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Tulisoma South Dallas Book Fair, August 19, 2023
Tulisoma South Dallas Book Fair, August 19, 2023 Literary Events “Tulisoma,” which translates to “we read” in Swahili, is a festival rooted in the South Dallas/Fair Park community that champions liter...
Greg Thomas at the 2023 Tulisoma South Dallas Book Fair
Greg Thomas at the 2023 Tulisoma South Dallas Book Fair Literary Events Greg Thomas at the 2023 Tulisoma South Dallas Book Fair The University of Arkansas 1st Black starting quarterback, Greg Thomas, ...
Tulisoma South Dallas Book Fair
Tulisoma South Dallas Book Fair Dallas Texas Tulisoma, Swahili for “we read,” is a community-based literary festival promoting literacy and the arts in the South Dallas/Fair Park area. Fo...
Brentom Jackson at the 2023 Tulisoma South Dallas Book Fair
Brentom Jackson at the 2023 Tulisoma South Dallas Book Fair Literary Events Children's book author Brentom Jackson talks about first book for kids, Elijah’s Easter Suit. Recorded and edited by Troy Jo...
Dr. Julianne Malveaux Explains How the Tulsa Race Massacre Started
Dr. Julianne Malveaux Explains How the Tulsa Race Massacre Started Author Interviews Recorded and edited by Troy Johnson of the African American Literature Book Club during the Tulisoma South Dallas B...
August Snow (An August Snow Novel)
August Snow (An August Snow Novel) Stephen Mack Jones 9781616957186 Fiction Soho Crime Soho Crime Winner of the Hammett PrizeFrom the wealthy suburbs to the remains of Detroit’s bankrupt factory distr...
Dallas Book Festival
Dallas Book Festival Dallas Public Library Dallas Texas Founded in 2006 as the Dallas International Book Festival, the festival is Dallas Public Library’s premiere literary event. The Dallas Boo...
Abel Garcia
Abel Garcia NONE Dallas-based artist Abel Garcia, inspired by The Bible, hip-hop, graffiti, and the high renaissance, creates unique art using screen printing, acrylic and oil painting. Recognized as...
Ronald Fair
Ronald Fair 0000000116782340 Chicago-born African-American author, Ronald L. Fair, inspired by Richard Wright, carved his own literary path. Born in 1932, Fair served in the U.S. Navy before becoming...
Celeste Saves the City, a Book that Teaches Children about Civil Engineering
Celeste Saves the City, a Book that Teaches Children about Civil Engineering Book Spotlights Written by civil engineer, Courtney Kelly, Celeste Saves the City and beautifully illustrated by Erin Niels...
A One Woman Man: A Novel (Strivers Row)
A One Woman Man: A Novel (Strivers Row) Travis Hunter 9780812966527 Fiction One World Penguin Random House Bestselling author Travis Hunter returns with a stunning new novel about family, success, and...
Patrick M. Oliver, Consultant Dedicated to Promoting Reading and Writing as Tools of Empowerment
Patrick M. Oliver, Consultant Dedicated to Promoting Reading and Writing as Tools of Empowerment Poetry & Spoken Word Recorded and edited by Troy Johnson of the African American Literature Book Club d...
Sheryl L. Grace, Publisher SURA Literary Life Magazine
Sheryl L. Grace, Publisher SURA Literary Life Magazine Author Interviews Grace is the publisher of SURA Literary Life Magazine. She is also a contemporary fiction author and award-winning radio host o...
Lives Laid Away (An August Snow Novel)
Lives Laid Away (An August Snow Novel) Stephen Mack Jones 9781616959593 Fiction Soho Crime Soho Crime Detroit ex-cop August Snow takes up vigilante justice when his beloved neighborhood of Mexicantown...
August Wilson
August Wilson 0000000368634467 August Wilson (1945-2005), two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning African American playwright, is renowned for his Pittsburgh Cycle, a series of 10 plays each set in a unique ...
Leimert Park Village Book Fair
Leimert Park Village Book Fair Outdoor Promenade of the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza (BHCP) Los Angeles California See Press Release The Leimert Park Village Book Fair was founded in 2006 by Cynthia ...
Zuksiwa Wanner
Zuksiwa Wanner NONE Zukiswa Wanner, born to South African and Zimbabwean parents in Zambia, is a celebrated author known for award-nominated novels like “Men of the South.” As an essayist, she focuse...
