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Season: A Novel (Marie Laveau Mysteries)
Season: A Novel (Marie Laveau Mysteries) Jewell Parker Rhodes 9781451617061 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. In Season (formerly titled Voodoo Season), Jewell Parker Rhodes revis...
Hurricane: A Novel
Hurricane: A Novel Jewell Parker Rhodes 9781416537120 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. In the stunning conclusion to award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes’s mystery trilogy b...
The Quarter Queen
The Quarter Queen Kayla Hardy 9780593976760 Fiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House A Voodoo witch must navigate a magically and racially divided nineteenth-century New Orleans to save her mothe...
Blue Flare: Three Contemporary Haitian Poets: Evelyne Trouillot, Marie-Celie Agnant, Maggy de Coster
Blue Flare: Three Contemporary Haitian Poets: Evelyne Trouillot, Marie-Celie Agnant, Maggy de Coster Évelyne Trouillot, Marie-Célie Agnant, and Maggy de Coster 9781938890314 Poetry Zephyr Press Zephyr...
The Engagement Game: Why I Said “I Don’t” to Marriage and “I Do” to Me
The Engagement Game: Why I Said “I Don’t” to Marriage and “I Do” to Me Joi-Marie McKenzie 9781455594481 Nonfiction Center Street Hachette Book Group Joi-Marie almost has it all; a thriving career, a s...
Moon
Moon Jewell Parker Rhodes 9781451617108 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. The orginal title for this novel was Yellow Moon. In the second part of the New Orleans trilogy that beg...
The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie: An African American’s Spiritual Journey to Uncover a Sunken Slave Ship’s Past
The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie: An African American’s Spiritual Journey to Uncover a Sunken Slave Ship’s Past Michael H. Cottman 9780517703281 Nonfiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House ...
Second Chance: The Martha Marie Preston Story
Second Chance: The Martha Marie Preston Story Martha Marie Preston 9780615504292 Fiction Quintrell Public Relations Quintrell Public Relations Indicted on 23 counts and convicted of four, multimillion...
Anna Murray Douglass: Biography of a Revolutionary
Anna Murray Douglass: Biography of a Revolutionary Celeste-Marie Bernier 9781478034209 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books Working with family descendants and based on t...
Mourning
Mourning Karen Williams 9781957810478 Fiction Iskanchi Press Iskanchi Press Literary historical fiction set in post-war Freetown, where a widow fleeing violence must navigate grief, memory, and the fr...
Red Lip Theology: For Church Girls Who’ve Considered Tithing to the Beauty Supply Store When Sunday Morning Isn’t Enough
Red Lip Theology: For Church Girls Who’ve Considered Tithing to the Beauty Supply Store When Sunday Morning Isn’t Enough Candice Marie Benbow 9780593238462 Nonfiction Convergent Books Penguin Random H...
Two Naomis
Two Naomis Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich and Audrey Vernick 9780062414250 Fiction Balzer + Bray HarperCollins A realistic contemporary story of two girls, both named Naomi, whose divorced parents begi...
Three Strong Women: A novel
Three Strong Women: A novel Marie NDiaye 9780307741332 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House A New York Times Notable BookA San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2012A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012Lo...
Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Triptych (Modern Library Classics)
Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Triptych (Modern Library Classics) Marie Vieux-Chauvet 9780812976922 Nonfiction Modern Library Penguin Random House Available in English for the first time, Marie Vieux...
Marie in Fourth Position
Marie in Fourth Position Amy Littlesugar 9780399227943 Fiction Philomel Books Penguin Random House Marie’s dream is to dance beneath the spotlight in the Paris Opera, but she finds herself only a "rat...
Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau
Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau Jewell Parker Rhodes 9780312119317 Fiction Picador Macmillan Publishers Rhodes’ Critically Acclaimed Debut Novel The story of Marie Laveau, the character featu...
Harriet Tubman: Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary: From Her Roots in Ghana to Her Legacy on the Eastern Shore
Harriet Tubman: Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary: From Her Roots in Ghana to Her Legacy on the Eastern Shore Jean Marie Wiesen and Rita Daniels 9781639368136 Nonfiction Pegasus Books Pegasus Boo...
Queen of Exiles
Queen of Exiles Vanessa Riley 9780063270992 Fiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins "You may not know Marie-Louise Christophe, but once you have met her, you won’t forget her. Vanessa Riley’s h...
