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The Atlanta Kick Back
The Atlanta Kick Back Infinite Energy Center Duluth Georgia 556 Book Chicks is an award-winning book club, founded in 2012 by 3 friends and co-workers (Benita, Monika, and Tiffany). It started as just...
Kick-Ass 2 (2013) - Film Review
Kick-Ass 2 (2013) - Film Review Kam Williams Interview Shocking Splatterflick Ups the Ante on Original’s Gratuitous Gore Kick-Ass 2 In Theaters: Aug 16, 2013 Wide Rated R for sexuality, grap...
I Kick Ass at Work!: The Strategy Journal for Career Professionals
I Kick Ass at Work!: The Strategy Journal for Career Professionals Sonia Alleyne 9781732700215 Nonfiction Hunter Publishing Group Hunter Publishing Group I Kick Ass at Work! is designed to refocus att...
Atlanta Noir
Atlanta Noir Tayari Jones 9781617755378 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Georgia Center for the Book has chosen Atlanta Noir as one of 2018’s Books All Georgians Should Read!Kenji Jasper’s "A Momen...
The Herndons: An Atlanta Family
The Herndons: An Atlanta Family Carole Merritt 9780820323091 Fiction University of Georgia Press University of Georgia Press Born a slave and reared a sharecropper, Alonzo Herndon (1858-1927) was dest...
Leaving Atlanta
Leaving Atlanta Thumper Book Review Tayari Jones enters the literary scene with Leaving Atlanta, a novel that takes place in 1979 Atlanta, Georgia during what came to be known as the Atlanta Child ...
Kick Push
Kick Push Frank Morrison 9781547605927 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing Award-winning picture book creator Frank Morrison makes his author/illustrator debut in an exuberant stor...
Can I Kick It?: Sneaker Microfiction and Poetry
Can I Kick It?: Sneaker Microfiction and Poetry Van G. Garrett and Ran Walker 9781020001215 Fiction 45 Alternate Press 45 Alternate Press Whether it’s for comfort, style, collectibility, or investment...
Jojo’s Flying Side Kick (Reprint)
Jojo’s Flying Side Kick (Reprint) Andrea Davis Pinkney 9780689821929 Fiction Aladdin Paperbacks Simon & Schuster, Inc. A young girl must face her fears and conquer her nerves to earn her yellow belt i...
Tayari Jones
Tayari Jones 0000000034178764 Born in Atlanta, GA in 1970, Tayari Jones is an accomplished author and educator. After obtaining her Masters from the University of Iowa, she taught Developmental Readi...
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White Flight: Atlanta And The Making Of Modern Conservatism (Politics And Society In Twentieth-Century America)
White Flight: Atlanta And The Making Of Modern Conservatism (Politics And Society In Twentieth-Century America) Kevin M. Kruse 9780691133867 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University ...
Atlanta African American Book Festival
Atlanta African American Book Festival Georgia State University Atlanta Georgia The Atlanta African American Book Festival is a yearly festival held in Atlanta, Georgia. The event is a great opportuni...
Ruth P. Watson
Ruth P. Watson NONE Ruth P. Watson is a Virginia-born author and educator, now living in Atlanta. Known for bestsellers like Blackberry Days of Summer, she also writes children's books and is a docum...
T. Owens Moore
T. Owens Moore NONE T. Owens Moore, Ph.D., is a renowned biomedical researcher, professor, and author. A graduate of Lincoln University and Howard University, he's currently a Full Professor in the A...
Melody T. McCloud
Melody T. McCloud NONE Dr. Melody T. McCloud is a renowned obstetrician-gynecologist, author, and public speaker affiliated with Emory University Hospital Midtown. Honored as a top Atlanta doctor and...
Can I Kick It?
Can I Kick It? Idris Goodwin 9781642591767 Poetry Haymarket Books Haymarket Books Award-winning poet and playwright Idris Goodwin interrogates and remixes our cultural past in order to make sense of o...
Kick
Kick Walter Dean Myers 9780062004895 Fiction HarperTeen HarperCollins For the very first time in his decades-long career writing for teens, acclaimed and beloved author Walter Dean Myers writes with...
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...
Omari Hardwick - The "Kick-Ass" Interview
Omari Hardwick - The "Kick-Ass" Interview Kam Williams Interview Born in savannah, Georgia on January 9, 1974, Omari Hardwick was the second of four children blessing the union of Clifford and...
Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement
Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement Tomiko Brown-Nagin 9780195386592 Fiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press In this Bancroft Prize-winning hi...
