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The Good Lord Bird
The Good Lord Bird James McBride 9781594632785 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House A 2013 National Book Award Winner! Fleeing his violent master at the side of abolitionist John Brown at ...
Recent Studies Indicate: The Best of Sarah Bird
Recent Studies Indicate: The Best of Sarah Bird Sarah Bird 9781477318683 Nonfiction University of Texas Press University of Texas Press When Sarah Bird arrived in Austin in 1973 in pursuit of a boyfri...
Five-Carat Soul
Five-Carat Soul James McBride 9780735216693 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House Humorous, “feel good” new fiction from James McBride, the first since The Good Lord Bird, one of the bestselling, most cr...
Deacon King Kong
Deacon King Kong James McBride 9780735216723 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel...
Love Is the Drug
Love Is the Drug Alaya Dawn Johnson 9780545417815 Fiction Arthur A. Levine Books Scholastic Inc. Emily Bird was raised not to ask questions. She has perfect hair, the perfect boyfriend, and a perfect ...
Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (paperback)
Heaven & Earth Grocery Store (paperback) James McBride 9780593422953 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House The Runaway New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book • A New Yo...
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store James McBride 9780593422946 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House “McBride’s pages burst with life… This endlessly rich saga highlights the different ways in wh...
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...
Miracle at St. Anna
Miracle at St. Anna James McBride 9781573229715 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 fo...
Above the East China Sea
Above the East China Sea Sarah Bird 9781101873861 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House "A stunning account of wartime Okinawa… . Wise and sensitive." —Anthony Marra, San Francisco Chronicle "Extraordi...
Give God The Glory! Know God And Do The Will Of God Concerning Your Life (Revised Edition)
Give God The Glory! Know God And Do The Will Of God Concerning Your Life (Revised Edition) Kevin Wayne Johnson 9780970590268 Fiction Writing for the Lord Writing for the Lord Book #1 (REVISED EDITION)...
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...
Black, Black Bird
Black, Black Bird Krishan Trotman 9780063570535 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Black, Black Bird is set in post–Civil War New York City and follows an ambitious nurse at the Colored Orphan Asylum who d...
Belonging to the Air: A Novel
Belonging to the Air: A Novel Avery Irons 9781967165001 Fiction Screen Door Press University Press of Kentucky Honest "Bird" Bennett is a young Black girl with a hunger to learn what lies beyond the w...
Juneteenth Rodeo
Juneteenth Rodeo Sarah Bird 9781477329542 Nonfiction University of Texas Press University of Texas Press Timeless photos offer a rare portrait of the jubilant, vibrant, vital, nearly hidden, and now a...
The Star Side of Bird Hill
The Star Side of Bird Hill Naomi Jackson 9781594205958 Fiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House Two sisters are suddenly sent from their home in Brooklyn to Barbados to live with their grandmother...
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou 9780375507892 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know W...
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...
Lord of My Land: 5 Steps to Homeownership
Lord of My Land: 5 Steps to Homeownership Jay Morrison 9781943686582 Nonfiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing Jay, "Mr. Real Estate," Morrison has authored another informative, step-by-step gu...
Laborers in the Vineyard of the Lord: The Beginnings of the AME Church in Florida, 1865-1895
Laborers in the Vineyard of the Lord: The Beginnings of the AME Church in Florida, 1865-1895 Larry Eugene Rivers 9780813018904 Nonfiction University Press of Florida University Press of Florida "Labor...
Bird Rehearsal: A Picture Book
Bird Rehearsal: A Picture Book Jonah Winter 9781949480320 Fiction Cameron Kids Abrams Peek behind the curtain of the glorious musicality of birds in Bird Rehearsal, a picture book about a raucous ro...
Cooking with the Birthday Bird
Cooking with the Birthday Bird Glenda Armand 9780593569146 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House The Birthday Bird—star of the beloved Dr. Seuss classic Happy Birthday to Y...
Harry Sylvester Bird
Harry Sylvester Bird Chinelo Okparanta 9780358617273 Fiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt “Disarmingly funny.” —The New York Times From the award-winning author of Under the Udala Trees ...
