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The Yellow House on the Corner
The Yellow House on the Corner Rita Dove 9780887480928 Poetry Carnegie-Mellon University Press Carnegie-Mellon University Press When Carnegie Mellon University Press first published The Yellow House o...
Dark Corner
Dark Corner Thumper Book Review I love vampire tales with a passion. I’m always on the look out for new, well written, vampire adventures. I was anxious to read Brandon Massey’s latest ...
The Yellow House: A Memoir
The Yellow House: A Memoir Sarah M. Broom 9780802125088 Nonfiction Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSLLER A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent...
Anika Noni Rose - Half of a Yellow Sun - Interview
Anika Noni Rose - Half of a Yellow Sun - Interview Kam Williams Interview Anika Noni Rose The “Half of a Yellow Sun” Interview Tony Award winner Anika Noni Rose currently stars alongside Denz...
Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun Kam Williams Half-of-a-Yellow-Sun.jpg Film Review Colonial Nigeria Provides Backdrop for Sweeping Romance Saga Half of a Yellow Sun In Theaters: May 16, 2014 Limited Rated...
Selected Poems
Selected Poems Rita Dove 9780679750802 Poetry Vintage Penguin Random House Here in one volume is a selection of the extraordinary poems of Rita Dove, who, as the nation’s Poet Laureate from 1993 to 19...
Collected Poems (paperback): 1974-2004
Collected Poems (paperback): 1974-2004 Rita Dove 9780393354935 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Three decades of powerful lyric poetry from a virtuoso of the English language...
Collected Poems: 1974–2004
Collected Poems: 1974–2004 Rita Dove 9780393285949 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Three decades of powerful lyric poetry from a virtuoso of the English language in one unab...
Yellow Dog Blues
Yellow Dog Blues Alice Faye Duncan 9780802855534 Fiction Eerdmans Books for Young Readers Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company A lyrical road trip through the Mississippi Delta, exploring the landmarks ...
Holy Ghost Corner
Holy Ghost Corner Michele Andrea Bowen 9780446197069 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Theresa Elaine Hopson, 46, owner of Miss Thang’s Holy Ghost Corner and Church Women’s Boutique...
Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9781400095209 Fiction Alfred A. Knopf Penguin Random House A masterly, haunting new novel from a writer heralded by The Washington Post Book World as “the...
Dark Corner Publishing
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Wimbey’s Corner
Wimbey’s Corner David Covin 9780984435036 Fiction Path Press Path Press Wimbey’s Corner is a novel centered in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois during the early 1940s. Most of its characters reside in W...
Dark Corner
Dark Corner Brandon Massey 9780758202499 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. From Brandon Massey, award-winning author of Thunderland, comes a terrifying new novel about a town besieged...
A Place On The Corner, Second Edition (Fieldwork Encounters And Discoveries)
A Place On The Corner, Second Edition (Fieldwork Encounters And Discoveries) Elijah Anderson 9780226019598 Fiction University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press This paperback edition of A P...
I Love You Like Yellow: A Board Book
I Love You Like Yellow: A Board Book Andrea Beaty 9781419748080 Fiction Abrams Appleseed Abrams This sweet and playful bedtime book reminds young readers just how loved they are, from the New York Tim...
Emily, The Yellow Rose: A Texas Legend
Emily, The Yellow Rose: A Texas Legend Anita Bunkley 9780962401220 Fiction Rinard Publishing Rinard Publishing From the shores of Galveston Bay to the plains of San Jacinto, Emily, The Yellow Rose swe...
Chapter One
Chapter One Catherine Joy White Excerpt Silence This thread of gold that ties me to my mother, my grandmother, and the women who came before looks a lot like the color purple. Like the purple hibi...
Garden’s Corner
Garden’s Corner Douglas S. Reed 9780947480929 Fiction The Hurricane Group The Hurricane Group Little Speedy is back! Twenty-five years after his debut, Little Speedy Copeland returns to share his e...
Amen Corner: How The National Media Shaped Public Opinion On Gay Marriage
Amen Corner: How The National Media Shaped Public Opinion On Gay Marriage Gwen Richardson 9780980025002 Nonfiction Cushcity Communications Cushcity Communications In 2004, Gallup polls showed that 42 ...
