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The Other Side of Absence: A Father’s Pain of Separation
The Other Side of Absence: A Father’s Pain of Separation Kim Goodlook Seabrook 9798896636021 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published The Other Side of Absence is an emotionally charged...
A Father’s Pain of Separation
A Father’s Pain of Separation Author Interviews Lenzy Hancock's book, The Other Side of Absence: A Father’s Pain of Separation is an emotionally charged exploration of the struggles and heartaches acc...
Dear Father: Breaking The Cycle Of Pain
Dear Father: Breaking The Cycle Of Pain J. Ivy 9781582705088 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Hip-hop’s favorite poet and Grammy Award–winning artist J. Ivy bares his soul in this inspira...
The Presentable Art of Reading Absence
The Presentable Art of Reading Absence Jay Wright 9781564784988 Poetry Dalkey Archive Press Dalkey Archive Press The Presentable Art of Reading Absence takes as impulse the act of meditation, in which...
Mama’s Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation
Mama’s Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation Edwidge Danticat 9780525428091 Fiction Dial Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A touching tale of parent-child separation and immigr...
Sex Degrees of Separation
Sex Degrees of Separation Mahogany Star 9781542445610 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Unorthodox indulgences. The Sweetest Taboo. The theory is that everyone is just six introductions ...
The Age of Phillis
The Age of Phillis Honoree Fanonne Jeffers 9780819579492 Poetry Wesleyan University Press Wesleyan University Press Poems imagine the life and times of Phillis Wheatley In 1773, a young, African Ameri...
Pain & Gain
Pain & Gain Kam Williams pain-and-gain-movie-poster.jpg Film Review Crime Caper Recreates Real-Life Kidnapping Plot Pain & Gain (2013) In Theaters: Apr 26, 2013 Limited Rated R for graphic nudi...
Passion for the Heist
Passion for the Heist K’wan 9781250834898 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers National bestselling author K’wan returns with Passion for the Heist, a gritty, unforgettable novel about love and crime on...
Autumn Song: Essays on Absence
Autumn Song: Essays on Absence Patrice Gopo 9781496235800 Nonfiction University of Nebraska Press University of Nebraska Press Winner of the Pattis Family Foundation Creative Arts Book Award We all...
This Blinding Absence of Light
This Blinding Absence of Light Tahar Ben Jelloun 9780143035725 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House An immediate and critically acclaimed bestseller in France, This Blinding Absence of Light is ...
This Blinding Absence of Light: A Novel
This Blinding Absence of Light: A Novel Tahar Ben Jelloun 9781565847231 Fiction The New Press The New Press An immediate and critically acclaimed bestseller in France and winner of the 2004 Internatio...
This Side of Providence
This Side of Providence Rachel M. Harper 9781938849763 Fiction Prospect Park Books Prospect Park Books "It is a book of such power that it is as if a completely new layer of the American experience ha...
The Stone Thrower: A Daughter’s Lessons, a Father’s Life
The Stone Thrower: A Daughter’s Lessons, a Father’s Life Jael Richardson 9781771022057 Fiction Thomas Allen Publishers Thomas Allen Publishers A daughter discovers herself while uncovering her father’...
Don’t Try This Alone: How to Build Deep Community When You Want to Hide from Your Pain
Don’t Try This Alone: How to Build Deep Community When You Want to Hide from Your Pain Toni Collier 9781400233571 Nonfiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing Discover how to find heali...
Don’t Try This Alone: How to Build Deep Community When You Want to Hide from Your Pain
Don’t Try This Alone: How to Build Deep Community When You Want to Hide from Your Pain Toni Collier 9781400233540 Nonfiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing Discover how to find heali...
Finding Peace Isn’t Peaceful: Overcoming the Struggle Within to Heal My Soul
Finding Peace Isn’t Peaceful: Overcoming the Struggle Within to Heal My Soul Ma’Ronda X 9781943409563 Nonfiction Pure Thoughts Publishing Pure Thoughts Publishing, LLC Finding Peace Isn’t Peaceful is ...
Father Yourself First: Everything You Need to Become the Father Your Family Deserves
Father Yourself First: Everything You Need to Become the Father Your Family Deserves Glen Henry 9781400252558 Nonfiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing Discover the secret to becomin...
