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Shut Up and Read: A Memoir from Harriett’s Bookshop
Shut Up and Read: A Memoir from Harriett’s Bookshop Jeannine A. Cook 9780063428232 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins The author of It’s Me They Follow chronicles the improbable true story of how she le...
The New York Public Library Amazing African American History: A Book Of Answers For Kids
The New York Public Library Amazing African American History: A Book Of Answers For Kids The New York Public Library, and Diane Patrick 9780471192176 Nonfiction Wiley Wiley Discover ancient African ci...
Murder from A to Z
Murder from A to Z V. M. Burns 9781496750822 Fiction Kensington Cozies Kensington Publishing Corp. Fowl Play at Shady Acres When Michigan bookshop owner and mystery writer Samantha Washington and h...
The Bookshop
The Bookshop Evan Friss 9780593299920 Fiction Viking Penguin Random House
The Bookshop Sisterhood
The Bookshop Sisterhood Michelle Lindo-Rice 9780778310389 Fiction Mira Books Harlequin Enterprises Limited When life rewrites the story, only friendship will see them through. After years of hard ...
Culture Worrier: Selected Columns 1984-2014: Reflections On Race, Politics And Social Change
Culture Worrier: Selected Columns 1984-2014: Reflections On Race, Politics And Social Change Clarence Page 9781932841923 Nonfiction Agate Bolden Agate Publishing, Inc Pulitzer Prize winner Clarence Pa...
Country Place: A Novel
Country Place: A Novel Ann Petry 9780063260092 Fiction Mariner Books Classics Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A novel first published in 1947“Petry is the writer we have been waiting for; hers are the stori...
The Small Fortune of Dorothea Q: An epic page-turning family saga
The Small Fortune of Dorothea Q: An epic page-turning family saga Sharon Maas 9781909490581 Nonfiction Bookouture Bookouture When she ran away from her childhood home in Guyana, Rika swore that she wo...
Writer’s Muse Group Magazine: Winter 2012 (Writer’s Muse Page Magazine) (Volume 1)
Writer’s Muse Group Magazine: Winter 2012 (Writer’s Muse Page Magazine) (Volume 1) Sumiko Saulson 9781495458903 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC The first issue of ”Writer’s Muse” Magazine...
Turning Thirty
Turning Thirty Mike Gayle 9780743477659 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. What’s the big deal?Unlike a lot of people, Matt Beckford is actually looking forward to turning thirty. His twenti...
The 90-Day UnJournal: Getting Off the Page and Into Action
The 90-Day UnJournal: Getting Off the Page and Into Action Michelle Sumrall 9798988671220 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published The 90-Day UnJournal: Getting Off the Page and Into...
Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank
Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank Justene Hill Edwards 9781324073857 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. In the years immediately after the Civ...
That Dangerous Energy
That Dangerous Energy Aya de León 9781496740328 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Two-time International Latino Book Award-winning author Aya de León brings her unique blend of commerc...
Couples Wanted
Couples Wanted Briana Cole 9781496729576 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Acclaimed author Briana Cole delivers a page-turning look behind-the-scenes of love and marriage in this sexy, suspe...
Turn Your Passion Into Profit: The NEW AND IMPROVED step-by-step guide for turning ANY hobby, talent, or new product idea into a money-making venture!
Turn Your Passion Into Profit: The NEW AND IMPROVED step-by-step guide for turning ANY hobby, talent, or new product idea into a money-making venture! Walt Goodridge 9781522908272 Nonfiction CreateSp...
Kwame Alexander’s Page-to-Stage Writing Workshop: Awakening the Writer, Publisher, and Presenter in Every Student
Kwame Alexander’s Page-to-Stage Writing Workshop: Awakening the Writer, Publisher, and Presenter in Every Student Kwame Alexander 9781338026818 Nonfiction Teaching Resources Teaching Resources 2015 Ne...
Writer in Residence: A Heartwarming Book about Books Set in the Low-Country
Writer in Residence: A Heartwarming Book about Books Set in the Low-Country Rhonda McKnight 9781400354399 Fiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing From beloved author Rhonda McKnight c...
