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Tara Payne
Tara Payne NONE Tara Payne, a lifelong entrepreneur, writer, and speaker, resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma. After leaving her career in finance, she became a full-time creative, founding Payne Creative Con...
When Hope Speaks
When Hope Speaks Tara Payne 9798673617724 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published I figured that being a mother would be filled with eagerness, excitement and joy. Never did I imagi...
Tara Payne, When Hope Speaks a Book about Miscarriage
Tara Payne, When Hope Speaks a Book about Miscarriage Book Spotlights Learn more about Tara Payne at: https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=Tara+Payne
Les Payne and Tamara Payne
Les Payne and Tamara Payne MULTIPLE Les Payne, born in 1941, was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Newsday editor, and founder of the National Association of Black Journalists. His daughter, Tamar...
Tara Betts
Tara Betts NONE Tara Betts, a celebrated author and poet, is known for her educational efforts in arts programs and her work with GirlSpeak. She has been featured on HBO's Def Poetry Jam and the Blac...
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X Les Payne and Tamara Payne 9781631491665 Nonfiction Liveright Publishing Corporation W. W. Norton & Company “Les Payne’s The Dead Are Arising is a brilliant...
Eye On the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press
Eye On the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press James Mcgrath Morris 9780062198860 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Acclaimed biographer James McGrath Morris brings into focus the ...
Eye On The Struggle: Ethel Payne, The First Lady Of The Black Press
Eye On The Struggle: Ethel Payne, The First Lady Of The Black Press James Mcgrath Morris 9780062198853 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Acclaimed biographer James McGrath Morris brings into focus the ...
Doris Payne and Zelda Lockhart
Doris Payne and Zelda Lockhart MULTIPLE "Doris Payne, a renowned jewel thief, & Zelda Lockhart, an acclaimed author, come together to create compelling narratives. Their distinct experiences offer a ...
Eric Payne
Eric Payne NONE Eric Payne, a versatile writer and poet, started his journey in literature at age 7. He graduated from Cornell and Binghamton Universities and is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternit...
The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne
The Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne Lesa Cline-Ransome 9781481462891 Nonfiction Paula Wiseman Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Renowned author Lesa Cline-Ransome an...
Chiquita Camille Payne
Chiquita Camille Payne NONE Chiquita Camille Payne is an actress, dancer, and author from Chicago, now living in Brooklyn. Inspired by her son, she wrote her first book, Just Because, after years of ...
Doris Payne
Doris Payne 0000000109107224 Doris Payne, born in Slab Fork, West Virginia, is the youngest of six and daughter of a coal miner. She is renowned for her six-decade career as an international jewel th...
Nikki Payne
Nikki Payne NONE “Church, cemeteries and romance novels are still the most segregated places in America.” Nikki Payne is a tech anthropologist improving digital services and a member of Sm...
Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne
Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne Kam Williams Book Review “This groundbreaking biography… illuminates the life and accomplishments of pioneering journalist Ethel Lois Payne, while also...
Tara Nicole Whitaker
Tara Nicole Whitaker NONE Tara Nicole Whitaker is a renowned author recognized for her compelling narratives and unique storytelling style. With a diverse range of works, Whitaker's writings offer a ...
Tara Sullivan
Tara Sullivan NONE Tara Sullivan, born in Calcutta and raised across South America and the Caribbean, is a global-minded author with a dual Master's degree in Non-Profit Management and International ...
Tara Henderson
Tara Henderson NONE Tara Henderson, a seasoned public education professional and principal from Tulsa, OK, pens her first children's book. Inspired by the historical Tulsa Race Massacre, she lives in...
Tara M. Stringfellow
Tara M. Stringfellow NONE Tara M. Stringfellow, a poet and former attorney, is a Northwestern University MFA graduate and Fulbright Fellowship semifinalist. She's written for numerous publications an...
Tara T. Green
Tara T. Green NONE Tara T. Green is an African American Studies professor with over 20 years of teaching literature and culture. Award-winning author and editor of 6 books on the lives and experience...
