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Beneath The Lion’s Gaze: A Novel
Beneath The Lion’s Gaze: A Novel Maaza Mengiste 9780393071764 Fiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. An epic tale of a father and two sons, of betrayals and loyalties, of a family...
Maaza Mengiste reads from her novel Beneath the Lion's Gaze
Maaza Mengiste reads from her novel Beneath the Lion's Gaze Book Spotlights For more information visit https://aalbc.com/authors/maaza.html Maaza Mengiste reads from her novel Beneath the Lion's Gaze...
Little Lion Goes to School
Little Lion Goes to School Kellie Magnus 9789769564022 Fiction Jackmandora Jackmandora 3rd Edition Little Lion Goes to School tells the story of a young Rastafarian boy struggling to fit in at a ne...
The Lion’s Brood
The Lion’s Brood Thumper Book Review I am weak when it comes to reading books on subjects off the normally beaten path of bestselling African-American novels. My ears perked up when I received a re...
Maaza Mengiste
Maaza Mengiste 0000000079072875 Ethiopian-born author Maaza Mengiste, known for her novel 'Beneath the Lion’s Gaze', is a celebrated academic at Queens College and Princeton University. A Fulbright S...
Enchanted Lion Books
Enchanted Lion Books Enchanted Lion Books Enchanted Lion Books Enchanted Lion Books is an independent children’s book publisher based in Brooklyn, New York. We publish illustrated books from ar...
Enchanted Lion Books
Enchanted Lion Books Enchanted Lion Books Enchanted Lion Books Enchanted Lion Books is an independent children’s book publisher based in Brooklyn, New York. We publish illustrated books from ar...
Let the Lion Eat Straw
Let the Lion Eat Straw Thumper Book Review One of the residuals affect I had hoped would happen when African American literature was proven marketable was the rediscovery of previously pub...
Lion’s Blood
Lion’s Blood Thumper Book Review Sequel to Lion’s Blood is Equally Magnificent “Have you ever heard the expression ‘Zulu Heart?’” “No," he said, and t...
Lion’s Den Publishing
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Looking Lion Books
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Lion’s Den Publishing
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Looking Lion Books
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Lion’s Blood
Lion’s Blood Thumper Book Review Steven Barnes, has emerged with one of the best books of 2002, a novel that explores a "what if" question; What if the United States of America had a past w...
Let The Lion Eat Straw
Let The Lion Eat Straw Ellease Southerland 9780060724214 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Hailed upon publication by writers and critics alike, including Shirley Hazzard and Charles Johnson, Let the Lion...
Nani and the Lion
Nani and the Lion Alicia D. Williams 9781665914222 Fiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. From Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King – John Steptoe Award winner Alicia D. Willi...
The Lion or the Mouse? (Who’s Got Game?)
The Lion or the Mouse? (Who’s Got Game?) Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison 9781476792682 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this charmingly subversive reinterpretation of a classic...
Lion Pride
Lion Pride Roland C. Barksdale-Hall 9781937622008 Fiction Nefu Books Nefu Books Barksdale-Hall cleverly weaves together two South African folktales, the "Lion and the Ostrich" and the "Lion Who Though...
Little Lion at Bat
Little Lion at Bat Kellie Magnus 9780974421117 Fiction Jackmandora Jackmandora Little Lion at Bat is the follow up to Little Lion Goes to School . It tells the story of a young Rastafarian boy, Zac...
The Lion And The Jewel (Three Crowns Books)
The Lion And The Jewel (Three Crowns Books) Wole Soyinka 9780199110834 Fiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press This is one of the best-known plays by Africa’s major dramatist, Wole Soy...
Hyena Women and Other Strange Tales of Social Chaos
Hyena Women and Other Strange Tales of Social Chaos L. E. Rainey Article Several years ago I watched a documentary about a pride of lions and a pack of hyenas living in the African savannah. By e...
Antara the Lion
Antara the Lion Kam Williams Interview THE GLOBAL AFRICAN COMMUNITY HISTORY NOTES "ANTARA THE LION: FATHER OF HEROES" BY RUNOKO RASHDI DEDICATED TO DR. KHALID ABDULLAH TARIQ AL-MANSOUR Archaeo...
