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Subway Beats: Celebrating New York City Buskers
Subway Beats: Celebrating New York City Buskers Kurt Boone 9780764351822 Nonfiction Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Immerse yourself in the raw energy and enthusiasm of New York Ci...
On the Subway - Poems
On the Subway - Poems Kurt Boone 9781934690000 Poetry Tasora Books Tasora Books On The Subway is a book of poetry written by Kurt Boone - a New York City messenger - while riding on MTA, the largest s...
The New Beats Redux: Exploring the music, culture and attitudes of hip-hop
The New Beats Redux: Exploring the music, culture and attitudes of hip-hop S. H. Fernando Jr. 9781936411498 Nonfiction YBK Publishers YBK Publishers The New Beats, first published in 1994, was one of ...
Inside Grand Central Terminal - A Photo Essay
Inside Grand Central Terminal - A Photo Essay Kurt Boone 9780978994600 Nonfiction Tasora Books Tasora Books Inside Grand Central Terminal is a short memoir and photo essay about a messenger who rides ...
Nelson Beats The Odds
Nelson Beats The Odds Ronnie Sidney, II 9780996532426 Fiction Creative Medicine: Healing Through Words Creative Medicine: Healing Through Words Nelson used to think school was all about playing around...
City of S The History of New York City during the Civil War
City of S The History of New York City during the Civil War John Strausbaugh 9781455584185 Nonfiction Twelve Hachette Book Group WINNER OF THE FLETCHER PRATT AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION BOOK OF 2016In...
Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes
Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes Kyle T. Mays 9781438469461 Nonfiction State University of New York Press State University of New York Press Expressive culture has always been an important part of the...
Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II
Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II John Strausbaugh 9781455567485 Nonfiction Twelve Hachette Book Group From John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition and The V...
Delores Lowe Friedman
Delores Lowe Friedman NONE Brooklyn-born Delores Lowe Friedman, a retired professor from the City University of New York, is an advocate for literacy and equity in education. She's authored education...
Still, in the City: Creating Peace of Mind in the Midst of Urban Chaos
Still, in the City: Creating Peace of Mind in the Midst of Urban Chaos Angela Dews 9781510732339 Nonfiction Skyhorse Publishing Skyhorse Publishing Still, in the City is a collection of stories about ...
The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village
The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village John Strausbaugh 9780062078193 Nonfiction Ecco Press HarperCollins Cultural commentator John Strausba...
Listen Up!
Listen Up! Zoe Angelsey 9780345428974 Poetry One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House "Today, the poetry scene flourishes at New York open-mic spots like the Nuyorican Poets Café, Brooklyn’s Y...
28 Days of Poetry Celebrating Black History: Volume 2
28 Days of Poetry Celebrating Black History: Volume 2 Latorial Faison 9781495295706 Poetry CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC 28 Days of Poetry Celebrating Black History: Volume 2 is a profound coll...
Kwame Onwuachi
Kwame Onwuachi NONE Kwame Onwuachi, winner of the 2019 James Beard Foundation Award, shares his inspiring journey in his memoir. From selling candy on the subway, to running a failed acclaimed restau...
Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa NONE Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, born in Puerto Rico and raised in New York, is a renowned writer and educator. Her work, influenced by her Puerto Rican heritage and experiences, i...
Makeda Makes a Home for Subway
Makeda Makes a Home for Subway Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich 9780063217294 Fiction Balzer & Bray/Harperteen HarperCollins
Sunfail
Sunfail Steven Savile 9781617754067 Fiction Infamous Books Akashic Books Dogs howl in the streets, running wild. Birds fall dead from the sky. Even the sun itself is failing. As darkness descends all ...
Selina Alko
Selina Alko NONE Selina Alko, a graduate from the School of Visual Arts, is a Brooklyn-based illustrator known for works like My Taxi Ride and My Subway Ride. She resides with her husband, Sean Quall...
Food and the City
Food and the City Ina Yalof 9780425279052 Nonfiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Penguin Random House "[A] compelling volume by a writer whose beat is not food. What she offers are first-person accounts from m...
Beats and Blow
Beats and Blow Shaun Sinclair 9781496728685 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. With an exceptional voice that combines the explosive drama of Kiki Swinson and the lyrical writing style of Devo...
