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Virginia Black
Virginia Black 0000000112712687 Virginia Black is a California-born writer, now living in the Pacific Northwest. Known for her love of whiskey, loud music, and dark speculative fiction, she spends he...
No Shelter But the Stars
No Shelter But the Stars Virginia Black 9781612942797 Fiction Bywater Books Bywater Books Virginia Black’s No Shelter But The Stars is the space opera you’ve been waiting for—packed with warring world...
Consecrated Ground
Consecrated Ground Virginia Black 9781612942551 Fiction Bywater Books Bywater Books Consecrated Ground is a multiracial lesbian paranormal tour de force that will leave you wary of the shadows and abs...
Virginia Black at the 2024 ReadOut: A Festival of LGBTQ Literature
Virginia Black at the 2024 ReadOut: A Festival of LGBTQ Literature Literary Events Learn more about the writer Virginia Black and ReadOut festival at the African American Literature Book Club, aalbc.c...
Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant
Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant MULTIPLE Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant are best friends turned successful authors, known for their enduring collaboration in African American fiction. Both started...
Lamar Giles
Lamar Giles 0000000514184709 L.R. Giles is a renowned author and speaker from Virginia, known for his commitment to diversity in publishing. A founding member of We Need Diverse Books, Giles made his...
Larry Linwell Rowe
Larry Linwell Rowe NONE Larry Linwell Rowe is a lawyer, historian, and former West Virginia legislator with degrees from West Virginia University. Based in Old Malden, he's known for his research on ...
Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant: Our writing career is officially on HOLD
Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant: Our writing career is officially on HOLD Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant Article Virginia DeBerry (r) and Donna Grant (l)
Extraordinary Magic: The Storytelling Life of Virginia Hamilton
Extraordinary Magic: The Storytelling Life of Virginia Hamilton Nina Crews 9780316383592 Fiction Christy Ottaviano Books Hachette Book Group This lyrical picture book biography tells the story of one ...
Virginia Hamilton
Virginia Hamilton 0000000114915488 Growing up on a small farm near Yellow Springs, Ohio, in the 1940s, Virginia Hamilton was lovingly embraced by the sights, sounds and smells of rural...
Unbound: Free Black Virginians, 1619-1865
Unbound: Free Black Virginians, 1619-1865 Melvin Patrick Ely 9781913875619 Nonfiction GILES GILES A vital new volume exploring the history of Virginia’s free Black population prior to emancipation. ...
The Self-Liberation of Parson Sykes: Enslavement in Southampton County, Virginia
The Self-Liberation of Parson Sykes: Enslavement in Southampton County, Virginia David J. Mason 9780999133118 Fiction HMG ePublishing HMG ePublishing The Self-Liberation of Parson Sykes is a documenta...
Liberation Literature: Collected Writings of Virginia Hamilton
Liberation Literature: Collected Writings of Virginia Hamilton Virginia Hamilton 9781646144501 Nonfiction Relit Relit A monumental collection by one of America’s greatest authors of children’s literat...
Ronnie Sidney, II
Ronnie Sidney, II MULTIPLE Ronnie Sidney, II, MSW, is a Virginia-based therapist, entrepreneur, speaker, author, and social advocate with a passion for social justice and youth work. Despite early ac...
Menah Adeola Eyaside Pratt
Menah Adeola Eyaside Pratt NONE Menah Pratt, born in Pittsburgh, is a highly educated leader recognized as one of Virginia's Top 50 Women Leaders. She serves as the Vice President for Strategic Affai...
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales Virginia Hamilton 9780375824050 Fiction Knopf Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Originally Published in 1985, The People Could Fly retells 24 ...
Virginia Hamilton: Speeches
Virginia Hamilton: Speeches Kam Williams Book Review ’In the 35 years between the publication of her first book and her death in 2002, Virginia Hamilton earned a place of honor in the p...
Virginia Hamilton: Five Novels
Virginia Hamilton: Five Novels Virginia Hamilton 9781598537017 Fiction Library of America Library of America Rediscover America’s most honored writer of children’s literature in this deluxe collector’...
