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Palm Beach Book Festival
Palm Beach Book Festival Norton Museum of Art Palm Beach Florida Festival that celebrates the NY Times best-selling, award winning and celebrity authors and a written word for children and adults of S...
Palm Beach Book Festival
Palm Beach Book Festival Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton Florida We are a 501c-3 non-profit founded in 2015 bringing in NYT best-selling authors. We have more celebrity authors under one roof i...
Beach Hair
Beach Hair Ashley Woodfolk 9781665920988 Fiction Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. From two bestselling creators comes a lyrical and heartfelt picture book about a multir...
Donna M. Gray-Banks
Donna M. Gray-Banks NONE Donna M. Gray-Banks, founder of F.R.E.S.H. Book Festival, is a successful author known for her suspense erotic trilogy and a guest columnist for various outlets. She hosts tw...
Saving American Beach: The Biography of African American Environmentalist Mavynee Betsch
Saving American Beach: The Biography of African American Environmentalist Mavynee Betsch Heidi Tyline King 9781101996294 Nonfiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House This...
Calabash International Literary Festival
Calabash International Literary Festival Treasure Beach Treasure Beach Jamaica, W.I. The Calabash International Literary Festival, held on a biennial basis on even years, was founded in 2001 by three ...
Summer on Highland Beach
Summer on Highland Beach Sunny Hostin 9780062994257 Fiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins The View cohost and three-time Emmy Award winner Sunny Hostin transports readers to Highland Beach in...
Chicken Bone Beach: A Pictorial History of Atlantic City’s Missouri Avenue Beach
Chicken Bone Beach: A Pictorial History of Atlantic City’s Missouri Avenue Beach Cheryl Woodruff-Brooks 9781620067833 Nonfiction Sunbury Press Sunbury Press Cheryl Woodruff-Brooks has compiled this hi...
Murder at Sugar Rush Beach: A Gripping Crime Mystery Packed with Twists
Murder at Sugar Rush Beach: A Gripping Crime Mystery Packed with Twists Paula Lennon 9781804052150 Fiction Joffe Books Joffe Books Palm trees, white sandy beaches and a perfect turquoise sea. Jamaica’...
Cheryl Woodruff-Brooks
Cheryl Woodruff-Brooks NONE Cheryl Woodruff-Brooks, a legislative assistant at the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, is a passionate writer and author of the 2017 book “Chicken Bone Beach.” She ...
Blue Beach
Blue Beach Karyn Parsons 9780316575751 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Perfect for fans of Promise Boys, this gripping historical mystery follows a teenager who finds...
Ty’s Travels: Beach Day!
Ty’s Travels: Beach Day! Kelly Starling Lyons 9780062951144 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins A Geisel Honor-winning series! Author Kelly Starling Lyons selected as the 2021 Piedmont Laureate! Join ...
Dear Verdel
Dear Verdel Ina Yalof Article Dear Verdel, It has been decades since you kept house for my family, but I still think of you every so often. Perhaps now more so than ever, as the Black Lives Ma...
Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival: Author Village
Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival: Author Village Meet many of the authors you participated in the 2017 Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival, which was held at Curtis Hixon Park. These images and photos...
Charleston Literary Festival
Charleston Literary Festival Various Downtown Venues Charleston South Carolina Charleston Literary Festival is a boutique literary festival that runs every November for ten days in Charleston, South C...
Caleb Azumah Nelson
Caleb Azumah Nelson 0000000505162647 A 2021 National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Honoree Caleb Azumah Nelson is a British-Ghanaian writer and photographer based in London. Known for his n...
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House Cherie Jones 9780316536981 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK "Searing … In affluent Baxter’s Beach, ...
A Beach Tail
A Beach Tail Karen Lynn Williams 9781635925531 Fiction Boyds Mills Press Boyds Mills Press A charming tale of creativity and discovery. —School Library Journal, starred review A creative and intellig...
Tar Beach
Tar Beach Faith Ringgold 9780517885444 Fiction Dragonfly Books Dragonfly Books Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold broke new ground because the book was adapted from the textile/quilt. She incorporated Africa...
