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The First Ladies
The First Ladies Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray 9780593440285 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevel...
The First Ladies (paperback)
The First Ladies (paperback) Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray 9780593440292 Fiction Penguin Publishing Group Penguin Random House A novel about the extraordinary partnership between Firs...
Victoria Christopher Murray her 2023 novel
Victoria Christopher Murray her 2023 novel Book Spotlights The First Ladies by Victoria Christopher Murray (co-authored with Marie Benedict) is the top selling Black woman novelist for 2023. Learn m...
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies Deesha Philyaw 9781949199734 Fiction West Virginia University Press West Virginia University Press Tessa Thompson’s new production company will adapt Who Fears Death ...
Ladies First: Revelations of a Strong Woman
Ladies First: Revelations of a Strong Woman Queen Latifah 9780688156237 Nonfiction William Morrow HarperCollins Queen Latifah is a sensation.At nineteen, she was the first female solo rapper to have a...
Church Ladies: Untold Stories of Harlem Women
Church Ladies: Untold Stories of Harlem Women Martia G. Goodson 9781504958868 Nonfiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions In the new book Church Ladies: Untold Stories of Harlem Women in the Powell Era by...
Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box
Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box Angela P. Dodson 9781455570935 Nonfiction Center Street Hachette Book Group While Hillary Rodham Clinton’s defeat in her...
Ladies Night
Ladies Night Christian Keyes 9781601627032 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance Amp Anthony is strong-willed, ruggedly handsome, with a body that women will pay just to look at. He is also a re...
Four Ladies Only
Four Ladies Only Alretha Thomas 9780615958675 Fiction Diverse Arts Collective Diverse Arts Collective Sheridan Hawkins is a chain-smoking, former high school prom queen, trying to survive a marriage f...
All Things Work Out Well
All Things Work Out Well K. Reshay 9781097594962 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Smiddy’s Dry Cleaners is a staple in the Jackson, MS community. Although, it wouldn’t have surv...
Tender Loving Passion: Temptation and LiesLonging and Lies (The Ladies of TLC)
Tender Loving Passion: Temptation and LiesLonging and Lies (The Ladies of TLC) Donna Hill 9780373091522 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Arabesque Harlequin Enterprises Limited Two classic TLC novels from Es...
Ladies’ Night Out
Ladies’ Night Out Electa Rome Parks 9780451220257 Fiction NAL Trade NAL Trade Electa Rome Parks-acclaimed author of Almost Doesn’t Count, The Ties that Bind, and Loose Ends-now explores the bonds amon...
Ladies Of The Night
Ladies Of The Night Althea Prince 9781894663984 Fiction Insomniac Press Insomniac Press Ladies of the Night is set in Toronto and Antigua. With women’s loves and lives as their focus, the stories cont...
A Blessing & A Curse
A Blessing & A Curse ReShonda Tate Billingsley and Victoria Christopher Murray 9781476748887 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. First ladies of the Baptist church and sworn frenemies Rach...
Lizzie & McKenzie’s Fabulous Adventures: Mayhem in Madrid
Lizzie & McKenzie’s Fabulous Adventures: Mayhem in Madrid Troy Johnson Book Review Lizzie & McKenzie’s Fabulous Adventures: Mayhem in Madrid is the first book in a series of chapter books t...
Fortune & Fame
Fortune & Fame ReShonda Tate Billingsley and Victoria Christopher Murray 9781476747170 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. Church first ladies Jasmine Cox, Larson Bush, and Rachel Jackson Adams ...
Tracy Brown
Tracy Brown 0000000037835870 Bestselling author Tracy Brown, known for her inspiring novels and contributions to anthologies, dedicated her life to empowering women and youth through her work and non...
The Ladies Hall
The Ladies Hall Vanessa Miller 9781400351107 Fiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing Three courageous women realize it will take their hearts, their minds, their friendship, and their...
Wildseed Witch (Book 1)
Wildseed Witch (Book 1) Marti Dumas 9781419755613 Fiction Harry N. Abrams Harry N. Abrams Wildseed Witch is the first book in Marti Dumas’s fun middle-grade contemporary fantasy series with an all-BIP...
A Love Letter to Texas Women
A Love Letter to Texas Women Sarah Bird 9781477309490 Nonfiction University of Texas Press University of Texas Press What is it that distinguishes Texas women, the famous Yellow Rose and her descendan...
Urban Love Is
Urban Love Is Erick S. Gray 9781645562122 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. For some, love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends in tears. For four friends from Queens, it’s a...
