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Michelle Singletary
Michelle Singletary 000000004572445X Michelle Singletary is a renowned personal finance columnist, author, and TV personality, celebrated for her practical financial advice. She writes the syndicated...
Your Money and Your Man: How You and Prince Charming Can Spend Well and Live Rich
Your Money and Your Man: How You and Prince Charming Can Spend Well and Live Rich Michelle Singletary 9780345479709 Nonfiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House "Money may not be able to buy you l...
Courtney’s Birthday Party
Courtney’s Birthday Party Loretta Long 9780940975835 Fiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. Courtney is very excited. Her seventh birthday is only a few days away, and her mother has planned a spec...
Nikki Woods
Nikki Woods NONE Nikki Woods is a multi-media personality, personal branding coach, and CEO of Nikki Woods Media. As senior producer of the Tom Joyner Morning Show, she reaches over 8 million listen...
Courtney Kelly
Courtney Kelly NONE Courtney Kelly, originally from New Orleans, is a civil engineer and project manager with a career in infrastructure projects. She holds degrees from Southern Methodist University...
Spend Well, Live Rich (Previously Published as 7 Money Mantras for a Richer Life): How to Get What You Want with the Money You Have
Spend Well, Live Rich (Previously Published as 7 Money Mantras for a Richer Life): How to Get What You Want with the Money You Have Michelle Singletary 9780375759048 Nonfiction Ballantine Books Pengui...
The Invisible Ache: Black Men Identifying Their Pain and Reclaiming Their Power
The Invisible Ache: Black Men Identifying Their Pain and Reclaiming Their Power Robin L. Smith and Courtney B. Vance 9781538725139 Nonfiction Balance Hachette Book Group A moving combination of memoir...
Robin L. Smith and Courtney B. Vance
Robin L. Smith and Courtney B. Vance MULTIPLE "Robin L. Smith and Courtney B. Vance are renowned authors known for their compelling narratives. Smith's expertise lies in psychological thrillers while...
Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance with Hilary Beard
Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance with Hilary Beard MULTIPLE Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance are renowned actors with numerous accolades. Both have had significant roles in TV and film, contr...
Courtney Thorsson
Courtney Thorsson 0000000401626056 Courtney Thorsson is a Professor of English at the University of Oregon. She teaches, studies, and writes about African American literature from its beginnings to t...
Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation: Spectacular Narratives of Gender and Race
Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation: Spectacular Narratives of Gender and Race Susan Courtney 9780691113043 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press Hollywood Fantasies...
Courtney Kelly Books
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Courtney Faye Taylor
Courtney Faye Taylor NONE Courtney Faye Taylor is a celebrated writer and visual artist, known for winning the Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize and the Academy of American Poets Prize. Her work i...
Courtney B. Vance
Courtney B. Vance 0000000078404428 Courtney B. Vance is a Harvard-educated, Yale School of Drama trained actor. Known for his powerful performances, he's a Tony and Emmy-award winner and starred in T...
A Walk in the Woods
A Walk in the Woods Nikki Grimes 9780823449651 Fiction Neal Porter Books Holiday House A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection In this moving account of loss, a boy takes a walk in the woods...
Teri Woods
Teri Woods 0000000043564923 Teri Woods, a Philadelphia native and former legal secretary, turned author with her first novel, “True to the Game.” After initial rejections, she self-published and sold...
What to Do with Your Money When Crisis Hits: A Survival Guide
What to Do with Your Money When Crisis Hits: A Survival Guide Michelle Singletary 9780358719212 Nonfiction Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Harcourt From pandemics to recessions, bear markets to ener...
Kingdom Minded: System of Life
Kingdom Minded: System of Life Michelle Singletary 9780464900016 Nonfiction Blurb Blurb Michelle Singletary is a daughter, wife, mother, entrepreneur, and, most of all, a servant of the Most High King...
The 21-Day Financial Fast: Your Path to Financial Peace and Freedom
The 21-Day Financial Fast: Your Path to Financial Peace and Freedom Michelle Singletary 9780310338338 Nonfiction Zondervan HarperCollins Christian Publishing Whether you’re living paycheck to paycheck...
Joint FX Press
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Uptown Media Joint Ventures
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Joint FX Press
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Uptown Media Joint Ventures
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Jamila Woods, Mahogany L. Browne, and Idrissa Simmonds
Jamila Woods, Mahogany L. Browne, and Idrissa Simmonds MULTIPLE Jamila Woods, a Chicago-based poet influenced by Lucille Clifton and Gwendolyn Brooks, explores themes of blackness and womanhood. Maho...