Tar Beach (Hardcover)
Tar Beach (Hardcover) Faith Ringgold 9780517580301 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold broke new ground because the book was adapted from the textile...
The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children
The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children Davida Adedjouma 9781880000762 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books Black is dark, dark is lovely, lovely is the palm of my heartand my ...
Before the Palm Could Bloom: Poems of Africa
Before the Palm Could Bloom: Poems of Africa Patricia Jabbeh Wesley 9780932826640 Poetry New Issues Poetry & Prose New Issues Poetry & Prose In Before the Palm Could Bloom, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley writ...
Don’t Throw Away Your Stick Till You Cross the River: The Journey of an Ordinary Man
Don’t Throw Away Your Stick Till You Cross the River: The Journey of an Ordinary Man Vincent Collin Beach and Anni Beach 9781589850767 Fiction Five Star Publications, Inc Five Star Publications, Inc V...
Into Africa: A Personal Journey
Into Africa: A Personal Journey Yvonne Blackwood Excerpt “On Sunday afternoon Adamson and I returned to Labadi Beach. I did a double take when we entered the gate. The empty stretch of beach I&...
The Schomburg Center's Third Annual Black Comic Book
The Schomburg Center's Third Annual Black Comic Book The Schomburg Center's Third Annual Black Comic Book Festival Third Annual Black Comic Book Festival Saturday, January 17, 2015, 10 am - 7 pm 51...
Great American Book Festival
Great American Book Festival Main Street Square Rapid City South Dakota The Great American Book Festival was created by the founders of Literary Classics Book Awards & Reviews In an effort to suppo...
Texas Book Festival
Texas Book Festival State Capitol and surrounding grounds Austin Texas The Texas Book Festival (#TXBOOKFEST) celebrates authors and their contributions to the culture of literacy, ideas, and imaginati...
A Better Life Bookstore, Daytona Beach, FL
A Better Life Bookstore, Daytona Beach, FL Book Spotlights Bishop Derek T. Triplett is the founding pastor of Hope Fellowship Church in Daytona Beach, Florida. He he talk about his Church's Bookstore,...
Vegas Valley Book Festival
Vegas Valley Book Festival Las Vegas Nevada The Vegas Valley Book Festival, now in its fifteenth year, is a celebration of the written, spoken, and illustrated word. The festival has networked togeth...
BWABC Literacy Festival
BWABC Literacy Festival Memphis Cook Convention Center Memphis Tennessee 2017 Festival was cancelled “The BWABC Literacy Association will not hold its annual festival in 2017. We thank you for...
Black Authors Festival @SagHarbor
Black Authors Festival @SagHarbor Breakwater Yacht Club Sag Harbor New York The Black Authors Festival @Sag Harbor is a nationally celebrated in-person event, recognized by USA Today as one of the Top...
Mboka Festival of Arts, Culture and Sport
Mboka Festival of Arts, Culture and Sport Banjul The Gambia An African Diaspora, One World, Pan African experience Mboka means ‘One Family’ in Wolof and will offer festival attendees a...
Festival of Colors
Festival of Colors Surishtha Sehgal and Kabir Sehgal 9781481420495 Fiction Beach Lane Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Learn all about Holi, the Indian Festival of Colors, in this lush picture book from b...
Patricia A. Saunders
Patricia A. Saunders NONE Patricia A. Saunders, an author from Connecticut, now based in San Francisco, began her writing journey after her mother's passing. She released her first book in 2012 and i...
Faith Ringgold
Faith Ringgold 0000000078615604 Faith Ringgold was a multi-disciplinary artist and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. Known for her work in painting, writing, and sculptur...
Brooklyn Book Festival 2012
Brooklyn Book Festival 2012 Photos and one video from the 2012 Brooklyn Book Festival The 2012 Brooklyn Book Festival The Brooklyn Book Festival is the largest free literary event in Ne...
Brooklyn Book Festival
Brooklyn Book Festival Brooklyn Borough Hall and Vicinity Brooklyn New York The Brooklyn Book Festival is the largest free literary event in New York City, presenting an array of national and internat...
Sixth Annual National Book Festival
Sixth Annual National Book Festival Sixth Annual National Book Festival THIS EVENT HAS TAKEN PLACE AND IS RECORDED HERE AS AN HISTORICAL ARCHIVE. 2006 National Book Festival ...
