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The Choir Director 2: Runaway Bride
The Choir Director 2: Runaway Bride Carl Weber 9781455505210 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group It’s been three years since Aaron Mackie succeeded in helping his friend and mentor, B...
The Bride Price
The Bride Price Buchi Emecheta 9780807616284 Fiction George Braziller George Braziller Inc. The Bride Price is the poignant love story of Aku-nna, a young Igbo woman, and her teacher, Chike, the son o...
Leona Mitchell: Opera Star
Leona Mitchell: Opera Star Gwendolyn Hooks 9781938923227 Fiction Oklahoma Heritage Association Publishing Oklahoma Heritage Association Publishing Leona Mitchell was a regular little girl growing up i...
Enrich Your Life; Read a Good Book – August 2014 eNewsletter
Enrich Your Life; Read a Good Book – August 2014 eNewsletter Troy Johnson Article You may receive this eNewsletter directly in your email-box by subscribing. It may also be read on your Kindle ebook ...
The Choir Director
The Choir Director Carl Weber 9780758231857 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Bishop T.K. Knight has done all he can to make the First Jamaica Ministries a success. When the last choir direct...
Joyful Noise: The Hot Mess Choir
Joyful Noise: The Hot Mess Choir She Nell B07JVZW1BJ Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. First Lady Deidra Jones is expected to do the unthinkable. She must pull together four choirs that hate ...
The Children Of The Waves Collection
The Children Of The Waves Collection LaVerne Thompson 9781533696007 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Sea Bride For 200 some years Xavior, a child of the waves, has searched the seven depth...
God Help the Child: A Novel
God Help the Child: A Novel Toni Morrison 9780307594174 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child is a searing tale about the way childhood trauma shapes and misshapes...
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...
Runaway Comeback
Runaway Comeback Sandra A. Ottey 9780985826000 Fiction Sandra A. Ottey Sandra A. Ottey After years of physical and mental exploitation and voyaging over intercontinental waters way too many times, Ros...
How to Find a Princess: Runaway Royals
How to Find a Princess: Runaway Royals Alyssa Cole 9780063383463 Fiction Avon Books HarperCollins New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Alyssa Cole’s second Runaway Royals novel is a queer A...
How to Find a Princess: Runaway Royals
How to Find a Princess: Runaway Royals Alyssa Cole 9780062934000 Fiction Avon Books HarperCollins New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Alyssa Cole’s second Runaway Royals novel is a queer A...
Silence of the Choir
Silence of the Choir Mohamed Mbougar Sarr 9798889660200 Fiction Europa Editions Europa Editions A polyphonic tale of immigration and community by "the most promising Senegalese writer of his generatio...
Author She Nell on Her Latest Novel, Joyful Noise: The Hot Mess Choir
Author She Nell on Her Latest Novel, Joyful Noise: The Hot Mess Choir Book Spotlights Urban Christian fiction author She Nell tells the AALBC audience about her latest novel, Joyful Noise: The Hot Mes...
Boss Bride: The Powerful Woman’s Playbook for Love and Success
Boss Bride: The Powerful Woman’s Playbook for Love and Success Charreah K. Jackson 9781250128393 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers In our society, women earn the majority of degrees and ...
Sea Witch: Children of the Waves (Volume 3)
Sea Witch: Children of the Waves (Volume 3) LaVerne Thompson 9781511956802 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC What the hell do you mean I can’t claim you? Aaron is a Child of the Waves and h...
Sea Bride: Children of the Waves (Book 1)
Sea Bride: Children of the Waves (Book 1) LaVerne Thompson 9781496021960 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC For 200 some years Xavior, a child of the waves, has searched the seven depths for...
A Madaris Bride For Christmas
A Madaris Bride For Christmas Brenda Jackson 9780373091430 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Arabesque Harlequin Enterprises Limited IN HER 100TH BOOK, NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR blends he...
How to Catch a Queen: Runaway Royals
How to Catch a Queen: Runaway Royals Alyssa Cole 9780062933966 Fiction HarperTrophy HarperCollins An arranged marriage leads to unexpected desire, in the first book of Alyssa Cole’s Runaway Royals ser...
