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Ken Burns Interviewed (April 2013).
Ken Burns Interviewed (April 2013). Kam Williams Interview Legendary Filmmaker Discusses His Latest Documentary Photo Credit dbking Ken Burns has been making films for more than thirty years...
Christopher D. Burns
Christopher D. Burns NONE Christopher D. Burns, from Memphis, served in the US Navy as an electrician before becoming a QA analyst and basketball coach. He wrote his first book after an injury halted...
Ursula M. Burns
Ursula M. Burns 0000000445332455 Ursula M. Burns is a pioneering American businesswoman, the first black woman to become a Fortune 500 CEO at Xerox, where she served from 2009-2016. She was also Chai...
V. M. Burns
V. M. Burns NONE V. M. Burns is an American mystery writer best known for her cozy series including the Mystery Bookshop Mysteries, Dog Club Mysteries, and RJ Franklin Mysteries. Born in northwester...
Where You Are Is Not Who You Are (paperback): A Memoir
Where You Are Is Not Who You Are (paperback): A Memoir Ursula M. Burns 9780062879301 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins The first Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company looks back at her life and her...
Where You Are Is Not Who You Are: A Memoir
Where You Are Is Not Who You Are: A Memoir Ursula M. Burns 9780062879295 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins The first Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company looks back at her life and her career at X...
100 Black And White Questions
100 Black And White Questions Kevin Pendleton and Christopher D Burns 9780970195258 Nonfiction CB Publishing CB Publishing Originally published in 2003, this re-release has been kept in its original f...
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave (Laurel-leaf books)
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave (Laurel-leaf books) Virginia Hamilton 9780679839972 Fiction Laurel Leaf Laurel Leaf Now in Laurel-Leaf, Virginia Hamilton’s powerful true acco...
Nothing Burns as Bright as You
Nothing Burns as Bright as You Ashley Woodfolk 9780358655367 Fiction Versify Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Five starred reviews! Now in paperback, from New York Times bestselling author Ashley Woodfolk, ...
No Ruined Stone
No Ruined Stone Shara McCallum 9781948579193 Poetry Alice James Books Alice James Books No Ruined Stone is a verse sequence rooted in the life of 18th-century Scottish poet Robert Burns. In 1786, Burn...
By Night the Mountain Burns
By Night the Mountain Burns Juan Tomás Avila Laurel 9781908276407 Fiction And Other Stories Publishing And Other Stories Publishing This novel tells of childhood on a remote island off the west Africa...
The Central Park Five: A Chronicle Of A City Wilding
The Central Park Five: A Chronicle Of A City Wilding Sarah Burns 9780307266149 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House A riveting, in-depth account of one of New York City’s most notorious crimes. On Ap...
Confirmation: The Spiritual Wisdom That Has Shaped Our Lives
Confirmation: The Spiritual Wisdom That Has Shaped Our Lives Khephra Burns and Susan L. Taylor 9780385483780 Nonfiction Anchor Penguin Random House Confirmation: The Spiritual Wisdom That Has Shaped O...
Surprise for Mrs. Burns
Surprise for Mrs. Burns Glennette Tilley Turner 9780807576694 Fiction Albert Whitman & Company Albert Whitman & Company When they discover she is leaving, Mrs. Burns’ class decides to give her a party...
Murder from A to Z
Murder from A to Z V. M. Burns 9781496750822 Fiction Kensington Cozies Kensington Publishing Corp. Fowl Play at Shady Acres When Michigan bookshop owner and mystery writer Samantha Washington and h...
F--k Speeches & Inspiration: Where Do I Get The Money To Start?: Book 3 in the 1 Hour to Wealth Series
F--k Speeches & Inspiration: Where Do I Get The Money To Start?: Book 3 in the 1 Hour to Wealth Series Christopher D. Burns 9781518679209 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC 1 Hour to Weal...
The 30 Day Project: How Daily Dedication Can Lead to Something Amazing
The 30 Day Project: How Daily Dedication Can Lead to Something Amazing Christopher D. Burns 9780970195296 Nonfiction C. B. Publishing C. B. Publishing One Hour To Wealth was the first book in a serie...
One Hour To Wealth: Your Great Idea Is Valuable...Get Up And Write It Down!
One Hour To Wealth: Your Great Idea Is Valuable...Get Up And Write It Down! Christopher D. Burns 9781502461759 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC One Hour To Wealth was written in respons...
