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Towers Falling (Hardcover)
Towers Falling (Hardcover) Jewell Parker Rhodes 9780316262224 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Also Available in PaperbackFrom award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhode...
Towers Falling
Towers Falling Jewell Parker Rhodes 9780316262217 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Also Available in HardcoverFrom award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a po...
Jewell Parker Rhodes Talks to WBUR about her Novel TOWERS FALLING
Jewell Parker Rhodes Talks to WBUR about her Novel TOWERS FALLING Book Spotlights Originally Broadcast on WBUR 90.9, Boston’s NPR News Station's program Here & Now (https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/201...
Lost Ark Dreaming
Lost Ark Dreaming Suyi Davies Okungbowa 9781250890757 Fiction Tordotcom Macmillan Publishers “Suyi Davies Okungbowa is a scholar of place and a master of worlds―his grasp of how we are shaped by t...
Grandpa’s Cabin Coloring & Lookbook: Collector’s Edition: Hardcover (Collector’s)
Grandpa’s Cabin Coloring & Lookbook: Collector’s Edition: Hardcover (Collector’s) Ross Victory 9798218175450 Nonfiction J. Ross Victory J. Ross Victory Get the full Grandpa’s Cabin experience by addin...
The Thing about Falling: Poems
The Thing about Falling: Poems Tarriona Ball 9798881600211 Poetry Andrews McMeel Publishing Andrews McMeel Publishing From Grammy award-winning spoken word artist and poet Tarriona ‘Tank’ Ball comes a...
In The Falling Snow
In The Falling Snow Thumper Book Review I have heard of Caryl Phillps. We have reviewed one of his earlier novels for AALBC.com in the past, but I had not read anything by him. Phillips’s...
Passion’s Pride: Return to the Dawning
Passion’s Pride: Return to the Dawning Cathie Wright-Lewis 9780986240003 Fiction Hard Ball Press Hard Ball Press High School teacher Mecca Freeman has lost her faith. In people. In the future. In the ...
The Fall of the Towers
The Fall of the Towers Samuel R. Delany 9781400031320 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House Come and enter Samuel Delany’s tomorow, in this trilogy of high adventure, with acrobats and urchins, crimi...
Cathie Wright-Lewis
Cathie Wright-Lewis NONE Cathie Wright-Lewis, a lover of linguistics, ancient history, and metaphysics, is a former NYC high school English teacher with a passion for diverse cultures and dialects. O...
Watch Out for Falling Iguanas
Watch Out for Falling Iguanas Edwidge Danticat 9781636142326 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Perfect for readers of all ages, this captivating picture book teaches children about iguanas’ unique b...
Perennial Fashion Presence Falling
Perennial Fashion Presence Falling Fred Moten 9781950268801 Poetry Wave Books Wave Books “some ekphrastic evening, this’ll be both criticism and poetry and failing that fall somewhere that seem like i...
David T. Boyd
David T. Boyd NONE Chicago-born author David T. Boyd discovered his passion for writing early, penning his first story at nine. Inspired by authors like Stephen King, he developed his short story int...
Amari 2-Book Hardcover Box Set: Amari and the Night Brothers, Amari and the Great Game
Amari 2-Book Hardcover Box Set: Amari and the Night Brothers, Amari and the Great Game B. B. Alston 9780063274259 Fiction Balzer & Bray/Harperteen HarperCollins The hardcover box set of the blockbuste...
Power List Best-Selling Books • Spring 2015
Power List Best-Selling Books • Spring 2015 Troy Johnson Article Multi-Title Authors Find Success on Spring 2015 Edition of the Power List of Best-Selling African-American Books May 22, 2015 ...
Power List of Best-Selling African-American Books - Fall 2014
Power List of Best-Selling African-American Books - Fall 2014 Troy Johnson Article Strong Sales Shown Among Hardcover Non-Fiction Titles in Fall Edition of the Power List of Best-Selling African-...
Jewell Parker Rhodes
Jewell Parker Rhodes 0000000120252879 Jewell’s New Book Will’s Race for Home Debuted at #6 on the NY Times Bestsellers List! Jewell Parker Rhodes is an esteemed author and artistic directo...
Once Upon a Time in Dollywood
Once Upon a Time in Dollywood Ashley Jordan 9780593819128 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House A playwright must grapple with her difficult year and writer’s block while falling for the single d...
