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Nick at Big Apple Jazz - Harlem, NY - January 14th 2007
Nick at Big Apple Jazz - Harlem, NY - January 14th 2007 Author Interviews
Fist of Africa (FIGHT CARD MMA)
Fist of Africa (FIGHT CARD MMA) Balogun Ojetade 9781496018298 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Nigeria 2004 … Nicholas ’New Breed’ Steed, a tough teen from the mean streets of Chicago, is ...
Greg Thomas
Greg Thomas 0000000055234489 Greg Thomas is an esteemed jazz writer, editor, educator, and broadcaster. With works published in numerous publications, he was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Harlem Wo...
A Child’s Introduction to Jazz: The Musicians, Culture, and Roots of the World’s Coolest Music
A Child’s Introduction to Jazz: The Musicians, Culture, and Roots of the World’s Coolest Music Jabari Asim 9780762479412 Nonfiction Black Dog & Leventhal Hachette Book Group Get ready to swing with A ...
Making Friends With Black People
Making Friends With Black People Nick Adams 9780758212955 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. White people of America, we know you’ve got it rough. Sure, black men and women have been thr...
African American Review
African American Review Troy Johnson Article AAR African American Review - http://aar.slu.edu Office of Editorial Assistant Joe Weixlmann EditorHousto...
In the Nick of Time
In the Nick of Time Tiana Laveen 9781511439626 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC WARNING: This book contains adult language and content. It is for adults only. PLEASE NOTE: This is a two p...
Sexcapades
Sexcapades Honeyb 9780446582285 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Nick and Natalie are two lovers whose sexual lives are more than above average, but they are both competing for the...
Money, Power, Respect: What Brothers Think, What Sistahs Know
Money, Power, Respect: What Brothers Think, What Sistahs Know Denene Millner and Nick Chiles 9780688178864 Nonfiction William Morrow HarperCollins First, In What Brothers Think, What Sistahs Know, the...
Denene Millner and Nick Chiles
Denene Millner and Nick Chiles MULTIPLE Nick Chiles and Denene Millner are renowned authors, known for their compelling and insightful writing. Nick Chiles (right) and Denene Millner (left)
Etan Thomas and Nick Chiles
Etan Thomas and Nick Chiles MULTIPLE Etan Thomas and Nick Chiles are co-authors with diverse backgrounds. Thomas is a former NBA player and activist, while Chiles is an award-winning journalist and b...
Nick Chiles and Jeff Jones
Nick Chiles and Jeff Jones MULTIPLE Nick Chiles and Jeff Jones are renowned authors known for their insightful writing styles. Their work spans diverse genres, reflecting a rich blend of creativity a...
Bobby Brown and Nick Chiles
Bobby Brown and Nick Chiles MULTIPLE Nick Chiles and Bobby Brown are authors known for their significant contributions to literature. Nick Chiles (left) and Bobby Brown (right)
Cam Perron with Nick Chiles
Cam Perron with Nick Chiles MULTIPLE Cam Perron, in collaboration with Nick Chiles, is a renowned author known for his compelling narratives. Their work showcases a unique blend of storytelling and i...
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf with Nick Chiles
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf with Nick Chiles MULTIPLE Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf and Nick Chiles are renowned authors, with Abdul-Rauf known for his basketball career and activism, and Chiles acclaimed for his journa...
Andre Ward with Nick Chiles
Andre Ward with Nick Chiles MULTIPLE Andre Ward and Nick Chiles are renowned authors, known for their profound works. Their unique writing style and insightful perspectives have significantly impacte...
Nick Brooks
Nick Brooks NONE Nick Brooks, an award-winning filmmaker and author from Washington, DC, is known for his short film 'Hoop Dreamin''. A 2020 USC graduate, he won the George Lucas Scholar Award and wa...
Nick Laird
Nick Laird 000000007851802X Nick Laird is an novelist and poet who was born in Northern Ireland and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. Nick Laird was born in Northern Ireland and studied at Cambridge ...
