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The Returned
The Returned Jason Mott 9780778315339 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins The sensational New York Times bestselling novel about an impossible miracle and a family given a second chance at life… Har...
Jason Mott author of THE RETURNED
Jason Mott author of THE RETURNED Author Interviews Jason Mott (https://aalbc.it/jasonmott) tells us about his novel THE RETURNED at the 2014 Go On Girl! Book Club's 22nd Annual Author Awards Weekend....
Jason Mott
Jason Mott 0000000077544509 Jason Mott, an author from North Carolina, holds a BFA in Fiction and an MFA in Poetry. His works have been featured in literary journals and he was a 2009 Pushcart Prize ...
The Wonder Of All Things
The Wonder Of All Things Jason Mott 9780778317852 Fiction Mira Books Harlequin Enterprises Limited On the heels of his critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling debut novel, The Returned, Ja...
RETURNED 2: Bridge To Sion
RETURNED 2: Bridge To Sion Marlon McCaulsky, Lamont Gant, and V Marie 9780578358710 Fiction Creative Genius Films Creative Genius Films RETURNED 2 is the second chapter of the hit film/book called RET...
Gerry Wright
Gerry Wright NONE Gerry Wright is a former professional basketball player and author. After earning All-American honors in high school and playing basketball at the University of Southern California ...
Marlon McCaulsky
Marlon McCaulsky NONE Award-winning American author and screenplay writer, Marlon McCaulsky, is celebrated for his Fiction, Romance, and Science Fiction works that often highlight contemporary Africa...
Family Threads
Family Threads Diane McKinney-Whetstone 9780063395428 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Diane McKinney-Whetstone’s latest character-rich, page-turner blends her signature style with a little magic in her ...
The Next Batman: Second Son
The Next Batman: Second Son John Ridley 9781779513601 Fiction DC Comics DC Comics Discover the origin of the new Dark Knight, Tim "Jace" Fox! The estranged son of billionaire Lucius Fox has ...
Touched by an Angel
Touched by an Angel Victoria Christopher Murray and Princess F.L. Gooden 9781625177094 Fiction Brown Girls Books Brown Girls Books Savannah Hudson always looked for a surprise from her husband, Sheld...
Dying to Better Themselves: West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal
Dying to Better Themselves: West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal Olive Senior 9789766404574 Nonfiction University of the West Indies Press University of the West Indies Press The popular ...
Returned
Returned Marlon McCaulsky 9780692525036 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published
Aliona L. Gibson
Aliona L. Gibson NONE Aliona L. Gibson is an author and filmmaker with a passion for creativity and service. She published her first book, Nappy, and later the self-published For Black Writers. Inspi...
Ben Okri
Ben Okri 0000000121401864 Ben Okri, an award-winning poet and novelist, was born to an Igbo mother and Urhobo father in Nigeria. He had his early education in London, furthered his studies in England...
Charles W. Chesnutt
Charles W. Chesnutt 0000000120998195 1928 winner of the NAACP’s Spingarn Award for Highest achievement by a black American Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) was a prominent African-American a...
Essex Hemphill
Essex Hemphill 0000000029631982 Essex Hemphill (1957-1995) was a notable poet and activist, significant in the 1980s Washington D.C. art scene. Raised in poverty, he sought solace in poetry, explorin...
Robert Hayden
Robert Hayden 0000000114660665 Hayden was Named U.S. Poet Laureate for (1976–1978) Robert Hayden (1913-1980) was a renowned African-American poet, essayist, and educator. He was the first Africa...
D.T. Pollard
D.T. Pollard NONE D.T. Pollard, an Essence Bestselling author from Texas, discovered his passion for writing at a young age but paused during college. After a 25-year career in technology sales, he r...
Earvin Magic Johnson
Earvin Magic Johnson 0000000368581203 Earvin “Magic” Johnson is a former NBA player born in Lansing, Michigan. He played for the Los Angeles Lakers, earning multiple championships and MVP awards. Aft...
Neville Dawes
Neville Dawes 0000000434837562 Neville Augustus Dawes (1926-1984), born in Nigeria to Jamaican parents, was a writer and educator. Raised in Jamaica, he studied at Oxford University, taught in Jamaic...
