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Tananarive Due talks to AALBC.com at BEA 2008
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Henry and Bea
Henry and Bea Jessixa Bagley 9780823442843 Fiction Neal Porter Books Holiday House Henry and Bea are inseparable, but one day Henry suddenly stops talking to his best friend. Bea knows there’s somethi...
Tananarive Due
Tananarive Due 0000000114453527 “The Queen of Black Horror” Tananarive Due, American Book Award-winning author of nine books, holds a B.S. in Journalism and M.A. in English literature. A s...
Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes
Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes MULTIPLE Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes are acclaimed authors, specializing in speculative fiction. Due is a celebrated educator, while Barnes is an accomplished sc...
Brandon Massey, Eric Jerome Dickey, and Tananarive Due, L. A. Banks
Brandon Massey, Eric Jerome Dickey, and Tananarive Due, L. A. Banks MULTIPLE "Brandon Massey, Eric Jerome Dickey, Tananarive Due, and L.A. Banks are renowned authors known for their captivating works...
Brandon Massey, Tananarive Due, and Leslie Esdaile Banks
Brandon Massey, Tananarive Due, and Leslie Esdaile Banks MULTIPLE Brandon Massey, Tananarive Due, and L.A. Banks are renowned authors, each recognized for their unique contributions to literature. ...
Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, and Steven Barnes
Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, and Steven Barnes MULTIPLE Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, and Steven Barnes are renowned authors known for their significant contributions to literature, ranging fr...
Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes, and Larry Niven
Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes, and Larry Niven MULTIPLE Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes, and Larry Niven are renowned authors known for their contributions to science fiction and fantasy literature, ea...
The Between
The Between Tananarive Due 9780063157675 Fiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins Award-winning author and Black Horror scholar Tananarive Due’s 1995 debut novel, The Between is reissued with a new fore...
The Wishing Pool and Other Stories
The Wishing Pool and Other Stories Tananarive Due 9781636141053 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books In her first new book in seven years, Tananarive Due further cements her status as a leading innovat...
Zora, the Story Keeper
Zora, the Story Keeper Ebony Joy Wilkins 9781984816917 Fiction Kokila Penguin Random House A young Black girl and her aunt celebrate the wonder and magic of their family’s legacy through storytelling....
And Then There Was Me: A Novel
And Then There Was Me: A Novel Sadeqa Johnson 9781250802866 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Bea and Awilda have been best friends from the moment Awilda threw her fourteen year-old s...
Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights
Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights Tananarive Due 9780345447340 Fiction One World Penguin Random House Patricia Stephens Due fought for justice during the he...
Ghost Summer: Stories
Ghost Summer: Stories Tananarive Due 9781607014539 Fiction Prime Books Prime Books “Ms. Due accomplishes the hardest thing of all with deceptive ease, creating characters we care about on their most h...
The Ancestors
The Ancestors Brandon Massey, Tananarive Due, and Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780758223821 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Dead. Some evils are so great that they transcend death. In Brandon ...
Bea Jackson
Bea Jackson 0000000500111306 Bea Jackson is an accomplished author known for her captivating storytelling. With a writing career spanning over decades, she has penned numerous bestsellers, captivatin...
Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights
Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights Tananarive Due 9780345447333 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House “History happens one person at a time.”–Pat...
My Soul To Take: A Novel
My Soul To Take: A Novel Tananarive Due 9781439176146 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. Essence bestselling and award-winning author Tananarive Due delivers a heart-stopping new n...
J. D. Mason talks to AALBC.com at BEA 2008
J. D. Mason talks to AALBC.com at BEA 2008 Author Interviews
Mazywood
Mazywood Tananarive Due 9781668075142 Fiction Saga Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. S. A. Cosby’s All the Sinners Bleed meets Percival Everett’s Erasure in this literary thriller following the...
The Keeper
The Keeper Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes 9781419751554 Fiction Harry N. Abrams Harry N. Abrams NAMED A BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST NAMED A BOOK WE LOVED BY NPR A young...
Blood Colony: A Novel
Blood Colony: A Novel Tananarive Due 9780743287364 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the acclaimed author of The Living Blood, comes an imaginative and enthralling tale about...
