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Who Asked You?
Who Asked You? Terry McMillan 9780670785698 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House Family ties are tested and transformed in the new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author of Waiting to Exhale an...
It&rsqupo;s OK if You’re Clueless: and 23 More Tips for the College Bound
It&rsqupo;s OK if You’re Clueless: and 23 More Tips for the College Bound Terry McMillan 9780670032983 Fiction Viking Books Penguin Random House When her son Solomon graduated from high school, Terry ...
It Was the Way She Said It: Short Stories, Essays, and Wisdom
It Was the Way She Said It: Short Stories, Essays, and Wisdom Terry McMillan 9780593357149 Fiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got...
Getting to Happy
Getting to Happy Terry McMillan 9780451233349 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry McMillan’s exuberant return to the four unforgettable heroines of Wa...
Getting To Happy
Getting To Happy Terry McMillan 9780670022045 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House An exuberant return to the four unforgettable heroines of Waiting to Exhale—the novel that changed African American fi...
I Almost Forgot about You
I Almost Forgot about You Terry McMillan 9781101902592 Fiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House Original Hardcover Published June 7, 2016 #1 AALBC.com bestselling author, Terry McMillan is...
The Interruption of Everything
The Interruption of Everything Terry McMillan 9780670031443 Fiction Viking Books Penguin Random House "Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple and even simultane...
Mama
Mama Terry McMillan 9780451216717 Fiction NAL NAL The explosive novel that introduced #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry McMillan-now in a new trade edition.
A Day Late and a Dollar Short
A Day Late and a Dollar Short Terry McMillan 9780451211088 Fiction NAL NAL Much-heralded and long awaited, Terry McMillan’s tour-de-force novel introduces the Price family-matriarch Viola, her sometim...
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
How Stella Got Her Groove Back Terry McMillan 9780451209146 Fiction NAL NAL Stella Payne is forty-two, divorced, a high-powered investment analyst, mother of eleven-year-old Quincy- and she does it al...
Breaking Ice: An Anthology Of Contemporary African-American Fiction
Breaking Ice: An Anthology Of Contemporary African-American Fiction Terry McMillan 9780140116977 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House A striking collection of works from authors both establis...
It’s Not All Downhill from Here
It’s Not All Downhill from Here Terry McMillan 9781984823748 Fiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House After a sudden change of plans, a remarkable woman and her loyal group of friends try to figu...
Who Asked You?
Who Asked You? Terry McMillan 9780451417039 Fiction Penguin Group USA Penguin Random House When Who Asked You? begins, Trinetta leaves her two young sons with her mother, Betty Jean, and promptly disa...
Disappearing Acts
Disappearing Acts Terry McMillan 9780451205636 Fiction Signet Penguin Random House He was tall, dark as bittersweet chocolate, and impossibly gorgeous, with a woman-melting smile. She was pretty and i...
Mama
Mama Terry McMillan 9780671884482 Fiction Pocket Books Pocket Books Mildred Peacock is the touch, funny, feisty heroine of "Mama, " a survivor who’ll do anything to keep her family together. In Mildre...
Waiting To Exhale
Waiting To Exhale Terry McMillan 9780670839803 Fiction Viking Press Penguin Random House Waiting to Exhale is on President Obama’s Bookshelf Four African-American women console and support o...
Terry Mcmillan: The Unauthorized Biography
Terry Mcmillan: The Unauthorized Biography Diane Patrick 9780312267858 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers Novelist Terry McMillan is widely considered to be the preeminent voice of y...
Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing
Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing E. Lynn Harris and Marita Golden 9780767910415 Fiction Broadway Books Penguin Random House A literary rent party to benefit the Hurston/Wright Founda...
Reflections! (paperback): Looking in the Mirror
Reflections! (paperback): Looking in the Mirror Terry Wells-Jones 9781639374526 Nonfiction Dorrance Publishing Dorrance Publishing “This was the first time the newspaper had featured a Black (Negr...
Reflections!: Looking in the Mirror
Reflections!: Looking in the Mirror Terry Wells-Jones 9781639374243 Nonfiction Dorrance Publishing Dorrance Publishing “This was the first time the newspaper had featured a Black (Negro) model and...
