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St. Pete Reads! Literacy Festival
St. Pete Reads! Literacy Festival Literary Events Terri Lipsey Scott, Executive Director of The Woodson African American Museum of Florida introduces the annual St. Pete Reads! Literacy Festival, whic...
St. Pete Reads! Literacy Festival
St. Pete Reads! Literacy Festival Woodson African American Museum of Florida St. Petersburg Florida The St. Pete Reads! Literacy Festival is dedicated to entertaining, engaging, and educating children...
The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete Kam Williams mister-and-pete-the-kids.jpg Film Review Abandoned Kids Fend for Themselves in Gritty, NYC Saga The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete Av...
Color of Deception
Color of Deception Khara Campbell 9781533218391 Fiction Delphine Publications Delphine Publications Grief strikes everyone differently, for Pete it struck him to the core. After his beloved wife Moria...
Do You Take This Woman?: A Novel
Do You Take This Woman?: A Novel R.M. Johnson 9780743285209 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. RM Johnson, the Essence bestselling author of Dating Games and The Million Dollar Divorce, o...
Carl Weber and Eric Pete
Carl Weber and Eric Pete MULTIPLE Carl Weber and Eric Pete are renowned authors known for their exceptional storytelling and character development in the literary world. Carl Weber, Eric Pete,
BWABC Literacy Festival
BWABC Literacy Festival Memphis Cook Convention Center Memphis Tennessee 2017 Festival was cancelled “The BWABC Literacy Association will not hold its annual festival in 2017. We thank you for...
Eric Pete
Eric Pete 0000000372515735 Eric Pete, a US Army veteran and graduate of McNeese State University, is a renowned author known for his debut novel “Real for Me.” His collaboration with Carl Weber on “T...
Texas Book Festival
Texas Book Festival State Capitol and surrounding grounds Austin Texas The Texas Book Festival (#TXBOOKFEST) celebrates authors and their contributions to the culture of literacy, ideas, and imaginati...
The Wedding Date
The Wedding Date Jasmine Guillory 9780399587665 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House One of… • Entertainment Weekly’s “12 Romances for V-Day” • Cosmopolitan’s “2018 Anticipated Read...
Sixth Annual National Book Festival
Sixth Annual National Book Festival Sixth Annual National Book Festival THIS EVENT HAS TAKEN PLACE AND IS RECORDED HERE AS AN HISTORICAL ARCHIVE. 2006 National Book Festival ...
Black Authors Festival @SagHarbor
Black Authors Festival @SagHarbor Breakwater Yacht Club Sag Harbor New York The Black Authors Festival @Sag Harbor is a nationally celebrated in-person event, recognized by USA Today as one of the Top...
Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival: Author Village
Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival: Author Village Meet many of the authors you participated in the 2017 Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival, which was held at Curtis Hixon Park. These images and photos...
Charleston Literary Festival
Charleston Literary Festival Various Downtown Venues Charleston South Carolina Charleston Literary Festival is a boutique literary festival that runs every November for ten days in Charleston, South C...
Calabash International Literary Festival
Calabash International Literary Festival Treasure Beach Treasure Beach Jamaica, W.I. The Calabash International Literary Festival, held on a biennial basis on even years, was founded in 2001 by three ...
Nosey Charlie Comes to Town (The Adventures of Nosey Charlie) (Volume 1)
Nosey Charlie Comes to Town (The Adventures of Nosey Charlie) (Volume 1) Yvonne Blackwood 9781545037348 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Meet Nosey Charlie, a spunky little squirrel who gr...
Nosey Charlie Comes to Town
Nosey Charlie Comes to Town Yvonne Blackwood 9781520831039 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Meet Nosey Charlie, a spunky little squirrel who grew up in the country. He became an...
Grand Opening: A Family Business Novel
Grand Opening: A Family Business Novel Carl Weber and Eric Pete 9781622869114 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Before there was the family, there was just the business. From the minds o...
To Paris with Love: A Family Business Novel
To Paris with Love: A Family Business Novel Carl Weber and Eric Pete 9781601626318 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Ripped from the pages of the New York Times bestselling series The Fa...
