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MBridges talks about her novel Getting Up and Getting On
MBridges talks about her novel Getting Up and Getting On Book Spotlights
MBridges
MBridges NONE MBridges, a passionate author since first grade, has diversified writing expertise in poetry, song lyrics, and short stories. Having eight manuscripts, the debut novel 'Are You Satisfie...
Getting Up and Getting On
Getting Up and Getting On Idrissa Uqdah Book Review Time Can Help Heal Wounds Second time novelist MBridges is back with another Betty Jean title; Getting Up and Getting On. Th...
Getting up and Getting on
Getting up and Getting on MBridges 9780976444114 Fiction LOF Publishing LOF Publishing The much anticipated second title in the Award Winning Betty Jean series. Betty Jean is in California making a ne...
Are you satisfied, yet?
Are you satisfied, yet? MBridges 9780976444107 Fiction LOF Publishing LOF Publishing Betty Jean Carlson is a woman tired of her life…her love life in particular. She’s convinced that no love is perfec...
Shaq Talks Back
Shaq Talks Back Shaquille O’Neal 9780312278458 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers It’s rare to discover a candid sports autobiography—even rarer when the author is one of the most reco...
Echo Brown
Echo Brown NONE Echo Brown is a renowned storyteller, author, and performer known for her one-woman show, 'Black Virgins Are Not for Hipsters'. She's also the author of 'Black Girl Unlimited'. Echo f...
She Talks to Beethoven
She Talks to Beethoven Adrienne Kennedy 9780573703959 Fiction Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals She Talks to Beethoven, written by pioneering avant-garde playwright Adrienne Kennedy in 1989, off...
Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons A Dialogue with America’s Young Leaders
Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons A Dialogue with America’s Young Leaders Kam Williams Book Review “This collection of letters [offer] a rare glimpse into the dialogue between our nation&rsquo...
Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues
Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues Albert Murray 9780816699551 Nonfiction University of Minnesota Press University of Minnesota Press The year 2016 will mark the centennial of the bir...
Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons - A Dialogue With America’s Young Leaders
Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons - A Dialogue With America’s Young Leaders Barack Obama and Gregory Reed 9781937269388 Nonfiction Amber Books Amber Communications Group Obama Talks Back: "provides...
Malcolm X Talks to Young People: Speeches in the United States, Britain, and Africa
Malcolm X Talks to Young People: Speeches in the United States, Britain, and Africa Malcolm X 9780873489621 Nonfiction Pathfinder Press Pathfinder Press This expanded edition includes four talks and a...
The Brainstormerz Money Talks
The Brainstormerz Money Talks Kwame Alexander with Cassidy Dyce 9780316541084 Fiction Little, Brown Ink Hachette Book Group For readers of Raina Telgemeier and Jerry Craft comes a fresh, funny kids’ g...
Portia Cosby Talks About Her Novel F.I.R.E. Reignited
Portia Cosby Talks About Her Novel F.I.R.E. Reignited Book Spotlights
Jewell Parker Rhodes Talks to WBUR about her Novel TOWERS FALLING
Jewell Parker Rhodes Talks to WBUR about her Novel TOWERS FALLING Book Spotlights
Author Breena Clarke talks about her novel "Stand the Storm" & Quilting
Author Breena Clarke talks about her novel "Stand the Storm" & Quilting Book Spotlights
Eric Jerome Dickey Talks About His New Novel
Eric Jerome Dickey Talks About His New Novel Book Spotlights
The Secret of Gumbo Grove
The Secret of Gumbo Grove Eleanora E. Tate 9780440412731 Fiction Yearling Penguin Random House Raisin Stackhouse doesn’t mind doing odd jobs for old Miss Effie Pfluggins, but when Miss Effie talks her...
Primrose Cameron
Primrose Cameron NONE Primrose Cameron is an experienced motivational speaker, life coach, teacher, and counselor based in West Volusia. She offers personal and professional development through her t...
Suheir Hammad
Suheir Hammad 0000000084052510 Suheir Hammad, born October 25, 1973, is a Palestinian-American poet, author, performer, and activist renowned for her work in the spoken-word scene. She's had success ...
