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The Last Days Of Ptolemy Grey
The Last Days Of Ptolemy Grey Walter Mosley 9781594485503 Fiction Riverhead Hardcover Penguin Random House A masterful, moving novel about age, memory, and family from one of the true literary icons ...
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Fifty Shades Trilogy (Fifty Shades of Grey / Fifty Shades Darker / Fifty Shades Freed)
Fifty Shades Trilogy (Fifty Shades of Grey / Fifty Shades Darker / Fifty Shades Freed) E L James 9780345804044 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House FIFTY SHADES OF GREY IS NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURENo...
Deanna Grey
Deanna Grey NONE Deanna Grey is a romance author known for writing New Adult stories centered on Black women, including sapphic romance and contemporary love stories. Her work often explores ambitio...
Fifty Shades of Gray
Fifty Shades of Gray E L James 9780345803481 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who i...
James Grey
James Grey NONE James Grey is an author and poet. Has been writing since the age of 13 or 14. After winning a contest for young writers he was motivated to continue writing poetry and short stories....
D. A. Grey
D. A. Grey NONE D.A. Grey, a former Navy member, holds degrees in Psychology from Delaware State and Princeton Universities. With a career in behavioral research and academia, he's now retired and li...
They Wouldn’t Dare
They Wouldn’t Dare Deanna Grey 9798987895566 Fiction Deanna Grey Deanna Grey Three simple words changed everything between us: I dare you. David Evans is a thorn in my side. A smart-mouthed, egotis...
The Case of Elmwood Ranch
The Case of Elmwood Ranch Deanna Grey 9798987895573 Fiction Deanna Grey Deanna Grey Elmwood Ranch is Octavia Daniel’s dream. A safe place to land after years on the road. But once she signs the paperw...
Safety Net
Safety Net Deanna Grey 9798987895559 Fiction Deanna Grey Deanna Grey CELESTE Social anxiety has been the shaky foundation on which I’ve built my life. Never be too loud, too big, or too bold. I’ve ...
Outdrawn: A Rivals to Lovers Romance
Outdrawn: A Rivals to Lovers Romance Deanna Grey 9798987895542 Fiction Deanna Grey Deanna Grey It isn’t always lonely at the top. Noah Blue’s finally got her foot in the door. After clawing her way t...
Sunny Disposition: A Grumpy/Sunshine Romance
Sunny Disposition: A Grumpy/Sunshine Romance Deanna Grey 9798987895528 Fiction Deanna Grey Deanna Grey Naomi I can’t understand why – out of the four hockey players I’m sharing a house with this seme...
Team Players: A College Hockey Romance
Team Players: A College Hockey Romance Deanna Grey 9798987895535 Fiction Deanna Grey Deanna Grey Aderyn Resident playboy, Samson Morgan, thinks he can beat me at my own game. The hockey captain trul...
The Grey Album: On The Blackness Of Blackness
The Grey Album: On The Blackness Of Blackness Kevin Young 9781555976071 Nonfiction Graywolf Press Graywolf Press Selected as one of the 100 Notable Books of 2012 by the New York Times *Finalist fo...
Griot & Grey Owl Black Southern Writers Conference
Griot & Grey Owl Black Southern Writers Conference Durham North Carolina Launched in 2024 and recognized as the largest Black-focused writers conference in the South, Griot & Grey Owl creates a vital...
The Secret World of Maggie Grey: A Dark Academia Fantasy
The Secret World of Maggie Grey: A Dark Academia Fantasy Granger 9798347021789 Fiction Podium Publishing Podium Publishing This is the Underground. We go by a different set of rules here—ones steepe...
As Grey As Black and White
As Grey As Black and White Faith Knight 9780982619070 Fiction Perry Harris Publishing Perry Harris Publishing Most 14-year olds can’t choose the race they’d prefer to be, but Mark Lawson can, after a ...
Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person Shonda Rhimes 9781476777122 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this poignant, hilarious, and deeply intimat...
Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes
Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes Linda Addison 9780917053139 Poetry Space and Time Space and Time This collection of poetry received the HWA Bram Stoker award and includes interior illustrati...
Michael I. Days
Michael I. Days NONE AALBC Mourns the passing of Michael I. Days, October 18, 2025 Michael I. Days is an esteemed editor of the Philadelphia Daily News, recognized for leading the team to numerous awa...