Beneath the Shining Jewel
Beneath the Shining Jewel Balogun Ojetade 9781530583645 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Beneath the Shining Jewel takes place in Ki Khanga’s jewel city, Sati-Baa. Mba, a retired constable...
Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir
Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir Rebecca Carroll 9781982116255 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. A stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting...
Bivouac
Bivouac Kwame Dawes 9781617757105 Fiction Black Sheep Akashic Books “Dawes examines the complicated terrain of grief with uncanny insight and spare, lucid prose. What unfolds is a story about a man, a...
Little & Lion
Little & Lion Brandy Colbert 9780316349000 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group A Stonewall Book Award Winner!"Little and Lion is beautifully insightful, honest, and compassionate. Br...
I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I’m Trapped in a Rom-Com
I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I’m Trapped in a Rom-Com Kimberly Lemming 9780593818633 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House A hilarious and sexy romance about a woman who gets dropped on a str...
Lion Lights: My Invention That Made Peace with Lions
Lion Lights: My Invention That Made Peace with Lions Richard Turere and Shelly Pollock 9780884488859 Nonfiction Tilbury House Publishers Tilbury House Publishers Winner of the 2023 Children’s Africana...
Larry The Lending Lion
Larry The Lending Lion Aisha Hall 9780578660813 Fiction Manish Publishing Manish Publishing Larry the Lending Lion is a rhyming children’s book about finance. In this story, Larry goes on an adventure...
The Teflon Queen PT 5
The Teflon Queen PT 5 Silk White 9781943686773 Fiction Good2go Publishing Good2go Publishing The Teflon Queen is back and better than ever. Angela and her team is sent across the country to capture a ...
The Lion Awakes: Adventures in Africa’s Economic Miracle
The Lion Awakes: Adventures in Africa’s Economic Miracle Ashish J. Thakkar 9781137280145 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Three little known facts: Africa is now the world’s fastest ...
The Lion & the Mouse
The Lion & the Mouse Jerry Pinkney 9780316013567 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group The Caldecott Award-winning and New York Times bestselling fable of compassion and ki...
Little Lion Goes for Gold
Little Lion Goes for Gold Kellie Magnus 9780974421124 Fiction Jackmandora Jackmandora Little Lion leads the pack! Young Zachariah Zion returns for his third challenge — winning a medal for his school’...
Snoop Dogg The “Turbo” Interview (July 2013)
Snoop Dogg The “Turbo” Interview (July 2013) Kam Williams Interview Snoop Dogg The “Turbo” Interview Calvin Cordozar Broadus was born on October 20, 1971 in Long Beach, California where he ...
The World Beneath: A Novel
The World Beneath: A Novel Janice Warman 9780763678562 Fiction Candlewick Press Candlewick Press At the height of South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle, a boy must face life decisions that test what ...
Brandy Colbert
Brandy Colbert 0000000409932699 Brandy Colbert is an award-winning author hailing from Missouri. Her work primarily focuses on young adult and children's literature, with titles such as “Little & Lio...
Lion’s Blood: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom in an Alternate America
Lion’s Blood: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom in an Alternate America Steven Barnes 9780446526685 Fiction Aspect Hachette Book Group The novel takes place in approximately 1850 AD, and involves two mai...
The Stars Beneath Our Feet
The Stars Beneath Our Feet David Barclay Moore 9781524701246 Fiction Knopf Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A boy tries to steer a safe path through the projects in Harlem in the wake of h...
The Thunder Beneath Us
The Thunder Beneath Us Nicole Blades 9781496704597 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. To the world, Best Lightburn is a talented writer rising up the masthead at international style magazine J...
Side Notes from the Archivist: Poems
Side Notes from the Archivist: Poems Anastacia-Reneé 9780063221710 Poetry Amistad HarperCollins The award-winning, genre-crossing writer demonstrates her power as a funkadelic and formidable feminist ...
Beneath the Dawn
Beneath the Dawn Brenda Jackson 9798993256955 Fiction Madaris Publishing Madaris Publishing On the rugged coast of Oregon, secrets wash ashore with the tide… After learning that her ex-boyfriend, n...
