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Marla Gibbs’ New Book: It’s Never Too Late: A Memoir
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Marla Gibbs
Marla Gibbs 0000000078401868 Hailing from Chicago, Illinois, five-time Emmy-nominated actress Marla Gibbs (born June 14, 1931) wears many hats: mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, actor, entrepr...
Shawnee Gibbs and Shawnelle Gibbs
Shawnee Gibbs and Shawnelle Gibbs MULTIPLE Shawnee Gibbs & Shawnelle Gibbs are writers for comics, graphic novels, television, film & animation. The Gibbs Sisters, Shawneé Gibbs (l) and Shawne...
It’s Never Too Late: A Memoir
It’s Never Too Late: A Memoir Marla Gibbs 9780063356634 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins The star of classic television series, including The Jeffersons and 227, reveals her difficult journey from a t...
Jerrell Gibbs: No Solace in the Shade
Jerrell Gibbs: No Solace in the Shade Angela N. Carroll 9780847874408 Nonfiction Rizzoli Electa Rizzoli International Publications The First Major Publication on Baltimore-Based Painter Jerrell Gibbs,...
Melvin Gibbs
Melvin Gibbs 0000000055545607 Melvin Gibbs is a Grammy-nominated composer, musician, artist, and writer born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Widely recognized for his groundbreaking work across ja...
How Black Music Took Over the World
How Black Music Took Over the World Melvin Gibbs 9781541603240 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books One of the world’s greatest bassists lays down the heart of Black music, revealing how its rhythmi...
Cynthia Freeman Gibbs
Cynthia Freeman Gibbs NONE Cynthia Freeman Gibbs is a Michigan-born author, MBA holder, and former Merck Pharmaceutical corporate worker. She launched her writing career in 2016 and published her boo...
Marla Washington
Marla Washington NONE Dr. Marla Washington, a PhD in Sociology, is a specialist on daddyless daughters. Drawing from her own experiences and those of others, she authored a book offering strategies t...
Ghost Roast
Ghost Roast Shawnee Gibbs and Shawnelle Gibbs 9780358141815 Fiction Versify Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A Harvey Award Nominee! Ghost Roast delivers a paranormal adventure full of first crushes, lost...
Dating Without A Daddy: A Guide For Fatherless Women Looking For Love
Dating Without A Daddy: A Guide For Fatherless Women Looking For Love Marla Washington 9781494974671 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Have you ever asked yourself why you struggle findi...
Insatiable Revenge: A Dr. Olivia C. Maxwell novel
Insatiable Revenge: A Dr. Olivia C. Maxwell novel Cynthia Freeman Gibbs 9781944359867 Fiction Brown Girls Books Brown Girls Books In this dramatic sequel to her debut Reasonable Insanity - A Dr. Olivi...
Being Somebody and Black Besides: An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life
Being Somebody and Black Besides: An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life George Nesbitt 9780226783123 Nonfiction University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press An immersive multigeneration...
The Ultimate Brag Book about Yourself: A hundred questions about how awesome you are!
The Ultimate Brag Book about Yourself: A hundred questions about how awesome you are! Marla J. Albertie 9798667397939 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published Can you imagine all the...
Festive Mayhem 4: Thirteen Cozy and Cold Winter Holiday Mystery and Crime Fiction Stories
Festive Mayhem 4: Thirteen Cozy and Cold Winter Holiday Mystery and Crime Fiction Stories Persia Walker 9798224417056 Fiction Marla Bradeen Marla Bradeen The Festive Mayhem mystery and crime fiction a...
Watch Where They Hide: A Jordan Manning Novel
Watch Where They Hide: A Jordan Manning Novel Tamron Hall 9780063037083 Fiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins From Emmy Award winner Tamron Hall comes an edge-of-your-seat thriller featuring ...
52 Career Tips: Action Steps To Move You Forward
52 Career Tips: Action Steps To Move You Forward Marla J. Albertie 9781725016668 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Are you looking to revitalize your professional life? Consider these qu...
Alexandra Boiger
Alexandra Boiger 0000000037741903 Alexandra Boiger, a Munich-born illustrator, has contributed to nearly 20 picture books such as the She Persisted series and the vTallulah series. She also authored ...
