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Shannon Holmes
Shannon Holmes NONE Shannon Holmes, a Bronx native, turned his life around while serving a prison sentence by penning his first novel. Achieving success with his debut, “B-more Careful,” he secured a...
Linda Janet Holmes
Linda Janet Holmes 0000000036823341 Linda Janet Holmes is an accomplished writer, scholar, and women's health activist. Known for her work on African American midwifery practices, she has also author...
Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller
Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller NONE Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller, born in 1952, is a prominent advocate for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the graphic design industry. An American BIPOC communications desig...
Keith C. Holmes
Keith C. Holmes NONE Keith C. Holmes was born in Queens, New York and currently lives in Brooklyn. For over thirty years Mr. Holmes has worked professionally in the satellite communications industry...
Where the Black Designers Are: A Life in Advocacy
Where the Black Designers Are: A Life in Advocacy Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller 9781797225722 Nonfiction PA Press Princeton Architectural Press Celebrated designer, writer, activist, and educator Cheryl D. ...
Mycroft Holmes and The Apocalypse Handbook
Mycroft Holmes and The Apocalypse Handbook Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 9781785853005 Fiction Titan Comics Titan Publishing Group All new adventures starring Mycroft Holmes by author of the best-selling Mycrof...
A. J. Rivers, Anthony Wyhte, and Shannon Holmes
A. J. Rivers, Anthony Wyhte, and Shannon Holmes MULTIPLE A.J. Rivers, Anthony Wyhte, and Shannon Holmes are accomplished authors, each with their unique style and genre, contributing significantly to...
Samantha King Holmes and r.h. Sin
Samantha King Holmes and r.h. Sin MULTIPLE Samantha King Holmes and r.h. Sin are renowned authors, best known for their powerful poetry and prose that explore themes of love, loss, and empowerment. S...
Ekua Holmes
Ekua Holmes 0000000451226536 Ekua Holmes is a painter and collage artist who uses various materials to create vibrant, abstract works that convey unity and evoke universal memories. Her ongoing serie...
Shannon Holmes, Wahida Clark, Victor L. Martin, Sa'id Salaam, Reds Johnson, Hood Chronicles, Joe Awsum, and Vance Phillips
Shannon Holmes, Wahida Clark, Victor L. Martin, Sa'id Salaam, Reds Johnson, Hood Chronicles, Joe Awsum, and Vance Phillips MULTIPLE "Shannon Holmes, Wahida Clark, Victor L. Martin, Sa'id Salaam, Reds...
Shannon Holmes Communication Media
Shannon Holmes Communication Media Shannon Holmes Communication Media Shannon Holmes Communication Media
Shannon Holmes Communication Media
Shannon Holmes Communication Media Shannon Holmes Communication Media Shannon Holmes Communication Media
Walking with Our Ancestors: Contemplation and Activism
Walking with Our Ancestors: Contemplation and Activism Barbara A. Holmes 9781506499239 Nonfiction Fortress Press 1517 Media Activism can often take a toll on social justice seekers, and it is easy to ...
Watson and Holmes: A Scandal in Harlem
Watson and Holmes: A Scandal in Harlem Brandon Easton, Karl Bollers, Greg Anderson Elysée, Lindsay Faye, and Steven Grant 9781960171030 Fiction Fairsquare Comics Fairsquare Comics Harlem, Now. The mos...
J.M. Holmes
J.M. Holmes NONE J.M. Holmes, a Denver-born, Rhode Island-raised author, won the Burnett Howe Prize at Amherst College. With fellowships to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Napa Valley Writers’ Con...
r.h. Sin
r.h. Sin NONE Reuben Holmes, known as r.h. Sin, is a New York Times bestselling poet from New Brunswick, N.J. Overcoming a difficult upbringing through his love for writing, Sin currently lives in Ne...
Barbara A. Holmes
Barbara A. Holmes 0000000040028738 Barbara A. Holmes, president emerita of United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, is a former professor and VP of academic affairs at Memphis Theological Semi...
Samantha King Holmes
Samantha King Holmes NONE Samantha King Holmes, a poet and author since age 11, uses writing as a form of therapy. Her poetry, akin to diary entries, captures the various stages of her life. Currentl...
Meet Me Halfway
Meet Me Halfway Samantha King Holmes 9781524890056 Poetry Andrews McMeel Publishing Andrews McMeel Publishing In Meet Me Halfway—her first solo venture since 2019’s Don’t Tell Me Not to Ask Why—Samant...
