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Gone Fishin’
Gone Fishin’ Walter Mosley Excerpt Gone Fishin' CHAPTER ONE Mouse had changed. Before he announced his engagement to EttaMae he was a happy man, full of himself. It's true that he...
Gone Fishin’
Gone Fishin’ Walter Mosley 9780743451758 Fiction Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. It’s 1939 and Easy and Mouse are young men just setting out in life—Easy has yet to develop his skill fo...
Gone Fishin’ (Easy Rawlins, Book 6)
Gone Fishin’ (Easy Rawlins, Book 6) Walter Mosley 9781574780253 Fiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press A prequel to the Easy Rawlins mystery series finds a nineteen-year-old Ezekiel “Easy”...
Six Easy Pieces: Easy Rawlins Stories
Six Easy Pieces: Easy Rawlins Stories Walter Mosley 9780743442527 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Walter Mosley’s bestselling and award-winning novels — from Gone Fishin’ to Devil i...
A Season for Fishin’: A Fish Fry Tradition
A Season for Fishin’: A Fish Fry Tradition Pamela Courtney 9780374390907 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers Macmillan Publishers A Season for Fishin’ is a joyous debut picture...
And Now She’s Gone
And Now She’s Gone Rachel Howzell Hall 9781250753175 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers Isabel Lincoln is gone.But is she missing?It’s up to Grayson Sykes to find her. Although she is reluctant to tra...
Gone Like Yesterday
Gone Like Yesterday Janelle M. Williams 9780593471630 Fiction Tiny Reparations Books Penguin Random House A Good Morning America Buzz Pick A lyrical debut novel that asks what we owe to our familie...
Light Skin Gone to Waste
Light Skin Gone to Waste Toni Ann Johnson 9780820363066 Fiction University of Georgia Press University of Georgia Press Toni Ann Johnson has been named this year’s winner of the Flannery O’Connor Awar...
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (Revised)
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (Revised) Ira Berlin 9780674002111 Nonfiction Belknap Press Harvard University Press Today most Americans, black and white, ide...
Man Gone Down
Man Gone Down Michael Thomas 9780802170293 Fiction Black Cat Grove Atlantic, Inc. On the eve of his thirty-fifth birthday, the unnamed black narrator of Man Gone Down finds himself broke, estranged fr...
Momma: Gone
Momma: Gone Tony Lindsay Book Review Nina Foxx’s personal story Momma: Gone is full of literary surprises. The reader’s expectations and predictions that are garnered from the story-line ...
The Rich People Have Gone Away
The Rich People Have Gone Away Regina Porter 9780593241868 Fiction Hogarth Press Penguin Random House “Riveting.”—Charmaine Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake Brooklyn, 2020...
Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable
Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable Ronald Fair 9781598537635 Fiction Library of America Library of America Rediscover this gripping 1965 novel about race in America—set in a rural corner of Mississ...
Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia
Gone Home: Race and Roots through Appalachia Karida L. Brown 9781469666068 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press Since the 2016 presidential election, Americ...
Gone Missing in Harlem
Gone Missing in Harlem Karla FC Holloway 9780810143531 Fiction TriQuarterly Books Northwestern University Press “With an evocative mix of questions and revelations, Gone Missing in Harlem shows a vivi...
The Gone Dead
The Gone Dead Chanelle Benz 9780062490698 Fiction Ecco Press HarperCollins A TONIGHT SHOW SUMMER READS FINALIST An electrifying first novel from "a riveting new voice in American fiction"...
Gaither Sisters Trilogy Box Set: One Crazy Summer, P.S. Be Eleven, Gone Crazy in Alabama
Gaither Sisters Trilogy Box Set: One Crazy Summer, P.S. Be Eleven, Gone Crazy in Alabama Rita Williams-Garcia 9780062889652 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins All three books in the Coretta Scott ...
Elderberry Fall
Elderberry Fall Ruth P. Watson 9781593095154 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. This sequel to the historical bestseller Blackberry Days of Summer reunites the people of Jefferson County, V...
Momma: Gone
Momma: Gone Nina Foxx 9781625174499 Fiction Brown Girls Books Brown Girls Books "Momma set me on the jukebox." So begins the personal story of Denise (Sweetie) Wooten, set between a post-civ...
A Long Way Gone
A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah 9780374531263 Nonfiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers My new friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life. "Why did you l...
