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Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era
Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era Houston Baker Jr. 9780231139656 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press Houston A. Baker Jr. ...
Lisa-Jo Baker
Lisa-Jo Baker NONE Lisa-Jo Baker, bestselling author and co-host of the Out of the Ordinary podcast, is renowned for her impactful writings in the human rights field and her books including 'Never Un...
Boss of Black Brooklyn, The Life and Times of Bertram Baker
Boss of Black Brooklyn, The Life and Times of Bertram Baker Brenda M. Greene Book Review Bertram Baker was a man of his times… Like Du Bois, Bertram believed in agitating to achieve political...
Boss of Black Brooklyn: The Life and Times of Bertram L. Baker
Boss of Black Brooklyn: The Life and Times of Bertram L. Baker Ron Howell 9780823280995 Nonfiction Empire State Editions Fordham University Press Boss of Black Brooklyn presents a riveting and untold ...
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (Gender and American Culture)
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (Gender and American Culture) Barbara Ransby 9780807856161 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Caro...
Kyle Baker
Kyle Baker 0000000027499033 Kyle Baker is a renowned cartoonist and animator with over 30 years of experience. He has authored 15+ graphic novels, illustrated numerous comics for Marvel and DC, and c...
Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller
Go Forth and Tell: The Life of Augusta Baker, Librarian and Master Storyteller Breanna J. McDaniel 9780593324202 Nonfiction Dial Books Penguin Random House From an award-winning author and illustrator...
Brea Baker
Brea Baker NONE Brea Baker is a freedom fighter and writer who has been working on the frontlines for over a decade, first as a student activist and now as a national strategist. Brea Baker is a poli...
Baker Books
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Baker Publishing Group
Baker Publishing Group Baker Publishing Group Baker Books Bethany House Brazos Press Fleming H. Revell Company
It Wasn’t Roaring, It Was Weeping: Interpreting the Language of Our Fathers Without Repeating Their Stories
It Wasn’t Roaring, It Was Weeping: Interpreting the Language of Our Fathers Without Repeating Their Stories Lisa-Jo Baker 9780525652861 Nonfiction Convergent Books Penguin Random House An honest and l...
Lift as You Climb: The Story of Ella Baker
Lift as You Climb: The Story of Ella Baker Patricia Hruby Powell 9781534406230 Nonfiction Margaret K. McElderry Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Learn about the civil rights activist Ella Baker in this in...
Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham: Dances in Literature and Cinema
Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham: Dances in Literature and Cinema Hannah Durkin 9780252084454 Nonfiction University of Illinois Press University of Illinois Press Josephine Baker and Katherine...
The Baker’s Son: My Life in Business
The Baker’s Son: My Life in Business Lowell Hawthorne 9781617751240 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "At 21, Hawthorne’s parents shipped him off to New York, where his older siblings had already re...
Dominion: A Novel
Dominion: A Novel Calvin Baker 9780802118295 Fiction Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. With Calvin Baker’s first two novels, Naming The New World and Once Two Heroes, he has continued to be acclaimed b...
Augusta Baker
Augusta Baker 0000000081160874 Augusta Braxton Baker (1911-1998) was a renowned author, librarian, and storyteller, celebrated for her impactful contributions to children's literature, particularly i...
Raneissa Baker
Raneissa Baker NONE Raneissa Baker is an acclaimed author known for her captivating narratives and vivid storytelling. Her works span various genres and are celebrated for their depth and creativity....
Raymond Baker
Raymond Baker 0000000071512493 Raymond Baker, a new author with Good2go Publishing since Jan 2018, made his literary debut with the novel “Dream's Life.” Raymond Baker just signed to Good2go Publishi...
Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker 0000000116279884 Josephine Baker (June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975) was a Broadway performer, dancer, and singer who headlined across Europe, and the first Black woman to star in ...