Addicted To Pain: Renew Your Mind & Heal Your Spirit From A Toxic Relationship In 30 Days
Addicted To Pain: Renew Your Mind & Heal Your Spirit From A Toxic Relationship In 30 Days Rainie Howard 9781734015508 Nonfiction Howard Global Enterprise Howard Global Enterprise The obsession of a to...
The Other Side Of Dare (Blessed Trinity)
The Other Side Of Dare (Blessed Trinity) Vanessa Davis Griggs 9780758273598 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. When a battle of wills threatens to tear a family apart, a child shall lead them—...
The Dark Side of Money
The Dark Side of Money d. E. Rogers 9780970880864 Fiction REGI Books REGI Books As the perfectly-manicured matriarch of an African American fashion empire, Gloria Dean is the kind of woman who wants i...
Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home
Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home Lise Funderburg 9781416547679 Nonfiction Free Press Free Press The poignant, often comical story of a grown daughter getting to know her dying ...
Wild Hearts
Wild Hearts K’wan 9781250411020 Fiction Wildthorn Macmillan Publishers The story that captivated readers—now complete for the first time. Passion for the Heist introduced readers to the unforgettab...
Transforming Pain To Power: Unlock Your Unlimited Potential
Transforming Pain To Power: Unlock Your Unlimited Potential Daniel Beaty 9780425267486 Nonfiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House Pain doesn’t last alwaysSometimes only for a nightTry not to resist...
Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We’re Not Hurting
Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We’re Not Hurting Terrie Williams 9780743298834 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. Terrie Williams knows that Black people are hurting. She knows ...
Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain
Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain Kam Williams kevin_hart_movieposter2011.jpg Film Review Concert Flick Features Highlights of Funnyman’s 90-City Tour Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain [2011] ...
Mark Allen Boone
Mark Allen Boone NONE Mark Allen Boone, born in 1951, is a former teacher and accomplished editor with over 30 years of experience. He authored two novels and served as the fiction editor of AIM Quar...
Father Yourself First (paperback)
Father Yourself First (paperback) Glen Henry 9781400254033 Nonfiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing Discover the secret to becoming the father your family deserves, whether you are ...
Absence in the Palm of My Hands and Other Poems
Absence in the Palm of My Hands and Other Poems asha bandele 9780863160134 Poetry Writers and Readers Publishing Writers & Readers Publishing
God’s Graffiti: Inspiring Stories for Teens
God’s Graffiti: Inspiring Stories for Teens Kam Williams Book Review “I was raised in poverty, surrounded by drug dealers, gangs and community violence. My mother was addicted to crack cocai...
The Water Dancer
The Water Dancer Ta-Nehisi Coates 9780399590597 Fiction One World Penguin Random House In his boldly imagined first novel, Ta-Nehisi Coates, the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World...
All About Feelings
All About Feelings Khamani J. Radrford and Teresa Kemp 9781539138921 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Welcome Friends, this book was done by my Nana & I after many discussions about our...
Help Me To Find My People: The African American Search For Family Lost In Slavery
Help Me To Find My People: The African American Search For Family Lost In Slavery Heather Andrea Williams 9780807835548 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press...
God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It
God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It Jim Wallis 9780060558284 Nonfiction HarperOne HarperCollins Since when did believing in God and having moral values make you pro...
The Other Side Of Goodness
The Other Side Of Goodness Vanessa Davis Griggs 9780758273581 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. “I absolutely love Vanessa’s unique writing style. She is one of a kind.” —Mary Monroe, New Yor...
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation Natalie Y. Moore 9781137280152 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers While mayors Richard M. Daley and Rahm Emanuel have tou...
Last Seen (Felix Pollak Prize In Poetry)
Last Seen (Felix Pollak Prize In Poetry) Jacqueline Jones LaMon 9780299282943 Poetry University of Wisconsin Press University of Wisconsin Press Inspired by actual case histories of long-term missing ...
The Other Side of Divine
The Other Side of Divine Vanessa Davis Griggs 9780758273604 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Paris Simmons-Holyfield is finally pregnant with the baby she’s dreamed of for so long. There’s j...
A Letter to My Father
A Letter to My Father John W. Griffin 9781401026936 Nonfiction Xlibris Author Solutions A Letter to My Father is an eye-popping personal reflection of a son who desperately needs to deeply purge himse...
