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Nia Damali, Owner of Medu Bookstore Atlanta, GA
Nia Damali, Owner of Medu Bookstore Atlanta, GA Book Spotlights
Nia Damali
Nia Damali NONE Nia Damali, owner of Medu Bookstore and a prominent figure in the Black Book Ecosystem, is dedicated to promoting literacy and knowledge within the Black community. Editor of historic...
Asa G. Hilliard III, Larry Williams, and Nia Damali
Asa G. Hilliard III, Larry Williams, and Nia Damali MULTIPLE Asa G. Hilliard III, Larry Williams, and Nia Damali are distinguished authors, contributing significantly to literature and education, eac...
Damali Peterman
Damali Peterman NONE Damali Peterman is a distinguished lawyer, mediator, and speaker with two decades of experience. Founder and CEO of Breakthrough ADR and Damali Law, she resides outside NYC with ...
The Forbidden (Vampire Huntress Legends)
The Forbidden (Vampire Huntress Legends) Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780575094680 Fiction Gollancz Victor Gollancz Ltd After the destruction of all the topside master vampires and the death and resurrection...
Nia Obotette
Nia Obotette NONE Nia Obotette, a Tuskegee University graduate and fitness enthusiast, promotes health through organizing cycling and running meet-ups. A triathlon finisher herself, Nia is passionate...
Nia Long “The Single Moms Club” Interview - 2014
Nia Long “The Single Moms Club” Interview - 2014 Kam Williams Interview Nia Long “The Single Moms Club” Interview Stunningly-attractive leading lady Nia Long returned to the big screen last ...
Minion: A Vampire Huntress Legend
Minion: A Vampire Huntress Legend Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780312316808 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers There is one woman who is all that stands between us and the eternal night.Here i...
Bottom of the Pyramid: A Memoir of Persevering, Dancing for Myself, and Starring in My Own Life
Bottom of the Pyramid: A Memoir of Persevering, Dancing for Myself, and Starring in My Own Life Nia Sioux 9781400253043 Nonfiction Harper Horizon HarperCollins New York Times Bestseller: Debut – #8 Pr...
Nia Sioux
Nia Sioux NONE Nia Sioux is a dancer, singer, and actress who has performed on the small screen and in live performances, proving to be one of today’s most popular triple threats. Known for her brea...
The Bitten (Vampire Huntress Legends)
The Bitten (Vampire Huntress Legends) Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780312324087 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers The vampire civil war has been averted, deadly were-demons have been beaten b...
The Hunted (Vampire Huntress Legends)
The Hunted (Vampire Huntress Legends) Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780312320300 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers A Neteru—-a hunter or a huntress—-is born every thousand years in favor of th...
Pleasure
Pleasure Eric Jerome Dickey 9780525950455 Fiction Dutton Adult Penguin Random House How realistic is it to believe that one lover can satisfy a woman’s every fantasy?Nia Simone Bijou is a woman who ha...
The Teachings of Ptahhotep: The Oldest Book in the World
The Teachings of Ptahhotep: The Oldest Book in the World Asa G. Hilliard III, Larry Williams, and Nia Damali 9780945708025 Nonfiction Blackwood Press Blackwood Press THE WISDOM OF THE EAST THE INST...
Golden Names for an African People
Golden Names for an African People Nia Damali 9780945708018 Nonfiction Blackwood Press Blackwood Press Robbing peoples and countries of their rightful names was one of the cruel games that colonizers ...
Marcus Dewan Williams
Marcus Dewan Williams NONE Marcus Dewan Williams, more than just the owner of Nubian Books bookstore, is an active advocate for African and African-American culture and education. As a publisher and ...
Cayenne
Cayenne Janice Pernell B07MT552NK Fiction Amazon Digital Services Amazon Digital Services, Inc. Michael Parks can either save Nia Tate, the woman he once loved, then deserted, from being killed by a c...
Decadence
Decadence Eric Jerome Dickey 9780525953838 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House What Nia Simon Bijou desires, she works hard to achieve. Her accomplishments as a respected writer have not only brought h...
