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The Turner House
The Turner House Angela Flournoy 9780544303164 Fiction Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A powerful, timely debut, The Turner House marks a major new contribution to the story of the...
Angela Flournoy, Author of THE TURNER HOUSE
Angela Flournoy, Author of THE TURNER HOUSE Author Interviews Angela spoke with AALBC.com during the 2016 Brooklyn Book Festival. Learn more about her critically acclaimed book at: https://aalbc.com/...
Nikki Turner
Nikki Turner 0000000040675687 Nikki Turner, renowned as “The Queen of Hip Hop Fiction”, is an Essence best-selling author known for shedding light on the unseen side of street life. Balancing work an...
The Second Crucifixion of Nat Turner
The Second Crucifixion of Nat Turner John Henrik Clarke 9780933121959 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press The Second Crucifixion of Nat Turner was originally published in 1968. Edited b...
Morrie Turner
Morrie Turner 0000000021272073 Morris “Morrie” Turner (1923-2014) was an American cartoonist known for creating Wee Pals, the first American syndicated comic strip featuring an integrated cast. Raise...
Paige Turner
Paige Turner NONE Paige Turner, a lifelong book lover, has over 15 years of marketing experience in Fortune 75 companies. Passionate about sharing ideas from books, she's been writing a weekly book r...
Vernon Kitabu Turner
Vernon Kitabu Turner NONE Vernon “Kitabu” Turner, an African-American spiritual guru, Zen master, and martial artist, was raised Christian but became a Zen initiate after meeting master Nomura Roshi ...
The Resurrection Of Nat Turner, Part 2: The Testimony: A Novel
The Resurrection Of Nat Turner, Part 2: The Testimony: A Novel Sharon Ewell Foster 9781416578123 Fiction Howard Books Howard Books The sequel to The Resurrection of Nat Turner, Part I: The Witnesses s...
The Resurrection Of Nat Turner, Part 1: The Witnesses: A Novel
The Resurrection Of Nat Turner, Part 1: The Witnesses: A Novel Sharon Ewell Foster 9781416578031 Fiction Howard Books Howard Books The truth has been buried more than one hundred years … Leading a sma...
Angela Flournoy
Angela Flournoy 0000000436914613 Angela Flournoy, author of The Turner House, a National Book Award finalist, has been recognized with numerous awards including the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. A Nat...
Nat Turner’s Mental and Military Motivations
Nat Turner’s Mental and Military Motivations Ezrah Aharone Article Nate Parker’s movie The Birth of a Nation has revived the question: What caused Nat Turner’s 1831 uprising? Turner, firs...
The Birth of a Nation: Nat Turner and the Making of a Movement
The Birth of a Nation: Nat Turner and the Making of a Movement Nate Parker 9781501156588 Nonfiction Atria / 37 Ink Simon & Schuster, Inc. Also read “Nat Turner’s Mental and Military Motivations” by Ez...
The Nat Turner Insurrection Trials
The Nat Turner Insurrection Trials Emanuel Carpenter Book Review Was Nat Turner a hero or a savage? After reading the new book from legal scholar Walter L. Gordon III, you may change your mind abou...
Just Like Tina: Inspired by the Life of Tina Turner
Just Like Tina: Inspired by the Life of Tina Turner Ebony Lynn Mudd 9798217051229 Fiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House Tina was fearless. Tina was resilient. Tina was kind. And Shay is determ...
Black Widow: A Novel (Nikki Turner Original)
Black Widow: A Novel (Nikki Turner Original) Nikki Turner 9780345493873 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House #1 bestselling author Nikki Turner returns with an explosive new novel about a...
Trinity
Trinity Zelda Lockhart 9780063160965 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins The Hurston-Wright Award Finalist makes her long-awaited return with this electrifying saga—as moving and indelible as The Twelve Tri...
Fish Tales: A Novel
Fish Tales: A Novel Nettie Jones 9780374608804 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers “Fish Tales is wondrous and outrageous, real and incandescent and alive. A novel unlike any other,...
Trinity
Trinity Zelda Lockhart 9780063160958 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins The Hurston-Wright Award Finalist makes her long-awaited return with this electrifying saga—as moving and indelible as The Twelve Tri...
