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Yallwest Santa Monica Book Festival
Yallwest Santa Monica Book Festival Santa Monica High School Santa Monica California Over 113 authors including New York Times Bestsellers along with local and acclaimed young adult and middle grade ...
Santa’s Gotta Go!
Santa’s Gotta Go! Derrick Barnes 9780593530436 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House The book opens with siblings Monte and Mabel penning their Christmas lists, with a peculiar top wish - a...
Monica R. Guillemin
Monica R. Guillemin NONE Monica R. Guillemin, a multifaceted lawyer and physician assistant, has a broad medical career spanning ob-gyn to neurosurgery. Known for her research in cardiology, she also...
Santa’s Holiday Mix-Up
Santa’s Holiday Mix-Up Renita Bryant 9781957092928 Fiction Mynd Matters Publishing Mynd Matters Publishing Santa and his sleigh are loaded up with gifts and headed to spread holiday cheer with nothing...
Sophie Washington Secret Santa (paperback)
Sophie Washington Secret Santa (paperback) Tonya Duncan Ellis 9781732706064 Fiction Page Turner Publishing Page Turner Publishing A GREAT HOLIDAY GIFT! Santa Claus is Coming to TownChristmas is three...
Monica R. Guillemin and Carla McMichael
Monica R. Guillemin and Carla McMichael MULTIPLE Carla McMichael is a respected Administrative Law Judge, globetrotter, mother, grandmother, mentor, and friend. With degrees from UC Santa Cruz and UC...
Sophie Washington Secret Santa
Sophie Washington Secret Santa Tonya Duncan Ellis 9781733776356 Fiction Page Turner Publishing Page Turner Publishing A FUN READ ALL YEAR ROUNDAn Amazon Bestselling Book!! Santa Claus is Coming to Tow...
A Santa Like Me
A Santa Like Me Tonya Abari 9780316515726 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Celebrate a child’s first experience meeting a Black Santa Claus! Christmas is just aroun...
The Real Santa
The Real Santa Nancy Redd 9780593647394 Fiction Dragonfly Books Dragonfly Books Join one Black family on their journey to discover what Santa looks like in this joyous tale celebrating identity, famil...
Monica Mikai
Monica Mikai NONE Monica Mikai, a children's book author and illustrator, creates inspiring stories from Atlanta, Georgia. An alumnus of Rider University and New York Studio School, her works include...
Monica Edinger and Lesley Younge
Monica Edinger and Lesley Younge MULTIPLE Monica Edinger and Lesley Younge are the co-authors of the critically acclaimed Nearer My Freedom: The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano by Himself. Their...
Nana
Nana Brandon Massey 9781986873055 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Monica Stephens never knew her birth mother. Raised by a strict but loving adoptive parent, she blossomed into a woman wi...
Flirting with Temptations: Some lines aren’t meant to be crossed
Flirting with Temptations: Some lines aren’t meant to be crossed Janae Marie 9780615674261 Fiction JM Publications JM Publications Monica Clayton is a smart and successful Senior Marketing Executive a...
My Soul Cries Out
My Soul Cries Out Sherri Lewis 9781601629968 Fiction Urban Christian Kensington Publishing Corp. Monica Harris-Day’s perfect world begins a downward spiral the afternoon she comes home to find her hus...
Beverly Jenkins, Geri Guillaume, Francis Ray, and Monica Jackson
Beverly Jenkins, Geri Guillaume, Francis Ray, and Monica Jackson MULTIPLE Beverly Jenkins, Geri Guillaume, Monica Jackson, and Francis Ray are renowned authors, each with their unique, captivating wr...
Monica A. Coleman, Nancy R. Howell, and Helene Tallon Russell
Monica A. Coleman, Nancy R. Howell, and Helene Tallon Russell MULTIPLE Monica A. Coleman is an Associate Professor at Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University, and the author of...
Santa’s Holiday Mix-Up Coloring Book
Santa’s Holiday Mix-Up Coloring Book Renita Bryant 9781957092959 Fiction Mynd Matters Publishing Mynd Matters Publishing Santa and his sleigh are loaded up with gifts and headed to spread holiday chee...
Santa in the City
Santa in the City Tiffany D. Jackson 9780593110256 Fiction Dial Books Penguin Random House A little girl’s belief in Santa is restored in this ode to the magic of Christmas. This is a holiday gift rea...