Utah Humanities Council Book Festival
Utah Humanities Council Book Festival Salt Lake City Utah Previously the The Great Salt Lake Book Festival The annual Utah Humanities Book Festival is Utah’s oldest and only statewide book f...
Surviving Chaos, How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar by Harold Phifer Book Reviewed
Surviving Chaos, How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar by Harold Phifer Book Reviewed Denolyn Carroll Article ADD TO CART Publication Date: Feb 18, 2021List Price: $17.95 Format: Paperback, 2...
Annapolis Book Festival
Annapolis Book Festival The Key School Annapolis Maryland The Annapolis Book Festival is one of the premier community events in the region. Every year more than 3,000 people attend this free community...
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...
F.R.E.S.H. Book Festival
F.R.E.S.H. Book Festival Julia T. and Charles W. Cherry, Sr. Cultural and Educational Center Daytona Beach Florida F.R.E.S.H. Book Film Festival (Fiction, Romance, Erotica, Spiritual, Health and More)...
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood
The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood Helene Cooper 9780743266253 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Journalist Helene Cooper examines the violent past of her...
Festival of Women Writers
Festival of Women Writers Hobart New York The Festival of Women Writers has become a highly anticipated event, unique among cultural happenings in the Catskill Region, especially in Delaware County. ...
Bklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors
Bklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors Loading Brooklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors by Leah Mullen Perhaps the most overlooked and under acknowledged heroines and heroes ...
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival Kwame Dawes 9781936070077 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books Contributors include: Robert Pins...
Three Famous Authors Describe a Few of Their Favorite Bookstores
Three Famous Authors Describe a Few of Their Favorite Bookstores Book Spotlights During the 2017 Southwest Florida Reading Festival, three very popular authors describe a few of their favorite booksto...
2nd Annual Up South Int'l Book Festival
2nd Annual Up South Int'l Book Festival 2nd Annual Up South Int'l Book Festival Read an article about this event: A Fire in Harlem - Tribute to Sekou Sundiata at Up South International Book Fes...
The Hampton Roads Indie Author Book Festival
The Hampton Roads Indie Author Book Festival Family Life Center 1 Redheart Drive, Hampton, VA 23661 Hampton Virginia Upon returning from an out of state book festival, Florenza Denise Lee wondered wh...
East of the River Book Festival
East of the River Book Festival Rocketship Rise Academy Washington District of Columbia The 2017 East of the River Book Festival is a magnet for city dwellers from all wards to recognize and enjoy a l...
Tamiya Davis
Tamiya Davis NONE Tamiya Davis, a Virginia native, is a longshoreman, fashion entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker. Her achievements include running a rights restoration chapter, owning a f...
The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University
The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University Tulane University New Orleans Louisiana The highly anticipated New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University returns to Tulane’s uptown campus...
AJC Decatur Book Festival
AJC Decatur Book Festival Downtown Decatur Decatur Georgia The AJC Decatur Book Festival is the largest independent book festival in the country and one of the five largest overall. Since its launch, ...
Kellie Magnus on the Kingston Book Festival
Kellie Magnus on the Kingston Book Festival Literary Events Kellie Magnus tells AALBC.com about the Kingston Book Festival during the 2016 Brooklyn Book Festival. AALBC.com is planning a group trip t...
Dallas Book Festival
Dallas Book Festival Dallas Public Library Dallas Texas Founded in 2006 as the Dallas International Book Festival, the festival is Dallas Public Library’s premiere literary event. The Dallas Boo...
San Antonio Book Festival
San Antonio Book Festival Central Library and the Majestic Theatre San Antonio Texas The Festival is a day-long event that unites readers and writers alike. Author presentations are held indoors while...
Twin Cities Book Festival
Twin Cities Book Festival MINNESOTA STATE FAIRGROUNDS Minneapolis Minnesota The Twin Cities Book Festival—brought to you by Rain Taxi—is not only the largest and most important literary ga...
Queens Book Festival
Queens Book Festival LIC Landing by Coffeed Queens New York “The Queens Book Festival, debuted on August 7, 2016, is the largest and most inclusive literary gathering in Queens. It fills the bor...