The “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” Interview
The “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” Interview Kam Williams Interview Two-Time Oscar-Nominee Talks about His Latest Offering Photo by Pascal Le Segretain – © 2012 Getty Images Lee Daniels is best k...
The “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” Interview
The “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” Interview Kam Williams https://aalbc.com/reviews/the-butler.jpg Film Review Two-Time Oscar-Nominee Talks about His Latest Offering Photo by Pascal Le Segretain – © 2...
Sugar of the Crop
Sugar of the Crop Kam Williams Book Review Everyone I interviewed for this book is now dead” Before I started the search, the one person I knew who was a granddaughter of a ...
K. Reshay Talks about her series Appearances
K. Reshay Talks about her series Appearances Author Interviews
Naleighna Kai talks about her bestselling book, Loving Me for Me
Naleighna Kai talks about her bestselling book, Loving Me for Me Book Spotlights
Vanessa Davis Griggs Talks About Her Career as a Writer
Vanessa Davis Griggs Talks About Her Career as a Writer Author Interviews
Author Raven Talks About Her New Book, Women in Blue
Author Raven Talks About Her New Book, Women in Blue Book Spotlights
Author, Mickey See-Asia Talks About Her Book, Memoirs of Women in Blue
Author, Mickey See-Asia Talks About Her Book, Memoirs of Women in Blue Book Spotlights
Pam Grier Talks About Her 2010 Memoir, Foxy: My Life In Three Acts
Pam Grier Talks About Her 2010 Memoir, Foxy: My Life In Three Acts Book Spotlights
Sana Butler talks about her book Sugar of the Crop: My Journey to Find the Children of Slaves
Sana Butler talks about her book Sugar of the Crop: My Journey to Find the Children of Slaves Book Spotlights
Trice Hickman talks about her work with AALBC.com at BEA '08
Trice Hickman talks about her work with AALBC.com at BEA '08 Author Interviews
Heidi R. Lewis
Heidi R. Lewis NONE Dr. Heidi R. Lewis is an Associate Professor and Director of the Feminist & Gender Studies Program at Colorado College. Specializing in Feminist Theory, Hip Hop Culture, and Criti...
The Color of Our Future: Race in the 21st Century
The Color of Our Future: Race in the 21st Century Farai Chideya 9780688175801 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins Two years ago, Newsweek named Farai Chideya to its "Century Club" of a hundred p...
Miles: The Autobiography
Miles: The Autobiography Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe 9780671725822 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. For more than forty years Miles Davis has been in the front rank of American mus...
America The Black Point of View
America The Black Point of View Kam Williams Book Review “I come from a place that is so invisible that you can hardly see me. Yet, I am despised, hated and feared more than anyone or anythin...
Paracritical Hinge: Essay, Talks, Notes, Interviews
Paracritical Hinge: Essay, Talks, Notes, Interviews Nathaniel Mackey 9781609385835 Nonfiction University of Iowa Press University of Iowa Press Paracritical Hinge is a collection of varied yet interre...
Hebrews to Negroes 2 Volume 1 (paerback): Wake Up Black America
Hebrews to Negroes 2 Volume 1 (paerback): Wake Up Black America Ronald Dalton Jr. 9780986237980 Nonfiction G Publishing G Publishing THE GREATEST IDENTIY THEFT OF ALL MAKIND HAS HAPPENED WITHOUT THE W...
Hebrews to Negroes 2 Volume 1: Wake Up Black America!
Hebrews to Negroes 2 Volume 1: Wake Up Black America! Ronald Dalton Jr. 9780986237997 Nonfiction G Publishing G Publishing THE GREATEST IDENTIY THEFT OF ALL MAKIND HAS HAPPENED WITHOUT THE WORLD EVEN ...
Hebrews to Negroes 2 Volume 2: Wake Up Black America!
Hebrews to Negroes 2 Volume 2: Wake Up Black America! Ronald Dalton Jr. 9780997157956 Nonfiction G Publishing G Publishing THE GREATEST IDENTIY THEFT OF ALL MAKIND HAS HAPPENED WITHOUT THE WORLD EVEN...