Those Bones Are Not My Child: A novel
Those Bones Are Not My Child: A novel Toni Cade Bambara 9780679774082 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House Those Bones Are Not My Child is a staggering achievement, a major work of American fiction: t...
The Evidence Of Things Not Seen
The Evidence Of Things Not Seen James Baldwin 9780805039399 Nonfiction Holt Paperbacks Macmillan Publishers One of America’s most important writers takes on the arrest of Wayne Bertram Williams for th...
Tina McElroy Ansa
Tina McElroy Ansa 0000000116428851 Tina McElroy Ansa (November 18, 1949 – September 10, 2024) stories and essays have appeared in several anthologies. She lived with her husband, Joneé ...
Alice Walker and Valerie Boyd
Alice Walker and Valerie Boyd MULTIPLE Alice Walker is a renowned American author, with her books translated into 25+ languages and over 15 million copies sold. Valerie Boyd, an arts editor at The At...
Terminus: Tales of the Black Fantastic from the ATL
Terminus: Tales of the Black Fantastic from the ATL Amanda Robinson Book Review Atlanta is one of the most popular cities in this country. This metropolis is one of the few epicenters dripping Black ...
All Eyes on Gunz 2
All Eyes on Gunz 2 Warren Holloway 9781947340282 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing After fleeing Philly, on the run from local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies after murdering ...
Terminus 3
Terminus 3 Milton J. Davis 9798990512122 Fiction MVmedia MVmedia The ATLiens are back! Twenty-one speculative fiction stories from some of Metro Atlanta’s best Black Speculative Fiction authors. You’l...
A Passionate Kiss
A Passionate Kiss Sharon C. Cooper 9780997614138 Fiction Amaris Publishing Amaris Publishing Retired Marine, Mason Bennett, has two goals: adjust to civilian life and keep drama out of it. His focus i...
Fist of Africa (FIGHT CARD MMA)
Fist of Africa (FIGHT CARD MMA) Balogun Ojetade 9781496018298 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Nigeria 2004 … Nicholas ’New Breed’ Steed, a tough teen from the mean streets of Chicago, is ...
Baby Girl
Baby Girl Jihad Shaheed Uhuru 9781893196230 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Baby Girl: This is a story of a girl born to L.A."s rich and elite. She’s known simply as Baby Girl. After...
Babylon Sisters: A Novel
Babylon Sisters: A Novel Pearl Cleage 9780345456090 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House Catherine Sanderson seems to have it all: a fulfilling career helping immigrant women find jobs, a...
Rhonda McKnight
Rhonda McKnight NONE Rhonda McKnight, owner of Legacy Editing and Urban Christian Fiction Today, is a dedicated fiction writer and editor based in Atlanta. Originating from New Jersey, her passion li...
Rescuing History Authors Tour
Rescuing History Authors Tour Multiple Cities & States Tampa Florida Multiple City & State Event! The Rescuing History Authors Tour — A Rolling Symposium features the following stops: ...
A Good Excuse To Be Bad
A Good Excuse To Be Bad Miranda Parker 9780758259509 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Smart, gorgeous, and too tough for her own good, bail recovery agent and single mom Evangeline Crawford ...
The Harlem Ghetto: Essays
The Harlem Ghetto: Essays James Baldwin 9780807018651 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press This collectible edition celebrates James Baldwin’s 100th-year anniversary, revealing and critiquing the real...
Futureland: Battle for the Park
Futureland: Battle for the Park H.D. Hunter 9780593479452 Fiction Random House Children’s Books Penguin Random House When an extraordinary flying theme park arrives above Atlanta, one boy must stop a ...
A Haunting in the SWATS (The Savannah Swan Files, Volume 1)
A Haunting in the SWATS (The Savannah Swan Files, Volume 1) Balogun Ojetade 9781544773322 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Hoodoo. Ritual Murders. Ancient Secrets. Welcome to the SWATS! Sa...
Wives, Fiancées, and Side-Chicks of Hotlanta
Wives, Fiancées, and Side-Chicks of Hotlanta Sheree Whitfield 9781496709875 Nonfiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. From Shereé Whitfield, one of the stars of Bravo TV’s hit show The Real...
Our 10 Most Popular Discussions (and Why Discussion Forums Matter)
Our 10 Most Popular Discussions (and Why Discussion Forums Matter) Troy Johnson Article Our discussion forums have been running for more than 17 years. According to Google's Analytics, these are the...
