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Til The Well Runs Dry
Til The Well Runs Dry Lauren Francis-Sharma 9780805098037 Fiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers A glorious and moving multi-generational, multicultural saga that begins in the 1940s and swee...
Until the Well Runs Dry: Mental Health in the African American Community
Until the Well Runs Dry: Mental Health in the African American Community Wayne Ince 9798994346037 Nonfiction Breaking Ranks Books Breaking Ranks Books Deborah Danner. Walter Wallace Jr. Kayla Moore. ...
Lauren Francis-Sharma
Lauren Francis-Sharma NONE Lauren Francis Sharma, a New York-born author of Trinidadian descent, pursued law before becoming a writer. Raised in Baltimore, she graduated from the University of Pennsy...
Hold It ’Til It Hurts
Hold It ’Til It Hurts T. Geronimo Johnson 9781566893091 Fiction Coffee House Press Coffee House Press Finalist for the 2013 PEN/Faulkner Award"The magnificence of Hold It ’Til It Hurts is not only in ...
Casualties of Truth
Casualties of Truth Lauren Francis-Sharma 9780802163783 Fiction Atlantic Monthly Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. From the author of Book of the Little Axe, nominated for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award...
Lauren Francis Sharma author 'TILL THE WELL RUNS DRY
Lauren Francis Sharma author 'TILL THE WELL RUNS DRY Author Interviews Lauren Francis-Sharma (https://aalbc.it/laurenfs) tells us about her novel 'TILL THE WELL RUNS DRY at the 2014 Go On Girl! Book C...
Paul Dry Books
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Paul Dry Books
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Peach When the Well Run Dry
Peach When the Well Run Dry Peggy Mercer 9781603490238 Fiction Marimba Books Just Us Books, Inc. It was summer of 1937 in Southern Georgia—a summer that nine-year-old Peach Lucas would never forget. P...
Waiting ’Til The Midnight Hour: A Narrative History Of Black Power In America
Waiting ’Til The Midnight Hour: A Narrative History Of Black Power In America Peniel E. Joseph 9780805083354 Nonfiction Holt Paperbacks Macmillan Publishers "Once in a while a book comes along that pr...
’Til Death Do We Parent: Raising My Kid with His Dad
’Til Death Do We Parent: Raising My Kid with His Dad Jess Hilarious 9781668059357 Nonfiction Atria / Black Privilege Publishing Simon & Schuster, Inc. Jess Hilarious, comedy’s whip-smart and unapologe...
Confessions: Brainstormin’ From Midnite ’Til Dawn
Confessions: Brainstormin’ From Midnite ’Til Dawn C. Liegh McInnis 9780965577526 Nonfiction Claude L. McInnis Claude L. McInnis Confessions: Brainstormin’ from Midnight ’til Dawn is C. Liegh McInnis...
’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 ...
’Til Death: A Novel
’Til Death: A Novel Miasha 9781416589884 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. “ I couldn’t care less what anybody thinks of me. They don’t pay my bills. And there’s nothing wrong with using what ...
Love You, Til the End
Love You, Til the End Lauren Lacey 9798218296322 Fiction Lauren Lacey Lauren Lacey Sometimes love just isn’t enough. This may be the case for Isabella ‘Izzy’ Waylen and her estranged husband Gabriel H...
Countdown to Christmas: A Brown Baby Parade Book
Countdown to Christmas: A Brown Baby Parade Book Nikki Shannon Smith 9780593566039 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House It’s almost Christmas! Count down the days with festive ac...
Countdown to Christmas: A Brown Baby Parade Book
Countdown to Christmas: A Brown Baby Parade Book Nikki Shannon Smith 9780593566046 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House It’s almost Christmas! Count down the days with festive ac...
We Do This ’Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
We Do This ’Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice Mariame Kaba 9781642595253 Nonfiction Haymarket Books Haymarket Books “Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking t...
How Long ’Til Black Future Month?: Stories
How Long ’Til Black Future Month?: Stories N. K. Jemisin 9780316491372 Fiction Orbit Books Hachette Book Group Three-time Hugo Award winner and African American Literature Book Club bestselling author...
Two “Til Midnight
Two “Til Midnight Bernard L. Dillard 9780578453484 Fiction BerNerd Publishing BerNerd Publishing Witness this gripping novel that spins a web of murder, racism, adoption, sexuality, social media safet...
