Tag: @Blakekarrington
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{New Releases} April 23-29, 2018
Creative Quest by: Questlove A unique new guide to creativity from Questlove—inspirations, stories, and lessons on how to live your best creative life. Questlove—musician, bandleader, designer, producer, culinary entrepreneur, professor, and all-around cultural omnivore—shares his wisdom on the topics of inspiration and originality in a one-of-a-kind guide to living your best creative life. In Creative…
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#kikiswinson, @Blakekarrington, @DeNeshaDiamond, @JAKESMOLLETT, @jazzsmollett, @jurneesmollett, @JussieSmollett, @KensingtonBooks, @LLcoolJill, @questlove, @urbnbooks, Buckeye and the Babe (Modern Mail Order Bride Book 6) by Olivia Gaines and Teri Blackwell, Collusion by:De’Nesha Diamond, Creative Quest by: Questlove, Dead On Arrival by:Kiki Swinson, Full Figured 12: Carl Weber Presents by:La Jill Hunt, Invest In Me by: Natasha Dillion, Jake Smollett, Jazz Smollett-Warwell, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Jussie Smollett, Passion of the Streets by:A’Zayler, Queen Hustlaz Part 2 by:Falice Love, Strategic Seduction by:Cheris Hodges, The Family Table: Recipes and Moments from a Nomadic Life, The Return of the Carter Boys: The Carter Boys 2 by:Desiree, What Kind of Man Would I Be by:Blake Karrington -
{New Releases} Jan 29-Feb 4, 2018
Black Fortunes by:Shomari Wells The astonishing untold history of America’s first black millionaires—former slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass and maintain their wealth for a century, from the Jacksonian period to the Roaring Twenties—self-made entrepreneurs whose unknown success mirrored that of American business heroes such as Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and Thomas Edison.…
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#1000blackgirlbooks, @AtriaBooks, @authorMsBev, @AuthorSaundra, @beingmrsjones, @Blakekarrington, @HarperPerennial, @IamCarlWeber, @iamgenesiswoods, @iammarleydias, @IyanlaVanzant, @JasonOverstreet, @JeanneTheoharis, @LLcoolJill, @MorganJerkins, @RebeccaRissman, @VanessaRiley, A More Beautiful and Terrible History by:Jeanne Theoharis, Alice Walker, An African American and Latinx History by:Paul Ortiz, Beneath The Darkest Sky by:Jason Overstreet, Best Laid Plans: A Hood Misfits Novel by:Brick & Storm, Beyonce, Black Fortunes by:Shomari Wells, Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Blacksmith’s Song by:Elizabeth Van Steenwyk, Booker T. Washington, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Colson Whitehead, Edwidge Danticat, Foolish by:Anna Black, Frederick Douglass, Get Over It! by:Iyanla Vanzant, Henry Louis Gates, Hidden Women: The African-American Mathematicians of NASA Who Helped America Win the Space Race (Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Stories) by:Rebecca Rissman, If It Ain’t About The Money by:Saundra, Jamaica Kincaid, James Baldwin, Jay Z, Jr., Junot Diaz, Langston Hughes, Love Notes (Equilibrium Book 1) by:Christina C. Jones, Malcolm X, Marley Dias Gets It Done And So Can You! by:Marley Dias, Marlon James, Martin Luther King, Maya Angelou, Michael Jordan, No Slam Dunk by:Cheryl Cooky & Michael A. Messner, Oprah Winfrey, Power, Roxane Gay, Solomon Northup, Stokely Carmichael [Kwame Ture], Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tempest by:Beverly Jenkins, Terry McMillan, The Bittersweet Bride (Advertisements for Love) (Volume 1) by:Vanessa Riley, The Family Business 4 by:Carl Weber w/ La Jill Hunt, Toni Morrison, W. E. B. Du Bois, Walter Dean Myers, Zora Neale Hurston -
{New Release} Dec 24-31, 2017
The Black Diamond Trilogy by:Brittani Williams Jealousy and greed create plenty of drama for Diamond. Even when she thinks she’s on her way to a happily-ever-after ending, she finds herself fighting against foes she never saw coming. Will her “I rule the world” disposition keep her on top, or will Diamond lose the things she…