The Screenwriter’s Guidebook: Inspiring Lessons in Film and Television Writing
The Screenwriter’s Guidebook: Inspiring Lessons in Film and Television Writing Christine List 9780883783351 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press Christine Houston wrote Two Twenty Seven, a p...
Regina King - The "This Christmas" Interview
Regina King - The "This Christmas" Interview Kam Williams Interview Regina's Command Performance Born in L.A. on January 15, 1971, Regina King started her showbiz career on the stage w...
Stepping to a New Day: A Blessings Novel
Stepping to a New Day: A Blessings Novel Beverly Jenkins 9780062412638 Fiction William Morrow Paperbacks HarperCollins NAACP nominee and USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins returns to the tow...
Hipology: Horizons in Poetry
Hipology: Horizons in Poetry Ron Alle and Stella Crews 9780940713079 Poetry Broadside Press Broadside Press Includes the following Poems: "Doors Of Perception" by Allen Adkins "No. 125: ...
Rite of Passage
Rite of Passage Richard Wright 9780064471114 Fiction HarperTeen HarperCollins ”Johnny, you’re leaving us tonight …“ Fifteen-year-old Johnny Gibbs does, well in school, respects his teachers, and lov...
Reasonable Insanity
Reasonable Insanity Cynthia Freeman Gibbs 9781944359690 Fiction Brown Girls Books Brown Girls Books More than meets the eye: On the outside, clinical psychologist, Dr. Olivia C. Maxwell appears to li...
St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton
St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton MULTIPLE John Gibbs St. Clair Drake (1911-1990) was a pioneering African-American sociologist and anthropologist, known for documenting 1960s social turmoil, esta...
Mark Harmon
Mark Harmon 0000000081038238 Mark Harmon, renowned for his role as Leroy Jethro Gibbs on NCIS, is now entering the publishing world with “Ghosts of Honolulu.” The Emmy-nominated actor and producer ha...
While I Have Your Attention: It’s Never Too Late for a New Beginning
While I Have Your Attention: It’s Never Too Late for a New Beginning Lucille O’Neal 9781400344215 Nonfiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing Find hope when you see that it is never to...
Memoir: Delaware County Prison
Memoir: Delaware County Prison Thumper Book Review Memoir: Delaware County Prison by Reginald L. Hall is a non-fiction account of the eight months Hall, an openly gay man, spent in prison for credit...
Too Little, Too Late
Too Little, Too Late Portia Cosby 9780982301302 Fiction Distinct Publishing Distinct Publishing TAMEKA JAMES has always been a confident, outspoken, strong-willed woman with her one weakness being her...
Too Little, Too Late: A Novel
Too Little, Too Late: A Novel Victoria Christopher Murray 9781416552529 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. Jasmine Larson Bush returns to her devious ways in this tale of two marriages — each t...
You Gotta Sin to Get Saved
You Gotta Sin to Get Saved J.D. Mason 9780312326586 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Charlotte Rodgers has always wanted too much. Too much love, too much attention, and had too many bi...
Truly: An Inspirational Journey Through the Life of a Musical Legend
Truly: An Inspirational Journey Through the Life of a Musical Legend Lionel Richie 9780063253643 Nonfiction HarperOne HarperCollins The Long-Awaited Memoir of the Legendary Lionel Richie As a story...
You Should Really Write A Book: How To Write, Sell, And Market Your Memoir
You Should Really Write A Book: How To Write, Sell, And Market Your Memoir Regina Brooks and Brenda Lane Richardson 9780312609344 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Even if you don’t...
Tigerland: The Miracle on East Broad Street
Tigerland: The Miracle on East Broad Street Wil Haygood 9781524731861 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House From the author of the best-selling The Butler—an emotional, inspiring story of two teams fr...
Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir
Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir Nikki Grimes 9781635925623 Nonfiction Wordsong Boyds Mills Press ★ A Michael L. Printz Honor Book ★ A Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor Book ★ A Bosto...
A Golden Legacy: Faith, Family, and a Life of Purpose—A Memoir
A Golden Legacy: Faith, Family, and a Life of Purpose—A Memoir Samuel P. Golden with Angie Ransome-Jones 9798999778406 Nonfiction AALBC Legacy Press African American Literature Book Club Also Availabl...
