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She Nell
She Nell NONE Nell is a devoted wife and mother living in Tampa, Florida. Blessed with three daughters, she cherishes her role as a child of the King. She Nell is a wife, mother, and daughter of the ...
A Good Thing 3: Vengeance is Mine
A Good Thing 3: Vengeance is Mine She Nell 9781718040366 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC When Casanova returns home he finds that his house is up for sale and no one is excited to see him...
A Good Thing
A Good Thing She Nell 9781979410274 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC They live in a world where good girls finish last and trusting God means you may be living an alternate lifestyle. Chan...
Joyful Noise: The Hot Mess Choir
Joyful Noise: The Hot Mess Choir She Nell B07JVZW1BJ Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. First Lady Deidra Jones is expected to do the unthinkable. She must pull together four choirs that hate ...
The Devil Thought He Had Me
The Devil Thought He Had Me She Nell 9781799248514 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Meet Shannon, an overworked single mom with more issues than one; Jenna, who’s willing to lose everythin...
A Good Thing 2: If I Be Lifted Up
A Good Thing 2: If I Be Lifted Up She Nell 9781983421419 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC With death comes change for the members of Christ Love Fellowship. Bryant must guard his spirit fr...
Author She Nell on Her Latest Novel, Joyful Noise: The Hot Mess Choir
Author She Nell on Her Latest Novel, Joyful Noise: The Hot Mess Choir Book Spotlights Urban Christian fiction author She Nell tells the AALBC audience about her latest novel, Joyful Noise: The Hot Mes...
Nell Irvin Painter
Nell Irvin Painter 0000000081655121 Nell Irvin Painter is a renowned historian, known for her works on 19th-century Southern US history. She has held prestigious positions like the President of the S...
William Cooper Nell: Selected Writings 1832-1874
William Cooper Nell: Selected Writings 1832-1874 Dorothy Porter and Constance Porter Uzelac 9781574780192 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press William Cooper Nell: Nineteenth-Century Afr...
Raven in a Dove House
Raven in a Dove House Andrea Davis Pinkney 9780544230163 Fiction Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Houghton Mifflin Harcourt It’s summer vacation, and twelve-year-old Nell has gone upstate to spend a month wi...
Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over Nell Irvin Painter 9781640090613 Nonfiction Counterpoint Counterpoint A Library Journal Editors’ Spring Pick: 1 of 34 Titles to Wave a Flag About "Old in...
Nell Plants a Tree
Nell Plants a Tree Anne Wynter 9780062865779 Fiction Balzer & Bray/Harperteen HarperCollins This gorgeous picture book shows how one little girl’s careful tending of a pecan tree creates the living ce...
Nell Irvin Painter: The Creating African-American
Nell Irvin Painter: The Creating African-American Kam Williams Interview photo credit: Bill Gaskins Until her recent retirement from teaching, Nell Irvin Painter was the Edwar...
Anne Wynter
Anne Wynter NONE Anne Wynter is the Ezra Jack Keats Award-winning author of the picture books Everybody in the Red Brick Building and Nell Plants a Tree as well as the board books Hands On! and One B...
Southern History Across the Color Line
Southern History Across the Color Line Nell Irvin Painter 9780807826928 Fiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press The color line, once all too solid in southern pub...
Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol
Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol Nell Irvin Painter 9780393317084 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A monumental biography of one of the most important black women of the...
Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol
Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol Nell Irvin Painter 9780393027396 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Sojourner Truth: ex-slave and fiery abolitionist, figure of imposing p...
I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays
I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays Nell Irvin Painter 9780385548908 Nonfiction Doubleday Books Penguin Random House From the New York Times bestselling author of The History of White People and Old...
The History Of White People
The History Of White People Nell Irvin Painter 9780393049343 Fiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A mind-expanding and myth-destroying exploration of notions of white race―not m...
Creating Black Americans: African American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present
Creating Black Americans: African American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present Nell Irvin Painter 9780195137552 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Here is a magnifice...
The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: The Life and Times of a Black Radical
The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: The Life and Times of a Black Radical Nell Irvin Painter 9780393310153 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. “Among the many exemplary qualities...
All We Were Promised: A Novel
All We Were Promised: A Novel Ashton Lattimore 9780593600153 Fiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, She Reads Philadelphia, 1837....
Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Bondswoman of Olden Time, with a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from Her "Book of Life"; Also, a Mem
Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Bondswoman of Olden Time, with a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from Her "Book of Life"; Also, a Mem Sojourner Truth 9780140436785 Nonfiction Penguin Gr...
Soul Murder and Slavery (Charles Edmondson Historical Lectures Series, 15)
Soul Murder and Slavery (Charles Edmondson Historical Lectures Series, 15) Nell Irvin Painter 9780918954626 Nonfiction Baylor University Press Baylor University Drawing upon psychological paradigms, P...
Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction
Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas After Reconstruction Nell Irvin Painter 9780393009514 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. The first major migration to the North of ex-...
Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919
Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919 Nell Irvin Painter 9780393305883 Fiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Winner of the Letitia Brown Memorial Publication Prize...
Def Jam, Inc. : Russell Simmons, Rick Rubin, and the Extraordinary Story of the World’s Most Influential Hip-Hop Label
Def Jam, Inc. : Russell Simmons, Rick Rubin, and the Extraordinary Story of the World’s Most Influential Hip-Hop Label Stacy Gueraseva 9780345468048 Nonfiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random Hous...
So Many Years: A Juneteenth Story
So Many Years: A Juneteenth Story Anne Wynter 9780063081147 Nonfiction Clarion Books HarperCollins The celebrated author of Ezra Jack Keats Award winner Nell Plants a Tree and a Caldecott Honor artist...
By Any Means Necessary: Malcolm X: Real, Not Reinvented
By Any Means Necessary: Malcolm X: Real, Not Reinvented Herb Boyd 9780883783368 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press Compiled as a response to Manning Marable’s controversial new biogra...
Negro in the American Revolution (Revised)
Negro in the American Revolution (Revised) Benjamin Quarles 9780807846032 Nonfiction Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Pre...
A Hard Road To Glory: A History Of The African American Athlete
A Hard Road To Glory: A History Of The African American Athlete Arthur Ashe 9781567430394 Nonfiction Harper Paperbacks HarperCollins African-American athletes have been excelling in track and field si...
Black Thunder: Gabriel’s Revolt: Virginia, 1800
Black Thunder: Gabriel’s Revolt: Virginia, 1800 Arna Bontemps 9780807063378 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press ’Gabriel Prosser’s 1800 slave revolt allowed Bontemps to warn of the rebellion that wou...
Creating Black Americans
Creating Black Americans Kam Williams Book Review ’Over the course of more than two centuries, black American artists have represented their history- scrupulously, meaningfully, and brilliantl...
3rd Blackboard Midwest Music & Book Fest.
3rd Blackboard Midwest Music & Book Fest. Loading ***PLEASE FORWARD*** For more information, contact Cherlyn Michaels @ info@archlandbooks.com or by phone at 314.369.6130. 3rd Annual Blackb...
Jessica Ramos
Jessica Ramos NONE Jessica Ramos, a Medgar Evers College student with an Associate's degree in Education, is driven by her passion for teaching children. Raised in a Mexico-origin family in Brooklyn,...
Shifting Allegiances: A Nigerian’s story of Nigeria, America and Culture Shock
Shifting Allegiances: A Nigerian’s story of Nigeria, America and Culture Shock Amaka Lily 9781500133795 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Shortlisted for the 2015 QBR Wheatley Book Aw...
Dreams and Nightmares
Dreams and Nightmares Coretha Davenport 9798885057356 Nonfiction Fulton Books Fulton Books Coretha writes personally and openly about some of the deep secrets, abuse, and pain in life she encountered ...
Daisy Copelin
Daisy Copelin NONE Daisy Copelin, a graduate of Nyack College and self-made author, uses her personal experiences of overcoming adversity to inspire young people through her writings. She founded the...
A Thug’s Redemption 3: The Wrath of Andre
A Thug’s Redemption 3: The Wrath of Andre Yani Excerpt Tiffany disconnected the phone and paced the living room. Jamal had a second phone with only one number in it that went to a man who seemed to ...
Bullets in the Fire: The Saga of New York Red
Bullets in the Fire: The Saga of New York Red Edward Roy 9781735765808 Nonfiction Edward Roy Unlimited LLC Edward Roy Unlimited LLC Bullets in The Fire - The Saga of New York Red, a sexually liberated...