The ESSENCE Brand—Where Black Women Come First—NOT!
The ESSENCE Brand—Where Black Women Come First—NOT! Troy Johnson Article A few weeks ago, I visited Essence Magazine’s website to learn which Black owned bookstore they were going to use as the books...
Ann Arbor Book Festival
Ann Arbor Book Festival Ann Arbor Michigan Formed in 2003, the Ann Arbor Book Festival’s mission is to promote reading, heighten awareness of literacy challenges, and showcase the rich culture ...
Jael Richardson
Jael Richardson NONE Jael Ealey Richardson is a Toronto-based author and educator with an MFA in Creative Writing. Known for her memoir and children's book, both titled The Stone Thrower, her work re...
Aloha for Carol Ann
Aloha for Carol Ann Margo Sorenson 9781603490276 Fiction Marimba Books Just Us Books, Inc. Beautiful palm trees, pretty flowers and a warm breeze are all waiting to welcome 8-year-old Carol Ann to her...
Shahid Reads His Own Palm
Shahid Reads His Own Palm Reginald Dwayne Betts 9781882295814 Poetry Alice James Books Alice James Books Reginald Dwayne Betts sings mournfully, bearing witness within prisoners’ cells, pulling reader...
Absence in the Palm of My Hands and Other Poems
Absence in the Palm of My Hands and Other Poems asha bandele 9780863160134 Poetry Writers and Readers Publishing Writers & Readers Publishing
Southern Festival of Books
Southern Festival of Books Nashville Tennessee The Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written WordSM is a three-day Festival celebrated each year during the second full weekend of Octob...
Women's History Month Literary Festival 2015
Women's History Month Literary Festival 2015 Women's History Month Literary Festival 2015 featuring, Elizabeth Alexander, LaShonda Katrice Barnett, Lalita Tademy and Linda A. Duggins Women’s History M...
Dahlonega Literary Festival
Dahlonega Literary Festival Historic Square of Dahlonega, GA Dahlonega Georgia The Dahlonega Literary Festival is an annual celebration of books that takes place in March. Situated in Historic Downtow...
Books in Bloom Literary Festival
Books in Bloom Literary Festival Color Burst Park Columbia Maryland Books In Bloom is an innovative, progressive, and memorable festival, poised to be one of the premier book festivals in the region. ...
Toni Blackman
Toni Blackman 0000000036920264 Toni Blackman, an international champion of hip-hop culture, is known for her captivating performances and powerful presence. She's the first hip-hop artist to work as ...
Saints & Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival
Saints & Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival Hotel Monteleone New Orleans Louisiana The Saints and Sinners Literary Festival was founded in 2003 as a new initiative designed as an innovative way to reach...
Toronto International Festival of Authors
Toronto International Festival of Authors Harbourfront Centre Toronto Canada Since its inception in 1974, Toronto’s International Festival of Authors has welcomed more than 9,000 authors from ov...
Etheridge Knight Festival
Etheridge Knight Festival Etheridge Knight Festival Etheridge Knight Inc. P.O. Box 18043 Indianapolis, IN 46218 Phone (317) 396-1529.Fax (317) 925-1481 E-mail EKFestival@aol.com The 11th Ann...
Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival
Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival Curtis Hixon Park Tampa Florida The Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival is an annual, cultural arts & music festival that takes place over the course of 10 days in Tamp...
University Spring Literary Festival
University Spring Literary Festival Ohio University Athens Ohio Since 1986, The Spring Literary Festival has featured some of the world's finest, most distinguished writers of poetry, fiction and non-...
LaKesa Cox
LaKesa Cox NONE LaKesa Cox is an award-winning author and screenwriter with over 20 years of experience. She has published four novels and has contributed to two anthologies. She was acknowledged as ...
Bklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors
Bklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors Troy Johnson Article Brooklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors by Leah Mullen Perhaps the most overlooked and under acknowledged heroines and heroes...