When Race Burns Class: Settlers Revisited. A Critical Assessment of the U.S. White Working Class
When Race Burns Class: Settlers Revisited. A Critical Assessment of the U.S. White Working Class Kuwasi Balagoon 9781894946407 Nonfiction Kerplebedeb Kerplebedeb An interview with author J. Sakai abou...
It Often Deprives Me Of My Sleep
It Often Deprives Me Of My Sleep Christopher D. Burns 9780970195289 Fiction C. B. Publishing C. B. Publishing Stories typically adhere to a format that allows for a manipulation of characters and situ...
Archie’s Psalm
Archie’s Psalm Christopher D. Burns 9780970195241 Fiction C. B. Publishing C. B. Publishing Archie’s Psalm is a glimpse into the life of a latchkey kid who is encountering situations that force him to...
Stages: A Handbook On Men And Relationships
Stages: A Handbook On Men And Relationships Christopher D. Burns 9780970195234 Nonfiction C. B. Publishing C. B. Publishing Stages: A Handbook on Men and Relationships There are four stages men go thr...
A Man’s State of Mind: A Novella
A Man’s State of Mind: A Novella Christopher D. Burns 9780970195203 Fiction C. B. Publishing C. B. Publishing It only takes one time for a man to be hurt before he turns bad. Unlike women, men… Well,...
Yusef Salaam
Yusef Salaam NONE Dr. Yusef Abdus Salaam, part of the Exonerated Five, was wrongly convicted in the Central Park jogger case at 15. After years in prison, his sentence was overturned in 2002. His sto...
Jonathan Eig
Jonathan Eig 0000000036580570 Jonathan Eig is a former Wall Street Journal writer and New York Times bestselling author of five books, praised as a “master storyteller” by Ken Burns. His work has bee...
Raymond Santana
Raymond Santana NONE Raymond Santana is an author, designer, and activist. He currently travels around the country telling his story of hope and overcoming obstacles as he continues to fight against...
Kanoni’s Kwanzaa
Kanoni’s Kwanzaa Hope Anita Smith 9780316341547 Fiction Christy Ottaviano Books Hachette Book Group This festive picture book celebrates the culture, community, and family at the heart of Kwanzaa’s se...
The Wild Card
The Wild Card Dylan Allen 9798903270491 Fiction Blue Box Press Blue Box Press Wall Street Journal bestselling author Dylan Allen continues the Rivers Wilde series with a neighbors-to-lovers second-cha...
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...
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture Roxane Gay 9780063459779 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins New York Times Bestseller “This is a devastating book, heartbreaking in how familiar an...
This Here Is Love
This Here Is Love Princess Joy L. Perry 9781324105978 Fiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. As the seventeenth century burns to a close in Tidewater, Virginia, America’s characte...
The Many Hundreds of the Scent: Poems
The Many Hundreds of the Scent: Poems Shane McCrae 9780374613945 Poetry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers A stunning new collection of poetry from Shane McCrae, winner of the Whiting Writ...
The Weight
The Weight Jeff Boyd 9781668007266 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. A powerful coming-of-age novel about a twenty-something Black musician living in predominantly white Portland, Oregon...
Warrior on the Mound
Warrior on the Mound Sandra W. Headen 9780823453788 Fiction Holiday House Holiday House Narrated by twelve-year-old Cato, this intense and evocative story of racial unrest in prewar North Carolina end...
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Tracy Brown 9781250834959 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Tracy Brown crafts a tale about a master manipulator and serial survivor, who will scorch earth to get what she wan...
The Spark in You
The Spark in You Andrea Pippins 9780593380093 Fiction Random House Studio Penguin Random House This jubilant picture book filled with powerful affirmations celebrates the beautiful magic that makes ea...
Remember Us
Remember Us Jacqueline Woodson 9780399545467 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson brings readers a powerful story that delves deeply into life...
A Place of Our Own
A Place of Our Own Joshunda Sanders 9781644420232 Fiction Six Foot Press Six Foot Press “I’m so glad Joshunda is telling our stories.” —Jacqueline Woodson In summertime, intrepid eight-year-old jou...
Burning Season
Burning Season Kiki Swinson 9781496738998 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. National bestselling author Kiki Swinson’s novels set it off with killer plot twists, merciless characters—and an u...