Brave Enough to Be Broken: How to Embrace Your Pain and Discover Hope and Healing
Brave Enough to Be Broken: How to Embrace Your Pain and Discover Hope and Healing Toni Collier 9781400233533 Nonfiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing None of us are perfect. And tha...
Don’t Settle for Safe: Embracing the Uncomfortable to Become Unstoppable
Don’t Settle for Safe: Embracing the Uncomfortable to Become Unstoppable Sarah Jakes Roberts 9780718096359 Nonfiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing Popular speaker and New York Time...
A Fatherless Child: Autobiographical Perspectives of African American Men
A Fatherless Child: Autobiographical Perspectives of African American Men Tara T. Green 9780826266545 Nonfiction University of Missouri Press University of Missouri The impact of absent fathers on son...
Dreams From My Father
Dreams From My Father Barack Obama 9781400082773 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mot...
Blackness in Britain
Blackness in Britain Kehinde Andrews 9780367871840 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge Black Studies is a hugely important, and yet undervalued, academic field of enquiry that is marked by its disciplinary...
State of the Black Union 2008
State of the Black Union 2008 Kam Williams Article Obama’s Conspicuous Absence Overshadows Annual Gathering State of the Black Union 2008 by Kam Williams Senator Barack Obama...
This Blinding Absence of Light. Tahar Ben Jelloun
This Blinding Absence of Light. Tahar Ben Jelloun Tahar Ben Jelloun 9780141022826 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House In this extraordinary non-fiction novel, based on a true story, Tahar Ben J...
Million Man March/Day of Absence: A Commemorative Anthology, Speeches, Commentary, Photography, Poetry, Illustrations & Documents
Million Man March/Day of Absence: A Commemorative Anthology, Speeches, Commentary, Photography, Poetry, Illustrations & Documents Haki Madhubuti and Maulana Karenga 9780883781883 Nonfiction Third Worl...
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Side Notes from the Archivist: Poems
Side Notes from the Archivist: Poems Anastacia-Reneé 9780063221710 Poetry Amistad HarperCollins The award-winning, genre-crossing writer demonstrates her power as a funkadelic and formidable feminist ...
Success Is A Side Effect: Leadership, Relationships, And Selective Amnesia
Success Is A Side Effect: Leadership, Relationships, And Selective Amnesia Monica Anderson 9780978637835 Nonfiction TyMAC Books TyMAC Books Success Is a Side Effect is a powerful, practical guide to a...
I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness to "The Blind Side" and Beyond
I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness to "The Blind Side" and Beyond Kam Williams Book Review "I didn’t write this book just to revisit The Blind Side… I want to help sepa...
A Christmas Prayer
A Christmas Prayer Kimberla Lawson Roby 9781455526048 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Alexis Fletcher hasn’t had a merry Christmas in five years-not since her mother passed away. ...
Priscilla: Engaging in the Game of Politics
Priscilla: Engaging in the Game of Politics M. J. Simms-Maddox 9780578178998 Fiction M. J. Simms-Maddox M. J. Simms-Maddox One way to facilitate discussions about the contentious subject of race is to...
The Little Girl Inside: Owning My Role in My Own Pain
The Little Girl Inside: Owning My Role in My Own Pain Tonya Barbee 9780999670606 Fiction I am Still a Rose, LLC I am Still a Rose, LLC Drug addict, cheater, emotionally unavailable, and bigamist. What...
Period Pain
Period Pain Kopano Matlwa 9781431424375 Fiction Jacana Media Jacana Media Period Pain captures the heartache and confusion of so many South Africans who feel defeated by the litany of headline horrors...
Your Healing Portion Volume Two: for Life’s Obstacles (Volume 2)
Your Healing Portion Volume Two: for Life’s Obstacles (Volume 2) Johanna Sparrow 9781519144560 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Johanna Sparrow has put together a compilation of her mos...
Your Healing Portion: For Life’s Obstacles (Volume 1)
Your Healing Portion: For Life’s Obstacles (Volume 1) Johanna Sparrow 9781518857409 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Johanna Sparrow has put together a compilation of her most talked ab...
The Pain Tree
The Pain Tree Olive Senior 9781770864344 Fiction Cormorant Books Cormorant Books From the author of Dancing Lessons, Finalist for the 2012 Amazon.ca First Novel Award and Finalist for the 2012 Commonw...
The Problem of Pain
The Problem of Pain C. S. Lewis 9780060652968 Nonfiction HarperOne HarperCollins In The Problem of Pain, C.S. Lewis, one of the most renowned Christian authors and thinkers, examines a universally app...