The Last Poets: Still On a Mission
The Last Poets: Still On a Mission DuEwa M. Frazier Article Before hip hop pioneers like the Sugar Hill Gang, Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel or Run DMC, there was The Last Poets. Called the "...
100 Days
100 Days Juliane Okot Bitek 9781772121216 Poetry University of Alberta Press University of Alberta Press 100 days.100 days that should not have been.100 days the world could have stopped. But did not...
Back in the Days
Back in the Days Jamel Shabazz 9781576871065 Nonfiction PowerHouse Books PowerHouse Books Back in the Days documents the emerging Hip Hop scene from 1980-1989-before it became what is today’s multi-mi...
Paris in May
Paris in May D. A. Grey 9781646540495 Fiction Fulton Books Fulton Books “A refreshing technique of the author is his ability to dissect the characters completely.” …“The multilayered transparenc...
This Beautiful Day
This Beautiful Day Richard Jackson 9781481441391 Fiction Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In the tradition of We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, acclaimed author Richard Jackson and award...
Fifty Shades Darker
Fifty Shades Darker E L James 9780345803498 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House MORE THAN 100 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDEFIFTY SHADES OF GREY IS NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREDaunted by the singular ta...
Dudley Thompson and Barrington Watson
Dudley Thompson and Barrington Watson MULTIPLE Barrington Watson is a renowned Jamaican artist and author of 'Shades of Grey', a collection of autobiographical stories complemented by his own illustr...
Debbie Allen
Debbie Allen 0000000114435847 Debbie Allen, born in 1950, is a bestselling children's book author, actress, dancer, and choreographer from Houston, Texas. She is renowned for her role in the 1982 ser...
The Last Poets
The Last Poets 0000000109403584 The Last Poets, formed in 1969, are influential street poets who gained fame with their debut LP in 1970, reaching the U.S. Top 10 album charts. Members include Abiodu...
The Last King
The Last King Thumper Book Review Now is a time of rejoicing. Nichelle Tramble has finally released her much anticipated second novel, The Last King: A Maceo Redfield novel. I have been...
The Last Last-Day-of-Summer
The Last Last-Day-of-Summer Vanessa Vanzie Book Review A combination of fun, friends and awesome adventures make for a summer vacation that you never want to end. The Legendary Alston boys are no exc...
Seven Days in June
Seven Days in June Tia Williams 9781538719107 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Seven days to fall in love, fifteen years to forget and seven days to get it all back again… From the...
President Michelle, or Ten Days that Shook the World: A Subversive Political Fantasy
President Michelle, or Ten Days that Shook the World: A Subversive Political Fantasy Manu Herbstein 9789988233075 Fiction Manu Herbstein Manu Herbstein President Michelle, or Ten Days that Shook the W...
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt Chris Hedges 9781568586434 Nonfiction Bold Type Books Hachette Book Group Two years ago, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges and award-winning cartoonist and journal...
6 Days in January
6 Days in January Thumper Book Review I am breaking with tradition on my review of 6 Days in January by William Frederick Cooper, because I loathe this book so much, I can't hold my disgust w...
6 Days in January
6 Days in January Thumper Book Review I am breaking with tradition on my review of 6 Days in January by William Frederick Cooper, because I loathe this book so much, I can't hold my disgust wi...
The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade
The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade Hannah Durkin 9780063072992 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot’s The ...
The Last Last-Day-of-Summer
The Last Last-Day-of-Summer Lamar Giles 9781328460837 Fiction Versify Houghton Mifflin Harcourt "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer reminds me that all children deserve to exist in magical spaces where their...
The Last Holiday: A Memoir
The Last Holiday: A Memoir Gil Scott-Heron 9780802120571 Nonfiction Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. The stunning memoir of Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner Gil Scott-Heron, The Last Holiday h...
Before You Judge Me: The Triumph and Tragedy of Michael Jackson’s Last Days
Before You Judge Me: The Triumph and Tragedy of Michael Jackson’s Last Days Tavis Smiley 9780316259095 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group A powerful chronicle of the sixteen weeks ...
