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Reckless 2: Nobody’s Girl
Reckless 2: Nobody’s Girl Keisha Ervin 9781622869268 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. After everything Farrah’s been through, it’s safe to say things are finally going her way. Her comp...
Reckless 2: Nobody’s Girl
Reckless 2: Nobody’s Girl Keisha Ervin 9781601626240 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. After everything Farrah’s been through, it’s safe to say things are finally going her way. Her comp...
You Could Do Damage Too
You Could Do Damage Too K. C. Mills 9781957950853 Fiction Black Odyssey Media Black Odyssey Media From USA Today bestselling author K.C. Mills comes a scorching romance about a ruthless crime boss who...
Love You, Always
Love You, Always Lauren Lacey 9798218143978 Fiction Lauren Lacey Lauren Lacey How can you move on from someone when they still hold the key to your heart? How can you love the life you live without th...
Radical Woman: Resilience After Difficult Issues, Changes and Losses
Radical Woman: Resilience After Difficult Issues, Changes and Losses Orjanette Bryant, Beatrice Charles and Others 9781734770995 Nonfiction Thanx A Mills Thanx A Mills What if I told you… when you day...
In West Mills
In West Mills De’Shawn Charles Winslow 9781635573404 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Publishing For readers of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie and The Turner House, an intimately told story about...
Reckless
Reckless Keisha Ervin 9781601625205 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. For four years, Farrah has been Khalil’s lover, friend, confidant, and more. In return, he’s lied, cheated, and disr...
Baby Flo: Florence Mills Lights Up the Stage
Baby Flo: Florence Mills Lights Up the Stage Alan Schroeder 9781600604102 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books A biography of Florence “Baby Flo” Mills, a talented singer/dancer of the Harlem Re...
Radical Theory, Caribbean Reality: Race, Class and Social Domination
Radical Theory, Caribbean Reality: Race, Class and Social Domination Charles W Mills 9789766402273 Nonfiction University of the West Indies Press University of the West Indies Press This work is a col...
Skeleton and Secrets: Black Camelot’s #5
Skeleton and Secrets: Black Camelot’s #5 Darius Myers 9871080000000 Fiction Fero Scitus Fero Scitus Skeleton and Secrets Is book five in the Black Camelot series. There is war in Gotham to end the ...
A Beach Tail
A Beach Tail Karen Lynn Williams 9781635925531 Fiction Boyds Mills Press Boyds Mills Press A charming tale of creativity and discovery. —School Library Journal, starred review A creative and intellig...
Mermaid Kenzie: Protector of the Deeps
Mermaid Kenzie: Protector of the Deeps Charlotte Watson Sherman 9781635923100 Fiction Boyds Mills Press Boyds Mills Press Kenzie turns her fierce love for the ocean into action, resourcefully cleaning...
The Publisher’s Dilemma: A Big City Tale of Privilege, Power & Murder
The Publisher’s Dilemma: A Big City Tale of Privilege, Power & Murder Darius Myers 9781087872629 Fiction Fero Scitus Fero Scitus The first book in the Black Camelot series.A shooting at the media comp...
The Publisher’s Dilemma (paperback): A Big City Tale of Privilege, Power & Murder
The Publisher’s Dilemma (paperback): A Big City Tale of Privilege, Power & Murder Darius Myers 9781700728111 Fiction Fero Scitus Fero Scitus The first book in the Black Camelot series.A shooting at t...
Let’s Dance!
Let’s Dance! Valerie Bolling 9781635921427 Fiction Boyds Mills Press Boyds Mills Press This rhythmic showcase of dances from all over the world features children of diverse backgrounds and abilities t...
Brown Sugar Babe
Brown Sugar Babe Charlotte Watson Sherman 9781635921380 Fiction Boyds Mills Press Boyds Mills Press Brown is beautiful. Brown is powerful! “This is the book I want to give to my future daughter.” —...
Bitch A New Beginning
Bitch A New Beginning Joy Deja King 9781942217565 Fiction King Productions King Productions Precious Cummings is back but this time her own daughter is causing mayhem. Aaliyah Mills Carter was born in...
