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A Great Moral and Social Force: A History of Black Banks
A Great Moral and Social Force: A History of Black Banks Tim Todd 9780974480961 Nonfiction Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Both and printed and digital versions...
How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy
How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy Mehrsa Baradaran 9780674983960 Nonfiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press The United States has two sep...
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap Mehrsa Baradaran 9780674970953 Nonfiction Belknap Press Harvard University Press "Read this book. It explains so much about the moment…Beautif...
The Gods of Everything Else: An Ace and Walid Saga (the Cartel Publications Presents)
The Gods of Everything Else: An Ace and Walid Saga (the Cartel Publications Presents) T. Styles 9781948373760 Fiction Cartel Publications Cartel Publications The sins of the fathers shall be visited o...
The Banks Sisters Complete
The Banks Sisters Complete Nikki Turner 9781622866434 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Death, deception, and the surprise introduction of a long-lost family member keep the drama on ful...
Banks Sisters 2
Banks Sisters 2 Nikki Turner 9781622869572 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. New York Times bestselling author Nikki Turner returns with the next edition in the highly successful Ban...
La Banks Vampire Huntress: Dawn And Darkness Sc
La Banks Vampire Huntress: Dawn And Darkness Sc Leslie Esdaile Banks 9781606901793 Nonfiction Dynamite Entertainment Dynamite Entertainment Follow the famed Neterus and the Neteru Guardian Team from t...
The Ancestors
The Ancestors Brandon Massey, Tananarive Due, and Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780758223821 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Dead. Some evils are so great that they transcend death. In Brandon ...
The Banks Sisters 3
The Banks Sisters 3 Nikki Turner 9781622867677 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Just like any dysfunctional family reunion, loyalty, love, and good times soon turn to bitterness, ...
Outlaw Chick
Outlaw Chick Al-Saadiq Banks 9780692472828 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications Who wants that perfect love story anyway…..Despite growing up in the ghetto, the beautiful Shontay ...
The Banks Sisters
The Banks Sisters Nikki Turner 9781601626479 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. New York Times bestselling author Nikki Turner returns with her most spellbinding story to date: Meet the B...
A Dream Foreclosed: Black America And The Fight For A Place To Call Home (Occupied Media Pamphlet Series)
A Dream Foreclosed: Black America And The Fight For A Place To Call Home (Occupied Media Pamphlet Series) Laura Gottesdiener 9781884519215 Nonfiction Zuccotti Park Press Zuccotti Park Press Told throu...
Surrender The Dark
Surrender The Dark Leslie Esdaile Banks 9781451607789 Fiction Pocket Books Pocket Books National bestselling author L.A. Banks’s electrifying new paranormal series is set in a sizzling world where Dar...
Ila’s Diamonds II
Ila’s Diamonds II Donna M. Gray-Banks 9781449061012 Fiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions Ila's Diamonds II, is the second book of a trilogy by Donna M. Gray-Banks. It is a story about one woman&a...
No Trust
No Trust Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780758213327 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Financial genius Laura Caldwell seems to have it all-beauty, brains, wealth, and love with her courageous husband...
Love in the Key of Summer: A Love Set in Summer novel
Love in the Key of Summer: A Love Set in Summer novel Zariah L. Banks 9798986969350 Fiction Eparke Press Eparke Press Love wasn’t on the agenda—until one summer night changed everything. ...
Mistletowed: A Holiday Novella
Mistletowed: A Holiday Novella Zariah L. Banks 9798986969343 Fiction Eparke Press Eparke Press “I couldn’t put it down—finished it in one day. Sorry Lennox, Preston is my new book bae. Can...
ILA’s Diamond’s IV: "The House That Jack Built"
ILA’s Diamond’s IV: "The House That Jack Built" Donna M. Gray-Banks 9798988627067 Fiction Lee’s Press and Publishing Co Lee’s Press and Publishing Co Ila's Diamonds IV is a continuation of the tr...
LL Cool J Presents the Streets Win: 50 Years of Hip-Hop Greatness
LL Cool J Presents the Streets Win: 50 Years of Hip-Hop Greatness LL Cool J 9780847873166 Nonfiction Rizzoli International Publications Rizzoli International Publications Co-authored by Hip-Hop legend...