Kimberly Thacker Webb
Kimberly Thacker Webb NONE Kimberly Thacker Webb, a Dallas native, is a Howard University and Texas Wesleyan School of Law graduate. An accomplished author and powerful speaker, she's also had a succ...
Open Door Marriage
Open Door Marriage Naleighna Kai 9781732622593 Fiction Macro Publishing Group Macro Publishing Group A chance encounter lands NBA star Dallas Avery back in the arms of the woman of his dreams. A woman...
August Frost
August Frost Monique Roffey 9780871138699 Fiction Atlantic Monthly Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. A sparkling first novel, August Frost is a story of transformation and self-discovery from a writer of tre...
And Then He Sang a Lullaby
And Then He Sang a Lullaby Ani Kayode 9780802160751 Fiction Roxane Gay Books Grove Atlantic, Inc. The inaugural title from Roxane Gay Books, And Then He Sang a Lullaby is a searingly honest and resona...
David Covin on the Sacramento Black Book Fair
David Covin on the Sacramento Black Book Fair Literary Events Dr. David Covin, one of the planning committee members of the Sacramento Black Book Fair talks with AALBC.com about the Book Fair at Under...
Harlem Book Fair 2013: Video, Photos & Awards
Harlem Book Fair 2013: Video, Photos & Awards Troy Johnson Article All Photos © 2013 AALBC.com, LLC - Feel free to use them but please provide a photo credit to Troy Johnson, AALBC.com and a link...
Frankfurter Buchmesse (Frankfurt Book Fair)
Frankfurter Buchmesse (Frankfurt Book Fair) Frankfurt Trade Fair Grounds Frankfurt Germany Authors read this if you plan to attend. The Frankfurt Book Fair is perhaps the world’s largest trad...
Miami Book Fair
Miami Book Fair Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Campus Miami Florida The Dates Shown are for the Street Fair. The entire fair typically runs 8 days The first Miami Book Fair, founded by Miami Dade Coll...
Havana International Book Fair
Havana International Book Fair Havana City Cuba Referred to as the Feria Internacional del Libro de La Habana in Spanish, the fair’s main objective is the promotion of various books and authors...
Feed Your Mind: A Story of August Wilson
Feed Your Mind: A Story of August Wilson Jen Bryant 9781419736537 Nonfiction Abrams Books for Young Readers Abrams A celebration of August Wilson’s journey from a child in Pittsburgh to one of America...
Miles of Style: Eunice W. Johnson and the Ebony Fashion Fair
Miles of Style: Eunice W. Johnson and the Ebony Fashion Fair Lisa D. Brathwaite 9781620143124 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books A chic biography about Eunice W. Johnson who brought elegant an...
All Rise: Resistance and Rebellion in South Africa
All Rise: Resistance and Rebellion in South Africa Richard Conyngham 9781946395634 Fiction Catalyst Press Catalyst Press * A Kirkus Reviews Best YA Book of 2022 * A USBBY 2023 Outstanding Internatio...
Brian W. Smith
Brian W. Smith NONE Brian W. Smith, an award-winning author of 15 novels and former U.S. Army member, turned full-time author after being laid off. His personal trauma inspired his first novel, leadi...
Cynt Marshall
Cynt Marshall NONE Cynt Marshall is the first Black female CEO of an NBA team, the Dallas Mavericks. She's also a former SVP of human resources and chief diversity officer for AT&T, a cancer survivor...
Nancy Churnin
Nancy Churnin NONE Nancy Churnin is a celebrated children's book author, known for inspiring kids to be heroes through her stories. She's a Eureka Silver Award winner and has been recognized with the...
N’Tyse
N’Tyse NONE N'Tyse, a wife, mother, and Dallas native, is a multitalented novelist, screenwriter, and film producer. With a background in banking and a degree from Arizona State University, she is ce...
Homegoing: A Novel
Homegoing: A Novel Yaa Gyasi 9781101947135 Fiction Random House Penguin Random House Yaa Gyasi’s London Book Fair 2015: In Pre-Fair Deals, Debut Sells to Knopf for Rumored 7 Figures A riveting, kal...
Harlem Book Fair
Harlem Book Fair Harlem State Office Building Plaza New York New York The Harlem Book Fair is the United State’s largest African-American book fair and the nation’s flagship Black literary...
