lauren Lacey Lauren Lacey Vivian St. Claire grew up in a world of high expectations shaped by her wealthy, conservative family. Despite this...
The Family She Found
The Family She Found Lauren Lacey 9798218370640 Fiction Lauren Lacey Lauren Lacey Wildly beautiful and successful entrepreneur Marlowe Blackwood ended her playgirl ways nine months ago when she crosse...
The Break She Needed
The Break She Needed Lauren Lacey 9798218344290 Fiction Lauren Lacey Lauren Lacey The Break She Needed - A Steamy Vacation Romance Novella Evie Summers is a workaholic who struggles with shedding h...
Love You, Til the End
Love You, Til the End Lauren Lacey 9798218296322 Fiction Lauren Lacey Lauren Lacey Sometimes love just isn’t enough. This may be the case for Isabella ‘Izzy’ Waylen and her estranged husband Gabriel H...
Make Money Move: A Guide to Financial Wellness
Make Money Move: A Guide to Financial Wellness Lauren Simmons 9780063246539 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins The popular host of the Money Moves podcast and youngest person ever to trade on the New Yo...
Love You, Finally
Love You, Finally Lauren Lacey 9798218198466 Fiction Lauren Lacey Lauren Lacey To find love is beautiful, but to find love when you believe you don’t deserve it is powerful. Sometimes, love is the mis...
Wildblood
Wildblood Lauren Blackwood 9781250787132 Fiction Wednesday Books Macmillan Publishers A thrilling new fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blackwood! Eighteen-year-old Victoria is ...
Love You, Always
Love You, Always Lauren Lacey 9798218143978 Fiction Lauren Lacey Lauren Lacey How can you move on from someone when they still hold the key to your heart? How can you love the life you live without th...
Honeyfish
Honeyfish Lauren K. Alleyne 9781936970599 Poetry New Issues Poetry & Prose New Issues Poetry & Prose "These poems love. Prophesize. Return us to our beginnings. To days that we want to remember. Or fo...
Gold Diggers: A Novel
Gold Diggers: A Novel Tracie Howard 9780385517980 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House ENTER THE WORLD OF “GUCCI, GLITZ, AND GLAMOUR”* IN THIS DELICIOUSLY DECADENT LOOK INTO THE LIVES OF THE YOUNG, THE ...
Lauren Clauss
Lauren Clauss NONE Lauren Clauss is a children’s book author and editor. She lives in Rhode Island with her husband and their evil genius cat.
Lauren Blackwood
Lauren Blackwood NONE Lauren Blackwood is a Jamaican American living in Virginia who writes romance-heavy fantasy for most ages. When not writing, she's a musician and a tiramisu connoisseur. She's ...
Lauren Morrow
Lauren Morrow NONE Lauren Morrow studied dance and creative writing at Connecticut College and earned an MFA in fiction from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program. She was a Kimbilio Fellow and an Aspe...
Parable of the Sower
Parable of the Sower Tony Lindsay Book Review Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler’s sci-fi novel gives the reader an intimate look into the mind of a young philosopher. Lauren Oya Olamina is a...
Writing for the Lord
Writing for the Lord Writing for the Lord Writing for the Lord Ministries, LLC Founded October 2000 to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ through literary contributions and teaching God’s Word t...
Writing for the Lord
Writing for the Lord Writing for the Lord Ministries, LLC Writing for the Lord Founded October 2000 to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ through literary contributions and teaching God’s Word t...
Lord of My Land: 5 Steps to Homeownership
Lord of My Land: 5 Steps to Homeownership Jay Morrison 9781943686582 Nonfiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing Jay, "Mr. Real Estate," Morrison has authored another informative, step-by-step gu...
Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older
Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older MULTIPLE Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older
Karen Lord
Karen Lord 0000000074983995 Karen Lord (born 22 May 1968) is a Barbadian writer and editor and the author of Redemption in Indigo, winner of the 2011 William L. Crawford Award and the 2012 Kitschies...