The Wind Done Gone: A Novel
The Wind Done Gone: A Novel Alice Randall 9780618104505 Fiction Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Houghton Mifflin Harcourt In a brilliant rejoinder and an inspired act of literary invention, Alice Randall ex...
Tell Me How Long the Trains Been Gone
Tell Me How Long the Trains Been Gone James Baldwin 9780375701894 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House A major work of American literature that powerfully portrays the anguish of being Black in a soci...
Kelsey Norris
Kelsey Norris NONE Kelsey Norris is a writer and editor from Alabama. Her debut story collection, House Gone Quiet, is a finalist for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Kelsey Norris is a ...
Tell the Ghosts I’m Gone
Tell the Ghosts I’m Gone Kalynn Bayron 9781547615896 Fiction Bloomsbury YA Bloomsbury Publishing From New York Times bestselling author Kalynn Bayron comes a new horror novel about a group of teens wi...
Amber Alert
Amber Alert Kiki Swinson 9781496746870 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. An explosive portrait of Dirty South revenge, triple-dealing, and crimes of passion as a suburban mom’s high-end crimi...
I’ll Be Gone for Christmas
I’ll Be Gone for Christmas Georgia K. Boone 9780063244023 Fiction Avon Books HarperCollins USA TODAY BESTSELLER! For fans of The Holiday comes a heartwarming Christmas house-swap rom-com debut in whic...
Gone Wolf
Gone Wolf Amber McBride 9781250850478 Fiction Square Fish Macmillan Publishers Award-winning author Amber McBride lays bare the fears of being young and Black in America, in this middle-grade novel th...
Treacherous: Grifters, Ruffians And Killers
Treacherous: Grifters, Ruffians And Killers Gary Phillips 9781685127183 Nonfiction Level Short Level Best Books In this collection, you’ll find double crossers getting crossed, two-bit hucksters out t...
Long After We Are Gone
Long After We Are Gone Terah Shelton Harris 9781728265773 Fiction Sourcebooks Landmark Sourcebooks “A big, beautiful, devastating, and ultimately hopeful novel.” —Erica Bauermeister, New York Times be...
The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel
The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel ReShonda Tate 9780063291072 Fiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins Bestselling author ReShonda Tate presents a fascinating fictional portrai...
House Gone Quiet: Stories
House Gone Quiet: Stories Kelsey Norris 9781668016312 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence Named a Best Book of 2023 by Library Journa...
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow Ashley Franklin 9781368077330 Fiction Marvel Press Marvel Comics Illustrated by New York Times best-selling artist Bea Jackson, this poignant st...
Black Girls Must Have It All
Black Girls Must Have It All Jayne Allen 9780063296640 Fiction Harper HarperCollins In this final installment in the acclaimed Black Girls Must Die Exhausted trilogy, Tabitha is juggling work, relatio...
Not an Easy Win
Not an Easy Win Chrystal D. Giles 9780593175217 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Can Lawrence figure out how to get on the board, even though the odds are stacked agai...
The Pain of Things
The Pain of Things J. L. Campbell 9789768307507 Fiction The Writers’ Suite The Writers’ Suite Roger Blythe has a reputation for being here today and gone tomorrow. That’s fine with Corinne Walker, ...
Look for Me and I’ll Be Gone: Stories
Look for Me and I’ll Be Gone: Stories John Edgar Wideman 9781982148942 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. From John Edgar Wideman, “a master [who] boldly subverts what a short story ...
Greenwood Gone: Henry’s Story
Greenwood Gone: Henry’s Story Sioux Roslawski 9781736831212 Fiction Editor-911 Books Editor-911 Books Greenwood District, Oklahoma, 1921: Twelve-year-old Henry Simmons has lived his entire life in Gre...
Good Man Gone Bad: An Aaron Gunner Mystery
Good Man Gone Bad: An Aaron Gunner Mystery Gar Anthony Haywood 9781945551666 Fiction Prospect Park Books Prospect Park Books Gar Anthony Haywood is the Shamus and Anthony award-winning author of twelv...
EMMA, LOCK YOUR DOORS AT NIGHT, SWEETY: A Mother’s Bittersweet Message to Her Estranged Daughter
EMMA, LOCK YOUR DOORS AT NIGHT, SWEETY: A Mother’s Bittersweet Message to Her Estranged Daughter Johanna Sparrow B07BC78YFB Nonfiction Amazon Digital Services Amazon Digital Services, Inc. If you’re...
