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Victor Lavalle
Victor Lavalle 0000000114589002 “If the literary gods mixed together Karuki Murakami and Ralph Ellison, the result would be Victor Lavaelle.” Victor D. LaValle, born in 1972, is an award-w...
Charlie Jane Anders, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Charles Yu, Victor LaValle, and John Joseph Adams
Charlie Jane Anders, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Charles Yu, Victor LaValle, and John Joseph Adams MULTIPLE Charlie Jane Anders, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Charles Yu, Victor LaValle, and John Joseph Adams are re...
Victor LaValle’s Destroyer
Victor LaValle’s Destroyer Victor Lavalle 9781684150557 Fiction BOOM! Studios BOOM! Studios The legacy of Frankenstein’s monster collides with the sociopolitical tensions of the present-day United Sta...
Big Machine: A Novel
Big Machine: A Novel Victor Lavalle 9780385527996 Fiction Spiegel & Grau Penguin Random House A fiendishly imaginative comic novel about doubt, faith, and the monsters we carry within us.Ricky Rice wa...
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...
Changeling
Changeling Victor Lavalle 9780812985870 Fiction One World Penguin Random House “Mesmerizing … a dark fairy tale of New York, full of magic and loss, myth and mystery, love and madness.” — Marlon James...
Victor Wooten Bass Workshop: The Language of Music and How to Speak It
Victor Wooten Bass Workshop: The Language of Music and How to Speak It Victor L. Wooten 9781540002952 Nonfiction Hudson Music Hudson Music Book/Media OnlineVictor Wooten emerged as a once-in-a-lifetim...
Eve
Eve Victor Lavalle 9781684158089 Fiction BOOM! Studios BOOM! Studios A young girl, Eve, raised in a virtual reality embarks on a deadly cross-country quest to save her father… and our dying plan...
Slapboxing With Jesus
Slapboxing With Jesus Victor Lavalle 9780375705908 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House Twelve original and interconnected stories in the traditions of Junot Díaz and Sherman Alexie. Victor D. LaValle...
Lone Women
Lone Women Victor Lavalle 9780525512103 Fiction One World Penguin Random House “If the literary gods mixed together Karuki Murakami and Ralph Ellison, the result would be Victor Lavaelle.” —Anthony Do...
The Ballad of Black Tom (paperback)
The Ballad of Black Tom (paperback) Victor Lavalle 9780765387868 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn’t there. Charles Tho...
The Devil In Silver: A Novel
The Devil In Silver: A Novel Victor Lavalle 9781400069866 Fiction Spiegel & Grau Penguin Random House New Hyde Hospital’s psychiatric ward has a new resident. It also has a very, very old one. Peppe...
The Changeling: A Novel
The Changeling: A Novel Victor Lavalle 9780812995947 Fiction Spiegel & Grau Penguin Random House “If the literary gods mixed together Haruki Murakami and Ralph Ellison, the result would be Victor LaVa...
The Ballad of Black Tom
The Ballad of Black Tom Victor Lavalle 9781250817556 Fiction Tordotcom Macmillan Publishers The Ballad of Black Tom—the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, and Bram Stoker Award finalist and Shirley J...
The Best of Victor Wooten: Transcribed by Victor Wooten
The Best of Victor Wooten: Transcribed by Victor Wooten Victor L. Wooten 9781575604138 Nonfiction Cherry Lane Music Company BMG Rights Management Highly regarded as a bass innovator, Victor Wooten has...
A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers Charlie Jane Anders, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Charles Yu, Victor LaValle, and John Joseph Adams 9780525508809 Nonf...
The Ecstatic
The Ecstatic Victor Lavalle 9780375713316 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House Anthony James weighs 315 pounds, is possibly schizophrenic, and he’s just been kicked out of college. He’s rescued by ...
African American Review
African American Review Troy Johnson Article AAR African American Review - http://aar.slu.edu Office of Editorial Assistant Joe Weixlmann EditorHousto...
Sabretooth: The Adversary
Sabretooth: The Adversary Victor Lavalle 9781302931452 Fiction Marvel Marvel Comics The island nation of Krakoa has ushered in a bright new era for mutantkind — paradise after years of persecution. Bu...