Justin Robinson: On His Latest Album "Alana’s Fantasy" an interview by Nick Antoine
Justin Robinson: On His Latest Album "Alana’s Fantasy" an interview by Nick Antoine Kam Williams Interview Click to order via Amazon Justin Robinson is a jazz saxophonist and flutist. Robinso...
DC Jazz: Stories of Jazz Music in Washington, DC
DC Jazz: Stories of Jazz Music in Washington, DC Maurice Jackson 9781626165908 Nonfiction Georgetown University Press Georgetown University Press DC Jazz offers original and engaging stories about the...
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...
The Prophets
The Prophets Robert Jones, Jr. 9780593085684 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Penguin Random House #1 Indie Next Pick The New York Times Book Review’s Books to Watch for in January The Washington Post...
Blue Apple Books
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Blue Apple Books
Blue Apple Books Blue Apple Books Blue Apple Books
Where the Apple Falls
Where the Apple Falls Samiya Bashir 9780965665971 Poetry RedBone Press RedBone Press Poetry. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry. Wher...
The Great Disillusionment of Nick and Jay
The Great Disillusionment of Nick and Jay Ryan Douglass 9780063312487 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins “Douglass sets a classic on fire with an inspired recasting that strips away time and all expe...
Robert G. O’Meally
Robert G. O’Meally 0000000108901063 Robert G. O'Meally is a distinguished scholar and the Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is also the fou...
Desmond Tutu and Dalai Lama
Desmond Tutu and Dalai Lama MULTIPLE The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is a Buddhist monk and spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism and its people. Born 1935 in Tibet, he won the Nobel Peace Prize i...
Nick Hern Books
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Nick Hern Books
Nick Hern Books Nick Hern Books Nick Hern Books
Threads of Desire
Threads of Desire K.M. Jackson 9781440561351 Fiction Crimson Books Crimson Publishers Sexy fashionista Gabrielle Russell has been challenging Nick Ross most of his life and now is no exception. A top ...
Drug Related
Drug Related Roy Glenn 9780974702582 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Drug Related is an intriguing, fast-paced journey of mystery and high-powered action. In his third novel, Roy Glen...
T. D. Jakes with Nick Chiles
T. D. Jakes with Nick Chiles MULTIPLE T. D. Jakes and Nick Chiles
Cheryl McKissack Daniel with Nick Chiles
Cheryl McKissack Daniel with Nick Chiles MULTIPLE Cheryl McKissack Daniel with Nick Chiles
Nick Chiles
Nick Chiles 0000000034375194 Nick Chiles is a renowned author and journalist, specializing in African-American culture and celebrity. Co-author of the NAACP Image Awards finalist book 'Justice While ...
Nick Mann
Nick Mann 0000000110008688 Nick Mann, a veteran and former social services manager, has been an organization development practitioner since 1976. Holding a Ph.D. in human communication studies from H...
Curtis Bunn, Michael H. Cottman, Patrice Gaines, Nick Charles, and Keith Harriston
Curtis Bunn, Michael H. Cottman, Patrice Gaines, Nick Charles, and Keith Harriston MULTIPLE Curtis Bunn, Michael H. Cottman, Patrice Gaines, Nick Charles, and Keith Harriston are renowned authors, ea...
Candy Apple #27: Miss You, Mina
Candy Apple #27: Miss You, Mina Denene Millner 9780545169646 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. This book is part of our first sweet and sassy Candy Apple summer vacation trilogy! Each book focuse...
NOMMO
NOMMO NONE "NOMMO Lyrical Alchemy Volume One is a collaborative project featuring original artists like Erykah Badu. It's the first in a series aimed at presenting artistic expression and cultural el...
Randy Weston
Randy Weston 0000000081037964 Randy Weston, born April 6, 1926, was a renowned jazz musician whose career spanned over six decades. Known for his unique fusion of African rhythms and jazz improvisati...
Jazz Country
Jazz Country Walter Benefield Book Review Studying the writings of writer-intellectual Ralph Ellison, author of the critically acclaimed novel, Invisible Man promises to be rewarding. Horace Porter ...
