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When I Wrap My Hair
When I Wrap My Hair Shauntay Grant 9780063093911 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins When I wrap my hair, I feel a thousand grandmothers around me. They tell me I am beautiful. They tell ...
When I Wrap My Hair: A Child's Ode to Hair Wrapping
When I Wrap My Hair: A Child's Ode to Hair Wrapping Author Interviews When I wrap my hair, I feel a thousand grandmothers around me. They tell me I am beautiful. They tell me I am home. When I Wrap My...
My Divine Natural Hair: Inspiration & Tips to Love & Care for Your Crown
My Divine Natural Hair: Inspiration & Tips to Love & Care for Your Crown Shelia Burlock, Sylvia Burlock, and Melissa Burlock 9781506494012 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media Learn how to love and c...
Kinky Coily: A Natural Hair Resource Guide
Kinky Coily: A Natural Hair Resource Guide Pamela Samuels Young 9780985734169 Fiction Goldman House Publishing Goldman House Publishing Fall in Love with Your Natural Hair! Have you been thinking abo...
Hair Story : Untangling The Roots Of Black Hair In America
Hair Story : Untangling The Roots Of Black Hair In America Ayana Byrd and Lori Tharps 9780312265991 Nonfiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers Two world wars, the Civil Rights movement, and a ...
Root Therapy: How to Love Your Hair (and Find Yourself)
Root Therapy: How to Love Your Hair (and Find Yourself) Felicia Leatherwood with Corynne L. Corbett 9781982195014 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Embrace and learn to love your natu...
Better Than Good Hair: The Curly Girl Guide to Healthy, Gorgeous Natural Hair!
Better Than Good Hair: The Curly Girl Guide to Healthy, Gorgeous Natural Hair! Nikki Walton with Ernessa T. Carter 9780062123763 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins The fresh new handbook on how to achie...
My Hair Can
My Hair Can Matt Forté 9781496480897 Fiction Tyndale Kids Tyndale House Celebrate what your hair can do! This joyful, rhyming picture book invites diverse girls and boys to embrace their natural hair...
If My Hair Had a Voice
If My Hair Had a Voice Dana Marie Miroballi 9781506493602 Fiction Beaming Books 1517 Media “If your hair had a voice, it would sing of diversity and identity. It would tell you stories of our history....
Kinky Coily Natural Hair Journal
Kinky Coily Natural Hair Journal Pamela Samuels Young 9780985734183 Fiction Goldman House Publishing Goldman House Publishing Are you ready to go natural? Then the Kinky Coily Natural Hair Journal wil...
Black Hair Can: The Roots of Our Roots
Black Hair Can: The Roots of Our Roots Sylvia Rodriguez 9781623545901 Fiction Charlesbridge Charlesbridge From the kings and queens of Africa to the contemporary United States, a celebration of Africa...
Shauntay Grant
Shauntay Grant 0000000082860020 Shauntay Grant is a Halifax-based writer and performance artist. She's written multiple children's books, including award-winning 'Up Home' and 'Africville'. Grant als...
Beach Hair
Beach Hair Ashley Woodfolk 9781665920988 Fiction Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. From two bestselling creators comes a lyrical and heartfelt picture book about a multir...
Wash Day: Passing on the Legacy, Rituals, and Love of Natural Hair
Wash Day: Passing on the Legacy, Rituals, and Love of Natural Hair Tomesha Faxio 9780593579718 Nonfiction Clarkson Potter Penguin Random House A visual celebration of natural Black hair that highlight...
Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture
Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture Emma Dabiri 9780062966728 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins From Guardian contributor and prominent BBC race correspondent Emma Dabiri comes ...
My Hair is Fuzzy My Hair is Cute
My Hair is Fuzzy My Hair is Cute Toni Winston 9780692391402 Fiction Sky Pie Publishing Sky Pie Publishing My Hair is Fuzzy, My Hair is Cute tells us all that no matter the length, shape or texture of ...