Beauty Beheld: A Beauty Is Her Name Novel
Beauty Beheld: A Beauty Is Her Name Novel Zariah L. Banks 9798986969305 Fiction Eparke Press Eparke Press Life is practically perfect for Patience Hampton. She enjoys her challenging work as a voice a...
Street Dreams: The Duology Book 1
Street Dreams: The Duology Book 1 Al-Saadiq Banks 9780997187144 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications 18 year old, Darryl Lowe is determined to make it out of the hood. A talented ...
And Nightmares: The Duology Book 2
And Nightmares: The Duology Book 2 Al-Saadiq Banks 9780997187151 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications 18 year old, Darryl Lowe is determined to make it out of the hood. A talented...
New Kid Sketchbook: A Place for Your Cartoons, Doodles, and Stories
New Kid Sketchbook: A Place for Your Cartoons, Doodles, and Stories Jerry Craft 9780593232262 Nonfiction Clarkson Potter Penguin Random House Turn your life into the stuff of cartoons with this drawin...
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 9781469653662 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina ...
Block Party 666: Mark of the Beast Volume 1
Block Party 666: Mark of the Beast Volume 1 Al-Saadiq Banks 9780997187182 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications It’s a Block Party reunion and Attorney Tony Austin is the glue, as ...
Block Party 666: Mark of the Beast Volume 2
Block Party 666: Mark of the Beast Volume 2 Al-Saadiq Banks 9780997187199 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications It’s a Block Party reunion and Attorney Tony Austin is the glue, as ...
Ila’s Diamonds III
Ila’s Diamonds III Donna M. Gray-Banks 9781546278795 Fiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions Ila slowly closed the door to the safe house apartment and slumped to the hallway floor. She thought, How? Why...
Heartless
Heartless Al-Saadiq Banks 9780997187106 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications Angelica "Storm" Hill, a vicious young woman that loves the thrill of living on the edge. Sh...
Block Party 5k1 Book 1: Diplomatic Immunity
Block Party 5k1 Book 1: Diplomatic Immunity Al-Saadiq Banks 9780692533154 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications One of the most vicious gangsters to ever walk the streets of Newark...
Block Party 5k1 Book 2: Diplomatic Immunity
Block Party 5k1 Book 2: Diplomatic Immunity Al-Saadiq Banks 9780692533291 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications One of the most vicious gangsters to ever walk the streets of Newark...
Young Gunz
Young Gunz Al-Saadiq Banks 9780974061092 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications The teen years of a person’s life are the most impressionable years of their life. Most of the time ...
Narcolepsy
Narcolepsy Eric Fullilove 9781484162781 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC With Eurozone banks on the brink of disaster, the CEO of the World Bank tries desperately to negotiate a Chinese bu...
Is Marriage For White People?: How The African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone
Is Marriage For White People?: How The African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone Ralph Richard Banks 9780525952015 Nonfiction Dutton Books Penguin Random House During the past half century, A...
The Forbidden (Vampire Huntress Legends)
The Forbidden (Vampire Huntress Legends) Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780575094680 Fiction Gollancz Victor Gollancz Ltd After the destruction of all the topside master vampires and the death and resurrection...
Back 2 Bizness: The Return Of The Mayor
Back 2 Bizness: The Return Of The Mayor Al-Saadiq Banks 9780974061078 Nonfiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications The Free the Mayor campaign was a success! But, how long can he remai...
Undead On Arrival (Crimson Moon, Book 3)
Undead On Arrival (Crimson Moon, Book 3) Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780312949136 Fiction St. Martin’s Paperbacks Macmillan Publishers Just one month ago, secret government operative Sasha Trudeau thought s...
Strapped
Strapped Al-Saadiq Banks 9780974061061 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications Amber Jones A.K.A Lil Bit was born with the odds totally against her. “A Hard Knock Life” is the best ...
Better Than (Dafina Contemporary Romance)
Better Than (Dafina Contemporary Romance) Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780758213303 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Book by Esdaile, Leslie
Ila’s Diamonds
Ila’s Diamonds Donna M. Gray-Banks 9781434352521 Fiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions Ila's Diamonds is a story about a young African American female working for a clandestine arm of the governme...
