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Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond NONE Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond is a writer and cum laude Vassar College graduate. She has written for various publications including AOL and Parenting Magazine. Her works include ...
Relations: An Anthology of African and Diaspora Voices
Relations: An Anthology of African and Diaspora Voices Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond 9780063089044 Poetry HarperVia HarperCollins A fresh and electrifying collection of stories, poems, and essays from across...
Powder Necklace
Powder Necklace Thumper Book Review I was trying not to like Powder Necklace, the debut novel by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond. I had had my fill of the black girl coming-of-age story. A few years ago, ...
Powder Necklace: A Novel (Wsp Readers Club)
Powder Necklace: A Novel (Wsp Readers Club) Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond 9781439126103 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. To protect her daughter from the fast life and bad influences of...
My Parents’ Marriage
My Parents’ Marriage Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond 9780062976758 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Acclaimed children’s author Nana Brew-Hammond makes her highly anticipated return with this soaring and profound...
My Parents’ Marriage
My Parents’ Marriage Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond 9780062976734 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Acclaimed children’s author Nana Brew-Hammond makes her highly anticipated return with this soaring and profound...
Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky
Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond 9781984894366 Nonfiction Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Discover a world of ...
Just Imagine…What If There Were No Black People in the World?: Jaxon’s Magical Adventure with Black Inventors and Scientists
Just Imagine…What If There Were No Black People in the World?: Jaxon’s Magical Adventure with Black Inventors and Scientists Tamara Shiloh 9780998969602 Fiction Just Imagine Books & Services Just Imag...
Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century
Ladysitting: My Year with Nana at the End of Her Century Lorene Cary 9780393635881 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Ladysitting is #1 on O Magazine’s ”10 Titles to Pick U...
Accra Noir
Accra Noir Meri Nana-Ama Danquah 9781617758898 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. E...
Everyday People: The Color of Life — A Short Story Anthology
Everyday People: The Color of Life — A Short Story Anthology Jennifer Baker 9781501134944 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In the tradition of Best American Short Stories comes Everyday Peop...
Harlem Brew Soul: A Beer-Infused Soul Food Cookbook
Harlem Brew Soul: A Beer-Infused Soul Food Cookbook Celeste Beatty 9781631068515 Nonfiction Rock Point Books Carter-Krall Imprint Experience beer-infused soul food recipes from the founder of Harlem B...
Ekua Holmes
Ekua Holmes 0000000451226536 Ekua Holmes is a painter and collage artist who uses various materials to create vibrant, abstract works that convey unity and evoke universal memories. Her ongoing serie...
Nana Akua Goes to School
Nana Akua Goes to School Tricia Elam Walker 9780525581130 Fiction Schwartz & Wade Random House Children's Books In this moving story that celebrates cultural diversity, a shy girl brings her West Afri...
Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
Meri Nana-Ama Danquah 0000000036109658 Born in Ghana, Meri Nana-Ama Danquah moved to the U.S. at age six, growing up in Maryland. She briefly attended University of Maryland before pursuing acting an...
Sheryl Lister and Nana Malone
Sheryl Lister and Nana Malone MULTIPLE Sheryl Lister and Nana Malone are acclaimed authors known for their captivating romance novels. Lister's work highlights emotional narratives, while Malone's bo...
Julia Pierre Hammond
Julia Pierre Hammond NONE Julia Pierre Hammond can’t remember a time when she wasn’t writing. She loves to write stories that include her Black and Brazilian heritage and to create books where child...
Tiffany Hammond
Tiffany Hammond NONE Tiffany “Tiffy” Hammond, is the voice behind Fidgets and Fries, a popular social media Autism advocacy account. She is an Autistic mother, advocate, and storyteller who uses her...
The Cameo Necklace: A Cecile Mystery
The Cameo Necklace: A Cecile Mystery Evelyn Coleman 9781593699000 Fiction Amer Girl Amer Girl As Cécile exits a crowded showboat after enjoying a lavish Floating Circus, she stumbles—and when s...
Kwesi and Nana Ruby Learn to Swim
Kwesi and Nana Ruby Learn to Swim Kobina Commeh 9798888593622 Fiction Barefoot Books Barefoot Books 2026 Charlotte Huck Award Honor Book Bank Street College Best Book of the Year, 2026 ★ “A wonder...
Peeny Butter Fudge
Peeny Butter Fudge Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison 9781416983323 Fiction Paula Wiseman Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Snuggle, snuggle. Time to rest. Nana joins us in her nest. There is no one like Na...
Nana Nkweti
Nana Nkweti NONE Nana Nkweti, a Caine Prize finalist and Iowa Writers' Workshop alumna, is renowned for her work that has earned fellowships from prestigious institutions. She is currently an English...