Known to Evil
Known to Evil Thumper Book Review Walter Mosley is back with the second installment of his new, magnificent Lenoid McGill Mystery series, Known to Evil. Believe it or not, I got my hands on Known...
Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief
Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief Doris Payne and Zelda Lockhart 9780062918000 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Soon to be a Major Motion PictureIn the ebullient ...
Diamond Doris
Diamond Doris Doris Payne 9780062917997 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In the ebullient spirit of Ocean’s 8, The Heist, and Thelma & Louise, a sensational and entertaining memoir of the world’s most...
House of Payne, Volume 4
House of Payne, Volume 4 Kam Williams house_26.jpg Film Review House of Payne, Volume 4 Click to order via AmazonUnrated Running time: 440 minutes Studio: Lionsgat...
Ravished by Desire: A Little DareThorn’s Challenge (Arabesque)
Ravished by Desire: A Little DareThorn’s Challenge (Arabesque) Brenda Jackson 9780373831791 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Harlequin Enterprises Limited A Little DareWhen Shelly Brockman walks into his offi...
Tara Pringle Jefferson
Tara Pringle Jefferson NONE Tara Pringle Jefferson is the founder of The Self Care Suite, a digital wellness community for Black women. A certified breathwork facilitator and wellness advocate, her ...
Sex, Lies and Sensibility
Sex, Lies and Sensibility Nikki Payne 9780593440964 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House “Nikki Payne skillfully spins the tale of a well-known Jane Austen classic and makes it entirely her own....
Pride and Protest
Pride and Protest Nikki Payne 9780593440940 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House A Phenomenal Book Club pick for November 2022! A woman goes head-to-head with the CEO of a corporation threateni...
Joi and Payne
Joi and Payne Sheila L. Jackson 9780692656860 Fiction Virtuous Books Virtuous Books A teenager texting while driving runs a stop sign and shatters Joi Campbell’s perfect life. Her husband and twin b...
Bishop Daniel A. Payne: Great Black Leader
Bishop Daniel A. Payne: Great Black Leader Rudine Sims Bishop 9781933491158 Nonfiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. He came from modest beginnings. Born in South Carolina in 1811 to free people o...
i see through eyes
i see through eyes Eric Payne 9780595172122 Poetry iUniverse Author Solutions I see through eyes is an unashamed piece that doesnt sugarcoat the conflicts present in mens hearts. It explores the pain ...
i see through eyes
i see through eyes Kalamu ya Salaam Book Review Eric Payne is not ready to publish a book a poetry’but, on the other hand, the 21st century is a new time. If a person believes they are a poet a...
Bloom How You Must: A Black Woman’s Guide to Self-Care and Generational Healing
Bloom How You Must: A Black Woman’s Guide to Self-Care and Generational Healing Tara Pringle Jefferson 9780063377875 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins A self-empowering wellness guide that celebrates t...
Written in the Waters: A Memoir of History, Home, and Belonging
Written in the Waters: A Memoir of History, Home, and Belonging Tara Roberts 9781426223754 Nonfiction National Geographic Society National Geographic Books This searing memoir by a National Geographic...
Magic Enuff: Poems
Magic Enuff: Poems Tara M. Stringfellow 9780593447437 Poetry The Dial Press Penguin Random House Radiant poems that celebrate Black Southern womanhood and the many ways magic lives in the bonds betwee...
Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson Tara T. Green 9781501382307 Nonfiction Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Publishing “A fascinating biography of a fascinating woman.” - Boo...
Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song
Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song Tara T. Green 9780814254714 Fiction The Ohio State University Press The Ohio State University Press In Reimagining ...
The Bitter Side of Sweet
The Bitter Side of Sweet Tara Sullivan 9780399173073 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House For fans of Linda Sue Park and A Long Way Gone, two young boys must escape ...
Tara’s Perfect Life: The Lip Gloss Chronociles Vol. 5
Tara’s Perfect Life: The Lip Gloss Chronociles Vol. 5 Shelia M. Goss 9781601623980 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Bestselling author Sheila Goss returns with her popular Lip Gloss Chr...
