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Mirroring Lincoln: The Cursed Existence of Paschal Beverly Randolph
Mirroring Lincoln: The Cursed Existence of Paschal Beverly Randolph D. Amari Jackson 9780979637483 Fiction AALBC Aspire African American Literature Book Club Audiobook Edition Availab...
Long Fall
Long Fall Thumper Book Review I started Walter Mosley’s The Long Fall with a bit of left over anger and some anticipation. I’m not going to lie, I did not ever think that I would feel...
Running to Fall
Running to Fall Publishers Weekly’s Booklife Book Review This review originally appeared on Booklife Buckhanon (Speaking of Summer) reveals the emotional complexity behind the facade...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2018): Gathering at the Waters II
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2018): Gathering at the Waters II Clarence V. Reynolds A21551758v10 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College View a pdf of the cover a...
Excerpt: Afrocentric Style
Excerpt: Afrocentric Style Shirley Neal Excerpt From the “Hair” Chapter From the “Fashion” Chapter
Three Poets of the Harlem Renaissance (Audiobook)
Three Poets of the Harlem Renaissance (Audiobook) Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Countee Cullen 9798200940172 Poetry Blackstone Audiobooks Blackstone Publishing The intellectual and cul...
Never As Strangers
Never As Strangers Laini Mataka 9780933121751 Poetry Black Classic Press Black Classic Press "I see in her work, from ’White Traditions in Black-Face,’ to the title poem ’Never As Strangers,’ a comple...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2017): Gathering at the Waters
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2017): Gathering at the Waters Clarence V. Reynolds 21551758v9 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Fall& /& Winter 2017 “Gatherin...
Power List of Best-Selling African-American Books - Fall 2014
Power List of Best-Selling African-American Books - Fall 2014 Troy Johnson Article Strong Sales Shown Among Hardcover Non-Fiction Titles in Fall Edition of the Power List of Best-Selling African-...
Inside the Fall
Inside the Fall Terry E. Hill 9780963914729 Fiction ReGeJe Press ReGeJe Press Inside the Fall caused Barnes & Noble Booksellers to do a double take. Barnes & Noble took a second look at the thrilling...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021): The Beautiful Struggle
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021): The Beautiful Struggle Clarence V. Reynolds a21551758v12 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Killens Review of Arts & Letter...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2014):Bringing it Forward Literary Activism
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2014):Bringing it Forward Literary Activism Clarence V. Reynolds 21551758v5 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Fall& /& Winter 2...
Ghost: Running for His Life or From It?
Ghost: Running for His Life or From It? Jason Reynolds 9781481450157 Fiction Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. His new book Ghost is the start of a series for kids about an inner c...
Running to Fall — Chapters 1 & 2
Running to Fall — Chapters 1 & 2 Kalisha Buckhanon Excerpt ONE MARCH 2021 Right around time things started reopening, the late March thaw brought a lifeless girl up to the tail end of the Grays...
Running to Fall — Chapters 1 & 2
Running to Fall — Chapters 1 & 2 Kalisha Buckhanon Excerpt ONE MARCH 2021 Right around time things started reopening, the late March thaw brought a lifeless girl up to the tail end of the Grays...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2019): Life at a Crossroads
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2019): Life at a Crossroads Clarence V. Reynolds A21551758v11 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College This is the most current issue....
They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement
They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement Wesley Lowery 9780316312479 Nonfiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group "Electric…so well r...
Matthew A. Cherry
Matthew A. Cherry 0000000500418922 Former NFL wide receiver, Matthew A. Cherry, transitioned into filmmaking after his retirement in 2007. He's known for directing over 20 music videos, his feature f...
The Fall of Rome
The Fall of Rome Thumper Book Review The Fall of Rome is the first adult novel by Coretta Scott King winner Martha Southgate. Southgate through the narrative of three people told a story that strip...
Remote Control
Remote Control Nnedi Okorafor 9781250772800 Fiction Tordotcom Macmillan Publishers An alien artifact turns a young girl into Death’s adopted daughter in Remote Control, a thrilling sci-fi tale of comm...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2010): The Power of Voice
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2010): The Power of Voice Clarence V. Reynolds 21551758v2 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Fall& /& Winter 2010 “The Power of ...
