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Patrick M. Oliver
Patrick M. Oliver NONE Patrick Oliver is a program manager and literary consultant promoting literacy as empowerment. He hosts Literary Nation Talk Radio, is a publisher and editor, and has worked in...
Turn The Page And You Don’t Stop: Sharing Successful Chapters In Our Lives With Youth
Turn The Page And You Don’t Stop: Sharing Successful Chapters In Our Lives With Youth Patrick M. Oliver 9780977949908 Nonfiction Say It Loud! Readers and Writers Series Say It Loud! Readers and Writer...
Patrick M. Oliver, Consultant Dedicated to Promoting Reading and Writing as Tools of Empowerment
Patrick M. Oliver, Consultant Dedicated to Promoting Reading and Writing as Tools of Empowerment Poetry & Spoken Word Recorded and edited by Troy Johnson of the African American Literature Book Club d...
Patrick and the Not So Perfect Party
Patrick and the Not So Perfect Party Anne Wynter 9781499814460 Fiction Little Bee Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. All Patrick wants for his birthday is a flawless FOOD party. So why does Karter arrive dr...
Shine On: The Writings of Diane Oliver
Shine On: The Writings of Diane Oliver Michael A. Gonzales Article In 2021 my friend Paul Price was cleaning out a storage unit when he stumbled on collection of Black literature called Right On! A...
The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother’s Milk
The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother’s Milk Edward St. Aubyn 9780312429966 Fiction Picador Macmillan Publishers For more than twenty years, acclaimed author Edward S...
Patrick Diamond
Patrick Diamond 0000000109595758 Patrick Diamond, born in Frog Town, South Carolina, holds degrees from Boston University. He has managed at NCNB (now Bank of America), Duke Energy, and the City of C...
Diane Patrick
Diane Patrick NONE Diane Patrick is a seasoned writer and editor with over 20 years of experience in various industries. Known for her work in publishers like Publishers Weekly and Billboard, she's a...
Christine Platt
Christine Platt NONE Christine Platt Patrick, also known as CP Patrick, is a Florida-born author specializing in African Diaspora narratives interlacing fiction and fantasy. She holds degrees in Afri...
Elizabeth Murphy Oliver
Elizabeth Murphy Oliver NONE Elizabeth Murphy Oliver Abney, former city editor and columnist for the Baltimore Afro-American and granddaughter of its founder, has died at 85. A respected journalist a...
The Incredible Joy of Collecting African American Art: My Journey from Frogtown, S.C. to the National Gallery
The Incredible Joy of Collecting African American Art: My Journey from Frogtown, S.C. to the National Gallery Patrick Diamond 9781732048270 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published T...
Love Lessons
Love Lessons Terren Grimble 9780974242309 Fiction Madada Publishing Madada Publishing Stacey Jackson has the perfect life. A senior at Howard University in Washington, DC, she is blessed with brains, ...
Neighbors and Other Stories
Neighbors and Other Stories Diane Oliver 9780802161314 Fiction Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. Read “Shine On: The Writings of Diane Oliver” by Michael A. GonzalesA bold and haunting debut story coll...
Diane Oliver
Diane Oliver 000000012330550X Diane Oliver (1943-1966) was a notable author and Managing Editor of The Carolinian. She published seven short stories, won an O. Henry Award, and attended the Universit...
John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism
John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism Thumper Book Review I was looking forward to reading Keith Gilyard’s biography, John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism. J...
A Reason To Believe: Lessons From An Improbable Life
A Reason To Believe: Lessons From An Improbable Life Deval Patrick 9780767931120 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House “I’ve simply seen too much goodness in this country—and have come so far in my ow...
Ma Dear’s Old Green House
Ma Dear’s Old Green House Denise Lewis Patrick 9780940975552 Fiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. All of us have special places in our childhood memories. They are happy places, fun places. They ...