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 0000000476477577 Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, hailing from Spring Valley, NY, is a SUNY Albany graduate with an MFA from Syracuse University. His work, celebrated in numerous pu...
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...
A Day with No Words
A Day with No Words Tiffany Hammond 9781547619351 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing The #1 New York Times bestselling picture book by Tiffany Hammond, the creator of the popular ...
Soulful Struttin’
Soulful Struttin’ Julia Pierre Hammond 9798885545259 Fiction Free Spirit Publishing Teacher Created Materials A father and daughter’s afternoon of cleaning becomes a celebration of the music, food, an...
Stiletto Justice
Stiletto Justice Camryn King 9781496702166 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Camryn King’s sizzling debut novel delivers an intriguing tale of three resourceful women with a ruthless senator ...
The Granddaughter Necklace
The Granddaughter Necklace Sharon Dennis Wyeth 9780545081252 Fiction Arthur A. Levine Books Scholastic Inc. There are moments in each person’s life that we take great care to remember: the pride of a ...
Fibbed
Fibbed Elizabeth Agyemang 9780593204887 Fiction Razorbill Penguin Random House “Elizabeth Agyemang smartly weaves culture, adventure, and a little magic into a dynamic story about stories. Agyemang’s ...
Red Shoes
Red Shoes Karen English 9781338114607 Nonfiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. Red shoes glowing-Perched on a pedestal in the shop windowas if on a throne."I want those, Nana," Malika says, as they p...
Nana’s Cold Days
Nana’s Cold Days Adwoa Badoe 9780888999375 Fiction Groundwood Books Anansi Press Many people find winter a trial. But for those who come from countries that are warm all year long, the cold can be ext...
A Season for Mangoes
A Season for Mangoes Regina Hanson 9780618159727 Fiction Clarion Books HarperCollins Sareen is attending her first sit-up, a Jamaican tradition that celebrates the life of a loved one who has died. Th...
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Walking on Cowrie Shells: Stories
Walking on Cowrie Shells: Stories Nana Nkweti 9781644450543 Fiction Graywolf Press Graywolf Press A “boisterous and high-spirited debut” (Kirkus starred review)“that enthralls the reader through their...
Friday Black
Friday Black Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 9781328911247 Fiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt “An excitement and a wonder: strange, crazed, urgent and funny…The wildly talented Adjei-Brenyah has...
Nana
Nana Brandon Massey 9781986873055 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Monica Stephens never knew her birth mother. Raised by a strict but loving adoptive parent, she blossomed into a woman wi...
Unwrapping the Holidays: Hot Coded ChristmasBe Mine for Christmas (Kimani Romance)
Unwrapping the Holidays: Hot Coded ChristmasBe Mine for Christmas (Kimani Romance) Sheryl Lister and Nana Malone 9780373864737 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Romance Harlequin Enterprises Limited Desire is ...
Jamel’s Deep Sea Adventure
Jamel’s Deep Sea Adventure Jamel K. Thomas-Joyce and Teresa Kemp 9781505328271 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Need a more challenging activity? Have you considered a deep sea adventur...
The Black Body
The Black Body Meri Nana-Ama Danquah 9781583228890 Fiction Seven Stories Press Seven Stories Press What does it mean to have, or to love, a black body? Taking on the challenge of interpreting the blac...
Playing by the Rules: A Novel
Playing by the Rules: A Novel Elaine Meryl Brown 9780812970340 Fiction One World Penguin Random House “Playing by the rules isn’t always easy–but in this quirky, self-cloistered community, Lemon City’...
Ghosts of Panama (paperback)
Ghosts of Panama (paperback) Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll Jr. 9781400254477 Nonfiction Harper Select HarperCollins Panama, 1989. The once warm relationship between United States and Gen. Manuel Norieg...
Ghosts of Panama: A Strongman Out of Control, a Murdered Marine, and the Special Agents Caught in the Middle of an Invasion
Ghosts of Panama: A Strongman Out of Control, a Murdered Marine, and the Special Agents Caught in the Middle of an Invasion Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll Jr. 9781400248605 Nonfiction Harper Select Harp...
Crowning Glory: A Celebration of Black Hair
Crowning Glory: A Celebration of Black Hair Carole Boston Weatherford 9780763697945 Nonfiction Candlewick Press (MA) Candlewick Press Celebrate the beauty of Black hair creations through the rhyming t...
Just Imagine…What If There Were No Black People in the World?: Jaxon and Kevin’s Black History Trip Downtown
Just Imagine…What If There Were No Black People in the World?: Jaxon and Kevin’s Black History Trip Downtown Tamara Shiloh 9780998969688 Fiction Just Imagine Books & Services Just Imagine Books & Serv...