Queens: Portraits of Black Women and their Fabulous Hair
Queens: Portraits of Black Women and their Fabulous Hair Michael Cunningham and George Alexander 9780385514620 Nonfiction Doubleday Penguin Random House Crowns photographer Michael Cunningham and au...
Barry Fletcher
Barry Fletcher 000000004196937X Barry Fletcher, a renowned celebrity hairstylist, offers his expertise to A-list clientele including Halle Berry and Tina Turner, and influential figures like Condolee...
Danielle Hibbitts
Danielle Hibbitts NONE Danielle “Dr. Danii” Hibbitts is a licensed cosmetologist turned clinical and forensic psychologist, specializing in the psychological effects of hair on Black and multiracial ...
Going Natural: How to Fall in Love with Nappy Hair
Going Natural: How to Fall in Love with Nappy Hair Kam Williams Book Review "Five years ago… I knew nothing about my natural hair. It was that mess that grew out of my head… which...
To Hair and Back: My Journey Toward Self-love One Strand at a Time
To Hair and Back: My Journey Toward Self-love One Strand at a Time Rhonda Eason 9780999118801 Nonfiction Rhonda Eason Rhonda Eason "[The author’s] voice is one in a million, and more than once I found...
Puffy: People Whose Hair Defies Gravity
Puffy: People Whose Hair Defies Gravity Aya de León 9781494436773 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Puffy: people whose hair defies gravity is a children’s book of text and photographs f...
Going-Natural: How To Fall In Love With Nappy Hair
Going-Natural: How To Fall In Love With Nappy Hair Mireille Liong-A-Kong 9780976096108 Nonfiction Going Natural, Inc. Going Natural, Inc. With 73 percent of African American women suffering from hair ...
My Divine Natural Hair
My Divine Natural Hair Eryka Parker Book Review “The One who created us crowned us first. Shining atop our heads is a divine diadem with all the lightness of air, radiance of honor, and the wei...
My Hair Is a Book
My Hair Is a Book Maisha Oso 9780063249103 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Celebrate the uniqueness and beauty of Black hair in this poetic picture book that journeys through time, from stunning d...
Crowning Glory: A Celebration of Black Hair
Crowning Glory: A Celebration of Black Hair Carole Boston Weatherford 9780763697945 Nonfiction Candlewick Press (MA) Candlewick Press Celebrate the beauty of Black hair creations through the rhyming t...
The Hair Book
The Hair Book LaTonya Yvette 9781454944317 Fiction Union Square Kids Union Square & Co., LLC. With bold, colorful graphics and poetic rhyme, this is a stunning tribute to every kind of hair, perfect f...
My Beautiful Black Hair: 101 Natural Hair Stories from the Sisterhood
My Beautiful Black Hair: 101 Natural Hair Stories from the Sisterhood St. Clair Detrick-Jules 9781797212197 Nonfiction Chronicle Books Chronicle Books My Beautiful Black Hair is a collection of em...
Hair Love
Hair Love Matthew A. Cherry 9780525553366 Fiction Kokila Penguin Random House "I love that Hair Love is highlighting the relationship between a Black father and daughter. Matthew leads the ranks of ne...
I Found God In My Hair: 98 Spiritual Principles I Learned From...My Hair!
I Found God In My Hair: 98 Spiritual Principles I Learned From...My Hair! Tanya Wright 9781493582211 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Actress Tanya Wright (ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, TRUE...
Color My Fro: A Natural Hair Coloring Book for Big Hair Lovers of All Ages
Color My Fro: A Natural Hair Coloring Book for Big Hair Lovers of All Ages Crystal Swain-Bates 9781939509079 Fiction Goldest Karat Publishing Goldest Karat Publishing In "Color My Fro", 31 big-haired ...
How to Go Natural Without Going Broke
How to Go Natural Without Going Broke Crystal Swain-Bates 9781939509031 Nonfiction Goldest Karat Publishing Goldest Karat Publishing ~Do you want to go natural but don’t think you can afford it? ~...