A Golden Legacy (paperback): Faith, Family, and a Life of Purpose—A Memoir
A Golden Legacy (paperback): Faith, Family, and a Life of Purpose—A Memoir Samuel P. Golden with Angie Ransome-Jones 9798999778413 Nonfiction AALBC Legacy Press African American Literature Book Club A...
10 Minutes Past Too Late
10 Minutes Past Too Late Anika Malone 9780759612525 Fiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions Lisa Munroe is a successful, single young black attorney, branded from childhood with the nickname, ’Bad Girl.’...
Memoir Maven
Memoir Maven Memoir Maven Publishing Memoir Maven Publishing Memoir Maven Publishing is a contemporary self publishing company. Established in 2016, their mission is to release true, impactful storie...
Memoir Maven Publishing
Memoir Maven Publishing Memoir Maven Publishing Memoir Maven Memoir Maven Publishing is a contemporary self publishing company. Established in 2016, their mission is to release true, impactful storie...
Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery
Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery Harrison Mooney 9781586423469 Nonfiction Truth to Power Steerforth Press An unforgettable coming-of-age memoir awaits in Harrison Mooney’s powerful debut, a s...
Two “Til Midnight
Two “Til Midnight Bernard L. Dillard 9780578453484 Fiction BerNerd Publishing BerNerd Publishing Witness this gripping novel that spins a web of murder, racism, adoption, sexuality, social media safet...
Too Beautiful For Words
Too Beautiful For Words Thumper Book Review Too Beautiful For Words, the debut novel by Monique W. Morris, is a small little miracle of a book. In a novel that is steeped in reality, under the grimme...
Seventh Child: A Family Memoir of Malcolm X
Seventh Child: A Family Memoir of Malcolm X Rodnell P. Collins and A. Peter Bailey 9780758201171 Nonfiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. SINCE MALCOLM X EXPLOSIVE AUTOBIOGRAAPHY THIS IS THE ...
Hurry, Kate, or You’ll Be Late!
Hurry, Kate, or You’ll Be Late! Janice N. Harrington 9780823445103 Fiction Margaret Ferguson Books Holiday House A young girl stops to call out all the sights and sounds on her morning trip to pre-sch...
The House on Childress Street: A Memoir
The House on Childress Street: A Memoir Kenji Jasper 9780767916790 Fiction Harlem Moon Penguin Random House In this vivid and piercing memoir of his grandfather, noted novelist Kenji Jasper captures t...
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement Tarana Burke 9781250621733 Nonfiction Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book Macmillan Publishers INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Some...
Maybe an Artist, a Graphic Memoir
Maybe an Artist, a Graphic Memoir Liz Montague 9780593307816 Nonfiction Random House Studio Penguin Random House A heartfelt and funny graphic novel memoir from one of the first Black female cartoonis...
Sunrise Over Fallujah
Sunrise Over Fallujah Walter Dean Myers 9780439916240 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. A powerful new novel about the heroics and horror of war from Walter Dean Myers, whose bestselling book F...
Arsenio: A Memoir
Arsenio: A Memoir Arsenio Hall 9781982191368 Nonfiction Atria / Black Privilege Publishing Simon & Schuster, Inc. Join Our Book Discussion on Zoom ● September 27, 2026 ● 2 p.m. EDT Arsenio H...
Around the Way Girl: A Memoir
Around the Way Girl: A Memoir Taraji P. Henson and Denene Millner 9781501126000 Nonfiction Atria / 37 Ink Simon & Schuster, Inc. Taraji’s memoir is smart, funny as hell and full of that good truth—the...
Never Say Never
Never Say Never Idrissa Uqdah Book Review In this drama -filled novel, Victoria Christopher Murray gives her readers a shocking story that is edgy Christian fiction, at it’s best. Miriam has ...
The Graphomaniac’s Primer: A Semi-Surrealist Memoir
The Graphomaniac’s Primer: A Semi-Surrealist Memoir Walter Mosley 9781574781366 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press “A memoir about the beginnings of my journey on the page. My half-ba...
Growing Up King: An Intimate Memoir
Growing Up King: An Intimate Memoir Dexter Scott King 9780446692373 Nonfiction Warner Books Hachette Book Group Growing Up King: An Intimate Memoir by Dexter Scott King is a deeply personal account fr...
I Always Knew: A Memoir
I Always Knew: A Memoir Robert Fleming Book Review This country rarely acknowledges the celebrated triple threats of the arts in our community. Consider Barbara Chase-Riboud, the noted African-Americ...