Jennifer Baker
Jennifer Baker NONE Jennifer Baker is a publishing professional, host of the Minorities in Publishing podcast, and contributing editor to Electric Literature. She advocates for diversity in the indus...
Yaba Baker
Yaba Baker NONE Yaba Baker is a renowned author, scriptwriter, and speaker, known for his Black History activity books. His work, which includes Princess Briana and Super CJ, has been widely recogniz...
Rachelle Baker
Rachelle Baker NONE Rachelle Baker is a versatile artist from Detroit, MI, proficient in printing, illustration, comic and video art, and music. She draws inspiration from shoujo manga, 90s/2000s R&B...
Lacey Baker
Lacey Baker NONE Lacey Baker, a Maryland-based author, draws inspiration from family and faith to write heartwarming stories about love and family endurance. She's known for her Sweetland series and ...
Baker & Taylor Publisher Services
Baker & Taylor Publisher Services Baker & Taylor Paw Prints Publishing
Fearless and Free: A Memoir
Fearless and Free: A Memoir Josephine Baker 9780593853696 Nonfiction Tiny Reparations Books Penguin Random House “A gorgeous, captivating gem of a memoir…Josephine Baker’s as enthralling on the page a...
Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership
Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership Brea Baker 9780593447376 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House Why is less than 1% of rural land in the U...
Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy
Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy Damien Lewis 9781541700666 Nonfiction PublicAffairs Hachette Book Group The New Yorker, Best Books of 2022 Booklist, Best Books of 2022 S...
Jazz Age Josephine: Dancer, singer—who’s that, who? Why, that’s MISS Josephine Baker, to you!
Jazz Age Josephine: Dancer, singer—who’s that, who? Why, that’s MISS Josephine Baker, to you! Jonah Winter 9781416961239 Nonfiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. A picture bo...
Susan Taylor Baker King’s Memoir
Susan Taylor Baker King’s Memoir Susie King Taylor Article An Excerpt from Susan Taylor Baker King’s Memoir:Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33rd US Colored Troops, Late 1st S.C. Vol...
Bethany House
Bethany House Baker Publishing Group Baker Publishing Group
Fleming H. Revell Company
Fleming H. Revell Company Baker Publishing Group Baker Publishing Group
Brazos Press
Brazos Press Baker Publishing Group Baker Publishing Group
Paw Prints Publishing
Paw Prints Publishing Baker & Taylor Publisher Services Baker & Taylor
Forgive Me Not
Forgive Me Not Jennifer Baker 9780593406847 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House In this near-future searing indictment of the juvenile justice system, one incarcerated teen weighs what sh...
Black: BOOK ONE: The Bear on Our Backs
Black: BOOK ONE: The Bear on Our Backs J. A. Faulkerson 9798391626794 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published What if you discovered that the American Civil War never ended, it just...
A Gingerbread Romance: Based on the Hallmark Channel Original Movie
A Gingerbread Romance: Based on the Hallmark Channel Original Movie Lacey Baker 9781947892439 Fiction Two Lines Press Two Lines Press As an architect, she designs beautiful buildings…But will her hear...
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...
Josephine Baker (Little People, Big Dreams)
Josephine Baker (Little People, Big Dreams) Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara 9781786032287 Nonfiction Frances Lincoln Children’s Books The Quarto Group New in the Little People, Big Dreams series, discover...
Victor LaValle’s Destroyer
Victor LaValle’s Destroyer Victor Lavalle 9781684150557 Fiction BOOM! Studios BOOM! Studios The legacy of Frankenstein’s monster collides with the sociopolitical tensions of the present-day United Sta...
The Fold
The Fold T. Styles 9781945240010 Fiction Cartel Publications Cartel Publications Infatuated with the legend of Farah Cotton, told through handwritten books by the late Mooney, Cutie Tudy is determined...
Still Sheisty: Triple Crown Collection
Still Sheisty: Triple Crown Collection T. N. Baker 9781622869718 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Epiphany, Keisha, and Shana were once best friends, but envy, built-up animosity, an...