The Politics Of Black Women’s Hair
The Politics Of Black Women’s Hair Althea Prince 9781897178874 Fiction Idiomatic Idiomatic Dr. Althea Prince follows up her earlier collection of essays (Being Black) on Black cultural life with this ...
Hair Love
Hair Love Neoma Nwasike Book Review When you were a little Black girl, growing up, did you embrace your beauty? Did you love the deep richness of your blackness and the uniqueness of your hair? Do yo...
My Hair Can
My Hair Can Shaundale Rénā Book Review Profoundly inspiring, My Hair Can is a picture book full of wit and charm. Each page is vibrant and affirms joy and positivity for little Black boys and girls a...
The Pride
The Pride Kam Williams kimber9.jpg Film Review Philly Role Model’s Inspirational Life Story Turned into Formulaic Hollywood Bio-Pic Pride Film Review by Kam Williams Rated PG for mature th...
KimaniTRU
KimaniTRU Troy Johnson Article Indigo Summer by Monica McKayhan Fast Life by Cassandra Carter LAUNCH: February 2007
Bedtime Bonnet
Bedtime Bonnet Nancy Redd 9781984895240 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House This joyous and loving celebration of family is the first-ever picture book to highlight Black...
My Hair Is Like Yours
My Hair Is Like Yours St. Clair Detrick-Jules 9781797221854 Fiction Chronicle Books Chronicle Books From the creator of My Beautiful Black Hair and My Hair Is Like the Sun, this playful rhyming bo...
J.D. and the Hair Show Showdown
J.D. and the Hair Show Showdown J. Dillard 9780593111581 Fiction Kokila Penguin Random House Eight-year-old kid barber J.D. takes his talent to an Atlanta hair show in this illustrated chapter book a...
Hairvolution: Her Hair, Her Story, Our History
Hairvolution: Her Hair, Her Story, Our History Saskia Calliste and Zainab Raghdo 9781913641139 Nonfiction Supernova Books Aurora Metro Publications With a foreword by Stella Dadzie Illustrations by...
Textures: The History and Art of Black Hair
Textures: The History and Art of Black Hair Tameka Ellington and Joseph L. Underwood 9783777435541 Nonfiction Hirmer Verlag Hirmer Verlag Textures synthesizes research in history, fashion, art, and vi...
Princess Hair
Princess Hair Sharee Miller 9780316441193 Fiction LB Kids Hachette Book Group Princesses with curls wear pearls. Princesses with head wraps take long naps. And princesses with teeny-weeny Afros wear t...
Hot Comb
Hot Comb Ebony Flowers 9781770463486 Fiction Drawn and Quarterly Drawn and Quarterly An auspicious debut examining the culture of hair from the Rona Jaffe Foundation Award–winning cartoonistHot Comb o...
Ask Uncle Neil: Why is My Hair Curly?
Ask Uncle Neil: Why is My Hair Curly? Neil Thompson 9780692157275 Fiction Teach the Geek Kids Teach the Geek Kids If an empowering book for young children is what you are looking for, you have found ...
Nubia’s Guide to Going Natural: A Holistic Approach to Transitioning Your Hair
Nubia’s Guide to Going Natural: A Holistic Approach to Transitioning Your Hair Orjanette Bryant 9781496952196 Nonfiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions Nubia’s Guide to Going Natural offers a vast varie...
Wash Day with Mama
Wash Day with Mama Monica Mikai 9780593810644 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House This stunning picture book takes a joyful look into the loving and long process of a hair wash ...
My Hair Is Like the Sun
My Hair Is Like the Sun St. Clair Detrick-Jules 9781797221793 Fiction Chronicle Books Chronicle Books AS SEEN ON THE TODAY SHOW! A 2023 Good Housekeeping Kids Book Award Winner A 2023 Chicago Public...