The Book of Numbers (The Virginia Bookshelf)
The Book of Numbers (The Virginia Bookshelf) Robert Deane Pharr 9780813920467 Fiction University of Virginia Press University of Virginia Press In the hardboiled tradition of Chester Himes and Walter ...
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Virginia Festival of the Book
Virginia Festival of the Book Charlottesville Virginia Produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH), the largest of the 56 state (and territory) humanities councils, the Festival is a...
Virginia Children’s Book Festival
Virginia Children’s Book Festival Longwood University, Farmville Farmville Virginia The Virginia Children’s Book Festival will bring together prominent children’s authors and illustrators ...
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave (Laurel-leaf books)
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave (Laurel-leaf books) Virginia Hamilton 9780679839972 Fiction Laurel Leaf Laurel Leaf Now in Laurel-Leaf, Virginia Hamilton’s powerful true acco...
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 ...
Tamiya Davis
Tamiya Davis NONE Tamiya Davis, a Virginia native, is a longshoreman, fashion entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker. Her achievements include running a rights restoration chapter, owning a f...
Something Must Be Done about Prince Edward County: A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle
Something Must Be Done about Prince Edward County: A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle Kristen Green 9780062268686 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER C...
My Father’s Name: A Black Virginia Family After the Civil War
My Father’s Name: A Black Virginia Family After the Civil War Lawrence P. Jackson 9780226389493 Nonfiction University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press Armed with only early boyhood memorie...
White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia
White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia Kiki Petrosino 9781946448545 Poetry Sarabande Books Sarabande Books In her fourth full-length book, White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia, Kiki Petrosino turns her gaze to ...
Virginia Slavery and King Salt in Booker T. Washington’s Boyhood Home
Virginia Slavery and King Salt in Booker T. Washington’s Boyhood Home Larry Linwell Rowe 9781733929714 Nonfiction Old Malden Press Old Malden Press Booker T. Washington’s formative years were from 186...
Violet and the Frost King: A Modern Adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s The Frost King
Violet and the Frost King: A Modern Adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s The Frost King Virginia Hamilton 9780316532389 Fiction Christy Ottaviano Books Hachette Book Group Fairy Violet sets off on a ques...
Virginia DeBerry & Donna Grant talk to AALBC.com at BEA '08
Virginia DeBerry & Donna Grant talk to AALBC.com at BEA '08 Author Interviews Virginia DeBerry & Donna Grant talk to AALBC.com at Book Expo America (BEA) 2008. With five novels to their credit, Vir...
Virginia Hamilton
Virginia Hamilton Mélina Mangal 9781584151708 Nonfiction Mitchell Lane Mitchell Lane Publishers A biography of Virginia Hamilton, the African American writer whose children’s literature received the h...
Exposures
Exposures Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant 9780595357185 Fiction Backinprint.com Backinprint.com As a glamorous, successful fashion photographer, adored by New York and Paris trend makers, Brett Larse...
Bruh Rabbit And The Tar Baby Girl
Bruh Rabbit And The Tar Baby Girl Virginia Hamilton 9780590473767 Fiction Blue Sky Press Blue Sky Press Esteemed author Virginia Hamilton retells the classic trickster tale of Bruh Rabbit and the Tar ...
Justene Hill Edwards
Justene Hill Edwards NONE Justene Hill Edwards is an associate professor of history at the University of Virginia. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. Justene Hill Edwards is an associate profess...
Edward P. Jones
Edward P. Jones 0000000109223233 Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, was born and raised in Washington, D.C. and educated at Holy Cross College and the University of Virginia. Known for h...
Wyatt Tee Walker
Wyatt Tee Walker 0000000082666762 Rev. Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker was a pastor, civil rights leader, theologian, and historian, best known for his work with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the SCLC. He hel...
Daryl Cumber Dance
Daryl Cumber Dance 000000011473816X Dr. Daryl Cumber Dance is a Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, is a Ford Foundation Fello...