From Pain 2 Poetry: Taking Off The Mask Vol. 2 (Volume 2)
From Pain 2 Poetry: Taking Off The Mask Vol. 2 (Volume 2) The Bag Lady Experience 9781499384895 Poetry CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC From Pain 2 Poetry: Taking Off the Mask, Volume 2 is the sec...
The Wanderers
The Wanderers Mphuthumi Ntabeni 9781960803146 Fiction Catalyst Press Catalyst Press Across countries and decades, The Wanderers weaves a captivating tapestry of human lives, exploring the enduring—and...
Pleasure
Pleasure Eric Jerome Dickey 9780525950455 Fiction Dutton Adult Penguin Random House How realistic is it to believe that one lover can satisfy a woman’s every fantasy?Nia Simone Bijou is a woman who ha...
The Other Side
The Other Side Jacqueline Woodson 9780399231162 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Clover’s mom says it isn’t safe to cross the fence that segregates their African...
Father & Sun
Father & Sun Ross Victory 9781637523018 Nonfiction VFTC Universe VFTC Universe Some say family is everything. Some say family are just people we’re assigned to at birth.Trey Amana, a forty-som...
A Letter To My Father
A Letter To My Father Linda Watkins Book Review I had high expectations of debut autobiography, A Letter to My Father, by John W. Griffin, mainly because of my love for autobiographies and also due ...
Will by Will Smith
Will by Will Smith Robert Fleming Excerpt one FEAR I’ve always thought of myself as a coward. Most of my memories of my childhood involve me being afraid in some way-afraid of other kids,...
This Side of Eternity
This Side of Eternity Rosalyn McMillan 9780684862880 Fiction Free Press Free Press From the bestselling author of Knowing, One Better, Blue Collar Blues and The Flip Side of Sin, comes this beautiful ...
Nola and Baldwin
Nola and Baldwin Donna Hill 9780063443389 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Inspired by Their Eyes Were Watching God for a new generation longing for a romantic finale, Nola and Baldwin is a sweeping hist...
Youngin’ Blues: The Story of Reed and RaKeem
Youngin’ Blues: The Story of Reed and RaKeem Mercy B. 9781530570492 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC “When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carri...
Help Me to Find My People: The African-American Search for Family Lost in Slavery
Help Me to Find My People: The African-American Search for Family Lost in Slavery Kam Williams Book Review “This is a book about slavery and family and loss and longing… It is about th...
My Father’s House: An Ode to America’s Longest-Serving Black Congressman
My Father’s House: An Ode to America’s Longest-Serving Black Congressman John Conyers III 9780063336810 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In this moving work, part clear-eyed assessment, part memoir, t...
The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America
The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America D. Watkins 9781510703353 Nonfiction Hot Books Skyhorse Publishing Searing Dispatches from the Urban Zones Where African American Men Have Be...
I Beat The Odds: From Homelessness, To The Blind Side, And Beyond
I Beat The Odds: From Homelessness, To The Blind Side, And Beyond Michael Oher 9781592406128 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House The football star made famous in the hit film The Blind Side reflects...
Something to Die For: A Novel
Something to Die For: A Novel Travis Hunter 9780345481672 Fiction One World Penguin Random House Nasir Lassiter is a college basketball star with a promising future–until a murder rap lands him in pri...
Zane’s The Other Side of the Pillow: A Novel
Zane’s The Other Side of the Pillow: A Novel Zane 9780743499316 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. The New York Times bestselling Queen of Erotica, Zane is back with a new novel about a testy ...
How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family’s Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family’s Story of Hope and Survival in the American South Esau McCaulley 9780593241080 Nonfiction Convergent Books Penguin Random House From the New York Times ...
Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir
Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir Ashley C. Ford 9781250305978 Nonfiction Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book Macmillan Publishers INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "This is a book people will be talking about ...
Red Now and Laters
Red Now and Laters Marcus Guillory 9781451699111 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. South Park, Houston, Texas, 1977, is where we first meet Ti’ John, a young boy under the care of his larger-...
Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard
Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard Echo Brown 9781250309853 Fiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers Recipient of a 2021 William C. Morris Honor for a debut book p...
The Gospel According to Cane
The Gospel According to Cane Courttia Newland 9781617751332 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Nominated for the 2014 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Fiction!Publishers Weekly has named The Gospel Acc...
