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Marvel’s Storm: Disaster Alert! (National Geographic Kids Readers, Level 1)
Marvel’s Storm: Disaster Alert! (National Geographic Kids Readers, Level 1) Daka Hermon 9781426378249 Nonfiction National Geographic Kids National Geographic Books Marvel’s X-Men Favorite Storm and He...
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StarTalk Young Readers Edition (Science & Nature)
StarTalk Young Readers Edition (Science & Nature) Neil deGrasse Tyson 9781426330872 Nonfiction National Geographic Children’s Books National Geographic Books Now abridged for YA audiences, this beauti...
On The Shoulders Of Giants: My Journey Through The Harlem Renaissance
On The Shoulders Of Giants: My Journey Through The Harlem Renaissance Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Excerpt "Some Technicolor Bazaar" How Harlem Became the Center of the Universe Harlem!&helli...
Harlem Bible: In The Beginning
Harlem Bible: In The Beginning Grant Harper Reid 9781976572838 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Harlem Bible—-In the Beginning by Grant Harper Reid Multi-Book Award-winning author Grant...
Written in the Waters: A Memoir of History, Home, and Belonging
Written in the Waters: A Memoir of History, Home, and Belonging Tara Roberts 9781426223754 Nonfiction National Geographic Society National Geographic Books This searing memoir by a National Geographic...
Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr’s Final Hours
Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr’s Final Hours Ann Bausum 9781426309397 Nonfiction National Geographic Children’s Books N...
Africans in Harlem
Africans in Harlem Boukary Sawadogo 9780823299126 Nonfiction Fordham University Press Fordham University Press The untold story of African-born migrants and their vibrant African influence in Harlem. ...
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Cosmic Queries: Startalk’s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going
Cosmic Queries: Startalk’s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going Neil deGrasse Tyson 9781426221774 Nonfiction National Geographic Society National Geographic Books In this though...
StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond
StarTalk: Everything You Ever Need to Know About Space Travel, Sci-Fi, the Human Race, the Universe, and Beyond Neil deGrasse Tyson 9781426220234 Nonfiction National Geographic National Geographic Boo...
African-American History Makers Collection: Readers That Grow with You
African-American History Makers Collection: Readers That Grow with You Kitson Jazynka and National Geographic Kids 9781426332012 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Learn about the live...
Animal Ark: Celebrating our Wild World in Poetry and Pictures
Animal Ark: Celebrating our Wild World in Poetry and Pictures Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess 9781426327674 Poetry National Geographic Children’s Books National Geographic Books A howling wolf, a s...
Stolen into Slavery: The True Story of Solomon Northup, Free Black Man
Stolen into Slavery: The True Story of Solomon Northup, Free Black Man Judith Bloom Fradin and Dennis Brindell Fradin 9781426309373 Nonfiction National Geographic Children’s Books National Geographic ...
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An UPTOWN Continuing Literary Tradition (Harlem 1986 - 1996)
An UPTOWN Continuing Literary Tradition (Harlem 1986 - 1996) Marie Brown Article ’ An UPTOWN Continuing Literary Tradition (Harlem 1986 - 1996) by ’Marie Brown (presented a...
Claude McKay
Claude McKay 0000000108625951 Festus Claudius McKay, a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, was born in Jamaica and authored influential works including the poem “If We Must Die” and novel “Home to ...
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...
Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway?: Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro Era
Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway?: Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro Era Shannon King 9781479889082 Fiction New York University Press New York University Press Read the Intro...
Harlem Street Portraits
Harlem Street Portraits Harvey Stein, Herb Boyd, and Miss Rosen 9780764344879 Fiction Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Well-known New York photographer Harvey Stein documents the hu...
Birth of a Nation: A Comic Novel
Birth of a Nation: A Comic Novel Aaron McGruder 9781400048595 Fiction Crown Penguin Random House This scathingly hilarious political satire—produced from a collaboration of three of our funniest humor...
Voices of The Harlem Renaissance
Voices of The Harlem Renaissance Alain Locke Article From Locke’s essay “Harlem,” published in the March 1925 issue of Survey Graphic. If we were to offer a symbol of what Harlem...
Regina Abraham
Regina Abraham NONE Regina Abraham, a Harlem-based Academic Intervention Coordinator, is an educational consultant and author of the Harlem-inspired children's book series, “The Harlem Legends.” She ...
Epic Harlem: A Narrative History
Epic Harlem: A Narrative History Herb Boyd 9781531514433 Nonfiction Fordham University Press Fordham University Press A sweeping, deeply rooted history of Harlem at the center of Black cultural, polit...