The Good House
The Good House Thumper Book Review Tananarive Due has returned with The Good House, her best book to date. The Good House is a magnificent, irresistible family drama of one family fighting an evil ...
It Takes a Village
It Takes a Village Alyssa Cole 9781250478580 Fiction Wildthorn Macmillan Publishers New York Times bestselling author Alyssa Cole is back with another chilling thriller, set in the world of her megahi...
Sober Mine: Letting Go of Blac Chyna and Living My Faith
Sober Mine: Letting Go of Blac Chyna and Living My Faith Angela White 9780063495593 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Ten years after her E! reality series Rob & Chyna aired, entrepreneur and actress A...
A Drop of Color
A Drop of Color Elizabeth Ese 9781546158172 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. Seventeen-year-old Gabrielle has always lived between worlds: at school, she is expected to be the “Token Black Gir...
Blues with a Butter Knife: The Unstoppable Music of Cedell Davis
Blues with a Butter Knife: The Unstoppable Music of Cedell Davis Jason Peterson 9781662681011 Nonfiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press Young CeDell Davis learns to play the blues in a style unlike a...
Good Morning Means I Love You
Good Morning Means I Love You Kendra Allen 9780063388413 Fiction Ecco Press HarperCollins The electrifying and intimate first novel from the author of The Collection Plate and Fruit Punch, a searing s...
House of the Rising Sun
House of the Rising Sun K’wan 9781636142906 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books When Artie Howell moves with his wife back to her sleepy hometown, he must protect their son, Nicky, from the skeletons ...
A Soldier’s Wife: My Mother, the Marvelous Mrs. Marilyn A. Underwood
A Soldier’s Wife: My Mother, the Marvelous Mrs. Marilyn A. Underwood Blair Underwood 9780063211872 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In this moving biography and memoir, Blair Underwood, acclaimed star...
Remember Her Name!: Debbie Allen’s Rise to Fame
Remember Her Name!: Debbie Allen’s Rise to Fame Tami Charles 9781623545659 Fiction Charlesbridge Charlesbridge Young Debbie Allen is destined for fame, and everyone will know her name! This poetic, up...
Youth Poetry Contest Guidelines
Youth Poetry Contest Guidelines Youth Poetry Contest Guidelines 20 02 THE ETHERIDGE KNIGHT 8TH ANNUAL YOUTH POETRY CONTEST GUIDELINES Open to Elementary, Middle and High School...
Catacombs
Catacombs William Demby 9798217007332 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House A gripping and genre-defying novel by a rediscovered great of twentieth-century Black American writing, about what it means t...
Amari and the Despicable Wonders
Amari and the Despicable Wonders B. B. Alston 9780062975232 Fiction Storytide HarperCollins The highly anticipated third book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Supernatural Investigations series th...
The Creepening of Dogwood House
The Creepening of Dogwood House Eden Royce 9780063251410 Fiction Walden Pond Press Walden Pond Press The Walter Award Honor–winning author of Root Magic returns with a terrifying story in the Southern...
Augustine the African
Augustine the African Catherine Conybeare 9781631498527 Nonfiction Liveright Publishing Corporation W. W. Norton & Company Augustine of Hippo (354–430), also known as Saint Augustine, was one of the m...
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...
Great Mann
Great Mann Kyra Davis Lurie 9780593800867 Fiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House In this poignant retelling of The Great Gatsby, set amongst L.A.’s Black elite, a young veteran finds his ...
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...
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert Bob The Drag Queen 9781668061978 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. The New York Times Bestseller Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books of 2025 by Pride • Bes...
Mistletowed: A Holiday Novella
Mistletowed: A Holiday Novella Zariah L. Banks 9798986969343 Fiction Eparke Press Eparke Press “I couldn’t put it down—finished it in one day. Sorry Lennox, Preston is my new book bae. Can...
Society of Lies: Reese’s Book Club
Society of Lies: Reese’s Book Club Lauren Ling Brown 9780593723357 Fiction Bantam Penguin Random House Reese's Book Club Pick Maya has returned to Princeton for her college reunion—it's been ...
Armed with Good Intentions
Armed with Good Intentions Wallo267 9781668036259 Nonfiction Gallery Books/13A Simon & Schuster, Inc. Wallace “Wallo267” Peeples spent twenty years in and out of the prison system before restarting hi...