Wimbey’s Corner
Wimbey’s Corner Emanuel Carpenter Book Review At first glance, one might think that Wimbey’s Corner is a story about a big and black country bumpkin’ named Wayne Hunter who moves from a...
Red, Yellow, Blue (and a Dash of White, Too!)
Red, Yellow, Blue (and a Dash of White, Too!) C. G. Esperanza 9781629146249 Fiction Sky Pony Skyhorse Publishing Splish! Splash! Sploosh! A little girl is about to discover the wonders of mixing color...
Yellow Crocus
Yellow Crocus Laila Ibrahim 9781477824757 Fiction Lake Union Publishing Amazon Publishing Moments after Lisbeth is born, she’s taken from her mother and handed over to an enslaved wet nurse, Mattie...
Moon
Moon Jewell Parker Rhodes 9781451617108 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. The orginal title for this novel was Yellow Moon. In the second part of the New Orleans trilogy that beg...
A Little Yellow Dog
A Little Yellow Dog Walter Mosley 9780743451802 Nonfiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. November 1963: Easy’s settled into a steady gig as a school custodian. It’s a quiet, simple ex...
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down Ishmael Reed 9781564782380 Fiction Dalkey Archive Press Dalkey Archive Press “Folks. This here is the story of the Loop Garoo Kid. A cowboy so bad he made a working posse ...
Moon
Moon Thumper Book Review Allow me to state up front that I am a huge fan of Jewell Parker Rhodes; have been since I read one of her earlier novels, Magic City. I got extremely excited when I ...
Second House from the Corner
Second House from the Corner Sadeqa Johnson 9781250074140 Fiction Thomas Dunne Books Macmillan Publishers Second House from the Corner centers on the story of Felicia Lyons, a stay-at-home mother of t...
The Sisterhood of Blackberry Corner
The Sisterhood of Blackberry Corner Andrea Smith 9780385336239 Fiction The Dial Press Penguin Random House Canaan Creek, South Carolina, in the 1950s is a tiny town where the close-knit African-Americ...
The Bluelight Corner: Black Women Writing on Passion, Sex, and Romantic Love
The Bluelight Corner: Black Women Writing on Passion, Sex, and Romantic Love Rosemarie Robotham 9780609803547 Fiction Broadway Books Penguin Random House A collection of the very best writing by Afric...
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 Family Stone
The Family Stone Michael R. Lane 9780971645394 Fiction Bare Bones Press Bare Bones Press Before the supermarket boom, corner markets dominated neighborhoods where most people did their grocery shoppin...
Frenzied
Frenzied Brandon Massey 9780991339693 Fiction Dark Corner Publishing Dark Corner Publishing Live … work … play … die South Haven is the premier mixed-used community in metro Atlanta, a vibrant place ...
Covenant
Covenant Brandon Massey 9780970807557 Fiction Dark Corner Publishing Dark Corner Publishing From the award-winning author of Dark Corner and The Other Brother comes an unforgettable thriller of family...
On Da Corner
On Da Corner Kisha Green 9780615147482 Fiction DivaBooks DivaBooks On Da Corner highlights new urban talent in this short story anthology. Dare to say…it has been done with a keen eye! This is just th...
Yellow Jersey
Yellow Jersey Penguin Random House UK Bertelsmann
Tramaine Suubi
Tramaine Suubi NONE Tramaine Suubi is a quadrilingual multi-hyphenate Bantu writer hailing from Kampala. They are a graduate of Wheaton College, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, a Yellow Arrow Writer-in-R...
What Makes You Happy?
What Makes You Happy? Nedra Glover Tawwab 9780593620250 Fiction Rocky Pond Books Penguin Random House By the influential relationship therapist and bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace, th...
Yellow Wife
Yellow Wife Sadeqa Johnson 9781982149109 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. "Wholly engrossing, exquisitely researched, and so timely. Sadeqa Johnson brings a fresh telling to a story we ...
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...