Shannon Wright
Shannon Wright 0000000049194273 Shannon Wright, based in Richmond, Virginia, is an illustrator and cartoonist known for her work on books like “My Mommy Medicine” and “Twins.” She also designs cover ...
Kiki Petrosino
Kiki Petrosino NONE Kiki Petrosino, a Professor of Poetry at the University of Virginia, is the author of four poetry books, including “White Blood: a Lyric of Virginia.” Her work has been featured i...
Christopher C. Bell Jr.
Christopher C. Bell Jr. NONE Chris Bell Jr., a Black poet, essayist, educationist, novelist, and retired army Major, holds a Doctorate in Education. Born and raised in Norfolk, Virginia during racial...
Black Photographers Annual, Volume 2
Black Photographers Annual, Volume 2 Joe Crawford 9780913564035 Nonfiction Black Photographers Annual, Inc. Black Photographers Annual, Inc. Beuford Smith, who cofounded The Black Photographers Annua...
The Black Photographers Annual 1973
The Black Photographers Annual 1973 Joe Crawford 9780913564011 Nonfiction Black Photographers Annual, Inc. Black Photographers Annual, Inc. Beuford Smith, who cofounded The Black Photographers Annual...
The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl
The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl Virginia Hamilton 9780064401784 Fiction HarperTrophy HarperCollins One long time ago, Pretty Pearl god child lived high on a mountaintop in Africa with all other...
Better Than I Know Myself (2023)
Better Than I Know Myself (2023) Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant 9781250846648 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant, the #1 Essence bestselling authors o...
Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom (A Borzoi book)
Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom (A Borzoi book) Virginia Hamilton 9780394828732 Nonfiction Alfred A. Knopf Penguin Random House Illus. in black-and-white. In this compani...
Elizabeth Murphy Oliver
Elizabeth Murphy Oliver NONE Elizabeth Murphy Oliver Abney, former city editor and columnist for the Baltimore Afro-American and granddaughter of its founder, has died at 85. A respected journalist a...
Melvin Patrick Ely
Melvin Patrick Ely 0000000030403653 Melvin Patrick Ely is an acclaimed author and historian specializing in African American and Southern history. His prize-winning book, 'Israel on the Appomattox', ...
Robert Deane Pharr
Robert Deane Pharr 0000000063320993 “…I would let white people look at the black man as he lives when the white man is not looking or listening.” Robert Deane Pharr, born 1916, was ...
Amy Watkins
Amy Watkins NONE Amy Watkins, an award-winning author and physician, is known for her fictional works addressing social issues. A former Navy physician, she now practices family medicine in Virginia....
Black Photographers Annual, Volume 4
Black Photographers Annual, Volume 4 Joe Crawford 9780913564073 Nonfiction Another View, Inc. Another View, Inc. Beuford Smith, who cofounded The Black Photographers Annual with Joe Crawford, has mad...
Far from the Tree
Far from the Tree Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant 9781250846631 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers From the bestselling author duo Donna Grant and Virginia DeBerry comes Far from the T...
Tryin’ to Sleep in the Bed You Made (Special Value)
Tryin’ to Sleep in the Bed You Made (Special Value) Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant 9781250846655 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Best friends face down a tragedy in this beloved no...
West Virginia Book Festival
West Virginia Book Festival Charleston Civic Center Charleston West Virginia
Yellow Wife
Yellow Wife Sadeqa Johnson 9781982149109 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. "Wholly engrossing, exquisitely researched, and so timely. Sadeqa Johnson brings a fresh telling to a story we ...
The Crossing
The Crossing Jason Mott 9780778369059 Fiction Park Row Books Harlequin Enterprises Limited When a deadly pandemic spreads across the globe, two siblings face the ultimate choice: Stay and die, or run ...
Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case
Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case Patricia Hruby Powell 9781452125909 Fiction Chronicle Books Chronicle Books From acclaimed author Patricia Hruby Powell comes...
