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Terry McMillan
Terry McMillan 000000011827688X Terry McMillan, born in 1951, is a celebrated author and screenwriter known for her novels, four of which have been adapted into films. She fell in love with books as ...
It Was the Way She Said It: Short Stories, Essays, and Wisdom
It Was the Way She Said It: Short Stories, Essays, and Wisdom Terry McMillan 9780593357149 Fiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got...
Rosalyn McMillan
Rosalyn McMillan NONE Rosalyn McMillan (1953-2017) was a prolific author from Michigan who penned six popular novels. She lived in Memphis, Tennessee with her husband and enjoyed knitting and fishing...
Who Asked You?
Who Asked You? Terry McMillan 9780670785698 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House Family ties are tested and transformed in the new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author of Waiting to Exhale an...
It&rsqupo;s OK if You’re Clueless: and 23 More Tips for the College Bound
It&rsqupo;s OK if You’re Clueless: and 23 More Tips for the College Bound Terry McMillan 9780670032983 Fiction Viking Books Penguin Random House When her son Solomon graduated from high school, Terry ...
A Day Late and a Dollar Short
A Day Late and a Dollar Short Paige Turner Book Review The publishing world and the legions of Terry McMillan fans can now officially exhale. McMillan’s long awaited "serious" nov...
Lucy Terry
Lucy Terry NONE Lucy Terry Prince, born in West Africa (1730-1821), was a poet, storyteller, and activist known for being the first African American woman to compose a poem. Kidnapped and sold into s...
Terry Wells-Jones
Terry Wells-Jones NONE Terry Wells-Jones, a graduate from the University of Wisconsin, is a retired businesswoman and one of the first Black models of the 1960s. She broke barriers as the first woman...
I Almost Forgot about You
I Almost Forgot about You Terry McMillan 9781101902592 Fiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House Original Hardcover Published June 7, 2016 #1 AALBC.com bestselling author, Terry McMillan is...
Getting to Happy
Getting to Happy Terry McMillan 9780451233349 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry McMillan’s exuberant return to the four unforgettable heroines of Wa...
Getting To Happy
Getting To Happy Terry McMillan 9780670022045 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House An exuberant return to the four unforgettable heroines of Waiting to Exhale—the novel that changed African American fi...
Terry Mcmillan: The Unauthorized Biography
Terry Mcmillan: The Unauthorized Biography Diane Patrick 9780312267858 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Novelist Terry McMillan is widely considered to be the preeminent voice of y...
Reflections! (paperback): Looking in the Mirror
Reflections! (paperback): Looking in the Mirror Terry Wells-Jones 9781639374526 Nonfiction Dorrance Publishing Dorrance Publishing “This was the first time the newspaper had featured a Black (Negr...
Reflections!: Looking in the Mirror
Reflections!: Looking in the Mirror Terry Wells-Jones 9781639374243 Nonfiction Dorrance Publishing Dorrance Publishing “This was the first time the newspaper had featured a Black (Negro) model and...
Terry DeRon
Terry DeRon NONE Terry DeRon, a dynamic writer with a unique writing style, served in the US Army before obtaining a Television/Film production degree from Southern University. He used his military b...
Terry Crews - The “Blended” Interview (2014)
Terry Crews - The “Blended” Interview (2014) Kam Williams Interview Terry Crews - The “Blended” Interview Since retiring from the NFL, Terry Crews has traded in his helmet and cleats to purs...
Radiant Rebellion: Reclaim Aging, Practice Joy, and Raise a Little Hell
Radiant Rebellion: Reclaim Aging, Practice Joy, and Raise a Little Hell Karen Walrond 9781506487632 Nonfiction Beaming Books 1517 Media What if aging is something to aspire to, not to dread? What if t...
The Interruption of Everything
The Interruption of Everything Terry McMillan 9780670031443 Fiction Viking Books Penguin Random House "Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple and even simultane...
Terry E. Hill
Terry E. Hill NONE Terry E. Hill, a renowned author compared to E. Lynn Harris and Eric Jerome Dickey, has a rich background in social services, spanning over 15 years. A native of Southern Californi...