In The Night Of The Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel
In The Night Of The Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, and Steven Barnes 9781416569978 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Award-winning actor and author Blair Und...
Casanegra
Casanegra Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, and Steven Barnes 9780743287319 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Casanegra follows the adventures of Tennyson Hardwick, a gorgeous, sexy former act...
The Good House: A Novel
The Good House: A Novel Tananarive Due 9780743449007 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the author of The Reformatory—A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 Award-winning author T...
The Black Rose
The Black Rose Tananarive Due 9780345439604 Nonfiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House Born to former slaves on a Louisiana plantation in 1867, Madam C.J. Walker rose from poverty and indign...
Spotlight on the 14th National Black Writers Conference: March 22 – March 25, 2018
Spotlight on the 14th National Black Writers Conference: March 22 – March 25, 2018 Troy Johnson Article AALBC.com is Hosting an Independent Publishing Workshop How to Publish Your Book Independently...
Sunspot Jungle, Vol. 2
Sunspot Jungle, Vol. 2 Bill Campbell 9781732638808 Fiction Rosarium Publishing Rosarium Publishing In celebration of Rosarium’s fifth anniversary, publisher Bill Campbell has compiled a two-volume col...
Trice Hickman talks about her work with AALBC.com at BEA '08
Trice Hickman talks about her work with AALBC.com at BEA '08 Author Interviews
Shaq Talks Back
Shaq Talks Back Shaquille O’Neal 9780312278458 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers It’s rare to discover a candid sports autobiography—even rarer when the author is one of the most reco...
Joylynn M. Jossel talk to AALBC.com at BEA 2008
Joylynn M. Jossel talk to AALBC.com at BEA 2008 Author Interviews
Documentary Film on History of Blacks in Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction Books
Documentary Film on History of Blacks in Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction Books Troy Johnson Article https://www.youtube.com/embed/uvDW5z0b9po “The Invisible Universe documentary reveals the his...
Dark Dreams: A Collection of Horror and Suspense by Black Writers
Dark Dreams: A Collection of Horror and Suspense by Black Writers Brandon Massey 9780758207531 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. A spellbinding collection of short fiction explore...
A Surprise for Willow
A Surprise for Willow Bea Jackson 9781665941099 Fiction Simon Spotlight Simon & Schuster, Inc. Lily the fairy tries to help her human friend, Willow, overcome her stage fright in this first chapte...
A Wish for Lily
A Wish for Lily Bea Jackson 9781665984010 Fiction Simon Spotlight Simon & Schuster, Inc. Willow takes her fairy friends to see the ocean in this second chapter book in the Fairies Welcome series f...
Brittany Jackson
Brittany Jackson NONE Brittany “Bea” Jackson, an award-winning illustrator and alumni of the College for Creative Studies, is renowned for her work in children's book illustration, specifically “Hair...
Reformatory
Reformatory Tananarive Due 9781982188351 Fiction Gallery / Saga Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. “You’re in for a treat…one of those books you can’t put down…Due hit it out of the park.” —Stephen King ...
My Soul to Keep
My Soul to Keep Tananarive Due 9780061053665 Fiction HarperCollins Publishers HarperCollins When Jessica marries David, he is everything she wants in a family man: brilliant, attentive, ever youthful....
Steven Barnes
Steven Barnes 0000000120240667 Steven Barnes is a bestselling author and screenwriter, known for his award-winning Tennyson Hardwick mystery series and Lifewriting course. With over 30 years of self-...
Bacchanal
Bacchanal Veronica G. Henry 9781542027816 Fiction 47North Amazon Publishing “With a powerful voice that grips you from its very first pages, Bacchanal casts a spell on readers, conjuring up some of ...
Black, Black Bird
Black, Black Bird Krishan Trotman 9780063570535 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Black, Black Bird is set in post–Civil War New York City and follows an ambitious nurse at the Colored Orphan Asylum who d...
Archangels of Funk
Archangels of Funk Andrea Hairston 9781250807281 Fiction Tordotcom Macmillan Publishers “Archangels of Funk is a tour de force of Afrofunkilicious Black Girl Magic. Like all great speculative fiction,...