How Long ’til Black Future Month?: Stories
How Long ’til Black Future Month?: Stories N. K. Jemisin 9780316491341 Fiction Orbit Books Hachette Book Group Hugo award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N. K. Jemisin sharply examines m...
Til Death Do Us Part
Til Death Do Us Part Anasa Maat 9780975471913 Fiction Nutany Publishing Nutany Publishing Aliyah Neal, vivacious and smart, has found her soul mate in Jeremiah. They have been happily married for four...
Rock ’Til You Drop: The Decline from Rebellion to Nostalgia
Rock ’Til You Drop: The Decline from Rebellion to Nostalgia John Strausbaugh 9781859846292 Nonfiction Verso Books Verso Books In the 1960s and early 70s rock and rebellion went arm in arm. This was th...
T. Geronimo Johnson
T. Geronimo Johnson 0000000357171620 T. Geronimo Johnson, a New Orleans native, is a bestselling author known for 'Welcome to Braggsville' and 'Hold It 'Til It Hurts'. A finalist for the 2013 PEN/Fau...
Patrick A. Howell
Patrick A. Howell NONE Patrick A. Howell is an accomplished banker, author, and co-founder of the news collective, Diatribe, and the Global International African Arts Movement. Known for his work in ...
Two “Til Midnight
Two “Til Midnight Bernard L. Dillard Excerpt Lead-In: Faculty members and staff at a university are having a diversity meeting and are discussing issues that concern becoming a more diverse camp...
Round And Round Together: Taking A Merry-Go-Round Ride Into The Civil Rights Movement (The Nautilus Series)
Round And Round Together: Taking A Merry-Go-Round Ride Into The Civil Rights Movement (The Nautilus Series) Amy Nathan 9781589880719 Nonfiction Paul Dry Books Paul Dry Books "A snapshot of the civil-r...
Leaving
Leaving Thumper Book Review Leaving, the debut novel by Richard Dry, is an epic tale that spans three generations of a black family, from the 1950s to circa 2000. Leaving is an epic not only in siz...
Bled Dry: A Novel
Bled Dry: A Novel Abdelilah Hamdouchi 9789774168482 Fiction The American University in Cairo Press The American University in Cairo Press When a prostitute and her ill-fated lover are killed in a grue...
Leaving: A Novel
Leaving: A Novel Richard Dry 9780312302870 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Winner of the Joseph Henry Jackson AwardPushcart Editors’ Prize NomineeIn 1959, newly-widowed and pregnant ...
Going Down South
Going Down South Thumper Book Review When I started reading books many, many years ago, I came to the conclusion that there is no drama like family drama. A few years ago when African-Ameri...
Patina: Patty Ain’t No Junk
Patina: Patty Ain’t No Junk Jason Reynolds 9781481450195 Fiction Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A newbie to the track team, Patina must learn to rely on her teammates as she trie...
Patina (Track)
Patina (Track) Jason Reynolds 9781481450188 Fiction Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A newbie to the track team, Patina must learn to rely on her teammates as she tries to outrun h...
Best of Peter Tosh
Best of Peter Tosh Peter Tosh 9781423492207 Nonfiction Hal Leonard Hal Leonard (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). 11 classics from Peter Tosh, a Grammy-winning reggae musician who was a core member...
Success Runs In Our Race: The Complete Guide To Effective Networking In The Black Community
Success Runs In Our Race: The Complete Guide To Effective Networking In The Black Community George C. Fraser 9780060578718 Nonfiction William Morrow Paperbacks HarperCollins A completely updated and r...
The Liquid Plain (TCG Edition)
The Liquid Plain (TCG Edition) Naomi Wallace 9781559365147 Fiction Theatre Communications Group Theatre Communications Group “American theater needs more plays like Naomi Wallace’s The Liquid Plain—by...
White Water
White Water Michael S. Bandy and Eric Stein 9780763636784 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press For a young boy growing up in the segregated south, a town drinking fountain becomes the source of a...
All Things Work Out Well
All Things Work Out Well K. Reshay 9781097594962 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Smiddy’s Dry Cleaners is a staple in the Jackson, MS community. Although, it wouldn’t have surv...
Walking with the Muses: A Memoir
Walking with the Muses: A Memoir Pat Cleveland 9781501108228 Nonfiction Atria / 37 Ink Simon & Schuster, Inc. An exciting account of the international adventures of fashion model Pat Cleveland—one of ...
Chrome Valley: Poems
Chrome Valley: Poems Mahogany L. Browne 9781324092278 Poetry Liveright Publishing Corporation W. W. Norton & Company From Lincoln Center’s inaugural poet-in-residence comes this unflinching collection...
