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Rita Williams-Garcia on her novel "P.S. Be Eleven"
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Rita Williams-Garcia
Rita Williams-Garcia 0000000067575336 Rita Williams-Garcia, a PEN/Norma Klein Award winner, is known for her distinguished young adult and middle-grade novels, including ALA Best Books and Coretta Sc...
Ibi Zoboi, Tracey Baptiste, Coe Booth, Dhonielle Clayton, Brandy Colbert, Jay Coles, Lamar Giles, Leah Henderson, Justina Ireland, Varian Johnson, Kekla Magoon, Jason Reynolds, Nic Stone, Renée Watson, Rita Williams-Garcia, and others
Ibi Zoboi, Tracey Baptiste, Coe Booth, Dhonielle Clayton, Brandy Colbert, Jay Coles, Lamar Giles, Leah Henderson, Justina Ireland, Varian Johnson, Kekla Magoon, Jason Reynolds, Nic Stone, Renée Watso...
Gaither Sisters Trilogy Box Set: One Crazy Summer, P.S. Be Eleven, Gone Crazy in Alabama
Gaither Sisters Trilogy Box Set: One Crazy Summer, P.S. Be Eleven, Gone Crazy in Alabama Rita Williams-Garcia 9780062889652 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins All three books in the Coretta Scott ...
Bottle Cap Boys Dancing On Royal Street
Bottle Cap Boys Dancing On Royal Street Rita Williams-Garcia 9781603490306 Fiction Marimba Books Just Us Books, Inc. Tap dancing on sidewalks, especially in the city’s French Quarter, is a New Orleans...
Rita Williams-Garcia
Rita Williams-Garcia Mélina Mangal 9781584152170 Nonfiction Mitchell Lane Mitchell Lane Publishers This work explores the life and literary career of Rita Williams-Garcia, the award-winning African Am...
Clayton Byrd Goes Underground
Clayton Byrd Goes Underground Rita Williams-Garcia 9780062215918 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins A National Book Award Longlist title that has earned 5 starred reviews!"This slim novel strikes a strong ...
A Sitting in St. James
A Sitting in St. James Rita Williams-Garcia 9780062367297 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins Winner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award!Monumental. —Booklist (starred review)A marathon masterpiece...
One Crazy Summer
One Crazy Summer Rita Williams-Garcia 9780060760908 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Eleven-year-old Delphine has it together. Even though her mother, Cecile, abandoned her and her younger sisters, Vonet...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Last Interview: and Other Conversation
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Last Interview: and Other Conversation Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9781612194806 Nonfiction Melville House Melville House An intimate and lively collection of interviews with a ...
Roberto Carlos Garcia
Roberto Carlos Garcia NONE Roberto Carlos Garcia is associate professor of English at Union College of Union County NJ. He writes poetry and prose about the Afro-Latinx and Afro-Diasporic experience...
P.S. Be Eleven
P.S. Be Eleven Rita Williams-Garcia 9780061938641 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins In this Coretta Scott King Award-winning novel and sequel to the New York Times bestseller and Newbery Honor Book One Cr...
P.S. Be Eleven
P.S. Be Eleven Rita Williams-Garcia 9780061938627 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins In this Coretta Scott King Award-winning novel and sequel to the New York Times bestseller and Newbery Honor Book One Cr...
Like Sisters on the Homefront
Like Sisters on the Homefront Rita Williams-Garcia 9780062823922 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins Rita Williams-Garcia’s masterful and bold Coretta Scott King Honor Book is fresh, funny, and pow...
Every Time a Rainbow Dies
Every Time a Rainbow Dies Rita Williams-Garcia 9780063079267 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins From Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award winner Rita Williams-Garcia, Every Time a Rainbow Di...
No Laughter Here
No Laughter Here Rita Williams-Garcia 9780063079298 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins In this groundbreaking novel, Coretta Scott King Award winner Rita Williams-Garcia uses her vividly realistic...
Jumped
Jumped Rita Williams-Garcia 9780063079281 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins Beloved author Rita Williams-Garcia intertwines the lives of three very different teens in this fast-paced, gritty narr...
Gone Crazy in Alabama
Gone Crazy in Alabama Rita Williams-Garcia 9780062215871 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Coretta Scott King Award Winner and AALBC.com bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of the Gait...