Peace From Broken Pieces: How To Get Through What You’re Going Through
Peace From Broken Pieces: How To Get Through What You’re Going Through Iyanla Vanzant Excerpt It is often difficult to identify the exact moment that your life falls apart. In most cases, it is not a...
Lessons Before Dying Vol. 1 : Relationships
Lessons Before Dying Vol. 1 : Relationships Leonard Jenkins II 9780971280502 Nonfiction EKOL Enterprises EKOL Enterprises In this novel, Lessons Before Dying, the lives of five very powerful and in...
Susan Taylor Baker King’s Memoir
Susan Taylor Baker King’s Memoir Susie King Taylor Article An Excerpt from Susan Taylor Baker King’s Memoir:Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33rd US Colored Troops, Late 1st S.C. Vol...
Running For Their Lives: The Extraordinary Story of Britain’s Greatest Ever Distance Runners
Running For Their Lives: The Extraordinary Story of Britain’s Greatest Ever Distance Runners Mark Whitaker 9780224082594 Nonfiction Yellow Jersey Penguin Random House UK In 1928 two extraordinary Engl...
Saladin and the Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
Saladin and the Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem Stanley Lane-Poole 9781549802409 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published Saladin, the first sultan of Egypt and Syria, is an iconic ...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2012): Reconstructing the Master Narrative
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2012): Reconstructing the Master Narrative Clarence V. Reynolds 21551758v3 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Fall& /& Winter 20...
Why Men Fall Out of Love: What Every Woman Needs to Understand
Why Men Fall Out of Love: What Every Woman Needs to Understand Michael R. French 9780345492913 Nonfiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House The groundbreaking book that breaks the silence of the m...
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow Richard Wormser 9780312313241 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Between 1880 and 1954, African Americans dedicated their energies, and sometimes their lives...
Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe 9780385474542 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House Things Fall Apart tells two intertwining stories, both centering on Okonkwo, a “strong man” of an Ibo village in Niger...
I Took You for Granted: The Short Stories of Allen Griff’s Double Life
I Took You for Granted: The Short Stories of Allen Griff’s Double Life Johanna Sparrow B07FB4R72R Fiction Amazon Digital Services Amazon Digital Services, Inc. I knew my marriage was over after my w...
The Chronicles of a Gentleman (The Untold Truth)
The Chronicles of a Gentleman (The Untold Truth) Leroy Sanders 9781427620620 Nonfiction Aardvark Global Publishing Aardvark Global Publishing ’I’m here to show you a few things that will enable ...
Tuff: A Novel
Tuff: A Novel Paul Beatty Excerpt Now on this, the last cool night of summer, Brooklyn was short three more niggers for Winston to hate. Although he addressed all black men as “God,” Ch...
Running to Fall: A Novel
Running to Fall: A Novel Kalisha Buckhanon 9780979637407 Fiction AALBC Aspire African American Literature Book Club Also Available in Hardcover “Riveting.” —Amazon Book Review A 2022 Essence, Bu...
Running to Fall: A Novel
Running to Fall: A Novel Kalisha Buckhanon 9780979637421 Fiction AALBC Aspire African American Literature Book Club Also Available in Paperback “Riveting.” —Amazon Book Review A 2022 Essence, Bust...
Karen Chilton
Karen Chilton NONE Karen Chilton is a NY-based actor, writer, and acclaimed voice-over artist. Known for narrating numerous audiobooks like 'Running to Fall', she's won three AudioFile Earphones Awar...
Soundtrack
Soundtrack Jason Reynolds 9780593863466 Fiction Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group Penguin Random House #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds transports us back to the early 200...
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert Bob The Drag Queen 9781668061978 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. The New York Times Bestseller Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books of 2025 by Pride • Bes...
Rifts and Refrains
Rifts and Refrains Tiye with Keisha Mennefee 9781666666199 Fiction Dreamscape Media RBmedia GET THIS AUDIOBOOK FOR FREE! Note: Quantities are limited and this offer expires 7/31/24. Dreamscap...
How the Boogeyman Became a Poet
How the Boogeyman Became a Poet Tony Keith Jr. 9780063296008 Nonfiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins Odyssey Award for Audiobook Excellence Winner Poet, writer, and hip-hop educator Tony Keith Jr...
Dreamer
Dreamer Akim Aliu and Greg Anderson Elysee 9781338787603 Nonfiction Scholastic Graphix Scholastic Inc. Dreamer, a graphic novel memoir by professional athlete and activist Akim Aliu about his life gro...