Sean Anderson
Sean Anderson 0000000078343215 Sean Anderson, son of Jamaican immigrants, is a New York-based writer, educator, and youth advocate. His works reflect his unique experiences growing up in 80s NYC and ...
Firefight: The Century-Long Battle to Integrate New York’s Bravest
Firefight: The Century-Long Battle to Integrate New York’s Bravest Ginger Adams Otis 9781137280015 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers In 1919, when Wesley Williams became a New York Ci...
The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash: My Life, My Beats
The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash: My Life, My Beats Grandmaster Flash 9780767924757 Nonfiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House A no-holds-barred memoir from the primary architect of hip...
The New Beats
The New Beats S. H. Fernando Jr. 9780385471190 Nonfiction Anchor Books Penguin Random House The first full-scale history and analysis of hip-hop, the most influential pop music since rock ’n’ roll. Fe...
A.R. Bernard
A.R. Bernard NONE Dr. Alphonso R. Bernard, Sr., born in 1953, is the spiritual leader of the New York Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn. He left a banking career in 1979 to establish a church tha...
Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity
Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity Marc Lamont Hill 9780807749609 Nonfiction Teachers College Press Teachers College ’Hill’s book is a beautifully writt...
The Heart of a Woman, and Other Poems
The Heart of a Woman, and Other Poems Georgia Douglas Johnson 9781298493583 Poetry Andesite Press Andesite Press The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems (1918) The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems (19...
Dead Beats
Dead Beats Sam Cornish 9780979531361 Poetry Ibbetson Street Press Ibbetson Street Press Starting with Allen Ginsberg and ending with Charlie Parker, Sam Cornish takes us on a whirlwind tour of some of...
Kanye West in the Studio: Beats Down! Money Up! The Studio Years (2000 - 2006)
Kanye West in the Studio: Beats Down! Money Up! The Studio Years (2000 - 2006) Jake Brown 9780976773566 Nonfiction Colossus Books Amber Communications Group, Inc. Kanye has proven to be the most cr...
Kyle T. Mays
Kyle T. Mays NONE Kyle T. Mays, an Afro-Indigenous writer and scholar, specializes in U.S. history, urban studies, and race relations. He's an Assistant Professor at UCLA and author of 'Hip Hop Beats...
Leslie Gray Streeter
Leslie Gray Streeter NONE Leslie Gray Streeter is an award-winning journalist and columnist for the Baltimore Banner. She is also the cohost of the podcast Fine Beats and Cheeses, and a frequent spea...
The Colossus Of New York
The Colossus Of New York Colson Whitehead 9781400031245 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the award-winning novelist Colson Whitehead re-creates the exub...
In The Company Of Black Men: The African Influence On African American Culture In New York City
In The Company Of Black Men: The African Influence On African American Culture In New York City Craig Wilder 9780814793688 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press From the subal...
Douglas E. McIntosh
Douglas E. McIntosh NONE Douglas E. McIntosh, a New York-born writer, holds degrees in Finance and History from Pace University. With a background in banking and financial analysis, including a stint...
Joyce Hansen
Joyce Hansen 0000000122135457 Joyce Hansen, an author of children's and young adult books for over 20 years, used her New York City upbringing as inspiration for her works. With a BA from Pace Univer...
Rayful Edmond: Washington D.C.’s Most Notorious Drug Lord
Rayful Edmond: Washington D.C.’s Most Notorious Drug Lord Seth Ferranti 9780980068771 Nonfiction Gorilla Convict Publications Gorilla Convict Publications To many in his hometown of Washington, D.C., ...
New York Real Estate — ownersandbuyers.com
New York Real Estate — ownersandbuyers.com New York Real Estate — ownersandbuyers.com
Don Freeman
Don Freeman 000000010880233X Don Freeman was a California-born artist and musician who turned to sketching Broadway shows in New York after losing his trumpet. He found his true calling in children's...
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...
Gettin’ Buck Wild: Sex Chronicles II
Gettin’ Buck Wild: Sex Chronicles II Zane 9780743457026 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Scenarios run the gamut from committed, monogamous couples looking to experiment to wild, single sist...
Gettin’ Buck Wild: Sex Chronicles Ii
Gettin’ Buck Wild: Sex Chronicles Ii Zane 9780743457019 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Zane is back with "Gettin’ Buck Wild: Sex Chronicles II," more stories for the legion of readers that...
