Children's Books
Beautiful Ballerina by Marilyn Nelson (Scholastic)
Animal Secrets Revealed - A Six Book Series by Ana Maria Rodriguez (Enslow Publishers, Inc)
The Mirror and Me by Common and Lorraine West (Hip Hop School House)
I love you But… by Common and Lorraine West (Hip Hop School House)
Mixed Emotions by Common and Lorraine West (Hip Hop School House)
Ruby and The Booker Boys Series by Derrick Barnes (Scholastic)
Middle-Grade and YA
Conjoined Twins by Marilyn Nelson (Dial)
We Could Be Brothers by Derrick Barnes (Scholastic)
Next Semester by Cecil Cross II (Kimani Press/ Harelquin)
The Making of Dr Truelove by Derrick Barnes, (Simon and Schuster)
First Semester by Cecil Cross II (Kimani Press/ Harelquin)
Brendan Buckley’s Universe and Everything In It by Sundee Frazier (Delacorte for Kids)
Snook Alone by Marilyn Nelson (Candlewick)
Baobab Room by Marilyn Nelson (Candlewick)
Galvanizing by Marilyn Nelson, (Dial)
The Ladder by Marilyn Nelson (Candlewick)
Wreath for Emmett Till by Marilyn Nelson, (Houghton Mifflin)
The Song of Present Existence by Marilyn Nelson Tonya Hegamin (Scholastic)
Seneca Village by Marilyn Nelson (Dial)
Foodfight!! Six book series by Threshold Entertainment, (Random House)
When the Black Girl Sings by Bil Wright, (Simon and Schuster)
Between Us Baxters by Bethany Hegedus, (Westside Books)
Running for My Life by Ann Gonzalez (Westside Books)
Arts and Crafts
Get Your Crochet On Hip Hats and Cool Caps by Afya Ibomu (Taunton Press)
Get Your Crochet On Funk Flavas by Afya Ibomu (Taunton Press)
Girligami by Cindy Ng (Watson Guptill)
Crystal and Cords by Annika deGroot (St. Martin’s Press)
Business and Career
Handle Your Entertainment Business by Thembisa Mshaka (Hachette)
In the Black by Aaron W Smith and Brenda Richardson, (Harper Collins)
A Purse of Your Own by Deborah Owens (Simon and Schuster)
Medical/ Health
Reclaiming Our Health: A Step-By-Step Guide To African American Wellness by Michelle Gourdine (Yale University Press)
Working Woman’s Pregnancy Book by Marjorie Greenfield (Yale UP)
Prescription Paradox by Lynn Webster (Sunrise River Press)
Autism Asperger by Ana Maria Rodriguez (Lerner Press)
Non-Fiction
Sex Marks the Spot: Sexual Locations to Treasure by Jennifer Naguera Hague (Sourcebooks)
The Favorite Child by Dr Ellen Libby (Prometheus)
A Renaissance of Indignation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics from 1934-1960 by Dr Larry Jackson (Princeton University Press)
Sealed with a Wish by Elizabeth Harper (Beyond Words/ S&S)
Erotica
Quench My Thirst by R. Moreen Clark (Kensington)
Historical Fiction
Calligraphy of the Witch by Alicia Gasper de Alba (St Martins Press)
Imperfections by Lynda Durrant (Clarion)
Narrative Non Fiction
In Living Color by Nina Jablonski (UC Berkeley Press)
Seductive Delusions by Jill Grimes (John Hopkins)