F.I.R.E. Reignited
F.I.R.E. Reignited Portia Cosby 9780982301357 Fiction Distinct Publishing Distinct Publishing IF YOU CAN’T STAND THE HEAT, STAY THE HELL OFF THE STAGE. Twenty years ago, four high school students came...
Ladies Let’s Talk! Relationship Real-Talk: From a Man’s Point Of View
Ladies Let’s Talk! Relationship Real-Talk: From a Man’s Point Of View Chenier Alston 9781513607887 Nonfiction 220 Communications 220 Communications
Single Ladies: Why You’re Still Single and How to Attract the Man of Your Dreams
Single Ladies: Why You’re Still Single and How to Attract the Man of Your Dreams Marita Kinney 9781943409051 Nonfiction Pure Thoughts Publishing Pure Thoughts Publishing, LLC Why are you still single?...
Skate On!
Skate On! Hickson 9781935148005 Fiction Ghettoheat Ghettoheat ALL THE LADIES IN THE HOUSE SAY: A-O-W-W-W!!! It s 1983 and THE ROOFTOP roller-skating rink is the place to be! SKATE ON!, a coming-of-age...
Reverend Feelgood (Hallelujah Love)
Reverend Feelgood (Hallelujah Love) Lutishia Lovely 9780758238665 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In this installment of Lutishia Lovely’s wickedly sexy Hallelujah Love series, an energetic...
Caramelle: There’s No Place Like Home
Caramelle: There’s No Place Like Home Stephanie Renee Bell 9781475264388 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC The beginning of the Caramelle trilogy. 150 years in the life of a family. Gene...
Who Fears Death
Who Fears Death Nnedi Okorafor 9780756406691 Fiction Daw Books Astra Publishing House Tessa Thompson’s new production company will adapt Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor and The Secret Lives of Churc...
Miss Crandall’s School For Young Ladies & Little Misses Of Color
Miss Crandall’s School For Young Ladies & Little Misses Of Color Elizabeth Alexander and Marilyn Nelson 9781590784563 Nonfiction Wordsong Boyds Mills Press Two renowned poets tell the story of Prudenc...
Sophisticated Ladies: the Great Women of Jazz
Sophisticated Ladies: the Great Women of Jazz Leslie Gourse 9780525471981 Nonfiction Dutton Juvenile Penguin Random House This handsome volume contains the stories of fourteen fabulous women, blues an...
Dime Piece
Dime Piece Tracy Brown 9780974789576 Fiction Triple Crown Publications Triple Crown Publications Celeste Styles is a woman torn. On one hand, she has found happiness with the love of her life, Raheem ...
A Meeting In The Ladies Room
A Meeting In The Ladies Room Anita Doreen Diggs 9780758202345 Fiction Kennerson Books Kennerson Books
TiJuana A. Gholson
TiJuana A. Gholson NONE Ti’Juana A. Gholson is a dynamic business coach, author, and speaker with a focus on empowering women in business. As the founder of L.I.P.S. and Women's Business Symposium, L...
Deesha Philyaw
Deesha Philyaw 0000000401543576 Deesha Philyaw, co-author of Co-Parenting 101, is known for her notable work on race, parenting, gender, and culture. Her writing has been featured in renowned publica...
Michelle Obama: First Lady Of Hope
Michelle Obama: First Lady Of Hope Elizabeth Lightfoot 9781599215211 Nonfiction Lyons Press Lyons Press There is no one quite like her. Michelle Obama. This is the first book to tell the astonishing s...
The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman
The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman Deesha Philyaw 9780063383074 Fiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Join Our Book Discussion on Zoom ● November 22, 2026 ● 2 p.m. EDT A Most ...
Queens of the Resistance Maxine Waters
Queens of the Resistance Maxine Waters Brenda Jones and Krishan Trotman 9780593189870 Nonfiction Plume Penguin Random House Part of the four-book Queens of the Resistance series, saluting some of the ...
The Bondwoman’s Narrative
The Bondwoman’s Narrative Hannah Crafts 9780446690294 Nonfiction Warner Books Hachette Book Group Tells the story of Hannah Crafts, a young slave working on a wealthy North Carolina plantation, who ru...
Queen Latifah
Queen Latifah 0000000120268301 Queen Latifah, born Dana Elaine Owens, is a renowned rapper, singer, actor, TV and record producer. Known as the “First Lady of Hip-Hop,” she released her debut album i...