The Little Christmas Elf
The Little Christmas Elf Nikki Shannon Smith 9780375873485 Fiction Golden Books Penguin Random House Celebrate Christmas all year round with Nina, the littlest elf in Santa’s workshop! Nina doesn’t...
Monica Edinger
Monica Edinger 0000000035253746 Monica Edinger is a retired classroom teacher and the author of the children’s book Africa Is My Home: A Child of the Amistad (Candlewick 2013), which won the 2014 Ch...
Carla and Monica’s Safari of a Lifetime
Carla and Monica’s Safari of a Lifetime Monica R. Guillemin and Carla McMichael 9780974871561 Nonfiction Vision Harmony Vision Harmony Written to embrace fascinating areas of science, the ecology back...
Mom, Are We There Yet?
Mom, Are We There Yet? Monica Anderson 9780966270327 Fiction Monica F Anderson Monica F Anderson "Mom, Are We There Yet?" is a heartwarming collection of family humor vignettes from Fort Worth Star-Te...
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Bipolar Faith (paperback): A Black Woman’s Journey with Depression and Faith
Bipolar Faith (paperback): A Black Woman’s Journey with Depression and Faith Monica A. Coleman 9781506480756 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media Overcome with mental anguish, Monica A. Coleman’s gre...
Bipolar Faith: A Black Woman’s Journey with Depression and Faith
Bipolar Faith: A Black Woman’s Journey with Depression and Faith Monica A. Coleman 9781506408590 Nonfiction Fortress Press 1517 Media Overcome with mental anguish, Monica A. Coleman’s great-grandfathe...
The Million Dollar Divorce: A Novel
The Million Dollar Divorce: A Novel R.M. Johnson 9780743258173 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. RM Johnson, the Essence bestselling author of Dating Games and The Harris Family, deliver...
Monica Carter
Monica Carter NONE Monica P. Carter is an accomplished author, journalist, and speaker. A University of Southern Mississippi graduate, she's known for her award-winning column in The Times and her fr...
Monica Clark-Robinson
Monica Clark-Robinson NONE “I write picture books, contemporary middle grade fiction, and YA fiction.” Monica Clark-Robinson is a multi-talented individual who excels as an author, actor, ...
Monica L. Miller
Monica L. Miller 0000000078913206 Monica L. Miller is Assistant Professor of English at Barnard College. Monica L. Miller is Assistant Professor of English at Barnard College.
Monica Brashears
Monica Brashears NONE Monica Brashears is an Affrilachian writer from Tennessee. She is a graduate of Syracuse University's MFA program. Monica Brashears is an Affrilachian writer from Tennessee. Sh...
Monica Anderson
Monica Anderson 000000006312663X Monica “Dr. Moe” Anderson, DDS, is an accomplished author, motivational speaker, and dental surgeon. She penned the Essence bestseller 'When A Sistah’s Fed Up' and is...
Monica West
Monica West NONE Monica West, born in Cleveland, is an accomplished author and academic. She earned her BA from Duke University and MA and MFA from New York University and Iowa Writers’ Workshop resp...
Monica A. Coleman
Monica A. Coleman 0000000040498916 Dr. Monica A. Coleman is an award-winning author and Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Delaware. Known for her work in Black and womanist theologie...
Artika R. Tyner and Monica Yaa Habia
Artika R. Tyner and Monica Yaa Habia MULTIPLE Dr. Artika Tyner is a passionate educator, award-winning author, civil rights attorney, sought-after speaker, and advocate for justice. She lives in Sai...
Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival: Author Village
Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival: Author Village Meet many of the authors you participated in the 2017 Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival, which was held at Curtis Hixon Park. These images and photos...
Charleston Literary Festival
Charleston Literary Festival Various Downtown Venues Charleston South Carolina Charleston Literary Festival is a boutique literary festival that runs every November for ten days in Charleston, South C...
Calabash International Literary Festival
Calabash International Literary Festival Treasure Beach Treasure Beach Jamaica, W.I. The Calabash International Literary Festival, held on a biennial basis on even years, was founded in 2001 by three ...
The Night Before Christmas: A New Christmas Tradition
The Night Before Christmas: A New Christmas Tradition Candice Bradley 9781665937917 Fiction Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this adaptation of Clement C. Moore’s bel...
Follow-Up Letters to Santa From Kids Who Never Got a Response
Follow-Up Letters to Santa From Kids Who Never Got a Response Tony Medina 9780940975750 Fiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. Every Christmas, millions of children wait impatiently for the arrival...