Plus Size Player
Plus Size Player Danielle Allen 9781250331182 Fiction Bramble Macmillan Publishers “No one does banter, humor, or spice as magnificently as Danielle Allen! She’s one of the most unique, sizzling voice...
Butterfly
Butterfly Ashley Antoinette 9781250136367 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Butterfly is the first novel in an all new series by New York Times bestselling author Ashley Antoinette and...
Princess F.L. Gooden
Princess F.L. Gooden NONE Born and raised in Atlanta, Princess F. L. Gooden is a gifted writer, poet, and dramatist. She started writing at a young age, and by 13, she had written and directed plays ...
Brittany Johnson
Brittany Johnson NONE Brittany Johnson is a proud Black, African American, queer woman who was raised in both the Northeast and Southeast regions of the United States—but that wasn’t always the case...
The Last Love Letter
The Last Love Letter Robert Fleming Book Review Amanda Easton, the author of The Last Love Letter, has a history of letter writing going back to her college days when she sometimes said the...
Destiny of the Diamond Princess
Destiny of the Diamond Princess Sherri Winston 9781547617029 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing The Princess Diaries meets From the Desk of Zoey Washington in this story about a g...
This Could Be Us
This Could Be Us Kennedy Ryan 9781538767436 Fiction Forever Grand Central Publishing An instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller, featured on The Today Show and CBS Mornings. Glamour: Best B...
From Whence We Come
From Whence We Come Maurice W. Dorsey 9781543462906 Nonfiction Xlibris Author Solutions Seymour Rose is an African American man who is gay. He was born to a father who is Catholic and accepts his son ...
Natasha Owens
Natasha Owens NONE Southern girl Natasha Owens is a devoted mother and Christian with a love for soul music and comfort food. Despite struggles with weight and eyesight, she pursued higher education....
Dippin My Spoon
Dippin My Spoon Nina Foxx Excerpt BACK IN AUSTIN, Amber was sure of one thing; she didn’t want anything from Tyler. He could have everything, except her car. She knew she didn’t want ...
Somebody’s Knocking at My Door: A Novel
Somebody’s Knocking at My Door: A Novel Francis Ray 9780312307349 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Kristen Wakefield grew up the privileged, beloved daughter and sister of a wealthy f...
Aliona L. Gibson
Aliona L. Gibson NONE Aliona L. Gibson is an author and filmmaker with a passion for creativity and service. She published her first book, Nappy, and later the self-published For Black Writers. Inspi...
Pinkie Gordon Lane
Pinkie Gordon Lane 0000000025290746 Pinkie Gordon Lane (1923-2008) was an influential poet, editor, and educator. Born in Philadelphia, she overcame hardships to earn degrees from Spelman College and...
Andrea J. Loney
Andrea J. Loney NONE Andrea J. Loney, a versatile author with African American, Jamaican and Panamanian roots, realized her childhood dream of becoming a writer. After developing her craft in college...
Conjure Island
Conjure Island Eden Royce 9780062899637 Fiction Walden Pond Press Walden Pond Press From the award-winning author of Root Magic comes the story of a girl forced to spend the summer with a great-grandm...
Zora Books Her Happy Ever After: A Rom-Com Novel
Zora Books Her Happy Ever After: A Rom-Com Novel Taj McCoy 9780778333524 Fiction Mira Books Harlequin Enterprises Limited A heart-pounding, curvy romance about an indie bookstore owner who finds hers...
Baby, You’re the Best (The Crystal Series)
Baby, You’re the Best (The Crystal Series) Mary B. Morrison 9781617730689 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. New York Times bestselling author Mary B. Morrison introduces her most seductive a...
19 Years Old And 19 Men Later
19 Years Old And 19 Men Later Tenisha Gainey 9780578055367 Nonfiction Piners Press Piners Press Everyone has a story to tell. Here is my story. 19 Years Old and 19 Men Later is the true life testimony...
Passin’
Passin’ Karen E. Quinones Miller 9780446696050 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Shanika Ann Jenkins is the pride of her African-American family; smart, beautiful, and born with blu...
Tayari Jones
Tayari Jones 0000000034178764 Born in Atlanta, GA in 1970, Tayari Jones is an accomplished author and educator. After obtaining her Masters from the University of Iowa, she taught Developmental Readi...