It’s Me They Follow
It’s Me They Follow Jeannine A. Cook 9780063430952 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins An allegorical love story—a modern day The Alchemist meets The NeverEnding Story—set in a world where a book shopkeeper...
Master of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your Narrative
Master of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your Narrative Keke Palmer 9781250372512 Nonfiction Flatiron Books Macmillan Publishers From the award-winning, multihyphenate global entertainer Keke Palmer co...
Jessica Huntley’s Pan-African Life: The Decolonizing Work of a Radical Black Activist
Jessica Huntley’s Pan-African Life: The Decolonizing Work of a Radical Black Activist Claudia Tomlinson 9781501394553 Nonfiction Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Publishing A powerful biography that pre...
The Graphic History of Hip Hop
The Graphic History of Hip Hop Walter Greason 9780996204682 Nonfiction Graphic History Company Graphic History Company A powerful biography that presents analysis of a black working-class woman who ro...
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...
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story Nikole Hannah-Jones 9780593230572 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House Donate a Copy The 1619 Project to the Literary Freedom Project A dramatic expansion ...
Fear of the Dark: A Novel
Fear of the Dark: A Novel Walter Mosley 9780446617895 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group When his cousin Ulysses S. Grant IV comes knocking, Paris Minton would rather keep the door...
Embryo
Embryo Quincy Troupe 9780879290207 Poetry Barlenmir House Barlenmir House Signed by Author First book of poetry by this African-American writer, who was the first official poet laureate of the state o...
Playing Their Games
Playing Their Games Kiki Swinson 9781496734129 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In this this page-turning spin-off prequel to the Playing Dirty and Notorious duology, national bestselling au...
After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame
After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame Lynell George 9781626400535 Nonfiction Angel City Press Angel City Press A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler offers a bluepr...
Handbook For An Unpredictable Life: How I Survived Sister Renata And My Crazy Mother, And Still Came Out Smiling (With Great Hair)
Handbook For An Unpredictable Life: How I Survived Sister Renata And My Crazy Mother, And Still Came Out Smiling (With Great Hair) Rosie Perez 9780307952394 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House Oscar...
Breaking All My Rules
Breaking All My Rules Trice Hickman 9780758287205 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Real love is in a class all its own…Born into wealth, Erica Stanford has followed in her family’s successfu...
Playing The Hand You’re Dealt
Playing The Hand You’re Dealt Trice Hickman 9780758269089 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. "I can’t wait to see what Trice Hickman does next!" —Mary Monroe "Trice Hickman is an amazing write...
One Dead Doctor (David Price Mystery)
One Dead Doctor (David Price Mystery) Tony Lindsay 9781599970127 Fiction Penknife Press Penknife Press A killer is stalking young women in David Price’s community, his brother has just been released f...
Up To No Good
Up To No Good Carl Weber 9780758231789 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. There is always a man around the corner. Church trustee James Black should know—he’s usually that man, carrying on adu...
The Turning of Sally-Mae
The Turning of Sally-Mae Nuzo Onoh 9781835416075 Fiction Titan Books (UK) Titan Publishing Group A chilling blend of African mythology, Wild West history, and supernatural horror from Bram Stoker Awar...
Turning Point (Paperback)
Turning Point (Paperback) Paula Chase 9780062965677 Fiction Greenwillow Books HarperCollins When being yourself isn’t good enough, who should you be? Told in dual perspectives, this provocative and t...
Turning Point
Turning Point Paula Chase 9780062965660 Fiction Greenwillow Books HarperCollins When being yourself isn’t good enough, who should you be? Told in dual perspectives, this provocative and timely novel ...
We Cast a Shadow: A Novel
We Cast a Shadow: A Novel Maurice Carlos Ruffin 9780525509066 Fiction One World Penguin Random House “An incisive and necessary” (Roxane Gay) debut for fans of Get Out and Paul Beatty’s The Sellout, a...
Everyday illusions: Turning life experiences into laughter while gaining knowledge.
Everyday illusions: Turning life experiences into laughter while gaining knowledge. Renée Watson 9781520407715 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published A small collection of poetry f...
Dangerous Consequences
Dangerous Consequences Lisa Renee Johnson 9781496707949 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. “Hold on for the ride of your life…with unimaginable consequences.” ‑‑Mary B. MorrisonDebut author Li...