Block Party 3/Brick City Massacre
Block Party 3/Brick City Massacre Al-Saadiq Banks 9780974061054 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications Trilogy to the Best Selling Block Party Series.
Vegas Bites: A Werewolf Romance Anthology (Noire Allure)
Vegas Bites: A Werewolf Romance Anthology (Noire Allure) Leslie Esdaile Banks, J. M. Jeffries, Seressia Glass, and Natalie Dunbar 9781600430015 Nonfiction Parker Publishing Parker Publishing What howl...
Voices from the Other Side
Voices from the Other Side Brandon Massey, Eric Jerome Dickey, and Tananarive Due, L. A. Banks 9780758212320 Fiction Kensington Books Kensington Publishing Corp. From the untamed wilderness of ancient...
Block Party 2: The Afterparty
Block Party 2: The Afterparty Al-Saadiq Banks 9780974061047 Nonfiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications Teenagers, Ahmir and Ahmad Pierson are the offspring of Newark’s infamous ghett...
Menace II Society
Menace II Society Al Saadiq Banks, Mark Anthony, and Crystal Lacey Winslow, Isadore Johnson, Jm Benjamin 9780971702172 Fiction Melodrama Publishing Melodrama Publishing Menace II Society is a gritty w...
Historical Dictionary of African-American Television (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts)
Historical Dictionary of African-American Television (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts) Kathleen Fearn-Banks 9780810853355 Nonfiction Scarecrow Press Rowman & Littlefield From Amos ’...
Blind Trust
Blind Trust Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780758207357 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. Sexual healing-there-s nothing like it. And Ecstasy Island is where it happens. Meet two heroes who know e...
Betrayal Of the Trust
Betrayal Of the Trust Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780758207340 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. Darien Price, Ill, privileged son of a wealthy family and executive director of Philadelphia’s p...
The Bitten (Vampire Huntress Legends)
The Bitten (Vampire Huntress Legends) Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780312324087 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers The vampire civil war has been averted, deadly were-demons have been beaten b...
Caught ’Em Slippin’
Caught ’Em Slippin’ Al-Saadiq Banks 9780974061030 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications Miranda Benderas, born to an infamous Cuban Kingpin and his trophy wife, an African American...
The Hunted (Vampire Huntress Legends)
The Hunted (Vampire Huntress Legends) Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780312320300 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers A Neteru—-a hunter or a huntress—-is born every thousand years in favor of th...
Sincerely Yours (True 2 Life Street)
Sincerely Yours (True 2 Life Street) Al-Saadiq Banks 9780974061023 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications Suave and Sincere have a solid relationship and all all that comes with a ...
The Awakening: A Vampire Huntress Legend
The Awakening: A Vampire Huntress Legend Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780312316839 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers There is a vampire war brewing in the underworld and at the center of it a...
Block Party
Block Party Al-Saadiq Banks 9780974061016 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications Cashmere has just been released from Federal Prison. After serving seven years, he has finally paid ...
Minion: A Vampire Huntress Legend
Minion: A Vampire Huntress Legend Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780312316808 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers There is one woman who is all that stands between us and the eternal night.Here i...
No Exit (True 2 Life Street)
No Exit (True 2 Life Street) Al-Saadiq Banks 9780974061009 Fiction True 2 Life Publications True 2 Life Publications Three young men from the same ghetto with similar upbringings but they all have dif...
For Better, For Worse (Soul Food Series)
For Better, For Worse (Soul Food Series) Leslie Esdaile Banks 9780743457392 Fiction Pocket Books Pocket Books First the hit movie. Then the groundbreaking television show. Now the smart and sassy boo...
Three Times a Lady (Arabesque)
Three Times a Lady (Arabesque) Niobia Bryant 9781583141656 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Arabesque Harlequin Enterprises Limited Success is Sweet … A financial analyst who thrives on the pressure and excit...
Sink or Swim: African-American Lifesavers of the Outer Banks
Sink or Swim: African-American Lifesavers of the Outer Banks Carole Boston Weatherford 9781928556015 Nonfiction Coastal Carolina Press Coastal Carolina Press Tells the story of the U.S. Lifesaving Ser...