The Family Business 3: The Return of Vegas
The Family Business 3: The Return of Vegas Carl Weber and Treasure Hernandez 9781622865703 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. National bestselling authors Carl Weber and Treasure Hernande...
Bruised Hearts, Revised: Learning to Forgive Others
Bruised Hearts, Revised: Learning to Forgive Others Johanna Sparrow 9781976304026 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Tell me what you’ve gone through, and I can tell you why you’re curren...
Granddaddy
Granddaddy Carol Taylor Book Review Granddaddy is a poignant literary novel, told mostly in a stream of conscious narrative, that traces a family’s emotional journey through their memories of t...
When We Were One
When We Were One zaji 9780985076382 Fiction Peace In The Storm Publishing Peace In The Storm Publishing “My speculative fiction novel, When We Were One, has been selected by USA Today as a ”must-read!...
Gone Crazy in Alabama
Gone Crazy in Alabama Rita Williams-Garcia 9780062215871 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Coretta Scott King Award Winner and AALBC.com bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of the Gait...
Bruised Hearts: How To Stop Hurting To Trust Again
Bruised Hearts: How To Stop Hurting To Trust Again Johanna Sparrow 9781511753722 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Tell me what you’ve gone through, and I can tell you why you’re current...
Radiance Of Tomorrow
Radiance Of Tomorrow Ishmael Beah 9780374246020 Fiction Sarah Crichton Books Sarah Crichton Books A haunting, beautiful first novel by the bestselling author of A Long Way GoneWhen Ishmael Beah’s A Lo...
From Pain 2 Poetry The Bag… The Lady… The Experience… Vol. 1 (Volume 1)
From Pain 2 Poetry The Bag… The Lady… The Experience… Vol. 1 (Volume 1) The Bag Lady Experience 9781477472071 Poetry CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Have you ever experienced something so devasta...
A Good Excuse To Be Bad
A Good Excuse To Be Bad Miranda Parker 9780758259509 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Smart, gorgeous, and too tough for her own good, bail recovery agent and single mom Evangeline Crawford ...
When The Thrill Is Gone (Leonid Mcgill)
When The Thrill Is Gone (Leonid Mcgill) Walter Mosley 9781594487811 Fiction Riverhead Hardcover Penguin Random House Leonid McGill is back, in the third-and most enthralling and ambitious-installment ...
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Pittsburgh Cycle set in 1911)
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Pittsburgh Cycle set in 1911) August Wilson 9780573691423 Fiction Samuel French Inc Samuel French Inc Drama / Casting: 6m, 5f / Scenery: Interior Sets Set in a black boardi...
Sweetwater Sinners: The Sequel To Holy Hustler
Sweetwater Sinners: The Sequel To Holy Hustler P.L. Wilson 9780972385008 Nonfiction Rekcut Publishing Rekcut Publishing The saints at Sweetwater Powerhouse of God are restless and sinning up a storm a...
When Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice
When Law Fails: Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice Austin Sarat and Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. 9780814740521 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press Since 1989, there have be...
Home: Social Essays (Renegade Reprint Series)
Home: Social Essays (Renegade Reprint Series) Amiri Baraka 9781933354675 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Jones/Baraka usually speaks as a Negroand always as an American. He is eloquent, he is bo...
Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone
Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone Janice N. Harrington 9781929918898 Poetry BOA Editions BOA Editions “Memory and its embodiment in a colloquial, yet highly wrought musical language are what origin...
She’s Gone
She’s Gone Kwame Dawes 9781933354187 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books The debut novel from Jamaica’s award-winning poet.
Tales of the Out & Gone
Tales of the Out & Gone Amiri Baraka 9781933354125 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Controversial literary legend Amiri Baraka’s new short story collection will shock and awe.
Gone Away
Gone Away Mervyn Taylor 9781881523000 Poetry Junction Press Junction Press The latest [2006] collection from Mervyn Taylor offers up his familiar blend of the ancestral and the immediate, the natural ...
Afterburn: A Novel
Afterburn: A Novel Zane 9780743470971 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In the latest romantic romp from New York Times bestselling author Zane, two hapless lovers get lost in a dating game g...
Honey Baby Sugar Child
Honey Baby Sugar Child Alice Faye Duncan 9780689846786 Fiction Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. A mother expresses her everlasting love for her child in this warm, poeti...
The Broke Diaries: The Completely True and Hilarious Misadventures of a Good Girl Gone Broke
The Broke Diaries: The Completely True and Hilarious Misadventures of a Good Girl Gone Broke Angela Nissel 9780679783572 Fiction Villard Villard “People always say I’m going to look back on these da...
