List of Amistad Press books

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• 32 Candles: A Novel, Ernessa T. Carter

  A

• Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, Steve Harvey
• Act Like a Success, Think Like a Success: Discovering Your Gift and the Way to Life's Riches, Steve Harvey
• African Beginnings, James Haskins and Kathleen Benson
• After the Dance: My Life with Marvin Gaye, Jan Gaye
• The Air Between Us: A Novel, Deborah Johnson
• Alek: My Life from Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel, Alek Wek
• All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories, Edward P. Jones
• All the Right Stuff, Walter Dean Myers
• American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama, Rachel L. Swarns
• Another Brooklyn, Jacqueline Woodson
• At Home with Muhammad Ali, Hana Ali
• Autobiography of My Dead Brother, Walter Dean Myers

  B

• Bad Boy: A Memoir, Walter Dean Myers
• Balm: A Novel, Dolen Perkins-Valdez
• Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo", Zora Neale Hurston
• Beauty and the Beast, H. Chuku Lee
• Bebop Express, H. L. Panahi
• Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley, Christopher Farley
• Better Than Good Hair: The Curly Girl Guide to Healthy, Gorgeous Natural Hair!, Nikki Walton and Ernessa T. Carter
• Between Father and Son: An African-American Fable, Eric V. Copage
• Big Jabe, Jerdine Nolen
• Biscuit Wants to Play Spinner Rack, Alyssa Satin Capucilli
• Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination, Herb Boyd
• Black is Brown is Tan, Arnold Adoff
• Black Pearls: Daily Meditations, Affirmations, and Inspirations for African-Americans, Eric V. Copage
• Black Pearls for Parents: Meditations, Affirmations, and Inspirations for African-American Parents, Eric V. Copage
• The Blacker the Berry, Joyce Carol Thomas
• The Book of Luke: My Fight for Truth, Justice, and Liberty City, Luther Campbell and Tanner Colby
• Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement, Fergus Bordewich
• Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation, Andrea Davis Pinkney
• Brick by Brick, Charles R. Smith, Jr.
• Bronzeville Boys and Girls, Gwendolyn Brooks
• Brothers & Sisters: Family Poems, Eloise Greenfield
• Building a New Land: African Americans in Colonial America, James Haskins and Kathleen Benson
• Burn My Heart, Beverley Naidoo
• By Love Possessed: Stories, Lorna Goodison

  C

• Career GPS: Strategies for Women Navigating the New Corporate Landscape, Linda Villarosa
• Chasing Space, Leland Melvin
• Coach Carter, Jasmine Jones
• Come to Win: Business Leaders, Artists, Doctors, and Other Visionaries on How Sports Can Help You Top Your Profession, Venus Williams and Kelly E. Carter
• Confessions of a Video Vixen, Karrine Steffans
• Conversations with God: Two Centuries of Prayers by African Americans, James M. Washington
• Coretta Scott, Ntozake Shange
• Crystal, Walter Dean Myers
• A Cupboard Full of Coats: A Novel, Yvvette Edwards

  D

• Danitra Brown, Class Clown, Nikki Grimes
• Danitra Brown Leaves Town, Nikki Grimes
• Darius & Twig, Walter Dean Myers
• Dark Girls, Bill Duke and Shelia P. Moses
• Daughters of Men, Rachel Vassel
• Deconstructing Sammy: Music, Money, Madness, and the Mob, Matt Birkbeck
• Dr. Susan Taylor's Rx for Brown Skin: Your Prescription for Flawless Skin, Hair, and Nails, Susan C. Taylor
• Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies, Dick Gregory
• Donavan's Double Trouble, Monalisa DeGross
• Donavan's Word Jar, Monalisa DeGross
• Don't Ever Wonder: A Novel, Darren Coleman
• Don't Know Much About Martin Luther King Jr., Kenneth C. Davis
• Doo-Wop Pop, Roni Schotter
• Dope Sick, Walter Dean Myers
• The Dream Bearer, Walter Dean Myers

  E

• Embracing the Love God Wants You to Have: A Life of Peace, Joy, and Victory, Taffi Dollar
• Endangered: A Novel, Jean Love Cush
• Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues, Elijah Wald
• Every Time a Rainbow Dies, Rita Williams-Garcia
• Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press, James McGrath Morris