Amari and the Despicable Wonders
Amari and the Despicable Wonders B. B. Alston 9780062975225 Fiction Balzer & Bray/Harperteen HarperCollins The highly anticipated third book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Supernatural Investiga...
The Cottage on Pelican Bay
The Cottage on Pelican Bay Brenda Jackson 9781335458124 Fiction Canary Street Press HarperCollins Sometimes one hot night simply isn’t enough. Two years ago, Zara Miller found herself heartbroken a...
They Dream in Gold
They Dream in Gold Mai Sennaar 9781638931102 Fiction SJP Lit Zando Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize 2024 “Extraordinary … a powerful and poignant exploration of the African ...
James: A Novel
James: A Novel Percival Everett 9780385550369 Fiction Doubleday Books Penguin Random House A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously ...
American Imam: From Pop Stardom to Prison Abolition
American Imam: From Pop Stardom to Prison Abolition Taymullah Abdur-Rahman 9781506489285 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media Imam Taymullah Abdur-Rahman’s incredible life story weaves the contempora...
The Secret to a Southern Wedding
The Secret to a Southern Wedding Synithia Williams 9781335430533 Fiction Canary Street Press HarperCollins An emotional and witty story of love, forgiveness, and second chances as the race to the wedd...
One Summer in Savannah
One Summer in Savannah Terah Shelton Harris 9781728283975 Fiction Sourcebooks Landmark Sourcebooks “Nothing short of astonishing. The best writers are brave writers, and Harris has proven herself amon...
Goodbye Earl: A Revenge Novel
Goodbye Earl: A Revenge Novel Leesa Cross-Smith 9781538707654 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Four women take fate into their own hands in this big-hearted story of friendship, r...
Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah
Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah Kwame Nkrumah 9781635619126 Nonfiction Echo Point Books & Media Echo Point Books & Media “No race, no people, no nation can exist freely and be respected at h...
Miss Chloe (paperback): A Memoir of a Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison
Miss Chloe (paperback): A Memoir of a Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison A.J. Verdelle 9780063031678 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins “If you let a black girl loose in a library, you may not recog...
Quietly Hostile: Essays
Quietly Hostile: Essays samantha irby 9780593315699 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House A much-anticipated, hilarious new essay collection from #1 New York Times bestselling unabashed fan-favorite Sa...
Half-Blown Rose
Half-Blown Rose Leesa Cross-Smith 9781538755181 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group An irresistible story of a woman remaking her life after her husband’s betrayal leads to a year of ...
College Life of a Retired Senior: A Memoir of Perseverance, Faith, and Finding the Way
College Life of a Retired Senior: A Memoir of Perseverance, Faith, and Finding the Way Yvonne Blackwood 9781489746375 Nonfiction LifeRich LifeRich Publishing Seven years after she retired from a lengt...
My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix
My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix Kalynn Bayron 9781250833563 Fiction Feiwel & Friends Macmillan Publishers A young man searches for the reason behind his best friend’s disappearance and the arriva...
Love You, Always
Love You, Always Lauren Lacey 9798218143978 Fiction Lauren Lacey Lauren Lacey How can you move on from someone when they still hold the key to your heart? How can you love the life you live without th...
Avatar The High Ground Volume 2
Avatar The High Ground Volume 2 Sherri L. Smith 9781506709109 Fiction Dark Horse Books Dark Horse Books Humans have returned to Pandora—with an armada of starships—but Jake Sully and the Na’vi are rea...
Grocery Shopping with My Mother
Grocery Shopping with My Mother Kevin Powell 9781593767433 Poetry Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press “Kevin Powell returns with a poetic time capsule written with love in honor of his mother’s evolutio...
Don’t You Forget About Me
Don’t You Forget About Me Naima Simone 9781648393150 Fiction Oliver-Heber Books Oliver-Heber Books Whoever said be careful what you wish for had a serious gift for understatement. As one of the wor...
Terminus 2: Black Fantastic Tales From The ATL
Terminus 2: Black Fantastic Tales From The ATL Milton J. Davis 9798985733617 Fiction MVmedia MVmedia The ATLiens have returned with more Black Fantastic stories! Metro Atlanta’s best Black speculative...
Half-Blown Rose: A Novel
Half-Blown Rose: A Novel Leesa Cross-Smith 9781538755167 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group From the award-winning author of This Close to Okay comes the irresistible story of a woma...