In the Arms of One Who Loves Me
In the Arms of One Who Loves Me Jacqueline Jones LaMon 9780345447197 Poetry One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House From fabulous new author Jacqueline Jones LaMon, a sexy page-turner that follows t...
Nia Long - The "Are We Done Yet?" Interview
Nia Long - The "Are We Done Yet?" Interview Kam Williams Interview Nia Long Who ever heard of an actress being typecast as pregnant? That's exactly what appears to be happening to Nia ...
Negotiating While Black: Be Who You Are to Get What You Want
Negotiating While Black: Be Who You Are to Get What You Want Damali Peterman 9780593544600 Nonfiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Penguin Random House A real-world, one-of-a-kind resource for anyone who has ev...
Atlanta Noir
Atlanta Noir Tayari Jones 9781617755378 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Georgia Center for the Book has chosen Atlanta Noir as one of 2018’s Books All Georgians Should Read!Kenji Jasper’s "A Momen...
I’m Not Superwoman
I’m Not Superwoman Marlon McCaulsky 9781645565482 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance Atlanta, Georgia, is the hub of the black college experience. Nia Scott, a gifted pre-med student at Clark...
The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, and Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore
The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, and Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore Vaunda Micheaux Nelson 9780761339434 Fiction Carolrhoda Books Lerner Publishing Group In the 1930s, Lewis’s dad, Lewis Michaux Sr., had a...
The Herndons: An Atlanta Family
The Herndons: An Atlanta Family Carole Merritt 9780820323091 Fiction University of Georgia Press University of Georgia Press Born a slave and reared a sharecropper, Alonzo Herndon (1858-1927) was dest...
Hometown Homicide
Hometown Homicide Denise N. Wheatley 9781335456953 Fiction Harlequin Intrigue Harlequin Enterprises Limited Can a Rookie Help a Veteran Cop Catch a Diabolical Killer? The hunt for the murderer of...
Choosing Health and Wellness: The Nia Guide for Black Women
Choosing Health and Wellness: The Nia Guide for Black Women Sheryl Huggins Salomon 9781932841060 Nonfiction Agate Bolden Agate Publishing, Inc The third title in the Nia Guide series is a positive and...
Nia Davenport
Nia Davenport NONE Nia Davenport (N.E. Davenport) attended the University of Southern California and studied Biological Sciences and Theatre. She has an M.A. in Secondary Education, and she teaches ...
Parker-Nia Gordon
Parker-Nia Gordon NONE Parker-Nia Gordon grew up in the musical city of Memphis, Tennessee, home of rhythm and blues. She earned her BFA from Ringling College of Art and Design before returning to M...
Captain Nia Gilliam
Captain Nia Gilliam NONE Captain Nia Gilliam is an accomplished airline pilot with more than 25 years of experience and type ratings in the Boeing 737, 757, 767, 777, 787, and Airbus A320. A trailbl...
Tamara Shiloh
Tamara Shiloh NONE Tamara Shiloh, a Northern California native, owns the Multicultural Bookstore and Gifts in Richmond. She is a mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother residing in Point Richmond,...
Leaving Atlanta
Leaving Atlanta Thumper Book Review Tayari Jones enters the literary scene with Leaving Atlanta, a novel that takes place in 1979 Atlanta, Georgia during what came to be known as the Atlanta Child ...
Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore
Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore Char Adams 9780593474235 Nonfiction Tiny Reparations Books Penguin Random House Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore is...
The Awakening: A Vampire Huntress Legend
The Awakening: A Vampire Huntress Legend Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780312316839 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers There is a vampire war brewing in the underworld and at the center of it a...
Minion
Minion Thumper Book Review Somebody, somewhere, is either trying to run game on me, or thinks I done fell and bumped my damn head by passing this "book" to me! Minion: A Vampire Huntress ...
Cleared for Takeoff: A Pilot’s Memoir of Purpose and Resilience After 9/11
Cleared for Takeoff: A Pilot’s Memoir of Purpose and Resilience After 9/11 Captain Nia Gilliam 9798217087464 Nonfiction Storehouse Voices Penguin Random House In this inspiring memoir, a Black woman p...