Games Divas Play (A Diva Mystery Novel)
Games Divas Play (A Diva Mystery Novel) Angela Burt-Murray 9781477820162 Fiction Thomas & Mercer Amazon Publishing An ambitious entertainment reporter, millionaire basketball player, desperate wife, s...
Sinners & Saints
Sinners & Saints ReShonda Tate Billingsley and Victoria Christopher Murray 9781476700021 Fiction Pocket Books Pocket Books Jasmine Larson Bush and Rachel Jackson Adams are not your typical first ladie...
Sinners & Saints
Sinners & Saints ReShonda Tate Billingsley and Victoria Christopher Murray 9781451608151 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. TEAM JASMINE or TEAM RACHEL? Bestselling and award-winning novelists ...
Respect The Jux
Respect The Jux Frank C. Matthews 9781439193945 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. MEET CATIn Jamaica … he learned the art of the “jux”: robbing people by studying their everyday movements. ...
Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching
Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching Paula J. Giddings 9780060797362 Fiction Harper Paperbacks HarperCollins Heralded as a landmark achievement upon publication, Id...
Not Even If You Begged
Not Even If You Begged Francis Ray 9780312948177 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Widow Traci Evans happily sits in on meetings with the lovely ladies of the Invincible Sisterhood sol...
Gotham Diaries
Gotham Diaries Tonya Lewis Lee and Crystal Mccrary Anthony 9781401301194 Fiction Hachette Hachette Book Group A hilarious first novel that provides a peek into the world of the super-rich, super-conne...
Soul Survivors: The Official Autobiography of Destiny’s Child
Soul Survivors: The Official Autobiography of Destiny’s Child Beyoncé 9780060094171 Nonfiction HarperEntertainment HarperCollins It must be a part of human nature to love drama. We never would have so...
Nikki Giovanni
Nikki Giovanni 0000000114678830 Nikki Giovanni (June 7, 1943 to December 9, 2024 was an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator. Yolande Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni (June 7, 1943 &n...
Novel Writing Workshops
Novel Writing Workshops Loading Novel Writing Workshop AALBC.com's Novel Writing Workshop (8 Sessions Online) Enjoy a writing workshop from the convenience of your own home! Get the help you need to b...
The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic
The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic Lindsey Stewart 9781538769508 Nonfiction Legacy Lit Hachette Book Group BookRiot’s Best New Nonfiction ...
Punany Paradise: 21 Types of Female Orgasms
Punany Paradise: 21 Types of Female Orgasms Mary B. Morrison B09VK3WH3G Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published Punany Paradise: 21 Types of Female Orgasms reveals sexual secrets me...
The Wig, The Bitch & The Meltdown
The Wig, The Bitch & The Meltdown Jay Manuel 9781946274434 Fiction Wordeee Wordeee The Wig, The Bitch & The Meltdown is a satirical look behind the scenes of Model Muse, a fictional reality model comp...
Queens of the Resistance Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Queens of the Resistance Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Brenda Jones and Krishan Trotman 9780593189856 Nonfiction Plume Penguin Random House Part of the four-book Queens of the Resistance series, saluting s...
Queens of the Resistance Elizabeth Warren
Queens of the Resistance Elizabeth Warren Brenda Jones and Krishan Trotman 9780593189863 Nonfiction Plume Penguin Random House Part of the four-book Queens of the Resistance series, saluting some of t...
Queens of the Resistance Nancy Pelosi
Queens of the Resistance Nancy Pelosi Brenda Jones and Krishan Trotman 9780593189887 Nonfiction Plume Penguin Random House Part of the four-book Queens of the Resistance series, saluting some of the m...
Hot Comb
Hot Comb Ebony Flowers 9781770463486 Fiction Drawn and Quarterly Drawn and Quarterly An auspicious debut examining the culture of hair from the Rona Jaffe Foundation Award–winning cartoonistHot Comb o...
Black Girl Magic
Black Girl Magic Lauren Lord 9780998803500 Fiction Lauren Lord Lauren Lord For colored girls, By colored girls. The Lord Sisters, Lauren (22) and Lailah (10), have teamed up to create a book every you...
The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir
The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir Gary Phillips 9781941110591 Fiction Three Rooms Press Three Rooms Press Noir meets diverse voices and transforms the genre into an over-the-to...
Oscar de la Renta: His Legendary World of Style
Oscar de la Renta: His Legendary World of Style André Leon Talley 9780847847174 Nonfiction Rizzoli Electa Rizzoli International Publications A sumptuous monograph tracing the life and legacy of fashio...