Josephine: The Dazzling Life Of Josephine Baker
Josephine: The Dazzling Life Of Josephine Baker Patricia Hruby Powell 9781452103143 Nonfiction Chronicle Books Chronicle Books Coretta Scott King Book Award, Illustrator, Honor In exuberant verse a...
Breaking The Mental Chains Of Black Teenagers
Breaking The Mental Chains Of Black Teenagers Yaba Baker 9781928889090 Nonfiction Just Like Me Just Like Me Breaking the Mental Chains of Black Teenagers is a collection of successful speeches used by...
Nat Turner
Nat Turner Kyle Baker 9780810972278 Fiction Harry N. Abrams Harry N. Abrams The story of Nat Turner and his slave rebellion—which began on August 21, 1831, in Southampton County, Virginia—is known amo...
Still Sheisty, Part 2 (Triple Crown Publications Presents)
Still Sheisty, Part 2 (Triple Crown Publications Presents) T. N. Baker 9780976234906 Fiction Triple Crown Publications Triple Crown Publications Some things change. And then again, some things don’t. ...
T. N. Baker
T. N. Baker NONE "Prolific author from Queens, NY, currently residing in Charlotte, NC with her daughter.” This prolific author was born and raised in Queens, NY and presently lives in Charlotte, NC ...
Patricia Hruby Powell
Patricia Hruby Powell 0000000045698001 Patricia Hruby Powell, former dancer and now acclaimed children's author, is known for her books such as “Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker”, whic...
Susie King Taylor
Susie King Taylor 0000000084839030 Susan Taylor Baker King, born into slavery in 1848, overcame adversity to become a teacher, nurse, and author. Despite education restrictions, she attended secret s...
We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking for
We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking for Eddie S. Glaude Jr. 9780674303515 Nonfiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press From the author of the New York Times bestseller Begin Again,...
We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking for
We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking for Eddie S. Glaude Jr. 9780674737600 Nonfiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press From the author of the New York Times bestseller Begin Again,...
Mysteries of the Spring Garden
Mysteries of the Spring Garden Brea Baker 9798322392927 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Mysteries of the Spring Garden is a delightful and engaging preschool book that takes yo...
Snow Place Like Home: A Christmas Novel
Snow Place Like Home: A Christmas Novel Lacey Baker 9780840716774 Fiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing A romantic holiday novel Perfect for fans of Nancy Naigle and Brenda Jackson...
Now I Am Known: How a Street Kid Turned Foster Dad Found Acceptance and True Worth
Now I Am Known: How a Street Kid Turned Foster Dad Found Acceptance and True Worth Peter Mutabazi with Mark Tabb 9781540901989 Nonfiction Baker Books Baker Publishing Group In this powerful, redempti...
Civil Rights Queen
Civil Rights Queen Tomiko Brown-Nagin 9781524747183 Poetry Pantheon Books Penguin Random House With the US Supreme Court nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson, “it makes sense to revisit the life and wo...
Christmas in Evergreen: Bells Are Ringing: Based on a Hallmark Channel Original Movie
Christmas in Evergreen: Bells Are Ringing: Based on a Hallmark Channel Original Movie Lacey Baker 9781952210433 Fiction Two Lines Press Two Lines Press Welcome back to Evergreen, the town built on Ch...
Trailblazers, Black Women Who Helped Make America Great, 1: American Firsts/American Icons, Volume 1
Trailblazers, Black Women Who Helped Make America Great, 1: American Firsts/American Icons, Volume 1 Gabrielle David 9781940939797 Nonfiction 2Leaf Press 2Leaf Press Since slavery, Black women have st...
The Adventures of Super CJ
The Adventures of Super CJ Yaba Baker 9781928889076 Fiction Just Like Me Just Like Me Cameron Justus (CJ) is a 12-year-old boy chosen to be a superhero and given superpowers to fight the greatest evil...