We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope
We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older 9781668095959 Fiction Saga Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. Winner of the Lo...
African Venus
African Venus Troy Johnson Book Review The sculpture, on the cover of Sheryl K. Carkhum-Lord’s novel was created by artist by Charles Henri Joseph Cordier in 1851. Dubbed, by the artist, &ldquo...
Do Lord Remember Me: A Novel
Do Lord Remember Me: A Novel Julius Lester 9780312285562 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers In a gray fieldstone house in Nashville, Tennessee, the Reverend Joshua Smith Sr.—the staunch...
Come by Here Lord: Everyday Prayers for Children
Come by Here Lord: Everyday Prayers for Children Cheryl Willis Hudson 9780940975927 Nonfiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. Come By Here Lord: Everyday Prayers for Children is a unique collection...
Laborers in the Vineyard of the Lord: The Beginnings of the AME Church in Florida, 1865-1895
Laborers in the Vineyard of the Lord: The Beginnings of the AME Church in Florida, 1865-1895 Larry Eugene Rivers 9780813018904 Nonfiction University Press of Florida University Press of Florida "Labor...
Lord, Save Us from Your Followers
Lord, Save Us from Your Followers Kam Williams images/img64.jpg Film Review Faith-Based Documentary Questions Whether Christianity Has Lost Its Way Lord, Save Us from Your Followers Rated...
Knight of the God King
Knight of the God King Lauren Blackwood 9781250891167 Fiction Wednesday Books Macmillan Publishers A powerful knight and her handsome squire must stop the deadly schemes of a savior king in this roman...
Back: Essays on the Soul and Spine of America
Back: Essays on the Soul and Spine of America Lauren Michele Jackson 9780063043909 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Acclaimed New Yorker contributor Lauren Michele Jackson delivers a thought-provoking...
Snow White: Fair & Sinister Heart
Snow White: Fair & Sinister Heart Lauren Blackwood 9781368097710 Nonfiction Random House/Disney Disney - RHCB An original novel written by New York Times best-selling author Lauren Blackwood inspired ...
Womanish Theology: Discovering God Through the Lens of Black Girlhood
Womanish Theology: Discovering God Through the Lens of Black Girlhood Khristi Lauren Adams 9781587436345 Nonfiction Brazos Press Baker Publishing Group Khristi Lauren Adams’s faith was first shaped ...
The Dangerous Ones
The Dangerous Ones Lauren Blackwood 9781250891075 Fiction Wednesday Books Macmillan Publishers The thrilling romantasy from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blackwood! One vampire to kill. ...
First-Year Orientation
First-Year Orientation Lauren Gibaldi 9781536224498 Fiction Candlewick Press (MA) Candlewick Press Sixteen acclaimed authors—including a National Book Award nominee, a New York Times best-selling nove...
Black Girls Unbossed: Young World Changers Leading the Way
Black Girls Unbossed: Young World Changers Leading the Way Khristi Lauren Adams 9781506479231 Nonfiction Beaming Books 1517 Media Black girls are shaping the future. Young Black leaders have always...
Unbossed: How Black Girls Are Leading the Way
Unbossed: How Black Girls Are Leading the Way Khristi Lauren Adams 9781506474267 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media Black girls are leading, organizing, advocating, and creating. They are starting ...
Within These Wicked Walls
Within These Wicked Walls Lauren Blackwood 9781250787101 Fiction Wednesday Books Macmillan Publishers The instant New York Times bestseller and Reese’s Book Club Fall 2021 YA Pick, now in paperback! ...
The Unicorn Came to Dinner
The Unicorn Came to Dinner Lauren DeStefano 9781250310408 Fiction Roaring Brook Press Macmillan Publishers A sweet and charming picture book about fear, anxiety, and unicorns. The unicorn smells nice,...
Book of the Little Axe
Book of the Little Axe Lauren Francis-Sharma 9780802129369 Fiction Atlantic Monthly Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. Ambitious and masterfully-wrought, Lauren Francis-Sharma’s Book of the Little Axe is an i...