Make It Happen: The Young Mommy Guide to Creating the Career You Crave
Make It Happen: The Young Mommy Guide to Creating the Career You Crave Tara Pringle Jefferson 9781461171409 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC In this book, Tara shows you how to find you...
A Fatherless Child: Autobiographical Perspectives of African American Men
A Fatherless Child: Autobiographical Perspectives of African American Men Tara T. Green 9780826266545 Nonfiction University of Missouri Press University of Missouri The impact of absent fathers on son...
Tara Roberts
Tara Roberts NONE Sure, please provide me with the author's bio that needs to be summarized.
More Poetry!/Less Jam!
More Poetry!/Less Jam! Tara Betts Article More Poetry!/Less Jam! by Tara Betts Bruce George’s outgoing voicemail message at Phat Farm states "Don’t leave a message unless it&rsq...
Princess and the P.I.
Princess and the P.I. Nikki Payne 9780593817360 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House An amateur online sleuth must enlist the help of a jaded PI to clear her name while taking down a shady tech ...
Lovin’ Thy Enemy
Lovin’ Thy Enemy Joy Deja King 9781958834336 Fiction King Productions King Productions Charly is the only daughter of notorious gangster Charlie Brinks. Following in her father’s footsteps, Charly car...
Lovin’ Thy Enemy
Lovin’ Thy Enemy Joy Deja King 9781942217237 Fiction King Productions King Productions Charly, is the only daughter of notorious gangster Charlie Brinks. Following in her father’s footsteps, Charly ca...
Just Because
Just Because Chiquita Camille Payne 9780979613241 Fiction Mama’s Boyz, Incorporated Mama’s Boyz, Incorporated 2015 WINNER of THE PURPLE DRAGONFLY AWARD in the category of FAMILY MATTERS and HONORABLE ...
Chattel House Blues: Making of a Democratic Society in Barbados, from Clement Payne to Owen Arthur
Chattel House Blues: Making of a Democratic Society in Barbados, from Clement Payne to Owen Arthur Hilary Beckles 9780852554944 Nonfiction James Currey Ltd / Heinemann James Currey Ltd / Heinemann
The Fisher King: A Novel
The Fisher King: A Novel Paule Marshall 9780684869704 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. In 1949, Sonny-Rett Payne, a jazz pianist, fled New York for Paris to escape both his family’...
The Descendants
The Descendants Kam Williams images/thedescendants.jpg Film Review Clooney Seeks Redemption as Regretful Patriarch in Dysfunctional Family Drama The Descendants Rated R for profanity and sexua...
The Light on Halsey Street
The Light on Halsey Street Vanessa Miller 9780840709936 Fiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing Download Book Club KitInspirational Christian fiction, Perfect for fans of Tara M. Stri...
Shady Baby Feels: A First Book of Emotions
Shady Baby Feels: A First Book of Emotions Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade 9780063054042 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Learn about feelings and emotions with Shady Baby in this board book create...
Memphis
Memphis Tara M. Stringfellow 9780593230480 Fiction The Dial Press Penguin Random House A spellbinding debut novel tracing three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter’s discovery that...
See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure in the Interwar Era
See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure in the Interwar Era Tara T. Green 9781978826021 Nonfiction Rutgers University Press Rutgers University Press Pleasure refers to the freedom to pursue a desi...
From the Plantation to the Prison: African-American Confinement Literature
From the Plantation to the Prison: African-American Confinement Literature Tara T. Green 9780881460902 Nonfiction Mercer University Press Mercer University Press According to George Jackson, Black men...
Aamila’s Adventure: Remembering the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Aamila’s Adventure: Remembering the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Tara Henderson 9781649130075 Fiction Rosedog Press Rosedog Press Aamila spends every summer vacation with her grandparents. Usually, they t...
Brer Rabbit Retold
Brer Rabbit Retold Arthur R. Flowers 9789383145461 Nonfiction Tara Books Tara Books The Brer Rabbit stories were originally oral tales told by slaves from the American South. In this powerful renderin...
