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Vernon Kitabu Turner
Vernon Kitabu Turner NONE Vernon “Kitabu” Turner, an African-American spiritual guru, Zen master, and martial artist, was raised Christian but became a Zen initiate after meeting master Nomura Roshi ...
Soul to Soul: Harnessing the Power of Your Mind
Soul to Soul: Harnessing the Power of Your Mind Vernon Kitabu Turner 9781571744708 Nonfiction Hampton Roads Publishing Company Hampton Roads Publishing Company No matter what you believe about the cre...
Under the Sword: Life Lessons to Awaken the Zen Warrior in You
Under the Sword: Life Lessons to Awaken the Zen Warrior in You Vernon Kitabu Turner 9781780280981 Nonfiction Watkins Publishing Watkins Publishing In our fast-changing, uncertain world, it’s easy to f...
Nikki Turner
Nikki Turner 0000000040675687 Nikki Turner, renowned as “The Queen of Hip Hop Fiction”, is an Essence best-selling author known for shedding light on the unseen side of street life. Balancing work an...
The Secret of Freedom
The Secret of Freedom Vernon Kitabu Turner 9781878901699 Nonfiction Hampton Roads Publishing Company Hampton Roads Publishing Company Zafir, a black sixteen-year-old, undertakes a journey of spiritual...
Olympia Vernon
Olympia Vernon 0000000034189981 Olympia Vernon, born 1973 in Louisiana, is a critically-acclaimed novelist known for her unique voice. With three books under her belt, including a Pulitzer Prize nomi...
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Vernon Davis: The NFL Playoffs Interview [2012]
Vernon Davis: The NFL Playoffs Interview [2012] Kam Williams Interview Vernon Davis: The NFL Playoffs Interview San Francisco 49ers tight end Vernon Davis is a game-changer who embodies the e...
Ki-Asana Zen: Bridging the Gap Between East and West
Ki-Asana Zen: Bridging the Gap Between East and West Vernon Kitabu Turner 9781937907266 Nonfiction Rainbow Ridge Rainbow Ridge Few feelings are more debilitating than fear. It may seem that fear comes...
The Second Crucifixion of Nat Turner
The Second Crucifixion of Nat Turner John Henrik Clarke 9780933121959 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press The Second Crucifixion of Nat Turner was originally published in 1968. Edited b...
Hugh Vernon-Jackson
Hugh Vernon-Jackson NONE Hugh Vernon-Jackson is a renowned author, known for his unique storytelling style. His works span various genres, offering readers a diverse literary experience. Renowned for...
Paige Turner
Paige Turner NONE Paige Turner, a lifelong book lover, has over 15 years of marketing experience in Fortune 75 companies. Passionate about sharing ideas from books, she's been writing a weekly book r...
Morrie Turner
Morrie Turner 0000000021272073 Morris “Morrie” Turner (1923-2014) was an American cartoonist known for creating Wee Pals, the first American syndicated comic strip featuring an integrated cast. Raise...
The Resurrection Of Nat Turner, Part 1: The Witnesses: A Novel
The Resurrection Of Nat Turner, Part 1: The Witnesses: A Novel Sharon Ewell Foster 9781416578031 Fiction Howard Books Howard Books The truth has been buried more than one hundred years … Leading a sma...
Angelia Vernon Menchan
Angelia Vernon Menchan NONE “There is abundance through God for all of us; we simply have to be open for our blessings.” Angelia Vernon Menchan, a prolific author based in Jacksonville, Fl...
The Resurrection Of Nat Turner, Part 2: The Testimony: A Novel
The Resurrection Of Nat Turner, Part 2: The Testimony: A Novel Sharon Ewell Foster 9781416578123 Fiction Howard Books Howard Books The sequel to The Resurrection of Nat Turner, Part I: The Witnesses s...
Nat Turner’s Mental and Military Motivations
Nat Turner’s Mental and Military Motivations Ezrah Aharone Article Nate Parker’s movie The Birth of a Nation has revived the question: What caused Nat Turner’s 1831 uprising? Turner, firs...
The Nat Turner Insurrection Trials
The Nat Turner Insurrection Trials Emanuel Carpenter Book Review Was Nat Turner a hero or a savage? After reading the new book from legal scholar Walter L. Gordon III, you may change your mind abou...