Hebrews to Negroes 2 Volume 2 (paperback): Wake Up Black America!
Hebrews to Negroes 2 Volume 2 (paperback): Wake Up Black America! Ronald Dalton Jr. 9780997157918 Nonfiction G Publishing G Publishing THE GREATEST IDENTIY THEFT OF ALL MAKIND HAS HAPPENED WITHOUT THE...
Quincy Troupe Art Talks Poetry Reading
Quincy Troupe Art Talks Poetry Reading Poetry & Spoken Word
Naleighna Kai talks about NK Promo Partners
Naleighna Kai talks about NK Promo Partners Author Interviews
Novelist Blacc Topp Talks About His Books
Novelist Blacc Topp Talks About His Books Book Spotlights
Georgia “Mother Rose” West Talks about Underground Books
Georgia “Mother Rose” West Talks about Underground Books Book Spotlights
George Willis Talks About His Book THE BITE FIGHT
George Willis Talks About His Book THE BITE FIGHT Book Spotlights
Herb Boyd talks about his book Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography and other things
Herb Boyd talks about his book Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography and other things Book Spotlights
Earl Douglas, Jr talks on Black Rock Volume 1 and The Black Rock Coalition
Earl Douglas, Jr talks on Black Rock Volume 1 and The Black Rock Coalition Author Interviews
Nathan Henrion talks Baker Publishing Group's titles
Nathan Henrion talks Baker Publishing Group's titles Publishing & Craft
Carl Weber talks about how he came up with his characters
Carl Weber talks about how he came up with his characters Author Interviews
Troy CLE talks to AALBC.com at Book Expo 2009
Troy CLE talks to AALBC.com at Book Expo 2009 Book Spotlights
Eric Gutierrez talks about Disciples of the Street
Eric Gutierrez talks about Disciples of the Street Author Interviews
Tananarive Due talks to AALBC.com at BEA 2008
Tananarive Due talks to AALBC.com at BEA 2008 Author Interviews
J. D. Mason talks to AALBC.com at BEA 2008
J. D. Mason talks to AALBC.com at BEA 2008 Author Interviews
Debra Williamson Talks about book Concealed Deception
Debra Williamson Talks about book Concealed Deception Book Spotlights
Malcolm X Talks to Young People (Pamphlet)
Malcolm X Talks to Young People (Pamphlet) Malcolm X 9780873480864 Nonfiction Pathfinder Press Pathfinder Press A selection of speeches from the book of the same title. Includes Malcolm’s 1965 intervi...
Belonging to the Air: A Novel
Belonging to the Air: A Novel Avery Irons 9781967165001 Fiction Screen Door Press University Press of Kentucky Honest "Bird" Bennett is a young Black girl with a hunger to learn what lies beyond the w...
Getting Our Breath Back
Getting Our Breath Back Linda Watkins Book Review Getting Our Breath Back, the debut novel, by author Shawne Johnson, is not your ordinary read. Passionate words float with a hypnotic, poetic rhythm ...
This Ain’t No Promised Land: A Novel
This Ain’t No Promised Land: A Novel Tina N. Shelton 9780825448515 Fiction Kregel Publications Kregel Publications 2025 Christianity Today Book Award Winner 2024 Foreword Indies Gold Winner 2024 ECP...
Getting It Right
Getting It Right Karen E. Osborne 9781617755385 Fiction Open Lens Akashic Books Getting It Right is the story of Kara and Alex, half-sisters who have never met, one the product of an abusive foster-ca...
Getting Mother’s Body: A Novel
Getting Mother’s Body: A Novel Suzan-Lori Parks 9780812968002 Fiction Random House Trade Paperbacks Penguin Random House Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks’s wildly original debut novel, Getting...
Flo Anthony <em>Deadly Stuff Players</em> Interview
Flo Anthony Deadly Stuff Players Interview Kam Williams Interview Florence “Flo” Anthony is a syndicated celebrity radio host, columnist. The first African-American woman to work in ...
The Last Prince of Florence
The Last Prince of Florence Zoe Sivak 9780593549629 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House Based on the true story of Alessandro de’ Medici, this sweeping novel follows a Black woman’s secret plot...