The Stuff of Stars
The Stuff of Stars Marion Dane Bauer 9780763678838 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press In an astonishing unfurling of our universe, Newbery Honor winner Marion Dane Bauer and Caldecott Honor win...
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy Tony Medina 9780998799940 Fiction Penny Candy Books Penny Candy Books Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy by Tony Medina offers a fresh perspective of young...
Duplicitous: A Marvin Tanner Novel (Volume 1)
Duplicitous: A Marvin Tanner Novel (Volume 1) Bernard Alexander McNealy 9781500945831 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Meet Los Angeles based mediator Marvin Tanner. By every measure, Tann...
Flava Flav
Flava Flav NONE William Jonathan Drayton Jr., known as Flavor Flav, is a co-founder of the influential hip-hop group Public Enemy. Born on March 16, 1959, he's also a popular television personality a...
Deja Brew
Deja Brew Celestine Martin 9781538754450 Fiction Forever Grand Central Publishing In this spellbinding rom-com about a wish gone wrong, two opposites might just get a second chance at love, perfect fo...
Books & Brew
Books & Brew Tucker GA A home away from home with comfort food, drinks, and your new favorite book.
Celeste Beatty
Celeste Beatty NONE Celeste Beatty is the first Black woman to own a brewery in the United States. Celeste Beatty (born 1964), entrepreneur and beer pioneer, founded the Harlem Brewing Company in 200...
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...
Black Girl You Are Atlas
Black Girl You Are Atlas Renée Watson 9780593461709 Fiction Kokila Penguin Random House A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson. In t...
She Drinks the Light
She Drinks the Light Yasmin Angoe 9781250872685 Fiction Feiwel & Friends Macmillan Publishers For fans of Sinners and Immortal Dark, a teen girl must uncover her family’s deadly secrets in order to sa...
Murder from A to Z
Murder from A to Z V. M. Burns 9781496750822 Fiction Kensington Cozies Kensington Publishing Corp. Fowl Play at Shady Acres When Michigan bookshop owner and mystery writer Samantha Washington and h...
Where There Is Love: A Story in African Proverbs
Where There Is Love: A Story in African Proverbs Shauntay Grant 9780593659939 Fiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House Food, family, love, and laughter make for the perfect recipe in this sweet p...
Conjure Island
Conjure Island Eden Royce 9780062899637 Fiction Walden Pond Press Walden Pond Press From the award-winning author of Root Magic comes the story of a girl forced to spend the summer with a great-grandm...
I Gotta Sing!
I Gotta Sing! Alice Faye Duncan 9780593578261 Fiction WaterBrook Press Penguin Random House Sing along with Big Baby Jenkins, Pop Charlie, Great Nana, and a crew of farm animals as they shout for joy ...
The Road to the Country
The Road to the Country Chigozie Obioma 9780593596975 Fiction Hogarth Press Penguin Random House A sweeping, heart-racing, mystical novel about a university student in Lagos trying to save his brother...
Chain Gang All Stars: A Read with Jenna Pick
Chain Gang All Stars: A Read with Jenna Pick Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 9780593469316 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House
A Toni Morrison Treasury
A Toni Morrison Treasury Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison 9781665915540 Fiction Paula Wiseman Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Nobel Prize, and Pulitzer Pri...
Chain Gang All Stars
Chain Gang All Stars Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 9780593317334 Fiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House The explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of Frida...
Two The Hard Way
Two The Hard Way Travis Hunter 9780758242501 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Coming up in the inner city, Kwame and Romeo Braxton never had anyone except their Nana and each other. So when...
My Nana and Me
My Nana and Me Irene Smalls 9780316168212 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group A young girl and her grandmother enjoy a day filled with tea parties, hide-and-seek, stories...
Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women
Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women Meri Nana-Ama Danquah 9780393325805 Fiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. "Not since Breaking Ice has an a...
Becoming American: Personal Essays By First Generation Immigrant Women
Becoming American: Personal Essays By First Generation Immigrant Women Meri Nana-Ama Danquah 9780786883431 Nonfiction Hyperion Hachette Book Group Now in paperback — "A compelling collection … providi...
Willow Weep For Me: A Black Woman’s Journey Through Depression
Willow Weep For Me: A Black Woman’s Journey Through Depression Meri Nana-Ama Danquah 9780345432131 Nonfiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House This moving memoir of an African-American woman’...
acVernon Menchan
acVernon Menchan NONE Vernon Menchan, also known as Angelia, is a passionate writer and publisher with her company M.A.m.m. Productions. She's known for her “Fictionalized Truths, Ageless Fiction and...
Asa G. Hilliard III
Asa G. Hilliard III 0000000067598829 Asa Grant Hilliard III, also known as Nana Baffour Amankwatia II, was a renowned professor of educational psychology specializing in ancient African history. He s...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Harmattan Season
Harmattan Season Tochi Onyebuchi 9781250782977 Fiction Tor Books Macmillan Publishers Award-winning author Tochi Onyebuchi’s new standalone novel is hard-boiled fantasy noir: Raymond Chandler meets P....
