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Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues
Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues Albert Murray 9780816699551 Nonfiction University of Minnesota Press University of Minnesota Press The year 2016 will mark the centennial of the bir...
Merry Ex-Mas
Merry Ex-Mas Victoria Christopher Murray 9781939481153 Fiction Liza Dawson Associates Liza Dawson Associates A Christmas novella from the Essence bestselling author Victoria Christopher Murray Six yea...
Stand Your Ground: A Novel
Stand Your Ground: A Novel Victoria Christopher Murray 9781476792996 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the AALBC.com bestselling and award-winning author Victoria Christopher Murray comes...
Blessed Assurance: Inspirational Short Stories Full of Hope & Strength for Life's Journey
Blessed Assurance: Inspirational Short Stories Full of Hope & Strength for Life's Journey Victoria Christopher Murray, Jacquelin Thomas, S. James Guitard, Maurice Gray, Terrance Johnson, and Patricia ...
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice Patricia Bell-Scott 9780679446521 Nonfiction Alfred A. Knopf Penguin Ra...
Wrath
Wrath Victoria Christopher Murray 9781982142926 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. The award-winning author of Lust, Envy, and Greed — soon to be Lifetime movies - delivers an unforgettable ...
Greed: A Seven Deadly Sins Novel
Greed: A Seven Deadly Sins Novel Victoria Christopher Murray 9781982113230 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Passion, money, and a deliciously devious twist: Greed is the newest novel in aw...
Lust: A Seven Deadly Sins Novel
Lust: A Seven Deadly Sins Novel Victoria Christopher Murray 9781501134104 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the NAACP Image award winner and national bestselling author Victoria Christoph...
Forever An Ex
Forever An Ex Victoria Christopher Murray 9781476748856 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. Three Los Angeles women who’ve helped each other overcome heartbreak are reunited eight years later wh...
The Personal Librarian
The Personal Librarian Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray 9780593101537 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House A Good Morning America Book Club Pick The remarkable story of J. P. Mor...
Temptation: The Aftermath
Temptation: The Aftermath Victoria Christopher Murray 9781944359591 Fiction Brown Girls Books Brown Girls Books The best of friends…. Since they were five years old, Jasmine Cox Larson Bush and Kyla B...
A Blessing & A Curse
A Blessing & A Curse ReShonda Tate Billingsley and Victoria Christopher Murray 9781476748887 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. First ladies of the Baptist church and sworn frenemies Rach...
Scandalous
Scandalous Victoria Christopher Murray 9781939481016 Fiction Liza Dawson Associates Liza Dawson Associates Before she was a minister’s wife, she was Jasmine Cox, the most prized dancer at Foxtails. Ne...
Sinners & Saints
Sinners & Saints ReShonda Tate Billingsley and Victoria Christopher Murray 9781451608151 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. TEAM JASMINE or TEAM RACHEL? Bestselling and award-winning novelists ...
Harlem Rhapsody
Harlem Rhapsody Victoria Christopher Murray 9780593638484 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House “A page turner and history lesson at once, Harlem Rhapsody reminds us that our stories are our gene...
Harlem Rhapsody (paperback)
Harlem Rhapsody (paperback) Victoria Christopher Murray 9780593638507 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR! “A gripping narrative, don’t miss this histori...
Fortune & Fame
Fortune & Fame ReShonda Tate Billingsley and Victoria Christopher Murray 9781476747170 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. Church first ladies Jasmine Cox, Larson Bush, and Rachel Jackson Adams ...
Albert Murray: Collected Novels & Poems: Train Whistle Guitar / The Spyglass Tree / The Seven League Boots / The Magic Keys/ Poems (The Library of America)
Albert Murray: Collected Novels & Poems: Train Whistle Guitar / The Spyglass Tree / The Seven League Boots / The Magic Keys/ Poems (The Library of America) Albert Murray 9781598535617 Fiction Library ...
To Speak a Defiant Word: Sermons and Speeches on Justice and Transformation
To Speak a Defiant Word: Sermons and Speeches on Justice and Transformation Pauli Murray 9780300268065 Nonfiction Yale University Press Yale University Press Twenty-five years of writings by the relig...
Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs
Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs Albert Murray 9781598535037 Nonfiction Library of America Library of America In his 1970 classic The Omni-Americans, Albert Murray (1916€“2013) took aim at ...
