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Maaza Mengiste reads from her novel Beneath the Lion's Gaze
Maaza Mengiste reads from her novel Beneath the Lion's Gaze Book Spotlights
Maaza Mengiste
Maaza Mengiste 0000000079072875 Ethiopian-born author Maaza Mengiste, known for her novel 'Beneath the Lion’s Gaze', is a celebrated academic at Queens College and Princeton University. A Fulbright S...
Beneath The Lion’s Gaze: A Novel
Beneath The Lion’s Gaze: A Novel Maaza Mengiste 9780393071764 Fiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. An epic tale of a father and two sons, of betrayals and loyalties, of a family...
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...
The Shadow King
The Shadow King Maaza Mengiste 9780393083569 Fiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. With the threat of Mussolini’s army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her ...
Bivouac
Bivouac Kwame Dawes 9781617757105 Fiction Black Sheep Akashic Books “Dawes examines the complicated terrain of grief with uncanny insight and spare, lucid prose. What unfolds is a story about a man, a...
Little Lion Goes to School
Little Lion Goes to School Kellie Magnus 9789769564022 Fiction Jackmandora Jackmandora 3rd Edition Little Lion Goes to School tells the story of a young Rastafarian boy struggling to fit in at a ne...
Beyond the Door of No Return
Beyond the Door of No Return David Diop 9780374606770 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Cudahy Macmillan Publishers “Stunningly realized … Exquisite … A spellbinding novel about the high price of betrayal—of...
Everywhere You Don’t Belong
Everywhere You Don’t Belong Gabriel Bump 9781616208790 Fiction Algonquin Books Workman Publishing Co., Inc. “This book is astonishing. You’ll be smiling even as your heart is breaking, and you’ll tip ...
The Palestine Festival of Literature
The Palestine Festival of Literature Ramallah Palestine Read An Open Letter from Participants in the Palestine Festival of Literature Ta-Nehisi Coates, Molly Crabapple, Natalie Diaz, Maaza Mengiste,...
The Lion’s Brood
The Lion’s Brood Thumper Book Review I am weak when it comes to reading books on subjects off the normally beaten path of bestselling African-American novels. My ears perked up when I received a re...
Enchanted Lion Books
Enchanted Lion Books Enchanted Lion Books Enchanted Lion Books Enchanted Lion Books is an independent children’s book publisher based in Brooklyn, New York. We publish illustrated books from ar...
Enchanted Lion Books
Enchanted Lion Books Enchanted Lion Books Enchanted Lion Books Enchanted Lion Books is an independent children’s book publisher based in Brooklyn, New York. We publish illustrated books from ar...
Let the Lion Eat Straw
Let the Lion Eat Straw Thumper Book Review One of the residuals affect I had hoped would happen when African American literature was proven marketable was the rediscovery of previously pub...
Lion’s Blood
Lion’s Blood Thumper Book Review Sequel to Lion’s Blood is Equally Magnificent “Have you ever heard the expression ‘Zulu Heart?’” “No," he said, and t...
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...
Lion’s Den Publishing
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Looking Lion Books
Looking Lion Books Looking Lion Books Looking Lion Books, LLC
Lion’s Den Publishing
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Looking Lion Books
Looking Lion Books Looking Lion Books, LLC Looking Lion Books
Lion’s Blood
Lion’s Blood Thumper Book Review Steven Barnes, has emerged with one of the best books of 2002, a novel that explores a "what if" question; What if the United States of America had a past w...
Let The Lion Eat Straw
Let The Lion Eat Straw Ellease Southerland 9780060724214 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Hailed upon publication by writers and critics alike, including Shirley Hazzard and Charles Johnson, Let the Lion...
Nani and the Lion
Nani and the Lion Alicia D. Williams 9781665914222 Fiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. From Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King – John Steptoe Award winner Alicia D. Willi...
History of a Difficult Child
History of a Difficult Child Mihret Sibhat 9780593298633 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House “The History of a Difficult Child is an extraordinary novel.” —Maaza Mengiste, Booker Prize-shortlis...
Hyena Women and Other Strange Tales of Social Chaos
Hyena Women and Other Strange Tales of Social Chaos L. E. Rainey Article Several years ago I watched a documentary about a pride of lions and a pack of hyenas living in the African savannah. By e...
The Lion or the Mouse? (Who’s Got Game?)
The Lion or the Mouse? (Who’s Got Game?) Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison 9781476792682 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this charmingly subversive reinterpretation of a classic...
Lion Pride
Lion Pride Roland C. Barksdale-Hall 9781937622008 Fiction Nefu Books Nefu Books Barksdale-Hall cleverly weaves together two South African folktales, the "Lion and the Ostrich" and the "Lion Who Though...
