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Diamond (The Divas)
Diamond (The Divas) Victoria Christopher Murray 9781416562160 Fiction Pocket Books Pocket Books Diamond. India. Veronqie. Aaliyah. What does that spell? DIVA!! The Divine Divas. They’re fifteen and...
The Mad Sister
The Mad Sister Carol Denise Mitchell 9781462675630 Fiction America Star Books America Star Books Mercy Jean Diamond was the fat, un-liked daughter of a good doctor and deranged mother who hated her. A...
The Book of Alice: Poems
The Book of Alice: Poems Diamond Forde 9781668078402 Poetry Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. From award-winning author Diamond Forde comes a stunningly powerful poetry collection exploring...
Diamond Dreams (Kimani Romance)
Diamond Dreams (Kimani Romance) Zuri Day 9780373862535 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Harlequin Enterprises Limited A dazzling dynasty. As the only daughter of southern California’s most famous wine dynasty...
Diamond Drought
Diamond Drought Brandon McCalla 9780970380364 Fiction Writersandpoets.com Writersandpoets.com Introducing America’s First Hip-hop Soap Opera! Rich was once your typical drug-dealing street hustler wi...
Swift River
Swift River Essie Chambers 9781668027912 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. It’s the summer of 1987 in Swift River, and Diamond Newberry is learning how to drive. Ever since her Pop disap...
Diamond Doris
Diamond Doris Doris Payne 9780062917997 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In the ebullient spirit of Ocean’s 8, The Heist, and Thelma & Louise, a sensational and entertaining memoir of the world’s most...
The Mad Sister 2
The Mad Sister 2 Carol Denise Mitchell 9781795596015 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Mercy Diamond goes to medical school to avenge the death of her sister Roxy Diamond. Unlove...
Just Friends
Just Friends Delaney Diamond 9781940636139 Fiction Delaney Diamond Delaney Diamond Should they risk their friendship for a chance at love? Alannah Bailey is tired of being the boring best friend of Tr...
Black Diamond (The Africa List)
Black Diamond (The Africa List) Zakes Mda 9780857422224 Fiction Seagull Books Seagull Books In this novel by celebrated South African writer Zakes Mda, Kristin Uys, a tough magistrate who lives alone ...
Perfect
Perfect Delaney Diamond 9781940636092 Fiction Delaney Diamond Delaney Diamond Does the end justify the means? Cyrus Johnson is rich, powerful, and used to getting his way. When his estranged wife show...
Unforgettable
Unforgettable Delaney Diamond 9781940636078 Fiction Delaney Diamond Delaney Diamond She offered everything he never knew he needed… Ivy Johnson is stunned when Lucas Baylor makes an appearance at her ...
Diamond Butterfly: Wings of Purpose Karats of Destiny
Diamond Butterfly: Wings of Purpose Karats of Destiny Shawneda Marks 9780615709741 Fiction SC Creations SC Creations Diamond Butterfly Wings of Purpose Karats of Destiny equips women to use scripture,...
Street Divas
Street Divas De’nesha Diamond 9780758247575 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. "In De’nesha Diamond’s explosive series, the fiercest ride-or-die chicks in Memphis are battling alongside-and ag...
The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story
The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story Tiya Miles 9780807834183 Fiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press At the turn of the nineteenth century, Jam...
Swift River (paperback)
Swift River (paperback) Essie Chambers 9781668027929 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK | A National Bestseller | Longlisted for the Center ...
Life’s Too Short: A Memoir
Life’s Too Short: A Memoir Darius Rucker 9780063238749 Nonfiction Dey Street Books HarperCollins A raw, heartfelt memoir from Darius Rucker, the three-time Grammy Award-winning, Diamond-selling lead s...
Justified
Justified Briana Cole and De’nesha Diamond 9781496711496 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. BLACK AND BLUE by DE’NESHA DIAMOND In one shattering night, Charlie Warren’s fiancé is kil...
Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll
Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll Maureen Mahon 9781478011224 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books African American women have played a pivot...
Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief
Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief Doris Payne and Zelda Lockhart 9780062918000 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Soon to be a Major Motion PictureIn the ebullient ...
Baller Bitches the Reunion Volume 4
Baller Bitches the Reunion Volume 4 Joy Deja King 9781942217329 Fiction King Productions King Productions Diamond, Kennedy and Blair are back in Baller Bitches The Reunion. Diamond s life seems idylli...