The Awakening: Book One of the Chronicles of the Nubian Underworld
The Awakening: Book One of the Chronicles of the Nubian Underworld Shakir Rashaan 9781593095444 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. An erotically charged journey inside Atlanta’s African-Amer...
Walking Among The Kudzu
Walking Among The Kudzu H. Victoria Hargro Atkerson 9781453528761 Fiction Xlibris Author Solutions Following her debut "Stones Along The Path, Part 1 & 2," Atkerson’s unbridled talent has spun anot...
The Street Life Series: Is It Rags Or Riches?
The Street Life Series: Is It Rags Or Riches? Kevin M. Weeks 9781441566218 Nonfiction Xlibris Author Solutions As Washington, D.C. s quick-witted Detective Hanae Troop crosses over the Georgia state l...
The Hot Spot
The Hot Spot TaRessa Stovall 9781583146156 Fiction Kimani Press Kimani Press Public relations whiz Kendra Harrell is hopelessly in love with love. But her latest crush presents a real conflict of inte...
Some Things I Never Thought I’d Do
Some Things I Never Thought I’d Do Pearl Cleage 9780345456069 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House With the unique blend of truth and humor that made her first novel, What Looks Like Craz...
Leaving Atlanta
Leaving Atlanta Tayari Jones 9780446690898 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group An award-winning author makes her fiction debut with this coming-of-age story of three young black child...
Livin’ the Blues: Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet
Livin’ the Blues: Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet Frank Marshall Davis 9780299135041 Nonfiction University of New Orleans Press University of New Orleans Press Frank Marshall Davis was a promin...
Shrine of the Black Madonna (Atlanta)
Shrine of the Black Madonna (Atlanta) Atlanta GA The Shrine Cultural Center & Bookstore is a separate component of the church located next door to our sanctuary building. The Shrine of the Black Madon...
Hoyt Fuller
Hoyt Fuller NONE Hoyt W. Fuller was a key figure in the Black Arts Movement as an editor, educator, critic, and author. He founded the OBAC writers' collective, edited the influential Negro Digest/Bl...
Nathan McCall
Nathan McCall 0000000031697243 Nathan McCall, a Norfolk-born writer and Emory University lecturer, is renowned for his journalism work with The Virginian Pilot-Ledger Star, The Atlanta Journal-Consti...
Pinkie Gordon Lane
Pinkie Gordon Lane 0000000025290746 Pinkie Gordon Lane (1923-2008) was an influential poet, editor, and educator. Born in Philadelphia, she overcame hardships to earn degrees from Spelman College and...
Princess F.L. Gooden
Princess F.L. Gooden NONE Born and raised in Atlanta, Princess F. L. Gooden is a gifted writer, poet, and dramatist. She started writing at a young age, and by 13, she had written and directed plays ...
Emanuel Carpenter
Emanuel Carpenter NONE Emanuel Carpenter (E.R. Carpenter), author of “A Job Ain’t Nothing But Work” and “Where is the Love?”, is a Capital University graduate and U.S. Air Force veteran. His work has...
Calvin Alexander Ramsey
Calvin Alexander Ramsey NONE Calvin Alexander Ramsey is a multi-talented artist known for his award-winning children's books, photography, folk art painting, and plays. His works have been recognized...
Sheree Whitfield
Sheree Whitfield NONE Shereé M. Whitfield, born in 1970, is a TV personality, socialite, and fashion designer best known for The Real Housewives of Atlanta. She is also an executive producer for the...
Michelle Gipson
Michelle Gipson NONE Michelle Gipson, Founder of Written magazine, has 15+ years in publishing and media as a writer, radio personality, and advertising executive. With degrees from Hampton Universit...
Mark Curry
Mark Curry NONE Mark Curry, born in 1971, is an Atlanta-based entertainer who worked with Bad Boy Entertainment and Sean “Puffy” Combs for over a decade. Besides music, his ventures include authoring...
TeMika Grooms
TeMika Grooms NONE TeMika Grooms is an Atlanta-based artist and activist, known for illustrating children's books and founding KidsLitATL. She lives in Georgia with her cat and two daughters. TeMika ...
Shamar Knight-Justice
Shamar Knight-Justice NONE Atlanta-based illustrator, Shamar Knight-Justice, is inspired by his elementary school students' stories and personalities. When not creating art or serving as school princ...
Karida L. Brown and Charly Palmer
Karida L. Brown and Charly Palmer MULTIPLE Dr. Karida L. Brown, a sociologist and educator, specializes in race and social transformations at Emory and Fisk Universities. Charly Palmer, her husband, ...