She Persisted: Florence Griffith Joyner
She Persisted: Florence Griffith Joyner Rita Williams-Garcia 9780593115954 Nonfiction Philomel Books Penguin Random House Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton ...
If the Creek Don’t Rise: My Life Out West with the Last Black Widow of the Civil War
If the Creek Don’t Rise: My Life Out West with the Last Black Widow of the Civil War Rita Williams 9780151011544 Nonfiction Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Houghton Mifflin Harcourt When Rita Williams was ...
Abel Garcia
Abel Garcia NONE Dallas-based artist Abel Garcia, inspired by The Bible, hip-hop, graffiti, and the high renaissance, creates unique art using screen printing, acrylic and oil painting. Recognized as...
Rita Woods
Rita Woods NONE Rita Woods is a family doctor, wellness center director, and author of her debut novel, Remembrance. Balancing her professional life with family time and involvement in her local libr...
One Crazy Summer (The Graphic Novel)
One Crazy Summer (The Graphic Novel) Rita Williams-Garcia 9780062935588 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins “I wish I didn’t know that I was marching my sisters into a boiling pot of trouble cookin...
Fast Talk On A Slow Track
Fast Talk On A Slow Track Rita Williams-Garcia 9780141302317 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House Denzel Watson is a fast talker with a system, and it’s made him valedictorian. But when he goes t...
Rita Daniels
Rita Daniels NONE Rita Daniels is the great-great-great grandniece of Harriet Tubman, is the President and Founder of the Harriet Tubman Learning Center. Rita Daniels, the great-great-great grandnie...
Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Joy Harjo, Marilyn Nelson, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Yusef Komunyakaa, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Rita Dove
Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Joy Harjo, Marilyn Nelson, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Yusef Komunyakaa, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Rita Dove MULTIPLE Prominent authors Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Joy Harjo, ...
C. Michelle Atkins, Dannielle Brown, Amanda Garcia, Nisha, Lori Obayomi, Lisa McGovern, Stephanie Thomas, Tracee Upteen, and Elona Washington
C. Michelle Atkins, Dannielle Brown, Amanda Garcia, Nisha, Lori Obayomi, Lisa McGovern, Stephanie Thomas, Tracee Upteen, and Elona Washington MULTIPLE C. Michelle Atkins, Dannielle Brown, Amanda Garc...
Rita Dove
Rita Dove 0000000114709625 Dove was U.S. Poet Laureate, 1993-1995 Rita Dove, former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner, is known for her poetry collections, novel, and drama. She's been reco...
What Can I Tell You?
What Can I Tell You? Roberto Carlos Garcia 9781953447647 Poetry FlowerSong Press FlowerSong Press Charting the personal and the political, the lyrical and the prosaic, with an intense interrogation of...
Jean Marie Wiesen and Rita Daniels
Jean Marie Wiesen and Rita Daniels MULTIPLE Jean Marie Wiesen, is a noted investigative author and mystery crime writer. Rita Daniels, the great-great-great grandniece of Harriet Tubman.
C. J. Chase, Carrie Fancett Pagels, Erica Vetsch, Gabrielle Meyer, Kathleen L. Maher, Lorna Seilstad, Rita Gerlach, and Vanessa Riley
C. J. Chase, Carrie Fancett Pagels, Erica Vetsch, Gabrielle Meyer, Kathleen L. Maher, Lorna Seilstad, Rita Gerlach, and Vanessa Riley MULTIPLE "C.J. Chase, Carrie Fancett Pagels, Erica Vetsch, Gabrie...
Rita Lorraine Hubbard
Rita Lorraine Hubbard NONE Rita Lorraine Hubbard is a renowned author of nonfiction books for adults and children, including the award-winning 'Hammering for Freedom'. She also manages the children's...
Two Naomis
Two Naomis Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich and Audrey Vernick 9780062414250 Fiction Balzer + Bray HarperCollins A realistic contemporary story of two girls, both named Naomi, whose divorced parents begi...
NBWC Biennial Symposium
NBWC Biennial Symposium Medgar Evers College Brooklyn New York In 2025, honoring Tony Medina and Rita Williams-Garcia for their contributions to Black Young Adult & Middle Grade Literature. The Bienn...
