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Tiphanie Yanique
Tiphanie Yanique 0000000071326295 Tiphanie Yanique, a novelist, poet, and professor from Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, is renowned for her numerous awards including the Mary Grant Charles Award ...
Land Of Love And Drowning
Land Of Love And Drowning Tiphanie Yanique 9781594488337 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House Recipient of the 2014 American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Foundation AwardA major debut from an a...
I Am The Virgin Islands
I Am The Virgin Islands Tiphanie Yanique 9781934370308 Poetry Little Bell Caribbean Little Bell Caribbean What does it mean to be a Virgin Islander? Author Tiphanie Yanique explores this question in h...
How To Escape From A Leper Colony: A Novella And Stories
How To Escape From A Leper Colony: A Novella And Stories Tiphanie Yanique 9781555975500 Fiction Graywolf Press Graywolf Press An enthralling debut collection from a singular Caribbean voiceFor a leper...
Monster in the Middle
Monster in the Middle Tiphanie Yanique 9781594633607 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House Monster in the Middle takes the reader on a generational love journey that spans some of America’s mos...
The Saving Work
The Saving Work Tiphanie Yanique 9781888553239 Fiction Kore Press Kore Press Short story chapbook, laser printed and hand assembled with unique burn mark on cover. This is the first in a series of sho...
The Best Short Stories 2021: The O. Henry Prize Winners
The Best Short Stories 2021: The O. Henry Prize Winners Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9780593311257 Fiction Anchor Books Penguin Random House Twenty prizewinning stories selected from the thousands publish...
Wife
Wife Tiphanie Yanique 9781845232948 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press The title of Wife is both ironic and deeply serious. There are wittily sharp poems on the gender inequalities and potenti...
Another English: Anglophone Poems From Around The World
Another English: Anglophone Poems From Around The World Catherine Barnett and Tiphanie Yanique 9781936797400 Poetry Tupelo Press, Inc. Tupelo Press, Inc. Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Monroe Poetry Inst...
Trinidad Noir
Trinidad Noir Lisa Allen-Agostini and Jeanne Mason 9781933354552 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books The Caribbean provides no shelter from the delicious terror of the Akashic Noir Series. Trinidad...
The Wedding Date
The Wedding Date Jasmine Guillory 9780399587665 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House One of… • Entertainment Weekly’s “12 Romances for V-Day” • Cosmopolitan’s “2018 Anticipated Read...
Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership
Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership Brea Baker 9780593447376 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House Why is less than 1% of rural land in the U...
Drowning in the Sea of Love: Musical Memoirs
Drowning in the Sea of Love: Musical Memoirs Al Young 9780880013888 Poetry Ecco Press HarperCollins Drowning In The Sea Of Love: Musical Memoirs, by Young, Al
Drowning Boy’s Guide to Water
Drowning Boy’s Guide to Water Cameron Barnett 9781938769269 Poetry Autumn House Press Autumn House Press Winner of the inaugural Autumn House Press Rising Writer Prize, Cameron Barnett’s debut The Dro...
Love Is Never Painless: Three Novellas
Love Is Never Painless: Three Novellas Zane 9781416543701 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Three prolific authors bring truth to the title of this heart-wrenching book, Love Is Never Painles...
Caribbean Reads Publishing
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Please Donate to the Literary Freedom Project
Please Donate to the Literary Freedom Project Troy Johnson Article The Literary Freedom Project (LFP) and Mosaic magazine are fighting to keep immersive reading, literary arts, expository writing...
Nicole, Tiphanie, and Glory's Favorite Bookstores
Nicole, Tiphanie, and Glory's Favorite Bookstores Book Spotlights
I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land Alaina E. Roberts 9780812253030 Nonfiction University of Pennsylvania Press University of Pennsylvania Press Perhaps no other symbol has more...
Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico
Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 9780806138336 Nonfiction University of Oklahoma Press University of Oklahoma Press An updated edition of a seminal work...
Avidly Reads Passages
Avidly Reads Passages Michelle D. Commander 9781479806171 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press “What is the value of Black life in America?” In Avidly Reads Pa...
Frantz Fanon’s Plays: The Plays
Frantz Fanon’s Plays: The Plays Frantz Fanon 9781350126572 Fiction Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Publishing Prior to becoming a psychiatrist, Frantz Fanon wanted to be a playwright and his interest i...
Will’s Race for Home (paperback)
Will’s Race for Home (paperback) Jewell Parker Rhodes 9780316299435 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Winner of the Coretta Scott King Book Award! A New York Times...
Will’s Race for Home
Will’s Race for Home Jewell Parker Rhodes 9780316299336 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Will’s Race for Home Debuted at #6 on the New York Times Bestsellers List, Feb...