Terry O’Neal
Terry O’Neal 0000000046143681 Terry O’Neal is a self-published author. Writing has been a wonderful experience for her. It brings out her inner deepest thoughts and feelings. Terry believes that ...
Terry Crews - “The Expendables” Interview
Terry Crews - “The Expendables” Interview Kam Williams Interview Hailing from Flint, Michigan, Terry Crews has not only one of the most recognizable faces around, but maybe one of the mo...
A Day Late and a Dollar Short
A Day Late and a Dollar Short Terry McMillan 9780451211088 Fiction NAL NAL Much-heralded and long awaited, Terry McMillan’s tour-de-force novel introduces the Price family-matriarch Viola, her sometim...
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...
Terry McMillan Speaks out on the ill of the publishing industry
Terry McMillan Speaks out on the ill of the publishing industry Troy Johnson Article The following link points to a letter, written by Terry McMillan, on the ills of the publishing industry. The let...
Mama
Mama Terry McMillan 9780451216717 Fiction NAL NAL The explosive novel that introduced #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry McMillan-now in a new trade edition.
Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing
Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing E. Lynn Harris and Marita Golden 9780767910415 Fiction Broadway Books Penguin Random House A literary rent party to benefit the Hurston/Wright Founda...
Breaking Ice: An Anthology Of Contemporary African-American Fiction
Breaking Ice: An Anthology Of Contemporary African-American Fiction Terry McMillan 9780140116977 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House A striking collection of works from authors both establis...
Yesterday’s You: How to reverse aging using special foods, vitamins, natural supplements and a few secret practices (Volume 2)
Yesterday’s You: How to reverse aging using special foods, vitamins, natural supplements and a few secret practices (Volume 2) Walt Goodridge 9781502370358 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing ...
Elder Grace: The Nobility of Aging
Elder Grace: The Nobility of Aging Chester Higgins, Jr. 9780821226872 Nonfiction Bulfinch Bulfinch Elder Grace puts a positive, life affirming focus on the oft-thought-about-but-rarely-discussed subje...
Thick: And Other Essays
Thick: And Other Essays Tressie McMillan Cottom 9781620974360 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press As featured by The Daily Show, NPR, PBS, CBC, Time, VIBE, Entertainment Weekly, Well-Read Black Gir...
Tressie McMillan Cottom
Tressie McMillan Cottom 0000000459857682 Tressie McMillan Cottom, a sociology professor at Virginia Commonwealth University and author of “Lower Ed”, is renowned for her insights on for-profit educat...
Brandon M. Terry
Brandon M. Terry NONE Brandon M. Terry is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and the co-director of the Institute on Policing, Incarceration, and Publi...
Terry L. Wroten
Terry L. Wroten NONE Terry L. Wroten, a former Four-Trey Gangsta Crips member, transformed his life to serve the community he once terrorized. Now residing in Los Angeles, he's focusing on his next n...
Chris L. Terry
Chris L. Terry NONE Chris L. Terry was born in 1979 to an African American father and an Irish American mother. He has an MA in English from Virginia Commonwealth University and a creative writing M...
K’wan, J.M. Benjamin, Terry L. Wroten, Randy Thompson, and J-Rod Nider
K’wan, J.M. Benjamin, Terry L. Wroten, Randy Thompson, and J-Rod Nider MULTIPLE K'wan, J.M. Benjamin, Terry L. Wroten, Randy Thompson, and J-Rod Nider are accomplished authors, each bringing unique s...
It’s Not All Downhill from Here
It’s Not All Downhill from Here Terry McMillan 9781984823748 Fiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House After a sudden change of plans, a remarkable woman and her loyal group of friends try to figu...
Hunter Hayes
Hunter Hayes 0000000356472077 Author Hunter Hayes returns to the literary scene after a hiatus. Known for his critically-acclaimed novels, Shoes On the Otha' Foot and A Pair Like No Otha', Hayes is n...
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 ...