Chasing Destiny
Chasing Destiny Eric Jerome Dickey 9780525949503 Fiction Dutton Adult Penguin Random House Eight-time New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey’s new novel is filled with intrigue, speed, ...
Jojo’s Flying Side Kick (Reprint)
Jojo’s Flying Side Kick (Reprint) Andrea Davis Pinkney 9780689821929 Fiction Aladdin Paperbacks Simon & Schuster, Inc. A young girl must face her fears and conquer her nerves to earn her yellow belt i...
Laila Ibrahim
Laila Ibrahim NONE Laila Ibrahim, a full-time novelist, achieved fame with her book, Yellow Crocus, published in ten languages. Previously a preschool teacher and director, a birth doula, and a Direc...
C. G. Esperanza
C. G. Esperanza NONE Charles G. Esperanza, a South Bronx native, is a renowned author-illustrator known for his unique fusion of jazz, graffiti, and whimsical truth. Known for his book “Red, Yellow, ...
Jay Bernard
Jay Bernard 0000000068355829 Jay Bernard is an acclaimed author, known for works like 'Your Sign is Cuckoo, Girl' and 'The Red and Yellow Nothing,' shortlisted for the 2017 Ted Hughes Award. They als...
Biyi Bandele
Biyi Bandele 0000000120964833 Biyi Bandele-Thomas (1967-2022) was a renowned Nigerian novelist, playwright, director, and photographer. He was celebrated as one of Africa's top 50 artists. Bandele's ...
The Davenports (Chapter One)
The Davenports (Chapter One) Krystal Marquis Excerpt Chapter 1 Olivia Olivia Elise Davenport pulled a bolt of vibrant yellow silk from the display and held it to her dark complexion. She was dr...
Migrated Interviews
Migrated Interviews Kam Williams Interview Migrated Interviews Aisha Tyler - The "Balls of Fury and Death Sentence" Interview Alisa Hyman - Book Reviewer, Educator Alrick Brown - The "Kinyarwand...
Get Down: Stories
Get Down: Stories Asali Solomon 9780374299422 Fiction New Beacon Books Ltd New Beacon Books Ltd Asali Solomon’s characters are vivid misfitsa heathen at Jesus camp, a scheming prep-school student, a ...
In The Dark
In The Dark Brandon Massey 9780970807588 Fiction Dark Corner Publishing Dark Corner Publishing It began as their dream home … but soon became their worst nightmare … Len and Olivia Bowden had been s...
Stagolee Shot Billy
Stagolee Shot Billy Thumper Book Review It was because of my mother’s and aunt Janice’s love of 60’s soul music that I first encountered and fell in love with Wilson Pickett singin...
Within the Shadows
Within the Shadows Brandon Massey 9780991339631 Fiction Dark Corner Publishing Dark Corner Publishing At just thirty-one, Andrew Wilson has it all: close friends, a great house in an Atlanta suburb, a...
Thirsty
Thirsty Dionne Brand 9780771016448 Poetry McClelland & Stewart Penguin Random House This is a poem about the city. About a man who has visions, hovering on the edge but hating it, restless and at war ...
Backwoods
Backwoods Brandon Massey 9798999611208 Fiction Dark Corner Publishing Dark Corner Publishing When successful entrepreneur Nick Alexander visits his reclusive grandfather’s remote Georgia property, he ...
Good Intentions
Good Intentions Brandon Massey 9798985421682 Fiction Dark Corner Publishing Dark Corner Publishing Nate Noble has it all—a thriving business, a loving fiancée, and a bright future. But his world takes...
Bad Influence: A Psychological Thriller
Bad Influence: A Psychological Thriller Brandon Massey 9798985421675 Fiction Dark Corner Publishing Dark Corner Publishing A toxic friendship plunges a family into chaos in this explosive psychologica...
Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable
Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable Ronald Fair 9781598537635 Fiction Library of America Library of America Rediscover this gripping 1965 novel about race in America—set in a rural corner of Mississ...
