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Haki Madhubuti, Michael Simanga, Sonia Sanchez, and Woodie King
Haki Madhubuti, Michael Simanga, Sonia Sanchez, and Woodie King MULTIPLE Haki R. Madhubuti, Michael Simanga, Sonia Sanchez, and Woodie King are notable authors, each recognized for their significant ...
Tom Wood
Tom Wood 0000000071567072 “If you are excellent at almost anything you can succeed.” Tom Wood, a trailblazer in the banking industry, was the first Black member of a major U.S. bank's boar...
Going Back Home: An Artist Returns to the South
Going Back Home: An Artist Returns to the South Toyomi Igus 9780892391370 Nonfiction Children’s Book Press Lee & Low Books More than half a century after her family moved North to find a better life, ...
Takiyah Wallace-McMillian and Janay Brown-Wood
Takiyah Wallace-McMillian and Janay Brown-Wood MULTIPLE Takiyah Wallace-McMillian and Janay Brown-Wood are celebrated authors specializing in children's literature, with a focus on diversity and incl...
Fish Fry Friday: A Picture Book
Fish Fry Friday: A Picture Book Winsome Bingham 9781419766930 Fiction Harry N. Abrams Harry N. Abrams In this mouthwatering companion to Soul Food Sunday, a child joins his grandmother in catching and...
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America W. Caleb McDaniel 9780190846992 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press The unforgettable saga of one ensl...
Michele Wood
Michele Wood 0000000384420661 Michele Wood is a minister and award-winning author known for her vivid illustrations and use of Christian symbolism. Her accolades include the American Book Award, the ...
JaNay Brown-Wood
JaNay Brown-Wood NONE JaNay Brown-Wood is a celebrated children's author and educator, known for her award-winning book, “Imani's Moon.” She teaches as an ECE professor at American River College and ...
Simon Wood
Simon Wood 0000000424573065 Based in Melbourne, Simon "Woody" Wood Creator of Sneaker Freaker magazine. He is recognized worldwide for his encyclopedic knowledge, inimitable writing style, and steadf...
The Wood
The Wood Kam Williams images/thewoo35.jpg Film Review THE WOOD Paramount Director - Rick Famuyiwa Starring - Omar Epps, Richard T. Jones, Taye Diggs Comedy 112 min Rated R So-called "urban&...
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Catherine Stock
Catherine Stock 0000000073626654 Catherine Stock is a renowned children's book illustrator recognized for her sensitive art. She splits her time between Rignac, France and New York City, and has work...
A Season for Fishin’: A Fish Fry Tradition
A Season for Fishin’: A Fish Fry Tradition Pamela Courtney 9780374390907 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers Macmillan Publishers A Season for Fishin’ is a joyous debut picture...
Fish Tales: A Novel
Fish Tales: A Novel Nettie Jones 9780374608804 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers “Fish Tales is wondrous and outrageous, real and incandescent and alive. A novel unlike any other,...
A Bitter Pill to Swallow (Gail Edition - Paperback)
A Bitter Pill to Swallow (Gail Edition - Paperback) Tiffany Gholar 9781364461829 Fiction Blurb Blurb Dr. Gail Thomas fears her career may end before it even begins. She has just done the unthinkable: ...
A Bitter Pill to Swallow (Janina Edition - Paperback)
A Bitter Pill to Swallow (Janina Edition - Paperback) Tiffany Gholar 9781364461881 Fiction Blurb Blurb Janina isn’t sure she’ll ever have a normal life or a boyfriend. This is the fourth year she’s sp...
A Bitter Pill to Swallow (Devante Edition - Paperback)
A Bitter Pill to Swallow (Devante Edition - Paperback) Tiffany Gholar 9781364467050 Fiction Blurb Blurb Devante’s life has been changed forever by tragedy, and he can’t deal with it. He can’t sleep wi...
Swallow
Swallow Sefi Atta 9781566568333 Fiction Interlink Books Interlink Pub Group Inc A new novel from the winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for African Literature It is the mid-1980s in Lagos, Nigeria, and ...
Man of Many Fathers: A Memoir
Man of Many Fathers: A Memoir Roy Wood Jr. 9780593800072 Nonfiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House From Comedian, Emmy-Nominated Writer and Producer, and Former Daily Show Correspondent R...
Roy Wood Jr.
