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Quincy Troupe
Quincy Troupe 0000000376418772 Quincy Troupe, born in 1939, is an award-winning author, recognized for his poetry, children's books, and non-fiction works. His notable titles include a memoir of Earl...
The Accordion Years: A Memoir
The Accordion Years: A Memoir Quincy Troupe 9781644215876 Nonfiction Seven Stories Press Seven Stories Press The poet and journalist Quincy Troupe has told the stories of many people before, often to ...
ErranaçIties
ErranaçIties Quincy Troupe 9781566892834 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press "Troupe is an innovator of form and tone who shifts quickly from a lofty, elegiac mode into burlesque or smok...
Miles and Me
Miles and Me Quincy Troupe 9780520216242 Nonfiction University of California Press University of California Press Quincy Troupe’s candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portr...
Earl Monroe and Quincy Troupe
Earl Monroe and Quincy Troupe MULTIPLE Earl Monroe and Quincy Troupe are renowned figures in their respective fields, pictured here alongside Margaret Porter-Troupe. Photo by Home Slice. Earl Monro...
Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe
Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe MULTIPLE Miles Davis, renowned jazz musician, and Quincy Troupe, acclaimed author, captured on photo by Jon Stevens. Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe (Photo by Jon Steve...
Chris Gardner and Quincy Troupe
Chris Gardner and Quincy Troupe MULTIPLE Chris Gardner is a renowned author, entrepreneur, and motivational speaker, best known for his autobiography “The Pursuit of Happyness.” Quincy Troupe is a ce...
Choruses: Poems
Choruses: Poems Quincy Troupe 9781566890908 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Quincy Troupe launches a pyrotechnic display of jazz rhythms, political commentary, sports tributes, travelogue...
Miles: The Autobiography
Miles: The Autobiography Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe 9780671725822 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. For more than forty years Miles Davis has been in the front rank of American mus...
Chris Gardner
Chris Gardner 0000000040093476 Chris Gardner is an entrepreneur, author, philanthropist, and single parent who overcame homelessness to become a best-selling author. His memoir, The Pursuit of Happyn...
Miles and Me
Miles and Me Paige Turner Book Review Quincy Troupe’s candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an intimate study of a unique...
Transcircularities: New & Selected Poems
Transcircularities: New & Selected Poems Quincy Troupe 9781566891356 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Much like the vibrant, riveting reading performances for which he is so well-known, Qu...
Duende: Poems, 1966—Now
Duende: Poems, 1966—Now Quincy Troupe 9781644210451 Poetry Seven Stories Press Seven Stories Press The selected poems from over fifty years by the great poet and biographer and friend of Miles Davis.Q...
Seduction: New Poems, 2013-2018
Seduction: New Poems, 2013-2018 Quincy Troupe 9780810139046 Poetry TriQuarterly Books Northwestern University Press The world is made of seductions. In Quincy Troupe’s Seduction, the "I" becomes the "...
Earl The Pearl: My Story
Earl The Pearl: My Story Earl Monroe and Quincy Troupe 9781609615611 Nonfiction Rodale Books Rodale Books Earl “The Pearl” Monroe is a basketball legend whose impact on the game transcends statistics,...
The Pursuit of Happyness
The Pursuit of Happyness Chris Gardner and Quincy Troupe 9780060744878 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Read an AALBC.com Movie Review The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless fa...
Duende
Duende Robert Fleming Book Review Poet Quincy Troupe’s literary magic has elevated him to the forefront of modern American writers. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he, the son of a catcher in the ...
Ghost Voices: A Poem in Prayer
Ghost Voices: A Poem in Prayer Quincy Troupe 9780810138995 Poetry TriQuarterly Books Northwestern University Press If we were all brave enough to resurrect the voices lost from our humanity, what woul...
Quincy Rules
Quincy Rules DuEwa M. Frazier 9781533279835 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Imagine receiving mysterious letters and cards with no return address, only colorful stamps from all around the...
Miles Morales
Miles Morales Jason Reynolds 9781484787489 Fiction Marvel Press Marvel Comics A Marvel YA Spider-Man Novel “Everyone gets mad at hustlers, especially if you’re on the victim side of the hustle. And...