The Exes
The Exes Brandon Massey 9798985421644 Fiction Dark Corner Publishing Dark Corner Publishing Divorce can be deadly… Seven years ago, Austin Dash’s dangerously jealous wife, Naomi, nearly stabbed him...
No Stone Unturned
No Stone Unturned Brandon Massey 9798985421606 Fiction Dark Corner Publishing Dark Corner Publishing A devoted father is pushed to the limit in this gripping thriller by the best-selling author of The...
On the Corner of Hope and Main: A Blessings Novel
On the Corner of Hope and Main: A Blessings Novel Beverly Jenkins 9780062952202 Fiction William Morrow HarperCollins NAACP nominee and USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins celebrates her belov...
Before Truth Set Me Free: Behind The Music To Behind Bars - A Memoir
Before Truth Set Me Free: Behind The Music To Behind Bars - A Memoir Vanessa “Fluffy” Murray-Yisrael 9781936400737 Nonfiction Mill City Press, Inc. Mill City Press, Inc. FROM A TOP LEVEL EXECUTIVE IN ...
Vicious
Vicious Brandon Massey 9780970807526 Fiction Dark Corner Publishing Dark Corner Publishing The night is full of wild things… When Kym Phillips embarks on a road trip from Atlanta to Los Angeles to ta...
Garden’s Corner: A Novel
Garden’s Corner: A Novel Douglas S. Reed 9780965727242 Fiction Kataza Books Kataza Books Book by Reed, Douglas S.
Porsha Olayiwola
Porsha Olayiwola NONE Porsha Olayiwola, is the City of Boston’s poet laureate and the co-owner of Just Bookish a literary gathering space in Fields Corner in Dorchester. Porsha Olayiwola is the City ...
Brandon Massey
Brandon Massey 0000000038345320 Brandon Massey, born on June 9, 1973, is a passionate writer from Illinois now based in Atlanta. With an early fascination for words and stories, he began writing in h...
Connie Bradley
Connie Bradley NONE Connie Divers Bradley, also known as Cynique, is a retired postal worker and provocative columnist based in Chicago. She has been a notable contributor to the AALBC discussion boa...
Max Paints the House
Max Paints the House Ken Wilson-Max 9781856025027 Fiction Chrysalis Children's Books Chrysalis Children's Books Max and his friends disagree when attempting to paint their house to match the sky. One ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Penguin Random House UK
Penguin Random House UK Bertelsmann #Merky Books Hamish Hamilton Jonathan Cape Virgin Books Yellow Jersey
The House of Eve
The House of Eve Sadeqa Johnson 9781982197360 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife, a daring, beautiful, and redemptive novel that explores what...
Men of the House: A B-Boy Blues Novel
Men of the House: A B-Boy Blues Novel James Earl Hardy 9781719937900 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Things are definitely "jood" (better than good) for 15-year-old Raheim Erro...
The Spider Weaver: A Legend of Kente Cloth
The Spider Weaver: A Legend of Kente Cloth Margaret Musgrove 9781627200608 Fiction Apprentice House Apprentice House The story in this book is widely known among the weavers in Ghana and dates back to...
“...what, he think he live in a white neighborhood or sumptin?!”
“...what, he think he live in a white neighborhood or sumptin?!” Troy Johnson Article I'll never understand, why people feel it is okay to litter. I can go outside, right now and watch an adult fini...
The Unhaunting
The Unhaunting Micaiah Johnson 9798217181131 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Penguin Random House Award-winning author Micaiah Johnson delivers a chilling supernatural novel in which a mysterious house pro...
From the Crack House to the White House: My Journey from Tragedy to Trauma to Triumph
From the Crack House to the White House: My Journey from Tragedy to Trauma to Triumph Tonja Myles 9798988455615 Nonfiction Tonja Myles Tonja Myles From the Crack House to the White House delves into t...
The White House
The White House JaQuavis Coleman 9781617752612 Fiction Infamous Books Akashic Books "The White House is a fast-paced thriller that doesn’t disappoint."—Urban Reviews"White House by JaQuavis Coleman st...
It’s Elementary
It’s Elementary Elise Bryant 9780593640784 Fiction Penguin Publishing Group Penguin Random House A fast-paced, completely delightful new mystery about what happens when parents get a little too involv...