Ty’s Travels: A 5-Book Reading Collection: Zip, Zoom!, All Aboard!, Beach Day!, Lab Magic, Winter Wonderland
Ty’s Travels: A 5-Book Reading Collection: Zip, Zoom!, All Aboard!, Beach Day!, Lab Magic, Winter Wonderland Kelly Starling Lyons 9780063306851 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins This joyful five-boo...
Rocket Says Clean Up!
Rocket Says Clean Up! Nathan Bryon 9780593118993 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Plucky science-lover Rocket returns in another inspiring picture book about getting a...
Leviathan Beach
Leviathan Beach Joseph Earl Thomas 9781538741016 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group A wild and wildly original debut story collection that explores the present and future, violence a...
Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar
Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar Harold Phifer 9780578743547 Nonfiction Rise & Read Free Press Rise & Read Free Press For more than fifty years, Harold Phifer’s childhood living condi...
Surviving Chaos, How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar
Surviving Chaos, How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar Carol Taylor Book Review Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace At A Beach Bar is Harold Phifer’s memoir of childhood abuse, family dysfunction, an...
Imani at the Beach
Imani at the Beach Cicely Lewis 9798765661857 Fiction Read Woke Books Lerner Publishing Group Shimmer, sparkle, twirl … I am an ambitious girl! After Imani sees the trash that litters her local bea...
Running in Flip-Flops from the End of the World
Running in Flip-Flops from the End of the World justin a. reynolds 9781338815160 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. A hilarious middle-grade from Justin A. Reynolds that asks: What happens when ...
Shades of Afrika Bookstore (Long Beach)
Shades of Afrika Bookstore (Long Beach) Long Beach CA Our Mission is to enhance the understanding and appreciation of the Afrikan Diaspora.
Diane Marie Brown
Diane Marie Brown NONE Diane Marie Brown is a professor at Orange Coast College, public health professional, and author. Holding degrees from UCLA and USC, her debut novel is “Black Candle Women.” Sh...
Sophie Washington Mission Costa Rica (paperback)
Sophie Washington Mission Costa Rica (paperback) Tonya Duncan Ellis 9781732706057 Fiction Page Turner Publishing Page Turner Publishing AN AMAZON BESTSELLING BOOK FOR KIDS! Sophie’s lost in the jungle...
The South Florida Book Festival & Literary Conference
The South Florida Book Festival & Literary Conference Fort Lauderdale Florida The South Florida Book Festival and Literary Conference is one of the nation’s fastest growing and premier book fes...
Albany Book Festival
Albany Book Festival University at Albany Albany New York The Albany Book Festival, established in 2018, draws thousands of book lovers from across the Capital Region and beyond to an intellectually s...
Virginia Festival of the Book
Virginia Festival of the Book Charlottesville Virginia Produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH), the largest of the 56 state (and territory) humanities councils, the Festival is a...
Virginia Children’s Book Festival
Virginia Children’s Book Festival Longwood University, Farmville Farmville Virginia The Virginia Children’s Book Festival will bring together prominent children’s authors and illustrators ...
The High Desert Book Festival
The High Desert Book Festival Hesperia Civic Plaza Park Hesperia California Our annual High Desert Book Festival is where authors and book lovers meet to celebrate the written word amidst Joshua Trees...
Rose Brock
Rose Brock 0000000107888362 Rose Brock, a professor at Sam Houston State University, is renowned for inspiring youth to love books. In addition to her career as a librarian and educator, she co-found...
Elizabeth Zunon
Elizabeth Zunon NONE Elizabeth Zunon is a bilingual artist raised in the Ivory Coast, West Africa. She nurtured her love for drawing and painting from a young age, leading to her focus on children's ...
Gaithersburg Book Festival
Gaithersburg Book Festival Bohrer Park Gaithersburg Maryland The Gaithersburg Book Festival is an annual celebration of great books and great writing that will feature more than 100 award-winning and ...
National Black Book Festival
National Black Book Festival Fallbrook Church / Gymnasium Houston Texas The National Black Book Festival (NBBF) is an annual event, sponsored by Cushcity.com, the world’s largest African-America...
KPBS San Diego Book Festival
KPBS San Diego Book Festival University of San Diego San Diego California The KPBS San Diego Book Festival is a free, public event for book lovers of all ages. It is brought to you by KPBS and present...