Let the Murderer Say Amen
Let the Murderer Say Amen Carolyn Marie Wilkins 9781496754745 Fiction Kensington Publishing Corporation Kensington Publishing Corp. As prosperity and great cultural changes sweep across 1920s Jazz Age...
Cool Machine
Cool Machine Colson Whitehead 9780385550505 Fiction Doubleday Books Penguin Random House From #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer winner Colson Whitehead, an exuberantly ent...
From the Browder File, Vol. Ill: A Browder Perspective
From the Browder File, Vol. Ill: A Browder Perspective Anthony Browder 9780924944116 Nonfiction The Institute of Karmic Guidance The Institute of Karmic Guidance Anthony T. Browder’s life unfolds like...
I Am the River: Sarah E. Ray and the Bob-Lo Boat
I Am the River: Sarah E. Ray and the Bob-Lo Boat Patricia Lee Gauch and Leah Henderson 9781646145805 Nonfiction Levine Querido Levine Querido I am the river. Blue and green, fast and flowing, sweepin...
The Filling Station (Papback)
The Filling Station (Papback) Vanessa Miller 9781400344123 Fiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing A USA TODAY bestseller! “The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre is, shockingly, little more...
The Filling Station
The Filling Station Vanessa Miller 9781400350179 Fiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing “The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre is, shockingly, little more than a footnote in history … Mil...
James: A Novel
James: A Novel Percival Everett 9780385550369 Fiction Doubleday Books Penguin Random House A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously ...
Home Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition: A Black Feminist Anthology
Home Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition: A Black Feminist Anthology Barbara Smith 9781978838994 Nonfiction Rutgers University Press Rutgers University Press Home Girls, the pioneering anthology of Black ...
Soldiers of Love: Beautiful Scars
Soldiers of Love: Beautiful Scars N’Tyse and Untamed 9781957950075 Fiction Black Odyssey Media Black Odyssey Media Profoundly moving and nostalgic, Soldiers of Love: Beautiful Scars is a searing explo...
Top Billin’:Stories of Laughter, Lessons, and Triumph
Top Billin’:Stories of Laughter, Lessons, and Triumph Bill Bellamy 9780063237629 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins From the MTV trailblazer, stand-up comedian, and actor, a hilariously candid memoir th...
The Great Mrs. Elias (paperback)
The Great Mrs. Elias (paperback) Barbara Chase-Riboud 9780063020016 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins The author of the award-winning Sally Hemings now brings to life Hannah Elias, one of the richest blac...
The Door of No Return (hardcover)
The Door of No Return (hardcover) Kwame Alexander 9780316441865 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Dreams are today’s answers for tomorrow’s questions. 11-year-old K...
The Great Mrs. Elias: A Novel Based on a True Story
The Great Mrs. Elias: A Novel Based on a True Story Barbara Chase-Riboud 9780063019904 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins The author of the award-winning Sally Hemings now brings to life Hannah Elias, on...
Dirty Bird Blues
Dirty Bird Blues Clarence Major 9780143136590 Fiction Penguin Group USA Penguin Random House A quietly influential force in African American literature and art, Clarence Major makes his Penguin Classi...
Between Freedom and Equality: The History of an African American Family in Washington, DC
Between Freedom and Equality: The History of an African American Family in Washington, DC Barbara Boyle Torrey and Clara Myrick Green 9781647120818 Nonfiction Georgetown University Press Georgetown Un...
New Kid and Class Act: The Box Set
New Kid and Class Act: The Box Set Jerry Craft 9780063117570 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins From critically acclaimed author-illustrator Jerry Craft comes a special box set that includes New K...
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America Joshua D. Rothman 9781541616615 Nonfiction Basic Books Perseus Books An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing forgotten stor...
We Are Each Other’s Harvest
We Are Each Other’s Harvest Natalie Baszile 9780062932563 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins From the author of Queen Sugar — now a critically acclaimed series on OWN directed by Ava Duvernay — comes a ...
Capitalism and Slavery, Third Edition
Capitalism and Slavery, Third Edition Eric Williams 9781469663685 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in E...
Creatures of Passage
Creatures of Passage Morowa Yejide 9781617758768 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books With echoes of Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Yejidé’s novel explores a forgotten quadrant of Washington, DC, and ...
The Juju Girl
The Juju Girl Nikki Marsh 9798218019532 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Winner of the 2022 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award for best self-published fictio...