  F

• Fake ID, Lamar Giles
• Fat Albert: Gonna Have a Good Time!, Acton Figueroa
• Fat Albert: Hey, Hey, Hey!, Acton Figueroa
• Fat Albert: The Movie Novel, Mike Milligan
• Finding Samuel Lowe: China, Jamaica, Harlem, Paula Williams Madison
• Flower Girl Butterflies, Beth Fitzgerald Howard
• Forty Minutes of Hell: The Extraordinary Life of Nolan Richardson, Rus Bradburd
• Freedom's a-Callin Me, Ntozake Shange
• The Friendly Four, Eloise Greenfield
• From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island, Lorna Goodison

  G

• God Bless the Child, Billie Holiday, Jr. and Arthur Herzog, Jr.
• God, Can You Hear Me?, Justine Simmons, Robert Papp and Rev Run
• God Loves Haiti: A Novel, Dimitry Elias Léger
• Gone Crazy in Alabama, Rita Williams-Garcia
• The Gospel Cinderella, Joyce Carol Thomas
• The Great Migration: Journey to the North, Eloise Greenfield
• Guardian, Julius Lester

  H

• Handbook for Boys: A Novel, Walter Dean Myers
• The Harlem Hellfighters: When Pride Met Courage, Walter Dean Myers and Bill Miles
• Harlem Renaissance Party, Faith Ringgold
• Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad, Ann Petry
• Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood, Jill Watts
• He Said, She Said, Kwame Alexander
• Hold the Flag High, Catherine Clinton
• Honey, I Love, Eloise Greenfield
• Honoring Sergeant Carter: A Family's Journey to Uncover the Truth About an American Hero, Allene Carter and Robert L. Allen
• A House Is Not a Home: A B-Boy Blues Novel, James Earl Hardy
• How They Got Over: African Americans and the Call of the Sea, Eloise Greenfield
• Hush, Little Baby, Brian Pinkney

  I

• I Am Number Four, Pittacus Lore
• I Can Make a Difference: A Treasury to Inspire Our Children, Marian Wright Edelman
• Ida B. Wells: Let the Truth Be Told, Walter Dean Myers
• I'll Find a Way or Make One: A Tribute to Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Dwayne Ashley, Juan Williams, and Adrienne Ingrum
• I'm Every Woman: Remixed Stories of Marriage, Motherhood, and Work, Lonnae O'Neal Parker
• In the Land of Milk and Honey, Joyce Carol Thomas
• In the Land of Words: New and Selected Poems, Eloise Greenfield
• In My Momma's Kitchen, Jerdine Nolen
• In the Spirit, Susan L. Taylor
• It Ain't All for Nothin', Walter Dean Myers
• I've Seen the Promised Land: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Walter Dean Myers

  J

• Jumped, Rita Williams-Garcia
• Just As I Am, Cicely Tyson
• Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World, Mildred Pitts Walter

  K

• Keep Your Head to the Sky: My Life with Earth, Wind & Fire, Maurice White and Herb Powell
• The Known World, Edward P. Jones

  L

• Langston Hughes: American Poet, Alice Walker
• Let the Lion Eat Straw, Ellease Southerland
• Let's Get It On: A Novel, Jill Nelson
• Let's Talk About Race, Julius Lester
• The Life of Herod the Great, Zora Neale Hurston
• Lift Every Voice and Sing, James Weldon Johnson
• Little Divas, Philana Marie Boles
• The Little Mouse ABC, Katharine Holabird
• Lockdown, Walter Dean Myers
• Lone Bean, Chudney Ross
• Lost in the City: Stories, Edward P. Jones
• A Love Noire: A Novel, Erica Simone Turnipseed
• Love the One You're With: A B-Boy Blues Novel, James Earl Hardy

  M

• Mahalia Jackson: Walking with Kings and Queens, Nina Nolan
• Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly, Walter Dean Myers
• A Man for All Seasons: The Life of George Washington Carver, Stephen Krensky
• Marshalling Justice: The Early Civil Rights Letters of Thurgood Marshall, Michael G. Long
• Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey, Peter Guralnick, Robert Santelli, and Holly George-Warren
• McGuffey's Eclectic Primer, William Holmes McGuffey
• Me & Neesie, Eloise Greenfield
• Memories of Sun: Stories of Africa and America, Jane Kurtz
• Miss Jessie's: Creating a Successful Business from Scratch---Naturally, Miko Branch
• Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and into Legend, Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
• Monster, Walter Dean Myers
• Monster's Chef: A Novel, Jervey Tervalon
• More: A Novel, Austin Clarke
• The Mother of Black Hollywood, Jenifer Lewis
• Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters, John Steptoe
• Music from Our Lord's Holy Heaven, Brian Pinkney
• My Daddy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Martin Luther King, III