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Miles and Me
Miles and Me Paige Turner Book Review Quincy Troupe’s candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an intimate study of a unique...
Miles and Me
Miles and Me Quincy Troupe 9780520216242 Nonfiction University of California Press University of California Press Quincy Troupe’s candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portr...
Quincy Troupe Discusses his books The Pursuit of Happyness and Miles and Me
Quincy Troupe Discusses his books The Pursuit of Happyness and Miles and Me Book Spotlights For more information visit https://aalbc.com/authors/quincy_troupe.htm Quincy Troupe Discusses his collabor...
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...
Miles Morales
Miles Morales Jason Reynolds 9781484787489 Fiction Marvel Press Marvel Comics A Marvel YA Spider-Man Novel “Everyone gets mad at hustlers, especially if you’re on the victim side of the hustle. And...
ErranaçIties
ErranaçIties Quincy Troupe 9781566892834 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press "Troupe is an innovator of form and tone who shifts quickly from a lofty, elegiac mode into burlesque or smok...
An American Lost in Paris: A Novella Adapted from The Screenplay
An American Lost in Paris: A Novella Adapted from The Screenplay Marcus Anthony Hunter 9781685366551 Fiction Westwood Books Publishing Westwood Books Publishing It was 1968 and Miles Decker had just t...
Duende
Duende Robert Fleming Book Review Poet Quincy Troupe’s literary magic has elevated him to the forefront of modern American writers. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he, the son of a catcher in the ...
What If…? Miles Morales
What If…? Miles Morales Cody Ziglar, John Ridley, Anthony Piper, and Paco Medina 9781302946036 Fiction Marvel Marvel Comics What if Miles Morales had never been bitten by a genetically enhanced spider...
He’s Mine!
He’s Mine! Bernadette Y. Connor 9780971583887 Fiction Bee-Con Books Bee-Con Books What s a girl to do when she moves to a new town and falls in love with the most desired man in town? What s a girl to...
Miles Morales: Shock Waves (Original Spider-Man Graphic Novel)
Miles Morales: Shock Waves (Original Spider-Man Graphic Novel) justin a. reynolds 9781338648034 Fiction Graphix Scholastic Inc. An original middle grade graphic novel from Graphix starring Brooklyn’s ...
Miles Morales Shock Waves: (Original Spider-Man Graphic Novel)
Miles Morales Shock Waves: (Original Spider-Man Graphic Novel) justin a. reynolds 9781338648041 Fiction Graphix Scholastic Inc. An original middle-grade graphic novel from Graphix starring Brooklyn’s ...
Miles Morales: Spider-Man: The People Around Us
Miles Morales: Spider-Man: The People Around Us Denene Millner 9781368060721 Fiction Marvel Press Marvel Comics New York Times bestselling author Denene Millner’s picture book follows Miles Morales as...
Tiya Miles
Tiya Miles 0000000114701869 Tiya Alicia Miles is a historian and professor at the University of Michigan. Specializing in African American and Native American histories, she's the author of award-win...
Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era
Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era Tiya Miles 9781469636146 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press In t...
Birth of the Cool: How Jazz Great Miles Davis Found His Sound
Birth of the Cool: How Jazz Great Miles Davis Found His Sound Kathleen Cornell Berman 9781624146909 Nonfiction Page Street Kids Page Street Publishing Miles can’t sleep.Taps his toes, snaps his finger...
Miles Morales Stranger Tides: (Original Spider-Man Graphic Novel)
Miles Morales Stranger Tides: (Original Spider-Man Graphic Novel) justin a. reynolds 9781338826395 Fiction Graphix Scholastic Inc. An original middle-grade graphic novel from Graphix starring Miles Mo...
Tiya Miles and Sharon Patricia Holland
Tiya Miles and Sharon Patricia Holland MULTIPLE Tiya Miles and Sharon Patricia Holland are renowned authors, known for their significant contributions to literature. Their impactful work often explor...
Miles Morales Suspended: A Spider-Man Novel (Reprint)
Miles Morales Suspended: A Spider-Man Novel (Reprint) Jason Reynolds 9781665918473 Fiction Atheneum Simon & Schuster, Inc. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes the “action-pa...
Miles Morales Suspended: A Spider-Man Novel
Miles Morales Suspended: A Spider-Man Novel Jason Reynolds 9781665918466 Fiction Atheneum Simon & Schuster, Inc. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes the high-flying sequel t...
Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe
Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe MULTIPLE Miles Davis, renowned jazz musician, and Quincy Troupe, acclaimed author, captured on photo by Jon Stevens. Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe (Photo by Jon Steve...
Rare Classic Footage Resurfaces of Miles Davis from the Fifties
Rare Classic Footage Resurfaces of Miles Davis from the Fifties Kam Williams Article Rare Classic Footage Resurfaces of Miles Davis from the Fifties The Sound of Mil...
