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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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
Jabari Tries
Jabari Tries Gaia Cornwall 9781536207163 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press Jabari is inventing a machine that will fly all the way across the yard! But making it go from CRASH to WHOOSH will t...
The Secrets Of Newberry
The Secrets Of Newberry Victor McGlothin 9780446178136 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Two lifelong friends are about to discover the hard side of life in The Big Easy after a hei...
Hardware: The Man in the Machine
Hardware: The Man in the Machine Dwayne McDuffie 9781401225988 Fiction DC Comics DC Comics This first-ever HARDWARE collection introduces inventor/engineer Curt Metcalf, who begins his adventures by b...
Betrayed: A Novel (Zane Presents)
Betrayed: A Novel (Zane Presents) Suzetta Perkins 9781593093624 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Nineteen years after she was raped, Mimi Bailey makes a desperate attempt to protect her se...
Autumn Leaves: A Novel
Autumn Leaves: A Novel Victor McGlothin 9780312319694 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Marshall Coates and Rorey Garland are on top of the world—best friends and superstar athletes wi...
Perennial Fashion Presence Falling
Perennial Fashion Presence Falling Fred Moten 9781950268801 Poetry Wave Books Wave Books “some ekphrastic evening, this’ll be both criticism and poetry and failing that fall somewhere that seem like i...
Lucky Beans
Lucky Beans Becky Birtha 9780807547823 Fiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company Like so many people during the Great Depression of the 1930s, Marshall Loman’s dad has lost his job. Th...
Schemers: Blackmail Never Felt So Good
Schemers: Blackmail Never Felt So Good Victor McGlothin 9780692555989 Fiction Well Done Books Well Done Books Schemers is a brilliantly executed game of high stakes pay-to-play. As the Men of M.O.E.T...
7-Day Apple Cider Vinegar Cleanse: Lose Up to 15 Pounds in 7 Days and Turn Your Body Into a Fat-Burning Machine
7-Day Apple Cider Vinegar Cleanse: Lose Up to 15 Pounds in 7 Days and Turn Your Body Into a Fat-Burning Machine J.J. Smith 9781982118075 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. JJ Smith, au...
All That Beauty
All That Beauty Fred Moten 9781732772113 Poetry Letter Machine Editions Letter Machine Editions A pathbreaking new volume of poems from Fred Moten, All That Beauty combines Moten’s penchant for lyri...
The Feel Trio
The Feel Trio Fred Moten 9780988713710 Poetry Letter Machine Editions Letter Machine Editions Poetry. African American Studies. Music. California Interest. THE FEEL TRIO is Cecil Taylor, Tony Oxley an...
Big Black: Stand at Attica
Big Black: Stand at Attica Frank Smith 9781684154791 Nonfiction Archaia BOOM! Studios A graphic novel memoir from Frank "Big Black" Smith, a prisoner at Attica State Prison in 1971, whose rebellion ag...
Sinful Too
Sinful Too Victor McGlothin 9781607511250 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group YOU CAN’T KEEP A “GOOD” WOMAN DOWN… She can get any man burning up her satin sheets, paying her bi...
Off Duty
Off Duty Victor Headley 9780340770245 Fiction New English Library Headline Publishing Group Carlton, an off duty policeman from Jamaica witnesses his best friend gunned down in cold blood on his weddi...
Here Comes the Bride
Here Comes the Bride Victor Headley 9781874509363 Fiction Xpress Publishing Xpress Publishing After twelve years of a turbulent on/off relationship, Mo wants to settle down. He resolves his doubts and...
Indecent Exposure (Sepia)
Indecent Exposure (Sepia) Victor McGlothin, Tracy Price-Thompson, and Carmen Green 9781583147092 Fiction Kimani Press Kimani Press Romance Novel.
What’s a Woman to Do?
What’s a Woman to Do? Victor McGlothin 9780312286873 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers When a corporate diva Janeen Hampton-Gilliam meets the kind of dream man that’ll make most women wa...
In Spite Of
In Spite Of Victor McGlothin 9780966724301 Fiction Well Done Books Well Done Books A fictional novel- In Spite Of is a passionate, heart-wrenching tale of murder, deception, and triumph over tragedy....
Mandy Oxendine
Mandy Oxendine Victor Séjour 9780252063473 Fiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press In a novel rejected by a major publisher in the late nineteenth century as too shocking for...
Bump and Run: It made me. It saved me.
Bump and Run: It made me. It saved me. Victor McGlothin 9781653271337 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published Bump and Run tells the story of Ray Crockett, an undersized football pl...