Conversations With Albert Murray (Literary Conversations Series)
Conversations With Albert Murray (Literary Conversations Series) Roberta S. Maguire 9781578060078 Nonfiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi As a cultural critic, biogr...
The Midnight Hour: A Madaris Novel
The Midnight Hour: A Madaris Novel Brenda Jackson 9781250623799 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Sexy, dangerous, unforgettable…the Madaris family and their unlikely band of friends c...
Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage
Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage Pauli Murray 9781631494581 Nonfiction Liveright Publishing Corporation W. W. Norton & Company First published posthumously in 1987, Pauli Murra...
The Midnight Hour (Madaris Family Novels)
The Midnight Hour (Madaris Family Novels) Brenda Jackson 9780312989972 Fiction St. Martin’s Paperbacks Macmillan Publishers Sexy, dangerous, unforgettable…the Madaris family and their unlikely band of...
One Sweet Christmas
One Sweet Christmas Beverly Taylor 9781944359010 Fiction Brown Girls Books Brown Girls Books Five years after the birth of her child and downward spiral of her marriage, Kacie Miller discovers that he...
Lady Jasmine: A Novel
Lady Jasmine: A Novel Victoria Christopher Murray 9781416589174 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. The beloved—and hated—Jasmine larson bush returns to battle her own past in a compelling new n...
The Other Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria’s Goddaughter
The Other Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria’s Goddaughter Denny S. Bryce 9780063144125 Fiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins A stunning portrait of an African princess raised in Queen Victo...
Grown Folks Business: A Novel
Grown Folks Business: A Novel Victoria Christopher Murray 9780743270977 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. Sheridan’s husband wanted to stop living a lie, but how was she going to live her life...
The Ex Files: A Novel About Four Women and Faith
The Ex Files: A Novel About Four Women and Faith Victoria Christopher Murray 9781416535515 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. There are four ways a woman can handle heartbreak. She can fall apa...
A Sin and a Shame: A Novel
A Sin and a Shame: A Novel Victoria Christopher Murray 9780743287371 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. After fleeing Los Angeles when her attempt to break up her best friend’s marriage fails, ...
Too Little, Too Late: A Novel
Too Little, Too Late: A Novel Victoria Christopher Murray 9781416552529 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. Jasmine Larson Bush returns to her devious ways in this tale of two marriages — each t...
Pride
Pride Victoria Christopher Murray 9781668012901 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. The 7 Deadly Sins series that inspired several Lifetime original movies continues with this unputdownable n...
The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era Elizabeth Dowling Taylor 9780062346100 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In this outstanding cultural biography, the author of...
Sins Of The Mother: A Novel
Sins Of The Mother: A Novel Victoria Christopher Murray 9781416589181 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. Have the sins of the mother come upon the daughter?Jasmine Larson Bush is finally living...
Destiny’s Divas: A Novel
Destiny’s Divas: A Novel Victoria Christopher Murray 9781451650464 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. THEY CAN TALK THE TALK, BUT CAN THEY WALK THE WALK? Sierra, Raine, and Liza are Destiny’s D...
Envy: A Seven Deadly Sins Novel
Envy: A Seven Deadly Sins Novel Victoria Christopher Murray 9781501183218 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.Gabrielle Wilson ha...
A Pair of Aces
A Pair of Aces Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray 9780593637937 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House A gripping novel about two trailblazing women on opposite sides of the law—a pros...
The Women Who Raised Me: A Memoir
The Women Who Raised Me: A Memoir Victoria Rowell 9780061246609 Nonfiction William Morrow Paperbacks HarperCollins Newer version availableBorn as a ward of the state of Maine, the child of an unmarrie...
The First Ladies (paperback)
The First Ladies (paperback) Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray 9780593440292 Fiction Penguin Publishing Group Penguin Random House A novel about the extraordinary partnership between Firs...
The First Ladies
The First Ladies Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray 9780593440285 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevel...
Veronique (The Divas)
Veronique (The Divas) Victoria Christopher Murray 9781416563501 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. New York City — are you ready for the Divine Divas? Because these teenage gospel music sens...