Roy Wood Jr. NONE Roy Wood Jr. is a two-time Emmy-nominated writer and producer. The comedian, actor, and podcaster is primarily known for his stand-up comedy and work as a correspondent on Comedy C...
Stock Market Explained: Your Guide to Successful Investing
Stock Market Explained: Your Guide to Successful Investing Alvin Hall 9781444720198 Nonfiction Hodder & Stoughton General Division Hodder & Stoughton Publishing Whether you are saving for a particular...
Brilliant Flame! Amiri Baraka: Poems, Plays, Politics for the People
Brilliant Flame! Amiri Baraka: Poems, Plays, Politics for the People Haki Madhubuti, Michael Simanga, Sonia Sanchez, and Woodie King 9780883783559 Poetry Third World Press Third World Press Brilliant ...
Voices of Color: 50 Scenes and Monologues by African American Playwrights
Voices of Color: 50 Scenes and Monologues by African American Playwrights Woodie King 9781557831743 Fiction Globe Pequot Rowman & Littlefield Voices of Color is a trailblazing collection of scenes and...
New Plays for the Black Theater
New Plays for the Black Theater Woodie King 9780883781241 Fiction Third World Press Third World Press An anthology of short plays of some of the well known and highly respected African American playwr...
Butterfly Fish (Anniversary)
Butterfly Fish (Anniversary) Irenosen Okojie 9781914344114 Fiction Jacaranda Jacaranda Winner of the Betty Trask Award 2016. A fragile outsider living in London, Joy struggles to pull the threads of ...
Butterfly Fish
Butterfly Fish Irenosen Okojie 9781909762060 Fiction Jacaranda Jacaranda After the sudden death of her mother, London photographer Joy struggles to pull the threads of her life back together, with th...
Willimena Rules! Rule Book #2: How to Fish for Trouble (No. 2)
Willimena Rules! Rule Book #2: How to Fish for Trouble (No. 2) Valerie Wilson Wesley 9780786818075 Fiction Jump At The Sun Jump At The Sun It was spring break, Willimena’s favorite time of the year. B...
Finding Fish: A Memoir
Finding Fish: A Memoir Antwone Fisher 9780060007782 Nonfiction William Morrow Paperbacks HarperCollins Baby Boy Fisher was raised in institutions from the moment of his birth in prison to a single mot...
Fish Tales (1984)
Fish Tales (1984) Nettie Jones 9780394532943 Fiction Random House Penguin Random House A new version was published in 2025“Mostly forgotten and long out-of-print, Fish Tales by Nettie Jones is an ofte...
Brown Girls Do Ballet: Celebrating Diverse Girls Taking Center Stage
Brown Girls Do Ballet: Celebrating Diverse Girls Taking Center Stage Takiyah Wallace-McMillian and Janay Brown-Wood 9780762487592 Nonfiction Black Dog & Leventhal Hachette Book Group This stunning chi...
Sneaker Freaker. the Ultimate Sneaker Book. 40th Ed.
Sneaker Freaker. the Ultimate Sneaker Book. 40th Ed. Simon Wood 9783836597982 Nonfiction Taschen Taschen Back in 2002, Simon “Woody” Wood was dreaming up schemes to get free sneakers. Two weeks later,...
Here Are the Seeds
Here Are the Seeds JaNay Brown-Wood 9781525308307 Fiction Kids Can Press Corus Entertainment Inc This delightfully rhythmic story follows two children as they grow a garden from seeds. Author and p...
Sneaker Freaker. World’s Greatest Sneaker Collectors
Sneaker Freaker. World’s Greatest Sneaker Collectors Simon Wood 9783836596299 Nonfiction Taschen Taschen Simon “Woody” Wood, founder and editor-in-chief of Sneaker Freaker magazine, has spent the last...
Anna’s Boy
Anna’s Boy Tom Wood 9781098320874 Nonfiction BookBaby BookBaby Anna’s Boy is the saga of the grandson of an American slave’s journey from Harlem;To become the first black member of a major U.S. bank b...
Dorothy Porter Wesley At Howard University: Building A Legacy Of Black History
Dorothy Porter Wesley At Howard University: Building A Legacy Of Black History Janet Sims-Wood 9781540211200 Nonfiction The History Press The History Press When Dorothy Burnett joined the library staf...
Who’s Jim Hines?
