[2021]
Baby is finally asleep, and Mama is trying to shush the rest of the family; but when they are all finally quiet baby wakes up--and it is up to bi
Book
9781580895224
Book
Shhh! The baby's asleep
Brown-Wood, JaNay, author.
Elissambura, illustrator.
JaNay Brown-Wood ; illustrated by Elissambura.
2021
Shhh! The baby's asleep
[2022]
First US edition.
Leo has had a busy day, but now it is time for his bedtime routine, so he snuggles into his nest for a story and a good night's sleep.
Book
9781623543389
Book
Leo, sleep tight
McQuinn, Anna, author.
Hearson, Ruth, illustrator.
Anna McQuinn ; illustrated by Ruth Hearson.
2022
Leo, sleep tight
[2021]
First edition
"Six critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning authors bring the glowing warmth and electricity of Black teen love to this interlinked
Book
9780063088092
Book
Blackout
Long walk.
Mask off.
Made to fit.
All the great love stories ... and dust.
No sleep till Brooklyn.
Seymour and Grace.
The long walk, act 1 / Mask off / The long walk, act 2 / Tiffany D. Jackson -- Made to fit / The long walk, act 3 / All the great love stories ... and dust / The long walk, act 4 / No sleep till Brooklyn / The long walk, act 5 / Seymour and Grace
Clayton, Dhonielle, author.
Jackson, Tiffany D. Long walk.
Stone, Nic. Mask off.
Woodfolk, Ashley. Made to fit.
Clayton, Dhonielle. All the great love stories ... and dust.
Thomas, Angie. No sleep till Brooklyn.
Yoon, Nicola. Seymour and Grace.
Tiffany D. Jackson -- Nic Stone -- Ashley Woodfolk -- Tiffany D. Jackson -- Dhonielle Clayton -- Tiffany D. Jackson -- Angie Thomas -- Tiffany D. Jackson -- Nicola Yoon.
Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon.
2021
Blackout
2020.
First edition.
"Dominion is the first anthology of speculative fiction and poetry by Africans and the African Diaspora. An old god rises up each fall to test hi
Book
9781946024794
9781946024893
Book
Dominion. Volume one : an anthology of speculative fiction from Africa and the African diaspora
Anthology of speculative fiction from Africa and the African diaspora
Dominion anthology (volume one)
Volume One
Trickin' / Red_Bati / A Maji Maji Chronicle / The unclean / A mastery of German / Convergence in chorus architecture / Emily / To say nothing of lost figurines / Sleep Pape, Sleep / Clanfall: Death of kings / The satellite charmer / Thresher of men / Ife-Iyoku, the tale of Imadeyunuagbon
Knight, Zelda, editor.
Donald, Ekpeki Oghenechovwe, editor.
Due, Tananarive, 1966- writer of foreword.
Kurtz, Nicole Givens, contributor.
Dila, Dilman, 1977- contributor.
Bacon, Eugen M. (Eugen Matoyo), 1971- contributor.
Tananarive Due -- Nicole Givens Kurtz -- Dilman Dila -- Eugen Bacon -- Nuzo Onoh -- Marian Denise Moore -- Dare Segun Falowo -- Marian Denise Moore -- Rafeeat Aliyu -- Suyi Davies Okungbowa -- Odida Nyabundi -- Mame Bougouma Diene -- Michael Boatman -- Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald.
editing by Zelda Knight & Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald ; foreword by Tananarive Due.
2020
Dominion. Volume one : an anthology of speculative fiction from Africa and the African diaspora
[2014]
Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining he
Book
9780544107717
Book
The crossover
Warm-up: Dribbling -- Josh Bell -- How I got my nickname -- At first -- Filthy McNasty -- Jordan Bell -- On the way to the game -- Five reasons I have locks -- Mom tells Dad -- Conversation -- Basketball rule #1. -- First quarter: JB and I -- At the end of warm-ups, my brother tries to dunk -- The sportscaster -- Josh's play-by-play -- Crossover -- The show -- The bet, part one -- Ode to my hair -- The bet, part two -- The game is tied -- In the locker room -- Cut -- Calamity -- Mom doesn't like us eating out -- Missing -- The inside of Mom and Dad's bedroom closet -- Patella tendinitis -- Sundays after church -- Basketball rule #2 -- Girls -- While Vondie and JB -- Pulchritudinous -- Practice -- Walking home -- Man to man -- After dinner -- After we win -- Dad takes us to Krispy Kreme and tells us his favorite story (again) -- Basketball rule #3 -- Josh's play-by-play [two] -- The new girl -- I missed three free throws tonight -- Basketball rule #4 -- Having a mother -- Mom shouts -- Hypertension -- To fall asleep -- Why we only ate salad for Thanksgiving -- How do you spell trouble? -- Bad news -- Gym class. -- Second quarter: Conversation -- Conversation [two] -- Basketball rule #5 -- Showoff -- Out of control -- Mom calls me into the kitchen -- 35-18 -- Too good -- I'm on free throw number twenty-seven -- He probably -- t Ironic -- This is Alexis, may I please speak to Jordan? -- Phone conversation (I sub for JB) -- JB and I -- Boy walks into a room -- At practice -- Second-person -- Third wheel -- Tipping point -- The main reason I can't sleep -- Surprised -- Conversation -- Game time, 6:00 p.m. -- This is my second year -- Basketball rule #6 -- Josh's play-by-play [three] -- Before. -- Third quarter: After -- Suspension -- Churlish -- This week, I -- Basketball rule #7 -- The nosebleed section -- Fast break -- Storm -- The next morning -- Profusely -- Article #1 in the Daily News (December 14) -- Mostly everyone -- Final Jeopardy -- Dear Jordan -- I don't know -- No pizza and fries -- Even Vondie -- Uh-oh -- I run into Dad's room -- Behind closed doors -- The girl who stole my brother -- Things I learn at dinner -- Dishes -- Coach's talk before the game -- Text messages from Mom, part one -- The second half -- Tomorrow is the last day of school before Christmas vacation -- Coach comes over -- Estranged -- School's out -- The phone rings -- Basketball rule #8 -- When we get to the court -- At noon, in the gym, with Dad. -- Fourth quarter: The doctor pats Jordan and me on the back and says -- Myocardial infarction -- Okay, Dad -- Mom, since you asked, I'll tell you why I'm so angry -- Text messages from Vondie -- On Christmas Eve -- Santa Clause stops by -- }t Questions -- Tanka for language arts class -- I don't think I'll ever get used to -- Basketball rule #9 -- As we're about to leave for the final game -- During warm-ups -- Text messages from Mom, part two -- For Dad -- The last shot. -- Overtime: Article #2 in the Daily News (January 14) -- Where do we go from here? -- Starless -- Basketball rule #10 -- There are so many friends -- Free throws.