The Deal, The Dance, And The Devil: A Novel
The Deal, The Dance, And The Devil: A Novel Victoria Christopher Murray 9781439194256 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. What would you do for five million dollars? Adam and Evia Langston have ...
It Should’ve Been Me
It Should’ve Been Me ReShonda Tate Billingsley and Victoria Christopher Murray 9781944359508 Fiction Brown Girls Books Brown Girls Books Lights, camera, action… Tamara Collins is poised to become the ...
India (The Divas)
India (The Divas) Victoria Christopher Murray 9781416563495 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. The Divine Divas are on their way! They won the local, and now they’re all set to wow the judge...
Truth Be Told
Truth Be Told Victoria Christopher Murray 9780743255677 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. The author of Essence bestsellers Temptation and Joy returns with a story about one woman’s personal a...
Diamond (The Divas)
Diamond (The Divas) Victoria Christopher Murray 9781416562160 Fiction Pocket Books Pocket Books Diamond. India. Veronqie. Aaliyah. What does that spell? DIVA!! The Divine Divas. They’re fifteen and...
Temptation
Temptation Victoria Christopher Murray 9780446677837 Fiction Walk Worthy Press Walk Worthy Press Kyla and Jefferson Blake count their 16 years together as a wonderful blessing from God. Their marriage...
Never Say Never
Never Say Never Victoria Christopher Murray 9781451695779 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. When Miriam’s fireman husband, Chauncey, dies while rescuing students from a school fire, Miriam fee...
Aaliyah (The Divas)
Aaliyah (The Divas) Victoria Christopher Murray 9781416563518 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Diamond, India, Veronique, and Aaliyah are fifteen-year-old high school sophomores on their w...
Touched by an Angel
Touched by an Angel Victoria Christopher Murray and Princess F.L. Gooden 9781625177094 Fiction Brown Girls Books Brown Girls Books Savannah Hudson always looked for a surprise from her husband, Sheld...
Friends & Foes
Friends & Foes ReShonda Tate Billingsley and Victoria Christopher Murray 9781451608168 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. IT’S “A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN!”* when the bestselling authors of Sinn...
Joy
Joy Victoria Christopher Murray 9780446616508 Fiction Walk Worthy Press Walk Worthy Press This "Essence" bestselling novel shares the story about a successful black Christian woman who must make cruci...
If Only For One Night
If Only For One Night Victoria Christopher Murray 9781944359737 Fiction Brown Girls Books Brown Girls Books Can they be soulmates if they’re married to other people? From the outside, Angelique has th...
The Personal Librarian: A GMA Book Club Pick
The Personal Librarian: A GMA Book Club Pick Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray 9780593101544 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House
Sinners & Saints
Sinners & Saints ReShonda Tate Billingsley and Victoria Christopher Murray 9781476700021 Fiction Pocket Books Pocket Books Jasmine Larson Bush and Rachel Jackson Adams are not your typical first ladie...
The Right to Be: A Christopher Family Novel
The Right to Be: A Christopher Family Novel W.D. Foster-Graham 9781665521208 Fiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions For all intents and purposes, 18-year-old Allan Christopher Davis has everything going...
Dark Testament: And Other Poems
Dark Testament: And Other Poems Pauli Murray 9781631494833 Poetry Liveright Publishing Corporation W. W. Norton & Company There has been explosive interest in the life of Pauli Murray, as reflected in...
The Women Who Raised Me (Legacy Edition)
The Women Who Raised Me (Legacy Edition) Victoria Rowell 9781959811770 Nonfiction Wordeee Wordeee Born a ward of the state in the State of Maine, the child of a Yankee blueblood mother, Dorothy (Colli...
Inventing Victoria
Inventing Victoria Tonya Bolden 9781681198071 Fiction Bloomsbury YA Bloomsbury Publishing In a searing historical novel, Tonya Bolden illuminates post-Reconstruction America in an intimate portrait of...
Pauli Murray: Autobiography Black Activist Feminist Lawyer
Pauli Murray: Autobiography Black Activist Feminist Lawyer Pauli Murray 9780870495960 Nonfiction Univ Tennessee Press Univ Tennessee Press Pauli Murray (1910–1985) is regarded as “one of the least dis...
The Young and the Ruthless: Back in the Bubbles
The Young and the Ruthless: Back in the Bubbles Victoria Rowell 9781451643831 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. New York Times bestselling author and beloved actress Victoria Rowell delive...