The Birth of a Nation: Nat Turner and the Making of a Movement
The Birth of a Nation: Nat Turner and the Making of a Movement Nate Parker 9781501156588 Nonfiction Atria / 37 Ink Simon & Schuster, Inc. Also read “Nat Turner’s Mental and Military Motivations” by Ez...
Eden
Eden Thumper Book Review Eden, the debut novel by Olympia Vernon, is a powerful coming of age tale. It is an extraordinary novel, one that offers magnificent artistry in addition to the unveiling o...
Logic
Logic Olympia Vernon 9780802117717 Fiction Atlantic Monthly Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. Olympia Vernon’s fearless and wildly original debut novel, Eden, was hailed by critics. In her second novel, Logi...
Vernon Can Read! A Memoir
Vernon Can Read! A Memoir Vernon E. Jordan 9780786241002 Nonfiction Thorndike Press Thorndike Press The civil rights leader, attorney, and former head of the National Urban League recounts his boyhood...
Darcel Turner
Darcel Turner NONE Darcel Turner, a New York native, is an accomplished author known for her novel, “Dana Dances on Paper.” She has attended various colleges, transcribed for The 4th National Black W...
Every Woman Needs A Wife
Every Woman Needs A Wife Naleighna Kai 9781593090609 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Bursting with originality and controversy, author Naleighna Kai has created a provocative, and at time...
Just Like Tina: Inspired by the Life of Tina Turner
Just Like Tina: Inspired by the Life of Tina Turner Ebony Lynn Mudd 9798217051229 Fiction Penguin Workshop Penguin Random House Tina was fearless. Tina was resilient. Tina was kind. And Shay is determ...
Black Widow: A Novel (Nikki Turner Original)
Black Widow: A Novel (Nikki Turner Original) Nikki Turner 9780345493873 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House #1 bestselling author Nikki Turner returns with an explosive new novel about a...
Dawn Turner Trice
Dawn Turner Trice NONE Dawn Turner Trice is an accomplished author of two novels and a former Chicago Tribune columnist. She's also written commentaries for NPR's “Morning Edition Show.”
Buzzing with Questions: The Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Turner
Buzzing with Questions: The Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Turner Janice N. Harrington 9781629795584 Nonfiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press The story of Charles Henry Turner, the first Black en...
Caribbean Crusaders and the Harlem Renaissance
Caribbean Crusaders and the Harlem Renaissance Joyce Moore Turner 9780252072413 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press Caribbean Crusaders and the Harlem Renaissance is a...
Kiki Swinson and Nikki Turner
Kiki Swinson and Nikki Turner MULTIPLE Kiki Swinson and Nikki Turner are renowned authors best known for their contributions to the urban fiction genre. They have successfully captivated audiences wi...
Glennette Tilley Turner
Glennette Tilley Turner NONE Glennette Tilley Turner has also written collections of biographies of notable African Americans for adults and serves as an advisor to the National Park Service, where s...
Logic
Logic Thumper Book Review I was caught unaware. I was not forewarned or prepared for Olympia Vernon’s beyond marvelous second novel Logic. I knew Vernon was a capable writer after reading her...
Sister You ARE More Than Your assETS
Sister You ARE More Than Your assETS Angelia Vernon Menchan 9781519432742 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Sister You Are More Than Your assETS is a mentor’s outreach to young sisters. Ang...
How Being Broken Saved ME…
How Being Broken Saved ME… Angelia Vernon Menchan 9781983470080 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC This is my story and others are only mentioned to show how being broken saved me. I hear ma...
A Killing in This Town: A Novel
A Killing in This Town: A Novel Olympia Vernon 9780802142962 Fiction Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. Award-winning author Olympia Vernon’s third novel, A Killing in This Town, is a taut, poetic maste...
Monique S. Hall
Monique S. Hall NONE Monique S. Hall, former basketball scholar, overcame a turbulent past involving crime and prison to become a bestselling author. Her debut novel, 'Two Tears In A Bucket', caught ...
Most Wanted
Most Wanted Kiki Swinson and Nikki Turner 9780758280268 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. National bestselling authors Kiki Swinson and Nikki Turner turn up the heat with two twisty tales of ...
