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Marilyn Nelson
Marilyn Nelson 0000000081267022 Marilyn Nelson, former Poet Laureate of Connecticut, is a three-time National Book Award Finalist, Annisfield-Wolf Award winner, and author of acclaimed titles like 'T...
Lubaya’s Quiet Roar
Lubaya’s Quiet Roar Marilyn Nelson 9780525555551 Fiction Dial Books Penguin Random House In this stirring picture book about social justice activism and the power of introverts, a quiet girl’s artwork...
The Boley Rodeo: Poems, 2008-2026
The Boley Rodeo: Poems, 2008-2026 Marilyn Nelson 9780807187265 Poetry LSU Press Louisiana State University Press Powerful, beautiful, and often deceptively simple, the poetry of Marilyn Nelson takes a...
Faster Than Light: New And Selected Poems, 1996-2011
Faster Than Light: New And Selected Poems, 1996-2011 Marilyn Nelson 9780807147344 Poetry LSU Press Louisiana State University Press Conjuring numerous voices and characters across oceans and centuries...
The Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems
The Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems Marilyn Nelson 9780807121757 Poetry LSU Press Louisiana State University Press In The Fields of Praise, Marilyn Nelson claims as subjects the life of the s...
Papa’s Free Day Party
Papa’s Free Day Party Marilyn Nelson 9780940975729 Fiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. Johnnie wants to celebrate her Papa’s birthday, but Papa doesn’t know exactly when that special day is....
How I Discovered Poetry
How I Discovered Poetry Marilyn Nelson 9780803733046 Nonfiction Dial Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A powerful and thought-provoking Civil Rights era memoir from one of America’s most ...
Ostrich And Lark
Ostrich And Lark Marilyn Nelson 9781590787021 Nonfiction Front Street, Incorporated Boyds Mills Press Ostrich and Lark spend their days on the grasslands of southern Africa surrounded by a chorus of b...
A Wreath for Emmett Till
A Wreath for Emmett Till Marilyn Nelson 9780547076362 Fiction Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A Coretta Scott King and Printz honor book now in paperback. A Wreath for Emmett Till...
Carver: A Life in Poems
Carver: A Life in Poems Marilyn Nelson 9781886910539 Nonfiction Highlights Press Boyds Mills Press George Washington Carver was born a slave in Missouri about 1864 and was raised by the childless whit...
Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem
Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem Marilyn Nelson 9781932425123 Nonfiction Highlights Press Boyds Mills Press There is a skeleton in the Mattatuck Museum in Connecticut. It has been in the town ...
Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor’s Life
Augusta Savage: The Shape of a Sculptor’s Life Marilyn Nelson 9780316298025 Nonfiction Christy Ottaviano Books Hachette Book Group A powerful biography in poems​ about a trailblazing artist and ...
American Ace
American Ace Marilyn Nelson 9780803733053 Fiction Dial Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House This riveting novel in verse, perfect for fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Toni Morrison, explores Ame...
The Homeplace: Poems
The Homeplace: Poems Marilyn Nelson 9780807116418 Poetry LSU Press Louisiana State University Press A fine softcover copy. Inscribed by the poet. Tight binding. Clean, unmarked pages. Not ex-library. ...
Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Joy Harjo, Marilyn Nelson, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Yusef Komunyakaa, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Rita Dove
Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Joy Harjo, Marilyn Nelson, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Yusef Komunyakaa, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Rita Dove MULTIPLE Prominent authors Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Joy Harjo, ...
Resisting Arrest poems to stretch the sky
Resisting Arrest poems to stretch the sky Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Joy Harjo, Marilyn Nelson, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Yusef Komunyakaa, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Rita Dove 9780936481098 Poetry Ja...
Miss Crandall’s School For Young Ladies & Little Misses Of Color
Miss Crandall’s School For Young Ladies & Little Misses Of Color Elizabeth Alexander and Marilyn Nelson 9781590784563 Nonfiction Wordsong Boyds Mills Press Two renowned poets tell the story of Prudenc...
Marilyn Allman Maye, Harold S. Buchanan, Jannette O. Domingo, Joyce Frisby Baynes, Marilyn Holifield, Myra E. Rose, Bridget Van Gronigen Warren, and Aundrea White Kelley
Marilyn Allman Maye, Harold S. Buchanan, Jannette O. Domingo, Joyce Frisby Baynes, Marilyn Holifield, Myra E. Rose, Bridget Van Gronigen Warren, and Aundrea White Kelley MULTIPLE This group includes ...
