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Animal 2: The Omen
Animal 2: The Omen K’wan 9781936399291 Fiction Cash Money Content Simon & Schuster, Inc. Secrets are revealed, sides are chosen and bodies are dropped…it’s on! After being thought dead, Animal r...
Animal 2: The Omen
Animal 2: The Omen K’wan 9781936399666 Fiction Cash Money Content Simon & Schuster, Inc. After the incredible success of Animal, K’wan is back with the second, bloody installment in the new Animal sag...
Animal IV: Last Rites (Volume 4)
Animal IV: Last Rites (Volume 4) K’wan 9780982492093 Fiction Write 2 Eat Concepts Write 2 Eat Concepts From the moment Animal’s former lover Red Sonja showed up on his doorstep, he knew trouble wouldn...
Animal 3: Revelations
Animal 3: Revelations K’wan 9781936399932 Fiction Cash Money Content Simon & Schuster, Inc. After making a promise to leave the street life behind, a shocking revelation forces Animal back into the ga...
Animal Presence and Human Identity in Modern Literature: (Dis)Figurations of Humanimality from Shakespeare to Desai
Animal Presence and Human Identity in Modern Literature: (Dis)Figurations of Humanimality from Shakespeare to Desai Kimberly W. Benston 9781785279607 Nonfiction Anthem Press Anthem Press Animal Presen...
Animal: The Beginning
Animal: The Beginning K’wan 9781622869978 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Based on his bestselling Animal series comes Kwan’s highly anticipated prequel, Animal: The Beginning. Wh...
Of Gods and Shadows
Of Gods and Shadows J.D. Mason 9781733825795 Fiction Spirit in the Dark Publishing Spirit in the Dark Publishing, LLC Twenty-four-year-old bartender, Eden Reid, grew up being told the kinds of stories...
Death Omen (The Moon Cried Blood) (Volume 4)
Death Omen (The Moon Cried Blood) (Volume 4) Sumiko Saulson 9781500712006 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Joy’s reunion with her birth family is tainted by tragedy and as the story of her...
Animal
Animal K’wan 9781936399253 Fiction Cash Money Content Simon & Schuster, Inc. One bullet changed everything. Three years after narrowly escaping a one way trip to the gas chamber, the fugitive known on...
Animal Ark: Celebrating our Wild World in Poetry and Pictures
Animal Ark: Celebrating our Wild World in Poetry and Pictures Kwame Alexander and Mary Rand Hess 9781426327674 Poetry National Geographic Children’s Books National Geographic Books A howling wolf, a s...
Cain Named the Animal: Poems
Cain Named the Animal: Poems Shane McCrae 9780374607845 Poetry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers A prophetic new collection of poems from Shane McCrae, “a shrewd composer of American stor...
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man Joshua Bennett 9780674980303 Nonfiction Belknap Press Harvard University Press A prize-winning poet argues that blackness acts as the caesura b...
Project Animal Rescue (Alyssa Milano’s Hope #2), 2
Project Animal Rescue (Alyssa Milano’s Hope #2), 2 Alyssa Milano and Debbie Rigaud 9781338329414 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. The local animal shelter might be closing — and it’s up to Hope ...
The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named: Poems
The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named: Poems Nicole Sealey 9780810133129 Poetry Northwestern University Press Northwestern University Press The Poetry and Poetics Colloquium, in conjunction wi...
Fast Animal
Fast Animal Tim Seibles 9780983294429 Poetry Etruscan Press Etruscan Press 2012 National Book Award Finalist in PoetryCrisply comic,disarmingly frank, and aurally bold ”Publishers WeeklyThis collec...
Animal Village
Animal Village Nelda LaTeef 9789988647469 Fiction Sub-Saharan Publishers Sub-Saharan Publishers Animal Village, a children’s picture book, is an authentic folk tale from the Zarma culture of West Afri...
Old Mikamba Had a Farm
Old Mikamba Had a Farm Rachel Isadora 9780399257407 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House This fabulous version of the classic nursery song "Old MacDonald" introduces children to a menageri...
The Backyard Animal Show, 5 (Reissue)
The Backyard Animal Show, 5 (Reissue) Sharon M. Draper 9781442450226 Fiction Aladdin Paperbacks Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this fifth book of the classic chapter book series by award-winning author Sha...