The Rib King
The Rib King Ladee Hubbard 9780062979070 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Thrillist - 30 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2021Book Riot - Our Most Anticipated Releases of 2021Real Simple - The Best New Boo...
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. ...
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...
Mirroring Lincoln: The Cursed Existence of Paschal Beverly Randolph
Mirroring Lincoln: The Cursed Existence of Paschal Beverly Randolph D. Amari Jackson 9780979637483 Fiction AALBC Aspire African American Literature Book Club Audiobook Edition Availab...
Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents
Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents Lise Funderburg 9781496212092 Nonfiction University of Nebraska Press University of Nebraska Press It happens to us all: we think we’ve settled into an identity, ...
AALBC.com has changed a lot over the last 13 years.
AALBC.com has changed a lot over the last 13 years. Troy Johnson Article Sometimes I'm amazed at how an experiment started 13 years ago turned into my livelihood today. While AALBC.co...
The Golden Apple (Vol. 1): Changing the Structure of Civilization
The Golden Apple (Vol. 1): Changing the Structure of Civilization Edgar J. Ridley 9781592215898 Nonfiction Africa World Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press "With The Golden Apple: Changi...
The Captive (Apple Paperbacks)
The Captive (Apple Paperbacks) Joyce Hansen 9780590416245 Fiction Apple Apple Celebrating a special event for his people, Kofi, the prince of a West African village, is horrified when he is betrayed,...
Jayson Tatum and Sam Apple
Jayson Tatum and Sam Apple MULTIPLE Jayson Tatum (aka Deuce’s dad) is a professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics. A six-time NBA All-Star, multiple-time All-NBA First Team selection, Ol...
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 ...
The Geography of Jazz
The Geography of Jazz Lenard D. Moore 9781949467307 Poetry John F. Blair, Publisher John F. Blair, Publisher A poetry collection by internationally acclaimed poet Lenard D. Moore focusing on jazz musi...
Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music
Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music Gerald Horne 9781583677858 Nonfiction Monthly Review Press Monthly Review Press A galvanizing history of how jazz and jazz musicians flo...
How Jelly Roll Morton Invented Jazz
How Jelly Roll Morton Invented Jazz Jonah Winter 9781596439634 Nonfiction Roaring Brook Press Macmillan Publishers "This informational picture book covers self-proclaimed "Inventor of Jazz" Jelly Roll...
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 ...
Jazz
Jazz Walter Dean Myers 9780823421732 Fiction Holiday House Holiday House This smash-hit picture book of jazz music poems, from award-winning father-don team Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers, is...
Considering Genius: Writings On Jazz
Considering Genius: Writings On Jazz Stanley Crouch 9780465015122 Nonfiction Basic Civitas Books Perseus Books Stanley Crouch-MacArthur Genius” Award recipient, co-founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center, ...
Sheila E. Anderson
Sheila E. Anderson NONE Sheila Anderson, raised in a music-loving family in Buffalo, New York, shifted from music to civil rights at 16, becoming the New York State Youth President of the NAACP. Desp...
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,...
6 Days in January
6 Days in January Thumper Book Review I am breaking with tradition on my review of 6 Days in January by William Frederick Cooper, because I loathe this book so much, I can't hold my disgust w...
6 Days in January
6 Days in January Thumper Book Review I am breaking with tradition on my review of 6 Days in January by William Frederick Cooper, because I loathe this book so much, I can't hold my disgust wi...
Backwoods
Backwoods Brandon Massey 9798999611208 Fiction Dark Corner Publishing Dark Corner Publishing When successful entrepreneur Nick Alexander visits his reclusive grandfather’s remote Georgia property, he ...
Commit To Violence
Commit To Violence Roy Glenn 9780615317519 Fiction Escapism Entertainment Escapism Entertainment When long time associate, Kenny Lucas is assassinated, Mike Black orders Nick Simmons, who now runs his...
What Brothers Think, What Sistahs Know About Sex: The Real Deal On Passion, Loving, And Intimacy
What Brothers Think, What Sistahs Know About Sex: The Real Deal On Passion, Loving, And Intimacy Denene Millner and Nick Chiles 9780688171070 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Sex fascinates us. Scares...