Loving Me for Me
Loving Me for Me Naleighna Kai 9781732622524 Fiction Macro Publishing Group Macro Publishing Group Will this May-December romance survive her tragic past, his traditional family, and those who would r...
The Vain Conversation
The Vain Conversation Anthony Grooms 9781611178821 Nonfiction University of South Carolina Press University of South Carolina Press Inspired by true events, The Vain Conversation reflects on the 194...
Out of Step, Into You
Out of Step, Into You Ciera Burch 9780374389154 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers Macmillan Publishers “A perfectly angsty second-chance romance.” —Dahlia Adler, award-winnin...
The New Testament
The New Testament Jericho Brown 9781556594571 Poetry Copper Canyon Press Copper Canyon Press Honored as a ""Best Book of 2014"" by Library JournalHonored as a ""Standout Book of 2014"" by American Poe...
Wifey
Wifey Kiki Swinson 9780758229014 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Essence® bestselling author KiKi Swinson offers up a scandalous street lit tale—and shows that no one else stands a chan...
Rite of Passage
Rite of Passage Richard Wright 9780064471114 Fiction HarperTeen HarperCollins ”Johnny, you’re leaving us tonight …“ Fifteen-year-old Johnny Gibbs does, well in school, respects his teachers, and lov...
Dr. Wangari Maathai Plants a Forest
Dr. Wangari Maathai Plants a Forest Rebel Girls 9781733329217 Fiction Rebel Girls Rebel Girls From the world of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls comes a historical novel based on the life of Dr. Wan...
I Am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in Cameroon
I Am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in Cameroon Miranda Paul and Baptiste Paul 9781512449143 Nonfiction Millbrook Press Lerner Publishing Group "Even as a young child Tantoh Nforba loves th...
The Void Between Emotions: A Short Story Collection
The Void Between Emotions: A Short Story Collection Sumiko Saulson 9781546454120 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Explore the darker side of speculative fiction with this collection of sup...
The Storyteller
The Storyteller Evan Turk 9781481435185 Fiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. From Ezra Jack Keats 2015 New Illustrator Honor recipient Evan Turk comes his debut work as auth...
Dealing With Writer's Block: Eight Things To Do While You're Waiting In Limbo
Dealing With Writer's Block: Eight Things To Do While You're Waiting In Limbo Jamie Walker Article Having writer’s block is no laughing manner. Some w...
Lori Tharps
Lori Tharps 0000000083630964 Lori L. Tharps is a journalism professor at Temple University, author, and freelance journalist. Originally from Milwaukee, she studied at Smith College and Columbia Univ...
Winston Chapman
Winston Chapman NONE Winston Chapman, originally from Roseville, Minnesota, is an author with diverse career experiences, including stand-up comedy and TV show production. He first published an artic...
Incognito: An American Odyssey of Race and Self-Discovery
Incognito: An American Odyssey of Race and Self-Discovery Kam Williams Book Review I grabbed the phone and punched in the number… my heart pounding… My dad… Thirty years late...
Black Folk Could Fly
Black Folk Could Fly Robert Fleming Book Review Some of our literary greats fly under the radar. The unexpected death of the late great author Randall Kenan in 2020 at age 57 brought him well-deserve...
Red Dirt Witch: A Graphic Novel
Red Dirt Witch: A Graphic Novel N. K. Jemisin 9781419753732 Fiction Abrams ComicArts Abrams A graphic novel adaptation of #1 New York Times bestselling author N. K. Jemisin’s acclaimed short story “Re...
Q & A with Robin W. Pearson
Q & A with Robin W. Pearson Robin W. Pearson Interview Robin W. Pearson’s writing sprouts from her Southern roots, where she learned to sing “Jesus Loves Me,” how to make corn bread...
To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship
To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship Elizabeth McHenry 9781478014515 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books “From the title...
Who Stole the Soul? the Weaponization of Hip Hop: A Historical & Sociological Perspective
Who Stole the Soul? the Weaponization of Hip Hop: A Historical & Sociological Perspective Bernard O. Creamer 9780578699639 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published I was a 7-year-old...
The City We Became
The City We Became N. K. Jemisin 9780316509848 Fiction Orbit Books Hachette Book Group Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city from an ancient evil in the first book of a stu...