The Fantasies of Future Things
The Fantasies of Future Things Doug Jones 9781668016282 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this powerful debut reminiscent of Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight, two men in Atlanta reconcile th...
The Science of Baking (Ada Twist, Scientist The Why Files #3)
The Science of Baking (Ada Twist, Scientist The Why Files #3) Andrea Beaty 9781419761539 Nonfiction Harry N. Abrams Harry N. Abrams From the New York Times bestselling creator of the Questioneers, And...
Chef Toussaint
Chef Toussaint David Miller 9780578842738 Fiction Dare to Be King Project Dare to Be King Project You will love watching Chef Toussaint make magic in the kitchen, from fried chicken to apple cinnamon ...
Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America (signed)
Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America (signed) Michael Eric Dyson 9781250276759 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers A first edition hand signed book by Michael Eric Dyson is ...
Karleigh
Karleigh Lisa Washington 9780999887172 Fiction Washington Way Publishing Washington Way Publishing Karleigh Hammond had a dream and a passion for beauty but also had insecurities and self-doubt. She s...
Terrible: A Storyteller’s Memoir
Terrible: A Storyteller’s Memoir Yrsa Daley-Ward 9780143132622 Poetry Penguin Publishing Group Penguin Random House Winner of the PEN Ackerley Prize • Longlisted for the 2019 PEN Open Book Award ...
No Hiding for the Guilty
No Hiding for the Guilty Vanessa Riley 9781943885176 Fiction Gallium Optronics Gallium Optronics The military leaders of the fraught Almeida Siege are dying, but not fast enough for a chef with a grud...
Pathfinders: The Journeys of 16 Extraordinary Black Souls
Pathfinders: The Journeys of 16 Extraordinary Black Souls Tonya Bolden 9781419714559 Nonfiction Abrams Books Abrams Over the centuries, untold numbers of black men and women in America have achieved g...
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...
The Moondust Sonatas: Movement No. 1, A Hunter’s Moon
The Moondust Sonatas: Movement No. 1, A Hunter’s Moon Alan Osi 9781943052028 Fiction Smoke & Shadow Books Cleveland Writers Press A drug that lets you see God. Imagine the possibilities… Percival, a y...
White Gold
White Gold W. B. Garvey 9780982229446 Fiction Jonkro Books Jonkro Books It is the beginning of a new century and the times are swiftly changing. The eyes of the world are on Panama where 20,000 have a...
Man Eater
Man Eater Gar Anthony Haywood 9781941298459 Fiction Cutting Edge Publishing Cutting Edge Publishing Shamus & Anthony Award winning author Gar Anthony Haywood’s brutally funny Hollywood thriller Man Ea...
Puffy: People Whose Hair Defies Gravity
Puffy: People Whose Hair Defies Gravity Aya de León 9781494436773 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Puffy: people whose hair defies gravity is a children’s book of text and photographs f...
What’s a Woman to Do?
What’s a Woman to Do? Victor McGlothin 9780312286873 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers When a corporate diva Janeen Hampton-Gilliam meets the kind of dream man that’ll make most women wa...
Jackson Park
Jackson Park Charlotte Carter 9780345447821 Fiction One World Penguin Random House From the acclaimed author of the Nanette Hayes mystery novels comes a thrilling new series featuring an unforgettable...
Rita Daniels
Rita Daniels NONE Rita Daniels is the great-great-great grandniece of Harriet Tubman, is the President and Founder of the Harriet Tubman Learning Center. Rita Daniels, the great-great-great grandnie...
Bookworm
Bookworm Powder Springs GA The Book Worm opened its doors in October of 2005. Julia Davis, a children’s book author, took ownership in November 2020 when the former owner retired. Ms. Davis&rsqu...
The Book Worm Bookstore
The Book Worm Bookstore Powder Springs GA A place where love is shared as much as stories!
Ersula Knox Odom
Ersula Knox Odom NONE Ersula Knox Odom is a renowned legacy writer and author with over 100 published articles and two biographies. She's also a motivational speaker, prize-winning lyricist, and port...
Crazy Rich: Power
Crazy Rich: Power Kam Williams Book Review “Heirs to a Band-Aid and Baby Powder fortune, the Johnsons have enjoyed unimaginable wealth since Johnson & Johnson was founded in 1886—bu...
The Words
The Words Kam Williams the-words-moive-poster.jpg Film Review Plagiarism Exacts Emotional Toll in Tale of Overwhelming Regret The Words (2012) In Theaters: Sep 7, 2012 Wide Rated PG-13 for smoking,...