Blackout
Blackout Ibi Zoboi, Tracey Baptiste, Coe Booth, Dhonielle Clayton, Brandy Colbert, Jay Coles, Lamar Giles, Leah Henderson, Justina Ireland, Varian Johnson, Kekla Magoon, Jason Reynolds, Nic Stone, Re...
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson 9780525580454 Nonfiction Random House Children’s Books and Just Us Books Penguin Random House and Just Us Books Fifty of th...
The Hero Next Door
The Hero Next Door Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich 9780525646303 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House From We Need Diverse Books, the organization behind Flying Lessons & Other Sto...
Blue Tights
Blue Tights Rita Williams-Garcia 9780140380453 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House Joyce Collins desperately wants to be accepted into the popular circle, and when she is cut from the ballet re...
The General in His Labyrinth
The General in His Labyrinth Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9781400043330 Fiction Everyman’s Library Everyman’s Library (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Gabriel García Márquez’s most political novel is the tragi...
The Autumn of the Patriarch
The Autumn of the Patriarch Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9780060882860 Fiction Harper Perennial Modern Classics HarperCollins One of Gabriel García Márquez’s most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn o...
Mosaic Literary Magazine Issue #44: James Baldwin at 100
Mosaic Literary Magazine Issue #44: James Baldwin at 100 Roberto Carlos Garcia mosaic44 Nonfiction Mosaic Literary Magazine Mosaic Literary Magazine I first came to James Baldwin’s work by reading his...
Traveling Freely: Essays
Traveling Freely: Essays Roberto Carlos Garcia 9780810147881 Nonfiction Curbstone Press Northwestern University Press A poet’s debut essay collection exploring American faults through the eyes of a Do...
Melancolia: Poems
Melancolia: Poems Roberto Carlos Garcia 9780998102719 Poetry Červená Barva Press Červená Barva Press Poetry. MELANCOLÍA explores the emotional and psychological landscape of today’s mad world. The poe...
Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littin
Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littin Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9781590173404 Fiction NYRB Classics New York Review Books In 1973, the film director Miguel Littín fled Chile after a U.S.-...
Collected Novellas
Collected Novellas Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9780060932664 Fiction Harper Perennial Modern Classics HarperCollins Renowned as a master of magical realism, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has long delighted reade...
News of a Kidnapping (Vintage International)
News of a Kidnapping (Vintage International) Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9781400034932 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House In 1990, fearing extradition to the United States, Pablo Escobar – head of the Me...
Living to Tell the Tale
Living to Tell the Tale Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9781400041343 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laur...
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9780679722052 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House In 1955, Garcia Marquez was working for El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota, when in Febru...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez 0000000121333785 Gabriel José GarcÃa Márquez (1927-2014), one of Latin America's most renowned writers, was born in Aracatca, Colombia. His acclaimed works include 'One Hund...
Peacocks Dancing
Peacocks Dancing Sharon Maas 9780007118472 Fiction Bookouture Bookouture Another magical saga by the author of Of Marriageable Age. How many of us think as adults we’childhood? And how many manage to...
Innocent Erendira: and Other Stories
Innocent Erendira: and Other Stories Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9780060751586 Fiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins This collection of fiction, representing some of García Márquez’s earlier work, include...
Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy
Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy Bridgett M. Davis 9780063322080 Nonfiction Harper HarperCollins A searing tribute of sisterhood and family, love and profound loss fr...
Selected Poems
Selected Poems Rita Dove 9780679750802 Poetry Vintage Penguin Random House Here in one volume is a selection of the extraordinary poems of Rita Dove, who, as the nation’s Poet Laureate from 1993 to 19...
An Interview with John A. Williams
An Interview with John A. Williams Dennis A. Williams Interview John A. Williams (right) and Dennis A. Williams Originally published in FORKROADS, A Journal of Ethnic-American Literature, Wint...
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim 0000000458785840 Abubakar Adam Ibrahim is a renowned Nigerian writer and journalist, known for his novel 'Season of Crimson Blossoms' and short story collection 'The Whispering ...
The Year Jerry Garcia Died
The Year Jerry Garcia Died Fred Beauford 9781929188048 Fiction Morton Books Morton Books, Inc. The Year Jerry Garcia Died is an insightful, well written, soft spoken novel with hard truths. The story,...