Papa’s Free Day Party: A Children's Book Set in All-Black town of Boley, Oklahoma
Papa’s Free Day Party: A Children's Book Set in All-Black town of Boley, Oklahoma Literary Events AALBC’s Founder, Troy Johnson, hosts a conversation about the children’s book Papa’s Free Day Party wi...
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Alice Dunbar-Nelson 0000000081179540 Check out Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) was an acclaimed American journalist, political act...
Beauty Mark: A Verse Novel of Marilyn Monroe
Beauty Mark: A Verse Novel of Marilyn Monroe Carole Boston Weatherford 9781536206296 Poetry Candlewick Press Candlewick Press In a powerful novel in verse, an award-winning author offers an eye-openin...
Marilyn Allman Maye and Warren L. Maye
Marilyn Allman Maye and Warren L. Maye MULTIPLE Marilyn Allman Maye and Warren L. Maye are renowned authors known for their comprehensive works in their respective fields. Their expertise and contrib...
Marilyn Tyner
Marilyn Tyner NONE Marilyn Tyner (1943-2014) was an author from Pittsburgh, PA. An avid reader, Tyner attended Howard University studying psychology and zoology, and worked on the college literary ma...
Marilyn Allman Maye
Marilyn Allman Maye NONE Marilyn Allman Maye, a renowned educator and advocate, focuses on high-quality teaching in mathematics, especially for communities of color. Holding degrees from Swarthmore C...
Kadir Nelson
Kadir Nelson 0000000038009108 Kadir Nelson is a renowned American artist and illustrator with a Bachelor's degree from Pratt Institute. Known for his work with major clients like Sports Illustrated, ...
Can’t We Be Friends: A Novel of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe
Can’t We Be Friends: A Novel of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe Eliza Knight and Denny S. Bryce 9780063282902 Fiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins Award-winning author Denny S. Bryce and ...
Monument: Poems New and Selected
Monument: Poems New and Selected Natasha Trethewey 9781328507846 Poetry Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award for Poetry “[Trethewey’s poems] ...
Divida
Divida Monica Hand 9781938584749 Poetry Alice James Books Alice James Books "DiVida: divided; DiVida: of life" The imaginary character who carries the name and sings her life is both DiVida and Sapphi...
Brief Evidence of Heaven: Poems from the Life of Anna Murray Douglass
Brief Evidence of Heaven: Poems from the Life of Anna Murray Douglass M. Nzadi Keita 9780990867777 Poetry Whirlwind Press Whirlwind Press Poetry. African American Studies. Women’s Studies. BRIEF EV...
Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade
Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady 9780472069248 Poetry University of Michigan Press University of Michigan Press Cave Canem has for the...
Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade
Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady 9780472099245 Poetry University of Michigan Press University of Michigan Press Cave Canem has for the...
Black Swan (Pitt Poetry Series)
Black Swan (Pitt Poetry Series) Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon 9780822957874 Poetry University of Pittsburgh Press University of Pittsburgh Press Winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Prize Selected by Marilyn Nels...
A Soldier’s Wife: My Mother, the Marvelous Mrs. Marilyn A. Underwood
A Soldier’s Wife: My Mother, the Marvelous Mrs. Marilyn A. Underwood Blair Underwood 9780063211872 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In this moving biography and memoir, Blair Underwood, acclaimed star...
Seven Sisters And A Brother (paperback): Friendship, Resistance, and Untold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s
Seven Sisters And A Brother (paperback): Friendship, Resistance, and Untold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s Marilyn Allman Maye, Harold S. Buchanan, Jannette O. Domingo, Joyce Frisby...
Seven Sisters And A Brother: Friendship, Resistance, and Untold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s
Seven Sisters And A Brother: Friendship, Resistance, and Untold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s Marilyn Allman Maye, Harold S. Buchanan, Jannette O. Domingo, Joyce Frisby Baynes, Mar...
C.R.E.A.M.
C.R.E.A.M. Solomon Jones 9780312361464 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Karima “Cream” Thomas is an ex-convict from an upper-crust family whose only crime was falling for a drug deale...