Going Places: Victor Hugo Green and His Glorious Book
Going Places: Victor Hugo Green and His Glorious Book Tonya Bolden 9780062967404 Nonfiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins In the vein of Hidden Figures comes a nonfiction picture book about the Green...
Big Papa and the Time Machine
Big Papa and the Time Machine Daniel Bernstrom 9780062463319 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Discover the true meaning of being brave in this tender and whimsical picture book from Daniel Bernstro...
Victor McGlothin and Mary Monroe
Victor McGlothin and Mary Monroe MULTIPLE Victor McGlothin and Mary Monroe are acclaimed authors known for their captivating narratives. McGlothin's works explore morality and redemption, while Monro...
J.D. Mason and Victor McGlothin
J.D. Mason and Victor McGlothin MULTIPLE J.D. Mason and Victor McGlothin are renowned authors known for their captivating and engaging narratives. Their work spans various genres, attracting a divers...
Victor McGlothin, Tracy Price-Thompson, and Carmen Green
Victor McGlothin, Tracy Price-Thompson, and Carmen Green MULTIPLE Victor McGlothin, Tracy Price-Thompson, and Carmen Green are renowned authors known for their compelling storytelling and unique narr...
Victor McGlothin, Earl Sewell, and Phillip Thomas Duck
Victor McGlothin, Earl Sewell, and Phillip Thomas Duck MULTIPLE Victor McGlothin, Earl Sewell, and Phillip Thomas Duck are renowned authors, each bringing unique storytelling styles that captivate au...
Shannon Holmes, Wahida Clark, Victor L. Martin, Sa'id Salaam, Reds Johnson, Hood Chronicles, Joe Awsum, and Vance Phillips
Shannon Holmes, Wahida Clark, Victor L. Martin, Sa'id Salaam, Reds Johnson, Hood Chronicles, Joe Awsum, and Vance Phillips MULTIPLE "Shannon Holmes, Wahida Clark, Victor L. Martin, Sa'id Salaam, Reds...
Stepping Stone and Love Machine: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion
Stepping Stone and Love Machine: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion Walter Mosley 9780765330109 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers Walter Mosley’s talent knows no bounds. Stepping Stone and L...
Letter Machine Editions
Letter Machine Editions Letter Machine Editions Letter Machine Editions
Letter Machine Editions
Letter Machine Editions Letter Machine Editions Letter Machine Editions
The Between
The Between Tananarive Due 9780063157675 Fiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins Award-winning author and Black Horror scholar Tananarive Due’s 1995 debut novel, The Between is reissued with a new fore...
The Wedding Date
The Wedding Date Jasmine Guillory 9780399587665 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House One of… • Entertainment Weekly’s “12 Romances for V-Day” • Cosmopolitan’s “2018 Anticipated Read...
The Talk
The Talk Darrin Bell 9781250805140 Fiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers “A moving portrait … funny and touching, intellectually and emotionally stimulating. There’s pride and prejudice, f...
Devil in Silver
Devil in Silver Victor Lavalle 9780812982251 Fiction One World Penguin Random House New Hyde Hospital’s psychiatric ward has a new resident. It also has a very, very old one. “A dizzying high-wire ...
The Conductors
The Conductors Nicole Glover 9780358197058 Fiction John Joseph Adams Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt From a bold new voice comes a vibrant historical fantasy of magic and murder set in the aftermath o...
Victor Headley
Victor Headley 0000000066512106 Victor Headley, born in Jamaica in 1959, is a renowned author known for his debut novel 'Yardie'. His work, exploring the life of a Jamaican courier, helped launch X P...
Victor Séjour
Victor Séjour 0000000108710902 Juan Victor Séjour, born on June 2, 1817 in New Orleans, was a popular playwright and author. Raised by wealthy parents, he moved to Paris at 19 where he became part o...
Victor Luckerson
Victor Luckerson NONE Victor Luckerson, a Tulsa-based journalist and author, focuses on overlooked black history. Formerly with The Ringer and Time magazine, his work has featured in The New Yorker, ...