Fifth Born
Fifth Born Thumper Book Review My copy of Fifth Born, the debut novel by Zelda Lockhart, came by way of this year’s Book Expo America convention (BEA). I met Ms. Lockhart and her son at The B...
Song for My Father: Memoir of an All-American Family
Song for My Father: Memoir of an All-American Family Stephanie Stokes Oliver 9780743474047 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. On Election Day in 1960, a classmate of Stephanie Stokes Oliver...
Blacc Topp
Blacc Topp NONE Blacc Topp, an award-winning author born in Benton Harbor, MI, and raised in South Dallas, used his love for writing to navigate personal loss and a challenging upbringing. From journ...
The Other Side of Imani
The Other Side of Imani Lisa Springer 9780063288782 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins A story about finding your voice alongside your real self, The Other Side of Imani is a heartfelt, fresh, an...
See You on the Other Side
See You on the Other Side Rachel Montez Minor 9780593309421 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House This lyrical picture book from actress, dancer, and singer Rachel Montez Minor is...
Blindsided
Blindsided Trice Hickman 9781496709356 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Blindsided is my 10th novel (I still can’t believe it). I feel incredibly blessed by God’s grace, because believe me...
The Other Side Of Through
The Other Side Of Through Michelle Donice 9780982777985 Fiction Plenary Publishing Plenary Publishing “If she were asked to name what she was missing, she would be hard-pressed to say, yet she knew de...
On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope
On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope DeRay Mckesson 9780525560579 Nonfiction Viking Books Penguin Random House "On the Other Side of Freedom reveals the mind and motivations of a young man ...
The Other Side of Losing
The Other Side of Losing Kam Williams Book Review ’The Curse of the Goat’ Real Cubs fans don't talk about it much, no more than once or twice a season. Usually it’s ...
You Don’t Know Me: Reflections of My Father, Ray Charles
You Don’t Know Me: Reflections of My Father, Ray Charles Ray Charles Robinson Jr. 9780307462930 Fiction Crown Penguin Random House A deeply personal memoir of the private Ray Charles - the man behin...
Jokes My Father Never Taught Me: Life, Love, and Loss with Richard Pryor
Jokes My Father Never Taught Me: Life, Love, and Loss with Richard Pryor Rain Pryor 9780061195426 Nonfiction HarperEntertainment HarperCollins The loving yet brutally honest memoir of the daughter of ...
God, Harlem U.S.A.: The Father Divine Story
God, Harlem U.S.A.: The Father Divine Story Jill Watts 9780520201729 Nonfiction University of California Press University of California Press How did an African-American man born in a ghetto in 1879 r...
In My Family’s Shadow: Sister of Sports Phenomenon Michael Jordan
In My Family’s Shadow: Sister of Sports Phenomenon Michael Jordan Deloris E. Jordan Excerpt Ending eight years after it first began and five years after losing my virginity to my father, it scares me...
Side Chick Nation
Side Chick Nation Aya de León 9781496715791 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Winner of the Internation Latino Book Award A Justice Hustlers Novel She’s beautiful, unpredictable—and on the r...
Flip Side of the Game: Triple Crown Collection
Flip Side of the Game: Triple Crown Collection Tu-Shonda L. Whitaker 9781622869923 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Funny, passionate, and straight from the soul, Vera Wright-Turner t...
The EastSide
The EastSide Richard Fonzi 9780912444512 Nonfiction Dare Books Dare Books Novel (paperback) Romeo + Juliet Meets Boys in the Hood meets Gangs of New York. Jahvon is a young Jamaican man and a good guy...
Flip Side of the Game: Triple Crown Collection
Flip Side of the Game: Triple Crown Collection Tu-Shonda L. Whitaker 9781622869435 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Funny, passionate, and straight from the soul, Vera Wright-Turner t...
Autobiography Of The Lower East Side
Autobiography Of The Lower East Side Rashidah Ismaili 9781937997397 Nonfiction Northampton House Press Northampton House Press “This well established poet makes a brilliant debut in fiction with these...
Flip Side of The Game
Flip Side of The Game Tu-Shonda L. Whitaker 9780974789545 Fiction Triple Crown Publications Triple Crown Publications Funny, Passionate, and straight from the soul, Vera Wright-Turner thinks she has i...