Steps to the Promised Land
Steps to the Promised Land Gregg Riley 9781511704809 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Recognizing trouble in the land, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood against the darkness. “Only when it’...
Forty Acres: A Novel
Forty Acres: A Novel Phyllis R. Dixon 9780974954059 Fiction New Generation Press New Generation Press Folks sure do act funny, when it comes to money. No one gave the Washington family forty acres or ...
If I Survive You
If I Survive You Jonathan Escoffery 9780374605988 Fiction MCD Macmillan Publishers "If I Survive You is a collection of connected short stories that reads like a novel, that reads like real life, that...
The Portable Promise Land
The Portable Promise Land Thumper Book Review I heard about The Portable Promised Land, the short story collection written by Toure’, before its publication. Usually, I don’t pay any mi...
Happy Land
Happy Land Dolen Perkins-Valdez 9780593337721 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House A woman learns the astonishing truth of her family’s ties to a vanished American Kingdom in this riveting new n...
Lord of My Land: 5 Steps to Homeownership
Lord of My Land: 5 Steps to Homeownership Jay Morrison 9781943686582 Nonfiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing Jay, "Mr. Real Estate," Morrison has authored another informative, step-by-step gu...
The Land (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner)
The Land (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner) Mildred D. Taylor 9780803719507 Fiction Dial Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Winner of the Coretta Scott King Award! Millions of fans ha...
I Have Heard of a Land
I Have Heard of a Land Joyce Carol Thomas 9780064436175 Fiction HarperCollins Publishers HarperCollins I have heard of a landWhere the imagination has no fencesWhere what is dreamed one nightIs accom...
The Land of Ellis
The Land of Ellis The Land of Ellis The Land of Ellis
The Land of Ellis
The Land of Ellis The Land of Ellis The Land of Ellis
September Newsletter: Recommended Reads, the MS Book Festival, and More
September Newsletter: Recommended Reads, the MS Book Festival, and More Troy Johnson Article Recommended Reads N. K. Jemisin the Only Writer to Win the Best Novel Hugo Award in three Consecutive Yea...
JaNay Brown-Wood
JaNay Brown-Wood NONE JaNay Brown-Wood is a celebrated children's author and educator, known for her award-winning book, “Imani's Moon.” She teaches as an ECE professor at American River College and ...
St. Pete Reads! Literacy Festival
St. Pete Reads! Literacy Festival Woodson African American Museum of Florida St. Petersburg Florida The St. Pete Reads! Literacy Festival is dedicated to entertaining, engaging, and educating children...
Lisa Watson
Lisa Watson NONE Lisa Watson is a national bestselling author based in Washington D.C., known for her work in diverse romance genres. Her debut novel was nominated for Best Contemporary Fiction, and ...
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
Notebook of a Return to the Native Land Aimé Césaire 9780819564528 Poetry Wesleyan University Press Wesleyan University Press Aimé Césaire’s masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Nati...
A Promised Land
A Promised Land Barack Obama 9781524763169 Nonfiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House Enter our raffle to win a deluxe, autographed copy of A Promised Land ▶ A riveting, deeply pe...
This Land Is Our Land: A History of American Immigration
This Land Is Our Land: A History of American Immigration Linda Barrett Osborne 9781419716607 Nonfiction Abrams Books for Young Readers Abrams A 2017 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction finalist! American a...
In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South (New Narratives in American History)
In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South (New Narratives in American History) John Hope Franklin 9780195160871 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press The mat...
Land of Many Colors and Nanna-ya
Land of Many Colors and Nanna-ya Maryse Conde 9780803214880 Fiction University of Nebraska Press University of Nebraska Press Land of Many Colors is set in the fictional city of Fort Pilote in the Fre...
Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 Scott Ellsworth 9780807117675 Nonfiction LSU Press Louisiana State University Press Widely believed to be the most extreme incidence of white raci...
Musical Youth
Musical Youth Joanne C. Hillhouse 9781733829960 Fiction Caribbean Reads Publishing Caribbean Reads Publishing 2nd place in the 2014 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature. #12 in Amazon Hot New Releases ...
Love Never Fails
Love Never Fails Nikesha Elise Williams 9781733584807 Fiction NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications “If I were honest, I’d be divorced right now.” When it comes to marriage, nothing is guar...
The Prisoner’s Wife
The Prisoner’s Wife asha bandele 9780671021481 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. “This is a terrifying, heart-breaking and, ultimately, important book. While bandele’s narrat...
Mina’s Joint 2: The Perfect Illusion
Mina’s Joint 2: The Perfect Illusion Keisha Ervin 9781539651840 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC After praying that someone would catch her, 10 years have flown by with her husband, Victor...