Forever Mine & Falling for the Beauty Queen
Forever Mine & Falling for the Beauty Queen Donna Hill and Carolyn Hector 9781335458421 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Romance Harlequin Enterprises Limited A PASSIONATE PROMISECelebrity chef Alonzo Grant i...
Falling Down
Falling Down David T. Boyd 9780595339082 Fiction iUniverse Author Solutions Janet Wilson is a married attorney living in Erie, Pennsylvania, who’s been having recurring nightmares about a man dressed ...
Riverhead Hardcover
Riverhead Hardcover Penguin Random House Bertelsmann
Kensington Hardcover
Kensington Hardcover Kensington Publishing Corp. Kensington Publishing Corp.
Erased (hardcover): What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us
Erased (hardcover): What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us Anna Malaika Tubbs 9781250876690 Nonfiction Flatiron Books Macmillan Publishers INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA TODAY NATIONAL ...
The Out of My Mind Collection (Boxed Set)
The Out of My Mind Collection (Boxed Set) Sharon M. Draper 9781665948104 Fiction Anthem Press Anthem Press Perfect for fans of R.J. Palacio’s Wonder, the New York Times bestselling Out of My Mind seri...
The Negro Wage Earner
The Negro Wage Earner Lorenzo J. Greene and Carter G. Woodson 9781434472458 Nonfiction Wildside Press Wildside Press
My Popz And The Lessons He Taught Me (Hardcover)
My Popz And The Lessons He Taught Me (Hardcover) Cameron Johnson 9798891004634 Nonfiction Writers Republic Writers Republic This book is about the relationship and bond between a black father and son ...
Treasure Island (hardcover): Runaway Gold
Treasure Island (hardcover): Runaway Gold Jewell Parker Rhodes 9780062998354 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins Jewell Parker Rhodes has written a version of Treasure Island like none you’ve never...
Coleman Hill (hardcover): A Biomythography
Coleman Hill (hardcover): A Biomythography Kim Coleman Foote 9781638931140 Fiction SJP Lit Zando Meet Kim Coleman Foote on Tour “Once in a while, a writer comes along with a brilliance that stops t...
Bitter Root Hardcover Omnibus
Bitter Root Hardcover Omnibus David F. Walker 9781534324671 Fiction Image Comics Image Comics Bitter Root is a two-time Eisner winner for Best Continuing Series! For generations, the Sangerye family ...
Books Of The Ethiopian Bible Hardcover
Books Of The Ethiopian Bible Hardcover Ethiopian Church 9781639234622 Nonfiction Lushena Books Lushena Books The Ethiopian Bible is the oldest and most complete Bible on earth. Written in Ge’ez, an an...
The Door of No Return (hardcover)
The Door of No Return (hardcover) Kwame Alexander 9780316441865 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Dreams are today’s answers for tomorrow’s questions. 11-year-old K...
The Juneteenth Story (hardcover): Celebrating the End of Slavery in the United States
The Juneteenth Story (hardcover): Celebrating the End of Slavery in the United States Alliah L. Agostini 9780760375143 Nonfiction Becker & Mayer The Quarto Group With colorful illustrations and a time...
Love Me as I Am (hardcover)
Love Me as I Am (hardcover) Garcelle Beauvais 9780063099586 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Love Me As I Am is Garcelle Beauvais’s smart, inspiring, and raw memoir—an entertaining and unforgettable e...
Operation Sisterhood (Hardcover)
Operation Sisterhood (Hardcover) Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich 9780593379899 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Fans of the Netflix reboot of The Babysitters Club will delight ...
Nane: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set: Hardcover Anthology Edition
Nane: New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set: Hardcover Anthology Edition Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781636140599 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books The limited-edition box set is a projec...
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness Alice Walker 9781620976739 Poetry The New Press The New Press Featurung a new foreword by Rebecca Walker A New York Times...
The Three Mothers (Hardcover)
The Three Mothers (Hardcover) Anna Malaika Tubbs 9781250756121 Nonfiction Flatiron Books Macmillan Publishers Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin’s son James, about Alberta King’s son Martin Lu...
Africaville (Hardcover)
Africaville (Hardcover) Jeffrey Colvin 9780062913722 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins A ferociously talented writer makes his stunning debut with this richly woven tapestry, set in a small Nova Scotia ...
Algorithms Of Oppression (Hardcover)
Algorithms Of Oppression (Hardcover) Safiya Umoja Noble 9781479849949 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press Algorithms Of Oppression is a revealing look at how negative biases...