Ona Judge the Runaway Slave President Washington Pursued His Entire Life
Ona Judge the Runaway Slave President Washington Pursued His Entire Life Author Interviews Erica Armstrong Dunbar reads from her book about Ona Judge the runaway slave President George Washington purs...
Singing in the Comeback Choir
Singing in the Comeback Choir Bebe Moore Campbell 9780425227824 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House “If this is a fair world, Bebe Moore Campbell will be remembered as the most important Africa...
Perfect Harmony: A Musical Journey with the Boys Choir of Harlem
Perfect Harmony: A Musical Journey with the Boys Choir of Harlem Charles R. Smith Jr. 9780786807581 Poetry Jump At The Sun Jump At The Sun A collection of poems that capture the feelings and expressio...
Gospel Choirs: Psalms Of Survival In An Alien Land Called Home
Gospel Choirs: Psalms Of Survival In An Alien Land Called Home Derrick Bell 9780465024131 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books Through parables and essays, Derrick Bell offers an eloquent work of soci...
Kimberly R. Lock
Kimberly R. Lock NONE Kimberly Rochelle Lock is a multitalented individual, known for her advanced academic abilities and musical prowess. She began pre-college courses at 11, was a state spelling be...
Peter Tosh
Peter Tosh 0000000117591917 Peter Tosh, born Winston Hubert McIntosh (1944-1987), was a prominent Jamaican musician and activist. Raised in Trench Town, his musical skills were honed in church choir ...
Unbossed: How Black Girls Are Leading the Way
Unbossed: How Black Girls Are Leading the Way Helon Habila and Kadija Sesay Excerpt Chapter 1 When she was just five years old, Ssanyu Lukoma fell in love with a book called Rosa, an inspiring chi...
Gladys Knight - The "I Can Do Bad All by Myself" Interview
Gladys Knight - The "I Can Do Bad All by Myself" Interview Kam Williams Interview The great ones endure, and Gladys Knight is a testament to that sage maxim. Over the last ha...
The Secret Keeper of Main Street
The Secret Keeper of Main Street Trisha R. Thomas 9780063344167 Fiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins Acclaimed author Trisha R. Thomas delivers a masterful new tale of scandal and intuition....
Critical Responses About the Black Family in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child: Conflicts in Comradeship
Critical Responses About the Black Family in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child: Conflicts in Comradeship Rhone Fraser and Natalie King-Pedroso 9781793604002 Nonfiction Lexington Books Lexington ...
The Brides of London: An Advertisements for Love Collection
The Brides of London: An Advertisements for Love Collection Vanessa Riley 9781649370297 Fiction Amara Entangled Publishing Fans of Bridgerton will love these two Regency romances for the price of one,...
The Butterfly Bride
The Butterfly Bride Vanessa Riley 9781727640687 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Frederica Burghley wants to be married by Yuletide. Or else her father will set her up with one of his frie...
The Bashful Bride
The Bashful Bride Vanessa Riley 9781718906853 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC A friend’s newspaper advertisement for a groom nets the most famous actor in London, Arthur Bex. Shy heiress ...
Tempest
Tempest Beverly Jenkins 9780062389046 Fiction Avon Books HarperCollins From USA Today and AALBC.com Bestselling Author Beverly Jenkins comes a new novel in a mesmerizing series set in the Old West, wh...
Be My Forever Bride (The Kingsleys of Texas)
Be My Forever Bride (The Kingsleys of Texas) Martha Kennerson 9781335216557 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Romance Harlequin Enterprises Limited Your browser does not support HTML5 video. He vo...
The Bittersweet Bride
The Bittersweet Bride Vanessa Riley 9781981623587 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Widow Theodosia Cecil is determined to protect her young son. If that means advertising in the newspaper ...
The Six: Disturbing Signs Your Mother In Law is Out to Destroy Your Marriage
The Six: Disturbing Signs Your Mother In Law is Out to Destroy Your Marriage Johanna Sparrow 9781530762545 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Every day millions of couples go from dating ...
In Too Deep: Husband Material\The Sheikh’s Bargained Bride
In Too Deep: Husband Material\The Sheikh’s Bargained Bride Brenda Jackson and Olivia Gates B003SX15F0 Fiction Silhouette Silhouette
The Moonlight Bride
The Moonlight Bride Buchi Emecheta 9780807610633 Fiction George Braziller George Braziller Inc. Born of Ibo parents in Nigeria, Buchi Emecheta is widely known for her multi-layered stories of black wo...