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#kikiswinson, @Blakekarrington, @luvwrds94, @pamsamuelsyoung, @Siriaustin, @urbnbooks, Bad Behavior by:Kiki Swinson, Christmas Past by LaChelle Weaver, Facing Freedom by:Daniel B. Thorp, Noire, Phire: I’m Just Saying (Gems & Gents Book 8) by:Iris Bolling, Testify by:Ms. Michel Moore, The Black Diamond Trilogy by:Brittani Williams, The Carter Boys: A Carter Boys Novel by:Desirée, Thickums by:Blake Karrington, Trapped Between Heaven and Hell by:M. Skye, Unlawful Desires (Lawyers in Lust Book 1) by:Sassy Sinclair -
{New Releases} Week 51 (Dec 12-18)
All I Want For Christmas by:Gina Johnson and Stacie Lee Christmas Time Is Here… And Brown Girls Books is bringing you nineteen talented writers, sharing heartwarming stories filled with the joy, sorrow and downright drama of this magical season. Christmas time brings out the best – and for some, the worst – in us and…
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@AprilDRyan, @AuthorBJackson, @BettyeGriffin, @Blakekarrington, @BrownGirlsBooks, @cryanhyde, @DelaneyDiamond, @jacquelinthomas, @rhondamcknight, @TheBeginning616, @tyoramoody, All I Want For Christmas by:Gina Johnson and Stacie Lee, At Mama’s Knee by:April Ryan, Captivated by Love (Grangers Book 1) by:Brenda Jackson, Good Behavior (Johnson Family Book 5) by:Delaney Diamond, Holiday in Houston (Holiday Sparkle Book 3) by:Bettye Griffin, Jezebel’s Revenge by:Jacquelin Thomas, Love Lies & Consequences by:Blake Karrington and Genesis Woods, Say Goodbye for Now by:Catherine Ryan Hyde, The Winter Reunion (Restoration Series Book 1) by:Rhonda McKnight, Troubled Heart: A Novella (The Reed Family Book 2) by:Tyora Moody, Tyora Moody -
{New Releases} Week 49 (Nov 28-Dec 4)
Dear Yvette (Throwback Diaries) by: Ni-Ni Simone All sixteen year old Yvette Simmons wanted was to disappear. Problem is: she has too many demons for that. Yvette’s life changed forever after a street fight over a boy ended in a second degree murder charge. Forced to start all over again, she’s sentenced to live in…
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{New Releases} Week 44 (Oct 24-30)
The Game Changers: Abner Haynes, Leon King, and the Fall of Major College Football’s Color Barrier in Texas by:Jeff Miller The accepted narrative in football-crazy Texas is that racial integral came to the state’s “national sport” in the mid-1960s, generally associated with Jerry LeVias’ celebrated arrival at SMU in Dallas. But the landmark achievement actually…
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#AriaJohnson, @alexispauline, @AllisonHobbs, @Allison_Hobbs, @Blakekarrington, @DebbMelloWrites, @enjoywrites, @javakasteptoe, @KensingtonBooks, @kobebryant, @lazenby, @MarlonPSWhite, @MsMichelMoore, @NicoleBlades, @NilesManning, @oprahmagazine, @O_Magazine, @TLDeFino, @tlivesay, @urbnbooks, @UTexasPress, @VictorLMartin75, Abner Haynes, Aria Johnson, Black Against Empire by Joshua Bloom, Boston Bruins, Brick & Storm, Coretta Scott King Award, E. Patrick Johnson, Infinite Words, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kentucky Wildcats, Leon King, Louisville Cardinals, Montreal Canadiens, New York City, North Texas State College, Progressive Era, Toronto Maple Leafs, U.S. Civil War, UCLA Bruins -
{2016 New Releases} Week 22: May 23-29
Fiction Vengeance by:Zane Mega bestselling author Zane returns to the world of her hugely popular novels Addicted and Nervous in this dark and exhilarating follow-up featuring a beautiful but emotionally damaged pop star desperate and determined to enact revenge on those who have caused her to hide behind her fame. After fleeing from Atlanta years…
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#BlackLivesMatter, #stmartinspress, @AtriaBooks, @authorjdmason, @AuthorZane, @Blakekarrington, @prince, @simonschuster, @UTexasPress, A. Marie Johnson, Blake Karrington, Gail Mitchell, Harriette Cole, Lalah Hathaway, Misty Copeland, Nekesa Mumbi Moody, Patti LaBelle, Policing the Planet by:Jordan T. Camp, Pretty Hustlaz: “The Sin City Edition” by:Blake Karrington and A. Marie Johnson, Shaun Robinson, University of Texas Press