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover) Ijeoma Oluo 9781580056779 Nonfiction Seal Press Seal Press A current, constructive, and actionable exploration of today’s racial landscape, offering straigh...
Race Matters (hardcover)
Race Matters (hardcover) Cornel West 9780807041222 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the groundbreaking classic, with a new introductionFirst published in 19...
Chocolate Me! (Hardcover)
Chocolate Me! (Hardcover) Taye Diggs 9780312603267 Fiction Feiwel & Friends Macmillan Publishers The boy is teased for looking different than the other kids. His skin is darker, his hair curlier. He t...
Ninth Ward (hardcover)
Ninth Ward (hardcover) Jewell Parker Rhodes 9780316043076 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Twelve-year-old Lanesha lives in a tight-knit community in New Orleans’ Nint...
Dirtier Than Ever (hardcover): A Novel
Dirtier Than Ever (hardcover): A Novel Vickie M. Stringer 9781439166116 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Following the phenomenal success of Essence bestsellers Dirty Red and Still Dirty, Vi...
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness Alice Walker 9781595582164 Poetry The New Press The New Press A New York Times bestseller in hardcover, Pulitzer Prize winne...
Essence: 50 Of The Most Inspiring African-Americans
Essence: 50 Of The Most Inspiring African-Americans Patricia M. Hinds and Susan L. Taylor 9781933405292 Nonfiction Essence Time Inc Essence Books presents a revised and updated edition of its popular ...
Sojourner Truth: From Slave to Activist for Freedom (Library of American Lives and Times (Hardcover))
Sojourner Truth: From Slave to Activist for Freedom (Library of American Lives and Times (Hardcover)) Mary Butler 9780823957361 Nonfiction Rosen Publishing Rosen Publishing Biographies for Grades 4-8 ...
Futureland
Futureland Walter Mosley 9780446529549 Fiction Aspect Hachette Book Group The place is the United States. The time, the near-future, 2020-2040. Here, justice is blind and the ranks of the disenfranc...
Martin’s Big Words (hardcover): The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin’s Big Words (hardcover): The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Doreen Rappaport 9780786807147 Nonfiction Jump At The Sun Jump At The Sun Convert text to HMTL Custom Gem HTML A Caldecot...
Invisible Life: Special edition
Invisible Life: Special edition E. Lynn Harris 9780385494632 Fiction Doubleday Penguin Random House Available at last, E. Lynn Harris’s beloved first novel in a hardcover edition.Just a few years ago,...
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost (hardcover)
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost (hardcover) Joan Morgan 9780684822624 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this fresh, funky, and irreverent book, a new voice of the post-Civil ...
Tar Beach (Hardcover)
Tar Beach (Hardcover) Faith Ringgold 9780517580301 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold broke new ground because the book was adapted from the textile...
Cleared for Takeoff: A Pilot’s Memoir of Purpose and Resilience After 9/11
Cleared for Takeoff: A Pilot’s Memoir of Purpose and Resilience After 9/11 Captain Nia Gilliam 9798217087464 Nonfiction Storehouse Voices Penguin Random House In this inspiring memoir, a Black woman p...
By the Book (a Meant to Be Novel): A Meant to Be Novel
By the Book (a Meant to Be Novel): A Meant to Be Novel Jasmine Guillory 9781368050395 Fiction Hyperion Avenue Disney Publishing Worldwide USA Today Bestseller An Amazon Book of the Month An Amazon B...
A Death in Harlem: A Novel
A Death in Harlem: A Novel Karla FC Holloway 9780810140813 Fiction TriQuarterly Books Northwestern University Press ”Holloway’s debut novel will take you on a journey that reveals a fresh, richly laye...
Surge
Surge Jay Bernard 9781784742614 Poetry Chatto & Windus Penguin Random House *Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award 2019* *Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2019* *Shortlisted for Forward Prize f...
Growing Peace: A Story of Farming, Music, and Religious Harmony
Growing Peace: A Story of Farming, Music, and Religious Harmony Richard Sobol 9781600604508 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books On the morning of September 11, 2001, J. J. Keki, a Ugandan music...
7 Award Winning Books You Will Definitely Enjoy
7 Award Winning Books You Will Definitely Enjoy Troy Johnson Article [caption id="attachment_2853" align="alignright" width="140"] Ernest J. Gaines[/caption] The following seven books are all winn...