The Illest Na Na
The Illest Na Na Tamika Newhouse and Anna Black 9781507723937 Fiction Delphine Publications Delphine Publications The first ever drama series filled with more sex, drama, scandals, and shocking twists...
The Pleasure Trap
The Pleasure Trap Niobia Bryant 9780758265333 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Introduced in Niobia Bryant’s bestselling Mistress series, he’s the ultimate irresistible temptation. And he’s ...
Friends & Foes
Friends & Foes ReShonda Tate Billingsley and Victoria Christopher Murray 9781451608168 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. IT’S “A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN!”* when the bestselling authors of Sinn...
Country Girls
Country Girls Blake Karrington 9781482370584 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC This Special Print Version Includes Part 1&2!!! Welcome to the south, where women are raise to be mothers and ...
A Cheater’s Promise
A Cheater’s Promise Maurice Derrick Geter 9780983217329 Fiction Black Line Publishing Black Line Publishing This is the first edition of A Cheater’s Promise. For the newest novel go to A Cheater’s Pro...
Mistress No More (Mistress Series)
Mistress No More (Mistress Series) Niobia Bryant 9789780758233 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Reprinted Edition"Bryant is an author who definitely knows how to tell a story."—APOOO Book Cl...
Heart of the Falcon
Heart of the Falcon Francis Ray 9781250157867 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Madelyn Taggart has shattered her share of glass ceilings. As a young engineer at a Houston oil company,...
The Art Of Gold Digging
The Art Of Gold Digging Tariq Nasheed 9780971135321 Fiction King Flex Ent King Flex Ent When people hear the word “gold digger,” they automatically conjure up images of a woman who is deceptive, conni...
The Pastor’s Wife
The Pastor’s Wife ReShonda Tate 9781416521662 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From bestselling author ReShonda Tate Billinglsey comes a charming novel filled with love, laughter, inspi...
The Ski Mask Way (G Unit)
The Ski Mask Way (G Unit) K. Elliott 9781416531012 Fiction Gallery Books/G-Unit Simon & Schuster, Inc. HARD LIFE. HARD LUCK. HARD DRUGS. HARD DEALS. HARD TIME. Back in New York City, Seven was the ...
Free at Last!: Stories and Songs of Emancipation
Free at Last!: Stories and Songs of Emancipation Doreen Rappaport 9780763631475 Nonfiction Candlewick Press (MA) Candlewick Press True stories and traditional songs shed light on a lesser known era in...
Frankie’s Angels
Frankie’s Angels Cynthia Harris Casteel 9781420838985 Fiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions Frankie’s Angels will become the next "Waiting to Exhale". This one comes with a Maze Concert. Cynthia Harris...
Dark Thirst
Dark Thirst Omar Tyree, Donna Hill, Monica Jackson, Linda Addison, and Kevin S. Brockenbrough 9780743496667 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A haunting anthology of vampire fiction—one tha...
Being Black
Being Black Althea Prince 9781895837773 Fiction Insomniac Press Insomniac Press Following in the highly personal tradition of essayists such as Dionne Brand and bell hooks, Althea Prince culls thirty ...
Kismet : A story of Love, Friendship, Obsession and Fate
Kismet : A story of Love, Friendship, Obsession and Fate Dawn Knight 9780967866000 Fiction Brooklyn Books Brooklyn Books Embark on an adventurous journey with Danielle, Keera, Queenie, Saudia, Tai an...
Marissa Monteilh
Marissa Monteilh NONE Marissa Monteilh (Mon-tay), writing as Pynk, is the best-selling author of seven mainstream novels, May December Souls, The Chocolate Ship, Hot ...
Nicole Garrett
Nicole Garrett NONE Nicole FáLon Garrett was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s in English from the University of Iowa and Chicago State University res...
Nia Obotette
Nia Obotette NONE Nia Obotette, a Tuskegee University graduate and fitness enthusiast, promotes health through organizing cycling and running meet-ups. A triathlon finisher herself, Nia is passionate...
Wimbey’s Corner
Wimbey’s Corner Emanuel Carpenter Book Review At first glance, one might think that Wimbey’s Corner is a story about a big and black country bumpkin’ named Wayne Hunter who moves from a...
Seduced
Seduced Sheree Renée Thomas Book Review As a rule, I don’t kiss and tell, but sometimes, sometimes you get a hold to something that is just too good to keep to yourself. Well, I have to admit i...
A Fool Indeed
A Fool Indeed Clarence V. Reynolds Book Review To say that Charles Fuller has a lot going on is putting it mildly. The one-time ladies’ man is newly married to a woman whom he has dedicated him...