Schemes
Schemes Kiki Swinson and Saundra 9781617733673 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. DEVIL IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING KIKI SWINSON Karlie Houston hasn’t seen a raise in forever, but the payday loan of...
Reasonable Insanity
Reasonable Insanity Cynthia Freeman Gibbs 9781944359690 Fiction Brown Girls Books Brown Girls Books More than meets the eye: On the outside, clinical psychologist, Dr. Olivia C. Maxwell appears to li...
Is This The Way To Joy
Is This The Way To Joy Stephanie Outten 9780997460803 Nonfiction Cocoon to Wings Publishing Cocoon to Wings Publishing Life has a way of vomiting all over you leaving you to lay in it or trust God to ...
Schemes
Schemes Kiki Swinson and Saundra 9781617733659 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. DEVIL IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING KIKI SWINSON Karlie Houston hasn’t seen a raise in forever, but the payday loan o...
Welcome to Braggsville: A Novel
Welcome to Braggsville: A Novel T. Geronimo Johnson 9780062302120 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House From the PEN/Faulkner finalist and critically acclaimed author of Hold It ’Til It Hurts com...
Lenny Kravitz - It Is Time for a Love Revolution
Lenny Kravitz - It Is Time for a Love Revolution Lenny Kravitz 9781603780827 Nonfiction Cherry Lane Music Company BMG Rights Management Rolling Stone calls this 2008 release "the best album Lenny Krav...
Never Enough: A Novel
Never Enough: A Novel Miasha 9781416553380 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. Some prayed for my death, but I didn’t go anywhere. I was a bad bitch before — wait ’til they see me now…. In a si...
Lenny Kravitz: Greatest Hits
Lenny Kravitz: Greatest Hits Lenny Kravitz 9781575604558 Nonfiction Cherry Lane Music Company BMG Rights Management (Play It Like It Is). Straight-from-the-record transcriptions with tab for 15 of Len...
Lenny Kravitz - Greatest Hits
Lenny Kravitz - Greatest Hits Lenny Kravitz 9781575603728 Nonfiction Cherry Lane Music Company BMG Rights Management Note-for-note transcriptions in score format for every instrument played on a dozen...
Best of Lenny Kravitz for Easy Guitar
Best of Lenny Kravitz for Easy Guitar Lenny Kravitz 9781575603285 Nonfiction Cherry Lane Music Company BMG Rights Management Features easy arrangements in notes and tab of 12 groovin’ tunes by Lenny K...
The Best of Lenny Kravitz: Revised Edition (Revised)
The Best of Lenny Kravitz: Revised Edition (Revised) Lenny Kravitz 9780895248299 Nonfiction Cherry Lane Music Company BMG Rights Management This new edition has been updated to include 14 of this popu...
Anasa Maat
Anasa Maat NONE Dr. Anasa Maat, a retired educator from Newark, NJ, holds degrees from Montclair and Rutgers Universities. She is a prolific author of four novels. Known for her civic engagement, she...
I Can’t Wait on God
I Can’t Wait on God Albert French Excerpt Chapter One Pittsburgh, 1950 Summer night air was always sticky kind of air, had that stinkin mill smoke stuck all in it. Them old freight trains ...
What in the Hell Happened? An Intimate Look at Love and Relationship with Raw Honesty
What in the Hell Happened? An Intimate Look at Love and Relationship with Raw Honesty Kam Williams Book Review “There is an illusion of marriage created by Hollywood… that only exists in...
Anthony Anderson Expounds on Everything from Watts to New Orleans to His New Movie
Anthony Anderson Expounds on Everything from Watts to New Orleans to His New Movie Kam Williams Article Anthony Anderson was born in Compton, California on August 15, 1970, and attended t...
The Broken Hearts Agency
The Broken Hearts Agency Clarence A. Haynes 9781538780435 Fiction Legacy Lit Hachette Book Group In a spicy, contemporary fantasy novel, private investigator Linda Villanueva runs a detective agency f...
There’s Always Next Year
There’s Always Next Year Leah Johnson and George M. Johnson 9780374391690 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers Macmillan Publishers From New York Times-bestselling author George...
Conjure Island
Conjure Island Eden Royce 9780062899637 Fiction Walden Pond Press Walden Pond Press From the award-winning author of Root Magic comes the story of a girl forced to spend the summer with a great-grandm...
Sophie Washington The Snitch
Sophie Washington The Snitch Tonya Duncan Ellis 9781732706088 Fiction Page Turner Publishing Page Turner Publishing **Purple Dragonfly Book Award First Place Winner** Should Sophie Stand Up to the Sch...