Life Beyond Likes: Logging Off Your Screen and Into Your Life
Life Beyond Likes: Logging Off Your Screen and Into Your Life Isa Watson 9781637740934 Nonfiction BenBella Books BenBella Books With so much of our lives lived online, we’ve never been more connected—...
Getting To The Good Part
Getting To The Good Part Thumper Book Review Hello. It only took me a few hours to read this bad boy. I guess I can qualify it as one of those books that can make you lose sleep. So, if some words ...
My Fiancé’s Brother: A Forbidden Second Chance Romance
My Fiancé’s Brother: A Forbidden Second Chance Romance Shanora Williams 9781731590367 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published The last thing any man wants to see is the woman of his dr...
The Reckoning
The Reckoning Wade Hudson 9780593647776 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A powerful contemporary novel about an aspiring 12 year-old filmmaker whose world is turned upside do...
Love Me as I Am (hardcover)
Love Me as I Am (hardcover) Garcelle Beauvais 9780063099586 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Love Me As I Am is Garcelle Beauvais’s smart, inspiring, and raw memoir—an entertaining and unforgettable e...
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...
Beverly Jenkins
Beverly Jenkins 000000011691928X Beverly Jenkins, a USA TODAY bestselling author, is renowned for her African-American historical romance fiction, mainly set in the 19th century. With over thirty nov...
Guy Sims
Guy Sims NONE Guy A. Sims is an acclaimed author known for his early publications on Kwanzaa, his collection of American Tall Tales, and his novel, Living Just A Little. He's also the head writer for...
Reckless 2: Nobody’s Girl
Reckless 2: Nobody’s Girl Keisha Ervin 9781622869268 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. After everything Farrah’s been through, it’s safe to say things are finally going her way. Her comp...
Reckless 2: Nobody’s Girl
Reckless 2: Nobody’s Girl Keisha Ervin 9781601626240 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. After everything Farrah’s been through, it’s safe to say things are finally going her way. Her comp...
Guide to Literary Agents 2016: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published (Market)
Guide to Literary Agents 2016: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published (Market) Chuck Sambuchino 9781599639406 Nonfiction Writer’s Digest Books Writer’s Digest Books THE BEST RESOURCE AVAILABLE FO...
Jacki Simmons
Jacki Simmons NONE Bronx-born, Harlem-raised author Jacki Simmons found inspiration in her surroundings from a young age. She completed her first short story at 11 and her first novel at 16. After wi...
Be Careful What You Pray For
Be Careful What You Pray For Thumper Book Review It has been a few years since I have read a book by Kimberla Lawson Roby. I decided to break that trend and read her latest novel, Be Careful What You...
Monique Roffey
Monique Roffey 0000000046732443 Monique Roffey, an award-winning novelist and essayist, is known for her novel “The Mermaid of Black Conch,” which won the Costa Book Award. A Trinidadian-born British...
N. K. Jemisin
N. K. Jemisin 0000000107503776 Jemisin, in 2018, Became the Only Writer to Win 3 Best Novel Hugo Awards in Consecutive Years (note) Nora K. Jemisin, born in 1972, is a renowned speculative fiction aut...
I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America
I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America Tyler Merritt 9781546029410 Nonfiction Worthy Books Hachette Book Group “A sad, happy, moving, troublin...
Don’t Drop the MIC: The Power of Your Words Can Change the World
Don’t Drop the MIC: The Power of Your Words Can Change the World T. D. Jakes 9781455595358 Nonfiction FaithWords Hachette Book Group Communicate boldly and effectively like never before with the help ...
The Heat Seekers
The Heat Seekers Zane 9780743442909 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Hot, hungry, and hunting… They’re sisters of the soul, two girlfriends hitting the clubs in search of that oh-so-rare co...
Ryan Coogler's "Fruitvale Station" Interview with AALBC.com
Ryan Coogler's "Fruitvale Station" Interview with AALBC.com Kam Williams Interview Born in Oakland, California on May 23, 1986, Ryan Coogler attended college on a football scholarship, playing wi...