Destroyer of Light
Destroyer of Light Jennifer Marie Brissett 9781250268631 Fiction Tor Books Macmillan Publishers The Matrix meets an Afro-futuristic retelling of Persephone set in a science fiction underworld of alien...
Sister Mother Warrior
Sister Mother Warrior Vanessa Riley 9780063073548 Fiction William Morrow HarperCollins Acclaimed author of Island Queen Vanessa Riley brings readers a vivid, sweeping novel of the Haitian Revolution b...
The Personal Librarian
The Personal Librarian Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray 9780593101537 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House A Good Morning America Book Club Pick The remarkable story of J. P. Mor...
American Spy: A Novel
American Spy: A Novel Lauren Wilkinson 9780812988284 Fiction Random House Penguin Random House “[This] unflinching, incendiary debut combines the espionage novels of John le Carré with the raci...
After Life: My Journey from Incarceration to Freedom
After Life: My Journey from Incarceration to Freedom Alice Marie Johnson 9780062936103 Nonfiction FaithWords Hachette Book Group The true-life story of the woman whose life sentence for non-violent dr...
Mothering While Black: Boundaries and Burdens of Middle-Class Parenthood
Mothering While Black: Boundaries and Burdens of Middle-Class Parenthood Dawn Marie Dow 9780520300323 Nonfiction University of California Press University of California Press Mothering While Black exa...
All Souls: Essential Poems
All Souls: Essential Poems Brenda Marie Osbey 9780807162002 Poetry LSU Press Louisiana State University Press All Souls: Essential Poems brings together work that reflects the interweaving of histor...
Glitz
Glitz Philana Marie Boles 9780670012046 Fiction Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Ann Michelle is tired of her boring, sheltered life. She longs for something real. Then she meets Ra...
Souls of My Sisters: Black Women Break Their Silence, Tell Their Stories and Heal Their Spirits
Souls of My Sisters: Black Women Break Their Silence, Tell Their Stories and Heal Their Spirits Dawn Marie Daniels and Candace Sandy 9781575666532 Nonfiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. "If...
All Saints: New and Selected Poems
All Saints: New and Selected Poems Brenda Marie Osbey 9780807121986 Poetry LSU Press Louisiana State University Press Like the feast day recalled in its title, this collection of twenty narrative poem...
Shadowsync
Shadowsync Marie Arnold 9798256500559 Fiction Kwame Alexander Books Sourcebooks In this middle-grade sci-fi thriller, a mysterious new app can fix any problem a kid may have—bullying, friendship drama...
They Will Not Save Us
They Will Not Save Us Marie Arnold 9781546171089 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. The Forgotten Girl meets Hide and Seeker in this terrifying MG horror that returns the Zombie to its homel...
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...
A Pair of Aces
A Pair of Aces Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray 9780593637937 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House A gripping novel about two trailblazing women on opposite sides of the law—a pros...
I Was Told There Would Be Romance
I Was Told There Would Be Romance Marie Arnold 9780316568012 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group For fans of Never Have I Ever and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before c...
Split the Sky
Split the Sky Marie Arnold 9780316582872 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group In this haunting story about family, legacy, and sacrifice, a young Black girl living in ...
Murder at the Wham Bam Club
Murder at the Wham Bam Club Carolyn Marie Wilkins 9781496754714 Fiction Kensington Publishing Corporation Kensington Publishing Corp. As Prohibition era speakeasies and Jazz Age excitement reign supre...
I Was Told There Would Be Romance
I Was Told There Would Be Romance Marie Arnold 9780316568005 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group For fans of Never Have I Ever and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before c...
Black Candle Women (paperback)
Black Candle Women (paperback) Diane Marie Brown 9781525804281 Fiction Graydon House HarperCollins A Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Seen on the Today Show “If you like Practical Magic … you will...
A Place to Shine
A Place to Shine Marie Arnold 9780063251755 Fiction Versify Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Ten-year-old Sunny Williams is resilient—she knows this because it’s what her beloved grandma, Nanna, always t...
The First Ladies (paperback)
The First Ladies (paperback) Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray 9780593440292 Fiction Penguin Publishing Group Penguin Random House A novel about the extraordinary partnership between Firs...
If My Hair Had a Voice
If My Hair Had a Voice Dana Marie Miroballi 9781506493602 Fiction Beaming Books 1517 Media “If your hair had a voice, it would sing of diversity and identity. It would tell you stories of our history....