Advances and Updates in Internal Medicine, an Issue of Veterinary Clinics: Exotic Animal Practice: Volume 13-3
Advances and Updates in Internal Medicine, an Issue of Veterinary Clinics: Exotic Animal Practice: Volume 13-3 Kemba Marshall 9781437725032 Nonfiction Saunders Elsevier A current review of important i...
Nazaré
Nazaré JJ Amaworo Wilson 9781629639208 Fiction PM Press PM Press Nazaré tells the story of a peasants’ revolt in the polyglot city of Balaal. The story begins with a miracle. A homeless boy see...
Of Dark Creatures
Of Dark Creatures J.D. Mason 9781734608816 Fiction Spirit in the Dark Publishing Spirit in the Dark Publishing, LLC Eden Reid has killed Sakarabru, defied a prophecy and against all odds, survives. Wi...
Meji: 10th Anniversary Special Edition
Meji: 10th Anniversary Special Edition Milton J. Davis 9780999278956 Fiction MVmedia MVmedia Twins born to a society that believes such a birth is a dangerous omen, Ndoro and Obaseki are separated at ...
Renaissance of the Psyche
Renaissance of the Psyche Melica Niccole 9780997687538 Poetry Hampton Publishing House Hampton Publishing House Renaissance of the Psyche is Melica Niccole’s fourth book of poetry. In this work, she ...
Dreams of the Departed (The Moon Cried Blood) (Volume 3)
Dreams of the Departed (The Moon Cried Blood) (Volume 3) Sumiko Saulson 9781499741346 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC The Moon Cried Blood chronicle continues with “Rooms of the Dead”. Fo...
The Boy and the Lion: A True Story of a Lost Maasai Boy Mysteriously Protected by a Wild Lioness
The Boy and the Lion: A True Story of a Lost Maasai Boy Mysteriously Protected by a Wild Lioness Mike Saito 9781957810423 Nonfiction Iskanchi Press Iskanchi Press A true survival memoir about a five-y...
The Big Five
The Big Five Bella Makatini 9781605377230 Fiction Clavis Clavis Winner of the International Competition for the Best Inclusive Story — organized by Inclusive Works and Clavis Publishing. Danny is s...
Jaden Toussaint, the Greatest Episode 5: Mission Star-Power
Jaden Toussaint, the Greatest Episode 5: Mission Star-Power Marti Dumas 9781943169283 Fiction Yes, Mam Creations Plum Street Press Giant Afro. Even Bigger Brain. Jaden Toussaint is a five-year-old who...
Lola Gets a Cat
Lola Gets a Cat Anna McQuinn 9781580897365 Fiction Charlesbridge Charlesbridge Lola wants a cat, but Mommy says taking care of a pet is a lot of work. So Lola does her homework. At the library she fin...
The Animal Too Big to Kill: Poems
The Animal Too Big to Kill: Poems Shane McCrae 9780892554645 Poetry Persea Books Persea Books This collection, winner of the 2014 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award, further establishes Shane McCrae...
Eviction Notice: A Hood Rat Novel (Hood Rat Novels)
Eviction Notice: A Hood Rat Novel (Hood Rat Novels) K’wan 9780312536985 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers When three young friends, Porsha, Frankie and Sahara, decide to sublease an ap...
Dog Days: An Animal Chronicle
Dog Days: An Animal Chronicle Patrice Nganang 9780813925349 Fiction University of Virginia Press University of Virginia Press "I am a dog," the narrator of Patrice Nganang’s novel plainly informs us. ...
The Sweet and Sour Animal Book
The Sweet and Sour Animal Book Langston Hughes 9780195120301 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Langston Hughes (1902-1967) was one of the most versatile writers of the artisti...
You Belong in the Wild
You Belong in the Wild Rae Wynn-Grant 9781638930426 Fiction Get Lifted Books Penguin Random House In this heartfelt and beautifully illustrated picture book, a young science enthusiast discovers that ...
Dad
Dad Christian Robinson 9781250397041 Fiction Balzer & Bray/Harperteen HarperCollins Dad From Christian Robinson, #1 New York Times bestseller, Caldecott Honoree, and one of the most recognizable pict...
Flora La Fresca & the Plot to Make Millions
Flora La Fresca & the Plot to Make Millions Veronica Chambers 9780525556329 Fiction Dial Books Penguin Random House The second in a funny illustrated middle grade series about a Panamanian American ...
Song for Two Homes
Song for Two Homes Michael Datcher 9780593429365 Fiction Random House Studio Penguin Random House From the New York Times Bestselling author of Raising Fences and the award-winning illustrator of Mama...