The Light on Halsey Street
The Light on Halsey Street Vanessa Miller 9780840709936 Fiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing Download Book Club KitInspirational Christian fiction, Perfect for fans of Tara M. Stri...
The Minister Primarily
The Minister Primarily John Oliver Killens 9780063079595 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Featuring an Introduction by Ishmael Reed A major literary event—the eagerly anticipated publication of a long...
Loving Donovan
Loving Donovan Bernice L. McFadden 9781617753183 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Bernice L. McFadden is one of the best contemporary literary writers out there today…Her brilliance, her talent as...
America’s Dream
America’s Dream Esmeralda Santiago 9780060928261 Fiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins America Gonzalez is a hotel housekeeper on an island off the coast of Puerto Rico, cleaning up after wealthy for...
Daughters of Africa
Daughters of Africa Margaret Busby 9780345382689 Fiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from Ancient Egyptian to the...
Abstraktion und Einfühlung: Poems by Percival Everett
Abstraktion und Einfühlung: Poems by Percival Everett Percival Everett 9781933354705 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books “Everett’s talent is multifaceted, sparked by a satiric brilliance that cou...
Something in the Water
Something in the Water Phyllis R. Dixon 9781496754196 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Buried secrets, environmental disaster, and a legacy of corruption hit too close to home when a Califor...
A Taste for More
A Taste for More Phyllis R. Dixon 9781496743138 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. In a breathtaking saga spanning the final three decades of the Great Migration - from the Jim Crow south in r...
The Minister Primarily (paperback)
The Minister Primarily (paperback) John Oliver Killens 9780063079601 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins A major literary event—the eagerly anticipated publication of a long-lost novel from legendary writer...
A Sister’s Power
A Sister’s Power Cydney Rax 9781496715418 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. CYDNEY RAX became obsessed with becoming a writer after reading Terry McMillan’s Disappearing Acts. Her author drea...
Around Harvard Square
Around Harvard Square Christopher John Farley 9781617757143 Fiction Black Sheep Akashic Books "Wry, sly, and ferociously funny, Around Harvard Square is not just the satire Ivy League college life des...
Tumbling: A Novel
Tumbling: A Novel Diane McKinney-Whetstone 9780061792120 Fiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins “Even the air is palpable in Tumbling…The story moves forth on the power of Ms. McKinney-Whetstone’s cha...
Balancing Act
Balancing Act Jonathan Plummer and Karen Hunter 9781416537410 Fiction Karen Hunter Publishing Simon & Schuster, Inc. Jonathan Plummer made headlines when New York Times bestselling author Terry McMill...
Strongholds (Blessed Trinity)
Strongholds (Blessed Trinity) Vanessa Davis Griggs 9780758217349 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. From Vanessa Davis Griggs comes the second book in her Blessed Trinity Trilogy. Part Terry M...
Black Pearls: Daily Meditations, Affirmations, and Inspirations for African-Americans
Black Pearls: Daily Meditations, Affirmations, and Inspirations for African-Americans Eric V. Copage 9780688122911 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Eric V. Copage’s Black Pearls is an extraordinary bo...
Chicken Soup For The African American Soul: Celebrating And Sharing Our Culture, One Story At A Time (Chicken Soup For The Soul)
Chicken Soup For The African American Soul: Celebrating And Sharing Our Culture, One Story At A Time (Chicken Soup For The Soul) Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Lisa Nichols, and Tom Joyner 9780757...
A History of the African-American People (Proposed)
A History of the African-American People (Proposed) Percival Everett and James Kincaid 9781888451573 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Praise for Percival Everett:If Percival Everett isn’t already ...
Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies (New Americanists)
Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies (New Americanists) Elizabeth McHenry 9780822329800 Fiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books...
Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies
Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies Elizabeth McHenry 9780822329954 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books Over the past d...
Making Callaloo: 25 Years of Black Literature
Making Callaloo: 25 Years of Black Literature Charles Henry Rowell 9780312288983 Fiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers This important book collects a wide range of fiction and poetry that fi...
Defining Ourselves: Black Writers in the 90s
Defining Ourselves: Black Writers in the 90s Brenda M. Greene and Elizabeth Nunez 9780820442617 Nonfiction Peter Lang Publishing Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. Defining Ourselves offers perspectives on b...
Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry
Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry Charlotte Watson Sherman 9780060553517 Nonfiction Harper Perennial HarperCollins A powerful collection of original and recent stories and poems by some of...
Thick: And Other Essays
Thick: And Other Essays Tressie McMillan Cottom 9781620974360 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press As featured by The Daily Show, NPR, PBS, CBC, Time, VIBE, Entertainment Weekly, Well-Read Black Gir...
Preconceived Notions
Preconceived Notions Robyn Williams 9781930097018 Fiction Lushena Books Lushena Books "With her first incredibly provocative literary masterwork, Robyn Williams has produced an insightful novel that c...
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...
Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy
Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy Tressie McMillan Cottom 9781620970607 Nonfiction The New Press The New Press "The best book yet on the complex lives and choices ...
This Side of Eternity
This Side of Eternity Rosalyn McMillan 9780684862880 Fiction Free Press Free Press From the bestselling author of Knowing, One Better, Blue Collar Blues and The Flip Side of Sin, comes this beautiful ...
Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement
Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement Brandon M. Terry 9780674271289 Nonfiction Belknap Press Harvard University Press A landmark reinterpretation of the civil ...
Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora
Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora Bryant Terry 9781984859723 Nonfiction 4 Color Books Penguin Random House A beautiful, rich, and groundbreaking book exploring Bla...
Afro-Vegan: Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean, and Southern Flavors Remix
Afro-Vegan: Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean, and Southern Flavors Remix Bryant Terry 9781607745310 Nonfiction Ten Speed Press Penguin Random House African, Caribbean, and southern food are all known and...
Game Recognize Game - A Novel
Game Recognize Game - A Novel Terry DeRon 9780615307060 Fiction Terry DeRon Terry DeRon Game Recognize Game is a dynamic story highlighting the games and deceptions men and women use on one another wh...
The Shirt Off His Back: A Novel (Strivers Row)
The Shirt Off His Back: A Novel (Strivers Row) Parry Brown 9780345491244 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House After a brief relationship in college, Catherine and Terry found themselves t...
Inside the Fall
Inside the Fall Terry E. Hill 9780963914729 Fiction ReGeJe Press ReGeJe Press Inside the Fall caused Barnes & Noble Booksellers to do a double take. Barnes & Noble took a second look at the thrilling...
Delightfulee: The Life And Music Of Lee Morgan (Jazz Perspectives)
Delightfulee: The Life And Music Of Lee Morgan (Jazz Perspectives) Jeff Mcmillan 9780472032815 Nonfiction University of Michigan Press University of Michigan Press One of the most individual stylists ...
The Resistance
The Resistance Terry E. Hill 9781645568186 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. Bestselling author Terry E. Hill is back with his explosive new novel, Resistance. Known for powerful characte...
Jesus and the Abolitionists: How Anarchist Christianity Empowers the People
Jesus and the Abolitionists: How Anarchist Christianity Empowers the People Terry J. Stokes 9798889830818 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media Isn't anarchy just chaos? How could it possibly rela...
Prayers for the People: Things We Didn’t Know We Could Say to God
Prayers for the People: Things We Didn’t Know We Could Say to God Terry J. Stokes 9780593239438 Nonfiction Convergent Books Penguin Random House A collection of timely, stirring, and witty prayers tha...
Black Card
Black Card Chris L. Terry 9781646220199 Fiction Catapult Catapult In this NPR Best Book of the Year, a mixed-race punk rock musician must face the real dangers of being Black in America in this “wise ...
Vegetable Kingdom
Vegetable Kingdom Bryant Terry 9780399581045 Nonfiction Ten Speed Press Penguin Random House NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • “Phenomenal … transforms the kitchen into a site for creating global culinary en...
Committee
Committee Terry E. Hill 9781622867226 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance The Committee is a beguiling tale that twirls Illuminati conspiracy, New Orleans voodoo, American politics and a subpl...
The Good Braider
The Good Braider Terry Farish 9781477816288 Fiction Skyscape Amazon Publishing In spare free verse laced with unforgettable images, Viola’s strikingly original voice sings out the story of her family’...
Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington
Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington Terry Teachout 9781592407491 Nonfiction Avery Penguin Random House A major new biography of Duke Ellington from the acclaimed author of Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong ...
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...
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong Terry Teachout 9780547386379 Nonfiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Louis Armstrong is widely known as the greatest jazz musician of the twentieth century. ...
The Massacre
The Massacre K’wan, J.M. Benjamin, Terry L. Wroten, Randy Thompson, and J-Rod Nider 9780982492031 Fiction A New Quality Publishing A New Quality Publishing Gang Related by Terry L. Wroten Vice Vers...
When Divas Laugh: The Diva Squad Poetry Collective
When Divas Laugh: The Diva Squad Poetry Collective Ienett Nefertiti Allen, Linda Joy Burke, and Jaki Terry 9781580730310 Poetry Black Classic Press Black Classic Press This mesmerizing collection of v...
Women Talk Money
Women Talk Money Rebecca Walker 9781501154324 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. A searing and fearless anthology of essays exploring the profound impact of money on women’s lives, edi...
You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories
You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories Gabrielle Union 9780062979933 Nonfiction Dey Street Books HarperCollins “Gabrielle Union has written another wonderful book that pulls no punches. The searing hones...
For-Profit Universities: The Shifting Landscape of Marketized Higher Education (2017)
For-Profit Universities: The Shifting Landscape of Marketized Higher Education (2017) Tressie McMillan Cottom 9783319471860 Nonfiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers This edited volume propos...
We Ain’t the Brontes
We Ain’t the Brontes Rosalyn McMillan 9781601622433 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance Charity Evans and Lynzee Lavender haven’t always had the best relationship—for the most part thanks to t...
The Flip Side of Sin
The Flip Side of Sin Rosalyn McMillan 9780684862873 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Isaac Coleman’s tragic mistakes cost him years away from everyone and everything that mattered to hi...
One Better
One Better Rosalyn McMillan 9780446605991 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group The hardships encountered by a Detroit restaurateur in her determination to see her children succeed.
Blue Collar Blues
Blue Collar Blues Rosalyn McMillan 9780446522434 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group A brutal struggle for power in the manipulative automobile industry pits white collar against blue...
Knowing
Knowing Rosalyn McMillan 9780446518666 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group After years of working in a factory, Ginger decides to go back to school and join the 9-to-5 white-collar wo...
Be White With Me
Be White With Me R. E. Hayes 9798822958883 Fiction Palmetto Publishing Palmetto Publishing With apologies to the great Tolstoy, all happy Black families are not alike and every unhappy Black family is...
Dopefiend
Dopefiend Donald Goines 9781496733290 Fiction Holloway House Kensington Publishing Corp. Machiavelli was my tutor, Donald Goines my father figure. —Tupac ShakurThe true Black voice of his generation, ...
Come Sunday Morning Saga
Come Sunday Morning Saga Terry E. Hill 9781622867066 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance Hezekiah T. Cleaveland is the handsome pastor of New Testament Cathedral in Los Angeles. His beautiful...
Boy I Had Enough
Boy I Had Enough Terry L. Wroten 9780983457336 Fiction No Brakes Publishing No Brakes Publishing Boy, I Had Enough… What if the man you love is not the man you love? A spin-off from the hit novel ’Gir...
Web Development And Design Foundations With Html5 (7Th Edition)
Web Development And Design Foundations With Html5 (7Th Edition) Terry Felke-Morris 9780133571783 Nonfiction Pearson Pearson Web Development and Design Foundations with HTML5 is intended for use in...
The Last Sunday
The Last Sunday Terry E. Hill 9781601623959 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance Construction of New Testament Cathedral’s multimillion-dollar crystal sanctuary is complete. Pastor Samantha Cle...
Zero Fade
Zero Fade Chris L. Terry 9780988480438 Fiction Curbside Splendor Publishing Curbside Splendor Publishing Zero Fade chronicles eight days in the life of inner-city Richmond, Virginia, teen Kevin Phifer...
When Sunday Comes Again
When Sunday Comes Again Terry E. Hill 9781601623546 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. After the death of her husband, Pastor Hezekiah Cleaveland, Samantha has been installed as the interim pa...
