From award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a powerful novel set fifteen years after the 9/11 attacks in a classroom of students who cannot remember the event but live through the aftermath of its cultural shift. When her fifth-grade teacher...

The boisterous freedom promised by the First Amendment is both the heart of American experiment and the fissure along which it divides itself. Those who would fight freedom's enemies, from political correctness to corporate intimidation to outright...

Dr. Bobby Jones, host of BET's Bobby Jones Gospel and Video Gospel, joins nineteen acclaimed gospel performers who share personal stories celebrating God's glory. Includes stories from superstars Kirk Franklin, John P. Kee, Shirley Caesar, Rev. James...

Analyn Richards likes life the way she likes her wedding planning business--orderly and predictable. All doubts aside, getting engaged to the successful man she's been dating for years is the natural next step, right? Yet on her wedding day, uncertainty...

Anya never thought she would be Queen of Winter. At the rate her powers are growing she might freeze all of Scotland.When Beira, the Cailleach Bheur of legend, was stripped of her crown her daughter, Anya, became the new Queen of Winter. Anya was Beira's...

Like most kids, teachers asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. That question was hard to answer as a black girl growing up in Harlem in the 1950s. When I tried to look back beyond my grandmother to understand my family's past, there was an ugly...

Torn Between Two Lovers is an absorbing read following Ruben and his cast of friends as he grows into adulthood in America. Throughout this exciting narrative, you'll learn of the characters' thoughts on family, addiction, and confidence in the Lord...

"I Don't Want It but I Need It and I Can't Let It Go..." Her female intuition told her he was a dog but yet and still she lent him her soul, gave him her heart and allowed herself to fall in love. Torn between infatuation, lust, denial and playin' wifey,...

In this Caldecott Honor-winning retelling by Janet Stevens, a wily Hare solves his family's problems by tricking rich and lazy Bear into giving up half his crops. Once a upon a time, there was a lazy Bear and a clever Hare. Bear had lots of money and...

This -futuristic- and highly satiric novel is actually set, just like George Orwell's -1984,- not in the future at all but in the present itself, a present that the author (again like Orwell) sets out to portray as it actually is rather than as people...

An updated look and a new format gives a fresh life to this long-time favorite of Beverly Jenkins's fans, out in time for Black History Month. A Perilous PursuitKate Love is an ambitious reporter on the trail of a swindler who has been preying on elderly...

Here at last is a comprehensive study that examines, via an extensive review of the literature, the psychological variables that contribute to black-on-black male adolescent homicides. And here also are clear direction signs for the future research that...

In the sequel to the enormously successful Casting the First Stone, Kimberla Lawson Roby brings back a character readers love to hate.Curtis Black might be a man of the cloth, but with his irresistible looks, seductive charm, and charismatic personality,...

Too Heavy a Load celebrates this century's rich history of black women defending themselves, from Ida B. Wells to Anita Hill. Although most prominently a history of the century-long struggle against racism and male chauvinism, Deborah Gray White also...

Judy Fambrough-Billingsley bares her soul and describes the transformation experienced in her quest to find both birth parents after being abandoned to live in a kinderheim until adopted. From a childhood in Germany shortly after the war to adulthood in...

What is the purpose of fasting? Sometimes it's hard to make the concentrated effort of prayer. When the need is urgent, God has prescribed an urgent method. Tony Evans asks, "How badly do you want an answer? How much do you want deliverance from that...