W.I.F.E
W.I.F.E Raneissa Baker 9781947340596 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing After surviving almost seven hard years of federal prison, Ray "Assa" Jones returned to his hometown of Milwaukee, Wi...
W.I.F.E PT 2
W.I.F.E PT 2 Raneissa Baker 9781947340626 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing With Ray and Donna back living together, Ray having custody of his daughter Pooh, and a steady stream of income ...
Just Like Me: How African American Inventions Changed America
Just Like Me: How African American Inventions Changed America Yaba Baker 9781928889106 Nonfiction Just Like Me Just Like Me Just Like Me: How African American Inventions Changed America coloring activ...
Scarred Knuckles
Scarred Knuckles Raymond Baker 9781947340510 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing Scarred Knuckles is a story of cause and effect. A couple of Milwaukee homicide detectives, Tabitha Allison a...
Scarred Knuckles 2
Scarred Knuckles 2 Raymond Baker 9781947340527 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing Scarred Knuckles pt 2 is the continuation of Scarred Knuckles, focusing on the aftermath of Mercy Bondz’s m...
Affliction: Shades of Revenge
Affliction: Shades of Revenge Raymond Baker 9781947340442 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing In the mean streets of Milwaukee, a.k.a. Killwaukee, everybody has a legal or illegal hustle. It...
Affliction 2: Another Shades of Revenge
Affliction 2: Another Shades of Revenge Raymond Baker 9781947340459 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing Affliction: Another Shades of Revenge, after the death of his brother, Jon, Danny Boy...
Cash In, Cash Out
Cash In, Cash Out Raymond Baker 9781947340336 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing While out on parole, Max finds it hard to stay off the paper and walk the straight and narrow. But the least...
Cash In, Cash Out 2
Cash In, Cash Out 2 Raymond Baker 9781947340343 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing Now that Max has a few nice wins under his belt, more money in his pocket than ever, and his parole office...
Shoe Box Money
Shoe Box Money Raymond Baker 9781947340206 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing When Domeko’s mother Dorothy is blindsided by a severe illness, it renders her incapable of being able to adequ...
Dream’s Life 2: Amilia’s Chaos
Dream’s Life 2: Amilia’s Chaos Raymond Baker 9781947340213 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing The Gomez syndicate, is one of Milwaukee’s deadliest criminal organizations. When Cheez, one of...
All Work, No Play
All Work, No Play Raymond Baker 9781947340190 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing Chicago’s biggest drug trafficker J. Ross is fresh out of the pen, and looking to reclaim his spot atop the ...
Shades of Revenge
Shades of Revenge Raymond Baker 9781947340183 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing In the mean streets of Milwaukee, a.k.a. Killwaukeee, everybody fights to make it—legally or illegally. It’s...
Dream’s Life
Dream’s Life Raymond Baker 9781947340176 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing A young mother will do anything to flee from her abusive and drug dealer boyfriend, but some other people are cau...
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 ...
Little White Lies
Little White Lies Brianna Baker and F. Bowman Hastie 9781616955151 Fiction Soho Teen Soho Press Seventeen-year-old honors student Coretta White’s Tumblr, Little White Lies—her witty thoughts on pretty...
Sheisty: Triple Crown Collection
Sheisty: Triple Crown Collection T. N. Baker 9781622869558 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Epiphany Wright, Keisha Moore, and Shana Scott spent their teenage years as best friends in...
From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances
From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances Vershawn Ashanti Young 9780814334683 Nonfiction Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press In From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black M...
Just Like Me Series
Just Like Me Series Yaba Baker 9781928889045 Nonfiction Just Like Me Just Like Me Series includes three coloring books. (Coloring Book of Careers, The Beginning of Civilization & How African American ...
Albert Murray And The Aesthetic Imagination Of A Nation
Albert Murray And The Aesthetic Imagination Of A Nation Barbara A. Baker 9780817355937 Fiction Pebble Hill Books Pebble Hill Books Sir John Cotesworth Slessor (1897-1979) was one of Great Britain’s mo...