Turning 15 On The Road To Freedom: My Story Of The Selma Voting Rights March
Turning 15 On The Road To Freedom: My Story Of The Selma Voting Rights March Lynda Blackmon Lowery 9780803741232 Nonfiction Dial Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A memoir of the Civil Righ...
Black Diamond (The Africa List)
Black Diamond (The Africa List) Zakes Mda 9780857422224 Fiction Seagull Books Seagull Books In this novel by celebrated South African writer Zakes Mda, Kristin Uys, a tough magistrate who lives alone ...
The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness Into Flowers (New Poems)
The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness Into Flowers (New Poems) Alice Walker 9781595588760 Poetry The New Press The New Press "Poetry is leading us," writes Alice Walker in The World Will Follow J...
Mind Your Own Wellness: Turning Thoughts Into Reality
Mind Your Own Wellness: Turning Thoughts Into Reality Alex Ong 9780980155662 Nonfiction OCL Publishing, Inc. OCL Publishing, Inc. "…I strongly recommend Mind Your Own Wellness to all who care about t...
Getting Some of Her Own
Getting Some of Her Own Gwynne Forster 9780758213105 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. “Pure satisfaction.” –RT Book Reviews“You’ll eagerly keep reading to learn how the characters’ liv...
Eyes of the Beholder
Eyes of the Beholder Barbara A. Robinson 9780972085106 Fiction BeuMar LLC Publishing Company BeuMar LLC Publishing Company "Eyes of the Beholder" is about turning hard times into good times, and turni...
Sugar: A Novel
Sugar: A Novel Bernice L. McFadden 9780452282209 Fiction Plume Penguin Random House 20th Anniversary Edition—with a New Foreword by Kimberly Elise A novel by a critically acclaimed voice in contemp...
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...
Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Setback Into a New Vision of Social Justice
Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Setback Into a New Vision of Social Justice Lani Guinier 9780743253512 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. In 1993, shortly after his inaugurati...
The Song Turning Back Into Itself
The Song Turning Back Into Itself Al Young 9780030866920 Poetry Holt Rinehart & Winston Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety
Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety Cara Page and Erica Woodland 9781623177140 Nonfiction North Atlantic Books North Atlantic Books A profou...
Book or Bell?
Book or Bell? Chris Barton 9781681197296 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Children's Books Bloomsbury Publishing The first page has Henry hooked.The second page has him captivated.The third page …BBBBRRRRIIIIIN...
The Graphomaniac’s Primer: A Semi-Surrealist Memoir
The Graphomaniac’s Primer: A Semi-Surrealist Memoir Walter Mosley 9781574781366 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press “A memoir about the beginnings of my journey on the page. My half-ba...
Swing
Swing Miasha 9781617752643 Fiction Infamous Books Akashic Books "Wise librarians will stock up and ’swing’ this one over to erotica fans."—Library Journal"This newest offering from Miasha packs quite ...
Turn The Page And You Don’t Stop: Sharing Successful Chapters In Our Lives With Youth
Turn The Page And You Don’t Stop: Sharing Successful Chapters In Our Lives With Youth Patrick M. Oliver 9780977949908 Nonfiction Say It Loud! Readers and Writers Series Say It Loud! Readers and Writer...
Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam
Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam Tony Medina and Louis Reyes Rivera 9780609808405 Poetry Broadway Books Penguin Random House Bum Rush the Page is a groundbreaking collection, capturing the best new...
Matriarch (paperback): A Memoir
Matriarch (paperback): A Memoir Tina Knowles 9780593597422 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful chronicle of a life like no other—enlightening, e...
Boom Town
Boom Town Nic Stone 9781668056271 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl meets P-Valley in Nic Stone’s adult thriller debut about two missing erotic dancers from Atl...
107 Days
107 Days Kamala Harris 9781668211656 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. For the first time, and with surprising and revealing insights, Kamala Harris tells the story of one of the wild...
Little Movements
Little Movements Lauren Morrow 9780593736753 Fiction Random House Penguin Random House A page-turning, tenderhearted debut about a Black woman who is finally given a chance to pursue her dream of beco...