Beneath the Surface
Beneath the Surface Tony Ginyard 9781587364174 Fiction Iceni Books Iceni Books Read a Book Excerpt Book description: There are some secrets that lie… Beneath The Surface Seventeen-year-old Andre D...
Griots Beneath The Baobab: Tales From Los Angeles
Griots Beneath The Baobab: Tales From Los Angeles Randy Ross, Octavia E. Butler, Erin Aubry Kaplan, Eric Jerome Dickey, and Jervey Tervalon 9780966267518 Nonfiction Larod Publishing Company Larod Publ...
Musical Youth
Musical Youth Joanne C. Hillhouse 9781733829960 Fiction Caribbean Reads Publishing Caribbean Reads Publishing 2nd place in the 2014 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature. #12 in Amazon Hot New Releases ...
The Rise: Where Neighbors Are Sometimes More
The Rise: Where Neighbors Are Sometimes More Chantal Ellen 9780978678609 Nonfiction Lion’s Den Publishing Lion’s Den Publishing Exploring issues of self-esteem, family discord, sisterhood, faith, and ...
Bliss: A Novel
Bliss: A Novel Danyel Smith 9781400046423 Fiction Crown Penguin Random House Danyel Smith is one of the most acclaimed music journalists of her generation, a prose stylist who “writes with music in he...
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...
A Rage of Lions (the Shadow Prince #3)
A Rage of Lions (the Shadow Prince #3) David Anthony Durham 9781643797434 Fiction Tu Books Lee & Low Books In the third installment in The Shadow Prince saga, Ash and his friends race against time...
Them That Are Called: An Epic
Them That Are Called: An Epic J.G. Parker 9798991766906 Fiction Looking Lion Books Looking Lion Books An indomitable horde, nearly immune to the weight of time, marauds through the cosmos. From the se...
Kamau and Zuzu Find a Way: A Picture Book
Kamau and Zuzu Find a Way: A Picture Book Aracelis Girmay 9781592703890 Fiction Enchanted Lion Books Enchanted Lion Books A stirring story of African diaspora, resourcefulness, and intergenerational l...
A Beach Tail
A Beach Tail Karen Lynn Williams 9781635925531 Fiction Boyds Mills Press Boyds Mills Press A charming tale of creativity and discovery. —School Library Journal, starred review A creative and intellig...
What Do You Know?
What Do You Know? Aracelis Girmay 9781592703210 Fiction Enchanted Lion Books Enchanted Lion Books What might a well, a bear, a farmer, and a historian respond when Love asks, “What do you know?” This ...
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain 9780593134047 Nonfiction One World Penguin Random House A chorus of extraordinary voices comes ...
Layla’s Happiness
Layla’s Happiness Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie 9781592702886 Fiction Enchanted Lion Books Enchanted Lion Books Winner Ezra Jack Keats Award for Illustration and 2020 Ezra Jack Keats Writer Honor Book for...
Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History
Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History Walter Dean Myers 9780060277093 Nonfiction HarperCollins HarperCollins
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House Jon Meacham 9781400063253 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House The definitive biography of a larger-than-life president who defied norms, divid...
The Lion’s Brood: The Story of Hannibal
The Lion’s Brood: The Story of Hannibal Rafael Scott 9781413712605 Fiction PublishAmerica PublishAmerica It is 238 B.C. The First Punic War has ended and dark times have befallen the great African em...
Lion and the Ostrich Chicks: And Other African Folk Poems
Lion and the Ostrich Chicks: And Other African Folk Poems Ashley Bryan 9780689313110 Nonfiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. Includes four traditional tales told by the Haus...
Christian Keyes
Christian Keyes NONE Christian Keyes is a versatile actor, singer, and songwriter from Detroit, Michigan, recognized for his consistent performances in Tyler Perry's productions. He's also known for ...
Jon Meacham
Jon Meacham 0000000108603277 Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of bestsellers such as “American Lion”, is a distinguished professor at Vanderbilt University and trustee at the Thomas Jeffers...
gina Breedlove
gina Breedlove NONE Gina Breedlove is a versatile artist from Brooklyn, known for her work as a vocalist, composer, actor and traditional sound healer. She designed the program Vibration of Graceâ„¢ ...