In West Mills
In West Mills De’Shawn Charles Winslow 9781635573404 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Publishing For readers of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie and The Turner House, an intimately told story about...
Darcel Turner
Darcel Turner NONE Darcel Turner, a New York native, is an accomplished author known for her novel, “Dana Dances on Paper.” She has attended various colleges, transcribed for The 4th National Black W...
Buzzing with Questions: The Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Turner
Buzzing with Questions: The Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Turner Janice N. Harrington 9781629795584 Nonfiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press The story of Charles Henry Turner, the first Black en...
Caribbean Crusaders and the Harlem Renaissance
Caribbean Crusaders and the Harlem Renaissance Joyce Moore Turner 9780252072413 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press Caribbean Crusaders and the Harlem Renaissance is a...
Dawn Turner Trice
Dawn Turner Trice NONE Dawn Turner Trice is an accomplished author of two novels and a former Chicago Tribune columnist. She's also written commentaries for NPR's “Morning Edition Show.”
Kiki Swinson and Nikki Turner
Kiki Swinson and Nikki Turner MULTIPLE Kiki Swinson and Nikki Turner are renowned authors best known for their contributions to the urban fiction genre. They have successfully captivated audiences wi...
Glennette Tilley Turner
Glennette Tilley Turner NONE Glennette Tilley Turner has also written collections of biographies of notable African Americans for adults and serves as an advisor to the National Park Service, where s...
Monique S. Hall
Monique S. Hall NONE Monique S. Hall, former basketball scholar, overcame a turbulent past involving crime and prison to become a bestselling author. Her debut novel, 'Two Tears In A Bucket', caught ...
Forever a Hustler’s Wife: A Novel (Nikki Turner Original)
Forever a Hustler’s Wife: A Novel (Nikki Turner Original) Nikki Turner 9780345493859 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House The high priestess of the hood, Nikki Turner, is back with the no...
The Confessions of Nat Turner
The Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron 9780679736639 Fiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House Originally published in 1967. The story that inspired the major motion picture The Birt...
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Nat Turner
Nat Turner Kyle Baker 9780810972278 Fiction Harry N. Abrams Harry N. Abrams The story of Nat Turner and his slave rebellion—which began on August 21, 1831, in Southampton County, Virginia—is known amo...
Soul to Soul: Harnessing the Power of Your Mind
Soul to Soul: Harnessing the Power of Your Mind Vernon Kitabu Turner 9781571744708 Nonfiction Hampton Roads Publishing Company Hampton Roads Publishing Company No matter what you believe about the cre...
Most Wanted
Most Wanted Kiki Swinson and Nikki Turner 9780758280268 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. National bestselling authors Kiki Swinson and Nikki Turner turn up the heat with two twisty tales of ...
Matthew Paul Turner
Matthew Paul Turner NONE Matthew Paul Turner is a renowned photographer, speaker, and author famous for his bestselling books 'When God Made You' and 'When I Pray for You'. Matthew Paul Turner is a p...
Myra Faye Turner
Myra Faye Turner NONE Myra Faye Turner is a celebrated author known for her engaging style and knack for storytelling. Her works span various genres, exhibiting her broad literary skills. Myra Faye T...
Diane D. Turner
Diane D. Turner NONE Diane D. Turner is the curator for Temple University's Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection. Her expertise lies in Black history, film, and music. She authored the childr...
Black (Black Series #1)
Black (Black Series #1) Joan Vassar 9780692704035 Fiction Dream House Press Dream House Press Listen to a reading from the novel Black, book #1 in the Black series, written by Joan Vassar Y...
Man Called Horse: John Horse and the Black Seminole Underground Railroad
Man Called Horse: John Horse and the Black Seminole Underground Railroad Glennette Tilley Turner 9781419749339 Nonfiction Harry N. Abrams Harry N. Abrams From award-winning children’s author Glennette...
A Hustler’s Wife
A Hustler’s Wife Nikki Turner 9781601626196 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. [Read by Bahni Turpin] Nikki Turner’s debut novel is a smorgasbord of manipulation, street-life, greed, bet...
