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Olive Senior
Olive Senior 0000000110714769 Jamaican-born Olive Senior is an accomplished scholar, journalist, and editor. Educated at Carleton University and the Thomson Foundation, she's held roles at the Daily ...
The Pain Tree
The Pain Tree Olive Senior 9781770864344 Fiction Cormorant Books Cormorant Books From the author of Dancing Lessons, Finalist for the 2012 Amazon.ca First Novel Award and Finalist for the 2012 Commonw...
Boonoonoonous Hair (paperback)
Boonoonoonous Hair (paperback) Olive Senior 9781926890227 Fiction Tradewind Books Tradewind Books In this beautifully illustrated picture book written by Commonwealth Prize winning author Olive Senior...
Boonoonoonous Hair
Boonoonoonous Hair Olive Senior 9781926890074 Fiction Tradewind Books Tradewind Books In this beautifully illustrated picture book written by Commonwealth Prize winning author Olive Senior and illustr...
Olive Oakes and the Haunted Carousel
Olive Oakes and the Haunted Carousel Kalynn Bayron 9781547615926 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing This new spooky mystery series by New York Times bestselling author Kalynn Bayr...
Over the Roofs of the World
Over the Roofs of the World Olive Senior 9781894663823 Poetry Insomniac Press Insomniac Press Using nature as both model and metaphor, Toronto resident Olive Senior delves into birds, flying, and Cari...
Gardening in the Tropics
Gardening in the Tropics Olive Senior 9781897178003 Poetry Idiomatic Idiomatic Gardening in the Tropics contains a rich Caribbean world in poems offered to readers everywhere. Olive Senior’s rich vein...
Dying to Better Themselves: West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal
Dying to Better Themselves: West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal Olive Senior 9789766404574 Nonfiction University of the West Indies Press University of the West Indies Press The popular ...
Shell
Shell Olive Senior 9781897178485 Poetry Insomniac Press Insomniac Press In Shell, Olive Senior continues her ongoing investigation of the natural world, the nature of poetry and the power of her Carib...
Anna Carries Water
Anna Carries Water Olive Senior 9781896580609 Fiction Tradewind Books Tradewind Books Anna fetches water from the spring every day, but she can’t carry it on her head like her older brothers and siste...
Isaac and the Bah Family Tree
Isaac and the Bah Family Tree Kam Williams Book Review ’There was a tree that stood alone in the Bah family backyard. Thick, brown bark covered the trunk, while the gently swa...
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...
The Cross and the Lynching Tree
The Cross and the Lynching Tree James H. Cone 9781626980051 Nonfiction Orbis Books Orbis Books The cross and the lynching tree are the two most emotionally charged symbols in the history of the Africa...
Isaac And The Bah Family Tree
Isaac And The Bah Family Tree Adrienne C. Wilson 9781606047927 Fiction Tate Publishing Tate Publishing & Enterprises, LLC Are you my family tree? In Isaac and the Bah Family Tree, new author Adrienne ...
Discerner of Hearts
Discerner of Hearts Olive Senior 9780771080531 Fiction McClelland & Stewart Penguin Random House The nine vividly rendered stories of place and character in Discerner of Hearts are set in Jamaica, bot...
Finding Peace Isn’t Peaceful: Overcoming the Struggle Within to Heal My Soul
Finding Peace Isn’t Peaceful: Overcoming the Struggle Within to Heal My Soul Ma’Ronda X 9781943409563 Nonfiction Pure Thoughts Publishing Pure Thoughts Publishing, LLC Finding Peace Isn’t Peaceful is ...
Paradise Once: A Novel
Paradise Once: A Novel Olive Senior 9781636142289 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books A historical novel that brings to life the resiliency of the indigenous Taíno people in the Caribbean whose...
Dancing Lessons
Dancing Lessons Olive Senior 9781938604492 Fiction Dzanc Books Dzanc Books “This novel is a jewel that promises the reader a lesson in dancing to the right tune.”—Jamaica Observer Her mother’s deat...
Encyclopedia Of Jamaican Heritage
Encyclopedia Of Jamaican Heritage Olive Senior 9789768007148 Nonfiction Twin Guinep Publishers Twin Guinep Publishers This unique sourcebook runs the gamut from ABENG to ZOMBI with nearly 1000 entries...
Working Miracles: Womens Lives in the English-Speaking Caribbean
Working Miracles: Womens Lives in the English-Speaking Caribbean Olive Senior 9780253288851 Nonfiction Indiana University Press Indiana University Press A serious piece of scholarship in the field of ...