Secret Library (paperback)
Secret Library (paperback) Kekla Magoon 9781536243574 Fiction Candlewick Press (MA) Candlewick Press “A deeply satisfying, page-turning, genre-defying read.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Since ...
Payback Girls
Payback Girls Alex Travis 9781464217715 Fiction Sourcebooks Fire Sourcebooks Why get over your cheating ex when you can get even? John Tucker Must Die meets One of Us Is Lying in a gripping, page-turn...
People Like Stars
People Like Stars Patrice Lawrence 9780702315640 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. Multi-award-winning Patrice Lawrence’s first contemporary middle-grade novel is a page-turning mystery and explo...
The Reformatory (Paperback)
The Reformatory (Paperback) Tananarive Due 9781982188351 Fiction Gallery / Saga Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. “You’re in for a treat…one of those books you can’t put down…Due hit it out of the park.” —...
The Accomplice
The Accomplice Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and Aaron Philip Clark 9780063312906 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins The New York Times bestselling multitalented artist delivers an electrifying novel—The Accomp...
Colored Television
Colored Television Danzy Senna 9780593544372 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House A brilliant dark comedy about love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial-identity-industrial c...
The Nine Night Mystery
The Nine Night Mystery Sharna Jackson 9780241523612 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House A page-turning murder-mystery about identity, full of surprising twists, from the award-winning author of ...
Flying Through Water
Flying Through Water Mamle Wolo 9780316703963 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group An NPR Best Book of the Year “A must-read!” —Alan Gratz, New York Times bestsel...
The Secret Library
The Secret Library Kekla Magoon 9781536230888 Fiction Candlewick Press (MA) Candlewick Press Travel through time with National Book Award Finalist Kekla Magoon in a page-turning fantasy adventure abou...
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum Antonia Hylton 9781538723692 Nonfiction Legacy Lit Hachette Book Group In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year ...
The Reformatory
The Reformatory Tananarive Due 9781982188344 Fiction Gallery / Saga Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephen Jones as he’s sent t...
Jelani’s Key
Jelani’s Key D. Amari Jackson 9780979637438 Fiction AALBC Books for Young Readers African American Literature Book Club “Dramatic, daring, and authentic, Jelani’s Key is a page-turning epic chock full...
Murder on Federal Street: Tyrone Everett, the Black Mafia, Fixed Fights, and the Last Golden Age of Philadelphia Boxing
Murder on Federal Street: Tyrone Everett, the Black Mafia, Fixed Fights, and the Last Golden Age of Philadelphia Boxing Sean Nam 9798218137298 Nonfiction Rushcutters Bay Books Rushcutters Bay Books “N...
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...
Wade in the Water
Wade in the Water Nyaneba Nkrumah 9780063226616 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Resonant with the emotional urgency of Alice Walker’s classic Meridian and the poignant charm of Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secre...
The Elemental Detectives
The Elemental Detectives Patrice Lawrence 9780702315626 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. A stunningly imagined, action-packed fantasy adventure for fans of Nevermoor, Neverwhere, and Mortal Engi...
The Kaya Girl
The Kaya Girl Mamle Wolo 9780316703932 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group This rags-to-riches story by an award-winning Ghanaian author has page-turning appeal with lumi...
Spiral
Spiral Denise Turney 9798834560982 Fiction Chistell Publishing Chistell Publishing HAUNTING SUSPENSE NOVEL WILL GRIP YOU FROM THE START Thrilling murder mystery with a cliffhanger ending! A page ...
The Other Mother
The Other Mother Rachel M. Harper 9781640095045 Fiction Counterpoint Counterpoint A page-turning generational saga about a young man’s search for a parent he never knew, and a moving portrait of mothe...
Lovin’ a Virginia Bad Girl
Lovin’ a Virginia Bad Girl Racquel Williams 9781645563402 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Have you ever experienced that good old hood love that makes your insides shiver? The three ma...
Blindsided
Blindsided Trice Hickman 9781496709356 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Blindsided is my 10th novel (I still can’t believe it). I feel incredibly blessed by God’s grace, because believe me...
Life Among the Aryans
Life Among the Aryans Ishmael Reed 9781576879900 Fiction Archway Editions powerHouse Books America’s greatest living writer returns with a hilarious, scathing satire of the MAGA mindset. The controver...