The Pursuit of Happyness
The Pursuit of Happyness Kam Williams pursui29.jpg Film Review Down on His Luck Vet Goes from Broke and Homeless to Successful Stockbroker in Inspirational Bio-Pic The Pursuit of Happynes...
Will Smith - "The Pursuit of Happyness" Interview
Will Smith - "The Pursuit of Happyness" Interview Kam Williams Interview Fresh Prince Opines on His #1 Film Will Smith The Pursuit of Happyness Interview with Kam Williams Wil...
Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones
Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones Quincy Jones 9780385488969 Nonfiction Doubleday Penguin Random House Musician, composer, producer, arranger, and pioneering entrepreneur Quincy Jones has lived lar...
An American Lost in Paris: A Novella Adapted from The Screenplay
An American Lost in Paris: A Novella Adapted from The Screenplay Marcus Anthony Hunter 9781685366551 Fiction Westwood Books Publishing Westwood Books Publishing It was 1968 and Miles Decker had just t...
Little Stevie Wonder
Little Stevie Wonder Quincy Troupe 9780618340606 Nonfiction HMH Books for Young Readers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Eleven-year-old Stevland Judkins Morris Hardaway hit the big time when he signed a Mot...
The Architecture of Language
The Architecture of Language Quincy Troupe 9781566891905 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press “Troupe’s poems resemble Romare Bearden’s collages: muscular and colorful.”—North American Review ...
Snake Back Solos
Snake Back Solos Quincy Troupe 9780918408112 Poetry Reed Cannon & Johnson Pub Reed Cannon & Johnson Pub Selected poems written 1969 - 1977 by African-American poet Quincy Troupe.
What If…? Miles Morales
What If…? Miles Morales Cody Ziglar, John Ridley, Anthony Piper, and Paco Medina 9781302946036 Fiction Marvel Marvel Comics What if Miles Morales had never been bitten by a genetically enhanced spider...
He’s Mine!
He’s Mine! Bernadette Y. Connor 9780971583887 Fiction Bee-Con Books Bee-Con Books What s a girl to do when she moves to a new town and falls in love with the most desired man in town? What s a girl to...
Chris Gardner - Interview, books, & DVD
Chris Gardner - Interview, books, & DVD Kam Williams Interview Subject of The Pursuit of Happyness Expounds on His Bio-Pic The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) Will Smith, Chris Gardner ...
Q: The Autobio of Quincy Jones
Q: The Autobio of Quincy Jones Paige Turner Book Review The new book, Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones reads almost like a fable or a fairy tale. The young Quincy Jones, with his twinkly eyes, wa...
Brenda M. Greene
Brenda M. Greene 000000008095850X Dr. Brenda M. Greene is a respected professor, writer, and scholar, leading the Center for Black Literature and the National Black Writers Conference. She has contri...
Miles Morales: Spider-Man: The People Around Us
Miles Morales: Spider-Man: The People Around Us Denene Millner 9781368060721 Fiction Marvel Press Marvel Comics New York Times bestselling author Denene Millner’s picture book follows Miles Morales as...
Miles Morales: Shock Waves (Original Spider-Man Graphic Novel)
Miles Morales: Shock Waves (Original Spider-Man Graphic Novel) justin a. reynolds 9781338648034 Fiction Graphix Scholastic Inc. An original middle grade graphic novel from Graphix starring Brooklyn’s ...
Miles Morales Shock Waves: (Original Spider-Man Graphic Novel)
Miles Morales Shock Waves: (Original Spider-Man Graphic Novel) justin a. reynolds 9781338648041 Fiction Graphix Scholastic Inc. An original middle-grade graphic novel from Graphix starring Brooklyn’s ...
Catch The Fire!!: A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry
Catch The Fire!!: A Cross-Generational Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry D-Knowledge 9781573226547 Poetry Riverhead Books Penguin Random House African-American poetry is an ever-growin...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2015): The Next Wave
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2015): The Next Wave Clarence V. Reynolds 21551758v6 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Spring& /& Summer 2015 “The Next Wave” ...
Only for the Holidays
Only for the Holidays Abiola Bello 9781641297547 Fiction Soho Teen Soho Press The Love Hypothesis meets The Holiday in this fake dating YA romance about a city girl and country boy’s lives colliding a...