Book Expo America 2000
Book Expo America 2000 Troy Johnson Article Book Expo America 2000 (BEA), held in Chicago May 31st to June 4th 2000 was a tremendous event. Anything you wanted to know about books and publishing...
The Reformatory
The Reformatory Tananarive Due 9781982188344 Fiction Gallery / Saga Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephen Jones as he’s sent t...
South Central Noir
South Central Noir Gary Phillips 9781636140551 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books The Akashic Noir Series’ forensic study of Southern California sharpens its focus on one of Los Angeles’s most recogn...
Domino Falls: A Novel
Domino Falls: A Novel Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes 9781451617023 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. It began on Freak Day—that day no one could explain, when strangers and family members a...
South by Southeast: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel (Tennyson Hardwick Novels (Paperback))
South by Southeast: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel (Tennyson Hardwick Novels (Paperback)) Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, and Steven Barnes 9781451650631 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. The fou...
Devil’s Wake
Devil’s Wake Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes 9781451617009 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Assassin and Other Stories
Assassin and Other Stories Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes, and Larry Niven 9780975915684 Fiction ISFiC Press ISFiC Press A collection of an original novel, an unpublished teleplay, and four short sto...
From Cape Town With Love
From Cape Town With Love Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes 9781439159125 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHORS OF CASANEGRA AND IN THE NIGHT OF THE HEAT TEAM UP FOR A THI...
Joplin’s Ghost: A Novel
Joplin’s Ghost: A Novel Tananarive Due 9780743449045 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. When Phoenix Smalls was ten, she nearly died at her parents’ jazz club when she was crushed ...
Voices from the Other Side
Voices from the Other Side Brandon Massey, Eric Jerome Dickey, and Tananarive Due, L. A. Banks 9780758212320 Fiction Kensington Books Kensington Publishing Corp. From the untamed wilderness of ancient...
The Living Blood
The Living Blood Tananarive Due 9780671040840 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the author of the national bestseller My Soul to Keep comes a riveting new novel of supernatur...
My Soul to Keep
My Soul to Keep Tananarive Due Excerpt Even now, alone, Dawit knew he was being watched. One of the Searchers had found him, perhaps months before. He’d noticed a cigarette butt half bur...
State of the Black Union 2008
State of the Black Union 2008 Kam Williams Article Obama’s Conspicuous Absence Overshadows Annual Gathering State of the Black Union 2008 by Kam Williams Senator Barack Obama...
Antigua & Barbuda Literary Festival 2008 - Was a Blast
Antigua & Barbuda Literary Festival 2008 - Was a Blast Troy Johnson Article I have never attended an event that was more personally fulfilling and fun in my entire life! Participants which includ...
African-American Pavilion at Book Expo America 2007
African-American Pavilion at Book Expo America 2007 Troy Johnson Article BookExpo America's Conference/Educational Programs run from May 31 - June 3, 2007 at the Jacob Javitz Convention Center in New...
Suheir Hammad
Suheir Hammad 0000000084052510 Suheir Hammad, born October 25, 1973, is a Palestinian-American poet, author, performer, and activist renowned for her work in the spoken-word scene. She's had success ...
Virginia DeBerry & Donna Grant talk to AALBC.com at BEA '08
Virginia DeBerry & Donna Grant talk to AALBC.com at BEA '08 Author Interviews
Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons - A Dialogue With America’s Young Leaders
Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons - A Dialogue With America’s Young Leaders Barack Obama and Gregory Reed 9781937269388 Nonfiction Amber Books Amber Communications Group Obama Talks Back: "provides...
Echo Brown
Echo Brown NONE Echo Brown is a renowned storyteller, author, and performer known for her one-woman show, 'Black Virgins Are Not for Hipsters'. She's also the author of 'Black Girl Unlimited'. Echo f...
Randall Horton
Randall Horton 0000000048702491 Award-winning author Randall Horton, known for his poetry collections and memoir, is a recipient of the Bea Gonzalez Poetry Award, GLCA New Writers Award, and a Nation...
Summer Is Here
Summer Is Here Renée Watson 9781547605866 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing New York Times bestselling creators Renée Watson and Bea Jackson offer a picture book ode to a ...