Summer Lightning and Other Stories
Summer Lightning and Other Stories Olive Senior 9780582786271 Fiction Longman Penguin Random House Winner 1987 Commonwealth Book Prize for Best Book. Written in vivid, colourful detail, these rich, co...
Caribbean Reads Publishing
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NEW Reads Publications
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Caribbean Reads Publishing
Caribbean Reads Publishing Caribbean Reads Publishing Caribbean Reads Publishing
NEW Reads Publications
NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications
Peepal Tree Press
Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Ltd. Peepal Tree aims to bring you the very best of international writing from the Caribbean, its diasporas and the UK. Our goal is always to pub...
Flame Tree Publishing
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Peepal Tree Press
Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Ltd. Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree aims to bring you the very best of international writing from the Caribbean, its diasporas and the UK. Our goal is always to pub...
The Crooked Christmas Tree: The Beautiful Meaning of Jesus’ Birth
The Crooked Christmas Tree: The Beautiful Meaning of Jesus’ Birth Damian Chandler 9781478918370 Nonfiction FaithWords Hachette Book Group In this real-life Christmas fable, when a Dad decides to let h...
A Family Tree
A Family Tree Thumper Book Review A Family Tree, Taking Root by Doc Robertson is an enjoyable, refreshing novel that should have read like a dream. While many of our authors insist on writing the p...
Samuel P. Golden
Samuel P. Golden 0000000530897514 Samuel P. Golden’s 2026 Book Tour Samuel P. Golden is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal in Houston and currently serves as a Senior Advisor. He is the fou...
The Age of Phillis
The Age of Phillis Honoree Fanonne Jeffers 9780819579492 Poetry Wesleyan University Press Wesleyan University Press Poems imagine the life and times of Phillis Wheatley In 1773, a young, African Ameri...
Pain & Gain
Pain & Gain Kam Williams pain-and-gain-movie-poster.jpg Film Review Crime Caper Recreates Real-Life Kidnapping Plot Pain & Gain (2013) In Theaters: Apr 26, 2013 Limited Rated R for graphic nudi...
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...
Beech Tree Books
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Oak Tree Press
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Flame Tree Press
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Flame Tree Collections
Flame Tree Collections Flame Tree Publishing Flame Tree Publishing
Flame Tree Calendars
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Beech Tree Books
Beech Tree Books Beech Tree Books Beech Tree Books
Flame Tree Studio
Flame Tree Studio Flame Tree Studio Flame Tree Calendars
Oak Tree Press
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Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
Peepal Tree Press Ltd. Peepal Tree Press Ltd. INSCRIBE Peepal Tree aims to bring you the very best of international writing from the Caribbean, its diasporas and the UK. Our goal is always to publish...
Tamara Natalie Madden Wall Calendar 2027
Tamara Natalie Madden Wall Calendar 2027 Flame Tree Studio 9781806940677 Nonfiction Flame Tree Calendars Flame Tree Studio Tamara Natalie Madden Art Calendar celebrates the regal, glistening portraits...
Nell Plants a Tree
Nell Plants a Tree Anne Wynter 9780062865779 Fiction Balzer & Bray/Harperteen HarperCollins This gorgeous picture book shows how one little girl’s careful tending of a pecan tree creates the living ce...
Branches of the Tree of Life: The Collected Poems of Abiodun Oyewole 1969-2013
Branches of the Tree of Life: The Collected Poems of Abiodun Oyewole 1969-2013 Abiodun Oyewole 9781940939032 Poetry 2Leaf Press 2Leaf Press Branches of the Tree of Life is the first comprehensive volu...
Circles of Hope
Circles of Hope Karen Lynn Williams 9780802853967 Fiction Eerdmans Books for Young Readers Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Everyone brought a gift for baby Lucia. Facile sat high up in his mango tr...
Flame Tree Studio
Flame Tree Studio NONE Flame Tree Studio is designed and developed at Flame Tree Publishing, an independent publisher and creator of fine, illustrated books, journals, notebooks, jigsaw puzzles, and...
Senior Stories - Straight From the Heart
Senior Stories - Straight From the Heart Yvonne Rose 9780982492215 Poetry Amber Communications Group Amber Communications Group Senior Stories Straight from the Heart is a network of true tales - sto...
Valerie Jarrett
Valerie Jarrett NONE Valerie Jarrett, a long-term senior adviser to President Obama, led several White House initiatives and held key roles in Chicago's government and business sectors. She's recogni...
Book Club Picks - $10 Classics from HarperCollins - Plus More in AALBC’s eNewsletter
Book Club Picks - $10 Classics from HarperCollins - Plus More in AALBC’s eNewsletter Troy Johnson Article Books a Few Book Clubs are Enjoying this Month The Tea’s October Selection – We Shou...