Wendy Williams
Wendy Williams 0000000114422456 Wendy Williams, a New Jersey native and Northeastern University graduate, is a renowned radio personality and author. She has worked at notable stations like WQHT-FM a...
How Divorce Became My Deliverance
How Divorce Became My Deliverance C. Michelle Atkins, Dannielle Brown, Amanda Garcia, Nisha, Lori Obayomi, Lisa McGovern, Stephanie Thomas, Tracee Upteen, and Elona Washington 9780692957868 Nonfiction...
Strange Pilgrims
Strange Pilgrims Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9781400034697 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House In Barcelona, an aging Brazilian prostitute trains her dog to weep at the grave she has chosen for herself. I...
Harriet Tubman: Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary: From Her Roots in Ghana to Her Legacy on the Eastern Shore
Harriet Tubman: Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary: From Her Roots in Ghana to Her Legacy on the Eastern Shore Jean Marie Wiesen and Rita Daniels 9781639368136 Nonfiction Pegasus Books Pegasus Boo...
Collected Stories
Collected Stories Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9780060932688 Fiction Harper Perennial Modern Classics HarperCollins Collected here are twenty-six of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s most brilliant and enchanting sh...
Love in the Time of Cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9780307389732 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House "A love story of astonishing power." - Newsweek the International Bestseller and modern literary c...
The Last Dreamwalker
The Last Dreamwalker Rita Woods 9781250805614 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers From Hurston/Wright Legacy Award-winning author Rita Woods, The Last Dreamwalker tells the story of two women, separate...
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[Elegies]
[Elegies] Roberto Carlos Garcia 9781953447920 Poetry FlowerSong Press FlowerSong Press Poetry. African & African American Studies. Latinx Studies. Garcia’s third poetry collection, [ELEGIES], centers ...
black / Maybe: An Afro Lyric
black / Maybe: An Afro Lyric Roberto Carlos Garcia 9780999223291 Poetry Willow Publishing Willow Publishing Poetry collection by Roberto Carlos Garcia. Explores themes of Blackness and Dominican cultu...
Wendy Williams - "The Wendy Williams Show" Interview
Wendy Williams - "The Wendy Williams Show" Interview Kam Williams Interview How You Doin'? Born in Asbury Park, New Jersey on July 18, 1964, Wendy Joan Williams burst onto the TV landscape ...
The Edge of Yesterday
The Edge of Yesterday Rita Woods 9781250805645 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers The Edge of Yesterday is a haunting contemporary speculative novel about time travel and finding yourself from award-w...
Catherine Mann
Catherine Mann 0000000121252993 Catherine Mann is a USA Today bestselling author and RITA Award winner who has written over 60 contemporary romance books. A former theater school director with degree...
Remembrance
Remembrance Rita Woods 9781250298454 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers Remembrance by Rita Woods is a breakout historical debut with modern resonance, perfect for the many fans of The Underground Rai...
A Love So Deep (Zane Presents)
A Love So Deep (Zane Presents) Suzetta Perkins 9781593094324 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. When Graham Peters’s wife of forty years suddenly dies, he finds himself unable to cope with h...
The Yellow House on the Corner
The Yellow House on the Corner Rita Dove 9780887480928 Poetry Carnegie-Mellon University Press Carnegie-Mellon University Press When Carnegie Mellon University Press first published The Yellow House o...
The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read
The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read Rita Lorraine Hubbard 9781524768287 Nonfiction Schwartz & Wade Random House Children's Books Imagine learning to read at the age of 116! Discover th...
Collected Poems (paperback): 1974-2004
Collected Poems (paperback): 1974-2004 Rita Dove 9780393354935 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Three decades of powerful lyric poetry from a virtuoso of the English language...
Collected Poems: 1974–2004
Collected Poems: 1974–2004 Rita Dove 9780393285949 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Three decades of powerful lyric poetry from a virtuoso of the English language in one unab...
Grace Notes: Poems
Grace Notes: Poems Rita Dove 9780393306965 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. With this her fourth book of poems, Rita Dove expands her role as a leading voice in contemporary ...
Philly Girl 2: Carl Weber Presents
Philly Girl 2: Carl Weber Presents Marcus Weber 9781645562801 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Philly Girl 2 will have you re-evaluating the bonds of friendship and love. It will make y...