Nelson Beats The Odds
Nelson Beats The Odds Ronnie Sidney, II 9780996532426 Fiction Creative Medicine: Healing Through Words Creative Medicine: Healing Through Words Nelson used to think school was all about playing around...
Lori Nelson Lee
Lori Nelson Lee NONE Lori Nelson Lee, author of children's books like 'Hillary’s Big Business Adventure' and 'Danica Dramatica - Queen Me', introduces entrepreneurship to young readers. Her works are...
The Black Pimpernel: Nelson Mandela on the Run
The Black Pimpernel: Nelson Mandela on the Run Zuksiwa Wanner 9781782693079 Nonfiction Pushkin Children’s Books Pushkin Press The story of Nelson Mandela’s early years on the run from the apartheid au...
Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson Tara T. Green 9781501382307 Nonfiction Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Publishing “A fascinating biography of a fascinating woman.” - Boo...
The Darkest Hearts
The Darkest Hearts Nelson George 9781617758096 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "We’re big fans of music mysteries here at CrimeReads, so I’m psyched for the new Nelson George…A complex mystery tha...
All These Things the Old Tales Tell - The Best of Alice Dunbar Nelson
All These Things the Old Tales Tell - The Best of Alice Dunbar Nelson Alice Dunbar-Nelson 9781528717908 Poetry Ragged Hand Ragged Hand Alice Dunbar Nelson was an American journalist, political activis...
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans Kadir Nelson 9780061730795 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins From Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans, written an...
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela Kadir Nelson 9780061783746 Nonfiction Katherine Tegen Books HarperCollins One day when Nelson Mandela was nine years old, his father died and he was sent from his village to a school fa...
Black Woman Redefined: Dispelling Myths And Discovering Fulfillment In The Age Of Michelle Obama
Black Woman Redefined: Dispelling Myths And Discovering Fulfillment In The Age Of Michelle Obama Sophia Nelson 9781935618942 Nonfiction BenBella Books BenBella Books Stereotypes aren’t funny when they...
Let’s Get It On: A Novel
Let’s Get It On: A Novel Jill Nelson 9780060763305 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins “Sister Jill isn’t just a foot soldier in what passes for war between the sexes. She’s our commander-in-chief and follo...
The Honeymoon Is Over
The Honeymoon Is Over Keith Lee Johnson 9781601620170 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. After his blockbuster success of Little Black Girl Lost, and Little Black Girl Lost II, Keith Lee ...
Finding Martha’s Vineyard: African Americans at Home on an Island
Finding Martha’s Vineyard: African Americans at Home on an Island Jill Nelson 9780385505666 Nonfiction Doubleday Penguin Random House In this elegant book of photographs, personal narrative, memories,...
Straight, No Chaser: How I Became a Grown-Up Black Woman
Straight, No Chaser: How I Became a Grown-Up Black Woman Jill Nelson 9780140277241 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House The face of journalism was forever changed after Jill Nelson came along...
Prince Rogers Nelson and Randee St. Nicholas
Prince Rogers Nelson and Randee St. Nicholas MULTIPLE Prince Rogers Nelson, known as Prince, was an iconic musician celebrated globally. Randee St. Nicholas is an acclaimed photographer and director,...
Nelson George
Nelson George 0000000115805862 Nelson George, born in 1957, is a renowned columnist, critic, journalist, filmmaker, and author of 21 books, including bestseller 'The Michael Jackson Story'. A pioneer...
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson 0000000084378609 Vaunda Micheaux Nelson is an award-winning children's author and librarian. She penned “Bad News for Outlaws,” which won the 2010 Coretta Scott King Award, and...
Adiba Nelson
Adiba Nelson NONE Adiba Nelson is a Black author and speaker who advocates for inclusion. Known for her 2013 children's book, Meet ClaraBelle Blue, which represents her special needs Afro-Latinx daug...
Marilyn Hughes Gaston and Gayle K. Porter
Marilyn Hughes Gaston and Gayle K. Porter MULTIPLE
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Let ’er Buck!: George Fletcher, the People’s Champion
Let ’er Buck!: George Fletcher, the People’s Champion Vaunda Micheaux Nelson 9781512498080 Nonfiction Carolrhoda Books Lerner Publishing Group Nelson plaits her narrative with Western lingo and homesp...