Harlem Book Fair 1999 to 2007 Slide Show
Harlem Book Fair 1999 to 2007 Slide Show Literary Events For more information about the 2013 Harlem Book Fair visit: https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/1893-2013-harlem-book-fair/ In celebration of the 10th a...
African American Children’s Book Fair
African American Children’s Book Fair Pennsylvania Convention Center Philadelphia Pennsylvania Check out our photos from the 2024 Festival The African American Children’s Book Fair is one of t...
Behold the Dreamers: A Novel
Behold the Dreamers: A Novel Imbolo Mbue 9780812998481 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House Imbolo Mbue’s The Longings of Jende Jonga one of two books to earn $1 Million+ advances at the Frankfurt Book ...
Hightlight from the 2013 Harlem Book Fair
Hightlight from the 2013 Harlem Book Fair Literary Events More information and photo from the 2013 Harlem Book Fair: https://aalbc.it/hbf2013photos The Harlem Book Fair, now in its 15 year, hosts a l...
camika c. spencer
camika c. spencer NONE Camika C. Spencer, a Dallas native, is a best-selling author known for her unique storytelling. After studying broadcasting, she discovered her writing talent at Black Images B...
Night at the Fair
Night at the Fair Donald Crews 9780688114831 Fiction Greenwillow Books HarperCollins Step right up! Crews "(Freight Train)" gives young readers an open-ended ticket to the glittery goings-on after dar...
Fair Share Publishing
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Fair Share Publishing
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The Weather and Women Treat Me Fair: Stories
The Weather and Women Treat Me Fair: Stories Percival Everett 9780874830132 Fiction August House Publishers August House Publishers The Weather and Women Treat Me Fair is a collection of short stories...
August House Publishers
August House Publishers August House Publishers August House Publishers
August House Publishers
August House Publishers August House Publishers August House Publishers
The Rib King
The Rib King Ladee Hubbard 9780062979063 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins "Ladee Hubbard’s voice is a welcome original." —Mary GaitskillUpstairs, Downstairs meets Parasite: The acclaimed author of The Ta...
Wicker King
Wicker King K. Ancrum 9781250101556 Fiction Square Fish Macmillan Publishers The Wicker King is a psychological young adult thriller that follows two friends struggling as one spirals into madness. ...
Jitney (1970s Century Cycle)
Jitney (1970s Century Cycle) August Wilson 9781468314496 Fiction The Overlook Press The Overlook Press Rereleased in time for its first Broadway run, Jitney is the seventh in Wilson’s 10-play cycle ...
August Wilson Century Cycle
August Wilson Century Cycle August Wilson 9781559363075 Fiction Theatre Communications Group Theatre Communications Group August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle (10 plays covering 10 decades) 1900s - ...
Gem of the Ocean (1900s Century Cycle)
Gem of the Ocean (1900s Century Cycle) August Wilson 9781559362801 Fiction Theatre Communications Group Theatre Communications Group “No one except perhaps Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams has ai...
John H. Bracey Jr., August Meier, and Elliott Rudwick
John H. Bracey Jr., August Meier, and Elliott Rudwick MULTIPLE John Bracey Jr., August Meier, and Elliott Rudwick are renowned authors known for their significant contributions in literature. Their ...
Pamela Mariva Mshana
Pamela Mariva Mshana NONE Pamela Mariva Mshana, PhD, is an acclaimed playwright, author, and educator. Known for her play, Ebony, and her work at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy, she has receive...
Ancient Scripts in South America: The Sumerians in South America
Ancient Scripts in South America: The Sumerians in South America Clyde Winters 9781519257543 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Ancient Scripts in South America is about the history of wr...
Children’s Book Author Tonya Bolden
Children’s Book Author Tonya Bolden Troy Johnson Interview AALBC Founder Troy Johnson with Tonya Bolden at the 2020 African American Children’s Book Fair Tonya Bolden has written numerous be...
On My Papa’s Shoulders
On My Papa’s Shoulders Niki Daly 9781946395689 Fiction Catalyst Press Catalyst Press A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection A 2023 Charlotte Zolotow Award Honor Book Winner of the 2022 South...
