The ultimate in art is self-expression, not escape.-Duke Ellington In this fascinating portrait of one of America's greatest musical legends, longtime friend and jazz historian Stanley Dance recounts the life of the incomparable Duke Ellington in his own...

The late Count Basie is one of the jazz immortals. The master of swing, whose beat was the subtlest and supplest of all the bandleaders, Basie featured some of the great soloists in jazz history while he sat unobtrusively at the piano, keeping time with...

African American traditional medicine is an American classic that emerged out of the necessity of its people to survive. It began with the healing knowledge brought with the African captives on the slave ships and later merged with Native American,...

Nineteen-year-old Jewels is one of the Midwest's most wanted. The daughter of one of the baddest prostitutes to ever work the streets of St. Louis and a high end call girl herself, she attracts nothing but the elite. She has caught the eye of...

He has left his hometown to avoid an ex-girlfriend who has since remarried. In his new town, he lives a mundane existence until a new co-worker invites him into her intimate world and pushes him farther from the safety of his old identity. In this...

Specifically tailored to the particular needs of black women, this empowering book is filled with the information that will help them find their way in today's work environment. For more than six million working black women in America, the time is right...

The inspirational, true story of how Frederick Douglass found his way to freedom one word at a time. This picture book biography chronicles the youth of Frederick Douglass, one of the most prominent African American figures in American history. Douglass...

Words of Wisdom, Food for Thought is a journey of reflection on ordinary things that touch you one day at a time. It is guided by who you are and how you think. It gives you different aspects of life's ups, downs, highs, and lows. Words of Wisdom, Food...

Russell McGee Jr ( a.k.a Genesis the Greykid ) has published a color-fresh book of poetry titled "Words in Grey", realizing his ability to connect a diverse array of people -- from top-tier business mavens to homeless vets. Because Genesis has never met...

I PRAYED ON THIS BOOK DAILY. WITH NO ONE HELP BUT, THE LORD JESUS. I DO THANKS XULON PRESS FOR THEIR PRAYERS IN SUPPORTING MY BOOK. I ALSO HAVE GODLY FRIENDS WHO IS SUPPORTING ME.I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A WRITER. TIL THE LORD JESUS PUT IT ON MY HEART TO...

Word Play will cause you to fall in love with Poetry and Spoken Word. As you read from each poet in this powerful line up it will be as if you're being asked to choose which of your children you love more. The twelve poets have their own unique voice...

This book demonstrates a feature-checking approach to sentence structure and language typology within the framework of Chomsky's Minimalist Program. The study is both data oriented and theoretical. The analysis is based on data from Toposa, an...

Woodlawn Giants. A story about a group of boys growing up in West Memphis, Arkansas, in the '60's and early '70's. The story begins with Daddy and Mr. Rick planting some pine trees. Those trees symbolize my lifelong friends, the Woodlawn Giants. Enjoy...

Maggie Pearl with her best friend Ginnie-Ree along with Maggie's Grandmother Nanny navigate their way towards the first day of school. Maggie Pearl and Ginnie-Ree have mixed feelings and much anticipation of not knowing what will happen on starting the...

In this captivating quest that spans the globe, a young girl who wants to know everything challenges her assumptions about family, loyalty, and friendship as she fights to save her father's legacy--and to begin creating her own.Hallelujah Wonder wants to...

A refuge in good times and bad, there's nothing the four very different Richardson sisters won't do to sustain their family's legacy--a historic bed-and-breakfast in Charleston, South Carolina. Now, as one sister celebrates new love, another's heart is...