To Paris with Love
To Paris with Love Carl Weber and Eric Pete 9781601625717 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. A New York Times Bestselling Author; An Essence® Bestselling Author; An Essence® Bests...
Carl Weber Presents: Full Figured 6
Carl Weber Presents: Full Figured 6 Electa Rome Parks and Eric Pete 9781601623812 Nonfiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance Urban Books superstars Electa Rome Parks and Eric Pete entertain reade...
Crushed Ice
Crushed Ice Eric Pete 9781601623805 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance Chris Davis … Elvis Spielberg … Jamaican accent … British accent … Accountant … Author…High-stakes gambler… None of the ...
Frostbite
Frostbite Eric Pete 9781601623379 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance The oh so cold Prince of Lies from Eric’s critically acclaimed Crushed Ice returns. His real name is Truth, but most don...
The Family Business
The Family Business Carl Weber and Eric Pete 9781601624673 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. By day, the Duncans are an upstanding family who run a thriving car dealership in Queens. By ...
Reality Check
Reality Check Eric Pete 9781601623331 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance National bestselling author Eric Pete does it again with a reimagining of his first classic! Every woman dreams of get...
Piano In The Dark
Piano In The Dark Eric Pete 9781601622402 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance Chase Hidalgo has a successful career, a loving wife, and a loyal best friend, but something is still missing. His...
Blood And Brotherhood: A Novel Of Love In A Time Of Hate
Blood And Brotherhood: A Novel Of Love In A Time Of Hate Eugene Stovall 9781451524420 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC PETE JENKINS, a former veteran of the Great European War, who is in M...
Blow Your Mind
Blow Your Mind Eric Pete 9780451222152 Fiction NAL Trade NAL Trade In this erotic novel of sex and revenge, Eric Pete takes the consequences of dark sexual fantasies one step further. The players are ...
Someone’s In The Kitchen
Someone’s In The Kitchen Eric Pete 9780970499516 Fiction E-Fect Pub E-Fect Pub Steamy Page-turner Shocks and Surprises From Beginning to End He’s baaaack! Following on the heels of his best-selling de...
Real For Me
Real For Me Eric Pete 9780970499523 Fiction E-Fect Pub E-Fect Pub First-time novelist Eric E. Pete leads you on a wild ride through the fast-paced lives of fascinating singles in his novel Real for Me...
Darlene Williams
Darlene Williams NONE Darlene Williams is an award-winning businesswoman, adjunct lecturer, bestselling author, and nationally recognized youth and literacy advocate. She serves as President of the ...
Caribbean Reads Publishing
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NEW Reads Publications
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Caribbean Reads Publishing
Caribbean Reads Publishing Caribbean Reads Publishing Caribbean Reads Publishing
NEW Reads Publications
NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications
The Schomburg Center's Third Annual Black Comic Book
The Schomburg Center's Third Annual Black Comic Book The Schomburg Center's Third Annual Black Comic Book Festival Third Annual Black Comic Book Festival Saturday, January 17, 2015, 10 am - 7 pm 51...
Vegas Valley Book Festival
Vegas Valley Book Festival Las Vegas Nevada The Vegas Valley Book Festival, now in its fifteenth year, is a celebration of the written, spoken, and illustrated word. The festival has networked togeth...
Mboka Festival of Arts, Culture and Sport
Mboka Festival of Arts, Culture and Sport Banjul The Gambia An African Diaspora, One World, Pan African experience Mboka means ‘One Family’ in Wolof and will offer festival attendees a...
Great American Book Festival
Great American Book Festival Main Street Square Rapid City South Dakota The Great American Book Festival was created by the founders of Literary Classics Book Awards & Reviews In an effort to suppo...
The Hampton Roads Indie Author Book Festival
The Hampton Roads Indie Author Book Festival Family Life Center 1 Redheart Drive, Hampton, VA 23661 Hampton Virginia Upon returning from an out of state book festival, Florenza Denise Lee wondered wh...
Ann Arbor Book Festival
Ann Arbor Book Festival Ann Arbor Michigan Formed in 2003, the Ann Arbor Book Festival’s mission is to promote reading, heighten awareness of literacy challenges, and showcase the rich culture ...