The Final Strife
The Final Strife Saara El-Arifi 9780593356968 Fiction Del Ray Penguin Random House Book One of The Ending Fire Trilogy ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Oprah Daily, Autostraddle Red is the blo...
Mademoiselle Revolution
Mademoiselle Revolution Zoe Sivak 9780593336038 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House A bisexual, biracial protagonist from the late 1700s. A violent slave uprising in Haiti and it’s rippling eff...
An Extraordinary Union: An Epic Love Story of the Civil War
An Extraordinary Union: An Epic Love Story of the Civil War Alyssa Cole 9781496739124 Fiction Kensington Publishing Corporation Kensington Publishing Corp. As the Civil War rages between the states, a...
Can’t Resist Her
Can’t Resist Her Kianna Alexander 9781542034098 Fiction Montlake Amazon Publishing Two very determined women—in love, at odds, and risking a lot on a second chance. After years away from home, Summ...
After the Rain
After the Rain Nnedi Okorafor 9781419743566 Fiction Abrams ComicArts Abrams Nnedi Okorafor’s story of Chioma, a young Nigerian-American woman whose destiny is revealed during a furious rainstorm—now i...
Playing Their Games
Playing Their Games Kiki Swinson 9781496734129 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In this this page-turning spin-off prequel to the Playing Dirty and Notorious duology, national bestselling au...
The Black Kids (Reprint)
The Black Kids (Reprint) Christina Hammonds Reed 9781534462731 Fiction Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. A New York Times bestseller A William C. Morris Award Finalist ...
Nervous Conditions
Nervous Conditions Tsitsi Dangarembga 9781644450710 Fiction Graywolf Press Graywolf Press A modern classic from the Booker-shortlisted author of This Mournable Body The groundbreaking first novel i...
Death, With Occasional Smiling
Death, With Occasional Smiling Tony Medina 9781945023262 Poetry Indolent Books Indolent Books Read a Review of Death, With Occasional Smiling at Mosaic Magazine. The electrifying body of poems in ...
Knight of Irondale
Knight of Irondale J.L. Woodson 9781952871122 Fiction Macro Publishing Group Macro Publishing Group Neesha Carpenter is on the run from a stalker ex-boyfriend, so why are the police hot on her trail?N...
Noughts & Crosses
Noughts & Crosses Malorie Blackman 9781534497429 Fiction Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. Two star-crossed lovers fight for a more just world in this searing novel with ...
I Kick Ass at Work!: The Strategy Journal for Career Professionals
I Kick Ass at Work!: The Strategy Journal for Career Professionals Sonia Alleyne 9781732700215 Nonfiction Hunter Publishing Group Hunter Publishing Group I Kick Ass at Work! is designed to refocus att...
Master of Poisons
Master of Poisons Andrea Hairston 9781250260543 Fiction Tordotcom Macmillan Publishers “This is a prayer hymn, a battle cry, a lovesong, a legendary call and response bonfire talisman tale. This is me...
The Black Kids
The Black Kids Christina Hammonds Reed 9781534462724 Fiction Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. Recipient of a 2021 William C. Morris Honor for a debut book published by a...
Riot Baby
Riot Baby Tochi Onyebuchi 9781250214751 Fiction Tor Books Macmillan Publishers "Riot Baby bursts at the seams of story with so much fire, passion and power that in the end it turns what we call a narr...
Juliet Takes a Breath
Juliet Takes a Breath Gabby Rivera 9780593108178 Fiction Dial Penguin Random House A People magazine Best Book of Fall 2019An Amazon Best Young Adult Book of 2019"F***ing outstanding."—Roxane Gay, New...
Life Is God’s Best Gift: Wisdom from the Ancestors on Finding Peace and Joy in Today’s World
Life Is God’s Best Gift: Wisdom from the Ancestors on Finding Peace and Joy in Today’s World Sam Chege 9780062906878 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Following the success of the megabestselling Black...
Sweet Heat
Sweet Heat Zuri Day 9781617734298 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. The Blue-Collar Lover Series They don’t wear suits, but the five Carter brothers work hard to earn a day’s pay—and keep t...
The Romare Bearden Reader
The Romare Bearden Reader Robert G. O’Meally 9781478000587 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books The Romare Bearden Reader brings together a collection of new essays and c...