Cursed Daughters
Cursed Daughters Oyinkan Braithwaite 9780385551472 Fiction Doubleday Books Penguin Random House A young woman must shake off a family curse and the widely held belief that she is the reincarnation of ...
A Time to Praise: A Christmas Anthology
A Time to Praise: A Christmas Anthology Renée Allen McCoy 9781534893412 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Four lives intersect at a crossroad, prompting each to seek God’s direction. Benjam...
Stripped Bare: The 12 Truths That Will Help You Land the Very Best Black Man
Stripped Bare: The 12 Truths That Will Help You Land the Very Best Black Man LaDawn Black 9780345483669 Nonfiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House Tired of hearing (and believing) the lies t...
The Appeal of Ebony Jones
The Appeal of Ebony Jones Nikesha Elise Williams 9780692123942 Fiction NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications Guilty. Not Guilty. Those are the only options facing Ebony Jones. She is standing ...
Four Women
Four Women Nikesha Elise Williams 9780692962916 Fiction NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications What happens to four strangers when the present meets the past and the whole world is watching? Th...
Quick Reads Penguin Readers: Boys Don’t Cry
Quick Reads Penguin Readers: Boys Don’t Cry Malorie Blackman 9780241688106 Fiction Penguin Group USA Penguin Random House A gripping Quick Read about family and growing up from bestselling author, Mal...
Lessons We Were Never Taught
Lessons We Were Never Taught Nikesha Elise Williams 9781733584852 Poetry NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications Lessons We Were Never Taught is author Nikesha Elise Williams’s first collection ...
Adulting
Adulting Nikesha Elise Williams 9781733584821 Fiction NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications Can she have it all? Naomi Grace is determined to lay hold of the life she’s always wanted. In her v...
Questions, Christ and the Quarter-life Crisis: Sometimes It Takes Getting Lost To Discover Who and Whose You Are.
Questions, Christ and the Quarter-life Crisis: Sometimes It Takes Getting Lost To Discover Who and Whose You Are. Morgan Richard Olivier 9781948581745 Nonfiction Lincross Publishing Lincross Publishin...
You Might Just Get Burned: A Novel (Zane Presents)
You Might Just Get Burned: A Novel (Zane Presents) Shamara Ray 9781593094416 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. What happens when the man you fall for isn’t who he says he is? As games are p...
Imperfectly Happy
Imperfectly Happy Sharina Harris 9781496725639 Fiction Kensington Publishing Corporation Kensington Publishing Corp. When four college friends formed the Brown Sugarettes Mastermind Group, they had ve...
Conjugal Visits
Conjugal Visits Al Young 9780887391187 Poetry Creative Arts Book Company Creative Arts Book Company From the unpredictable author of Seduction by Light, Drowning in the Sea of Love, and Heaven comes t...
The Skull Cage Key
The Skull Cage Key Thumper Book Review The Skull Cage Key, the science fiction debut thriller by Michel Marriott; takes place in 2041 Harlem, centering on the murders of rich, white people....
Michael Vick Finds Jesus: Disgraced QB Still Needs Serious Help
Michael Vick Finds Jesus: Disgraced QB Still Needs Serious Help Kam Williams Interview Michael Vick Finds Jesus: Disgraced QB Still Needs Serious Help by Kam Williams "This is going to be a h...
Nina Revoyr
Nina Revoyr 0000000004707741 Nina Revoyr, a Japanese-American author of five novels, is known for her remarkable storytelling. Born in Japan and raised in Tokyo, Wisconsin, and Los Angeles, she's co-...
Beyond Bourbon Street
Beyond Bourbon Street Nikesha Elise Williams 9781733584869 Fiction NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications How does a couple survive when the one thing that brought them together threatens to te...
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 ...
Letter to Jimmy
Letter to Jimmy Alain Mabanckou 9781593766016 Fiction Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press Written on the twentieth anniversary of James Baldwin’s death, Letter to Jimmy is African writer Alain Mabanckou...
Reality Way
Reality Way NONE Reality Way, a Queens-born author, faced several life obstacles leading him to prison. It was there he developed a passion for writing, leading to his first published work, “Young Go...
Carter Reads the Newspaper
Carter Reads the Newspaper Deborah Hopkinson 9781561459346 Nonfiction Peachtree Publishers Peachtree Publishers Essential Black History Reading The first-ever picture book biography of Carter G. Wo...
August 2018 eNewsletter Recommended Reads, Videos, and More
August 2018 eNewsletter Recommended Reads, Videos, and More Troy Johnson Article Videos from the National Book Club Conference I attended the 2018 National Book Club Conference August 3rd and 4th....