Hair Love ABCs
Hair Love ABCs Matthew A. Cherry 9780593695647 Fiction Penguin Young Readers Group Penguin Random House An alphabet board book inspired by the bestselling Hair Love with new spot illustrations and tex...
Stella’s Stellar Hair
Stella’s Stellar Hair Yesenia Moises 9781250261779 Fiction Imprint Macmillan Publishers Black girl magic takes the solar system in Stella’s Stellar Hair, a celebration of hair, family, and self-love f...
My Hair Is Professional TOO!
My Hair Is Professional TOO! April Maria Williams 9798688836400 Nonfiction JumpTime Publishing JumpTime Publishing My Hair is Professional TOO! explores the laws that make it legal for an employer to ...
My Hair
My Hair Danielle Murrell Cox 9780062897657 Fiction HarperFestival HarperCollins A fresh and fun celebration of natural hair for babies and toddlers! My Hair is the perfect introduction to an array ...
When Mama Braids My Hair
When Mama Braids My Hair Monique Duncan 9781513633527 Fiction Sweet Pea Books Sweet Pea Books When Mama Braids My Hair captures a young girl’s experience of having her hair braided and the bond it cre...
Penny and the Magic Puffballs: The adventures of Penny and the Magic Puffballs. (Volume 1)
Penny and the Magic Puffballs: The adventures of Penny and the Magic Puffballs. (Volume 1) Alonda Williams 9780991212903 Fiction Glori Publications Glori Publications Penny wanted to wear her hair "do...
Big Hair, Don’t Care
Big Hair, Don’t Care Crystal Swain-Bates 9781939509109 Fiction Goldest Karat Publishing Goldest Karat Publishing Designed to boost self-esteem and build confidence in African-American and biracial chi...
Doing Business With Beauty: Black Women, Hair Salons, and the Racial Enclave Economy
Doing Business With Beauty: Black Women, Hair Salons, and the Racial Enclave Economy Adia Harvey Wingfield 9780742561175 Nonfiction Rowman & Littlefield Rowman & Littlefield Black women comprise one o...
Hair Dance!
Hair Dance! Dinah Johnson 9780805065237 Poetry Henry Holt & Company (BYR) Macmillan Publishers Hair comes in all colors, textures, and styles. Whether it is worn long or short, in braids or cornrows, ...
Why Are Black Women Losing Their Hair?
Why Are Black Women Losing Their Hair? Barry Fletcher 9780615115450 Nonfiction Unity Publishers Unity Publishers The first complete guide to healthy hair with contributions from medical experts. This...
New Hair-do is a “Natural”
New Hair-do is a “Natural” Connie Bradley Article This article originally appeared in the Chicago Today newspaper's Op-Ed page in the early 1970's I finally succumbed. If someone ha...
Hair Power - Skin Revolution: A Collection of Poems and Personal Essays by Black and Mixed-Race Wome
Hair Power - Skin Revolution: A Collection of Poems and Personal Essays by Black and Mixed-Race Wome Kam Williams Book Review "I can honestly say I have a passion for language… I enjoy writi...
Nappy Hair
Nappy Hair Troy Johnson Book Review One nap of her hair is the only perfect circle in nature. —from Nappy Hair I recently purchased Nappy Hair and have read it to my daughters. I must say c...
If My Hair Had a Voice
If My Hair Had a Voice Lisa Y? Wilson Book Review When another comb loses the battle with Kimya’s natural coils, feeling shame she apologizes and asks, “Can’t we just straighten it?...
Fcode: Breaking the Silence on Female On Female Rape (Volume 2)
Fcode: Breaking the Silence on Female On Female Rape (Volume 2) Johanna Sparrow 9781530050529 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Handling the trauma of rape if you’re a woman is hard enou...
Richard Pryor
Richard Pryor 0000000108802241 Richard Pryor December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005 Before ...
Hair Library Publishing Inc.
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The Hair Dare 2
The Hair Dare 2 Faith Knight 9798990177697 Fiction Perry Harris Publishing Perry Harris Publishing Are You Hip to Hairism? In book one of this comedic duology, Camille and Mavis Marconi are identical...