DEMIgOD: #allgodsmatter
DEMIgOD: #allgodsmatter Christopher Michael 9780998427010 Poetry 310 Brown Street 310 Brown Street In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. If God is the same ye...
Black Panther Vol. 2: Avengers of the New World
Black Panther Vol. 2: Avengers of the New World Ta-Nehisi Coates 9781302908959 Fiction Marvel Marvel Comics Eons ago - before Black Panthers, before Wakanda, before time itself - there were only the O...
A Duke by Default: Reluctant Royals
A Duke by Default: Reluctant Royals Alyssa Cole 9780062685568 Fiction Avon Books HarperCollins Award-winning author Alyssa Cole’s Reluctant Royals series continues with a woman on a quest to be the he...
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture Roxane Gay 9780062413512 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins New York Times Bestseller Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Time...
Divas Don’t Cry (Hollywood High)
Divas Don’t Cry (Hollywood High) Ni-Ni Simone and Amir Abrams 9780758288585 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. “Simone and Abrams really know how to bring the entertaining drama.”—RT Book Revi...
Dreamland Burning
Dreamland Burning Jennifer Latham 9780316384902 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group A compelling dual-narrated tale from Jennifer Latham that questions how far we’ve come...
Black Panther Book 4: Avengers of the New World Book 1
Black Panther Book 4: Avengers of the New World Book 1 Ta-Nehisi Coates 9781302906498 Fiction Marvel Marvel Comics Where next for the Black Panther? Find out as a sensational new arc begins! Eons ago ...
Retribution
Retribution J. L. Campbell 9789769558649 Fiction The Writers’ Suite The Writers’ Suite JUSTINE CHARLES is still trying to put the pieces of her life together seven years after a disastrous extra-marit...
An Extraordinary Union (The Loyal League)
An Extraordinary Union (The Loyal League) Alyssa Cole 9781496707444 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. An Entertainment Weekly TOP 10 ROMANCE BOOKS OF THE YEARA Bookpage TOP PICKA Kirkus B...
A Millionaire at Midnight
A Millionaire at Midnight Naima Simone 9781682814277 Fiction Entangled Publishing Entangled Publishing Boston socialite Morgan Lett is having a run of bad luck. Her fiancE just dumped her for her step...
Social Action, Advocacy and Agents of Change
Social Action, Advocacy and Agents of Change Ruby M. Gourdine and Annie W. Brown 9781580730556 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press There are moments in time when the forces of society, ...
From One Night to Forever
From One Night to Forever Synithia Williams 9781440586743 Fiction Crimson Books Crimson Publishers Trucker Aaron Henderson always loved his life of freedom on the open road, but a business opportunity...
Slippin’ Sippin’ Saints
Slippin’ Sippin’ Saints Faye Thompson 9780996610179 Fiction Ultra Pearl Power Ultra Pearl Power Slippin’ Sippin’ Saints takes a scandalous peek inside the flawed flock of New York’s Church of the One ...
Made to Love You
Made to Love You Sheryl Lister B00YB50K7S Fiction NYLA Publishing NYLA Publishing Devin Simms has never forgiven the woman who walked out on him, but when he sees her again, he realizes the passion be...
Sparks of Temptation: The ProposalFeeling the Heat (The Westmorelands)
Sparks of Temptation: The ProposalFeeling the Heat (The Westmorelands) Brenda Jackson 9780373091706 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Arabesque Harlequin Enterprises Limited Two classic Westmoreland novels fro...
This Holiday Magic: An Anthology
This Holiday Magic: An Anthology Celeste O. Norfleet 9780373091621 Fiction Kimani Press Kimani Press “A Gift from the Heart” by Celeste O. Norfleet The ex who broke Janelle Truman’s heart is back...
Rocket Crockett and the Shanghai She-Devil
Rocket Crockett and the Shanghai She-Devil Christopher Chambers 9781502561510 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Dusky derring-doer and Korean War jet jockey Lt. Rufus "Rocket" Crockett has ...
Always an Eaton: Sweet DreamsTwice the Temptation (The Eatons)
Always an Eaton: Sweet DreamsTwice the Temptation (The Eatons) Rochelle Alers 9780373091553 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Arabesque Harlequin Enterprises Limited Two classic Eaton family novels from nation...
Get On Up - A New James Brown Movie Coming!
