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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...
The Perfect Mistress
The Perfect Mistress ReShonda Tate Billingsley 9781476714974 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. The daughter of an adulterous father deals with the long-rippling effects of his actions in he...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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 ...
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Real-Life Tales of Black Girl Magic
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Real-Life Tales of Black Girl Magic Lilly Workneh 9781953424044 Nonfiction Rebel Girls Rebel Girls A PARENTS' FAVORITE PRODUCTS TILLYWIG AWARD WINNER 2022 ...
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...
Black Girl Magic: A Poem
Black Girl Magic: A Poem Mahogany L. Browne 9781250173720 Nonfiction Roaring Brook Press Macmillan Publishers Black Girl, they say you ain’t ’posed to be hereMuch of what twenty-first century culture ...
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 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 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...
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 ...
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...
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, 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...
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 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...
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...
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...
Rise of the Green Flame: A Branches Book (Kwame’s Magic Quest #1)
Rise of the Green Flame: A Branches Book (Kwame’s Magic Quest #1) Bernard Mensah 9781338843293 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. Magic, adventure, and friendship come together in Kwame’s Magic Qu...
Caribbean Reads Publishing
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Caribbean Reads Publishing
Caribbean Reads Publishing Caribbean Reads Publishing Caribbean Reads Publishing
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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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
Bayou Magic (Paperback)
Bayou Magic (Paperback) Jewell Parker Rhodes 9780316224857 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Also Available in Hardcover A magical coming-of-age story from Coretta S...
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...
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...
The Hunt for the Magic Pearl
The Hunt for the Magic Pearl Shirley Perry-Church 9781480814813 Fiction Archway Editions powerHouse Books The Hunt for the Magic Pearl is the first in a series of planned books that will be filled wit...
Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic
Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic Kenya Hunt 9780062987662 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins A People Pick!"One of the year’s must-reads." -ELLE"[A] provocative...
Race to the Magic Mountain: A Branches Book (Kwame’s Magic Quest #2)
Race to the Magic Mountain: A Branches Book (Kwame’s Magic Quest #2) Bernard Mensah 9781338843323 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. Kwame must stop the green flame from destroying the world, in t...
A Method for Magic and Misfortune
A Method for Magic and Misfortune Craig Kofi Farmer 9781250900289 Fiction Roaring Brook Press Macmillan Publishers A boy discovers magic—along with a hidden darkness—in his town in this propulsive and...
Believing in Magic: My Story of Love, Overcoming Adversity, and Keeping the Faith
Believing in Magic: My Story of Love, Overcoming Adversity, and Keeping the Faith Cookie Johnson with Denene Millner 9781501125157 Nonfiction Howard Books Howard Books In her new memoir, Cookie Johnso...
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, ...
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)...
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...
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...
Black Girls
Black Girls Dominique Furukawa 9780063205314 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins A joyful love letter to every Black girl everywhere. In an upbeat and rhythmic ode, Dominique Furukawa and Erika Lyn...
Magic Like That
Magic Like That Samara Cole Doyon 9781643790701 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books In this celebration of Black Girl Magic, a young girl finds confidence and excitement in the versatility of her ...
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...
The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic
The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic Lindsey Stewart 9781538769508 Nonfiction Legacy Lit Hachette Book Group BookRiot’s Best New Nonfiction ...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
The Perfect Mistress
The Perfect Mistress ReShonda Tate Billingsley 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 ...
Never Tell a Black Girl How to Black Girl: Essays
Never Tell a Black Girl How to Black Girl: Essays Amena Brown 9798217044689 Nonfiction Tiny Reparations Books Penguin Random House An irresistible delight, this hilarious and heartwarming essay collec...
Bite of the Kaba Lagoon: A Branches Book (Kwame’s Magic Quest #3)
Bite of the Kaba Lagoon: A Branches Book (Kwame’s Magic Quest #3) Bernard Mensah 9781338843354 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. Kwame needs to help save the world’s source of magic, in the third...
Destiny Ink: Talent Show Magic
Destiny Ink: Talent Show Magic Adeola Sokunbi 9798887771908 Fiction Nosy Crow Nosy Crow Destiny is so excited to perform magic tricks in the community talent show! It’ll be ink-tastic! But at rehea...
The Improvisers: A Murder and Magic Novel
The Improvisers: A Murder and Magic Novel Nicole Glover 9780063293595 Fiction Harper Voyager HarperCollins For fans of Nghi Vo, P. Djèlí Clark, and Alix E. Harrow: a new stand-alone set in the world o...
Legacy and the Queen
Legacy and the Queen Annie Matthew and Created by Kobe Bryant 9781949520033 Fiction Granity Studios Granity Studios From the mind of basketball legend and Academy Award–winning storyteller Kobe Bryant...
Children of Blood and Bone
Children of Blood and Bone Tomi Adeyemi 9781250170972 Fiction Henry Holt & Company (BYR) Macmillan Publishers The first book in a trilogu, In Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha) Tomi Ad...
Bayou Magic
Bayou Magic Jewell Parker Rhodes 9780316224840 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Also Available in Paperback It’s Maddy’s turn to have a bayou summer. At first she...
Penny and the Magic Puffballs: The adventures of Penny and the Magic Puffballs. (Volume 1)
Penny and the Magic Puffballs: The adventures of Penny and the Magic Puffballs. (Volume 1) Alonda Williams 9780991212903 Fiction Glori Publications Glori Publications Penny wanted to wear her hair "do...
Magia Sexualis: Sexual Practices for Magical Power
Magia Sexualis: Sexual Practices for Magical Power Paschal Beverly Randolph 9781594774188 Nonfiction Inner Traditions Inner Traditions A step-by-step guide to the occult science of sex magic Ba...
Earvin Magic Johnson
Earvin Magic Johnson 0000000368581203 Earvin “Magic” Johnson is a former NBA player born in Lansing, Michigan. He played for the Los Angeles Lakers, earning multiple championships and MVP awards. Aft...
Magic Mike
Magic Mike Kam Williams magic-mike.jpg Film Review Channing Tatum Stars as Reluctant Stripper in Riveting, Character-Driven Drama Magic Mike In Theaters: Jun 29, 2012 Wide Rated R for profanity, ...
Sydney Sunshine and the Not-So-Magic Mirror (Volume 1)
Sydney Sunshine and the Not-So-Magic Mirror (Volume 1) Sydney McGee 9781543115345 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Sydney Sunshine receives a surprise gift—a special mirror with magical po...
Brown Girl, Brown Girl
Brown Girl, Brown Girl Leslé Honoré 9780316314039 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group This powerful and hopeful picture book—inspired by the historic election of Vice Pre...
Chicago Winter Break (School for Unusual Magic #2)
Chicago Winter Break (School for Unusual Magic #2) Liz Montague 9781338792546 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. Three friends discover magic and mayhem around every corner of their school in th...
Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth.
Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth. Beverly Bond 9781501157929 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the award-winning entrepreneur, culture leader, and creator of the...
Mirelle Ortega
Mirelle Ortega NONE Mirelle Ortega is a Mexican writer and illustrator based in Los Angeles, known for her work in children's literature and animation. She has illustrated numerous books, including h...
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...
Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic
Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic Kenya Hunt 9780062987648 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In the vein of Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist and Issa Rae’s The Misadve...
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...