Toni Lee
Toni Lee NONE Lee, with over 22 years experience in filmmaking and production in Atlanta, has also taught screenwriting at various universities. She later retrained as a mental health and addictions ...
Nicole Carr
Nicole Carr NONE Nicole Carr is an award-winning investigative journalist, professor, and speaker based in Atlanta, GA. Her work has explored the intersection of race, politics, education and democr...
Keisha Lance Bottoms
Keisha Lance Bottoms NONE Keisha Lance Bottoms is the former Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, and currently serves as a political commentator for CNN. During her tenure as mayor from 2018 to 2022, Bott...
The Payback
The Payback Kashana Cauley 9781668075531 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A NYT Editor’s Choice! Named a most anticipated novel by Publishers Weekly, The Boston Globe, Lithub, Bustle, Goo...
The Survivalists
The Survivalists Kashana Cauley 9781593767594 Fiction Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press When Jada Williams is relentlessly pursued by the Debt Police, she is left with no choice but to take down her s...
The Vanquishers Secret of the Reaping
The Vanquishers Secret of the Reaping Kalynn Bayron 9781547611577 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing The Vanquishers are back and ready to defend their town against the undead in ...
Secret of the Reaping
Secret of the Reaping Kalynn Bayron 9798855009156 Fiction Bound to Stay Bound Books Bound to Stay Bound Books The Vanquishers are back and ready to defend their town against the undead in this spooky ...
Me First: A Deliciously Selfish Take on Life
Me First: A Deliciously Selfish Take on Life C. Nicole Mason 9780615808741 Fiction Three Ducks in a Row Publishing Three Ducks in a Row Publishing Have you ever thought about what your life would be l...
Bruised 2: The Ultimate Revenge
Bruised 2: The Ultimate Revenge Azarel 9780974139470 Nonfiction Life Changing Books Life Changing Books Just when Carlie decides she’s done with dangerous men, she’s thrown right back into the fire by...
The Angry Ones
The Angry Ones John A. Williams Excerpt You remember a lot of things about a trip across America. You remember the sandstone rocks reared above red and brown plains, the twisted, fiercely shaped arro...
My Aunt Came Back (Harper Growing Tree)
My Aunt Came Back (Harper Growing Tree) Pat Cummings 9780694010592 Fiction HarperFestival HarperCollins My aunt came back.For toddlers just discovering the joy of mimicking words and sounds, this exub...
Dante Brown - The Won't Back Down Interview
Dante Brown - The Won't Back Down Interview Kam Williams Interview Dante Brown The “Won’t Back Down” Interview Born in Chicago on October 6, 1999, Dante Brown’s big break came at the tender ...
Laura Patrice: What’s done in the dark, shall come to the light (Dark Secrets- Novella) (Volume 1)
Laura Patrice: What’s done in the dark, shall come to the light (Dark Secrets- Novella) (Volume 1) Johanna Sparrow 9781518652752 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Is it me or do certain ...
Play the Game. Change the Game. Leave the Game.: Pathways to Black Empowerment, Prosperity, and Joy
Play the Game. Change the Game. Leave the Game.: Pathways to Black Empowerment, Prosperity, and Joy Robert Livingston 9798217085972 Nonfiction Crown Currency Penguin Random House Instead of waiting fo...
Arsenic and Adobo
Arsenic and Adobo Mia P. Manansala 9780593201671 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House One of BuzzFeed’s Highly Anticipated Mystery Novels of 2021! The first book in a new culinary cozy series fu...
Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay
Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay Phoebe Robinson 9780525534167 Fiction Plume Penguin Random House New York Times bestselling author and star of 2 Dope Queens Phoebe Robinson is back with a new, hilar...
Betrayal of Trust
Betrayal of Trust London St. Charles 9780999328828 Fiction LS Charles Publishing Group LS Charles Publishing Group What do you do when you’ve created a heinous crime? You run and never look back.At le...
Leo Can Swim
Leo Can Swim Anna McQuinn 9781580897259 Fiction Charlesbridge Charlesbridge Leo, Lola’s little brother from Leo Loves Baby Time, is back in a new adventure at the pool. Leo loves the water! Leo and D...
For the Sake of Soul
For the Sake of Soul Frederick K. Foote, Jr. 9780984435067 Fiction Blue Nile Press Blue Nile Press Frederick Foote’s stories chart the geography of the African-American experience of his generation, t...