Get On Up - A New James Brown Movie Coming! Troy Johnson Article I just learned about this up coming film from my online buddy, CD Burns, an hour ago. After watching the trailer, I figured I’d shar...
The Sun (New True Books: Space (Paperback))
The Sun (New True Books: Space (Paperback)) Christine Taylor Butler 9780531253632 Nonfiction Children’s Press and Franklin Watts Scholastic Inc. No other body in the solar system is as important as th...
Planet Venus (New True Books: Space (Paperback))
Planet Venus (New True Books: Space (Paperback)) Christine Taylor Butler 9780531253656 Nonfiction Children’s Press and Franklin Watts Scholastic Inc. Unlike most other planets, Venus can be seen from ...
African American Firsts: Famous, Little-Known and Unsung Triumphs of Blacks in America (4th Edition)
African American Firsts: Famous, Little-Known and Unsung Triumphs of Blacks in America (4th Edition) Joan Potter 9780758292414 Nonfiction Down & Out Books Down & Out Book Updated With The Latest Facts...
Forged By Fire (Hazelwood High Trilogy)
Forged By Fire (Hazelwood High Trilogy) Sharon M. Draper 9781442489141 Fiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. The flame of love burns bright in the second book of Sharon M. Dr...
But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise
But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise Lillian-Yvonne Bertram 9781597091688 Poetry Red Hen Press Red Hen Press Winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award, But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise emerges a...
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell M.T. Pope, Tina Brooks Mckinney, Brenda Hampton, and Terry E. Hill 9781601623386 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance Private Kyle Sullivan is a happily married m...
Dreams That Won’t Let Go: A Novel (Jubilant Soul)
Dreams That Won’t Let Go: A Novel (Jubilant Soul) Stacy Hawkins Adams 9780800732684 Fiction Fleming H. Revell Company Baker Publishing Group Indigo Burns is excited. Her wedding preparations to the ma...
Ghetto Plainsman
Ghetto Plainsman Jarid Manos 9780966841343 Fiction Temba House Press Temba House Press Every movement has its book. Gritty, raw and spiritual, Ghetto Plainsman chronicles one man’s triumph over humili...
Worth A Thousand Words: A Novel (Jubilant Soul)
Worth A Thousand Words: A Novel (Jubilant Soul) Stacy Hawkins Adams 9780800732677 Fiction Fleming H. Revell Company Baker Publishing Group Life has always gone Indigo Burns’s way. She’s smart, pretty,...
A Private Affair (Arabesque)
A Private Affair (Arabesque) Donna Hill 9780373831623 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Harlequin Enterprises Limited Nikita Harrell’s drive and determination took her to the pinnacle of the New York publishin...
Baby Brother’s Blues: A Novel
Baby Brother’s Blues: A Novel Pearl Cleage 9780345481115 Fiction One World Penguin Random House When Regina Burns married Blue Hamilton, she knew he was no ordinary man. A charismatic R&B singer who g...
Harlem Girl Lost: A Novel
Harlem Girl Lost: A Novel Treasure Blue 9780345492647 Fiction One World Penguin Random House “A true urban novel filled with vivid images of the street.”–Black Issues Book ReviewTreasure E. Blue, stre...
Winds of the Storm
Winds of the Storm Beverly Jenkins 9780060575311 Fiction Avon Books HarperCollins Archer Le Veq owes his life to the woman who rescued him from certain death at the height of the Civil War…a woman kno...
Mob
Mob Roy Glenn 9780974702513 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Travis Burns, a.k.a. Mr. Blue, Jackie Washington, a.k.a. Mr. White, and Ronnie Grier a.k.a. Mr. Green live by rules. The fi...
Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies
Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies Robert G. O’Meally 9780231123518 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press Jackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted; Romare Bea...
Some Things I Never Thought I’d Do
Some Things I Never Thought I’d Do Pearl Cleage 9780345456069 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House With the unique blend of truth and humor that made her first novel, What Looks Like Craz...
Growing Up X
Growing Up X Ilyasah Shabazz and Kim McLarin 9780345444967 Nonfiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House “Ilyasah Shabazz has written a compelling and lyrical coming-of-age story as well as a c...
Craig Steven Wilder
Craig Steven Wilder 0000000055180126 Craig Steven Wilder began his career as a community organizer in the South Bronx. He provides curricular and professional development workshops with public s...