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The Spirit of Christmas: The Christmas Wish And The Gift (The Spirit of Christmas Series) (Volume 1)
The Spirit of Christmas: The Christmas Wish And The Gift (The Spirit of Christmas Series) (Volume 1) Vanessa Miller 9781522747833 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC The Christmas Wish (...
I Am the River: Sarah E. Ray and the Bob-Lo Boat
I Am the River: Sarah E. Ray and the Bob-Lo Boat Patricia Lee Gauch and Leah Henderson 9781646145805 Nonfiction Levine Querido Levine Querido I am the river. Blue and green, fast and flowing, sweepin...
Troubled Waters: A River’s Journey Toward Justice
Troubled Waters: A River’s Journey Toward Justice Carole Boston Weatherford 9781681198187 Nonfiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing From Young People’s Poet Laureate Carole Boston Wea...
River, Cross My Heart: A Novel
River, Cross My Heart: A Novel Breena Clarke 9780316899987 Fiction Back Bay Books Hachette Book Group Five-year-old Clara Bynum is dead, drowned in the Potomac River in the shadow of a seemingly haunt...
The River Where Blood Is Born (Ballantine Reader’s Circle)
The River Where Blood Is Born (Ballantine Reader’s Circle) Sandra Jackson-Opoku 9780345424761 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House This astonishing novel takes us on a journey along the r...
Strongholds (Blessed Trinity)
Strongholds (Blessed Trinity) Vanessa Davis Griggs 9780758217349 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. From Vanessa Davis Griggs comes the second book in her Blessed Trinity Trilogy. Part Terry M...
Blessed Trinity
Blessed Trinity Vanessa Davis Griggs 9780758217325 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Part Terry MacMillan, part Jan Karon, Blessed Trinity is the first book in an exciting trilogy from bestse...
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...
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...
Street Dreams
Street Dreams K’wan 9780312333065 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Love, Betrayal and Loyalty on the Streets of HarlemDaruis, a.k.a. Rio, the only child of a singer turned alcoholic, ...
The River Is My Ocean
The River Is My Ocean Rio Cortez 9781665912570 Fiction Denene Millner Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A grandmother and granddaughter share a magical trip to the Hudson River affirming intergenerational ...
Nile River Woman: The Very First Poems
Nile River Woman: The Very First Poems Kola Boof 9780971201965 Poetry Door of Kush Door of Kush Released for the first time in the United States, "Nile River Woman" (a 2004 Black History Month Selecti...
Swift River
Swift River Essie Chambers 9781668027912 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. It’s the summer of 1987 in Swift River, and Diamond Newberry is learning how to drive. Ever since her Pop disap...
Words From The River
Words From The River Malik Canty 9780741431264 Poetry Infinity Publishing Infinity Publishing This collection of poetic thoughts was written to inform, entertain and persuade the readers into conscien...
Chike And The River
Chike And The River Chinua Achebe 9780307473868 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House The more Chike saw the ferry-boats the more he wanted to make the trip to Asaba. But where would he get the money? H...
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival Kwame Dawes 9781936070077 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books Contributors include: Robert Pins...
Swift River (paperback)
Swift River (paperback) Essie Chambers 9781668027929 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK | A National Bestseller | Longlisted for the Center ...
Cane River
Cane River Lalita Tademy 9780446615884 Fiction Warner Books Hachette Book Group The "New York Times" bestseller and Oprah’s Book Club Pick—the unique and deeply moving epic of four generations of Afri...
Evette: The River and Me
Evette: The River and Me Sharon Dennis Wyeth 9781683371854 Fiction American Girl Publishing American Girl Publishing Evette is a nature-lover full of crafty ideas for reusing and upcycling clothes. Wh...
Creatures of Passage
Creatures of Passage Morowa Yejide 9781617758768 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books With echoes of Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Yejidé’s novel explores a forgotten quadrant of Washington, DC, and ...
Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War
Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War Edda L. Fields-Black 9780197552797 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Booklist Top Ten H...