The Last Days of Louisiana Red: A Novel
The Last Days of Louisiana Red: A Novel Ishmael Reed 9781564782366 Fiction Dalkey Archive Press Dalkey Archive Press When Papa LaBas (private eye, noonday HooDoo, and hero of Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo) comes...
Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America
Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America Cody Keenan 9780358651895 Nonfiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A New York Times Bestseller “At a time when the meaning of...
28 Days of Poetry Celebrating Black History: Volume 2
28 Days of Poetry Celebrating Black History: Volume 2 Latorial Faison 9781495295706 Poetry CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC 28 Days of Poetry Celebrating Black History: Volume 2 is a profound coll...
Days Of Jubilee
Days Of Jubilee Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack 9780590107648 Nonfiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. The McKissacks introduce young readers to the pivotal events leading up to and in...
Michael I. Days and Angela P. Dodson
Michael I. Days and Angela P. Dodson MULTIPLE Michael I. Days and Angela P. Dodson
Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961
Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961 Larry Dane Brimner 9781629795867 Nonfiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press A 2018 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award Winner On May 4, 1961, a group of thi...
Last Chance Dance
Last Chance Dance Lakita Wilson 9780593525616 Fiction Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House An utterly charming YA romance perfect for fans of Elise Bryant and Leah Johnson. "An ode t...
Serious Problems With Facebook Promotion
Serious Problems With Facebook Promotion Troy Johnson Article Writers, if you are using Facebook to promote your work—especially paid promotion— invest 30 minutes of your time to watch these two vide...
Holocaust in the Homeland: Black Wall Street’s Last Days
Holocaust in the Homeland: Black Wall Street’s Last Days Corinda Pitts Marsh 9781494904135 Fiction Creation Publishing Group Creation Publishing Group "Holocaust in the Homeland tells the story of one...
Felina’s Life and Loves: The Felix Women I
Felina’s Life and Loves: The Felix Women I Angelia Vernon Menchan B00M4QDLG8 Fiction acVernon Menchan acVernon Menchan This is a short story, 9,600 Words, with a bit of a cliffhanger ending. Felina...
The Last Love Letter
The Last Love Letter Robert Fleming Book Review Amanda Easton, the author of The Last Love Letter, has a history of letter writing going back to her college days when she sometimes said the...
107 Days
107 Days Kamala Harris 9781668211656 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. For the first time, and with surprising and revealing insights, Kamala Harris tells the story of one of the wild...
Looking for Happy
Looking for Happy Ty Chapman 9781506483542 Fiction Beaming Books 1517 Media Every day is different. Some days everything goes right—you’re in the groove and feeling like yourself. But some days, it...
Days Of War: Black Camelot’s #3
Days Of War: Black Camelot’s #3 Darius Myers 9781639444502 Fiction Fero Scitus Fero Scitus Black Camelot’s Days of War is the third novel in the Black Camelot series. Chief of Detectives Teddy Walk...
Days Of War (paperback): Black Camelot’s #3
Days Of War (paperback): Black Camelot’s #3 Darius Myers 9798534010404 Fiction Fero Scitus Fero Scitus Black Camelot’s Days of War is the third novel in the Black Camelot series. Chief of Detective...
Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City
Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City Wes Moore 9780525512363 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House "An illuminating portrait of Baltimore in the aftermath of the April 2015 death of ...
All the Days Past, All the Days to Come
All the Days Past, All the Days to Come Mildred D. Taylor 9780399257308 Fiction Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House The saga of the Logan family—made famous in the Newbery Medal-winnin...
Seven Full Days
Seven Full Days Ferris Shelton 9781945473708 Fiction Off the Common Books Levellers Press Living the American dream, Jason believes he is playing by the rules. Blessed with Callie, a loving wife, and ...
Back in the Days Coloring Book
Back in the Days Coloring Book Jamel Shabazz 9781576878095 Nonfiction PowerHouse Books PowerHouse Books Straight from the old-school streets of NYC at the dawn of the hip-hop scene comes Back in the D...
Capital Days: Michael Shiner’s Journal and the Growth of Our Nation’s Capital
Capital Days: Michael Shiner’s Journal and the Growth of Our Nation’s Capital Tonya Bolden 9781419707339 Nonfiction Abrams Books for Young Readers Abrams Capital Days introduces young readers to Washi...