The Watkins Book of African Folklore
The Watkins Book of African Folklore Helen Nde 9781786788962 Nonfiction Watkins Publishing Watkins Publishing Combining vivid storytelling, astonishing imagination, and careful research, this is the u...
Freedom Fire: Black Girl Power: 15 Stories Celebrating Black Girlhood
Freedom Fire: Black Girl Power: 15 Stories Celebrating Black Girlhood Leah Johnson 9781368098960 Fiction Freedom Fire Disney Publishing Worldwide A vibrant, heartwarming collection of 15 middle grade ...
On a Move: Philadelphia’s Notorious Bombing and a Native Son’s Lifelong Battle for Justice
On a Move: Philadelphia’s Notorious Bombing and a Native Son’s Lifelong Battle for Justice Mike Africa Jr. with D. Watkins 9780063318878 Nonfiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt The incredib...
Sharks Don’t Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist
Sharks Don’t Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist Jasmin Graham 9780593685259 Nonfiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House The uplifting story of a young Black scientist’s challenging journey...
Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit
Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit Robin Bernstein 9780226744230 Nonfiction University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press An award-winning histor...
I Would Love You Still
I Would Love You Still Adrea Theodore 9780823453665 Fiction Holiday House Holiday House A trip to the zoo inspires a parent to list all the ways they love their child, no matter how wild they are, in ...
Cecilia Vicuna Deer Book
Cecilia Vicuna Deer Book Cecilia Vicuna 9781955161114 Nonfiction Radius Books Radius Books The fruition of decades of labor, Vicuña’s poetical works on the cosmologies and myths of the deer are...
The Case of the Chaos Monster: An Elemental Detectives Adventure
The Case of the Chaos Monster: An Elemental Detectives Adventure Patrice Lawrence 9780702315633 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. A stunningly imagined, action-packed fantasy adventure for fans o...
The Courage of the Little Hummingbird: A Tale Told Around the World
The Courage of the Little Hummingbird: A Tale Told Around the World Leah Henderson 9781419754555 Fiction Abrams Books for Young Readers Abrams A freshly retold animal fable about heroism, hope, and co...
Dr. Bobby’s Recipes and Remedies
Dr. Bobby’s Recipes and Remedies Bobby Price 9780999612446 Nonfiction Wise Old Owl Publishing Wise Old Owl Publishing Here’s a collection of delicious, imaginative, and easy-to-follow plant-based reci...
Sugar Plum Ballerinas Sugar Plums to the Rescue! #5
Sugar Plum Ballerinas Sugar Plums to the Rescue! #5 Whoopi Goldberg 9780316294904 Fiction Jump At The Sun Jump At The Sun The fifth book of the award-winning and bestselling Sugar Plum Ballerinas seri...
African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals
African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals David Hackett Fischer 9781982145095 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this sweeping, foundational work, Pulitzer Priz...
Glory
Glory NoViolet Bulawayo 9780525561132 Fiction Viking Penguin Random House 2022 BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST “Manifoldly clever…brilliant… Glory is its own vivid world, drawn from its own folkl...
Little John Crow
Little John Crow Ziggy Marley and Orly Marley 9781617759802 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books After being abandoned by his animal friends, Little John Crow must come to terms with what it means to b...
Sophie Washington Lemonade Day
Sophie Washington Lemonade Day Tonya Duncan Ellis 9781735338934 Fiction Page Turner Publishing Page Turner Publishing When Life Gives You Lemons…Make Lemonade Sixth-grader Sophie Washington and friend...
These Bodies
These Bodies Morgan Christie 9781948800365 Fiction Tolsun Books Tolsun Publishing Fiction. Short Stories. African & African American Studies. These Bodies, a collection of eleven stories by Morgan Chr...
Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice
Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice Hanna Garth and Ashanté M. Reese 9781517908140 Nonfiction University of Minnesota Press University of Minnesota Press An in-depth look at...
The Understudy’s Handbook: Poems
The Understudy’s Handbook: Poems Steven Leyva 9781941551226 Poetry Erewhon Books Kensington Publishing Corp. "This book helps me remember why I fell in love with poetry in the first place." — Tim Seib...
Bedtime for Sweet Creatures
Bedtime for Sweet Creatures Nikki Grimes 9781492638322 Fiction Sourcebooks Jabberwocky Sourcebooks "[A] rhythmic, playful romp through a restless child’s bedtime routine… a loving, effective lullaby."...