James Baldwin: The Legacy
James Baldwin: The Legacy Quincy Troupe 9780671676513 Nonfiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. Baldwin, mentor to a generation of black artists and writers, is eulogized through essays and intervi...
Weather Reports: New and Selected Poems
Weather Reports: New and Selected Poems Quincy Troupe 9780863161087 Poetry Writers and Readers Publishing Writers & Readers Publishing
Giant talk: An anthology of Third World writings
Giant talk: An anthology of Third World writings Quincy Troupe 9780394714431 Fiction Vintage Books Penguin Random House
Avalanche
Avalanche Quincy Troupe 9781566890441 Poetry Coffee House Press Coffee House Press A collection of poetry about men, women, jazz, and American life.
Embryo
Embryo Quincy Troupe 9780879290207 Poetry Barlenmir House Barlenmir House Signed by Author First book of poetry by this African-American writer, who was the first official poet laureate of the state o...
Quincy Troupe Art Talks Poetry Reading
Quincy Troupe Art Talks Poetry Reading Poetry & Spoken Word
Take It to the Hoop, Magic Johnson
Take It to the Hoop, Magic Johnson Quincy Troupe 9780786805105 Nonfiction Jump At The Sun Jump At The Sun Take It to the Hoop, Magic Johnson
Birth of the Cool: How Jazz Great Miles Davis Found His Sound
Birth of the Cool: How Jazz Great Miles Davis Found His Sound Kathleen Cornell Berman 9781624146909 Nonfiction Page Street Kids Page Street Publishing Miles can’t sleep.Taps his toes, snaps his finger...
The Pursuit of Porsha: How My Journey to Happiness Can Help You Find Yours
The Pursuit of Porsha: How My Journey to Happiness Can Help You Find Yours Porsha Williams 9781546015901 Nonfiction Worthy Books Hachette Book Group In The Pursuit of Porsha, media personality and ent...
Tiya Miles
Tiya Miles 0000000114701869 Tiya Alicia Miles is a historian and professor at the University of Michigan. Specializing in African American and Native American histories, she's the author of award-win...
Miles Morales Suspended: A Spider-Man Novel (Reprint)
Miles Morales Suspended: A Spider-Man Novel (Reprint) Jason Reynolds 9781665918473 Fiction Atheneum Simon & Schuster, Inc. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes the “action-pa...
Miles Morales Suspended: A Spider-Man Novel
Miles Morales Suspended: A Spider-Man Novel Jason Reynolds 9781665918466 Fiction Atheneum Simon & Schuster, Inc. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes the high-flying sequel t...
Miles Morales Stranger Tides: (Original Spider-Man Graphic Novel)
Miles Morales Stranger Tides: (Original Spider-Man Graphic Novel) justin a. reynolds 9781338826395 Fiction Graphix Scholastic Inc. An original middle-grade graphic novel from Graphix starring Miles Mo...
Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era
Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era Tiya Miles 9781469636146 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press In t...
Tiya Miles and Sharon Patricia Holland
Tiya Miles and Sharon Patricia Holland MULTIPLE Tiya Miles and Sharon Patricia Holland are renowned authors, known for their significant contributions to literature. Their impactful work often explor...
Rare Classic Footage Resurfaces of Miles Davis from the Fifties
Rare Classic Footage Resurfaces of Miles Davis from the Fifties Kam Williams Article Rare Classic Footage Resurfaces of Miles Davis from the Fifties The Sound of Mil...
The Cold Hard Cases of Duke Denim: The Troublesome Troupe
The Cold Hard Cases of Duke Denim: The Troublesome Troupe Guy Sims 9780989281935 Fiction BCE Pressworks Big City Entertainment It’s Amazing! It’s Stupendous! It’s Deadly! Pennypincher’s Travelling ...
Miles of Style: Eunice W. Johnson and the Ebony Fashion Fair
Miles of Style: Eunice W. Johnson and the Ebony Fashion Fair Lisa D. Brathwaite 9781620143124 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books A chic biography about Eunice W. Johnson who brought elegant an...
Love Twelve Miles Long
Love Twelve Miles Long Glenda Armand 9781620142547 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books A moving story about young Frederick Douglass and his mother, who walks twelve miles at night from a nearby p...
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool James Kaplan 9780525561002 Nonfiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House From the author of the definitive biograp...
