Tonight at Noon is a story of love between American opposites: she, a product of privilege, a Smith College graduate who worked as a journalist in Europe and in New York; he, an authentic jazz master, a brilliant, eccentric, difficult artist, a scion of...

Are things always like they seem? For Toni Melton, an acclaimed, nationally recognized, ambitious, outspoken journalist of the famous column, Toni Talk, and her illustrious husband, Ron Joyner, a criminal defense attorney who has ambitions of his own,...

Tone, the use of pitch to provide phonological contrast between morphemes, plays an integral role in the structures of many languages. This book teaches linguists a tried-and-proven methodology for analyzing tone in any part of the world. Significant...

From the author of the acclaimed The Dry Grass of August comes a richly researched yet lyrical Southern-set novel that explores the conflicts of gentrification--a moving story of loss, love, and resilience. In 1961 Charlotte, North Carolina, the...

"Sassy, brash, acrobatic and colorful . . . I want to read it again and again." --Time "Impressive . . . Soffer's style is natural and assured." --Meg Wolitzer, All Things Considered, NPR Lorca spends her life poring over cookbooks to earn the love of...

A LIBRARIAN. A SPELL BOOK. AND A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION SET ON ENSLAVING THE WORLD.Librarian Jayne Thorne enjoys her quiet life of tea and books. That is, until she finds a spell book in the Vanderbilt archives that accidentally gives her access to a...

This rippingly entertaining anti-fairytale follows the misadventures of Tom Thorneval - a very likable half-fairy Dreammaker hoping to make it big in the world of men. Unfortunately, his plan has drawn the ire of Fate, and Tom is robbed of all his dreams...

An outsider in a foreign land. Her ruthless cyberstalker. She'll fight tooth and nail for her digital privacy. Her life depends on it.Tokyo, the '90s When Alison Crane quit her environmental law practice and followed her hotshot investment banker...

In Together Tea, Marjan Kamali's delightful and heartwarming debut novel, Darya has discovered the perfect gift for her daughter's twenty-fifth birthday: an ideal husband. Mina, however, is fed up with her mother's years of endless matchmaking and the...

Living in a world of darkness caused Dionna to tailspin into self-harming behavior. Cutting became Dionna's go-to behavior. The self-harming behavior eventually got her court-ordered to the Arizona State Hospital, where drugs and takedowns were a...

Best known as Mr. Sulu, helmsman of the Starship Enterprise(TM) and captain of the Starship Excelsior, George Takei is beloved by millions as part of the command team that has taken audiences to new vistas of adventure in Star Trek(R)--the unprecedented...

A personal history of the civil rights movement from activist and acclaimed New York Times and NPR journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault. On January 20, 2009, 1.8 million people crowded the grounds of the Capitol to witness the inauguration of Barack Obama...

In 1859, at age fourteen, Florence Szász stood before a room full of men and waited to be auctioned to the highest bidder. But slavery and submission were not to be her destiny: Sam Baker, a wealthy English gentleman and eminent adventurer, was moved by...

Born to slaves in 1862, Ida B. Wells became a fearless antilynching crusader, women's rights advocate, and journalist. Wells's refusal to accept any compromise on racial inequality caused her to be labeled a dangerous radical in her day but made her a...

""If I could, I surely would stand on the rock where Moses stood."" --from the Spiritual ""Elijah Rock"" Taking its theme from the pastoral letter of the Black Catholic bishops of the United States, which spoke of the challenge of being ""authentically...

"Estrada scrutinized the tats, wondering how far the ink extended beneath the worn leather kilt, and just how painful it would be to have your genitals tattooed. He knew about ink-wore the black lacy wings of an angel on his back. Her feathers extended...