Crisis Contemplation: Healing the Wounded Village
Crisis Contemplation: Healing the Wounded Village Barbara A. Holmes 9781623050559 Nonfiction CAC Publishing CAC Publishing In Crisis Contemplation, the Rev. Dr. Barbara Holmes addresses two entry poin...
B-More Careful
B-More Careful Shannon Holmes 9781733304153 Fiction Kingston Imperial Kingston Imperial 20th Anniversary Edition Previously published by Teri Woods Publishing, B-More Careful (pictured right) is ...
Don’t Tell Me Not to Ask Why: Poetry & Prose
Don’t Tell Me Not to Ask Why: Poetry & Prose Samantha King Holmes 9781524851330 Poetry Andrews McMeel Publishing Andrews McMeel Publishing Maybe all the answers to all your questions are living within...
Awaken Me
Awaken Me Farrah Rochon 9781947628014 Fiction Wandering Road Press Wandering Road Press "As the baby of his family, Reid Holmes has happily played the role of the Charming, Irresponsible One. But as h...
Hood2Hood
Hood2Hood Shannon Holmes And Others 9780981497808 Fiction Shannon Holmes Communication Media Shannon Holmes Communication Media A classic collection of short stories from different authors from differ...
Bad Girlz
Bad Girlz Shannon Holmes 9780786273935 Fiction Thorndike Press Thorndike Press Shannon Holmes, the bestselling author of B-More Careful, delivers a wild adventure on the streets of the Badlands, one o...
Bad Girlz: A Novel
Bad Girlz: A Novel Shannon Holmes 9780743486200 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. The bestselling author of B-More Careful, Shannon Holmes, delivers Bad Girlz, another wild adventure into the...
Alyah Holmes
Alyah Holmes NONE Alyah Holmes is an award-winning American and Canadian illustrator and designer. She loves bringing concepts to life and telling visual stories through a vibrant, playful, and ...
Liberation and the Cosmos: Conversations with the Elders, Revised Edition
Liberation and the Cosmos: Conversations with the Elders, Revised Edition Barbara A. Holmes 9781506488424 Nonfiction Fortress Press 1517 Media The rich legacy of black critical thought, creative expre...
Anywho, I Love You
Anywho, I Love You Samantha King Holmes and r.h. Sin 9781524878054 Poetry Andrews McMeel Publishing Andrews McMeel Publishing From bestselling poet Samantha King Holmes and New York Times bestselling ...
Born to Love, Cursed to Feel Revised Edition
Born to Love, Cursed to Feel Revised Edition Samantha King Holmes 9781524868949 Poetry Andrews McMeel Publishing Andrews McMeel Publishing Samantha King Holmes brings forth a raw, original perspective...
Street Tales: A Street Lit Anthology
Street Tales: A Street Lit Anthology Shannon Holmes, Wahida Clark, Victor L. Martin, Sa'id Salaam, Reds Johnson, Hood Chronicles, Joe Awsum, and Vance Phillips 9781947732551 Fiction Wahida Clark Prese...
How Are You Going to Save Yourself
How Are You Going to Save Yourself J.M. Holmes 9780316514880 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group Excerpted in the Killens Review of Arts & Letters journal. Four young men struggle...
Caught Up
Caught Up Shannon Holmes 9781617753749 Fiction Infamous Books Akashic Books "Holmes…is a noted pioneering street lit author. His smooth-flowing narrative mixes crime, sex, and sassy street language, g...
Bad Girlz 4 Life
Bad Girlz 4 Life Shannon Holmes 9780312359027 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers #1 bestselling author Shannon Holmes returns with the explosive sequel to his national bestseller, Bad G...
Never Go Home Again: A Novel
Never Go Home Again: A Novel Shannon Holmes 9780743496162 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. The experience and quality that I bring to my writing can’t be faked. I know what I know. Through m...
Concrete Jungle
Concrete Jungle A. J. Rivers, Anthony Wyhte, and Shannon Holmes 9780976911203 Fiction Jackson Press Corporation Jackson Press Corporation Short Stories Where, There Are No rules!! With a diverse group...
Angel Mechelle
Angel Mechelle NONE Author Angel Mechelle, a military brat turned acclaimed writer, has a passion for storytelling. She resides in Virginia and began her literary journey as a contributing author in ...
Walking with Our Ancestors
Walking with Our Ancestors Denolyn Carroll Book Review On the face of it, contemplation is deep reflective thought or consideration. At a higher level, it hinges on a critical spiritual component tha...
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...
Return To Me
Return To Me Farrah Rochon 9781947628090 Fiction Wandering Road Press Wandering Road Press The long-awaited final installment in the Holmes Brother series.Three years after his bride-to-be jilted him ...