Did You Know God Made You Beautiful?
Did You Know God Made You Beautiful? Kiva and Nia Williams 9781961650381 Fiction GeeMorgan Publishing GeeMorgan Publishing You are beautiful! Read along in this loving affirmation book as Nia and h...
The Accomplice
The Accomplice Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and Aaron Philip Clark 9780063312906 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins The New York Times bestselling multitalented artist delivers an electrifying novel—The Accomp...
Blueblood
Blueblood Malorie Blackman 9781642595772 Fiction Haymarket Books Haymarket Books Nia has met the man she wants to marry. Marcus is kind, clever, and handsome, with a beard so dark it is nearly blue-bl...
His Love Walk (Praise Him Anyhow Series) (Volume 7)
His Love Walk (Praise Him Anyhow Series) (Volume 7) Vanessa Miller 9781502596246 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Ronny Thomas’ rags to riches story has made him arrogant enough to bel...
Praise Him Anyhow-Volume 3
Praise Him Anyhow-Volume 3 Vanessa Miller 9781502729880 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC His Love Walk (Book 7) Ronny Thomas’ rags to riches story has made him arrogant enough to beli...
Tender Loving Passion: Temptation and LiesLonging and Lies (The Ladies of TLC)
Tender Loving Passion: Temptation and LiesLonging and Lies (The Ladies of TLC) Donna Hill 9780373091522 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Arabesque Harlequin Enterprises Limited Two classic TLC novels from Es...
The Appetizer: When You’re Not His Main Course
The Appetizer: When You’re Not His Main Course Ni’cola Mitchell 9780578049441 Nonfiction NCM Publishing NCM Publishing Three girlfriends with three totally different lives, or they think…….. Yazmin an...
The First Part Last
The First Part Last Angela Johnson 9781442403437 Fiction Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. This little thing with the perfect face and hands doing nothing but counting on...
Cayenne
Cayenne Janice Pernell Excerpt Nia eyed Michael with a mixture of defiance and loathing. The man who’d captured her heart in the past three months was now her captor, in a very literal but surr...
Different and the Same
Different and the Same AALBC Staff Writer Book Review In an age where there is a proliferation of emotional and physical Black trauma, that is videotaped and viewed widely online, we should strive to...
Nubian Bookstore
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Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Occupation Book For Boys
Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Occupation Book For Boys Marcus Dewan Williams 9798218185251 Nonfiction Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Occupation Book For Boys...
Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Sport Book For Girls
Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Sport Book For Girls Marcus Dewan Williams 9780578863894 Fiction Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Sport Book for Girls is packed ...
Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Sport Book For Boys
Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Sport Book For Boys Marcus Dewan Williams 9780578785509 Fiction Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore The Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Sport Book for Boys. Written...
Nubian Bookstore Presents The ABC Book
Nubian Bookstore Presents The ABC Book Marcus Dewan Williams 9780578689487 Nonfiction Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore Presents the ABC Book is a children’s picture book that teaches...
Help Keep the Country's Oldest Black-owned Bookstore Open
Help Keep the Country's Oldest Black-owned Bookstore Open Troy Johnson Article Editor's Note (posted May 8th 2014): Marcus Books of San Francisco Evicted Sign the petition to help save the sto...
The Key Bookstore
The Key Bookstore Hartford CT The Key Bookstore is a fully interactive bookstore experience. The Key engages readers through curation, activities, subscriptions, events, events, and community engageme...
Liberation Station Bookstore
Liberation Station Bookstore Raleigh NC Liberation Station Bookstore is reopening August 24th, 2025 by Liberation Station Bookstore, Organizer We’re 52% Funded—And the Work Continues...
Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores
Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores Katie Mitchell 9780593581346 Nonfiction Clarkson Potter Penguin Random House A stunning visual homage to Black bookstores around the country alon...
Victoria Scott-Miller
Victoria Scott-Miller NONE Victoria Scott-Miller is an acclaimed entrepreneur, author, and owner of North Carolina's first black-owned children's bookstore. She's notable for creating 'The Museum Liv...