Her Little Black Book
Her Little Black Book Brenda Jackson 9780312359331 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers It’s less than a week before Sonya Morrison’s wedding when she decides to pass her legendary little...
True To The Game: A Teri Woods Fable
True To The Game: A Teri Woods Fable Teri Woods 9780967224909 Fiction Teri Woods Publishing Teri Woods Publishing This book represents the drug game during the late 80’s from the inner city streets of...
Pamela Courtney
Pamela Courtney NONE Pamela Courtney has three loves: writing, teaching, and music. She combined these passions, creating MyLMNOP, a valuable literacy and music program for early learners. With a B....
Friends: A Love Story
Friends: A Love Story Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance with Hilary Beard 9780373830589 Nonfiction Kimani Press Kimani Press Courtney B. Vance met Angela Bassett…. They ran for years as friends in...
Courtney Thornton
Courtney Thornton NONE Courtney Thornton is a Virginia native from Hampton whose work explores the intersections of identity, ancestry, and the unseen forces that shape how we understand ourselves a...
Celeste Saves the City
Celeste Saves the City Courtney Kelly 9780578315195 Fiction Courtney Kelly Books Courtney Kelly Books Celeste Saves the City pulls readers into the life of a young girl forced to leave her beloved hom...
Hotdogs for Hyenas
Hotdogs for Hyenas Pamela Courtney 9781952248825 Nonfiction Home House Press Home House Press American Pamela Courtney’s most formative years were spent in the bush of Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. In this ...
The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, and Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore
The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth, and Harlem’s Greatest Bookstore Vaunda Micheaux Nelson 9780761339434 Fiction Carolrhoda Books Lerner Publishing Group In the 1930s, Lewis’s dad, Lewis Michaux Sr., had a...
Rita Woods
Rita Woods NONE Rita Woods is a family doctor, wellness center director, and author of her debut novel, Remembrance. Balancing her professional life with family time and involvement in her local libr...
Angel
Angel Teri Woods 9780977323425 Fiction Teri Woods Publishing Teri Woods Publishing Book by Woods, Teri
Dutch II: Angel’s Revenge
Dutch II: Angel’s Revenge Teri Woods 9780967224961 Fiction Teri Woods Publishing Teri Woods Publishing HE IS THE MASTER OF THE GAME. HE’S BUILT THE ULTIMATE EMPIRE. BUT HIS STORY IS ONLY BEGINNING. NO...
Brenda Woods
Brenda Woods NONE Brenda Woods, an award-winning author and artist, is known for her children's books like The Red Rose Box and Zoe in Wonderland. A graduate from California State University, she has...
Teri Woods Publishing
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Teri Woods Publishing
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The Cabin in the Woods
The Cabin in the Woods Kam Williams cabininthewoods.jpg Film Review College Kids Hunted at Haunted House in Harrowing Horror Flick The Cabin in the Woods [2012] In Theaters: Apr 13, 2012 Wide Rated...
That’s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader
That’s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader Mark Anthony Neal and Murray Forman 9780415873260 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge This newly expanded and revised second edition of That’s the Joint brings...
Da Book Joint
Da Book Joint Chicago IL Da Book Joint is a Black woman-owned business born on the Southside of Chicago committed to literary growth and positive engagement of the youth.
Twenty-Eight Dates
Twenty-Eight Dates Michelle Lindo-Rice 9781335594570 Fiction Harlequin Enterprises ULC Harlequin Enterprises Limited Not looking for a hero…But she found one!When pregnant widow Courtney Meadows stea...
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...
Concentrate: Poems
Concentrate: Poems Courtney Faye Taylor 9781644452103 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press Winner of the 2021 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Rachel Eliza Griffiths In her virtuosic debut, Cou...
Playing with Destiny
Playing with Destiny Thumper Book Review As incredible as it may seem, I’m a tad bit in shock. I recently finished reading and actually LOVING a novel published by BET under its Sepia imprint;...
The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture
The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture Courtney Thorsson 9780231204729 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press One Sunday afternoon in Feb...
The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Bulls: A Decade-by-Decade History
The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Bulls: A Decade-by-Decade History Chicago Tribune Staff 9781572842021 Nonfiction Agate Midway Agate Publishing The Chicago Bulls, one of the NBA’s most storied ...
Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore
Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore Char Adams 9780593474235 Nonfiction Tiny Reparations Books Penguin Random House Black-Owned: The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore is...