Here Comes the Bride
Here Comes the Bride Victor Headley 9781874509363 Fiction Xpress Publishing Xpress Publishing After twelve years of a turbulent on/off relationship, Mo wants to settle down. He resolves his doubts and...
Charreah K. Jackson
Charreah K. Jackson NONE Charreah K. Jackson is a globally recognized love and success coach, Essence Senior Editor, and author of Boss Bride. She's a certified family life educator known for her wor...
When All Hell Breaks Loose
When All Hell Breaks Loose Thumper Book Review less than a minor disturbance. If you can grasp these things along with a few others, then you have the essence of the trouble that our hero Gregory ...
Church Girl
Church Girl Naima Simone 9781335574879 Fiction Afterglow Books Harlequin Enterprises Limited She’s a preacher’s daughter, a runaway bride, and now the (not quite) qualified nanny for a sexy tattoo art...
Treasure Island: Runaway Gold
Treasure Island: Runaway Gold Jewell Parker Rhodes 9780062998361 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins Bestselling and award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes reimagines the classic novel Treasure ...
Treasure Island (hardcover): Runaway Gold
Treasure Island (hardcover): Runaway Gold Jewell Parker Rhodes 9780062998354 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins Jewell Parker Rhodes has written a version of Treasure Island like none you’ve never...
The Runaway Princess and Other Stories
The Runaway Princess and Other Stories Helen Nde 9798218144326 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Seers and Leaders Warriors and Survivors Mothers and Monsters Friends and Fien...
“Pretends to Be Free:” Runaway Slave Advertisements from Colonial and Revolutionary New York and New Jersey
“Pretends to Be Free:” Runaway Slave Advertisements from Colonial and Revolutionary New York and New Jersey Graham Russell Gao Hodges and Alan Edward Brown 9780823282159 Nonfiction Fordham University ...
Runaway Soul
Runaway Soul Tiffani Quarles-Sanders 9780986331961 Fiction Hollow Bridge Publishing Hollow Bridge Publishing Jackie Macon has built a successful career for herself, first as a special-needs teacher, t...
Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge Erica Armstrong Dunbar 9781501126390 Nonfiction Atria / 37 Ink Simon & Schuster, Inc. This book is the first to chro...
Song Yet Sung
Song Yet Sung James McBride 9781594483509 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fict...
Runaway Pumpkin
Runaway Pumpkin Kevin Lewis 9780439439749 Fiction Orchard Books Orchard Books When Buck, Billy, and their little sister Lil spy the biggest pumpkin they’ve ever seen, they can’t resist. Buck and Billy...
The Devil Riding
The Devil Riding Valerie Wilson Wesley 9780399146176 Fiction Putnam Adult Penguin Random House Tamara Hayle goes undercover in the casinos of Atlantic City to track a runaway teen in this gripping new...
Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation
Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation John Hope Franklin 9780195084498 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press From John Hope Franklin, America’s foremost African American histor...
The Long Journey Home: Stories from Black History
The Long Journey Home: Stories from Black History Julius Lester 9780140389814 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House Meet Rambler, a runaway slave roaming the countryside with a guitar, who knows t...
Kinshasha Holman Conwill and Paul Gardullo
Kinshasha Holman Conwill and Paul Gardullo MULTIPLE Kinshasha Holman Conwill serves as the deputy director of NMAAHC and ex-director of the Studio Museum in Harlem. Paul Gardullo is a historian, cura...
Robert O’Hara
Robert O’Hara 0000000055345883 Playwright and director Robert O'Hara is known for his award-winning works, including the Helen Hayes Award-winning play 'Antebellum'. He revamped 'The Wiz' for its rev...
Fred Lee Hord
Fred Lee Hord NONE Dr. Fred Lee Hord, born in 1941, is the founder and Executive Director of the Association for Black Culture Centers. He's a professor at Knox College and Director of its Africana S...
Denisha Jones and Jesse Hagopian
Denisha Jones and Jesse Hagopian MULTIPLE Denisha Jones, a member of the national Black Lives Matter at School committee, is an activist and advocate for education justice. She is the Director of the...
