Book 1 in the Crescent Crew series They risked it all for the love of the dough, then wrote chart-topping songs about it. But can this crew escape their past? For Reece and Qwess, being rap superstars was the dream, but in real life nothing moved...

Mandela's speeches from 1990 through 1993 recount the course of struggle that put an end to apartheid and opened the fight for a deep-going political, economic, and social transformation in South Africa.

An accident changed Leighton Clarke's life forever. After waking from a coma, Leighton Clarke can't remember anything from the past six years. She's stunned when her doctors inform her she has amnesia, something she didn't think occurred outside of soap...

Why do so many Africans believe they cannot break the 'ÄúOne Step Forward, Two Steps Back'Äù cycle? Six decades after colonial flags were lowered and African countries gained formal independence, the continent struggles to free itself from the deep...

This impressive picture book will delight young readers as it gives a sense of this remarkable woman and the times in which she lived. -- School Library Journal (starred review)An inspiring biography of a woman who rose from a bleak world of poverty and...

Americans have long heard the story of Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders charging up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War. But often forgotten in the great swamp of history is that Roosevelt's success was ensured by a dedicated corps of black...

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award 2014 With this volume, Davis presents the age of emancipation as a model for reform and as probably the greatest landmark of willed moral progress in human history. Bringing to a close his staggeringly...

An illuminating debut following three women in sub-Saharan Africa as they search for home and family Leona, an isolated American anthropologist, gives birth to a baby girl in a remote Maasai village and must decide how she can be a mother, in spite of...

After a long run of misfortune, betrayal, and broken hearts, the Livingston family and their soul food empire are thriving. Toussaint is the Food Network darling, Malcolm's BBQ Soul Smoker is the toast of QVC, and Bianca's brainchild, TOSTS--Taste of...

What is a Canadian critical race feminism? As the contributors to this book note, the interventions of Canadian critical race feminists work to explicitly engage the Canadian state as a white settler society. The collection examines Indigenous peoples...

The best firsthand account of the slavery experience, this autobiographical story, originally published in 1853, has been rewritten to make it accessible to younger readers. Northup, a family man and hack driver in upstate New York, was kidnapped,...

Angel stumbles into church one day and ends up a First Lady when she catches the preacher s eye, heart and soul. She is unchurched, timid, shy; just a babe in Christ trying to figure out what this God thing is all about, and at the same time, how to be a...

In this installment of Lutishia Lovely's wickedly sexy Hallelujah Love series, an energetic young pastor works overtime to keep the ladies in his congregation deliciously satisfied. . . Nathaniel Nate Thicke is a preaching prodigy. At only twenty-eight...

Barnes and Noble listed No Hero as one of the 20 best paranormal fantasy novels of the last decade - now available in mass market paperback! What would Kurt Russell do? Oxford police detective Arthur Wallace asks himself that question a lot. Because...

Tracey Livesay makes her Avon Impulse debut with a sparkling and sexy novel about a woman who will do anything to fulfill her dreams... but discovers that even the best laid plans can fail when love gets in the way.Successful PR executive Chelsea Grant...