The Go the Fuck to Sleep Box Set: Go the Fuck to Sleep, You Have to Fucking Eat & Fuck, Now There Are Two of You
The Go the Fuck to Sleep Box Set: Go the Fuck to Sleep, You Have to Fucking Eat & Fuck, Now There Are Two of You Adam Mansbach 9781617759833 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Celebrating a decade of...
Warn Me When It’s Time
Warn Me When It’s Time Cheryl A. Head 9781612942070 Fiction Bywater Books Bywater Books A hate group operating in Oakland County, Michigan has claimed responsibility for a six-month-long string of ars...
Vulnerable AF
Vulnerable AF Tarriona Ball 9781524865757 Poetry Andrews McMeel Publishing Andrews McMeel Publishing Available as an Audie Award-nominated audiobook! The debut poetry collection from Grammy-nominated...
I Promise
I Promise Lebron James 9780062971067 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! A perfect BACK-TO-SCHOOL tool for students and teachers who need an encouraging boost...
★ AALBC Now Sells Audiobooks and Accomplishes a First
★ AALBC Now Sells Audiobooks and Accomplishes a First Troy Johnson Article 12 Audiobooks You’ll ♥ Libro.fm Helps AALBC Sell Digital Audiobooks Membership Supports AALBC$14.99 m...
Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir
Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir Halifu Osumare 9780813064321 Nonfiction University Press of Florida University Press of Florida Also Available as an Audiobook Dancing in Blackness is a professional ...
Becoming
Becoming Michelle Obama 9781524763138 Nonfiction Crown Penguin Random House Download the 23-Page Reader’s Guide An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United Stat...
A Hustler’s Wife
A Hustler’s Wife Nikki Turner 9781601625779 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. [MP3-CD audiobook format in Vinyl case. NOTE: The MP3-CD format requires a compatible audio CD player.][Read...
Sweet Victory
Sweet Victory Angela Kay Austin 9780615905457 Fiction Vanilla Heart Publishing Vanilla Heart Publishing Also in Audiobook and as Ebook! This edition also includes book club discussion starters. For he...
Inspired By… The Bible Experience: New Testament
Inspired By… The Bible Experience: New Testament Inspired By Media Group 9780310926313 Nonfiction Zondervan HarperCollins Christian Publishing The 2007 Audiobook of the Year winner — the most prestigi...
Jasminne Mendez
Jasminne Mendez NONE Jasminne Mendez is a Dominican‑American writer, recipient of the Pura Belpré Honor Award. She is a poet, playwright, translator, and audiobook narrator. Her latest work, Aniana ...
Whitney Bak
Whitney Bak NONE Whitney Bak is a writer and editor who has worked on over two hundred titles, including multiple New York Times bestsellers. She brings a fresh perspective to every project and a pa...
Yasmin Angoe
Yasmin Angoe NONE Yasmin Angoe is a first-generation Ghanaian American writer and editor from Northern Virginia. An experienced teacher and instructional coach, Yasmin also freelances as a developmen...
Buki Papillon
Buki Papillon NONE Nigerian-born author Buki Papillon, educated in law and creative writing in the UK and US, has earned accolades for her debut novel, An Ordinary Wonder. A recipient of numerous wri...
Book Review <em>The Emperor of Ocean Park</em> by Stephen L. Carter
Book Review The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter Linda Watkins Article ADD TO CART Buy the Audiobook Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List2003 BCALA Literary AwardPub...
Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run
Slow AF Run Club: The Ultimate Guide for Anyone Who Wants to Run Martinus Evans 9780593421727 Nonfiction Avery Penguin Random House A practical guide and a celebration of running for runners of all si...
Ghost (Paperback)
Ghost (Paperback) Jason Reynolds 9781481450164 Fiction Atheneum Simon & Schuster, Inc. A National Book Award Finalist for Young People’s Literature Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by ...
Matt Forté
Matt Forté NONE Matthew Garrett Forté, born in 1985, is a retired NFL player best known as a running back for the Chicago Bears. He was recognized for his versatility, amassing over 9,000 rushing an...
Off and Running
Off and Running Kam Williams images/offandrunning.jpg Film Review Adoptees Identity Issues Examined by Blended-Family Documentary Off and Running Click to order via Amazon Actors...