Hair Like Obama’s, Hands Like Lebron’s: A Picture Book
Hair Like Obama’s, Hands Like Lebron’s: A Picture Book Carole Boston Weatherford 9781419771484 Fiction Abrams Appleseed Abrams From Colin Kaepernick to Martin Luther King, Jr. to Benjamin Crump, Hair ...
Madam C. J. Walker Builds a Business
Madam C. J. Walker Builds a Business Denene Millner 9781953424006 Fiction Rebel Girls Rebel Girls From the world of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls comes a story based on the life of Madam C.J. Wal...
Naturals: The Paper People: Our Hair and Shapes
Naturals: The Paper People: Our Hair and Shapes Melica Niccole 9798447113049 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published Naturals: The Paper People are paper people who live inside book...
Boonoonoonous Hair (paperback)
Boonoonoonous Hair (paperback) Olive Senior 9781926890227 Fiction Tradewind Books Tradewind Books In this beautifully illustrated picture book written by Commonwealth Prize winning author Olive Senior...
Don’t Touch My Hair!
Don’t Touch My Hair! Sharee Miller 9780316562577 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group An ALA Children’s Notable Book An entertaining picture book that teaches the impor...
Boonoonoonous Hair
Boonoonoonous Hair Olive Senior 9781926890074 Fiction Tradewind Books Tradewind Books In this beautifully illustrated picture book written by Commonwealth Prize winning author Olive Senior and illustr...
Night Hawks: Stories
Night Hawks: Stories Charles Johnson Excerpt The Weave Three thieves battered through a wall, crawled close to the floor to dodge motion detectors and stole six duffel bags filled with human hair ...
My Hair Is a Garden
My Hair Is a Garden Cozbi A. Cabrera 9780807509234 Fiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company After a day of being taunted by classmates about her unruly hair, Mackenzie can’t take any ...
Hair Like Mine
Hair Like Mine Latashia M. Perry 9780986237973 Fiction G Publishing G Publishing Hair Like Mine is the first book in the Kids Like Mine Series. It is a fun and easy read following a little girl who do...
Herstory of the Hairstory: Hair: A Qualitative Study of the Psychological Implications & Emotional Effects Hair Has on African American Women
Herstory of the Hairstory: Hair: A Qualitative Study of the Psychological Implications & Emotional Effects Hair Has on African American Women Danielle Hibbitts 9780578731353 Nonfiction Independently P...
Hair Raising: Beauty, Culture, and African American Women
Hair Raising: Beauty, Culture, and African American Women Noliwe Rooks 9780813523125 Nonfiction Rutgers University Press Rutgers University Press We all know there is a politics of skin color, but is ...
Neil Thompson
Neil Thompson 0000000109892699 Neil Thompson is an engineer, podcaster, and entrepreneur who focuses on science. His company, Teach the Geek, aids engineers and scientists in improving presentation s...
Tolá Okogwu
Tolá Okogwu 0000000496748610 Tọlá Okogwu is a British-Nigerian author, journalist, and hair care educator. Known for her picture book series 'Daddy Do My Hair?' and the 'Aziza's Secret Fairy Door' se...
Shelia Burlock, Sylvia Burlock, and Melissa Burlock
Shelia Burlock, Sylvia Burlock, and Melissa Burlock MULTIPLE Shelia Burlock and her daughters Sylvia and Melissa are a writing trio from Indianapolis focused on natural hair care for women of African...
The Lace Wig Bible: How to Style
The Lace Wig Bible: How to Style Kam Williams Book Review “You cannot be a top hair stylist today without working with some types of wigs or hair extensions… I have been blessed to hav...
Acacia: A Rapunzel Tale
Acacia: A Rapunzel Tale JaNay Brown-Wood 9781623543686 Fiction Charlesbridge Charlesbridge In this clever, contemporary Black twist on “Rapunzel,” Acacia makes a new friend and uses her hair—and wits—...