The Unpublished City: Volume II
The Unpublished City: Volume II Phoebe Wang, Canisia Lubrin, and Dionne Brand 9781771664639 Fiction Book*hug Press Book*hug Press Orient yourself in the city with these nineteen works of creative non-...
Kansas City
Kansas City Delia C. Gillis 9780738534480 Nonfiction Arcadia Publishing Arcadia Publishing Since 1803, when York, a slave in the Lewis and Clark expedition, stood on the bluffs overlooking Kansas City...
Bard of New York
Bard of New York Kurt Boone 9781481965354 Poetry CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Kurt Boone continues his “Messenger Poet” book and internet television series in “Bard of New York.” In “Bard of N...
The Wind in the Reeds: A Storm, A Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken
The Wind in the Reeds: A Storm, A Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken Wendell Pierce and Rod Dreher 9781594633232 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House 2016 Christopher Award Winner Fr...
I’m Your Peanut Butter Big Brother
I’m Your Peanut Butter Big Brother Selina Alko 9780375956270 Fiction Knopf Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House In this delightfully engaging picture book, our narrator, big brother, uses his ...
Twelve Days Of New York
Twelve Days Of New York Tonya Bolden 9781419705427 Fiction Abrams Books Abrams When a group of students wins a trip to New York City, accompanied by their teacher, they aren’t sure where to start. S...
midnight & indigo Issue 7: celebrating black women writers
midnight & indigo Issue 7: celebrating black women writers Ianna A. Small 9781737933229 Fiction Midnight & Indigo Midnight & Indigo Publishing midnight & indigo is a literary journal dedicated to shor...
midnight & indigo Issue 1: Celebrating Black female writers
midnight & indigo Issue 1: Celebrating Black female writers Ianna A. Small 9781732891715 Fiction Midnight & Indigo Midnight & Indigo Publishing midnight & indigo is a literary journal dedicated to sho...
One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York
One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York Arthur Browne 9780807012604 Fiction Beacon Press Beacon Press Winner of the Christopher Award and the New York City Bo...
Jacqueline Johnson
Jacqueline Johnson NONE Jacqueline Johnson is a multi-disciplined artist and award-winning author known for her work in writing and fiber arts. She has taught poetry at multiple institutions and has ...
Amos N. Wilson
Amos N. Wilson 0000000083152296 Dr. Amos N. Wilson was a renowned psychologist, social worker, and academic who held roles in the New York City Department of Juvenile Justice and taught at City Unive...
I Celebrate My Skin
I Celebrate My Skin Nonku Kunene Adumetey 9781735738215 Nonfiction Luntridge Group Luntridge Group I Celebrate My Skin is an inclusive children’s book about self-discovery and self-love. Focusing on c...
I Celebrate My Skin Je Célèbre Ma Peau
I Celebrate My Skin Je Célèbre Ma Peau Nonku Kunene Adumetey 9781735738239 Nonfiction Luntridge Group Luntridge Group I Celebrate My Skin is an inclusive children’s book about self-discovery and...
Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box
Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box Angela P. Dodson 9781455570935 Nonfiction Center Street Hachette Book Group While Hillary Rodham Clinton’s defeat in her...
Celebrating Me
Celebrating Me Colleen M. Wint 9781493512126 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Preteens Natasha, Gillian, CC, and Tina eagerly anticipate the end of year school barbeque, but on the night o...
28 Days of Poetry Celebrating Black History: Volume 3
28 Days of Poetry Celebrating Black History: Volume 3 Latorial Faison 9781495277269 Poetry CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC This third volume of 28 Days of Poetry Celebrating Black History yields ...
28 Days of Poetry Celebrating Black History: Volume 1
28 Days of Poetry Celebrating Black History: Volume 1 Latorial Faison 9781495277184 Poetry CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC This first book in the trilogy collection, 28 Days of Poetry, is an ecle...
Chicken Soup For The African American Soul: Celebrating And Sharing Our Culture, One Story At A Time (Chicken Soup For The Soul)
Chicken Soup For The African American Soul: Celebrating And Sharing Our Culture, One Story At A Time (Chicken Soup For The Soul) Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Lisa Nichols, and Tom Joyner 9780757...