Barack Obama at Harlem's Apollo Theater, November 29th 2007
Barack Obama at Harlem's Apollo Theater, November 29th 2007 Troy Johnson Article Barack Obama http://aalbc.com/authors/barack_obama.htm Barack Obama hosted a fund raiser at Harlem's "World ...
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...
Kyra D. Gaunt
Kyra D. Gaunt 0000000061596283 Kyra D. Gaunt is a college professor, jazz vocalist, author, and songwriter specializing in race, gender, and African American music. With a career in education startin...
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...
Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story
Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story Willard Jenkins 9781478019039 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books Despite the fact that most of jazz’s major ...
The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe Stephon Alexander 9780465093571 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books A spectacular musical and scientific journey f...
Jazz Griots: Music as History in the 1960s African American Poem
Jazz Griots: Music as History in the 1960s African American Poem Jean-Philippe Marcoux 9780739166734 Nonfiction Lexington Books Lexington Books To the endless questions, theoretical statements, and hy...
Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times
Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times Robin D. G. Kelley 9780674046245 Nonfiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, pianis...
Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies
Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies Robert G. O’Meally 9780231123518 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press Jackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted; Romare Bea...
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. ...
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...
A Fire in Harlem - Tribute to Sekou Sundiata at Up South International Book Festival
A Fire in Harlem - Tribute to Sekou Sundiata at Up South International Book Festival DuEwa M. Frazier Article Up South International Book Festival September 19th ’ September 23rd 2007 www...
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...
Checkmate - the Baddest Chick
Checkmate - the Baddest Chick Nisa Santiago 9781934157510 Fiction Melodrama Publishing Melodrama Publishing The Baddest Chick Motto: Your time at the top is short-lived. Enjoy it while you can. Ko...
Spotlight on the 14th National Black Writers Conference: March 22 – March 25, 2018
Spotlight on the 14th National Black Writers Conference: March 22 – March 25, 2018 Troy Johnson Article AALBC.com is Hosting an Independent Publishing Workshop How to Publish Your Book Independently...
Big White Fog
Big White Fog James Ward 9781854595959 Fiction Nick Hern Books Nick Hern Books Never seen outside America until 2007, Theodore Ward’s landmark family drama, Big White Fog, remains as poignant today as...
Baby Dunks-A-Lot The Day the Basketballs Stopped Bouncing
Baby Dunks-A-Lot The Day the Basketballs Stopped Bouncing Jayson Tatum and Sam Apple 9781419771477 Fiction Abrams Books for Young Readers Abrams NBA champion Jayson Tatum’s all-star Baby Dunks-a-Lot i...
Baby Dunks-a-Lot
Baby Dunks-a-Lot Jayson Tatum and Sam Apple 9781419771460 Fiction Abrams Books for Young Readers Abrams NBA champion Jayson Tatum makes his picture book debut with a hilarious story about a baby who b...
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song Judith Tick 9780393241051 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Becoming Ella Fitzgerald by Judith Tick...
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...
January Jackson and Friends
January Jackson and Friends Zonie Felder 9781462083558 Fiction iUniverse Author Solutions Beautiful women can-and will-stoop to ugly acts in the name of love, lust, and power. In the face of unspea...
January Gill O’Neil
January Gill O’Neil NONE January Gill O’Neil, author of Rewilding, Misery Islands, and Underlife, is a former executive director of Massachusetts Poetry Festival and ex-Grisham Writer-in-Residence. C...
A Great Day in Harlem
A Great Day in Harlem Kam Williams a_grea34.jpg Film Review DVD Documentary on the Anatomy of Historic Jazz Photo A Great Day in Harlem Click to order via Amazon Plot Synopsis: Art Kane, now...
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 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...
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...
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 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...
The Red Rooster Cookbook: The Story of Food and Hustle in Harlem
The Red Rooster Cookbook: The Story of Food and Hustle in Harlem Marcus Samuelsson 9780544639775 Nonfiction Rux Martin Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Southern comfort food and multicultural recipes f...