Christina Benton
Christina Benton NONE Christina Benton is a Las Vegas-based crime author, forensic anthropologist, and bookstore owner. She penned the debut novel featuring Noel Patterson, a forensic anthropologist ...
Tayari Jones
Tayari Jones 0000000034178764 Born in Atlanta, GA in 1970, Tayari Jones is an accomplished author and educator. After obtaining her Masters from the University of Iowa, she taught Developmental Readi...
Katie Mitchell
Katie Mitchell 0000000368018699 Katie Mitchell is a writer, owner of Atlanta-based online and pop-up Black bookstore Good Books. She's been featured on media outlets like The NYT, Oprah Daily, NPR, a...
Shrine of the Black Madonna (Atlanta)
Shrine of the Black Madonna (Atlanta) Atlanta GA The Shrine Cultural Center & Bookstore is a separate component of the church located next door to our sanctuary building. The Shrine of the Black Madon...
Pleasure
Pleasure Eric Jerome Dickey 9780451225986 Fiction Dutton Books Penguin Random House The bold new blockbuster from the New York Times bestselling author.Born in Trinidad and living in Atlanta after a r...
Rhonda McKnight
Rhonda McKnight NONE Rhonda McKnight, owner of Legacy Editing and Urban Christian Fiction Today, is a dedicated fiction writer and editor based in Atlanta. Originating from New Jersey, her passion li...
Nubian Bookstore Presents When I Grow Up I Want To Own …: Volume 2
Nubian Bookstore Presents When I Grow Up I Want To Own …: Volume 2 Marcus Dewan Williams 9780578856490 Nonfiction Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore When I Grow Up I Want To Own … Volume 2 was created ...
Nubian Bookstore Presents When I Grow Up I Want To Own …
Nubian Bookstore Presents When I Grow Up I Want To Own … Marcus Dewan Williams 9780578825359 Fiction Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore When I Grow Up I Want To Own was created to help children envisio...
Only 54 Black Owned Bookstores Remain in America
Only 54 Black Owned Bookstores Remain in America Troy Johnson Article This is a follow up to an article, “Death of the Black Owned, Independent, Book...
La Casa Azul Bookstore "An Independent Bookstore Bucking the Trend"
La Casa Azul Bookstore "An Independent Bookstore Bucking the Trend" Book Spotlights
Hakim’s Bookstore and Gift Shop
Hakim’s Bookstore and Gift Shop Philadelphia PA Hakim’s Bookstore & Gift Shop is the oldest African American Bookstore in Philadelphia.
The Underground Bookstore
The Underground Bookstore Chicago IL How one Black-owned bookstore has navigated business since 2020 (WBEZ, Feb 19, 2025)
That Bookstore In Blytheville
That Bookstore In Blytheville Blytheville AR Mission: “The Literary Hub of the Community” Slogan: “We Are Your Source For Signed, First Edition John Grisham Books.” I'm sorr...
Roots Bookstore & Market
Roots Bookstore & Market Miami FL A Black-owned community bookstore in Miami’s Liberty City. They offer new and used books with a focus on banned, Black, and local authors. More than a bookstore, th...
AALBC.com’s Black Wall Street Bookstore
AALBC.com’s Black Wall Street Bookstore Tulsa OK Pop-up Bookstore Only Our mission is to share information and celebrate Black culture through books. We also run the Black Wall Street Bookstore.
Comma Bookstore & Social Hub
Comma Bookstore & Social Hub Flint MI “Not your average bookstore, we specialize in BIPOC books, art, and products. Established in 2020, during the height of the pandemic. Egypt, who is a Flint ...
Hugh Mulzac
Hugh Mulzac 0000000399996487 Hugh Nathaniel Mulzac (1886-1971), the first African American ship commander, served on British and American ships during WWI. A graduate of Swansea Nautical College, he ...
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White Flight: Atlanta And The Making Of Modern Conservatism (Politics And Society In Twentieth-Century America)
White Flight: Atlanta And The Making Of Modern Conservatism (Politics And Society In Twentieth-Century America) Kevin M. Kruse 9780691133867 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University ...