Provenance: A Novel
Provenance: A Novel Donna Drew Sawyer Excerpt Prologue Park Place, Virginia - Fall 1909 “Hank, run!” was the last thing he heard Junior say. Deputies struggled to hold and handcuff ...
Come Catch a Dream
Come Catch a Dream Brittany J. Thurman 9780063140806 Fiction Greenwillow Books HarperCollins Nothing is impossible—not even being brave enough to ice skate again after a fall! With a poetic text and d...
Up in Smoke
Up in Smoke Nick Brooks 9781250359933 Fiction Henry Holt & Company (BYR) Macmillan Publishers A girl determined to clear her brother’s name. A boy determined to keep his out of the line of fire. A sec...
Anointing Fall On Me: Accessing the Power of the Holy Spirit
Anointing Fall On Me: Accessing the Power of the Holy Spirit T. D. Jakes 9780768472110 Nonfiction Destiny Image Destiny Image In these turbulent times, do you see evil raging against believers but fee...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2022-2023): Jubilee
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2022-2023): Jubilee Clarence V. Reynolds a21551758v13 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Killens Review of Arts & Letters, Fall/Wi...
Glory
Glory NoViolet Bulawayo 9780525561132 Fiction Viking Penguin Random House 2022 BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST “Manifoldly clever…brilliant… Glory is its own vivid world, drawn from its own folkl...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2016): Embracing Difference
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2016): Embracing Difference Clarence V. Reynolds 21551758v8 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Fall& /& Winter 2016 “Embracing D...
Ugly: Why do I attract and fall in love with ugly people?
Ugly: Why do I attract and fall in love with ugly people? Johanna Sparrow 9781533272416 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC It’s a shame to say this but ugly people are everywhere. The wor...
Fall of Saints
Fall of Saints Wanjiku Wa Ngugi 9781476760339 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this “taut, smart international thriller” (Tananarive Due, American Book Award winner), a Kenyan expat finds...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2013): Impact Beyond Boundaries
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2013): Impact Beyond Boundaries Clarence V. Reynolds 21551758v4 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Fall& /& Winter 2013 “Impact ...
Tears Fall at Night (Praise Him Anyhow) (Volume 1)
Tears Fall at Night (Praise Him Anyhow) (Volume 1) Vanessa Miller 9781492976134 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Life was good, God was blessing and the Marshall family was riding high, ...
The Fall of Heaven
The Fall of Heaven Walter Mosley 9780573601057 Fiction Samuel French Inc Samuel French Inc Dramatic comedy Cahracters: 3 male, 2 female A hip and inventive new play by Walter Mosley, best-selling aut...
The Idumean Covenant: A Novel Of The Fall Of Jerusalem
The Idumean Covenant: A Novel Of The Fall Of Jerusalem Eugene Stovall 9781450575966 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC In a time of religious upheaval and civil war in a country where men of...
The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God
The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God Chinua Achebe 9780307592705 Fiction Everyman’s Library Everyman’s Library Here, collected for the first time in Everyman’s L...
Have Gun will Travel: The Spectacular Rise and Violent Fall of Death Row Records
Have Gun will Travel: The Spectacular Rise and Violent Fall of Death Row Records Ronin Ro 9780385491358 Nonfiction Main Street Books Main Street Books Death Row Records is one of the most successful m...
Known to Evil
Known to Evil Thumper Book Review Walter Mosley is back with the second installment of his new, magnificent Lenoid McGill Mystery series, Known to Evil. Believe it or not, I got my hands on Known...
Fall/Winter 1999
Fall/Winter 1999 Troy Johnson Article Mosaic Literary Magazine Fall / Winter 1999 [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Buy Any Book ] Download a Electronic Version (PDF file) of Mosaic Li...
Fall Into Fiction
Fall Into Fiction Waterfront Hotel Emeryville California UCAAB was created as a way for African-American book clubs in California to network, support, and promote our reading groups, black-owned indep...
Striving for Justice: A Black Sheriff in the Deep South
Striving for Justice: A Black Sheriff in the Deep South Nathaniel Glover 9781637631775 Nonfiction Frederick Douglass Books Forefront Books On the South Side of Chicago, one SOUR note can lea...