NOMMO
NOMMO NONE "NOMMO Lyrical Alchemy Volume One is a collaborative project featuring original artists like Erykah Badu. It's the first in a series aimed at presenting artistic expression and cultural el...
Victor S. Navasky
Victor S. Navasky 0000000110768695 Victor Saul Navasky, a former editor of The Nation and The New York Times Magazine, founded Monocle and authored award-winning books including Naming Names and A Ma...
Victor H. Green
Victor H. Green 0000000361280061 Victor Hugo Green was a postal worker and travel writer from Harlem, New York. Best known for creating “The Green Book,” a travel guide for African Americans navigati...
Victor L. Wooten
Victor L. Wooten NONE Victor Lemonte Wooten, a five-time Grammy-winning bass player, composer, and producer, is known as an original member of the Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. He's also the author...
The Universal Machine (consent not to be a single being)
The Universal Machine (consent not to be a single being) Fred Moten 9780822370468 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books "Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single bei...
Sleep Don’t Come Easy
Sleep Don’t Come Easy J.D. Mason and Victor McGlothin 9780758213792 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. National bestselling authors J.D. Mason and Victor McGlothin combine their literary talen...
Adam, Mine.
Adam, Mine. K. Ancrum 9780063449022 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins From acclaimed author K. Ancrum, longlisted for the National Book Award for The Corruption of Hollis Brown and winner of the Lam...
The Writing Coach: How to Start Fast and Finish
The Writing Coach: How to Start Fast and Finish Victor McGlothin 9780692913680 Nonfiction Well Done Books Well Done Books After penning nine best-selling novels and numerous anthologies, Victor McGlot...
Ms. Etta’s Fast House
Ms. Etta’s Fast House Victor McGlothin 9780758213815 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Essence bestselling author Victor McGlothin delivers a stirring novel about a player who’s down on his l...
The Spirit of Music: The Lesson Continues
The Spirit of Music: The Lesson Continues Victor L. Wooten 9780593081662 Nonfiction Vintage Penguin Random House Grammy Award winner Victor Wooten’s inspiring parable of the importance of music and th...
Caribbean Reads Publishing
Caribbean Reads Publishing Caribbean Reads Publishing Caribbean Reads Publishing
NEW Reads Publications
NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications
Caribbean Reads Publishing
Caribbean Reads Publishing Caribbean Reads Publishing Caribbean Reads Publishing
NEW Reads Publications
NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications
Golden Threads
Golden Threads Ariella Aïsha Azoulay 9781961814219 Fiction Ayin Press Ayin Press A beautifully illustrated story celebrating traditional craftsmanship, community, and the power of working together. ...
Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine (NAAM)
Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine (NAAM) Seattle WA Find Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machines (Seattle WA, Oakland, CA) Sistah Scifi is a cauldron of all things afrofuturism; Black mysticism, science fi...
Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine (Distant Worlds Coffee)
Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine (Distant Worlds Coffee) Seattle WA Find Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machines (Seattle WA, Oakland, CA) Sistah Scifi is a cauldron of all things afrofuturism; Black myst...
Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine (Chapter 510)
Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine (Chapter 510) Oakland CA Find Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machines (Seattle WA, Oakland, CA) Sistah Scifi is a cauldron of all things afrofuturism; Black mysticism, sci...
One Last Deadly Play
One Last Deadly Play Flo Anthony 9781936649051 Fiction Wahida Clark Presents Publishing Green and Company LLC Almost two years had passed since the discovery of retired baseball player Royale Jones’ r...
Borrow Trouble
Borrow Trouble Victor McGlothin and Mary Monroe 9781617734359 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. A woman lets herself go and finally does something wrong. Down on his luck, a man tries to do...
Running to Fall: A Novel
Running to Fall: A Novel Kalisha Buckhanon 9780979637407 Fiction AALBC Aspire African American Literature Book Club Also Available in Hardcover “Riveting.” —Amazon Book Review A 2022 Essence, Bu...