The Amazing Life of Azaleah Lane
The Amazing Life of Azaleah Lane Nikki Shannon Smith 9781515844648 Fiction Picture Window Books Capstone Press Azaleah can’t wait for her class field trip to the National Zoo in Washington D.C., espec...
You Are Home: An Ode to the National Parks
You Are Home: An Ode to the National Parks Evan Turk 9781534432826 Fiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. Award-winning author and illustrator Evan Turk showcases the beauty a...
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Black Leopard, Red Wolf Marlon James 9780735220171 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House "A fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made." —Neil Gaiman The epic novel, an African Gam...
One Turn Around the Sun
One Turn Around the Sun Tim Seibles 9780990322184 Poetry Etruscan Press Etruscan Press One Turn Around the Sun is a panorama of poems that attempts to define the first appearances of life’s twilight. ...
What Are We Not for
What Are We Not for Tommye Blount 9781495157639 Poetry Bull City Press Bull City Press Poetry. African & African American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Through biography, fairy tale, and history, Tommye B...
Jaden Toussaint, the Greatest Episode 4: Attack of the Swamp Thing (School & Library)
Jaden Toussaint, the Greatest Episode 4: Attack of the Swamp Thing (School & Library) Marti Dumas 9781943169221 Fiction Yes, Mam Creations Plum Street Press Jaden Toussaint is a five year-old who know...
Clubhouse Mysteries Super Sleuth Collection: The Buried Bones Mystery; Lost in the Tunnel of Time; Shadows of Caesar’s Creek; The Space Mission Advent
Clubhouse Mysteries Super Sleuth Collection: The Buried Bones Mystery; Lost in the Tunnel of Time; Shadows of Caesar’s Creek; The Space Mission Advent Sharon M. Draper 9781481496957 Fiction Aladdin Pa...
Passion & Venom
Passion & Venom Shanora Williams 9781539384304 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Imagine this: Your husband is murdered on your wedding day. Your gown is soiled in his blood. You are taken ...
Jaden Toussaint, the Greatest Episode 3: Muffin Wars
Jaden Toussaint, the Greatest Episode 3: Muffin Wars Marti Dumas 9781943169177 Fiction Yes, Mam Creations Plum Street Press Question: What’s a five-year old genius’ worst nightmare? Answer: Another fi...
A Perfect Holiday Fling
A Perfect Holiday Fling Farrah Rochon 9781938125331 Fiction Nicobar Press Nicobar Press It’s no mystery why veterinarian Callie Webber is having a hard time getting into the holiday spirit. When the r...
One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York
One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York Arthur Browne 9780807012604 Fiction Beacon Press Beacon Press Winner of the Christopher Award and the New York City Bo...
The Vegucation of Robin: How Real Food Saved My Life
The Vegucation of Robin: How Real Food Saved My Life Robin Quivers 9781583334737 Nonfiction Avery Penguin Random House Howard Stern’s celebrated sidekick, Robin Quivers presents her vegan cookbook and...
Bogart and Vinnie: A Completely Made-up Story of True Friendship
Bogart and Vinnie: A Completely Made-up Story of True Friendship Audrey Vernick 9780802728227 Fiction Walker Childrens Walker and Co When Vinnie, a crazy-happy dog, gets lost while visiting a nature p...
Never Be The Same
Never Be The Same Silk White 9780615630175 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing GOOD2GO PUBLISHING PRESENTSA NOVEL FROM SILK WHITEMeet Paige, a famous actress whose career is on the come up. ...
Dork Diaries 4: Tales From A Not-So-Graceful Ice Princess
Dork Diaries 4: Tales From A Not-So-Graceful Ice Princess Rachel Renée Russell 9780606324229 Fiction Turtleback Turtleback When her crush Brandon reveals that the animal shelter where he volunteers is...
Memoirs of a Porcupine (NONE)
Memoirs of a Porcupine (NONE) Alain Mabanckou 9781593764364 Fiction Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press All human beings, says an African legend, have an animal double. Some doubles are benign, others w...
The Wisdom of Plato Negro: Parables/Fables
The Wisdom of Plato Negro: Parables/Fables Marvin X B00I1PTMDW Nonfiction Black Bird Press Black Bird Press In “Wisdom of Plato Negro,” Marvin teaches by stories, ancient devices of instruction tha...