Patrick J. Gilpin, Marybeth Gasman, and David Levering Lewis
Patrick J. Gilpin, Marybeth Gasman, and David Levering Lewis MULTIPLE "Patrick J. Gilpin, Marybeth Gasman, and David Levering Lewis are renowned authors specializing in history and education. Their c...
Patrick Williams with Angie Ransome-Jones
Patrick Williams with Angie Ransome-Jones MULTIPLE Authors Patrick Williams and Angie Ransome-Jones are renowned writers; Williams known for his thought-provoking narratives and Ransome-Jones for her...
Denise Lewis Patrick
Denise Lewis Patrick NONE Denise Lewis Patrick, a Louisiana-born author and professor, has contributed significantly to children's publishing as both a writer and editor. With a Journalism degree fro...
Melvin Patrick Ely
Melvin Patrick Ely 0000000030403653 Melvin Patrick Ely is an acclaimed author and historian specializing in African American and Southern history. His prize-winning book, 'Israel on the Appomattox', ...
Patrick A. Howell
Patrick A. Howell NONE Patrick A. Howell is an accomplished banker, author, and co-founder of the news collective, Diatribe, and the Global International African Arts Movement. Known for his work in ...
Patrick Denard Douthit
Patrick Denard Douthit 0000000047281613 Patrick Denard Douthit, known as “9th Wonder”, is a Grammy-winning producer, DJ, lecturer, and social activist from Winston-Salem, NC. Born in 1975, he has bee...
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...
Patrick Saint-Jean
Patrick Saint-Jean NONE Patrick Saint-Jean, SJ, is a Haiti-born psychoanalyst and Ignatian spirituality practitioner based in the US. He serves as a regent at Creighton University, teaching psycholog...
Alan B. Govenar, Francis Edward Abernethy, Patrick B. Mullen
Alan B. Govenar, Francis Edward Abernethy, Patrick B. Mullen MULTIPLE Francis E. Abernethy was a notable English professor and editor at the Texas Folklore Society. Patrick B. Mullen is an English pr...
Deval Patrick - The “A Reason to Believe” Interview
Deval Patrick - The “A Reason to Believe” Interview Kam Williams Interview Reflections on Going from the Ghetto to Governor's Office Deval Laurdine Patrick was born on July 31, 1956 in Chicag...
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Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right: A King Oliver Novel
Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right: A King Oliver Novel Walter Mosley 9780316573269 Fiction Mulholland Books Hachette Book Group In the latest from “mystery master” Walter Mosley, a family member&...
The Psych of Life Oliver Gardens
The Psych of Life Oliver Gardens Scubie Albie 9798374113518 Poetry Independently Published Independently Published This collection of poems is my life stretch in plain sight, I feel it so well Oliver ...
Mansa Musa and the Empire of Mali
Mansa Musa and the Empire of Mali P. James Oliver 9781468053548 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Oliver’s well-researched biography of Mansa Musa reads like an exotic tale of gold, glor...
Daily Cornbread: 365 Ingredients For A Healthy Mind, Body and Soul
Daily Cornbread: 365 Ingredients For A Healthy Mind, Body and Soul Stephanie Stokes Oliver 9780385487696 Nonfiction Doubleday Penguin Random House Heart & Soul founding editor Stephanie Stokes Oliver ...
Roxane Gay, Tracy Lynne Oliver, and Rebecca Kirby
Roxane Gay, Tracy Lynne Oliver, and Rebecca Kirby MULTIPLE Roxane Gay, Tracy Lynne Oliver, and Rebecca Kirby are distinguished authors known for their significant contributions in literature and visu...
John Oliver Killens
John Oliver Killens 0000000081741003 “The Godfather of the Black Arts Movement” John Oliver Killens was an important figure in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, Killens was a close ...
Stephanie Stokes Oliver
Stephanie Stokes Oliver NONE Stephanie Stokes Oliver is an accomplished publishing professional, heading SSO Media, serving as a literary scout for Atria Book Group and as author curator for Anguilla...