Jeffrey C. Stewart
Jeffrey C. Stewart 0000000082117456 Dr. Jeffrey C. Stewart is a renowned professor and chair of Black Studies at UC Santa Barbara. With an academic background from UCLA, UC Santa Cruz, and Yale, he's...
Mary Williams
Mary Williams NONE Mary Williams, adopted daughter of Jane Fonda, worked with humanitarian organizations and founded the Lost Boys Foundation. She lived in various locations, including Africa and acr...
me and Nina
me and Nina Monica Hand 9781882295906 Poetry Alice James Books Alice James Books "Monica Hand’s me and Nina is a beautiful book by a soul survivor. In these poems she sings deep songs of violated inti...
House of Cotton
House of Cotton Monica Brashears 9781250851918 Fiction Flatiron Books Macmillan Publishers Finalist for the 2024 NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award • NPR Best Book of 2023 • An enchanting Black ...
Nearer My Freedom: The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano by Himself
Nearer My Freedom: The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano by Himself Monica Edinger and Lesley Younge 9781728464077 Nonfiction Zest Books Lerner “Permit me to lay at your feet the following genuine N...
Tainted Too
Tainted Too Blacc Topp 9781942748007 Fiction BlaccStarr Media Group BlaccStarr Media Group Monica Deitrich is back in this thrilling, pulse pounding novel!! "People aren’t always who they appear to b...
Diary Of A Mistress: A Novel
Diary Of A Mistress: A Novel Miasha 9781416547204 Fiction Pocket Star Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. WHAT SHOULD A WIFE BELIEVE? THE WORDS OF HER HUSBAND OR THE DIARY OF HIS MISTRESS? Monica counts he...
Monica Yaa Habia
Monica Yaa Habia NONE Monica Yaa Habia was born and raised in Ghana. She believes in the power of quality education and is committed to bridging the knowledge gap of Africa through her writings and ...
The Schomburg Center's Third Annual Black Comic Book
The Schomburg Center's Third Annual Black Comic Book The Schomburg Center's Third Annual Black Comic Book Festival Third Annual Black Comic Book Festival Saturday, January 17, 2015, 10 am - 7 pm 51...
Great American Book Festival
Great American Book Festival Main Street Square Rapid City South Dakota The Great American Book Festival was created by the founders of Literary Classics Book Awards & Reviews In an effort to suppo...
Texas Book Festival
Texas Book Festival State Capitol and surrounding grounds Austin Texas The Texas Book Festival (#TXBOOKFEST) celebrates authors and their contributions to the culture of literacy, ideas, and imaginati...
Tonya Duncan Ellis on Her Book, Sophie Washington: Secret Santa
Tonya Duncan Ellis on Her Book, Sophie Washington: Secret Santa Book Spotlights Tonya Duncan Ellis: https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=Tonya+Duncan+Ellis talk about her her book, Sophie ...
Vegas Valley Book Festival
Vegas Valley Book Festival Las Vegas Nevada The Vegas Valley Book Festival, now in its fifteenth year, is a celebration of the written, spoken, and illustrated word. The festival has networked togeth...
BWABC Literacy Festival
BWABC Literacy Festival Memphis Cook Convention Center Memphis Tennessee 2017 Festival was cancelled “The BWABC Literacy Association will not hold its annual festival in 2017. We thank you for...
Black Authors Festival @SagHarbor
Black Authors Festival @SagHarbor Breakwater Yacht Club Sag Harbor New York The Black Authors Festival @Sag Harbor is a nationally celebrated in-person event, recognized by USA Today as one of the Top...
Mboka Festival of Arts, Culture and Sport
Mboka Festival of Arts, Culture and Sport Banjul The Gambia An African Diaspora, One World, Pan African experience Mboka means ‘One Family’ in Wolof and will offer festival attendees a...
Brooklyn Book Festival 2012
Brooklyn Book Festival 2012 Photos and one video from the 2012 Brooklyn Book Festival The 2012 Brooklyn Book Festival The Brooklyn Book Festival is the largest free literary event in Ne...
Brooklyn Book Festival
Brooklyn Book Festival Brooklyn Borough Hall and Vicinity Brooklyn New York The Brooklyn Book Festival is the largest free literary event in New York City, presenting an array of national and internat...