Can’t Nobody Make a Sweet Potato Pie Like Our Mama!
Can’t Nobody Make a Sweet Potato Pie Like Our Mama! Rose McGee 9781681341996 Nonfiction Minnesota Historical Society Press Minnesota Historical Society Press From the creator of Sweet Potato Comfort P...
The First Ladies
The First Ladies Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray 9780593440285 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevel...
Black Candle Women
Black Candle Women Diane Marie Brown 9781525899911 Fiction Graydon House HarperCollins “Propulsive and poignant, Black Candle Women concocts an intoxicating potion of warmth, wisdom, and wonder.” —Ava...
Eternally Yours
Eternally Yours Patrice Caldwell 9780593206874 Fiction Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Give in to this irresistible paranormal romance anthology filled with tales of the mortal and...
I Rise
I Rise Marie Arnold 9780358449041 Fiction Versify Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A heartbreaking and powerful novel about racism and social justice as fourteen-year-old Ayo has to decide whether to take on...
The Personal Librarian: A GMA Book Club Pick
The Personal Librarian: A GMA Book Club Pick Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray 9780593101544 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House
RETURNED 2: Bridge To Sion
RETURNED 2: Bridge To Sion Marlon McCaulsky, Lamont Gant, and V Marie 9780578358710 Fiction Creative Genius Films Creative Genius Films RETURNED 2 is the second chapter of the hit film/book called RET...
Charlotte and the Nutcracker: The True Story of a Girl Who Made Ballet History
Charlotte and the Nutcracker: The True Story of a Girl Who Made Ballet History Charlotte Nebres 9780593374900 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A reimagined and modern ...
The Year I Flew Away
The Year I Flew Away Marie Arnold 9780358272755 Fiction Versify Houghton Mifflin Harcourt In this magical middle-grade novel, ten-year-old Gabrielle finds out that America isn’t the perfect place she ...
My Mother’s House
My Mother’s House Francesca Momplaisir 9780525657156 Fiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House “A shockingly original exploration of class, race, and systemic violence … This house, tainted ...
Death at a Seance: A Carry McFarland Psychic Mystery
Death at a Seance: A Carry McFarland Psychic Mystery Carolyn Marie Wilkins 9781683132134 Fiction Pen-L Publishing Pen-L Publishing Carrie McFarland’s psychic gifts land her in trouble wherever s...
Naomis Too
Naomis Too Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich and Audrey Vernick 9780062685155 Fiction Balzer & Bray/Harperteen HarperCollins A heartfelt, sweet, social justice-themed ode to blended and unconventional fam...
Double Take: Blood Ain’t Thicker Than Water
Double Take: Blood Ain’t Thicker Than Water Janae Marie 9780692136447 Fiction JMP Media Group JMP Media Group Two twin brothers, grow up in the same household but each take two completely different pa...
Mojo for Murder
Mojo for Murder Carolyn Marie Wilkins 9781683130352 Fiction Pen-L Publishing Pen-L Publishing Do you believe in magic? There’s a hex on Charley Howard’s Hot Links Emporium, and Charle...
Ladivine: A novel
Ladivine: A novel Marie NDiaye 9780385351881 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House From the hugely acclaimed author of Three Strong Women—“a masterpiece of narrative ingenuity and emotional extremes” (Th...
Are Mirrors Cleaner in Paradise?
Are Mirrors Cleaner in Paradise? Judith Falloon-Reid 9781517654184 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Artistic, fun-loving Anne Marie finds herself facing the challenges brought on by her ow...
Daddy’s Home
Daddy’s Home Janae Marie 9780692442869 Fiction JM Publications JM Publications Abandoned, raped, homeless and molested are just a list of things Danielle Turner has endured while growing up. Being sex...
Melody for Murder: A Bertie Bigelow Mystery
Melody for Murder: A Bertie Bigelow Mystery Carolyn Marie Wilkins 9781942428329 Fiction Pen-L Publishing Pen-L Publishing On the South Side of Chicago, one SOUR note can lead to MURDER. ...
Anthology For Hope In The Hood
Anthology For Hope In The Hood Jess Marie 9781511573337 Poetry CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Hope in the Hood,is a collection of poetry to inspire those who look for hope amidst seemingly hopel...