Alison Oliver
Alison Oliver NONE Alison Oliver, author-illustrator of “Moon” & over 30 BabyLit board books, including “Anne of Green Gables” with 1.8M+ series copies sold. Also known for “Be Bold, Baby” series. Sh...
Bryan Patrick Avery
Bryan Patrick Avery NONE Bryan Patrick Avery is a chief technologist and systems development director from Silicon Valley. He’s also an award-winning poet and author of multiple children’s books, in...
Hanging and Burning: A King Oliver Novel
Hanging and Burning: A King Oliver Novel Walter Mosley 9780316573207 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group A dying gangster’s plea sends Joe King Oliver on a quest for a missing ...
John Oliver Killens Reading Series, 2010 – 2011
John Oliver Killens Reading Series, 2010 – 2011 John Oliver Killens Reading Series, 2010 – 2011 John Oliver Killens Reading Series 2010 – 2011 The Center for Black Literature - Medgar Evers C...
Song for My Father: Memoir of an All-American Family
Song for My Father: Memoir of an All-American Family Stephanie Stokes Oliver 9780743474047 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. On Election Day in 1960, a classmate of Stephanie Stokes Oliver...
Seven Soulful Secrets for Finding Your Purpose and Minding Your Mission
Seven Soulful Secrets for Finding Your Purpose and Minding Your Mission Stephanie Stokes Oliver 9780385487672 Nonfiction Doubleday Penguin Random House From the author of Daily Cornbread, Seven Soulfu...
John Oliver Killens and Jerry W. Ward
John Oliver Killens and Jerry W. Ward MULTIPLE John O. Killens and Jerry W. Ward are renowned authors recognized for their significant contributions to literature. Their work has greatly influenced t...
Very Puzzled
Very Puzzled Very Puzzled Very Puzzled https://verypuzzled.com/ Very Puzzled is a children’s toy manufacturer that focuses on African-Caribbean themed jigsaw puzzles or children developed ...
Very Puzzled
Very Puzzled Very Puzzled Very Puzzled https://verypuzzled.com/ Very Puzzled is a children’s toy manufacturer that focuses on African-Caribbean themed jigsaw puzzles or children developed ...
Justice Ketanji: The Story of Us Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
Justice Ketanji: The Story of Us Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Denise Lewis Patrick 9781338885293 Nonfiction Orchard Books Orchard Books 2024 Jane Addams Peace Association Children’s Boo...
If You Sailed on the Titanic
If You Sailed on the Titanic Denise Lewis Patrick 9781338777208 Nonfiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. What do you know about the sinking of the Titanic? What if you lived in a different time an...
If You Lived During the Civil War
If You Lived During the Civil War Denise Lewis Patrick 9781338712797 Nonfiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. What do you know about the Civil War? What if you lived in a different time and place?...
A Matter of Souls
A Matter of Souls Denise Lewis Patrick 9781541514829 Fiction Carolrhoda Books Lerner Publishing Group From the shores of Africa to the bowels of a transatlantic ship to a voting booth in Mississippi t...
From a Letterman to a Better Man: A Memoir of First Downs and Second Chances
From a Letterman to a Better Man: A Memoir of First Downs and Second Chances Patrick Williams with Angie Ransome-Jones 9780692068090 Nonfiction Samone Publishing Samone Publishing From a Letterman to ...
Last Class Citizen (The Downriver Trilogy Book 2)
Last Class Citizen (The Downriver Trilogy Book 2) Lex Ramsay 9781977041883 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published They’ve gained their freedom from the South. But what if their new fr...
Refuge
Refuge A.I. Nasser 9781537740928 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC The small town of Refuge is the perfect hideaway for Patrick Lahm and the Freys. Nestled in the heart of Maine and miles a...