Sophie Washington Secret Santa (paperback)
Sophie Washington Secret Santa (paperback) Tonya Duncan Ellis 9781732706064 Fiction Page Turner Publishing Page Turner Publishing A GREAT HOLIDAY GIFT! Santa Claus is Coming to TownChristmas is three...
Freedom Bound
Freedom Bound Jayne Cubbage Book Review The novel Freedom bound is based on the life Anta Majigeen Ndiaya who had been captured by slave raiders from Yang Yang village in Senegal, West Africa. Auth...
Black (Black Series #1)
Black (Black Series #1) Joan Vassar 9780692704035 Fiction Dream House Press Dream House Press Listen to a reading from the novel Black, book #1 in the Black series, written by Joan Vassar Y...
Diane D. Turner
Diane D. Turner NONE Diane D. Turner is the curator for Temple University's Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection. Her expertise lies in Black history, film, and music. She authored the childr...
The Confessions of Nat Turner
The Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron 9780679736639 Fiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House Originally published in 1967. The story that inspired the major motion picture The Birt...
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The Turner House
The Turner House Angela Flournoy 9780544303164 Fiction Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A powerful, timely debut, The Turner House marks a major new contribution to the story of the...
Nat Turner
Nat Turner Kyle Baker 9780810972278 Fiction Harry N. Abrams Harry N. Abrams The story of Nat Turner and his slave rebellion—which began on August 21, 1831, in Southampton County, Virginia—is known amo...
Forever a Hustler’s Wife: A Novel (Nikki Turner Original)
Forever a Hustler’s Wife: A Novel (Nikki Turner Original) Nikki Turner 9780345493859 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House The high priestess of the hood, Nikki Turner, is back with the no...
Matthew Paul Turner
Matthew Paul Turner NONE Matthew Paul Turner is a renowned photographer, speaker, and author famous for his bestselling books 'When God Made You' and 'When I Pray for You'. Matthew Paul Turner is a p...
Myra Faye Turner
Myra Faye Turner NONE Myra Faye Turner is a celebrated author known for her engaging style and knack for storytelling. Her works span various genres, exhibiting her broad literary skills. Myra Faye T...
Sophie Washington Secret Santa
Sophie Washington Secret Santa Tonya Duncan Ellis 9781733776356 Fiction Page Turner Publishing Page Turner Publishing A FUN READ ALL YEAR ROUNDAn Amazon Bestselling Book!! Santa Claus is Coming to Tow...
The Felix Women Series
The Felix Women Series Idrissa Uqdah Book Review Acceptance Not Required: Felix Women IV Click to order via Amazon Print Length: 58 pages (October 10, 2014) This author, Angelia Vernon M...
Man Called Horse: John Horse and the Black Seminole Underground Railroad
Man Called Horse: John Horse and the Black Seminole Underground Railroad Glennette Tilley Turner 9781419749339 Nonfiction Harry N. Abrams Harry N. Abrams From award-winning children’s author Glennette...
A Fragile Freedom
A Fragile Freedom Erica Armstrong Dunbar 9780300177022 Nonfiction Yale University Press Yale University Press A startling and eye-opening look into America’s First Family, Never Caught is the powerful...
My Friend, My Hero: The Hero Book Series 1
My Friend, My Hero: The Hero Book Series 1 Jerald LeVon Hoover 9781734111033 Fiction Jerald L. Hoover Productions Jerald L. Hoover Productions Bennett Wilson has the world at his fingertips. One of th...
WOMANISH: How She Survived
WOMANISH: How She Survived Angelia Vernon Menchan 9781533476616 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC I am a woman and was raised by women. My mom was a single woman of thirty when I was born a...
7 Conversations to Freedom!: a manifesto
7 Conversations to Freedom!: a manifesto Walt Goodridge 9781481236461 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC This book is part of The Integrated Life™ series. THE CONCEPT: "In the pursuit of ...
Searching For Tina Turner
Searching For Tina Turner Jacqueline E. Luckett 9780446542951 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group On the surface, Lena Spencer appears to have it all. She and her wealthy husband Rand...