Death at a Seance: A Carry McFarland Psychic Mystery
Death at a Seance: A Carry McFarland Psychic Mystery Carolyn Marie Wilkins 9781683132134 Fiction Pen-L Publishing Pen-L Publishing Carrie McFarland’s psychic gifts land her in trouble wherever s...
Love Like Sky
Love Like Sky Leslie C. Youngblood 9781368016506 Fiction Disney-Hyperion Disney Publishing Worldwide “Love ain’t like that.” “How is it then?” Peaches asked, turning on her stomach to face me. “It...
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America Kam Williams Book Review “America is in trouble, and a lot of that trouble—perhaps most of it—has to do with race. Everywhere we tu...
Pressure Makes Diamonds
Pressure Makes Diamonds Valerie Graves 9781617754937 Nonfiction Open Lens Akashic Books “Pressure Makes Diamonds is an important and timely book that brilliantly details Valerie Graves’s pioneering ...
Mojo for Murder
Mojo for Murder Carolyn Marie Wilkins 9781683130352 Fiction Pen-L Publishing Pen-L Publishing Do you believe in magic? There’s a hex on Charley Howard’s Hot Links Emporium, and Charle...
Bibsy
Bibsy Carol Taylor Book Review “Langston County is tucked into the southern tip of New York State, wedged between the Hudson River and the New Jersey state line. And it was home to Jake Tuck...
Melody for Murder: A Bertie Bigelow Mystery
Melody for Murder: A Bertie Bigelow Mystery Carolyn Marie Wilkins 9781942428329 Fiction Pen-L Publishing Pen-L Publishing On the South Side of Chicago, one SOUR note can lead to MURDER. ...
Not for Everyday Use: A Memoir
Not for Everyday Use: A Memoir Elizabeth Nunez 9781617752339 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Selected by Oprah’s Book Club as a memoir “too powerful to put down.” Tracing the...
Fake ID
Fake ID Lamar Giles 9780062121844 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins My name isn’t really Nick Pearson. I shouldn’t tell you where I’m from. I shouldn’t tell you why my family moved to Stepton, Vir...
The Instruction of Ptah Hotep and the Instruction of Ke’gemni
The Instruction of Ptah Hotep and the Instruction of Ke’gemni Battiscombe G. Gunn 9781770830639 Nonfiction Theophania Publishing Theophania Publishing Battiscombe Gunn published his first translation ...
Mary "HoneyB" Morrison excerpt from keynote speech
Mary "HoneyB" Morrison excerpt from keynote speech Author Interviews
Learn A Man Earn A Man
Learn A Man Earn A Man Barry Fletcher 9781616582708 Fiction Barry Fletcher Products Publis Barry Fletcher Products Publis “My latest book, Learn A Man, Earn A Man is out and the response has been amaz...
Why Men Fear Marriage
Why Men Fear Marriage Mel Hopkins Book Review WANTED: “Single Women” In 2050, women internment camps populate the Pacific coastline. This housing once reserved for Japanese Americans...
The Saving Work
The Saving Work Tiphanie Yanique 9781888553239 Fiction Kore Press Kore Press Short story chapbook, laser printed and hand assembled with unique burn mark on cover. This is the first in a series of sho...
One Dead Preacher: David Price Mysteries
One Dead Preacher: David Price Mysteries Tony Lindsay 9781933967028 Nonfiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Originally published by BlackWords, Inc. in April of 2000. Lindsay & Publ...
Fertile Ground: Memories & Visions
Fertile Ground: Memories & Visions Kysha N. Brown and Kalamu ya Salaam 9780965385404 Fiction Runagate Multimedia Runagate Multimedia Read Why Fertile Ground is Such an Important Work Fertile Ground...
Ten Years Later
Ten Years Later Alexandre Dumas 9780266431817 Fiction Forgotten Books Forgotten Books Excerpt:… Austria. The happy pair, hand in hand, imperceptibly pressing each other’s fingers, drank in deep draugh...
Zoe Johnson
Zoe Johnson NONE Comedy writer and stand-up Zoe Johnson started creating characters at 8. At William & Mary, she brought her humor to the student paper; she now trains at Upright Citizens Brigade (UC...
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...
Alexander Smalls
Alexander Smalls 0000000458935095 Alexander Smalls, an iconic American chef and owner of award-winning NYC restaurants, is also a co-author of a James Beard award-winning cookbook and a globally reco...