Finding Someplace
Finding Someplace Denise Lewis Patrick 9781250079824 Fiction Square Fish Macmillan Publishers Reesie Boone just knows that thirteen is going to be her best year yet—this will be the year she makes her...
Edward Seaga and the Challenges of Modern Jamaica
Edward Seaga and the Challenges of Modern Jamaica Patrick E. Bryan 9789766402228 Nonfiction University of the West Indies Press University of the West Indies Press This is the first scholarly biograph...
Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity
Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity E. Patrick Johnson 9780822331544 Fiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books Performance artist and scholar E....
The Adventures of Amos ’n’ Andy: A Social History of an American Phenomenon
The Adventures of Amos ’n’ Andy: A Social History of an American Phenomenon Melvin Patrick Ely 9780813920924 Nonfiction University of Virginia Press University of Virginia Press Forty million American...
Patrick’s Pals #7 Large And In Charge
Patrick’s Pals #7 Large And In Charge Robb Armstrong and Bruce Smith 9780061070730 Fiction HarperEntertainment HarperCollins Patrick Ewing’s homey, Fat Craig Adams, is pumped for the upcoming one-on-o...
The New York Public Library, and Diane Patrick
The New York Public Library, and Diane Patrick MULTIPLE
Total Eclipse of the Heart
Total Eclipse of the Heart Thumper Book Review After reading Zane’s new novel, Total Eclipse of the Heart, I have to admit, I have been sleeping on Zane. The novel is the s...
Hannah Oliver Depp Describes Loyalty Bookstores
Hannah Oliver Depp Describes Loyalty Bookstores Book Spotlights Hannah Oliver Depp founder and co-owner, Loyalty Bookstores. Learn More: https://aalbc.com/bookstore/Loyalty+Books
Every Man a King: A King Oliver Novel
Every Man a King: A King Oliver Novel Walter Mosley 9780316460217 Fiction Mulholland Books Hachette Book Group In this highly anticipated sequel from Edgar Award-winning “master of craft and narrative...
The Minister Primarily (paperback)
The Minister Primarily (paperback) John Oliver Killens 9780063079601 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins A major literary event—the eagerly anticipated publication of a long-lost novel from legendary writer...
The Minister Primarily
The Minister Primarily John Oliver Killens 9780063079595 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Featuring an Introduction by Ishmael Reed A major literary event—the eagerly anticipated publication of a long...
The Sacrifice of Darkness
The Sacrifice of Darkness Roxane Gay, Tracy Lynne Oliver, and Rebecca Kirby 9781684156245 Fiction Archaia BOOM! Studios Roxane Gay, Tracy Lynne Oliver, and Rebecca Kirby adapt Gay’s New York Times bes...
Tito the Bonecrusher
Tito the Bonecrusher Melissa Thomson 9780374303532 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers Macmillan Publishers In Melissa Thomson’s first standalone middle-grade novel, the belove...
Be Bold, Baby: Michelle Obama
Be Bold, Baby: Michelle Obama Alison Oliver 9781328519894 Nonfiction Clarion Books HarperCollins Celebrate Michelle Obama’s most motivational and powerful moments, with quotes from the former First La...
John Oliver Killens: A Life Of Black Literary Activism
John Oliver Killens: A Life Of Black Literary Activism Keith Gilyard 9780820335131 Nonfiction University of Georgia Press University of Georgia Press John Oliver Killens’s politically charged novels A...
Liberation Memories: The Rhetoric And Poetics Of John Oliver Killens (African American Life Series)
Liberation Memories: The Rhetoric And Poetics Of John Oliver Killens (African American Life Series) Keith Gilyard 9780814330579 Nonfiction Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press No ...
The Cotillion: or, One Good Bull Is Half the Herd (Black Arts Movement Series)
The Cotillion: or, One Good Bull Is Half the Herd (Black Arts Movement Series) John Oliver Killens 9781566891196 Fiction Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Beautiful, high-stepping Yoruba of Harlem...