January Jackson and Friends
January Jackson and Friends Zonie Felder 9781462083558 Fiction iUniverse Author Solutions Beautiful women can-and will-stoop to ugly acts in the name of love, lust, and power. In the face of unspea...
Girl, I Had Enough
Girl, I Had Enough Terry L. Wroten 9780983457305 Fiction No Brakes Publishing No Brakes Publishing What if the person you would take a bullet for is the one behind the trigger? Girl I Had Enough is a ...
Come Sunday Morning
Come Sunday Morning Terry E. Hill 9781601622457 Fiction Urban Renaissance Urban Renaissance Charismatic young pastor Hezekiah Cleveland and his wife, the beautiful and ambitious Reverend Samantha, cer...
The Hood Health Handbook: A Practical Guide To Health And Wellness In The Urban Community (Volume One)
The Hood Health Handbook: A Practical Guide To Health And Wellness In The Urban Community (Volume One) Supreme Understanding, C&rsquo,Bs Alife Allah, Dick Gregory, Supa Nova Slom, Wise Intelligent, Sc...
Prince Among Slaves
Prince Among Slaves Terry Alford 9780195320459 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press 30th Anniversary Edition Prince Among Slaves tells the extraordinary true story of Abd Rahm...
Sweet Lavender
Sweet Lavender Terry O’Neal 9780967944678 Fiction Motion Publishing Motion Publishing Rae Lynne Jonston was only five years old when her beloved father walked out of her life, leaving her mother to ra...
Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, Fourth Edition
Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, Fourth Edition Bryant Terry 9780826412676 Nonfiction Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Publishing Complete...
Motion Sickness
Motion Sickness Terry O’Neal 9780967944609 Poetry Motion Publishing Motion Publishing Motion Sickness is an easy reading poetry book that every one can relate to. All of our challenges, feelings, and ...
Lucy Terry Prince, Singer Of History: A Brief Biography
Lucy Terry Prince, Singer Of History: A Brief Biography David R. Proper 9781882374021 Nonfiction Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Assn./Historic Deerfield Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Assn./Historic Deerfield D...
Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy
Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy Bridgett M. Davis 9780063322080 Nonfiction Harper HarperCollins A searing tribute of sisterhood and family, love and profound loss fr...
Dysfunction Junction
Dysfunction Junction Robin W. Pearson 9781496453761 Fiction Tyndale House Tyndale House When three women receive an unexpected phone call that leaves them reeling, they have no other choice but to rec...
Great Food, All Day Long: Cook Splendidly, Eat Smart: A Cookbook
Great Food, All Day Long: Cook Splendidly, Eat Smart: A Cookbook Maya Angelou 9781400068449 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House “At one time, I described myself as a cook, a driver, and a wri...
All of Me: a Voluptuous Tale
All of Me: a Voluptuous Tale Venise Berry 9780451202628 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House So Good, Venise Berry’s first novel, spent six months on Essence magazine’s Blackboard bestseller lis...
The Burden Of Memory, The Muse Of Forgiveness (The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Series)
The Burden Of Memory, The Muse Of Forgiveness (The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Series) Wole Soyinka 9780195134285 Fiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Nobel Laureate in Literature Wole...
A Palmetto Christmas
A Palmetto Christmas Milton J. Davis 9798990512009 Fiction MVmedia MVmedia Facing Christmas in an empty nest, Laura and Stanley Jacobs decide to do something they’ve always dreamed of— rent a massive ...
Impact: Personal Portraits of Activism
Impact: Personal Portraits of Activism Michelle Duster and Trina Sotira 9780989960939 Nonfiction MuseWrite Press MuseWrite Press Something happened and motivated these quiet activists to make an impac...
Sinphony
Sinphony Monica Anderson 9780978637828 Fiction TyMAC Books TyMAC Books When a good woman dates three men to AVOID falling in love again, it’s not a sin it’s a…Sinphony.Third grade teacher Nona Huff ha...
Our Stories, Our Voices: Black Men Speak Their Truth
Our Stories, Our Voices: Black Men Speak Their Truth Toni Coleman Brown and Julia D. Shaw 9781732840546 Nonfiction Collaborative Experience Collaborative Experience People often say that black men do ...