As a River
As a River Sion Dayson 9781938841101 Fiction Jaded Ibis Press Jaded Ibis Press It’s 1977. Bannen, Georgia, nestled amid pine forests, is rife with contrasts: natural beauty and racial tension, small-t...
From Harvey River: A Memoir Of My Mother And Her Island
From Harvey River: A Memoir Of My Mother And Her Island Lorna Goodison 9781843549956 Nonfiction Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. In her lovingly written, richly imaginative and effortlessly joyful mem...
Freedom River
Freedom River Doreen Rappaport 9781423106340 Fiction Disney-Hyperion Disney Publishing Worldwide One thousand feet across the Ohio River lay Ripley, Ohioand freedom. Before the Civil War, Kentucky wa...
One More River to Cross: Black & Gay in America
One More River to Cross: Black & Gay in America Keith Boykin 9780385479837 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House In the aftermath of the historic 1993 March on Washington for gay and lesbian rights, Kei...
What We Found in Hallelujah
What We Found in Hallelujah Vanessa Miller 9780785256830 Fiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing The Reynolds women are bracing for another storm, both literal and metaphorical, and t...
Ruined Vows
Ruined Vows Sherelle Green 9798320818078 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Pope Maverick She was never supposed to be mine. I’m a Maverick and in our world, family is...
Festival of Colors
Festival of Colors Surishtha Sehgal and Kabir Sehgal 9781481420495 Fiction Beach Lane Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Learn all about Holi, the Indian Festival of Colors, in this lush picture book from b...
The Nation Must Awake: Our Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
The Nation Must Awake: Our Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 Mary E. Jones Parrish 9781595349439 Nonfiction Trinity University Press Trinity University Press Mary Parrish was reading in her h...
The Other Side of Divine (Blessed Trinity)
The Other Side of Divine (Blessed Trinity) Vanessa Davis Griggs 9781410462794 Fiction Thorndike Press Gale Paris Simmons-Holyfield is finally pregnant with the baby she’s dreamed of for so long. There...
The Other Side Of Dare (Blessed Trinity)
The Other Side Of Dare (Blessed Trinity) Vanessa Davis Griggs 9780758273598 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. When a battle of wills threatens to tear a family apart, a child shall lead them—...
The Truth Is The Light (Blessed Trinity)
The Truth Is The Light (Blessed Trinity) Vanessa Davis Griggs 9780758232243 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. The son of a well-known minister, Clarence Walker knows his decision to leave his...
The Watkins Book of African Folklore
The Watkins Book of African Folklore Helen Nde 9781786788962 Nonfiction Watkins Publishing Watkins Publishing Combining vivid storytelling, astonishing imagination, and careful research, this is the u...
Between the River and the Railroad Tracks: A Memoir
Between the River and the Railroad Tracks: A Memoir Nicole R. Fleetwood 9780316564304 Nonfiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group Meticulously crafted and unflinchingly vulnerable, Nicole...
The River in the Belly
The River in the Belly Fiston Mwanza Mujila 9781646050673 Poetry Phoneme Media Phoneme Media A poetry book from one of Deep Vellum’s best-selling novelists, The River in the Belly will be a necessary ...
Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey To The Mecca Of Black America
Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey To The Mecca Of Black America Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts 9780316017237 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group “Most everything I write here is true and happen...
Red River
Red River Lalita Tademy 9780446696999 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group From the author of the New York Times bestseller Cane River comes the paperback debut of an epic work of fict...
Fadya and the Song of the River
Fadya and the Song of the River Laura Nsafou 9781849768245 Fiction Tate Publishing Tate Publishing & Enterprises, LLC A vibrantly illustrated tale celebrating creativity and serving your community Bet...
River Sing Me Home
River Sing Me Home Eleanor Shearer 9780593548042 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House Rare. Moving. Powerful. This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother’s gripping journey acr...
It’s Like Candy: An Urban Novel
It’s Like Candy: An Urban Novel Erick S. Gray 9781250805843 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers From street lit author Erick S. Gray comes the reissue of It’s Like Candy now available at...
