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Shauntay Grant
Shauntay Grant 0000000082860020 Shauntay Grant is a Halifax-based writer and performance artist. She's written multiple children's books, including award-winning 'Up Home' and 'Africville'. Grant als...
When I Wrap My Hair
When I Wrap My Hair Shauntay Grant 9780063093911 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins When I wrap my hair, I feel a thousand grandmothers around me. They tell me I am beautiful. They tell ...
The Bridge
The Bridge Shauntay Grant 9780369102263 Fiction Playwrights Canada Press Playwrights Canada Press Shauntay Grant is a Canadian playwright, poet, performance artist, and children’s author. She is an as...
Where There Is Hope: A Story in African Proverbs
Where There Is Hope: A Story in African Proverbs Shauntay Grant 9780593659953 Fiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House When tragedy strikes, a young girl learns the importance of hope and communi...
The Deepest Blue
The Deepest Blue Shauntay Grant 9780063251380 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins From acclaimed author Shauntay Grant and Caldecott Honor-winning artist Daniel Minter comes a stunning picture book...
Where There Is Love: A Story in African Proverbs
Where There Is Love: A Story in African Proverbs Shauntay Grant 9780593659939 Fiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House Food, family, love, and laughter make for the perfect recipe in this sweet p...
Snowy Mittens: A Winter Adventure
Snowy Mittens: A Winter Adventure Shauntay Grant 9781419763090 Fiction Abrams Appleseed Abrams Snowy Mittens: A Winter Adventure is a celebration of Black joy and the simple pleasures of a day in the ...
Sandy Toes: A Summer Adventure
Sandy Toes: A Summer Adventure Shauntay Grant 9781419763076 Fiction Abrams Appleseed Abrams From patchwork-quilt farmland to the winding red roads, from sandy beaches to the endless stars at night, Ap...
My Fade Is Fresh
My Fade Is Fresh Shauntay Grant 9780593387085 Fiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House A little girl makes sure she walks out of the barbershop rocking the fabulous hair style she chooses. Lea...
My Hair Is Beautiful
My Hair Is Beautiful Shauntay Grant 9781771087667 Nonfiction Nimbus Publishing Nimbus Publishing Natural, knotty, fluffy, frizzy, twisted, tangled, pony, puffed A celebration of natural hair, from ...
The Walking Bathroom
The Walking Bathroom Shauntay Grant 9781771085564 Fiction Nimbus Publishing Nimbus Publishing It’s Halloween and Amayah doesn’t have a costume to wear to school. She dressed as a ghost for the last th...
Apples and Butterflies
Apples and Butterflies Shauntay Grant 9781771083607 Fiction Nimbus Publishing Nimbus Publishing Happy memories sparkle in this journey through poet Shauntay Grant’s childhood visits to North Preston, ...
Up Home
Up Home Shauntay Grant 9781551099118 Fiction Nimbus Publishing Nimbus Publishing Happy memories sparkle in this journey through poet Shauntay Grant’s childhood visits to North Preston, Nova Scotia. He...
Bright Lights and Summer Nights
Bright Lights and Summer Nights Shauntay Grant 9781774883662 Fiction Tundra Books (NY) Penguin Random House Three Starred Reviews! Take a luminous bedtime journey through the summery dreamworld of a r...
From the Ashes: Six Solo Plays
From the Ashes: Six Solo Plays Shauntay Grant 9780369104465 Fiction Playwrights Canada Press Playwrights Canada Press From the Ashes collects solo plays by Black Canadian women and womxn that together...
Africville
Africville Shauntay Grant 9781773060439 Fiction Groundwood Books Anansi Press When a young girl visits the site of Africville, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the stories she’s heard from her family come to ...
Grant Harper Reid
Grant Harper Reid NONE Dr. Grant Harper Reid, author of award-winning biography, “Rhythm For Sale,” explores the life of his grandfather, influential theatre producer Leonard Harper. An arts graduate...
When I Wrap My Hair: A Child's Ode to Hair Wrapping
When I Wrap My Hair: A Child's Ode to Hair Wrapping Author Interviews When I wrap my hair, I feel a thousand grandmothers around me. They tell me I am beautiful. They tell me I am home. When I Wrap My...
Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant: Our writing career is officially on HOLD
Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant: Our writing career is officially on HOLD Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant Article Virginia DeBerry (r) and Donna Grant (l)
Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant
Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant MULTIPLE Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant are best friends turned successful authors, known for their enduring collaboration in African American fiction. Both started...
10 Keys to Writing Successful Grant Proposals
10 Keys to Writing Successful Grant Proposals Gina Wilson Beckles Article Dr. Gina Wilson Beckles Let’s say you’ve been given the task of writing a grant proposal, even though you a...
Harlem Bible: In The Beginning
Harlem Bible: In The Beginning Grant Harper Reid 9781976572838 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Harlem Bible—-In the Beginning by Grant Harper Reid Multi-Book Award-winning author Grant...
At the Elbows of My Elders: One Family’s Journey Toward Civil Rights Volume 1
At the Elbows of My Elders: One Family’s Journey Toward Civil Rights Volume 1 Gail Milissa Grant 9781883982669 Nonfiction Missouri Historical Society Press University of Chicago Press While America is...
Tracy Grant
Tracy Grant NONE Tracy Grant, a Brooklyn-born writer, gained fame at Georgetown University as an editorial writer. He became Senior Editor at music magazine Straight From the Street while also freela...
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Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World
Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World Rae Wynn-Grant 9781638930402 Nonfiction Get Lifted Books Penguin Random House “As sensitive and touching as it is urgent … [Wild Life] is a poignant e...
The Apocalypto Kid Goes to College
The Apocalypto Kid Goes to College Grant Harper Reid 9798218093693 Nonfiction Dr. Grant Harper Reid Dr. Grant Harper Reid Never in the history of memoir writing has the author protagonist been so wron...
Grant Park
Grant Park Leonard Pitts Jr. 9781932841916 Fiction Agate Bolden Agate Publishing, Inc Grant Park is a page-turning and provocative look at black and white relations in contemporary America, blending t...
No Doubt: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant
No Doubt: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant Thandisizwe Chimurenga 9781489596291 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC No Doubt is the chilling and compelling story of the 2009 murder of 22-ye...
Something All Our Own: The Grant Hill Collection of African American Art
Something All Our Own: The Grant Hill Collection of African American Art Grant Hill 9780822333180 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books Since 1990, Grant Hill has thrilled...
Grant Bywaters
Grant Bywaters NONE Grant Bywaters, a former private investigator and current security worker at Portland Airport, is finishing his psychology degree at Portland State University. Living in Beaverton...
Grant Hill
Grant Hill 0000000116362151 Grant Henry Hill, born October 5, 1972, is a former NBA player who played for four teams including the Detroit Pistons and LA Clippers. He's also an avid art collector. Gr...
Shauna J. Grant
Shauna J. Grant NONE Shauna J. Grant, a celebrated cartoonist known for her cute creations, is the author of 'Mimi and the Cutie Catastrophe.' She's also contributed to 'Black Comix Returns', 'Noisem...
Christopher Grant
Christopher Grant 0000000068848201 Brooklyn-born Christopher Grant, an alumnus of Stony Brook University, is a diverse professional with experiences ranging from equities trader to actor. Inspired by...
Gail Milissa Grant
Gail Milissa Grant NONE Gail Milissa Grant (1949–2024) was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri at the cusp of the modern civil rights movement. She is currently a writer and public speaker,...
Who’s Your A & R?: A Guide to Artist Discovery, Creative Development, and Career Building for Aspiring Musicians and Industry Professionals
Who’s Your A & R?: A Guide to Artist Discovery, Creative Development, and Career Building for Aspiring Musicians and Industry Professionals Omar Grant 9781954220614 Nonfiction Kingston Imperial Kingst...
What Maya Angelou Says: The Official Collection
What Maya Angelou Says: The Official Collection Maya Angelou and Hardie Grant Quadrille 9781784887544 Nonfiction Hardie Grant Books Hardie Grant Books What Maya Angelou Says is a collection of the bel...
