Black Female Authors Best Sellers - April 2024

Brown Girl Dreaming

Jacqueline Woodson's National Book Award and Newbery Honor winner, now available in paperback with 7 all-new poems.Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s LiteratureA President Obama "O" Book Club pickRaised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, eac... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0147515823
• ASIN: 0147515823
• ISBN: 9780147515827
• Brand: Puffin Books
• Manufacturer: Puffin Books

Milk and Honey

The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk and Honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.

• ASIN: B015X5KBJG
• ASIN: B015X5KBJG
• Brand: Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Calling My Name

“Calling My Name is a treasure.”—Nic Stone, New York Times–bestselling author of Dear MartinCalling My Name is a striking, luminous, and literary exploration of family, spirituality, and self—ideal for readers of Jacqueline Woodson, Jandy Nelson, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Sandra Cisneros.This unforgettable novel tells a universal coming-of-age story about Taja Brown, a young African American girl growing up in Houston, Texas, and deftly and beautifully explores the universal struggles of growing up, battling family expectations, discovering a sense of self, and finding a unique voice and... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062656864
• ASIN: 0062656864
• ISBN: 0062656864
• Manufacturer: Greenwillow Books

I Almost Forgot About You: A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting To Exhale is back with the inspiring story of a woman who shakes things up in her life to find greater meaningNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LIBRARY JOURNALIn I Almost Forgot About You, Dr. Georgia Young's wonderful life—great friends, family, and successful career—aren't enough to keep her from feeling stuck and restless. When she decides to make some major changes in her life, including quitting her job as an optometrist and moving house, she finds herself on a wild journey t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1524762318
• ASIN: 1524762318
• ISBN: 1524762318
• Manufacturer: Broadway Books

Kindred

• ASIN: B009U9S540
• ASIN: B009U9S540
• Manufacturer: Beacon Press

Careful of the Company You Keep

After finding her husband cheating, Renee returns to her hometown to start again. But she is looking for love in all the wrong places. Danielle has a great career as a nurse, but her personal life is a mess. She enlists Renee to test the loyalty of her man, but when the seduction goes too far their friendship could be in jeopardy.

• ASIN: 0758217471
• ASIN: 0758217471
• ISBN: 0758217471
• Brand: Brand: Kensington Books
• Manufacturer: Dafina

Pressure Makes Diamonds: Becoming the Woman I Pretended to Be

"When you get dealt a tough hand, you might choose to fold or you might decide to hold. If you're Valerie Graves, you reshuffle the whole damn deck...Graves's can't-stop-won't-stop energy offers a jump start toward meeting objectives and renews hope. Pressure Makes Diamonds is about more than overcoming."--Essence Magazine"This is the unflinching memoir of a Black woman’s journey from the projects of Motown-era Michigan to the skyscrapers of Madison Avenue and beyond."--New York Beacon"A gem of a book . . . Valerie Graves has spun an appealing narrative with a protagonist who reads like an A... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1617754935
• ASIN: 1617754935
• ISBN: 1617754935
• Brand: Openlens
• Manufacturer: OpenLens

I Am Enough

A New York Times bestseller and Goodreads Choice Awards picture book winner!This is a gorgeous, lyrical ode to loving who you are, respecting others, and being kind to one another—from Empire actor and activist Grace Byers and talented newcomer artist Keturah A. Bobo. This is the perfect gift for mothers and daughters, baby showers, and graduation.We are all here for a purpose. We are more than enough. We just need to believe it.

• ASIN: 0062667122
• ASIN: 0062667122
• ISBN: 0062667122
• Brand: HarperCollins
• Manufacturer: Balzer + Bray

Invisible

Read the #1 New York Times bestselling thriller Invisible, then continue the series with Unsolved. Everyone thinks Emmy Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, Emmy has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. Now all she has are the newspaper clippings that wallpaper her bedroom, and her recurring nightmares of an all-consuming fire.Not even Emmy's ex-boyfriend, field agent Harrison "Books" Bookman, will believe her that hundreds of kidnappings, rapes, and murders are all connected. That is, until Emmy finds a piece of evidence he can't affo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1455585025
• ASIN: 1455585025
• ISBN: 1455585025
• Manufacturer: Vision

Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster

The bestselling author delves into his past and discovers the inspiring story of his grandmother’s extraordinary life She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could imagine in New York of the 1930s―and without the strategy she devised, Lucky Luciano, the most powerful Mafia boss in history, would never have been convicted. When special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey selected twenty lawyers to help him clean up the city’s underworld, she was the only member of his team who was not a whi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250121973
• ASIN: 1250121973
• ISBN: 1250121973
• Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co.