Mycroft and Sherlock
Mycroft and Sherlock Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 9781785659256 Fiction Titan Books Titan Publishing Group The new novel by NBA All-Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, starring brothers Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes.It is...
The Stuff of Stars
The Stuff of Stars Marion Dane Bauer 9780763678838 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press In an astonishing unfurling of our universe, Newbery Honor winner Marion Dane Bauer and Caldecott Honor win...
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy Tony Medina 9780998799940 Fiction Penny Candy Books Penny Candy Books Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Boy by Tony Medina offers a fresh perspective of young...
Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church (2nd Edition)
Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church (2nd Edition) Barbara A. Holmes 9781506421612 Nonfiction Fortress Press 1517 Media Joy Unspeakable focuses on the aspects of the Black chur...
Born to Love, Cursed to Feel
Born to Love, Cursed to Feel Samantha King Holmes 9781449480950 Poetry Andrews McMeel Publishing Andrews McMeel Publishing For fans of r.h. Sin comes a new voice, Samantha King's raw, relatable p...
Not a Game: The Incredible Rise and Unthinkable Fall of Allen Iverson
Not a Game: The Incredible Rise and Unthinkable Fall of Allen Iverson Kent Babb 9781476778976 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Shortlisted for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writi...
Mycroft Holmes
Mycroft Holmes Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse 9781783291533 Fiction Titan Books Titan Publishing Group
A Joyous Revolt: Toni Cade Bambara, Writer and Activist (Women Writers of Color)
A Joyous Revolt: Toni Cade Bambara, Writer and Activist (Women Writers of Color) Linda Janet Holmes 9780275987114 Nonfiction Praeger Publishers Greenwood Publishing Group At long last―a book-length bi...
Hard White: On The Streets Of New York Only One Color Matters
Hard White: On The Streets Of New York Only One Color Matters Anthony Whyte and Shannon Holmes 9780982541531 Nonfiction Augustus Publishing Augustus Publishing The streets are pitch black, but a diffe...
Black Inventors: Crafting Over 200 Years of Success
Black Inventors: Crafting Over 200 Years of Success Keith C. Holmes 9780979957307 Nonfiction Global Black Inventor Research Projects Global Black Inventor Research Projects Black Inventors, Crafting O...
On The Run With Love
On The Run With Love J.M. Benjamin 9780981775609 Fiction A New Quality Publishing A New Quality Publishing Freddie Holmes could’ve wrote the book on How to Be A Player. With his good looks, gift of ga...
Another Woman’s Husband
Another Woman’s Husband Angel Mechelle 9780981497815 Fiction Shannon Holmes Communication Media Shannon Holmes Communication Media Bree Michaels is young, sexy, single and raising two children alone. ...
Dirty Game
Dirty Game Shannon Holmes 9780312359010 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Kenny "Ken-Ken" Greene left his days as a hustler behind him when his wife was killed during a scam gone bad, ...
The Game (Triple Crown Publications Presents)
The Game (Triple Crown Publications Presents) Shannon Holmes 9780970247230 Fiction Triple Crown Publications Triple Crown Publications Enclosed is a walk through the city projects, ghettos and streets...
Tales and Stories for Black Folks
Tales and Stories for Black Folks Toni Cade Bambara 9780385065986 Fiction Zenith Books Zenith Press Books Edited by Toni Cade Bambara, Tales and Stories for Black Folk contains work by Langston Hughes...
Farrah Rochon
Farrah Rochon NONE Farrah Rochon, a Louisiana native and award-winning author, launched her writing career at Xavier University. She's known for her Holmes Brothers series, starting with her debut no...
Becoming Spectacular: The Rhythm of Resilience from the First African American Rockette
Becoming Spectacular: The Rhythm of Resilience from the First African American Rockette Jennifer Jones 9780063270374 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins The first African American Rockette charts her jou...
Black Girl You Are Atlas
Black Girl You Are Atlas Renée Watson 9780593461709 Fiction Kokila Penguin Random House A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson. In t...
South Central Noir
South Central Noir Gary Phillips 9781636140551 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books The Akashic Noir Series’ forensic study of Southern California sharpens its focus on one of Los Angeles’s most recogn...
Reaper’s Way: The Good Necromancer Book 1.5
Reaper’s Way: The Good Necromancer Book 1.5 Michael La Ronn 9798885510561 Fiction Author Level Up Author Level Up “Merry Christmas, Kate. Why did you show up on my doorstep all of a sudden? Wait, Kate...
Recognize!: An Anthology Honoring and Amplifying Black Life
Recognize!: An Anthology Honoring and Amplifying Black Life Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson 9780593381595 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House In the stunning follow-up to T...