Beyond Katrina: A Meditation On The Mississippi Gulf Coast (Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication)
Beyond Katrina: A Meditation On The Mississippi Gulf Coast (Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication) Natasha Trethewey 9780820333816 Nonfiction University of Georgia Press University of Georgia Press Beyon...
Nadia’s Hands
Nadia’s Hands Karen English 9781590787847 Fiction Boyds Mills Press Boyds Mills Press When Nadia is chosen to be a flower girl in Auntie Laila’s traditional Pakistani wedding, her hands are decorated ...
Ang Lee (Asian Americans of Achievement)
Ang Lee (Asian Americans of Achievement) Clifford W. Mills 9781604135664 Nonfiction Chelsea House Publications Chelsea House Publications Oscar-winning director Ang Lee has a remarkable life story. Hi...
This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer Kay Mills 9780813191829 Nonfiction University Press of Kentucky University Press of Kentucky With a Foreword by Marion Wright Edelman The awa...
Josias, Hold the Book
Josias, Hold the Book Jennifer Elvgren 9781590783184 Fiction Boyds Mills Press Boyds Mills Press This Americas Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature winner about aHaitian boy determined...
A Negro League Scrapbook
A Negro League Scrapbook Carole Boston Weatherford 9781590780916 Nonfiction Boyds Mills Press Boyds Mills Press Imagine that you are an outstanding baseball player but banned from the major leagues. I...
William Carney Carries the Flag: The Heroic Journey of a Black Civil War Soldier
William Carney Carries the Flag: The Heroic Journey of a Black Civil War Soldier Gary Golio 9781635926033 Nonfiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press The true story of a brave Civil War soldier from th...
Blues with a Butter Knife: The Unstoppable Music of Cedell Davis
Blues with a Butter Knife: The Unstoppable Music of Cedell Davis Jason Peterson 9781662681011 Nonfiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press Young CeDell Davis learns to play the blues in a style unlike a...
Pushing Hope: An Illustrated Memoir of Survival
Pushing Hope: An Illustrated Memoir of Survival Raymond Santana 9781662681400 Nonfiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press A School Library Journal Best Book ☆ School Library Journal, starred revi...
Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance
Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance A’Lelia Bundles 9781416544425 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. A vibrant, deeply researched biography of A’Lelia Walker—da...
Whirligigs: The Wondrous Windmills of Vollis Simpson’s Imagination
Whirligigs: The Wondrous Windmills of Vollis Simpson’s Imagination Carole Boston Weatherford 9781662680410 Fiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press Take a journey through the creative process that led ...
I’ll Be Gone for Christmas
I’ll Be Gone for Christmas Georgia K. Boone 9780063244023 Fiction Avon Books HarperCollins USA TODAY BESTSELLER! For fans of The Holiday comes a heartwarming Christmas house-swap rom-com debut in whic...
Everywhere Beauty Is Harlem: The Vision of Photographer Roy Decarava
Everywhere Beauty Is Harlem: The Vision of Photographer Roy Decarava Gary Golio 9781662680557 Nonfiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press A child of the Harlem Renaissance and an artistic collaborator ...
Traveling Shoes: The Story of Willye White, Us Olympian and Long Jump Champion
Traveling Shoes: The Story of Willye White, Us Olympian and Long Jump Champion Alice Faye Duncan 9781635925807 Nonfiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press Untold until now, here is the story of Black s...
Invincible: Fathers and Mothers of Black America
Invincible: Fathers and Mothers of Black America Wade Hudson 9781635925098 Nonfiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press This lyrical picture book explores the birth of Black America, focusing on the lit...
Coretta’s Journey: The Life and Times of Coretta Scott King
Coretta’s Journey: The Life and Times of Coretta Scott King Alice Faye Duncan 9781662680045 Nonfiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press Who was Coretta Scott King? Her black-veiled image at the funeral...
Rooting for Plants: The Unstoppable Charles S. Parker, Black Botanist and Collector
Rooting for Plants: The Unstoppable Charles S. Parker, Black Botanist and Collector Janice N. Harrington 9781662680199 Nonfiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press Meet Charles S. Parker, an unsung yet ...
Garvey’s Choice: The Graphic Novel
Garvey’s Choice: The Graphic Novel Nikki Grimes 9781662660023 Fiction Wordsong Boyds Mills Press Award-winning author Nikki Grimes’s beloved novel in verse Garvey’s Choice is now a graphic novel, imag...