The Bread the Devil Knead
The Bread the Devil Knead Lisa Allen-Agostini 9781912408993 Fiction Myriad Editions Myriad Editions Alethea Lopez is about to turn 40. Fashionable, feisty and fiercely independent, she manages a bouti...
The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice
The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice Scott Ellsworth 9780593182987 Nonfiction Dutton Books Penguin Random House And then they were gone. More than one-thousand homes and ...
Life After Death
Life After Death Sister Souljah 9781982139131 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Winter Santiaga is back! The stunning and long-anticipated sequel to Sister Souljah’s million-copy, AALBC-be...
Surviving the Chase
Surviving the Chase Lisa Renee Johnson 9781496707970 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In this page-turning follow-up to Dangerous Consequences, a serial killer wants revenge—but two surpris...
The Secret Women
The Secret Women Sheila Williams 9780062934222 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Her debut novel, Dancing on the Edge of the Roof, was adapted into a Netflix film starring Alfre Woodard, and now Sheila Wi...
The Stolen Daughter
The Stolen Daughter ReShonda Tate 9781496724144 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Award-winning author ReShonda Tate Billingsley delivers a poignant, page-turning novel about the power—and fr...
Great Escapes: Journey to Freedom, 1838
Great Escapes: Journey to Freedom, 1838 Sherri Winston 9780062860392 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Are you ready for some of the most exciting, death-defying escape stories ever told? Perfect fo...
Over the Fence
Over the Fence Mary Monroe 9781496716156 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In this page-turning novel set in the Depression-era South, New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe transports...
The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington (Young Reader’s)
The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington (Young Reader’s) Brad Meltzer 9781250244833 Nonfiction Roaring Brook Press Macmillan Publishers #1 New York Times bestselling author Bra...
Such a Fun Age
Such a Fun Age Kiley Reid 9780525541905 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Penguin Random House A REESE’S BOOK CLUB x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK PICK A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new vo...
Big Monty and the Cyborg Substitute
Big Monty and the Cyborg Substitute Matt Maxx 9781733743570 Fiction Homestead Publishing Homestead Publishing Fifth-grader Merlin Montgomery, AKA Big Monty, has to save his school again! Can this scie...
A Blade So Black
A Blade So Black L.L. McKinney 9781250211668 Fiction Square Fish Macmillan Publishers Mixing elements of Alice in Wonderland and Buffy the Vampire Slayer… a delectable urban twist on beloved fantasy t...
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...
Incognegro: Renaissance
Incognegro: Renaissance Mat Johnson 9781506705637 Fiction Berger Books Berger Books A page-turning thriller of racial divide, Incognegro: Renaissance explores segregation, secrets and self-image as ou...
Speak No Evil: A Novel
Speak No Evil: A Novel Uzodinma Iweala 9780061284922 Fiction Harper HarperCollins "A lovely slender volume that packs in entire worlds with complete mastery. Speak No Evil explains so much about our t...
One Hustle
One Hustle Cortney Gee 9781944359577 Fiction Brown Girls Books Brown Girls Books “Every day I’m hustling…..” Comedian Cameron B is a man with his back against the wall. The rent is due, his family n...
The Killing Breeze
The Killing Breeze Tony Lindsay 9781599970257 Fiction Penknife Press Penknife Press The Killing Breeze is a story of societal unrest told from the point view of two main characters, opposites in a sen...
Writing My Wrongs
Writing My Wrongs Shaka Senghor 9781101907313 Nonfiction Convergent Books Penguin Random House NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “extraordinary, unforgettable” (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim ...
Wives, Fiancées, and Side-Chicks of Hotlanta
Wives, Fiancées, and Side-Chicks of Hotlanta Sheree Whitfield 9781496709875 Nonfiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. From Shereé Whitfield, one of the stars of Bravo TV’s hit show The Real...
Identity Crisis
Identity Crisis Brad Meltzer 9781401263133 Fiction DC Comics DC Comics #1 New York Times best-selling author Brad Meltzer (The President’s Shadow, House of Secrets) delivers a look into the all-too-hu...