No Loyalty
No Loyalty De’nesha Diamond 9781496711465 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. DANGEROUS LIAISONS DE’NESHA DIAMOND She’s watching. She’s planning. She’s past done waiting. Klaudya Ramsey is ou...
The Cartel
The Cartel Ashley Antoinette and JaQuavis Coleman 9781622865024 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. The port of Miami brings in millions of dollars’ worth of cocaine every year, and the Ca...
Heist 2
Heist 2 Kiki Swinson and De’nesha Diamond 9780758280312 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. The Last Heist Kiki SwinsonShannon Mitchell gambled that betraying her husband’s biggest heist ever w...
Panic
Panic Sharon M. Draper 9781442408975 Fiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. This gripping, chillingly realistic novel from New York Times bestselling author Sharon Draper, “by...
Heist
Heist Kiki Swinson and De’nesha Diamond 9781496707673 Fiction Kensington Publishing Corporation Kensington Publishing Corp. The Ultimate Heist Kiki SwinsonAccustomed to a life of luxury, Shannon Marsh...
Hustlin’ Divas
Hustlin’ Divas De’nesha Diamond 9780758247551 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In the first book of a fierce new series, meet Memphis’ hardest ride or die chicks as they fight along with the...
The Cartel (Cartel, Book 1)
The Cartel (Cartel, Book 1) Ashley Antoinette and JaQuavis Coleman 9781601621429 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. The port of Miami brings in millions of dollars worth of cocaine every ...
Destiny of the Diamond Princess
Destiny of the Diamond Princess Sherri Winston 9781547617029 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing The Princess Diaries meets From the Desk of Zoey Washington in this story about a g...
The Cartel
The Cartel Ashley Antoinette and JaQuavis Coleman 9781645565864 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. The lovers are on opposing teams, and when their worlds collide, the truth will be unvei...
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...
Mother Body
Mother Body Diamond Forde 9781947817241 Poetry Saturnalia Books Saturnalia Books Mother Body is an intersectional exploration of the the trauma and agency held within a body defined by its potential t...
Dirty Music
Dirty Music Shaun Sinclair 9781496728654 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. THE CRESCENT CREW SERIES He built an empire from his infamous Dirty South crew’s street riches. He’s an unstoppabl...
The Incredible Joy of Collecting African American Art: My Journey from Frogtown, S.C. to the National Gallery
The Incredible Joy of Collecting African American Art: My Journey from Frogtown, S.C. to the National Gallery Patrick Diamond 9781732048270 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published T...
Princess of Estoria
Princess of Estoria Delaney Diamond 9781940636948 Fiction Garden Avenue Press Garden Avenue Press Angela Lipscomb is flattered when Prince Andres of Estoria expresses interest in her, but she’s not lo...
Baller Bitches Volume 2: Baller Bitches Series
Baller Bitches Volume 2: Baller Bitches Series Joy Deja King 9781942217244 Fiction King Productions King Productions Diamond, Kennedy and Blair are back in Volume 2 of the Baller Bitches Series. Will ...
The Cartel Deluxe Edition, Part 2: Books 4 and 5
The Cartel Deluxe Edition, Part 2: Books 4 and 5 Ashley Antoinette and JaQuavis Coleman 9781601620897 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. The Cartel series by street lit superstars Ashley ...
Merge: The Trials and Tribulations of Becoming a Superhero
Merge: The Trials and Tribulations of Becoming a Superhero Eric M. Cooper 9780983420347 Fiction Bowker Bowker Welcome to the newest venture in the Knight Seeker story realm which takes place in the ro...
Wild Thoughts
Wild Thoughts Delaney Diamond 9781940636702 Fiction Garden Avenue Press Garden Avenue Press It started with a little white lie… Lindsay Winthrop’s weekly podcast on sex and dating has garnered thousan...
Collusion
Collusion De’nesha Diamond 9781496705853 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In D.C.’s cutthroat political arena, revenge is the ultimate nuclear option … Framed for a high-profile murder, Ab...
Princess of Zamibia
Princess of Zamibia Delaney Diamond 9781940636665 Fiction Garden Avenue Press Garden Avenue Press "Live in the moment with me." That’s what he asked Dahlia to do, and she did, because after a near dea...