Greater St. Louis Book Fair
Greater St. Louis Book Fair Greensfelder Recreation Complex in Queeny Park St. Louis Missouri Greater St. Louis Book Fair is one of the nation’s oldest, largest and most popular charity book sal...
Blue Roses
Blue Roses Sharon C. Cooper 9780985525446 Fiction Amaris Publishing Amaris Publishing Where most women would welcome love from a wealthy, good-looking man, Chicago-based investment manager, Dallas Mar...
Looking For Sweet Love
Looking For Sweet Love R.L. Byrd 9781605944357 Fiction Aeon Publishing Inc. Aeon Publishing Inc. Has your career left you unfulfilled? Does your heart long for warmth, understanding, and companionship...
Victor McGlothin
Victor McGlothin NONE Victor McGlothin, a bestselling author and filmmaker from Dallas, overcame early reading struggles to complete a Masters degree and leave his banking career for literature. Know...
David Lee
David Lee 0000000110370724 David Lee is an esteemed leader with nearly 30 years of ministry experience. Serving under T.D. Jakes Ministries, he led the Sunday school department and taught the first m...
Beijing International Book Fair
Beijing International Book Fair Beijing China The BIBF - Beijing International Book Fair – is divided into several specific areas: The area of children’s books and comics, the field of in...
Rocky Mountain Book and Paper Fair
Rocky Mountain Book and Paper Fair Douglas County Fairgrounds Castle Rock Colorado The Rocky Mountain Book & Paper Fair will have guest speakers who will discuss the Mystery genre. Once again we will ...
Venice Book Fair and Writers Festival
Venice Book Fair and Writers Festival Blalock Park Venice Florida The Venice Book Fair and Writers Festival is a small, unique program hosting writers teaching writers on Friday night, and authors sel...
Kentucky Book Fair
Kentucky Book Fair Alltech Arena at the Kentucky Horse Park Frankfort Kentucky About the Kentucky Book Fair: Since its inception in 1981, the Kentucky Book Fair has been connecting readers and authors...
London Book Fair
London Book Fair Olympia London London England The London Book Fair is the global marketplace for rights negotiation and the sale and distribution of content across print, audio, TV, film and digital ...
Queen City Book Fair
Queen City Book Fair Venue 8470 Charlotte North Carolina Queen City Book Fair (est. 2016 co-founders Quisha Dynae and Shmel Carter), warmly invite you to their fair! All local avid readers and anyone ...
2020 African American Children’s Book Fair
2020 African American Children’s Book Fair Literary Events The African American Children’s Book Fair is one of the oldest and largest single-day events for children's books in the country. The 2021 F...
Keeonna Harris
Keeonna Harris NONE Keeonna Harris is a writer, storyteller, mother of five, prison abolitionist, activist, and academic. Her work focuses on health disparities and radical organizing for women conne...
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation Imani Perry 9780062977403 Nonfiction Ecco Press HarperCollins “An elegant meditation on the complexities of the Ame...
New Novel Explores What Our World Would Be Like if the South Won the Civil War
New Novel Explores What Our World Would Be Like if the South Won the Civil War Troy Johnson Article Lex Ramsay has crafted a captivating alternative history novel, Southern Republic, that bring...
A Tale of Two Africas: Nigeria and South Africa as Contrasting Visions
A Tale of Two Africas: Nigeria and South Africa as Contrasting Visions Ali Mazrui 9781905068296 Nonfiction Adonis & Abbey Publishers Adonis & Abbey Publishers Nigeria and South Africa provide the soci...
The Punta Gorda Literary Fair
The Punta Gorda Literary Fair Herald Court Breezeway and adjacent streets Punta Gorda Florida Literary events take place Monday through Friday, culminating in the big one—Saturday’s street...
August Lane
August Lane Regina Black 9781538767528 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group From the author of The Art of Scandal comes a small town romance about the visibility of Black women’s voice...
Until August
Until August Gabriel Garcia Marquez 9780593801994 Fiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House A Time Most Anticipated Book - The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning a...
How To Give Birth To A God
How To Give Birth To A God Louis Farrakhan 9798985921830 Nonfiction Final Call Foundation Final Call Foundation “I have been working on this subject for over 15 years. I am so proud of this series of ...
Sun Dog
Sun Dog Monique Roffey 9781849833035 Fiction Simon & Schuster Ltd Simon & Schuster, Inc. August Chalmin feels the weather like no one else. A large awkward recluse, with bright orange hair and sun-shy...