Harlem at Four
Harlem at Four Michael Datcher 9780593429334 Fiction Random House Studio Penguin Random House A stunning picture book comprised of two incredible stories— the first part of the book chronicles the adv...
Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900-1968
Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900-1968 Allon Schoener 9781595581587 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press Long before Harlem became one of the trendiest neighborhoods in the ...
Hunting in Harlem
Hunting in Harlem Mat Johnson 9781582342726 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing Gentrification-by any means necessary. With the help of new employees Cedric, Bobby, and Horus-three ex-cons...
The New Negro: Voices Of The Harlem Renaissance
The New Negro: Voices Of The Harlem Renaissance Jose Andres and Matt Goulding Excerpt “Harlem” by Alain Locke If we were to offer a symbol of what Harlem has come to mean in the short s...
Legacy: Treasures of Black History
Legacy: Treasures of Black History Thomas C. Battle and Donna Marcia Wells 9781426200069 Nonfiction National Geographic National Geographic Books From its Introduction by the revered and distinguished...
Harlem Heroin(e): My Love Affair With Harlem Street Life And The Men Who Ruled It
Harlem Heroin(e): My Love Affair With Harlem Street Life And The Men Who Ruled It Ms. Tee 9780692396889 Nonfiction Royal-T Publishing Royal-T Publishing Tonia Taylor’s life changed forever on the nigh...
American Soul: The Black History of Food in the United States - Including 40 Recipes
American Soul: The Black History of Food in the United States - Including 40 Recipes Anela Malik 9781426222405 Nonfiction National Geographic Society National Geographic Books Delve into foodways of t...
East Africa Education Publishers
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Eugene B. Redmond
Eugene B. Redmond 0000000117637604 Eugene B. Redmond, an American poet and academic, is renowned for his connection to the Black Arts Movement. A St. Louis native, Redmond earned degrees from Souther...
The Crazy Bunch
The Crazy Bunch Willie Perdomo 9780143132691 Poetry PublicAffairs Hachette Book Group From a prize-winning poet, a new collection that chronicles a weekend in the life of a group of friends coming of ...
My Favorite Readings from the 2013 National Book Award Finalists
My Favorite Readings from the 2013 National Book Award Finalists Troy Johnson Article I covered this year's National Book Foundation's National Book Awards Finalists Reading for AALBC.com. The readin...
Harlem
Harlem Eric Jerome Dickey B07H74CYSW Fiction Dutton Books Penguin Random House Available for the first time as an eBook, New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey’s thrilling short story Ha...
Race and Real Estate: Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem, 1890-1920
Race and Real Estate: Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem, 1890-1920 Kevin McGruder 9780231169141 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press Through the lens of real estate transact...
Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance
Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance Carla Kaplan 9780060882372 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins Celebrated scholar Carla Kaplan’s cultural biography, Miss Anne in Ha...
Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance
Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance Connie Bradley Book Review Definitions of Miss Anne: A coded term for any white woman. A derisive name for a white woman. An emanc...
Miss Anne In Harlem: The White Women Of The Black Renaissance
Miss Anne In Harlem: The White Women Of The Black Renaissance Carla Kaplan 9780060882389 Nonfiction HarperCollins Publishers HarperCollins Celebrated scholar Carla Kaplan’s cultural biography, Miss An...
Harlem Redux: A Novel
Harlem Redux: A Novel Persia Walker 9780743224970 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Four years after dropping out of Harlem society, David McKay, a handsome young lawyer from a prominent...
The Queen of Harlem
The Queen of Harlem Brian Egeston Book Review He has managed to fool us all! Because his previous work gave the impression that his was the authentic voice of the next generation of Black male southe...
Hunting In Harlem
Hunting In Harlem Thumper Book Review I am always excited when new authors enter the scene because they expand the dimensions of our existence through literature that is vibrant, challenging and im...
Lost in Space: 5,000 Facts for Navigating the Universe
Lost in Space: 5,000 Facts for Navigating the Universe Neil deGrasse Tyson and Lindsey Nyx Walker 9781426224386 Nonfiction National Geographic National Geographic Books Prepare for liftoff with a swee...
Cosmic Queries: Startalk’s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going
Cosmic Queries: Startalk’s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going Neil deGrasse Tyson 9781426223228 Nonfiction National Geographic Society National Geographic Books Now in paperba...
To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery
To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery Neil deGrasse Tyson and Lindsey Nyx Walker 9781426226076 Nonfiction National Geographic National Geographic Books This enlightening illustrated na...
Segregated Skies: David Harris’s Trailblazing Journey to Rise Above Racial Barriers
Segregated Skies: David Harris’s Trailblazing Journey to Rise Above Racial Barriers Michael H. Cottman 9781426372018 Nonfiction National Geographic Partners National Geographic Partners It was 1964 an...