Loving V. Virginia in a Post-Racial World: Rethinking Race, Sex, and Marriage
Loving V. Virginia in a Post-Racial World: Rethinking Race, Sex, and Marriage Kevin Noble Maillard 9780521198585 Nonfiction Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press A must read for anyone...
Virginia Hamilton: Speeches, Essays, And Conversations
Virginia Hamilton: Speeches, Essays, And Conversations Arnold Adoff and Kacy Cook 9780439271936 Nonfiction The Blue Sky Press Scholastic Inc. A must-have for schools, libraries, and anyone interested ...
Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families Across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861
Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families Across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861 Joshua D. Rothman 9780807854402 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina ...
Bluish
Bluish Virginia Hamilton 9780439367868 Fiction Blue Sky Press Blue Sky Press In this powerful novel researched in NYC schools, Newbery Medalist Virginia Hamilton documents the struggle young people fa...
Carl Weber
Carl Weber 0000000111497479 Carl Weber, born in 1964, is a New York Times bestselling author and renowned African American author with over 20 novels. He's also the CEO of Urban Books LLC, one of the...
Nikki Grimes
Nikki Grimes 0000000029034029 Recipient of the 2022 Virginia Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award Nikki Grimes is a renowned author, poet, and journalist from Harlem, New York. Known for her children a...
Fanita Pendleton
Fanita Pendleton NONE Fanita “Moon†Pendleton, originally from Oakland, is a parole officer based in Norfolk, Virginia. She's an experienced criminal justice instructor with a Masters in Public A...
Ruth P. Watson
Ruth P. Watson NONE Ruth P. Watson is a Virginia-born author and educator, now living in Atlanta. Known for bestsellers like Blackberry Days of Summer, she also writes children's books and is a docum...
Vashti Harrison
Vashti Harrison 0000000476987403 Vashti Harrison, born in 1988, is a Virginia-based author, illustrator, and filmmaker with a passion for storytelling. She has degrees in Media Studies, Studio Art, F...
Tressie McMillan Cottom
Tressie McMillan Cottom 0000000459857682 Tressie McMillan Cottom, a sociology professor at Virginia Commonwealth University and author of “Lower Ed”, is renowned for her insights on for-profit educat...
Kamaryn Hunt
Kamaryn Hunt NONE Kamaryn Hunt, a Virginia native and Southern University graduate, is an emerging author inspired by her mother, La Jill Hunt. Known for her passion for reading, she also enjoys phot...
Kristen Green
Kristen Green NONE Kristen Green is a New York Times bestselling author and reporter, recognized for her non-fiction work. She has a 20-year writing career with newspapers like the Boston Globe. Gree...
Janelle Washington
Janelle Washington NONE Janelle Washington, a self-taught paper cut artist from Virginia, has work in the Smithsonian National Museum and Downing-Gross Community Arts Center. She is a member of The G...
Micah L. McCreary
Micah L. McCreary NONE Rev. Dr. Micah L. McCreary, from Detroit, Michigan, is the 12th president of New Brunswick Theological Seminary since 2017. He has degrees in Engineering, Divinity, and Counsel...
Tamara Mayo
Tamara Mayo NONE Tamara Mayo, a Virginia-native author, developed her love for reading at a young age. She moved to California at 19, where she pursued a writing career including ghostwriting and edi...
MaKshya Tolbert
MaKshya Tolbert NONE MaKshya Tolbert practices poetry and placemaking in Virginia, where her grandmother raised her. She is the 2025 Art in Library Spaces Artist-in-Residence at the University of Vi...
A Family Tree
A Family Tree Thumper Book Review A Family Tree, Taking Root by Doc Robertson is an enjoyable, refreshing novel that should have read like a dream. While many of our authors insist on writing the p...
Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood
Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood Fatima Shaik 9780917860805 Nonfiction University of Virginia Press University of Virginia Press One hundred years of elaborate handwritten ...
Bad Men: Creative Touchstones of Black Writers
Bad Men: Creative Touchstones of Black Writers Howard Rambsy II 9780813944135 Nonfiction University of Virginia Press University of Virginia Press How have African American writers drawn on bad Bl...