Lenard D. Moore
Lenard D. Moore 0000000079037447 Lenard D. Moore is a celebrated poet, anthologist, and U.S. Army Veteran, known globally for his works published in 15+ countries and translated into multiple languag...
Don’t Try This Alone: How to Build Deep Community When You Want to Hide from Your Pain
Don’t Try This Alone: How to Build Deep Community When You Want to Hide from Your Pain Toni Collier 9781400233571 Nonfiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing Discover how to find heali...
Don’t Try This Alone: How to Build Deep Community When You Want to Hide from Your Pain
Don’t Try This Alone: How to Build Deep Community When You Want to Hide from Your Pain Toni Collier 9781400233540 Nonfiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing Discover how to find heali...
Passion for the Heist
Passion for the Heist K’wan 9781250834898 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers National bestselling author K’wan returns with Passion for the Heist, a gritty, unforgettable novel about love and crime on...
Dear Father: Breaking The Cycle Of Pain
Dear Father: Breaking The Cycle Of Pain J. Ivy 9781582705088 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Hip-hop’s favorite poet and Grammy Award–winning artist J. Ivy bares his soul in this inspira...
Guardian
Guardian Julius Lester 9780061558900 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins There are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity on that tree and topple it ...
Elsie Augustave Reads From THE ROVING TREE
Elsie Augustave Reads From THE ROVING TREE Author Interviews
INSCRIBE
INSCRIBE Peepal Tree Press Ltd. Peepal Tree Press Ltd. Peepal Tree aims to bring you the very best of international writing from the Caribbean, its diasporas and the UK. Our goal is always to publish...
Afrofuturism Short Stories (Part of Gothic Fantasy)
Afrofuturism Short Stories (Part of Gothic Fantasy) Isis Asare 9781835622643 Fiction Flame Tree Collections Flame Tree Publishing Exploring new Black literature, following the success of Black Sci-Fi ...
Far from the Tree
Far from the Tree Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant 9781250846631 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers From the bestselling author duo Donna Grant and Virginia DeBerry comes Far from the T...
Epoca: The Tree of Ecrof
Epoca: The Tree of Ecrof Ivy Claire Pochoda 9781949520071 Fiction Granity Studios Granity Studios Created by Kobe Bryant From the mind of basketball legend, Academy Award–winning, and New York Time...
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, ...
The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim
The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim Marcia Douglas 9781845233327 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press A much-awaited novel from an award-winning writer a reggae track...
Sleeping Under the Tree of Life
Sleeping Under the Tree of Life Sheree Renée Thomas 9781619761117 Fiction Aqueduct Press Aqueduct Press Sleeping under the Tree of Life evokes the realm of ancestral knowledge with a deep respect for ...
Behind the Tupelo Tree: Secrets of the South Vols. I and II
Behind the Tupelo Tree: Secrets of the South Vols. I and II Corinda Pitts Marsh 9781500924850 Fiction Creation Publishing Group Creation Publishing Group Two strong Southern women, one a slave and the...
The Roving Tree
The Roving Tree Elsie Augustave 9781617751653 Fiction Open Lens Akashic Books “…gorgeous new novel about a Haitian adoptee finding her way in many different corners of the world.”—Edwidge Dantic...
Bivouac (Peepal Tree Press)
Bivouac (Peepal Tree Press) Kwame Dawes 9781845231057 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press A sharply focused portrayal of Jamaica at a tipping point in its recent past, this story of one man’s ...
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...
Homer, the H-Shaped Tree
Homer, the H-Shaped Tree Barbara Brandon 9781412016391 Fiction Trafford Publishing Author Solutions Homer, The H-Shaped Tree is a delightful story for all children. Small children who have...
Prophets (Peepal Tree Caribbean Poetry)
Prophets (Peepal Tree Caribbean Poetry) Kwame Dawes 9780948833854 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press As 24-hour television, belching out the swaggering voices of American hellfire preachers, c...
Daniel Bernstrom
Daniel Bernstrom NONE Daniel Bernstrom is a visually impaired author who enjoys creating rhythmic stories. His work often draws inspiration from his surroundings, such as his story about a eucalyptus...
Far From The Tree
Far From The Tree Paige Turner Book Review A prominent novelist once declared, "You can’t go home again", but co authors Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant have reevaluated this truism...
The Cross & the Lynching Tree
The Cross & the Lynching Tree Kam Williams Book Review “The cross and the lynching tree are separated by nearly 2,000 years. One is the universal symbol of Christian faith; the other is the q...