This Side of Eternity
This Side of Eternity Rosalyn McMillan 9780684862880 Fiction Free Press Free Press From the bestselling author of Knowing, One Better, Blue Collar Blues and The Flip Side of Sin, comes this beautiful ...
Vegan Soul Kitchen: Fresh, Healthy, and Creative African-American Cuisine
Vegan Soul Kitchen: Fresh, Healthy, and Creative African-American Cuisine Bryant Terry 9780738212289 Nonfiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group The mere mention of soul food brings thoughts of greas...
Bryant Terry
Bryant Terry 0000000036406863 Bryant Terry, NAACP Image and James Beard Award-winning chef and author of Afro-Vegan and Vegetable Kingdom, is celebrated for his contributions towards a sustainable fo...
Terry J. Stokes
Terry J. Stokes NONE Terry J. Stokes is an associate pastor and author with degrees from Yale and Princeton Seminary. He writes on prayer practices, contributes to Episcopal publications, and is an e...
Terry Teachout
Terry Teachout 0000000029005543 Terry Teachout, born on February 6, 1956, is a multi-talented individual known for his work as a critic, biographer, librettist, author, playwright, and blogger. Terry...
Disappearing Acts
Disappearing Acts Terry McMillan 9780451205636 Fiction Signet Penguin Random House He was tall, dark as bittersweet chocolate, and impossibly gorgeous, with a woman-melting smile. She was pretty and i...
A Day Late and a Dollar Short
A Day Late and a Dollar Short Terry McMillan Excerpt Way I see it can’t nobody tell me nothing I don’t already know. At least not when it comes to my kids. They all grown, but in a whol...
Sheneska Jackson
Sheneska Jackson NONE Inspired by Terry McMillan, Sheneska Jackson dedicated early mornings to writing her first draft, which was accepted by Simon & Schuster two days after submission. Her work earn...
Kiki Swinson
Kiki Swinson NONE “Kiki captures the heat of the streets.” —Wahida Clark KiKi Swinson, born in Portsmouth, Virginia, discovered her writing talent while in federal prison, resulting ...
Portia Cosby
Portia Cosby NONE Portia A. Cosby is a renowned novelist, screenwriter, and poet from Indianapolis, known for her relatable storytelling. With a background in kinesiology and film, she blends her ski...
Who Asked You?
Who Asked You? Terry McMillan 9780451417039 Fiction Penguin Group USA Penguin Random House When Who Asked You? begins, Trinetta leaves her two young sons with her mother, Betty Jean, and promptly disa...
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...
The Minister Primarily
The Minister Primarily John Oliver Killens 9780063079595 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Featuring an Introduction by Ishmael Reed A major literary event—the eagerly anticipated publication of a long...
Daughters of Africa
Daughters of Africa Margaret Busby 9780345382689 Fiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from Ancient Egyptian to the...
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, ...
Ronda Racha Penrice
Ronda Racha Penrice NONE Ronda Racha Penrice, an expert in African American history and culture, studied at Columbia University and NYU, focusing on African American literature. She contributed to Th...
Loving Donovan
Loving Donovan Bernice L. McFadden 9781617753183 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Bernice L. McFadden is one of the best contemporary literary writers out there today…Her brilliance, her talent as...
America’s Dream
America’s Dream Esmeralda Santiago 9780060928261 Fiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins America Gonzalez is a hotel housekeeper on an island off the coast of Puerto Rico, cleaning up after wealthy for...
Mama
Mama Terry McMillan 9780671884482 Fiction Pocket Books Pocket Books Mildred Peacock is the touch, funny, feisty heroine of "Mama, " a survivor who’ll do anything to keep her family together. In Mildre...
Waiting To Exhale
Waiting To Exhale Terry McMillan 9780670839803 Fiction Viking Press Penguin Random House Waiting to Exhale is on President Obama’s Bookshelf Four African-American women console and support o...
Afro-Vegan: Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean, and Southern Flavors Remix
Afro-Vegan: Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean, and Southern Flavors Remix Bryant Terry 9781607745310 Nonfiction Ten Speed Press Penguin Random House African, Caribbean, and southern food are all known and...
Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement
Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement Brandon M. Terry 9780674271289 Nonfiction Belknap Press Harvard University Press A landmark reinterpretation of the civil ...
Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora
Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora Bryant Terry 9781984859723 Nonfiction 4 Color Books Penguin Random House A beautiful, rich, and groundbreaking book exploring Bla...
The Shirt Off His Back: A Novel (Strivers Row)
The Shirt Off His Back: A Novel (Strivers Row) Parry Brown 9780345491244 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House After a brief relationship in college, Catherine and Terry found themselves t...
Inside the Fall
Inside the Fall Terry E. Hill 9780963914729 Fiction ReGeJe Press ReGeJe Press Inside the Fall caused Barnes & Noble Booksellers to do a double take. Barnes & Noble took a second look at the thrilling...
Terry Alford
Terry Alford 0000000058885607 Terry Alford is an award-winning author and historian specializing in American history, race relations, and the Civil War era. He earned a Ph.D. in history from Mississ...
Black Food
Black Food Robert Fleming Book Review Black food, aka Soul food, is celebrated all over the world for its delicious ingredients, tangy flavors, homegrown recipes, and traditional richness. This book,...
Game Recognize Game - A Novel
Game Recognize Game - A Novel Terry DeRon 9780615307060 Fiction Terry DeRon Terry DeRon Game Recognize Game is a dynamic story highlighting the games and deceptions men and women use on one another wh...
Delightfulee: The Life And Music Of Lee Morgan (Jazz Perspectives)
Delightfulee: The Life And Music Of Lee Morgan (Jazz Perspectives) Jeff Mcmillan 9780472032815 Nonfiction University of Michigan Press University of Michigan Press One of the most individual stylists ...
Cherlyn Michaels
Cherlyn Michaels NONE Cherlyn Michaels is a self-published author and chemical engineer who began writing in grade school. She pursued her passion for writing after graduating from university, bravel...
The Good Braider
The Good Braider Terry Farish 9781477816288 Fiction Skyscape Amazon Publishing In spare free verse laced with unforgettable images, Viola’s strikingly original voice sings out the story of her family’...
Jesus and the Abolitionists: How Anarchist Christianity Empowers the People
Jesus and the Abolitionists: How Anarchist Christianity Empowers the People Terry J. Stokes 9798889830818 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media Isn't anarchy just chaos? How could it possibly rela...
Abstraktion und Einfühlung: Poems by Percival Everett
Abstraktion und Einfühlung: Poems by Percival Everett Percival Everett 9781933354705 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books “Everett’s talent is multifaceted, sparked by a satiric brilliance that cou...
Eartha Watts-Hicks
Eartha Watts-Hicks NONE Eartha Watts-Hicks is a prolific writer for various online publications, including Harlem World's Magazine's blog and TheUrbanBookSource.com. She has been the director of publ...
Iyanla's Vanzant's Book Now a #1 New York Times Best Seller
Iyanla's Vanzant's Book Now a #1 New York Times Best Seller Troy Johnson Article In 1998, Iyanla Vanzant was AALBC.com's first #1 best selling author. Vanzant had three titles on our 1998 Best Selle...
Nominee Shares Her Experience at the 2015 NAACP Image Awards Ceremony for Outstanding Literary Work
Nominee Shares Her Experience at the 2015 NAACP Image Awards Ceremony for Outstanding Literary Work Gwen Richardson Article African-American authors rarely receive national recognition for their work...
Committee
Committee Terry E. Hill 9781622867226 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance The Committee is a beguiling tale that twirls Illuminati conspiracy, New Orleans voodoo, American politics and a subpl...
We Ain’t the Brontes
We Ain’t the Brontes Rosalyn McMillan 9781601622433 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance Charity Evans and Lynzee Lavender haven’t always had the best relationship—for the most part thanks to t...