Seeing Into Tomorrow
Seeing Into Tomorrow Richard Wright 9781512418651 Nonfiction National Geographic Children’s Books National Geographic Books Richard Wright’s haiku put everyday momentswalking a dog, watching a sunset,...
Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories from the Dark Side of American Immigration
Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories from the Dark Side of American Immigration Ann Bausum 9781426303326 Nonfiction National Geographic Children’s Books National Geographic Books With painstaking resea...
Students on Strike: Jim Crow, Civil Rights, Brown, and Me
Students on Strike: Jim Crow, Civil Rights, Brown, and Me John Arthur Stokes 9781426301537 Nonfiction National Geographic Kids National Geographic Books John Stokes has waited more than 50 years to gi...
In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Howard Dodson, and Sylviane A. Diouf 9780792273851 Fiction National Geographic National Geographi...
Jubilee: The Emergence of African-American Culture
Jubilee: The Emergence of African-American Culture Howard Dodson, Amiri Baraka, Gail Lumet Buckley, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Annette Gordon-Reed 9780792269823 Nonfiction National Geographic Nation...
Lindsey Nyx Walker
Lindsey Nyx Walker Lindsey Nyx Walker is the senior producer and head writer at StarTalk, a popular science podcast and four-time Emmy-nominated television show on the National Geographic Channel. ...
Patrick Girouard
Patrick Girouard NONE Patrick Girouard is a versatile artist, known for his original work ranging from corporate logos to city bus designs. With over 100 children's books under his belt, including aw...
Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström
Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström 0000000403172043 Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström is an acclaimed author, speaker, and photographer. Her work has been featured in major publications worldwide and she has received num...
With Love from Harlem: A Novel of Hazel Scott
With Love from Harlem: A Novel of Hazel Scott ReShonda Tate Billingsley 9780063421189 Fiction William Morrow Paperbacks HarperCollins From The Queen of Sugar Hill author ReShonda Tate—a new novel insp...
Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Gwendolyn Bennett’s Selected Writings
Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Gwendolyn Bennett’s Selected Writings Belinda Wheeler and Louis J. Parascandola 9780271080963 Nonfiction Penn State University Press Penn State University...
Caribbean Crusaders and the Harlem Renaissance
Caribbean Crusaders and the Harlem Renaissance Joyce Moore Turner 9780252072413 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press Caribbean Crusaders and the Harlem Renaissance is a...
African American Literature Book Club
African American Literature Book Club 0000000509856750 The African American Literature Book Club transforms notable forum discussions into articles for increased visibility. The first conversion, “On...
2016 National Black Writers Conference
2016 National Black Writers Conference Troy Johnson Article Update: March 25, 2016 The Conference's Complete and final Schedule of Events is Now Available. Greetings Colleagues, We are excited a...
Steve Cannon
Steve Cannon 0000000363821597 Steve Cannon (1935-2019) was a key figure in the Black Arts Movement and a prominent Black writer from New Orleans. He moved to NYC in 1962, where he engaged in literary...
Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries
Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill: Alexander Hamilton’s Old Harlem Neighborhood Through the Centuries Davida Siwisa James 9781531506148 Nonfiction Fordham University Press Fordham University Press Explo...
H Is For Harlem
H Is For Harlem Dinah Johnson 9780316322379 Nonfiction Christy Ottaviano Books Hachette Book Group This richly informative and gorgeously illustrated book celebrates Harlem’s vibrant traditions, past ...
Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem
Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem Kevin McGruder 9780231198936 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press At the turn of the early twentieth century, Harlem—the iconic Blac...
Harlem Hit & Run (2nd Ed.)
Harlem Hit & Run (2nd Ed.) Angela Dews 9781087896182 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Second Edition of the AALBC Bestseller Harlem Hit & Run Harlem Hit & Run is recent histo...
Harlem Hit & Run
Harlem Hit & Run Angela Dews 9798744530754 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Newer Version Available (2nd Edition) I had to do the perp walk through a gauntlet of paparazzi at...
Harlem Grown: How One Big Idea Transformed a Neighborhood
Harlem Grown: How One Big Idea Transformed a Neighborhood Tony Hillery 9781534402317 Nonfiction Paula Wiseman Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Discover the incredible true story of Harlem Grown, a lush ga...
Harlem 69: The Future of Soul
Harlem 69: The Future of Soul Stuart Cosgrove 9781846974205 Nonfiction Polygon Birlinn Book 3 in The Soul Trilogy Harlem, 1969, and the vibrant community around 125th Street is rife with creative inn...