Rhythm For Sale
Rhythm For Sale Grant Harper Reid 9780615678283 Fiction Dr. Grant Harper Reid Dr. Grant Harper Reid Rhythm For Sale is a Bona-Fide FIVE STAR book. This CLASSICAL/MASTER EDITION is the account of Harle...
Visitor’s day at Camp Grant – Research & Share Your Family History (Part 3)
Visitor’s day at Camp Grant – Research & Share Your Family History (Part 3) Troy Johnson Article The author of the next installment of "Research & Share Your History" is my virtual friend Connie ...
Virginia DeBerry & Donna Grant talk to AALBC.com at BEA '08
Virginia DeBerry & Donna Grant talk to AALBC.com at BEA '08 Author Interviews Virginia DeBerry & Donna Grant talk to AALBC.com at Book Expo America (BEA) 2008. With five novels to their credit, Vir...
Maya Angelou and Hardie Grant Quadrille
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Omar Grant
Omar Grant NONE Omar Grant is an American music executive and co‑president of Jay‑Z’s Roc Nation, with over two decades in A&R at EMI, Epic and Roc Nation. He has helped shape the careers of artists...
Rae Wynn-Grant
Rae Wynn-Grant NONE Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant is a wildlife ecologist, conservation scientist, author, television host, storyteller, equity and justice advocate, and beyond. With over 20 years of ecology r...
Lynn Nottage
Lynn Nottage 0000000080050112 Congrats to Lynn Nottage: Winner 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Lynn Nottage, a distinguished playwright and lecturer, is celebrated for her outstanding plays and awarded ...
Visitor’s day at Camp Grant – Research & Share Your Family History (Part 3)
Visitor’s day at Camp Grant – Research & Share Your Family History (Part 3) Connie Bradley Article The author of the next installment of “Research & Share Your History” is my virtual ...
So You Think You Want a Grant!
So You Think You Want a Grant! Gina Wilson Beckles Article Gina Wilson Beckles, Ph.D. Program Evaluation Services, Inc. With the Gates and Buffetts of the world pledging to give away half of t...
Seven Reasons Why Grant Proposals Fail to get Funded
Seven Reasons Why Grant Proposals Fail to get Funded Gina Wilson Beckles Article Gina Wilson Beckles, Ph.D. Program Evaluation Services, Inc. Life is about opportunities. They are ever present ...
Table of Contents
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Karen’s Surprise: A Graphic Novel
Karen’s Surprise: A Graphic Novel Shauna J. Grant 9781546111269 Fiction Graphix Scholastic Inc. Another graphic novel in this fun series (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #12) spin-off of The Baby-sitters ...
Grants! Grants! Grants!: Everything You Need to Know About Grants, 2nd Edition
Grants! Grants! Grants!: Everything You Need to Know About Grants, 2nd Edition Gina Wilson Beckles and Francina Dubose Brooks 9798218805890 Nonfiction The Beckles Group The Beckles Group A comprehensi...
Karen’s Prize: A Graphic Novel (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #10)
Karen’s Prize: A Graphic Novel (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #10) Shauna J. Grant 9781546110071 Fiction Graphix Scholastic Inc. Another graphic novel in this fun series spin-off of The Baby-sitters Club...
Far from the Tree
Far from the Tree Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant 9781250846631 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers From the bestselling author duo Donna Grant and Virginia DeBerry comes Far from the T...
Better Than I Know Myself (2023)
Better Than I Know Myself (2023) Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant 9781250846648 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant, the #1 Essence bestselling authors o...
Tryin’ to Sleep in the Bed You Made (Special Value)
Tryin’ to Sleep in the Bed You Made (Special Value) Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant 9781250846655 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Best friends face down a tragedy in this beloved no...
Watson and Holmes: A Scandal in Harlem
Watson and Holmes: A Scandal in Harlem Brandon Easton, Karl Bollers, Greg Anderson Elysée, Lindsay Faye, and Steven Grant 9781960171030 Fiction Fairsquare Comics Fairsquare Comics Harlem, Now. The mos...
Mimi and the Boo-Hoo Blahs: A Graphix Chapters Book (Mimi #2)
Mimi and the Boo-Hoo Blahs: A Graphix Chapters Book (Mimi #2) Shauna J. Grant 9781338766691 Fiction Graphix Scholastic Inc. Mimi returns for another misadventure in this sweet, funny Graphix Chapters ...
