Bestselling author and conservative icon Dr. Ben Carson lays out a hopeful and inspiring road map for how America can come together. External physical characteristics that are genetically encoded are things over which no individual has control. But...

The My Itty-Bitty Bio series are biographies for the earliest readers. This book examines the life of Rosa Parks in a simple, age-appropriate way that will help children develop word recognition and reading skills. Includes a timeline and other...

"A fine legacy series . . . in the spirit of her late father, Tony."--Booklist An ancient mystery resurfaces with ramifications for the present day in this gripping chapter in the Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series from New York Times bestselling author...

A mysterious relative. Secret superpowers. A city that needs saving.21-year-old Melbourne Alloway is desperate to escape her controlling and abusive father. When she's contacted by a relative she didn't know she had, Mel leaps at the chance to escape and...

Mama's away one night, and her son can't sleep. He tries to relax by counting stars, but the more of them he sees, the more determined he is to count every single one. Then the boy finds that Daddy can't sleep either. Together, the two of them set off on...

''K'wan does a masterful job of keeping readers on their toes right up to the very last page.'-Publishers Weekly Animal 4 Re-Issue featuring Bonus material. From the moment Animal's former lover Red Sonja showed up on his doorstep, he knew trouble...

It's a summer of family, friendship, and fun fiascos in this semi-autobiographical novel that's as irresistible as a fresh-baked cookie. Eleven-year-old Ellis Johnson has the summertime blues. He dreamed of spending the summer of 1976 hanging out with...

Learn the story behind the song performed by Andra Day in United States vs. Billie Holiday now on Hulu Recorded by jazz legend Billie Holiday in 1939, "Strange Fruit" is considered the first significant song of the Civil Rights movement and the first...

In this thrilling adventure, our magical heroine embarks on a dangerous journey in order to bring justice to the kingdom--perfect for fans of Sabaa Tahir and Sarah J. Maas.Reeling from betrayal at the hands of the Whispers, Renata Convida is a girl on...

Top-notch street lit...one of the top urban fiction novels of the year. - Library Journal All he ever wanted to be was a Good Son ... Shai Clark was an all-American basketball player with aspirations of one day making it to the NBA, but that all changed...

This is a story about a Kenya woman set in during the latter half of the twentieth century until present-day Kenya. Throughout her life and the other characters, she is forced to deal with forced marriage, wife inheritance, gender norms, and the...

Written in 1928, The Set-Up is a long narrative poem about the boxing underworld - a hard-boiled tragedy told in syncopated rhyming couplets. When the work was first published it made the bestseller list, and in 1949 it was turned into an award-winning...

International phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of The Hate U Give in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood. A Printz Honor Book!If there's one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick...

It's the beginning of the end for Netta, the self-proclaimed leader of the Pussy Pound, as she lay in a hospital bed, in a coma, fighting for her life. As her life flashes before her eyes, Netta comes face to face with her own bad karma as she tries to...

This classic picture book from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, paired with full-color illustrations by Caldecott Honor artist Faith Ringgold, explores the lives and dreams of the children who live together in an urban neighborhood. In 1956,...