African American category: 7736 books

When twelve-year-old Knot Crews, an African American boy growing up in the segregated south Georgia town of Statenville, discovers a bag of bank-robbed cash in an alley, he is nearly overcome with happiness and terror. All that money--a hundred thousand dollars--could be the ticket to everything he's...

Chasing a scholarship and cheerleader..... M.L. Cotton is determined to become the rare African-American to play quarterback at a Division I college. Many roadblocks block his dream. He fights to get an invite into a Cajun quarterback camp in New Orleans and stumbles into the life of Jennifer...

An adult BWWM romance brought to you by african-american author Nina Ford... Chantel Woods has it all. As head organizer at one of the most renowned party planning firms in D.C., she's no stranger to brushing elbows with powerful men, but she finds herself questioning everything she knows when...

When Rhonda Downing met her first love, she thought their union was meant to be. Smart, innocent and inexperienced, Rhonda fell head over heels in love with the equally intelligent yet smooth, persuasive, and worldly David Barnes who was trying his best to have his own identity outside of the family...

Yolanda Gray is no stranger to challenges, having climbed her way up from being a newspaper reporter to being a talk show host, but she’s about to meet her toughest one yet – billionaire Roy Carmichael. Roy wants Yolanda in his bed and he will do anything to have her, testing the limits of her...

Carter Davis' new nurse is perfect, except for one point - she isn't actually a nurse. She's a corporate executive and his new next neighbor. Vanessa Imenerse is a beautiful, African American woman, who is both smart and savvy. A corporate headhunter is trying to get her to accept a job as CEO...

Publicize to major dailies, weeklies, literary publications, alternative publications. Major radio and television push. Very strong fiction debut. Akashic's promotion will have a strong social media component Strong candidate for B&N Discover Program. Promote to a general literary audience, but also to African American and Carirbbean-themed media venues.

**Filled with compassion, humor, and tenacity in the face of almost insurmountable odds, here is a rich, inspiring tale of friendship and family, sisterhood and mother love . . . and of finding grace where you least expect it. ** Canaan Creek, South Carolina, in the 1950s is a tiny town where...

For Josephine Evans, home was on the stages of the world where she spent thirty years establishing herself as one of the finest actresses of her generation. Josephine was the toast of Europe, and her fabulous apartment in Amsterdam’s theater district was a popular gathering place for an international...

Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose speeches fired the abolitionist cause, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) led an astounding life. Physical abuse, deprivation and tragedy plagued his early years, yet through sheer force of character...

In an effort to provide unemployed writers with work during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the United States Government, through the Works Progress Administration (WPA), funded the Federal Writers' Project. One of the group's most noteworthy and enduring achievements was the Slave Narrative Collection,...

Nadia Ellis attends to African diasporic belonging as it comes into being through black expressive culture. Living in the diaspora, Ellis asserts, means existing between claims to land and imaginative flights unmoored from the earth—that is, to live within the territories of the soul. Drawing on...

In his previous bestsellers, Think and Grow Richand What Makes the Great Great, Dennis Kimbro revealed the success secrets of highly touted entrepreneurs, corporate climbers, and Olympic athletes, as well as famous black Americans from George Washington Carver to Bill Cosby, Oprah Winfrey, and Jesse...

Michele Andrea Bowen made a name for herself years ago during the African-American inspirational fiction craze. Now, in Pastor Needs a Boo, she's back with an amazing journey of faith, drama, and love. It was a regular New Jerusalem Gospel United Church work day for Reverend Denzelle Flowers when...