The Cartel Deluxe Edition: Books 1-3
The Cartel Deluxe Edition: Books 1-3 Ashley Antoinette and JaQuavis Coleman 9781622866298 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. The port of Miami brings in millions of dollars’ worth o...
St. Pierre Boyz 2: All is Fair in Love and War (Volume 2)
St. Pierre Boyz 2: All is Fair in Love and War (Volume 2) Mz. Lady P and Mesha Mesh 9781542554442 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Completely fed up with all things St. Pierre, the women a...
Conspiracy (Parker Crime)
Conspiracy (Parker Crime) De’nesha Diamond 9781496705822 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp.
Good Behavior (Johnson Family) (Volume 5)
Good Behavior (Johnson Family) (Volume 5) Delaney Diamond 9781940636412 Fiction Garden Avenue Press Garden Avenue Press Can he still be considered good, when his behavior is so bad?An affair with the ...
A Passionate Love (The Bennett Triplets)
A Passionate Love (The Bennett Triplets) Delaney Diamond 9781940636313 Fiction Garden Avenue Press Garden Avenue Press
The Kid from Diamond Street: The Extraordinary Story of Baseball Legend Edith Houghton
The Kid from Diamond Street: The Extraordinary Story of Baseball Legend Edith Houghton Audrey Vernick 9780544611634 Nonfiction Clarion Books HarperCollins Audrey Vernick and Steven Salerno have again ...
Queen Divas
Queen Divas De’nesha Diamond 9780758292599 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. It’s scorched-earth, all-or-nothing war for Memphis’ most merciless ride-or-die women, and even their survival ski...
Still in Love
Still in Love Delaney Diamond 9781940636221 Fiction Garden Avenue Press Garden Avenue Press
The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond
The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond Brenda Woods 9780147514301 Fiction Puffin Books Penguin Random House Coretta Scott King Honor winner Brenda Woods’ moving, uplifting story of a girl finally m...
Endless Summer Nights: Risky BusinessBeats of My HeartHeartbreak in Rio (Arabesque)
Endless Summer Nights: Risky BusinessBeats of My HeartHeartbreak in Rio (Arabesque) Donna Hill, Grace Octavia, and Delaney Diamond 9780373091546 Fiction Harlequin Kimani Arabesque Harlequin Enterprise...
Gangsta Divas
Gangsta Divas De’nesha Diamond 9780758247599 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp.
Unzipped: An Urban Erotic Tale
Unzipped: An Urban Erotic Tale Noire 9780345508799 Nonfiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House Have you ever had everything you love snatched from your hands in the blink of an eye? Do you kn...
Diamond Playgirls
Diamond Playgirls Daaimah S. Poole, Miasha, Joy Deja King, and T. Styles 9780758223562 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Four beautiful, professional women, living on separate floors ...
Althea
Althea Linda Watkins 9780971513914 Fiction Black Diamond Publishing Black Diamond Publishing The story of a thin lipped, freckled face, light skinned little girl who struggles to understand what it me...
Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues (Polaris)
Black Diamond: The Story of the Negro Baseball Leagues (Polaris) Patricia C. Mckissack 9780590682138 Nonfiction Scholastic Paperbacks Scholastic Inc. A stirring tribute to the human drama, legendary h...
Coal
Coal Audre Lorde 9780393314861 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Of Coal, the poet and critic Hayden Carruth said, “For us these words indeed are jewels in the open light.’ Co...
Dominion: A Novel
Dominion: A Novel Addie E. Citchens 9780374609337 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers A Must-Read: People, NPR, Vulture, Literary Hub, The Millions, Garden & Gun, Goodreads Long-li...
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...
Lullaby for the King
Lullaby for the King Nikki Grimes 9781506485621 Fiction Beaming Books 1517 Media An awe-inspiring Christmas tale from multi-award-winning poet Nikki Grimes. The caravan traveled through wilderness,...
Promise Me A Miracle
Promise Me A Miracle Naleighna Kai, Martha Kennerson, J. L. Campbell, Karen D. Bradley, and Stephanie M. Freeman 9781952871382 Fiction Macro Publishing Group Macro Publishing Group Operation Butterfly...
The Peach Seed
The Peach Seed Anita Gail Jones 9781250872050 Fiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers Fletcher Dukes and Altovise Benson reunite after decades apart—and a mountain of secrets—in this debut e...