Secret Mysteries of America’s Beginnings
Secret Mysteries of America’s Beginnings Kam Williams /reviews/images/secret-of-americas-beginnings.jpg Film Review Documentary Discusses Influence of Fraternities on Founding Fathers and Beyond Se...
Most Wanted
Most Wanted Kiki Swinson and Nikki Turner 9780758280251 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. National bestselling authors Kiki Swinson and Nikki Turner turn up the heat with two twisty tales of ...
Black Spirituality and Black Consciousness: Soul Force, Culture and Freedom in the African-American Experience
Black Spirituality and Black Consciousness: Soul Force, Culture and Freedom in the African-American Experience Carlyle Fielding Stewart, III 9780865436633 Nonfiction Africa World Press Africa World Pr...
Freedom’s Daughters
Freedom’s Daughters Paige Turner Book Review “Women hold up half the sky” is one of Chinese revolutionary Mao Tse Dung’s most often quoted statements. However readers of Freedom&rsq...
Freedom Lost, Freedom Won: A Personal History of America
Freedom Lost, Freedom Won: A Personal History of America Eugene Robinson 9781982176716 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Pulitzer Prize–winning former Washington Post columnist Eugene...
Freedom Train
Freedom Train Evelyn Coleman 9781442436527 Fiction Margaret K. McElderry Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Now in paperback, an enthralling account of a young boy’s struggle to help freedom triumph over fe...
All I Need to Get By
All I Need to Get By Thumper Book Review I have just finished reading All I Need to Get By, the debut novel by Sophfronia Scott. I am taking a moment to pause and collect my thoughts in order to ...
On The Edge
On The Edge E. D. Arrington 9781420851489 Nonfiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions Secrets lurked amongst the small intimate group of family and friends - secrets they hoped and prayed would never be r...
Freedom Riders (American Experience)
Freedom Riders (American Experience) Kam Williams images/Sprite%20117.jpg Film Review American Experience: Freedom Riders Click to buy via Amazon.com Number of discs: 1 Rated: NR (...
A Hustler’s Wife
A Hustler’s Wife Nikki Turner 9781601626196 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. [Read by Bahni Turpin] Nikki Turner’s debut novel is a smorgasbord of manipulation, street-life, greed, bet...
A Hustler’s Wife
A Hustler’s Wife Nikki Turner 9781601625779 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. [MP3-CD audiobook format in Vinyl case. NOTE: The MP3-CD format requires a compatible audio CD player.][Read...
Robbie Montgomery
Robbie Montgomery NONE Robbie Montgomery, “Miss Robbie,” is a former professional singer who worked with Ike Turner and other notable artists before opening a soul food restaurant, Sweetie Pie's, in ...
Janice Broadnax: A Delayed Story
Janice Broadnax: A Delayed Story Angelia Vernon Menchan 9781718865259 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Janice felt David wrap his arms around her as she stared out the window as Crea place...
Queer: A Novel
Queer: A Novel Olympia Vernon x780802142962 Fiction Not Known Not Known Queer tells the story of J.D. Foster, who is on trial for killing two boys, one white, one black in Ellis, Mississippi where the...
Freedom Bound
Freedom Bound Rosalie T. Turner 9780967948331 Fiction Season of Harvest Season of Harvest Slave traders capture 13 yr.old Anta Majigeen Ndiaye,a village princess. Anta’s family dies on a slave ship a...
Your Freedom, Your Power: A Kid’s Guide to the First Amendment
Your Freedom, Your Power: A Kid’s Guide to the First Amendment Allison Matulli 9780762478385 Nonfiction Running Press Kids Hachette Book Group A nonpartisan, unbiased look at the First Amendment and h...
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies Deesha Philyaw 9781949199734 Fiction West Virginia University Press West Virginia University Press Tessa Thompson’s new production company will adapt Who Fears Death ...
The Sovereign Psyche: Systems of Chattel Freedom vs. Self-Authentic Freedom
The Sovereign Psyche: Systems of Chattel Freedom vs. Self-Authentic Freedom Ezrah Aharone 9781524601355 Nonfiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions The Sovereign Psyche is not just the title of the book. ...
Tell Me Your Secret
Tell Me Your Secret Dorothy Koomson 9781472260376 Fiction Headline Headline Publishing Group The new emotional thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Ice Cream Girls, My Best Friend’...