Migrated Interviews
Migrated Interviews Kam Williams Interview Migrated Interviews Aisha Tyler - The "Balls of Fury and Death Sentence" Interview Alisa Hyman - Book Reviewer, Educator Alrick Brown - The "Kinyarwand...
I Had a Brother Once: A Poem, a Memoir
I Had a Brother Once: A Poem, a Memoir Adam Mansbach 9780593134795 Poetry One World Penguin Random House A brilliant, genre-defying work—both memoir and epic poem—about the struggle for wisdom, grace,...
Sleeping Under the Tree of Life
Sleeping Under the Tree of Life Sheree Renée Thomas 9781619761117 Fiction Aqueduct Press Aqueduct Press Sleeping under the Tree of Life evokes the realm of ancestral knowledge with a deep respect for ...
David Barclay Moore
David Barclay Moore NONE Missouri-born David Barclay Moore is a Brooklyn-based writer, filmmaker, and photographer. Known for his debut young adult novel 'The Stars Beneath Our Feet' and his award-wi...
Bestiary: Poems
Bestiary: Poems Donika Kelly 9781555977580 Poetry Graywolf Press Graywolf Press Donika Kelly’s bold debut collection, longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award and winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poet...
Minaret: A Novel
Minaret: A Novel Leila Aboulela 9780802170149 Fiction Black Cat Grove Atlantic, Inc. Leila Aboulela’s American debut is a provocative, timely, and engaging novel about a young Muslim woman — once priv...
Beneath a Meth Moon
Beneath a Meth Moon Jacqueline Woodson 9780399252501 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s LiteratureLaurel Daneau...
Mr. Potter: A Novel
Mr. Potter: A Novel Jamaica Kincaid 9780374528744 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers The story of an ordinary man, his century, and his home: "Kincaid’s most poetic and affecting n...
The Enneagram for Black Liberation: Return to Who You Are Beneath the Armor You Carry
The Enneagram for Black Liberation: Return to Who You Are Beneath the Armor You Carry Chichi Agorom 9781506478968 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media Am I worthy of belonging? Am I loved just as I a...
Secret Soldiers
Secret Soldiers Keely Hutton 9780374309039 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers Macmillan Publishers Over a quarter million underage British boys fought on the Allied front line...
The Stars Beneath Our Feet
The Stars Beneath Our Feet David Barclay Moore 9781524701277 Fiction Yearling Penguin Random House
Beneath the Darkest Sky
Beneath the Darkest Sky Jason Overstreet 9781496701787 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In this riveting and emotionally powerful historical drama, an ex-FBI agent plunges into the darkest s...
The Deep
The Deep Zetta Elliott 9781492902119 Fiction Rosetta Press Rosetta Press THE DEEP plunges readers into a dangerous, underground world policed by members of The League, a secret group of women and men ...
Earthquake
Earthquake Andrew Salkey 9781845231828 Fiction Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Ricky Thomas, his brother Doug, and his sister Polly spend their summer holidays in the coffee walk surrounding their...
Storms Beneath the Skin
Storms Beneath the Skin Regie Gibson 9780970801203 Poetry EM Press EM Press Regie Gibson’s first full-length book of poetry. A collection of poems and chants which the critically acclaimed poet has be...
Colored Television
Colored Television Danzy Senna 9780593544372 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House A brilliant dark comedy about love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial-identity-industrial c...
The Narrows
The Narrows Ann Petry 9780063259997 Fiction Mariner Books Classics Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A novel first published in 1953. From author of the bestselling novel The Street, a “masterpiece of social...
Forbidden Fruit
Forbidden Fruit Stanley Gazemba 9780998642307 Fiction The Mantle The Mantle Desperate to make ends meet, Ombima commits a “harmless” crime. When he tries to conceal his misdeed, the simple farm labore...
You Might Just Get Burned: A Novel (Zane Presents)
You Might Just Get Burned: A Novel (Zane Presents) Shamara Ray 9781593094416 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. What happens when the man you fall for isn’t who he says he is? As games are p...
Country Place: A Novel
Country Place: A Novel Ann Petry 9780063260092 Fiction Mariner Books Classics Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A novel first published in 1947“Petry is the writer we have been waiting for; hers are the stori...