Mimi and the Cutie Catastrophe: A Graphix Chapters Book (Mimi #1)
Mimi and the Cutie Catastrophe: A Graphix Chapters Book (Mimi #1) Shauna J. Grant 9781338766660 Fiction Graphix Scholastic Inc. Rising star Shauna J. Grant makes her Graphix Chapters debut with this h...
Game: An Autobiography
Game: An Autobiography Grant Hill 9780593297407 Nonfiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House The full, frank story of a remarkable life’s journey—to the pinnacle of success as a basketball player, ic...
Until the Last Breath
Until the Last Breath Shanora Williams 9798674230984 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Years ago, I fell in love with a man named Maximilian Grant—tall, smooth-talking, handsome ...
The Red Storm: A Mystery
The Red Storm: A Mystery Grant Bywaters 9781250073075 Fiction Minotaur Books Minotaur Books Winner of the Minotaur Books/Private Eye Writers of America Best First Private Eye Novel Competition introdu...
Teenie
Teenie Christopher Grant 9780375861918 Fiction Knopf Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House High school freshman Martine (Teenie for short) is a good student, with a bright future ahead of her. ...
Negro With A Hat: The Rise And Fall Of Marcus Garvey
Negro With A Hat: The Rise And Fall Of Marcus Garvey Colin Grant 9780099501459 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House Definitive biography of Marcus Garvey from an exciting and talented new writer.At o...
Exposures
Exposures Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant 9780595357185 Fiction Backinprint.com Backinprint.com As a glamorous, successful fashion photographer, adored by New York and Paris trend makers, Brett Larse...
Change the Game: One Athlete’s Thoughts on Sports, Dreams, and Growing Up
Change the Game: One Athlete’s Thoughts on Sports, Dreams, and Growing Up Grant Hill 9780446672627 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group In this charmingly honest book, Detroit Pisto...
Brandon Easton, Karl Bollers, Greg Anderson Elysée, Lindsay Faye, and Steven Grant
Brandon Easton, Karl Bollers, Greg Anderson Elysée, Lindsay Faye, and Steven Grant MULTIPLE
Roger Martin Davis
Roger Martin Davis NONE Roger Martin Davis, also known as Adisa Maina Omar, is a New York-born, globally-traveled author and certified Reiki practitioner. He is a graduate of Cornell University, Kore...
Matthew Lynch
Matthew Lynch 0000000429289063 Matthew Lynch is a professional educator, grant reviewer, writer, and author with articles in Huffington Post, Education Week and academic journals. He is also known fo...
Chaun Webster
Chaun Webster NONE Chaun Webster, a poet, publisher, and graphic designer, is influenced by the Black Arts Movement, Jazz, and Graffiti. He founded Free Poet’s Press in 2009 to encourage art producti...
Jennifer L. Morgan
Jennifer L. Morgan 0000000116288983 Jennifer L. Morgan is a 2024 MacArthur Foundation’s “Genius” Grant Winner Morgan is a 2024 MacArthur Foundation's "Genius" Grant Winner, for "Deep...
Fruitvale Station
Fruitvale Station Kam Williams fruitville-station.jpg Film Review Bittersweet Biopic Recounts Final Hours in Oscar Grant’s Life The video is a news report which includes video of Oscar Grant I...
You Belong in the Wild
You Belong in the Wild Rae Wynn-Grant 9781638930426 Fiction Get Lifted Books Penguin Random House In this heartfelt and beautifully illustrated picture book, a young science enthusiast discovers that ...
The Genie Game
The Genie Game Jordan Ifueko 9781419764370 Fiction Amulet Books Abrams Harriet the Spy meets Black Mirror in The Genie Game, the start of a thrilling new middle-grade series from Jordan Ifueko, author...
Tangled Dreams
Tangled Dreams Kirkus Book Review A fantastic example of ancestry-driven fiction. In Friedman’s novel, a cultural anthropology professor at a crossroads receives a grant that draws her back into h...