Who’s Jim Hines? Jean Alicia Elster 9780814334027 Fiction Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press Who’s Jim Hines? is a story based on real events about Douglas Ford Jr., a twelve-ye...
Pickwick Publications
Pickwick Publications Wipf and Stock Publishers Wipf and Stock Publishers
Cascade Books
Cascade Books Wipf and Stock Publishers Wipf and Stock Publishers
False Promises: The Struggle for Black Voting Rights in 1800s Ohio
False Promises: The Struggle for Black Voting Rights in 1800s Ohio Ric S. Sheffield 9780804012577 Nonfiction Swallow Press Swallow Press Brings to life the struggle for Black suffrage in nineteenth-ce...
A Bitter Pill to Swallow - Bookstore edition
A Bitter Pill to Swallow - Bookstore edition Tiffany Gholar 9798211582866 Fiction Blurb Blurb On the edge of the Chicago medical district, the Harrison School for Exceptional Youth looks like a castle...
A Bitter Pill to Swallow
A Bitter Pill to Swallow Tiffany Gholar 9781364467142 Fiction Blurb Blurb On the edge of the Chicago medical district, the Harrison School for Exceptional Youth looks like a castle in a snow globe. Ja...
Swallow the Lake
Swallow the Lake Clarence Major 9780819520548 Poetry Wesleyan University Press Wesleyan University Press Poetry by an African American raised in Chicago.
Fish
Fish Christine Taylor Butler 9780531217528 Nonfiction Children’s Book Press Lee & Low Books Presents general information about fish, including information about some of the species that make up the g...
Good Things To Eat As Suggested By Rufus: A Collection Of Practical Recipes For Preparing Meats, Game, Fowl, Fish, Puddings, Pastries, Etc.
Good Things To Eat As Suggested By Rufus: A Collection Of Practical Recipes For Preparing Meats, Game, Fowl, Fish, Puddings, Pastries, Etc. Rufus Estes 9781480148383 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand P...
Tropical Fish: Stories out of Entebbe (Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction)
Tropical Fish: Stories out of Entebbe (Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction) Doreen Baingana 9781558494770 Fiction University of Massachusetts Press University of Massachusetts Press Tropical Fish is a ...
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—...
On Our Way! What a Day!
On Our Way! What a Day! JaNay Brown-Wood 9780593110751 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House A journey, a challenge, and a party with Gram make one day super special for a group of siblings...
The Fast and the Furriest (Love Puppies #6)
The Fast and the Furriest (Love Puppies #6) JaNay Brown-Wood 9781339042176 Fiction Scholastic Paperbacks Scholastic Inc. Adorable dogs + a sprinkle of magic + a celebration of social emotional learnin...
Shhh! the Baby’s Asleep
Shhh! the Baby’s Asleep JaNay Brown-Wood 9781623544867 Fiction Charlesbridge Charlesbridge Celebrate the silliness that comes with a big family in this playful read aloud about a big brother, a sleepi...
Mahogany: A Little Red Riding Hood Tale
Mahogany: A Little Red Riding Hood Tale JaNay Brown-Wood 9781623543679 Fiction Charlesbridge Charlesbridge A clever, Black contemporary twist on Little Red Riding Hood, Mahogany embraces the beauty—an...
Jam, Too?
Jam, Too? JaNay Brown-Wood 9780593323762 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House Lustrous illustrations and a rhythmic text featuring a cumulative list of sounds bring to life the thrill of a...
Monstrous
Monstrous Jessica Lewis 9780593434819 Fiction Random House Children’s Books Penguin Random House From the author of Bad Witch Burning comes a pulse-pounding supernatural thriller about a teen who unco...
Amara’s Farm
Amara’s Farm JaNay Brown-Wood 9781682635865 Fiction Peachtree Publishers Peachtree Publishers Amara searches for pumpkins on her farm in this vibrant exploration of gardening and healthy eating, from ...
How to Babysit Your Grown-Up: Activities to Do Together
How to Babysit Your Grown-Up: Activities to Do Together JaNay Brown-Wood 9780593479230 Fiction Alfred A. Knopf Penguin Random House Ready to keep your grownup busy? AND to have lots of fun? Build a ki...
Simone Biles: A Little Golden Book Biography
Simone Biles: A Little Golden Book Biography JaNay Brown-Wood 9780593566732 Nonfiction Golden Books Penguin Random House Help your little one dream big with a Little Golden Book biography about Olympi...