The Broken River Tent
The Broken River Tent Mphuthumi Ntabeni 9781928337454 Fiction Jacana Media Jacana Media The Broken River Tent is a novel that marries imagination with history. It is about the life and times of Maqoma...
The River Between
The River Between Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 9780435905484 Fiction Heinemann Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Christian missionaries attempt to outlaw the female circumcision ritual and in the process create a terrib...
It’s Like Candy: An Urban Novel
It’s Like Candy: An Urban Novel Erick S. Gray 9780312349974 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Beautiful River joins a stick-up crew, but she doesn’t know that Big Red and Twinkie have ...
Time And The River (Caribbean Writers Series)
Time And The River (Caribbean Writers Series) Zee Edgell 9780435215187 Fiction Heinemann Houghton Mifflin Harcourt This is a new addition to the "Caribbean Writers Series" from award-winning author, Z...
By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept: A Novel Of Forgiveness
By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept: A Novel Of Forgiveness Paulo Coelho 9780061122095 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins From Paulo Coelho, author of the international bestseller The Alchemist, comes ...
The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America
The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America Walter C. Rucker 9780807131091 Fiction LSU Press Louisiana State University Press The River Flows On is an impres...
Ain’t No River
Ain’t No River Sharon Ewell Foster 9781576736289 Fiction Multnomah Penguin Random House Penned in the same poetic voice introduced in her bestselling debut novel, Passing by Samaria, Sharon Ewell Fost...
This Is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature
This Is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature Ahdaf Soueif and Omar Robert Hamilton 9781632868848 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing Writers from Ali...
Sugar
Sugar Jewell Parker Rhodes 9780316043052 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Sugar recieved the 2014 Jane Addams Children’s Book Award Ten-year-old Sugar lives on th...
Reflections from Zora!: Celebrating 25 Years of the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities
Reflections from Zora!: Celebrating 25 Years of the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, N. Y. Nathiri, and others 9781886104686 Nonfiction Florida Histor...
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory Claudio Saunt 9780393609844 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Finalist for the 20...
Rise to the Sun
Rise to the Sun Leah Johnson 9781338662238 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. From the author of You Should See Me in a Crown, Leah Johnson delivers a stunning novel about being brave enough to ...
The Door of No Return
The Door of No Return Kwame Alexander 9780316441964 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group From the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award winning author Kwame Alexander...
A Season for Fishin’: A Fish Fry Tradition
A Season for Fishin’: A Fish Fry Tradition Pamela Courtney 9780374390907 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers Macmillan Publishers A Season for Fishin’ is a joyous debut picture...
A River Called Time
A River Called Time Courttia Newland 9781617759260 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books “Newland … imagines a world where colonialism never happened at all. Which isn’t to say it’s some airy-fairy para...
Down the River unto the Sea
Down the River unto the Sea Walter Mosley 9780316509640 Fiction Mulholland Books Hachette Book Group From trailblazing novelist Walter Mosley: a former NYPD cop once imprisoned for a crime he did not ...
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 9781642591040 Nonfiction Haymarket Books Haymarket Books "This new collection of a four-decades-old text remin...
Two On The River
Two On The River Wil Haygood and Stan Grossfeld 9780871131102 Fiction Atlantic Monthly Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. Book by Haygood, Wil, Grossfeld, Stan
Change Is Gonna Come
Change Is Gonna Come Sam Cooke 9781499816150 Fiction Little Bee Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Sam Cooke’s legendary and beloved civil rights anthem is brought to life for the first time with stunning i...
James: A Novel
James: A Novel Percival Everett 9780385550369 Fiction Doubleday Books Penguin Random House A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously ...
Danger in the Nevada Desert
Danger in the Nevada Desert Denise N. Wheatley 9781335582690 Fiction Harlequin Intrigue Harlequin Enterprises Limited A Killer’s Terrorizing River Valley… And Its Newest Sergeant. With a seria...
Across the River: Life, Death, and Football in an American City
Across the River: Life, Death, and Football in an American City Kent Babb 9780062950598 Nonfiction HarperOne HarperCollins A heartbreaking and inspiring true story—Friday Night Lights meets Ghettoside...
Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre: The Creation and Destruction of America’s Wealthiest African American Neighborhood
Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre: The Creation and Destruction of America’s Wealthiest African American Neighborhood Charles River 9798667967774 Nonfiction Independently Published Indepen...
The Old Drift: A Novel
The Old Drift: A Novel Namwali Serpell 9781101907153 Fiction Hogarth Press Penguin Random House An electrifying debut from the winner of the 2015 Caine Prize for African writing, The Old Drift is the ...
Every Kiss a War
Every Kiss a War Leesa Cross-Smith B00MU9YR8U Fiction Mojave River Press Mojave River Press The twenty-seven stories in Leesa Cross-Smith’s debut short story collection Every Kiss a War are set to the...
All About Madam C. J. Walker
All About Madam C. J. Walker A’Lelia Bundles 9781681570938 Nonfiction Blue River Press Blue River Press Madam C. J. Walker was beloved within her community for her philanthropy and establishing the lo...
Insurrections: Stories
Insurrections: Stories Rion Amilcar Scott 9780813168180 Fiction University Press of Kentucky University Press of Kentucky A suicidal father looks to an older neighbor―and the Cookie Monster―for salvat...
Something Blue: A Guardian Agency Novel (Volume 2)
Something Blue: A Guardian Agency Novel (Volume 2) Ursula Sinclair 9781532920004 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC What happens when dreams come true, but it’s not all it was supposed to be...
Bounce
Bounce K.M. Jackson 9781941097038 Fiction River Hills Press River Hills Press Growing up, Sabrina Jacobs could only dream her life would be this good. She has a successful career, a famous sexy husban...
The Starbucks at the End of the World: The 4th Candorville Collection
The Starbucks at the End of the World: The 4th Candorville Collection Darrin Bell 9781548460365 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC The fourth collection of the syndicated newspaper comic str...
Don’t Throw Away Your Stick Till You Cross the River: The Journey of an Ordinary Man
Don’t Throw Away Your Stick Till You Cross the River: The Journey of an Ordinary Man Vincent Collin Beach and Anni Beach 9781589850767 Fiction Five Star Publications, Inc Five Star Publications, Inc V...
The Rock And The River
The Rock And The River Kekla Magoon 9781416978039 Fiction Aladdin Simon & Schuster, Inc. In 1968 Chicago, it’s not easy for thirteen-year-old Sam to be the son of known civil rights activist Roland Ch...
Like The Flowing River: Thoughts And Reflections
Like The Flowing River: Thoughts And Reflections Paulo Coelho 9780007235810 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins
The River’s Song: A Novel
The River’s Song: A Novel Jacqueline Bishop 9781845230388 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press This engaging coming-of-age novel looks back over the idyllic Jamaican girlhood and the both alien...
Frog Brings Rain
Frog Brings Rain Patricia Hruby Powell 9781893354081 Fiction Salina Bookshelf Salina Bookshelf As fire creeps toward the village of the First People, First Man and First Woman must find a way to quenc...
The River Niger
The River Niger A. Hamilton 9781574780307 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press
Triple Threat
Triple Threat Relentless Aaron 9780967054223 Fiction Relentless Content Relentless Content APRIL DAVIS is a woman who you’ve gotta love. She has such big, beautiful brown eyes that immediately tell y...
Cry Me A River
Cry Me A River Ernest Hill 9780758202772 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. Recently released from prison, Tyrone Stokes returns to Brownsville, Louisiana, on a mission to save his son Mar...
Blues in the Wind
Blues in the Wind Whitney J. Leblanc 9780913515471 Fiction River City Publishing River City Publishing First-time novelist LeBlanc has created a saga of the birth of the blues. In 1930s Louisiana, Phi...
At The Bottom Of The River
At The Bottom Of The River Jamaica Kincaid 9780374527341 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers Jamaica Kincaid’s inspired, lyrical short storiesReading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, g...
From A Bend in the River: 100 New Orleans Poets
From A Bend in the River: 100 New Orleans Poets Kalamu ya Salaam 9780965385411 Poetry Runagate Multimedia Runagate Multimedia Includes Poetry from 100 New Orleans Poets. An impressive overview of cul...