John A. Williams
John A. Williams 0000000081606231 “…arguably the finest African-American novelist of his generation.” John Alfred Williams (1925-2015), a renowned author and professor, had a distin...
Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems
Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems Rita Dove 9781324050438 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Finalist for the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the 2021 NAACP Image Award ...
On the Bus with Rosa Parks: Poems
On the Bus with Rosa Parks: Poems Rita Dove 9780393320268 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A dazzling new collection by the former Poet Laureate of the United States. In thes...
The Darker Face of the Earth: Completely Revised Second Edition
The Darker Face of the Earth: Completely Revised Second Edition Rita Dove 9781885266194 Poetry Story Line Press Red Hen Press The Darker Face of the Earth, the first full-length play by Pulitzer Prize...
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...
African Americans of Chattanooga: A History of Unsung Heroes
African Americans of Chattanooga: A History of Unsung Heroes Rita Lorraine Hubbard 9781596293151 Nonfiction The History Press The History Press Beginning in 1541 with Hernando De Soto’s Spanish expedi...
American Smooth: Poems
American Smooth: Poems Rita Dove 9780393059878 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. This exciting new collection pays homage to America’s kaleidoscopic cultural heritage: from th...
Mother Love: Poems
Mother Love: Poems Rita Dove 9780393314441 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Calling upon the ancient Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone, Mother Love examines the love betwe...
The Poet’s World
The Poet’s World Rita Dove 9780844408743 Poetry Library of Congress Library of Congress Publishing Book by Dove, Rita
Museum (Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series: Poetry)
Museum (Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series: Poetry) Rita Dove 9780887481475 Poetry Carnegie-Mellon University Press Carnegie-Mellon University Press A reissuing of Museum, poems by Rita Dove.
Thomas and Beulah
Thomas and Beulah Rita Dove 9780887480218 Poetry Carnegie-Mellon University Press Carnegie-Mellon University Press A collection of poetry by Rita Dove.
John A. Williams and Dennis A. Williams
John A. Williams and Dennis A. Williams MULTIPLE John A. Williams and Dennis A. Williams are acclaimed authors, known for their remarkable contribution to literature. Their insightful works have garn...
Eleven Minutes: A Novel
Eleven Minutes: A Novel Paulo Coelho 9780060589288 Fiction HarperOne HarperCollins Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love l...
Dear Chester, Dear John
Dear Chester, Dear John John A. Williams and Lori Williams 9780814333556 Nonfiction Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press Chester Himes and John A. Williams met in 1961, as Himes w...
Keisha N Blain, Chad Williams, and Kidada E. Williams
Keisha N Blain, Chad Williams, and Kidada E. Williams MULTIPLE Keisha N Blain, Chad Williams, and Kidada E. Williams are renowned authors known for their impactful scholarly contributions in the doma...
It All Comes Down to This
It All Comes Down to This Karen English 9780358098539 Fiction Clarion Books HarperCollins A powerful middle grade coming-of-age novel set in a slowly integrating upper middle class Los Angeles neighbo...
Farrah Rochon
Farrah Rochon NONE Farrah Rochon, a Louisiana native and award-winning author, launched her writing career at Xavier University. She's known for her Holmes Brothers series, starting with her debut no...
Terrie Williams
Terrie Williams 0000000117447093 The Terrie Williams Agency, The Premiere Black-Owned PR Firm, is Closing Terrie M. Williams is a social worker by training. She is a public relations professional by ...
Conversations with John A. Williams
Conversations with John A. Williams Jeffrey Allen Tucker and John A. Williams 9781496818171 Nonfiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi One of the most prolific African ...
The Transformative Power of a Name: Incredible Accounts of Eleven Women Determined to Discover and Unleash Their Unique Identities
The Transformative Power of a Name: Incredible Accounts of Eleven Women Determined to Discover and Unleash Their Unique Identities Cecily Cooper 9798989457700 Nonfiction iBounceback Greater iBouncebac...
Vanessa L. Williams
Vanessa L. Williams 000000011462842X Vanessa Lynn Williams, born March 18, 1963, is a multi-talented actor, singer, fashion designer and author. She made history as the first African-American Miss Am...