The Last Holiday: A Memoir
The Last Holiday: A Memoir Gil Scott-Heron 9780802120571 Nonfiction Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. The stunning memoir of Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner Gil Scott-Heron, The Last Holiday h...
At Home with Muhammad Ali: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Forgiveness
At Home with Muhammad Ali: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Forgiveness Hana Ali 9780062917393 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Muhammad Ali’s daughter captures the legendary heavyweight boxing champion, O...
Tenderheaded: A Memoir
Tenderheaded: A Memoir Michaela angela Davis 9781668036310 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. The compelling memoir that explores race, cultural representation, Black media’s legacy, p...
Fearless and Free: A Memoir
Fearless and Free: A Memoir Josephine Baker 9780593853696 Nonfiction Tiny Reparations Books Penguin Random House “A gorgeous, captivating gem of a memoir…Josephine Baker’s as enthralling on the page a...
Rush
Rush Kam Williams rush.jpg Film Review High-Octane Formula 1 Drama Recounts Death-Defying Racing Rivalry Rush In Theaters: Sep 27, 2013 Wide Rated R for profanity, nudity, sexuality, smoking, d...
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir Saeed Jones 9781501132742 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. >From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-...
Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope
Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope Carmelo Anthony with D. Watkins 9781982160593 Nonfiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Read an excusive interview with Carmelo Ant...
Condoleezza Rice: A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me
Condoleezza Rice: A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me Condoleezza Rice 9780385738804 Nonfiction Ember Ember In this captivating memoir for young people, looking back with candor and...
Clarence Thomas’ Ex Expounds on Steamy Memoir Vindicating Anita Hill
Clarence Thomas’ Ex Expounds on Steamy Memoir Vindicating Anita Hill Kam Williams Interview Retired Justice Lillian McEwen was born, raised and educated in Washington, D.C. Her stellar legal care...
Rejuvenate!: (It’s Never Too Late)
Rejuvenate!: (It’s Never Too Late) Eartha Kitt and Tonya Bolden 9780743202244 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. The purr-fect guide to staying mentally and physically healthy and...
Too Beautiful For Words
Too Beautiful For Words Kam Williams Interview Too Beautiful For Words Click to order via Amazon by Monique W. Morris Format: Hardcover, 288pp. ISBN: 0066211050 Publisher: HarperTrade ...
The Sixth Man: A Memoir
The Sixth Man: A Memoir Andre Iguodala with Carvell Wallace 9780525533986 Nonfiction Blue Rider Press Penguin Random House The standout memoir from NBA powerhouse Andre Iguodala, the indomitable sixth...
You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism
You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar 9781538719367 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER INDIE...
Too Precious to Lose: A Memoir of Family, Community, and Possibility
Too Precious to Lose: A Memoir of Family, Community, and Possibility Jason G. Green 9780593731710 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House A moving and inspiring memoir from a former Obama White Hous...
Think Like a Man Too
Think Like a Man Too Kam Williams think-like-a-man-too.jpg Film Review Think Like a Man Too In Theaters: Jun 20, 2014 Wide Rated PG-13 for profanity, drug use, crude humor, sexual references and ...
Dana Dances on Paper
Dana Dances on Paper Darcel Turner Excerpt 10 JAM "Dana," Uncle Jerry commanded, "I don’t know where your mother is, but you betta get upst...
D.C. Unmasked & Undressed: A Memoir
D.C. Unmasked & Undressed: A Memoir Kam Williams Book Review "D.C. Unmasked & Undressed is a memoir. The story of my life includes events, characters and insights related to my miserable child...
Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir
Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir Cornel West 9781401921903 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House New York Times best-selling author Cornel West is one of America’s most provoc...
Brother West: Living And Loving Out Loud, A Memoir
Brother West: Living And Loving Out Loud, A Memoir Cornel West 9781401921897 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House New York Times best-selling author Cornel West is one of America’s most provoc...
I Lived to Tell the Story: A Memoir of Love, Legacy, and Resilience
I Lived to Tell the Story: A Memoir of Love, Legacy, and Resilience Tamika D. Mallory 9781982173494 Nonfiction Atria / Black Privilege Publishing Simon & Schuster, Inc. A powerful and heartfelt memoir...