Victoria’s Secret (The Cartel Publications Presents)
Victoria’s Secret (The Cartel Publications Presents) Jason Poole 9780979493140 Fiction Cartel Publications Cartel Publications What would you do for your man? Would you whore for him? Victoria Gray is...
Inventing Victoria
Inventing Victoria Tonya Bolden 9781547603176 Fiction Bloomsbury YA Bloomsbury Publishing As a young black woman in 1880s Savannah, Essie’s dreams are very much at odds with her reality. Ashamed of he...
You Never Know: A Christopher Family Novel
You Never Know: A Christopher Family Novel W.D. Foster-Graham 9781546257547 Fiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions The Christopher Saga Continues This sequel to “Mark My Words” tells the story of Elija...
No Laughter Here
No Laughter Here Rita Williams-Garcia 9780063079298 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins In this groundbreaking novel, Coretta Scott King Award winner Rita Williams-Garcia uses her vividly realistic...
The Seven League Boots
The Seven League Boots Albert Murray 9780679758587 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House In the triumphant concluding volume of the trilogy that began with Whistle Guitar and The Spyglass Tree, Albert ...
Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family
Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family Pauli Murray 9780807072097 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press First published in 1956, Proud Shoes is the remarkable true story of slavery, survival, and...
Rocket Crockett and the Shanghai She-Devil
Rocket Crockett and the Shanghai She-Devil Christopher Chambers 9781502561510 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Dusky derring-doer and Korean War jet jockey Lt. Rufus "Rocket" Crockett has ...
Brief Evidence of Heaven: Poems from the Life of Anna Murray Douglass
Brief Evidence of Heaven: Poems from the Life of Anna Murray Douglass M. Nzadi Keita 9780990867777 Poetry Whirlwind Press Whirlwind Press Poetry. African American Studies. Women’s Studies. BRIEF EV...
Princess Sarah: Queen Victoria’s African Goddaughter
Princess Sarah: Queen Victoria’s African Goddaughter Tina Andrews 9780998226057 Nonfiction The Malibu Press The Malibu Press The unknown story of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, a young African princess who was...
Augments of Change
Augments of Change Kelvin Christopher James 9781941861172 Fiction Harvard Square Editions Harvard Square Editions Kelvin Christopher James uses a panoramic canvas for this absolutely entertaining and ...
Pandora’s Box: A Novel
Pandora’s Box: A Novel Allison Hobbs 9781593090111 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Ambition, desperation, and redemption abound in nationally bestselling author Allison Hobbs’s unforgetta...
Streetwhys: A Dickie Cornish Detective Mystery
Streetwhys: A Dickie Cornish Detective Mystery Christopher Chambers 9781953103550 Fiction Three Rooms Press Three Rooms Press Washington, DC’s notorious detective, former street denizen Dickie Cornish...
The Madman of Piney Woods
The Madman of Piney Woods Christopher Paul Curtis 9780545156646 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. Bestselling Newbery Medalist Christopher Paul Curtis delivers a powerful companion to his mu...
The Walmart Republic
The Walmart Republic Quraysh Ali Lansana and Christopher H. Stewart 9780990320401 Poetry Mongrel Empire Press Mongrel Empire Press Quraysh Ali Lansana is from Enid, OK. Christopher Stewart was raised ...
Some Wounds Never Heal
Some Wounds Never Heal Rhonda M. Lawson 9781601623584 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance Alexis White spent much of her youth going after what she wanted and not caring who she hurt. She didn...
Night Ride
Night Ride Christopher Myers 9798217238460 Fiction Kokila Penguin Random House A breathtaking, first-of-its-kind wordless picture book illustrated entirely in stained glass, celebrating the joy of Bla...
Texas Slamthology: Vol. 1
Texas Slamthology: Vol. 1 Christopher Michael 9780998427058 Poetry 310 Brown Street 310 Brown Street An Anthology of Texas Poetry, Slam Poets: Jomar Valentin . Mr Dave . Brian Francis . Christopher Mi...
Persona Non Grata
Persona Non Grata Christopher Michael 9780983350866 Poetry 310 Brown Street 310 Brown Street Persona Non Grata is the first full length collection of poetry and spoken word performance pieces from nat...