Faye Thompson
Faye Thompson NONE Faye Thompson, a passionate author, discovered her love for writing at a young age. After a life diversion and a degree in psychology, an epiphany led her back to her true calling....
Carlotta Arradondo
Carlotta Arradondo NONE Carlotta Arradondo, a Minneapolis-born novelist, poet, and storyteller, discovered her passion for writing at nine. She is the author of the novel “Yearning” and co-author of ...
Gwendolyn Hooks
Gwendolyn Hooks NONE Gwendolyn Hooks is a children's book author inspired by pets, friendship, and family. Born in Georgia, she's lived in several places including Italy. She initially pursued a care...
Passing By Samaria
Passing By Samaria Sharon Ewell Foster Excerpt With just a second’s pause, Alena stepped into the strange green world. Entranced, she walked further in amongst the trees. She did not look bac...
Fractured Harmony
Fractured Harmony Sherelle Green 9798315429166 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published She was never supposed to be my problem. Storm Crowne is too young, too reckless, and far too tem...
No Remaining Evidence: A Noel Patterson Novel
No Remaining Evidence: A Noel Patterson Novel Christina Benton 9781946962003 Fiction Janco Publishing Janco Publishing Noel learned how to get away with murder while in grad school. Little did she kno...
The Engagement Game: Why I Said “I Don’t” to Marriage and “I Do” to Me
The Engagement Game: Why I Said “I Don’t” to Marriage and “I Do” to Me Joi-Marie McKenzie 9781455594481 Nonfiction Center Street Hachette Book Group Joi-Marie almost has it all; a thriving career, a s...
Felina’s Life and Loves: The Felix Women I
Felina’s Life and Loves: The Felix Women I Angelia Vernon Menchan B00M4QDLG8 Fiction acVernon Menchan acVernon Menchan This is a short story, 9,600 Words, with a bit of a cliffhanger ending. Felina...
What Love Feels Like
What Love Feels Like F. Y. Dawn 9781477274989 Fiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions Latrice is married to the good looking Calvin Stewart. He swept her off her feet putting an end to her party girl lif...
Mr. Satisfaction
Mr. Satisfaction Delilah Dawson, Brenda Jackson, Joy King and Maryann Reid 9780312349011 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Extreme Satisfaction by Brenda JacksonSuccessful financial ad...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 0000000114510288 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, born in Nigeria, is a renowned author and educator who graduated summa cum laude in Communication from Eastern Connecticut State. S...
Barbara Keaton
Barbara Keaton NONE Barbara Keaton, a Chicago native, is a published author and experienced professional in public and community relations. She attributes her respect for the written word to her Cath...
Jacki Simmons
Jacki Simmons NONE Bronx-born, Harlem-raised author Jacki Simmons found inspiration in her surroundings from a young age. She completed her first short story at 11 and her first novel at 16. After wi...
Marilyn Tyner
Marilyn Tyner NONE Marilyn Tyner (1943-2014) was an author from Pittsburgh, PA. An avid reader, Tyner attended Howard University studying psychology and zoology, and worked on the college literary ma...
M.E. Waters
M.E. Waters NONE M.E. Waters is an author, speaker, and business etiquette consultant with a master's degree in business management. Inspired by authors like Maya Angelou, she writes women's business...
M. Nicole Bryant
M. Nicole Bryant NONE M. Nicole Bryant, born in Missouri, is a breast cancer survivor and advocate turned author. After her diagnosis at 42, she was driven to raise awareness, especially amongst Afri...
Lisa Michelle Bradley
Lisa Michelle Bradley NONE Lisa Michelle Bradley, from Bishopville, South Carolina, is a graduate of Central Carolina Technical College and Morris College. Currently, she's pursuing a Master's degree...
Mikki Arlene Ealey
Mikki Arlene Ealey NONE Mikki Arlene Ealey is a mother, author, CEO, and senior court office assistant. She is dedicated to healing the world and helping others reach their potential through her writ...
Pamela Shivdyal
Pamela Shivdyal NONE Pamela Shivdyal, a Guyanese-born English major at Medgar Evers College, is deeply inspired by her grandfather's emphasis on education. After migrating to New York City, she overc...
Yolanda T. Marshall
Yolanda T. Marshall NONE Yolanda T. Marshall, born in Guyana, is a writer and manager for Canada's largest Academic Publishing Company. With a passion for guitar and poetry, she published her first b...