Captives Of The Flame
Captives Of The Flame Samuel R. Delany 9781499399677 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Classic 1960’s Science Fiction from an established master! “ He was some place he had never been be...
Color Me English: Migration And Belonging Before And After 9/11
Color Me English: Migration And Belonging Before And After 9/11 Caryl Phillips 9781595586506 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press Born in St. Kitts and brought up in the UK, bestselling author Caryl...
Love & Life
Love & Life Marlon McCaulsky and Jarold Imes 9781934195161 Fiction Abednego’s Free Abednego’s Free Popular Street Lit Author Marlon McCaulsky teams up with OurTeenVoices.com Editor Jarold Imes to brin...
Doughboy
Doughboy Q. B. Wells 9780976806196 Fiction Art Official Media Art Official Media When the towers fell, the cocaine drought spouted and as the dope trickled in again, the price of cocaine was twice as ...
Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the USA
Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the USA Mumia Abu-Jamal 9780872864696 Nonfiction City Lights Publishers City Lights Publishers “Expert and well-reasoned commentary on the justice s...
A Murder Too Close: A Phil Rodriquez Novel
A Murder Too Close: A Phil Rodriquez Novel Penny Mickelbury 9781594147128 Fiction Five Star Publications, Inc Five Star Publications, Inc Nothing has been the same in New York since the Twin Towers we...
African History For Beginners
African History For Beginners Herb Boyd 9781934389188 Nonfiction For Beginners For Beginners African History For Beginners explores the rich history of this continent of contrasts. Discover the glory ...
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...
Marco Villalobos
Marco Villalobos 0000000500107331 M A R C O V I L L A L O B O S was born under quetzalcoatl the feathered serpent in 1973 and spent his Woodl’n, Califas, child...
S. Pearl Sharp
S. Pearl Sharp 0000000036855052 S. Pearl Sharp is a writer, actress, filmmaker and broadcast journalist. An advocate of holistic healing, S. Pearl conducts workshops that merge art and healing, and c...
Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama
Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama Kam Williams Book Review “Whites don’t think they have the moral authority to ask anything of black people, certainly not to judge...
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth Kam Williams pruitt_igoe-implosion.jpg Film Review DVD Revisits Rise and Demise of Ill-Conceived Housing Project The Pruitt-Igoe Myth Click to Buy DVD via Amazon DV...
Bone to Pick: Of Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Reparation, and Revenge
Bone to Pick: Of Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Reparation, and Revenge Ellis Cose Excerpt To forgive the truly horrible is to kiss the robe of God, to emulate no less a figure than the dying Jesus Chr...
Hallie’s Rules for a Recovering Romantic
Hallie’s Rules for a Recovering Romantic Jessica Lewis 9781335008473 Fiction HarperCollins US HarperCollins Perfect for fans of Erin Baldwin and Elise Bryant, this charming sapphic rom-com—the compani...
Nav’s Foolproof Guide to Falling in Love
Nav’s Foolproof Guide to Falling in Love Jessica Lewis 9781335012388 Fiction HarperCollins US HarperCollins From the author of Dream On, Ramona Riley comes a heartwarming sapphic rom-com about friends...
The Corruption of Hollis Brown
The Corruption of Hollis Brown K. Ancrum 9780063285835 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins From acclaimed author K. Ancrum comes a queer romantic thriller in which the lives of Hollis, a boy in search...
Falling Wisteria
Falling Wisteria Laila Ibrahim 9781662514203 Fiction Lake Union Publishing Amazon Publishing As America enters WWII, two women on the home front strive to stay strong in a heartfelt novel about hope, ...
Bad Night Is Falling
Bad Night Is Falling Gary Phillips 9781641294430 Fiction Soho Crime Soho Crime When Black private investigator Ivan Monk takes on a case in a South Los Angeles housing project, he finds himself caught...
Shark Teeth
Shark Teeth Sherri Winston 9781547608508 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing From National Book Award longlisted author Sherri Winston comes an important middle grade novel about a...
Even If the Sky Is Falling
Even If the Sky Is Falling Taj McCoy 9781335452559 Fiction Canary Street Press HarperCollins Includes a special introduction by USA TODAY bestselling author, Mia Sosa, author of The Worst Best Man and...