Dallas Book Festival
Dallas Book Festival Dallas Public Library Dallas Texas Founded in 2006 as the Dallas International Book Festival, the festival is Dallas Public Library’s premiere literary event. The Dallas Boo...
Virginia Festival of the Book
Virginia Festival of the Book Charlottesville Virginia Produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH), the largest of the 56 state (and territory) humanities councils, the Festival is a...
September Newsletter: Recommended Reads, the MS Book Festival, and More
September Newsletter: Recommended Reads, the MS Book Festival, and More Troy Johnson Article Recommended Reads N. K. Jemisin the Only Writer to Win the Best Novel Hugo Award in three Consecutive Yea...
Newark Literacy Campaign
Newark Literacy Campaign Newark Literacy Campaign THIS EVENT HAS TAKEN PLACE AND IS RECORDED HERE AS AN HISTORICAL ARCHIVE. African American Book Group Facilitated by N...
Assessment Literacy for Educators in a Hurry
Assessment Literacy for Educators in a Hurry W. James Popham 9781416626480 Nonfiction ASCD ASCD What is assessment literacy? It’s a handful of fundamental understandings about the testing concepts and...
Visions and Cyphers: Explorations of Literacy, Discourse, and Black Writing Experiences
Visions and Cyphers: Explorations of Literacy, Discourse, and Black Writing Experiences David Green 9781580730570 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press VISIONS AND CYPHERS is a rhetorical...
Robyn Williams
Robyn Williams 0000000495543330 Robyn Williams is a bestselling author known for her romantic suspense novels. Her works, celebrated by actresses Angela Bassett and Vanessa Williams, have been featur...
Pamela Courtney
Pamela Courtney NONE Pamela Courtney has three loves: writing, teaching, and music. She combined these passions, creating MyLMNOP, a valuable literacy and music program for early learners. With a B....
Brooklyn Book Festival
Brooklyn Book Festival Brooklyn Borough Hall and Vicinity Brooklyn New York The Brooklyn Book Festival is the largest free literary event in New York City, presenting an array of national and internat...
Annapolis Book Festival
Annapolis Book Festival The Key School Annapolis Maryland The Annapolis Book Festival is one of the premier community events in the region. Every year more than 3,000 people attend this free community...
Brooklyn Book Festival 2012
Brooklyn Book Festival 2012 Photos and one video from the 2012 Brooklyn Book Festival The 2012 Brooklyn Book Festival The Brooklyn Book Festival is the largest free literary event in Ne...
Utah Humanities Council Book Festival
Utah Humanities Council Book Festival Salt Lake City Utah Previously the The Great Salt Lake Book Festival The annual Utah Humanities Book Festival is Utah’s oldest and only statewide book f...
Festival of Women Writers
Festival of Women Writers Hobart New York The Festival of Women Writers has become a highly anticipated event, unique among cultural happenings in the Catskill Region, especially in Delaware County. ...
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival Kwame Dawes 9781936070077 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books Contributors include: Robert Pins...
A Fire in Harlem - Tribute to Sekou Sundiata at Up South International Book Festival
A Fire in Harlem - Tribute to Sekou Sundiata at Up South International Book Festival DuEwa M. Frazier Article Up South International Book Festival September 19th ’ September 23rd 2007 www...
Bklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors
Bklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors Loading Brooklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors by Leah Mullen Perhaps the most overlooked and under acknowledged heroines and heroes ...
Kwame Alexander
Kwame Alexander 0000000042691031 “He truly is a renaissance man.”—Nikki Giovanni Kwame Alexander is a bestselling author, poet, and educator, known for his award-winning book “The Cr...
justin a. reynolds
justin a. reynolds NONE Justin A. Reynolds is an acclaimed author renowned for his debut YA novel, “Opposite of Always,” and second novel “Early Departures.” His work includes a Marvel graphic novel ...
Avidly Reads Passages
Avidly Reads Passages Michelle D. Commander 9781479806171 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press “What is the value of Black life in America?” In Avidly Reads Pa...
Albany Book Festival
Albany Book Festival University at Albany Albany New York The Albany Book Festival, established in 2018, draws thousands of book lovers from across the Capital Region and beyond to an intellectually s...