A Long Way from Home
A Long Way from Home Connie Briscoe Excerpt Chapter One Clara sat up on the edge of her pallet and rubbed her eyes with her fists. She could tell it was awfully late by the wa...
Lovely One (Adapted for Young Adults)
Lovely One (Adapted for Young Adults) Ketanji Brown Jackson 9798217117772 Nonfiction Bright Matter Books Penguin Random House The New York Times bestselling memoir now adapted for young adults! Ket...
I Did a New Thing: 30 Days to Living Free
I Did a New Thing: 30 Days to Living Free Tabitha Brown 9780063286115 Nonfiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins New York Times Bestseller “America’s Mom” Tabitha Brown presents an inspiration...
Harlem After Midnight
Harlem After Midnight Louise Hare 9780593439289 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House Named a Must Read by Ebony • Boston Herald • Book Riot • Bookish • Minneapolis Star-Tribu...
Pride
Pride Victoria Christopher Murray 9781668012901 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. The 7 Deadly Sins series that inspired several Lifetime original movies continues with this unputdownable n...
College Life 501: Post-Grad Management
College Life 501: Post-Grad Management J.B. Vample 9781737427902 Fiction Jessyca Vample Publishing Jessyca Vample Publishing When Alexandra Chisolm, Chasity Parker, Malajia Simmons, Sidra Howard, and ...
Happily Ever Afters
Happily Ever Afters Elise Bryant 9780062982834 Fiction Balzer & Bray/Harperteen HarperCollins Jane the Virgin meets To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before in this charming debut romantic comedy filled with...
Belle
Belle Treasure Hernandez 9781622862665 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Named for her beauty, Belle Dubois is as sweet as can be. Born with a silver spoon in her mouth, she is always gi...
Watch Out for the Big Girls 3
Watch Out for the Big Girls 3 J.M. Benjamin 9781622861293 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Starrshma Fields is officially back on the scene, with the intent of returning to the head of ...
Ila’s Diamonds III
Ila’s Diamonds III Donna M. Gray-Banks 9781546278795 Fiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions Ila slowly closed the door to the safe house apartment and slumped to the hallway floor. She thought, How? Why...
The Last Black Unicorn
The Last Black Unicorn Tiffany Haddish 9781501181825 Nonfiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From stand-up comedian, actress, and breakout star of Girls Trip, Tiffany...
The Spirit of Christmas: The Christmas Wish And The Gift (The Spirit of Christmas Series) (Volume 1)
The Spirit of Christmas: The Christmas Wish And The Gift (The Spirit of Christmas Series) (Volume 1) Vanessa Miller 9781522747833 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC The Christmas Wish (...
Give A Little Love
Give A Little Love Rhonda McKnight 9781511699860 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Brooke Jordan thought her Christmas was going to be boring, particularly since she’s stuck working in Mont...
Tainted Love
Tainted Love Madeline Hampton 9780615971926 Fiction Madeline Hampton Madeline Hampton Shasta Brown wanted the one thing all girls wanted. Love. She saw everyone experiencing it but her. She knew of lo...
Sing A New Song
Sing A New Song Michelle Lindo-Rice 9781601627483 Fiction Urban Christian Kensington Publishing Corp. Book One of the Song of the Heart series If you found out you were dying, would y...
Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria
Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria Noo Saro-Wiwa 9781619020078 Fiction Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer she was dragged back to ...
Some Wounds Never Heal
Some Wounds Never Heal Rhonda M. Lawson 9781601623584 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance Alexis White spent much of her youth going after what she wanted and not caring who she hurt. She didn...
The Other Side Of Through
The Other Side Of Through Michelle Donice 9780982777985 Fiction Plenary Publishing Plenary Publishing “If she were asked to name what she was missing, she would be hard-pressed to say, yet she knew de...
Unexpected Interruptions
Unexpected Interruptions Trice Hickman 9780758269065 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. What happens when a young woman falls for two men—one black, one white, both determined in their pursuit...
An Inconvenient Friend
An Inconvenient Friend Rhonda McKnight 9781601628640 Fiction Urban Christian Kensington Publishing Corp. Samaria Jacobs is a deceitful, yet captivating diva who will do anything to win the heart of he...