Princess Briana
Princess Briana Yaba Baker 9781928889069 Nonfiction Just Like Me Just Like Me Princess Briana is a wonderful story for children which teaches that beauty comes in many shapes, sizes, and colors. Princ...
Just Like Me: The Beginning of Civilization
Just Like Me: The Beginning of Civilization Yaba Baker 9781928889014 Nonfiction Just Like Me Just Like Me Just Like Me - The Beginning of Civilization teaches the missing pieces of world history. If y...
Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker Alan Schroeder and Nathan Huggins 9780791011164 Nonfiction Chelsea House Publications Chelsea House Publications Biography of the black American singer and dancer who achieved fame in ...
Storytelling: Art and Technique
Storytelling: Art and Technique Augusta Baker 9780835223362 Nonfiction Greenwood Publishing Group Greenwood Publishing Group A great introduction to the art form of how to tell stories. It guides the ...
Michael Lee
Michael Lee NONE Michael C. Lee, a retired Detroit Police Department Inspector, has a 20-year service history with notable roles in Gang Enforcement and Carjacking Task Force. He has a background in ...
Barbara Ransby
Barbara Ransby 000000038357030X Barbara Ransby, a renowned historian, writer, and activist, serves as a Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She leads the Social Justice Initiative and...
Tu-Shonda L. Whitaker
Tu-Shonda L. Whitaker NONE Tu-Shonda L. Whitaker is an award-winning, bestselling author known for her works such as “Flipside of the Game” and “Game Over.” She's contributed to anthologies and has e...
Erika Council
Erika Council NONE Erika Council is a renowned baker, food writer, and owner of Bomb Biscuits. She contributes to various cookbooks and runs the Southern Soufflé website. Her work has appeared in nu...
Ishmael Reed – July 1-7, 1983, in Emeryville, California
Ishmael Reed – July 1-7, 1983, in Emeryville, California Reginald Martin Interview REGINALD MARTIN: Camus wrote in "Neither Victims nor Executioners" that the only really committed a...
There Are Dinosaurs in the Library!
There Are Dinosaurs in the Library! Judy Allen Dodson Book Review Let’s take trip to the library with Mrs. Baker and her third-grade class. As we all know the library is a space filled with boo...
How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington
How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington Marcia Chatelain 9780553387254 Nonfiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House From the Pulitzer Prize-winning ...
Almost by Design: A Novel
Almost by Design: A Novel Jenny Erlingsson 9780800747756 Fiction Fleming H. Revell Company Baker Publishing Group A botched promotion, an awkward reunion, and a fake-dating scheme they never planned t...
Hearts on the Fly
Hearts on the Fly Toni Shiloh 9780764245206 Fiction Bethany House Baker Publishing Group When the game changes, love finds a way to score. Jabari Hall has spent his entire life chasing vi...
A Black Queer History of the United States
A Black Queer History of the United States C. Riley Snorton and Darius Bost 9780807008553 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press The first-ever Black history to center queer voices, this landmark study ...
Homegrown: Guidance and Inspiration for Navigating Your Homeschooling Journey
Homegrown: Guidance and Inspiration for Navigating Your Homeschooling Journey Amber O’Neal Johnston 9780800746193 Nonfiction Fleming H. Revell Company Baker Publishing Group Homeschooling is the faste...
Marina: A Story about Plastic and the Planet
Marina: A Story about Plastic and the Planet Jesse Byrd 9781223188645 Fiction Paw Prints Publishing Baker & Taylor Publisher Services Discover the eye-opening journey of a single piece of plastic in M...
Skin & Bones (paperback)
Skin & Bones (paperback) Renée Watson 9780316570893 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group Best Book of May 2024 by New York Post. Finalist for the 2024 Westport Prize for Literature. ...