Love You, Finally
Love You, Finally Lauren Lacey 9798218198466 Fiction Lauren Lacey Lauren Lacey To find love is beautiful, but to find love when you believe you don’t deserve it is powerful. Sometimes, love is the mis...
Mommy Time
Mommy Time Monique James-Duncan 9781536212266 Fiction Candlewick Press (MA) Candlewick Press A vibrant, deeply researched biography of A’Lelia Walker—daughter of Madam C.J. Walker and herself a centra...
Birmingham, 1963
Birmingham, 1963 Carole Boston Weatherford 9781662660030 Nonfiction Wordsong Boyds Mills Press A poetic tribute to the victims of the racially motivated church bombing that served as a seminal event i...
A New Beginning: The Rededication of Mosque Maryam
A New Beginning: The Rededication of Mosque Maryam Louis Farrakhan 9798985921861 Nonfiction Final Call Foundation Final Call Foundation More than 1,000 people from all across the country gathered in a...
Garvey in the Dark
Garvey in the Dark Nikki Grimes 9781635925265 Fiction Wordsong Boyds Mills Press Winner, 2023 Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award Capturing the shock and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic through the ey...
Words With Wings
Words With Wings Nikki Grimes 9781635924787 Nonfiction Wordsong Boyds Mills Press Winner 2014 Coretta Scott King 2014 Author Honor Award Gabby’s world is filled with daydreams. However, what...
Boss Bitch (2022)
Boss Bitch (2022) Joy Deja King 9781958834077 Fiction King Productions King Productions Aaliyah Mills Carter sits in jail facing 1st Degree-Murder charges. As she waits for her day in court her fate b...
With Love from Rose Bend (Rose Bend Book 5)
With Love from Rose Bend (Rose Bend Book 5) Naima Simone 9781848458543 Fiction Mills & Boon Harlequin Enterprises Limited With major Gilmore Girls vibes…but added spice! In escaping his past can he...
Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir
Ordinary Hazards: A Memoir Nikki Grimes 9781635925623 Nonfiction Wordsong Boyds Mills Press ★ A Michael L. Printz Honor Book ★ A Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor Book ★ A Bosto...
Evicted!: The Struggle for the Right to Vote
Evicted!: The Struggle for the Right to Vote Alice Faye Duncan 9781684379798 Nonfiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press Shortlist, Goddard Riverside/CBC Young People’s Book Prize for Social Justice ...
Garvey’s Choice
Garvey’s Choice Nikki Grimes 9781635925111 Fiction Wordsong Boyds Mills Press This emotionally resonant novel in verse by award-winning author Nikki Grimes celebrates choosing to be true to yourself. ...
Days Of War: Black Camelot’s #3
Days Of War: Black Camelot’s #3 Darius Myers 9781639444502 Fiction Fero Scitus Fero Scitus Black Camelot’s Days of War is the third novel in the Black Camelot series. Chief of Detectives Teddy Walk...
Days Of War (paperback): Black Camelot’s #3
Days Of War (paperback): Black Camelot’s #3 Darius Myers 9798534010404 Fiction Fero Scitus Fero Scitus Black Camelot’s Days of War is the third novel in the Black Camelot series. Chief of Detective...
Dawn & The Return Of Madame Hot Temper: Black Camelot’s #2
Dawn & The Return Of Madame Hot Temper: Black Camelot’s #2 Darius Myers 9781087906645 Fiction Fero Scitus Fero Scitus Black Camelot’s Dawn is the sequel to The Publisher’s Dilemma and the second novel...
Dawn & The Return Of Madame Hot Temper (paperback): Black Camelot’s #2
Dawn & The Return Of Madame Hot Temper (paperback): Black Camelot’s #2 Darius Myers 9781638483960 Fiction Fero Scitus Fero Scitus Black Camelot’s Dawn is the sequel to The Publisher’s Dilemma and the ...
Girls from Da Hood 14
Girls from Da Hood 14 Treasure Hernandez 9781645561170 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Two Essence(R) bestselling Urban Books authors have teamed up to bring the Motor City drama in th...