Snitch: A Novel
Snitch: A Novel Booker T. Mattison 9780800733964 Fiction Fleming H. Revell Company Baker Publishing Group In Jersey City the code of the streets is simple. No matter what, you don’t talk to the cops. ...
The Spyglass Tree
The Spyglass Tree Albert Murray 9780679730859 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House A deeply affecting, stylishly elegant novel of remembrance about a young African-American man’s advent into the world...
When Stars Are Scattered
When Stars Are Scattered Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed 9780525553908 Fiction Dial Books Penguin Random House Heartbreak and hope exist together in this remarkable graphic novel about growing up i...
City Shapes
City Shapes Diana Murray 9780316370929 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Hunt for shapes of all kinds on this journey through a bustling city, illustrated by four-time ...
Healing in the Midst of Adversity
Healing in the Midst of Adversity Michelle Murray 9780989185936 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing The world is full of disappointments, and trouble is on every side. It feels like no matte...
States’ Laws on Race and Color
States’ Laws on Race and Color Pauli Murray 9780820350639 Nonfiction University of Georgia Press University of Georgia Press This remarkable, hard-to-find resource is an exhaustive compilation of stat...
The Hero And the Blues
The Hero And the Blues Albert Murray 9780679762201 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House Book by Murray, Albert
South To A Very Old Place
South To A Very Old Place Albert Murray 9780679736950 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House Book by Murray, Albert
The Omni-Americans: Black Experience And American Culture (Da Capo Press Paperback)
The Omni-Americans: Black Experience And American Culture (Da Capo Press Paperback) Albert Murray 9780306803956 Nonfiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group The Omni-Americans is a classic collection ...
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...
Zora and Me: The Summoner
Zora and Me: The Summoner Victoria Bond 9780763642990 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press In the finale to the acclaimed trilogy, upheaval in Zora Neale Hurston’s family and hometown persuade he...
Keeping Secrets & Telling Lies
Keeping Secrets & Telling Lies Trice Hickman 9780758269072 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. What would you do if the secret you were keepingcould set you free, yet ultimately devastate the o...
Keeping Secrets & Telling Lies
Keeping Secrets & Telling Lies Trice Hickman 9780979561818 Fiction Platinum Books Platinum Books What would you do if the secret you were keeping could set you free, yet ultimately devastate the ones ...
Behind Her Lives
Behind Her Lives Briana Cole 9781496738752 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. From bestselling author Briana Cole, an enthrallingly suspenseful new story of secrets, sibling rivalry, and a wom...
Stones Along The Path
Stones Along The Path H. Victoria Hargro Atkerson 9781436346269 Fiction Xlibris Author Solutions Jessica Hamilton relates in Stones Along the Path a romantic bi-continental, cross-cultural family s...
Miss Edmonia’s Class of Wildfires
Miss Edmonia’s Class of Wildfires Victoria Scott-Miller 9781223186849 Fiction Paw Prints Publishing Baker & Taylor Publisher Services Two students are inspired by art during a visit to the museum and ...
Tag, Toss & Run: 40 Classic Lawn Games
Tag, Toss & Run: 40 Classic Lawn Games Victoria Rowell 9781603425605 Nonfiction Storey Publishing Storey Publishing Get the whole gang outside and enjoy hours of family fun! Discover the pleasures of ...
Stones Along The Path Part II
Stones Along The Path Part II H. Victoria Hargro Atkerson 9781436346436 Fiction Xlibris Author Solutions Book by Atkerson, H. Victoria Hargro
Sex in the Sanctuary
Sex in the Sanctuary Lutishia Lovely 9780758217516 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. From exciting new author Lutishia Lovely comes a steamy debut in the manner of Victoria Christopher Murray...
To Thine Own Self: A Christopher Family Novel
To Thine Own Self: A Christopher Family Novel W.D. Foster-Graham 9798823021432 Fiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions The time is 2012; the place is Minneapolis. Darrell Edwards, first grandchild of El...
Mark My Words (Book 3): A Christopher Family Novel
Mark My Words (Book 3): A Christopher Family Novel W.D. Foster-Graham 9781546246015 Fiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions Allan Beckley Christopher is a self-made, African-American multimillionaire. St...