Nephew: A Memoir in 4-Part Harmony
Nephew: A Memoir in 4-Part Harmony MK Asante 9780063275294 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins As urgent, resonant, and essential as The Fire Next Time and Between the World and Me, a poetic, raw, and in...
Nephew: A Memoir in 4-Part Harmony
Nephew: A Memoir in 4-Part Harmony MK Asante 9780063275287 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins As urgent, resonant, and essential as The Fire Next Time and Between the World and Me, a poetic, raw, and in...
How Divorce Became My Deliverance
How Divorce Became My Deliverance C. Michelle Atkins, Dannielle Brown, Amanda Garcia, Nisha, Lori Obayomi, Lisa McGovern, Stephanie Thomas, Tracee Upteen, and Elona Washington 9780692957868 Nonfiction...
Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They’re Too Much
Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They’re Too Much Cynthia Erivo 9781250428325 Nonfiction Flatiron Books Macmillan Publishers In this vulnerable and enlightening book of life lessons, g...
Bernard N. Lee, Jr.
Bernard N. Lee, Jr. MULTIPLE Bernard N. Lee, Jr., also known as Bernie, is a former military kid whose childhood experiences shaped his memoir series, “A Look Back in Time.” He studied engineering an...
Doggerel: Poems
Doggerel: Poems Reginald Dwayne Betts 9781324089254 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Reginald Dwayne Betts is our foremost chronicler of the ways prison shapes and transforms...
Never Stop: A Memoir
Never Stop: A Memoir Simba Sana 9781572841925 Nonfiction Agate Bolden Agate Publishing, Inc Never Stop is the wrenching memoir of Simba Sana, the co-founder and CEO of Karibu Books, a major indie book...
Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping
Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping Shane McCrae 9781668021743 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. Vulture’s #1 Memoir of 2023 An unforgettable, “lyrical an...
Better Late Than Never (Final Book in Reverend Curtis Black Series #15)
Better Late Than Never (Final Book in Reverend Curtis Black Series #15) Kimberla Lawson Roby 9781455569762 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Read Kimberla’s Thoughts on Ending Her R...
The Ladies Hall
The Ladies Hall Vanessa Miller 9781400351107 Fiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing Three courageous women realize it will take their hearts, their minds, their friendship, and their...
Hope Wins: A Collection of Inspiring Stories for Young Readers
Hope Wins: A Collection of Inspiring Stories for Young Readers Rose Brock 9780593463956 Nonfiction Philomel Books Penguin Random House From Matt de la Peña and Veera Hiranandani to Max Brallier and R....
Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar
Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar MULTIPLE Amber Ruffin, first black woman to write for a late-night talk show, hosts The Amber Ruffin Show and writes for Late Night with Seth Meyers. Her sister, Lacey La...
Mainline Mama: A Memoir
Mainline Mama: A Memoir Keeonna Harris 9780063205697 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins A powerful and wrenchingly intimate memoir about the formidable challenge of raising a family separated by prison ...
Ben Greenman
Ben Greenman 0000000043364577 Ben Greenman, a New Yorker contributor and New York Times bestselling author, writes both fiction and non-fiction. Notably, he collaborated with Questlove on a hip-hop m...
Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir
Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir Ashley C. Ford 9781250305978 Nonfiction Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book Macmillan Publishers INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "This is a book people will be talking about ...
My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir
My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir Jessica B. Harris 9781501125904 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B. Harris recalls a lost ...
The Prison Guard’s Son: Young Guns Book One (Volume 1)
The Prison Guard’s Son: Young Guns Book One (Volume 1) Ursula Sinclair 9781530297009 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC I can only be who I am. Pike I never knew my mother. I tell people she...
Too Beautiful To Die
Too Beautiful To Die Thumper Book Review It had been a long while since I read a suspense/mystery novel’too long. I had a stroke of good fortune when the most recent mystery book I read was To...
Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir Akwaeke Emezi 9780593329191 Nonfiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House "[One] of our greatest living writers." —Shondaland Named a Most Anticipated Book of t...
Life’s Too Short: A Memoir
Life’s Too Short: A Memoir Darius Rucker 9780063238749 Nonfiction Dey Street Books HarperCollins A raw, heartfelt memoir from Darius Rucker, the three-time Grammy Award-winning, Diamond-selling lead s...