Jerry Canada
Jerry Canada NONE Jerry Canada, a New York-based former intellectual property lawyer, is a SUNY Stony Brook psychology graduate, All American track athlete, and UC Berkeley School of Law honoree. Ren...
The Burning City
The Burning City Alaya Dawn Johnson 9781932841459 Fiction Agate Bolden Agate Publishing, Inc In The Burning City, Alaya Dawn Johnson continues the trilogy begun with her debut, Racing the Dark, delvin...
Felicia Pride celebrates publication of her new book The Message: 100 Life Lessons from hip-hop's greatest songs. The party took place at Negril in New York City's Gr
Felicia Pride celebrates publication of her new book The Message: 100 Life Lessons from hip-hop's greatest songs. The party took place at Negril in New York City's Gr Felicia Pride celebrates publ...
Night Ride
Night Ride Christopher Myers 9798217238460 Fiction Kokila Penguin Random House A breathtaking, first-of-its-kind wordless picture book illustrated entirely in stained glass, celebrating the joy of Bla...
The City We Became
The City We Became N. K. Jemisin 9780316509848 Fiction Orbit Books Hachette Book Group Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city from an ancient evil in the first book of a stu...
Teju Cole
Teju Cole 0000000077460567 Teju Cole, an acclaimed writer, art historian, and photographer, serves as the Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College and is a photography critic for the New Yor...
Nick Chiles
Nick Chiles 0000000034375194 Nick Chiles is a renowned author and journalist, specializing in African-American culture and celebrity. Co-author of the NAACP Image Awards finalist book 'Justice While ...
A People’s History of Chicago
A People’s History of Chicago Kevin Coval 9781608466719 Poetry Haymarket Books Haymarket Books Known variously as “the Windy City,” “the City of Big Shoulders,” or “Chi-Raq,” Chicago is one of the mos...
Everybody’s Fly: A Life of Art, Music, and Changing the Culture
Everybody’s Fly: A Life of Art, Music, and Changing the Culture Fab 5 Freddy 9780593834909 Nonfiction Viking Penguin Random House Named a Must-Read Book by W Magazine, Time, and more “Everybody’s F...
Lisa E. Davis
Lisa E. Davis NONE Lisa E. Davis is one of the nation’s foremost entertainment attorneys. She serves as chair of the Entertainment Group at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, where she represents cl...
Craig Steven Wilder
Craig Steven Wilder 0000000055180126 Craig Steven Wilder began his career as a community organizer in the South Bronx. He provides curricular and professional development workshops with public s...
Post-Traumatic
Post-Traumatic Chantal V. Johnson 9780316264235 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group Harpers’S Bazzar, Best Books of the Year MS. Magazine, Best Books of April Oprah Daily, Best Boo...
Oreo
Oreo Fran Ross 9780811223225 Fiction New Directions Publishing New Directions Publishing A pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from Philadelphia searching for her Jewish father in ...
Clara Villarosa
Clara Villarosa 0000000060242379 Clara Villarosa, a celebrated entrepreneur and business coach, founded Hue-Man Experience Bookstore in Denver and New York. She's also co-founder of Villarosa Media, ...
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...
Staten Island Noir (Akashic Noir)
Staten Island Noir (Akashic Noir) Patricia Smith 9781617751295 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books When They Are Done with Us” by Patricia Smith was selected for inclusion in The Best American Myster...
Lies of the Ajungo
Lies of the Ajungo Moses Ose Utomi 9781250849069 Fiction Tordotcom Macmillan Publishers Moses Ose Utomi’s debut novella, The Lies of the Ajungo, follows one boy’s epic quest to bring water back to his...
Pamela Newkirk
Pamela Newkirk NONE Pamela Newkirk, Ph.D., is an NYU professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies with a rich journalism background, including a Pulitzer Prize at New York Newsday. She's won the N...
The Pursuit of Happyness
The Pursuit of Happyness Chris Gardner and Quincy Troupe 9780060744878 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Read an AALBC.com Movie Review The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless fa...
Mary Rand Hess
Mary Rand Hess 0000000071315983 Mary Rand Hess is a celebrated poet, artist, screenwriter, and New York Times bestselling author, known for co-authoring “Solo” and “Animal Ark: Celebrating Our Wild W...
African or American?: Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784-1861
African or American?: Black Identity and Political Activism in New York City, 1784-1861 Leslie M. Alexander 9780252078538 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press During th...