Close Kin and Distant Relatives: The Paradox of Respectability in Black Women’s Literature
Close Kin and Distant Relatives: The Paradox of Respectability in Black Women’s Literature Susana M. Morris 9780813935492 Nonfiction University of Virginia Press University of Virginia Press The “blac...
Blacks And Science Volume Three: African American Contributions To Science And Technology
Blacks And Science Volume Three: African American Contributions To Science And Technology Robin Walker 9781489518309 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Did YOU know that a camera invented...
A Right Worthy Woman
A Right Worthy Woman Ruth P. Watson 9781668003022 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In the vein of The Personal Librarian and The House of Eve, a "remarkable and stirring novel" (Patti Callah...
Sterling A. Brown: Building the Black Aesthetic Tradition
Sterling A. Brown: Building the Black Aesthetic Tradition Joanne V. Gabbin 9780813915319 Poetry University of Virginia Press University of Virginia Press Sterling A. Brown’s achievement and influence ...
Black Card
Black Card Chris L. Terry 9781646220199 Fiction Catapult Catapult In this NPR Best Book of the Year, a mixed-race punk rock musician must face the real dangers of being Black in America in this “wise ...
Hidden Figures Illustrated The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
Hidden Figures Illustrated The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race Margot Lee Shetterly 9780062798954 Nonfiction William Morrow HarperC...
Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures Margot Lee Shetterly 9780062363596 Nonfiction William Morrow HarperCollins Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the S...
The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar and Joanne M. Braxton 9780813914381 Poetry University of Virginia Press University of Virginia Press This new “most complete” edition ...
Black Thunder: Gabriel’s Revolt: Virginia, 1800
Black Thunder: Gabriel’s Revolt: Virginia, 1800 Arna Bontemps 9780807063378 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press ’Gabriel Prosser’s 1800 slave revolt allowed Bontemps to warn of the rebellion that wou...
J. A. Faulkerson
J. A. Faulkerson NONE J.A. Faulkerson is a Northern Virginia-based writer known for classics like Adinkrahene and Real Men Raise CHAMPIONS. He's a Phillis Wheatley Book Award finalist and has recentl...
Anne Spencer
Anne Spencer 0000000458445176 Anne Bannister Spencer was a lauded American poet, civil rights activist, and librarian during the Harlem Renaissance. Born in 1882, she was the first African-American w...
Raising Princes to be Kings: A Single Black Mother’s Guide to Raising Her Black Son
Raising Princes to be Kings: A Single Black Mother’s Guide to Raising Her Black Son Denise Bolds 9780982176405 Nonfiction Denise Bolds Denise Bolds Raising Princes to Be Kings is a guide for black mot...
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...
Black Photographers Annual, Volume 3
Black Photographers Annual, Volume 3 Joe Crawford 9780913564042 Nonfiction Black Photographers Annual, Inc. Black Photographers Annual, Inc. “…a study of means, and styles, of confrontation — past, pr...
Tangleroot
Tangleroot Kalela Williams 9781250880666 Fiction Feiwel & Friends Macmillan Publishers The Indies Introduce and Indie Next debut YA novel about blood and family that is both history and mystery. No...
Mama Said
Mama Said Kristen Gentry 9781952271984 Fiction West Virginia University Press West Virginia University Press The linked stories in Mama Said are set in Louisville, Kentucky, a city with a rich history...
The White Card: A Play
The White Card: A Play Claudia Rankine 9781555978396 Fiction Graywolf Press Graywolf Press A play about the imagined fault line between black and white lives by Claudia Rankine, the author of CitizenT...
Furious Flower: African-American Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present
Furious Flower: African-American Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present Joanne V. Gabbin 9780813922539 Poetry University of Virginia Press University of Virginia Press The Furious Flower C...
The Adventures of Amos ’n’ Andy: A Social History of an American Phenomenon
The Adventures of Amos ’n’ Andy: A Social History of an American Phenomenon Melvin Patrick Ely 9780813920924 Nonfiction University of Virginia Press University of Virginia Press Forty million American...