Sixth Annual National Book Festival
Sixth Annual National Book Festival Sixth Annual National Book Festival THIS EVENT HAS TAKEN PLACE AND IS RECORDED HERE AS AN HISTORICAL ARCHIVE. 2006 National Book Festival ...
Utah Humanities Council Book Festival
Utah Humanities Council Book Festival Salt Lake City Utah Previously the The Great Salt Lake Book Festival The annual Utah Humanities Book Festival is Utah’s oldest and only statewide book f...
Annapolis Book Festival
Annapolis Book Festival The Key School Annapolis Maryland The Annapolis Book Festival is one of the premier community events in the region. Every year more than 3,000 people attend this free community...
A Fire in Harlem - Tribute to Sekou Sundiata at Up South International Book Festival
A Fire in Harlem - Tribute to Sekou Sundiata at Up South International Book Festival DuEwa M. Frazier Article Up South International Book Festival September 19th ’ September 23rd 2007 www...
Festival of Women Writers
Festival of Women Writers Hobart New York The Festival of Women Writers has become a highly anticipated event, unique among cultural happenings in the Catskill Region, especially in Delaware County. ...
Bklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors
Bklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors Loading Brooklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors by Leah Mullen Perhaps the most overlooked and under acknowledged heroines and heroes ...
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...
The Santa Barbara Writers Conference
The Santa Barbara Writers Conference Mar Monte Hotel Santa Barbara California Six days and nights of 30+ writing workshops, panels, speakers, agnets and fellow word-crafters.
Carla and the Christmas Cornbread
Carla and the Christmas Cornbread Carla Hall 9781534494695 Fiction Denene Millner Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this heartwarming tale inspired by her childhood, superstar chef and TV host Carla Hal...
A Piece of Black Cake for Santa
A Piece of Black Cake for Santa Yolanda T. Marshall 9781999115555 Fiction Garnalma Press Garnalma Press Femi and her friends planned to leave some traditional Caribbean treats out for Santa, including...
Stephanie Casher
Stephanie Casher NONE Stephanie Casher is a freelance editor, author of multi-cultural women's fiction, and co-owner of The Pantheon Collective. She holds a BA in Sociology from the University of Cal...
The Perfect Holiday
The Perfect Holiday Kam Williams the_pe24.jpg Film Review Santa Woos Overburdened Mom in Syrupy Sweet Christmas Comedy The Perfect Holiday Rated PG for mild epithets and suggestive humor. Runni...
Mónica Paola Rodríguez
Mónica Paola Rodríguez NONE Mónica Paola RodrÃguez is a Puerto Rico-based children's book illustrator and animation artist. An alumnus of Savannah College of Art and Design, she has a global client...
Lie to Me (Nothing but the Truth, Volume 2)
Lie to Me (Nothing but the Truth, Volume 2) Michelle Lindo-Rice 9781535105712 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC A marriage on the rocks, a wedding in the works, and the woman who will chang...
Success Is A Side Effect: Leadership, Relationships, And Selective Amnesia
Success Is A Side Effect: Leadership, Relationships, And Selective Amnesia Monica Anderson 9780978637835 Nonfiction TyMAC Books TyMAC Books Success Is a Side Effect is a powerful, practical guide to a...
The Million Dollar Deception: A Novel
The Million Dollar Deception: A Novel R.M. Johnson 9781416540403 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Now in paperback, the sequel to the #1 Essence bestselling author’s sensational The Mil...
Making a Way Out of No Way: A Womanist Theology
Making a Way Out of No Way: A Womanist Theology Monica A. Coleman 9780800662936 Nonfiction Fortress Press 1517 Media In her new book, Monica A. Coleman articulates the African American expression of m...
Superfine: Tailoring Black Style
Superfine: Tailoring Black Style Monica L. Miller 9781588397997 Nonfiction Metropolitan Museum of Art Metropolitan Museum of Art This exploration of Black dandy fashion and its representation in art...
Standing on Her Shoulders
Standing on Her Shoulders Monica Clark-Robinson 9781338358001 Fiction Orchard Books Orchard Books A stunning love letter to the important women who shape us — from our own mothers and grandmothers to ...
Never Close Your Heart
Never Close Your Heart Monica Anderson 9780978637842 Fiction TyMAC Books TyMAC Books Unless it’s under reconstruction…never close your heart.Essence best-selling author Monica F. Anderson delivers a d...