Donna Drew Sawyer
Donna Drew Sawyer NONE Donna Drew Sawyer, author of Provenance, has a rich background in arts administration, advertising, and public relations. A New Yorker with over three decades of experience in ...
The Last King
The Last King Thumper Book Review Now is a time of rejoicing. Nichelle Tramble has finally released her much anticipated second novel, The Last King: A Maceo Redfield novel. I have been...
Last Chance Live!
Last Chance Live! Helena Haywoode Henry 9780593625309 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House Squid Game meets Dear Justyce in an explosive young adult novel about a teenage girl on death row...
Surya Bonaly: A Tribute
Surya Bonaly: A Tribute Carol Denise Mitchell 9798248917082 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published Surya Bonaly’s story has been told before—but never like this. This tribute of...
Ask Wendy: Straight-Up Advice For All The Drama In Your Life
Ask Wendy: Straight-Up Advice For All The Drama In Your Life Wendy Williams 9780062268389 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Go ahead … ask her anything Over the radio and now on her popular TV talk ...
The Color of Justice
The Color of Justice Thumper Book Review Gary Hardwick, author of Cold Medina, Double Dead and Supreme Justice, is back on the literary scene with his latest inner-city crime drama, The Color of Just...
The House on Monroe Street
The House on Monroe Street Jacquie Bamberg Moore 9780971192416 Fiction Reading Time Publishing Reading Time Publishing As a child, Norma Jean (Gina) Booker was told she was too dark, too ugly, and too...
Jokes My Father Never Taught Me: Life, Love, and Loss with Richard Pryor
Jokes My Father Never Taught Me: Life, Love, and Loss with Richard Pryor Rain Pryor 9780061195426 Nonfiction HarperEntertainment HarperCollins The loving yet brutally honest memoir of the daughter of ...
Mama Ruby
Mama Ruby Mary Monroe 9781496739179 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. The new edition of a modern classic by New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Mary Monroe! An enduring ta...
Everybody’s Protest Novel: Essays
Everybody’s Protest Novel: Essays James Baldwin 9780807016947 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press “I am completely indebted to Jimmy Baldwin’s prose. It liberated me as a writer.”—Toni Morrison Th...
Devil’s Dream: A Novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest by Madison
Devil’s Dream: A Novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest by Madison Thumper Book Review It is safe to say, I began this book in complete and total ignorance. I had not read any of Madison Smartt Bell&rs...
Novel Writing Workshops
Novel Writing Workshops Troy Johnson Article Novel Writing Workshop AALBC.com's Novel Writing Workshop (8 Sessions Online) Enjoy a writing workshop from the convenience of your own home! Get ...
Getting To Happy
Getting To Happy Terry McMillan 9780670022045 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House An exuberant return to the four unforgettable heroines of Waiting to Exhale—the novel that changed African American fi...
Master of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your Narrative
Master of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your Narrative Keke Palmer 9781250372512 Nonfiction Flatiron Books Macmillan Publishers From the award-winning, multihyphenate global entertainer Keke Palmer co...
Sassy
Sassy Thumper Book Review Gloria Mallette is one of my favorite authors. I became a major fan after I read one her earlier novel, Shades of Jade. Over the years she remained o...
Getting Some of Her Own
Getting Some of Her Own Gwynne Forster 9780758213105 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. “Pure satisfaction.” –RT Book Reviews“You’ll eagerly keep reading to learn how the characters’ liv...
1-900-A-N-Y-T-I-M-E: A Novel
1-900-A-N-Y-T-I-M-E: A Novel Tracy Price-Thompson 9781416533054 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the award-winning, nationally bestselling African-American author Tracy Price-Thompson, ...
Eden
Eden Thumper Book Review Eden, the debut novel by Olympia Vernon, is a powerful coming of age tale. It is an extraordinary novel, one that offers magnificent artistry in addition to the unveiling o...
Stop Wasting Your Time Blaming Others for Your Life: 15 Life Lessons to help you take back control of your Life, Relationships and Career
Stop Wasting Your Time Blaming Others for Your Life: 15 Life Lessons to help you take back control of your Life, Relationships and Career Tamara Hartley 9780983637325 Nonfiction Hartley Unlimited Hart...