Kingdom Animalia (American Poets Continuum)
Kingdom Animalia (American Poets Continuum) Aracelis Girmay 9781934414620 Poetry BOA Editions BOA Editions The poems in this highly anticipated second book are elegiac poems, as concerned with honorin...
Welfare Wifeys: A Hood Rat Novel
Welfare Wifeys: A Hood Rat Novel K’wan 9780312536978 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers After the deaths and arrests of his entire crew and an informant-fueled investigation into his pa...
Justice League of America: The Second Coming (JLA)
Justice League of America: The Second Coming (JLA) Dwayne McDuffie 9781401222529 Fiction DC Comics DC Comics Dwayne McDuffie, a writer-producer on the Emmy Award-winning animated series JUSTICE LEAGUE...
Shadow Valley
Shadow Valley Steven Barnes 9780345459039 Fiction Del Rey Del Rey In Great Sky Woman, “daringly epic in scope,” (Publishers Weekly), Steven Barnes’s Great Sky Woman unveiled the world of a prehistoric...
Speak Low: Poems
Speak Low: Poems Carl Phillips 9780374267162 Poetry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers Speak Low is the tenth book from one of America’s most distinctive—and one of poetry’s most essential...
Vegan Soul Kitchen: Fresh, Healthy, and Creative African-American Cuisine
Vegan Soul Kitchen: Fresh, Healthy, and Creative African-American Cuisine Bryant Terry 9780738212289 Nonfiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group The mere mention of soul food brings thoughts of greas...
Pow-Wow: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience - Short Fiction from Then to Now
Pow-Wow: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience - Short Fiction from Then to Now Ishmael Reed 9781568583426 Fiction Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group Using the yardstick that a short stor...
Ruby and the Booker Boys #1: Brand New School, Brave New Ruby
Ruby and the Booker Boys #1: Brand New School, Brave New Ruby Derrick Barnes 9780545017602 Fiction Scholastic Paperbacks Scholastic Inc. Meet 8-year-old ultra-fabulous Ruby Marigold Booker!Eight-year-...
Ruby and the Booker Boys #2: Trivia Queen, 3rd Grade Supreme
Ruby and the Booker Boys #2: Trivia Queen, 3rd Grade Supreme Derrick Barnes 9780545017619 Fiction Scholastic Paperbacks Scholastic Inc. Ruby Booker takes the spotlight (well, that’s the plan anyway…)E...
Quiver Of Arrows: Selected Poems, 1986-2006
Quiver Of Arrows: Selected Poems, 1986-2006 Carl Phillips 9780374530785 Poetry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers Quiver of Arrows is a generous gathering from Carl Phillips’s work that sh...
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales Virginia Hamilton 9780375824050 Fiction Knopf Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Originally Published in 1985, The People Could Fly retells 24 ...
Ackamarackus
Ackamarackus Julius Lester 9780590489133 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. A read-aloud collection of tall tales provides a cast of animal characters facing unusual situations—such as an eagle ...
African Accents: Fabrics and Crafts to Decorate Your Home
African Accents: Fabrics and Crafts to Decorate Your Home Lisa Sheppard Stewart 9780873417891 Nonfiction Krause Publications Krause Publications The way we decorate our homes has become one of the mos...
African Folk Tales (Dover Children’s Thrift Classics)
African Folk Tales (Dover Children’s Thrift Classics) Hugh Vernon-Jackson 9780486405537 Fiction Dover Publications Dover Publications This exciting collection of traditional African folk tales introdu...
Africans and Their History: Second Revised Edition
Africans and Their History: Second Revised Edition Joseph E. Harris 9780452011816 Nonfiction Plume Penguin Random House Africa has witnessed the birth of many important developments in history. Human ...
Night at the Fair
Night at the Fair Donald Crews 9780688114831 Fiction Greenwillow Books HarperCollins Step right up! Crews "(Freight Train)" gives young readers an open-ended ticket to the glittery goings-on after dar...
Stray Dogs
Stray Dogs John Ridley 9780345413451 Fiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House "It’s the heat that makes you crazy. I don’t know what it is, but it works that way for man and animal alike. I’ve se...
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales Leo and Diane Dillon 9780679843368 Fiction Alfred A. Knopf Penguin Random House The well-known author retells 24 black American folk tales in sure storyt...
Esoterism and Symbol
Esoterism and Symbol R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz 9780892810147 Nonfiction Inner Traditions Inner Traditions This is an initiation into the tone, structure, and mentality of Egyptian knowledge, the basis...