Too Small Tola Gets Tough
Too Small Tola Gets Tough Atinuke 9781536229462 Fiction Candlewick Press (MA) Candlewick Press It’s a strange, scary time for Too Small Tola when a new virus separates her family, but Atinuke’s small-...
Beats and Blow
Beats and Blow Shaun Sinclair 9781496728685 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. With an exceptional voice that combines the explosive drama of Kiki Swinson and the lyrical writing style of Devo...
Single Black Female
Single Black Female Tracy Brown 9781250043016 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Tracy Brown’s Single Black Female is a taut, edgy, deftly spun novel about four friends grappling with t...
Engaged
Engaged K.L. Gilchrist 9781734170511 Fiction ISG Press ISG Press Chablis Shields, a purple-haired Jesus chick with a line dance addiction, is engaged to marry her church’s most eligible young bachelor...
Ancestors
Ancestors Alexis Pauline Gumbs 9781946511553 Nonfiction Boston Review Boston Review Some of today’s most imaginative writers consider what it means to be made and fashioned by others. It is rare no...
Kid Vega And The Sorcerer of Mali
Kid Vega And The Sorcerer of Mali Scott Dixon 9781735975306 Fiction Vega Dawn Vega Dawn An epic story for kids and adults of all ages, this is the first book in a new and unique universe filled with l...
Show Me
Show Me Sharon C. Cooper 9781946172259 Fiction Amaris Publishing Amaris Publishing Just when he thought finding a wife was out of his reach… Colton "Cole" Eubanks is laser-focused on building wealth a...
The Gathering of Gemstones: A Poetry Collection
The Gathering of Gemstones: A Poetry Collection Judy C. Andrews 9798656824262 Poetry Independently Published Independently Published Sensual Intriguing. Uplifting. The Gathering of Gemstones: A Poetry...
Give It One More Try
Give It One More Try Clarence McNair 9781734179729 Nonfiction Laboo Publishing Enterprise Laboo Publishing Enterprise A Baltimore native and former Motown recording artist, Clarence “KD” McNair comes ...
Lu: Sometimes You Gotta Jump Anyway…
Lu: Sometimes You Gotta Jump Anyway… Jason Reynolds 9781481450256 Fiction Atheneum Simon & Schuster, Inc. Lu is the man, the kid, the guy. The one and only. Not only was he a miracle baby but he is al...
Soul’s Desire
Soul’s Desire Sharon C. Cooper 9781946172174 Fiction Amaris Publishing Amaris Publishing Some past loves can stand the test of time…Ballet dancer Soul Carrington has lived her dream of traveling the w...
Watch Out for the Big Girls 3
Watch Out for the Big Girls 3 J.M. Benjamin 9781622861293 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Starrshma Fields is officially back on the scene, with the intent of returning to the head of ...
How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance
How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance Akiba Solomon 9781568588490 Nonfiction Bold Type Books Hachette Book Group This celebration of Black resistance, from protests to art to...
Bad Behavior
Bad Behavior Kiki Swinson and Noire 9781617739491 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. NINE LIVES KIKI SWINSON Wild-card Aiden. Dead-shot Ava. Efficient, fast, and brutal, this notorious brother...
My Poetic Soul Unleashed
My Poetic Soul Unleashed Melica Niccole 9780982874523 Poetry Hampton Publishing House Hampton Publishing House My Poetic Soul Unleashed is Melica Niccole’s second book of poetry. Melica felt that it w...
Baseball Under Siege: The Yankees, the Cardinals, and a Doctor’s Battle to Integrate Spring Training
Baseball Under Siege: The Yankees, the Cardinals, and a Doctor’s Battle to Integrate Spring Training Adam Henig 9781548090111 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC In 1961, when the New York...
Tale of the Murda Mamas: The Cartel 2
Tale of the Murda Mamas: The Cartel 2 Ashley Antoinette and JaQuavis Coleman 9781622865031 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. The Cartel runs Miami, and loyalty to the organization runs d...
Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks
Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks Quraysh Ali Lansana and Sandra Jackson-Opoku 9781940430867 Poetry Curbside Splendor Publishing Curbside Splendor Publishing “In the h...