Rockin around That Christmas Tree
Rockin around That Christmas Tree Thumper Book Review Denise Morrison has been married to her husband Edward Morrison for over 27 years. The couple has two children, Anthony and Christine.&nb...
Bakari Kitwana
Bakari Kitwana 0000000114584527 Bakari Kitwana is a renowned journalist, activist, and political analyst, known for his commentary on politics and youth culture. He has been a consultant on hip-hop, ...
Sondra Kathryn Wilson
Sondra Kathryn Wilson NONE Dr. Sondra Kathryn Wilson was a senior associate at Harvard's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, founder of the James Weldon Johnson Foundation, and executor of Johnson’s literary e...
Brad R. Braxton
Brad R. Braxton NONE Brad Ronnell Braxton, Ph.D., is a Public Theology Professor and President at Chicago Theological Seminary, Founding Senior Pastor of The Open Church, and Senior Advisor at a Smit...
Wild Hearts
Wild Hearts K’wan 9781250411020 Fiction Wildthorn Macmillan Publishers The story that captivated readers—now complete for the first time. Passion for the Heist introduced readers to the unforgettab...
Addicted To Pain: Renew Your Mind & Heal Your Spirit From A Toxic Relationship In 30 Days
Addicted To Pain: Renew Your Mind & Heal Your Spirit From A Toxic Relationship In 30 Days Rainie Howard 9781734015508 Nonfiction Howard Global Enterprise Howard Global Enterprise The obsession of a to...
Transforming Pain To Power: Unlock Your Unlimited Potential
Transforming Pain To Power: Unlock Your Unlimited Potential Daniel Beaty 9780425267486 Nonfiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House Pain doesn’t last alwaysSometimes only for a nightTry not to resist...
Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We’re Not Hurting
Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We’re Not Hurting Terrie Williams 9780743298834 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. Terrie Williams knows that Black people are hurting. She knows ...
Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain
Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain Kam Williams kevin_hart_movieposter2011.jpg Film Review Concert Flick Features Highlights of Funnyman’s 90-City Tour Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain [2011] ...
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 ...
The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story Of Sally Miller And Her Fight For Freedom in Old New Orleans
The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story Of Sally Miller And Her Fight For Freedom in Old New Orleans John Bailey 9780871139214 Nonfiction Atlantic Monthly Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. I...
The Three Lucys
The Three Lucys Hayan Charara 9781600609985 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Luli likes to sit in the shade of an olive tree with his beloved cats: Lucy the Fat, Lucy the Skinny, and Lucy Lucy....
Anita Hemmings, the First Black Student to Attend Vassar College
Anita Hemmings, the First Black Student to Attend Vassar College Troy Johnson Article Karin Tanabe’s gripping new historical novel, The Gilded Years (Washington Square Press, June 7, 2016) is based o...
The Angels’ Share
The Angels’ Share Garfield Ellis 9781617753732 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "It takes a lot to stand out in the crowded field of Caribbean lit, but Garfield Ellis grabs mystery, family, love, h...
Globetrotter & Hitler’s Children (Black Goat)
Globetrotter & Hitler’s Children (Black Goat) Amatoritsero Ede 9781933354774 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books A startling new voice in Canadian letters.” Olive Senior, author of Shell"Ede has the ...
Vladimir Lucien
Vladimir Lucien NONE Vladimir Lucien is an award-winning St. Lucian writer, known for his published works in notable journals and anthologies. His accolades include the Small Axe Prize 2013 and the O...
Lessons We Were Never Taught
Lessons We Were Never Taught Nikesha Elise Williams 9781733584852 Poetry NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications Lessons We Were Never Taught is author Nikesha Elise Williams’s first collection ...
Darius Myers
Darius Myers NONE Darius Myers, a NYC-based fiction writer and former senior executive in media, is known for his thrilling Black Camelot series, praised for its intriguing plot and compelling charac...
Brave Enough to Be Broken: How to Embrace Your Pain and Discover Hope and Healing
Brave Enough to Be Broken: How to Embrace Your Pain and Discover Hope and Healing Toni Collier 9781400233533 Nonfiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing None of us are perfect. And tha...
Don’t Settle for Safe: Embracing the Uncomfortable to Become Unstoppable
Don’t Settle for Safe: Embracing the Uncomfortable to Become Unstoppable Sarah Jakes Roberts 9780718096359 Nonfiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing Popular speaker and New York Time...
The Little Girl Inside: Owning My Role in My Own Pain
The Little Girl Inside: Owning My Role in My Own Pain Tonya Barbee 9780999670606 Fiction I am Still a Rose, LLC I am Still a Rose, LLC Drug addict, cheater, emotionally unavailable, and bigamist. What...