The River Between
The River Between Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 9789966460028 Fiction East Africa Education Publishers East Africa Education Publishers
Queens: Portraits of Black Women and their Fabulous Hair
Queens: Portraits of Black Women and their Fabulous Hair Michael Cunningham and George Alexander 9780385514620 Nonfiction Doubleday Penguin Random House Crowns photographer Michael Cunningham and au...
Sixty-Nine
Sixty-Nine Marissa Monteilh 9780446563338 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group It’s New Year’s Eve 2008, and best friends Magnolia Butler, Rebe Richardson, and Darla Clark, all born in...
Bronx Witches: The Awakening
Bronx Witches: The Awakening Carrie Abron 9798183523881 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Sixteen-year-old Camille Rose Milner knows the Bronx has secrets. She just never imagine...
Where Sleeping Girls Lie
Where Sleeping Girls Lie Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé 9781250800848 Fiction Feiwel & Friends Macmillan Publishers A girl new to boarding school discovers dark secrets and coverups after her roommate disappea...
Crowned Maddens: Prelude
Crowned Maddens: Prelude Sherelle Green 9798883556653 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Every family has secrets. Even the families you least expect. Years ago, the leaders of tw...
Coke Like The 80’s
Coke Like The 80’s Joy Deja King 9781958834329 Fiction King Productions King Productions Malik Toole rose to the top of the drug game in the 80’s selling cocaine when the crack cocaine epidemic hit. H...
The Hope of Glory: Reflections on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross
The Hope of Glory: Reflections on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross Jon Meacham 9780593236666 Nonfiction Convergent Books Penguin Random House NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Pulitzer Prize-winning a...
I Do Love You Still
I Do Love You Still Mary B. Morrison 9781496710871 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. From New York Times bestselling author Mary B. Morrison comes the seductive, no-holds-barred novel of a da...
Alienation and Freedom
Alienation and Freedom Frantz Fanon 9781474250214 Fiction Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Publishing Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was a Martinique-born psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and writer....
A Christmas Kiss
A Christmas Kiss Celeste O. Norfleet 9781496700506 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Warm up with these sweet and sexy holiday tales of love and romance…Sealed With A Kiss Celeste O. Norfleet...
The Real Thing & Bachelor Unleashed (The Westmorelands)
The Real Thing & Bachelor Unleashed (The Westmorelands) Brenda Jackson 9780373837977 Fiction Harlequin Harlequin Enterprises Limited A pretend boyfriend wants more than make-believe in this Westmorela...
Goodness And Mercy
Goodness And Mercy Vanessa Davis Griggs 9780758232236 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Vanessa is a superb storyteller. —ReShonda Tate BillingsleyA Blessed Trinity NovelAs Pastor George Land...
Practicing What You Preach
Practicing What You Preach Vanessa Davis Griggs 9780758232229 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. The wedding between Angela Gabriel and Brent Underwood promises to be the Birmingham event of t...
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...
King Penguin
King Penguin Jesse Byrd 9780692909256 Fiction Jesse B. Creative Jesse B. Creative PARIS BOOK FESTIVAL Top 3 Book of the Year!LOS ANGELES BOOK FESTIVAL: Top 10 Book of the Year!"Reminiscent of Watershi...
Innocent Crook
Innocent Crook d. E. Rogers 9780970880895 Fiction REGI Books REGI Books When one is born into a family of crime, can he rise above and become someone? Are we forever bound by what life has dealt us or...
Santa’s Holiday Mix-Up
Santa’s Holiday Mix-Up Renita Bryant 9781957092928 Fiction Mynd Matters Publishing Mynd Matters Publishing Santa and his sleigh are loaded up with gifts and headed to spread holiday cheer with nothing...
Esi the Brave (Who Was Not Afraid of Anything)
Esi the Brave (Who Was Not Afraid of Anything) Bernard Mensah 9780593406410 Fiction Dial Books Penguin Random House A bold and bright picture book about being brave when you’re scared in a new, overwh...