Golden Boy
Golden Boy Tara Sullivan 9780399161124 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Thirteen-year-old Habo has always been different—light eyes, yellow hair and white skin. ...
I See The Promised Land: A Life Of Martin Luther King, Jr.
I See The Promised Land: A Life Of Martin Luther King, Jr. Arthur R. Flowers 9789380340043 Nonfiction Tara Books Tara Books "Both evocative and factually rich…Older teens, in addition to adults, will ...
Arc & Hue
Arc & Hue Tara Betts 9780981920870 Poetry Aquarius Press/Willow Books Aquarius Press/Willow Books Poetry. Foreword by Afaa Michael Weaver. ARC & HUE explores the paradoxes of life in America’s past an...
What Your Mama Never Told You: True Stories About Sex and Love
What Your Mama Never Told You: True Stories About Sex and Love Tara Roberts 9780618646364 Nonfiction HMH Books for Young Readers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Like big sisters sharing secrets, these every...
Am I the Last Virgin?: Ten African American Reflections on Sex and Love
Am I the Last Virgin?: Ten African American Reflections on Sex and Love Tara Roberts 9780689804496 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. Explores the sexual issues...
Femme du Monde
Femme du Monde Tara Betts Book Review Spears Jones’ second collection Femme du Monde does not simply unfold the artful experiences of a woman who has traveled and soaked up the internatio...
Big Girl Blitz
Big Girl Blitz Danielle Allen 9781250331168 Fiction Bramble Macmillan Publishers "Nothing is hotter and more fun than Danielle Allen’s writing." — Ali Hazelwood Because life’s too short, ...
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth Wole Soyinka 9780593320167 Fiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House The first Black person ever to win the Nobel Prize in Literature gives u...
On the Corner of Hope and Main: A Blessings Novel
On the Corner of Hope and Main: A Blessings Novel Beverly Jenkins 9780062952202 Fiction William Morrow HarperCollins NAACP nominee and USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins celebrates her belov...
Stop in the Name of Love
Stop in the Name of Love Naleighna Kai B07MQRQL8K Fiction Macro Publishing Group Macro Publishing Group Elise Payne’s life had been shredded to bits when her wealthy ex-husband takes everything and le...
Blessed Life: My Surprising Journey of Joy, Tears, and Tales from Harlem to Hollywood
Blessed Life: My Surprising Journey of Joy, Tears, and Tales from Harlem to Hollywood Kim Fields 9781478947547 Nonfiction FaithWords Hachette Book Group From "Facts of Life" to "Living ...
The Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues: A Novel
The Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues: A Novel Edward Kelsey Moore 9781250107947 Fiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers From the author of the bestselling The Supremes at Earl’s All-Y...
Her Teen Dream
Her Teen Dream Devon Vaughn Archer 9781475199543 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Karin Blanch is a sixteen-year-old sophomore at Elmwood High in Crescent Heights, California. She experien...
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
How Stella Got Her Groove Back Terry McMillan 9780451209146 Fiction NAL NAL Stella Payne is forty-two, divorced, a high-powered investment analyst, mother of eleven-year-old Quincy- and she does it al...
Damon Wayans
Damon Wayans 000000005928060X Damon Wayans, a NY Times bestselling author and award-winning actor from a renowned Hollywood family, is known for his roles in 'In Living Color' and 'My Wife and Kids'....
James Mcgrath Morris
James Mcgrath Morris 000000007142934X James McGrath Morris is a renowned author of biographies and narrative nonfiction, including a New York Times Bestseller. With a career spanning journalism, teac...
Sequola Dawson
Sequola Dawson NONE Rev. Dr. Sequola Dawson is the senior pastor of St. Mary African Methodist Episcopal Church. She is a multi-published author of several works that include Grandpa Already Told Me...
The Fisher King: A Novel
The Fisher King: A Novel Paule Marshall Excerpt Chapter 1 "Had the brass-face to come round me playing the Sodom and Gomorrah music!" The old woman they said was his g...