Parable of the Brown Girl: The Sacred Lives of Girls of Color
Parable of the Brown Girl: The Sacred Lives of Girls of Color Khristi Lauren Adams 9781506455686 Nonfiction Fortress Press 1517 Media Enlightening and extremely helpful Parable of a Brown Girl deepens...
Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry
Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry Joanne V. Gabbin and Lauren K. Alleyne 9780810141544 Poetry TriQuarterly Books Northwestern University Press Furious Flower: Seeding the ...
White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue … and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation
White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue … and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation Lauren Michele Jackson 9780807011805 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press Exposes the new generation of whiten...
Parable of the Talents
Parable of the Talents Octavia E. Butler 9781538732199 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group The African American Book Club will be moderating a discussion of Bulter’s Parable of the Ta...
Sin City Vows
Sin City Vows Zuri Day 9781335603531 Fiction Harlequin Desire Harlequin Enterprises Limited A runaway bride rushes right into the arms of her boss’s playboy son in this sizzling Sin City Secrets novel...
The Score
The Score Kiki Swinson 9781617739682 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Going once… Identity theft mastermind Lauren Kelly has always had a taste for the finer things—including Matt Connors, h...
Best Friends Forever
Best Friends Forever Kimberla Lawson Roby 9781455526086 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Things are falling apart in the Richardson household. Angry arguments between Celine and he...
Lauren Francis Sharma author 'TILL THE WELL RUNS DRY
Lauren Francis Sharma author 'TILL THE WELL RUNS DRY Author Interviews Lauren Francis-Sharma (https://aalbc.it/laurenfs) tells us about her novel 'TILL THE WELL RUNS DRY at the 2014 Go On Girl! Book C...
Til The Well Runs Dry
Til The Well Runs Dry Lauren Francis-Sharma 9780805098037 Fiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers A glorious and moving multi-generational, multicultural saga that begins in the 1940s and swee...
You Can Be a Friend
You Can Be a Friend Tony Dungy 9781416997719 Fiction Little Simon Simon & Schuster, Inc. A new children’s book written by parents extraordinaire Tony and Lauren Dungy! You Can Be a Friend is the first...
Hotlanta, No. 1
Hotlanta, No. 1 Denene Millner and Mitzi Miller 9780545003087 Fiction Point Point Designer clothes. Gorgeous boys. Family secrets. Major drama. Welcome to Atlanta and the lives of the Duke twins, ...
The Perfect Mistress
The Perfect Mistress ReShonda Tate Excerpt Lauren Robinson struggled to contain her excitement. Her daddy was going to be so surprised when he realized what she’d done. As the pickup truck...
A Rage of Lions (the Shadow Prince #3)
A Rage of Lions (the Shadow Prince #3) David Anthony Durham 9781643797434 Fiction Tu Books Lee & Low Books In the third installment in The Shadow Prince saga, Ash and his friends race against time...
New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean
New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean Karen Lord 9781617755262 Fiction Peekash Press Akashic Books Discover some of the best in speculative short fiction from the Caribbean’s up-a...
Brookwater’s Curse Volume II
Brookwater’s Curse Volume II Steven Van Patten B00YFNDJWY Fiction Amazon Digital Services Amazon Digital Services, Inc. In the vampire nation, the civil war Christian Brookwater sought to prevent has ...
The Good Lord Bird
The Good Lord Bird James McBride 9781594632785 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House A 2013 National Book Award Winner! Fleeing his violent master at the side of abolitionist John Brown at ...
The Best of All Possible Worlds
The Best of All Possible Worlds Karen Lord 9780345549341 Fiction Del Rey Del Rey Named one of the best books of the year by BuzzFeed • A stunning epic that is at once a new vision of science fiction a...
James McBride Reads from "The Good Lord Bird"
James McBride Reads from "The Good Lord Bird" Author Interviews James McBride (https://aalbc.it/thegoodlordbird) reads from his latest novel The Good Lord Bird (Riverhead Hardcover, August 20, 2013) d...