Mycroft and Sherlock
Mycroft and Sherlock Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 9781785659256 Fiction Titan Books Titan Publishing Group The new novel by NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, starring brothers Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes.It is...
Tale of the Murda Mamas: The Cartel 2
Tale of the Murda Mamas: The Cartel 2 Ashley Antoinette and JaQuavis Coleman 9781622865031 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. The Cartel runs Miami, and loyalty to the organization runs d...
The Cartel 2
The Cartel 2 Ashley Antoinette and JaQuavis Coleman 9781601622563 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Diamonds are forever — or are they? The Cartel runs Miami, and loyalty to their organi...
Pride: A Novel
Pride: A Novel Lorene Cary 9780385481830 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House Four women, lifelong friends, are turning 40—and what a year it is.Roz, the perfectly controlled (and controlling) politici...
Cam Perron
Cam Perron NONE Cam Perron, renowned for his appearances on Real Sports and as a TED speaker, runs an ecommerce business for sports memorabilia. Honored with the Hilda Award for his distinguished ser...
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey 0000000114891842 Oprah Winfrey, a multi-billionaire and influential media owner, is best known for her highest-rated TV show, The Oprah Winfrey Show. She also runs the renowned Oprah Bo...
Milton Allimadi
Milton Allimadi NONE Milton Allimadi, co-founder and editor of The Black Star News, is an experienced journalist who previously worked for The City Sun and The New York Times. A Columbia Journalism S...
Malaika Adero
Malaika Adero 0000000384232281 Malaika Adero runs a literary agency, Adero's Literary Tribe, where she works with publishers and individual clients. She is the author of several books including “Up S...
Reginald Martin
Reginald Martin 0000000112973270 Dr. Reginald Martin, a prolific author and youngest full professor at University of Memphis at 35, holds five degrees including a Ph.D. in English. He founded Profess...
Stacey Evans Morgan
Stacey Evans Morgan NONE Stacey Evans Morgan is an LA-based, award-nominated TV producer/writer, director, and known for her work on “The Parkers” and “36th NAACP Image Awards.” She's a motivational ...
Alison Oliver
Alison Oliver NONE Alison Oliver, author-illustrator of “Moon” & over 30 BabyLit board books, including “Anne of Green Gables” with 1.8M+ series copies sold. Also known for “Be Bold, Baby” series. Sh...
Billy Carson
Billy Carson NONE Billy Carson, born in 1971, is the CEO of 4BiddenKnowledge Inc, and bestselling author of works like “The Compendium Of The Emerald Tablets.” He runs a conscious streaming TV networ...
Miss Major and Toshio Meronek
Miss Major and Toshio Meronek MULTIPLE Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a renowned figure in global trans/queer communities, runs the House of GG educational retreat in Little Rock, Arkansas. Toshio Meronek...
Montaysia Yuneek Sims
Montaysia Yuneek Sims NONE Montaysia Yuneek Sims is an illustrator and Art Activist who creates from a place of community and encouragement. Besides children's books, Montaysia enjoys drawing for the...
Marvin X
Marvin X 0000000023827167 Marvin X, born in 1944, is a renowned poet, playwright, and essayist associated with the Black Arts Movement. Known for co-founding the Black House and Black Arts/West Theat...
The Chief: The Story of the Boston Celtics’ Most Enigmatic Icon
The Chief: The Story of the Boston Celtics’ Most Enigmatic Icon Robert Parish 9781637279618 Nonfiction Triumph Books (IL) Triumph Books A memoir of basketball, dedication, and longevity from Boston Ce...
The Jezebel
The Jezebel Dylan Allen 9781968707972 Fiction Blue Box Press Blue Box Press And what fate has brought together, no man—or scandal—can separate. After years of playing the trophy, puppet, perfection...
Listen to Your Sister
Listen to Your Sister Neena Viel 9781250906328 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Most Anticipated by Goodreads, People, BookRiot, Reactor, Screenrant, and more! For fans of Jordan P...
Kingdom of Dust
Kingdom of Dust Lisa Stringfellow 9780063043480 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins Author of A Comb of Wishes Lisa Stringfellow returns with a West African-inspired fantasy about a girl who is det...
A Cup of Love: Relationship Goals for Kids
A Cup of Love: Relationship Goals for Kids Michael Todd 9780593192641 Fiction Waterbrook Children’s Penguin Random House In his first children’s book, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Relat...