The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela 9781631491177 Nonfiction Liveright Publishing Corporation W. W. Norton & Company "Arrested in 1962 as South Africa’s apartheid regime intensified … ...
Selected Speeches and Writings of Nelson Mandela: The End of Apartheid in South Africa
Selected Speeches and Writings of Nelson Mandela: The End of Apartheid in South Africa Nelson Mandela 9781934941782 Nonfiction Red and Black Publishers Red and Black Publishers For 30 years, the Afric...
Seduced
Seduced Nelson George 9780345412669 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House "[A] smart, funny, and wonderfully resonant novel … It’s the 1980s, and aspiring songwriter Derek Harper is a man ...
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela 9780316548182 Nonfiction Back Bay Books Hachette Book Group Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of o...
The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Volume 1
The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Volume 1 Alice Dunbar-Nelson 9780195052503 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press "Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s journalism—especially her column for The ...
Havelock Nelson and Michael A. Gonzales
Havelock Nelson and Michael A. Gonzales MULTIPLE Havelock Nelson and Michael A. Gonzales are renowned authors known for their insightful contributions in the field of literature. Havelock Nelson and ...
Jill Nelson
Jill Nelson 0000000066956364 Jill Nelson, a seasoned journalist from Harlem, is a graduate of the City College of New York and the Columbia School of Journalism. Her work has graced various publicati...
Prince Rogers Nelson
Prince Rogers Nelson 0000000120964892 Prince Rogers Nelson, known as Prince, was an influential American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor. Famous for his eclectic work, flamboyant ...
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela 0000000121447715 Nelson Mandela, born July 18, 1918, was South Africa's first black President from 1994-1999, and ANC party President from 1991-1997. After 27 years in prison, he was r...
Caleb Azumah Nelson
Caleb Azumah Nelson 0000000505162647 A 2021 National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Honoree Caleb Azumah Nelson is a British-Ghanaian writer and photographer based in London. Known for his n...
A Carnival Jangle
A Carnival Jangle Alice Dunbar-Nelson 9781037403415 Fiction Macmillan Collector’s Library Macmillan Publishers From the landmark writer and activist of the Harlem Renaissance, Alice Dunbar Nelson, A C...
Basket Ball: The Story of the All-American Game
Basket Ball: The Story of the All-American Game Kadir Nelson 9780316209403 Nonfiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Kadir Nelson, award-winning creator, delivers the perfec...
Open Water
Open Water Caleb Azumah Nelson 9780802157942 Fiction Black Cat Grove Atlantic, Inc. A stunning first novel about two young Black artists in London falling in and out of love by a new literary virtuoso...
A Plan for the People: Nelson Mandela’s Hope for His Nation
A Plan for the People: Nelson Mandela’s Hope for His Nation Lindsey McDivitt 9780802855022 Nonfiction Eerdmans Books for Young Readers Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Kirkus Starred Review: "Beauti...
Baby Bear Board Book
Baby Bear Board Book Kadir Nelson 9780062931573 Fiction Balzer + Bray HarperCollins The acclaimed tale of a lost little bear searching for home from Caldecott Medal and Coretta Scott King Award winner...
Nelson Mandela: From Prisoner to President
Nelson Mandela: From Prisoner to President Suzy Capozzi 9780553513431 Nonfiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House This Step 4 leveled reader about Nelson Mandela, the Nobel Pr...
His Day Is Done: A Nelson Mandela Tribute
His Day Is Done: A Nelson Mandela Tribute Maya Angelou 9780812997019 Poetry Random House Penguin Random House He was a son of Africa who became father to a nation and, for billions of people around th...
Meet ClaraBelle Blue
Meet ClaraBelle Blue Adiba Nelson 9780989191906 Fiction RocketChair Productions RocketChair Productions 2016 ROYAL DRAGONFLY WINNER - HONORABLE MENTION: CHILDREN’S BOOK/SPECIAL NEEDS Meet ClaraBell...
Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom
Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom Nelson Mandela 9781451675399 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the heart and soul of visionary Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela, a collecti...
In The Words Of Nelson Mandela
In The Words Of Nelson Mandela Jennifer Crwys-Williams 9780802779304 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press "I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I ha...