Rayful Edmond: Washington D.C.’s Most Notorious Drug Lord
Rayful Edmond: Washington D.C.’s Most Notorious Drug Lord Seth Ferranti 9780980068771 Nonfiction Gorilla Convict Publications Gorilla Convict Publications To many in his hometown of Washington, D.C., ...
Through the Storm
Through the Storm Vanessa Miller 9781601627384 Fiction Urban Christian Kensington Publishing Corp. Isaac Walker had once been a heavy handed drug lord, who was proud of the fact that nobody dared to...
Give God the Glory!: The Power in the Local Church
Give God the Glory!: The Power in the Local Church Kevin Wayne Johnson 9780970590251 Nonfiction Writing for the Lord Writing for the Lord The Glory of God represents His divine qualities. They are rev...
The Lady, Her Lover, and Her Lord
The Lady, Her Lover, and Her Lord T. D. Jakes 9780425168721 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House Here is the book that brought Bishop T.D. Jakes to the forefront of America’s bestselling Christi...
Little Movements
Little Movements Lauren Morrow 9780593736753 Fiction Random House Penguin Random House A page-turning, tenderhearted debut about a Black woman who is finally given a chance to pursue her dream of beco...
Casualties of Truth
Casualties of Truth Lauren Francis-Sharma 9780802163783 Fiction Atlantic Monthly Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. From the author of Book of the Little Axe, nominated for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award...
Society of Lies: Reese’s Book Club
Society of Lies: Reese’s Book Club Lauren Ling Brown 9780593723357 Fiction Bantam Penguin Random House Reese's Book Club Pick Maya has returned to Princeton for her college reunion—it's been ...
Zendaya: A Little Golden Book Biography
Zendaya: A Little Golden Book Biography Lauren Clauss 9780593711507 Nonfiction Golden Books Penguin Random House
An Impulse to Keep: Greenwood Art Project
An Impulse to Keep: Greenwood Art Project Greenwood Art Project 9780997494075 Nonfiction [NAME] [NAME] Publications An Impulse to Keep is published on the occasion of the Greenwood Art Project, an ini...
American Spy: A Novel
American Spy: A Novel Lauren Wilkinson 9780812988284 Fiction Random House Penguin Random House “[This] unflinching, incendiary debut combines the espionage novels of John le Carré with the raci...
Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents Boxed Set
Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents Boxed Set Octavia E. Butler 9781609809553 Fiction Seven Stories Press Seven Stories Press The African American Book Club will be moderating a discussion o...
Parable of the Sower
Parable of the Sower Octavia E. Butler 9781538732182 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group From the "grand dame" of science fiction, a dystopian classic of terror and hope about an Afri...
Still Loving You (The Grays of Los Angeles)
Still Loving You (The Grays of Los Angeles) Sheryl Lister 9781335216625 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Romance Harlequin Enterprises Limited Home flames still burning…Malcolm Gray is Lauren Emerson’s bigges...
Uncommon Marriage: What We’ve Learned about Lasting Love and Overcoming Life’s Obstacles Together
Uncommon Marriage: What We’ve Learned about Lasting Love and Overcoming Life’s Obstacles Together Tony Dungy 9781414383705 Nonfiction Tyndale Momentum Tyndale House The New York Times bestseller now i...
Difficult Fruit
Difficult Fruit Lauren K. Alleyne 9781845232276 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press "Readers will enjoy this body of work because of its unconventional approach and Alleyne’s personal touch is ...
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...
A Modern Witch (A Modern Witch Series: Book 1)
A Modern Witch (A Modern Witch Series: Book 1) Debora Geary 9781937041038 Fiction Fireweed Publishing Fireweed Publishing Can you live 28 years without discovering you’re a witch?Lauren is downtown Ch...
Cruising
Cruising Desiree Day 9781416503514 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. FROM THE AUTHOR OF CRAZY LOVE COMES AN OH-NO-YOU-DIDN’T NEW NOVEL ABOUT FOUR FRIENDS ON THE ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME — A ...