Prayers for the People: Things We Didn’t Know We Could Say to God
Prayers for the People: Things We Didn’t Know We Could Say to God Terry J. Stokes 9780593239438 Nonfiction Convergent Books Penguin Random House A collection of timely, stirring, and witty prayers tha...
Black Card
Black Card Chris L. Terry 9781646220199 Fiction Catapult Catapult In this NPR Best Book of the Year, a mixed-race punk rock musician must face the real dangers of being Black in America in this “wise ...
Vegetable Kingdom
Vegetable Kingdom Bryant Terry 9780399581045 Nonfiction Ten Speed Press Penguin Random House NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • “Phenomenal … transforms the kitchen into a site for creating global culinary en...
Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington
Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington Terry Teachout 9781592407491 Nonfiction Avery Penguin Random House A major new biography of Duke Ellington from the acclaimed author of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong ...
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell M.T. Pope, Tina Brooks Mckinney, Brenda Hampton, and Terry E. Hill 9781601623386 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance Private Kyle Sullivan is a happily married m...
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong Terry Teachout 9780547386379 Nonfiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Louis Armstrong is widely known as the greatest jazz musician of the twentieth century. ...
The Massacre
The Massacre K’wan, J.M. Benjamin, Terry L. Wroten, Randy Thompson, and J-Rod Nider 9780982492031 Fiction A New Quality Publishing A New Quality Publishing Gang Related by Terry L. Wroten Vice Vers...
When Divas Laugh: The Diva Squad Poetry Collective
When Divas Laugh: The Diva Squad Poetry Collective Ienett Nefertiti Allen, Linda Joy Burke, and Jaki Terry 9781580730310 Poetry Black Classic Press Black Classic Press This mesmerizing collection of v...
M.T. Pope, Tina Brooks Mckinney, Brenda Hampton, and Terry E. Hill
M.T. Pope, Tina Brooks Mckinney, Brenda Hampton, and Terry E. Hill MULTIPLE
Supreme Understanding, C&rsquo,Bs Alife Allah, Dick Gregory, Supa Nova Slom, Wise Intelligent, Scott Whitaker, Afya Ibomu, Stic.Man, Bryant Terry and Vernellia Randall
Supreme Understanding, C&rsquo,Bs Alife Allah, Dick Gregory, Supa Nova Slom, Wise Intelligent, Scott Whitaker, Afya Ibomu, Stic.Man, Bryant Terry and Vernellia Randall MULTIPLE
Ienett Nefertiti Allen, Linda Joy Burke, and Jaki Terry
Ienett Nefertiti Allen, Linda Joy Burke, and Jaki Terry MULTIPLE
Black Feeling Black Talk
Black Feeling Black Talk Nikki Giovanni 9780688252946 Poetry Harper Perennial HarperCollins Black Feeling, Black Talk/Black Judgement is one of the single most important volumes of modern African-Amer...
Welcome To My Breakdown: A Memoir
Welcome To My Breakdown: A Memoir Benilde Little 9781476751955 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. The nationally bestselling author of Good Hair and The Itch pens her first book of nonficti...
For-Profit Universities: The Shifting Landscape of Marketized Higher Education (2017)
For-Profit Universities: The Shifting Landscape of Marketized Higher Education (2017) Tressie McMillan Cottom 9783319471860 Nonfiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers This edited volume propos...
Feeling the Spirit
Feeling the Spirit Chester Higgins, Jr. 9780553095562 Nonfiction Bantam Penguin Random House "We are Africans not because we are born in Africa, but because Africa is born in us. Look around you and b...
The Flip Side of Sin
The Flip Side of Sin Rosalyn McMillan 9780684862873 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Isaac Coleman’s tragic mistakes cost him years away from everyone and everything that mattered to hi...
Feeling the Heat & Night Heat: Feeling the HeatNight Heat (The Westmorelands)
Feeling the Heat & Night Heat: Feeling the HeatNight Heat (The Westmorelands) Brenda Jackson 9780373837762 Fiction Harlequin Harlequin Enterprises Limited A brand-new Westmoreland novel from New York ...