Dear Mary, Dear Luther
Dear Mary, Dear Luther Jill Marie Snyder 9781496963727 Nonfiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions Dear Mary, Dear Luther reveals through letters the emotional track of a 1930s courtship that leads to a l...
Elysium
Elysium Jennifer Marie Brissett 9781619760530 Fiction Aqueduct Press Aqueduct Press A computer program etched into the atmosphere has a story to tell, the story of two people, of a city lost to chaos,...
An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank
An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank Elaine Marie Alphin 9781467746304 Nonfiction Carolrhoda Books Lerner Publishing Group Was an innocent man wrongly accused of murder? ...
They Raised Me Up: A Black Single Mother and the Women Who Inspired Her Volume 1
They Raised Me Up: A Black Single Mother and the Women Who Inspired Her Volume 1 Carolyn Marie Wilkins 9780826220110 Fiction University of Missouri Press University of Missouri At the height of the co...
Aliko Mohammad Dangote: The Biography of the Richest Black Person in the World
Aliko Mohammad Dangote: The Biography of the Richest Black Person in the World Moshood Ademola Fayemiwo and Margie Marie Neal 9781618978851 Nonfiction Strategic Book Publishing Strategic Book Publishi...
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...
I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This
I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This Jacqueline Woodson 9780142417041 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House Twelve-year-old Marie is a leader among the popular black girls in Chauncey, Ohio, a prospero...
Damn Near White: An African American Family’s Rise From Slavery To Bittersweet Success
Damn Near White: An African American Family’s Rise From Slavery To Bittersweet Success Carolyn Marie Wilkins 9780826218995 Nonfiction University of Missouri Press University of Missouri Carolyn Wilkin...
Request to Rewind
Request to Rewind Stacey Marie Robinson 9781441566997 Fiction Xlibris Author Solutions Abigail, a twenty-seven-year-old photographer, is in a never-ending rut. She spends her time tolerating a job at ...
I Am Barack Obama
I Am Barack Obama Charisse Carney-Nunes and Ann Marie Williams 9780974814247 Fiction Brand Nu Words NU Words Press A unique and poetic picture book, this is not a biography of President Barack Obama, ...
Women and Religion in the African Diaspora: Knowledge, Power, and Performance
Women and Religion in the African Diaspora: Knowledge, Power, and Performance R. Marie Griffith and Barbara D. Savage 9780801883705 Nonfiction Johns Hopkins University Press Johns Hopkins University P...
Unburnable: A Novel
Unburnable: A Novel Marie-Elena John 9780060837570 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins In this riveting narrative of family, betrayal, vengeance, and murder, Lillian Baptiste is willed back to her island ho...
Little Divas
Little Divas Philana Marie Boles 9780060732998 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Cassidy Carter has let everyone push her around long enough. Before seventh grade starts she will become independent.Life i...
In The Paint: A Novel
In The Paint: A Novel Philana Marie Boles 9780060578220 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Paperback
Blame It On Eve
Blame It On Eve Philana Marie Boles 9780345447128 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House Shawni Baldwin has everything she has ever closed her eyes and wished for. She can wrap her arms aro...
Desirada
Desirada Maryse Conde 9781569472156 Fiction Soho Press Soho Press Secrets et mensonges, est-ce le seul héritage que sa grand-mère, Nina, et sa mère, Reynalda, vont léguer à la narratrice...
At the Full and Change of the Moon
At the Full and Change of the Moon Dionne Brand 9780802137234 Fiction Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. Written with lyrical fire in a chorus of vividly rendered voices, Dionne Brand’s second novel is ...
Black-Eyed Peas for the Soul: Tales to Strengthen the African American Spirit and Encourage the Heart
Black-Eyed Peas for the Soul: Tales to Strengthen the African American Spirit and Encourage the Heart Donna Marie Williams 9780684837451 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. To tell a story well,...
Desperate Circumstance, Dangerous Woman
Desperate Circumstance, Dangerous Woman Brenda Marie Osbey 9780934257572 Poetry Story Line Press Red Hen Press Desperate Circumstance, Dangerous Woman
The Sexual Mountain and Black Women Writers: Adventures in Sex, Literature, and Real Life
The Sexual Mountain and Black Women Writers: Adventures in Sex, Literature, and Real Life Calvin C. Hernton 9780385418270 Nonfiction Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Penguin Random House The author of...