Marcus Dewan Williams
Marcus Dewan Williams NONE Marcus Dewan Williams, more than just the owner of Nubian Books bookstore, is an active advocate for African and African-American culture and education. As a publisher and ...
Tamara Shiloh
Tamara Shiloh NONE Tamara Shiloh, a Northern California native, owns the Multicultural Bookstore and Gifts in Richmond. She is a mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother residing in Point Richmond,...
Dutch: The First Of A Trilogy (Dutch Trilogy)
Dutch: The First Of A Trilogy (Dutch Trilogy) Teri Woods 9780967224947 Fiction Teri Woods Publishing Teri Woods Publishing James Bernard Jr., a.k.a. Dutch, has become the most dangerous criminal in Ne...
Deadly Reigns II (Deadly Reigns)
Deadly Reigns II (Deadly Reigns) Teri Woods 9780977323418 Fiction Teri Woods Publishing Teri Woods Publishing The story of a mob family that controls the streets and their fight to stay on top as the ...
Deadly Reigns: The First of a Trilogy
Deadly Reigns: The First of a Trilogy Teri Woods 9780967224978 Fiction Teri Woods Publishing Teri Woods Publishing The story of drugs and power in the inner city
Nubian Bookstore Presents When I Grow Up I Want To Own …: Volume 2
Nubian Bookstore Presents When I Grow Up I Want To Own …: Volume 2 Marcus Dewan Williams 9780578856490 Nonfiction Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore When I Grow Up I Want To Own … Volume 2 was created ...
Nubian Bookstore Presents When I Grow Up I Want To Own …
Nubian Bookstore Presents When I Grow Up I Want To Own … Marcus Dewan Williams 9780578825359 Fiction Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore When I Grow Up I Want To Own was created to help children envisio...
A People’s History of Chicago
A People’s History of Chicago Kevin Coval 9781608466719 Poetry Haymarket Books Haymarket Books Known variously as “the Windy City,” “the City of Big Shoulders,” or “Chi-Raq,” Chicago is one of the mos...
African Americans In Chicago (Images Of America) (Images Of America (Arcadia Publishing))
African Americans In Chicago (Images Of America) (Images Of America (Arcadia Publishing)) Lowell D. Thompson 9780738588537 Fiction Arcadia Publishing Arcadia Publishing The story of black Chicago is s...
The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic
The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic Jamila Woods, Mahogany L. Browne, and Idrissa Simmonds 9781608468577 Poetry Haymarket Books Haymarket Books "[The BreakBeat Poets is] one of the most diver...
Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Occupation Book For Boys
Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Occupation Book For Boys Marcus Dewan Williams 9798218185251 Nonfiction Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Occupation Book For Boys...
Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Sport Book For Boys
Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Sport Book For Boys Marcus Dewan Williams 9780578785509 Fiction Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore The Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Sport Book for Boys. Written...
The Joint Conference of Librarians of Color
The Joint Conference of Librarians of Color Albuquerque New Mexico The Joint Conference of Librarians of Color is a conference for everyone! The conference is sponsored by five associations of ethnic...
Mina’s Joint: Triple Crown Collection
Mina’s Joint: Triple Crown Collection Keisha Ervin 9781622869749 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Once again she’s back! Keisha Ervin, that is, with her spellbinding tale of love, famil...
Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Sport Book For Girls
Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Sport Book For Girls Marcus Dewan Williams 9780578863894 Fiction Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore Presents Color My Sport Book for Girls is packed ...
Nubian Bookstore Presents The ABC Book
Nubian Bookstore Presents The ABC Book Marcus Dewan Williams 9780578689487 Nonfiction Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore Nubian Bookstore Presents the ABC Book is a children’s picture book that teaches...
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Help Keep the Country's Oldest Black-owned Bookstore Open
Help Keep the Country's Oldest Black-owned Bookstore Open Troy Johnson Article Editor's Note (posted May 8th 2014): Marcus Books of San Francisco Evicted Sign the petition to help save the sto...
The Key Bookstore
The Key Bookstore Hartford CT The Key Bookstore is a fully interactive bookstore experience. The Key engages readers through curation, activities, subscriptions, events, events, and community engageme...
Liberation Station Bookstore
Liberation Station Bookstore Raleigh NC Liberation Station Bookstore is reopening August 24th, 2025 by Liberation Station Bookstore, Organizer We’re 52% Funded—And the Work Continues...
Chicago Flashback: The People and Events That Shaped a City’s History
Chicago Flashback: The People and Events That Shaped a City’s History Chicago Tribune Staff 9781572842359 Nonfiction Agate Midway Agate Publishing The devoted journalists at the Chicago Tribune have b...