A Hustler’s Wife
A Hustler’s Wife Nikki Turner 9781601625779 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. [MP3-CD audiobook format in Vinyl case. NOTE: The MP3-CD format requires a compatible audio CD player.][Read...
Most Wanted
Most Wanted Kiki Swinson and Nikki Turner 9780758280251 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. National bestselling authors Kiki Swinson and Nikki Turner turn up the heat with two twisty tales of ...
Under the Sword: Life Lessons to Awaken the Zen Warrior in You
Under the Sword: Life Lessons to Awaken the Zen Warrior in You Vernon Kitabu Turner 9781780280981 Nonfiction Watkins Publishing Watkins Publishing In our fast-changing, uncertain world, it’s easy to f...
Searching For Tina Turner
Searching For Tina Turner Jacqueline E. Luckett 9780446542951 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group On the surface, Lena Spencer appears to have it all. She and her wealthy husband Rand...
Robbie Montgomery
Robbie Montgomery NONE Robbie Montgomery, “Miss Robbie,” is a former professional singer who worked with Ike Turner and other notable artists before opening a soul food restaurant, Sweetie Pie's, in ...
Penguin Random House
Penguin Random House Bertelsmann 4 Color Books Ace Books Addison-Wesley Alfred A. Knopf Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers Anchor Anchor Books Anchor Press Anne Schwartz Books Avery Ballantine Bo...
The Banks Sisters Complete
The Banks Sisters Complete Nikki Turner 9781622866434 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Death, deception, and the surprise introduction of a long-lost family member keep the drama on ful...
The Banks Sisters
The Banks Sisters Nikki Turner 9781601626479 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. New York Times bestselling author Nikki Turner returns with her most spellbinding story to date: Meet the B...
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (1910s Century Cycle)
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (1910s Century Cycle) August Wilson 9780452260092 Fiction Plume Penguin Random House Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano LessonWinner of the New York Drama...
Marc Lacy Releases Curse of the Whiskey House
Marc Lacy Releases Curse of the Whiskey House Troy Johnson Article Curse of The Whiskey House made AALBC.com Best Sellers List for May/June 2015! Curse of the Whiskey House The highly anticipat...
When God Made Light
When God Made Light Matthew Paul Turner 9781601429209 Fiction Convergent Books Penguin Random House From the author and illustrator of the best-selling When God Made You comes a new illuminating messa...
A Project Chick
A Project Chick Nikki Turner 9781601626004 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Tressa is a fly girl accustomed to the lavish lifestyle that Lucky, her possessive, deranged baby daddy, has ...
Street Chronicles: A Woman’s Work
Street Chronicles: A Woman’s Work Nikki Turner 9780345504302 Nonfiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House The heralded Queen of Hip-Hop Lit presents an addictive collection of celebrated urban...
Heartbreak Of A Hustler’s Wife: A Novel
Heartbreak Of A Hustler’s Wife: A Novel Nikki Turner 9780345511089 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House Long live the Queen of Hip Hop Lit! Nikki Turner is back with another explosive...
Relapse: A Novel
Relapse: A Novel Nikki Turner 9780345511058 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House Nikki Turner, Queen of Hip-Hop Lit, is back with one of her gutsiest female characters yet, a glamorous ch...
Ghetto Superstar: A Novel (Many Cultures, One World)
Ghetto Superstar: A Novel (Many Cultures, One World) Nikki Turner 9780345493897 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House The reigning queen of hip-hop lit, Nikki Turner, takes on the music bi...
Christmas In The Hood (Street Chronicles)
Christmas In The Hood (Street Chronicles) Nikki Turner 9780345497802 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House The undisputed queen of hip-hop fiction, #1 Essence bestselling author Nikki Turn...
An Eighth of August
An Eighth of August Dawn Turner Trice 9780517705896 Fiction Crown Penguin Random House With Only Twice I’ve Wished for Heaven, Dawn Turner Trice established herself as a powerful and unique new fictio...
Majestic Hills
Majestic Hills Dawn Turner Trice 9781668049310 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. A Black couple leaves their downtown Chicago condo for a new suburban subdivision, only to find t...