Miles Davis and American Culture
Miles Davis and American Culture Gerald L. Early 9781883982386 Nonfiction Missouri History Museum Press University of Chicago Press Miles Davis and American Culture examines Davis in cultural context....
Pursuit to a Greater "Self": 12 Points to Developing Good Character and Healthy Relationships
Pursuit to a Greater "Self": 12 Points to Developing Good Character and Healthy Relationships Jamila T. Davis 9780985580773 Nonfiction Voices International Publications Voices International Publicatio...
Somebody’s Child
Somebody’s Child Dennis A. Williams 9780684827131 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Somebody’s Child is the searing and achingly poignant story of African American brothers and fathers, ...
Nicole Miles
Nicole Miles NONE Nicole Miles, a Bahamian illustrator based in the UK, is known for her global client projects, a nomination for an Eisner Award for her comic 'Barbara', and her illustrations in var...
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,...
Miles Away In The Caribbean
Miles Away In The Caribbean Yolanda T. Marshall 9781999115517 Fiction Garnalma Press Garnalma Press Miles Away In The Caribbean is a poetically written story about a Canadian boy named Miles. In his m...
Jacquelin Thomas and Corey Miles
Jacquelin Thomas and Corey Miles MULTIPLE Jacquelin Thomas and Corey Miles are renowned authors known for their captivating writing style. Their distinguished careers and contribution to literature h...
The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits Tiya Miles 9781620972311 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press Finalist for the 2018 Frederick Douglass Book PrizeNo...
Eric M. Cooper and Miles Simon
Eric M. Cooper and Miles Simon MULTIPLE Eric Mann Cooper and Miles Simon are acclaimed authors known for their unique storytelling. Cooper's expertise lies in historical fiction, while Simon excels i...
James Baldwin The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
James Baldwin The Last Interview: and Other Conversations James Baldwin 9781612194004 Nonfiction Melville House Melville House Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwi...
Money - How to Make Your Money Work for You
Money - How to Make Your Money Work for You Wanda P. Bowman 9781736531501 Nonfiction Wanda P. Bowman Wanda P. Bowman When it comes to building a sustainable economic platform by creating multiple reve...
Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever
Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever Farah Jasmine Griffin and Salim Washington 9780312327859 Nonfiction Thomas Dunne Books Macmillan Pub...
Alison Goldberg
Alison Goldberg NONE Alison Goldberg, a Cambridge-based writer and author of 'I Love You for Miles and Miles', is known for her activism in children's literature. She enjoys researching for her books...
Shane W. Evans
Shane W. Evans 0000000038504360 Shane Evans is a renowned illustrator, artist and designer whose work has been recognized by The Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and The Orbis Pictus Award. His illustrat...
I Love My Haircut!
I Love My Haircut! Natasha Anastasia Tarpley 9780316459945 Fiction LB Kids Hachette Book Group Now with a refreshed cover, this heartfelt companion to the top-selling I Love My Hair! is a must-have ad...
Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People
Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People Tiya Miles 9780593491164 Nonfiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House From the National Book Award-winning author of All That She Car...
The Cherokee Rose
The Cherokee Rose Tiya Miles 9780895876355 Fiction John F. Blair, Publisher John F. Blair, Publisher The Cherokee Rose, written by Tiya Miles, award-winning historian and recipient of a recent MacArth...
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake Tiya Miles 9781984854995 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House A renowned historian traces the life of a single objec...
Bumrush
Bumrush Relentless Aaron 9780312949716 Fiction St. Martin’s Paperbacks Macmillan Publishers It wasn’t supposed to turn out this way for Miles. Once upon a time his future looked bright. He joined the ...
Visible Man: The Life Of Henry Dumas
Visible Man: The Life Of Henry Dumas Jeffrey B. Leak 9780820328706 Nonfiction University of Georgia Press University of Georgia Press Henry Dumas (1934–1968) was a writer who did not live to see most ...
Will Smith
Will Smith 000000011507289X Will Smith is a leading figure in showbiz, known for starring in seven consecutive box-office hits, including I Am Legend. He is recognized for his challenging roles, such...