All That Is Secret: An Annalee Spain Mystery (Book 1)
All That Is Secret: An Annalee Spain Mystery (Book 1) Patricia Raybon 9781496458384 Fiction Tyndale House Tyndale House From award-winning author Patricia Raybon comes a compelling new historical mys...
She Fits Inside These Words: Volume 4
She Fits Inside These Words: Volume 4 r.h. Sin 9781524865382 Poetry Andrews McMeel Publishing Andrews McMeel Publishing From New York Times bestselling authors r.h. Sin and Robert M. Drake with bestse...
Saving American Beach: The Biography of African American Environmentalist Mavynee Betsch
Saving American Beach: The Biography of African American Environmentalist Mavynee Betsch Heidi Tyline King 9781101996294 Nonfiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House This...
Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance Nikki Grimes 9781681199443 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Publishing From Children’s Literature Legacy Award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes a...
Black Is a Rainbow Color
Black Is a Rainbow Color Angela Joy 9781626726314 Fiction Roaring Brook Press Macmillan Publishers A child reflects on the meaning of being Black in this moving and powerful anthem about a people, a c...
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson 9780525580454 Nonfiction Random House Children’s Books and Just Us Books Penguin Random House and Just Us Books Fifty of th...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2018): Gathering at the Waters II
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2018): Gathering at the Waters II Clarence V. Reynolds A21551758v10 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College View a pdf of the cover a...
What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?
What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? Chris Barton 9781481465618 Nonfiction Beach Lane Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. “When Barbara Jordan talked, we listened.” —Former President of the United States, ...
Cherish Me
Cherish Me Farrah Rochon 9781947628038 Fiction Wandering Road Press Wandering Road Press "Harrison Holmes has it all: the perfect job, the perfect family, the perfect life. Until it all comes crashing...
This Is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature
This Is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature Ahdaf Soueif and Omar Robert Hamilton 9781632868848 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing Writers from Ali...
My Brother’s Envy: The Cross
My Brother’s Envy: The Cross John L. Rose 9781943686391 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing Young Resean ’Boss’ Holmes is known and loved throughout the city of Atlanta. But his home life is...
Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets
Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets Kwame Alexander 9780763680947 Poetry Candlewick Press Candlewick Press A Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Honoree offer a glorious, lyrical ode to poets who have...
Daddy’s House
Daddy’s House Azarel 9781934230916 Fiction Life Changing Books Life Changing Books A life filled with fast money and violence lands twenty three year old Candice Holmes in a witness protection program...
Jewels: 50 Phenomenal Black Women Over 50
Jewels: 50 Phenomenal Black Women Over 50 Connie Briscoe and Michael Cunningham 9780316113045 Nonfiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group Photographer Michael Cunningham (coauthor of Crow...
Alex Simmons
Alex Simmons 0000000040307489 Alex Simmons is a prolific writer and publisher, known for his work across various genres including juvenile mysteries, stage plays, biographies, and movie novelizations...
Donna L. Brazile
Donna L. Brazile NONE Donna Brazile is a seasoned Democratic political strategist, leading the Gore-Lieberman 2000 campaign as the first African American woman. She is Chair of the Democratic Nationa...
Albert “Prodigy” Johnson
Albert “Prodigy” Johnson NONE Albert “Prodigy” Johnson was a globally recognized rapper, part of the duo Mobb Deep. Known for his reality-based music, he sold millions of albums worldwide. Prodigy al...
Toni Cade Bambara
Toni Cade Bambara 0000000109088262 Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995) was a celebrated writer, activist, feminist, and filmmaker. Born in Harlem, her work was characterized by her capacity for both laught...
Autumn Allen
Autumn Allen NONE Autumn Allen is a literature educator, senior editor at Barefoot Books, and author known for her contributions to children's literature. She teaches at Harvard Graduate School of Ed...
Jibola Fagbamiye and Conor McCreery
Jibola Fagbamiye and Conor McCreery MULTIPLE Jibola Fagbamiye is a visual artist based in Toronto. His work draws inspiration from his two great loves: African history and North American pop culture...
When Frogs Grow Feet: The Un-Aborted Are Alive and Well
When Frogs Grow Feet: The Un-Aborted Are Alive and Well Robert Fleming Book Review While When Frogs Grow Feet’s blurb links its juicy contents to Henry Miller’s classic wanton tale, Tro...
Benedict Cumberbatch “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” Interview with AALBC.com's Kam Williams
Benedict Cumberbatch “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” Interview with AALBC.com's Kam Williams Kam Williams Interview Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch was born in London on July 19, 1...