Two Minute Book Review The Secret of Freedom by Vernon Kitabu Turner
Two Minute Book Review The Secret of Freedom by Vernon Kitabu Turner Book Spotlights AALBC's Troy Johnson give a sub-two minute review of The Secret of Freedom by Vernon Kitabu Turner
Banks Sisters 2
Banks Sisters 2 Nikki Turner 9781622869572 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. New York Times bestselling author Nikki Turner returns with the next edition in the highly successful Ban...
Project Chick Ii: What’s Done In The Dark
Project Chick Ii: What’s Done In The Dark Nikki Turner 9781250001436 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Tressa always thought that the best moment in her life was the day she gave bi...
Journey To The Woman I’ve Come To Love: Affirmations From Women Who Have Fallen In Love--With Themselves (Volume 1)
Journey To The Woman I’ve Come To Love: Affirmations From Women Who Have Fallen In Love--With Themselves (Volume 1) Miki Turner 9781478259497 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Miki Turne...
Another Man Will
Another Man Will Daaimah S. Poole 9780758246233 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Essence® bestselling author Daaimah S. Poole serves up a sexy tale of three sisters who long for the successf...
Feeding the Soul: Black Music, Black Thought
Feeding the Soul: Black Music, Black Thought Diane D. Turner 9780883782262 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press An Africa-centered framework unifies these essays about misconceptions in stan...
My Name Is Oney Judge
My Name Is Oney Judge Diane D. Turner 9780883783047 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press This children’s book tells the true story of Oney Judge, a young African American woman who was a sla...
The Nat Turner Insurrection Trials: A Mystic Chord Resonates Today
The Nat Turner Insurrection Trials: A Mystic Chord Resonates Today Walter L. Gordon, III 9781439229835 Nonfiction BookSurge Publishing On-Demand Publishing LLC This is the first book by a legal schol...
Lathered Layers
Lathered Layers Darcel Turner 9780974734712 Fiction Dances On Paper Press Dances On Paper Press Darcel Turner’s Lathered Layers is a garden of poetry, words of wisdom, short stories in full bloom with...
Dana Dances on Paper
Dana Dances on Paper Darcel Turner 9780974734705 Fiction Dances On Paper Press Dances On Paper Press Dana Dances on Paper by Darcel Turner is a slick, upbeat and heartfelt first novel. The main charac...
Freedom Bound
Freedom Bound Jayne Cubbage Book Review The novel Freedom bound is based on the life Anta Majigeen Ndiaya who had been captured by slave raiders from Yang Yang village in Senegal, West Africa. Auth...
Boys into Men
Boys into Men Paige Turner Book Review BOYS INTO MEN: RAISING OUR AFRICAN AMERICAN TEENAGE SONS By Paige Turner An old Parliament Funkadelic album was entitled America Eats Its Young. While this se...
Running for Our Lives
Running for Our Lives Glennette Tilley Turner 9780823411214 Fiction Holiday House Holiday House The story of the Underground Railroad comes to life through the eyes of eleven-year-old Luther and his f...
Finch House
Finch House Ciera Burch 9781665930543 Fiction Margaret K. McElderry Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Encanto meets Coraline in this “supremely successful, atmospheric” (Kirkus Reviews) middle grade story ...
Curse of the Whiskey House (Whiskey House Trilogy Book 1)
Curse of the Whiskey House (Whiskey House Trilogy Book 1) Marc Lacy 9780974971261 Fiction AVO Publishing AVO Publishing, LLC Curse of the Whiskey House: When Life is the Principle and Death is the Pra...
Baldwin, Styron, and Me
Baldwin, Styron, and Me Melikah Abdelmoumen 9781771966269 Nonfiction Biblioasis Biblioasis An unlikely literary friendship from the past sheds light on the radicalization of public debate around ident...
Perish
Perish LaToya Watkins 9780593185919 Fiction Tiny Reparations Books Penguin Random House From a stunning new voice, comes a powerful debut novel, Perish, about a Black Texan family, exploring the effec...