The Sweetness of Water (Paperback)
The Sweetness of Water (Paperback) Nathan Harris 9780316461245 Fiction Back Bay Books Hachette Book Group An Instant New York Times bestseller / An Oprah’s Book Club Pick In the spirit of The Know...
Shadow Deal: The Good Necromancer Book 1
Shadow Deal: The Good Necromancer Book 1 Michael La Ronn 9798885510264 Fiction Author Level Up Author Level Up I used to practice necromancy. I could communicate with the dead and acquire forbidden se...
Savage City
Savage City L. Penelope 9781944744274 Fiction Heartspell Media Heartspell Media For Talia, death is only the beginning of survival… When a tragic accident cuts my lonely life short, instead of heav...
The Deeper the Roots: A Memoir of Hope and Home
The Deeper the Roots: A Memoir of Hope and Home Michael Tubbs 9781250173447 Nonfiction Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book Macmillan Publishers The making of a visionary political leader—and a blueprint for...
Dreams from My Father (young adult version): A Story of Race and Inheritance
Dreams from My Father (young adult version): A Story of Race and Inheritance Barack Obama 9780385738729 Nonfiction Delacorte Press Penguin Random House Now adapted for young adults—the AALBC and #1 Ne...
The Sweetness of Water
The Sweetness of Water Nathan Harris 9780316362481 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER / AN OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK PRESIDENT OBAMA’S SUMMER 2021 ...
No Laughter Here
No Laughter Here Rita Williams-Garcia 9780063079298 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins In this groundbreaking novel, Coretta Scott King Award winner Rita Williams-Garcia uses her vividly realistic...
A Master of Djinn
A Master of Djinn P. Djèlí Clark 9781250267689 Fiction Tordotcom Macmillan Publishers Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner Clark goes full-length for the first time in his dazzling debut novel Cairo, ...
Hotdogs for Hyenas
Hotdogs for Hyenas Pamela Courtney 9781952248825 Nonfiction Home House Press Home House Press American Pamela Courtney’s most formative years were spent in the bush of Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. In this ...
Dawn & The Return Of Madame Hot Temper: Black Camelot’s #2
Dawn & The Return Of Madame Hot Temper: Black Camelot’s #2 Darius Myers 9781087906645 Fiction Fero Scitus Fero Scitus Black Camelot’s Dawn is the sequel to The Publisher’s Dilemma and the second novel...
Dawn & The Return Of Madame Hot Temper (paperback): Black Camelot’s #2
Dawn & The Return Of Madame Hot Temper (paperback): Black Camelot’s #2 Darius Myers 9781638483960 Fiction Fero Scitus Fero Scitus Black Camelot’s Dawn is the sequel to The Publisher’s Dilemma and the ...
Becoming Adapted for Young Readers
Becoming Adapted for Young Readers Michelle Obama 9780593303740 Nonfiction Delacorte Press Penguin Random House Download the 23-Page Reader’s Guide #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Michelle Obama’s wor...
(sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay: A Children’s Picture Book
(sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay: A Children’s Picture Book Otis Redding 9781617758508 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Otis Redding and Steve Cropper’s timeless ode to never-ending days is given f...
Defining Moments
Defining Moments Jacquelin Thomas 9798579125354 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Essence best-selling author Jacquelin Thomas returns with a poignant, passionate, and inspiratio...
’Til I Want No More
’Til I Want No More Robin W. Pearson 9781496450579 Fiction Tyndale House Tyndale House When the man she loved years ago returns to town, one young woman’s complicated past rises again, threatening to ...
Butter Honey Pig Bread
Butter Honey Pig Bread Francesca Ekwuyasi 9781551528236 Fiction Arsenal Pulp Press Arsenal Pulp Press Finalist, Lambda Literary Award, Governor General’s Literary Award, and Amazon Canada First Novel ...
One Dark Body
One Dark Body Charlotte Watson Sherman 9780984709533 Fiction Sweet Inspiration Press Sweet Inspiration Press Set in Pearl, Washington, One Dark Body is the story of Raisin, a twelve-year-old girl aban...
Never Close Your Heart
Never Close Your Heart Monica Anderson 9780978637842 Fiction TyMAC Books TyMAC Books Unless it’s under reconstruction…never close your heart.Essence best-selling author Monica F. Anderson delivers a d...