The Hookup Plan
The Hookup Plan Farrah Rochon 9781538716700 Fiction Forever Grand Central Publishing From the USA Today bestselling author of The Dating Playbook. Successful pediatric surgeon London Kelley just ne...
Love Radio
Love Radio Ebony LaDelle 9781665908153 Fiction Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. Hitch meets The Sun Is Also a Star in this witty and romantic teen novel about a self-pro...
Felix Ever After
Felix Ever After Kacen Callender 9780062820259 Fiction Balzer & Bray/Harperteen HarperCollins From Stonewall and Lambda Award-winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a transge...
Falling Toward the Moon
Falling Toward the Moon r.h. Sin and Robert M. Drake 9781524853839 Poetry Andrews McMeel Publishing Andrews McMeel Publishing From the authors of The New York Times bestseller Empty Bottles Full of St...
Catch Me When I’m Falling
Catch Me When I’m Falling Cheryl A. Head 9781612941455 Fiction Bywater Books Bywater Books Someone is murdering the homeless in Detroit’s Cass Corridor—by immolation. These horrific crimes wouldn’t re...
Falling
Falling Angelia Vernon Menchan 9781974603459 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC “Why are you here Lance?” Pia finally asked. “I had a reaction to you when I met you at the fresh market and t...
Secrecy: The Story of KinZu Noble
Secrecy: The Story of KinZu Noble Mercy B. 9781544856889 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC “She wasn’t exactly sure when it happened, or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that...
Falling in Love with Hominids
Falling in Love with Hominids Nalo Hopkinson 9781616961985 Fiction Tachyon Publications Tachyon Publications An alluring new collection from the author of the New York Times Notable Book, Midnight Rob...
Men We Reaped
Men We Reaped Jesmyn Ward 9781608195213 Nonfiction Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing “We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then w...
While Gods Are Falling (Caribbean Modern Classics)
While Gods Are Falling (Caribbean Modern Classics) Earl Lovelace 9781845231484 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Exposing the political and cultural failure to address the challenges of post...
The Prada Plan 2: Leah’s Story
The Prada Plan 2: Leah’s Story Ashley Antoinette 9781601622853 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. When you’ve been labeled crazy all of your life, it’s easy to commit a murder, and now s...
In the Falling Snow
In the Falling Snow Caryl Phillips 9780307473837 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House From one of our most admired fiction writers: the searing story of breakdown and recovery in the life of one man a...
In The Falling Snow
In The Falling Snow Caryl Phillips 9780307272560 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House From one of our most admired fiction writers: the searing story of breakdown and recovery in the life of one man and...
Falling Leaves of Ivy
Falling Leaves of Ivy Yolanda Joe 9780681413962 Fiction Longmeadow Press Longmeadow Press The interracial friendship among four Yale University students is marred by their involvement in a heinous cri...
Falling Pieces of the Broken Sky
Falling Pieces of the Broken Sky Julius Lester 9781559700597 Nonfiction Arcadia Publishing Arcadia Publishing The author recounts his political and spiritual odyssey during the past ten years, discuss...
Earl Lovelace
Earl Lovelace 0000000109246689 Earl Lovelace, a Trinidadian author, is known for his award-winning works such as While Gods Are Falling, The Dragon Can't Dance, Salt, and Is Just a Movie. He was awar...
Kensington Publishing Corp.
Kensington Publishing Corp. Kensington Publishing Corp. Aphrodisia Brava Kensington Hardcover Kensington Mass-Market Kensington Trade Paperback Lyle Stuart Books Lyrical Press Lyrical Shine Lyrical U...
Kensington
Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. Kensington Publishing Corp. Kensington Publishing Corp. is the last remaining independent U.S. publisher of hardcover, trade and mass market paperback books...
Dafina
Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Kensington Publishing Corp. Dafina Books is the leading publisher of commercial fiction written by and about people of African descent. The word Dafina, which is Sw...
Kensington - Teen
Kensington - Teen Kensington Publishing Corp. Kensington Publishing Corp. Kensington Publishing Corp. is the last remaining independent U.S. publisher of hardcover, trade and mass market paperba...
Erewhon Books
Erewhon Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Kensington Publishing Corp. Kensington Publishing Corp. is the last remaining independent U.S. publisher of hardcover, trade and mass market paperback b...
Kensington Cozies
Kensington Cozies Kensington Publishing Corp. Kensington Publishing Corp. Kensington Publishing Corp. is the last remaining independent U.S. publisher of hardcover, trade and mass market paperba...