Running to Fall: A Novel
Running to Fall: A Novel Kalisha Buckhanon 9780979637421 Fiction AALBC Aspire African American Literature Book Club Also Available in Paperback “Riveting.” —Amazon Book Review A 2022 Essence, Bust...
Bittersweet
Bittersweet Freddie Lee Johnson III 9780345445964 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House Clifford. Victor. Nathan. Three brothers as different as they come. Three lives that veer unexpected...
Avidly Reads Passages
Avidly Reads Passages Michelle D. Commander 9781479806171 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press “What is the value of Black life in America?” In Avidly Reads Pa...
Last Call for a Deadly Diva
Last Call for a Deadly Diva Flo Anthony 9781954161665 Fiction Wahida Clark Presents Publishing Green and Company LLC Five years ago Valerie Rollins became a widow after her husband, electronics and ra...
Opening the Road: Victor Hugo Green and His Green Book
Opening the Road: Victor Hugo Green and His Green Book Keila V. Dawson 9781506467917 Nonfiction Beaming Books 1517 Media During a time when taking a trip across the nation could be dangerous for Black...
Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, America’s Black Wall Street
Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, America’s Black Wall Street Victor Luckerson 9780593134375 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House A multigenerational saga of a...
The Furious Way
The Furious Way Aaron Philip Clark 9781643960036 Fiction Shotgun Honey Shotgun Honey Lucy Ramos is out for blood—she needs to kill a man, but she has no clue how. Lucy calls on the help of aged hit-ma...
Yardie
Yardie Victor Headley 9780871135506 Fiction Atlantic Monthly Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. Yardie is, quite simply, a literary sensation in England. Originally published by X Press, a two-man operation, ...
Beeperless Remote: A Guy, Some Girls, and His Answering Machine
Beeperless Remote: A Guy, Some Girls, and His Answering Machine Van Whitfield 9781890194161 Fiction Pines One Publications Pines One Publications With a style that is simultaneously self-effacing and ...
Mogul: A Novel
Mogul: A Novel Terrance Dean 9781451611922 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the Essence bestselling author of Hiding in Hip Hop and an entertainment insider—a juicy debut novel about th...
The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music
The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music Victor L. Wooten 9780425220931 Nonfiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House From Grammy-winning musical icon and legendary bassist Victor...
Blood Slaves
Blood Slaves Markus Redmond 9781496753168 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. For fans of Ryan Coogler’s Sinners and readers of Victor LaValle, Tananarive Due, Stephen Graham Jones, and Colson ...
September Newsletter: Recommended Reads, the MS Book Festival, and More
September Newsletter: Recommended Reads, the MS Book Festival, and More Troy Johnson Article Recommended Reads N. K. Jemisin the Only Writer to Win the Best Novel Hugo Award in three Consecutive Yea...
Down On My Knees
Down On My Knees Victor McGlothin 9780758213464 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. In this highly entertaining, uplifting page-turner from acclaimed author Victor McGlothin, a successful s...
The Negro Motorist Green-Book: 1940 Facsimile Edition
The Negro Motorist Green-Book: 1940 Facsimile Edition Victor H. Green 9781684116546 Nonfiction Snow Ball Publishing Snow Ball Publishing In the segregated US of the mid-twentieth century, African-Amer...
Mina’s Joint 2: The Perfect Illusion
Mina’s Joint 2: The Perfect Illusion Keisha Ervin 9781539651840 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC After praying that someone would catch her, 10 years have flown by with her husband, Victor...
The O’Dell File
The O’Dell File Victor S. Navasky B00M75QW7G Nonfiction Amazon Digital Services Amazon Digital Services, Inc. The general public has never heard of Jack O’Dell. But many of those who worked with him i...
Sinful
Sinful Victor McGlothin 9780758213488 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. From acclaimed author Victor McGlothin comes an absorbing, inspirational tale about the high cost of greed-and the mira...
Every Sistah Wants It
Every Sistah Wants It Victor McGlothin 9780312348779 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Strong, dramatic, commercial African American fiction by Dallas Morning News Bestseller Victor Mc...
Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Lisa Nichols
Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Lisa Nichols MULTIPLE
Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Lisa Nichols, and Tom Joyner
Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Lisa Nichols, and Tom Joyner MULTIPLE
African Amer. Images
African Amer. Images Troy Johnson Article http://www.africanamericanimages.com/ African American Images 1909 W 95th Street Chicago IL. 60643 1-800-552-1991 fax 773-445-9844 President, D...
Nostrand Avenue
Nostrand Avenue Kenji Jasper 9781496715692 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Jamison “Kango” Watts was once known as an invisible man, a quiet “fixer” who always got the job done with clean h...
Around Harvard Square
Around Harvard Square Christopher John Farley 9781617757143 Fiction Black Sheep Akashic Books "Wry, sly, and ferociously funny, Around Harvard Square is not just the satire Ivy League college life des...
Mothership: Tales From Afrofuturism And Beyond
Mothership: Tales From Afrofuturism And Beyond Bill Campbell and Edward Austin Hall 9780989141147 Fiction Rosarium Publishing Rosarium Publishing Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond is a gr...
The Darker Mask
The Darker Mask Gary Phillips and Christopher Chambers 9780765318503 Fiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers Expanding on the concept behind Byron Preiss’s Weird Heroes from the 1970s, George ...
justin a. reynolds
justin a. reynolds NONE Justin A. Reynolds is an acclaimed author renowned for his debut YA novel, “Opposite of Always,” and second novel “Early Departures.” His work includes a Marvel graphic novel ...
Cool Machine
Cool Machine Colson Whitehead 9780385550505 Fiction Doubleday Books Penguin Random House From #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer winner Colson Whitehead, an exuberantly ent...
If I Survive You
If I Survive You Jonathan Escoffery 9780374605988 Fiction MCD Macmillan Publishers "If I Survive You is a collection of connected short stories that reads like a novel, that reads like real life, that...
The Writing Coach: 90 Day Novel Writing Guide
The Writing Coach: 90 Day Novel Writing Guide Victor McGlothin 9798890740878 Nonfiction Well Done Books Well Done Books The Writing Coach: 90-Day Novel Writing Guide is the amazing tool for writers wh...
Mary Monroe
Mary Monroe 0000000029010860 Mary Monroe, a sharecropper's daughter and the first in her family to graduate high school, returned to the literary scene with her novel “God Don’t Like Ugly”, which sol...
Backsliders (Mega Church Ministers #1)
Backsliders (Mega Church Ministers #1) Victor McGlothin 9780966724325 Fiction Well Done Books Well Done Books A mega-church pastor shields his congregation from the secrets of his past while managing ...
Wake Up Happy: The Dream Big, Win Big Guide to Transforming Your Life
Wake Up Happy: The Dream Big, Win Big Guide to Transforming Your Life Michael Strahan and Veronica Chambers Excerpt WHAT I LEARNED FROM HERSCHEL WALKER Rule #1 Help can—and will—c...
Bittersweet
Bittersweet Thumper Book Review Bittersweet, the debut novel by Freddie Lee Johnson, lll, proves the old adage that you can’t always judge a book by its cover. As I picked up Bittersweet from t...
St. Pete Reads! Literacy Festival
St. Pete Reads! Literacy Festival Woodson African American Museum of Florida St. Petersburg Florida The St. Pete Reads! Literacy Festival is dedicated to entertaining, engaging, and educating children...
JaNay Brown-Wood
JaNay Brown-Wood NONE JaNay Brown-Wood is a celebrated children's author and educator, known for her award-winning book, “Imani's Moon.” She teaches as an ECE professor at American River College and ...
Big
Big Vashti Harrison 9780316353229 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award“Measuring almost 12 by 10 inches this ‘big’ children’s boo...
One Big Day
One Big Day Anne Wynter 9780062934932 Fiction Balzer & Bray/Harperteen HarperCollins One Big Day is a board book celebration of that very special day—a baby’s first birthday. The perfect gift for babi...
Jacqueline Jones LaMon
Jacqueline Jones LaMon Kam Williams Interview Jaci LaMon JaciWrites@aol.com Jacqueline Jones LaMon is a poet and writer. Her work has appeared in various publications inclu...