Dirty Bird Blues
Dirty Bird Blues Clarence Major 9780143136590 Fiction Penguin Group USA Penguin Random House A quietly influential force in African American literature and art, Clarence Major makes his Penguin Classi...
Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist’s Freedom Song
Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist’s Freedom Song Marlon Peterson 9781645036517 Nonfiction Bold Type Books Hachette Book Group From a leading prison abolitionist, a moving memoir about coming of age in Bro...
The Heart of a Woman, and Other Poems
The Heart of a Woman, and Other Poems Georgia Douglas Johnson 9781298493583 Poetry Andesite Press Andesite Press The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems (1918) The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems (19...
Red Bird Sings: The Story of Zitkala-Sa, Native American Author, Musician, and Activist
Red Bird Sings: The Story of Zitkala-Sa, Native American Author, Musician, and Activist Q. L. Pearce and Gina Capaldi 9780761352570 Nonfiction Millbrook Press Lerner Publishing Group ”I remember the d...
For Better, For Worse (Soul Food Series)
For Better, For Worse (Soul Food Series) Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780743457392 Fiction Pocket Books Pocket Books First the hit movie. Then the groundbreaking television show. Now the smart and sassy boo...
All the Lonely People
All the Lonely People Mike Gayle 9781538720172 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group In this “warm, funny” novel (Good Housekeeping), Jamaican immigrant Hubert Bird rediscovers the worl...
We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope
We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older 9781668095959 Fiction Saga Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. Winner of the Lo...
Do Lord Remember Me: A Novel
Do Lord Remember Me: A Novel Julius Lester 9780312285562 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers In a gray fieldstone house in Nashville, Tennessee, the Reverend Joshua Smith Sr.—the staunch...
Come by Here Lord: Everyday Prayers for Children
Come by Here Lord: Everyday Prayers for Children Cheryl Willis Hudson 9780940975927 Nonfiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. Come By Here Lord: Everyday Prayers for Children is a unique collection...
Candace, the Universe, and Everything
Candace, the Universe, and Everything Sherri L. Smith 9781524737955 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A captivating speculative middle grade novel about three gen...
Candace, the Universe, and Everything
Candace, the Universe, and Everything Sherri L. Smith 9781524737931 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A speculative middle grade novel about three generations of ...
Rise!: From Caged Bird to Poet of the People, Maya Angelou
Rise!: From Caged Bird to Poet of the People, Maya Angelou Bethany Hegedus 9781620145876 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books NCSS Septima Clark Book Award Elementary Level Winner In celebrat...
Bird & Diz
Bird & Diz Gary Golio 9780763666606 Nonfiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press An award-winning author and a Caldecott Medalist improvise a playful tribute to the creators of bebop—Charlie Parker an...
The Gap Year
The Gap Year Sarah Bird 9781451678765 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. "Alternately hilarious and heartbreaking, "The Gap Year" is a pitch-perfect portrayal of a mother and teenage daughte...
Ship Of Souls
Ship Of Souls Zetta Elliott 9781612182681 Fiction Skyscape Amazon Publishing When Dmitri, an 11-year-old bird watcher and math whiz, loses his mother to breast cancer, he is taken in by Mrs. Martin, a...
That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row
That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row Jarvis Jay Masters 9780061730481 Nonfiction HarperOne HarperCollins OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK 2022 "When I think about th...
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou 9780345514400 Nonfiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small South...
Bird
Bird Zetta Elliott 9781600602412 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books In this gentle, award-winning picture book, an African American boy nicknamed Bird uses drawing as a creative outlet as he stru...
Bird
Bird Angela Johnson 9780142405444 Nonfiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House Thirteen-year-old Bird runs away to convince her stepfather to return home, and becomes entwined in the lives of three pe...
A Song Flung Up to Heaven
A Song Flung Up to Heaven Maya Angelou 9780553382037 Nonfiction Bantam Penguin Random House The culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that...
Bird at My Window (Black Arts Movement Series)
Bird at My Window (Black Arts Movement Series) Rosa Guy 9781566891110 Fiction Coffee House Press Coffee House Press "What happens to a dream deferred?" asked Langston Hughes. Bird at My Window answers...