The Girl at the Back of the Bus
The Girl at the Back of the Bus Suzette D. Harrison 9781800191747 Fiction Bookouture Bookouture An absolutely heart-wrenching historical novel I watched in awe as Miz Rosa stopped those men on the ...
Impact: Personal Portraits of Activism
Impact: Personal Portraits of Activism Michelle Duster and Trina Sotira 9780989960939 Nonfiction MuseWrite Press MuseWrite Press Something happened and motivated these quiet activists to make an impac...
Dear Justyce
Dear Justyce Nic Stone 9781984829665 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House The stunning sequel to the #1 New York Times bestseller Dear Martin. Incarcerated teen Quan writes lette...
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey Kamala Harris 9780525560739 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House A New York Times bestseller From one of America’s most inspiring political leaders, a ...
Queens of the Resistance Maxine Waters
Queens of the Resistance Maxine Waters Brenda Jones and Krishan Trotman 9780593189870 Nonfiction Plume Penguin Random House Part of the four-book Queens of the Resistance series, saluting some of the ...
The Old Drift: A Novel
The Old Drift: A Novel Namwali Serpell 9781101907153 Fiction Hogarth Press Penguin Random House An electrifying debut from the winner of the 2015 Caine Prize for African writing, The Old Drift is the ...
New Kid (paperback)
New Kid (paperback) Jerry Craft 9780062691194 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins Winner of the Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Author Award, and Kirkus Prize for Young Readers’ Literature! Pe...
New Kid
New Kid Jerry Craft 9780062691200 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Class Act, the follow up to New Kid will be published in October. AALBC will be the first to reveal Class Act’s, cover on February...
Around the Way Girls 11
Around the Way Girls 11 Treasure Hernandez, Clifford “Spud” Johnson, and India Johnson-Williams 9781601620927 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. There’s a saying that if you come from my ...
His Biggest Fan
His Biggest Fan Martha Kennerson B07MTLXTX4 Fiction Amazon Digital Services Amazon Digital Services, Inc. Dr. Tonya Banks spent her life focusing on her career and developing her craft. She followed a...
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey Kamala Harris 9780525560715 Nonfiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House From one of America’s most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths t...
On The Come Up
On The Come Up Angie Thomas 9780062498564 Fiction Balzer + Bray HarperCollins This is the highly anticipated second novel by Angie Thomas, the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winnin...
On African-American Rhetoric
On African-American Rhetoric Keith Gilyard 9781138090446 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge On African-American Rhetoric traces the arc of strategic language use by African Americans from rhetorical forms...
100+ Black Women in Horror
100+ Black Women in Horror Sumiko Saulson 9781387587469 Fiction Lulu Lulu Containing the biographies of over one hundred black women who write horror, 100+ Black Women in Horror is a reference guide, ...
Ezili’s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders
Ezili’s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley 9780822370307 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books From the dagger mistress Ezili Je Wouj and the...
The Walking Bathroom
The Walking Bathroom Shauntay Grant 9781771085564 Fiction Nimbus Publishing Nimbus Publishing It’s Halloween and Amayah doesn’t have a costume to wear to school. She dressed as a ghost for the last th...
I Believe In Butterflies
I Believe In Butterflies Marian L. Thomas 9780615441559 Fiction L.B Publishing L.B Publishing "This book had the soul of our grandmother’s stories, and you can recognize the wistfulness of wanting to ...
King and I 2: A Royal Love Affair (Volume 2)
King and I 2: A Royal Love Affair (Volume 2) Mz. Lady P 9781545531730 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Now that Siyah has the honor and pleasure of living life in King’s world it’s up to h...
Weekend Wealth Transfer: How Black Churches Move Billions of Dollars Out of Black Communities and How to Move It Back
Weekend Wealth Transfer: How Black Churches Move Billions of Dollars Out of Black Communities and How to Move It Back Gwen Richardson 9781539373643 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Ever...
Computers
Computers Christine Taylor Butler 9780531227800 Nonfiction Children’s Press and Franklin Watts Scholastic Inc. From the smart phone in your pocket to the advanced systems controlling everything from ...
Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader
Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader Greg Tate 9780822361800 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate h...