W.I.F.E
W.I.F.E Raneissa Baker 9781947340596 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing After surviving almost seven hard years of federal prison, Ray "Assa" Jones returned to his hometown of Milwaukee, Wi...
Hide and Seeker
Hide and Seeker Daka Hermon 9781338583625 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. One of our most iconic childhood games receives a creepy twist as it becomes the gateway to a nightmare world.I went ...
Soulful Prayers, Volume 2: The Power of Intentional Communication with God
Soulful Prayers, Volume 2: The Power of Intentional Communication with God Cheryl Polote-Williamson 9781644841730 Nonfiction Purposely Created Publishing Group Purposely Created Publishing Group Praye...
Across the Way
Across the Way Mary Monroe 9781496716170 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Neighborhood tensions reach a breaking point in the finale of New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe’s captiv...
Owner of a Broken Heart
Owner of a Broken Heart Cheris Hodges 9781496723840 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. For the three very different Richardson sisters, continuing their family’s renowned bed-and-breakfast leg...
We Return Fighting: World War I and the Shaping of Modern Black Identity
We Return Fighting: World War I and the Shaping of Modern Black Identity National Museum of African American History and Culture 9781588346728 Nonfiction Smithsonian Books Smithsonian Books A richly i...
Out of Darkness, Shining Light
Out of Darkness, Shining Light Petina Gappah 9781982110338 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. Gappah’s powerful novel of exploration and adventure in 19th-century Africa is the capti...
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America W. Caleb McDaniel 9780190846992 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press The unforgettable saga of one ensl...
Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir
Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir Kwame Onwuachi 9781524732622 Fiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House "Kwame Onwuachi’s story shines a light on food and culture not just in American...
Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir
Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir Halifu Osumare 9780813064321 Nonfiction University Press of Florida University Press of Florida Also Available as an Audiobook Dancing in Blackness is a professional ...
The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave’s Journey from Bondage to Freedom
The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of a Slave’s Journey from Bondage to Freedom David F. Walker 9780399581441 Fiction Ten Speed Press Penguin Random House A graphic novel biography of...
Still, in the City: Creating Peace of Mind in the Midst of Urban Chaos
Still, in the City: Creating Peace of Mind in the Midst of Urban Chaos Angela Dews 9781510732339 Nonfiction Skyhorse Publishing Skyhorse Publishing Still, in the City is a collection of stories about ...
Black Panther Book 5: Avengers of the New World Part 2
Black Panther Book 5: Avengers of the New World Part 2 Ta-Nehisi Coates 9781302909888 Fiction Marvel Marvel Comics Klaw stands supreme! The Black Panther’s greatest foe has returned, ready for war! Ca...
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” Zora Neale Hurston and Deborah G. Plant 9780062748201 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins A major literary event: a never-before-published work from the aut...
No One Is Coming to Save Us: A Novel
No One Is Coming to Save Us: A Novel Stephanie Powell Watts 9780062472991 Fiction Ecco Press HarperCollins *WINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR DEBUT NOVEL**THE INAUGURAL SARAH JESSICA PARKER PICK FOR...
Binti (#3): The Night Masquerade
Binti (#3): The Night Masquerade Nnedi Okorafor 9780765393135 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers The concluding part of the highly-acclaimed science fiction trilogy that began with Nnedi Okorafor’s Hu...
Superb Vol. 1: Life After the Fallout
Superb Vol. 1: Life After the Fallout David F. Walker 9781941302408 Fiction Oni Press Oni Press After the Earth survived annihilation from an asteroid which was destroyed by a group of heroic astronau...
Mauskaveli Comic
Mauskaveli Comic Sumiko Saulson 9781979825160 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Mauskaveli is a mini-comic/zine about a group of polyamorous, politically active mice. They center around a t...
Have You Met Nora?
Have You Met Nora? Nicole Blades 9781496704610 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Your browser does not support HTML5 video. She’s blossomed from wealthy surgeon’s beautiful dau...
Mauskaveli Coloring Book
Mauskaveli Coloring Book Sumiko Saulson 9781978281219 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Coloring book with images from the Mauskaveli comic books rendered as line art, ready for coloring wi...