Gone from Home: Short Takes
Gone from Home: Short Takes Angela Johnson 9780375801921 Nonfiction Laurel Leaf Laurel Leaf "In these 12 well-honed stories told in first-person narrative, Johnson zeroes in on the idealism and resili...
Gone Quiet
Gone Quiet Eleanor Taylor Bland 9780451182678 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House Wishing she could kill her husband of thirty-five years, Gladys Hamilton is surprised when someone else beats ...
Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom (A Borzoi book)
Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom (A Borzoi book) Virginia Hamilton 9780394828732 Nonfiction Alfred A. Knopf Penguin Random House Illus. in black-and-white. In this compani...
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (1910s Century Cycle)
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (1910s Century Cycle) August Wilson 9780452260092 Fiction Plume Penguin Random House Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano LessonWinner of the New York Drama...
Ishmael Beah
Ishmael Beah 0000000368812665 Ishmael Beah, a Sierra Leonean author and human rights activist, became known for his memoir, “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier.” A former child soldier, Beah w...
August Wilson
August Wilson 0000000368634467 August Wilson (1945-2005), two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning African American playwright, is renowned for his Pittsburgh Cycle, a series of 10 plays each set in a unique ...
Mari Evans
Mari Evans 0000000108875002 Mari Evans, born July 16, 1919, was a significant figure in the 1960s Black Arts Movement. She was a distinguished writer and educator, teaching at institutions like Corne...
Toni Ann Johnson
Toni Ann Johnson NONE Toni Ann Johnson is an award-winning author recognized for her linked story collection 'Light Skin Gone to Waste', which won the 2021 Flannery O'Connor Award and was nominated f...
Daryl Cumber Dance
Daryl Cumber Dance 000000011473816X Dr. Daryl Cumber Dance is a Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, is a Ford Foundation Fello...
Ira Berlin
Ira Berlin 0000000110814313 Dr. Ira Berlin was a renowned historian, professor at the University of Maryland, and past president of the Organization of American Historians. He authored award-winning ...
Janelle M. Williams
Janelle M. Williams NONE Janelle M. Williams, an award-winning author with a BA from Howard University and MFA from Manhattanville College, is known for her acclaimed story “From the Closest Waffle H...
Brooklyn’s Finest
Brooklyn’s Finest Kam Williams images/img23.jpg Film Review Flawed NYPD Officers Featured as "Brooklyn’s Finest" Brooklyn's Finest Rated R for nudity, graphic sexuality, pe...
Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an an American Cuisine
Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an an American Cuisine Kam Williams Book Review From frontier cabins to plantation houses to the White House, from steamboat galleys and Pullman kitchens to pub...
Gone to Where the Bong Trees Grow
Gone to Where the Bong Trees Grow L. E. Rainey Article The next time you pick up a picture book written by a contemporary children’s author flip through the pages. Take a few minutes to...
Morgan Freeman - The "Evan Almighty" Interview
Morgan Freeman - The "Evan Almighty" Interview Kam Williams Interview Morgan on Reprising His Role as God Born on June 1, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee, Morgan Freeman is keeping extr...
Wild Hearts
Wild Hearts K’wan 9781250411020 Fiction Wildthorn Macmillan Publishers The story that captivated readers—now complete for the first time. Passion for the Heist introduced readers to the unforgettab...
Rage of Angels
Rage of Angels Lola StVil 9798256500634 Fiction Kwame Alexander Books Sourcebooks An addictive YA fantasy romance series starter with enormous binge-reading potential. When a teenage girl is attacked ...
Back: Essays on the Soul and Spine of America
Back: Essays on the Soul and Spine of America Lauren Michele Jackson 9780063043909 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Acclaimed New Yorker contributor Lauren Michele Jackson delivers a thought-provoking...
Rat Poison: A Novella
Rat Poison: A Novella Terrill North B0GX2ZCFJM Fiction Independently Published Independently Published Mississippi, August 1859. The cook poured the coffee at six-fifteen. By six-thirty she was gone, ...
Every Story Is a Love Story
Every Story Is a Love Story Imbolo Mbue 9798217154777 Fiction Random House Penguin Random House From the New York Times bestselling author of Behold the Dreamers, a captivating novel about love lost—a...
Dasia (Forever)
Dasia (Forever) Nic Stone 9798217229307 Fiction Crown Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House From the New York Times bestselling author of the Dear Martin series comes a spin-off novel written i...