The Teachers March!: How Selma’s Teachers Changed History
The Teachers March!: How Selma’s Teachers Changed History Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace 9781629794525 Nonfiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press Demonstrating the power of protest and standing ...
Lizzie Demands a Seat!: Elizabeth Jennings Fights for Streetcar Rights
Lizzie Demands a Seat!: Elizabeth Jennings Fights for Streetcar Rights Beth Anderson 9781629799391 Fiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press ★ "Anderson’s third-person text allows readers under Li...
Buzzing with Questions: The Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Turner
Buzzing with Questions: The Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Turner Janice N. Harrington 9781629795584 Nonfiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press The story of Charles Henry Turner, the first Black en...
Accused!: The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys: Lies, Prejudice, and the Fourteenth Amendment
Accused!: The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys: Lies, Prejudice, and the Fourteenth Amendment Larry Dane Brimner 9781629797755 Nonfiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press An ALSC Notable Children’s Book *...
Civilisations: First Contact / The Cult of Progress
Civilisations: First Contact / The Cult of Progress David Olusoga 9781781259979 Nonfiction Profile Books Profile Books There is nothing simple about the idea of civilization. It is a concept with mult...
Boss Bitch
Boss Bitch Joy Deja King 9781942217398 Fiction King Productions King Productions Aaliyah Mills Carter sits in jail facing 1st Degree-Murder charges. As she waits for her day in court her fate becomes ...
Everyday People: The Color of Life — A Short Story Anthology
Everyday People: The Color of Life — A Short Story Anthology Jennifer Baker 9781501134944 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In the tradition of Best American Short Stories comes Everyday Peop...
Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968
Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968 Alice Faye Duncan 9781629797182 Fiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press This historical fiction picture book for children ages 9-12 ...
Born to Swing: Lil Hardin Armstrong’s Life in Jazz
Born to Swing: Lil Hardin Armstrong’s Life in Jazz Mara Rockliff 9781629795553 Nonfiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press Here is the story of “Hot Miss Lil” Hardin Armstrong, legendary jazz pianist, ...
Do Black Lives Matter To God?: Black Characters of Purpose in Scripture
Do Black Lives Matter To God?: Black Characters of Purpose in Scripture Jeff Edwards 9780999332603 Nonfiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press Political and religious leaders—past and present—have shap...
Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961
Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961 Larry Dane Brimner 9781629795867 Nonfiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press A 2018 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award Winner On May 4, 1961, a group of thi...
Now or Never!: Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry’s War to End Slavery
Now or Never!: Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry’s War to End Slavery Ray Anthony Shepard 9781629793405 Fiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press Here is the riveting dual biography of two little-know...
Death by His Grace (A Darko Dawson Mystery)
Death by His Grace (A Darko Dawson Mystery) Kwei Quartey 9781616957087 Fiction Soho Crime Soho Crime Katherine Yeboah’s marriage to Solomon Vanderpuye is all the talk of Accra high society. But when i...
Take a Picture of Me, James Van Der Zee!
Take a Picture of Me, James Van Der Zee! Andrea J. Loney 9781620142608 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books James Van Der Zee was just a young boy when he saved enough money to buy his first cam...
Catching a Storyfish
Catching a Storyfish Janice N. Harrington 9781629794297 Fiction Wordsong Boyds Mills Press This lyrical middle-grade novel-in-verse celebrates the power of story and of finding one’s individual voice....
I Am Because We Are: Readings in Africana Philosophy
I Am Because We Are: Readings in Africana Philosophy Fred Lee Hord 9781625341761 Nonfiction University of Massachusetts Press University of Massachusetts Press First published in 1995, I Am Because We...
King and I: A Royal Love Affair
King and I: A Royal Love Affair Mz. Lady P 9781519688484 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC King and I: A Royal Affair There’s an old saying that says everything that look good isn’t always...
His Substitute Wife… My Sister
His Substitute Wife… My Sister Sylvia Hubbard 9781438296906 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Life has never been worth living for Charisse before her father died. After three attempts to k...
Still The Baddest Bitch (Bitch Series)
Still The Baddest Bitch (Bitch Series) Joy Deja King 9780986004544 Fiction A King Production A King Production Aaliyah Mills Carter has to step up and watch the throne, to prove she has what it takes ...