Our Beautiful Colors
Our Beautiful Colors Nikki Shannon Smith 9780593434970 Fiction Golden Books Penguin Random House This Little Golden Book features beautiful illustrations and rhyming text about colors, plus a social j...
The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz Carly Gledhill 9780593114759 Fiction Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Bedtime Classics: charmingly illustrated board book editions of perennial favorites, simplifie...
The Black Maria
The Black Maria Aracelis Girmay 9781942683025 Poetry BOA Editions BOA Editions Praise for Aracelis Girmay:"[Girmay’s] every loss—she calls them estrangements—is a yearning for connection across time a...
The Jumbies
The Jumbies Tracey Baptiste 9781616204143 Fiction Algonquin Books Workman Publishing Co., Inc. The jumbies are coming! Corinne La Mer isn’t afraid of anything. Not scorpions, not the boys who tease he...
Golden Boy
Golden Boy Tara Sullivan 9780399161124 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Thirteen-year-old Habo has always been different—light eyes, yellow hair and white skin. ...
Americanah
Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9780307271082 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a dazzling new novel: a story of love and race centered arou...
Running For Their Lives: The Extraordinary Story of Britain’s Greatest Ever Distance Runners
Running For Their Lives: The Extraordinary Story of Britain’s Greatest Ever Distance Runners Mark Whitaker 9780224082594 Nonfiction Yellow Jersey Penguin Random House UK In 1928 two extraordinary Engl...
No Mush Today
No Mush Today Sally Derby Miller 9781600602382 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books The sweet story a young girl who rebels against eating mushy cereal for breakfast every day by leaving her parent...
Get Down: Stories
Get Down: Stories Asali Solomon 9780374531461 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers Asali Solomon’s characters are vivid misfits—a heathen at Jesus camp, a scheming prep-school stu...
Pretty Salma: A Little Red Riding Hood Story from Africa
Pretty Salma: A Little Red Riding Hood Story from Africa Niki Daly 9780618723454 Fiction Clarion Books HarperCollins When Granny asks Pretty Salma to go to the market one day, she warns her not to tal...
The Story of the Saxophone
The Story of the Saxophone Lesa Cline-Ransome 9780823459094 Nonfiction Holiday House Holiday House Brassy, smokey, melodious. There’s nothing like the saxophone. This incredible work from the aw...
Harlem After Midnight
Harlem After Midnight Louise Hare 9780593439289 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House Named a Must Read by Ebony • Boston Herald • Book Riot • Bookish • Minneapolis Star-Tribu...
Story of the Saxophone
Story of the Saxophone Lesa Cline-Ransome 9780823437023 Nonfiction Holiday House Holiday House Brassy, smokey, melodious. There’s nothing like the saxophone. This incredible work from the award-winner...
Sorry You’re Having A Bad Night
Sorry You’re Having A Bad Night E.K. Robertson 9780578306100 Fiction Austin House Publishing Austin House Publishing When a digital media powerhouse becomes the object of conspiracy, a corporate celeb...
Royal House Publishing Company
Royal House Publishing Company Royal House Publishing Company The House of Ra The House of Ra offers a wide variety of workshops and seminars geared toward psychological and emotional well-being, and...
Royal House Publishing Company
Royal House Publishing Company The House of Ra Royal House Publishing Company The House of Ra offers a wide variety of workshops and seminars geared toward psychological and emotional well-being, and...
Holiday House
Holiday House Holiday House Holiday House, Inc. Since its beginnings in 1935 as the first American publishing house founded with the purpose of publishing only children’s books, Holiday House h...
Holiday House
Holiday House Holiday House, Inc. Holiday House Margaret Ferguson Books Neal Porter Books Since its beginnings in 1935 as the first American publishing house founded with the purpose of publishing on...
This House Is Not for Sale: A Novel
This House Is Not for Sale: A Novel E. C. Osondu 9780061990885 Fiction Harper HarperCollins The award-winning author of Voice of America paints a vivid, fully imagined portrait of an extraordinary Afr...