Tyler Perry - The Family That Preys Interview
Tyler Perry - The Family That Preys Interview Kam Williams Interview A Visit to The House of Perry Tyler Perry's path from the perilous streets of New Orleans to the heights of Holly...
Notes from Beale Street
Notes from Beale Street Phyllis R. Dixon 9781496758804 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. When their family matriarch dies in 1980s Memphis, two very different sisters battle over her legacy—o...
They Dream in Gold
They Dream in Gold Mai Sennaar 9781638931102 Fiction SJP Lit Zando Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize 2024 “Extraordinary … a powerful and poignant exploration of the African ...
Colton’s Blizzard Hideout
Colton’s Blizzard Hideout Deborah Fletcher Mello 9781335502414 Fiction Harlequin Romantic Suspense Harlequin Enterprises Limited Safe from the storm … not from her stalker. Lizzy Colton’s never had...
midnight & indigo Vol II (6): Nineteen Speculative Stories by Black Women Writers
midnight & indigo Vol II (6): Nineteen Speculative Stories by Black Women Writers Ianna A. Small 9781737933205 Fiction Midnight & Indigo Midnight & Indigo Publishing A Black woman performs a strange r...
A Universe of Wishes: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology
A Universe of Wishes: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology Dhonielle Clayton 9781984896230 Fiction Ember Ember Published in partnership with We Need Diverse Books, this YA fantasy anthology brings togeth...
My Baby Loves Valentine’s Day
My Baby Loves Valentine’s Day Jabari Asim 9780062884640 Fiction HarperFestival HarperCollins The perfect Valentine’s gift for your baby or toddler! In My Baby Loves Valentine’s Day, celebrate all t...
midnight & indigo Issue 4: Twenty-two Speculative Stories by Black Women Writers
midnight & indigo Issue 4: Twenty-two Speculative Stories by Black Women Writers Ianna A. Small 9781732891777 Fiction Midnight & Indigo Midnight & Indigo Publishing midnight & indigo celebrates Black ...
My Baby Loves Halloween
My Baby Loves Halloween Jabari Asim 9780062884633 Fiction HarperFestival HarperCollins The perfect Halloween gift for your baby or toddler! With My Baby Loves Halloween, celebrate all the lovely thing...
Ordinary Girls: A Memoir
Ordinary Girls: A Memoir Jaquira Diaz 9781616209131 Nonfiction Algonquin Books Workman Publishing Co., Inc. One of the Must-Read Books of 2019 According to O: The Oprah Magazine * Time * Bustle * Elec...
My Baby Loves Christmas
My Baby Loves Christmas Jabari Asim 9780062884626 Fiction HarperFestival HarperCollins In the My Baby Loves Christmas board book, celebrate all the lovely things that baby discovers about Christmas.Ba...
Apex Magazine August 2018
Apex Magazine August 2018 Sheree Renée Thomas 9781720283362 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring o...
Tulsa Burning: Friends Show Their True Colors in Times of Trouble
Tulsa Burning: Friends Show Their True Colors in Times of Trouble Anna Myers 9781937054663 Fiction Roadrunner Press Roadrunner Press Aamila spends every summer vacation with her grandparents. Usually,...
Secrets Untold
Secrets Untold Shelia M. Goss 9781601623126 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance When 15-year-old Porsha Swint overhears an argument between her parents, she learns some very painful news. The ...
Let’s Get It On
Let’s Get It On Rochelle Alers, Donna Hill, Brenda Jackson, and Francis Ray 9780312325923 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Welcome back to Leo’s supper club, where seduction is always...
These Hands I Know: African-American Writers on Family
These Hands I Know: African-American Writers on Family Afaa Michael Weaver 9781889330723 Poetry Sarabande Books Sarabande Books These Hands I Know offers readers the first-ever intimate view of the in...
Tiffany Dufu
Tiffany Dufu NONE Tiffany Dufu, author of Drop the Ball, is a prominent figure in women's leadership. She was part of the Lean In launch team and currently serves as Chief Leadership Officer at Levo....