Live Richer Challenge: Learn how to budget, save, get out of debt, improve your credit and invest in 36 days
Live Richer Challenge: Learn how to budget, save, get out of debt, improve your credit and invest in 36 days Tiffany Aliche 9781505581447 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Let me guess -...
90 Days Probation
90 Days Probation Connie Barrett 9780974013629 Fiction Connie G Barrett Connie G Barrett Carmen Daniels is young, independent and one year shy of her bachelor’s. She has her whole life ahead of her. T...
Twelve Days Of New York
Twelve Days Of New York Tonya Bolden 9781419705427 Fiction Abrams Books Abrams When a group of students wins a trip to New York City, accompanied by their teacher, they aren’t sure where to start. S...
Making Bold Moves: Creating Multimillion Dollar Success In 500 Days Or Less!
Making Bold Moves: Creating Multimillion Dollar Success In 500 Days Or Less! William S. Parrish Jr. 9780983906803 Nonfiction MBM Publishing, LLC MBM Publishing, LLC Making Bold Moves: Creating Multimi...
Eight Days: A Story Of Haiti
Eight Days: A Story Of Haiti Edwidge Danticat 9780545278492 Fiction Orchard Books Orchard Books From National Book Award nominee Edwidge Danticat comes a timely, brilliantly crafted story of hope and ...
Three Days Before The Shooting…
Three Days Before The Shooting… Ralph Ellison 9780375759536 Fiction Modern Library Penguin Random House At his death in 1994, Ralph Ellison left behind roughly two thousand pages of his unfinished sec...
John Henry Days
John Henry Days Colson Whitehead 9780385498203 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House Colson Whitehead’s eagerly awaited and triumphantly acclaimed new novel is on one level a multifaceted retelling of...
Freedom Days: 365 Inspired Moments in Civil Rights History (Revised)
Freedom Days: 365 Inspired Moments in Civil Rights History (Revised) Janus Adams 9780471291046 Nonfiction Wiley Wiley Day by day. Dream by dream. Victory by victory. "A book to be handed down—just lik...
Days of Grace: A Memoir
Days of Grace: A Memoir Arthur Ashe 9780345386816 Nonfiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House "Touching and courageous…All of it—the man, the life, the book—is rare and beautiful."COSMOPOLITANDAY...
Fifty Days on Board a Slave-Vessel: In the Mozambique Channel April and May, 1843
Fifty Days on Board a Slave-Vessel: In the Mozambique Channel April and May, 1843 Pascoe Grenfell Hill 9780933121461 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press Rev. Pascoe G. Hill has left us ...
30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary
30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary Wilfred Funk and Norman Lewis 9780671743499 Nonfiction Pocket Books Pocket Books • Do you misuse and mispronounce some words? • Do you sometimes find ...
The Words I Didn’t Say 2
The Words I Didn’t Say 2 Tamika Newhouse and Justin Q Young 9781543142310 Fiction Delphine Publications Delphine Publications “Let’s imitate some Fifty Shades of Grey over some Jodeci grooves” You bu...
Murder At Cape Three Points
Murder At Cape Three Points Kwei Quartey Excerpt PROLOGUE Cape Three Points, the southernmost tip of Ghana, is beautiful and wild. Verdant forest covers the three finger-like peninsulas th...
Black Wings & Blind Angels: Poems
Black Wings & Blind Angels: Poems Professor Griff Excerpt Breaking Karma #5 i It is like a scene in a play. His bald spot shines upward between dark tufts of hair. We are sitting in a pool of...
Last Word Productions
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Discover Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston
Discover Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston Author Interviews Doriel Inez Larrier "unpackages" the book, Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale...
The Last Kings 2
The Last Kings 2 C. N. Phillips 9781622867721 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Back from the dead, Sadie is hungrier and more ruthless than ever. With a heart black as night and an itch...
Jim Crow’s Last Stand: Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts in Louisiana
Jim Crow’s Last Stand: Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts in Louisiana Thomas Aiello 9780807158999 Nonfiction LSU Press Louisiana State University Press The last remnant of the racist Redeemer agenda...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Last Interview: and Other Conversation
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Last Interview: and Other Conversation Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9781612194806 Nonfiction Melville House Melville House An intimate and lively collection of interviews with a ...