The Great Negro Plot: A Tale Of Conspiracy And Murder In Eighteenth-Century New York
The Great Negro Plot: A Tale Of Conspiracy And Murder In Eighteenth-Century New York Mat Johnson 9781582340999 Nonfiction Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing In 1741, New York City was thrown into an...
Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy
Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy Tressie McMillan Cottom 9781620970607 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press "The best book yet on the complex lives and choices ...
My Old Man Was Always On The Lam
My Old Man Was Always On The Lam Tony Medina 9781935520368 Poetry NYQ Books NYQ Books Poetry. African American Studies. MY OLD MAN WAS ALWAYS ON THE LAM is a blues memoir in verse. With brutal honesty...
The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop
The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop Saul Williams 9781416516323 Fiction MTV Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In the underground labyrinths of New York City’s subway system, beneath the t...
MIM’s Christmas Jam
MIM’s Christmas Jam Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney 9780152019181 Fiction Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Houghton Mifflin Harcourt The best part of Christmas is the whole family savoring Mim’s belly...
Orange Laughter
Orange Laughter Leone Ross 9780374226763 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers Tony Pellar, a man living on the verge of madness in the subway tunnels of New York City, recalls his li...
Dwayne Alexander Smith
Dwayne Alexander Smith NONE Born in Harlem, Dwayne Alexander Smith is a professional screenwriter who shifted from electrical engineering to film-making. Inspired by Star Wars, he began with an award...
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City Andrea Elliott 9780812986945 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House “Destined to become one of the classics of the genre” (Newsweek)...
Sin City Vows
Sin City Vows Zuri Day 9781335603531 Fiction Harlequin Desire Harlequin Enterprises Limited A runaway bride rushes right into the arms of her boss’s playboy son in this sizzling Sin City Secrets novel...
Kevin McGruder
Kevin McGruder 0000000071766805 Kevin McGruder is an Assistant Professor of History at Antioch College with interests in African American institutions, urban history, and gay and lesbian history. He ...
A Kwanzaa Keepsake and Cookbook: Celebrating the Holiday with Family, Community, and Tradition
A Kwanzaa Keepsake and Cookbook: Celebrating the Holiday with Family, Community, and Tradition Jessica B. Harris 9781668035863 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the award-wi...
Asphalt Warrior: The Story Of New York City’s Fastest Messenger
Asphalt Warrior: The Story Of New York City’s Fastest Messenger Kurt Boone 9781934690291 Nonfiction Tasora Books Tasora Books In New York City’s business districts, billion of dollars are traded every...
Sondra Kathryn Wilson
Sondra Kathryn Wilson NONE Dr. Sondra Kathryn Wilson was a senior associate at Harvard's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, founder of the James Weldon Johnson Foundation, and executor of Johnson’s literary e...
Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Vanessa K. Valdés 9781438465142 Nonfiction State University of New York Press State University of New York Press Examines the life o...
Jamel Shabazz: Sights in the City, New York Street Photographs
Jamel Shabazz: Sights in the City, New York Street Photographs Jamel Shabazz 9788862085229 Nonfiction Damiani Damiani Publishers Two decades of black-and-white New York street photography During th...
Barbara Eleanor Adams
Barbara Eleanor Adams NONE Barbara Eleanor Adams, born on February 27, 1939 in New York City, is an accomplished scholar. She earned both her Bachelor's degree (1975) and Master of Arts (1977) from t...
Emily Raboteau
Emily Raboteau 0000000036573661 Emily Raboteau, author of 'The Professor’s Daughter' and 'Searching for Zion,' is an award-winning writer renowned for her fiction and essays. She has received numerou...
My Government Means to Kill Me
My Government Means to Kill Me Rasheed Newson 9781250833549 Fiction Flatiron Books Macmillan Publishers National Bestseller · The New York Times Notable Book · The New York Times Book Review Editor’s ...
Jill Nelson
Jill Nelson 0000000066956364 Jill Nelson, a seasoned journalist from Harlem, is a graduate of the City College of New York and the Columbia School of Journalism. Her work has graced various publicati...
Nigeria Lockley
Nigeria Lockley NONE Nigeria Lockley is a New York-based author and teacher. Her debut novel, Born at Dawn, reflects her Christian faith and everyday issues. She holds two Master's degrees from the C...