An Eighth of August
An Eighth of August Dawn Turner Trice 9780517705896 Fiction Crown Penguin Random House With Only Twice I’ve Wished for Heaven, Dawn Turner Trice established herself as a powerful and unique new fictio...
King Hedley II (1980s Century Cycle)
King Hedley II (1980s Century Cycle) August Wilson 9781559362603 Fiction Theatre Communications Group Theatre Communications Group “Wilson’s melody here is the mournful sound of what might have been, ...
African American Literature Book Club
African American Literature Book Club 0000000509856750 The African American Literature Book Club transforms notable forum discussions into articles for increased visibility. The first conversion, “On...
Victoria Christopher Murray her 2023 novel
Victoria Christopher Murray her 2023 novel Book Spotlights The First Ladies by Victoria Christopher Murray (co-authored with Marie Benedict) is the top selling Black woman novelist for 2023. Learn m...
Southern Republic (The Downriver Trilogy Book 1)
Southern Republic (The Downriver Trilogy Book 1) Lex Ramsay 9781522005506 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published In a world where the South has won the Civil War… It’s 1982. A hundred...
Randall Robinson
Randall Robinson 0000000108663122 Randall Robinson (1941-2023) was a best-selling author and founder of TransAfrica. Known for his books such as 'An Unbroken Agony' and 'The Debt', he was a public ad...
The Hustle Chronicles
The Hustle Chronicles Blacc Topp 9781544851396 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Julius Jr.’s childhood is far less than perfect. He is torn between his mother and father who are going thru...
Blacc Topp
Blacc Topp NONE Blacc Topp, an award-winning author born in Benton Harbor, MI, and raised in South Dallas, used his love for writing to navigate personal loss and a challenging upbringing. From journ...
South End Press
South End Press Loading http://southendpress.org/ South End Press is an independent, nonprofit, collectively-run book publisher with more than 250 titles in print. Since their founding in 1977, they h...
The Music: New and Selected Poems 1973-2023
The Music: New and Selected Poems 1973-2023 Everett Hoagland 9798988165538 Poetry Willow Publishing Willow Publishing Poetry collection by Everett Hoagland, winner of the 2023 American Book Award. The...
Useni Eugene Perkins
Useni Eugene Perkins 0000000082421407 Useni Eugene Perkins (1932-2023) was a renowned author, poet, playwright, social worker, and civil rights activist. Known for his work during the Chicago Black A...
Daphne A. Brooks
Daphne A. Brooks 0000000036317932 Daphne A. Brooks is a Yale University professor and co-founder of the Black Sound & the Archive Working Group. She is an award-winning author known for her works on ...
Black AF History (paperback): The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
Black AF History (paperback): The Un-Whitewashed Story of America Michael Harriot 9780063390720 Nonfiction Dey Street Books HarperCollins NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE • AMAZON...
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Black AF History [Indie Bookstore Exclusive Edition]: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
Black AF History [Indie Bookstore Exclusive Edition]: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America Michael Harriot 9780063490093 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE ...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2022-2023): Jubilee
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2022-2023): Jubilee Clarence V. Reynolds a21551758v13 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Killens Review of Arts & Letters, Fall/Wi...
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley 0000000046027939 Wesley Receives the 2023 Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Award Dr. Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, a Penn State Altoona professor of English, creative writing and Afri...
Lisa E. Davis
Lisa E. Davis NONE Lisa E. Davis is one of the nation’s foremost entertainment attorneys. She serves as chair of the Entertainment Group at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, where she represents cl...
September eNewsletter: Bestselling Books, 118 Book Events, and More
September eNewsletter: Bestselling Books, 118 Book Events, and More Troy Johnson Article July/August 2016 Bestselling Books Titles on Go On Girl! Book Club's reading list are prominent on our best...
The Indie Author Book Festival - Book Fair
The Indie Author Book Festival - Book Fair Commemoration Hall Huntingdon United Kingdom The Book Reality Experience presents the 3rd Annual Indie Author Spring Book Fair, which celebrates stories from...
Anika Malone
Anika Malone NONE Anika Malone, author of the acclaimed “10 Minutes Past Too Late”, is celebrated as a fresh voice in contemporary fiction. She has participated in notable book events across the Unit...