Susan McHenry & Anegla Dodson and BEA 2005
Susan McHenry & Anegla Dodson and BEA 2005 Author Interviews
Scenes from the 2009 AA Pavilion at BEA & Black Pack Party
Scenes from the 2009 AA Pavilion at BEA & Black Pack Party Literary Events
6th Annual African American Pavilion at BEA
6th Annual African American Pavilion at BEA Author Interviews
Book Expo America
Book Expo America Javitz Center New York New York BookExpo America (BEA) is the leading book and author event for the North American publishing industry. It’s the best place to discover new titl...
The Known World
The Known World Thumper Book Review As is becoming an unbreakable and pleasurable yearly excursion, I attended the 2003 Book Expo America (BEA) in Los Angeles. I love the BEA. The convention is all...
Blacktrospective 2008 - Annual Assessment of the Best (and Worst) in Black Cinema
Blacktrospective 2008 - Annual Assessment of the Best (and Worst) in Black Cinema Kam Williams https://aalbc.com/reviews/the_se11.jpg Film Review Kam's Annual Assessment of the Best (and...
AALBC.com to Exhibit at Book Expo America
AALBC.com to Exhibit at Book Expo America Troy Johnson Article AALBC.com to Exhibit at BookExpo Americahttp://events.aalbc.com/aap_bea_2006.htmAALBC.com is pleased to announce that we will be exhibi...
The Black Rose
The Black Rose Paige Turner Book Review Journalist and novelist Tananarive Due is fast establishing herself as a professional writer who can master any genre she deigns to approach. With her previ...
Due North: A Collection of Travel Observations, Reflections, and Snapshots Across Colo Volume 1
Due North: A Collection of Travel Observations, Reflections, and Snapshots Across Colo Volume 1 Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström 9789198391329 Nonfiction Geotraveler Media Geotraveler Media Due North Due Nort...
Casanegra
Casanegra Linda Watkins Book Review From the moment Casanegra crossed my palms, I was curious. Not only for the content of the story within, but for the story of the trio of authors that penn...
2008 Essence Literary Award Winning Books Announced
2008 Essence Literary Award Winning Books Announced Troy Johnson Article 2008 Essence Literary Award Winning Books Announced http://books.aalbc.com/2008_essence_literary_awards_nominees.htm Would yo...
Review of A Raisin in the Sun DVD (2008)
Review of A Raisin in the Sun DVD (2008) Kam Williams a_rais29.jpg Film Review Diddy Stars in Adaptation of Classic Play Available on DVD A Raisin in the Sun Click to order vi...
Brooklyn’s Finest
Brooklyn’s Finest Kam Williams images/img23.jpg Film Review Flawed NYPD Officers Featured as "Brooklyn’s Finest" Brooklyn's Finest Rated R for nudity, graphic sexuality, pe...
Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues
Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues Albert Murray 9780816699551 Nonfiction University of Minnesota Press University of Minnesota Press The year 2016 will mark the centennial of the bir...
She Talks to Beethoven
She Talks to Beethoven Adrienne Kennedy 9780573703959 Fiction Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals She Talks to Beethoven, written by pioneering avant-garde playwright Adrienne Kennedy in 1989, off...
Malcolm X Talks to Young People: Speeches in the United States, Britain, and Africa
Malcolm X Talks to Young People: Speeches in the United States, Britain, and Africa Malcolm X 9780873489621 Nonfiction Pathfinder Press Pathfinder Press This expanded edition includes four talks and a...
Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons A Dialogue with America’s Young Leaders
Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons A Dialogue with America’s Young Leaders Kam Williams Book Review “This collection of letters [offer] a rare glimpse into the dialogue between our nation&rsquo...
Gina Prince-Bythewood The “Beyond the Lights” Interview (October 2014)
Gina Prince-Bythewood The “Beyond the Lights” Interview (October 2014) Kam Williams Interview Gina Prince-Bythewood The “Beyond the Lights” Interview (October 2014) Born on June 10, 1969, Gina M...
The “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” Interview
The “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” Interview Kam Williams Interview Two-Time Oscar-Nominee Talks about His Latest Offering Photo by Pascal Le Segretain – © 2012 Getty Images Lee Daniels is best k...