Regie Gibson
Regie Gibson NONE Regie Gibson is a poet, songwriter, author, workshop facilitator, and educator. Regie has performed, taught, and lectured at schools, universities, theaters and various other ve...
TLJ Bookstore - The Centre at Forestville
TLJ Bookstore - The Centre at Forestville Forestville MD The Literary Joint Bookstore
TLJ Bookstore - Prince George’s Plaza
TLJ Bookstore - Prince George’s Plaza Hyattsville MD The Literary Joint Bookstore
TLJ Bookstore - Security Square Mall
TLJ Bookstore - Security Square Mall Windsor Mill MD The Literary Joint Bookstore
The Underground Bookstore
The Underground Bookstore Chicago IL How one Black-owned bookstore has navigated business since 2020 (WBEZ, Feb 19, 2025)
Sylvester Boyd Jr.
Sylvester Boyd Jr. NONE Sylvester Boyd Jr., a Chicago native, is an accomplished author, background actor, and motivational speaker with a rich background in geography, history, and business. Known f...
Barbara Keaton
Barbara Keaton NONE Barbara Keaton, a Chicago native, is a published author and experienced professional in public and community relations. She attributes her respect for the written word to her Cath...
It’s Life as I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940 - 1980
It’s Life as I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940 - 1980 Dan Nadel 9781681375618 Fiction New York Review Comics New York Review Books Originally published by Chicago’s Black press, long neglec...
Hidden Hospitality: Untold Stories of Black Hotel, Motel, and Resort Owners from the Pioneer Days to the Civil Rights Era
Hidden Hospitality: Untold Stories of Black Hotel, Motel, and Resort Owners from the Pioneer Days to the Civil Rights Era Calvin Stovall Jr. 9781612547114 Nonfiction Brown Books Publishing Group Brown...
Level Up
Level Up Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery 9780593539828 Nonfiction Portfolio Penguin Random House An inspiring and revelatory guide to starting and scaling a small business, from powerhouse duo Sta...
The Black Chicago Renaissance (New Black Studies Series)
The Black Chicago Renaissance (New Black Studies Series) Darlene Clark Hine and John McCluskey Jr. 9780252078583 Fiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press Beginning in the 193...
Natalie Y. Moore
Natalie Y. Moore 0000000041217426 Natalie Y. Moore is an award-winning journalist and author, known for her work in Essence, Black Enterprise, and the Chicago Tribune. She co-authored books on Black ...
Night Wherever We Go
Night Wherever We Go Tracey Rose Peyton 9780063249875 Fiction Ecco Press HarperCollins A RECOMMENDED READ FROM: The Washington Post • Atlanta Journal-Constitution • CrimeReads • Library...
Dutch Ii: Angel’s Revenge (Dutch Trilogy)
Dutch Ii: Angel’s Revenge (Dutch Trilogy) Teri Woods 9780446551557 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group HE IS THE MASTER OF THE GAME. HE’S BUILT THE ULTIMATE EMPIRE. BUT HIS STORY I...
The Library in the Woods
The Library in the Woods Calvin Alexander Ramsey 9781541599123 Fiction Carolrhoda Books Lerner Publishing Group After a storm devastates the farm his parents have been renting, Junior moves with h...
The Edge of Yesterday
The Edge of Yesterday Rita Woods 9781250805645 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers The Edge of Yesterday is a haunting contemporary speculative novel about time travel and finding yourself from award-w...
Jackal
Jackal Erin E. Adams 9780593499306 Fiction Bantam Penguin Random House It’s watching. Liz Rocher is coming home … reluctantly. As a Black woman, Liz doesn’t exactly have fond memories of Johnstown, P...
The Last Dreamwalker
The Last Dreamwalker Rita Woods 9781250805614 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers From Hurston/Wright Legacy Award-winning author Rita Woods, The Last Dreamwalker tells the story of two women, separate...
When Winter Robeson Came
When Winter Robeson Came Brenda Woods 9781524741587 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House The whole world seems to transform during the summer of 1965, when Eden’s cousin from Mississippi c...
The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond
The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond Brenda Woods 9780147514301 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House Coretta Scott King Honor winner Brenda Woods’ moving, uplifting story of a girl finally m...
Remembrance
Remembrance Rita Woods 9781250298454 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers Remembrance by Rita Woods is a breakout historical debut with modern resonance, perfect for the many fans of The Underground Rai...