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All-American Boys A 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book and recipient of the 2016 Walter Dean Myers Award. The MahoganyBooks team is excited to have been selected as the onsite bookseller for the Prince George's County leg of the One Maryland One Book Author Tour featuring the authors of 2016 Coretta Scott King award-winning book, All-American Boys, Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely.  We encourage you to join us at Oxon Hill Library (6200 Oxon Hill Road, Oxon …

On September 14, 2016 Dr. Carla Hayden was sworn in as the Librarian of Congress. This marked the moment in history when the first African American and first woman held the position since the creation of the role in 1802. The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office. …

The BOOK Yaa Gyasi [debut author of  Homegoing] takes readers on a journey through three centuries that explores the effects slavery had, not just on our sociopolitical history but, on the human lives changed forever by this institution. Starting at Cape Coast Castle, the point of no return for many Africans who would be enslaved in the Americas, Gyasi introduces us to half sisters Effia and Esi, who never meet each other but are carrying similar stones left by their mo …

THE REVIEW... Mysterious, magnificent, and right on time, Tiffany McDaniel has gifted readers this summer with a story that is so deep and difficult that you’ll need air conditioning and a tall glass of iced tea to wade through the heat of her debut novel. The Summer that Melted Everything is a one-of-a-kind experience in storytelling that draws on the greatness of Harper Lee, William Faulkner, Spike Lee, and whatever grace it is that brings our greatest stories to the page. It’s a&nb …

HOMEGOINGBy Yaa Gyasi305 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $26.95.From the floor of the dungeon, I could see a fragment of sky through an air hole near the ceiling, a tree length beyond reach and too small for a human body to squeeze through. Nearly two centuries after humans had been chained in this fortress on the coast of ­Ghana, I stood with a group of African-American ­scholars too numb to speak. The breath and sweat of the doomed seemed brined into the walls. Might our ancestors have lain pressed again …

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:CONTACT: Ramunda Lark YoungMahoganyBooksOffice: 703-730-3873Email: ramunda@mahoganybooks.comWebsite: www.mahoganybooks.comA Conversation and Book Signing with Morehouse Professor and CNN Political Contributor Marc Lamont HillPresented by MahoganyBooks in partnership with Union Baptist Church and Radio Host Marsha JewsWoodbridge, VA, July 14, 2016 - MahoganyBooks in partnership with Union Baptist Church present a Conversation and Book Signing with Dr. Marc Lamont Hill. The e …

South African Lidudumalingani has won the 2016 Caine Prize for African Writing for his short story ‘ Memories We Lost’. Lidudumalingani was presented with the £10,000 prize by chair of judges, Delia Jarret-Macauley, at a ceremony at the Bodleian Library in Oxford yesterday (4th July). ‘Memories We Lost’ tells the "emotionally charged" story of a girl who acts as protector of her sister, whose serious mental health problems cause consternation in a South African village. Her situation deter …

Set in 1968, MWA Grand Master Mosley’s excellent 14th Easy Rawlins mystery(after 2014’s Rose Gold) finds the favor-dealing L.A. PI working as a partner inthe WRENS-L Detective Agency, which combines his initials with those of histwo partners. A dangerous friend of Easy’s, Raymond “Mouse” Alexander,introduces him to Rufus “Charcoal Joe” Tyler, who wants Easy to clear SeymourBrathwaite, a 22-year-old doctor of physics doing postgraduate work at UCLA.Seymour was arrested on …

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Derrick A. Young MahoganyBooks Office: 703-730-3873 Email: derrick@mahoganybooks.com Website: www.mahoganybooks.com CELEBRATE SUMMER READING WITH AUTHOR KWAME ALEXANDER Presented by MahoganyBooks and DC Public Library Woodbridge, VA , May 19, 2016 - MahoganyBooks, in partnership with the DC Public Library, presents Celebrate Summer Reading with Author Kwame Alexander, an end-of-the-school year and summer …

Terry McMillan, New York Times 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 meaning.In 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, quitting her job as an optometrist, and moving house, s …