Dark Dreams
Dark Dreams Thumper Book Review Author Brandon Massey (Thunderland, Dark Corner) has compiled a magnificent anthology designed to scare and terrify. Although African-American literature ha...
Sam Cornish
Sam Cornish 0000000383831039 Sam Cornish (1935-2018) was the Poet Laureate of Boston from 2008 and authored seven poetry books. He taught poetry workshops at the Boston Public Library and was a promi...
W. (2008)
W. (2008) Kam Williams w.htm13.jpg Film Review Oliver Stone Chronicles Bush’s Checkered Career with Damning Bio-Pic W. Rated PG-13 for profanity, sexual references, smoking, alc...
2012 Black Pack Party Photographs
2012 Black Pack Party Photographs Troy Johnson Article (HARLEM - June 12, 2012) - Londel's Restaurant served as the venue for the 6th Black Pack Party held June 6th, 2012. The Black Pack Party, held...
Mother’s Day Stories
Mother’s Day Stories Troy Johnson Article Mother’s Day Stories: A Lifetime of Appreciation in a Few Words The Defenders Online http://tinyurl.com/troy-mom I have a tribute to my mom here along wi...
The Boley Rodeo: Poems, 2008-2026
The Boley Rodeo: Poems, 2008-2026 Marilyn Nelson 9780807187265 Poetry LSU Press Louisiana State University Press Powerful, beautiful, and often deceptively simple, the poetry of Marilyn Nelson takes a...
The Underachieving Society: Development Strategy and Policy in Trinidad and Tobago, 1958-2008
The Underachieving Society: Development Strategy and Policy in Trinidad and Tobago, 1958-2008 Terrence W. Farrell 9789766403195 Nonfiction University of the West Indies Press University of the West In...
Who Should Be First?: Feminists Speak Out on the 2008 Presidential Campaign
Who Should Be First?: Feminists Speak Out on the 2008 Presidential Campaign Johnnetta Betsch Cole and Beverly Guy-Sheftall 9781438433769 Nonfiction State University of New York Press State University ...
Tarp Town U S A
Tarp Town U S A D.T. Pollard 9780982460603 Fiction Book Express Book Express The United States experienced the emergence of an economic crisis in the last quarter of 2008 that was the worst since the ...
America I AM Black Facts: The Timelines of African American History, 1601-2008
America I AM Black Facts: The Timelines of African American History, 1601-2008 Quintard Taylor 9781401924065 Nonfiction Hay House Penguin Random House This invaluable reference timeline charts African...
Ravi Howard
Ravi Howard NONE Ravi Howard is an award-winning author and television producer, known for his novel “Like Trees, Walking.” A recipient of the 2001 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Award and the 200...
Cedric Johnson
Cedric Johnson 0000000055574096 Cedric Johnson, an associate professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, focuses on African American Studies and Political Science. His critically acclaimed book...
Louise Story and Ebony Reed
Louise Story and Ebony Reed MULTIPLE Louise Story is a renowned investigative journalist and Yale professor, known for her work at The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and for her investig...
AALBC.com to Offer Self Published and Small Press Books Direct to Consumers at Competitive Discounts
AALBC.com to Offer Self Published and Small Press Books Direct to Consumers at Competitive Discounts Troy Johnson Article The African American Literature Book Club (AALBC.com) to Offer Self Published...
Tony Rose and Yvonne Rose
Tony Rose and Yvonne Rose MULTIPLE Tony and Yvonne Rose are the producers of the 2006 African American Pavilion and run Amber Communications Group, Inc. together. Tony Rose and Yvonne Rose P...
Jason Poole
Jason Poole NONE Jason Conrad Poole, a proud father from Washington, DC, was wrongfully sentenced to 21 years for a drug violation in 1996. Regaining his freedom in 2008, Poole's story showcases resi...
New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color Nisi Shawl 9781786188588 Fiction Solaris Simon & Schuster, Inc. The stunning follow-up to the multiple-award-winning anthology of SFF by peo...
The Ancestors
The Ancestors Thumper Book Review The Ancestors is an anthology featuring stories by authors L.A. Banks, Tananarive Due and Brandon Massey. I am always happy to come across science fiction ...