Let the Children March
Let the Children March Monica Clark-Robinson 9780544704527 Fiction HMH Books for Young Readers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt I couldn’t play on the same playground as the white kids. I couldn’t go to...
Left Behind: Unapologetic Series 1
Left Behind: Unapologetic Series 1 Marita Kinney B01GGGSQZM Fiction Pure Thoughts Publishing Pure Thoughts Publishing, LLC African American Christian Fiction High school sweethearts, Monica and Rober...
Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity
Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity Monica L. Miller 9780822346036 Nonfiction Copper Canyon Press Copper Canyon Press Slaves to Fashion is a pioneering cult...
Dark Thirst
Dark Thirst Omar Tyree, Donna Hill, Monica Jackson, Linda Addison, and Kevin S. Brockenbrough 9780743496667 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A haunting anthology of vampire fiction—one tha...
Gettin’ Merry
Gettin’ Merry Beverly Jenkins, Geri Guillaume, Francis Ray, and Monica Jackson 9780312982195 Fiction St. Martin’s Paperbacks Macmillan Publishers Four of today’s hottest romance writers invite you to ...
Omar Tyree, Donna Hill, Monica Jackson, Linda Addison, and Kevin S. Brockenbrough
Omar Tyree, Donna Hill, Monica Jackson, Linda Addison, and Kevin S. Brockenbrough MULTIPLE
Milligan Books
Milligan Books Troy Johnson Article Dr. Milligan with Author Monica Regina Payton Dr. Rosie Milligan, CEO Milligan Books Discusses Milligan Books Jun...
2nd Annual Up South Int'l Book Festival
2nd Annual Up South Int'l Book Festival 2nd Annual Up South Int'l Book Festival Read an article about this event: A Fire in Harlem - Tribute to Sekou Sundiata at Up South International Book Fes...
The Hampton Roads Indie Author Book Festival
The Hampton Roads Indie Author Book Festival Family Life Center 1 Redheart Drive, Hampton, VA 23661 Hampton Virginia Upon returning from an out of state book festival, Florenza Denise Lee wondered wh...
Donna M. Gray-Banks
Donna M. Gray-Banks NONE Donna M. Gray-Banks, founder of F.R.E.S.H. Book Festival, is a successful author known for her suspense erotic trilogy and a guest columnist for various outlets. She hosts tw...
East of the River Book Festival
East of the River Book Festival Rocketship Rise Academy Washington District of Columbia The 2017 East of the River Book Festival is a magnet for city dwellers from all wards to recognize and enjoy a l...
The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University
The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University Tulane University New Orleans Louisiana The highly anticipated New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University returns to Tulane’s uptown campus...
AJC Decatur Book Festival
AJC Decatur Book Festival Downtown Decatur Decatur Georgia The AJC Decatur Book Festival is the largest independent book festival in the country and one of the five largest overall. Since its launch, ...
Kellie Magnus on the Kingston Book Festival
Kellie Magnus on the Kingston Book Festival Literary Events Kellie Magnus tells AALBC.com about the Kingston Book Festival during the 2016 Brooklyn Book Festival. AALBC.com is planning a group trip t...
Dallas Book Festival
Dallas Book Festival Dallas Public Library Dallas Texas Founded in 2006 as the Dallas International Book Festival, the festival is Dallas Public Library’s premiere literary event. The Dallas Boo...
San Antonio Book Festival
San Antonio Book Festival Central Library and the Majestic Theatre San Antonio Texas The Festival is a day-long event that unites readers and writers alike. Author presentations are held indoors while...
Twin Cities Book Festival
Twin Cities Book Festival MINNESOTA STATE FAIRGROUNDS Minneapolis Minnesota The Twin Cities Book Festival—brought to you by Rain Taxi—is not only the largest and most important literary ga...
Queens Book Festival
Queens Book Festival LIC Landing by Coffeed Queens New York “The Queens Book Festival, debuted on August 7, 2016, is the largest and most inclusive literary gathering in Queens. It fills the bor...
The ESSENCE Brand—Where Black Women Come First—NOT!
The ESSENCE Brand—Where Black Women Come First—NOT! Troy Johnson Article A few weeks ago, I visited Essence Magazine’s website to learn which Black owned bookstore they were going to use as the books...
Ann Arbor Book Festival
Ann Arbor Book Festival Ann Arbor Michigan Formed in 2003, the Ann Arbor Book Festival’s mission is to promote reading, heighten awareness of literacy challenges, and showcase the rich culture ...