St. Pierre Boyz
St. Pierre Boyz Mz. Lady P and Mesha Mesh 9781539902201 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC The infamous St.Pierre Boyz; Luxe, Sebastian, and Judah were all heirs to the dangerous St.Pierre D...
The Cartel 4: Diamonds Are Forever
The Cartel 4: Diamonds Are Forever Ashley Antoinette and JaQuavis Coleman 9781622865062 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. You thought The Cartel was over, but Diamonds are forever. . . ....
Under One Roof: The Yankees, the Cardinals, and a Doctor’s Battle to Integrate Spring Training
Under One Roof: The Yankees, the Cardinals, and a Doctor’s Battle to Integrate Spring Training Adam Henig 9781634890342 Nonfiction Wise Ink Creative Publishing Wise Ink Creative Publishing In 1961, wh...
Stone Cold Liar (Misadventures of Mink LaRue)
Stone Cold Liar (Misadventures of Mink LaRue) Noire 9781617734953 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. As a newly-minted Dominion family heiress, Mink has new golden moves to snag even mo...
The Cherokee Rose
The Cherokee Rose Tiya Miles 9780895876355 Fiction John F. Blair, Publisher John F. Blair, Publisher The Cherokee Rose, written by Tiya Miles, award-winning historian and recipient of a recent MacArth...
Under Wrapped: A Novel
Under Wrapped: A Novel Charmaine R. Parker 9781593094775 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Tai, Nevada, and Candace—who cherish their sisterly bond of exotic vacations, ladies nights, and u...
Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes: Darryl Billups Mystery #3
Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes: Darryl Billups Mystery #3 Blair S. Walker 9781935597629 Nonfiction Amazon Publishing Amazon Publishing Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes is the third outing for intrepid Afr...
Dutch III: International Gangster
Dutch III: International Gangster Teri Woods 9780446551540 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group It’s one month before Dutch’s trial for what the media has deemed "the Month of Mur...
The Cartel 3
The Cartel 3 Ashley Antoinette and JaQuavis Coleman 9781601622570 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. The Cartel is back and more dangerous than ever before. After finding out the truth ab...
Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street
Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street Lee Stringer 9781583229187 Fiction Seven Stories Press Seven Stories Press Whether Lee Stringer is describing "God’s corner" as he calls 42nd Street, or h...
Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity
Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity Monica L. Miller 9780822346036 Nonfiction Copper Canyon Press Copper Canyon Press Slaves to Fashion is a pioneering cult...
Aaliyah (The Divas)
Aaliyah (The Divas) Victoria Christopher Murray 9781416563518 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Diamond, India, Veronique, and Aaliyah are fifteen-year-old high school sophomores on their w...
India (The Divas)
India (The Divas) Victoria Christopher Murray 9781416563495 Fiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. The Divine Divas are on their way! They won the local, and now they’re all set to wow the judge...
Wifey
Wifey Kiki Swinson 9780758229014 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Essence® bestselling author KiKi Swinson offers up a scandalous street lit tale—and shows that no one else stands a chan...
Butta’ And The Tower Of Bling
Butta’ And The Tower Of Bling Corey A. Burkes 9780979635205 Fiction Skyelight Literature Skyelight Literature Introducing Butta Victim of a devastating loss by the hand of the world s most powerful ma...
Stripped
Stripped Jacki Simmons 9781934157008 Fiction Melodrama Publishing Melodrama Publishing FROM THE DESK OF JACKI SIMMONS: PROLOGUE © 2005 Trina ain’t hardly the baddest bitch. Trust me, the diam...
The Mack Within
The Mack Within Tariq Nasheed 9781594481796 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House The Art of Mackin’ was the first book of rules for players—from overcoming fears of getting dissed to spotting a stank de...
The Edge of Dawn
The Edge of Dawn Beverly Jenkins 9780060540678 Fiction HarperTorch HarperCollins The beautiful daughter of a prominent Michigan doctor,Narice has never strayedanywhere near the wrong sideof the law. T...
Soulmates Dissipate
Soulmates Dissipate Mary B. Morrison 9780758200204 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. A soulful, sexy tale of true love tested, this bestselling debut novel began an exciting series that c...
The Black Sleuth (Northeastern Library of Black Literature)
The Black Sleuth (Northeastern Library of Black Literature) John Edward Bruce 9781555535117 Fiction Northeastern Northeastern Originally serialized in McGirt’s Magazine between 1907 and 1909, The Blac...