The Underground Railroad: A Novel

#1 New York Times BestsellerWinner of the Pulitzer PrizeWinner of the National Book AwardWinner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionLonglisted for the Man Booker PrizeOne of the Best books of the Year: The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, HuffPost, Esquire, Minneapolis Star TribuneCora is a young slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0345804325
• ASIN: 0345804325
• ISBN: 0345804325
• Manufacturer: Anchor

Maya Angelou: Poems

Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness,  sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and  celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In  this moving volume of poetry, we hear the  multi-faceted voice of one of the most powerful and  vibrant writers of our time.

• ASIN: 0553255762
• ASIN: 0553255762
• ISBN: 0553255762
• Brand: Angelou, Maya
• Manufacturer: Bantam

The Pawn

"Wickedly brilliant, dark and addictive!" - Jodi Ellen Malpas, #1 New York Times bestselling authorThe price of survival...Gabriel Miller swept into my life like a storm. He tore down my father with cold retribution, leaving him penniless in a hospital bed. I quit my private all-girl's college to take care of the only family I have left.There's one way to save our house, one thing I have left of value.My virginity.A forbidden auction...Gabriel appears at every turn. He seems to take pleasure in watching me fall. Other times he's the only kindness in a brutal underworld.Except... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01MCV02X1
• ASIN: B01MCV02X1

The Black Box (A Harry Bosch Novel Book 16)

• ASIN: B0076DELIG
• ASIN: B0076DELIG
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

Little Fires Everywhere

• ASIN: 0735224293
• ASIN: 0735224293
• ISBN: 9780735224292
• Manufacturer: Penguin Press

The Girl on the Best Seller List

A satire of Peyton Place originally published in 1960 from the author of Spring Fire and The Damnation of Adam

• UPC: 50845755

Our Stories, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real about Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America

From Amy Reed, Ellen Hopkins, Amber Smith, Sandhya Menon, and more of your favorite YA authors comes an anthology of essays that explore the diverse experiences of injustice, empowerment, and growing up female in America.

• UPC: 213363895

Stand by Me: The Uplifting and Heartbreaking Best Seller You Need to Read This Year

"They'll always have each other... won't they? Lisa and Elliot have been best friends since the day they met as children. Twenty years later, life has pulled the pair apart and Lisa is struggling. Her

• UPC: 919235971

The Best of Black Heart 2014: Celebrating 10 Years of Short Fiction, Poetry, Author Interviews & More Indie Literary Mayhem - eBook

Born on the mean streets of Montreal, where one might just as well become a French-speaking hooker as write dirty little stories, Black Heart has been peddling its wares from atop wobbly stilettos straight from

• UPC: 566400579

Catfight Lover's Bundle: Female Fighting At Its Best - eBook

Here from the bestselling female fighting author Ariadne Vice are three stories guaranteed to get you reading one handed. Any catfight fan needs these short stories for those dull moments standing in line, stuck on

• UPC: 788912972

Girl on the Best Seller List - eBook

The book that damned an entire townFERN FULTON: "I’m the only friend Gloria Wealdon has in this town. How could she write those dreadful things about me and my husband and our daughter?"VIRGINIA FULTON, age

• UPC: 389828782

BEST AUTHORS BEST STORiES - 6 - eBook

Table of contentsA Double-Dyed DeceiverLegend of Mont St. MichelLittle Miss MuffetLouisa May Alcott: A Child's Biography  The Antique Ring  The Five Boons of LifeThe Masque of the Red Death  The Author Anton Chekhov A Daughter

• UPC: 452869556

The Danes Sketched by Themselves (Complete): A Series of Popular Stories by The Best Danish Authors - eBook

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology,

• UPC: 413279794

Stories and Sketches by our Best Authors - eBook

DR. GRAHAM sat in his office, his book closed on his knee, and his eyes fixed upon the street. There was nothing of interest to be seen. A light snow was falling, making the pavement

• UPC: 923317526

The Queens of Victorian Horror - Rare Tales of Terror from the Pens of Female Authors of the Victorian Period (Fantasy and Horror Classics) - eBook

Rare tales of terror and mystery from the pens of the finest female authors of the Victorian period. Authors included are Mary Shelley, Amelia Edwards, Catherine Crowe and many

• UPC: 477565359