The Sable Cloak
The Sable Cloak Gail Milissa Grant 9781538742006 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group In this atmospheric novel set in the Jim Crow South, a powerful Black family fights to protect the...
Grant Me Vision: A Journey of Family, Faith, and Forgiveness
Grant Me Vision: A Journey of Family, Faith, and Forgiveness Sabrina Greenlee 9780063291232 Nonfiction Harper HarperCollins
Courses of the Cursed: A Curtis Jefferson novel
Courses of the Cursed: A Curtis Jefferson novel Vince Bailey 9781732843653 Fiction IngramElliott IngramElliott African American youth Curtis Jefferson is still serving his one-year term at Fort Grant,...
Courses of the Cursed (Paperback): A Curtis Jefferson novel
Courses of the Cursed (Paperback): A Curtis Jefferson novel Vince Bailey 9781732843660 Fiction IngramElliott IngramElliott African American youth Curtis Jefferson is still serving his one-year term at...
A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America’s First All-Black High School Rowing Team
A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America’s First All-Black High School Rowing Team Arshay Cooper 9781250754769 Nonfiction Flatiron Books Macmillan Publishers Now a documentary narrated by Com...
Path of the Half Moon
Path of the Half Moon Vince Bailey 9780999057377 Fiction IngramElliott IngramElliott When fifteen-year-old Curtis Jefferson, a mischievous but good-natured African-American youth, is caught crossing t...
Path of the Half Moon (Paperback)
Path of the Half Moon (Paperback) Vince Bailey 9780999057384 Fiction IngramElliott IngramElliott When fifteen-year-old Curtis Jefferson, a mischievous but good-natured African-American youth, is caugh...
Faces of Praise!: Photos and Gospel Inspirations to Encourage and Uplift
Faces of Praise!: Photos and Gospel Inspirations to Encourage and Uplift Carol Mackey 9781478917526 Nonfiction FaithWords Hachette Book Group Photography by B. Jeffrey Grant-Clark This full-color p...
A Good Dose of Pleasure (The Morgan Men)
A Good Dose of Pleasure (The Morgan Men) Zuri Day 9780758275127 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. One sexy Morgan man may have finally met his match in a talented and beautiful young wido...
Uptown: A Novel
Uptown: A Novel Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant 9781439137765 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. ENTER THE WORLD OF UPTOWNUptown … where money rulesUptown … where ambition trumps traditionUpto...
What Doesn’t Kill You: A Novel
What Doesn’t Kill You: A Novel Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant 9781416564201 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. Opinionated, straight-talking, and witty, Tee is a fly forty-something. Divorced...
Tryin’ To Sleep In The Bed You Made
Tryin’ To Sleep In The Bed You Made Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant 9780312383725 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Curl up in a chair and enter the lives of two unforgettable women who...
Gotta Keep on Tryin’: A Novel
Gotta Keep on Tryin’: A Novel Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant 9781416531678 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. Gayle Saunders and Patricia Reid have been lifelong friends, as close as sisters....
Hope And Desire
Hope And Desire Theresa Grant 9781413758603 Fiction PublishAmerica PublishAmerica Jennifer Greene, a young impressionable girl, dreams of going to New York to become a fashion designer. Her father die...
Better Than I Know Myself
Better Than I Know Myself Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant 9780312341367 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers The beloved #1 Essence bestselling authors of Tryin’ to Sleep in the Bed You ...
Far From The Tree
Far From The Tree Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant 9780312202910 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Celeste English and Ronnie Frazier are sisters, but they couldn’t be more different. C...
Hellified
Hellified Tracy Grant 9780967283609 Fiction Visao Press Visao Press A humorous and touching coming of age novel. Three young black men during their freshman year in college find out that school isn’t...
Dorothy M. Hazzard
Dorothy M. Hazzard NONE "Dorothy M. Hazzard, pictured with author Tracy Grant at the 2000 National African American Cultural Expo at the Philadelphia Convention Center.” Dorothy M. Hazzard is picture...
Trisha Tobias
Trisha Tobias NONE Trisha Tobias is a writer, editor, and Fordham University graduate. She is a recipient of the 2018 Walter Dean Myers Grant and a 2019-2021 Highlights Foundation Diversity Fellow. T...