The Maker of Saints
The Maker of Saints Thulani Davis 9780140267358 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House ? A QPB and BOMC selection ? The author?s previous novel, 1959, was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book ...
A Rage of Lions (the Shadow Prince #3)
A Rage of Lions (the Shadow Prince #3) David Anthony Durham 9781643797434 Fiction Tu Books Lee & Low Books In the third installment in The Shadow Prince saga, Ash and his friends race against time...
New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean
New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean Karen Lord 9781617755262 Fiction Peekash Press Akashic Books Discover some of the best in speculative short fiction from the Caribbean’s up-a...
Brookwater’s Curse Volume II
Brookwater’s Curse Volume II Steven Van Patten B00YFNDJWY Fiction Amazon Digital Services Amazon Digital Services, Inc. In the vampire nation, the civil war Christian Brookwater sought to prevent has ...
The Best of All Possible Worlds
The Best of All Possible Worlds Karen Lord 9780345549341 Fiction Del Rey Del Rey Named one of the best books of the year by BuzzFeed • A stunning epic that is at once a new vision of science fiction a...
Rayful Edmond: Washington D.C.’s Most Notorious Drug Lord
Rayful Edmond: Washington D.C.’s Most Notorious Drug Lord Seth Ferranti 9780980068771 Nonfiction Gorilla Convict Publications Gorilla Convict Publications To many in his hometown of Washington, D.C., ...
Through the Storm
Through the Storm Vanessa Miller 9781601627384 Fiction Urban Christian Kensington Publishing Corp. Isaac Walker had once been a heavy handed drug lord, who was proud of the fact that nobody dared to...
Give God the Glory!: The Power in the Local Church
Give God the Glory!: The Power in the Local Church Kevin Wayne Johnson 9780970590251 Nonfiction Writing for the Lord Writing for the Lord The Glory of God represents His divine qualities. They are rev...
The Lady, Her Lover, and Her Lord
The Lady, Her Lover, and Her Lord T. D. Jakes 9780425168721 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House Here is the book that brought Bishop T.D. Jakes to the forefront of America’s bestselling Christi...
Good Erotica for Good Girls: Short Stories of Consensual, Safe and Shameless Sex
Good Erotica for Good Girls: Short Stories of Consensual, Safe and Shameless Sex Stephanie Rochelle Redd 9781502341655 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC "Good Erotica for Good Girls" is ...
Faith And The Good Thing
Faith And The Good Thing Charles Johnson 9780743212540 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. Charles Johnson, the National Book Award-winning author of the bestselling Middle Passage, p...
Bird In A Box
Bird In A Box Andrea Davis Pinkney 9780316074025 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group In a small upstate New York town during the Great Depression, three children—Hibernia...
Leadership with a Servant’s Heart: Leading in Your Workplace
Leadership with a Servant’s Heart: Leading in Your Workplace Kevin Wayne Johnson 9780988303867 Nonfiction Writing for the Lord Writing for the Lord Leadership is a spiritual gift from God (Romans 12:6...
Madeline’s Protector
Madeline’s Protector Vanessa Riley 9781611162264 Fiction Pelican Publishing Company Pelican Publishing If all the young men of England leapt off a cliff, Madeline St. James wouldn’t care. Then she’d h...
A Saved Young Life Now In Heaven: The Autobiography And Other Chronological Writings Of Stephanie Bell
A Saved Young Life Now In Heaven: The Autobiography And Other Chronological Writings Of Stephanie Bell Stephanie Renee Bell 9781470037031 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC “In the same w...
Matters Of The Heart: Stop trying to fix the old - let God give you something new
Matters Of The Heart: Stop trying to fix the old - let God give you something new Juanita Bynum 9780884198321 Nonfiction Charisma House Charisma Media God began to deal with me…As the tears rolled dow...
Soul Inspiration For Women Married To Unbelievers
Soul Inspiration For Women Married To Unbelievers Sheritha Bowman 9780966238907 Fiction Scribes & Vibes Book Publishing Scribes & Vibes Book Publishing An Excerpt: "HE MAY STILL LEAVE THE TOIL...