Little Lion at Bat
Little Lion at Bat Kellie Magnus 9780974421117 Fiction Jackmandora Jackmandora Little Lion at Bat is the follow up to Little Lion Goes to School . It tells the story of a young Rastafarian boy, Zac...
The Lion And The Jewel (Three Crowns Books)
The Lion And The Jewel (Three Crowns Books) Wole Soyinka 9780199110834 Fiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press This is one of the best-known plays by Africa’s major dramatist, Wole Soy...
Antara the Lion
Antara the Lion Kam Williams Interview THE GLOBAL AFRICAN COMMUNITY HISTORY NOTES "ANTARA THE LION: FATHER OF HEROES" BY RUNOKO RASHDI DEDICATED TO DR. KHALID ABDULLAH TARIQ AL-MANSOUR Archaeo...
I Hope You Find What You’re Looking for
I Hope You Find What You’re Looking for Bsrat Mezghebe 9781324092490 Fiction Liveright Publishing Corporation W. W. Norton & Company Named one of the most anticipated books of 2026 by Apple Books, The...
Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir
Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir Rebecca Carroll 9781982116255 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. A stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting...
The Memory of Love
The Memory of Love Aminatta Forna 9780802145680 Fiction Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best BookFinalist for the Orange Prize for FictionAn Essence Book...
Beneath the Shining Jewel
Beneath the Shining Jewel Balogun Ojetade 9781530583645 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Beneath the Shining Jewel takes place in Ki Khanga’s jewel city, Sati-Baa. Mba, a retired constable...
Caribbean Reads Publishing
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NEW Reads Publications
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Caribbean Reads Publishing
Caribbean Reads Publishing Caribbean Reads Publishing Caribbean Reads Publishing
NEW Reads Publications
NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications
Musical Youth
Musical Youth Joanne C. Hillhouse 9781733829960 Fiction Caribbean Reads Publishing Caribbean Reads Publishing 2nd place in the 2014 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature. #12 in Amazon Hot New Releases ...
Little & Lion
Little & Lion Brandy Colbert 9780316349000 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group A Stonewall Book Award Winner!"Little and Lion is beautifully insightful, honest, and compassionate. Br...
I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I’m Trapped in a Rom-Com
I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I’m Trapped in a Rom-Com Kimberly Lemming 9780593818633 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House A hilarious and sexy romance about a woman who gets dropped on a str...
The Teflon Queen PT 5
The Teflon Queen PT 5 Silk White 9781943686773 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing The Teflon Queen is back and better than ever. Angela and her team is sent across the country to capture a ...
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...
Lion Lights: My Invention That Made Peace with Lions
Lion Lights: My Invention That Made Peace with Lions Richard Turere and Shelly Pollock 9780884488859 Nonfiction Tilbury House Publishers Tilbury House Publishers Winner of the 2023 Children’s Africana...
Larry The Lending Lion
Larry The Lending Lion Aisha Hall 9780578660813 Fiction Manish Publishing Manish Publishing Larry the Lending Lion is a rhyming children’s book about finance. In this story, Larry goes on an adventure...
The Lion Awakes: Adventures in Africa’s Economic Miracle
The Lion Awakes: Adventures in Africa’s Economic Miracle Ashish J. Thakkar 9781137280145 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Three little known facts: Africa is now the world’s fastest ...
The Lion & the Mouse
The Lion & the Mouse Jerry Pinkney 9780316013567 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group The Caldecott Award-winning and New York Times bestselling fable of compassion and ki...
Little Lion Goes for Gold
Little Lion Goes for Gold Kellie Magnus 9780974421124 Fiction Jackmandora Jackmandora Little Lion leads the pack! Young Zachariah Zion returns for his third challenge — winning a medal for his school’...
Snoop Dogg The “Turbo” Interview (July 2013)
Snoop Dogg The “Turbo” Interview (July 2013) Kam Williams Interview Snoop Dogg The “Turbo” Interview Calvin Cordozar Broadus was born on October 20, 1971 in Long Beach, California where he ...
September Newsletter: Recommended Reads, the MS Book Festival, and More
September Newsletter: Recommended Reads, the MS Book Festival, and More Troy Johnson Article Recommended Reads N. K. Jemisin the Only Writer to Win the Best Novel Hugo Award in three Consecutive Yea...
Brandy Colbert
Brandy Colbert 0000000409932699 Brandy Colbert is an award-winning author hailing from Missouri. Her work primarily focuses on young adult and children's literature, with titles such as “Little & Lio...
The World Beneath: A Novel
The World Beneath: A Novel Janice Warman 9780763678562 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press At the height of South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle, a boy must face life decisions that test what ...
The Thunder Beneath Us
The Thunder Beneath Us Nicole Blades 9781496704597 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. To the world, Best Lightburn is a talented writer rising up the masthead at international style magazine J...