Sexual Mountain
Sexual Mountain Calvin C. Hernton 9780385239219 Nonfiction Doubleday Books Penguin Random House The author of Sex and Racism in America argues here that black men, who dominate the world of black lite...
In These Houses
In These Houses Brenda Marie Osbey 9780819521460 Poetry Wesleyan University Press Wesleyan University Press There is more to the poems than the title reveals; the first poem is actually called “In The...
Fish Tales (1984)
Fish Tales (1984) Nettie Jones 9780394532943 Fiction Random House Penguin Random House A new version was published in 2025“Mostly forgotten and long out-of-print, Fish Tales by Nettie Jones is an ofte...
The Heart As Ever Green: Poems
The Heart As Ever Green: Poems Carolyn Marie Rodgers 9780385127950 Poetry Anchor Penguin Random House “The Heart as Ever Green: Poems, originally published in 1978, added further nuance to Rodgers’s p...
how i got ovah
how i got ovah Carolyn Marie Rodgers 9780385046701 Poetry Anchor Penguin Random House The idea of crossing over to a new way of life provides the substance that Rodgers explicitly longed for in sev...
Good Dirt (paperback)
Good Dirt (paperback) Charmaine Wilkerson 9780593358382 Fiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House National Bestseller • The daughter of an affluent Black family pieces together the connection betw...
Dream Count (Large Print)
Dream Count (Large Print) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9798217014361 Fiction Random House Large Print Penguin Random House New York Times Bestseller • A publishing event ten years in the making—a sea...
The Wind on Her Tongue
The Wind on Her Tongue Anita Kopacz 9781668052211 Fiction Atria / Black Privilege Publishing Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this lyrical and stirring companion to the “spellbinding” (Harper’s Bazaar) Shall...
The 1619 Project (paperback): A New Origin Story
The 1619 Project (paperback): A New Origin Story Nikole Hannah-Jones 9780593230596 Nonfiction Random House Publishing Group Penguin Random House #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER...
Everything I Learned about Racism I Learned in School
Everything I Learned about Racism I Learned in School Tiffany Jewell 9780358638315 Nonfiction Versify Houghton Mifflin Harcourt From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Book Is Anti-Racis...
Acts of Forgiveness
Acts of Forgiveness Maura Cheeks 9780593598290 Fiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House “A vibrant and moving debut that takes to heart our deferred dreams and the value of remaining hopeful.”—Di...
Rain Rising
Rain Rising Courtne Comrie 9780063159730 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins “A searing exploration of the intricacies of racism, privilege, and self-worth within the confines of the Black community. ...
First and Only: What Black Women Say About Thriving at Work and in Life
First and Only: What Black Women Say About Thriving at Work and in Life Jennifer R. Farmer 9781506485164 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media “Essential reading.” —Marie Claire First and Only is a g...
Memphis
Memphis Tara M. Stringfellow 9780593230480 Fiction The Dial Press Penguin Random House A spellbinding debut novel tracing three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter’s discovery that...
Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?
Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? Lizzie Damilola Blackburn 9780593299005 Fiction Pamela Dorman Books Penguin Random House NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY MARIE CLAIRE, PARADE, ESSENCE, MS. MAGAZ...
Wahala
Wahala Nikki May 9780063084247 Fiction Custom House HarperCollins "Contemporary female friendship goes glam in this lively debut novel with remarkable depth." — Washington Post"Great fun and extremely...
A Universe of Wishes: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology
A Universe of Wishes: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology Dhonielle Clayton 9781984896230 Fiction Ember Ember Published in partnership with We Need Diverse Books, this YA fantasy anthology brings togeth...
Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue
Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue Sheree Renee Thomas, Pan Morrigan, Troy L. Wiggins 9781734842272 Fiction Third Man Books Third Man Books Trouble the Waters gathers the tidal force of best...
ACT Like You Got Some Sense: And Other Things My Daughters Taught Me
ACT Like You Got Some Sense: And Other Things My Daughters Taught Me Jamie Foxx 9781538703281 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group In this hilarious and heartfelt memoir, award-winn...
What Storm, What Thunder
What Storm, What Thunder Myriam J. A. Chancy 9781951142766 Fiction Tin House Books Tin House Books Raped and colonized, coerced and silenced—this has been the position of Haitian women within their ow...
The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart Alicia Garza 9780525509707 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House An essential guide to building transformative movements to address th...