KPBS San Diego Book Festival
KPBS San Diego Book Festival University of San Diego San Diego California The KPBS San Diego Book Festival is a free, public event for book lovers of all ages. It is brought to you by KPBS and present...
The Spring Book Festival
The Spring Book Festival Wayne Curry Sports & Learning Center Landover Maryland The Spring Book festival, a celebration of the written word, is held each May. The 2017 Festival is the 3rd annual event...
Baltimore Book Festival
Baltimore Book Festival Waverly neighborhood (on 30th, 31st, and 32nd streets to the west of Greenmount Avenue) Baltimore Maryland The festival was founded in 1996, inspired in part by Mayor Schmoke’s...
Olive Senior Reads from THE PAIN TREE
Olive Senior Reads from THE PAIN TREE Author Interviews Jamaican novelist, Olive Senior, reads from her novel THE PAIN TREE at the University of the West Indies during the 2016 Kingston Book Festival...
James McBride Reads from "The Good Lord Bird"
James McBride Reads from "The Good Lord Bird" Author Interviews James McBride (https://aalbc.it/thegoodlordbird) reads from his latest novel The Good Lord Bird (Riverhead Hardcover, August 20, 2013) d...
Tulisoma: S. Dallas Book Fair & Arts Fest.
Tulisoma: S. Dallas Book Fair & Arts Fest. Tulisoma: S. Dallas Book Fair & Arts Fest. Tulisoma: South Dallas Book Fair & Arts Festival http://www.tulisoma.com Friday, Saturday & ...
Davida Siwisa James
Davida Siwisa James NONE Davida Siwisa James, a globe-trotting author with roots in Philly and Harlem, has experience as a freelance journalist and has several published works, including an award-win...
Saints & Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival
Saints & Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival Hotel Monteleone New Orleans Louisiana The Saints and Sinners Literary Festival was founded in 2003 as a new initiative designed as an innovative way to reach...
The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University
The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University Tulane University New Orleans Louisiana The highly anticipated New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University returns to Tulane’s uptown campus...
Toronto International Festival of Authors
Toronto International Festival of Authors Harbourfront Centre Toronto Canada Since its inception in 1974, Toronto’s International Festival of Authors has welcomed more than 9,000 authors from ov...
Southern Festival of Books
Southern Festival of Books Nashville Tennessee The Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written WordSM is a three-day Festival celebrated each year during the second full weekend of Octob...
Dahlonega Literary Festival
Dahlonega Literary Festival Historic Square of Dahlonega, GA Dahlonega Georgia The Dahlonega Literary Festival is an annual celebration of books that takes place in March. Situated in Historic Downtow...
San Antonio Book Festival
San Antonio Book Festival Central Library and the Majestic Theatre San Antonio Texas The Festival is a day-long event that unites readers and writers alike. Author presentations are held indoors while...
Etheridge Knight Festival
Etheridge Knight Festival Etheridge Knight Festival Etheridge Knight Inc. P.O. Box 18043 Indianapolis, IN 46218 Phone (317) 396-1529.Fax (317) 925-1481 E-mail EKFestival@aol.com The 11th Ann...
2nd Annual Up South Int'l Book Festival
2nd Annual Up South Int'l Book Festival 2nd Annual Up South Int'l Book Festival Read an article about this event: A Fire in Harlem - Tribute to Sekou Sundiata at Up South International Book Fes...
Women's History Month Literary Festival 2015
Women's History Month Literary Festival 2015 Women's History Month Literary Festival 2015 featuring, Elizabeth Alexander, LaShonda Katrice Barnett, Lalita Tademy and Linda A. Duggins Women’s History M...
Twin Cities Book Festival
Twin Cities Book Festival MINNESOTA STATE FAIRGROUNDS Minneapolis Minnesota The Twin Cities Book Festival—brought to you by Rain Taxi—is not only the largest and most important literary ga...
Books in Bloom Literary Festival
Books in Bloom Literary Festival Color Burst Park Columbia Maryland Books In Bloom is an innovative, progressive, and memorable festival, poised to be one of the premier book festivals in the region. ...
Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival
Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival Curtis Hixon Park Tampa Florida The Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival is an annual, cultural arts & music festival that takes place over the course of 10 days in Tamp...