How to Fail at Flirting
How to Fail at Flirting Denise Williams 9780593101902 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House One daring to-do list and a crash course in flirtation turn a Type A overachiever’s world upside down. ...
When God Made You (Board Book)
When God Made You (Board Book) Matthew Paul Turner 9780593193020 Fiction Convergent Books Penguin Random House The best-selling favorite, now available as a board book! Whimsical rhyme and imaginative...
When God Made You
When God Made You Matthew Paul Turner 9781601429186 Fiction Convergent Books Penguin Random House YOU, you… God thinks about you. God was thinking of you long before your debut. From early o...
Only Twice I’ve Wished for Heaven
Only Twice I’ve Wished for Heaven Dawn Turner Trice 9780385491235 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House n 1975, Tempestt Saville and her family are chosen by lottery to "move on up" to Lakelan...
Take a Walk in Their Shoes: Biographies of 14 Outstanding African Americans
Take a Walk in Their Shoes: Biographies of 14 Outstanding African Americans Glennette Tilley Turner 9780140362503 Nonfiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House Presents biographical sketches of fourtee...
The People’s House: The Power and Presence of African Americans in the White House
The People’s House: The Power and Presence of African Americans in the White House Michelle D. Commander and Kathleen M. Kendrick 9780143139072 Nonfiction Penguin Classics Penguin Random House A new a...
Ms. Etta’s Fast House
Ms. Etta’s Fast House Victor McGlothin 9780758213815 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Essence bestselling author Victor McGlothin delivers a stirring novel about a player who’s down on his l...
Keylight Books
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Devour: A Graphic Novel
Devour: A Graphic Novel Jazmine Joyner 9781419763069 Fiction Abrams ComicArts Abrams In this horror graphic novel from award-winning writer Jazmine Joyner and illustrator Anthony Pugh, American Gods m...
After the Rain: A heartbreaking and gripping emotional page-turner
After the Rain: A heartbreaking and gripping emotional page-turner Laila Ibrahim 9781805084877 Fiction Storm Publishing Storm Publishing It began like any other Sunday morning… Jenn Henderson arrived...
Ruby Bridges Takes Her Seat: Courageous Kid of the Civil Rights Movement
Ruby Bridges Takes Her Seat: Courageous Kid of the Civil Rights Movement Myra Faye Turner 9781666334371 Nonfiction Capstone Press Capstone Press When 6-year-old Ruby Bridges and her mother went to Wil...
Sophie Washington Lemonade Day
Sophie Washington Lemonade Day Tonya Duncan Ellis 9781735338934 Fiction Page Turner Publishing Page Turner Publishing When Life Gives You Lemons…Make Lemonade Sixth-grader Sophie Washington and friend...
It’s Life as I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940 - 1980
It’s Life as I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940 - 1980 Dan Nadel 9781681375618 Fiction New York Review Comics New York Review Books Originally published by Chicago’s Black press, long neglec...
Sophie Washington Class Retreat
Sophie Washington Class Retreat Tonya Duncan Ellis 9781735338927 Fiction Page Turner Publishing Page Turner Publishing An entertaining story that celebrates friendship, diversity, environmental awaren...
Sophie Washington Activity Book
Sophie Washington Activity Book Tonya Duncan Ellis 9781735338903 Nonfiction Page Turner Publishing Page Turner Publishing Learn and play with characters from the Sophie Washington series with this ent...
Sophie Washington My BFF
Sophie Washington My BFF Tonya Duncan Ellis 9781733776387 Fiction Page Turner Publishing Page Turner Publishing READERS’ FAVORITE GOLD MEDAL BOOK AWARD WINNERAn Amazon Bestselling Book!!Fans of Junie ...
Roy Decarava Light Break
Roy Decarava Light Break Roy DeCarava 9781644230251 Nonfiction David Zwirner Books David Zwirner Books Light Break presents the first survey since 1996 of photographer Roy DeCarava, an essential figur...
Sophie Washington Mismatch
Sophie Washington Mismatch Tonya Duncan Ellis 9781733776370 Fiction Page Turner Publishing Page Turner Publishing AN AMAZON BESTSELLING BOOK!!What’s up with Mackenzie?Sophie Washington is trying out f...