Spike Lee Director’s Inspiration
Spike Lee Director’s Inspiration Spike Lee 9781636810133 Nonfiction Delmonico Books Delmonico Books An inspirational trove of film posters and ephemera, photographs, artwork and more from the collecti...
FREEDOM RIDERS: Q&A with Director Stanley Nelson
FREEDOM RIDERS: Q&A with Director Stanley Nelson Author Interviews Parents of C.A.F.E. of the Nightingale-Bamford School Hosted a special screening of American Experience: FREEDOM RIDERS, "A riveting ...
Jill Watts
Jill Watts 0000000036116073 Jill Watts is an Associate History Professor at California State University, San Marcos. She has held roles as the Director of the History Department and Co-Director of th...
Brent K. Ashabranner
Brent K. Ashabranner 0000000110762541 Brent K. Ashabranner, born 1921, has vast international experience, working with U.S. foreign assistance programs and the Ford Foundation. He served as director ...
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...
Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice 000000011071227X Dr. Condoleezza Rice is the Tad and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution and a Senior Fellow on Public Policy. She is the Denning Professor in Global Bu...
Betty J. Dopson
Betty J. Dopson NONE Betty J. Dopson is a cultural activist, administrator, and organizer with a degree in Communications Arts and Sciences. She served as the Director of Public Relations at Harlem H...
Laila Ibrahim
Laila Ibrahim NONE Laila Ibrahim, a full-time novelist, achieved fame with her book, Yellow Crocus, published in ten languages. Previously a preschool teacher and director, a birth doula, and a Direc...
Karen Baicker
Karen Baicker NONE Karen Baicker is a publisher at Scholastic, developing programs for communities in need. She has served as Director of Community Affairs and Editorial Director of Professional Deve...
Tai Allen
Tai Allen NONE Tai Allen, a renowned Brooklyn-based creative director, poet, and musician, has excelled in multiple disciplines. His poetry and music have gained recognition from notable publications...
Augustus G. Parker III
Augustus G. Parker III NONE Dr. Augustus Garland Parker III is a renowned obstetrician from Columbus, Ohio. He has served both Ohio and North Carolina communities, contributing significantly to women...
Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Jean-Loup Amselle
Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Jean-Loup Amselle MULTIPLE Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University, is renowned for his ...
Shani M. King
Shani M. King NONE Shani Mahiri King, law professor and director of the Center on Children and Families at the University of Florida. Also an Associate Director of the Center on Race and Race Relatio...
Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman
Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman NONE Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman, Ed.D., is the Executive Director at the Hurston Wright Foundation, former Director at Montgomery Community Media, and a successful playwright who...
How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington
How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington Marcia Chatelain 9780553387254 Nonfiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House From the Pulitzer Prize-winning ...
A Place to Shine
A Place to Shine Marie Arnold 9780063251755 Fiction Versify Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Ten-year-old Sunny Williams is resilient—she knows this because it’s what her beloved grandma, Nanna, always t...
Striving for Justice: A Black Sheriff in the Deep South
Striving for Justice: A Black Sheriff in the Deep South Nathaniel Glover 9781637631775 Nonfiction Frederick Douglass Books Forefront Books On the South Side of Chicago, one SOUR note can lea...
Mojo for Murder
Mojo for Murder Carolyn Marie Wilkins 9781683130352 Fiction Pen-L Publishing Pen-L Publishing Do you believe in magic? There’s a hex on Charley Howard’s Hot Links Emporium, and Charle...
Melody for Murder: A Bertie Bigelow Mystery
Melody for Murder: A Bertie Bigelow Mystery Carolyn Marie Wilkins 9781942428329 Fiction Pen-L Publishing Pen-L Publishing On the South Side of Chicago, one SOUR note can lead to MURDER. ...
Airing Grandma’s Laundry And Other Hush Hush Family Secrets
Airing Grandma’s Laundry And Other Hush Hush Family Secrets Natasha Owens 9780979848902 Fiction Penfire Publishing Incorporated Penfire Publishing Incorporated Have you ever wanted to step back in tim...
Carl Weber
Carl Weber 0000000111497479 Carl Weber, born in 1964, is a New York Times bestselling author and renowned African American author with over 20 novels. He's also the CEO of Urban Books LLC, one of the...