Lost! A Caribbean Sea Adventure
Lost! A Caribbean Sea Adventure Joanne C. Hillhouse 9780999237212 Fiction Caribbean Reads Publishing Caribbean Reads Publishing Beautifully illustrated by Trinidadian artist Danielle Boodoo-Fortun&eac...
Introducing Delaney Diamond, USA Today Bestselling Author
Introducing Delaney Diamond, USA Today Bestselling Author Troy Johnson Article Delaney Diamond is the USA Today Bestselling Author of sweet, sensual, passionate romance novels and is the manager ...
The Missing Cupcake Mystery (Tony and Lauren Dungy Ready-to-Reads)
The Missing Cupcake Mystery (Tony and Lauren Dungy Ready-to-Reads) Tony Dungy 9781442454637 Fiction Simon Spotlight Simon & Schuster, Inc. The Dungy kids learn that honesty is the best policy—even whe...
Free eBooks - Great Reads Available for Download Now
Free eBooks - Great Reads Available for Download Now Troy Johnson Article There are so many free, high quality, eBooks available for immediate download, it is really quite astonishing. One can down...
Urban Reads Bookstore
Urban Reads Bookstore Baltimore MD We are a Black-owned and woman-led business. We sell books, Sea Moss, CBD, and have a cafe. Other services we provide are Notary, faxing, copies and internet cafe.
Addie Boswell
Addie Boswell NONE Addie Boswell, a Portland-based author and muralist, is known for her award-winning book, The Rain Stomper. Her works include Go, Bikes, Go!, Go, Planes, Go!, The Snow Dancer, and ...
justin a. reynolds
justin a. reynolds NONE Justin A. Reynolds is an acclaimed author renowned for his debut YA novel, “Opposite of Always,” and second novel “Early Departures.” His work includes a Marvel graphic novel ...
Snapshot
Snapshot Tony Lindsay Book Review In Snapshot, Camryn King demonstrates the power of a page turning thriller. Through King’s beautifully descriptive screens, narrative pace, believable dialog, ...
Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. KKR & Co. Inc.
St. Pete Reads! Literacy Festival
St. Pete Reads! Literacy Festival Literary Events
The Rib King
The Rib King Ladee Hubbard 9780062979070 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Thrillist - 30 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2021Book Riot - Our Most Anticipated Releases of 2021Real Simple - The Best New Boo...
Phina Oruche Reads from Her Book: Jacopo Jacopo Football Star
Phina Oruche Reads from Her Book: Jacopo Jacopo Football Star Book Spotlights
Kwame Alexander Reads His Children’s Book THE UNDEFEATED
Kwame Alexander Reads His Children’s Book THE UNDEFEATED Book Spotlights
Simba Sana Reads from his Memoir, Never Stop
Simba Sana Reads from his Memoir, Never Stop Book Spotlights
Edward Kelsey Moore Reads From His Novel, The Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues
Edward Kelsey Moore Reads From His Novel, The Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues Book Spotlights
Sumiko Saulson Sci-Fi, Horror, and Fantasy Writer Reads from Her Work
Sumiko Saulson Sci-Fi, Horror, and Fantasy Writer Reads from Her Work Author Interviews
Javaka Steptoe Reads from Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
Javaka Steptoe Reads from Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat Author Interviews
Lauren Lord Reads from Black Girl Magic Illustrated by Lailah Lord
Lauren Lord Reads from Black Girl Magic Illustrated by Lailah Lord Author Interviews
Jennifer Searles Reads Her Moving Poem: U Know Me
Jennifer Searles Reads Her Moving Poem: U Know Me Author Interviews
Super Model Pat Cleveland Reads from her Memoir
Super Model Pat Cleveland Reads from her Memoir Book Spotlights
Sandra L. Richards reads from Children’s Book RICE AND ROCKS
Sandra L. Richards reads from Children’s Book RICE AND ROCKS Book Spotlights
Olive Senior Reads from THE PAIN TREE
Olive Senior Reads from THE PAIN TREE Author Interviews
Nicole Dennis-Benn reads from, Here Comes The Sun
Nicole Dennis-Benn reads from, Here Comes The Sun Author Interviews
Rowan Ricardo Phillips Reads from His Collection of Poetry, HEAVEN
Rowan Ricardo Phillips Reads from His Collection of Poetry, HEAVEN Poetry & Spoken Word
LLoyd Strayhorn Astro-Numerologist Reads Troy Johnson 4-8
LLoyd Strayhorn Astro-Numerologist Reads Troy Johnson 4-8 Author Interviews
Kamilah Aisha Moon reads from "She Has a Name"
Kamilah Aisha Moon reads from "She Has a Name" Author Interviews