AJC Decatur Book Festival
AJC Decatur Book Festival Downtown Decatur Decatur Georgia The AJC Decatur Book Festival is the largest independent book festival in the country and one of the five largest overall. Since its launch, ...
University Spring Literary Festival
University Spring Literary Festival Ohio University Athens Ohio Since 1986, The Spring Literary Festival has featured some of the world's finest, most distinguished writers of poetry, fiction and non-...
Queens Book Festival
Queens Book Festival LIC Landing by Coffeed Queens New York “The Queens Book Festival, debuted on August 7, 2016, is the largest and most inclusive literary gathering in Queens. It fills the bor...
Festival of Colors
Festival of Colors Surishtha Sehgal and Kabir Sehgal 9781481420495 Fiction Beach Lane Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Learn all about Holi, the Indian Festival of Colors, in this lush picture book from b...
Kellie Magnus on the Kingston Book Festival
Kellie Magnus on the Kingston Book Festival Literary Events Kellie Magnus tells AALBC.com about the Kingston Book Festival during the 2016 Brooklyn Book Festival. AALBC.com is planning a group trip t...
The ESSENCE Brand—Where Black Women Come First—NOT!
The ESSENCE Brand—Where Black Women Come First—NOT! Troy Johnson Article A few weeks ago, I visited Essence Magazine’s website to learn which Black owned bookstore they were going to use as the books...
Toni Blackman
Toni Blackman 0000000036920264 Toni Blackman, an international champion of hip-hop culture, is known for her captivating performances and powerful presence. She's the first hip-hop artist to work as ...
Jael Richardson
Jael Richardson NONE Jael Ealey Richardson is a Toronto-based author and educator with an MFA in Creative Writing. Known for her memoir and children's book, both titled The Stone Thrower, her work re...
LaKesa Cox
LaKesa Cox NONE LaKesa Cox is an award-winning author and screenwriter with over 20 years of experience. She has published four novels and has contributed to two anthologies. She was acknowledged as ...
Donna M. Gray-Banks
Donna M. Gray-Banks NONE Donna M. Gray-Banks, founder of F.R.E.S.H. Book Festival, is a successful author known for her suspense erotic trilogy and a guest columnist for various outlets. She hosts tw...
Bklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors
Bklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors Troy Johnson Article Brooklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors by Leah Mullen Perhaps the most overlooked and under acknowledged heroines and heroes...
East of the River Book Festival
East of the River Book Festival Rocketship Rise Academy Washington District of Columbia The 2017 East of the River Book Festival is a magnet for city dwellers from all wards to recognize and enjoy a l...
Duty or Desire
Duty or Desire Brenda Jackson 9781335604033 Fiction Harlequin Desire Harlequin Enterprises Limited New York Times Bestselling Author What happens when a man of unshakable conviction meets the woman wh...
The Family Business
The Family Business Carl Weber and Eric Pete 9781645560562 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Meet the Duncans, a prominent family from Jamaica, Queens. They may be known for their big ho...
Sticks & Stones
Sticks & Stones Eric Pete 9781601622013 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance Ten years. A decade. Time enough for a high school graduate from a small, sleepy southern town to move on and become...
Lady Sings The Cruels
Lady Sings The Cruels Eric Pete 9780451219541 Fiction NAL Trade NAL Trade Amelia Bonds is a singer with dashed dreams of stardom. Then a small gig at a local nightclub gives her a second chance at a c...
Don’t Get It Twisted
Don’t Get It Twisted Eric Pete 9780451216540 Fiction NAL Trade NAL Trade Isrie Walker and Deja Douglas have been there for each other since back in the day. Isrie is an expert at ill-fated relationshi...
Gets No Love
Gets No Love Eric Pete 9780451213242 Fiction NAL NAL Lance is doing just fine for himself in New Orleans, except that he can’t stop thinking about the one girl who broke his heart-and their engagement...
Brooklyn Noir
Brooklyn Noir Tim McLoughlin 9781888451580 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Akashic Books announces Brooklyn novelist Tim McLoughlin as the editor of the anthology (in addition to his contributing ...