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Lawrence Picks: NAACP Image Award Winning Books, Through the Years

Honor Black History Month by reading books recognized with NAACP Image Awards for Literature! Categories include Outstanding Literary Work in Fiction, Non-Fiction, Debut Author, Graphic Novel, Poetry, Biography/ Autobiography, Instructional, Youth/Teens, Children NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) This list is for a display to face the Library's front doors February 11 to March 4, 2025.

Lawrence Public Library

97 items

  • 2025 Nominee
    BookNew York : Forge, Tor Publishing Group, 2024. — FANTASY SANGOYOM
  • 2025 Nominee
    BookNew York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — COLE A
  • 2025 Nominee
    BookNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2024. — CHAMBERS
  • 2025 Nominee
    BookMinneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2024. — POETRY 811.6 SMITH D
  • This Is the Honey

    An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets

    2025 Nominee
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2024. — POETRY 811.608 THIS IS
  • 2025 Nominee
    BookNew York, N.Y. : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2024] — POETRY 811.6 WALKER F
  • Radical Self-care

    Rituals for Inner Resilience

    Moore, Rebecca,
    2025 Nominee
    BookLondon, United Kingdom : Leaping Hare Press, 2024. — 158.1 MOORE R
  • The Jazzmen

    How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America

    Tye, Larry,
    2025 Nominee
    BookNew York : Mariner Books, [2024] — 781.6509 TYE L
  • Love & Whiskey

    the Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest

    Weaver, Fawn, 1976-
    2025 Nominee
    BookNew York : Melcher Media, [2024] — 663.5209 WEAVER F
  • By the Time You Read This

    the Space Between Cheslie's Smile and Mental Illness : Her Story in Her Own Words

    Kryst, Cheslie,
    2025 Nominee
    BookNashville, Tennessee : Forefront Books, [2024] — 362.28 KRYST C
  • Medgar & Myrlie

    Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America

    Reid, Joy-Ann, 1968-
    2025 Nominee
    BookNew York : Mariner Books, [2024] — 323.092 EVERS M
  • I Did a New Thing

    30 Days to Living Free

    Brown, Tabitha,
    2025 Nominee
    BookNew York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024] — 158.1 BROWN T