Street Tales: A Street Lit Anthology
Street Tales: A Street Lit Anthology Shannon Holmes, Wahida Clark, Victor L. Martin, Sa'id Salaam, Reds Johnson, Hood Chronicles, Joe Awsum, and Vance Phillips 9781947732551 Fiction Wahida Clark Prese...
Yush! (Yardie)
Yush! (Yardie) Victor Headley 9781874509073 Fiction Xpress Publishing Xpress Publishing D is now London’s number one drugs Don. But the position comes with problems. There is a new style of gangster o...
Excess
Excess Victor Headley 9780330333122 Fiction Pan Books Macmillan Publishers Things got really hot after D’s arrest. The police virtually closed down Hackney for business. But the shaky truce that follo...
Rules for Slaying the Dating Games: How to Reach Your Relationship Goals
Rules for Slaying the Dating Games: How to Reach Your Relationship Goals Victor McGlothin 9798218355517 Nonfiction Well Done Books Well Done Books Whether single and seeking a lifelong partnership...
The Jew of Seville
The Jew of Seville Victor Séjour 9780988962743 Fiction Second Line Press Second Line Press
The Fortune Teller (Louisiana Heritage)
The Fortune Teller (Louisiana Heritage) Victor Séjour 9780988962750 Fiction Second Line Press Second Line Press The Fortune-Teller
The Student Formula: How to Win in Inner-City Classrooms
The Student Formula: How to Win in Inner-City Classrooms Victor McGlothin 9780692776087 Nonfiction Well Done Books Well Done Books The Student Formula is a winning game plan for students to excel in i...
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...
Richard III: drame et cinq actes, en prose (French Edition)
Richard III: drame et cinq actes, en prose (French Edition) Victor Séjour 9781172022281 Fiction Nabu Press BiblioLife This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasio...
Chicken Soup For The African American Woman’s Soul (Chicken Soup For The Soul)
Chicken Soup For The African American Woman’s Soul (Chicken Soup For The Soul) Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Lisa Nichols 9780757305207 Fiction HCI HCI Chicken Soup for the African American W...
Whispers between the Sheets: A Players ParadiseAt Your ServiceA Man And A Half
Whispers between the Sheets: A Players ParadiseAt Your ServiceA Man And A Half Victor McGlothin, Earl Sewell, and Phillip Thomas Duck 9781583146439 Fiction Kimani Press Kimani Press This interesting a...
Chicken Soup For The African American Soul: Celebrating And Sharing Our Culture, One Story At A Time (Chicken Soup For The Soul)
Chicken Soup For The African American Soul: Celebrating And Sharing Our Culture, One Story At A Time (Chicken Soup For The Soul) Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Lisa Nichols, and Tom Joyner 9780757...
Fetish
Fetish Victor Headley 9781874509202 Fiction Xpress Publishing Xpress Publishing A tense psychological thriller that explores the relationship between Jamie, a home boy from New York, and Tanya, a sass...
God’s Big Idea Tradepaper: Reclaiming Gods Original Purpose for Your Life
God’s Big Idea Tradepaper: Reclaiming Gods Original Purpose for Your Life Myles Munroe 9781459600386 Nonfiction ReadHowYouWant ReadHowYouWant There has never been a better time to be alive! God’s plan...
Beyond Bourbon Street
Beyond Bourbon Street Nikesha Elise Williams 9781733584869 Fiction NEW Reads Publications NEW Reads Publications How does a couple survive when the one thing that brought them together threatens to te...
Big Tune: Rise of the Dancehall Prince
Big Tune: Rise of the Dancehall Prince Alliah L. Agostini 9780374389949 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers An exuberant picture book written by Alliah L. Agostini and illustrated b...
The Big Picture: Getting Perspective on What’s Really Important
The Big Picture: Getting Perspective on What’s Really Important Ben Carson 9780310363552 Nonfiction Zondervan HarperCollins Christian Publishing Dr. Ben Carson is known as the originator of groundbrea...
Quick Reads Penguin Readers: Boys Don’t Cry
Quick Reads Penguin Readers: Boys Don’t Cry Malorie Blackman 9780241688106 Fiction Penguin Group USA Penguin Random House A gripping Quick Read about family and growing up from bestselling author, Mal...
Letter to Jimmy
Letter to Jimmy Alain Mabanckou 9781593766016 Fiction Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press Written on the twentieth anniversary of James Baldwin’s death, Letter to Jimmy is African writer Alain Mabanckou...