Harriet Tubman: A Little Golden Book Biography
Harriet Tubman: A Little Golden Book Biography JaNay Brown-Wood 9780593480144 Nonfiction Golden Books Penguin Random House Inspire and educate your little one with a Little Golden Book biography about...
Tom Wood, the First Black Person to Take his Company Public
Tom Wood, the First Black Person to Take his Company Public Author Interviews
Grandma’s Tiny House
Grandma’s Tiny House JaNay Brown-Wood 9781580897129 Fiction Charlesbridge Charlesbridge This sweet, rhyming counting book introduces young readers to numbers one through fifteen as Grandma’s family and...
Chasing Freedom: The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, Inspired by Historical Facts
Chasing Freedom: The Life Journeys of Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony, Inspired by Historical Facts Nikki Grimes 9780439793384 Fiction Orchard Books Orchard Books Nikki Grimes offers a glimpse int...
Imani’s Moon
Imani’s Moon JaNay Brown-Wood 9781934133583 Fiction Mackinac Island Press Penguin Random House Canada Imani is a young Maasi girl with a loving mother and a desire to do something great. When she deci...
You Have No Idea: A Famous Daughter, Her No-nonsense Mother, and How They Survived Pageants, Holly wood, Love, Loss (and Each Other)
You Have No Idea: A Famous Daughter, Her No-nonsense Mother, and How They Survived Pageants, Holly wood, Love, Loss (and Each Other) Vanessa L. Williams 9781592407590 Nonfiction Avery Penguin Random H...
God’s Bits of Wood
God’s Bits of Wood Ousmane Sembène 9780435909598 Fiction Longman Penguin Random House In 1947 the workers on the Dakar-Niger Railway came out on strike. Throughout this novel, written from the workers...
I See the Rhythm
I See the Rhythm Toyomi Igus 9780892392124 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books From Michele Wood and Toyomi Ingus, the award-winning artist and author of Going Back Home, comes their second boo...
War Cry on a Prayer Feather: Prose and Poetry of the Ute Indians
War Cry on a Prayer Feather: Prose and Poetry of the Ute Indians Nancy Wood 9780385128841 Poetry Doubleday Penguin Random House Criminal Justice in the United States is in the midst of momentous chang...
Marguerite W. Davol
Marguerite W. Davol NONE Marguerite W. Davol, a former teacher at Gorse Child Study Center, Mount Holyoke College, is an acclaimed author known for children's books like Heart of the Wood, How Snake ...
Brian H. Williams
Brian H. Williams NONE Dr. Brian H. Williams is a Harvard-educated surgeon, Air Force Academy graduate, and a prominent leader in public policy, structural racism, gun violence, and health equity. Wi...
Steel Umbrellas
Steel Umbrellas David Hunter Sutherland 9780966229943 Poetry Archer Books Archer Books Poetry. African American Studies. David Sutherland has received a Rhysling Award, a Small Press Writer’s Award, a...
Forbidden Fruit
Forbidden Fruit Stanley Gazemba Excerpt The air over the village that evening was pregnant with tension. A thick dark cloud loomed heavy above the grey colored thatch huts that dotted the steep green...
Make Money Move: A Guide to Financial Wellness
Make Money Move: A Guide to Financial Wellness Lauren Simmons 9780063246539 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins The popular host of the Money Moves podcast and youngest person ever to trade on the New Yo...
A Theology of Justice
A Theology of Justice Larry Donell Covin, Jr. 9781666738827 Nonfiction Wipf and Stock Publishers Wipf and Stock Publishers There are thirty-eight ethical statements-principles throughout the seven cha...
Thirteen Turns
Thirteen Turns Larry Donell Covin, Jr. 9781725266841 Nonfiction Wipf and Stock Publishers Wipf and Stock Publishers It is remarkable that African Americans, the descendants of slaves, embrace Christia...
Racing against the Odds: The Story of Wendell Scott, Stock Car Racing’s African-American Champion
Racing against the Odds: The Story of Wendell Scott, Stock Car Racing’s African-American Champion Carole Boston Weatherford 9781477810934 Nonfiction Two Lions Amazon Publishing Wendell O. Scott made h...