FREEDOM RIDERS: Q&A with Director Stanley Nelson
FREEDOM RIDERS: Q&A with Director Stanley Nelson Author Interviews Parents of C.A.F.E. of the Nightingale-Bamford School Hosted a special screening of American Experience: FREEDOM RIDERS, "A riveting ...
Hillary’s Big Business Adventure (The Adventures Of Hillary)
Hillary’s Big Business Adventure (The Adventures Of Hillary) Lori Nelson Lee 9780979417108 Nonfiction Nelson Publishing, LLC Nelson Publishing, LLC Hillary is a 5th-grader from Baltimore, Maryland who...
Police Brutality: An Anthology
Police Brutality: An Anthology Jill Nelson 9780393321630 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A landmark work by twelve leading critics and community leaders―essential readin...
Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience
Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience Jill Nelson 9780140237160 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House When Jill Nelson became the first black woman to write for The Washington Post’...
The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Volume 2
The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Volume 2 Alice Dunbar-Nelson 9780195052510 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Spanning the gamut of literary genres, from autobiographical sho...
The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Volume 3
The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Volume 3 Alice Dunbar-Nelson 9780195052527 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Spanning the gamut of literary genres, from autobiographical sho...
People of Color in Louisiana
People of Color in Louisiana Alice Dunbar-Nelson 9781979797627 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Alice Dunbar Nelson was a social activist and reformer, journalist and poet. She was one ...
Alexis Nikole Nelson
Alexis Nikole Nelson NONE Alexis Nikole Nelson is a Wild Food Maker at BlackForager
In The Words Of Nelson Mandela
In The Words Of Nelson Mandela Robert Fleming Book Review One of the greatest assignments of my career as a newspaper reporter was covering South African leader, Nelson Mandela, who had just been r...
Anthony Mackie - The "Crossover and Half Nelson" Interview (2006)
Anthony Mackie - The "Crossover and Half Nelson" Interview (2006) Kam Williams Interview at the 2008 Tribeca All Access awards A graduate of Juilliard, classically-trained Anthony Mackie is...
Full Cicada Moon
Full Cicada Moon Marilyn Hilton 9780525428756 Fiction Dial Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Inside Out and Back Again meets One Crazy Summer and Brown Girl Dreaming in this novel-in-verse ...
Prime Time: The African American Woman’s Guide to Midlife Health and Wellness
Prime Time: The African American Woman’s Guide to Midlife Health and Wellness Marilyn Hughes Gaston and Gayle K. Porter 9780912444505 Nonfiction Dare Books Dare Books Today seven million African Ameri...
Orita: Rites of Passage for Youth of African Descent in America
Orita: Rites of Passage for Youth of African Descent in America Marilyn Allman Maye and Warren L. Maye 9780967540009 Nonfiction Faithworks Faithworks This book is a guide for parents seeking to design...
Secrets (Arabesque)
Secrets (Arabesque) Marilyn Tyner 9780786005956 Fiction Pinnacle Kensington Publishing Corp. When Samantha Desmond’s parents die, she is left to raise her young stepsister, Jessica. To save the girl f...
Step by Step (Arabesque)
Step by Step (Arabesque) Marilyn Tyner 9780786004065 Fiction Pinnacle Kensington Publishing Corp. Successful accountant Leah Preston has her life completely mapped out, with a future that does not in...
Warren L. Maye
Warren L. Maye NONE Warren L. Maye is the Editor in Chief of SACONNECTS and a prolific author, having co-written books with his wife and authored others independently. He's a member of ASME, EPA, and...
Seven Sisters And A Brother
Seven Sisters And A Brother Denolyn Carroll Book Review History has recorded many instances of struggles for varied rights by a people haunted by the legacies of slavery. Yet, too often some such o...
Happy Snacking, Don’t Die!: Foraging and Vegan Recipes with Black Forager
Happy Snacking, Don’t Die!: Foraging and Vegan Recipes with Black Forager Alexis Nikole Nelson 9781668002544 Nonfiction Simon Element Simon & Schuster, Inc. Beloved social media sensation Black Forage...
Mandela: In Honor of an Extraordinary Life
Mandela: In Honor of an Extraordinary Life Makaziwe Mandela 9780789344403 Nonfiction Rizzoli International Publications Rizzoli International Publications A Tribute to Her Father, Makaziwe Mandela Sha...