Homegoing: A Novel
Homegoing: A Novel Yaa Gyasi 9781101947135 Fiction Random House Penguin Random House Yaa Gyasi’s London Book Fair 2015: In Pre-Fair Deals, Debut Sells to Knopf for Rumored 7 Figures A riveting, kal...
Chaser: A Novel
Chaser: A Novel Miasha 9781416589860 Fiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the bestselling author of Never Enough, a novel about two young lovers who will stop at nothing to succeed. Chaser i...
Zulu Heart: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom in an Alternate America
Zulu Heart: A Novel of Slavery and Freedom in an Alternate America Steven Barnes 9780446611954 Fiction Aspect Hachette Book Group Barnes delivers the explosive follow-up to his groundbreaking alternat...
Minor Black Figures
Minor Black Figures Brandon Taylor 9780593332368 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House From the Booker Prize Finalist and Bestselling Author: A Perceptive Novel About a Gay Black Painter Naviga...
They Dream in Gold
They Dream in Gold Mai Sennaar 9781638931102 Fiction SJP Lit Zando Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize 2024 “Extraordinary … a powerful and poignant exploration of the African ...
Tempest
Tempest Beverly Jenkins 9780062389046 Fiction Avon Books HarperCollins From USA Today and AALBC.com Bestselling Author Beverly Jenkins comes a new novel in a mesmerizing series set in the Old West, wh...
The Summer of my Fifteenth Year
The Summer of my Fifteenth Year Geri Spencer Hunter 9780984435050 Fiction Blue Nile Press Blue Nile Press Geri Spencer Hunter is a formidable storyteller who has crafted a genuine masterpiece with The...
No Surrender
No Surrender Robert Fleming Book Review When news reached me about the death of renowned poetess, Ai, I knew that I must write something about her and her unwavering lyrical examination of the hu...
Pym: A Novel
Pym: A Novel Mat Johnson 9780812981582 Fiction Spiegel & Grau Penguin Random House In PYM, recently canned professor of American literature Chris Jaynes is obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe’s strange ...
Finding Yvonne
Finding Yvonne Brandy Colbert 9780316349055 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group For fans of Nicola Yoon and Nina LaCour comes a striking novel about difficult choices fro...
Rita Dove
Rita Dove 0000000114709625 Dove was U.S. Poet Laureate, 1993-1995 Rita Dove, former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner, is known for her poetry collections, novel, and drama. She's been reco...
Promises to Keep
Promises to Keep Thumper Book Review Your beloved son is murdered and your family slowly begins falling apart. How do you hold it all together, your family, yourself and find the murderer of your s...
Guy Sims
Guy Sims NONE Guy A. Sims is an acclaimed author known for his early publications on Kwanzaa, his collection of American Tall Tales, and his novel, Living Just A Little. He's also the head writer for...
This Leaves Me Okay: Race, Legacy, and Letters From My Grandmother
This Leaves Me Okay: Race, Legacy, and Letters From My Grandmother Walter Pryor 9781956474589 Nonfiction Heliotrope Books Heliotrope Books With This Leaves Me Okay, Pryor puts the reader into a rural ...
The Wounds Are the Witness: Black Faith Weaving Memory Into Justice and Healing
The Wounds Are the Witness: Black Faith Weaving Memory Into Justice and Healing Yolanda Pierce 9781506485331 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media From celebrated scholar Dr. Yolanda Pierce comes this...
And Then Came You: Black Love Series (Book 2, Ryan Family Series)
And Then Came You: Black Love Series (Book 2, Ryan Family Series) Dorothy Elizabeth Love 9781965437049 Fiction LED Literature and Publication LED Literature and Publication Black Romance Series with: ...
Seeing Black: Black Photography in New Orleans 1840 and Beyond
Seeing Black: Black Photography in New Orleans 1840 and Beyond Kalamu ya Salaam 9781608013029 Nonfiction University of New Orleans Press University of New Orleans Press Situating historical inquiry al...
Thick with Trouble
Thick with Trouble Amber McBride 9780143137474 Poetry Penguin Books Penguin Random House From National Book Award finalist Amber McBride, a mystical, transcendent poetry collection about Black womanho...
Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines Joy Buolamwini 9780593241837 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House “The conscience of the AI revolution” (Fortune) expla...