Carl Van Vechten And The Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait In Black And White
Carl Van Vechten And The Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait In Black And White Emily Bernard 9780300121995 Nonfiction Yale University Press Yale University Press Carl Van Vechten was a white man with a pa...
Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey To The Mecca Of Black America
Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey To The Mecca Of Black America Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts 9780316017237 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group “Most everything I write here is true and happen...
Baldwin’s Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin
Baldwin’s Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin Herb Boyd 9780743293082 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Perhaps no other writer is as synonymous with Harlem as James Baldwin (1924-1987). ...
Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers And The Photograph In The Twentieth Century
Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers And The Photograph In The Twentieth Century Sara Blair 9780691130873 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press The Harlem riot of 1935 not o...
If I Ruled the World
If I Ruled the World Joylynn M. Jossel 9780312328795 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers In every ghetto there is that one who stands out above the rest. In this unforgettable novel, he...
The Harlem Reader
The Harlem Reader Herb Boyd 9781400046812 Nonfiction Broadway Books Penguin Random House There is no neighborhood in America as famous, infamous, and inspiring as Harlem. From its humble beginnings ...
When Harlem Nearly Killed King: The 1958 Stabbing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
When Harlem Nearly Killed King: The 1958 Stabbing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Hugh Pearson 9781583222744 Nonfiction Seven Stories Press Seven Stories Press When Harlem Nearly Killed King spins the t...
Renaissance in Harlem
Renaissance in Harlem Lionel C. Bascom 9780380976645 Nonfiction William Morrow HarperCollins Digging beneath the glitter of the African American artistic outpouring early in this century dubbed the Ha...
The Harlem Cycle: Cotton Comes to Harlem; Blind Man with a Pistol; Plan B
The Harlem Cycle: Cotton Comes to Harlem; Blind Man with a Pistol; Plan B Chester Himes 9780862416928 Fiction Payback Press Payback Press This third omnibus edition from the Harlem Cycle sees three mo...
Wallace Thurman
Wallace Thurman 0000000080916692 Wallace Henry Thurman, born in 1902, was an influential figure during the Harlem Renaissance. Known for his realistic portrayals of lower-class black American society...
Anne Spencer
Anne Spencer 0000000458445176 Anne Bannister Spencer was a lauded American poet, civil rights activist, and librarian during the Harlem Renaissance. Born in 1882, she was the first African-American w...
Harlem Crossroads
Harlem Crossroads Kam Williams Book Review ’The story I tell begins with an introductory account of how photography came to Harlem- that is, how Harlem became, after the Renaissance and at...
Gay Rebel of the Harlem Ren…
Gay Rebel of the Harlem Ren… Thumper Book Review Richard Bruce Nugent is the best well-kept secret of the Harlem Renaissance. Nugent isn’t unheard of in the annals of the Renaissance; ...
Harlem Redux
Harlem Redux Thumper Book Review Persia Walker busts on the literary scene burnin’ rubber and smokin’ with her debut novel, Harlem Redux, a multi-faceted fictional tapestry. Harlem Redux...
Harlem Honey
Harlem Honey Lisa Y? Wilson Book Review In Harlem Honey: The Adventures of a Curious Kid, the story begins as Moses and his parents have recently moved to Harlem, away from the comfort and familiarit...
Ashes Of Gold
Ashes Of Gold J. Elle 9781534470705 Fiction Denene Millner Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In the “thrilling…masterful” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) conclusion to the Wings of Ebony duology, wh...
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...
Autobiography Of The Lower East Side
Autobiography Of The Lower East Side Rashidah Ismaili 9781937997397 Nonfiction Northampton House Press Northampton House Press “This well established poet makes a brilliant debut in fiction with these...
East of Broadway
East of Broadway Raquel Cepeda 9780000005579 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press Publication date to be determined. East of Broadway, is a collection of collection of interconnected essays about Cep...
Frederick Price
Frederick Price 0000000400170923 Frederick K.C. Price, founder of Crenshaw Christian Center, began his ministry in 1973, expanding it globally through Ever Increasing Faith Ministries. Price also fou...
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Ngugi Wa Mirii
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Ngugi Wa Mirii MULTIPLE Born in Kenya in 1938, Ngugi wa Thiong’o is a leading East African novelist, essayist, playwright, and academic. Educated in Kenya, Uganda, and Britain, ...
Dinesh Sharma “The Global Obama” Interview (February 2014)
Dinesh Sharma “The Global Obama” Interview (February 2014) Kam Williams Interview Dinesh Sharma “The Global Obama” Interview Dr. Dinesh Sharma is a cultural psychologist, marketing consultant and...
Harlem Renaissance Lives: From the African American National Biography
Harlem Renaissance Lives: From the African American National Biography Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 9780195387957 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Th...