Super Shred: The Big Results Diet: 4 Weeks, 20 Pounds, Lose It Faster!
Super Shred: The Big Results Diet: 4 Weeks, 20 Pounds, Lose It Faster! Ian K. Smith 9781250061201 Nonfiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers The diet that works faster and forever! Using th...
The Skull Cage Key: A Novel
The Skull Cage Key: A Novel Michel Marriott 9781932841305 Fiction Agate Bolden Agate Publishing, Inc Chinese New Year, 2042. Armstrong, an upwardly mobile Harlem resident, is out celebrating with his ...
Don’t Get It Twisted: A Del Rio Bay Clique Novel
Don’t Get It Twisted: A Del Rio Bay Clique Novel Paula Chase 9780758218612 Fiction KTeen Kensington Publishing Corp. Mina Mooney’s parents are killing her social life. It’s time to fight back… Mina’s...
Lex Ramsay
Lex Ramsay NONE Lex Ramsay, a former lawyer and corporate professional, is now a passionate pianist and Portuguese learner. She's reclaiming her life through writing and planning a move to Brazil wit...
White Men Cant Hump
White Men Cant Hump Kam Williams Book Review ’Why should black men continue to sit back and allow whites to negatively define black male sexuality, especially when you consider the fact t...
Prince and Me: His #1 Fan: My Minneapolis Memories
Prince and Me: His #1 Fan: My Minneapolis Memories Andrea Foy Excerpt NEW YEAR’S EVE, PART 1 I spent New Year’s Eve 1992 in Minneapolis with friends I met from the Controversy Fan Clu...
The Occidental Book of the Dead
The Occidental Book of the Dead T. Geronimo Johnson 9780063330542 Fiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins "No one is having more fun with language than T. Geronimo Johnson. The way his mind wor...
Great Black Hope
Great Black Hope Rob Franklin 9781668077436 Fiction Summit Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A gripping, elegant debut novel about a young Black man caught between worlds of race and class, glamour and tra...
Soul’s Desire
Soul’s Desire Sharon C. Cooper 9781946172174 Fiction Amaris Publishing Amaris Publishing Some past loves can stand the test of time…Ballet dancer Soul Carrington has lived her dream of traveling the w...
Vengeance: A Novel
Vengeance: A Novel Zane 9781501108051 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Mega bestselling author Zane returns to the world of her hugely popular novels Addicted and Nervous in this dark and ex...
Deception: The Kink, P.I. Series
Deception: The Kink, P.I. Series Shakir Rashaan 9781593096045 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Go deeper into the fetish community of Atlanta originally brought to you in Shakir Rashaan’s ...
Things I Should Have Told My Daughter
Things I Should Have Told My Daughter Pearl Cleage 9781451664690 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In addition to being one of the most popular living playwrights in America, Pearl Cleage ...
Riding Rhythm
Riding Rhythm Jihad Shaheed Uhuru 9781893196483 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Riding Rhythm is a love story set in the early 1970’s and 80’s Chicago, Atlanta, and D.C. Rhythm is a c...
Brandon Massey
Brandon Massey 0000000038345320 Brandon Massey, born on June 9, 1973, is a passionate writer from Illinois now based in Atlanta. With an early fascination for words and stories, he began writing in h...
Meta Smith
Meta Smith NONE "MÑta Smith is a multi-talented individual from Chicago with experience in acting, dancing, DJing, and writing. Having served in various roles in music, film, and philanthropy, she h...
Paula Young Shelton
Paula Young Shelton NONE Born in NYC during the 1960s, author Paula Young Shelton moved to Atlanta as a baby during the civil rights movement. An NAACP Image Award nominee, she has written children's...
Mass Deception
Mass Deception Hallema Excerpt Chill bumps appear out of nowhere when I think about that particular period of my life. The memory still haunts me to this day. I’d just arrived bac...
BlackWords
BlackWords BlackWords BlackWords, Inc. Please Note: BlackWords, Inc has been dissolved and is no longer publishing Books - Information is maintained here as a historical archive. CEO, Kwa...
BlackWords
BlackWords BlackWords, Inc. BlackWords Please Note: BlackWords, Inc has been dissolved and is no longer publishing Books - Information is maintained here as a historical archive. CEO, Kwa...
2007 NAACP Author Pavilion
2007 NAACP Author Pavilion 2007 NAACP Author Pavilion THIS EVENT HAS TAKEN PLACE AND IS RECORDED HERE AS AN HISTORICAL ARCHIVE. For the first time, the NAACP will sponsor ...