The Map in My Hair
The Map in My Hair Colleen A. Phillip 9798295612763 Fiction I Am Colleen Phillip I Am Colleen Phillip The Map in My Hair is a touching mother-daughter story about love, heritage, and courage. As her m...
Trouble at the Hair Salon
Trouble at the Hair Salon Tanya Wright 9781464253119 Fiction Sourcebooks Young Readers Sourcebooks Hip, hip, hooray! It’s Fri-yay! With her parents out of town, Hairiette gets to spend the whole we...
No Way, Wash Day
No Way, Wash Day Adrienne Thurman 9780063290051 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins An exuberant debut picture book about a little girl trying to outmaneuver her mama to avoid wash day for her hair—an...
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow Ashley Franklin 9781368077330 Fiction Marvel Press Marvel Comics Illustrated by New York Times best-selling artist Bea Jackson, this poignant st...
Frizzy
Frizzy Claribel A. Ortega 9781250259622 Fiction First Second Macmillan Publishers Winner of the 2023 Pura Belpré Award for Children’s Text October 2022 Indie Bestseller New York Times-bests...
Wanda the Brave
Wanda the Brave Sihle-isipho Nontshokweni 9781623718114 Fiction Crocodile Books Interlink Pub Group Inc Meet Wanda, with her glorious head of hair. Written and illustrated by the South African team wh...
I’m Growing Great
I’m Growing Great Mechal Renee Roe 9780593428900 Fiction Doubleday Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Confident, empowered girls are celebrated in this follow-up to Happy Hair, a flower-fill...
Cornrows: My Hair, My Roots
Cornrows: My Hair, My Roots Tamecca S. Rogers 9781735430164 Nonfiction Inspire Publishing Inspire Publishing Have you ever wondered where cornrows and locs come from? Why there are different braids? W...
Cool Cuts
Cool Cuts Mechal Renee Roe 9781984895578 Fiction Doubleday Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House African-American boys and their cool hair are celebrated in this bright, joyful read-together pi...
My Hair Is Beautiful
My Hair Is Beautiful Shauntay Grant 9781771087667 Nonfiction Nimbus Publishing Nimbus Publishing Natural, knotty, fluffy, frizzy, twisted, tangled, pony, puffed A celebration of natural hair, from ...
Over the Fence
Over the Fence Mechal Renee Roe 9781984895547 Fiction Doubleday Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House African American girls and their beautiful hair are celebrated in this bright, joyful read-...
Natalie’s Hair Was Wild!
Natalie’s Hair Was Wild! Laura Freeman 9781328661951 Fiction Clarion Books HarperCollins Natalie’s hair is really wild—and she likes it that way! A host of friendly animals agree, and they move right ...
All About Madam C. J. Walker
All About Madam C. J. Walker A’Lelia Bundles 9781681570938 Nonfiction Blue River Press Blue River Press Madam C. J. Walker was beloved within her community for her philanthropy and establishing the lo...
Happy to Be Nappy
Happy to Be Nappy bell hooks 9781484788417 Fiction Jump At The Sun Jump At The Sun This joyous ode to hair may well restart conversations that began last year with the controversy over Carolivia Her...
I Love My Hair: A Coloring Book of Braids, Coils, and Doodle Dos
I Love My Hair: A Coloring Book of Braids, Coils, and Doodle Dos Andrea Pippins 9780399551222 Nonfiction Schwartz & Wade Random House Children's Books For fans of Johanna Basford’s Secret Garden and E...
I Love My Hair!
I Love My Hair! Natasha Anastasia Tarpley 9780316525589 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group This whimsical, evocative story about a girl named Keyana encourages Afr...
Hair Is Sexual
Hair Is Sexual Barry Fletcher 9780974345505 Fiction Unity Publishers, Inc. Unity Publishers, Inc. Driven by romantic longings, the new book, "Hair is Sexual," explores a unique correlation between ha...