Opal Watson: A Case Most Fowl
Opal Watson: A Case Most Fowl Brittany J. Thurman 9780063326545 Fiction Storytide HarperCollins In this second book in the middle-grade mystery series based on the popular Pinna podcast, super sleuth ...
A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe
A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe Mahogany L. Browne 9780593486474 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House In this poignant mixed voice, mixed form collection of intercon...
My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing
My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing Carl Phillips 9780300274141 Nonfiction Yale University Press Yale University Press An invaluable companion for any writer seeking to make ...
A Past That Breathes
A Past That Breathes Noel A. Obiora 9781644281703 Fiction Rare Bird Books Rare Bird Books In January 1995, a promising young musician was found murdered in her apartment in West Los Angeles. There wer...
This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story
This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story Kacen Callender 9780062820235 Fiction Balzer & Bray/Harperteen HarperCollins Lambda Literary Award finalist for the best LGBT YA novel of 2018 A fresh, charming rom...
Like a Bird: The Art of the American Slave Song
Like a Bird: The Art of the American Slave Song Cynthia Grady 9781467785501 Nonfiction Millbrook Press Lerner Publishing Group Drawing on biblical imagery, slave songs both expressed the sorrow of lif...
Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen
Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen Sarah Bird 9781250193162 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers The compelling, hidden story of Cathy Williams, a former slave and the first woman to ever se...
Notes of Artistic Freedom Fighter
Notes of Artistic Freedom Fighter Marvin X 978notesofart Nonfiction Black Bird Press Black Bird Press Introduction Dr. Nathan Hare The Politics of Sports Confession of ex-basketball player ...
Lotus and the Baby Bird
Lotus and the Baby Bird Tamara Nicole Pizzoli 9780997686012 Fiction The English Schoolhouse The English Schoolhouse Lotus is an eight year-old third grader who lives in the historic center of Rome, It...
Caged Bird
Caged Bird Josuanne Denis-Frasier 9780986251719 Fiction UrbanEdge Publishing UrbanEdge Publishing Four years ago, Jasmine Jordan turned her back on the only family she knew at the urging of her abusiv...
Scary, Scary Sasha
Scary, Scary Sasha Starr T. Balmer 9781515081548 Fiction Bird’s Love Bird’s Love Creepy, crawly bugs give Sasha goose bumps. Her fear grows when her mother tells her to pick vegetables from the gard...
Boy, Snow, Bird
Boy, Snow, Bird Helen Oyeyemi 9781594633409 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House As seen on the cover of the New York Times Book Review, where it was described as “gloriously unsettling… evoki...
Tears For My Ancestors (Volume 1)
Tears For My Ancestors (Volume 1) Malik Canty 9780692277461 Poetry Inspired 4 U Publications Inspired 4 U Publications Malik “Word Bird” Canty presents his fourth collection of straight talk, heart...
Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel
Boy, Snow, Bird: A Novel Helen Oyeyemi 9781594631399 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House As seen on the cover of the New York Times Book Review, where it was described as “gloriously unsettling… evokin...
Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina Raquel Cepeda 9781451635874 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In 2009, Raquel Cepeda embarked on an exploration of her genealogy using ancestral DNA t...
The Wisdom of Plato Negro: Parables/Fables
The Wisdom of Plato Negro: Parables/Fables Marvin X B00I1PTMDW Nonfiction Black Bird Press Black Bird Press In “Wisdom of Plato Negro,” Marvin teaches by stories, ancient devices of instruction tha...
How Perfect Is That
How Perfect Is That Sarah Bird 9781439123089 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Blythe Young, a wannabe Texas princess, is plummeting down the Austin social ladder due to a multitude of dubi...
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou 9780812980028 Nonfiction Random House Trade Paperbacks Penguin Random House
Beyond Religion Toward Spirituality
Beyond Religion Toward Spirituality Marvin X 9780964967298 Nonfiction Black Bird Press Black Bird Press Marvin X has done extraordinary mind and soul work in bringing our attention to the importance...
Zinnia: How the Corn Was Saved
Zinnia: How the Corn Was Saved Patricia Hruby Powell 9781893354388 Nonfiction Salina Bookshelf Salina Bookshelf A story of adventure! When the Navajo people are on the brink of a devastating famine, t...