Side Notes from the Archivist: Poems
Side Notes from the Archivist: Poems Anastacia-Reneé 9780063221710 Poetry Amistad HarperCollins The award-winning, genre-crossing writer demonstrates her power as a funkadelic and formidable feminist ...
Beneath the Dawn
Beneath the Dawn Brenda Jackson 9798993256955 Fiction Madaris Publishing Madaris Publishing On the rugged coast of Oregon, secrets wash ashore with the tide… After learning that her ex-boyfriend, n...
The Stars Beneath Our Feet
The Stars Beneath Our Feet David Barclay Moore 9781524701246 Fiction Knopf Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A boy tries to steer a safe path through the projects in Harlem in the wake of h...
Lion’s Blood: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom in an Alternate America
Lion’s Blood: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom in an Alternate America Steven Barnes 9780446526685 Fiction Aspect Hachette Book Group The novel takes place in approximately 1850 AD, and involves two mai...
If I Survive You
If I Survive You Jonathan Escoffery 9780374605988 Fiction MCD Macmillan Publishers "If I Survive You is a collection of connected short stories that reads like a novel, that reads like real life, that...
justin a. reynolds
justin a. reynolds NONE Justin A. Reynolds is an acclaimed author renowned for his debut YA novel, “Opposite of Always,” and second novel “Early Departures.” His work includes a Marvel graphic novel ...
JaNay Brown-Wood
JaNay Brown-Wood NONE JaNay Brown-Wood is a celebrated children's author and educator, known for her award-winning book, “Imani's Moon.” She teaches as an ECE professor at American River College and ...
Beneath the Surface
Beneath the Surface Tony Ginyard 9781587364174 Fiction Iceni Books Iceni Books Read a Book Excerpt Book description: There are some secrets that lie… Beneath The Surface Seventeen-year-old Andre D...
Griots Beneath The Baobab: Tales From Los Angeles
Griots Beneath The Baobab: Tales From Los Angeles Randy Ross, Octavia E. Butler, Erin Aubry Kaplan, Eric Jerome Dickey, and Jervey Tervalon 9780966267518 Nonfiction Larod Publishing Company Larod Publ...
St. Pete Reads! Literacy Festival
St. Pete Reads! Literacy Festival Woodson African American Museum of Florida St. Petersburg Florida The St. Pete Reads! Literacy Festival is dedicated to entertaining, engaging, and educating children...
Bliss: A Novel
Bliss: A Novel Danyel Smith 9781400046423 Fiction Crown Penguin Random House Danyel Smith is one of the most acclaimed music journalists of her generation, a prose stylist who “writes with music in he...
The Rise: Where Neighbors Are Sometimes More
The Rise: Where Neighbors Are Sometimes More Chantal Ellen 9780978678609 Nonfiction Lion’s Den Publishing Lion’s Den Publishing Exploring issues of self-esteem, family discord, sisterhood, faith, and ...
Layla’s Happiness
Layla’s Happiness Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie 9781592702886 Fiction Enchanted Lion Books Enchanted Lion Books Winner Ezra Jack Keats Award for Illustration and 2020 Ezra Jack Keats Writer Honor Book for...
gina Breedlove
gina Breedlove NONE Gina Breedlove is a versatile artist from Brooklyn, known for her work as a vocalist, composer, actor and traditional sound healer. She designed the program Vibration of Graceâ„¢ ...
Kamau and Zuzu Find a Way: A Picture Book
Kamau and Zuzu Find a Way: A Picture Book Aracelis Girmay 9781592703890 Fiction Enchanted Lion Books Enchanted Lion Books A stirring story of African diaspora, resourcefulness, and intergenerational l...
The Boy and the Lion: A True Story of a Lost Maasai Boy Mysteriously Protected by a Wild Lioness
The Boy and the Lion: A True Story of a Lost Maasai Boy Mysteriously Protected by a Wild Lioness Mike Saito 9781957810423 Nonfiction Iskanchi Press Iskanchi Press A true survival memoir about a five-y...
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...
Them That Are Called: An Epic
Them That Are Called: An Epic J.G. Parker 9798991766906 Fiction Looking Lion Books Looking Lion Books An indomitable horde, nearly immune to the weight of time, marauds through the cosmos. From the se...
A Beach Tail
A Beach Tail Karen Lynn Williams 9781635925531 Fiction Boyds Mills Press Boyds Mills Press A charming tale of creativity and discovery. —School Library Journal, starred review A creative and intellig...
What Do You Know?
What Do You Know? Aracelis Girmay 9781592703210 Fiction Enchanted Lion Books Enchanted Lion Books What might a well, a bear, a farmer, and a historian respond when Love asks, “What do you know?” This ...
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain 9780593134047 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House A chorus of extraordinary voices comes ...
Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History
Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History Walter Dean Myers 9780060277093 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House Jon Meacham 9781400063253 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House The definitive biography of a larger-than-life president who defied norms, divid...
The Lion’s Brood: The Story of Hannibal
The Lion’s Brood: The Story of Hannibal Rafael Scott 9781413712605 Fiction PublishAmerica PublishAmerica It is 238 B.C. The First Punic War has ended and dark times have befallen the great African em...
Lion and the Ostrich Chicks: And Other African Folk Poems
Lion and the Ostrich Chicks: And Other African Folk Poems Ashley Bryan 9780689313110 Nonfiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. Includes four traditional tales told by the Haus...
Christian Keyes
Christian Keyes NONE Christian Keyes is a versatile actor, singer, and songwriter from Detroit, Michigan, recognized for his consistent performances in Tyler Perry's productions. He's also known for ...
Jon Meacham
Jon Meacham 0000000108603277 Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of bestsellers such as “American Lion”, is a distinguished professor at Vanderbilt University and trustee at the Thomas Jeffers...
Migrated Interviews
Migrated Interviews Kam Williams Interview Migrated Interviews Aisha Tyler - The "Balls of Fury and Death Sentence" Interview Alisa Hyman - Book Reviewer, Educator Alrick Brown - The "Kinyarwand...
I Had a Brother Once: A Poem, a Memoir
I Had a Brother Once: A Poem, a Memoir Adam Mansbach 9780593134795 Poetry One World Penguin Random House A brilliant, genre-defying work—both memoir and epic poem—about the struggle for wisdom, grace,...
Sleeping Under the Tree of Life
Sleeping Under the Tree of Life Sheree Renée Thomas 9781619761117 Fiction Aqueduct Press Aqueduct Press Sleeping under the Tree of Life evokes the realm of ancestral knowledge with a deep respect for ...
Lisa Watson
Lisa Watson NONE Lisa Watson is a national bestselling author based in Washington D.C., known for her work in diverse romance genres. Her debut novel was nominated for Best Contemporary Fiction, and ...
Finding Peace Isn’t Peaceful: Overcoming the Struggle Within to Heal My Soul
Finding Peace Isn’t Peaceful: Overcoming the Struggle Within to Heal My Soul Ma’Ronda X 9781943409563 Nonfiction Pure Thoughts Publishing Pure Thoughts Publishing, LLC Finding Peace Isn’t Peaceful is ...
David Barclay Moore
David Barclay Moore NONE Missouri-born David Barclay Moore is a Brooklyn-based writer, filmmaker, and photographer. Known for his debut young adult novel 'The Stars Beneath Our Feet' and his award-wi...
Lola Jaye
Lola Jaye NONE Lola Jaye, a London-born author, published her first U.S. novel in 2009. Her journey from foster child to author was shared in her 2009 essay, part of the U.K.'s Quick Reads program. L...
Minaret: A Novel
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Introducing Delaney Diamond, USA Today Bestselling Author
Introducing Delaney Diamond, USA Today Bestselling Author Troy Johnson Article Delaney Diamond is the USA Today Bestselling Author of sweet, sensual, passionate romance novels and is the manager ...
Beneath a Meth Moon
Beneath a Meth Moon Jacqueline Woodson 9780399252501 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s LiteratureLaurel Daneau...
Reality Way
Reality Way NONE Reality Way, a Queens-born author, faced several life obstacles leading him to prison. It was there he developed a passion for writing, leading to his first published work, “Young Go...
Bestiary: Poems
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NoViolet Bulawayo Reads from her Novel We Need New Names
NoViolet Bulawayo Reads from her Novel We Need New Names Book Spotlights
Monda Raquel Webb reads from her novel: 7:33 am
Monda Raquel Webb reads from her novel: 7:33 am Book Spotlights
Dolen Perkins-Valdez reads from her novel Wench
Dolen Perkins-Valdez reads from her novel Wench Book Spotlights
Big Enough to Be Inconsistent
Big Enough to Be Inconsistent Thumper Book Review There is a great chance that my review of Big Enough to Be Inconsistent: Abraham Lincoln Confronts Slavery and Race by George M. Fredrickso...
Snapshot
Snapshot Tony Lindsay Book Review In Snapshot, Camryn King demonstrates the power of a page turning thriller. Through King’s beautifully descriptive screens, narrative pace, believable dialog, ...
Love Never Fails
Love Never Fails Nikesha Elise Williams 9781733584807 Fiction NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications “If I were honest, I’d be divorced right now.” When it comes to marriage, nothing is guar...
Edward Kelsey Moore Reads From His Novel, The Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues
Edward Kelsey Moore Reads From His Novel, The Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues Book Spotlights
Victor LaValle reads from his novel Big Machine
Victor LaValle reads from his novel Big Machine Book Spotlights