Youngblood
Youngblood John Oliver Killens 9780820322018 Fiction University of Georgia Press University of Georgia Press John Oliver Killens’s landmark novel of social protest chronicles the lives of the Youngblo...
Great Black Russian: A Novel on the Life and Times of Alexander Pushkin
Great Black Russian: A Novel on the Life and Times of Alexander Pushkin John Oliver Killens 9780814320464 Fiction Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press Alexander Pushkin was born i...
A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South
A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South Melvin Patrick Ely 9781250381118 Nonfiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers Relationships between Black and white people that ...
Unbound: Free Black Virginians, 1619-1865
Unbound: Free Black Virginians, 1619-1865 Melvin Patrick Ely 9781913875619 Nonfiction GILES GILES A vital new volume exploring the history of Virginia’s free Black population prior to emancipation. ...
The Spirituality of Transformation, Joy, and Justice: The Ignatian Way for Everyone
The Spirituality of Transformation, Joy, and Justice: The Ignatian Way for Everyone Patrick Saint-Jean 9781506491158 Nonfiction Beaming Books 1517 Media Discover how rooting our beliefs and practices ...
Black Men in Science: A Black History Book for Kids
Black Men in Science: A Black History Book for Kids Bryan Patrick Avery 9781638782155 Nonfiction Callisto Kids Callisto Publishing Incredible stories of Black men who changed the course of science—for...
John Lewis
John Lewis Denise Lewis Patrick 9781665907880 Nonfiction Simon Spotlight Simon & Schuster, Inc. Get to know John Lewis, social justice activist and politician, in this fascinating nonfiction Level 3 R...
Couples Wanted
Couples Wanted Briana Cole 9781496729576 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Acclaimed author Briana Cole delivers a page-turning look behind-the-scenes of love and marriage in this sexy, suspe...
Makena: See Me, Hear Me, Know Me
Makena: See Me, Hear Me, Know Me Denise Lewis Patrick 9781683371847 Fiction American Girl Publishing American Girl Publishing Makena has a passion for fashion and clothes are a way for her to connect ...
Vip: Mahalia Jackson: Freedom’s Voice
Vip: Mahalia Jackson: Freedom’s Voice Denise Lewis Patrick 9780062889683 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Get ready to sing for justice with Mahalia Jackson in this exciting middle grade nonfict...
Vip: Lewis Latimer: Engineering Wizard
Vip: Lewis Latimer: Engineering Wizard Denise Lewis Patrick 9780062978073 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Get ready to light up the world with Lewis Latimer in this exciting middle grade nonfic...
Dispatches from the Vanguard: The Global International African Arts Movement Versus Donald J. Trump
Dispatches from the Vanguard: The Global International African Arts Movement Versus Donald J. Trump Patrick A. Howell 9781912248667 Nonfiction Repeater Books Repeater Books A collection of writers, po...
Melody: No Ordinary Sound
Melody: No Ordinary Sound Denise Lewis Patrick 9781683371403 Fiction American Girl Publishing American Girl Publishing Melody Ellison can’t wait to sing her first solo at church, and she wants to pick...
Melody: Never Stop Singing
Melody: Never Stop Singing Denise Lewis Patrick 9781683371410 Fiction American Girl Publishing American Girl Publishing It’s Melody’s birthday, and she’s excited to turn “double digits” on January 1, ...
Tulsa Burning: Friends Show Their True Colors in Times of Trouble
Tulsa Burning: Friends Show Their True Colors in Times of Trouble Anna Myers 9781937054663 Fiction Roadrunner Press Roadrunner Press Aamila spends every summer vacation with her grandparents. Usually,...
Southern Republic (The Downriver Trilogy Book 1)
Southern Republic (The Downriver Trilogy Book 1) Lex Ramsay 9781522005506 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published In a world where the South has won the Civil War… It’s 1982. A hundred...