Fifteen Years Delayed
Fifteen Years Delayed Angelia Vernon Menchan 9781987613544 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Fifteen Years Delayed is a love story. A story of what happens after being apart 15 years with n...
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...
Charlotte RETURNS
Charlotte RETURNS Angelia Vernon Menchan 9781546740391 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Charlotte returned home at 42, a failed actress in her mind. She simply wanted to be… Mark was spurn...
Schooling His Son?
Schooling His Son? Angelia Vernon Menchan 9781545293096 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC What happens when a father decides it is time to take over ’schooling’ his son because his wife is ...
The REEDUCATION of ARIA JACKSON
The REEDUCATION of ARIA JACKSON Angelia Vernon Menchan 9781508900207 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Aria Jackson left Greenfield in search of an MBA from Wharton and her dignity. She fel...
Felina’s Life and Loves: The Felix Women I
Felina’s Life and Loves: The Felix Women I Angelia Vernon Menchan B00M4QDLG8 Fiction acVernon Menchan acVernon Menchan This is a short story, 9,600 Words, with a bit of a cliffhanger ending. Felina...
Mrs. Black?
Mrs. Black? Angelia Vernon Menchan 9780978783594 Fiction acVernon Menchan acVernon Menchan Will Malcolm Black finally get the woman of his dreams or will he tire of waiting and find someone else to be...
Is No Not Clear Enough For You
Is No Not Clear Enough For You Angelia Vernon Menchan 9780978783532 Fiction acVernon Menchan acVernon Menchan Is No Not Clear Enough for you tells the story of a young, spiritual emerging woman who kn...
West African Folk Tales (African American)
West African Folk Tales (African American) Hugh Vernon-Jackson 9780486427645 Nonfiction Dover Publications Dover Publications Folk tales around the world, observes the author, often contain similar na...
Eden
Eden Olympia Vernon 9780802117281 Fiction Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. Eden is a fearless and wildly original debut, a powerhouse of a novel that explodes on the first page and sustains a tightrop...
African Folk Tales (Dover Children’s Thrift Classics)
African Folk Tales (Dover Children’s Thrift Classics) Hugh Vernon-Jackson 9780486405537 Fiction Dover Publications Dover Publications This exciting collection of traditional African folk tales introdu...
Ilyasah Shabazz
Ilyasah Shabazz 000000004150744X Ilyasah Al-Shabazz, community organizer, activist, and daughter of Malcolm X, advocates for at-risk youth and interfaith dialogue. She's developed programs promoting ...
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acVernon Menchan NONE Vernon Menchan, also known as Angelia, is a passionate writer and publisher with her company M.A.m.m. Productions. She's known for her “Fictionalized Truths, Ageless Fiction and...
Fifteen Years Delayed
Fifteen Years Delayed Angelia Vernon Menchan Excerpt Prologue Damn… there she is after fifteen years, still, even button-upped, a living breathing wet dream in the flesh. Feeling breath o...
June Cross
June Cross NONE June Cross is a two-time Emmy and duPont-Columbia Journalism award-winning documentary television producer and professor at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. Known for her 199...
Best Kept Secret
Best Kept Secret Kam Williams best-kept-secret.jpg Film Review Moving Documentary Chronicles Dedicated Teacher’s Selfless Efforts on Behalf of Her Autistic Students Best Kept Secret In Theater...
The Secret
The Secret Rhonda Byrne 9781582701707 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Fragments of a Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions and philosophies thr...
And Then Came the Blues: My Story of Survival on Both Sides of the Badge
And Then Came the Blues: My Story of Survival on Both Sides of the Badge Katrina Brownlee 9781636142364 Nonfiction Open Lens Akashic Books According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence...
Summer’s Dirty Little Secret
Summer’s Dirty Little Secret Ernest Morris 9781947340138 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing A young woman discovers a deep and dark secret about her family while try to pick up the pieces a...
The Secret Olivia Told Me
The Secret Olivia Told Me E. N. Joy 9781933491363 Fiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. Olivia has a secret - a BIG secret. It’s a secret that she tells only to her very best friend. And her frien...
Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy Thumper Book Review I decided to be ambitions this summer and read a number of non-fiction titles. I blame ...