Joyful Noise
Joyful Noise Kam Williams joyfullnoisemoiveposter.jpg Film Review Joyful Noise [2012] In Theaters: Jan 13, 2012 Wide Warner Bros. Pictures PG-13, 1 hr. 58 min. Comedy Directed By...
Jennifer Hudson - Interview
Jennifer Hudson - Interview Kam Williams Interview Jennifer Kate Hudson was born in Chicago on September 12, 1981 to Darnell Hudson and Samuel Simpson. At the age of seven, she st...
Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists
Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists Leah Penniman 9780063160903 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins A soulful collection of illuminating essays and interviews that expl...
Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists
Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists Leah Penniman 9780063160897 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins A soulful collection of illuminating essays and interviews that expl...
Damilare Kuku
Damilare Kuku NONE Damilare Kuku is a multi-talented Nigerian author, known for her bestseller story collection, Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad. She has experience in radio, scripts, film, and a...
Barbecue / Bootycandy (TCG Edition)
Barbecue / Bootycandy (TCG Edition) Robert O’Hara 9781559364959 Fiction Theatre Communications Group Theatre Communications Group "Searing and sensationally funny… As raw in its language and raucous i...
Clarence Reynolds, Director of The Center for Black Literature
Clarence Reynolds, Director of The Center for Black Literature Author Interviews Clarence Reynolds the Director of The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, spoke with AALBC...
Linda Duggins, Director of Multicultural Publicity Hachette Book Group, USA
Linda Duggins, Director of Multicultural Publicity Hachette Book Group, USA Book Spotlights Linda A. Duggins is the Director of Multicultural Publicity at Hachette Book Group, USA. As Co-founder of th...
Bessel van der Kolk
Bessel van der Kolk 0000000110059709 Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., is the founder of the Trauma Center in Brookline, MA, a psychiatry professor at Boston University, and director of the National Complex...
Eriq La Salle
Eriq La Salle 0000000078409843 Eriq La Salle, an actor, director, writer, and producer, is known for his role as Dr. Peter Benton on NBC's ER, earning him multiple award nominations and wins. With a ...
Ilyasah Shabazz
Ilyasah Shabazz 000000004150744X Ilyasah Al-Shabazz, community organizer, activist, and daughter of Malcolm X, advocates for at-risk youth and interfaith dialogue. She's developed programs promoting ...
Kevin Young
Kevin Young 0000000109530225 Kevin Young, born in 1970, is a renowned poet and teacher influenced by Hughes, Berryman, Dickinson, and Basquiat. A Harvard graduate, Young authored multiple poetry book...
Quraysh Ali Lansana
Quraysh Ali Lansana NONE Quraysh Ali Lansana is a prolific author, educator, and radio producer based in Tulsa. He has written 23 books spanning poetry, nonfiction, and children's literature. Lansana...
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 ...
Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks 0000000122842071 Gordon Parks (1912-2006) was a self-taught photographer who rose from poverty to become a pioneering African American film director, writer, and composer. Notably, he di...
Margaret Busby
Margaret Busby 0000000384780261 Margaret Busby, UK's youngest and first black female publisher, co-founded Allison & Busby Ltd and was a director at Earthscan Publications. An award-winning writer, e...
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 ...
Tash Hawthorne
Tash Hawthorne NONE Tash Hawthorne is a versatile writer renowned for her contemporary novels and stage plays. She received the “Best New Author” award from Black Pearl Magazine and has worked with m...
Ava DuVernay
Ava DuVernay 000000035624500X Ava DuVernay is an award-winning writer, producer, and director in independent film. She founded DVA Media + Marketing and the African-American Film Festival Releasing M...
Jay Manuel
Jay Manuel NONE TV personality Jay Manuel is celebrated for his roles as a Fashion Correspondent, Host, Judge, Creative Director, and Executive Producer on popular television shows over 20 years. He'...
Andrew Young
Andrew Young 0000000109181731 Andrew Jackson Young Jr. is an American politician, diplomat, and activist born on March 12, 1932. He started as a pastor, became a civil rights leader, and served as th...
Biyi Bandele
Biyi Bandele 0000000120964833 Biyi Bandele-Thomas (1967-2022) was a renowned Nigerian novelist, playwright, director, and photographer. He was celebrated as one of Africa's top 50 artists. Bandele's ...