Beautiful Blackbird
Beautiful Blackbird Ashley Bryan 9780689847318 Fiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. Black is beautiful, uh-huh! Long ago, Blackbird was voted the most beautiful bird in t...
In the Crazy House Called America
In the Crazy House Called America Marvin X 9780964067219 Nonfiction Black Bird Press Black Bird Press “Rarely is a brother secure and honest enough with himself to reveal his innermost thoughts, e...
The Yokota Officers Club
The Yokota Officers Club Sarah Bird 9780345452771 Fiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House In this funny and moving novel, Bernie Root is returning to her family for the summer after her first ye...
A Small Place
A Small Place Jamaica Kincaid 9780374527075 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua—by the author of Annie John"If you go to A...
Somethin’ Proper: The Life And Times Of A North American African Poet
Somethin’ Proper: The Life And Times Of A North American African Poet Marvin X 9780964967212 Nonfiction Black Bird Press Black Bird Press autobiography of Black Arts Movement activist/poet
Soul Food
Soul Food LaJoyce Brookshire 9780061012983 Fiction HarperTorch HarperCollins Teri, Maxine and Bird are as different as three sisters could be. Teri is beautiful and practical, a successful lawyer who ...
The Flight of Red Bird: The Life of Zitkala-Sa
The Flight of Red Bird: The Life of Zitkala-Sa Doreen Rappaport 9780803714380 Nonfiction Dial Penguin Random House Recreates the life of writer and lecturer Gertrude Bonnin, also known as Zitkala S+a...
Dirty Bird Blues (1996)
Dirty Bird Blues (1996) Clarence Major 9781562790837 Poetry Mercury House Mercury House The acclaimed author of Such Was the Season and Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African American Slang tells the s...
Love and War
Love and War Marvin X 9780964967205 Poetry Black Bird Press Black Bird Press Book of poetry by Black Arts activist, preface by Lorenzo Thomas. “When you listen to Tupac Shakur, E-40, Too Short, Master...
And I Heard a Bird Sing
And I Heard a Bird Sing Rosa Guy 9780385295635 Fiction Delacorte Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Eighteen-year-old Imamu’s newly-found contentment, with his job and the apartment he share...
When The Brown Bird Flies
When The Brown Bird Flies Pamela C. Rice 9781513609140 Fiction KidsShelf Books KidsShelf Books
The Angel at the Gates
The Angel at the Gates Karen Lord 9781636143156 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books A man’s quest to resolve an inherited family trauma leads him to an enigmatic priory in a war-ravaged region, from w...
Murder in Berkeley Square
Murder in Berkeley Square Vanessa Riley 9781496738684 Fiction Kensington Publishing Corporation Kensington Publishing Corp. Embracing the true diversity of the Regency era, award-winning author Vaness...
Unraveling
Unraveling Karen Lord 9780593598467 Fiction Del Rey Del Rey The search for a notorious serial killer takes a therapist on a nightmarish quest to an alternate world to find the sinister secret behind h...
Redemption in Indigo
Redemption in Indigo Karen Lord 9780593724385 Fiction Del Rey Del Rey The enchanting tale of mischief and myth—inspired by West African folklore—that became a fantasy classic, from the award-winning a...
The Blue, Beautiful World
The Blue, Beautiful World Karen Lord 9780593598450 Fiction Del Rey Del Rey As first contact transforms Earth, a team of gifted visionaries races to create a new future in this wondrous science fiction...
Lore of the Wilds
Lore of the Wilds Analeigh Sbrana 9780063380592 Fiction Harper Voyager HarperCollins A stunning Romantasy debut about an enchanted library, two handsome Fae, and one human who brings them all together...
The Return to Jesus: Obedience Over Sacrifice
The Return to Jesus: Obedience Over Sacrifice Nea 9780982021682 Nonfiction Truly Outspoken Publications Truly Outspoken Publications The Return to Jesus: Obedience Over Sacrifice is a warning against ...
Glory in the Margins: Sunday Poems
Glory in the Margins: Sunday Poems Nikki Grimes 9781640606777 Poetry Iron Pen Iron Press Books New York Times bestselling author and poet Nikki Grimes explains; “A study of scripture reveals that Jesu...