The Lincoln Brigade: A Picture History
The Lincoln Brigade: A Picture History William Loren Katz 9781620329016 Nonfiction Wipf and Stock Publishers Wipf and Stock Publishers THE LINCOLN BRIGADE The day after Christmas in 1936, a group of n...
A Sorrowful Joy
A Sorrowful Joy Albert J. Raboteau 9781610979573 Nonfiction Wipf and Stock Publishers Wipf and Stock Publishers Albert Raboteau was born into a Catholic family in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, three mon...
Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?
Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? Kam Williams heist.jpg Film Review Wall Street Exposé Chronicles Systematic Dismantling of Financial Protections Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? In...
The Dinah Project
The Dinah Project Monica A. Coleman 9781608994373 Nonfiction Wipf and Stock Publishers Wipf and Stock Publishers Sexual violence is rarely discussed in church, despite the rising incidents of rape, se...
Black Rage
Black Rage William H. Grier 9781579103491 Nonfiction Wipf and Stock Publishers Wipf and Stock Publishers The first book to examine the full range of black life from the vantage point of psychiatry, th...
Martin R. Delany
Martin R. Delany 0000000080985970 Martin Delany (1812-1885) was a pioneering African American abolitionist and the first African American Field Officer in the U.S Army. Post-Reconstruction, he promot...
Larry Donell Covin, Jr.
Larry Donell Covin, Jr. MULTIPLE Dr. Larry Donell Covin Jr. is a globally recognized public theologian, ethicist, and author specializing in social justice, corrections ethics, theology, law, and hom...
The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal
The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal Brian H. Williams 9781506483122 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media A tour de force that diagnoses...
2016 National Black Writers Conference
2016 National Black Writers Conference Troy Johnson Article Update: March 25, 2016 The Conference's Complete and final Schedule of Events is Now Available. Greetings Colleagues, We are excited a...
The System of Dante’s Hell (AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series)
The System of Dante’s Hell (AkashiClassics: Renegade Reprint Series) Amiri Baraka 9781617753961 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Much of the novel is an expression of the intellectual and moral lo...
SOS—Calling All Black People: A Black Arts Movement Reader
SOS—Calling All Black People: A Black Arts Movement Reader John H. Bracey Jr., Sonia Sanchez, and James Smethurst 9781625340313 Fiction University of Massachusetts Press University of Massachusetts Pr...
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival Kwame Dawes 9781936070077 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books Contributors include: Robert Pins...
Square Fish
Square Fish Macmillan Publishers Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
My Jamaican Table: Vibrant Recipes from a Sun-Drenched Island
My Jamaican Table: Vibrant Recipes from a Sun-Drenched Island Andre Fowles 9781648293740 Nonfiction Artisan HarperCollins In the first major Jamaican cookbook of its kind, Kingston-born chef Andre Fow...
Pet Costume Party: A Pet Club Story
Pet Costume Party: A Pet Club Story Gwendolyn Hooks 9781434230539 Fiction Stone Arch Books Capstone Press Andy is having a Halloween party for the Pet Club. All of his friends and their pets are going...
The Long Dream
The Long Dream Richard Wright 9781555534233 Fiction Northeastern Northeastern Now available in a new edition. Set in a small town in Mississippi, The Long Dream is a novel rich in characterization a...
Gladys Jose
Gladys Jose 0000000500478247 Gladys Jose, an illustrator and storyteller, graduated from the University of Central Florida with a degree in Fine Arts. She's known for illustrating books like Library ...
Lorie Ann Grover
Lorie Ann Grover NONE Lorie Ann Grover is an accomplished children's author, known for books like 'Bedtime Kiss for Little Fish'. She's a cofounder of award-winning readergirlz.com and readertotz.com...
John Frank
John Frank 0000000109166945 John Frank is an acclaimed author, known for his award-winning books 'The Toughest Cowboy', 'The Tomb of the Boy King' and 'How to Catch a Fish'. His captivating tales hav...
Ashleigh Shanti
Ashleigh Shanti NONE Ashleigh Shanti, chef-owner of Good Hot Fish in Asheville, North Carolina. She was named an Eater Young Gun in 2019 and was a finalist for the James Beard Rising Star Chef of the...
Zuri Ray Tries Ballet
Zuri Ray Tries Ballet Tami Charles 9780062914897 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins From New York Times bestselling author Tami Charles and rising star illustrator Sharon Sordo comes the first boo...