First Thing First, Dream
First Thing First, Dream Krystle Parker 9781950861620 Nonfiction His Glory Creations Publishing His Glory Creations Publishing Officially the pandemic is over, but for many children the impact contin...
First Class: The Legacy of Dunbar, America’s First Black Public High School
First Class: The Legacy of Dunbar, America’s First Black Public High School Alison Stewart 9781613740095 Nonfiction Chicago Review Press Chicago Review Press Combining a fascinating history of the fir...
The Conjuring of America (paperback): Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic
The Conjuring of America (paperback): Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic Lindsey Stewart 9781538769515 Nonfiction Legacy Lit Hachette Book Group Kirkus Reviews Best Book o...
Hattie Mae Begins Again
Hattie Mae Begins Again Sharon G. Flake 9780593650349 Fiction Knopf Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House From the three-time Coretta Scott King Honor winning author of The Skin I’m In co...
And Then Came the Blues: My Story of Survival on Both Sides of the Badge
And Then Came the Blues: My Story of Survival on Both Sides of the Badge Katrina Brownlee 9781636142364 Nonfiction Open Lens Akashic Books According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence...
Murder at the Wham Bam Club
Murder at the Wham Bam Club Carolyn Marie Wilkins 9781496754714 Fiction Kensington Publishing Corporation Kensington Publishing Corp. As Prohibition era speakeasies and Jazz Age excitement reign supre...
Beyond the Hurt
Beyond the Hurt Akilah Trinay 9798992994438 Fiction ReVision Publishing ReVision Publishing The saying “six degrees of separation” has a completely new meaning in the city of Oakland. Although conside...
Skin & Bones (paperback)
Skin & Bones (paperback) Renée Watson 9780316570893 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group Best Book of May 2024 by New York Post. Finalist for the 2024 Westport Prize for Literature. ...
House Gone Quiet: Stories
House Gone Quiet: Stories Kelsey Norris 9781668016312 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence Named a Best Book of 2023 by Library Journa...
House of Cotton
House of Cotton Monica Brashears 9781250851918 Fiction Flatiron Books Macmillan Publishers Finalist for the 2024 NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award • NPR Best Book of 2023 • An enchanting Black ...
The Everlasting Rose (the Belles Series, Book 2)
The Everlasting Rose (the Belles Series, Book 2) Dhonielle Clayton 9781484743355 Fiction Disney-Hyperion Disney Publishing Worldwide In this sequel to the New York Times best-selling novel, The Belles...
Friday I’m in Love
Friday I’m in Love Camryn Garrett 9780593435106 Fiction Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House It’s too late for a Sweet Sixteen, but what if Mahalia had a coming-out party? A lo...
Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm
Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm Laura Warrell 9780593316443 Fiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House “A modern masterpiece.” —Jason Reynolds, best-selling author of Look Both Ways It’s 2013, and Circ...
Red Lip Theology: For Church Girls Who’ve Considered Tithing to the Beauty Supply Store When Sunday Morning Isn’t Enough
Red Lip Theology: For Church Girls Who’ve Considered Tithing to the Beauty Supply Store When Sunday Morning Isn’t Enough Candice Marie Benbow 9780593238462 Nonfiction Convergent Books Penguin Random H...
In Every Mirror She’s Black
In Every Mirror She’s Black Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström 9781728240381 Fiction Sourcebooks Landmark Sourcebooks “A sexy, surprising, searing debut about love, loss, desire, and the many dimensions of Black...
The Book of Not
The Book of Not Tsitsi Dangarembga 9781644450727 Fiction Graywolf Press Graywolf Press The powerful sequel to Nervous Conditions, by the Booker-shortlisted author of This Mournable Body The Book of...
Black Chess
Black Chess Roberta Roberts 9781735140810 Fiction Uraeus Press Uraeus Press Life is a game of chess. Marginalized people play the game with the black chess pieces, moving second in response to the act...
The Excitement I Bring
The Excitement I Bring Warren Holloway 9781947340534 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing Jaelen Jones had it all. At twenty-four years old the tall, dark, and handsome gym owner was doing wh...
All the Things I Should Have Known
All the Things I Should Have Known Tiffany L. Warren 9781496723697 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. "When I read a Tiffany L. Warren novel I know I’m going to get two things—a riveting story...
Never Trust a Stranger
Never Trust a Stranger Mary Monroe 9781617738081 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe takes you on the ultimate twist-filled ride with her Lonely He...