The Tiki Factor: 4 Key Principles to Turn Your Losses Into Wins
The Tiki Factor: 4 Key Principles to Turn Your Losses Into Wins Tiki Davis 9780063346345 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In this modern-day Pursuit of Happyness, Tiki Davis shares his inspiring journ...
Permission to Dream
Permission to Dream Chris Gardner 9780063031562 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In the spirit of The Last Lecture, The Secret, and The Alchemist, this small book presents BIG ideas for turning your...
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas Henry Dumas 9781566895125 Fiction Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Praise for Henry Dumas:"[Henry Dumas] had completed work, the quality and ...
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction Of Henry Dumas (Black Arts Movement Series)
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction Of Henry Dumas (Black Arts Movement Series) Henry Dumas 9781566891493 Nonfiction Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Henry Dumas’s fiction is a masterful synth...
Wesley Snipes “The Expendables 3” Interview
Wesley Snipes “The Expendables 3” Interview Kam Williams Interview Wesley Snipes “The Expendables 3” Interview Wesley T. Snipes is a globally celebrated actor, film producer, mas...
By the Time You Read This
By the Time You Read This Lola Jaye 9780061733833 Fiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins Already a national bestseller in the U.K., Lola Jaye’s By the Time You Read This is a profoundly beauti...
Steve Cannon
Steve Cannon 0000000363821597 Steve Cannon (1935-2019) was a key figure in the Black Arts Movement and a prominent Black writer from New Orleans. He moved to NYC in 1962, where he engaged in literary...
Trailblazer: The Story of Ballerina Raven Wilkinson
Trailblazer: The Story of Ballerina Raven Wilkinson Leda Schubert 9781499805925 Nonfiction Little Bee Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. This beautiful picture book tells the little-known story of Raven Wil...
Make A Joyful Sound: Poems for Children by African-American Poets
Make A Joyful Sound: Poems for Children by African-American Poets Deborah Shink 9780590674324 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. “I’ve always recommended Make a Joyful Sound. This book brought end...
Start Where You Are: Life Lessons In Getting From Where You Are To Where You Want To Be
Start Where You Are: Life Lessons In Getting From Where You Are To Where You Want To Be Chris Gardner and Mim E. Rivas 9780061537110 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins “Gardner is encouraging us all to ...
Will Smith - The "I Am Legend" Interview
Will Smith - The "I Am Legend" Interview Kam Williams Interview Will Is Legend Will Smith's stratospheric stature in showbiz has only been further enhanced by I Am Legend's rec...
Thandie Newton - The Run, Fatboy, Run Interview
Thandie Newton - The Run, Fatboy, Run Interview Kam Williams Interview Sweet as Thandie Born in London on November 6, 1972, Thandiwe Newton spent some of her formative years in Zambia wi...
Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice
Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice Yusef Salaam 9781538705001 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group This inspirational memoir serves as a call to ...
Tempted to Touch
Tempted to Touch Nigeria Lockley 9780996468701 Fiction Inheritance Books Inheritance Books Kira Seagram is frustrated by her husband Mason’s zeal for the Lord, so she pours all of her attention into...
Resisting Arrest poems to stretch the sky
Resisting Arrest poems to stretch the sky Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Joy Harjo, Marilyn Nelson, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Yusef Komunyakaa, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Rita Dove 9780936481098 Poetry Ja...
Daryle Jenkins - Interview, Klanbuster Discusses State of Hate Groups in the Age of Obama
Daryle Jenkins - Interview, Klanbuster Discusses State of Hate Groups in the Age of Obama Kam Williams Interview Klanbuster Discusses State of Hate Groups in the Age of Obama ...
Visible Lives: Three Stories in Tribute to E. Lynn Harris
Visible Lives: Three Stories in Tribute to E. Lynn Harris Thumper Book Review Visible Lives: Three Stories in Tribute to E. Lynn Harris is an anthology aptly described by its title. The authors, Te...
Harriet E. Wilson
Harriet E. Wilson 0000000034051405 Harriet E. Wilson (1825-1900) was a free person of color and former indentured servant from New Hampshire. She authored the novel “Our Nig,” published anonymously i...
Blue in Green
Blue in Green Wesley Brown 9781953691118 Fiction Blank Forms Editions Blank Forms The latest work from the veteran novelist called “one hell of a writer” by James Baldwin and “wonderfully wry” by Dona...