Alexander, Kwame, author.
by Kwame Alexander.
2014
The crossover
2023.
First edition.
When hospitalized for her clinical depression, Whimsy connects with a boy named Faerry, who also suffers from the traumatic loss of a sibling, an
Book
9781250780386
Book
We are all so good at smiling
Narrator (interlude) -- The wilting: Call me magic : call me (Whimsy) -- Hospital : the whimsy girl: Outside my hospital window ; Car (silver) like a broadsword ; Shadow-wings ; Things I know about fae ; Morning (bathroom) ritual ; Mom & Dad visit ; Reasons it's easier for Mom & Dad ; Break-fast ; The fae (Faerry) ; Group therapy ; Group therapy : tell us a secret ; My answer : cemetery of leaves ; Everyone (in therapy) is silent after my soliloquy ; Last week in the hospital -- Whimsy comes home: Back home on Marsh Creek Lane ; My old notebook stuffed with fairy tales ; The (haunting) forest ; Outside my house on Marsh Creek Lane : October 28 ; Faerry (still annoying) : on Marsh Creek Lane ; What (I think) Faerry does next ; Marsh Creek Lane (home) -- Fairy tales : Faerry tales: What's wrong with a monster? : Whimsy's fairy tale essay/poem ; I like my poem ; Doorbell rings : Faerry on my stoop again ; Faerry reads my poem ; Faerry's fairy tale essay/poem ; Good night, Faerry ; Locket ; Dinnertime chat ; Sleep, nightmare, wake, repeat -- Stone Ridge High School: Morning (October 29) ; Morning (October 29) outside my house ; High school ; Before AP English class (teacher chat) ; Things I hear my classmates say ; Things I hear Valda (the bully) say ; Inferno by Dante ; (Faerry) in my AP English class ; Teacher questions for new kid? ; Questions on the reading? ; Circles of Hell ; Faerry gathers his things too -- Runaway: We walk ; Car ride ; We keep driving ; Home ; Cole is missing? -- The forest with the garden: tConsequences at dinner ; After 10 p.m. there is a knock ; Things I did not tell the officer ; October 30 ; October 30 (midday) ; October 30 (nighttime) ; October 31 ; Evening: October 31 (of my 18th year) -- What I remember: Haunting forest ; Finding Cole ; This is what I remember ; The candy house ; Inside the candy house ; The clearing -- Pinky promise: The edge ; In haunting forest again ; Whimsy in sorrow's garden ; The house sorrow built ; Meeting sorrow again ; The only way ; Abandon all hope : in the garden sorrow built ; Enter here ; Hope sinks. --
The tears: Baba Yaga's house: (My sorrow garden) ; (When it rains ice) ; (Sorrow & memories) ; (Grandma's twin house in the garden) ; (Meeting Baba Yaga) ; (Outside Baba Yaga's house) -- Escaping sorrow (again): (Back at the start) ; (I deserve the garden) ; (Hooting & breaking) ; (Through the fire again) ; (Faerry grabs my hand) -- Anansi the spider's den: (The webs of Anansi) ; (Anansi cried) ; (Faerry & I discuss) ; (The answer) -- Mama Wata: (Catching magic) ; (Walking memories) ; (Fae wings) ; (What I see) ; (Back on the yellow brick road) ; (Mama Wata & the ocean in a globe) ; (Under the water of words, I hear them [the bullies] say) ; (Whimsy the mermaid) -- Don't eat the apple: (Apples of the sky) ; (Bruises) ; (Riddle) ; (Names of giant apples) -- Adze & the blood moon: (Amorphophallus titanum : corpse flower) ; (Never trust a firefly) ; (Hospital room) ; Clinical (major) depression ; (Forgiveness) ; (Faerry's story) ; (Forgiveness again) -- Voicelessness & the siren Ursula: (We stay cocooned) ; (Ursula : voice-taker) ; (Thanatosis) ; (Panic attacks feel like...) -- The griot with stories: (A griot) ; (Story one : what the children saw) ; (Falling again) ; (Story two : what the parents saw) ; (Story three : what actually happened) ; (Whimsy & Faerry scream) -- Faerry (tale) & Whimsy (Cole): (Bigger than bravery) ; (Tale & Cole) ; (We've been watching you) ; (Truth). --
The rebirth: Fairy tales in the secret garden: (Candy house : final time) ; (Explosion) ; (Fairy tales celebrate in the garden sorrow built) ; (To home we go) -- Happy endings : Whimsy & Faerry: (Whimsy & Faerry) -- Narrator (interlude) -- Fairy tales in this story -- Whimsy & Faerry's playlist --
McBride, Amber, author.
Shutterstock (Firm), illustrator.
Amber McBride.
2023
We are all so good at smiling
1