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool James Kaplan 9780525561002 Nonfiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House From the author of the definitive biograp...
Miles of Style: Eunice W. Johnson and the Ebony Fashion Fair
Miles of Style: Eunice W. Johnson and the Ebony Fashion Fair Lisa D. Brathwaite 9781620143124 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books A chic biography about Eunice W. Johnson who brought elegant an...
Love Twelve Miles Long
Love Twelve Miles Long Glenda Armand 9781620142547 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books A moving story about young Frederick Douglass and his mother, who walks twelve miles at night from a nearby p...
Jacquelin Thomas and Corey Miles
Jacquelin Thomas and Corey Miles MULTIPLE Jacquelin Thomas and Corey Miles are renowned authors known for their captivating writing style. Their distinguished careers and contribution to literature h...
Miles Davis
Miles Davis 000000012144707X Miles Davis (1926-1991) was a transformative American jazz musician and composer. Known for his work as a trumpeter and bandleader, he pioneered numerous jazz sub-genres,...
Miles Away In The Caribbean
Miles Away In The Caribbean Yolanda T. Marshall 9781999115517 Fiction Garnalma Press Garnalma Press Miles Away In The Caribbean is a poetically written story about a Canadian boy named Miles. In his m...
The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits Tiya Miles 9781620972311 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press Finalist for the 2018 Frederick Douglass Book PrizeNo...
Eric M. Cooper and Miles Simon
Eric M. Cooper and Miles Simon MULTIPLE Eric Mann Cooper and Miles Simon are acclaimed authors known for their unique storytelling. Cooper's expertise lies in historical fiction, while Simon excels i...
Nicole Miles
Nicole Miles NONE Nicole Miles, a Bahamian illustrator based in the UK, is known for her global client projects, a nomination for an Eisner Award for her comic 'Barbara', and her illustrations in var...
Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People
Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People Tiya Miles 9780593491164 Nonfiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House From the National Book Award-winning author of All That She Car...
Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever
Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever Farah Jasmine Griffin and Salim Washington 9780312327859 Nonfiction Thomas Dunne Books Macmillan Pub...
The Cherokee Rose
The Cherokee Rose Tiya Miles 9780895876355 Fiction John F. Blair, Publisher John F. Blair, Publisher The Cherokee Rose, written by Tiya Miles, award-winning historian and recipient of a recent MacArth...
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake Tiya Miles 9781984854995 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House A renowned historian traces the life of a single objec...
Miles Davis and American Culture
Miles Davis and American Culture Gerald L. Early 9781883982386 Nonfiction Missouri History Museum Press University of Chicago Press Miles Davis and American Culture examines Davis in cultural context....
Alison Goldberg
Alison Goldberg NONE Alison Goldberg, a Cambridge-based writer and author of 'I Love You for Miles and Miles', is known for her activism in children's literature. She enjoys researching for her books...
Quincy Troupe
Quincy Troupe 0000000376418772 Quincy Troupe, born in 1939, is an award-winning author, recognized for his poetry, children's books, and non-fiction works. His notable titles include a memoir of Earl...
Bumrush
Bumrush Relentless Aaron 9780312949716 Fiction St. Martin’s Paperbacks Macmillan Publishers It wasn’t supposed to turn out this way for Miles. Once upon a time his future looked bright. He joined the ...
I Love My Haircut!
I Love My Haircut! Natasha Anastasia Tarpley 9780316459945 Fiction LB Kids Hachette Book Group Now with a refreshed cover, this heartfelt companion to the top-selling I Love My Hair! is a must-have ad...
One Hundred Miles and Running
One Hundred Miles and Running Q. B. Wells 9780976806172 Fiction Art Official Media Art Official Media The trilling sequel to Blackface (Blackface Trilogy)On the run with $100,000 counterfeit cash and ...
Blue in Green
Blue in Green Wesley Brown 9781953691118 Fiction Blank Forms Editions Blank Forms The latest work from the veteran novelist called “one hell of a writer” by James Baldwin and “wonderfully wry” by Dona...
Just As I Am By Cicely Tyson
Just As I Am By Cicely Tyson Robert Fleming Book Review When I was a teen sweeping sawdust at the butchery, where I worked after school hours, my uncle hipped me to jazz and Bird, Monk, Prez, and La...
54 Miles: A Novel
54 Miles: A Novel Leonard Pitts Jr. 9781572843370 Fiction Agate Bolden Agate Publishing, Inc The free-standing successor novel by the author of the critically acclaimed The Last Thing You Surrender, L...
Between Fathers and Sons: An African-American Fable
Between Fathers and Sons: An African-American Fable Eric V. Copage 9798988290674 Fiction Black Pearls Living Black Pearls Living Between Fathers and Sons: It’s the dawn of the 21st century, and Miles ...
Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don’t Have Bruises
Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don’t Have Bruises Miles Marshall Lewis 9781888451719 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Lewis has composed an observant and urban B-boy’s rite...
Full Disclosure
Full Disclosure Camryn Garrett 9781984829955 Fiction Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House “An unflinchingly honest, eye-opening, heartful story that’s sure to keep readers talk...
The Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride Met Courage
The Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride Met Courage Walter Dean Myers and Bill Miles 9780060011383 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins New York Times bestselling author Walter Dean Myers and renowned filmmak...
The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story
The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story Tiya Miles 9780807834183 Fiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press At the turn of the nineteenth century, Jam...
Bronx Biannual (The Journal of Urbane Urban Literature)
Bronx Biannual (The Journal of Urbane Urban Literature) Miles Marshall Lewis 9781933354040 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Bronx Biannual is the most important literary journal in hip-hop America...
Matchmaker #3
Matchmaker #3 Kelly Starling Lyons 9780593383551 Fiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House From the award-winning author of the Jada Jones chapter books comes an illustrated spinoff series perfect...
Track Star #4
Track Star #4 Kelly Starling Lyons 9780593383582 Fiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House From the award-winning author of the Jada Jones chapter books comes an illustrated spinoff series perfect...
Marvel Spider-Man: Miles Morales to the Rescue!: Meet the Amazing Web-Slinger!
Marvel Spider-Man: Miles Morales to the Rescue!: Meet the Amazing Web-Slinger! David Fentiman 9780744037166 Nonfiction DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) Penguin Random House Learn to read with Marvel...
Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country
Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country Tiya Miles and Sharon Patricia Holland 9780822338659 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books Crossin...
Eric M. Cooper
Eric M. Cooper NONE Eric Mann Cooper is a New Jersey-based Sci-Fi/Superhero author known for his Knight Seeker series set in the modern Tri-State area. He recently started a new series, Star Enforcer...
Jamerican Connection
Jamerican Connection Akilah Monifa Book Review First time novelist Sandra A. Ottey was born in Jamaica but lives in the United States as she has for most of her life. According to Ottey a "Jamer...
Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation
Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation Tiya Miles 9781324020875 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Wild Girls is a captivating historical wor...
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom Ilyon Woo 9781501191053 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who ...
Passion Island: A Novel
Passion Island: A Novel Cairo 9781593096984 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From one of erotica’s hottest authors comes another page-melting novel where lies, infidelities, and unfettered...
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast Douglas Brinkley 9780061124235 Nonfiction William Morrow HarperCollins In the span of five violent hours on August 29, ...
Percival Everett
Percival Everett 0000000115807163 Percival Everett, a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California, has authored over 20 books, including notable works such as 'Erasure...
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...
I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction
I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction Kidada E. Williams 9781635576634 Nonfiction Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Publishing For readers of Carol Ande...
Something Happened in Our Park: Standing Together After Gun Violence
Something Happened in Our Park: Standing Together After Gun Violence Ann Hazzard, Marianne Celano, and Marietta Collins 9781433835216 Fiction Magination Press Magination Press This important follow-up...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Spring 2024): All That We Carry
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Spring 2024): All That We Carry Mudiwa Pettus a21551758v14 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College This issue of the Killens Review of Arts & Letters...
The Cherokee Rose: A Novel of Gardens and Ghosts
The Cherokee Rose: A Novel of Gardens and Ghosts Tiya Miles 9780593596425 Fiction Random House Penguin Random House Three women uncover the secrets of a Georgia plantation that embodies the intertwine...
Duende: Poems, 1966—Now
Duende: Poems, 1966—Now Quincy Troupe 9781644210451 Poetry Seven Stories Press Seven Stories Press The selected poems from over fifty years by the great poet and biographer and friend of Miles Davis.Q...
The Chocolate Ship
The Chocolate Ship Marissa Monteilh 9780060011482 Fiction Avon A HarperCollins After three years together, Mia can’t help wondering if she’s got a real future with Miles — who’s all that and then some...
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom William Craft and Ellen Craft 9780820321042 Nonfiction University of Georgia Press University of Georgia Press An Important Contribution to the Birth of African Am...
January Children: African Poetry Book Series
January Children: African Poetry Book Series Safia Elhillo 9780803295988 Poetry University of Nebraska Press University of Nebraska Press “Tiya Miles is a gentle genius … All That She Carried is a gor...
Mary Monroe
Mary Monroe 0000000029010860 Mary Monroe, a sharecropper's daughter and the first in her family to graduate high school, returned to the literary scene with her novel “God Don’t Like Ugly”, which sol...
Keith Henry Brown
Keith Henry Brown NONE Keith Henry Brown, illustrator of 'Birth of the Cool', began his career drawing superheroes and later combined his love for art and jazz as Lincoln Center's creative director. ...