What Was The Last Book You Read? The Celebrity Edition
What Was The Last Book You Read? The Celebrity Edition Troy Johnson Article Over the years we've published hundreds of interviews with celebrities. Each one is usually asked, what is now know as the...
Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby
Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby Crystal Hubbard 9781600608919 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books The story of Jimmy Winkfield, one of horse racing’s all-time great jockeys and the last A...
Last Man Standing
Last Man Standing Thumper Book Review The year, 2002, I decided to take Black History Month literally by reading books that expanded my scope of being black in America. I decided to read Last Man Sta...
And After Many Days: A Novel
And After Many Days: A Novel Jowhor Ile 9781101903148 Fiction Tim Duggan Books Penguin Random House An unforgettable debut novel about a boy who goes missing, a family that is torn apart, and a nation...
Meteor in the Madhouse
Meteor in the Madhouse Leon Forrest 9780810151147 Fiction TriQuarterly Books Northwestern University Press In the wake of his watershed novel Divine Days, Leon Forest began an even more ambitious proj...
Divine Days
Divine Days Leon Forrest 9780393312218 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A unanimous chorus of critical acclaim greeted this powerful novel last year―one of the most signi...
Yummy: The Last Days Of A Southside Shorty
Yummy: The Last Days Of A Southside Shorty G. Neri 9781584302674 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books A graphic novel based on the life and death of Robert "Yummy" Sandifer, an eleven-...
A Phat Death: Or, The Last Days of Noir Soul (Nina Halligan)
A Phat Death: Or, The Last Days of Noir Soul (Nina Halligan) Norman Kelley 9781888451481 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Fiction. African American Studies. A hit on a notorious hip-hop star plunge...
Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt
Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt Jack Olsen 9780385493673 Nonfiction Doubleday Penguin Random House With the epic scope of A Civil Action, Last Man Standing is an unforgett...
Mama Dearest
Mama Dearest Thumper Book Review As many of you know, Mama Dearest is the last book written by E. Lynn Harris. I was a fan of Harris’s during the Invisible Life days and a few books ...
Don’t Stop Snowing
Don’t Stop Snowing Gabriel Bump 9781643753836 Fiction Algonquin Books Workman Publishing Co., Inc. A deeply personal and funny novel from the winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award, about embracing one’...
The First Family: A Dark Academia Fantasy
The First Family: A Dark Academia Fantasy Granger 9798347021796 Fiction Podium Publishing Podium Publishing Beneath Atlanta lies a hidden world of magic and murder known as the Underground. And its se...
Alternate Sources
Alternate Sources Lamar Brantley 9798994134108 Fiction Ramal Cire Creative Ramal Cire Creative Charlie Thomas, a lover of jazz and jazz musicians, and nicknamed “Ms. Black Corporate America” by her be...
Huntsman: A Mafia Romance
Huntsman: A Mafia Romance Naima Simone 9781250352941 Fiction Bramble Macmillan Publishers DELUXE EDITION—featuring beautiful dark red sprayed edges! The Huntsman is after me. But he will be mine f...
How You Grow Wings
How You Grow Wings Rimma Onoseta 9781643751917 Fiction Algonquin Young Readers Workman Publishing Co., Inc. A Kirkus Prize Finalist A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the year A SLJ Best Book of the year...
Losing My Power Forward: Rebounding Through Grief
Losing My Power Forward: Rebounding Through Grief Regina Tisdale 9781736564240 Nonfiction Cedar Gate Publishing Cedar Gate Publishing In Losing my Power Forward, Regina Tisdale shares an incredibly ca...
Day Pulls Down the Sky / A Filament in Gold Leaf
Day Pulls Down the Sky / A Filament in Gold Leaf Asiya Wadud 9781733927109 Poetry Belladonna* Belladonna* This book, DAY PULLS DOWN THE SKY / A FILAMENT IN GOLD LEAF is comprised of Okwui Okpokwasili’...
Mystery in Harare: Priscilla’s Journey into Southern Africa
Mystery in Harare: Priscilla’s Journey into Southern Africa M. J. Simms-Maddox 9780578195193 Fiction M. J. Simms-Maddox M. J. Simms-Maddox FOREWORD"I have no doubt that this book has broken new ground...