Atlanta African American Book Festival
Atlanta African American Book Festival Georgia State University Atlanta Georgia The Atlanta African American Book Festival is a yearly festival held in Atlanta, Georgia. The event is a great opportuni...
Ruth P. Watson
Ruth P. Watson NONE Ruth P. Watson is a Virginia-born author and educator, now living in Atlanta. Known for bestsellers like Blackberry Days of Summer, she also writes children's books and is a docum...
T. Owens Moore
T. Owens Moore NONE T. Owens Moore, Ph.D., is a renowned biomedical researcher, professor, and author. A graduate of Lincoln University and Howard University, he's currently a Full Professor in the A...
Melody T. McCloud
Melody T. McCloud NONE Dr. Melody T. McCloud is a renowned obstetrician-gynecologist, author, and public speaker affiliated with Emory University Hospital Midtown. Honored as a top Atlanta doctor and...
A Tribute to AALBC.com's 10th Anniversary
A Tribute to AALBC.com's 10th Anniversary Troy Johnson Article Presented ToTROY JOHNSONIn Appreciation For YourDedication, Professionalism,Guidance, And IntegrityIn the Publishing IndustryThanks You ...
Liberation Bookstore
Liberation Bookstore New York NY “If you don’t know, learn.” … “If you know, teach.” Una Mulzac (April 19, 1923 – January 21, 2012), was the owner of Harl...
21-Year-Old Bookstore Owner Jasmine Atkins
21-Year-Old Bookstore Owner Jasmine Atkins Book Spotlights
Phyllis R. Dixon
Phyllis R. Dixon NONE Phyllis R. Dixon, acclaimed author of notable works including Intermission and Down Home Blues, is a contributor to various publications. A graduate of the University of Wiscons...
Itah Sadu
Itah Sadu NONE Itah Sadu, an award-winning author and bookstore owner, is known for sharing diverse oral traditions and creating youth programs. She's a founder of several initiatives like the Emanci...
Fanita Pendleton
Fanita Pendleton NONE Fanita “Moon†Pendleton, originally from Oakland, is a parole officer based in Norfolk, Virginia. She's an experienced criminal justice instructor with a Masters in Public A...
Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life
Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life Ashley Bryan 9781481456906 Fiction Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Using original slave auction and plantati...
Kimberly Jones
Kimberly Jones 0000000072499091 “They are lucky that what Black people are looking for is equality, not revenge!” Kimberly Latrice Jones, born March 18, 1976, is a former bookstore manager...
DuEwa M. Frazier
DuEwa M. Frazier NONE DuEwa Frazier is an accomplished writer, educator, and poet, renowned for her literary contributions and educational initiatives. Born in Brooklyn and raised in St. Louis, she f...
Nia Communications
Nia Communications Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press Kassahun Checole, PublisherAfrica World Press & Red Sea Press Africa World Press and The Red Se...
Love Spells Trouble
Love Spells Trouble Nia Davenport 9781547612963 Fiction Bloomsbury YA Bloomsbury Publishing You Should See Me in a Crown meets Black girl magic—literally—in this enchanting rom-com about a reluctant w...
Out of Body
Out of Body Nia Davenport 9780063255715 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins A high-stakes, propulsive YA thriller with a body-swap twist thoughtfully exploring themes of friendship and identity, perfe...
Exploring All I Can Do - Fencing
Exploring All I Can Do - Fencing Nia Obotette 9781959280262 Nonfiction Your Life Has Purpose Your Life Has Purpose A young girl’s passion for fencing is put to the ultimate test as she faces off again...
Exploring All I Can Do - Triathlon
Exploring All I Can Do - Triathlon Nia Obotette 9781959280453 Fiction Your Life Has Purpose Your Life Has Purpose Same award-winning book I Am a Triathlete first published in 2020, but with a brand ne...
Exploring All I Can Do - Snowboarding & Skiing
Exploring All I Can Do - Snowboarding & Skiing Nia Obotette 9781959280040 Nonfiction Your Life Has Purpose Your Life Has Purpose Get ready to shred the slopes in this thrilling story, a passionate gra...