Harlem’s Little Blackbird
Harlem’s Little Blackbird Renée Watson 9780375869730 Nonfiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Zora and Langston. Billie and Bessie. Eubie and Duke. If the Harlem Renaissanc...
Ostrich And Lark
Ostrich And Lark Marilyn Nelson 9781590787021 Nonfiction Front Street, Incorporated Boyds Mills Press Ostrich and Lark spend their days on the grasslands of southern Africa surrounded by a chorus of b...
Molly, by Golly!: The Legend of Molly Williams, America’s First Female Firefighter
Molly, by Golly!: The Legend of Molly Williams, America’s First Female Firefighter Dianne Ochiltree 9781590787212 Nonfiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press This legendary tale introduces young reader...
Distraction
Distraction J. L. Campbell 9780983522058 Fiction Little Prince Publishing Little Prince Publishing Three Jamaican women walk a tightrope of decisions when their lives are derailed by blackmail, deceit...
Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene “Bull” Connor
Black & White: The Confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene “Bull” Connor Larry Dane Brimner 9781590787663 Nonfiction Calkins Creek Boyds Mills Press In the nineteen fifties and...
Becoming Billie Holiday
Becoming Billie Holiday Carole Boston Weatherford 9781590785072 Nonfiction Wordsong Boyds Mills Press Before the legend of Billie Holiday, there was a girl named Eleanora. In 1915, Sadie Fagan gave bi...
Miss Crandall’s School For Young Ladies & Little Misses Of Color
Miss Crandall’s School For Young Ladies & Little Misses Of Color Elizabeth Alexander and Marilyn Nelson 9781590784563 Nonfiction Wordsong Boyds Mills Press Two renowned poets tell the story of Prudenc...
Up Before Daybreak: Cotton And People In America
Up Before Daybreak: Cotton And People In America Deborah Hopkinson 9780439639019 Nonfiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. In this stunning nonfiction volume, award-winning author Deborah Hopkinson we...
Sidewalk Chalk: Poems of the City
Sidewalk Chalk: Poems of the City Carole Boston Weatherford 9781590784150 Poetry Wordsong Boyds Mills Press At every corner, down every block, a city percolates with people at work and play: girls jum...
Blood on the Forge
Blood on the Forge William Attaway 9781590171349 Fiction NYRB Classics New York Review Books Praised by both Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, this classic of Black literature is a brutal depiction of...
Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem
Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem Marilyn Nelson 9781932425123 Nonfiction Highlights Press Boyds Mills Press There is a skeleton in the Mattatuck Museum in Connecticut. It has been in the town ...
Love Frustration: A Novel
Love Frustration: A Novel R.M. Johnson 9780743448734 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Have you ever been frustrated because you are in love with someone you can’t have? Jayson Abrahms ...
The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism
The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism Cornel West 9780299119607 Nonfiction University of Wisconsin Press University of Wisconsin Press Taking Emerson as his starting point, Cor...
C Is for City
C Is for City Nikki Grimes 9781590780138 Nonfiction Wordsong Boyds Mills Press Here's Nikki Grimes's clever alphabet rhyme as a guide to a big city. From the ice-skating rink to the opera, C...
Carver: A Life in Poems
Carver: A Life in Poems Marilyn Nelson 9781886910539 Nonfiction Highlights Press Boyds Mills Press George Washington Carver was born a slave in Missouri about 1864 and was raised by the childless whit...
The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: The Life and Times of a Black Radical
The Narrative of Hosea Hudson: The Life and Times of a Black Radical Nell Irvin Painter 9780393310153 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. “Among the many exemplary qualities...
Every Man Heart Lay Down
Every Man Heart Lay Down Lorenz Graham 9781563971846 Fiction Front Street, Incorporated Boyds Mills Press Here is the story of the birth of Jesus retold in the idiom of Liberians newly acquainted with...
Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson
Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson Jo Ann Robinson 9780870495274 Nonfiction Univ Tennessee Press Univ Tennessee Press The Montgomery Bus Boycott,...
Our Black Seminarians and Black Clergy Without a Black Theology
Our Black Seminarians and Black Clergy Without a Black Theology Yosef Ben-Jochannan 9780933121621 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press With colonization come the dismantling of tradition...