Adam, Mine.
Adam, Mine. K. Ancrum 9780063449022 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins From acclaimed author K. Ancrum, longlisted for the National Book Award for The Corruption of Hollis Brown and winner of the Lam...
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...
They Made Us Blood and Fury
They Made Us Blood and Fury Cheryl S. Ntumy 9798993295015 Fiction Rosarium Publishing Rosarium Publishing Evil spreads throughout the kingdom, and the one woman who can save them may be the key to the...
The Jezebel
The Jezebel Dylan Allen 9781968707972 Fiction Blue Box Press Blue Box Press And what fate has brought together, no man—or scandal—can separate. After years of playing the trophy, puppet, perfection...
Jukes and Tonks
Jukes and Tonks Gary Phillips and Michael Bracken 9781972046036 Fiction Audecyn Books Audecyn Books Whether their cover bands play Willie Dixon or Willie Nelson, juke joints and honky-tonks appeal to ...
But Where’s Home?: A Novella and Stories
But Where’s Home?: A Novella and Stories Toni Ann Johnson 9781967165032 Fiction Screen Door Press University Press of Kentucky It’s 1963 in the small town of Monroe, New York. The Arringtons, a ...
I’ll Make Me a World: The 100-Year Journey of Black History Month
I’ll Make Me a World: The 100-Year Journey of Black History Month Jarvis R. Givens 9780063478824 Nonfiction Harper HarperCollins On its one-hundredth anniversary, a powerful and essential meditation o...
Until the Well Runs Dry: Mental Health in the African American Community
Until the Well Runs Dry: Mental Health in the African American Community Wayne Ince 9798994346037 Nonfiction Breaking Ranks Books Breaking Ranks Books Deborah Danner. Walter Wallace Jr. Kayla Moore. ...
Sweet, Sweet Memory
Sweet, Sweet Memory Jacqueline Woodson 9780593530849 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House Jacqueline Woodson’s evocative story about the power of sharing memories, with glorious illustr...
Caste in the Stars
Caste in the Stars Leylah Attar 9780385702270 Fiction Doubleday Canada Penguin Random House For fans of Becka Mack and Lauren Asher comes a heart-stopping and utterly romantic story about two people f...
Who’s Your A & R?: A Guide to Artist Discovery, Creative Development, and Career Building for Aspiring Musicians and Industry Professionals
Who’s Your A & R?: A Guide to Artist Discovery, Creative Development, and Career Building for Aspiring Musicians and Industry Professionals Omar Grant 9781954220614 Nonfiction Kingston Imperial Kingst...
Lost in the Garden of Eve
Lost in the Garden of Eve L. Divine 9781496749994 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Nancy Drew Meets P-Valley in a Unique Blend of Thrilling Crime Fiction, Timely Social Commentary, and the P...
Our Vicious Descent
Our Vicious Descent Hayley Dennings 9781728297903 Fiction Sourcebooks Fire Sourcebooks In this stunning conclusion to the bestselling Ravenous Fate duology, Elise Saint and Layla Quinn must discover t...
Fortress of Ambrose
Fortress of Ambrose J. Elle 9780593527764 Fiction Razorbill Penguin Random House Seductive magic. Deadly betrayal. Don’t miss the explosive finale of the dark, romantic fantasy of the New York Time...
Boom Town
Boom Town Nic Stone 9781668056271 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl meets P-Valley in Nic Stone’s adult thriller debut about two missing erotic dancers from Atl...
Coach
Coach Jason Reynolds 9798347102372 Fiction Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this companion to Jason Reynolds’s award-winning and New York Times bestselling Track series, meet Co...
Gray Dawn: An Easy Rawlins Mystery
Gray Dawn: An Easy Rawlins Mystery Walter Mosley 9780316573238 Fiction Mulholland Books Hachette Book Group Easy Rawlins #17 Detective Easy Rawlins has settled into the happy rhythm of his new life...
The Risk of Loving You: When Danger Meets Desire
The Risk of Loving You: When Danger Meets Desire Dana Bari 9798999868909 Fiction AscendED AscendED Sixty-year-old Frederick “Rick” Thompson has spent a lifetime drifting from one situationship to anot...
The Broken King
The Broken King Michael Thomas 9780802120144 Nonfiction Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. In 2007, Michael Thomas launched into the literary world with his award-winning first novel Man Gone Down, a be...