Lisa D. Brathwaite
Lisa D. Brathwaite NONE Lisa D. Brathwaite is a creative self-expression enthusiast and author of children's book, “Miles of Style.” She holds a degree in Community Studies from the University of Mar...
Top Chef #6
Top Chef #6 Kelly Starling Lyons 9780593752777 Fiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House From the award-winning author of the Jada Jones chapter books comes an illustrated spin-off series perf...
No Ordinary Love
No Ordinary Love Myah Ariel 9780593640616 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House A PR partnership between a pop superstar and a pro-athlete bad boy turns into so much more in this swoony romance f...
Quiet Storm (Turtleback School & Library)
Quiet Storm (Turtleback School & Library) Rachel Howzell Hall 9781417720842 Fiction Turtleback Turtleback For fans of thrilling contemporary suspense, Rachel Howzell Hall’s brilliant stand-alone novel...
Mom, Are We There Yet?
Mom, Are We There Yet? Monica Anderson 9780966270327 Fiction Monica F Anderson Monica F Anderson "Mom, Are We There Yet?" is a heartwarming collection of family humor vignettes from Fort Worth Star-Te...
Choruses: Poems
Choruses: Poems Quincy Troupe 9781566890908 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Quincy Troupe launches a pyrotechnic display of jazz rhythms, political commentary, sports tributes, travelogue...
Top Chef #6
Top Chef #6 Kelly Starling Lyons 9780593752760 Fiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House From the award-winning author of the Jada Jones chapter books comes an illustrated spin-off series perfect ...
Pet Sitter #5
Pet Sitter #5 Kelly Starling Lyons 9780593752739 Fiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House From the award-winning author of the Jada Jones chapter books comes an illustrated spin-off series perfec...
Bippity Bop Barbershop (paperback)
Bippity Bop Barbershop (paperback) Natasha Anastasia Tarpley 9780316033824 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group In this companion book to the bestselling I Love My Hair, a...
Shine: An Anthology of Healing
Shine: An Anthology of Healing Jacquelin Thomas and Corey Miles 9781647868963 Nonfiction Upgraders Publishing Upgraders Publishing No matter what your facts of life are. No matter what you have experi...
Frank Berrios
Frank Berrios NONE Frank Berrios is a prolific children's book author, known for his Little Golden Books. His works include Football with Dad, Soccer with Mom, and titles featuring well-known charact...
Danger in the Nevada Desert
Danger in the Nevada Desert Denise N. Wheatley 9781335582690 Fiction Harlequin Intrigue Harlequin Enterprises Limited A Killer’s Terrorizing River Valley… And Its Newest Sergeant. With a seria...
Star Enforcers
Star Enforcers Eric M. Cooper and Miles Simon 9781541121447 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC An experimental starship is placed in the command of a crew of fifty convicted criminals in the...
Ties That Bind: The Story Of An Afro-Cherokee Family In Slavery And Freedom (American Crossroads)
Ties That Bind: The Story Of An Afro-Cherokee Family In Slavery And Freedom (American Crossroads) Tiya Miles 9780520285637 Nonfiction University of California Press University of California Press
Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah Laurie Ann Thompson 9780449817445 Nonfiction Schwartz & Wade Random House Children's Books Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah’s inspiring true story—which ...
Bronx Biannual No. 2
Bronx Biannual No. 2 Miles Marshall Lewis 9781933354095 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Selwyn Seyfu Hinds, Kenji Jasper, rapper NAS, Danyel Smith, and others provide the savory text in this secon...
Newburyport Literary Festival
Newburyport Literary Festival Newburyport Massachusetts Newburyport is located at the mouth of the Merrimack River, in the far northeast corner of Massachusetts. It is 35 miles north of Boston and 18...
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake Tiya Miles 9781984855015 Nonfiction Random House Trade Paperbacks Penguin Random House
Miles Morales: Spider-Man
Miles Morales: Spider-Man Jason Reynolds 9781484788509 Fiction Random House/Marvel Penguin Random House
Mad At Miles: A Black Woman’s Guide To Truth
Mad At Miles: A Black Woman’s Guide To Truth Pearl Cleage 9780962814204 Nonfiction Cleage Group Cleage Group textbook
Fat Time and Other Stories
Fat Time and Other Stories Jeffery Renard Allen 9781644452394 Fiction Graywolf Press Graywolf Press A ferocious, innovative story collection about Black lives in the past, present, and future In Fa...
Ruth Forman
Ruth Forman NONE Ruth Forman is an award-winning author of three books and a recipient of multiple literary awards. She's a former faculty member at USC and UC Berkeley, providing writing workshops a...
The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi Wright Thompson 9780593299821 Nonfiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House “The most brutal, layered, and absolutely beautiful book about Missi...